You're Never Finished Gardening

Skip takes listeners phone calls all moring.

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 toKatie r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
It's crazy, Yes, Trim justwatch him as well us so many

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give a teas the suppotasys back againnot a sound good morning, good Saturday
morning on a great day for gardening, boyet today is it's gonna be a
good one to get out and about. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

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and you're listening to garden Line.We are a call in show. That
means if you have a question aboutgardening and would like to call in and
ask, we'd be happy to helpyou with that. The phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eightseventy four one three two one two five
eight seven four. I got somework done in the garden this week.

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Finally found some time to get outthere and do a little bit of this,
that and the other. We've gota number of projects started. You
know, one thing about gardening isyou never finish. And I think that's
a good thing. I mean,you could decide, well I'm done.
That's that's all I'm gonna do.But I'm just saying you've got color changes.
There's always a new season coming,there's new vegetables, and there's new

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flowers to plant, just lots ofthings going on. And I think it's
good to look at your landscape asan evolving palette, you know, because
what we do is we paint withplants, right, and you can just
set it up and try to getit to last as long as you want.
I mean that's possible. But inreality, the most beautiful landscapes,

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and I think as a gardener,the most fun is when you're changing some
things out periodically. You know,don't be afraid to pull out shrubs and
put new shrubs in. Shrubs gettoo big, sometimes they overgrow, or
a new variety comes out, anew species comes out that you just think
will more enhance the property look better. They'll be afraid to do that.
Certainly, we do that with flowersand shrubs and vegetables. I mean,

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you know that's common, but whynot consider some re vamping on your landscape
on one thing I think everybody needsto do more of, and that is
container color. Container gardening outside,whether you're growing vegetables or flowers, a
quality container not only can be productiveit can be beautiful. You move them
in and out. It's a wayto get almost instant bizazz to a space,

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whether it's a patio or coming upthe front walk. However you want
to do it. Hanging baskets,it's another way. By the way,
if you're doing that, you canfill those containers with jungle Land, a
product distributed by Nitrophos. Jungle Landis a quality swim mix. It drains
well, but it also holds moisture, so it allows you to not have

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to water so often, but alsoto make sure you don't have that soggy,
gummy, gunky wet condition that's sohard on plant roots. Jungle Land
is designed for that with Canadian blondepete and organic matters. Got microhizo fungi
in it to help with the rootsystem. And you're going to find jungle
Land by the way. I'm talkingabout the flour and vegetable planting version.

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There's also an indoor version, butyou're going to find it at Bearings Hardware
on Bissonette and Westheimer out in Richmond, at Plantation Ace Hardware. You'll find
it there as well as Hiding andFeed up on Stubner Airline. We're going
to jump right into the phones thismorning and go to Hockeley and talk to
Ruthie. Hello, Ruthy, dowe have a Ruthie today? All right,

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I think it would. Let's seehere. I'm going to put Ruthie
back on hold that all right,just one second, we'll get your hare
Ruthie. There we go. Iheard of Ruthie. Oh oh, oh
good, I hear you. Now. I recently found a Peggy Martin rose
growing wild in one of our unimprovedpastures on our ranch. So I took

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up a couple of branches that hadjust started rooting. I cut off another
branch. I need your thoughts onhow to help it root and will it
survive. A couple of ways togo about it. You can take cuttings
and root the cuttings you need todeplement a rooting hormone. You need short

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little cuttings, maybe four to sixinches long at the most six that you
take the leaves off the bottom thirdor half of the cutting and dip it
in the rooting hormone and put itin a moist medium with a cover over
it to keep air from escaping,kind of a greenhouse like cover. It
could be saran wrap, or itcould be a upside down Mason jar.

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Whatever works for you. Okay,that works. What's better since it's growing
in your pasture. Or would beto take a branch from it, bend
it down toward the ground, andthen bend the branch so that it cracks
not breaks off. But it's morelike your elbow. You know, your
arm is attached to your shoulder.Your elbow moves, but it's still attached.

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And put that belt, put thatelbow under the soil, or put
it on a prong out there.Do something to hold it down. It
could be a coat hanger, pinin the ground. It could be a
big rock setting on it. Keepit moist. You're going have to go
out there about every two ny daysand wet that area, and after a
while it will root. And that'sa higher person success. By the way,

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realthy, that is not a PeggyMartin. That's something else, because
if it came from a seed fromyou know, pollination, unless someone took
a Peggy Martin and planted it outthere, that is some other kind of
rose. But it may look alot like Peggy Martin. Yeah, it
looks exactly like Peggy Martin. Weused to have some rent houses out there,

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so I'm thinking that somebody planted it. I don't know anyway, I
just it's beautiful. I want toget it to root, and so this
helps. There you go, Okay, good luck with that. Perfect Thank
you so much. You bet,thanks a lot, good ie, appreciate
it. Well, let's see herea little bit of information there. It

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is kind of interesting. I wantto just mention a couple of other things
we I was in ace Heart Restoredthe other day looking at some of the
materials that they had on hand.I bought a actually this is not really
related to gardening, but I boughtone of those little things you hook to
your garden hose and spray off thesidewalk. You know, it's kind of
like a powerwasher, but on agarden hose end. If you can,

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try to put those two together.And was just cleaning off the side sidewalk.
We'd had a bunch of soil delivered, and I'd been moving it around
doing some things and just cleaning itall off. But while I was in
there, I just again noticed howmuch product they carry. When you're thinking
about things like fertilizers and pesticides,we control insect disease, all of that

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kind of thing. When you're lookingat all of the different things you need
to go with your gardening, it'sthere. It's at ACE. ACE is
the place for that. And rightnow, ACE is a place to go
in and get your fire ant control. You need to start with a fire
ant bait. ACE is going tohave more than one brand a fire ant
bait that work well. The fireant bait is put out a very low

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rate all over your property. Andthen a couple of weeks later, any
mounds that have not been shut down, you know you kick the top off
and no ants come out, thatmeans you did it well. Any mounds
you missed, just use a mounddrench and acessos as well for you.
They've got mosquito control and boys atever time to get on the mosquitos in
the yard. Ace is a placefor anything you need. It's easy to

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find. Go to Acehardware dot comand you'll find with their store locator.
They're on the Acehardware dot Com websiteover forty store forty stores here actually in
the Greater Houston area, making iteasy for you to find one that's really
really close to you. We're gonnatake a little break. We'll be right
back our phone number seven one threetwo one two fifty eight seventy four.

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Welcome back to garden Line. Goodto have you with us today. Hey,
this is going to be a dayto get outside, get some stuff
done. It is always a goodday for gardening. I've said this before.
If you listen to guard Line,you've probably heard me say that even
on a rainy day, sleading hailoutside everything all the above, well,

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you can still garden inside. Youcan start transplants for outdoors. You can
root cuttings. We're just talking toRuthy about rooting some cuttings on a rose
a minute ago. You can startseeds for example. You can take care
of your houseplants. You can dividethem, you can repot them. That
there's always something to be doing whenyou like to grow things, and boys
are ever always something to grow.So many plants, so little time.

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That's one of the things I tellyou. Those of us that are plant
collectors were dangerous because if there's aplant we don't have, we got to
have it, and we already filledour yard up. I mean, for
crying out loud, the place lookslike a bomb went off in a garden
center and everything rooted where it landed. That's what a plant collector's yard looks
like. I'm sorry, it justis Hey, it's your yard, do

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what you want. And then yougot the folks that are the you know,
they're into the beauty and the design, and they may even hire somebody
to come out and lay it outand make it all beautiful and gorgeous.
And yeah, that's wonderful your ownlittle botanical garden, however you want to
go about it. Speaking of abotanical garden, if you want to create
one, you need to drive overto Plants for All Seasons. I was

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by there, oh gosh, abouta week ago, and it is amazing
the color that they have right now. I mean, the place is just
from the time you walk in,you are just walking past rows and layers
of flowers, you know, roseson standards and all kinds of things,
vines, you know that Lamanda's amandavillas, and you've got things like tropical

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aubiscus. You've got a beautiful annualflower for containers for beds, You've got
vegetables and herbs, and just goby and you see what I'm talking about
and if you've been there before,you know they always keep stocked up plants
for all seasons. That's the gardenCenter if you haven't been there. If
you're going north toward Tomball on Highwaytwo forty nine, we call it Tomball

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Parkway. When you get to Luetta, you exit Luetta and go right across
the Luetta stay on the feeder roadand it's right there on the right hand
side, easy to find, easyto get in and out, and always
there. You're going to find two, well, several things, but two
very important things. Is a greatselection of plants that want to grow here
and staff that know what they're talkingabout, and they can direct you to

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the plant that fits the situation youneed a plant for. Is it shady,
is it sunny, is it welldrained or not? Do you want
color or are you looking for produce? They can point you to the right
things plants for all seasons. Thewebsite just go by their plants for all
seasons. Dot Com two eight,one, three, seven, six,
sixteen forty six makes it easy whenyou go someplace and they've got what you're

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needing. They've got exactly what you'relooking for. I think that's important.
And I've talked about these kind ofthings before here on Guardline that you know,
you can go a lot of placesand buy plants. You can,
they may or may not be fourhere. It drives me nuts to go
into places that sell plants that absolutelywon't grow here. They just won't.

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They not a long term it's along term disappointment. Or to go into
places where people don't know what they'retalking about. They just absolutely don't.
And I mean I'm not knocking thepeople. I mean they for crying out
loud. They were They're just lookingfor a job, to someplace to work
right, and good for them.But when you're going in wanting knowledge about

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what does this pest control product do? Or what will kill our ants?
Or how do I prevent a weed? Or what is a good fertilizer and
how do I use it? Andon and on and on, when do
you print this plant? All thatkind of stuff. Our independent garden centers
are mom and pot nurseries. That'sthe way to go. And I'm telling
you, in the long term,it is much more economical to go to

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a place that knows what they're talkingabout, where you get the right plant
and you do it once and youhave success than it is to do this,
you know, shopping around with peoplethat just don't know what they're doing,
places that just don't know what they'reselling, and so on. Anyway,
I gripe about that a lot,but it's a soapbox for me.
And there is a great value inhaving a local business that's been here a

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while that knows what they're talking about. I mentioned earlier. You know Ace
Hardware having mosquito control products, andyou know, mosquito dunks is one of
those products that mesquite to dunks orthe little formed a little like mini donuts
if you will, that you putout there in water and they release a

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mosquito disease. Is that cool orwhat? Now, this disease won't hurt
birds, It won't hurt the familycat or dog. It is just something
that gets mosquitoes. And it's aform of BT actually different than the caterpillar
form. But it will release thatand it will last for a month or
more. And one dunk covers onehundred square feet of water surface. They

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also have a little granular form ofit as well, mosquito bits. But
the dunk as it dissolves, it'sreleasing that bacterium, and it's making sure
you're not a skeeter breeder at yourplace. By the way, you should
check underneath your pots, those littlecatch basins. Dump those out the bird
baths, blast the water out,get some fresh water in there, because

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mosquito larva can transform really fast.If you've got gutters that are sagging and
they tend to hole water. Itdoes not take much water at all.
I mean a mosquito literally a littlethumbleful of water, especially once it's got
some decaying organic matter in it.They really love that. They can go
through their life cycle in there.So you need to watch for that.
Holes in trees and other things watchout for that. But mosquito dunks is

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the safest, simplest product in theworld to use. Just use it and
help avoid being a skeeter breeder.Once they're flying around, then we're having
to get other kinds of pesticides tospray them and kill them and whatnot.
Why not just shut them down atthe source. With mosquito dunks widely available
every independent nursery that I've been talkingabout, the feed stores that I've been

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talking about, and ace hardware stores, they're going to have the mosquito dunks
Mosquito season. Boy, is thatever? Is that ever? A fun
time in the south right? Youknow, they discovery We've already had some
reports around different parks of Texas herecolluding the mosquito capital of the world down

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southeast Texas of certain kinds of humandiseases that have been discovered already mosquitoes.
You know, everybody knows about thingslike malaria, you know when they built
the Panama Canal and we're dealing withthat. There's West Nile virus and several
other different kinds of human diseases thatare vectored by mosquitos. You do not

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need those things put in their mouthparts in you so garden line quiz,
what is the first and most importantstep if you're gonna have success with plants?
The answer is, I'll go aheadand give you the answer. The
soil, the soil, the soil, the soil, brown stuff, then
green stuff. That is the simpleabc of success with gardening. Brown stuff

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and then green stuff. Yes youneed fertilizer, Yes you need sunlight and
drainage and all that, but youstart with the soil and heirloom soils has
created blend designed for success with whateveryou're going to want to grow. For
example, they're veggie and herb mixone hundred and nineteen dollars a cubic yard.
You can go buy it and bulkup at the border location. You

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can have them deliver it to you. You can have them deliver it and
not just dump it on the driveway, but bring one of their supersacks in.
It's a cubic yard in a sack. They set on your driveway,
nice and neat and clean. Theyhave a fruit berry and citrus mix,
they have a leaf, more composts. They have a wide variety of different
options. They also have them inbags and they're widely available in bags.

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There's lots of different places carry heirloomsoils now far and wide, even beyond
the Greater Houston area. Airloom soilsis quality soils so that you can have
success with your plants. When theroots hit the ground and they're growing in
an airloom soil mix, they're goingto proliferate. And if the roots are
happy, the drainage is good,the water holding capacity is there, that

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plant's going to be set up forsuccess. And it all starts with a
quality earline blend in the soil.Don't buy a plant, take it home
and PLoP it down into an unpreparedplot. That's my Peter Piper. Don't
PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot. Get a quality mix like an airlom

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soil, put it in the ground. Give that plant a chance to have
success. I see so many Isee it at shopping centers, you know,
a garden center rather where someone isbuying a flat of plants. And
I've seen this so many times playout because they call me later, they

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go home, they walk around theyard going where am I going to plant
these things? And then they finallyjust sort of scratch back the weeds and
till the soil just a bit orspade it, and then put the plants
in. And by the time wehit summer, there's already weeds and they're
getting tired of it and mowing overthe whole thing because they didn't have success.

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And that's why we need a coolingoff period for purchasing plants. Know,
any of you who work for agarden center probably are not going to
be favor of this law, Butjust from a plant survival standpoint of society
for the prevention of cruelty to plantsfeels this way. You know, you
go buy a plant and the cashiersays, did you prepare your soil first?

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And it's like, no, I'mgoing to take this flat and set
it down here behind me, andyou come back when your soil is ready
and you can purchase these plants.Well, it would end up creating a
mess, but it would sure begood for the plants and for our goals
of having produce and beauty and whatnotin the garden and the landscape. Too

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many people don't prepare. Too many, don't you know. A quality turf
fertilizer like sweet Green. Sweet Green, by the way, is from nitrofost
nice. Sweet Green is a productmade based on molasses and microbes. So
microbes are part of the factory thatmakes the Sweet Green, and a product

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like Sweet Green gives your lawn agood boost of nitrogen that also stimulates biological
activity. When you put anything likea molasses, a sugar based, a
carbohydrate based product onto the soil,microbes are stimulated, especially the beneficial bacteria
that are out there in the soil, and Sweet Green does that. Sweet

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Green is eleven percent nitrogen. Thatis a lot for an organic, natural
type of nitrogen. You're going tobe able to find it at an enchanted
forest done in Richmond. If you'reup in Willis, go to Growers Outlet.
They've got sweet Green there. Andif you're anywhere around the Houston area,
RCW Nurseries, which is on TomballParkway where it comes into belt Way
eight, they've got Sweet Green there. And by the way, I'm going

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to be there today. I'm goingto be at RCW Nurseries after the show
from eleven thirty to one thirty,and I'm going to tell you more about
it as we go through the show. But let me just say this,
they are having an unbelievable event.I mean, we're talking about barbecue stuff
that drink there. They are goingto have percent off of roses and Japanese

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maples, Fi techs, the Cajunhibiscus, one of my favorite hibiscus,
and even citrus trees. There's alot of other giveaways. I'm gonna be
giving away some asmit and some treestabilizers while I'm there. But anyway,
while you're there, pick up yoursweet Green. They're going to have sweet
Green of course available because one ofthe places that carries sweet green. Well,

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there you go. That is thatis what you need to be doing
today. I hope you're sitting thereand making your calendar for what you're going
to do this afternoon. It needsto start with coming by to see me
at RCW Nursery. By the way, when you're there, you can register
for a one hundred dollars gift certificate. So in addition to us just given
stuff away all day and twenty percentoff all these plants, one hundred dollars

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gift certificate. Oh my gosh,I know what I would do with them.
Well, this could work out reallywell. You could do any immediate
gardening work that you have to getdone, do that early, and then
go see you and then the rainwill be coming. So it's all planning.
It's all good. You got it. You gotta get it in order.
Nicky's got to figure it out rightthere. Well, I'm gonna take

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a break and hand the microphone overto NICKI our phone number if you'd like
to give Josh callin. Get onthe board seven one three two one two
k t R H. Welcome backto guard Line. Good to have you
with us today. We are hereto talk about gardening. Here is the
number. You'll need to write thisdown so you can give us a call.
Seven one three two one two kt R eight seven one three two

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one two k t R. HUh. Dandy Feed Up in Tomball is
kind of a one stop shop fora lot of things. Of course you
are a feed store. They're gonnahave quality livestock feed, quality pet food
for example, very very high qualitylines of pet food. They're gonna have
everything else you need for your gardenand landscape. Uh. The fertilizers you

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hear me talking about here, they'vegot those. They've got those. They
carry plants. There's a lot ofbeautiful little plants they bring in seasonal out
front, different kinds of things.If you need pest disease and weed management
products, they've got that. Andit's just easy to swing in and out
there on twenty nine to twenty justwest Tomball, head out that way.
Uh. They always are getting shipmentsof new I say always, especially during

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this season spring season. Shipments ofchicks coming in all the time. If
you need If you and I havebackyard chickens and you want a selection of
dozens of different breeds of all kindsof things, they've got that there at
D and D feed includes, ofcourse the feed and the little setups that
you need to get started. Here'sa phone number, give them a call

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to eight one three five one seventyone forty four two eight one three five
one seven one four four. Weare now going to head out to Livingston
and talk to Dwayne. Hello,Dwayne, good morning morning. I'm having
a problem with the leaves just sprayingoff my plants as fast as they I

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thought I had a problem with beerand put cages on them, and they're
still disappearing as fast as they grow. What kind of plant? Fruit?
Trees? Oh? Really? Yes? And you've actually lost my trees died
last year because of it, andso I planted new trees and the same
things happening again this year. AndI'm like, oh my god, what's

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the problem. So you've looked overthem and you don't see any caterpillars hiding
under leaves or anywhere around there.I can't find anything. People have even
suggested going out there with the flashlightat night. Some of the stuff is
nocturnal, and yes, I don'tsee anything then, and I'm like,
what the heck is going on?So that was my next suggestion. You

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know, there's also leafcutter ants thatwill work at night and you go to
bed and the trees got leaves onit, you wake up in the morning,
they're all gone. That leaf cutterscan do that, but there typically
you should see trails along the groundwhere they're carrying those leaves off to their
their mound somewhere and they car theycan go some distance. Yeah, the

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mound's not going to be right aroundthat plant. Uh So I would I
would go back out at night trythat again. But again you should notice
in the ground there's just some littlepathways, you know, as they kind
of go back and forth through there, you can kind of see a little
bit of a trail where they're doingtheir work. But h I that's what
I would suggest, depending on whatyou find doing. You know, if

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it was a caterpillar or a beetlefeeding, we would use certain kinds of
pesticides to spray on the on theplant. If it is a leaf cut
around, then you're going to goto a certain kind of bait to try
to control those bait. Really Okay, somebody has suggested some mile die on
and it seems to have helped,But now the leaves are wilton and call

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another problems. I think, Okay, well, we got to figure out
what's do it first. And ifyou got them caged and deer can't get
there, then it's going to bea bug of some kind. Yes,
and my best guess is leaf cutterAunt. But I would go out and
look over those plants, turn leavesover, look around a lot of times.
Caterpillars are the same color as theundersides of the leaves, and they're

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kind of hard to find. Butif you don't find any caterpillars or beetles
and you go out at night witha flashlight, you ought to be finding
something because they got to be eatingsometime of the day, and I bet
it's at night. Okay, I'llcheck it out. Yeah, and if
you do, if you do endup finding the leaf cutter Aunt, just

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let me know and we'll we'll comeup with a good solution for you on
that. Yeah, I'll call youback on that one. The other quick
question I had is a plant insome pecan trees and I had mixed some
store bought manure in the dirt andthey don't seem to be sprouting. And
someone told me that they could killthe roots if you put if you put

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anything in the ground that's too potent, like dry granular salt based fertilizer or
straight manure kinds of stuff that canburn roots. But just a moderate amount
is okay mixed in with the soil. But generally we don't put anything in
the planting hole. We just addedto the surface and let rain take take

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the nutrients down into the soil.Yeah, I guess I missed up on
that one. Yeah, it's okay, okay, I appreciate them, all
right, sir, Good luck,Thank you, Yes, sir, you
take the day you as well.You as well those of you up in
the Montgomery area. Your hometown gardencenter is right there on the east edge
of town on one oh five isa NA Plants and Produce. Now an

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A has been there a long time. I mean the family has has been
right there in that location, formerlycalled it Flora's Produce out there. Uh.
And it's just the kind of gardencenter you go in and you're always
going to find something going on.I tell you another thing I really like
about A and E. They areso involved in the community. Every time

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you turn around, they're doing somekind of program for kids. They're going
to some school and doing something.They just are very active in their community,
and I think that that is reallyadmirable. The other thing is if
you need any kind of a workdone out there in the Lake Conroe area,
in one of those neighborhoods like AprilSound and Walden and on and on,
we'll give them a call. Findout about the landscape crew coming out

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and doing some clean up around thehouse. Doing a little bit of work
around the house. They can dothat. When you're at Ana, you're
going to find every fertilizer I talkabout, and I mean nitrofoss and Nelson
and microlife, and you're going tofind airloom soils in nature's way, leaf
mole compost, both the fine andthe course types of it. Ana stays
stocked up and it's just the kindof place you go to grab what you

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need to get the work done.Today'd be a good time to go out
and get that done because we've gotsome rain coming up here at least they
predict a little bit, So goahead and get your supplies so you're ready
to go. You can get thatlaw and fertilized, get those beds worked
on and definitely get some plants toreally turn your place around. Go out
now to Cypress and we're going totalk to Ed. Hello, Ed,

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good morning morning. I've got acouple of river birch trees that were planted
about two years ago, okay,and last year they're leafed out by now,
and they look really good. They'reabout ten to twelfth with tall and

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this year. You know, theycome in groups of three trunks, and
on one of them two the trunksare leafed out, and then one is
not, and then on the otheronly one of the trunks is okay.
You know, different things can causea river birch or any country like that

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to have a die back. Certainlylast summer was brutal on them, and
it could have taken them down toa point where they just went ahead and
you lost that trunk. But whatI would do before you give up on
it, give it a little moretime, Ed, but also go up
there with your thumbnail or pocket knifeand scrape back the outer bark on some
smaller branches. See if it lookskind of a creamy to light green healthy

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color underneath or right under the bark, or if it is just paper sack
brown, pecan brown. You know, that means that branch is dead.
And so just work your way fromthe outer part of the tree down in
toward the trunk and see if youfind any life in it. But I
would give them a little more time. They may still come back. But

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there's also a good chance that forsome reason, at least part of that
trunk has been killed back. SoI'll just work myself down and then cut
it at the point where it lookslike it's still light, right where dead
is dead, and so you mightas well take dead out. But just
when you find life, uh,that tells you where to prune. Another

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thing you can do is just giveit another few weeks and you should see
some sprouting somewhere if there's life init. And when you do, that
tells you back where to prune.Back to Okay, because on one of
them, the one that only hasone trunk, yeah, where it's actually
leaped out on the smaller branches,uh, there's some sprouts coming out,

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you know, closer to the ground. Yeah, trump, Yeah, And
you can do that. You cantake out the tree if you have to
take out a trunk and use someof those sprouts. One or two maybe
uh to uh make new trunks comingup from that area, but that that
would be a strategy. But that'sgonna be a little further down the road
before you make that kind of adecision. But I wish you, I

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wish you luck with it, andthank you, Ed. I appreciate appreciate
your call very much. Thank you. We're gonna take a little break here.
Seven one three two one two kt r H is the number.
Welcome back to guard Line. Goodto have you with us today. Hey,
we are glad listening. Gardening isa fun hobby, and I think
another fun thing is getting to visitwith other gardeners. I enjoy. I

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enjoy listening to gardening. Yeah.I do listen to gardening radio shows and
TV shows too, by the way, and I enjoy visiting with gardeners.
You always learn something that is justtrue. You never gardener keeps you young.
Thomas Jefferson said, though I aman old man, I am,
but a young gardener. Good man, good smart. That was a smart

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thing to say, because I'm tellingyou this, it is I think the
best hobby in the world. Ijust really, of course enjoy it.
And it's not just because I dothis on the radio. I do this
on the radio and I've became aCounty Agrolfe Extension Horticultures for thirty six year
career because I love it. Ilove doing gardening. I love interacting with

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plants and people. Gardeners are goodfolks. They just are a lot of
fun being around gardeners. We're talkingabout river birches a minute to go with
the ed And you know, ifyou're looking for quality trees, any kind
of a tree that you want toplant, Verdant Tree Farm has got you
covered. The folks at Verdant theyhave a wide selection of the kind of
trees you want to grow here,things that do well. It's the largest

(32:13):
tree farm inside the Houston area.The Greater Houston are here. Verdant Tree
Farm has palm trees, they havedeciduous trees and evergreen trees, large shrubs,
certain kinds of hollies for example,that you might want. They can
get you fixed up on all ofthat. Now, there's three locations.
There's the West Houston location out onbarker Cypress, the Broadway Street location down

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in pair Land, and the locationin the Heights where Yellownite ten come together.
So whether it's cold hardy trees you'relooking for, drought resistant trees you're
looking for, do you need somehelp, a little bit of in office
consultation, little design consultation. Theycan work with you on that. They're
happy to you pick out your tree, they tag it. You get to
pick the one by the way youwant, They tag it, they bring

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to your house, they plant it, and if they plant it, they
offer your one year warranty with thatinstallation. If you want instapazaz like I
got a hammock, I got tohang it somewhere, ask them for one
of those seven hundred gallon sized trees. I mean, they have trees up
to that size. If you wantto go for that, however you want
to go about it. Verbin treefarmdot com. That's the website. Go

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check them out and you're going tofind that they have the right kind of
tree for any budget. Let's goout to Spring Branch and talk to Sally.
Hello, Sally, good morning.I have I have Ammarillis bulbs that
have the strong stalk with the flowersblooming flowers at the end. Can I

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move those to another bed right now? You know, if you have to
go ahead and do it if youcan, wait a little while, let
the blooms be done, and letthose leaves have some sunlight for a while
to kind of replenish the reserves.That would be better and avoiding having them
get out of sink on their bloomcycle. But but yes, either way,

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wait if you can, and youmean, wait till the blooms die,
or wait till the stalk gets mushyand well to the to the blooms
die back, and then give them, give them a few weeks after that
if you can. But it comesdown to, you know, like if
it were in my house and say, you know what, I can redo

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that later in the year, Wellthen wait and do it in the fall,
you know. But if you needto get it moved now for whatever
reason, go ahead and do itit. Just like I said, when
you catch a bulb and you haven'tgiven it a chance post bloom to replenish
its reserves, it has to kindof get back in line and you know,
recover from that before it can goback into blooming. Right, But

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I won't, but I won't killthe bulb. You will not kill the
bulb. No, okay, allright, thank you, all right,
thanks you for the call. Appreciatethat very very much. When you're thinking
about soil blends and all kinds ofdifferent options and some really unique options.
Landscapers supply, you know, they'vealways been local, the Landscaper's supply,

(35:15):
Landscapers. What am I saying?Landscaper's Pride, My gosh, where'd that
come from? Landscaper's Pride is alwayslocal. They always have top quality resources.
They've got twenty seven different bag products. It's kind of a one stop
shop with them because and you justneed to go to a Landscaperspride dot com
to see what I'm talking about.But they have got the premium potting soil

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mix, a very high quality mixfor indoor or outdoor plants. It's got
color Star fertilizer to give it threemonths of feeding. So you buy the
mix, you've already got the fertilizerin it. You're ready to go for
three months. It'll take care ofit. Gardener's Magic Soil. It's got
humous screened pine compost, composted riceholts, and chicken pellet fertilizer in it,

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and the chicken pellet fertilizer will giveyou another three months. That's right.
Pod dirt is an organic certified soil, very good for those flowering plants
like you want to you want toredo an annual bed for a color change.
You know, hey, the coolseason colors out, it's time for
the warm season. Pretty soon.Some of those things like oh maybe petunias
and things are going to be windingdown a little bit and you're gonna want

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to put in some more heat tolerantthings. Here's a good opportunity to use
that pod dirt to do that.And on and on twenty seven different products
Landscaperspride dot com. That's where youfind a store locator to get you to
the right product for what you need. We're going to head now out to
Meadow Place and talk to Jim.Hello Jim Hello, skip quick question.

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I followed all the schedule this year. I got two applications of barricade.
Then I put down the sweet greenand Asa mic and after the sweet Green,
I had an outbreak of cocker burs. Well, I treated them all
with weed beater, knocked them alldown. I got about, like I
said, about ten brown spots inthe yard where I treated. My question

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is just wait for the Saint Augustine, which is doing great. Yeah,
to come back put the nineteen fourto ten down after they came out and
after I treated them, And I'mjust wondering what a little has to grow
for law or something helped those brownspots recover. Well, I mean you

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can't you can do that. Thenineteen four ten is going to give you
a very long drawn out even feedingover time. So you're set up for
about three months, four months maybewith all that you've been doing in there
for that. If you wanted touse a has to grow for lawn,
you could do that as well toget a real fast boost to those plants,

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just to get a little quicker boostout of it than the slow release
would do. But in general youdon't have to do both. But there's
nothing wrong if you want to dothat for the purposes you just described to
me. Well, about how longwould it take for the spots to recover?
There's there's Saint Augustine left in theareas where I knocked the cockle burs
out. Yeah. As a generalguide, assuming everything's in good shape,

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I would say that if you've gotSaint Augustine spriggs that are a fourth foot
apart, that'll cover over by thetime we get into midsummer, you should
be covered over by the way onthe hast grow lawn. That is a
good fertilizer to use. But Medinahas a new one and it's called has
to Grow super Grow Plus. It'sa sixteen zero two and it also hooks

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up to your hose end and youjust water your lawn with it, apply
it that way and eighteen percent ofthe nitrogen is slow release, but it
also has you know, the immediaterelease, so you could go either way,
the has to Grow lawn for alittle bit faster release or the has
to Supergrow Plus. That's a lotof words, isn't it. Okay,

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Well, appreciate the appreciate that comments. All right, you take care,
Thank you very much. You betgood luck with that. What was the
last time you were out to EnchantedForest out in Richmond. If you've never
been, you need to go bythe way. I suspect you've been.
But in Jenny Forest, Richmond,I was out there just a few weeks

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ago. They are just one ofthose destination nurseries. You walk in and
you just look up and you go, oh my gosh, it's gonna be
fun, and it is. Itabsolutely is. They have the widest selection
of all kinds of things. WhenI was out there last time, all
their butterfly attracting plants they were everywhere, and oh my gosh it was there
were monarch caterpillars on them. Therewas gopherdillary caterpillars out there on the passion

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vines and pipevines, swallowtails on thepipeline. It just it's just a great
place to go. And if youwant a butterfly garden, they have really
got you covered. They even giveyou a caterpillar take home with the plant
if they got one there on theplants. Where is this place? Well?
And Jennet Forest is on FM twentyseven fifty nine in Richmond, So

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if you're in Richmond Rosenberg that directionand you're heading up towards sugar Land,
it's off to the right, Okay, it's down south of Highway fifty nine
and Jenna Forest. Richmond always hasthings going on. Every time you turn
around, there is something happening.There's a program out there on an introduction
to herbalism. Someone from the HoustonBotanic Guards going to be out there talking

(40:30):
about how to use herbs in justin lives in general. They always have
food trucks going on. You justneed to go go to the website.
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dotcom. Jenniforce, Richard, TX dot
com. We're going to cut thatoff here for today or for this hour.

(40:52):
It's time to go to a littlebreak for the news. I just
want to remind you this afternoon orthis morning actually after the show, from
eleven thirty to one thirty, I'mgoing to be at r CW Nurseries that's
up there where Tamaa Parkway comes intoBeltwegh eight. It's really easy to get
to r c W Nursries. I'mgoing to be giving away four bags,

(41:15):
four forty four pound bags of asAndi. I'm going to give them away
four of those three sixty three stabilizers. Just come by and look at one.
You just need to see what Ikeep trying to describe them to you
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We're going to be getting four ofthose away. Twenty percent off Roses,
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one hundred dollars gift certificate and alot more. KTRH Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products orservices advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with scip Rictre.It's so trim, just watching as so

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many things. The supers not aside. Alrighty, we're back here on
Garden Line. I'm your host,Skip Richter. What are we going to
talk about today? You tell methat's what this is about. This is

(42:30):
a call in show. You getto decide what we're going to talk about
today. But so do I.I've got a few things I want to
I want to visit about. Iwas looking through some of the past products
that I've used and different things thatI've done, and stuff you know in
the art. I always experiment withthe folks that want to be a garden

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line retailer. I take the products, try them out, see how they're
working, get experience with them.Because if I'm going to sit here and
tell you that something works, well, I gotta know that it works,
you know, I need there's adifferent way. I mean, I can
look at research that has been donethat shows something works. I can look
at my own experiences with it,try it out, get a feel for

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it. I'm doing that with abunch of different products right now and just
seeing how they do. Because I'mnot gonna put my name on it in
terms of saying I recommend this ifI don't think that it is, if
I don't know that it's going todo well for you, I also talk
to other people that I trust,your friends and others who I know will
take a good, appropriate look atsomething and make sure that it does work.

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You know, it's important when we'reevaluating things that we evaluate them with
a clear, open mind, andwe do it in a way that helps
us compare apples to apples rather thanapples to oranges, as they say.
So for example, if you wentout and you had three tomato plants,
and this year you decided, youknow what, I'm gonna let me say,

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I'm gonna take some vanilla extract andI'm going to squirt it on this
one plant, but on the othertwo and that plant that year produced more
than the other two, or maybeit died. Are you going to blame
the vanilla extract on that? Well, most people would, but that's not
a replicated trial. I mean,there are enough variations doing nothing to those

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three plants. You're going to seevariations in how they perform and how they
produce and so on. You needto do it in ways that help you
really evaluate is the product I'm lookingat or the home remedy in that case
I'm looking at is that is whatcauses the difference. And that has always
been my approach, coming from ahorticulture background TEXA, A and M University

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and all my time with a YourLife extension dealing with researchers and whatnot.
It's let's look at things and makesure they're going to work. Let's make
sure that the product itself does whatit says it's going to do. And
that is very important because listen,your gardening dollars are not unlimited. You
earn the and you need to applythem to a product that's going to give

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you the goals you want. Whetherit's more bountiful flowers, whether it's more
bountiful produce, whether it's a morebeautiful lawn or landscape. That is all
very important. And so that's justa little bit of a soap box there,
but I think that that is importantto keep in mind. I'm going
to head out now to the Woodlandsand we're going to talk to Mike.
Hello, Mike A good morning,Skip. I have a couple of questions.

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One is about my lawn. Geta lot of poe antigraphs every year,
and it seems like it just keeps, you know, every year it's
worse and worse. But I've beenputting out the barricade and things like that
twice a year and it just doesn'tseem to go away at all. What

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I'm wondering, too, is whenit's going to die back, because I'm
getting ready to fertilize, and I'mjust wondering if I'm going to be fertilizing
the Poeanna. No, it's it'son its way out pretty quick. Here.
It's already done its seeds, whichis going to mean you've got even
more of it next year. Asa result, I think the key on

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controlling it. Barricade is a goodpre emergent for broad leaf and grassy weeds.
Timing is very critical on all ofthese things, and that's why I
put my two schedules online at gardeningwith Skip dot com. Have you seen
the lawn pest disease and weed managementschedule that's up there? Yes, Yeah,
I have both fertilization and the otherone. Good good. Yeah,

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that in what you'll see is thepre emergence in the fall. That's an
October maybe early November thing. Someweeds you can apply things a little bit
later, but for Poanna, Iwould get out in probably first week or
two of October to just make sureyou get ahead of it. And you
may have to do a reapplication later. It just depends on when that problem

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is shown up. Generally, wedon't have to reapply for that. One
other thing though, Mike, iswe are starting to see resistance in a
lot of different products to the poaAna resistance, and so it could be
that could be it. I don'twant you you know, I don't want
to jump to SAand oh it's resistantto barricade. I'm just saying that golf

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courses deal with that. It isa bane of golf courses and they have
access to a lot more products thanyou and I do, and they have
to really, you know, workat it to avoid developing that resistance.
And so that may be what's goingon. If you're doing the timing right,

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if you're watering it in to moveit into the soil before the poeanic
can germinate, and it's still germinating, then you probably need to switch to
a different product. Okay, wellI'm getting ready to fertilize today with the
silver bag of microfoss and putting,putting, putting out the barricade. Also,
yeah, okay, well another barricadenow you want to go. Have

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you done it already this year?I did it early or like in February.
I think, yeah, I'd seeI would hold off until maybe next
month to do it. That stufflasts you're going to get. You should
get sixty days out of the barricadepretty easily, maybe even ninety. And

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it just depends on how much youput out and the weather conditions and things.
But I just want to be realcareful not to overdo a pre emergent
herbicide in your lawn. You know, you wanted to use the right amount
at the right rate, but don'tyou know, you get them too close
together and you can run into someissues with that. So but yeah,
I thought it was I thought itwas on the schedule for for this month

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to do. Yeah, And here'sthe problem. Here's the problem on that
schedule. If you look, I'vegot this wide from mid January through February
for doing a pre emergent, andthen I've got a wide band from about
mid April through the end of Junefor doing it again. But it kind
of depends the reason there's that bandthere. Like you if you didn't put

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the first one out until let's saythe end of February, well, then
you wouldn't do the next one inmid April. You see what I'm saying.
Those are too close together. Sowhere in the first band do you
apply it? You apply it thatthen again in the second band. That
way, That's what I'm trying tosay. So okay, all right,
yeah, I can hold up onthat. But the sixth the Silver Bag

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nineteen four ten, that's an excellentchoice. Okay, good, all right.
My next question was about a magnoliatree that I have. It was
planted we bought a new house andit was planted by the builder. Which
it's been going real well, okay, very tall and looking. It looked

(49:58):
good for many years, but nowit seems like it's losing a lot of
lead and I'm seeing some some barebranch. Yeah, I know, I've
had it fertilized. Yeah, Iknow what you're saying, Like, Hey,
Mike, I'm sorry, I've gotto go to a break, but
let's pick that up. This isyour story on the Magnolia is a familiar
one, and we'll let's talk aboutthat right after the break. Thank you

(50:19):
for be impatient on this, andwe'll be right back. Welcome back to
Guardenline. Good to have you withus. Hey, we're going to go
straight back to visit with Mike aboutUh let's see, what were we switching
over to Mike. A Magnolia tree. Okay, man, Yeah, you
know, last summer the heat andthe drought was unbelievable on Magnolia's. I've

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never seen the amount of magnolia losswe had that we did last summer.
Uh, entire trees gone, sectionsof trees gone. In some cases.
Uh. Sometimes it's minor and thetree recovers and you're okay. Sometimes it's
so disfiguring that you kind of go, ok well, I have life there,
but is that going to be anacceptable tree when I get through printing

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all the dead out? And that'sthat's the tough call at this point.
So, well's got moisture, We'vebeen getting some rain, so we're kind
of out of the woods. It'sjust a matter of the tree being able
to get back on its feet.Though again it's this isn't a particular disease
or insect causing what you're describing.Okay, yeah, it's just losing a
lot, a lot of leaves.Yep. Yeah, well now you say

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losing, uh, it's still leavesthat are out are dropping now, yes,
okay, there is a Yeah,there is a spring drop that happens
on magnolias, and that's where olderleaves fall off as new growth comes on.
Are you seeing new shoots and newleaves coming on or is or is

(51:52):
that not happening? I believe Iam. It's even blooming some. I'm
getting some big white ballooms on it. Okay, yeah, that's what made
me think it was, you know, probably healthy. Yeah, but well,
the amount of leaves that are comingoff is just more than I've seen,
yeah, in the past. Sometimeswhen a plant gets weakened, it
leads to other issues coming in.And now maybe a secondary issue has come

(52:15):
in and is affecting it. Butthere's not something that I can tell you
go spray this, go fertilize withthat or anything. Just adequate soil moisture
for now, moderate amount of fertilizeris fine. Just use a lawn fertilizer
that does not have a weed controlin it, like that nineteen four ten
super turf that you're talking about.That that would be a good one to

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put out because it's going to graduallyfeed that tree over time. You can
take your thumb and about waist high. How thick is the trunk if it's
you know whatever, the number ofinches thick that the trunk is, that's
how many cups of that fertilizer toput out for if you're using the nineteen
four ten. Okay, okay,I'll keep an eye on it and see.

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Yeah, I'll keep an eye onit and see how it's doing.
But I see more and more deadbranches, and you know, places where
there's no leaves on it anymore wherethere used to be. Well, take
a thumbnail on the small branches ora little knife blade as they get a
little larger, straight back, justthe surface and look underneath it it on
me, creamy white or light green. If it's not, that branch is

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not coming back to life. Sogo ahead and take it out. Yeah,
most of them are too high towork. Yeah, okay to them
all right, let's give it alittle more time. I think hopefully I'll
do that all right, Thank you, Mike, appreciate that call. Yeah,
that's super curved from nitrofoss is excellentas a lawn fertilizer, but it's
just a good fertilizer. It's gothalf the nitrogen in that slow release form,

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so you know, you put itout and you get a gully washer
rain, it's not all gone.I mean, the particles don't just dissolve
away like you know salt or sugar, wood and water and just wash away.
They're going to be there and thatproduct is going to be continuing to
feed your lawn over time, includingwith a little bit of iron. A
four percent iron I think is whatthey put in there. That helps with

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the greening as well. And youcan find this product and many night Fosh
products. It plants for all seasons. On two forty nine. You're going
to find about in Brenham if you'reout that way at plants and things in
that direction. Ospose As up inthe Woodlands also carries night Fosh products like
the silver bag the super turf.Our phone number is seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four sevenone three two one two, five,
eight, seven four. For thoseof you anywhere around the Heights, you
already know about Buchanan's plants. Buchananshas been one of our destination garden centers
for a very long time in theHeights. The description to me as you

(54:51):
drive up there, it's on EleventhStreet. You drive in and it's like,
I think of a term bungalow,you know where you have a little
house that's kind of secluded in,And I think this is like a bungalow
of a center where you walk inand it's like you've entered another world,
and you know, the beautiful shadetrees and things, and just so many

(55:12):
kinds of plants. They buchan Asnative plants. They specialize in native plants.
That is what they absolutely are mostknown for. But listen, by
the way, they're having an EarthDay weekend sale thirty percent off all their
Texas native trees. They're all thenative Texas trees thirty percent off. They
absolutely have the best selection you're goingto find. I mean, I you

(55:37):
know, the roughly dogwood for example, that's not when you see a lot
some of the native types of thea sycamore and the pine for example,
and then red oaks and just many, many many options there. At Buchanans
you can also find shade plants.Gosh, their collection of kalladiums right now
is unbelievable. You want to brightenthe shade, that'll do it for you

(55:59):
for sure. If I talk abouta fertilizer on garden Line, they're going
to have it there. If Italk about a soil type of a soil
blend on Gardenline, they're going tohave those there as well. It just
it's your one stop shop. Goto Buchanansplants dot com Buchanans Plants dot com
and check them out. You're goingto find everything you need to have success,

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as well as very knowledgeable staff thatwill guide you to exactly the plant
to fit the situation that you need. Love that about them, love that
about them. You're listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy fourseven one three two one two five eight

(56:44):
seven four and that makes it realeasy. Give us a call. Let's
talk about what you are interested in. If you're doing containers outdoors or indoors.
Jungle Land is a soil blend thatabsolutely provides. It's the key components
of success in a container, andthat is it needs to drain away the

(57:06):
excess water, but it also needsto hold water well, not just drain
everything away. And jungle land,whether it's the outdoor vegetable and flour planting
soil or the indoor potting soil thathas water saving crystals in it, the
jungle land water saving potting soil forindoor plants, both of them work very
very well. I like the crystalsinside because you know how it is,

(57:29):
you got a plant off er onthe corner and you forget the water and
next thing you know, it's kindof wilting. Well, this kind of
helps make it a little more forgiving. Let's say the soil's got your back
when you forget the water for alittle bit. You can get jungle land
and other types of nitrophus products atmany places. For example, up in
Kingwood at the ACEH Hardware Store,they've got it there. Up in Tombol

(57:50):
at the arbor Gate Shades of Texas, out in southeaston on Genoa Red Bluff,
all examples of places where you canfind your jungle land product. I
am re potting some things that Ihave at the house right now. We've
got a number of plants that arekind of on hold, waiting on me
to get a bid ready for them, and so some of them I'm having

(58:14):
to bump up a little bit becauseI don't know, they just go dry
every day before I can get waterto them again, because a big plant
and a small container and that's nota good combination. So they're probably at
home right now, going to getoff the radio and get home and take
care of us for crying out loud, or we're going to start telling people
what we look like at your housewhen you don't take care of us.

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If you live down in League City, your hometown feed store is a League
City feed. League City Feed hasbeen around for over forty years. The
Thunderbergs have run that. I thinkwe're on the third generation of Thunderbergs now
running it. You know, Wesand Madison and they just really a family
deal there at League City Feed.It's that hometown feed store where you find

(58:59):
every product you're gonna need. Andthat includes all the fertilizers I talk about.
It includes all the things you needfor pest disease and weak control.
It includes premium pet food. Itincludes things for your backyard chickens you need.
You need feed or feeders or watersor bedding. They've got it there
at League City feed They are onand you need to note this Highway three,

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just a few blocks south of ninetysix. So whether you live in
clear Lake City, League City,Dickinson, San leonned Baycliff, Webster,
Lamark, that whole region down there, League City Feeds your hometown feed store.
They're open Monday through Saturday. Yes, today, nine am to six
pm. Closed on Sunday. Here'sa phone number you want to write now.

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Two eight one three three two onesix one two two eight one three
three two one six one two.I know I was in League City the
other day visiting with Madison, andI noticed that they have a really good
stock of micro life right now.You know that includes the humans plus sets
a zero receiver for the purple bagthat we put out to help with the

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soil. It's concentrated compost in abag. It's the humus, the final
decomposition stage of organic matter. Andthat's why we say concentrated compost in a
bag. They've got the green bag, the six two four, that's the
one you need to be putting onyour lawns now if you haven't fertilized already.
Microlife six two four organic source ofnutrients for your lawn. It just

(01:00:32):
stocked full of microbial activity in theproduct itself, but it also feeds the
microbes, because microbes are what takesthe nutrient in a microlife product and unlocks
it and releases it to the growingplants, to the soil itself. Microlife
products are widely available here. Youcan go to the website Microlife Fertilizer dot

(01:00:57):
com and find out where to getit. But I can just say this,
it's pretty much everywhere if I talkabout it, you know, feed
stores and ACE hardware stores and SouthwestFertilizer and just all the garden centers,
and think MICROLFE fertilizer. Super easyto find, widely available, and it
works. And I can say thatbecause I've used it on my own lawn
and I know that it works.Our phone number is seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four sevenone three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I want to remind youI'm going to be at RCW Nursery today
after the show eleven thirty to onethirty and you do not want to miss
this. Listen. This is firstof all, it's an appearance where you
can bring samples, you can bringpictures of things you want identify, that

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you want diagnosed. We'll do that. But I'm going to be giving away
four bags of azimite. I'm goingto be giving away four of the three
sixty tree stabilizers. They're having asale. This is incredible, this is
significant. Their metal size, theiryard art, their roses, they're Japanese
Maples, Cajun, Hibescas, Citrus, Vitechs, all twenty percent off.

(01:02:06):
They're going to be doing giveaways.They're going to give away a one hundred
dollars gift certificate. Now. RCWNurseries dot com is a website. This
is the garden Center. That's wheretwo forty nine comes into belt Wag eight.
I two forty nine comes into beltWait eight. Come out and see
me to dad. Love to meetyou. I'd love to talk. I'll
help you find some plants. Imean, if you look at you walk

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up and say I need a plantfor this or that, we'll point you
to the right one and get youset up. And what a great sale
they're having it's time for Nikki inthe news. Seven one three two one
two kt r H. I'll beright back. Welcome back to garden Line.
Good to have you with us today. What do we want to talk
about? Our phone number seven onethree two one two fifty eight seventy four.
I want to tell you something I'vetalked about Peerscapes for a while now

(01:02:52):
and the unbelievable design that they cando. If you go to the website
puerscapes dot com you will see whatI'm talking about. They can do anything.
I mean, do you need outdoorlighting? Do you need hard scapes
done? It just goes, itgoes on and on. Do you have
an area that didn't drain, well, maybe that's an issue. Is your

(01:03:12):
irrigation system efficient and running? Theyneed to come out and check it,
because listen, you're fixing to runthat thing a lot and you're about to
spend money on drinking water to keepyour plants alive this summer. Why not
make sure it's efficient. Have PureScapes come and look at it. While
you're talking to them, you thinkabout this. They do a really cool
quality maintenance package that you can callthem up and you can kind of design

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it for what you need. Butbasically they're going to come out there,
are going to do seasonal color changesin the bed. Do you want to
do two a year, four ayear? I mean they do. You
tell them they're going to put multsdown, fresh molts, keep those weeds
down, They're going to fertilize,They're going to do any weeding that's necessary.
They'll inspect the irrigation make sure everything'sworking right, because that is critical

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in a Houston summer that needs tobe done. The quarterly maintenance is a
great program. And listen, PeerScapes is a top quality landscaper. And
when you do quality work, youstay busy. So don't mess around,
don't delay. Give them a calland let's get this set up. If
you want to do a revamp,maybe you want to redo a bet or

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create that patio I was talking aboutthat hard escape get on the schedule.
It's going to take them. Youknow, it's going to take depending on
If it's a small job, theycan probably get out a little faster.
If it's a pretty big deal,it's going to take a little while to
get on the schedule. Because theydo it right there. People know the
quality work that they do and thatis very very important to them. Peerscapes,

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peerscapes dot com, pierscapes dot com. Here's the number two eight one
three seven fifty sixty two eight onethree seven oh five zero six zero.
We're going to go now out toKatie and talk to Doug. Hello,
Doug, good morning. Quick questionfor you, sir. I'm sure you've

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addressed this in the past. I'vegot a large areas in the backyard out
here in the Kadi I'm in theKadi area where what used to be grass
evolved. The grass blades just kindof term, kind of a hay looking
color, and we're laid down andwhen you rake that up, there's nothing

(01:05:23):
left but dirt, no runners,no living runners. Well, what's what?
No no living runners? What's there? It just looks like, you
know, dead stuff got you?Okay, Uh, it could be different
things. Are these areas irregular oris there some shape to them? To
the to the bear areas, Yes, I'd say it's. Looking at it,

(01:05:45):
there's there's somewhat irregular, but butthere, but there. It's not
a bunch of small areas. There'slike one big, large area and it
seems like it might be slowly expanding. All right, so a couple of
things. Chinch bugs will kill grassand they can give that effect. They
typically those areas are going to startoff adjacent to some sort of masonry,

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whether it's concrete or curbs or sidewalksor rock or something like that. In
the sun, you may have takeour root rot. That's another thing.
And then drought. Drought itself canbe damaging. You just need to get
that diagnosed in order to be ableto know what to do so you don't
waste money on product and time.I know Katie's not super close by,

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but I'm going to be at RCWNurseries today from one thirty or from eleven
thirty to one thirty. If youcould take some samples of the zone between
healthy and dead. So go into the edge where the grass is in
between healthy and dead and get afour by four inch plug, slip it
in a ziplock, get some alittle bit of soil with the roots,

(01:06:53):
and if you could do that inmaybe two or three places, bring it
in. I've got a little pocketlens that I can look at it with
and I can tell you if it'sgot to take our root rot on it
or not, and then we canprescribe the product you need for that.
Well, that the large area inthe back, it's it's not adjacent to
any any concrete, Okay, it'sit most likely take all would be what

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does that? But there are anumber of things that can kill grass,
like drought, like compacted soil,and like misuse of certain kinds of herbicides.
And you know, so just ingeneral, there's too many possibilities for
me to say, go buy thisproduct and spray it just yet. But
I'm happy to diagnose it for freefor you. And and okay, in

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what hours are you going to beat arthy, I'll be at RCW from
eleven thirty to one thirty. Okay, well, I'll definitely try and make
it by that. Yeah, andyou get there early so you can get
you some barbecue there. It's gonnabe a good time out there. So,
yes, sir, I appreciate that, all right, Doug, thank
you, Yes, you take care. Our trees are very valuable parts of

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our landscape. You know, whenyou look at the value of a quality
shade tree to a home, it'shuge. And it's not just the dollar
value. It's the fact that likeif you're going to sell a home.
What are the first houses to go? The ones people drive up and they
go, wow, that that's cool. And a shade tree is part of
the wow. It's like, lookat that shade on the roof to help

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with the the summertime air conditioner.Look at that shade tree in the backyard
and that's sitting area. Look atthe blooming tree in the front. You
see what I'm saying. Don't trustyour trees to anyone but Affordable Tree Care.
Martin spoon Moore has been doing thisfor a very long time. He
knows what he's doing. Martin andhis wife Joe, the owners. They

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answer their own phone. Here's thenumber seven one, three, six nine
nine twenty six sixty three. Ifyou want to go to the website Afftree
Service dot com. Aff Tree Servicedot com. Martin's gonna charge one hundred
and fifty bucks. Come out fora consultation. That's because he can't drive
all over town just because people arecurious about stuff. But you come out,

(01:08:59):
he'll he'll look at it, he'llsay what is and is not needed,
what he would recommend, and ifyou hire him to do work,
that one just goes into the costof doing the work, so you get
the money back essentially. But don'ttrust your lawn to or to your lawn,
your tree to some guy that takescare of the lawn or some guy
that sticks a business card in yourmailbox or on your door. You need
someone that knows what they're talking about, whether it's tree pruning, deep root

(01:09:24):
feeding, any kind of thing,consulting on you know, how do I
take care of this tree better?Martin is the guy a ff tree service
dot com. That's the way toget hold of him. We're gonna go
now to the galley and talk toRon. Hello Ron, Good morning Ron.
I've got a question. I'm tryingto find a wood groundcover plants.

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Where would be the resource to thatwould deal GALLEYA trying to think of the
closer you. You're not too terriblyfar away from Buchanans. They probably have
wideal you up there. I wouldI would expect that they do. I
know most of our good Garden centersare going to carry it. I would

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do a quick call to be sure, because you know, even if someone
has something they could have gotten cleanedout yesterday, you know by somebody that
bought a bunch of it, sojust make sure that it's that you have
it around. RCW Nursery probably hasit. You want to give them a
call, and I'm going to beup there at eleven thirty to one thirty
today and that is not a fardrive from the Galleria area, so those

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would be a couple of options foryou. Okay, very good, Thank
you very much. Thanks the help. Yep. Maybe one thing about Wadlia.
It is an enthusiastic grower, sojust remember that you have things called
this is the border to the bed. Wadilia does not recognize that, so
you're going to be trimming it asit takes off to keep it in bounce,
kind of like that Asian jasmine.Right, Thank you very much.

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All right, Ron, thanks forthe call. Wouldn't it be nice if
plants just understood what we where wewant them to stop. I get questions
a lot of times, and youknow where people ask for a plant for
a certain purpose, and by thetime they get through asking the question,
they've eliminated every plant, Like Iwant it to grow fast, and then

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I wanted to stop growing right whereI wanted to grow. I wanted to
bloom all year, twelve months outthe year I went to be Evergreen.
I wanted to blah blah blah.And you know it's like, oh my
gosh, but we do is agreat groundcover. It just is an enthusiastic
groundcover. Let's take a little break. We'll be right back. Seven to
one three two one two KTRH.Welcome back to Guardenline. Good have you

(01:11:36):
with us today? Hey, Mossnursery is loaded with plants. The other
nursery down in Seabrook, you've beenthere before probably if you haven't, you
you got to go eight acres eightacres of wonderfulness in wandering. That's that's
I guess one way I would putit. You go down to Toddville Road

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and Seabrook. You get out ofthe car and just plan on space and
in some time. Because it isa tropical paradise down there. They're gonna
have elephant ears. You had tento twelve different kinds of elephant ears.
They're gonna have five to six kindsof bananas. Yes, there are that
many and more kinds of bananas thatyou can grow. Bird of paradise,
you know, the orange and theblue one, really cool tropical they've got

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that too. You want to shady. You got a shady air and you
want a really cool tropical for somegreenery into there. The legular area that
think of it isn't as a terrestriallily pad, meaning not in the water,
but up on ground. These bigold lily pad things come up and
they're big round leaves on top.Some of them have a little spots on

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them. It's cool, it's beautifuland takes deep deep shade. They've got
that gingers my favorite of all thetropical reblooming perennials. Oh love that.
Moss Nursery and just another garden center. It's been around for seventy years.
It is a family operated eight acresource of whatever you need. I love

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going to Moss recently. I wasjust looking at all of the blooming cactiet.
Listen. They have got cactus,all kinds of cactus. It's blooming
right now, buds and blooms,and they are just gorgeous. You need
to go by there and check itout again. They're on Toddville Road,
done in Seabrook area. Go toMos Nursery. You see what I'm talking

(01:13:20):
about. Let's it out now toBeaumont. We're going to talk to Brian.
Hello, Brian, Yes, sir, I've been battling stinging grass for
several years and had it under control, and things like this spring, I've
got a huge amount of it.I was wondering how to control it.
When you say stinging grass, isit more of a kind of a broad

(01:13:41):
leaf plant, Yes, sir,it's said I've got the hairy fringe on
it. We always just called stinginggrass or stinging netle. Okay, there's
several plants that could fit that bill, but they all are controlled by broad
leaf post emergent weed killers. Soyou get your product that's designed to kill

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broadly feeds after they're up, andfollow the label. Spray it. Do
it in the morning when the temperaturesare cooler. A lot of these products,
once we get up in the uppereighties, they start stressing the grass,
especially in the nineties. So justdo it early in the morning,
and do it sooner rather than later, Brian, because the weather's only going
to get hotter and hotter as wego forward. Here sounds good, thank

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you, yes, sir. Uhhuh. You take care. You're gonna
have an You got an ace hardwaretoo, out there by the way out
in the Beaumont area. That willget you set up on those kind of
things. All right, all right, thank you, I enjoy your show.
Thank you. I appreciate that youtake care. See in a Maltz
down south of Houston is the sourcefor quality soil materials, member brown stuff,

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for green stuff. Ciena malt hasroast soil, They've got leaf mol
composts. They have a variety ofdifferent kinds of products, including mulches.
They've got every fertilizer I talk abouton garden line, they have them there
at Cienamulch. So when you leaveCiena Maltch, you are ready to set
your plants up for success. Theydeliver within about twenty miles of their location,

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which is kind of nice. Imean, that is nice bill have
them drop it off out there fora delivery fee, of course. But
Ciana Maltch is just north of RoachSharon. They're off on FM five twenty
one. That's kind of close towhere Highway six and Highway two eighty eight
come together. The website just gohere Cienamultch dot com Cinmultch dot com Monday
through Friday seven thirty to five TodaySaturdays seven thirty to two closed on Sunday,

(01:15:41):
so make sure and get by thereand get everything you need so that
whether you pick it up yourself orwhether you have them deliver it, whether
you buy it by the back orby the boat, they are going to
make sure that your plants are happywhen you bring them home and plant them.
That is Cienamulch. You can counton that list in the guarden line.
We're about to take a little breakhere in a bit, but we

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are looking forward to your calls andif you want to give us a call
seven one three two P one twofifty eight seventy four. That is our
phone number, feel free to dothat. I'm stucking to the folks at
the Bee Supply and they have acool thing. First of all, you
know the bee Supplies out in Dayton. They've got the beginning bee keeping classes

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that go from like ninety eight tothirty in the morning till three point thirty
where you get hands on experience pluslots of in classroom knowledge. They've got
a lot of of the classes comingup. They got one on honey extracting,
how to pull the honey soopers anduncap them and spin that honey out.
I have you ever wondered how wegot honey from a beehive. Well,
they can tell you that. Theyalso have a b rental program for

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customers with five to twenty acres nowwithin a fifteen mile fifteen fifteen mile radius
of Dayton, Texas, you canhave them come out and put bees on
your place. That's right, thatput the bees out there. They take
care of the bees for you.I mean, whoa is that a deal?
You can even get the egg textbenefits from that as well. Also

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this just in. They have leafcutter bees where you can buy them.
Now, what are leaf cutter bees? These are bees that are solitary bees.
They have a little leaf cutter beehome that you can buy, the
little collection of about one hundred leafcutter bee cocoons. You put them out
and they are excellent pollinators. Theywork and whether that honey bees don't even

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want to work out, I meanthey're really hard working. They pollinate.
A good leaf cutter being pollinate theequivalent almost twenty honey bees. Is that
amazing. You don't have to feedthem, you don't have to supplement them
like you're taking care of a honeybeehive. They're not that aggressive. They're
only going to sting you if yougrab them and mess with them and jostle

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them around or something. They're justexcellent, they really really are. And
if you have a home garden landscapeand you would like to bring in a
cool kind of bee, you needto consider the leaf cutter bees and they
can get you set up with thatat thebesupply dot com the b Supply dbsupply

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dot Com out in Dayton, Texas. I was so excited when they told
me they had leafcutter bees because thatis a that is a super cool thing
for home pollination for folks that don'twant to get into tending bees. And
of course you don't get the honeyout of the deal, but they sure
do work hard for you when itcomes to quality materials for your soil.

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For those of you who have notbeen up to Nature's Way up almost to
Conro, it's up a highway fortyfive where fourteen eighty eight comes in.
You just turn right and go acrossthe tracks and you're there Nature's Way resources.
You know, Nature's Way has beena leader for a very long time.
When it comes to who first createdrose sooil, When it comes to

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who first created leaf more composts.That's Nature's Way. John Ferguson has been
doing this for a long time.He and his son Ian now running the
place quality types of native plants aswell. So when you go up to
Nature's Way, you need a veryempty car, pickup and trailer, all
of the above because you're going tobring home a lot of things from bags

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to bulk. You can have themdeliver it. It's really easy. Here's
the phone number nine three six threetwo one sixty nine ninety. Don't forget
that. Every Friday is Fungal Friday. There's a sale ten percent off bagged
fungo product, twenty percent off bulk, and they have plenty of it on
hand. You can have them deliverit to your house if you'd like to

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do that. And you know,with Nature's Way you are getting a high
quality, high quality compost, notjunk that's been rushed through and has issues.
No, this is going to bea very high quality compost that your
plants are going to hit the groundrunning. They're going to do really,
really well with. I want toremind you that today from eleven thirty to

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one thirty, I'm going to beat r CW nursery. That's the nursery
where Tomol Parkway almost went blank.There Tambo Parkway, which is FM two
forty nine. It comes into beltWAA. It's really easy to get to
RCW Nursery. I'm going to begiving away things like the three sixty tree
stabilizer. By the way, theycarry those there at RCW Nursery. I'll

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be given away four of those today. So if you have not seen this
little gadget, you need to comeby. Let me show you what it
looks like, that three sixty treestabilizer. You just put a steak in
a metal steak right close to thetree and put on the stabilizer. It
allows a little bit of movement,which is ness important to do that.
Not much though you can do.If you've got a larger tree, you

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can do multiple ones on it thatyou're trying to establish. If you are
having win coming from all different directions, you can do two of the tree
stabilizers, one nor south, oneeast west, for example, so that
they support it every which way.It's a quality product that lasts a long
time. You don't have to buycables, you don't have to cut up
garden hose to go around the branches. You don't have steaks to trip over

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in the ground. It's it's fast, it's easy, and it really really
works. The first time I sawthis thing, I thought, Man,
this this is cool stuff. Itis three sixty tree stabilizer. Come out
and see me by the way outthere at RCW. They're going to have
barbecue and stuff to drink out theretoo. All kinds of a shinda going

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on. I'll answer your gardening questions, identify things, but you got to
come out and see all the thingson sale. This is a great time.
If you've thought about planning a rosebush, today's the day to buy
it twenty percent off. If you'vethought about putting in some citrus, today's
the data buy twenty percent off outthere or she did it. That includes

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Japanese maples and bitechs, and thatwonderful cajun hibiscus. I cannot begin to
describe the color of cajun hibiscus.There are several versions of it out there.
They are stunningly beautiful. They'll begiving away a lot of other giveaways,
including that one hundred dollars gift certificate. Oh my gosh, turn me
loose one hundred dollars gift certificate.I didn't have a lot of fun.

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I hope you join us out there. Eleven thirty to one thirty. Kt
r H Garden Line does not necessarilyendorse any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Scip Richard.
It's so crazy just watch him asworld say not a sid Hey, welcome

(01:23:09):
back to Garden Line. Glad tohave you back with us. Looking forward
to talking to you about the thingsthat are of most interest to you.
What is of interest to you,by the way, what kinds of gardening
questions might you have? That's whatwe're here for. We're here to answer
your gardening questions to make sure that, as best we can, we help

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you to have success. What doesthat mean? That means a beautiful lawn,
That means a beautiful landscape, Thatmeans a bountiful garden of flowers and
vegetables and herbs. What does interestyou? You know? One cool thing
about gardening. It's not a onesize fits all, that is for sure.
I know people that they just groworchids. They grow the indoors,

(01:23:49):
they grow them little enclosures they've createdthat is all they're into, or bones
Eye bonees Eye is another example,by the way, if you are interested
in bones Eye. Visiting with Kenthe other day we found out Ken Casino.
That is, by the way,that is quality feed. You've heard
me talk about them in the past. Well, Ken is a Bonesye expert,

(01:24:12):
and he was telling us about theupcoming Bonesye on the Bayu twenty twenty
four. That is the Bonesie Club'sinternational event. It's on March, and
I see you not March. It'son April twenty fifth through twenty eighth.
Bonesye on the Bayou. It's aninternational Bonesye Convention. It'll be at the
Marriott Hotel at West Chase Marriott hotHouston, West Chase on Briar Park Drive

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in Houston again April twenty fifth throughtwenty eight. Now, the best days
to take it in is going tobe on Friday the twenty sixth and Saturday,
April twenty seventh. Those are thetwo key days, twenty sixth and
twenty seventh. You're going to findnearly one hundred different bones Eye tree displays
right there. There is going tobe a ton of information. You can

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purchase Bonesye materials and supplies and everythingelse. It's just gonna be a great
deal. It is a celebration ofBones Eye in every way, shape and
form. You're going to see expertdemonstrations, there's gonna be hands on workshops.
So if you've ever thought about gettinginvolved in Bonesie, here is the
best time of the that I've everseen. Really. The Houston Boneseye Society

(01:25:25):
they're the host of this and there'sgoing to be so much going on.
So I would encourage you write thisdate down. This is April the twenty
sixth and twenty seventh. Those arethe two days that you want to know
about it. If you like moreinformation, you can give Ken a call
at eight three two four eight threesixty thirty six eight three two four eight

(01:25:48):
three six zero three six. Andthere is a lot more information we could
say about it, but just knowthis, if you want more information,
give Kenn a call and find out. He's also available over there at the
Quality Feed Store on Luzon Street arein Houston. He is He is quite

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the Bones Eye enthusiast and he canget you all set up everything you need
to know. And if you've everthought about it, here's your chance.
I think you will find it funwarning warning bones eye. Like any kind
of plant collecting thing can sure beaddictive, but what a wonderful addiction that
that is. Hey. Our phonenumber is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four.

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It is time to put down yourNitroposs superturf. The silver bag makes it
easy. Silver nineteen four to tenthat's the blend half that nitrogen. Half
of that nineteen percent nitrogen is ina slow release form to gradually release over
time. It also has four percentiron. When your grass is your little

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yellow areas in it, that mostlikely is a due to some sort of
an iron deficiency. And with thatextra boost of iron in there, that
just makes it an even better fertilizer. Nitrofoss super Turf, like all Nitrofuss
products, very widely available. You'regoing to find it in shades of Texas.
Up in the woodlands. It's easyto find. You go down in
Chanted Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg areaand you can find Nitrofoss products here as

(01:27:21):
well as well as down South Houstonon Southmore Fishers Hardware. There's another Fisher's
Hardware and Laporte on Broadway Street.All these places carry the Nitrofoss Super Turf
another nitrofs products as well. Iwas this past week doing some planning for

(01:27:43):
a garden bed that I'm doing outfront where I want some color, but
I also want to bring in somehummingbirds. Hummingbirds are just a really cool
addition. All kinds of birds area really cool addition. But by planting
certain kinds of Salvia's, especially theSalvia garnittick of the black and blue,
and there's other varieties or cultivars ofthat, it just does so well.

(01:28:05):
But when you do those kind ofplantings, whether it's berries or blooms or
whatever, you're going to bring birdsin. And when you bring birds in,
it just adds to the beauty ofthe landscape, makes it really a
nice, nice place to want tobe. You know the folks that Wildbird's
Unlimited, they are the experts whenit comes to all kinds of things birds.

(01:28:29):
Do you need bird feeders? Forexample, here's an ideal Mother's Day's
coming up. I cannot think ofa better, can't fail Mother's Day gift
than something from Wildbirds Unlimited. Ifyour mom likes to feed birds, They've
got the Eco Tough, Tough Classicfeeder. It is very environmentally friendly,
high quality made from recycled plastic milkjugs, and it's a beautiful lild feeder.

(01:28:53):
They've got the high perch humming birdfeeder. It's the best humming bird
feeder I've seen or used. Highperch hummingbird feeder. Have to go by
there and ask them about it.And I have the scirlproof bird feeder that
is called the Eliminator Scroll of birdfeeder those that's a catalog. It is
really cool. A book like theJoy of bird Feeding, or some other

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type of feeder, like the cylindricalfeeder. We call it the flying Bistro.
You put this whole cylinder of foodin it. Mom will love that,
she will. I've purchased those kindsof things as gifts before and they
are awesome. Mother's Day's coming up. Don't delay. Hey, go to
Wildbirds. How do you find one? WBU dot com forward slash Houston.

(01:29:39):
WBU dot com forward slash Houston.You can find all the wildbirds near you.
They've got one in Cyprus and MemorialLot in ben bel Air. There
is in Pairland over up in Kingwood. And clear Lake as well. Easy
to find wildbirds wbu dot com,Forward Slash Houston. Don't delay Mother's Day

(01:30:00):
coming and you are. I promiseyou're going to find some really nice gifts
for mom at Wilberds. I'm goingto go now to Cyprus and we're going
to talk to Cindy. Hello,Cindy, Hi. Hi. So my
question is I've been told that youhave been endorsing Weedonator, a weed and

(01:30:24):
feed product, And one I'm justwondering is it too late to put it
on? And two why are yourecommending a weed and feed when you always
have recommended not using them? Well, you know, in general, my
my number one preference is that youfertilize when it's time to fertilize, and

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you when you have a weed problem, you pick a product that fits that
weed to use to control it.The thing I like about the weedinator is
it instead of thinking of it asjust a weed and feed, it's like
a weed now and later. Soearly on we were talking about weed Enator
when our broad leaf weeds were younger, more susceptible, and we were putting

(01:31:10):
it down then knowing that the nutrientwas going to really be released gradually over
a very long time, so itwasn't like you're getting all the dump of
the product of nutrient at the sametime you're trying to control the weed.
I think that at this point intime, it's probably better to just shift
over to a fertilizer product. Youknow, the same folks that make the

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weed enater Nelson Nelson plant food hasthe slow and easy, and I would
be doing that rather than weedinator now. And if you've got weed problems,
then let's specifically recommend a product forthose particular weeds. Okay, well,
I do have weeds, but it'sa large section that never got watered last

(01:31:54):
year when a sprinkler was destroyed,so it's it would almost have to be
a kill a whole large area toget rid of the weeds. Okay,
well, uh yeah, you know, to each his own and how you
want to go about it. Butyeah, yeah, it's a as long
as you got weeds, it's harderfor grass to get established. But a

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lot of people take the slower approachand sounds like maybe this would be the
one that fits your situation better,Cindy, and that is to grow yourself
out of the weed problem with propermowing, watering, and fertilizing using a
slow release like that Nelson's. Iwould do the slow and easy now or
you could do the Bruce's brew nowtoo. Either one, but uh and

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going back to weed nat or justto clarify, I looked it up online.
It says it's got a growth regulator, a pre emergent, and a
post emergent. Yeah, so itsounds like something I could consider for next
year. But so it's early springMarch. Cindy, I'm up against a
real hard break here. If youI'm going to put you on hold.

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If you want to hang on,go ahead and we'll come back to it.
We're going to take a little break. We'll be right back. Well,
we're back to Guardline. I'm yourhost, Skip Richter. Good to
have you with us. Our phonenumber is seven one three two on two
KTRH. You know, Cindy bringsup a good question, and that is,
what about when we have combination productsthat control weeds and that fertilize and

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things. You know, there's noit's not a black and white world out
there when it comes to gardening ingeneral. My preference is to use quality
fertilizers. At the right time andto use the right weed control products for
whatever the issue is at the righttime. There's times when we prevent weeds,
and sometimes there are combo products thathave a fertilizer and a weed prevention

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in them. If the time tofertilize and prevent weeds overlaps, then use
those products. That's fine. Otherwiseyou may have to go separate. The
same is true with products that havefertilizer and that have post emergent weed control
kill existing weeds. When those timesoverlap, you can use the combination products,
and when they don't, you shouldn't. You should use a quality fertilizer.

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And in these brands that produce thosecombos, they also produce just the
individual fertilizers as well, so youcan go either way. I like to
take it a little bit kind ofa higher level question and say what is
the weed that you have that's plaguingyour ground. That's why I like to
do these things like at RCW today, where people can bring me their weeds,

(01:34:26):
thank you very much, in aziploc bag. We can look at
them and I can talk about thestrategy for those because you know, we've
got cool season weeds and warm seasonweeds, annual weeds and perennial weeds.
Annuals come from seed perennials primarily,or problem because they come back from plants
that live a year after year afteryear, and we can prescribe the right
thing for them. So there's aplace in time for everything. But just

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carte blanche, just to always becom combining things is not a good idea.
You're not going to hear me talkingabout using a post emergent fertilizer combo
at this point the year because it'sgetting a little bit warm for those things,
and I don't want people using themat a time when it's stressful of
the turf grass. Those are usedat a time when it's not as stressful.

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Hopefully that's not confusing. Just knowthat, like anything, the devil's
always in the details, and soI will try to guide you as best
I can according to your wishes.Some people want organic, some people want
synthetic. That's why my lawn careschedule online at gardening with Skip dot com
Gardening with Skip dot Com, ithas both organic and synthetic options when it

(01:35:32):
comes to fertilizers and also when itcomes to pest disease and weed management.
Now we talked about Slow and Easy. That's Nelson's gradual release product, and
it will feed for a very longtime. If you do Slow and Easy
now, your next fertilization is probablygoing to be in the fall that you
actually do it again. I meanit does. It does feed for a

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very very long time. They alsohave Bruce's Brew. Now, Bruce's Brew
is a I'll say it's a fastrelease because about you know, it's got
a good amount of nitrogen for aquick green up that's going to come out.
But it also has some slow releasein it, so it's not just
all of it immediately available. It'snot as slow as Slow and Easy.

(01:36:16):
But it's a good combination and forpeople for whatever reasons, if you want,
you could use a Bruce's Brew applicationnow, you could do about half
of it now, and then youcould do about half of it a little
bit later and spread it out overtime. There's no one way to skin
a cat. But both of thoseproducts are excellent. They're both part of
that turf Star line, the bruceIs Brew and the Slow and Easy.

(01:36:40):
Both of them are a good blendof nutrients and both of them will give
you very good results. And Ilike the slow and easy especially because of
the way it releases slowly. Youget good even slow growth over time,
so you get a good root systemon the plants, not just all top
growth real fast. And it's evenbeneficial by acidifying the soil somewhat. It

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is an acidifying fertilizer. It youknow, one application doesn't turn your soil
from high pH to acid, butit moves it in that direction gradually over
time as you use it. Qualityproducts from Nelson Nelson Plant Food. Let's
go out to southeast Houston and we'regoing to talk to Leo. Leo,
thanks for patiently hanging on there.Good morning, Skip. How are you

(01:37:23):
doing. I'm well, sir,Thank you great. I've been real loyal
with the nitrofills fertilizer and I usethe pre emergent one this year, but
I think with the freeze that occurredlast winter, I have sat augustine grass.
However, I'm having patches of whatappears to be a centipede grass,
and I'm trying to get rid ofit because it sounds like it looks like

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it's trying to dominate and take overmy Saint augustine grass. How do I
get rid of it? Have youever planned it? Centipede in the yard?
Never? And it's what's a littlenuts to me? Is I understand
around hurricane seasons or birds and soforth. Perhaps may have planted it just
third items appere on the lawn.Yeah, and I try to pull off

(01:38:10):
and obviously use pre emergence or useof the image products. But yeah,
trying to get rid of it,and it's just just well growing high wife
Leo, I really I don't thinkit's centipede, but let's just say it
could be. Centipede does not likea lot of fertilizer. Uh, And
so as you use a higher nitrogenfertilizer like we do for our Saint Augustine,

(01:38:30):
it gives Saint Augustine the upper handover centipede. It's centipede is kind
of a Shartrouche green rather than theemerald greens you can get with Saint Augustine.
So I would I would say,if it's centipede, just fertilize it
well, continue, continue to takegood care of it like that, and
the Saint Augustine should have the upperhand on that. I don't know a

(01:38:53):
herbicide that will kill centipede, butnot Saint Augustine. I'm thinking, what
about out the side of vitegarth,well, anything like that. Any not
apple cider that's not strong enough.But vinegar products will burn green growth of
anything you spray them on. Soyou have dead spots in your Saint Augustine
if you spray the vinegar on it. Yeah, the paint Augustine is under

(01:39:14):
on the bottom layer, and it'svery healthy along the entire yart. I
just have patches of it and justfrustrating because I can't get rid of it.
Out of it. So this thissomething. Put this stuff you're calling
centipede sticks up above the Saint Augustine. It does, Okay, then that
is not centipede. That's some otherweed. Boy. The only approach to
that I can suggest to you isthere are wiper applicators. They could be

(01:39:38):
sponges. There's all kinds of devicesmade for that. One looks like a
hockey stick. I make my ownhomemade ones with the little those grabber tools,
putting sponges on the end. Butyou can then wipe that on the
taller grass and not spray it sothat it gets on the your Saint Augustine,
but you wipe it onto the tallergrass, and if you stay diligent

(01:40:00):
with that, you can get ridof weeds that stay up above the Saint
Augustine, that come up higher fasterthan the Saint Augustine. That's correct.
That's what's so frustrating. And I'mthinking, yeah, okay, yeah right,
you bet Leo, thank you,take care you as well. Uh
yeah, I uh. It's alwaysa challenge controlling grasses and grasses. We

(01:40:25):
got to get a little bit onthe creative side when we do that.
Hey, the antique rosen pium upthere in Independence, Texas is a destination.
It would be worth going just tosee the place. I really mean
it. But they have roses androses and roses. They grow them in
two gallon containers. They're all thirtybucks twenty nine to ninety five. Uh,
And it's a it's a high qualitya rose because they do grow it

(01:40:48):
a little bit larger container and itjust makes for a more robust plant.
Now they've got their nurse nursery,their display gardens, which again that alone
is worth the price or dry upthere, they're just loaded with all kinds
of blooms. The pollinators are goingcrazy out there because they always have ballooms
at it antiq Rose Imperium. Itook a bunch of pictures of some hoverflies

(01:41:12):
or surfit flies, which is abeneficial a while back up there, just
because they always got them. Theyhave lots of new offerings in the nursery.
There's herbs and flowers, fruit trees, lots of native species and of
course roses. That is important toknow now today at ten am. Of
course that's going on right now.They were having their beekeeping one on one
class. But they've always got stuffgoing on out there, so you need

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to Here's what you need to do. You need to write down the website
Antique Rowsanporium dot com, Antique Rosanmporiumdot com. You need to write down
the phone number nine seven nine eightthree six fifty five forty eight. They'll
host a garden tour. They'll ifyou want to bring in a master gardener
group, if you want to bringin a homeschool group with kids learning about

(01:41:58):
plants. They will do lunch andlearns. They can do gardencraft workshops during
the week and on Sundays during thespring. It's really cool. You can
go email them if you want atevents at Wereroses dot com to get more
information. Don't just drive out thereby yourself. Take your friends with you,
because again, this is like goingto a botanical garden. I mean

(01:42:20):
it is just fun and cool anda great, great place to go.
I was thinking, we're going tohopefully be having a little bit of rain
here coming later in the day today. Whatever it rains and the soil
gets wet, the soil swells.Whenever it gets dry, it shrinks,
and that wrecks havoc on foundations,driveways, sidewalks, you name it.

(01:42:43):
Ty Strickland, fix my slab foundationrepair. That's all you need to know.
Fixmslab dot com. As a website, Ty can get in there.
Tell them you are a garden linelistener. If you see a crack in
the sheet rock or cracking the brick, if you have any kind of issues
like that, he'll show up ontime. I'll give you a fair price
and he'll fix it, right,Ty Strickland, That's how he does business.

(01:43:04):
Fixmislab dot com two eight one twoFI five forty nine forty nine.
We're going to get out of herefor the news. If you want to
give us a call seven one threetwo one two KTRH. Welcome back to
Gardenline. Good to have you withus today. What are we going to
talk about? You tell me sevenone three two one two five eight seven

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four. If you are looking fora natural fertilizer with a very high concentration
of nitrogen, Sweet Green from nitrofossis that fertilizer. It's eleven percent nitrogen.
Now this is based on a molassesbase, so it's going to make
microbes very happy in your soil.Uh. The the molasses is one of
the things in organic systems we oftenadd to the soil to increase microbial activity.

(01:43:53):
Sweet Green is you take molasses,you turn some microbes loose on it
to create this wonderful product, SweetGreen eleven nitrogen widely available. You put
it out on the soil, youwater it, it dissolves into the soil.
By the way, it smells great. In fact, if you're bringing
a bag home from shopping, youjust kind of want to make an extra
trip around town just to enjoy thesmell while you're driving. Who on earth

(01:44:15):
would ever drive more miles than theyhave to in Houston? I don't know.
Maybe Sweet Green will do that foryou. Oh gosh, okay,
that's crazy. Where do you getit? Kingwood? That's hardware out there
in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. They'vegot it Arbigate up and Tomball carries it.
Shades of Texas out on Genoa,Red Bluff carries the Sweet Green,
one of the quality products from NitrofossFertilizers. Let's head out now to sugar

(01:44:43):
Land. If I can find theright button, We're going to talk to
Paddy. Hello, Patty, Hello, Skip, good morning morning. Yesterday
my lemon tree, which is abouttwo years old now, it was looking
great. I mean it was puttingout some little flowers and and so yesterday

(01:45:05):
I noticed these little white spots.I'm one about five leaves, okay,
And I didn't I didn't know whatit was. I was gonna call you
today. And today it's worse,and I think it's powdery mildew. It
looks bad. And it's on halfthe tree. Is it on the top

(01:45:25):
end or is it on the undersidetoo, No, it's not on the
underside. I see no evidence ofany kind of bugs. That's what I
looked for first. And I thoughtthis is so weird. It just looks
like somebody had spray paint on oneside of the tree. Have you have

(01:45:45):
you done any spraying around the tree? Is the tree near the eaves of
your house? Yes? Have youhave you sprayed wasp nests up under there
or anything like that? No?Okay, hmmm, well, Patty,
I hate to make a guess withoutbeing sure. This is an unusual thing.
I'm trying to figure out. Whyis it on one side but not

(01:46:09):
the other? Could could you takea picture of it of the tree,
and then a couple of photos ofthe leaves up close as close as you
can get but still have really goodsharp focus and send those to me.
Let me take a look at themso that I'm sure before I send you
out to buy this, that orthe other and put it on the tree.

(01:46:30):
It may not even be necessary atall, So let me take a
look at that. If you,let's say you're in Sugarland, you're a
little ways away from RCW Nursery today, you could bring some leaves up up
to and I can take a lookat them today while I'm up there.
But that's if that's more of adrive than you want, then I'll put
you on hold. You can justtake the pictures and send them to me.

(01:46:50):
How about that? Absolutely good?All right, here you go,
Josh, we'll pick it up.He will give you the information you need.
Yeah, that is unusual, youknow. I have, in many
decades now of doing this kind ofthing, I have often found that when
I hear a description and then Isee a sample, oftentimes what I pictured

(01:47:13):
in my mind's eye is not whatI'm seeing when I look at the sample.
So I always want to be alittle careful there to make sure that
I've got the right problem before westart trying to solve it. As Mite
fertilizer is a product that you puton for trace minerals. Now I called
it a fertilizer, and I knowoftentimes I say, don't think of this

(01:47:35):
as a fertilizer. Well, it'snutrients that go on the ground, So
do it however you want. Buttrace minerals are required by plants in tiny
amounts, but they're essential and asmite provides trace minerals to your turf.
Asmite products are easy to find.They're available in a lot of different areas.
I'm going to be given away fourbags of azimite at RCW Nursery today

(01:47:59):
so there's a good start. Comeout and see me maybe a win one.
As mite can be combined with compostsas you're mixing it into the soil.
I mean, there's a lot ofdifferent ways to use it. Typically
we apply it to our lawns ata very very low rate. It takes
one of those forty four pound bagswill cover six to twelve thousand square feet
long area. Now, it's notthe kind of fertilizer that makes your grass

(01:48:20):
just take off growing in green.That's like nitrogen, that's the big three
nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in thoseThis is a tracemental supplement, so you
don't need much of it, butit is beneficial to building the bank account.
You know, our goal on plantsis not to have them on an
iv where we have to feed themevery day to keep them alive. Our
goal on plants is to build abank account of nutrients in the soil that's

(01:48:44):
balanced, that's in the right amounts. So any time of any day that
plant route wants to take up anutrient, it's there and it's available.
That's why we do this. AsmiteTexas dot com is a website that'll help
direct you to more formation. We'regoing to go now to Cookdale, Tennessee
and talk to bout Bob. Isthat Cookdale or Cookville, cook Veal,

(01:49:09):
cook Veil? Okay, Okay,Natal on the black Doe, my sister
has papias and bengos. He's raisedit in a pot and it's supposed to
be about thirty six degrees to No. She's kind of worried that they won't
survive unless he puts them back inthe green house. Well, they won't

(01:49:31):
like it at all. I don'tthink it'll kill them. But if at
that temperature, you can get afrost, and frost does kill tissues,
so that's a severe burnback. Soare these they're in pots? Can you
lay the pots over and like justthrow a tarp over them or something?
They probably could, yes, Sothat'd be another option. You know,

(01:49:55):
you're at a marginal temperature there.If you could put a tarp over them
and kind of weigh it down.Just the warmth of the soil, you
know, keeps them from getting tothirty six degrees or whatever it's going to
get to tonight. It's a littleeasier maybe than moving them in the greenhouse.
If not, if you can movemen i'd move men, just to
be careful, because it's not amatter of will they survive, it's a

(01:50:15):
matter of will they suffer damage.And that's a gamble I wouldn't take.
Okay, all right, Bob,did you used to live down in Houston
or what makes you a garden linelistener in Tennessee? Oh? Yes,
I used to live here. Iretired about a week ago and moving up
this direction now. Used to listento you all the time. Well,
I'm glad you do. Keep doingit. Yeah, Tennessee Radio, here

(01:50:42):
you go. It makes it easy. Anybody can listen. And you got
a lot of big old wholesale nurseriesup in Tennessee, mcmhnville, some of
those parts of town, I meanthe state. They've got huge nurseries.
A ship all over the country.Oh yeah, that Storil down there,
McMahon was a little bit for thoseroutes. And so they make a lot
of nursers down there. Yeah,they do, they do. But that'd

(01:51:04):
be my suggestion. And good luck. And by the way, congratulations,
anybody can grow mango or papaya northeHouston is doing something there you go,
yes, sir, thank you.I appreciate the call. Good good to
have you with us. Uh ArburgateNursery up in tom Ball. I was

(01:51:24):
out there just oh gosh, lessthan a week ago. Uh, just
admiring the parking lot. In fact, Uh, that is one of the
coolest new things going on at Arburgate. Now you've been to Arburgate, you
know that any month of the yearyou go there, there is the wide
selection of everything that you'd want.Uh. They've also got their special uh

(01:51:44):
home blend of It's called one twothree completely easy system. It's an organic
food A four four three plus calcium. It is an organic soil with expanded
shaiale. It's an organic compost withor expanded shale. Remember brown stuff before
green stuff. Don't go from ArborGate without one of those one each of
that one two three blend to makesure when you put the plant in the

(01:52:06):
ground, it's gonna do well.Check out the new parking lot Trasher Road.
It goes or it's a loop,goes round behind Arbor Gate. It's
easy to get to. The parkinglot is awesome. I mean it can
be pouring rain and that parking lotjust literally drinks the water because it absorbs
it is that cool or what Imean, it just it's the best new

(01:52:26):
thing to happen out there at Arburgatein a long time. While you're out
there, you're gonna find every plantyou can imagine, and then some and
staff that are knowledgeable that don't sellyou stuff that doesn't grow here, that
do sew you things that fit exactlywhat you tell them you want out of
a plant. We're going to takea little break for another news break our
phone number seven one three two onetwo fifty eight seventy four. Boy,

(01:52:49):
if that doesn't get your feet movingand your hips swam, I don't know
what does. It's always always funto have some Kinney logs. Oh man,
that's right, gosh, just tellme the Kenny log Footloose. Now,
I'm pretty sure that you don't evenneed to hook some up someone up
to a heart monitor or check theirpulse. Just play Footloose and if the

(01:53:10):
toast starts tapping their life. Ifit doesn't, they're gone. No use
even trying to get the pedals outthere. They're a goneer that song.
It is impossible for me to nottap my foot or start dance and run
the studio when I hear footloose,you're listening to garden Line and other than
rambling about music, we answer gardeningquestions. Our phone number is seven one
three two one two k t rhSo. Secrets to success is quality soil,

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That is Nature's Way. They createdthe first roll, so they created
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(01:54:41):
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soil before you start putting the platroots in the ground. We're going to
go now to mop Bellvue and talkto Duane. Hello, Dwayne, I
didn't Morris scop. Thanks for takingthe call. Hey, I had a
question about my flower bed. Itlooks like overt night. There's something that's

(01:56:05):
growing in it and it's yellow,about the size of a small saucer and
about a half inch to one inchtall. Okay, And I was wondering
if you could tell what that is. Yes, that is a decomposer fungi.
It grows on the mulch because it'sdecomposing organic matter. It is not

(01:56:26):
a disease of plants. You canif you don't like it, take a
little shovel scoop it up. It'sonly surface deep, and throw it out.
If you don't want to just breakit up, or if you want
to ignore it, it doesn't matter. It's it's not a problem at all.
It's part of why the forest isnot a mile deep in tree trunks
because all the trees fell in theforest, different kinds of fungal decomposers have

(01:56:48):
taken them out. And that's justone of many. Yeah, we see
it here with rain and weather changesand stuff. If you often get that
popping up, that's one of severalthat appear in our our mulches and flower
beds. Okay, so it's nothingto worry about. Okay, Well I
appreciate it. You bet, takea picture of it and tell tell your

(01:57:09):
friends that you have a very unusualfungal growth and they all have to come
over and see it. Sell tickets, sell tickets. I know my wife
was paranoid when she saw it thismorning. So all right, well it's
all, it's all good. We'regood to go. Thank you, Joane.
Okay, thank you, you bet. Bye bye. That is true.

(01:57:30):
Let's head out now to northwest Houston. Talk to Steve. Hello Steve,
good morning, sir. Yes,I have a mole and a squirrel
problem. The squirrels are going throughmy wife's plants and potted plants and she's
driving me nuts about it. Whatcan I get to stop him from doing
that? Well, that's a goodquestion. Squirrels are a pill. I

(01:57:55):
don't know a good squirrel repellent thatyou putt im potted plants and things.
Oh boy, you might want to. Well here's the problem, you know,
I've used where squirrels are digging andmessing around, I put a little
hardware cloth over it. But ifI tell you go out there and buy

(01:58:16):
hardware cloth and cut a circle toput in the top of every plotted plant,
that's not practical, you know,to do that. They you know,
when they're eating stuff, we puthot pepper oil on it. I
don't think the digging is going toreally help on that. I could ask
you to go out and buy aminiature fox terrier and turn him loose out
there to terrorize him, but that'sthat's an added expense you don't need,

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so you kind of you know all. I know. I do have one
thing I can do for you.I can bring up some of my best
squirrel recipes because with dumplings and otherthings like that. But that's why I
hesitate, Steve. None of thoseanswers were going to be acceptable. Somebody
had mentioned that putting moss balls,and that's a good that is a good

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idea. I know we do thatand it keeps cats, especially because that
mothball is a strong smell that theyhate. You could try that. Try
a few of them, just putthem around the pot, maybe put one
in the pot, put in alittle tray in there. I don't know
if you put a whole bunch ofthem and then it rains on it,

(01:59:24):
I don't know the effect of thaton the plant. So be a little
careful with that. Maybe put themin a tray, but that may work.
If it does, I hope yougive me a call because I've never
heard that for squirrels, but wehave used it for other plants that or
other pests that have sensitive noses.Okay, now how about moles moles?

(01:59:45):
Are you talking about moles or arewe talking about gophers. Do you have
a little raised mounds of dirt aroundor just tunnels? Yes? Okay,
the gophers you need to go to. I'm gonna give you a website.
Do you have a pencil handy?Yeah? Ahead, Agra Life A g
R I L I F E learnl E A r N dot dot t

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A m U dot e ed UTexas and m University Agrolife learn dot TAMU
dot edu type in gophers. Youcan also do molds, but I think
what you have as gophers. Ifthere's mounted dirt, it will give you
the ways to trap on if there'sany kind of a poisoning or anything.
It'll get you set up on thatsounds good. Have bus day, Thank

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you you too, Thank you verymuch. If you're looking for a quality
organic fertilizer, Microlife's got you covered. You know. Microlife has a wide
variety of all kinds of different fertilizers. Of course, right now, the
elephant in the room is the biggreen bag. The green bag of Microlife
sixty four is a standard for lawnfertilization. It works super well. I

(02:00:48):
use it on things that aren't launchtoo, by the way. It works
very very well. It's got billionsof beneficial microbes in it. Absolutely safe.
You're not going to burn your plantswith microlof organic fertilize. There's not
a salt based thing. Even ifyou over apply it in what you don't
want to do, You're not gonnaburn your plants. It's got over one
hundred plus. It's got minerals,stimulators, of vitamins, all kinds of

(02:01:10):
things in it. One hundred percentslow release, not gonna burn. It
works on all kinds of things.You can use it on your lawn,
of course. You can use iton ornamentals, on perennials and flowers,
and vegetables about twenty pounds per thousandsquare feet. And you're gonna repeat it
about every say quarterly, about everyquarter. You can go a little less
often than that, but I thinkquarterly is a good rate to do.

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While you're at it, put outthe purple bag the Humanates plus zero four,
which is concentrated compost in a bag. That is excellent because what it
does is it helps build the soilover time. Every time you put it
out, you're putting that humous material, which helps with soul structure, certainly

(02:01:53):
stimulates the microbial activity that's out therealready going on in your lawns. Works
super well. Well, we're headingout another hour here. Gosh, this
morning's going fast. Often they dothat. They say time flies when you're
having fun. By the way,coming at the frog says times fun when
you're having flies. But that's that'sjust I don't know why that went through

(02:02:15):
my head. I'm gonna be atRCW Nursery at eleven thirty this morning,
and I'll be there till one thirty. And what am I gonna do.
I'm gonna answer gardening questions. I'mgonna meet people that listen to garden I
and I'd love to meet you.If you live anywhere in the Houston area,
come on out to RCW today.Let's meet. If you want some
help with your landscape, bring mepictures, bring me samples for identification,

(02:02:38):
for diagnosis. I'm gonna be givenaway stuff. I'm gonna giving away four
bags of azamite. I'm gonna begiving away four tree stabilizers. But when
you come, come with an emptycar. ARCW is having a crazy sale.
By the way, they're gonna havebarbecue and drinks too. There.
They're gonna have roses, Japanese maples, citrus trees, cajuns by text,

(02:03:00):
all on sale. Twenty percent offtheir metal signs. If you haven't seen
their yard art medals, Oh mygosh, cool cool stuff. Make room
in the car. You're going towant to go home with it. Maybe
you'll win a one hundred dollars giftcertificate. Yes, they are given one
hundred dollars gift certificate away today andthen a lot of other giveaways going on.
It's going to be fun. It'salways fun out at RCW Nursery.

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You don't know where they are.That's the garden Center where to forty nine
Tombo Parkway comes into belt Way eightRCW Nurseries dot Com. Hope you'll come
out today. Let's help you havea beautiful on and a bountiful landscape.
Hope to see. The KTRH GardenLine does not necessarily endorse any of the

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products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip
Director. It's so crazy Trim.Just watch him as the world maps.

(02:04:15):
Hey, welcome back to the GardenLine. We got a lot to talk
about today, so we're going tojump right into this. Got about an
hour left in the show today.Don't forget Garden Lines available to you twenty
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Media app or online. Either way, you can do it live at the
kid Your website makes it easy,easy, easy to listen to Garden Line.
Listen. If you haven't fertilized yourlawn, get it done. Now
it the grass is growing faster andfaster with each degree that warms up.
And it is warming up a littlebit, and we're not complaining yet,

(02:05:03):
but we will later. Not yet, but the grass has grown faster.
So get that nutrient down. Whenyou do it, I would recommend going
with a slow release product. Andthat is exactly what nitrophoss has created in
Superturf. Nitrophos Superturf, the silverbag has proven itself here in the Greater
Houston area for many, many yearsnow. Years ago, Extension University research

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throughout the South determined that many yourscote determined that grass needs nutrients with a
lot of nitrogen level, a lowphosphorus level, and a medium amount of
potassium. That's kind of how grasstakes up nutrients. If you cut off
grass clippings and send them to alab and say analyzes what's the nutrients in
them, You're going to see athree one two or a four to one

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two ratio of nutrients in those clippings. Okay, So when you put on
nitropos Superturf nineteen four ten, you'vegot a combination of nutrients. That's what
grass takes up. It releases graduallyhalf the nitrogen slowly over time. Half
of that nineteen percent is going torelease gradually over time. Then you've got

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iron in it to help with greeningup areas that are a little on the
yellowish side. It's a high qualityproduct available all over the place. You
got to a task Asida the AceHardware there has got Nitrofoss superturf. You
go. Let's say over to Katiethe Ace Hardware and single Rant has got
Nitrofoss Superturf. Go to Jim's Hardwareup in Montgomery. They've got the nitrophos

(02:06:33):
superturf in stock and ready to gofor you. We're going to head straight
to the phones now. Our firstcall is Steve from East Houston. Hello
Steve, Hi, good morning.Osalis eradication in my lawn. Okay,
how do I get rid of it? I've put down the pre emergent herbicide

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twice a year and it just reallythat nothing really stops it. Oxalice is
a pill. It casts its seedsfar and wide. It is amazing.
I've seen oxalis Steve on the groundin a greenhouse, throw seeds up in
the pots on top of the tables. I mean it literally is and they

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come up everywhere. Pre Emergents arehelpful, Yes, you can do that.
You got to get them down aheadof the axalas sprouting and maintain that,
but that will be helpful for them. But you can also use a
post emergent and just spray it afterit's up. Normally, I would say
grow a thicker densure lawn, andoxalis tends to just kind of go away

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when you notice exalice is when yourlawn is a little on the thin side.
Sunlight hits the soil. Though,seedlings can sprout and they can get
established because they're getting sunlight, they'renot being choked out of light by the
grass. So I would work yourway toward the mow water fertilized. Part
of my schedule online by the way, if you haven't seen it, it's

(02:08:01):
at gardening with Skip dot com.It's a free schedule you can download,
and then there's also a section adifferent schedule on that same website for dealing
with weeds both pre emergent and postemergent. But my suggestions to you would
be, if you want to treatwhat's there now, go ahead and do
that with a post emergent broad leaf. But mainly focus through the course of
the season on getting that turf denserand denture. Okay, But the problem

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I find is when I put downthe post emergent herbicides that I have to
put a like kind of a stickerspread or a surf BacT and on it,
and then it winds up killing theSaint Augustine. Also, okay,
well, you want to use anykind of a post emergent, you want
to do it before the temperature getsup above the upper eighties. So like

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right now, I don't know whatthe temperature is going to be. Let's
just say today was going to getup to eighty seven degrees or something.
Well, if it is, thenspray it this morning opposed to that,
and do it sooner rather than waitinglike until July trying to fight it at
that time. The spreader sticker isfine. Those products are not going to
hurt the Saint Augustine if the temperatureis too high. But I tell you

(02:09:13):
what, I would switch to somethingcalled celsius. Celsius like the temperature fahrenheit
and cia celsius is less damaging whenthe weather warms up a little bit than
most of the other post emergent broadleaves, and so that would be one
thing I would try to do.You just need to make sure you get

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good coverage. It sticks to theleaves. Oxalis does not have a particularly
waxy leaf coating or anything for theproduct or wash off of so the surfactant
is as isn't as important as itis on some weeds. But surfactants always
help. Oh okay, all right, and Celsius and I can pick that

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up at yeah Cannons or uh AceHardware something someplace like that. Absolutely,
yeah, yeah you can, anduh, you know, go to Ace
Hardware uh dot com and find thestore locator to find the ones near you.
I don't know exactly what part ofEast East Houston you're in, but
you know there's an there's the AceHardware in Galena Park that's on Holland Street.

(02:10:22):
There's one out in the Cloverleaf areaon Uvaldi. Uh So it's easy
to find Ace Hardwar's. There's there'sa number of them around that area.
Sure. Yeah, I always windup going west anyway, there's a lot
more retails. Okay, okay,well in buchanan Buchanan's probably has it column
first though. Before you head overthere, I just haven't checked every garden

(02:10:43):
center to check for every product,but but they may wait. And plus
it's a fun day to go toBuckinnon's on any day. Okay, all
right, thanks, thanks for yourhealth skipp you've got thank you, Thank
you for that call. I appreciatethat. If you've been out to in
Channet Gardens out in Richmond, inChanni Gardens, and Richmond is always a
wonderland right now. The thing thatrecently has really impressed me is their containers.

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Whether you get a big, ire, big wire basket with a cocoa
fiber in it and then all kindsof things planted in it. They have
the hanging type, they have thekind that are freestanding, whether you get
a big beautiful urn type container,the ceramic, the glaze, ceramic,
and plant that. Oh my gosh. They have an unbelievable selection. It

(02:11:31):
is super super cool to go outthere. I love going out there.
They've got Texas primrose. That's oneI bet you haven't grown before. It's
a yellow flowering perennial. They've gotTexas go Columbine, Go Columbine reseeds.
And once you get established in ashady area, even a dry shade.
It will do really, really wellfor you. It's a good day to
go to in Chenny Gardens on anyday. Here's the website in Chennigardens Richmond

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dot com. They're on the KatieFolscher side of Richmond. On FM three
fifty nine. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Guardline. Good
to have you with us today.Oh my gosh, we have got so
much to talk about. First ofall, I want to talk about fire
ants. It is fire ant seasonand when we get these rains, they
come up and they show us theirlittle mounds of dirt and we know we

(02:12:18):
got them. But do you knowfire ants are there underground before they even
boil to the surface. If youwill, there's colonies that you can't see,
and they're out foraging. They haveworkers, the guy to eat that
workers going out and getting stuff.You always will start with the fire ant
bait. Bait is number one.It gets most of the mounds for you.
After two weeks you'll know if theygot them or not. Bait takes

(02:12:39):
a little while to work, butit works right. Individual mound treatments follow
that you hit the mounds that theymissed. But I want to tell you
something. If you just use individualmountain treatments, you're playing whack a mole
with fire ants. You kill thatmound because it popped up, and there's
another one over there. You didn'tknow, so you didn't treat it.
Now it's up. Start with abait, then go the mound treatments a

(02:13:00):
couple of weeks later and ACE Hardwarecan get you fixed up on all that.
They've got a number of different brandsof fireant baits. By the way,
they also have mosquito control products.Do you need those mosquito ducks to
put in water to control them?Naturally? They have that. Do you
need a fogger with some product touse to kill the mosquitoes around the property?
Spray those shrubs where they're hiding duringthe day so they can come out

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and spoil your garden party at night. Ace Hardware's got you covered on that.
ACE is a place. Do youneed the fertilizer I talk about.
Ace is the place dean pest control, disease control, weed control aces a
place I just went over to.My daughter and her husband bought a new
house recently, and I was justover there the other They got a little
outdoor patio, and they got alittle string of lights going over the top,

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and they were wondering if those thingsstill work because they hadn't turned them
on yet. And I was justthinking, ACE is a place they're going
to have that little we call thembeer lights because it's like a little one
of those little uh you know,outdoor settings where they got the lights and
the little tables outside the anyway,Ace is the place for anything you need
for lawn garden, and then somenew barbecue pit would be nice too.

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By the way, let's go toSteve in the Heights. Hey Steve,
what's up? Hey Steve? Ihave a you know, up a cond
tree that's probably maybe a year orso old. It's about four or five
foot up. And I noticed theleaves were starting to crimple a couple of
days ago, and I looked atit real close this morning. It's got
a bunch of these little white thingson it. There can't be any any

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any bigger than eight of an inch. But I hit it, you know,
just to knock them off. Butis there something I can use to
spray it where I won't kill thetree or anything. So when you say
crimpled, you're talking about kind oflike a crinkled looking leaf or is there?
Yeah, the leaves started kind oflike crinkling up a couple three or
four days ago and I and Ididn't really look at the stem that good.

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And then I looked at it thismorning and it's got a bunch of
these little white things and I thinkthey move. I mean they're they're less
than like a sixteen When you hitit, did the did they fly up
or around? Did you see alittle It can really fly up. It
just kind of fell down, Okay, but not all of them, but
some of them? And is theresomething I can spray it? It could

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be aphids, But the white isthe cast skins of aphis eph It's molt,
just like a snake molts. Andwhen when an aphed, whether it's
a pink or a green or whatevercolor aphit it is when it sheds its
skin. That skin is a littlewhite debris. Excuse me the size you're
describing behind there could be other thingsgoing on. I would get probably uh

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some insexcidal soap and blast it upwardfrom underneath the leaves so that you get
the bottom surfaces of the leaves coatedvery well with it. Uh. And
of course gravity is going to takecare of the top part of the leaves
as that spray falls back down.But just give a good coverage with soap,
do it or in the morning forthe sun's baking down and getting hot
on the leaves, and I thinkthat'll do it. So you're sitting just

(02:16:05):
like regular dish soap or something like, but made for use implants for insects,
yeap dish soap. Some of thosecan burn, can have issues that
burn your plants. Okay, Solike buchanans or somebody would have something and
I can just mix up in alittle bottle and break it with that kill
the tree. Buchanons is going tohave it. Another thing you could do

(02:16:26):
is you could take some leaves inthere to bu Canons in a ziplock bag.
Don't take your pests to them,put it in a ziplock and you
could you could just have them lookat it and in case what I'm picturing
and you're describing isn't the same thing. Uh, then they could help you
with that too. Okay, Well, a good deal. Thank you so

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much. Yeah, you bet,thank you. I appreciate the call very
much, that's for sure. Uh. Containers. You know, I keep
talking about how important it is tohave beautiful containers, whether you're growing flowers
or whether you're growing vetch. Bythe way, if you've never grown vegetables
in a container, or you've onlydone it here and there, you ought
to try some this year. Getyou a big old container. Fill it

(02:17:07):
up with jungle Land. Jungle Landis a product distributed by Nitrofoss. You
want the one that's called the Flourand Vegetable Planting Soil. That's it.
Make sure your container has good drainage. Jungle Land will let the excess water
go go out the bottom, butit'll hold onto water to help that plant
because you know well, plants usea lot of water in a container.

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They have confined roots. So youneed a big container so you hold more
soil, and you need to waterit adequately. Jungle Land will do that.
It is you add a little goodquality plant food to that container into
the jungle Land soil, and you'vegot something that is going to go very
well. I'd use a slow releasefertilizer. You could use anything you want,

(02:17:48):
just as long as it's providing thenutrients for your plants. Now,
jungle Land is made of four differentsources of age compost material, including Canadian
blonde peat and of the micro risalfungi that help your plans to thrive.
If you're down in Angleton Lake Hardware'sgot it, if you're in Baytown,
Fisher's Hardware has got it, ormaybe up in Tambala at d and defeed

(02:18:11):
you're going to find the jungle andtype nitropost products there as well. I
want to head out now to belAir and we're going to talk to Mary.
Hello. Mary, Hi, howare you doing. I'm well,
how are you good? Thank you, thank you for taking my call.
My question is a few months ago, and I think it was a rebroadcast.

(02:18:33):
You were reading off a list ofthe top I don't know, fifty
or one hundred things you could doto help your trees. Yes, and
it was a fascinating list. AndI looked everywhere on the website I couldn't
find it. So I was wonderingif you could tell me where to find
that. I think what you're doingtalking about it wasn't just trees. It

(02:18:56):
was a fifty list of oh mygosh, what was it, fifty things
of Josh, we were doing fiftysomething but yes, yeah, fifty best
gardening practices I think, and itprobably had three things in it. If
you go to the website and lookat past shows you can find it.

(02:19:16):
It's been a while since I didit. You can also do the iHeart
podcast. If you've got the Heartmedia app, you can go back and
listen to podcasts on that as well. But it's back there a while.
I my price, Yeah, myproducer is telling me December thirtieth, he
believes is when we put that on. Okay, great, thank you so

(02:19:41):
much. It was really good.I didn't get to listen to all of
it, and so it was wortha call. I'm glad to hear that.
You God great, Thank you somuch. All right, thank you
very much. I appreciate, appreciateyour co Thank you. Glad to have
you as a listener, very much. Hey, I want to tell you
about a new product that Medina hasreleased. It is part of the has

(02:20:03):
to Grow line. You know there'sa number of different has to Grow products
by Medina. This is called superGrow Plus super Grow Plus and here's the
three numbers on it, sixteen zerotwo. Now it is formulated to promote
good growth on your plants. NowPrimarily it hooks up to a garden hose

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by the way and you spray it. Primarily we use it on our lawns.
If you've got a typically people buyit by the court. You can
buy it by the gallon, buta court will cover about four thousand square
feet about four thousand. It haszero phosphorus the middle number. And I
want to tell you this. Idid a study of years ago. This
was over in Austin, Texas,on a black clay soil. We got

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black clay soils here and in aneighborhood of two hundred homes that have been
fertilized for years, those two hundredhomes, there was not one home that
needed phosphorus. Now that doesn't meanover here in Houston your yard doesn't need
phosphorus. But I can tell youthis. If you have a clay soil
and it's been fertilized, the phosphorusis the one element that most sticks around.
It literally adheres to the soil particlesjust like you drop If you had

(02:21:11):
a if your soil was magnets andyou dropped iron filings on it, what
would happen? They wouldn't even makeit past the surface. They would tie
right up to those magnets. That'skind of how phosphorus works. And I
like this Medina product because we knowwe need low phosphilus. It doesn't have
any in it, and I youhave your soil tested to be sure.
But it works very very well.It's got about it's got sixteen percent nitrogen,

(02:21:35):
but about about a fifth of thatnitrogen is in a slow release form
that gradually releases over time. Sojust another reason to use it. If
you are looking for something to getyou a good release and then continue to
have some available nutrients in a hosein sprayer, this will do it.
Now it also has iron in achylated form. What does that mean?

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That means the iron has bodyguard aroundit that doesn't let the soil lock it
up and the plant roots come byand they can get it. That is
the importance of key leaded iron.I'm really excited about the has to Grow
Supergrow plus sixteen zero two as somethingthat you can get out there. You
can go over it real quick.It's got molasses, it's got humic acid

(02:22:20):
in it. It's just a greatconcoction to help feed the soil and the
plants. Now I know people thatuse it in a garden as well,
and you have no reason you can'tdo that. Spright on the fold,
it's not gonna burn it, spreadit down on the soil itself, just
like you would in your lawn.You decide where you want to go with
supergrow Plus. Primarily we think ofit as a lawn fertilizer, but as

(02:22:43):
we know, with a lot offertilizers, that doesn't mean it only has
to go on the lawn. EverywhereMedina is sold now supergrow plus is being
available. Glad they added that tothe list. I think that's a good
You know, some states now Ihave laws, some areas like the Chesapbeake
Bay up in the DC direction,that Chesapeake Bay area, they have such

(02:23:07):
an issue with phosphorus in the waterand the effects it has on degrading water
quality, aligal balloons, and otherissues that they ban phosphorus from the fertilizers,
you know, or maybe some areasyou have to get a prescription literally
saying your soil needs phosphorus, andthat way they can sell it to you.
We're not that point in Texas here, but I think Medina is really

(02:23:30):
getting ahead of the boat and recognizingthe fact that a product like this will
have a wide marketability, not justhere but other places, but certainly something
here. I've got a sample ofit fixing to put it out on the
lawn. You had to wait andget my lawn in this year. I
wanted to use it earlier, butI'm waiting to get it in a little
bit later. But I've seen theresults with other folks. I know it's
going to do very, very well. Have you been to Warren's or Kingwood

(02:23:56):
Garden Centers out there in Kingwood,Texas? If not, you need to
go Warrens and Kingwood both. Theyjust have everything that you need. I
mean, do you need kalladium bulbsfor shade color? Do you need bougainvillias?
Do you need tropicals like hibiscus oroleander, passion vine a mandavilla?
What a beautiful pink vine. Eceraanother good one, lots of color.

(02:24:22):
They've got the super turf that Italk about on garden Line, nitrofive super
turf. They've got the Nelson Slowand Easy n stock and listen, you
need to go look at the salsadancer hibiscus out there at Warren's salls a
dancer, the leaves I don't evenhave the color vocabulary to describe them,
but I'm just going to say pinkwith green with a little bit of yellowing

(02:24:43):
in it, and then a verydark burgundy color. Even if the thing
never bloomed, it would be abeautiful plant. But it also blooms.
Salsa dancer, hibiscus, go outto Warrens and say, I want to
see your salsa dancer. While you'reout there, pick up some of those
quality fertilizers and other products. Timeto turn it over to Nikki, will
be right back. It's seven onethree two one two KTRH. Welcome back

(02:25:05):
to Guardline. Good heavy with ustoday. What are we going to talk
about? Well, when you call, that helps determine it. That and
the fact that I got things Ijust have to talk about every day.
One thing I have to talk abouttoday is if you want to have a
beautiful lawn, especially when you're dealingwith a clay soil that's got some compaction,
deep core aeration along with compost topdressing. We'll do the trick to

(02:25:31):
helping that root system to thrive.Remember the brown stuff first, the root
system roots need oxygen. Compacted claydoes not let oxygen down into the root
system. So when you have thefolks at Greenpro, for example, come
out and do an aerration on yourlawn and then follow that with the compost

(02:25:52):
top dressing, you just open thingsup for the roots to thrive and therefore
for the lawn to thrive. Nowgreen Pro is up in the Magnolia area
and their service area is pretty much, you know, kind of from north
central let's say Interstate forty five toInterstate ten and that's a rough estimate.
Basically they go, oh about fortyfive minutes from the Montgomery or the Magnolia

(02:26:16):
area, So Spring, Cyprus,the Woodlands, Conroe, Willis, Magnolia,
Montgomery out west to Katie and WestHouston to Central Houston, North Houston.
That's your area. Here's what youneed to do. Just go to
the website greenpro dot net, greenprodot net, have them come out take
care of things. They've been doingthis longer in anybody in the Houston area.

(02:26:39):
They really have. And grass benefitsso much from this. This is
an investment. It is not cheapto have it done, I'll tell you.
I'll just tell you that. Butit's cheaper than putting in a new
lawn and after last summer, weneed to give our lawns all the benefit
that we can have. It's alot less expensive than resodding. Greenpro dot
net that's the website, and youwant them because they have quality equipment that

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pops a plug out of the groundand then the finely screen compost that falls
into those holes and just makes alot better. Just as simple as that.
I'm going to go to port andthat's just and talk to Jenet.
Hello, Jenet, Hello, scrip, how are you. I'm well,
ma'am? What's up today? Well? I just bought two cage and habiscuits

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and they're beautiful. Two of themwere blooming and I went out there yesterday.
You look at them and they hadlittle bitty black bugs bugs all over
the blooms and when I touched them, they just slowly crawls off. They
didn't fly or anything. And they'rereal small. Do you know what that

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is? And now I could treatit. Well, there's a lot of
little black bugs out there in nature, but it could be there are types
of aphids that are very dark coloredlike that. It could have been one
of those. What I would doif they were on there with that description
there. There's not a good bugthat's a that fits that. I think
they're probably if it's I would getyou some insecticidal soap. That's about the

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safest product you can buy in termsof human toxicity or anything, because we
give our baths, our body ofbath and soap every day. So just
get some soap. Mix it accordial, the label not too strong, follow
the label, and in the morning, early or on a cloudy day like
today, just squirt them with it. And you got to squirt upward from
underneath because there's a lot of timesthey're under the leaves. Sometimes they are

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clustered around the buds. Soap isnot a poison. You got to give
them a bath in it, Sospray accordingly. Okay, yeah, sure
do, Thank you. You havea good gay, all right, and
then send me a picture. Ilove cajun hibiscus. Oh god. They
are eight inches across there, yellowwith a red throat. Are Yeah.

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I'm gonna be at ARCW today andyou know they've got cajun hibiscus. That's
part of that twenty percent off sales. So if you've never seen it,
go online, look at a pictureof them, or just come out to
arcyw Today, let's get you fixedup with some of those one of the
most beautiful biscuits I've ever seen.We're gonna go now to Tony and mont
Bellevue. Hello, Tony, Oh, good morning. How you doing.

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I'm good, sir. What's up? I have a lot of oh pauls
mav okay holding under my fig trees. Need to know what I spray with,
okay and not pork the fig treesis is this is this poison ivy?
You know, like a really robustvine that has a little trunk on

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it or is it more just awhole bunch of it growing almost like a
ground caffe. Oh but it's where'ssome ground cover? All right? So
the products that work on it willalso kill your fig So you need to
be careful with this. I ifyou you can get a product that contains
triclop here tri clo p y R, but I don't want you to spray

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it. If possible, if you'rereally careful spraying it and you barely get
a little bit on the poison ivyand you don't have missed and drift and
stuff going up and getting on yourfig trees, you can spray it.
But you can't have any shoots comingout of the bottom of the fig that
are green, because you're inevitably goingto get some on it, and you

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don't want to do that. Iwould use a wiper type of an applicator,
and you can figure out a wayto devise it yourself. But anything
that you have that you could dragacross there that has a triclop pere already
soaked into it and just wipe itover the poison ivy and then take that
thing straight to the trash and dropit in because it's gonna have poison ivy

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oil all over it too. Butanything you can do to wipe it onto
that poison ivy that will work,uh, to translocate down and kill the
poison ivy. But just remember itkills brush, and it kills fruit trees,
and it kills shrubs and other treesif you get it on the green
foliage or if you overapply it.You don't want to overapply it and don't
do it right before it rains.So today we're gonna get a little bit

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of rain. Maybe later, let'sget past this. Tomorrow is gonna be
a better day for that. Uh. And and apply it, okay,
Yes, track cloth Peer try clothpier is the ingredient. You may you
go shopping, you know out therein Mont Bellevue. You're gonna maybe you're
gonna go to a Ace hardware storeor something, uh, you know somewhere.

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Yeah we got we got a fish. Yeah, you absolutely do,
and so uh just yeah, justlook for that. It may be called
poison, ivy killer or brush killeror who knows what, but try clo
peer is the ing all right,tony, good luck, all right,
you bet boys. Ivy that isa that is a problem, that is

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for sure. You know. Thethe folks at Nelson's have created just a
couple of awesome blends for your summerlawn care, part of the Turf Star
line, Bruce's Blue Brew and Bruce'sBrew Is. It's the right ratio.
It's a three to one to tworatio. It's it's going to feed your
lawn quite a bit now, andit'll feed a little bit gradually over time.

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It's got a little bit of aslow release in it, although it's
primarily a fast release now. Slowand Easy, on the other hand,
is primarily a slow release, andit'll feed for a very long time.
Either way you go, you're notgoing to do wrong. I like the
Slow and Easy it has. Ithas an acidifying effect on the soil,
it's got a gradual release. Itwill help feed the microbes in the soil,
and it also has the nutrient blendthat is just an excellent way to

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create density over time in your lawn. And when you gradually feed a lawn
over time, you get good rootgrowth and top growth. When you overdo
the rogen too much at one time, you get top growth at the expense
of root growth in the summer.So slow and Easy or the bruces Brew
applied in the right way, it'sgoing to provide exactly what your line needs

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to thrive. And that's just typicalof the products from Nelson Plant Food,
especially in this turf Star line thatwe're talking about right now. We're going
to take a quick break. Wewill be back in just a moment.
If you'd like to get on theboards, we got an open board.
You can actually get a head startby colling seven one three two one two
kt r H. Welcome back tocard Line. Good to have you with

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us today. What are we goingto talk about? Well, we're gonna
find out when we go to thephones, which we are going to do
right now. We're going to talkto Lewis in Galveston. Hey, Lewis,
good morning, and Lewis or Louise, he's Lewis. Okay. So
I have I have these boguindas ofwhich, in fact, were featured in

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Coast magazine a couple of years agobecause they were so bountiful and beautiful colors,
salmon color, the reds at anyrate, this past winter we had
a freeze which I didn't consider tobe a hard freeze, that kind of
mild actually in comparison to the past. However, the bogan pe has suffered.
So the spring I cut them backa bit. I'm and I'm noticing

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that the branches in which when Igo to bend, they don't snap,
and that tells me there's still somegreen in there, some light. However,
they're not flowering yet. They're floweringat the bottom. I can see
the green coming up. So myquestion to you is should I be cutting
them all the way down? Ofthese what branches appear to be brown and

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dead? But I'm just wondering ifI leave them alone, will the flowering
catch up with those with the alreadygrowth. That's good. That's a good
question, Louise Lewis. I can't. I can't take you for sure without
looking at them and and handling onmyself. But based on what you said,
I give them a little more timeto see if those come on out.

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My gut feeling is they're not goingto come out and produce for you
like you want them to. ButI wouldn't give up on them just quite
yet. You give them a littlebit more time, and then if you
want to go in and you know, surgically remove those, go ahead and
do that and cutting back how fardown to the bottom or what are your

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thoughts? Hey, you know youcan do that either way. There's not
really a right or wrong on it. I mean, if you want to
shear back and get more branching andstuff, you can, or you can
just take them all out. Butagain I would scratch the bark a little
bit too and look underneath the surface. Maybe the color underneath that outer,
that thin outer bark surface will helpguide you as to whether or not it's

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going to make it. Is ita creamy, healthy white, light green,
whatever, or is it a brownpaper sack brown color indicating yeah,
they may be a little supple,but they're basically dead, So okay,
and do it. So I've noticedthat like it's moist when you scratch back
the bark, there's a little bitof like moist or wetness to it,

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and it is a creamy white.Okay. I'm just wondering what's taking so
long for it to pop? Youknow, I don't I don't know that.
I mean, I could speculate asdifferent things that might point to that,
but bottom line is I'd give thema little more time, give them
another two three weeks, and thencut them back if they haven't done something
by then, thank you very much, appreciate it. They like warm weather,

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so I'm trying to give them alittle time to be sleepy heads and
go ahead and wake up. Okay, sounds good, all right, Luis,
thank you, appreciate, appreciate you. Cover. I'll tell you selfless
fertilizer is a place you hear metalk about all the time, and it's
because you know, someone walks outand says, I need such and such

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product, it's brand new, wherecan I get it? Or they'll go
in and say I've got this reallyobscure thing. Do you know where I
can find it, Well, Iwould just say, called Bob Southwest Fertilizer,
because if they don't have it,you don't need it. And if
it exists on the market, they'regoing to have it. They specialize number
one. If I talk about anyproduct on guardline, they're gonna have it

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at Southwest Fertilizer. They are committedto that. If you hear about new
things, you know recently you've heardme say Celsius as an example of a
weed control product, Well, that'sjust not a real common product. There
are places you can find it,but new stuff like that, Bob's already
going to have it. He justis. And so every fertilizer we talk

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about they've got. Do you needa little small engine repair, They got
a shop in the back. Youneed something sharpened, they got a shop
in the back. Do you wanta quality tool? Eighty foot wall of
tools eighty feet long. You justwander down the wall and I mean everything
you would need is there. Youhear me talk about those little grabber tools
you grab off a shelf and Iinvert them into a weed wiper applicator with

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sponges. Bob's got I think ithas two different kinds of those on the
shelf. They're at Southwest Fertilizer,corner of Bissinet and Renwick, Southwest Houston,
worth of drive from wherever you are. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com highly recommend
that always I go in there.You know, sometimes I actually go in

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there just to see what's new,because there'll be things the companies don't notify
me. Hey, we hear you'reon the radio. Here's a product we're
putting. I mean some do,but basically I got to go into the
retailers and see what's on the marketnow, what's new, and I can
know when I go to Southwest,I'm going to find the answer to that
question. We're going to go toClairelake now and talk to Emily. Hello,

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Emily, Hi, good morning,good morning. How are you well?
Thank you? We'll good. Ihave a besa plant. It's about
four feet tall, but it's gottensticky and I'm looking into the leaves.
I see these little white bugs.And I've sprayed it with some insecticidal soap

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and rinsed it off, but it'sstill still not doing well. But they
are they are bugs. They're notjust little things kind of on the leaf,
but they're actually crawling around. Wellwhen I go rub it, they
fly off. Oh okay, wellthen now we got white flies. Now
we know a little more. That'sgood to know. You know, white

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flies. You can control them withcertain insecticides. But it's a tricky thing.
And here's why. When you spray, you kill the things that eat
white flies, and they have theirpen they have their natural enemies out there,
and so you kind of get ona treadmill where you're killing the white
flies, but they bounce back fasterthan the things that we're eating, and

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so you end up then the wholejob is yours, rather than having the
help of the beneficials. I wouldI would try to hold off of that
as best you can. I knowit's hard to look at, but insecticidal
soap only works on what you getit on that you give it a bath
with. So the white fly ofthe adults, it's not going to work

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on those, they fly away.The pupa look like little tiny scales stuck
underneath the leaf. I mean tinierthan a slowercase type zero and so or
typed oh letter O. It's evensmaller than zero. They're smaller than that
and the soap can help on those, but the larval stage it works,

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is best on those. So Ithink maybe living with it would be one
thing to do and letting the beneficialinsects rebalance nature for you there. Otherwise
you could also switch to a horticulturaloil, but you know, with basil
you're wanting to eat the leaves andeverything else, and so we don't want

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to put too much on there,even if it's safe like oil and soap,
don't want any kind of flavor changesto that basil leaf. Okay,
all right, sir, all right, thank you? Well, yes,
thank you very much. And howmany basil plants do you have, Emily
Roughly? Well, I just havethe one, but it's a culstified you

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tall, holy cow. Yeah,I just take off the leaf when I'm
cooking or something. Oh you tookit through winter, then, yes,
I did? Oh wow. Okay, well, congratulations on that. I
think I would live with it,and you're still going to get basil out
of it, and I think intime it's going to settle in. Otherwise,

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you can try getting out there doingthe spring we talked about. But
I'll tell you a white flies area little bit of a problem. When
it comes to trying to spray yourround on an adible plan. Yeah yeah,
all right, sir, Well,I thank you for your time.
All right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate the call. Sorry to be
the bearer of bad news. ButI don't know. I think I think

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you're going to still have a goodbasil harvest from it. Anyway. Well,
you're listening to garden line. Weare about out of time today,
about put another one in the books. Before you go. I want to
tell you if you've not been outto Nelson water Garden, you've got to
get out there. It is amazing. Now this is Nelson water Garden,

(02:42:18):
nursery and water garden, I shouldsay. And I've bragged about the water
gardens, about the fact they comeout and they'll build one at your property,
a little waterfall, or put upa beautiful container that spills over the
sides and the fish and the waterplants on it. I've talked about that
all the time. That is whatthey're the national known leader in. They

(02:42:41):
really are. They've been doing thisa long time. They aren't new to
this game. They were water gardenbefore water garden was cool, let me
put it that way. But Iwon't tell you about the nursery. When
you think of Nelson Nurshering Water Garden, you think about fruit trees. I'm
talking about lemon trees, lime trees, mandarins, oranges, navels, Kalamandan's

(02:43:01):
tangerines, Buddha's hand are talking aboutnectarines and peaches and plums. And how
about something obscure like an elderberry.How about a moonglowe pair blueberries, grapes,
figs. They have all of thatthere. They have roses there,
of course, they have perennials ofall kinds there. Nelson Watergarden always has

(02:43:26):
something cool going on, and I'dencourage you to go check it out.
Now. This is a destination,so don't go by yourself. Take your
friends with you. By the way, they got a good herb selection right
now, and they just have away of having the plant forever situation,
like you got a wet area thatdoesn't drain. Well, go out and
ask them to see the blue moneywork. Blue money work. It's really

(02:43:48):
cool when life gives you lemons,make them. Oh, I ought to
tell you this. Katie Fort BenRoad, just north of the Katie Freeway,
Nelson Watergarden dot com. All isworth going, But don't go alone.
Don't go along. Hey, theshow's over. Guess where I'm going.
RCW Nurseries. Come see me.We're gonna be giving away so much
stuff you need extra room in yourcar. Twenty percent off metal signs,

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yard ar roses, Japanese maples,cage and aibiscus. We keep ragging on
Citrus Street, Vitex, Nelson's gonnago Nelson's RCP Nursery. I've still got
water garden on my head. They'regonna give away one hundred dollars gift certificate,
Holy mackerel, lots of other giveaways. I'm gonna be giving away Azemitic

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intreace stabilizers and answering your gardening questions, bringing me samples, bring me pictures,
love to meet you. See,they aren't just a bit