Transplanting Galore

Skip takes listener phone calls all morning the majority of which have to do with transplanting.

Episode Transcript

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Katie r H Garden Line does notnecessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome tokat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor
it's Crazy Trim, just watch himas well. Spain. Welcome to garden

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Line. Good to have you withus this morning. Congratulations everybody who is
awake. Maybe a cup of coffeeor tea or something helping you along there.
We're glad to have you with us. Now. We are a call
in show. That means you cancall in and ask whatever questions you want
to ask, as long as it'srelated to gardening. We'll try to stay
We'll try to limit it that way. Our phone number is seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy fourseven one three two one two five eight
seven four. I was just checkingout Vernant Tree Farm. They Vernant has
unbelievable selection trees. I think theyplanted over two hundred thousand trees here in
the Greater Houston area. They're thelargest tree farm here inside the Houston area.

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And if you go to their website, you ought to do that.
By the way, it's a Verdantv er da nt treefarm dot com.
You're going to find on their websiteawesome information. If you want to learn
about the different trees. They havepages and pages of descriptions of each of
the different trees, including the palmtrees, lots of palms. Verden is
well known for their palms, andlet me tell you they have established palms

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all over the area. They knowhow to do all of this. You
go there, you pick out yourtree or trees, and you tag them,
and they bring them and they planthem. And if they plan them,
they give you a one year warrantyguaranteed with the nation. Now that's
a big deal. That is avery big deal if you are military or
first responders. Tempersent discount for theirVerdant Tree Farm. But if you're looking

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to establish a tree, and Ihope you are, we need to get
those done soon. The sooner thebetter, just get Just check out Verdant
be E R D A N Ttreefarm dot com. In West Houston Parker
Cypress and Heights area where Yale andI ten come together, and then down
in Perland on Broadway Street. We'regoing to go to the phones first thing

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this morning here and we're going totalk to Cindy. Good morning, Cindy,
good morning. How can we helpyou? Yes, I would like
to address that email that was sentto you about the skinny pine tree.
Oh, yes, yes, whatthat is? What that was, Cindy,
I got that. That is atype of a juniper or arbor idy

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tho. It's probably the one it'scalled Italian cypress. But they are very
tall. You know, if yousee pictures of a Mediterranean villa, typically
they have those lining the drive goingup to it. And they they're a
beautiful, a very unique structured tree. The problem with them here is if

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bagworms get on them and chew outa bunch of leaves, which they can,
then you have this hole in theplant and it's just going to stay
there unless there's greenly green little foliagethe scaly foliage leaves they have. Unless
there's some of those there to resprout and fill that area in a hole
in one of those, it's goingto stay a hole in one of those.

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There's some foliage diseases in our rainyclimate that can hit them as well
and do the same thing, andyou know, it's just that's the problem
with them is once you've got themmarred or taken chunks out of them or
one side out of it. It'snot very beautiful anymore. And I think
yours are in the early stages ofsome of that happening. So what do

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we do to correct it? Well, there there essentially is no getting foliage
back. The only place that thosetrees can send out a bud to fill
in is from green foliage. Sowhen you've got a large section that goes
all the way to the trunk andthere's no green there, the only way
it can fill in is from thesides coming in, and that usually is

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a very very slow process, ifat all, If you knew ahead of
time what the problem was going tobe, you know, you could reach
out and get it early, whetherit's bagworms or a foliage disease. But
at this point after the fact,yeah, not very practical to try to
spray it. Well, I didn'tsee bagworms on it, okay at all?

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Okay, Well, chances are it'sit's a foliage disease. There are
some bungle things that attack those.Spider mites can also attack group of plants,
but that tends you see the foliagesort of go from green wis almost
a silvery gray and then and thenjust die prosily. You know, with

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those Italian Cyprus types of plants,it's hard to get a spray wand that'll
reach up and really cover the foldothat that was the problem to. So
what do you suggest take it out? Well, you know, if you
can live with it, with thelook of it, I would live with
the look of it for now.You can take it out, but you're

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not going to find a plant thatadequately fills that shape. There are some
narrow plants youpon and other things thatspeak certain varieties that are narrow, but
they're not going to be that high, that tall, and they have issues
get a little bit older with theshape. Okay, well, I guess

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either we live with it or we'lltake it out. Okay, all right.
Anyway, hate to be the bearerof bad news, but that's one
of the reasons why you won't hearme recommending those plants. When they're gorgeous,
they're gorgeous. But when they're not, they're not. Yeah, they're
not. It takes a long timefor them to return gorgeous. Absolutely,
that is so true. All right, Well, thank you very much for

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the call, and again I wishyou the best with that. Thank you
all right, take care. Yeah, that is a challenge with those kind
of plants. I hope you're doingsome potting up, creating some containers outside
on the patio. Oh my goodness, this is a time. There's all
kinds of color options right now,but you want to start with the foundation

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of good growing media. That's thebrown stuff we keep talking about. Well,
in the case of a container,we're talking about jungle in jungle Lends,
a product by nitrofoss It absolutely isjust well designed to do the things
you most need out of a growingmix, and that is you want to
hold water for a while, soyou don't have the water them twice a
day. You want to drain accesswater so they don't become water logged.

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And you want them to be ableto hold on to the nutrients so when
you fertilize, that nutrient is inthere and it's going to stick around for
a while. And jungle Land doesall the above. It's got a blend
of Canadian blonde pete with four ages, four different sources of aged organic matter.
It's got the microhizal fungi in itthat work with the roots of the

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plant, and you're gonna find itin a lot of different places. You'll
find jungle Land, for example,at Barings Hardware both Bessonette and West Teimer.
You're going to find it at PlantationAce Hardware out there in Richmond Rosenberg.
And you're also going to find itat Hiden and feed Up I forty
five North Area Memorial Memorial Drafts,excuse me, Stuben or Airline. There

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we go on jungle Land. Let'ssee, we're gonna have to run to
a break here. Robert, you'llbe the first when we come back.
Just hang on, we'll be rightback with you. Welcome back to Gardenline.
Good to have you with us today. A while ago, I was
just talking about jungle land and usingit in containers for color. Well,
tell you what, if you're lookingfor color, you're not in the Kingwood

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area anyone or anywhere around that region. You ought to check out Warren Southern
Gardens. Both Warren Southern Gardens andKingwood Garden Center. They stay in stock
of wonderful color. Right now,they've got a deal on their baskets of
Calibrica Warren Southern Gardens and a reallygood deal where they've cut them significantly in

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the price and Calibrica. It lookslike a little pansies. If you haven't
seen Calibrica before, just think oflittle pansies. That's what they look like.
They also have a deal on acolor Star from Nelson's. And you
know, here's the combination. Wegot good potting mix, we've got good
plants to go in it, andwe fertilize with a good fertilizer to keep

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it going. And one of thereasons we do that is because you need
vegetative growth. That's what fertilizer canpush, especially the nitrogen to catch the
sun and produce more flows blooms andtheir for more flowers. And that's why
it's important to use a product likethat like Noson Color Star in your beds.
And you can get it on areally good price. Actually out at

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Warren's Southern Guards. Now, Ijust mentioned a couple of things, but
what are you looking for? Whatdo you need? They still just stock
and restock and restock, and it'salways a good time to go out there
and see really unusual things too.Having a gave that is called Silver Star,
and you just got to see it. It's green and silvery white and

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kind of a also has kind ofa yellowish hue when you look at the
sun coming through beautiful Agave, gorgeous. That's just an example. You never
know what you're going to see outthere because they are always getting in something
cool and new at Warren Southern Gardensout in Kingwood. We're going to go
now out to Spring Branch and talkto Robert. Hello, Robert, hold

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on just one moment, Robert.It helps a lot if I hit the
right button. How you doing thismorning? I'm doing well, sir,
but I'm not in Spring Branch anymore. I'm over at the waffle house at
Highway six and I ten tell everybodythe last quick question, simple, Yes,
No, I got a beer kegin the back of my truck and
it's over half full, and beer'sbeen in there for about three years,

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sitting through several seasons, freezes andlots of heat. And I know when
I cut that thing open, I'mgonna cut it in the middle like a
keg and turn it into a coupleof planters, be nice stainless steel planters.
Right. So, anyway, whenI open that thing up, it's
gonna stink and it's gonna have somerotten beer in there. Would that be
conducive to my compost pile or isthat going to hurt my compost pile because

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I need to play to hide thatstinky beer, and my neighbors are going
to kick my You know what ifI just dump it in the street there?
Okay, Well, Robert, Iwant to congratulate you. You get
an award. I've been answering gardeningquestions for almost forty years and I've never
had this one. So that's thenew Question of the Week award. Well,

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the other thing is I'm on myway to the race is but we
won't talk about that. I usedto get in trouble with Randy for telling
him where I was headed in themorning, so we'll leave it at that.
So this is the first for metoo. But I really do I
want to turn the stainless keg intoa couple of planters by doing the same
thing we do with the cask.But down at the beach house, I've
had so much trouble keeping planters ofany kind because the sun and everything else

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tears them up. With the saltaires, I figured this stainless may last a
little while, all right. Well, uh, as far as putting beer
on compost, piles and things likethat. There's no problem with that at
all. It'll be just fine.I mean, it's it's not going to
hurt anything. You know, themicrobes may wake up with a headache the
next morning, but other than that, I don't see a negative to it.

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You know, when you talk aboutit being all yucky and stinky,
I'm kind of curious if that'll bethe case when you open it up.
But I guess I'm trying to sithere and think of what could go wrong
over time with beer. I wouldn'tworry about it. I would just use
it, Okay. I don't makethe poletry SAGGI. I don't know what

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the beer turns into after it's beenthere that long. But we opened up
a pony keg some years back andsplit it the same way, and it
was rank and it had only beenin there for a month or two.
Okay, But I well, Iwould use it. I would use it
sparingly. You know. I wouldn'tjust inundate the pile with it. But
I think it ought to be.Okay. Well that's my that's me shooting

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from the hell because trust me,there's no research on this. Well,
i'll tell you what, I'll giveyou some feedback. If it hurts my
compost, I'll let you know.And if everything that comes out of there
in the next few months is uhis doing great, then I'll let you
know. On to well what Ineed Yeah, yeah, what I need
you to do though, is inthe future. Uh. Don't don't let

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beer go unconsumed like that. Comeon, man, it was that come
from my backyard. But anyway,I was helping to clean out and he
goes, you know, I forgotthat was back there. I said,
well, let me have it.I got to use for it. Anyway,
you have, Thanks you too,Thanks a lot. Oh boy,
you never know, you never knowwhen the phone rings. Uh. Sometimes

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I ought to do a show andjust go through all of the questions that
you just wouldn't expect that I've hadover the years, but never that one.
So no word to Robert on thatACE Hardware Stores or your go to
place, they are they what doyou need? Well, right now,
you need fertilizer for your lawn.You need things to control weeds for your
lawn or for your flower bed.You need things that are going to control

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insects or diseases. ACE has allof that fire ants. We are entering
big time fire ants season. Startwith a bait and ACE has a number
of baits. You have a niceselection of baits. It's used at a
very low rate. Any that escapedout give it a couple of weeks and
just look. And any that escapedthe bait then hit them with individual mound

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treatment and ACE has a wide varietyof those as well. Mosquito season is
here. Boy. I was outin the garden the other day working on
pulling some things out and the mosquitoeswere all over me and I just not
noticed them that much. Well,they got mosquito repellent, and they've got
things to control mosquitos, like thelittle dunks that you put in the water
to help kill them. Ace Hardwareforty stores in the area. Go to

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Acehardware dot com and find the storelocator and you'll see the stores that are
close to you. We're going togo to southeaston now and talk to park
Or Hello Parker, good morning,Skip Now are you sir? I'm well,
thank you. A beautiful weekend toget out and enjoy the outdoors.

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Coming up it is. He gota quick question for you. I was
raised to mow the yard directionally upand down or you know, one direction
up and back versus. I've seenmany people cutting alowns in the square technique,
which the is there a proper way? And then of course the other
question is about, uh, whatdo I spray the mowers with to make

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sure that their disease free underneath?There's no spray to put on a mower
and no real need to do thatthat Okay, okay, some of our
diseases, gray leaf spot, brownpatch and things, those are those are
rather you bick with us, andso you're not like causing it to come

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in a different areas. They're they'rewaiting for the right conditions. So okay,
I would It's always a good ideato clean out your more the old
clippings and things like that, butuh, don't don't worry about spraying them.
As far as both both of myneighbors have landscapers coming in and I
know, you know, from differentyards they're bringing. You know, is
it possible to bring different diseases?Well, I guess technically if there were

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some grass blades stuck up underneath therethe hed gray leaf spot, for example,
just pick one disease you could thenbe bringing that in. But it's
it's a spore. It's going tobe floating on the air, So okay
about that. It's not a badidea though, to ask them to just
clear glow that out. They maynot want to do that, but that

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would just be the only thing Iwould think. Yeah, they're on both
sides of me, so uh,they both the landscape is okay, Well,
I would directs a cross hatch.You can do that. The most
beautiful lawns you see are a crossmode, you know, the golf courses
and things like that, golf coursescreens and whatnot. But if you don't
do that, you'll still have abeautiful lawn, so that there's no harm.

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I've always done it that way,or that's how my father taught me,
but now you know, it's you. I see different different ways of
doing it. So just making surethat I'm not creating a monster there.
All right, thank you for thecall. Park appreciate that. Yeah,
that's an interesting question. Nelson's hascreated a fertilizer that is called slow and

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Easy. Slow with the letter inand easy. What is slow and easy?
It is a fertilizer that the chemistryof the fertilizer is designed to be
very long lasting and gradually feed yourlawn over time. That is how lawns
take up nutrients a little bit eachday, and so with Slow and Easy,

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even if you put quite a biton, you know that for months
you're going to have that fertilizer releasinginto your soil the nutrients, especially the
nitrogen. That's the primary slow releasepart. It also contains sulfur to help
balance the sole pH when your lawnhas these yellowish spots and they may come
and go, that's a lack ofsulfur. Now it's in this Slow and

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Easy as well. It's a bluebag from turf Star and it also,
by the way, the bag isforty pounds and it covers five thousand square
feet. When you promote slow evengrowth, you help create a deeper riot
system in your lawn along with regularmowing, and that helps reduce water consumption
or less say, makes it moredrought resilient. That slow even growth is

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very important and Slow and Easy doesjust that. From Nelson. Slow and
Easy it's a twenty two two tenfertilizer and that twenty two is going to
be gradually released over months. It'sa good way to go about it.
You're listening to Garden Line. Ourphone number is seven to one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four sevenone three two one two five eight seven

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four it. There is still timeto get shrubs and trees planted. There
is, and that includes roses.By the way, if you would love
to have beautiful roses, you getone planted. Now you're gonna get some
blooms on it as we go throughsummer, but especially in the fall,
the show will be outstanding, andthen of course next spring it'll be right

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back again. RCW Nursery is reallythe leader in roses. The last time
I did a count of the ofthe page at RCW Nursery, I think
there are two hundred and thirty sixroses that they carry. Now, things
come and go, supply comes andgoes, customers come in and clean them
out. So I'm not saying onhand at any given time there's every rose

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they carry, But just give thema call because RCWS get it, got
it Nursery? What does that mean? That means that they don't have it,
they'll get it for you if theycan, if it's available, And
that is one of the nice things. At RCW Nursery. They grow their
own trees up in Williamson Tree Farmup there in Plannersville area, so they
have the best culls of ours forgrowing in this area. The website is

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RCW Nurseries dot com. That's thegarden center. That is where Belty eight
comes into Tomball Parkway right there.Super easy to get to RCW Nurseries.
I was redoing some landscape better.Actually, I'm getting ready to redoce some
landscape beds where I had to putin some drainage and other things and wanted

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to get all those you know,fixed up and looking good. Well,
it is very important, you know, to get that soil right. And
the folks at Nature's Way they knowhow to make soil. John Ferguson's been
making soil for many years now.When you think about things like rose mix,
the rose bed mix, rose soil. If you think about things like

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leaf mold composts, you know thatstarted. They're at Nature's way, uh
a Nature's way. If you wantto get the fine textured compost for top
dressing your lawn, they can getit. And now's a good time to
put it out. If you're doingit yourself or Nature's Way Resources can get
you set up on just that.Their phone number is nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety. Nowwhen you go out there, you can

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go out there with a trailer andpick up bulk or with with your car
pick up bags if you want todo it that way. Check out the
plants. They have a very nicetwo acre nursery and garden center. They
got the fruit trees, native perennials, and many many other things at Nature's
Way. We're going to take abreak and hand the mic over to Nikki
for the news and here, well, here we go. Welcome back to

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guard Line. Good to have youwith us today. Earlier I was talking
about that now is the time toget those trees planted before the heat of
summer arrives. The sooner you getthem in, the more time they have
to begin establishing that root system.You know, when you put the tree
on the ground, it's coming outof the container and it's basically a cylinder
of roots and you put it inthe ground and that's where the roots still

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are. Of course, right afterplanting, it takes time for those roots
to move out into the surrounding soil. So Initially, you're watering pretty much
where you were watering when it wasin the container, that cylinder of roots
and a little beyond that. Andit's important that it never dries out and
also doesn't stay soggy wet an undergroundbathtub roots submerged in that. Very few

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species can tolerate that, so dothat. The other thing to think about
is that cylinder doesn't have the rootsout reaching out yet to stabilize it.
So you need to do something tostabilize the tree. Now, traditionally people
have used, you know, thethree iron posts with wire rods or wire
cable sticking out in all directions.That's extra expense, it's extra trouble you

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trip over them. It just isn'tIt isn't necessary anymore. We have a
product called three sixty Tree Stabilizer.It's a stiff plastic arm that is very
strong. It grabs a hold ofa post and it grabs a hold of
the tree and it makes sure thatit doesn't move. Now, you can
put two of those on, onefrom let's say north south and one from
east west, and that way,no matter which way the wind blows,

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you're going to have a very verystable tree. Tree stabilizers are widely available
here. I mean if you're doneout in Alvin or Hayes Hidden Gardens or
Southwest Fertilizer in Houston plants for allseasons up at RCW Nurses and be Cannon's
down Central and Arbigate up and Tumble. It's easy to get them. You

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just need to know that you wantto stabilize that tree a little bit so
that the roots can get established welland the tree doesn't end up now being
slanted. And you've seen trees likethat because they weren't staked at planting.
They're leaning and they finally establish,but then you have a leaning tree.
So anyway, three sixty tree stabilizerwill do just that. The nice thing

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that I like, and you needto remember, is the strap that goes
around the tree. Keep it alittle on the loose side because you want
the tree to move a little bit. That kind of movement helps strengthen the
trunk, so don't just honker itdown like you're afraid of it taking off
like a rocket. That is true. If you would like a way to

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have your beds maintained through the yearprofessionally where they're always looking good, you
ought to call the Pierscape spokes.Pierscapes has a quarterly maintenance deal. So
you know, you sign up forthis and they're going to come in.
They're going to molt your beds orpull the weeds, and then most they're
going to provide seasonal color. They'redifferent. You know, you can do

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color change twice a year or upto three or four times a year.
I mean you can do that.They're going to fertilize. They're going to
trim anything that needs trimmed, andthen inspect the irrigation system make sure it's
working properly, just to check.And that is the Peerscape spokes. Now,
I know when you think Piercescapes,you're thinking about constructing landscapes and hard

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escapes and providing drainage solutions to wetareas and irrigation and paths and lighting and
everything like that. Well, Pierscapesalso will do that quarterly maintenance. And
I encourage you to call them.Listen a quality landscaper. Peerscapes. They
stay busy and call. Don't delay, go ahead and call and get on

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the board so that they can signyou up. Depending on what you need
done, they'll give you a datewhere they'll try to get out there and
just go to the website peerscapes dotcom or three, excuse me, here's
the phone number two eight one threeseven oh fifty sixty two eight one three
seven five zero six zero for pierscapesin the yard. This past week I

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was doing a little bit of trimmingon a y text that I have at
the house, and it was bytext doesn't know what it wants to be.
I think of it as a tree, but it has a unique growth
habit. It's kind of difficult tomake it into a tree form, although
you can typically a multi stem treeis maybe a better way to describe it.

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Or you can just prune the heckof it a lot and have a
giant bush. I like them becausethey bloom and the summertime. But I
noticed in the trimming and getting allthe stuff cleared out that the new growth,
of course, had already begun.Yes, I should have done the
printing a lot before, but Ijust noticed that thing of you know,

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how do you shape a bye tex? It's kind of up to year.
It's like any plant, what doyou want to look at? That's what
you do. I'm going to goout to Sugarland. Now we're going to
talk to Michael. Hello Michael,good morning, Skip. How are you
this morning? I'm well, sir, so am I listen. I've got
a problem, and I know you'rethe guy answered these questions for me.
It's a three I guess you saya three point question. I have had

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a neighbor move in behind Neil nextto me, and they let the yard
go crazy. I've been on theschedule now for the last five years,
had no problem with my Saint Augustine. But now all of a sudden,
I've got a huge bermuda infestation whichhas really taken over about forty feet of
my Saint Augustine. Here's my question. I want to take that whole section

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out and replace it with Saint Augustine. What I need to know is what
is the best way to just torid the whole area of the bermuda.
Well, the best way, Imean hand digging, is the non sprayway,
which was ridiculously unpractical for your areathere. The best way would be

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to spray it with a product thathas a grass killer or a vegetation killer
in it, like Life Essay.It would be the round up version.
The grass version. There's a coupleof different chemicals that will do that.
One of them begins with the boysname Seth set H. That's the ingredient.
I think the glass would work betteron it. What you're going to

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find is you're gonna spray it accordingto the label, and then you're going
to wait a while and maybe evenyou know, mix up the soil a
little bit, like you're preparing forgrass planting. Wait a while because you
won't get it all and you wantto hit it again, and you may
even wait a little longer and doit a third time. After a couple
of weeks. Once we get warmweather, it's going to be popping out
of the ground and you want toeradicate it. Otherwise you're just it's a

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time bomb waiting to reinfest. Okay, so what is the name of the
product that you're suggesting? Well,well, it round up is the brand.
Everybody knows. Lifeless say is theproduct. But it kills anything.
It's green that you spray it onpretty much, and it moves down and
it does a good job of gettingdown in the roots and the rhizomes underground.

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Okay, after you said I shouldwait, what maybe a week or
so or how much longer. Well, you want to wait until it pops
back. And I would watch ita couple of weeks really and see if
you miss some they'll probably start tostick their head up. And just be
patient, because again, you don'twant to be doing this again three years

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from now. What can I primethe soil where to help speed up the
the fertility and the ability to putthat Saint Augustine back out? Uh?
Well, you could you could doa soil test and find out what's needed
all across your lawn, or youcould just you could put a light dose

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of a lawn fertilizer down if you'regonna mix it in really well, uh
in the soil. If you getany low spots or need to bring in
fill soil, you know, dothat also at that time. And then
when you put your new Saint Augustinedown, you're gonna water it in.
And I would wait about two weeksbefore I even think about fertilizing. It
could be a little longer even ifyou want so so nothing like Medina has

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you know, Uh so I'll fertilizeor anything interm in between. Just you
could, you know, you couldthat has to go for lawn is a
hose in application and give the SaintAugustine a week maybe to just right early
on. All that grass needs isa constant supply of water so you can
get some roots in the ground.Uh. And at that point you could

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do a hash to grow and it'snot going to burn it or anything like
that. Hey, Michael, I'vegot to run. If you have a
follow up, you're welcome to stickaround. We're going to head off to
a break here. Our phone numberis seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back toguard Line. Glad you're listening with us.
Boy. The glow is starting inthe eastern sky. Is that sun

(30:22):
is getting ready to make its appearancetoday on what's going to be a wonderful
day for getting outside and getting somethings done. Are you at the stage
where you're doing quick clean up orare you at the stage where you're doing
planting. You're ready to go,You're ready to put things in wherever you
are in the process. Today isa good day for getting that done,

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as well as for going out andshopping for the things that you need.
For those of you down in theRichmond area, Richmond Rosenberg, that whole
area of sugar Land in Chenny Garden'sGarden Center. They are on the Katie
Folscher side of Richmond and it's onFM fifty nine. That's where it's located.
If you haven't been there, youreally need to go. It is

(31:04):
quite the showplace and Chandy Gardens haseverything that you could possibly need right now.
They have a supply of some ofthe string house plants like string of
turtles and string of hearts, andthe hoya that's called the heart shape heart
heart hoya. Yep, there,it just looks like a heart each of
the leaves. They have, ofcourse, things for pollinating plants. They've

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got an unbelievable selection of pottery,just gorgeous pottery that you'll find there.
So you're gonna find everything there,you really are. I mean, it's
still time to get your boog andvas, your mandavillas. They have a
beautiful stock of those for seasonal colorthat just never never gets too hot for
those things. In Chandi Gardens,I would consider it one of those show

(31:51):
placed destinations that people come from allover to go to. I love to
go out there. Every time Igo out there, I see things I
didn't know they carried because they're alwaysgrowing and always changing with the seasons that
we have. Monday through Saturday eightto five, Sunday ten am to four
pm. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot comagain they're on FM three fifty nine north

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of Richmond, h If you wouldlike to give us a call, our
phone number is seven to one threetwo one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. What kind of questions do
you have? Do you perhaps strugglingto get your lawn in shape? Last

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summer was brutal. I think lawnsare the number one question we get on
garden Line. I think that's aneasy first place when it comes to question
topics. Because last summer is sohot and dry, lawns dyed of chinch
bugs and diseases and all that comesin. You want to create the most
healthy lawn you can. And thefolks at Nitrofoss they've got something called super

(32:59):
turf. Now you've heard me talkabout it before. It's a silver bag
of Nitrofos Superturf nineteen four to ten. It's got half the nitrogen in that
slow release form that's what we want. We want a gradual release of nitrogen
over time. It also has fourpercent iron to promote a nice uniform green
color for those yellow areas. NitrofosSuperturf is one of those products from Nitrofoss

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that is widely widely available. Ifyou go out to enchanted gardens in Richmond,
they're going to have it there.If you go to the growers outlet
in Willis or RCW Nursery up onwhere two forty nine comes into Beltway eight,
you're going to find your Nitrofoss Superturffertilizer at all those places. We're
going to now go up to NorthwestHouston and talk to Ed. Hello,

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Ed morning, Sir Marning. Gota real concern with some thirty year old
boxwood beds that's on either side ofmy entry in front of the house with
some other shrubs behind them between thewall of the house and the boxwood rope.

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Last weekend I was cutting them backand discovered within a lot of the
inner growth was dying out. Gotreally concerned. Ran up to one of
the well known nurseries, Lady Advisement. She thinks that it's boxwood blight.

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Okay, and that's scary, shesaid, because not much you can do
for it. Can you give meany advice? Okay, when you looked
at the shrubs before you got upclose and saw what you saw, did
they look uniformly green all the wayacross? Oh? They were very healthy
because they had a very good growththat I had not trimmed back for the

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spring yet. And when I startedtrimming that back, that's when this stuff
popped up on me. Yeah.I can't diagnose a disease based on just
a conversation, but I would putabout eighty five percent, maybe ninety percent,
that what you're seeing is the interiorshaded branches dying out and not boxwood
blake, because boxwood blake you wouldhave sections of branches that are dying.

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So you stand back at the roadand you can see the big brown sections
any shrub, any shrub that sheared. Shearing makes more and more density once
you get past that outer layer ofleaves, it's all twigs and brown inside
because there's no light for the leavesto grow in there. So I think
that I think that's what you're lookingat. Well, she suggested that i'd

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look for a product called Subdue.Yes, how I die, She said
it was. I couldn't find it. Went to Carnelians and they gave me
something called moder Ray Garden foss EHOsokay, and they said put that on
the roots because it's a roof thingto treat. What's your suggest and not

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do? If anything? Well,if you got it, you can certainly
use it. Follow the label verycarefully. Yeah, boxwoods. There's a
number of things that can happen tothem, from nematodes to cold damage,
believe it or not at times,to the blights like you're talking about.
Uh So, if you got theproduct, give it a shot, just

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as an extra insurance measure. ButI think you're going to be okay here,
okay, And I use all microlifeproducts for Ferdi lives. Is it
okay to fertilize after I put thatdown because I'm getting ready to do yard
work today. Yes, you canfertilize anything you want right now. Yep,
that's okay, fair enough? Allright? Any suggestions on spraying it

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with as far as the foliage goes, No, I wouldn't. I don't
think there is anything that you needto spray for. I got you,
okay, good luck, Thank youright. I hope my crystal ball is
right on that. I'm ninety percentsure it is. I may be called

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in you for a consult. Ifit doesn't work all right, well I
can also show up and do lastrites. So but that's a fee.
I'm hey, thanks man, thankyou, by bye. We love feed
stores here on garden Line, andSpring Creek Feed is up in Magnolia.
It's on FM twenty nine seventy eight. If you've been out there. It's

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a big thoroughfare through there, justminutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to forty
nine. Sprint Creek Feed stocks thefertilizers you hear me talk about on Guardline.
They've stock pest and disease and weedmanagement products. Of course, they
have high quality feed for your petsand for your other animals. But I
just find it. I always liketo go in because it makes feel good

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to be greeted by friendly and courteousstaff, and they really have that at
Spring Creek Feed. By the way, they also have things for ponds.
If you need to put product inyour ponds for various like weeds, they've
got that covered too. They justyou know, they make sure and stay
on top of things, and theyeven will do special ordering if you need

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something they don't have in stock,and they have a delivery service too.
You can ask them about Spring CreekFeed. They're located in Magnolia on FM
twenty nine seventy eight eight. Theyexpanded their their garden product area and they
even added some plants and things inthis year. I was visiting with them
a while back and they were tellingme about all the plans and I was

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seeing it too in the store there. Well, we're about to take a
break here for the top of thehour. First hour is in the books.
Here on garden Line, I amgoing to be at Let's See a
Chanted Forest Enchanted Forest today from eleventhirty to one thirty. So when garden
Line's over, I'm heading that way. I hope you'll come out to see

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me. We're going to be givingaway a number of by Medina, like
the hast Grow six twelve six thatI talk about for transplanting, the has
to Grow on We were just hada conversation about that a minute ago.
Has to Grow super Grow sixteen ohtwo. That is a brand new fertilizer.
It is. It's really cool.I'll be I'm going to be talking
about that a little bit later.Medina plus the liquid fish blend and a

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lot of little sample bottles of variousthings, and just come out all those
giveaways. I'll be answering your gardeningquestions from eleven thirty to one thirty.
Add Enchanted for Us en Richmond,Enchanted Forest in Richmond if you have not
been out there before. The locationis FM twenty seven fifty nine, Richmond,

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Texas. While you're there, you'regoing to see all of the reasons
why I brag about Enchanted for Usevery weekend on garden Line. I hope
you can make it out there today. We'll be right back to answer your
gardening question. KATRH Garden Line.It's not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program.Welcome to k t r H Garden Line

(40:07):
with Skip Rictor. It's crazy.Just watch him as well us so many
things again, not a sad Welcomeback to guarden Line. Good to have

(40:37):
you with us today. If you'dlike to give us a call, that's
why we're here. By the way, you'd like to give us a call,
it is seven one three two onetwo k t r H. Easy
to get a hold of us.We will talk about the things you're interested
in talking about, like your lawnsand trees and shrubs and herbs. And
I don't know what what is ofinterest to you, what piques your interest?

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What issues or you haven't in yourlawn? I bet there are some.
It is really common to have alawn that has issues in it,
because nature has a way sometimes ofnot like in the idea that we want
to have turf. I don't knowwhy it feels that way. Lawn is
a contributor to a cooler environment aroundyour house, like a actually turf.

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The amount of bt us of heatthat turf absorbs solar radiation is amazing significantly.
For example, in large cities,we have what we call a heat
island effect. That's all the concretebasically and asphalt and everything else that's absorbing

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and reflecting heat everywhere, just hotterin the city than it is outside the
city. Turf around a home ispart of that. Plant canopy tree canopies
are important in the same kind ofway. You want to take care of
your turf. You want to keepit well fed. But think of feeding
your turf not just as one thingyou do, but it's something you do

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building the soil over time. Microlifeis designed for that kind of thing.
They're a green bag. That's thesix to four for microlife. That bag
is the standard for your lawn fertilizingin an organic type system. They have
designed it that way. It's loadedwith microbes, micro all kinds of microbes
that interact with your soil roots tocreate that environment. Did you know that

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if you were to take all themicrobes out of the soil, plants would
have an extremely difficult, maybe impossibletime of surviving in many cases because they
do so many things for the plants. Microbes make the world. They run
the world. They really do.They are in charge. Microlife also has
a humans plus that's a purple bagand that is loaded with microbial content.

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But what is humates. Well,think of a pile of leaves and then
you decompose them and you have compost. Think of compost and it continues to
decompose away and you have humus.That's kind of the process. So humous
is a substance that is excellent forbuilding your soil structure, for creating a

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healthier soil environment. The aeration,the drainage, all the things that we
want we build over time by theway we care for our ones, and
microlife folks have designed a number ofproducts for just that purpose. If you
want to find out more like whereto get them, well, go to
Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlifefertilizer dot comand you'll find there a list of the

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places where you can get Microlife.I was talking a minute ago about my
flower beds and starting to get thoserevamped now that the turf project is behind
me, and boy, the turfproject eight about three weeks because I had
to do so many things to getready for the turf I have. The

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home we moved into is blast Ithink, with three cypress trees. I
love cypress trees, but these treesin the soil we have, which is
not well drained. The soil itself, we'll send up knees everywhere, and
that's my lawnmower targets. And insteadof playing whack a mole, I just
mow the heads off the moles whenthey pop up, and that's the cypress

(44:20):
tree. I got two and ahalf wheel barrows of cypress knees just to
get them out of the area sothat I could have a head start at
least on getting that lawn in andgrowing. There are a lot of other
activities, but now it's onto theflower beds and I'm excited about that part.
We're also doing containers. We justplanted some My wife planted some klaliies
and a container a little bit backago, and we've got other containers that

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are waiting for me to get tothem to get things planted. Jungle Land
distributed by Nitrophoss. Jungle Land isa quality soil mix that drains well and
it also holds moisture. So itdoesn't hold excess moisture, but it holds
moisture. It is the kind ofmix that you just add your fertilizer to
and you're going to have a successwith your plants. Don't cut corners on

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cheap, low budget mixes. Makesure that you go with jungle Land for
your outdoor containers. There's also anindoor version called jungle Land water Saving Potting
soil. I'll talk about that inanother time. Well, you can get
jungle Land at a lot of differentplaces. For example, OspA ace up
in the Woodlands. Container carries thejungle Land plants for all seasons on two

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forty nine carries it in, sodoes plants and things up in Brunham.
Well, I'm going to quit talkingfor just a moment here and we're going
to go up to Spring Branch andtalk to Hurda. Hey it turn off
the radio and let's figure out whatwe can do for today. Thank you,
Thank you for being there for Kip. I have my thea are putting

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on new leaves, but they havea few yellow leaves. Is that lack
of iron? If you look atan azalea branch, if the yellowing is
on the end of the branch,those leaves that are brand new coming out,

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that's the worst yellowing there. That'siron. If you go back the
branch and it's the oldest leaves onthe branch that are turning yellow, that's
not It could be a lack ofnitrogen, but it also could just be
that they're getting old, they're gettingshaded more back in there, and they're
falling off. So do you happento know which it is? I think

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it's the new leaves. Okay,Well, what you need to do is
you need to get a fertilizer thatis for acid loving plants like azilias.
Camellias and blueberries for example. Ohyes, okay, and fertilized. Start
fertilizing with that. You might wantto put a kelated iron product on.
And there's some products I know.Nitrophoss has one in a are the keylated

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iron that you can put down.And what keylated means is it's like it's
got a bodyguard around a claw.Like you grab a tennis ball with your
hand. Your hand is your handis the keylated. The tennis ball is
the iron that your hand is thekelation that doesn't let the source steal it
away, but lets the roots haveit. It just gives it more time

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to get in the roots. Allright, all right, and let's see,
Uh I had a mallow zerr intoo small a pot and it also
had a little one of those saucersat the bottom, okay part and it
was just having too much water okay, but transported it and the roots were

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going in a circle. I kindof by hand loosened them. Yeah,
hey, I heard. I'm sorryto interrupt you, but I'm going to
need to go to a break.Can you tell me what your basic question
is on that is on that aloe? Hey? Yes, yes, sir,
thank you, Okay, thank youfor the call. I appreciate that
very much. We're going to haveto go to our break today and I'll

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be right back. Welcome back tothe garden line. The sky is glowing
with the promise of some sunshine herejust a little bit, and today's the
day you got to get out andget some things done in the lawn and
garden. You're not going to findbetter weather than we got today. Trees.
Let's talk about trees. I saidturf is the number one thing that
makes the phone ring. Trees arenumber two. Affordable tree service. Martin

(48:37):
Spoon Moore and his wife, theyhave been doing treecare for a long long
time here in the Houston area,over thirty years. They know what they're
doing, they know how to doit right. And if you have any
tree care that is needed, maybeyou need to do some pruning because you
know storm season will come here andwe're gonna have to be dealing with that.

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Maybe you need some early training ofyour trees to get him off to
a good start. Maybe you needto do something around the tree, like
trenching, and you need Martin Inthere to advise you on whether or not
to do it. Some alternative optionsand how to care for your trees.
He does all that seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three
seven one three, six nine twentysix sixty three. He'll do deep root

(49:21):
feeding for your trees as well.Pretty much anything you need have him come
out to do a consultation, he'llcome out and he'll do that. Martin
has the knowledge, he understands whathe's doing. By the way, another
way you can reach out to themis afftree Service dot com two fs Afftree
Service dot com. Hurder. Let'ssee if we can wrap this alo question

(49:45):
up. So you were it wasin a pot and kind of water logged,
and where do we go from here? World? The US? It
was real pale green, but it'sgotten more color now, but it has
a couple of tips that light brown. Do I just wait longer? Yeah,

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just wait longer. There's nothing youcan do to fix that, and
it'll just keep keep growing, especiallyif you give a little more space.
I got to run to another collarhere, but thank you very much for
that call. We're going to gonow out to Girardo and Meadows Place.
Hello, Girardo, Hey Skipiting,good morning to you. A question I

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have I bought Dorset golden apple treelast year, and I was actually surprised
that came in the summer gallon potand it started the fruit and so forth.
I cut all the fruit off.It probably produced like about six seven
apples. I cut it off.I put it in, put it in
the ground, actually a redbed,raised bed, put it in the ground.

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And this year it's producing pretty much. I come in like twenty five
apples. My question is still acouple of questions. How old are the
trees will lose you when you buythem from a nursery, and the should
I actually cut off the fruit?Yeah, okay. Age varies depends on

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the nursery you buy them from andwhether they whether they Some nurseries will grow
their own things. Some nurseries willbuy the men. Usually fruit trees are
purchased in uh and so I can'tsay exactly how old they are. But
when you graft a fruit tree,the graft wood you put on it,
or the bud wood you put onit is already mature. And so that's

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why with fruit sometimes we get alittle bit earlier production. If you could
pull most of those off, Iwould like to tell you in an ideal
world. Pull them all off andgive the tree another year to grow.
Pull most of them off, maybeleave yourself, you know, five or
so apples on it so you canenjoy those, and it just will put
all that energy that went into fruit, it'll put them put it into branches

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and growing bigger. So you canhang a lot of apples next year on
those trees. But anyway, thatthat's for your choice to do. I
can't remember the second half of yourquestion. What was that now you basically
answered it. I wondered I wasgoing to cut them all off, and
I'll do suggestion. I was thinkingin my head, like, okay,

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let me cut off most of themexcept for a few. Yeah. You
know, if you read the books, it says you got to cut them
all off for two or three twoyears at least. But I understand you're
looking at potential taste. But cutthem off soon because the more time and
energy that goes into producing those twentyfive apples, the less growth you're going

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to get out of that tree asa result. So cut them off.
Okay, appreciate it, Thank youso much. Good have a good morning.
You bet, thanks a lot forthat call. I appreciate that.
Moss Nursery is down to Seabrook,Texas, and it is a place where
I don't know, it's almost likegoing to the park or going to a

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museum. I mean, they've gotartifacts. The gym brings in from all
over the world. It's really cool. If you want to add a tropical
look, a tropical field to yourgarden, for example, well what about
some palms. Moss probably has eightto ten kinds of palms or so.
And the bay it take home size, you know, like the two to
eight foot range where it's still manageable. Of course, they have hibiscus and

(53:22):
bougainvillia. They always have that othertropical foliage. Oh my gosh, the
leaves of tropicals, elephant ear plants, ten to twelve different kinds of elephant
ear. Did you know there werethat many bananas, five to six frities
bananas that he's got. And thenthe bird of paarad ice I'm talking about
that orange and blue flower version andligularia that's those big, old, giant

(53:45):
above ground lily pads, if youwill. They sort of look like big
lily pads, gingers and philodendron.Listen, Moss isn't just another garden Center.
It's a seventy year old, familyoperated eight acre source for everything that
you need, and I really needeverything that you might need. There on
Toddville Road down there in Seabrook.You can go to the website Moss m

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a a s nursery dot com.We're going to go now to Martin in
Sugarland. Hello Martin, there wego. How can I help today?
Hey? I was I was goingto put out some high yield Uh.

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I don't know if you could talkon get cut out there. I heard
the word high yield and nothing afterthat. Yeah, I was. I
was wanting to mix. Uh.I want to know the mix with the
high yield weed killer for Saint Augustine. And and they have another ingredient that

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helps stick uh that it helps stickthe high yield on the lead on the
weeds. I was wondering if youknew what the mixture was. I don't.
You have to read the label forthe mixture, Okay, and that's
the right. And if you don'thave the label still for some reason,
then go online and do a yielda high yield label search, you know,

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and that that'll get you the mixthat you need. What you're talking
about on sticking. That's a surfactantand you can buy you can buy surfactants.
You're done there in sugar Land,you probably well, Uh, Southwest
Fertilizers just up the road from youjust a little bit. I would go
in there and tell Bob Bob,I need a surfactant. Uh. And
he even has that heightened product onthe shelf where you could look at a

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label from his product if you wantto do that. And where is that,
uh, Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizeris at the corner of Bissonet in
Renwick, Bissonet and Baguet in SouthwestHouston. So just head up, head
up eighty nine. Hey, canyou do that with a hose? Can

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you apply it with a hose prayer? Not knowing the ingredient? What are
you going? Are you trying toprevent weeds or kill existing weeds? Existing
weeds? Okay? You I wouldn'tgenerally do that with a hose in sprayer.
And the reason is all we gotto do is get the leaves a
little wet. You start drenching thingsand washing it down in the soil,

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and you got other issues. Ifyou could do it spot. Yeah,
spot spot treatment will a little pumpup. All right, that's good,
Dan. I appreciate your help.All right, Martin, thank you appreciate
that call. We love feedstorce hereon Garden Line, and one of my
favorite stores is Grimes County Feeding Farmup in Carlos, Texas. I love

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driving out to the Carlos, Texasarea. I just think of that as
a God's country, just beautiful outthere. So all of you that are
listeners of Garden Line that live inmaybe king Oaks or Murewood Subdivision, or
in communities like Curtain and Iola andReliance, Romees, Prairie, Shiro,
Beat Eyes, Richard's and all thosecommunities out there, this is your hometown

(57:02):
feed store, even up in theBrian College Station area. It is not
a far drive out Highway thirty toCarlos, Texas and Grimes County Feed They're
two miles west of two forty four. The Roy family has owned and operated
this since the beginning, and theyjust treat you like family. And they're

(57:22):
active in the community. And we'retalking about everything from past law enforcement careers
and fire careers to you name it. They are active in their community and
they carry all the fertilizers I'll talkabout here on garden line and things to
control paths, and they bring infish periodically. If you want to stalk
upon talk to them at Grimes CountyFeet. I'm going to head out now

(57:46):
to sugar Land and talk to Susan. Hello, Susan sky Skip. I'm
on my way to the nursery.But I have three questions quick. One,
I cannot find a setting for mygot spreader for sweet green fertilizer.
Okay, if you don't know howmuch to put out on a fur laser

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like that, we generally put itout a notch or two above halfway.
This is a push one with wheels, right, we're talking about ye.
Yes. So let's say that yourspreader had ten settings for just as an
example, Well, five would bein the middle, so maybe six.
I would probably do six on that. And if you had twenty notches,

(58:35):
maybe eleven or twelve you'd put itdown. But if you think it's too
much, you can drop you candrop it. But that's the best guess
because there's a lot of particle sizesand even the way the particles kind of
sift down and move from different kindsof things. It's hard to be exact,
and I know that's confusing, butgo for it really hard. I

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can't find it setting on any ofthe websites. That answers my question.
But the other thing I asked wantedto ask is pill bugs. I've heard
a slugo and that I have vehere. What's better to use? Dietamacious
earth is not that great out therein the environment where the dew and rainfall
and stuff like that get on it. Slugo and there's a slug o plus

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I think it's called plus. There'ssomething in addition to slugo on the name.
Those two products put out would bea good approach. But remember pill
bugs are out there in the multThey're primarily wanting to decompose, eat that
decomposing material, unless it's my yardwhere they eat the bottoms off every strawberry
in my patch. Yes, yes, well that's my problem. My deal

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is like no more. And thenthe other quick question was a good bag
soil that I can put in myraised beds to refresh them before I put
my herbs in. I would getheirloom soils, veggie and herb mix because
it's why available. It's can beeasy to find in your area. I
suspect it's a Southwest fertilizer because theycarry everything. Uh. And if you

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go down to your two nurseries downthere in Richmond and Chennant Forest Enchanted Gardens,
they're going to have it. Okay, okay, so heirloom Okay,
thank you Reggie and herb mix fromHeirlooms. Okay, yep, very good.
Thanks for your help, your show. Thank you. I appreciate that.
Well, it's good to talk toyou today. I am going to

(01:00:30):
turn the mic over here to Nikkifor the news, but I just wanted
to add that, don't forget.I'm going to be down at Enchanted Forest
Garden Center in Richmond, actually justoutside toward trigger Land. I'll be there
today from eleven thirty to one thirtyanswering your gardening question. So I hope
you can join us. All right, Nikki, it's all yours. Welcome

(01:00:51):
back to guard Line on what isalready a beautiful day to get out in
the garden. Let's do something.Hey, here's an idea. Have you
ever grown vegetables in a container?You ought to try it. Container.
I'd go for one maybe five gallonsize for most of the smaller statued vegetables,
or it can always be larger.Or if you're going to do tomatoes,

(01:01:13):
get up at least ten gallons andyou will have better success with that
as well. But it would bea good thing to be out and about
doing today. Give it a try. It's fun to grow your own food.
It's just I don't know, it'sjust rewarding in a deep, deep
sense. While Ago I was talkingabout slugo, we were discussing dealing with

(01:01:34):
some pill bugs and things. Iwant to clarify a little bit about about
that bait, Slugo. Standard Slugois an iron phosphate bait. That's the
ingredient iron phosphate. And what happens. It's a bait. So the slugs
and snails and saw bugs or whatever, they're going to eat that, and
when they eat it, it causesa terminal case of constipation. Okay,

(01:01:59):
I'm sorry. That is as niceas I can put it, terminal case
of confimation, and it kills themthat way. Well, they've taken slugo
bait, the iron phosphate, andthey've added spinosid to it, which is
an organic and scticide, and itgives additional control. So it's called Slugo

(01:02:19):
plus. That's the two. Andthis isn't a commercial slugo. It's I'm
just telling you these two and howthey work well. When it's ingested by
slugs and snails. You know,first of all, they they quit feeding
and that's that is the important thingright there. So if you want to
expand it the SLUGO from slugs andsnails to a lot of other things,

(01:02:40):
I would go with the Slugo plusuh. And it's widely available of seen
it on shelves all over the Houstonarea, so not hard to find.
Our phone number is seven to onethree two one two fifty eight seventy four,
or if you want to dial byletter seven one three two one two
ktr H. That's easy to rememberwhen it was the last time you were

(01:03:02):
at the Antique rose Emporium, theAntiqurosenporum. That is one of my favorite
places to go because there is alwayssomething going on and because of the experience
of being out there. When yougo to the antiqu Rosenmporium, it's like
you've gone back in time and itis just beautiful and boy, this time

(01:03:22):
of year is a great time togo and get out there. You're going
to see a lot of different displaygardens that are beautiful. Certainly when it
comes to antique roses, I meanthey have them in space. They people
all over the country by roses fromantiquros and Porum. They're well known.
They grow them in three gallon pots, which makes for a little more robust

(01:03:44):
plant, a little better putting itout and getting a good headstart. You
can find out more at Antique Roseemporiumdot com Antique Roseemporium dot com. That
is one thing that I would suggesttoday be a good day to get out
and do that. By the way, they're having educational workshops with the Native

(01:04:04):
Plant Partner Program from ten am totwo pm two day out at Antique Rose
and Porium and the Tinker Garden.That's where the children. It's a children's
gardening program. That's a good namefor it. This will be a six
week curriculum starting April nineteenth and twentiethat one pm, goes through mid May
and the kids are going to learnall kinds of fun things. Go out

(01:04:28):
there, check it out. Itis pretty cool. I'm going to go
now to San Leone and we're goingto talk to Terry Hello, Terry.
Yeah, hey, my grandson.I have a gardener in my backyard and
I had my grandson over and wehad dinner the other night and I had
avocados, jalapenos, tomatoes, andI threw them into garbage. Well,

(01:04:54):
my grandson, when I was intothe bathroom, went and he dug all
those things out and he buried it. He's me working in the garden,
and he said, Papa Berry,does all that all those seeds in your
garden over there and just all amixed bag right there in the middle.
You show me where you dug itup. Can I just let that go

(01:05:15):
for him and see what happened?Yeah, you can. You can.
You know if if all the pepperscame up in one spot, well your
peppers will be they will grow,they will produce peppers, but it it
will be a different version of thepepper you planted. Most peppers are hybrids.
There are a lot of self pollinatingSo if it was a self pollinating

(01:05:38):
variety, it's going to be prettymuch like the one that you picked or
bought or whatever. Is he gonnamake that tomatoes like spicy? No,
No, not at all, notat all. No, there's no between
species. There's none of that stuffgoing on in the vegetable garden. Oh
all right, So I just letit go and let him enjoy it.

(01:06:00):
There you go make a new manout of well. And you can cheat
a little bit. You can kindof scoop up a young plant if it's
too close together, you know,like a pepper and a tomato that are
three inches apart. I think yougot to move one and put it in
the other area, and nobody willknow the difference. And I won't tell
him, I promise. I appreciate. I love your show. Thank you,
Thank you, Terry. I appreciate, appreciate that very much. If

(01:06:23):
you're looking to have a beautiful yard, your yard is needing a supply of
nitrogen. Supplementally additional nitrogen through thegrowing season, and lawns grow like crazy.
Our southern turf grass is the bigthree, Saint Augustine, Zysio grass
and Bermuda grass. They grow likecrazy if they have water going through this

(01:06:45):
warm season or hot season. SuperTurf nineteen four to ten Super turf the
silver bag from nitrofoss. It hashalf its nitrogen in a slow release form,
so it's going to gradually feed overtime. And it also has four
percent iron. Now, when yousee yellowing of the grass, oftentimes it's
an iron deficiency. And with theadding the four percent iron in here,

(01:07:06):
that is just a really good extratouch from the folks at Nitrofoss. Nitropross
Fertilizers are going to find them widelyavailable. ACE Hardware on Memorial Drive they've
got them down there, Katie Hardware, Ace out on Pinnock they've got them
there as well. Our Stanton ShoppingCenter down in Alvin are all places you
can get this Nitrofoss Super Turf,the silver bag. We're going to go

(01:07:30):
now to Jersey Village and talk toEd. Hello, Ed, Good morning,
Skip Kip. I've got a roseI've got a rose bush issue.
Okay, this rose bush. It'sin about a fifteen gallon plot, five
six years old, maybe older,but it makes beautiful roses. These first

(01:07:53):
ones that have come out just fantastic, planted properly like we do, color
Star fertilizer. Been feeding them.But the leaves, the new growth,
new leaves up toward the buds,and the buds are turning gnarly, wrinkled
like it's got a fungus. I'veand ends up making up affecting the bud.

(01:08:16):
They don't bloom out good. Thereare red rose get dark red almost
just don't. Then my next otherbush is just beautiful. I don't know
what's on these on this bush.Okay, do you notice the new shoots
are are very red with lots oflittle thorns more than normal? No?

(01:08:41):
Would you? And I tell youwhat there? Because there's a disease that's
very significant for roses. I wantto I want to take a look before
I speculate. You can gnarly growthcan be caused by a hormone type heerbicide
like two four D, which isin TRIMEC mixes if you get on roses,
and that is a possibility. Butthere's also a disease called rose rosette.

(01:09:06):
Would you take a picture of thebush and then take a picture,
maybe two or three pictures up reallyclose, but make sure they're in sharp
focus of what you're seeing already.Okay, And I'm going to put you
on hold and Josh will give youthe email to send them to. All
Right, thanks a lot, we'lltalk about them later. I'll talk about

(01:09:26):
them later on the show if Iget them and have a chance to look
at them before the end of theshow. All right, thanks a lot.
Yeah, yeah, you don't wantto mess around with rose rosette.
That is a very contagious and verydevastating disease. I was in my yard
this past week. It was earlyin the morning. In fact, it

(01:09:48):
even started in the house. Iwas having coffee with my wife who were
sitting there, and I just talkingabout how much I love the sound of
like birds in the morning, justearly early in the morning. You can
hear them come out and they startsinging. And to go out and sit
on a patio and have a cupof coffee, and are you know you

(01:10:08):
don't have to have coffee to dothis, but to just enjoy that early
morning. It's cool. It's everything'swaking up for the day. And boy,
the birds are their loud mouths firstthing in the morning, they really
are. I enjoy that. Andit's because you know, we've got feeders
out and we put the kind offeed that birds like, so they come

(01:10:28):
to our house. We give themwater. We got plenty of water stores
there for them and Wildbird's Unlimited canget you set up on all of the
above and more. They have qualityfeeds like the nesting super blend. That's
an important one in the spring becausebirds are raising young and it provides the
nutrients in a very very i'm saya concise form, meaning there's not debris

(01:10:53):
and waste. When you open abag of wild Birds, you get a
bag of bird food. There's notthose little red bebes that are in cheap
bird feed. That's not in WildbirdsUnlimited. If you go to Walbirds Unlimited's
website WBU dot com and then aforward slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash
Houston, you can find out allabout them. I'm going to be doing

(01:11:15):
some Waldbirds appearances here a little alittle later in the season, and I
hope you will check them out onlineand then go to a store. It's
time to take a break. We'llbe right back. Our phone number is
seven one three two point two.Ktr Well, welcome back to Garden Line
on a wonderful day. I betsome of you may even be sitting outside
listening to the show. By theway, you can listen to the show

(01:11:38):
by radio, right. That's that'swhat we are as a radio show.
Ktright seven ninety And it goes farand wide, and it goes web past
Brian Collis station area, and itjust covers a very wide area. I've
even heard that station over at Interstatethirty five like New Bronfuls. The direction,
Uh, it's a wide, wideride. But you can all so

(01:12:00):
listen in your computer, or youcan get the iHeartMedia app and sign up,
sign into garden Line and follow itand you can listen to it live.
You can listen to past shows becausewe make it a podcast each show.
Lots of ways to listen to gardenLine, So tell your friends about
it. We always love to havenew listeners and if we can help them
have a more bountiful garden and amore beautiful landscape, we'll do just that.

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One of the ways you have abountiful garden and a beautiful landscape is
to start with the soil. Startwith the soil. I know, you
go to the garden center, there'spretty plants, big old flowers on them.
You want to take that home,but just know this, you're either
going to PLoP it into the plantinto an unprepared plot, or you're going
to fix the soil first so thatwhen you put that plant you bought in,

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it thrives. CNA Maltch down southsouth of the Houston area. Ciena
malt down the Sienna area. Theyare a place where you can get all
kinds of things to make your round. Stuff really affective for plants. By
the way, They're on FM fivepoint twenty one just north of Roast Sharon.
The website is cienamult dot com.They just got in bulk of some

(01:13:11):
of the airlom soil leaf mold composts. They also carry the veggie and herb
mix. I was telling somebody aboutthat a little bit ago for building up
a bit. Sienna Maltz has whatyou need, including every fertilizer I talk
about on guarden Line, and alot of pest control as well. Cienamultch
We're going to now go to Richmondand talk to Sean. Hello. Sean,

(01:13:34):
Hey, So I'm currently I recentlybought a home and the lawn wasn't
in that grade of a condition.I've got about one hundred square feet of
the lawn that really needs to beeither resawed for meat a seed, and
I started to go ahead and seewith the Bermuda, but I'm kind of
trying to figure out what the bestsoil mix would be to kind of top

(01:13:56):
the soil off to ensure that itstays moist and kind of get washed away
for many rain well, you know, the wash away when the soils bear.
Nothing's going to stop that, especiallyif it's a slope. But I
would go with some type of thetop soil to fill in those areas.
You want something reasonably close to thelawn that the soil you already have,

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and to fill in those areas.I wouldn't put in a compost unless you're
gonna rototillot into the soil surface.But in general, just a good top
soil is probably the best way togo. Okay, do you recommend any
any particular brand of top soil orany any particular store that would be good

(01:14:39):
to use. The war On Rockand Malt is up in the Porter area.
I don't know if you've been upto Warren Rock and Molts before,
but I think I think that thatwould be a pretty good source for you.
I realize you're really close to it. You know, you're in a
task asta, so all you gotto do is drive up the street a

(01:14:59):
little f their deporter and go toWarren's Rock and Mulch and they can FoST
you up on a lot of differentthings. Perfect. And as far as
fertilizing after putting the seed down,is there any particular fertilizer you recommend to
get the seeds grown, just alawn fertilizer. But early on they don't

(01:15:20):
have the roots and don't need thefertilizing. They need to establish some sort
of a plant before you start fertilizingthem. So you got some time after
seeding those little spindley seedlings. Yeah, don't fertilize those. Just just wait
until it gets established and has agood root system and then you can do
that. All right, okay,And last question I have is regarding nitro

(01:15:43):
false fertilizers. I know you recommendthose quite a bit. What would be
the closest location for me to findthose products? Nitrophos is widely available,
you see. Where are you Richmond, Texas? Where are you closest to
Oh? I had I had,I said you're inn Ataska seed a while

(01:16:04):
ago. I'm sorry you're not Richmond. I think Ciena Mulch may be the
closest for you to get some thingslike that. Okay, I'll give them
a cry, thank you, takecare, bye bye? All right,
We appreciate you listening to garden Lineand Hosts. Got a little crossed over
there. Enchanted Forest is and literallyan enchanting place. That's where I'm going

(01:16:28):
to be today from eleven thirty toone pm. When you go to Enchanted
Forests, You're going to find everythingyou need. Do you want flowers,
you want vegetables and herbs? Theyhave all of that, a lot of
all of that. Do you wantshrubs and trees, Yes, they have
that as well. Containers. Thatlittle gift shops really cool too. If
you are looking for anything for yourplants and gardens and whatnot, check out

(01:16:51):
Enchanted Forest. When it comes topollinator gardens, boy, that is a
hot thing right now. They havea super white selection, including for butterfly
plants, super wide selection of plantsthat help you create that special kind of
garden that you're trying to create.We're going to go now to a Tascasida

(01:17:12):
and talk to Judith. Hello Judith, Hi, Hi, Skip. I've
been trying to remember for years whatit is? Is it hummus or you?
Ye know? I don't know whatit is and I can't find my
notes. Okay, what to do? There's a neglected lawn across the street

(01:17:38):
and it has waves of golden wavesof sandburs in it that you know,
cats, sneakers, bikes, everybodygets them in their feet. You drag
them into your house, the wholething, and there's something to pour on

(01:17:58):
there that it will stop it.I mean, it's not my house,
but it's hurting the whole neighborhood.Right, If you can get a product
out before they come up, whichI suspect they're already sprouting out there and
you're, oh, yeah, Iused to dig them out, but now
somebody's renting it. Yeah. Yeah, the pre emergence is important. Let

(01:18:21):
me just mention this on my website, gardening with skip dot com. I
have my pest disease and we'd managementschedule look at it and next spring it'll
tell you when to apply these productsto stop December. Other than that,
you could spray a grass only killerand that would kill anything grassy that you

(01:18:42):
spray it on. Over there.It's not a lawn, right, it's
just weeds. Well, it's thefront strip, you know, the the
access strip. Oh so there isturf there. No, Now it's all
sand, okay and weeds, nothingbut sand and weeds. So another option
would be, if you're gonna killall the weeds, a product containing Life

(01:19:05):
of State does that Life that's around up type product, many brands of
that. If you want to killjust the grass, grassy weeds, there
are products out there that control grass, and if you go to a good
garden center, they can direct youto that. Go out to Kingwood Garden
Center or Warren Southern Gardens, theycan direct you to it. And there

(01:19:26):
you would use something and the ingredientbegins with the boy's name SETH s E
T H. Look for something thatstarts with seth. That's for grassy weeds,
and that ought to get you inbusiness. Hey, I'm I'm gonna
have to run here pretty quick,but I hope that Okay, good luck,
thank you, good luck with that. We're going to go to Marty

(01:19:47):
in Fairfield. Hey, Marty,what's up? Hey? And I have
to break Ye're up against a breakin two minutes on the date read the
side bed. Put a race bedagainst a brick wall that it's already time
high up against the reapholes. Okay, what can I between the bed and

(01:20:10):
the wheelholes to keep the dirt fromgoing into the whols. Ah, boy,
I wouldn't do that approach. Iwould. I would put a board
whatever the bed border you want touse, put a board or whatever,
you know, a few inches awayfrom the house there, because you need
to be able to see. Youneed to be able to have access to
the foundation. When someone's coming outand checking for termites and stuff, they're

(01:20:31):
looking for the little mud runs thatcome up the wall and think they need
to be able to see that andhave access to it. Right, But
what can I put down there tokeep the dirt away from them? Oh?
Well, I mean you could.You could use whatever you would use
to border a bed. I mean, it could be treated with timbers,
it could be a fancy bedding materialcould I mean, it could be rocks

(01:20:55):
cemented in or there's a lot ofways to go about it. Okay,
well that's not that wide. SoI was just trying to figure out.
Okay, no, frost are great, I have plenty, all right,
Thank you, Marty. Appreciate thata lot. Uh Yeah, always leave
those wheepoles open. People will malta garden bed and the mault comes up

(01:21:16):
above the wheepole, and you're justyou're just asking for problem that Marty knows
that that's why she called asks thequestion, but a lot of people don't
pay attention to that, and itis important that you do pay attention to
that. Maybe you get away withit for a little while, but eventually
it's going to catch up to you. You're listening to Garden Line and we're
here every Saturday and Sunday from sixam to ten am, and our phone

(01:21:42):
number if you'd like to give usa call. Coming back from the break,
you can get on the board withJosh seven to one three two one
two kt r H seven one threetwo one two k t r H.
Putting another hour in the books here. We'll be right back after the news.
It's the hour and we'll be talkingabout your gardening questions and a few

(01:22:02):
things I'd like to throw in aswell. Oh, I also should tell
you just one more time. Iknow people tune in and are out at
different times. I'm going to beat the Enchanted Forest Garden Center. Enchanted
Forest, that's the one out inRichmond on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
So if you're in Richmond, you'reheading up to a trigger land. It's

(01:22:25):
off to the right twenty seven fiftynine enchanted forests. I'm going to be
entering gardening question. I'm going tobe giving away a lot of Medina products,
things like has to Grow six twelvesix, that's the one I always
talk about for transplanting, hast toGrow Lawn twelve four to eight, Medina
super Grow which is a new onesixteen zero two Medina, plus the liquid

(01:22:45):
Fish Blend, and a lot ofthose small sample bottles, and most of
all, I'll be answering your gardeningquestion. Hope to see you then.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorseany of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to kt rH Guarden Line with Skip Rictor It's crazy

(01:23:14):
Trim. Just watch him as maybesays, all right, let's get going
again. Here. We got alot to talk about when it comes to
gardening, including your calls. Youcan be you can have the opportunity to

(01:23:41):
discuss maybe some projects you're working onwith me. Uh, maybe you've got
a pest you're trying to battle,or you're looking for a good plant that
fits into the situation, or maybejust have something identified. Give me a
call at seven one three two onetwo k t r H seven one three
two one two k trh on gardenline, I always say brown stuff before

(01:24:05):
green stuff. And what that meansis that sounds simple to me. I
like it. But anyway, itmeans that get the soil right before you
put the plant in. You canbuy soils and plants at all of our
great garden centers around the area here, but get the soil right, and
that includes both soil bed amendments,but it also includes nutrition and microlife.

(01:24:30):
Fertilizers are designed in fact, they'repacked with microbial content and they're designed to
decompose into the soil. As microbesget a hold of that microlife granule if
you will, they release the nutrientsout of it. And the six two
four fertilizer fur lawns. That's howthat works, That's how all their products
work. You get an enhancement ofmicrobial growth because not only does this product

(01:24:55):
have microbes in it, but yoursoil has microbes in it, and it
feeds and absolutely sets those plants rootsystems up for success. That is important.
Now for the lawns, hu Matesplus zero zero four that would be
a good one to add periodically becauseevery time you add it, you're contributing
toward building so structure out there,and you're also giving microbes a very good

(01:25:18):
place where they thrive. And that'sthat's how it works. The humans talking
to somebody earlier wanted acid loving plants. Microlife has a kind of a pink
bag, bright pink bag that isfor acid loving plants. You can find
out more at microlifefertilizer dot com.Microlifefertilizer dot com makes it real easy to

(01:25:39):
find it and get it. We'regoing to go now to Katie and talk
to John. Hello, John,Hey, good morning. Just wanted to
make a quick common plask my question. You're talking about the Hosta Grow.
Those products are awesome. My neighboracross the street he said, last year,
the tomatoes once they get to acertain temperature, they stopped producing.

(01:26:01):
Mine. I was using the HostaGrow fertilizer for my tomatoes. They just
never stopped producing until like October.I mean it's nuts good. Well,
there's several different great has to growproducts from Medina that are out there,
and the ones I've tried so far. I'm about to try the sixteen O
two and that's a new one.But the ones I've tried so far are

(01:26:23):
just awesome. They work, Yes, they do, so shout out to
them. So my question is,I got a nineteen year old lawn in
Katie. We have some big oaktrees with some shade, and the Saint
Augustine's kind of thinned out, soI'm looking to put some grass seed in
there to cover and fill in thebary spots. What kind of grass do
you recommend? Because there's so manydifferent types. Did you say you're wanting

(01:26:45):
to seed grass or just put theput the grass maybe plugs or side pieces
in just the grass seed. There'sbermuda and Zoosha and rye and rescue and
for the warm season here, thereisn't a grass seed for a shady spot.
Saint Augustine is a shady, tallershade tolerance we're going to get and

(01:27:09):
there's not a seed available for it. So you would be looking at purchasing
some either siding the whole thing orputting some pieces, take up side pieces
and cut them into strips and plantthose strips to make your dollar go a
little further. But if it maybe too shady even for Saint Augustine to
thrive, in which case the onlysolution is to brighten the shade by removing

(01:27:32):
some of the canopy of the tree, and that is a very temporary solution
that generally I don't like to recommend. Okay, what about sunny spots,
what kind of like close to thestreet where there's no shade cover in your
lawn? Is Saint Augustine? Correct? Okay, Well, if you don't

(01:27:55):
mind a mix, there are Bermutaseeds, but it will be invasive and
it will and have it all throughyour lawn and it will you'll have that
mix a very different looking grass.So I don't know that you would want
to give that a try, aslong as it's green. Okay, Well,
that would be an option. Therealso also are some Zoizia seeds.

(01:28:15):
Have you ever considered azoysia a varietybefore? I'm looking at the different ones,
and that is one of the typeson the home people website. Okay,
well, I would I would considerthat. There's a website it's Aggie
Turf dot t a m U dote ed u Aggie Turf dot TAMU dot

(01:28:41):
e d u And if you gothere, there's a section for Texas turf
grasses and you can click on zoysiaand what it will will have as you
scroll down. Is there's a numberof different varieties of zoysia that are available.
I don't know azoisia that well.There there are actually there's two on
there that apparently can be purchased byseed. May be hard to find.

(01:29:04):
I don't know. I've never triedthat before, but there are two voyages
on that list of recommended ones.All right, Hey, I'm going to
have to have to run, John, Thanks for the CALLI appreciate that a
lot. You know, I wastalking about the microlife and building the soil.
Well, another big part of buildingthe soil is to bring in some
type of decomposed organic matter, whetherit is a compost top dressing, which

(01:29:28):
the folks at Nature's Way have awonderful supply of screened compost excuse me,
screened compost top dressing with leaf moldcomposts, and that would be great on
your lining put in the soil ifyou want. But they also have bed
mixes like things for vegetables or thingsfor fruit or just flowers. Whatever you

(01:29:48):
want to grow, you're going tofind it in Nature's Way. That's the
gardens, the nursery. And actuallyI say that because they do have a
lot of plants available too. Youneed to check that out. But that's
the one up north on the Stateforty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in
from the west side. You turnright across the railroad tracks and you're there.

(01:30:09):
Here's the phone number nine three sixthree two one sixty nine to ninety.
Remember on Fridays they have Fungal Fridaysale, which is ten percent off
the bag product and twenty percent offthe bulk product of fungal composts. We
are going to head back to thephones now and go to Jersey Village.
Talk to George. Hello, George, Yeah, good morning, Gip.

(01:30:31):
How thing's going with you? Goingwell? Thanks? I've had two opinions
on when to harvest some yukongo potatoes. It one was that one of the
flowers appear. The other one wasone day the plant starts to die.
So which one is accurate? Oh, I don't go by the flowers when
the plant starts declining. I do, but you know, you can steal

(01:30:51):
potatoes off in the short term inthere kind of like the red new potatoes.
You kind of dig down and finda big one and remove it and
let the plant keep going with therest of them, I give you a
headstart. All right, okay,thanks very much, thank you much.
I appreciate that we're gonna have totake a break right here. Those of
you that are on hold, wewill get to you first when we come

(01:31:13):
back. Welcome back to the Guardenline. Good to have you with us today.
Listen. If you haven't been anRCW nursery to check out their selection
of plants, you need to dothat. Rcw's the nursery where Tambo Parkway
FM two forty nine comes in tobelt Way eight. It's easy access,
easy get to their row selection pagesand pages over two hundred and thirty roses

(01:31:33):
that they can carry there at RCW. Always call to find the roads you
want and then call do you havethe men stock? And like all their
plants. If they don't have it, they can probably order it and bring
it in if it's available. That'swhy we call RCW. They get it.
Got it nursery RCW nurseries dot com. You need to check it out.

(01:31:55):
You need to go there. Andof course the fertilizers you hear me
talk about here on garden Line andmany other products of well are available there
at RCW. We are now goingto go to Bjata in Baytown. Hello,
bj Hi. I planted some fouro'clock flowers from seeds. They are
just beautiful, but they're not blooming. What do I do when it comes

(01:32:18):
from seed? It takes a littlewhile to establish. That's actually a perennial
type plant. It has underground storageroots and so it may be a little
slower, but it should It shoulddo fine. Is it getting plenty of
sun? Oh? Definitely yes.And the steams are just beautiful, but
nows Okay, Well, I wouldsay time, don't push them with extra

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nitrogen just yeah, just you knowthat that's the one probably that's not going
to help a lot right now.If they're growing and looking good, I
would just hold off on that andthen you can use a flower type fertilizer
later on in the season. Thankyou, all right, Thanks appreciate that.
Four o'clocks are a really cool oldtime flower, but beware they like

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to They're persistent, and so don'tplan them where you don't want them.
That's one way to look at it. Let's go to Jerry and West Columbia.
Hello Jerry, Hello Jip Hey,we will be transplanting three slabo trees
today. I just want to seewhat kind of tips you can get me
on having a successful transplant. Soare you digging them out of the ground

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somewhere or are you pulling them outof containers? Okay, out of the
ground. It's a tough time ofyear to do that. You want to
get as much of the root systemas you can, which is a challenge
because it's heavy. Soil is heavy. But try to get as much of
the roots as you can. Coverthose roots up in the transition. Are

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you going to have to drive themsomewhere? Are they on your property?
I'm driving them about? Oh wow, okay, boy, you keep making
it harder for us there. Yougot to keep the roots wet, pack
them in something wet, and you'vegot to keep the wind off of those
leaves. You know, a coupleof two or three shade cloths put over

(01:34:20):
the top of them in the backof the truck or trailer or whatever.
And because that's just going to drawthem out more. The challenge is going
to be can they grow roots intime before the leaves have lost enough water
to wear the plant defoliates, Sothat that is a challenge. If you
could wait to do any transplanting.Fall is the best time to get that.

(01:34:43):
Late fall it is the best timeto get that done. Or winter
in the fall. Yeah, latefall like November, December, January,
all those months are good for ifyou got to dig up and move a
plant, much better chance of success. Okay, Now, what about like
adding anything to the soil? Isanything? Is there anything you would recommend?

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No, that is going to bea big tree that has roots going
far and wide. Don't amend thesoil and the planting hole. It's not
going to help it. If youwanted to rototill some soil in a big,
big area before you dig the plantinghole, some soil, some compost
or something a little bit, youcould do that, but the tree is

(01:35:25):
going to be Okay. You justneed to as you fill the soil back
with whole. When with soil,water the whole periodically as you're filling it
so the soil settles in among theroots. You want good root to soil
contact, not a bunch of airpockets all underneath there. Gotcha? Okay,
Okay, Chip, thank you,all right, you bet, thanks

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for the call. Appreciate that.Sweet Green is a product by Nitrofoss that
is a molasses based product. Molassesand microbes are basically what does the work
of making sweet grain happen. Isone of the high organic or nitrogen content
organic type materials that you're going tofind on the available on the market.

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Sweet Green is about eleven percent nitrogenand it it smells great. I love
to put some in the back ofthe car and haul them around. But
sweet Green is easy to apply,it does work, and being a sugar
type product, the microbes just loveit, absolutely love it. You're going
to find it in Shades of Texasup in the Woodlands in chenned Garden down

(01:36:30):
in Richmond Rosenberg area, and youcan also find sweet Green at Fishers Hardware,
both the one in South Houston onSouthmore and the one in Laport out
on South Broadway. We're going togo back to the phones now and we're
going to talk to Mark in JerseyVillage. Hello, Mark, Hi,
Skip. I have outsourced my lawncare to commercial group that has not done

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well, and I've got an estepelawn thirty years or more, but it's
really thin. So I'm taking backover the management of feeding and everything.
But I wanted to clarify something Ipurchased the naitroposs nineteen ten yesterday, but
I also got asimite. Is thissomething I should apply together or on the

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same treatment or do they work together? Well, well, it doesn't matter.
Think of as a mite as stockingup the soil bank account with trace
mentals and nutrients. The nitrophys isgoing to provide the big nutrients that it
needs in quantities, and especially thenitrogen that promotes growth. So if you

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want to do them on the sameday, if you want to do them
six months apart, it doesn't mattergreat to delay on the nitrophile. It
is time to be doing nitrogen fertilizingto our lawns. You can also yeah,
yeah, all right. So mygrandson's coming today and he's going to
be doing the spreading, and you'vegiven me the clue on how to do

(01:38:08):
it. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. My wife's
uncle and my wife's one of hercousins, second cousins. I guess little
child was working with his uncle outin the garden and the uncle had a
big pile of manure that he's puttingout on the garden, and this kid

(01:38:29):
was going in and just taking hishands and playing with the manure and stuff,
and he kept telling him, son, that's manure, that's manure.
And finally he goes gen you knowwhat manure is and the guy shakes his
head no, and he told himand the kid just runs inside to clean
up. It was like a revelation. Orgeshidden Gardens is down there in Alvin.

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Have you been to Orgesiden Gardens.You got to check them out.
They're in Alvin. And he alwayshas a stock of some nice plants.
He's got roses, citrus trees ifthat hadn't sold out on them, but
citrus trees like sensuma orange, thelime, and the Meyer lemon. If
you like blueberries, he has thoseand thornless blackberries as well at Horages Hidden

(01:39:13):
Gardens. And of course you're gonnafind vegetables and perennials and other things.
That tree stabilizer, the three sixtytree stabilizer I was talking about, that's
at Horaes Hidden Gardens. Really reallyeasy and Horaes a great guy to visit
with. I think you got togo the best to go on a weekend,
Friday or Saturday. It is agood day. Jorges Hidden Gardens down

(01:39:35):
in Alvin. We are gonna let'ssee here, Oh God, hanging on
there. I wanted to I wantedto talk just briefly about successful bloom production
in your flower beds. In general, we have different kinds of plants.

(01:39:55):
We have annuals and perennials. Theperennials typically have their bloom season and then
they're done, and it may bea short season, it may be a
longer season, but that's what theydo. Annuals will live through the course
of the year but then die andthey don't come back again. And we
have annuals that have a fairly shortseason because they need like let's say,

(01:40:15):
cool weather. But then we haveannuals that go a long time in the
summer beds. One of the bestis Vinca or Madagascar periwinkles what I call
it, but vinca very heat tolerant, long long, long, long term
bruling. Then we have Angelonia that'sanother good one, long long, long
term. You want to keep theplants stimulated with good nutrients to push growth.

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That is important. And so asyou fertilize your beds, like using
a product like Nelson color Star forexample, as you fertilize those beds,
you're going to get a rejuvenation ofgrowth. And when you have a rejuvenation
of growth, you can cheer themback if you need to, and they'll
push fresh new growth. But leavesmake sugars that help the plants that blooms

(01:41:05):
and if it fruits, set fruit. And that is why it's important,
even with blooming plants to have agood supply of nitrogen to support that growth.
If you're growing in a container,jungle Land by nitrofoss is the way
to go. I talked earlier abouttheir outdoor jungle Land Flour and Vegetable planting
soil indoors. They have a watersaving potting soil no. It has crystals

(01:41:29):
that absorb way many times their weightin water. And when the roots are
in the soil and the potting soildries out, those crystals don't dry out
as fast. They slow down.The roots can still get moisture from those
and it makes it a little moreforgiving if you forget to water maybe a
little bit too long. I knowyou don't do that, but people do
that. Well, if you wantmore information, where can I get it?

(01:41:51):
Where can I find that kind ofthing? Well, you can find
it at Lake Hardware down in Cluteyou can find it. It Gem's hard
where in Montgomery you can find thisparticular product distributed by Nitrofoss the jungle Land
at the ACE Hardware and Katie atsingle ranch. That's widely available and it

(01:42:11):
works. So make sure and supplyyour plants what they need. And you
know we always talk about the brownstuff and the green stuff. By providing
what they need, you are goingto have. You know that you're going
to have that bank account so theroots can thrive. That is critical.
ACE Hardware is another place where allthe ACE hardwers where you're going to get

(01:42:34):
nitrophce Nitrofoss type products. ACE haseverything. You know. Their slogan is
ACE is a place well. ACEis a place for everything garden as well.
Do you need fertilizers, They've gotthem fire and controlled. This is
the season to start with your baitand then finish with the mound treatments a
couple of weeks later. If anyof the mounds escape the bait. If

(01:42:57):
you just do mound treatments, you'replaying whack them with fire mounts and it's
just a it's a treadmill. Sostart with the bait. Mosquito repellent and
the mosquito dunks, for example,they've got those at Ace Hardware, and
boy is at Mosquito season. Asthe mosquitos told me last week when I
was working in my vegetable garden oneday. Hey, we're gonna quit talking

(01:43:17):
here our phone number seven to onethree two to one two KTRH. I
am going to turn the mic overto Nicky and the news and we'll be
right back. So if you wouldlike to give Joshua call at the number
seven to one three two one twoktr h, you can be the first
stup when we come back. Welcomeback to guard Line. Good to have

(01:43:38):
you with us today. I'm goingto start off by heading to Jersey Village
and talking to Gary. Hello Gary, Hi, scare petty doing. I'm
doing well. Thanks good. I'mon my way to Dayton to pick up
a bee hive. I think Ineed some pollinators in my backyard, so
I'm going to give this a try. Oh wow, okay, good.

(01:43:59):
Good. Sounds sounds like a plan. Yeah. I wanted to ask you
about raised beds. In the past, I've used would to make my frame
that lasts a couple of years andthen it runs out I think I've heard
you talk about or I've seen someoptions for uh modular type. Yes,

(01:44:20):
raised beds, Yes, absolutely?And what's Is there a local distributor someplace
I can go look at these?Yes? Absolutely, it is Vego Garden
Beds v E g O. Andif you if you go online uh and
do and find Vego uh, you'regoing to be able to connect with them

(01:44:44):
here locally. They have a spotup in kind of the Klient area,
sort of north area of Houston,and they have the beds all laid out
there. It's beautiful. You cango see it and check it out and
all of that, and let meI'm gonna try to get you a phone
number or a web I want tosay Vego Garden dot com, but I
want to make sure I'm right aboutthat. Yeah, I don't, dang

(01:45:08):
it, I don't have that withme. But it's easy to find begore.
Are you familiar with the price points? Where is it going to be
better to go back with the woodframes? Are? Well? I think
I think long term the metal bedsare probably going to be your better bet
because even the rot resistant wood doesin time decay and it also warps and

(01:45:32):
and there are other issues, youknow with it, and some people don't
like putting treated wood in something ina bed they're going to eat, for
example. You're talking about pollinators though, so those are your options. There's
a lot of other, you know, options on the market that people do.
But I would do the vego ifit were me. Okay, all

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right, right, I appreciate theinformation, Yes, sir, thank you
very much. I appreciate that call. You know. The folks at Escaper's
Pride twenty seven different products, baggedproducts. They also have bulk available too.
By the way, you can goto Landscaperspride dot com. That's the
website. While are you there,check out the Premium potting soil. You
can use it indoors or outdoors.It contains prolide, it has color Star

(01:46:16):
Noilson color Star fertilizer in It feedsup to three months and so the roots
just are very happy. And PremiumPotting Sole pot dirt is an organic certified
soil. It does really well forall your flowering plants. It's packed with
nutrients, worm casting sand, vermiculide, and more so, when you're doing
a color change in a bed,get some pot dirt from Landscaper's Pride.

(01:46:41):
Mix it into the soil each timeyou do that, and you're just gonna
have better and better results. Andthere's many others. Garden Magic, for
example, has humus and screen pineand composted rice sALS and pelleted chicken fertilizer
in it that lasts up to sixmonths as well. Landscaperspride dot Com go
there you can find sources are anice multi calculator. It's easy, easy,

(01:47:03):
one stop shopping there with Landscaper's Pride. We're going to now go to
uh Pinehurst and talk to Vicky.Hello Vicky, good morning skips. I
have a question about weed that's inmy yard. I've looked it up and
I know what it is, butI want to know if it dies in
the summer heat. It's that horyh O A r y BOLISA vote can

(01:47:28):
you spell up from me? Oryes, h O A r y and
then the second order bo b Ow l E s I A. That
is a new one to me.How did you get that id on it?
Uh? From uh? From myphone? Okay taking a picture?

(01:47:55):
Okay, well it may well behory belicia. Uh. I just noticed
that our medicine man here locally Meriweatherfor our forager. His website has Horri
Belicia on it with a lot ofinformation and ID and stuff like that.
You I want to check that out. Apparently I don't have time to read
this whole page right now, butit's on his edible website. So that's

(01:48:20):
kind of curious. But you're wantingto get rid of it, right,
Yes, I am. I justwon't need to know if it dies in
the summer. I know it's aspring and winter weed is what I found,
but I can't find out if ityou know, the summer heat will
kill it. Yeah. Everything I'mfinding is like edible or like kind of

(01:48:40):
like cilantro. I don't want toeat it. I will get this kinda
kind of like cilantro. That's good. Is it edible? I'm going to
have to check on that. Imean, excuse me? Is it?
Is it a perennial? That is? That's what you're asking And what we
thought was that that you had.The one that I was telling you about
is forage Texas dot com. Foraging. Mark is extremely knowledgeable and all kinds

(01:49:06):
of things regarding flora foraging and whatnot, So I would I would recommend that
you check that website out really reallywell. I'm just sitting here trying to
real quickly thought if these sites shouldtell us that it is a Perennie orange
and I'm not seeing that. I'llkeep looking. If I figured out,

(01:49:28):
I'll say it on the air.Okay, thank you so much, Skip,
I appreciate it. You bet too. Yeah, kind of confusing there.
You know Nelson's turf star Slow andEasy. We are in that season
now. And if you go tomy website gardening with Skip dot com and
we're talking about fertilizing plants and whendo you do it and what do you

(01:49:51):
do and so on, Well,Nelson Slow and Easy, that's the one.
It's so, it's the Slow andEasy Blue. It's a blue bag,
makes it easy to pick it out. But it's twenty two two ten,
nice ratio. But it will last. The nitrogen in it will last
for months, and the other elementsin it don't tend to wash away as

(01:50:14):
much. Now, I would sayputting it down now will give you the
best gradual feed over time compared tosome product that releases really fast. It
supports beneficial insects. Beneficial insects beneficialmicro organisms, and by creating a healthier,
deeper rooted grass plant, you're goingto reduce water consumption and increase the

(01:50:34):
ability of that plant to survive whenit's a little on the dry side.
Nelson Slow and Easy twenty two toten. Easy to find, lots of
places. For example, Plants forAll Seasons carries Nelson Slow and Easy.
Plants for All Seasons. Is thatgarden center you know it already. It's
on two forty nine Tombaugh Parkway justnorth of Luetta, This family owned center,

(01:50:58):
the Flowerty's. What a great groupand so knowledgeable. You go there,
you get good service. They sellyou plants that belong here, that's
something from timbuck to that won't growhere. You can take samples in or
pictures in. They'll help you diagnosethe problem and put the right product in
your hand to solve it. Plantsfor All Seasons dot com that's the website.

(01:51:20):
The phone number. Write this downtwo eight, one, three seven
six, sixteen forty six. Weare now going to go to Cypress and
talk to Melissa. And Melissa,I'm just letting you know I got about
thirty seconds. Let's get the questionand then I'll come right back to you
after break. Okay. I havea Pendo palm in my yard that's about

(01:51:41):
twenty five plus years old, andI was willing to buy another one,
and I just wanted we're the bestplace to get that in Houston, Vergon.
And I spend the two seventy fiveon one or spend like the five
hundred to get a bigger one.That's that part is up to you.
But Verdant Tree Farm is on BarkerCypress, so it's direct soule both of
you Verdon to be er damt TreeFarm and they have an excellent selection there

(01:52:06):
and they're close by and they'll comeout and plan them plan them for you
too if you want. Oh that'sgood to know. Thank you very much.
Okay, bye, bye bye.All right, we got to go
to a break here. Logan,you were the very first up. When
we come back, our phone numberis seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back toGuardenline. Good have you with us today.

(01:52:30):
If someone was telling me earlier whowas it, it was going to
get some bees and was willing todo some pollinator planting in the yard.
He was talking about the B supplyout in Dayton. The B supply is
I have been to a lot ofdifferent places that have B supplies and things,
nothing like the B supply. Itis unbelievable all that they have.

(01:52:54):
You know, they have a brental program. So if you live out
in the country and you got fiveto twenty acres when you're within fifty mile
radius of the B supplying Dayton,that you can get part of it.
Become part of their b rental program. They put bees on your property,
they do all the work. There'smore information on their website. If that
prepeaked your interest vbsupply dot com.You know, when you have bees on

(01:53:16):
your property, it is a whatdo you call it? A tax?
Good night? I can't even saythe right word. The taxes come down,
the local taxes come down on theproperty as a result of that.
Gosh, I can't even think ofthe word for it. Bee keeping class.
There is a strong foundation that youreceive at the bee keeping class when

(01:53:39):
you take it. It starts atnine thirty goes until three thirty, so
that's a long period of time.Go to the website. They've added a
bunch of more classes coming up.Well. First of all. They have
the honey extraction class too, whereyou learn how to pull the honeysoupers out
of a hive, uncap them,spin them in an extractor filter it all
hands on, come in this.This's pretty cool. There's candle making class

(01:54:01):
with beeswax, and a meat makingclass learn how to make meat. If
you don't know, meat is fermentedhoney solution, and it's kind of fun,
kind of cool anyway. Dbsupply dotcom we are now going to go
see where were we here everything Loganin, Katie, Hello, Logan morning.

(01:54:24):
How are you doing? I'm doingwell, thank you. How can
we help my lawn? I puta weeding feed out and then I put
a fast reacting nitrogen in and Istill in getting little kind of like yellow
flowers, try to find something.I tried to choke them out with that

(01:54:46):
nitrogen and it's just not working.Okay, Well, long density is what
you're trying to build, and nitrogenis part of that. Fertilizer in general,
regular mowing is part of that,getting the long growing fast. If
you're treating that is probably a postemergent excuse me, that is probably a
broad leaf weed and you would haveto use a broad leaf post emergent product

(01:55:11):
to spot spray them. You don'thave to treat the whole yard. Just
spot spray it with something that killsweeds after they're up and growing, or
just grow yourself out of it.In an established lawn, it's probably axalis.
There's some other weeds that can bethere. It just we tend to
not see ongoing problems with those,Okay, so just try and choke them

(01:55:34):
out, yeah, to give ittime and grow yourself out of the problem.
Or if you want to spray thema post emergent broad leaf weed control
product, you can go to theAce Hardware down there in pair Land.
They can give you a product.Just tell them what you want post emergent
broadleaf weed control and they can fromtheir many products on the shelf give you

(01:55:54):
the ones you need. All right, thank you, I have a good
one. I appreciate your call.Logan, thank you very age. Let's
see, I'm going to go here. We're going to run now to Charles
in Spring. Hello, Charles,good morning. That could be helped to

(01:56:15):
day. I have an orange treethat was damaged I believe in Harvey,
and then further damaged with the drought. Part of it dyed. I cut
off the dead wood, which leftme pretty much with a toothpick with a

(01:56:40):
few branches. But it had greenleaves and some fruit, all right.
And what is your question about thetree, Well, it had green leaves
at the end of last year.It didn't come back with any leaves this
year. And I'm getting spring fromthe trunk. Okay, should I leave

(01:57:02):
those sprouts I grow? If thesprouts are growing from below the graph line,
just get rid of it. That'srootstock. If it's coming from above
the graph line, then it issomething you can train back into a tree.
Just from one way to also tellis the rootstock tends to be very

(01:57:24):
thorny, so those sprouts should bepretty thorny. But that's the best advice
right now. And then just giveit some fertilizer. If it ends up
being that you do have some abovethe graph sprouts that are going charles them.
I have to run here, ButI hope that helps you and get
you off on a good start.By the way, microlife makes a citrus

(01:57:44):
feed that works really well for that. Okay, thank you, yes,
sir, thank you very much.It all starts in the soil and It
all continues in the soil too.By the way, Heirloom Soils, the
folks at Heirloom Soils, they arethey the selection in the blend they have
is amazing, things like the veggieand Herb soil, which by the way,

(01:58:06):
is on sale for one nineteen inbulk up there in the porder area,
and they can also deliver it.You can go there and load it
up, or they can bring itto you. They can dump it on
the driveway, or they can bringyou a supersack, which is a cubic
yard in a container, a sacktype container. It works really well.
I was just talking to Luis andhe was saying that aspose as up in

(01:58:29):
the Woodlands had now started stalking theirfruit berry and citrus mix. A lot
of places stock their veggie and herbmix and their rosesoil mix. Heirlooms Soilsoftexas
dot com. You need to gothere. You can learn a lot about
all the different soils. I don'thave time to tell you about them here
on the air, but heirloom cellsa Texas are soils that are very successful

(01:58:51):
and I know they work because I'veused to myself. Let's go to Paarland
and talk to Kay. Hell Okay, good morning, Sank, thank you
for taking my call. I havea question for a friend of mine who's
having a real problem with caterpillars.All right, so this is one of
those asking for a friend, right, Yes, uh, it's any her

(01:59:14):
geraniums, Elephanteer's mint, high Biscusponsett is on and on is eating everything.
It's a two inch orange kind oflike the black fuzzy caterpillars. There's
a lot of people call an asit's orange underneath it has some black hair.
She went online is that it's calleda wooly bear or a tiger caterpillar.

(01:59:35):
Okay, well, it doesn't matterwhat it is. I'm going to
tell you how what she needs todo. There's two two products. One
is BT it's for basillistheringensis, thename of the microbe that makes capillar sick.
You spray it on the foliage.The caterpillars have to eat the foliage.
So you may need a little bitof surfactant on things that have slippery

(01:59:58):
leaves that the spray just rolled.But it's only gonna last you a day
or maybe two out there in theenvironment. But that would be one.
It's natural, it's organic. Theother one is spinosaid s p I n
O S A D that also killsthings that each leaves, like caterpillars.
And again with the serfact then ifyou need to, and it's gonna last

(02:00:20):
a little bit longer, but ifit's a caterpillar, those two will control
it. Okay. There's another onethat's called a Muslim moth Muslim. It
doesn't matter what it is. Yeah, yeah, if it's mama was a
moth or butterfly, they'll kill it. Oh great, okay, thank you,

(02:00:41):
thank you very much. I appreciatethat call of pair. Land Way,
if you've been to Ana Plants andProduce, those of you up at
Lake Conro, you need you needto hear this. This is your hometown
garden center, I mean, andthey always have a good stock of lots
of cool things. Son, youhear me talk about nitrophos and Nelson's and
microlife and airloom soils in Nature's way, leaf mole comples. They carry that

(02:01:06):
all that out there at Ana Plantsand Produce. They have things to control
insects and diseases and weeds. Theyeven have a landscape crew you need to
contact them and ask about having thelandscape crew come out and do a cleanup
and whatever you need done around thelandscape there. Make sure your beds are
in tip top shape. They generallycarry my lawn schedules at the checking counter.

(02:01:29):
But Ana Plants and Produce very mucha part of the community, always
having programs. They have ongoing thingsfor kids where the kids can come out
and enjoy it and do things likethat. Ana Plants and Produce. It's
just a great place to visit,and you need to check back because it's
always changing, you know, asthe seasons go by. The different kinds
of plant material that you'll find,and that include shrubs and trees. You

(02:01:54):
need to go by there just tosee the bling. I'm talking about the
stuff you put in your landscape,maybe for a vine to grow on,
or maybe it's a decorative pod,or maybe it's some yard art type of
thing. They are loaded with stufflike that, really really cool supply of
it. A and A Plants andProduce. By the way, they're on
the east side of Montgomery on Highwayone oh fives, right on the east

(02:02:17):
side edge of Montgomery. So allyou folks at the Lake Lake Conroe.
This is your backyard nursery. Ofcourse, people in Montgomery, Conroe and
all through that area. It's easyto get to and they have what you
need. Well, it looks likewe're about to put another show hour in
the books. We'll be coming backfor the last hour of the show this

(02:02:38):
morning. Don't forget what happens afterthe last hour of the show today.
Well, I go to the excuseme, after the last hour of the
show today, I go to theEnchanted Forest down in Richmond. They are
there. I'm going to be answeringyour gardening questions. First of all,
I'd just like to meet the listenersto garden Line. Come by and say

(02:02:59):
hi, let's talk. If youwant to bring a sample for identification or
diagnosis, or if you want tobring a picture to show me an area
and what does this look like.Make sure the pictures are in sharp focus.
If it's something going wrong, getup really close, but make sure
it's in sharp focus, and bringthose in. I'm going to be giving
away six or five different Medina products, and then a whole bunch of little

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small sample bags of Medina products whileI'm there. That is an intented forest.
FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas. If you're heading north
towards sugar Land where it's off tothe right. Kat RH Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the productsor services advertised on this program. Welcome

(02:03:44):
to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rict. It's so crazy, Trim, just
watch him as world. So manythings to sup A sad. Welcome to

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garden Line. Welcome back to guardenLine. This is our last hour of
the morning today. We'll be backtomorrow six am to ten am. Tell
your neighbors about it. Hopefully theywill want to become listeners as well,
because you know our number one goalwe want you to have a beautiful lawn
and a bountiful garden, beautiful landscape. That that is what we're aiming for.

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Gardening should be fun, and soif it's not fun for you,
let's fix that. Let's figure outwhat may be done differently. There's a
lot of possibilities on things, butlet's let's make it an enjoyable, enjoyable
hobby. And let's make sure alsothat it's something that really fulfills you.
And just knowing that I have abeautiful place, I have a beautiful garden.

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I love the smell of the flowers. I like watching the butterflies because
I planted a garden that attracts them. Those types of things you know.
Has to grow is a Medina product. In fact, has to grow is
many Medina products. There are severaldifferent has to grows which I will be
giving away simple or actually containers ofwhen I'm at Enchanted Forest today after the

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show. Has to grow four excuseme, twelve four eight is a liquid
lawn food plus. It's has togrow four gosh, twelve four eight liquid
lawn food plus. I'm not normallydyslexic, but I think I am today
anyway. It's lawn care in abottle. You look at your garden hose,

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you spray it all over the lawn. Doesn't take long about ten minutes
for the average lawn, and it'sgot the natural food supplements in it.
That's the twelve four to eight isa perfect blend for the want and it
also has Medina soil activator and humateliquidumy liquid humans. It just makes easy,
easy for ten into your lawn andgiven it a pretty quick boost.

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Really, it's fast, it absorbseasily, it stimulates the natural soil organisms
and it's a very effective product.I've used it on my lawn several times
myself. Now, if you leaveyour clippings on, do it about four
times a year. The has togrow liquid lawn food plus twelve four eight

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about four times a year. Ifyou take your clippings away, Number one,
quit doing that. Number two youprobably want to do. The has
to grow about monthly with the hoseen feeding of the lawn Medina products,
many many excellent products out there onthe market. Hey, the Arborgate.
The Arborgate. I was looking attheir social media and they have a ton

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of really interesting things on how totake care of fruit trees right now.
I've been a series of things thatBeverly and Angela have put together out there.
You should go watch those. Youcan learn a lot. Like I
said, there's a number of differentones that are available out there. This
is the time to take care ofour fruit. I did a post to

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my website Gardening with Skip dot coma while back, and it was sage
advice on the basics of fruit treesuccess. I would also read that remember
the arbrogates can have fruit trees yearround. That's amazing. In fact,
that's wonderful. That's cool. TheArburgate has a new parking lot in the
back. No parking on twenty nineto twenty. You just drive down Trishel

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Road which starts before Arbigate and loopsaround behind it and comes back in to
twenty nine to twenty go to theback parking lot behind the building and it's
easy, easy, easy to getin get out. I don't care if
it's been raining, what do theycall it a frog strangler rain? You
can get in and eye of thatparking lot really really easy. Arbrogate's a

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wonderful place, you know, it'sa destination. People come from all over
to go there. If for thoseof you who just moved to the area,
it is on twenty nine to twentyto the west of Tomball. Really
easy to get to and when yougo, you're going to be amazed.
Plan on being there a while.I want to head out now to Santa
Fe and we're going to talk toJoe. Hello, Joe, good morning

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morning. How can I help.I've got a plant in my yard that's
kind of taking over the perimeter arounda tree. I was told it is
a yellow flag Irish and it canbe invasive. I don't know whether to

(02:08:35):
let it go or try to takeit out or what's your advice. Well,
it likes where it is, andso it slowly spreads by rhizomes over
time. It's really easy. Justscrape underneath the rhizome, cut off the
roots, and you're back in business. I think they're beautiful. If you
want to leave some and just occasionallykind of trum it back, that's fine.

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Don't worry about it taking over yourwhole property. I mean I doubt
okay, it would take a whileand I doubt that that would happen.
It's it's not that bad looking atplanet's little kind of ornamental yellow flower on
it. Yeah, yeah it is. Uh, it does pretty well here.
But it's a matter of what youwant to look at your yard,

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your garden, your it's your callwhether you want to keep those around or
not. So if I leave itis it is. You don't think it's
going to comas me any problem downthe road. I don't. But as
it spreads, when it's wider thanyou want it to be, you can
you can trim it in right there. Okay, Okay, it's not it's

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yeah, it's it's not the endof the end of the world. Not
the end of the world. Yeahright, you you know it. It
likes wet areas, so that tellsme probably you're getting some some wet areas
in your yard. I wanted thequestion for you. Can I mount this

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of you all? So let's doit real quick. I have some amarillas
that I was gifted quite a fewyears ago, fifteen to twenty years.
They were ivory with a maroon troup. I have transplanted those things. They've
grown up. I've given them tofriends. Now, all of a sudden,

(02:10:24):
I got about about one minute Joe, for I have to go to
break it's now become a spider lily, a Peruvian daffodil. Somebody called it,
what's going on with this plant?Well, one plant doesn't change species
like that. I don't know what'sgoing on, but somehow the other plant
was there and just came on.I don't know what else to say about

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that, but I do know thatone species can't change into another one.
Well, he said, because itwas a hybrid, that it's reverting back
to its former Well, if aplant's a hybrid and it produces seeds,
those seeds will be something different thanwhat you're seeing somewhat different, okay,
but it shouldn't be a different species. Hey, I've got a run where

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against a hard commercial break. Thankyou for the call. Appreciate that very
much. I'll be back seven onethree two one two K t R H.
Welcome back to Guardenline. Good tohave you with us today. We
are here to answer your gardening questionsand to help you have success. Someone
earlier asked about azamite. Could theydo the fertilizer and the azmite together or

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would it be a problem, Andthe answer is you can do them together,
but not in the same hopper.Don't put them, don't mix them.
The particle size is different and they'llsettle out and you get a lot
of azamite in one area and alot of fertilizer in the other. But
do separate applications. But if youcan do in the same day, just
spread one fertilizer and then spread theasmite, or you can put them put

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them at different times. The asamiteis not there to kick plants into fast
growth. It is there to providethe micro nutrients as plants grow that they
need, and so do it asyou want it. You know, one
thing that we're learning really about theas M I two is it can be
combined with other products, such asusing a compost type material that you're going

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to be spreading through a bed,or other kinds of combinations like that.
If you want to do at thatroute, it works just fine to do
it that way. You can go. You can use it in combination.
Just remember to stay at the rightrate. It doesn't take much because it's
a trace mineral. It's not whatyou don't put as much of it out
as you put out fertilizer. Forexample. Just a tracement a forty four

(02:12:39):
pound bag will cover six to twelvethousand square feet. You can do it
in spring and in fall. Youcan just do do it once a year.
I would just recommend that you goto Azmite Texas dot com the website,
take a look at it, learna little bit more about it.
But it's going to be widely available. I think most all of our garden
center and feed store type sponsors carrythe right now. But I just ever

(02:13:01):
where I go I see it.Let's go out to Kingwood and we're going
to talk to Sean. Hello,Sean, Hello, how can we help?
I have a rather large pine treethat turned brown when it got hot.
I guess that was last summer,okay, and it did not green
up this spring, and I waswondering, if there's a chance that it

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is just dormant and it will turngreen or bush, go ahead and cut
it down. If if there areno green needles, the entire tree is
dead. If you have branches thatdon't have green needles and other branches do,
those branches are live, but thebrown ones are dead. Pines can
only reach sprout from the base ofa living needle. Oh well, that's

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it started to turn green this spring. Yeah, and then then it turned
brown again, and now it's allbrown. Yeah. Well, whatever it
was struggling with, that was itslast gasp effort at making it and it
just didn't ready to be the bearerof bad news. By the way,

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don't delay on getting it down.Call Affordable Tree, have them come out
and take it down. Pine treespretty quickly start to slough bark, and
they're they're very difficult to climb withoutwell, they're dangerous, and so you
want to get this one was aboutninety feet tall too, So holy moly,
Okay, it's a big and it'sprobably thirty inches at the base.

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Big All right, Well, wellI don't want to cut this tree and
it's going to leave a big holein the sky. Yes, sir,
I fully understand that. I'm justadvising you on the fact that don't delay
in getting it out of there.Thank you. Sorry to be the bearer
of bad news. They are alot of beautiful pine trees out there in
the Kingwood area that do well.Hey, have you considered using sweet green

(02:14:52):
on your lawn? Sweet green isa nito foss product. That is,
it smells sweet because it's based ona molasses type materi that has microbes that
have gone to work on it.And sweet green is just a it's a
pleasant scent to be around eleven percentnitrogen. That is high for an organic
type nitrogen source. Sweet Green,because it's of molasses based, really increases

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the population of a lot of differentkinds of beneficial microbes, creating that rich
environment that helps the plants have theiroptimum growth and optimum health. You're going
to find it at a task Astaace, for example. You're going to
find it at the ace out ofSincle Ranch on Mason Road. You're going
to find it at Lake hardware downinclude or Gym's hardware up in Montgomery area.

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Easy to find nitroposs products including SweetGreen. Let's see, we're going
to go to Freddy Up and Tombol. Hello Freddy, Hello, sir,
how are you doing today? I'mwell, how are you? Fantastic?
Beautiful day, beautiful day. Igot a quick question for you and March
I did a weed and feed inmy lawn, and when's a good time

(02:16:03):
for me to put actually fertilizer.I usually say that that will last you
about four to six weeks. Theearly application like that, that was a
fast release fertilizer if it was ina weed and feed, and so I
would say anytime here in April.If you want to wait a little bit
longer, depending on when in Marchyou put it out, just give it

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four to six weeks and then putdown your slow release fertilizer. Okay.
Is there a certain a certain fertilizer, that certain fertilizer that you recommend,
you know, like a turf builderor anything like that, or yeah,
no, I don't do the Scots. We have a number of fertilizers that
we talk about here on garden Line. I mean you've heard me talk about

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different ones. If you wanted toput out something slow release like that,
you might consider Nitrofossis Super Turf.That's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer.
It's got releases nitrogen for the nexttwo or three months into summer, and
it also has some iron to keepthings especially green. Sometimes iron chlorosis can
get into our turf. But it'sa silver it's a silver bag. So

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you know, being up there inTombole, I know that D and D
Feed carries that out west of Tombol. I'm sure there's some other places that
carry the super turf as well.You might as you think, yeah,
go ahead, you think you thinkACE Hardware will carry something like that,
or almost always almost. I don'tthink I've been in an ACE that didn't
have those those for lives. Okay, okay, all right, well all

(02:17:35):
buddy, I'll give it a shot. Appreciate it, buddy, all right,
you take care. Appreciate the callvery much. If you are done
in the Heights and you have notbeen to Buchanan's Plants, or even if
you have, you need to goback and you need to check them out.
Buchanans Is it's just like a hideawayplace in the Heights and it is

(02:17:56):
wonderful to roam around through there.If you're interested in native plants, it
is a must stop. They haveI over and over again, I see
them on their social media put somenative up and it's like, I didn't
know that was in the market.I didn't know you could buy that.
You know, just a homeowner goinginto a garden center could buy it.
That's how it is with Buchanan's Plants. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights,

(02:18:20):
and they don't just have natives.They have an excellent houseplant collection,
amazing herbs and flowers and vegetables andperennials and shrubs and trees. They've got
a lot of different things there.But you got to go buy and check
it out. Also go to thewebsite Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com.

(02:18:41):
They're at the website. You'll finda lot of very excellent educational pieces
that will really really help you.I've been very impressed with the kind of
product they put out. And thenall the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline.
Yep, they're gonna have their BuchanansNative plants on Eleventh Street and the
Heights. We're going to go outto sugar Land now and talk to Alan.
Hello Allan, good morning, Sara. How are you? I'm good,

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I'm good. How can we helptonight? Well, so I've been
taking some advice from y'all. Aboutsixty days ago, mid March, I
went to see in a mulch purchaseda blue bag of the nitro foss We
didn't feed. I missed the windowfor the post and premurder and stuff.
So I put that down and Iactually called Nitro Falls and asked them,

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you know a little bit more aboutthis in comparison to the red bag.
But I normally use the red bag, and I'm not sure why I went
to blue, but anyways, itdidn't do what it was supposed to do
as far as killing all the weeds. So my front yard looks great.
My backyard is still flooded with weeds. And they started to roll away when

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I after about a week of puttingit down, but they're like back in
full fourth So all right, Sothere's several possibilities. The granules didn't stick
to the leave, you didn't givea little light watering of the of the
surface, so the granules stick betterto the lit weeds. Not every weed
is equally susceptible to every chemical thatwould normally control a broad leave for a

(02:20:18):
grass or whatever it's designed for.That's a possibility as well. Here's what
I like you to do. I'mgoing to be in the Enchanted Forest nursery
at eleven thirty today. Pull thoseweeds up, put them in bags and
bring them there. Let me takea look at them and see. And
I may have to direct you tosomething you can mix up in a sprayer

(02:20:39):
and spot treat that you can getthis get control of those weeds or some
of them. I may say,don't worry about them, they're going to
go away. But if you'll dothat, I'll be happy to look through
your weeds and you could also that'sprobably the best way is let me have
a sample. Yeah, And thenand then since it's been about eight weeks

(02:21:01):
since I put down that you knowthat blue bag, I know, then
that's also a quick release as well. According to the factor it is.
Can I am I able now toput that silver bag that you guys are
recommending. Yeah, The nitropost productsilver bag is called Superturf and it is
time to put that down if it'sbeen you see now, well that also
helped choke the weed that as wellor not. Well. Here, here's

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what happens. As you mow,water and fertilize properly, the lawn gets
denser and denser. And when thatwhen that happens, the weeds that are
coming from seed can't make it upthrough that density to sunlight. They just
can't, and so it reduces thema lot. And rather than have a
thin lawn and constantly spraying and droppingeverything in the world on it trying to

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kill weeds, start with a healthy, dense lawn and your problems go down
a whole lot. Yeah, andmy backyard has tons of sun light,
so it's definitely not a it's definitelynot an issue. And highly irrigation and
I mow once a week. Allright, Well, Alan, I'm gonna
have to run. Sounds like you'redoing the right thing. But if you
go to my website gardening with Skipdot com gardening with, there's a lawn

(02:22:11):
case schedule. It's free to download, and it tells you exactly when and
what to put on uh and andof all these different products that go on
your lawn. Okay, and theone the weed ones on the pest Disease
and weed Management two schedules are bothfree. Thanks a lot for the call.
Good luck with that. I hopeI get to see you today out
there at Enchanted Forest Garden Center.We're going to go now to Dickinson and

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talk to Carrissa. Hello, Carissa, Hi, good morning. How are
you well? I'm well? Howare you? I'm doing good. It's
a beautiful day, and I justhave a quick question for you. My
husband and I just recently purchased thirtysix acres on the Dickinson Buy you.
It's lorgest piece of property, butit's been abandoned since Harvey, and it

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is completely for grown with BlackBerry brierswhich are producing but also poison ivy or
poison oak. It's huge all overthe trees, the trees here. I'm
just trying to figure out what isstep one to get this under control.
Yeah. Step one is to spraythe poison ivy and the blackberries with the

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product containing tri clop here t RI C l O P y R tri
cloak pak. When you do that, it will it will translocate down and
do a really good job of killingthem. You may have to do a
reapplication, but that should do thejob pretty good for you. And okay,
that well, you're gonna have toredo it. I mean it just

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no doubt. You never get itall with one spraying, right, okay
y, And then we have wehave mostly pine trees, but we also
have some beautiful mossy oak but they'restarting to die. I guess maybe not
starting to but there's many dead oneson the property. Is it because of
what I just named it's growing there? Or is there something we can do

(02:24:09):
to check what's in our soil?Or how can we keep those three oaks
alive? A lot of different thingscould be involved in that. It could
be weather, It could be freezes, could be drought. In fact,
it probably is those last two.But nothing. Those plants are not the
problem. Hey, I got torun. Thank you very much for the
call. Len to turn over toNicky and the news right now. You

(02:24:31):
can call us at seven one threetwo one two KTR. If you're a
jitterbugging, you need to stop,sit back down, let's talk. Let's
talk plants. Here we go Gardenline, last thirty minutes of the day.
UH, if you would like togive us A call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. I want to talk to you about
taking care of your lawn by topdressing it. This is the time of

(02:24:54):
year we do that. If youlook at my lawn care schedule, uh,
the lawn care schedule, there's athing on a ration and I talk
about air rating and putting a highquality, finely screened leap more compost down
and so that goes from April throughSeptember. And the reason I have it
at that time is because as thegrass comes out of spring and it's trying
to wake up and get a newroot system in the ground, air rating,

(02:25:18):
you know, does hit some grassplant parts and it can cause a
little bit of damage to it.Overall, it is a way way way
beneficial activity for the grass. SoI let the grass wake up a little
bit, get a little strengthen it, and then here we go. It's
time to do that. If youlive south and west of the Houston area,

(02:25:39):
BnB Turf Pros is a company youwant. When I say south and
west, I mean Missouri City,Sugarland down south Presno or Cola Siena,
Iowa colony you know over in pairLand for example, that's about as far
east as BnB turf Pros go,but you can go all the way down
to Manville and they'll come. They'llcome out there. When I was talking

(02:26:03):
to BnB turf Pros as we wereabout to bring them on the show,
and I always like to know thatthe people that sell the products, either
I've used the products, or Ihave science research based information on the product,
or I can see the kinds ofservice that they give those sort of
things. B and B turf prothey really go above to make a personal

(02:26:26):
connection with their clients and ensure satisfaction. Go to their website BB there's no
end in it Bbturfpros dot com andlook at what customers are saying about them.
They are very highly rated. Listen, when you're doing in a service
dot company, Oh somebody is nothappy no matter what you do. But

(02:26:46):
they have very very high ratings.They only use products that I trust Here
on garden Line. They go toSaanamult to get their products that they're putting
out there on your lawn. Youcan give B and B a call seven
three two three four fifty five ninetyeight seven one three two three four fifty
five ninety eight. They do theaeration and compost, stop dressing. Just

(02:27:09):
call them up and see what theycan do for you to turn that lawn
back around. I want to gonow out to Lake Jackson and we're going
to talk to James. Hello,James, Hi Skip, Thank you so
much for taking my call. Ilearned something from you every weekend I have.
I'd like to get some advice fromyou on a couple of things.

(02:27:31):
My house is about ready to getelevated, and they're going to lift the
foundation up about four and a halffeet off the ground, so all this
zone up around the foundation is goingto be basically excavated and destroyed. So
all the shrubs that I have inthere are just going to get trampled on
and and evacuated. So what I'dlike some advice on. I have a

(02:27:54):
couple of plans, like I havea set of roses, really nice out
roses that are probably about four feetin diameter. Wow, and I'm trying
to decide whether or not I shouldjust forget about keeping them or just start
over. I would like to havesome roses when I get done, and
they would have to be moved.So would you recommend that I transplant them,

(02:28:20):
And if I do, how wouldyou do that? How long do
you think you're going to be outof a shop there on the getting back?
Yeah, that's yeah, that's agood question. I think so in
about thirty days, so into May, well they'll start the work and then
probably wouldn't be done until into July. Okay, Well, we're picking a

(02:28:43):
time of year where it's fixing theheat up, and so I hate to
trim the roots and put them incontainers to try to keep them going.
It can be done, but that'sa more stressful thing. If you can
get quite a bit of roots andgo set those plants in a semi shady
area, Like roses need sunlight tobloom. Well, right here, we're

(02:29:03):
just trying to keep them alive.So a little morning sun maybe under the
shade of a tree, and thenthey're protected. Set the bar root.
It's basically going to be bear rootwhen you dig it up, but set
the roots with whatever soil you canmove over in that spot and then take
something it could be a bed mix, like buy some bags of veggie and

(02:29:26):
herb soil or roast soil would bebetter, and then just throw them in
around there, water and settle itin around the roots and keep it moist.
You want to have a little breakfrom the sun, but enough sun
to continue to support growth. Andthey can set like that, and when
it's time to plant, you canjust kind of lift them up and move
them to a new spot and setthem in with some TLC. But that

(02:29:48):
would be I think the most practicalapproach if you're trying to save those plants.
Okay, yeah, at one thoughtI had was getting one of those
really cheap plastic swimming pool so thatyou could find it, you know,
like a Walmart, and then settingthe delicately just placing those shrubs inside that

(02:30:09):
pool. But can I can Imaybe as I'm lifting the soil the bush
up out of the soil, canI put it down on like one of
those weed barrier cloths and then usethat to lift it up into the pool
with that? Yeah, I would, you could do that if it's a
strong enough one. I do tarpsall that. I've got some little tarps,
and I'm telling you something that wouldcause four men to go to the

(02:30:31):
chiropractor. You can set them onthe tarp and one guy can drag it
across the yard, you know.So yeah, don't. Don't try to
lift it. But I like thelittle plastic tarps because they're slick and they
glide over the surface very well.Okay, and so you would slide the
roses into the container. Well,yeah, and if you're going to lift

(02:30:52):
it to you know, you grabtwo sides of the tarp the other side
guy grabs two sides, and youcan lift the lot that way. You're
not bending over, You're just usingyour arms to do it. And you
could put them in the pool.But make sure there's holes in the bottom
of the pool so it drains well. I mean good size holes, not
just like a little nail hole.And in fact, if it's sitting on

(02:31:15):
clay soil, the water is goingto have trouble getting out because clay plugs
up those holes. But yeah,do that, and then fill it with
a rose soil is what I woulduse. All the plant, all shrubs.
Fill it with a rose soil wateredin really good, and those roots
are going to have moisture and you'redoing the best you can to minimize stress,
but at the same time giving thema little bit of sunlight to get

(02:31:35):
them by. Okay. And thenthen last last question I have about thirty
seconds to break. Yeah, soI got about an eight foot tall,
four foot wide canulia and in thesame way, I mean, is there
somebody that can get to actually helpme transplant that. I'm sure the roots
really that I don't know. Iwould probably cut that back by about a

(02:31:58):
third, just because try to getsome of the leaves off. But yeah,
I don't know who to tell youto get on that. You just
have to find some labor local todo it. Okay, Yeah, all
right, thank you, James,appreciate your call. Good luck with that.
I'd like to hear how that turnsout. We're going to go to
break right now or a phone numberseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us on

(02:32:22):
a great day for gardening. Iwas we've been talking about these products and
things to control this and that andthe other. And it reminded me a
while back, good while back,I was in a big Buck store and
it doesn't matter what the name ofit was, because well, I'll just
leave it there. Uh. AndI did this several times as a matter
of fact, just as after thefirst time, I did it again and

(02:32:45):
again as a test, go upto somebody in that section and go,
hey, can you help me withAnd I ask them a question for a
pest control And I could tell asI began asking the question, their eyes
glazed over and they were just kindof grabbing at the shelf. They didn't
know what they were talking about.I was saying, Oh, so you
been working in the garden center whileNo, actually I was a hairdresser.

(02:33:05):
I was cutting hair before I hardon to do this, okay, and
now you're selling all these products thatcan cause a lot of damage if misused.
Another time, I was in andI had an appointment with the garden
center manager to a program. Igot their new guy in and oh,
you're the new manager. What areyou doing well? I was in charge

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of the jewelry counter last week.See what I'm saying, folks, when
we go to an independent garden center, a mom and pop garden center,
or a local feed store, alocal business, we're going to get the
advice and the right product for thejob from someone who knows what they're talking
about. That is very very veryimportant. Southwest Fertilizers that kind of place

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too, you know, Southwest.It's on the corner of Businet and Renwick
and Bob and his whole team there, Bob and his whole team, Aaron
and all of them. They knowwhat they're talking about, and they have
every product you can imagine that youwould need. If I talk about it
on Guardline, that's just a dropin the bucket of all the things they
carry at Southwest Fertilizer, including allthose fertilizers. Do you need a new

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fertilizer spreader? Do you need tohave small engine work done it? They
do that in the back of thestore. Do you need a tool,
Well, walk down an eighty footwall and pick one out Southwest Fertilizer on
the corner of Bissinet and Renwick.Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Okay, enough
of a soapbox there, let's gotalk to David and Montgomery. Hey David,

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good morning morning. I have anI have an issue with dollar weed,
and I just laid New Sod down. Of course I have to water
it in real well, and theselittle dollar weeds started popping up everywhere,
and I need to know you're agreat opinion on how to treat that with

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New Sod. Yeah, there's withbrand new sid i'd let's let's get that
sade in. Let's get it,give it a few weeks to get established,
to get a good root system inthe ground, and so it's not
in a week in state. Uh. There are some products that most of
the broad leaf we control products whenyou spray them in hot weather and the

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upper eighties, nineties nineties, they'restress in augustine a lot, a lot,
and so we try to avoid that. There's one called Celsius that's pretty
widely available at our some of ourgarden centers and defeed stores for example.
Uh. And Celsius is a littlemore a little less damaging. You know,
you could be up in the lowernineties. It's not going to hurt,

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and it's a it's a great onefor dollar weed and Virginia button weed
both. Then there are many otherproducts out there on the market that you
can be directed to that you know, we'll control that. All right,
Thank you very much. I appreciateyour call very much. Let's go now

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to League City and we're going totalk to Linn. Hello, Linn,
good morning. So I need totransplant my tomato plants into a larger container.
I'm going to use large pots forthat, and what do you recommend
Like I think one of your earliercallers said that he used was it heirloom

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or fust to grow? Well,you're talking about what do you use for
soil? Yes, okay, Firstof all, if it's a tomato,
I would put it in a potthat holds ten gallons or more of soil.
You can grow a tomato and afive five gallons of soil. But
you're especially if it's a big plant, you're having to water it when it
gets hot. You're watering a coupletimes a day to keep it from going

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into us stress. So that's whyI like a little more soil volume.
Uh. The product I think Iwas talking about at the time was heirloom
soils Veggie and Herb mes heirloom soilsVeggie and herb mex. Uh got it,
thank you. It is easy tofind, uh, you know you're
you're gonna All you have to dois go to your ACE Hardware dot com

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and find find the ACE our leaguecity feed. Yeah. ACE Hardware is
near you wherever you are. Uh, you're going to be able to to
You got two aces too, bythe way, You've got uh the Kilgore's
Ace Hardware on the main street inLeague City, and you've got uh the
U League City Ace Hardware on WestLeague City Parkway, so they're both close
to here. They carried those products. Okay. The gentleman that had the

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question about the dollar weed, Ihave a similar issue with that, but
not newly established in Augustine and Ihave dollar weed and ax flas Okay,
I mean it's ox fallis is justevery too much too much oxalis? Uh
is, It's sends seeds everywhere.It is pretty amazing how that plant works.

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I would again the Celsius would bean option for that. There are
a number of products that you coulduse for it. The folks at Bunye
have one called weed beater, thoughI would do the weed Beater Ultra that
I think is the best blend forthat particular kind of weed. Just do
it when the temperatures are cooler,doing the earliest time of day even this

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time of year. Do it inthe morning. The weed Beater Ultra.
Fur Loom also has some products thatwork well for that. But let's just
simplify it and say Celsius and bunEyed weed Beater Ultra are two good options.
Okay, thanks, so much allright, you bet, thank you
appreciate that call. When was thelast time or have you even been to

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Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. NelsonWater Garden and Nursery is well. First
of all, it may surprise youto know that they have a nursery,
and they do have a nice nurseryout there. The Nelson folks have been
leading the water garden world for avery long time. They absolutely know how

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to create the most beautiful water gardens. Maybe you want a little pond with
koy in it or goldfish in it. Maybe you want a waterfall to enhance
and provide that sound of water.Maybe you want a disappearing fountain, a
giant beautiful urn container water spills overthe side and recirculates. Those are so

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cool and the birds will thank youtoo, by the way. They love
a constant, good source of water. They can build, They can design
and build everyone. They do itone at a time. They'll build it
for you, or they'll help you. If you want to try to do
it yourself, you could start smalllittle container water garden is a great way
to go. Ponds are just astart. When you're out there, check

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out all the nursery plants that theyhave a lot of cool supplies out there.
I would suggest you take people withyou because this is a destination nursery,
Nelson Water Garden. It's on KatieFortman Road, north of Highway Toann
the Katie Freeway. You just goout there, turn right on Katie Fort
Ben and it's a stone's throw away. Take people with you, because trust

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me on this one, you're goingto see scenes as you walk through this
place that are just absolutely gorgeous andwill make you go yeah, that at
my place. That would be perfect. At my place, a little back
entertainment area, you know where wegather our guests. Nelsonwatergarden dot com.
That's the website. I really recommendyou go check them out. In fact,

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today will be a great day toget out there. We're going to
go now to Janet in Montgomery.Hello Jennet, good morning morning. Yes,
I have a lot of knockout anddrift roses in the yard, and
I have one section that appears tohave what I believe is rosette disease the

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mites and is that fatal? CanI do anything? Well? We need
to identify it A S A Pto be sure. I hate you to
rip everything out if you don't haveit, and I hate to leave everything
in. If you do so,you can send me some photos of it
up close. There there is anexcellent website for Rose Rosette, and as

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we're talking here, I'm gonna I'mgoing to find it for you, Okay,
but I don't want to miss saythe name of it. Okay.
Anyway, Uh, what if yousend me pictures of the symptoms. I
can you know, pretty well diagnoseit if you show me some close ups,

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especially of the new shoots and thenew growth. Okay, all right,
and how do how do I sendthat to you? I'm going to
put you on hold at the end, and Josh will get on and he
will give you an email that youcan send it to. Kay. See
you're in Montgomery, you and metoo far away from enchanted forest where I'll
beat it day. I was goingto say, you put some in a

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bag, but I probably don't wantto do that anyway, coming into a
nursery. Anyway, there's good information. I'm not finding the website trying to
do two things at once here,but if you do a search for Roserosett,
there'll be a lot of good picturesand that that will help. But
I'll look forward to seeing those.I'm putting you on hole right now.
Jennet, thank you appreciate that callvery much. We're putting another show in

(02:42:24):
the books. Wow, this one, this went fast. It already just
seemed like it to me, butit sure did go fast. I'm going
to be heading out right after this. In fact, I'm making a B
line for the Enchanted Forest garden Centeror nursery. That is the one that
if you're in Richmond Rosenberg, you'regoing north, you look towards sugar Land,

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you look off to the right,drive not look drive off to the
right. That's where it is.It's FM write this down FM twenty seven
fifty nine, Richmond, Texas.There's going to be a donut truck of
air. I know, I believethat. How am I going to get
by with that one? I'm goingto be answering your questions. I'm going
to give away six different kinds ofMedina products as well as a whole lot

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of little sample bottles for you.I'll be answering your questions, both identifying
problems and plants, diagnosing issues thatmay be going on, identifying insects,
bring me pictures, bring me samples, keep them in a ziplock bag before
you bring them in. Or let'sjust talk. I love to visit and
meet with Gardenline customers, all ofyou anywhere Southwest in fact, typically at

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these events we're going to have someonedrive from far away to come. We
always have a view of those,So come out and chanted for us eleven
thirty to one thirty two days.I hope you'll be there. Look forward
to meeting you.