Mastering Lawn Mowing and Gardening Tips

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Episode Transcript

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Katie r H Garden Line does notnecessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome tokat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor
It's crazy Trim. Just watch himas maybe things to see black day not

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a sad good morning, good Saturdaymorning, and hey, thanks for listening.
First thing this morning, congratulations ongetting both eyes open or at least
one and a half. Maybe acup of coffee is helping that you're listening
to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to
do what We're here to help youhave a more beautiful landscape and a more

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bountiful garden. That's the goal.And also you know what else we're here
for. We're helped. We're hereto help you have fun out there in
the garden. You know, gardeningis not rocket science. It is not.
And I know you may feel like, well, Grandma had a green
thumb, I've got a brown thumb. No you don't. If you feel
that way, then you just havean uninformed thumb. And we're going to

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inform that thumb. Because the onlyreason Grandma could grow everything seem like if
she dropped a pencil it would rootand start growing a pine tree. The
reason for that is Grandma knew whatplants wanted, she knew how to take
care of Maybe she didn't even knowwhy she knew, she just kind of
had a knack for it. Butthat's why the plants were happy at Grandma's
house, and they can be happyat your house too. So the bottom

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line is, hey, let's havesome fun, let's learn some things,
and let's make sure that you havemore success in your lawn and in your
garden. One way we go aboutthat, just starting right off the bat
here, is talk about lawns.Everybody just about seems to have a lawn
these days, and everybody cares abouthaving a beautiful one. And one way

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that you can make sure you havea nice, even beautiful green turf through
the summer season is with Nitrofoss Superturf. Superturf is the silver bag. You've
heard me talk about super turf beforethe silver bag, the nineteen four to
ten by Nitrofoss. Half of thatnitrogen is in a slow release form,
so it's going to gradually, overthe next three or four months, release

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that nitrogen a little at a timeto give you nice, even growth,
So you don't have this thing whereyou're mowing every day trying to keep up
with the grass because you've overdone thenitrogen. No, it spreads it out.
You also have a good deep rootsystem because you haven't overdone nitrogen.
You've spread it out, and thatis what superturf does. You can find
Superturf at Bearings Hardware both on Bisonetteand the one on West Teimer. You

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can find it at Plantation Ace Hardwareout there in Richmond Rosenberg as well as
Hiding and Feed up on stubenor Airline. We're gonna head straight to the phones
today. I want to get outhere and get going with things. So
if you'd like to give us acall seven one three two one two five
eight seven four that's the number.Let's head out now to Huffman and talk

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to Mike. Hello, Mike,how's it going today. I'm doing well?
Thank you good. Yes, sir, listen, I've got a bamboo
infestation and uh, what's the quickesteasiest way to get rid of that,
short of burning down the neighborhood.Well, the quickest easiest is to call
a realtor and put your house onthe market and find you a new one.
The second, the second would bewould be a backo, and the

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third would be getting a product thatkills bamboo, that kills grass, bamboos
a grass that kills grass. Thereare grass only killers out there, and
then there's things that are general purpose, like like Glyphas, which round ups
the name everybody knows, but thereare many brands brands of glyphas. You
just got to get it on thetissues of the of the weed, the

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above ground tissues, and the bambooneeds to be in an actively growing state,
not like rout stressed and barely hangingon. You know. No,
it's doing fine, believe me.Yeah, and you you're gonna have to,
Mike, You're gonna need to beready to do it or than once
probably too. It's probably not aone off. Yeah, oh man,

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Okay, well just give that ashot. Then I'm gonna get my chainsaw
and whag it down, you know, to uh? Or do I need
to leave the leaves and everything onthere? Can I go cut? Is
there is there anything desirable around it? Like if you were to spray something
on the bamboo, would it wouldthe spray get on stuff you don't want
to kill? No? I wantto kill all that stuff around there,

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Okay, I would. I wouldgo ahead then and spray it first.
If it's actively growing, as you'resaying it is, then then go ahead
and spray first. It's gonna takeI'd give it a couple of weeks to
make an assessment. Then if youwant to cut it back to the ground,
you can, and when the newgrowth comes up, when it gets
about knee high, you can hitit again. Okaypreciated man, y'all have

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a good day. All right,Mike, You're gonna win this one,
believe me. Oh trust me.I hate this stuff, all right,
take care, appreciate the call,Yes, sir, Yeah. Bamboo you
know, bamboo is It is oneof the most amazing plants I think in
the world. People build houses outof bamboo. We make fabric. The

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first time I heard that there werebamboo socks, I thought, oh my
gosh, I'm gonna have splinters inmy feet if I wear something like that.
No, it is unbelievably soft fabric, bed sheets and socks and everything
else made out of bamboo. Youwere in the band as a kid growing
up in school and played a windinstrument. That little reed that we at

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least we used to use. Theyprobably have synthetic ones now. Was made
out of bamboo. I mean,bamboo is a cool, cool plant.
It can be a beautiful plant ifyou have a clumping type that doesn't take
over the world. It stays morein a clump. Those kind are gorgeous.
They make a nice screen. Ilike the sound of a real tall
bamboo, the wind going through theleaves because the leaves are very stiff and

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papery, and when the breeze blowsthrough bamboo, it sounds like it's raining.
It's a really cool, peaceful effectout there. And we used to
have in an old office I workedin, there was a little outdoor sitting
place that was surrounded by bamboo,and you were just in this nice little
enclosure enjoying the shade of the bamboo, but listening to the sound of it.

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But the running types of bamboo,if you do not have a way
to contain them, oh boy,you end up in the situation. Mike
was just describing where you got toget rid of that, because it does
take over. Think about bermuda grassand how it takes over the world.
It moves into flower beds and everythingelse. Well, if the soil is
good and moist, bermuda is goingto take over. And if the soil

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is good and moist, bamboo isgoing to run. It's going to run
like a like a preschooler on thefirst day of school head for the hills.
So you got to be able tocontrol it and manage that. If
you'd like to give us a call, our number is seven one three,
two one two five eight seven fourseven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. You know, outof enchanted gardens in Richmond, there's always
there's always something to see, alwayssomething new. Oh with something going on
right now. They are set upfor Father's Day. I mean they have
gifts in the gift shop for dadthat of course have all kinds of plants
and things that dad would enjoy.Uh, just you name it, whatever
kind of gardening your dad may beinterested in. Urfy just enjoys having some

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beautiful things around. Maybe a beautifuloutdoor patio sitting area could use some really
nice things to feature, like aplumbago for example. Well, they've got
all that and more. Enchanted gardensin Richmond. They're on the Katie fullsher
side. So if you're in Richmond, you head north. Here's the website,
Enchanted garden Richmond dot com. EnchantedGardens Richmond dot com. They're open

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Monday through Saturday eight to five.Tomorrow they'll be open from ten am to
four pm. So I would encourageyou to go out there and check it
out. How about an outdoor windchime for dad? How about a fountain,
some kind of whimsical garden art.They've got that out there, Beautiful,
beautiful plants and exceptionally knowledgeable stuff.That's very important when you choose a

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garden center. You want people thatknow what they're talking about, that can
direct you right, and that's whatyou'll get at Enchanted Gardens out there in
Richmond. We're gonna take a littlebreak here. I'll be right back.
Our phone number in the meantime sevenone three two one two KTRH. All
right, welcome back to guarden Line. Starting to see the slight glow of

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a brand new day coming up.It's going to be a good one out
there, a good day to getoutside and get some gardening activities done.
Have you ever looked at your landscapebeds and just thought, you know,
oh, there's got to be abetter way to do that. There's got
to be something to make it lookbetter. I mean, I buy plants.
I go to the garden center.I buy some plants. I think

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they're pretty flowers sitting there on theshelves at the garden center on the tables,
But then I come home and Iplant them, and I don't know,
it just doesn't work quite as wellfor me. Well, one of
the things that we have to keepin mind when we're gardening here is number
one. You got to get thesoil right. That you hear me say
that all the time. Soil comesfirst, brown stuff before green stuff.

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That's the way I like to putit. Helps it make it easy to
remember. Get the soil right,so when the plants come in, they're
going to be happy. Second,you want plants that want to grow here
and grow here in this season whereyou're growing them. So, for example,
right now now, I think thatpansies are beautiful plants in the cool
season, but they would just turnto toast in our landscapes at this time

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of the year. And so eachplant has its time when it does best.
Some will go season long. Alot of them have a very narrow
window, and some have most ofthem have a moderate size window. When
we come out in spring, wehave a lot of flowers that look good,
and then they can start to looknot so good by the time summer
gets there, and it may betime to switch over to something that can

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take hotter weather. You can alsojust plant that stuff right up front in
the springtime, but there's a transition. When fall comes, we'll have another
transition. And then in the coolseason, for example, things that can
take the cool weather that transition.Keeping up with that is the way you
keep a landscape bed beautiful the wholetime in general, just as a guide.

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In general, what you're going towant to do is depend mostly on
things like shrubs and trees, perennialsthat are going to be there, the
foundational kinds of plants, things thatmaybe an evergreen that always looks good twelve
months out of the year, thosesort of plants. Then put in some
perennials that each have their season,and think about that when you buy them.

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Look at your landscape bed and say, what's going to be blooming in
March, what's going to be bloomingin August, what's going to be blooming
in October? And you can mixyour plants to have a nice season long
color, and then your annuals.Those are the ones you're trading in and
out season by season. Those arethe icing on the cake. And you
can put all your money in annuals, but then you're redoing the whole bed.

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It's more expensive, but it canbe gorgeous, beautiful botanical gardens,
or just have huge beds full ofthat of course, but think about how
you want to do it. Butthat's just one tip. Start with the
foundational plants, the things that aregoing to be there all the time looking
good. Put in some perennials ofseasonal interest, and then have your annuals
that you trade out so you alwayshave something looking good and color. When

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you drive home from the garden center. You've already got the plants in hand
to go ride in the beds andstart looking good right away. Now that
is the approach that I would suggestto take. If you need help doing
that, peer Scape can help youdo that. You know, Pierscapes has
a service which is their quarterly maintenanceof your beds. So here's what happens.

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You say, you sign up andyou go, okay, I want
you to come out quarterly, andI want you to take care of the
beds around my landscape. And they'regoing to do trimming, they're going to
do weeding and fertilizer, check theirrigation system, make sure everything's working right.
Any kind of mulch additions that areneeded, and we need to always
keep mulch on those, they're goingto be there. And then finally a
seasonal color changes. Do you wanttwo changes a year winter summer? Do

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you want four changes a year?You can do that, just you work
that out with them. But Piercecapesthey number one. We know them because
they do unbelievable landscape designs, gorgeousdesigns. And here's what I want you
to do. Write this website downand just go look at the work they
do. It is inspirational. Pierscapesdot com, Piercescapes one word dot com

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two eight, one three seven fiftysixty. Give them a call one three
seven, five zero six zero.Anything that you can imagine to beautify,
to landscape lighting, to hard escapes, to on and on and on improving
drainage, they do it. Butask them about that quarterly maintenance especially that

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is really handy to be able tohave that to help you do that.
I was out in the outdoors aroundmy house this week getting some work done,
and boy is it ever hot outthere. I'm trying to get most
of it done in the morning hours, but it's it's I just have a
lot of projects that I'm working onall at once, unfortunately, but uh,

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swatting mosquito is away. Oh gosh, they're there and they love me
because you know what happens when amosquito feeds on you. They need the
blood. They're like a little vampires. That's what they are, flying vampires.
They need your blood the protein init to be able to lay the
eggs. And it's the female mosquitothat bites you, not the male.
Now I'm not gonna I'm gonna letthat and go, but I could run

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with that. But anyway, thefemale mosquito is the one that feeds on
you, and your blood protein helpsthem to lay the eggs that give you
more mosquitos. Do you know thatyou have a like a bottle cap full
of water sitting outside, Mosquitoes canlay eggs and go through their generation cycle
and fly out of there as adultmosquitoes. Just from a bottle cap full

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of water. So we got toget rid of all the water standing around
the place. But anywhere you havewater, you need to put a mosquito
dunk in it. If you've gota little pond, if you've got a
bird bath and you're not wanting towash it out every few days, you
know, clear out all the oldwater. Put them mosquito one, crumble
one up, make granules out ofit, or buy the granules and just
put them out there. Mosquito dunksare a natural disease of mosquitos. They

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hurt nothing else that we would careabout, not a bird, not a
pet, the family cat and theirchildren is totally safe, totally safe.
You put them in the water forone month. They really a disease of
mosquitos into the water, and anymosquito that shows up dies. It works
like this, kind of like BTwith caterpillars. We put BT out for

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caterpillars. It's a different kind ofBT. They put in a mosquito dunk,
and that I think is pretty coolstuff. Uh. They again,
one dunk covers about one hundred squarefeet of water and lasts about a month.
You can find them at ACE hardwarestores. Have them your independent nurseries
and garden centers I talk about hereon Guardenline, and feed stores. Mosquita
dunks are easy to find, buthave some on hand because it is mosquito

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season and they have plans. Theyhave plans for you and you don't like
those plants. If you'd like togive us a call and ask a question
about gardening or discuss something related toidentifying a plant, perhaps you can do
that. Just dial seven to onethree two one two KTRH seven to one
three two one two kt RH.That is our the way that you get

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hold of us. League City Feeddown in League City is one of those
old time feed stores. I justlove going into old time feed stores.
And here's why. Number one,the service. You know, they're going
to carry your bags out for you, your sacks of feed and things.
They just provide that kind of service. I just like going in and shopping

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and there's just a I don't know, there's what an ambiance or something to
an old time feed store that Ijust really love. And League City Feed
is exactly like that. The Thunderberghshave been doing this for over forty years
now, and if you go ona Saturday, you might even catch Madison's
dalmatian Roschak running around there. Ithink that Ruschak is the best name for
a Dalmatian that you can think about. You just stare at the dog and

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you know what do you see?Well? Anyway, they're on Highway three,
a few blocks south of Highway ninetysix. So all of you in
the communities all around League City,like Santa Fe and San Leone, Lamark
Baycliff, Webster, el Comuna Real, Clear Lake City, all those communities
down in that region, this isyour hometown feed store. They've got every
fertilizer you hear me talk about ongarden Line, whether it's nitrophoss or the

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microlife fertilizers you hear me talk aboutNelson and as Am and on and on.
They've got all of that there atLeague City feet They also have things
to control pest weeds and diseases.They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to
six, so it's easy to swingby after work. They're closed on Sunday.
If you want to give them acall, here's a number. Two
eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three three two sixteen

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twelve. I you know, whenI go into a feed store. I
find that I spend a little extratime just because I'm always looking through,
you know, through the shelves,what do they have, what's going,
what is here, and whatnot.And I always end up sitting there and
talking to the folks that I workthere for a while because I don't know,

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it's just a it's a good placeto hang out. In fact,
they need to set some hay balesup on the front porchs there so you
can just kind of go hang outthere for a while, spend a little
bit of time with them. That'sthat is when I was growing up,
we had a feed store like that. I always remember that. Well,
you are listening to Gardenline. I'myour host, Skip Richter, and we're
here to answer your gardening questions.If you'd like to give us a call

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and get on the boards seven onethree two one two five eight seven four,
or if you like dialing by letterseven one three two one two k
t R H. I want toremind you that my lawn care schedule and
my lawn pest disease and weed managementschedule are both online at gardening with Skip

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dot com. It's a real easywebsite. Me Gardening with Skip Gardening with
me dot com Gardening with Skip dotcom. You go on there and you
can print those up and they basicallythey are a big checkerboard chart that goes
from January to December across the page, and for example, on the lawn
care schedule, that's all the thingsyou do to make your lawn grow,
fertilize, water, mow, allof the different products and when to apply

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this, when to apply that.Everything you need to know is right there
on the schedule. If you goto the lawn pest disease and we'd management
schedule, what you find there isthe insects January through December, what occurs
when and what to do about it. Diseases, same thing. Preventing weeds
that would be called a pre emergent. Killing existing weeds that's called a post

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emergent. All the products are thereand with both schedules, there's both the
organic and the synthetic option, soyou take your pick however you want a
garden, that's your business. Youcan go either way. Makes it really
really easy to do. We're goingto take a little break here for a
little bit of news and I willbe right back in the meantime. If
you'd like to call Christen, geton the lines. Just dial seven to

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one three two one two KTRH.I said the word dial nobody. We
don't dial anymore, dew. Wejust punch the numbers for crying out loud.
Make your phone call seven one threetwo one two ktrh. We'll be
right back. Welcome back to theGarden Line. Good to have you with
us this morning. And the sunglow is shining across the buildings and downtown

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Houston. That means we are aboutto have another beautiful day. I'm looking
outside and seeing some clear skies,so this morning would be a good time.
Throw your phone in your pocket.You know you can listen to Garden
Line on your phone on the iHeartMediaapp and just go on there listen live.
Throw it in your pocket and headout in the garden. Let's get
some stuff done this morning. Ifyou get a question, to give me

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a call, we'll we'll talk youthrough it. Our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventyfour seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. The folks atMedina. You know, Medina has been
around for a very long time.You know Garden Line as a show goes
back to the days of Dewey Comptonwhen it was more of a farm type

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report and Dewey Compton built Ziac Johnburrowsers. There's a lot of different folks
that have been part of this longhistory of the show, including Randy Lemon.
For the last twenty six twenty sevenyears, I believe Randy sat in
the chair hosting garden Line and Medina'sbeen a sponsor Gardline for that whole time.
They have been for a very verylong time, and they keep coming

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out with new products and one ofthe newest things, in fact, I
guess it would be the newest thatthey've come up with, and it's probably
the product I'm maybe the one I'mmost excited about. It's the Supergrow Plus.
It's a hash to grow Supergrow Plusfrom Medina. Now what is it
and why I'm excited, Well,it's a sixteen zero two fertilizer, so
it has very like a zero phosphoruscontent, which in some parts of the

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country, you know, phosphorus isenough of a concern where they're actually requiring
like a prescription to be able toput phosphorus on your lawn because they're worried
about it Washingtonto bays and estuaries andthings like that. Well, bottom line
is Supergrow Plus has a pack ofdifferent kinds of ingredients. That is such

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a nice it's such a nice mix. And here's why. A portion of
that sixteen percent nitrogen is even slowrelease, which is good. It also
has kelated iron in it, whichis important. That's when your lawn starts
yellowing in places almost always, that'sdue to a lack of iron available to
the plant. And when you putthe Supergirl Plus on it helps with that.

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It's got seaweed extract, it's gotmolasses, it's got humic acid in
it. It's just a good blendof all kinds of things. One quart
bottle which hooks up to your gardenhoset, covers four thousand square feet.
Really easy to do, ten minutes, you're done, really easy to do.
Now I'm going to be giving someof that away today, by the
way, Today after the show fromeleven to one, I'm going to be

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at the Wildbird's Unlimited store wild BirdsUnlimited in bel Air, so that is
bel Air Boulevard. It's real easy. I'll talking about that in a little
bit. But the bottom line isit's real close to where Stella Link and
Beller Boulevard come together. Wallbird's Unlimitedstore, and I'll be giving away some
has to Grow super Grow Plus,some of the quartz Mendina's donating that I'm

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going to be giving away some otherthings. I've got some of their growing
Green fertilizer bags, the small bagsthat we're going to be given away that,
some samples and other things, andas well as something from Walberds.
We're going to be providing for you. So you just need to get by
there. Remember, has to GrowSupergrow Plus will be given those away,

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But sixteen zero two, you needto get some of that and give it
a try. If you are returningyour clippings, which I hope you are,
you can do that maybe once ortwice during the season and it kind
of carries you through pretty well.If you're not, you can do it
even monthly anytime you need to greenthings up, and it works on all
kinds of stuff too. I've gotsome plants that I planted a while back

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that need to boost. There areornamentals in a flower bed and I'm just
going to hit them with those superGrow Pluses this next week. I was
just thinking about that a little bitearlier. Even though it's primarily something we
think about for lawns, it isexcellent for giving a little boost to your
vegetable gardens or your flower beds orwhatever you have. Just hook it up
to the garden hose. You can'tget any easier easier than that super Grow

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Plus by Medina. I always likeit when we get new products that I
think really fit a special niche thatwe have where we have a need for
something that works, and this absolutelyis an example of that. You are
listening to garden Line and instead ofme talking, lets you talk. What
do you want to talk about today? Seven to one three two one two

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kt r H seven to one threetwo one two kt r H. When
I talk about gardening, I alwaystell you that the brown stuff comes first,
brown stuff before green stuff, becausein order for a plant to be
successful, you need a foundation,a soil or root system that is well
are that wholes soil, but thatdrains well, that holds nutrients and keeps

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them in a good balance. Well. Airloom soils is designed to provide that.
And I don't care what kind ofplant you're talking about. If you're
looking at a vegetable garden veggian herbmix. Do you have some succulents or
cacti that you're growing, you needsomething grittier that drains even better, that
would be a cactine succulent mix fromHeirloom Soils. They have the works Potting

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Soil outstanding potting soil for all kindsof plants. If you don't grow vegetables
or flowers on the patio, theworks Potting soil is an outstanding choice for
that. They've got Roses and BloomersBlend. Roses and Bloomers Blend is a
type of multipurpose rose soil, butnot just for roses. It works for
a lot of other kinds of plants, but all of that as well as

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many many more options from Heirloom Soils. Heirloom Soils of Texas go to the
website Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com. They havea very good compass calculator on there will
help you know exactly what you need. I mean even down to five gallon
buckets, how many five gallon bucketsor a qubic yard. Well, go

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on the gool Airloom Soils or Texasdot com you'll find out. So when
you're gonna put a bed in andyou need to know, well I need
but I don't know how much toorder. Well, there you go.
You can go pick it up atporter. You can have them deliver it
in bulk. You can have themput a supersack on your driveway, big
old sack that comes out holes aqbyard sits on your driveway. It's real

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neat and easy, real easy wayto go about it. Or you can
just go to one of about amillion different places where you'll find heirloom soils
for sale and buy it by thebag. Makes it really really easy to
do. I was this past weekspending some time working on a bed that
has really poor soil in it.And you know how I am about getting

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the soil right now. But wefirst we excavated some horrible clay, I
mean just the nastiest, stickiest stuffin the world to get that out of
there, and then I put ina lot of expanded shale. Expanded shale
is like the way I like todescribe it is think of kitty litter.
Remember the old gray kitty litter.There was kind of dusty stuff. Imagine

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putting that in a hot oven andheating it up, maybe with some steam
or something to expand those particles.When I'm talking about thousand degrees, you
know, heat it up. Andnow you have a very lightweight, porous
rock type material that you put inthe soil and it keeps that soil open
and organic matter does the same thingcompost does, but compost decomposes a way
over time. Expanded show kind ofkeeps its rock like structure for a pretty

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good long time. So anyway,we were adding that to it. And
I've been using all kinds of blendsand things. You know, I tell
you I always use everything. Ifyou hear me talk about a product on
garden Line, I've used it inmy garden. I've watched how it works
or doesn't work. And that waywhen I take on a sponsor, when
I talk about a product, it'ssomething that I first had knowledge with and
that's what we try to do.And that's what I've been doing, so

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a lot, a lot of soilwork. Probably over a week now,
I've been working on getting that soilright because I'm about to plant, but
you want to get it right first. Well, it's time for us to
take another little break I will beright back again the number seven to one
three two one two KTRH. Welcomeback to the garden Line. Good to
have you with us today. Weare talking about all kinds of things regarding

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the garden and landscaping. I justkind of discussing a few of the things
that I've been working on this week. Perhaps some of you are doing the
same things, are planning on doingthe same kinds of things, So let's
talk about that a little bit.The area. We have a spot around
our house where I'm putting in alittle bit little orchard. Now it is
a little like three or four fruittrees max. But anyway, that area

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has got some noxious weeds in it. The Meermuda grass has been in that
area. We had there was alawn there at one time, and I
decided I didn't want to mow itover there because it was just grass existing
for the same of grass, andI don't need to water something that I
get no enjoyment out of or don'thave any time on. So anyway,
we're getting rid of that. AndI just saw this permuters growing in there

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and it has nuts edge in itas well. Oh boy, nuts edge,
And so I've been working on gettingrid of those weeds before I put
the orchard in. And it's alwaysbetter when you can to get rid of
weeds prior to planting. Now,a lot of weeds are annuals. Those
are easy throw multch on top ofthe ground. You took care of it.
The seeds have to have light togerminate and establish successfully. And when

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you mulch with a good thick threeinch l aira mulch, you've taken care
of those weeds. But perennial weedsnutsedge. I've seen nutsedge push up fresh
laid asphalt. I did in MontgomeryCounty Extension Office many years ago when they
put the brand new parking lot inin front. They put that asphalt down,
and I don't know how long afterthey put it down, it wasn't
very long. All of a suddenI saw over in a corner it was

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lifting up and I looked and itwas a nutsedge shoot up out of the
ground, pushing pushing up that freshlaid asphalt. So that is a weed
that you got to deal with.And Bermuda again, is that way stay
with them if you're going to handdig them, hand dig them and then
watch because they will be back.You won't get it all. Hand dig

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it again, and hand dig itagain. Just stay on it, don't
ever let it up for air.When if you're going to spray, spray
it and then give it some time, you might want to mix the soil
up a little bit. If you'vegot a rotortiller or spade, whatever you're
useing, just loosen it up water. You will see re sprouting. Then
you go after it again. Youwant to eradicate all that you possibly can

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before you plant, because once youhave a vegetable garden or a flower bed,
or in my case, even thefruit trees in there, you don't
want to have to be in theretrying to spray and get rid of stuff
because you're liable to hurt a desirableplant when you do that. And so
that's what I've been working on fora while now, and I've seen a
lot of approaches to getting rid ofthese. I was surprised when I was

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in grad school. I did sometime doing a study at a peach orchard
in Ruston, Louisiana, and thefellow theres he just is outstanding peach grower,
been for decades there. He wouldtake a Bermuda grass field, and
he would plow it repeatedly all throughthe summer and basically kill the vast majority

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of the bermuda grass. So,in other words, it would sprout,
he would plow it over, andit would dry out in the hot Louisiana
summer sun. You'd get a littlebit of rain on it, and it
would try. The things that survivedwould re sprout. He would plow it
again, and I mean he wouldjust repeatedly disking that field, and essentially
when he got done, there wasvery little bermuda left. I mean he

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could go in there and it's realeasy for them to take out the escapes
that had gotten by before they putthe peaches in. And I learned from
that now, repeated plowing through thesummer is not a good thing for the
soil. I mean, you're burningup organic matter and you're affecting soil structure
and so on. But just asa weed control technique, that is what
they were doing, and it reallyworked well. But just keep in mind

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that if you plant in an areathat has problem weeds, you are now
going to be dealing with those weedsin a much more difficult situation than had
you done it before. You putthe plants in, just something to think
about we're out there. One ofthe common questions that I've gotten in these
past couple of weeks has been aboutpeppervine. Pepper vine is a little vine,

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has a multiple it's a compound leaf, and some people think, well,
maybe it's poison ivy. It didn'treally look anything like poison ivy except
that it's a vine and it hasa compound leaf. But peppervine will pop
up, it'll come out of theground. When I lived up in the
Cypress area, we had some thatwas coming in from a drainway behind our
fence, and so it would comeunder our fence and pop up in the

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yard. We kept having to dealwith it, and it is a problem
to deal with again. Hand diggingis an option for that, But if
you're gonna treat it, there's aproduct ingredient called Triclo peer tri c l
O p y R. And ifyou're dealing with a woody weed, if

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you're in a witty weed, wouldbe let's see the hackberry seeds that sprout
and come up in your fence linesbecause a bird stopped and pooped because it
ate the berries and it pooped theseeds out, and now you got poison
ivy in the fence line and hackberryin the fence line. That's how they

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that's how they get there because theycome from birds anyway, when it sprouts
up, triclo peer works well onthose. But rather than spray it and
get it all over everything, becauseit's not it will hurt your lawn and
it will hurt other broad leaf plants, desirable ones. You can take those
vines and just sort of paint iton the stem of a vine. Or

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you can cut the thing off nearthe ground and immediately paint the surface that
you cut and then the stem that'sright below that. So just as a
case of example, you got ahackberry coming up in a fence line,
you cut it off about four incheshigh, and you take a little spongebrush
on a wooden stick, you knowthe kind you buy at a paint store,

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a little spongebrush, and you dabit on the surface, directly on
the surface, and then wipe alittle bit on the sides of the young
thin vine tissues and it moves downand it does a good job, and
you didn't have to spray it.You put a minimum aunt of pesticide out
there into the environment. But youdid something that'll work. Because I know
we think round up kills everything.No, it does not. There are

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many things that are just not it'snot strong enough to work on them,
it's not targeted enough to work onthem. Trico pair is a better way
to go. And I do likethe way of not spring it because number
one, it works better to justdab it on a fresh cat. But
also if you're gonna if you aregoing to try to avoid hurting other good

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plants nearby, that's a good wayto do it. All Right, we
are let's see here, we're comingup pretty close to taking a low break
of the news. I wanted tojust mention that you hear me talk about
Southwest fertilizer all the time. Southwestfertilizers at the corner of Byssinet and Runwick.
And the way I always put itis if Southwest doesn't have it,

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you don't need it. And thereason I say it that way is because
they have it. They have everything. When you're looking for a pesticide and
insecticide, a fungicide, if you'relooking for any fertilizer I talk about,
and then some if you're looking forany kind of tool you might need for
your lawn, your garden, yourlandscape. Do you need a fertilizer spread

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er, Do you need some looppers? Do you need a rake? Do
you need whatever? They've got itthere at Southwest Fertilizer. I was just
talking about, you know, thenew Medina product, this super Grow plus
the sixteen zero two you hook upto a garden hose. Bob's got that
at Southwest Fertilizer. But you wouldexpect that he would, of course he

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would. Anything that comes out newthat's going to be effective in work,
they're going to have it on theshelf there. And so it's a one
stop shop. It's easy to dothe corner Abyssinet and run Wick. Here's
the here's the website. If youwant to go to the website, it's
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizerdot com. Stop by there. And
if you're an organic gardener, you'regonna you are not going to find a

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better selection of organic products. Thenyou have it. Southwest Fertilizer. They
have everything synthetic and organic. Becauseremember, if they don't have it,
you don't need it. And thatjust makes it really really easy to keep
track of I was in there theother I go periodically into Southwest just to
see what's on the shelf. Becauseyou know these companies, all the Monterey

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and Boneyed and High Yield and allthe different ones making all these different products.
They don't notify me when something newcomes up. I wish they would.
They don't, So I have togo see what's on the shelves and
that's the way I learn about things. That and talking to the company reps
kind of grilling them about how todo it. Well, don't forget today.

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I hope you will come out tothe Wallbirds Unlimited in bel Air.
I'll be there from eleven am toone pm. Hey, this is an
opportunity to bring in a sample ofa plant in a ziplock bag or a
closed bag, to bring photos onyour phone. Let's talk about how to
hope you have success. But whileyou're there, plan on doing your Father's

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Day shopping because they have an outstandingselection of options for Father's Day shopping right
there at Wabirds. And I'll beat the one again in bel Air.
If you haven't been there before,it's really close to where Bella or Boulevard
and Celement Road come together in SATs. Welcome to KTRH garden Line with Skip

(38:00):
Ricker. It's just watch him asthings. Hey, welcome back to the

(38:23):
garden line. Look outside, wegot some sunshine and a beautiful sky.
This is gonna be a good morning. I hope you're already outside getting a
little bit of puttering done around thelandscape and the garden. Make plans this
afternoon to go out and get someplants. You know, it's still a
good time to plant and put invegetables, various kinds of vegetables, take

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the summer heat, beautiful flowers andthings. Plants for All Seasons is stocked
up ready to go if you're interested. They're on Highway two forty nine Tomball
Parkway. If you're going north fromHouston toward Tomball, you just exit Luetta
and it's right across the other sideof Luetta right there on two forty Nine's
easy to get to. Been aroundsince nineteen seventy three. And when you

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go into Plants for All Seasons,you know you're going to find a good
selection. They've got some gorgeous basketsright now, kind of mixed containers mixed
baskets where you have all the differentkinds of flowers all blended together. That
is just a beautiful, stunning effect. And you can just bring those in
there ready to go like you gota patio party tonight. You can have

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instant beauty and color just from that. They also have a selection of all
the different products that you need formaking sure your plants are beautiful, your
lawn is dense and beautiful, thatyour flowers are productive and continuing to bloom.
For example, they have Microlife Microlifeproducts at Plants for All Seasons.

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You can go to Plants for AllSeasons dot com. That's a website,
or you can just give them acall to eight one, three, seven
six sixteen forty six. If youhaven't gotten your summer fertilizing done, swing
by there and grab some of theoptions that they give you, like the
Microlife Microlife that's the green bag,the sixty four that's our summer fertilizer for

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organic gardening, beautiful, beautiful results. I've used it myself, The Microlife
Purple bag that is the Humanates plus. It works very very well in adding
a concentrated form of compost. Compostthat is concentrated down toward the humous form.
That is the final stage of it, and when you put that out,

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it improves soil structure. It itenhances the microbial activity as well because
it's loaded. Microlife products are loadedwith microbes themselves. They're purposefully added into
there and they will help create thatthriving environment for the roots to give you
good success. You can go toMicrolifefertilizer dot com find out more about their

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other products. Also, I'm goingto start off by going out now to
Francis. Hello, Francis, Welcometo Guardenline. Hello, thank you.
I wanted to ask about building upa new vegetable bed, a new raised
and I was trying to decide ifmy best option would be to use wood

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or to invest in one of themetal kind of yeah. Yeah, the
beds, uh huh. You know, Francis, I've done them both ways.
And I've built beds that had nosides. They were just mounds of
dirt, you know, and thoseare road away on the sides. But

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that's the cheapest way to get abed out there. I've used treated wood
before, it will rot in time. I just took out a bed this
year that someone who owned the housebefore us had put in treat would for
the bed and it was rotting away. Even treated wood rots in time.
The thing I like about the metalit's more of an investment up front,

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but it lasts a very, verylong time. And for those gardeners who
would rather not use treated wood,maybe you're an organic gardener or just would
rather not, then the metal bedsprovide a nice option that avoids needing to
use the treated wood chemicals. Okay, is there any particular one that you

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would recommend. Yeah, I recommendand the ones I use at my house
are Vego garden beds. Yes,I've heard you talk about that. Yeah,
when you first started well garden line. Yeah, I like because Vego
number one, it's a Houston company. It was the first one to come
up with these beds here in theUnited States, these metal corrugated metal beds.

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They've done all the work in termsof homework. I was talking to
somebody the other day that was upat the corrosion lab at Texas A and
M where they test metals. Theygo ran all their metals through the corrosion
lab to make sure these are thingsthat are We've got them coated in a
way. We've got them treated ina way that's going to hold up and
not rust out and stuff, andit's just a quality bed. We just

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put another one in this spring.As a matter of fact. Okay,
I don't live in Houston any longer, unfortunately, and I'm having a terrible
time finding good soil. Okay,okay, And I know, I at,

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I don't know. I think I'veheard you talk about working in the
central Texas area at some point.Do you do you have any suggestions for
how to find some really good soilor I just heard you in earlier segment

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talk about working to a new bedto get good yes, so well,
yes, okay. So here's whatI would do. It's been a while
since I've been over there. Onthe east side of Austin is the Dillo
Dirt Factory. That's where all ofthat comes from. Those are composts that

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are made there are a sewage sledgebased compost, and so people use those
for like top dressing a yard orwhatever, but not in a vegetable bed.
But I would do two things.I would call the County Extension office
in Bastrup County and talk to oneof the master gardeners there and say where
do you guys get your soil,because they're going to know there's gonna be
new places that have popped up sinceI was there, and they can tell

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you. If you don't have successwith that, call Natural Gardener. Natural
Gardener is on the southwest side ofAustin. They specialize in organic gardening and
whatnot. And just say, hey, I'm in Bastrop, can you suggest
a good soil source for me overhere? And they're gonna know too.
Okay, Yeah, And if Ibuilt, if I put my own soil

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together, what kind of things shouldI throw in there? Uh? You
mean as far as blending a soilmix, yes, I would. Uh.
Now in Bastrup, you do Youprobably have some kind of sandy lum
soils there in a lot of thoseareas because the river goes right through there.
Well, my my yard is clayplay. Then I would use probably

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about twenty five percent by volume compostcomposted organic matter in the clay, and
I would cut about two inches.If you can find an expanded shale,
I would put two or three inchesof expanded shale down and mix it as
deeply as you can in the clay. A combination of the shale and the

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twenty five percent organic matter will turnthat clay into a really nice soil.
Or or just buy it. Justhave them bring a big truck and dump
it on the driveway and fill thebeds with that. That's the easiest,
fastest one. Yeah, okay,all right, appreciate your help. All
right, thank you very much.I appreciate your call. We're gonna take

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a little quick break here. Whenwe come back, Ron, you will
be first up, and then David. Welcome back to the Guardline. Good
to have you with us today.Let's see, we're gonna head straight out
to Cleveland, Texas and talk toRon. Hello. Ron, Good,
Warren Skip, Good morning. Hey. I've been working on getting my Bermuda
grass to fill in. I'm outhere in Cleveland. Of course, I've

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got a like a thirty year oldroadary more that's starting to wear out,
you know. Uh, so I'mlooking at possibly getting a real more,
but I'm kind of wanting to getthoughts on is it like a high maintenance
piece of equipment? Do I gotin love with the lawn? Any pros
and cons in your thoughts and thatI appreciate. Yeah, good, good,
questions real moors, I have neverwell, I have owned one.

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It's been a long time. Iwas a little hand push more, but
they they are. They do takeYou've got to get the blade very sharp
and they do take some adjusting sometimesto get it get it right. As
far as maintenance, are you talkingabout a push of human powered? Are
you talking about of the little gasengine on it? I was going to

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go with I'm thinking a gas engine. I'm on a one acre a lot,
but I don't have I've still gotmy riding hustler more that I'm going
to use on the bigger areas.Yeah, but up closer around the house
I was gonna use. I wasthinking about getting a gas powered I'm not
too worried about the gas part aboutit, but like the real part,
you know, I'll hear about thisgrinding the blade and back lapping and having

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the mow several times a week.I'm still working forty fifty hours a week,
so you know, I'm just like, if I buy one, I'm
not gonna be able to mow itbut once a week, you know.
Yeah. What kind of permuter doyou have? Is it a dwarf type
like Tiff or no, it's justcommon bermuda that was coming in and then

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I just caught seed from home depot. And you know, I really prefer
it over the same in Augustine becauseyou know, I don't have a sprinkler
system. It's more drought tolerant,you know, and I've got it pretty
dense in quite a few areas,okay, you know, and it really
chokes everything out. So just ina kind of a quick answer way,
yes, you do have to mowregularly with a real It's not like with

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a propeller blade mower where it canget ahead of you. Because you've had
a two weeks of rain and nowyou're having to go back in there.
That's very difficult with the real mower. So you do need to mow regularly.
And but with bermuda, if youdon't mow it regularly, you end
up it doesn't look good after youmow it. I like to compare bermuda

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like you're over there in Cleveland likea pine forest where all the green is
up on top of the pine trees. And if you were to go through
a pine forest and cut everything offat twenty feet high, you just have
a bunch of brown sticks and That'swhat happens when you let bermuda grow and
then cut it way back. Now, it bounces right back and it fills
back in, but it looks likeheck for a while. So a regular

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mowing schedule, whether you use areel or a propeller mower, is the
way to have the prettiest bermuda on. Yeah. Yeah, I'm you know,
I'm pretty much a weekend mower,okay, because so much, you
know, I'm thinking set it alittle bit higher and go with your propeller
blade. In my opinion, justbased on all the factors you're telling me,

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I think I think that circumstances aregoing to catch up to you,
from rainy days to you stand alittle too busy at times, and sometimes
the rainy it gets, sometimes youcan't bowl. So oh yeah yeah,
and then you know how life is. We get you're going to mow tomorrow,
but something happens in the family orwhatever, and you know, so

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I I think you're going to behappier based on what you're telling me.
With a with a propeller mow,right, keep the blade sharp and go
for it, keep it very sharp. Yes, And the shorter you mo
the more often you have to mow. So if you can get your permute
up to about two and a halfinches, that are two two and a
half inches, that's probably about theright height with your propeller more. All

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right, appreciate you, appreciate yourshow. Thank you. Ron, appreciate
the call very much. We're goingto head out now to David in Spring
Branch. Hello, David, Welcometo garden. Good morning, Skip.
I got a couple of oak treesthat are getting this webbing on the leaves.
It looks just like somebody wrapped itwith his white webbing. It's on

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kind of the lower leaves, soI think it might be insects. I'm
not really sure. Yeah, it'sdefinitely insects. It's probably something called the
fall webworm. And don't let theword fall fool you. It occurs.
They have three generations a year here. Some years you don't even hardly notice
them until late summer, and otheryears like this year, this is one

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of the worst early infestations I've seenin a long time. We're seeing a
lot of them everywhere. The thingabout them is they, you know,
a little moth lazy eggs. Thecaterpillars hatch out they form the webbing to
protect themselves, and then they gothrough a pupil stage, just like any
butterfly or mothwood, and they comeback out as adults later to do it

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again. And they can do thatthree times during the season, generally speaking.
Here in our area. Now,I've noticed that a lot of the
ones, if kind of they're kindof winding up their first generation in most
places, and so it's we're hittinga point where is it worth spraying forum
or not. If you've got apretty new infestation, I definitely would spray

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with an insecticide, but you've gotto get it through the web to get
to the foliage where they're feeding.There's there's a product called spinosid that's natural,
very low tox and I would Iwould consider that. Having said that,
though, if you're looking at prettygood sized caterpillars, I'll say those

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caterpillars are over an inch or morelong, I might just let it go
for now and be watching, andwhen they start to show up again,
spray promptly at the beginning of thenext generation. Which how long would that
be do you think? You know? You just I don't know. I
would say probably about a month beforewe would see them again. But the

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weather, it's it's all about theweather and their predators. You know,
if the predators built up enough thisgeneration, the next one may not be
very bad. But in general,the worst one is the one that occurs
at the end of summer August September. Is that's why they call them full
webworms, because that's the bad generationthat tends to be the most popular,

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most damaging. Would NEMO work onthem? Nemo oil is not going to
help much with them. If youused NEME that not the oil form,
but the asidirectin form, and gotit on the tissues of the leaves,
it probably would be pretty effective,but not the oil, not for them.

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The spinosad is that sold under thatname, well, yeah, it's
a you know, there's a CaptainJack's version of it. There's pretty much
every company selling garden products is goingto have a form of spinosid. I
know that Monterey does, and Iknow that Bonie does, and so it's

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it's fertil on probably does, sothat's the ingredient. But you can use
anything. I tend to stay awayfrom stuff that is going to kill all
kinds of insects because that way,you're killing beneficials as well as the bad
pests that you're after, and it'sbetter if you can target it. That's

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why I like using the spinosid.If it's does and eat a leaf spinosa,
it's probably not going to kill it. Okay, all right, Chip,
thank you sir, all right,good luck. Appreciate that. Appreciate
that very much. Speaking of treesand things, if you've got tree issues
and you need some help with them, Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore,

(54:17):
they're the ones you need to call. Now. You know, we just
went through those storms and wow,did they ever do some damage. Now
we're in hurricane season started in June, goes through November, and that just
means more storms will be on theway. In fact, they're predicting this
to be one of the bigger hurricaneseasons we've had in a while. Having

(54:38):
Martin come out, take a lookat your trees or their dead limbs or
there's some weakened limbs that need tocome out. Doing that. Selective printing
is important. I can't express enoughthe importance of proper tree care when we
go into a storm season, becausea properly prune tree is going to be
a tree better able to take thewind and withstand it and not drop those

(55:01):
giant limbs or the whole tree itselfon something of value to you, like
a home or your neighbors. Maserati, the one he parks in the in
the driveway. Give Martin a call. Martin's phone number here it is seven
one three six nine nine twenty sixsixty three. I'm gonna give you that
again. Seven one three six ninenine twenty six sixty three. The web

(55:23):
site afftree service dot com. Afftreeservice dot com. Check them out.
He does more than just pun yourtrees. I mean he can come out
and do some deep roof of eating. He can do all kinds of things
in terms of advising, getting treesplanted and cared for and whatnot. Martin

(55:45):
will charge one fifty to come outto the property, and then when you
hire him to do whatever he assessedmight be needed, then that goes right
into your bill. So it's justsomething to say, hey, are you
really serious here? And he's anexpert and he knows been doing it a
long time, So don't trust yourtrees to some guy who happens to own
a pick up a chainsaw and boughtsome business cards to stick in your door.

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That is not the way to goabout it. Bad tree work is
forever. Don't mess with that.Call Martin. All right, let's go
to Jersey Village and we're gonna talkto Bob. Hello, Bob, Hey,
Skip Hey. I've been out oftown for a while. Finally got
back to the where my wife lives, and I come in and oak trees

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have been raped for a long time, and now the oak leaves are embedded
in the grass, fell in thegrass, and I need to recede the
entire yard. I removed as muchas leaves as I can, but they're
still a bunch embedded. So you'retalking about live oak leaves, just oak

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leaves, your pin oak or whateveroak, small oak leaves. There's a
small oak, okay, Well,then being down in the grass is not
as big of a problem. Andwhen they're on the grass and shading the
grass, that that is something youwant to do. If you got to
do. You have a mulching mowerand a bagger where you could go through
there and mow a little lower andjust kind of suck a bunch of that

(57:16):
up and get it out of there. Not really well, I think the
problem, Bob, is not somuch the oak leaves that landed on the
ground, although again, if youhave enough of them to where the grass
can't get sunlight, yes that wouldbe a problem. But the problem is

(57:37):
just the shade itself from the oaktrees. When grass can't get good,
full direct sunlight, it's going tohave problems. And I suspect that your
situation may be a combination of things. You know, it could be anything
from drought to a disease, toinsect issues to most likely though the shade

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is going to be one of thebiggest factors. If I overseed the yard
I need, or is the grassgoing to overtake the uh oak leaves that
are invaded, or or I afterI get those out out out of the
out of the well. If youoverseed and you have enough leaf area laying

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on top over through the soil,you probably are not gonna have real good
success in getting those over those seedsup and growing. I don't know what
you would use, though, ingeneral, I don't recommend overseeding. Is
your lun, I'm miss this isyour lun, Saint Augustine as mostly okay,
you know what I'm the We've gotthe news coming up right now.

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Bob, will you hold on andI'll continue this discussion. If you need
to run, I'll make some commentswhen I come right back. Seven one
three two one two K t RH. If you'd like to give us
a call, I'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good have
you with us, Glad you're heretoday. We are now talking to Bob
in a Jersey village, and Baba, I wanted to come back to you

(59:05):
and continue that discussion. If ifyour lawn is a Saint Augustine and or
a Zoisio grass, I just don'tknow how you would do the overseating or
what you would use for seeding inBermuda grass. We do have some semi
dwarf seating options that we can do, but the other two I'm not sure

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what would be an appropriate thing touse for an overseed right now. So
probably the best thing to do isis maybe find either a bunch of kids
with rakes or a power rates that'stry to get to yes leaves out between
the grass. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah you could. And
you know, I'm just thinking thoughI've never had a problem with this,

(59:52):
and okay, I do understand toomany leaves on the surface in the fall,
you know when it hits the ground, But in general, if they're
falling down in between and the bladescan still get sunlight, the leaves themselves
are generally not the big option.One thing you need to be aware of,
though, is you rake them allout. If that grass was then
now you've got some areas where sunlightcan hit the soil because you've removed the

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leaves that were down in there,kind of helping to partially shade it,
and you may have to be watchingfor some weed sprouting that will occur once
the sunlight gets through there. Mybackyard is completely shade. Is there anything
I can grow in way of grassback there? No? Saint Augustine is
as close as you get, andin enough shade, it's not going to

(01:00:37):
do well. You can do youcan do things like this didn't grass,
but monkey grass mondo grass. Thereis a dwarf type for small areas.
You can put a whole bunch ofthat in and make a nice little tight
lawn that can take a lot ofshade. But when you start looking at
any area of any size at all, it takes a Brazilian little dwarf mondo

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plants to fill it, and sothat's not practical. All right, that's
what I need to know. Andyou're always the best, Bob. Thanks,
I appreciate your call. Good luckwith getting that under control, all
right, thank you. Yeah,you take care, that's for sure.
Landscaper's Pride is a company that hasfirst of all the local company there.
They've been here in this region fora good long time. And when it

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comes to Landscaper's Pride, you're lookingat a wide variety of products too.
You know, they basically are turningorganic matter into stuff that makes your lawn,
your garden, and even container plantsthrive. But right now we're hitting
summer, and summer means got toget the mulch down. Mulch stops weed
seeds from getting established, which meansyou have less work. You're gonna pull

(01:01:44):
weeds when it's one hundred degrees outside. I think, so neither do I.
So get a mulch down. Puta pine bark maltz. That's the
most popular one. Pine bark maltzdecomposes kind of slowly, so it's a
pretty low mulch. Nice one.A lot of people like the hardwood mulch
I do too. Example, itis not made out of pallettes like a
bunch of cheap old you know,mass packaged mulches can be that grind up

(01:02:07):
wooden pallets and call that a maltz. No, this is truly a hardwood
based malt It's good for walkways,it's good for flower beds, however you
want to use it. Black velvetis one of the prettiest malts you'll find.
It is from Landscaper's Pride. Itis not dyed. It is naturally
dark, dark, velvety, dense, beautiful material, makes a really nice

(01:02:29):
service molts. They also have cedarmolts. They also have Cypress molts for
example. A lot of different optionsout there for some quality mulches that are
beautiful and they do the job.Landscaper's Pride is where you're going to find
that. If you go to Landscaperspridedot com you can find out all the
many places where you can pick upthey're bagged Moltz products. By the way,

(01:02:51):
they are also available by mulk bybulk. Excuse me, go to
Landscaperspride dot com. We're going togo now to Cypress and talk to Ed
Hello, Ed, Good morning.I sent you a couple of pictures of
the measures I'm having with some tomatoplants their celebrity. I put them in
in time this year and got anice crop of tomatoes, but as it's

(01:03:15):
getting warmer, I'm having disease problems. I guess that their leaves and stems
are yellowing, have black dots onthem, and then on some of the
leaves it's got some kind of acocoon looking thing on them. Did you
get those photos? I did,so. The little black spots are some

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sort of a disease. Probably itcould be fungal or bacterial, I can't
tell which. At this point inthe season, you know, it's fixing
to really heat up, and ourtomato production just crashes. So I'm a
little bit hesitant to do a wholelot to these plants, just because I

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don't know that you're going to geta lot more production out of them at
this point. But you certainly coulduse a product. I would probably try
something that is a copper based spray, copper base. There's a number of
them where you go and do yourshopping, you know, for your gardening
supplies. A copper based sprays you'reup there in the Cypress area. You
know you've got you've got Cypress acehardware. You've got M and D a

(01:04:19):
little a little bit up further northand Langham Creek as you go a little
south from you, those ace hardwarestores are all going to have your copper
base, a copper based fungicide typespray, the stuff you described sitting on
the leaf. And I see inthe picture that is caterpillar poop, and
you are you have a tomato hornwormsomewhere above that on the plant that is

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eating the leaves, A big,all fat caterpillar, big as your little
finger. I haven't seen them,but I guess I'm not up there at
the time there there. Yeah,well I do have an issue with those
legged Yes, yeah, I've kindof I read someplace that you could vacuum

(01:05:06):
him up, so I just boughta handheld vacuum and vacuum up. Yeah
you can. You can't. Andwhen you catch them young, they can't
fly away. Once they're older.You kind of got to got out there
with your vacuum early in the morningsneak up on them. But yeah,
there's nothing wrong with that other thanthe neighbors are going to talk about you.
But they're doing that already. Youknow. Mildred's Mildred. He's out

(01:05:29):
there vacuuming his tomato plants. He'sgone off the deep end. So yeah,
all right, all right, well, I appreciate it, Thank you,
sir, appreciate your call. Takecare, thank you. Oh yeah,
that's true. Yeah, tomatoes,it's getting warm enough to where they're
they're having a hard time getting gettinguh uh tomatoes set. Once we get

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into the nineties during the day andthen our night times are up around eighty
up in the upper seventies, evenwe start to lose our ability for the
large fruited tomatoes, especially to set. Fruit cherries and grapes are a little
bit better about that. We're gonnago now to Parlant and talk to Kevin.
Hey, Kevin, Hey, goodmorning, Skip morning man. Just

(01:06:13):
a courtesy announcement for for anyone asa homeowner, trim back your trees from
rubbing on the roof and clean outyour gutters. Good idea. I can't
how many roofs I've been on inthe past month because of these storms.
Yep, you know, tree branchescause what's called mechanical damage insurance companies do

(01:06:34):
not cover that, and they're goingto scrutinize the rest of the roof too.
That's good. If your gutters havetrees growing out of them, not
a good thing. I can guaranteethat. Yeah, that's true. That's
well, that's good. I appreciatethat advice, Kevin. I may elaborate
on our hair in a little bit. It's good. Good word you take
care. Yeah, I've noticed thatin addition to that, some species of

(01:06:58):
mosquitoes like to live in decaying organicmatter of water. So you got,
you know, leaves that are rottingin the water. And remember it only
takes a bottle capful of water toraise a mosquito. Well, what Kevin
is saying is true. That rottingleaves a little bit of a sagging spot
in your gutter, and now youare just setting yourself up for even more
mosquito problems. So thank you,Kevin, those good advice. Appreciate that

(01:07:21):
very much. We're gonna take alittle break here and I'll be right back.
Our phone number if you'd like togive a producer a call seven one
three two one two k t RH. You'll get you on the board
and we'll talk to you right afterwe talked to Terry from fulsher when we
come back. Welcome back to gardenLine. Good have you with us today.
When was the last time you wentout to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery.

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That's out in Katie, Texas.That's our West that's your West Houston
Garden Center. It's the one youneed to know about. You need to
get out there and check it out. It's a beautiful place. I was
out just recently visiting a throw offout there and checking out all all the
new plants that they've gotten in,and man, they had a really nice
selection of things. Now, ofcourse, you know Nelson's is a place
for water gardens. I mean,do you want a beautiful, let's say,

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a waterfall designed, a rock waterfallput into your landscape. There's nothing
more soothing and beautiful than that.They can do that for you. They
can even advise you if you doit yourself. Or they have the big
giant urns that are a glazed pottery, just beautiful with the water tumbling out
of the top or or running overthe sides of it, a beautiful sound.

(01:08:31):
It's called a disappearing fountain because thewater goes down into gravel or rock
underneath the urn, and then itcomes right back up through it and it's
it's just a wonderful, wonderful effect. When you go there and you see
the things they have, you willbe inspired and you'll want some. So
I'd tell you to take your friendswhen you go, because it really is
an inspiring place and they've got agreat selection of all kinds of things.

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They're just out there and Katie,So it's just a hop, skip and
a jump outside of Houston. Youjust run right out there on Katie Fort
Ben Road, turn north and it'sjust a hop, skip and a jump.
Here. I am using all thesecolloquialisms, but it's the truth.
Nelson Water Garden beautiful place to go, inspiring, definitely a destination place.
You're going to find the plants youneed, and you're going to find a

(01:09:18):
lot of really cool inspiration out thereas well. I'm going to head out
now to fullsher and we're going totalk to Terry. Hello, Terry,
good morning, Skip. How areyou today? I'm good, sir.
How can we help? I'm havingsome yard work done. Actually, what
we had we had some drainage issuesin a new build area, and so

(01:09:39):
we've had that corrected and the landscapershave come in and put in some new
SOD. My question is is whenshould I start fertilizing that new sawd area.
It can do fine for about amonth and then you can begin to
fertilize it. You can actually goa little longer than that. The SOD
comes in with a pretty good amountof nutrient and the first job of that

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side is to get roots down,and so for the first few weeks,
that is what it's focusing on,is getting roots down in the ground.
Then it's got the root system totake up nutrient and to support growth.
So you continue to build the densityor maintain the density of it. So
I would say you don't need tofertilize any sooner than a month after you

(01:10:23):
plant. You could even wait tolook, okay, well I followed ready
lemons of the nitrofoss schedule. Anyways, I just infertilized like last month.
So I would even just waiting untilthe next feeding time. Yeah, stand
on the schedule. Yeah, whatdid you did you use a slow release?
Yeah? Yes, yes, silverbag will carry you all the way

(01:10:45):
into fall. Yeah, you cando your next fertilization and fall. In
the meantime, return those clippings whenyou're mowing and they slowly. Yeah,
I always do. You'll be allright, all right, Thank you so
much for your all right, y, thanks a lot, appreciate that.
Yep, those schedules are very important. I just want to remind you I

(01:11:05):
got mine online too, if youwould like to go to gardening with Skip
dot com. Gardening with Skip dotCom. I have elaborated on the schedules
a little bit there. I've gota lawn schedule and a pest disease and
weed schedule that I encourage you toprint out take a look at when you're
out there doing that. Whenever ourclay soils get wet, they swell,

(01:11:29):
and when they get dry they shrink. They actually do. That's why there's
those giant cracks in the backyard.Have you ever been in a yard of
clay soil and it was super dryand the cracks are so large you could
lose a chihuahua down in the ground, I mean, the big old giant
cracks. Well, that's what happensto our soil, which recks havoc on
your landscape, on your hard scapes. Rather your sidewalks, your driveways,

(01:11:56):
and most importantly, the foundation ofyour home. Fix my slab foundation repair.
Ty Strickland, he's the owner.He's been doing this for twenty three
years. He knows how to fixit right. And Tye he's got the
expertise and he's got the experience.And if you see maybe a door is
sticking that used to not stick,or there's a crack in the sheet rock
or on the outside you see acrack in the brick, that's a reason

(01:12:19):
to quickly go ahead and call ty. Don't put this kind of thing off.
Listen. These situations definitely don't getbetter, they get worse, and
so do something soon. Tell themyou're a guarden line listener. I'll give
you a free estimate for gardenline listeners. The things I most appreciate about Tie
and Fix my Slab is the factthat they show up on time. He

(01:12:42):
prices things in a fair way andhe fixes it right. And what more
can you ask for from any kindof a service provider than that show up
on time, fair price, fixit right, fix myslab dot com,
Fix my slab dot com two eightone two five five two eight one two
five five four nine four nine.We're going to go now to Ray in

(01:13:05):
Spring, Texas. Hello, Ray, good morning, Good morning. I
want to see if you can helpme. I have two Japanese blue bears
about five feet tall that I haveput in in twenty one right up to
the big freeze, okay, andone of those blue bearers is turning yellow

(01:13:27):
and the leaves will fall in offand I don't really know what the problem
is. I don't want to loseit. And if there's anything you can
tell me that I can do tosave it, I would appreciate it.
Yeah, it's not unusual on aJapanese blueberry they get into a little bit
of stress, or just as theygrow, the older leaves a little further
down the line from the ends ofthe shoots, you'll see yellowing. They'll
even turn a pretty low red colorsometimes before they drop off. And that

(01:13:53):
that is either related to just itsolder leaves that are being cast off,
which it does periodically, or it'sa stress and the stress could be soggy
wet soil, poor drainage, itcould be lack of water. I think
it would be root road over watering. You know we didn't getting a lot.
Well, that's that's what I'm saying. Yeah, too much, too
much water, poor drainage. Youknow, the problem with too much water

(01:14:14):
isn't the fact that there's a lotof water. It's the fact that the
roots can't get oxygen and so yes, that can stress them. You can
get a root rod in them.So either water extreme can cause a problem
with them. You just have toget out. I would say, get
a little hand draut, dig downabout four inches and feel the soil and
if it's moist, you don't needto water. And once a tree is

(01:14:36):
established, once a shrub like thatis established, it should not have been
water and it's just a rain that'sdoing it, you know. Yeah,
yeah, but I will do that. I'll dig down because I was wondering
if there may be some root rodsthere since it's been getting a lot of
water. Where it is, one, I will get the other one.

(01:14:56):
That's fine. Yeah, Well ifit's if it's not you water and it's
too you might want to relook atwhere's this water coming from. Maybe there's
a downspout of the house that couldbe redirected somewhere so you can avoid or
minimize the amount of water that goesto that area. If there's something in
your power to do, I woulddo it. I think so Okay,
thank you so much. Appreciate it. I try that. I think it's

(01:15:18):
maybe my down spout. Okay,sounds real good. Appreciate that. Thank
you so much. You take care. Yep, we appreciate that very very
much. Let's see we want toI want you to mention Ciena Molts.
They're down south of Houston. Italk about them all the time because Cinamalts
is a place you go to getquality materials. You know how I say

(01:15:40):
brown stuff first. If you wantto make all the brown stuff as good
as it can be for the plantsto succeed, Cnmalts will get They got
you covered. They carry all thefertilizers I talk about on garden line,
all of them. They have themthere. So that's part of getting the
nutrients in your soil. They carrycomposts, they carry bed mix. It's
like, for example, they havethe veggie and herb mix from heirloom soils

(01:16:02):
down there. They have all kindsof premium mulches, premium mulches, all
all kinds of options for you.You can buy things in bulging, buy
things in bags. You can goget it yourself if you're within twenty miles,
so deliver it to you there Siennamultch dot com. Go to that
website and find out more about them. They're north of roch Sheron, near

(01:16:23):
where Highway six and two eighty eightare there FM five point twenty one.
They're open till five o'clock Monday throughFriday and on Saturday until two, so
you need to go ahead and givethem a call or swing by there.
Make sure that you're ready to go. Cennamultch Love Cenamulf. Hey, guess
where I'm going to be after theshow today? And I hope you are

(01:16:44):
too. Going to be at thewild Birds Unlimited in bell Air. Wildbirds
Unlimited in bell Air. It's easyto get there, you know. They're
down where Stella Link comes into belAir Boulevard, kind of southwest Houston.
Real easy to get to come bythere. Bring me some plants and pictures
and things. Let's talk about howto have a beautiful lawn, how to

(01:17:06):
have a bountiful garden, a beautifullandscape. We can do all that kind
of thing there. And while you'rethere, plan on grabbing some Father's Day
gift for your Dad. They gota lot of cool stuff. One of
the things that I am probably myfavorite product that they have is their scroll
proof feeder. Come by and I'llshow it to you. I want you

(01:17:26):
to see this saying it's amazing.I love my Welcome to kt r H
Garden Line with Skip Richard. It'sjust watch him as Hey, welcome back.

(01:18:04):
Let's get going here. We've gotsome more garden line to do,
lots of things to talk about becausewe want you to have success with your
garden and your landscape. If youlive up in the Montgomery area, do
you know about A and A Plantsand produce. You drive by them all
the time. They're right there onHighway one oh five on the east side
of Montgomery. So all of youup at the various lake neighborhoods up around

(01:18:27):
Lake Conroe, you know Del Lagoand Walden and all the other neighborhoods up
there, this is your hometown gardencenter. Just always stock full of everything
you need. When we're planting vegetablesduring those seasons, they've got them.
When we have flowers, they've gotthem, shrubs, trees, vines.
Do you need blame to go inthe landscape maybe a chimenea for the patio

(01:18:48):
or some sort of artwork for outin the garden. They've got some really
cool stuff. Yes, they haveto go in the store and see.
I mean they look up, lookup. A lot of it's hanging up
in the rafter is there. Itis really cool stuff. And they've got
every fertilizer I talk about, andI do mean every fertilizer, every one
of the major brands that we talkabout on Garden Line, including the soil

(01:19:11):
products as well from airloom soils inNature's Way. They've got all of that
right there at Ana Plants and Produce. It makes it really easy. Their
expert landscape crew does some clean uparound Lake Conroy area. If you need
a little work done on that getthings spruced up, they're set up for
that as well. They usually keepmy schedule at the checkout counter there at
Ana Plants and Produce on the eastside of Montgomery on one oh five.

(01:19:33):
But if they don't, just goahead and print it out, take it
yourself, bring it in there,and that way you can point at the
product that you're looking for, makesure you go home with the right one.
We're going to go now to Cypressand talk to Leanne. Hello,
Leanne, good morning, Good morning. Problem with nutsedge that has invaded my

(01:19:54):
vegetable garden, and thought I hadit under control, but it was being
hidden by my Now it's a bigproblem, okay. And I've read if
she on edgehammer, and of courseis don't spray on vegetable, right,
But my question is how close canI get? Because I've got some that

(01:20:15):
has invaded, like under the canopyof this cute meatball basil, and I've
been pulling up arugula to get toit because I know I can't avoid spraying
the arugula. I mean, it'sit's all so infiltrated under theirs. Yeah.

(01:20:35):
I think there's just not a greatsolution in a vegetable garden like that
because the image and the manage andthe sedge hammer and all those are not
labeled for vegetable gardens. Glyfa sadeis round up glyphasade is, but it
doesn't do as good of a jobon nutsedge as the others do. If

(01:20:58):
it were my garden, I thinkI would do one or two things.
I would either the nutsedge tends tocome up above the foliage of the plants
you're talking about, and you couldwipe a product onto that nuts edge foliage
and avoid spraying and killing your vegetableswith it. That would be one option.
The other would be that whenever youtransition, which in a vegetable garden

(01:21:20):
you're transitioning several times, that arugulais not going to be there a long
time when you transition, go aheadand take those nutsedge plants, follow them
down and get the tubers out asmuch as you can, and just kind
of regularly do the digging along withyour when you're able to do the treatment.

(01:21:43):
But use a wiper applicator rather thana spray applicator. Okay, so
you're saying it could contaminate the soil, then no, it won't contaminate the
soil. It's okay. So alot of those products aren't labeled for use
in the garden, and I cannotrecommend and use of a product outside the
label like that. You know,I can't tell you I just go do

(01:22:04):
it anyway. I'm not going todo that. But whatever you use in
a vegetable garden to put on thenut's edge, if you apply it with
a wiper as opposed to a spray, then you avoid it getting on a
desirable plant in the garden as well. Does that make sense? It does.

(01:22:25):
I've kind of devised where I tooka sola cup and put an X
on the bottom and put that overthe head of the spray. Or you
can do that spray under just thatcup so it doesn't get out from underneath
it. Yeah, you could,you could do that, Okay, Yeah,
but I think the wiper is evenbetter. And I use you.
I've seen people use different things.If you're in a vegetable garden, you

(01:22:48):
don't mind doing hands and knees bythe cheapest set of tongs, barbecue tongs
you can find, you know,just those little thin metal things that no
fancy gripsure thing. And if youcan figure out how to drill a hold
in one and attach a sponge toeach side, or use super not super

(01:23:10):
blue hot glue or whatever whatever ittakes to get a little piece of sponge
on each side, you just putthe product on the sponge and you reach
down and squeeze the nuts edge leafand pull up and it wipes right on
the leaf and you get it onnothing else. I've made those out of
the things you grab a jar offa shelf with too those little grabber tools.
You can put a sponge on those. But whatever you do, you're

(01:23:32):
applying it just to the nuts sedge. Got it, all right, thank
you very much. Yeah. Thelast last tip there, Leanne, is
don't once it gets three to fiveleaves, you need to be doing something,
digging it or treating it, becauseotherwise it's creating. I know,
it's a mess. I found somelast night there were two feet tall.

(01:23:55):
Yeah, yeah, well, okay, but what happens when that happens is
they've already got a daughter plants thatnow you're gonna deal with. But that's
okay. Just stay on them,keep your eyes peeled. Yeah, my
rugo is quite prolific, all right. See, and I just let it
go because I love it so much. All right, Well, there you
go. All right. I thinkyou're armed with the right with the right

(01:24:17):
process right now, and you cando that. And by the way,
you're up there in Cyprus. Youknow you got Ace hardware stores all over
the place. Up in your area. There's two or three real close to
you where you can get all thesekinds of products. And sometimes I'm in
tumble, so go to D andD Feeds. Oh yeah, they have
it. They have that stuff upthere too. All right, thanks a
lot, appreciate it, appreciate it. Take care. Yeah, I was

(01:24:41):
talking about ACE Hardware. You know, Aacet Hardware is a place for the
Father's Day gift that your dad willlove. I mean, think about it.
Ace Hardware. They have all kindsof gadgetry for the lawn, for
the garden. I mean we're talkingabout, you know, a new chainsaw,
one of these electric powered tools andproducts that are available, a string

(01:25:01):
of lights to turn that outdoor sittingarea into just a beautiful little ambiance place.
I mean on her own. Howabout a barbecue. Oh my gosh.
Ace has barbecue pits, the highestquality, the best brands, and
all the accessories you need to gowith them. I mean they do.
Ace Hardware is the place, andwhen it comes to a Father's Day gift,

(01:25:21):
I cannot imagine a better place.No matter what your dad's interested in,
ACE Hardware is going to have somereally cool stuff. Everyone is independently
owned, and each one is different. Some have certainly one of them may
have a fudge bar or something likethat. Someone may have another one that
does etching on some sort of atool or cutting board or what. Every

(01:25:45):
Ace Hardware is different, So gointo your local Ace Hardware and see what
they have, and you're going tosee stuff that's like, you know,
I never would have thought of that, but that's perfect for my dad.
And I guarantee you you go toAce Hardware and you're going to find something
for Dad for this weekend. Andby the way, this weekend is Father's
Day weekend, right, So getover to your local Ace Hardware. You

(01:26:08):
can find it by going to Acehardwaredot com, forward slash Houston, Acehardware
dot Com forward slash Houston and there'swhat forty stores. It's going to be
really easy to find one near youin the greater Houston area for Ace Hardware.
So don't don't delay on this.I mean Father's Days tomorrow. Let's
go. Let's get this done.You're going to find something cool Today's hardware.

(01:26:31):
It is time for me to takea break here. I realized I
just talked myself into a little bitof a break time. Diana and Dave,
you'll be the first two up whenwe come right back. The phone
number if you'd like to give Chrisa call and get on the boards seven
one three two one two kt rh. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line.
Good to have you with us today. A little bit of mix there
on the music. You know,we try to mix things up a little

(01:26:55):
bit here on Garden Line. Getyour fix for all kinds of different things.
If you've not fertilized you're on thissummer, you ought to consider sweet
green. Sweet green is a productfrom Nitrofoss. Sweet Green is a base.
It's based on a molasses material withmicrobial activity turning it into an eleven

(01:27:16):
percent nitrogen fertilizer. Now, wheneveryou put molasses on the soil that carbon
microbes need carbon to thrive, andI mean it kicks them into high gear.
They really take off. And that'spart of the creating a rich environment
around the plant roots with beneficial microbesto help support that grass plant. Sweet
greens available in a lot of differentplaces. You can go out to enchanted

(01:27:39):
forest in a Richmond Rosenberg area andfind it growers Outlet up and Willis has
it. RCW Nursery on Topball Parkwayis another place like many where you're going
to find sweet green from Nitrofos.Go ahead and get it down now you're
going to want to plan it now. If you have not fertilized this summer,
if you're already fertilized, hold off. But if you haven't put this

(01:28:00):
week green now now about six weeks, eight weeks from now, you could
do it again. And that'll carryyou all the way up until we get
our first full fertilization schedule, whichis coming up pretty soon in a while,
pretty soon, it's coming up inthe fall. But the sweet green
will carry you all the way tothat. Always return your clippings when you're
fertilizing, because clippings are full ofnutrients, and if you don't return them,

(01:28:25):
you're just renting fertilizer. Let's headout now to Jersey Village and talk
to Diana. Hello Diana, thanksfor waiting, Good morning, Skip.
What is the best way to rootazelias from a cutting? H Okay,
you the best? First of all, the best type of material you want
is in the springtime we get allthe fresh new growth and then it kind

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of slows down and we say ithardens off. It kind of goes from
succulent to a little on the woodyside, you know. And so about
now about June, that spring growthis hardened and matured, so now's an
excellent time to take that cutting.I usually would take a cutting about the
with them a hand, So ifyou were to reach up and grab the

(01:29:08):
end of a shoot, cut itoff at the at the bottom of your
hand, in other words, awidth of your hand long. Cut the
shoots off, take the bottom twoor three leaves off, and then dip
them in a rooting hormone, whichyou can get, you know, from
your local ace hardware store, froma garden center, even though some of
our feed stores will carry those.Dip them in the rooting hormone, and

(01:29:29):
then put them in a mix thatis about fifty percent pete and fifty percent
pearlte parlts, a little white stuffthat's real chunky and loose and airy.
If you put them in just pottingsoil, you may have success, but
it also may stay a little toowet, and with the pearlite high content
of prolite in there, it's justlooser and drains better. And then cover

(01:29:50):
them with something clear so they canget light. But don't put them in
the sun. You don't want themin the direct sun. You want them
in a very bright and that sortof creates this little mini greenhouse that they
root really well in. Okay,alrighty, So once they generally how long

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does it take for them to root? It depends on the condition of the
cutting, and it depends on thetemperatures and other things. But you should
get something in a few weeks.I would say, you know, within
about a month, you should beable to check and if you see new
growth occurring, that means it hasa root. It's not going to push
new growth if it doesn't have aroot. Okay, So once it has
the roots, then should I Iplant them in like say a pot What

(01:30:35):
type of a medium would I use? Then? Then I would lift them
up carefully out of there. Iwill use a spoon or whatever to go
underneath them and kind of lift themup, because if you just grab the
cutting and pull on it, youmay rip off some roots getting it out
of there, and then pot itup into a mix. You can use
a potting soil if you would liketo do that. That would work just

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fine. A rose soil works reallywell for azelius too. So many of
our you hear me talk about ourrose soil mixes that are available here in
the Houston area. Those are excellentfor potting up in Azalia. Great,
thank you so very much. Allright, Dan, thank you for the
call. Appreciate that very much.We're going to go now to Dave in

(01:31:18):
Spring. Hello Dave, and goodmorning morning. I had a question about
Virginia button weed and is it toolate, we are we doomed? Or
does celsius actually work? Celsius workspretty good. Button wheat is persistent and
no one product, one time isgoing to do it. So I would

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use Celsius, but I would doit early in the morning. Even though
Celsius can be used at a littlewarmer temperatures than a lot of the other
broad leaf post emergence can I stillwouldn't wait until it's one hundred degrees in
the middle afternoon and try to putthe Celsius on. That. I would
go ahead and get it done earlyin the morning, when we're around eighty
degrees preferably, and that that willgive you your best shot. You're probably

(01:32:03):
six weeks later, eight weeks later, you may need to be going back
in and doing it again next year. Start a little bit earlier on the
on the battle. Now that nextas a spray or it's a sp it's
a spray. It comes in alittle packet. Uh. It's a little
cardboard thing that hangs on the shelfat the garden center, at the feed

(01:32:24):
store or the you know, SouthwestFertilizer wherever you get your stuff. Uh,
and it and it's a little clearbubble Packet's got a little envelope in
there that you follow the label.Yeah, good luck with it. I
wish we could eat button weed andother than that seems like too. Just

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after three or four years of puttingdown compost in a grassy area that has
it, you usually get rid getsrid of it. Is that logical or
not crazy? I don't think that'llwork. Button weed likes wet condition,
and so if you are in controlof moisture, don't keep it wet.

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That would be our irrigation. Thatwould be maybe you got a drainage coming
out of a drought down pipe thatcould be redirected. Anything that's in your
power. To let it dry outa little bit. It won't kill the
button weed, but it'll just keepit from proliferating. Buttonweed and dollar weed
both just love it when we keepit soggy, wet, real good.

(01:33:27):
All right, take care you bet? Thank you day. Yeah, some
of these weed I wish, Iwish we could eat but weed. Do
you know? You can eat nutsedge, yellow nutsedge, tubers. I'm
in the final stages of getting anuts edge right up on the web,
and one of the things I talkabout in there is that you can eat
yellow nuts edge. The Okay,this is nerd alert. Sorry for those

(01:33:50):
of you who just want the facts, ma'am, no details. Well here's
the details. Nutsedge is called cyperusesculentis. Esculentis means you can eat it.
That is a rough translation of esculentisfrom Latin. Yep. The Egyptian
pharaohs were buried with their chufa nuts, which is cyperus esculentis. And so

(01:34:13):
you go into the into the tombsof the pharaohs, and you know,
within arm's reach they had some nutsedge to snack on. Doesn't that sound
Wouldn't you like to be buried withyour nut's edge? I think I want
to be buried with my fire ants. Maybe that would be another good crazy
stuff. Yep, you can eatit, all right, end of the
nerd alert. Let's go now toa Teskesina and we're going to talk to

(01:34:36):
Chris, Chris, are you there? Yes? I am all right.
How can we help? Hey?Sounds like you got a party going on
over there. I did not getan invitation, but oh well, it's
a weight watchers party. So ifyou want to come, Okay, that's
good. How can we help today? Hey? So I have all these

(01:34:58):
little white pillars that are invading myentire yard. They're they're creating webs on
the trees. They're all over myflowers. Yeah, how do I what
do I do with them? Arewebworms and they've been in the trees creating
the webs. And like any caterpillar, whether it's going to become a moth

(01:35:18):
or a butterfly. By the way, these are going to be moths.
Uh, they go through their stagewhere they're growing and feeding and then they
move off to make their cocoons tocomplete the life cycle. These have dropped
out of the trees and they're justcrawling around. They may munch a little
on something, but basically they're findinga place to make their cocoon and do

(01:35:40):
that. So you could ignore them. If they're eating something you like,
just spray the with an insectus.Any insecticide will kill the webworm. Caterpillar
if you spray it on the onthe leaves that it's eating. But I'll
tell you most of them, they'rejust on their way now to move to
the next life stage. Okay,So I also have these it looks like

(01:36:04):
chia seeds all over my driveway.Is that? What is that from the
same webworm? It's it's from somethingup in the It's probably from a caterpillar
up in the trees. Yeah,caterpillars. They they drop their droppings and
they tend to be little dry pellets. Depending on the size of the caterpillar,

(01:36:24):
you got different sized droppings. It'sprobably not a beetle if it's if
you're seeing it like that on thedriveway. Okay, So how what's the
what's the lifespan for this for thewebworm? Webworm? Yeah, they we
start off in late spring with ourfirst generation. Most years, many years

(01:36:45):
it's not even noticeable. This yearis one of the worst for the first
generation I've seen. Uh. Thenthey go through a second life cycle and
then typically a third that hits aboutAugust September, and that's the one that's
the worst. That's why they callit fall webworm because that's the worst generation.
For it. So just watch andif you're looking up in your trees

(01:37:08):
periodically, when you first start tosee webbing, that's the time to spray
the foliage so that when they eatit, it kills them. And there
are a couple of organic products.There's certainly many synthetic products that will kill
them. Okay, So what's agood product to use if you want something
that's natural. Spinosid spi nosad BTwill also kill webworm caterpillars, both spinosid

(01:37:36):
and BT or organic. And thenwhen it comes to synthetics, there's a
lot of synthetic perithoids it will alsokill them. Just remember, when you're
spraying for webworms, you got toget the spray to the leaves they're eating,
so that may mean breaking up theweb if you wait too long,
and now they've got a big webprotecting themselves. Okay, okay, wonderful,

(01:38:00):
Thank you so much. I appreciateyour health. You take care all
right. You're listening to guarden Line. Our phone number is seven to one
three two one two k t RHseven one three two one two k t
r H. We're gonna take alittle break for the news. I'll be
right back all right, welcome backto guard Line. Good have you with

(01:38:21):
us today. We got a lotto talk about. I'll get going here.
Hey, I'm going to be atWallbird's Unlimited. I'm going to be
at the store that is in bellAir, that is Southwest Houston, the
bell Air store. And I'll bedoing that at eleven o'clock to day.
When I finish here on the show, ten o'clock shows over, I'm heading

(01:38:41):
over that way. I'll be theretill one. Bring me some samples and
pictures. Let's meet, let's talkby the way. While you're at Wallbirds,
it is an excellent opportunity to getsomething for dad. They have some
really cool stuff. Uh. Forexample, I would highly recommend that you
get the Eliminator squirrel proof feeder.That one is a Cadillac. It works

(01:39:05):
so well. The squirrels at myhouse they just sit in the tree and
they say, I can't repeat thewords I say on the air. They
hate the fact they can't get intoit. I love that fact. The
birds love it too. They canget in and get everything they need.
While you're Wallbirds, there are birdfeeders, there's bird houses, there's you
know, there's books, there's allkinds of things. How about a little

(01:39:29):
bird water bath, a little waterbath, and they have gadgetry that you
can get that even helps control thingslike mosquitoes that might be a problem there.
While Bird's Unlimited, they're all overHouston. There's six of them in
the greater Houston area. All youhave to do is go to WBU dot
com. WBU stands for wild BirdsUnlimited, WBU dot com forward slash Houston

(01:39:53):
and it'll show you right where thestores are, including how to get to
the one in bel Air where I'llbe today from eleven to one o'clock.
Hope you'll come on and see me. Really looking forward to seeing you out
there. We're going to head nowto northwest Houston and talk to Ralph.
Hello, Ralph, good morning.I'm glad to have you. Yeah.
Well, I got my bird feedersout and then the big old well other

(01:40:18):
birds come here on a little birdget and I'll do fine. I'm talking
about my Saint Augustine in front.It is running big long runners on top
and my back yards all right,But why what is called in debt with
the Saint Augustine runs all on thesouth. It does that sometimes, especially

(01:40:41):
when the lung gets a little thickand the runner it sort of gets up
on top and it you know,it doesn't have the doesn't have a mind
of its own where it goes.Hey, I need to turn south and
go down towards the soil. Andso it's like the grass, the other
runners and grass blader just holding itup above the ground. And when you
mow usually those lift up underneath themower and get cut off. But in

(01:41:03):
general, it's not something to worryabout, not something you can do a
lot of. Just make sure you'renot overwatering and overfertilizing ralph because the more
growth you get, the more ofthat thatchy runner growth you're going to have.
And so just keep it at amoderate rate on the fertilizing. All
right. Another question, I gota lot on my neighbor's got a bushy

(01:41:28):
line it and it all comes undermy fence and it comes over to my
yard and I almost got into mygarden and I'll pull it up. But
yeah, what is best way tostop it? Oh? But have to
see a picture of it to kindof know what we're dealing with. Is
probably got a broad leaf plants,kind of a vining thing. You're saying,
yes, it's a vining. Yeah, is it coming is it in

(01:41:55):
stuff that you don't want to sprayand hurt the stuff that's in or is
it in a spot where you canjust spray it and not have to worry
about it. Well, I'm justwant to keep it from their yard my
yard, and it's run under myfence and now I'll pull it. I
left it alone for a while,but then it runs all the way to

(01:42:15):
my my guard. Okay, Well, you can either either just cutting it
off there where it's coming through,regularly cutting it off, or spraying it
with something that contains tri clo peertri clo pere t r I c l
O P y R. And ifyou apply that to it, it will
it will move in it and it'llkill it. Okay, all right,

(01:42:39):
thank you, great program. Hey, Ralph, thanks for the call.
Appreciate that a lot. For thoseof you who are who have not been
to r CW Nursery lately, youneed to go check them out. They've
got a lot of good stuff onon hand, I mean in stock right
now. They've got some special dealsgoing. I mean I'm talking about roses,
I'm talking about shrubs, about trees, significant percentages off on all those

(01:43:03):
different products, and it just getsyou ready to go for summer. You
know, it's still okay to getstuff planted now. You just want to
kind of watered a little bit dayby day as you're going through help it
get established. But you can doit right now, and now is a
great time to pick up a reallygood deal on it. They've got some
interesting signage too. I like someof the humorous signs that they have.

(01:43:24):
Maybe Dad would like one of thosetoo, by the way, they've got
some of that. And of coursewhen you go to RCW, know you're
going to get the fertilizers that Italk about here on Guardline to take care
of your lawn as well. Nowthey grow their own trees up there in
Plantersville, and so when you goto RCW and buy a tree, you
know you're going to get one thata the species grows here, because that's

(01:43:44):
what they sell, things that wantto grow here. Secondly, one that's
been grown properly and they can comeout and plant it properly for you,
so you can be off to agood start now. The best time to
plant a tree is forty years ago. Second best times today, So don't
delay anymore, go ahead and getit out, because what is our goal
when we plant a tree? Howsoon can I hang a hammock out there?

(01:44:05):
Right? Well, let's get thattree going. And RCW right now
has got a really some really gooddeals for you as well as those excellent
cultivars and varieties that you would wantto have and plant again if you haven't
been there, that's the garden center. That is where Tomball Parkway comes into
Beltway eight. The website is rcwnurseriesdot com. Easy to get in,

(01:44:30):
easy to get out, and easyto find what you're looking for. If
they don't have it, they probablycan get it. That's why I call
them to get it. Got itnursery. We're going to go now to
Marene. Hello Marene, Oh,good morning, thanks for taking my call.
Good morning. I have I havea question. I have about a
thirty five year old American elm andit started dropping leaves and they're dark,

(01:44:55):
they have dark spots on them.And I called out a professional tree service
and they diagnosed it as a fungusand they said there's really nothing we can
do about it. And I justkind of wanted to know your opinion.
If there's something I can do forthis fungus on this American elm. How
big are these spots? Well,some of them are like half of a

(01:45:17):
leaf. Okay, I don't knowwhat that is. That is not a
Elms just basically don't have leaf diseaseproblems. They have a thing called Dutch
elm disease, which kills whole shootsand trees. But as far as like
I got spots on my leaves,there is there is one fungus that's very

(01:45:38):
uncommon that causes small yellow spots thateventually can kind of get a black coloring
to them, And there's a handfulof others. But in general, elm
leaf diseases are not a problem.If you would like to take a picture
of some leaves and send it tome, maybe i'll see something other than
that. But I'm not going torecommend any fungicide sprays because I'm not sure

(01:46:00):
what you're dealing with. There.Oh, I'm gonna put you. I'm
gonna put you on home Marene andthe producer will pick up the phone and
give you an email. Make sureyou attach the photos, don't embed them
in the text, attach them tothe email, and then either I can
answer it online, or if youlike to call back tomorrow, we can

(01:46:24):
we can take a look at that. We're kind of running a little shorter
on time today, but if Iget them fast enough, I'll talk about
him on the air. Okay,okay, thank you so much, all
right, goodbye, goodbye, Thanksa lot. Appreciate that. Yeah,
that's interesting. Lots of lots ofthings can be going on out there in
nature, but I am not awareof an elm fungal leaf disease that warrants

(01:46:46):
spraying. That would be a newone for me, but it could happen.
If you're having the Tomball area andyou need a local feed store out
west to Tomball on twenty nine totwenty is D and D Feed has been
providing quality products for the lawn andgarden for a long time. Yes they
are a feed store, and yesthey have super high quality pet feed.

(01:47:10):
They really really carry an excellent selectionof different feed supplies and things from whatever
you need. But they've also goteverything you need for the lawn, garden
and landscape. I'm talking about fertilizers. I talk about these brands a fertilizer
and this one is a good one, and that one. If I talk
about it on guardenline, they've gotit there. If you're looking for age,

(01:47:30):
leaf, mold, compost or rosesoil or fruit berry and citrus and
veggie and herb, all of thoseare from heirloom soils. They've got those
as well. They keep a stockof plants around also. And if it
comes to pests, diseases, andweeds, D and D feed again,
three miles west of tumbul on twoforty nine, or excuse me, twenty
nine to twenty. They're west oftwo forty nine on twenty nine to twenty,

(01:47:53):
about three miles out there. They'regoing to have those things as well.
Just show up out there, you'llsee what I'm talking about. D
and D feed two eight one threefive one seven one four four two eight
one three five one seven to onefour four D and D feed your hometown
feed store. Well, let's seehere. I believe it's time for me

(01:48:16):
to take another low break. We'regoing to do that, and I will
be right back in the meantime.If you want to get on the board,
just give Chris a call. Sevenone three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. All right, I'vegot a little bit of they might be
giants. I can mix it upfor you a little bit here on garden
line. Well, let's see here. As might is something you hear me

(01:48:38):
talk about often when it comes tolawns, because a ismite provides trace minerals,
and there's a little bit of confusionwhen it comes to what is a
fertilizer and what does this mean asmite? If I fertilize, I need
as mite. Here's a deal.The typical things we think of as fertilizer
for the lawn. They contain thethree big the big three, nitrogen,

(01:49:00):
phosphorus, potassium, always in thatorder, the three numbers on the bag.
They also may have some other nutrientsin them, especially in organics,
so you're gonna have some micros inthose as well. But those are the
ones, the big three we putdown in order to support good vigor,
growth and everything like that. Butthey're also trace minerals, things we need
tiny amounts of, but we needthem. They're essential. For example,

(01:49:24):
how many times has someone gone andsaid, I need to put some selenium,
manganese, and I don't know whatelse on my lawn. Well,
never they never heard that. Butthose are essential minerals, and so if
you could take all of the manganeseparticles out of the soil, a plant
could not live because manganese is essential, zinc is essential, iron is essential.

(01:49:48):
There are a lot of those,like twenty something nutrients that plants have
to have and trace minerals from azamiteor part of that package. So that's
why we do that. You cando your fertilization, but you also need
to consider about the micros and that'swhat that's what azemite's about. You can
go to azamite Texas dot com findout more about it. Azamite's widely available.

(01:50:10):
All the feed stores, garden centers, you hear me talk about ACE
hardware stores, a Southast fertilizer,all those places are going to have azomite
and that is something about once ayear. You're going to want to put
that out. You can do itat the same time you fertilize. Just
do it in a separate application,don't mix it with your fertilizer when you're
putting it in the hopper, andyou'll be just fine. Works really really

(01:50:31):
well. We're going to go nowto League City and talk to Dina.
Hello, Dina, how are you. Well, I'm good. How are
you. I'm doing great, Thankyou. I just want to give a
shout out to for A Gardens alsoknown as Texas Landscape or I got several
quotes for cleaning out a very verybig flower bed with lots of flowers and

(01:50:56):
crab apple trees, and he hadthe best quote and they did a superb
job. You do a good job. I'm always glad to hear that.
I appreciate that. Thank you.It was very professional, that came on
time, and I just wanted togive a shout out. Well, I
appreciate you giving a positive report aboutthat. We we do, you know,
take a good close look at oursponsors before I put my name on.

(01:51:19):
Hey, this is a good one. So it's good to hear that.
Buy several fruit trees from them andflowers and stuff, and they're all
quality plants. So it'll let youknow. Well, that sounds wonderful.
Thank you. I appreciate that call. Thanks bye bye, bye bye,
very very good to hear. Hey, by the way, while I'm while
I'm mentioning or, Hey, thesummer hours, I need to give you

(01:51:40):
all his summer hours. And bythe way, for those of you are
going. Who's Horey's what is shetalking about? Down in Alvin, Texas
where he's heading gardens. They're upand now on Friday the hour the new
hours for Fridays or nine through three, and then on Saturday and Sunday it's
eight am to four pm, nineto three on Fridays. That's new breaking

(01:52:00):
news there. I want to letyou know if you want to head out
that way, we are going tonow go to Hempstead and talk to Jerry.
Hello, Jerry, Hey, howare you today? I'm good,
sir. How can we help?I've got grasshoppers all over my tomato plants
and they're eating the leaves. I'mtrying to figure out what's the best course
of action. Oh boy, well, we're kind of getting toward the end

(01:52:24):
of tomato season, so you know, i'd give a close assessment, and
you know how much spraying and protectingis worth it. But you can you
can spray any kind of an insecticideon the tomatoes that's labeled for put on
putting on tomatoes, and it shouldkill the grasshoppers. There's a number of
things out there, everything from sevena bill of known seven US for a

(01:52:47):
long time. Normally I wouldn't recommendputting that on tomatoes because it causes spidermight
outbreaks. But if you're trying tosave the leaves, then you know,
I would say that's an option.There are other products out there, but
grasshoppers are just voracious. Yeah.Yeah, And I've got tons of young

(01:53:09):
tomatoes still on the on the plants. Oh okay, yeah, well then
you definitely yeah grapes and it'll keepproducing grapes on into the heat. Yeah.
So it's, uh, that's whatI'm trying to save, is the
grape tomatoes. Yeah. Just justgo, you know, Jerry, go
wherever you shop for your products andfind something that's labeled for tomatoes that's an

(01:53:30):
insecticide, and that should help theproblem is it. Just check how persistent
the thing is, because if itif it's not gonna last, you're gonna
have to reapply it periodically, andif it's a little more persistent, you
won't have to apply it quite asmuch. All right, appreciate your time,
all right, thank you very much. Appreciate that you will you as

(01:53:51):
well very much. Hey have youbeen to Buchanans Plants and the heights?
Oh my gosh, bu Cannons isI just I love going in there Number
one. It's just a wonderful placeto go and to visit to see the
different things they have going on.They always have new plants coming in,
you know. They Buchanan's Native Plants. They specialize in natives and they also

(01:54:16):
do an excellent job in terms ofplants for pollinators. So if you go
in there and you've got a challenge, let's say you've got hey, I
need I've got a shady area andI want to which already limits things right,
and I need a pollinator that willgrow in a shady area, and
I'd like something that's native, ormaybe you don't care, just a mix.

(01:54:36):
Buchanans has a list for just that. They can provide you the plants
you need for a unique situation likethat. Of course, it's Father's Day
shopping, so great time to goin and buy something for Dad. They
have a wonderful little gift shop theretoo, and some really cool plants.
Buchanans Plants is always good to visit. I love going by there. East
eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanansplantsdot Com. East eleventh Well looks like

(01:55:01):
here we go, we are alreadyhitting the top of another hour. When
we come back, Donald up inNorthwest Houston you'll be first up, and
George and Jersey Village. Yeah,we do take calls from California. You'll
be right after Donald when we comeback. Don't forget. Today I'm going
to be at the Wallbird's Unlimited storein bel Air. And by the way,

(01:55:23):
while I'm there, we've given awaysome stuff from Wallbirds. We're also
going to be giving away some superGrow Plus for your lawn or whatever you
want to spread on. It'll dogood for Medina. We're got some bottles
of that. I've got some otherMedina product to give away. I'll be
giving away some of their growing green, the little five pound bags of that,
and oh gosh, hopefully visiting withyou, meeting the listeners and answering

(01:55:45):
your gardening questions eye to eye.We'll be right now. Welcome to kt
RH Guarden Line with Scape Richt.It's just watch him as the world All

(01:56:25):
right. Here we go again.We got our last hour of the day
coming up here. Don't forget.At the end of the show today,
I'm heading over to Wallbirds Unlimited inbel Air, Texas. Wild Birds Unlimited
in bel Air. I hope you'vecome over and see me if you hadn't
been to that wall birds before.It's really easy to get to it.
It's where Belair Boulevard comes together withwhat's outside. Treat the Stellar Link right

(01:56:48):
bell Air and Stellar Link right therein that area, easy to get to.
We are gonna take off this hourby talking a little bit about turf
before I head to the phones.Real quick. If you've not done your
summer turf application of fertilizer, goahead and get it done now. It
is time to get that going.And you've got a really quality product by

(01:57:12):
Nelson Plant Food that I want totell about. It's part of their Turf
Star line. It's called Slow andEasy, and boy is it ever slow
and easy. It will give youa release of nutrients now, but then
gradually just continue to release and releaseand release that nitrogen four months or so
down the line. So when youput Slow and Easy down for summer,

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you don't have to fertilize again untilfall. It carries you all the way
to fall. It is an acidifyingfertilizer, so it is going to slightly
acidify that surface area which is wherethe runners are, which is where take
all root rot which hates acidic conditions. By the way, where it is
most active, and the slow andeasy is just a good way to get

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a nice, smooth release of nitrogen. Keeps your long green, keeps your
lawn dense, keeps your long healthywithout overdoing it. Where you're having a
momo mode, try to keep up, or whether where the excessive nitrogen would
cause a problem with not a goodroot system. Yep, overdoing nitrogen results
in a less than ideal root systemfor your turf. Isn't that strange.

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It's counter intuitive sort of, butit's how it works. Slow and easy
gives you the gradual feed that avoidsthat. So it's as simple as that.
Just put it down and don't worryabout it. Return your clippings as
your mow and you're good to go. Nelson's got a lot of products,
you know, their nutri Star line. They have the Plume area, which
is good for all flowering tropicals thatyou might have. They've got their Palm

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line. It's part of the nutriStar too, and which works well on
ornamental grasses, which palm basically isa grass plant, and the nutri Star
rose. Just I could sit herejust for an hour and talk about all
the different Nelson products that are outthere on the market that are excellent for
our plants. Well, there yougo. That's a good start. Easy
to find Nelson all over town.For example, Ace Hardware stores carry him.

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Ace Hardware stores are going to bethe place where you get anything that
you need. I mean, itdoesn't matter if it's for your lawn and
garden, you got it at AceHardware. But I'm telling you right now,
I cannot think of a better placeto get Dad a gift for Father's
Day, which is tomorrow for thoseof you who aren't keeping track, than

(01:59:25):
Ace Hardware. I mean, whatis Dad interested in it? What kind
of gadget is he interested in?Whether it's Karen for the lawn, whether
it's barbecuing, whether it's you know, creating that beautiful outdoor how about you
know, a beautiful outdoor lighting setor any barbecue. Is the thing I
can't get my mind off of,because this is just the season for that.

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Everything like that. You can imagineand stuff and listen to this stuff
you've not thought of yet. ForDad. You're gonna find it Ace.
You're going to walk into Ace.You're gonna look around or you're gonna go.
I didn't even know that that existed. I didn't know A's carried it.
Well, of course ACE carries it. ACE is the place. Go
in there, get some inspiration,and I guarantee you you can find something

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that. I don't care who youare, what your dad's interested in.
ACE Hardware is going to have it. Acehardware dot Com is the website.
You can find the store locator,which will help you find forty stores in
the Greater Houston area. We're goingto go now to Northwest Houston and talk
to Donald Hello. Donald Hello,We're back again. And I can verify

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that ACE is the place because whenRadio Shack went away and Sears went away,
ACE is still there. And Ihave fixed more inordinate crazy things by
going to ACE and say here's whatI'm looking for, something like this,
and sure enough you'll say, oh, I got that right here. They
always know where everything is, ofcourse they do, all right, And

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this is this is the ACE storethat's on Guessner over here. Oh is
that the way you get to Okay, good, my pine tree that has
the roots grow and above the lawn. Okay, we're going to skip on
that now and there's still the waythey are. But however, years ago,
maybe ten years ago, there werepine pine tree bark beetles that would

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eat into the tree, and Iknow there was a big killing of pine
trees. I don't know if youremember that blight, if you want to
call it that, yes, okay, okay. So now this pine tree
that is at least thirty years old, and I want to ask you,
how do I measure it to tellyou how big it is? Like a
measure around like you're measuring for abelt about chest. Hie, yeah,
no, measure give me the diameteracross. Well, so just look at

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it from the front and like withthe yardstick. Yeah, okay, all
right, well either way, okay, I'll have to measure it. But
I know it's pretty damp big.But yeah, however, so I have
a couple of holes in this sideof this tree. I look at it
every so often because we have agarden around the tree, and I see
these holes and I'm like, oh, I hope this is not the pine
tree beetle attack again. So Idon't know what to do. Uh,

(02:02:02):
poke a little something in the holethere to see what's going on. But
you know, it's not soft oranything, but and it's just holes here
and there. And about what's thediameter of the hole we're talking about,
like a pencil racer or something batter? Yeah, like yeah, like yeah,
uh like a three eighths of aninch hole or so yeah, about
like a pencil's in there. Andthey're the ones that I can see here
right at at face level, youknow, about six feet off the ground

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here. Okay, is there anysap coming out of them? No?
When you look at when you lookup in the canopy of the pine tree
or the needles green. Yeah.Oh, I had this pine tree by
the way, by your advice andeverybody's advice in Lewis floor and all with
the tornado went right right through thefront of my house there, ripped the
screens off and everything. But Ihad this tree thinned out. When when

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the tree guys and find it outso I can see through it, you
know, have to explain to them. And so when the wind comes doesn't
rip everything. You know, themore branches you have up there, the
more wind pressure you have on thetree. So cleared out all right,
and they did a wonderful job soyou can still get shave. Non I'm
gonna I'm gonna jump in. I'vegot about thirty seconds and I want to
be able to answer your question.Uh, don't worry about it. Those

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holes are not something that's threatening thelife of your pecan tree? Are pine
tree? Sorry? Sor right?Uh? Anything in there? No,
don't don't worry about it. Ifthey if if they were in the inner
sap of the tree where they cando the damage, you would have sap
coming out of that tree. Okay, And so yeah, don't worry about
it. I don't know what madethem, but that's not what we're looking

(02:03:30):
for. I think you're okay onthat. It should be good to go.
Sorry to have to run short,but we got to go to a
break here. I'll stick a littleprobe in there every so and to see
if it's wet. All right,there you go on. All right,
thanks sir, appreciate that call George, and we come back. You'll be
our first up. We're gonna takea quick break here if you want to
get on the boards to talk.This is our last hour of the day
seven one three two one two ktr H. I'll be right back.

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Welcome back to garden Line. Goodto have you with us. We got
plenty talked about, and looks fromthe look of the boards, a lot
of people want to talk too.If you've been to Enchanted Forest recently,
that's the garden center that's down inthe Richmond Rosenberg slash Sugarland area. In
other words, if you are inRichmond and you're heading up towards sugar Land,

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it's off to the right and ChennedForest is on FM twenty seven fifty
nine. But let me tell youthis place always is stocked full of quality
plants. Right now, they havean excellent supply of many beautiful crape myrtles.
By the way, if you're goingto pick out a crape myrtle,
you want to get one that's gotsome disease resess since it possible. You
want one that's the right color.But almost most importantly, you want one

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gets the size you want. Doyou want it to be thirty five feet,
then buy one that gets that big. Do you want it to be
fifteen feet, Then buy one thatgets that big. That's what I'm saying
by the size. And they've gota good selection there an Enchanted Forest,
a really good selection. It isa beautiful pottery too, some of the
stoneware, the Talavera types of pottery. It's just so colorful. It's it's

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gorgeous, absolutely beautiful, beautiful stuff. They have an excellent, excellent selection
of things that attract butterflies. Whetherit's for the larval food sources or for
the adult nectar sources, they've gotthem. And it's no surprise. Intended
Forest is a fun place to visit. It is the kind of place you

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want to take your friends and go, allow yourself some time to wander around.
Quality staff, people that know whatthey're talking about. They can get
you set up so that you canhave success no matter what kind of gardening
that you want to do. That'sintended for us. It's on FM twenty
seven fifty nine down in the RichmondRosenberg area and you will enjoy your trip
there. I guarantee you will.It is that kind of I always look

(02:05:43):
forward to be able to go downthere. We're going to go now to
George in Jersey Village. Hello,George, Yeah, good morning, Skip
is good talking to you. Soanyhow, I've been saying your praises to
the sky to my brother who livesin Englewood, which is not far from
Lax and I wonder do you takecalls from southern California and stuff like that.
We get calls from all over thecountry, and so yes, we

(02:06:06):
can now my ability to help somebodyin another area, depending on what their
question is. You know, maybewe're limited, but yes, we do
take calls from him. Do youcan he listened to your program on the
website a website somewhere. He canlisten to the kt r H website or
the best way for someone to listento our program, I think, unless

(02:06:29):
they're just sitting at a computer,would be to do an app like the
iHeart Media app. If you gothere, you can look at Guardline and
you can listen live. But youcan also listen to past shows because we
put them up online as a podcastevery time. Yeah. Good, I'll
tell him all about you. Hewants to hear you. He's eager to
hear you. All right, good, Well, we'll see if we can

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help him out there in LA.They don't have any hard right, I
don't think so. I don't knowif that's going to work. All right?
Thanks year, Thanks George. Iappreciate thanks for being patient waiting.
I know you had to sit therea little while. Uh, let's go
now to East Texas wherever East Texasis and talk to Joshua Hey, Josh,

(02:07:10):
yes, sir, Hey, SoI'm I'm actually about two hours uh
east of Houston, okay, upnorth of Lumberton. North of Lumberton.
Form My question is I have alive I live rural, and at the
when I built my house, wedidn't have enough pasture for a horse.
So I said, well, I'lljust see my front yard with behayo.

(02:07:33):
Uh huh. Well, now nowafter two days after you mow your grass,
you've got one foot behave at thatseems like is there any way to
get rid of the behavior and notkill the rest of the grass that's seeing
augustine and the whatever native grass isthere? Well? Yes, and I'm

(02:07:53):
trying to think of the name.Oh my gosh, I might have to
hang on just a second here,Uh, there is a product that we'll
control bajea. Oh gosh, whatis the name of that grass? And
jeesh, let's see. I thinkI want to say that Celsius does.

(02:08:15):
Let me check and make sure Iknow. One called fahrenheit is pretty good
about that. But it depends thatfahrenheit isn't labeled for every kind of grass.
Gimme just one second here. Yeah, fahrenheit is save for Saint Augustine.
So fahrenheit and it's not gonna beone that's easy to find. Fahrenheit

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is not one that's just available everywhere, but if you find it, it's
gonna work on behea and be labeledfor Saint Augustine. There is another one
called manor m ano R Manner herbicidethat will kill bhea and can be used
in Saint Augustine. But when youuse Manner or Fahrenheit, you need to

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follow the label really carefully as tohow and when it's applied, and you
need to not over apply it,not over apply it. Uh, and
it doesn't It doesn't do well whenyou do it in super super hot weather,
So get it done early in themorning and be careful because it will
also damage trees and shrubs. Andpeople that think if a teaspoon's good,

(02:09:22):
a tablespoon's better and they drench iton they end up with damage to their
trees and shrubs. So follow thelabel real carefully and either of those will
control behand. Okay, thank youso much. Manner and Fahrenheit manner M
A n O. R. Manneris probably going to be the easier one
to find, but depending on whereyou are and what's available out there in
your area specifically, you may haveto search around a little bit. Okay,

(02:09:48):
thank you so much, you bet, thanks a lot. Appreciate that.
Appreciate your call very much. Nature'sWay Resources is having their summer sale.
Do you know that through July first? July first, you can get
thirty percent off of most of theirplants. Now excluded from that are native
sun perennials, but that's the onlything excluded, Native sun perennials. The

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rest thirty percent off their plants,and they have a really good selection of
Texas native They have an excellent selectionof plants for pollinators. Yeah, I
know Nature's Way. We think ofsoil and soil blends, and yes,
of course they're the place for that, but they've also got a nice selection
of natives. Now, this isimportant you need to listen to carefully.
If you tell them that you hearabout them on garden Line, you can

(02:10:33):
get twenty percent off of all compostproducts, multch products, and soil blends.
That is a good deal. Twentypercent off all composts, mulches,
and soil blends, Nature's Way resources. You got to just tell them,
hey, I heard about your guardline. I'd like to get that twenty percent
off discount on all those kinds ofproducts. And they can get you all

(02:10:54):
set up. We're talking about book, we're talking about bags and so on.
Nature's Way Reace sources are up theretoward Tomball off Interstate forty five R
where fourteen eighty eight comes together.You need to check them out. Super
super quality products and with a deallike this, don't pass this up.
This is a good deal. Youneed to jump on. We're going to

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head now to Richmond and talk toRoy. Hello Roy, Hey, good
morning, Skip. How you doingwell, sir? Thank you? How
can we help? Hey? Skip? We planted some tomatoes, some beef
steak tomatoes, so roma tomatoes,and for some reason, last year our
our fruits were very large, andthis year they are like half the size,

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okay, three side smaller. Isthere anything we can add to the
soil, you know the main there'stwo things that help with fruits, well,
three things that work on fruit size. Number one is the cultivar.
Each variety has a different genetic tendencyto be big or smaller medium. That's
one. Number Two. Is theplant stressed or not. And if the

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plants are struggling, and it couldbe struggling from too much water, from
not enough water, from lack ofsunlight, from diseases, you know,
anything that's stress in the plant willaffect fruit size. And then finally the
fruit load on the plant. Ifyou, you know, take out the
suckers where you're kind of pruning yourtomatoes and limiting the number of clusters,

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you're gonna have larger fruit. Andif you get a really heavy fruits that
you're gonna have larger or smaller fruit. And so though it's going to be
one of those things roy that's working, So does it need more vigor fertilize
it, Does it need so moisturewater? Does it need better drainage?
Don't overwater, you know, andsomething along those lines. Now that we've

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gotten as far into the season aswe are, all those larger tomatoes,
the slicers and the aromas and things, they're not going to set well.
The cherries and grapes do okay inthe heat. But I think your next
good fruit set's going to come inthe fall on your slicers. All right,
all right, gi Hey, thankyou for the information. I have

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a good day, yes, sir, good luck. Appreciate that. Appreciate
that very much. We're gonna nowgo to Houston. Talk to Susie.
Hey, Susie, Hi, sir, thank you so much for taking my
call. I appreciate your knowledge.I have about twenty cypress trees are about
four feet tall three and a halffeet four refeet tall. I planted them

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about a year ago. These werereplacement because sadly I lost the same amount
in the trout, okay, andthey were insured. So this is the
second I don't know if that makesa difference what I'm sharing with you.
I have been noticing that on someof the branches, about every fourth or
fifth tree, it's a beautiful rustcolored. You know, it turns the

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branches, you know, some ofthe I guess leaves, for lack of
a better word, I know withcypress trees a rust colored. And it's
not on all of them, butit gives me a little PTSD from that
drought because that's the color of them. When they were dropped dye. I
fertilized them actually at a hardware Iwent there and I got some fertilizer.
Okay, and about three weeks agoI put fertilizer on them. Okay,

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but you know they're still there.I just don't know. Can I do
something. They're on a sprinkler system. Am I using not enough? Too
much water? What are your suggestions? It's kind of hard to overwater a
cypress because they grow on a swamp. It's yeah, I wouldn't encourage overwater
in them, but if you're ifyou're keeping them fairly moist, I would
say when you water, give thema good soaking, let it dry out

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just a little bit. That's apretty good schedule for them. Rusting of
the leaves we call it. Icall it bronzing of the foliage. That
is typical of a stress cypress.Typically we see that towards the end of
summer, when it's been hot fora long time, it gets a little
on the dry side. They usuallybounce back from it. Cypress are pretty
resilient. And I agree your plantsare young and they don't have the root

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system development yet. You know,they came in a container and now the
roots are trying to establish and filla large volume of soil. So it
becomes a resilient plant, and inthis meantime, you're more prone to like
a drought injury kind of symptom becausethe roots zone is so limited. Okay,

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so maybe a little bit more,a little bit more water and then
let it try out and water itagain. Yeah, just just kind of
dig down about four inches. Butremember that cylinder that they came in.
The roots are mostly still there.They're slowly venturing out, but that's where
you need to focus your watering onuntil it gets that root system spread out

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wider. Okay, good, allright, Susan. I appreciate it,
you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate your call. You know,
the folks at the arbor Gate theyalways have every plant you need.
The Arborgate is the place to gowhen you need expert advice. It's a
place to go when you need somethingunusual. If you're trying to buy a
gift for Dad. Oh my god, they have gift shops galore. They've

(02:16:01):
got bling for the landscape, andthey have really cool plants. Maybe Dad's
into fruit trees, do you know? Arburgate sells fruit trees year round.
They've got their one two three easysystem, A soil a fertilizer and a
compost material all together. Three bags. You buy them when you buy your
plants, because that is going tohelp create that foundation for your plants to

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have success. Arbrogates outside of Tomballthose you haven't been remember, go out
round back on Trishal Road for yourparking and everything you need will be there
at Arbrogate. And by the way, I think on think on Dad's Day,
they're even having like jack and cokeor something like that. They're offering.
What a deal. I saw thatone the other day. It's like,
Okay, there's a reason to goright there alone. Hey, we're

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gonna take a break, time forthe news. I'll be right back.
Welcome back to garden Line. Goodhave you with us today? What do
we want to talk about? Yougive us a call, we will talk
about it. Let's jump right outthere to the phones. We're going to
go to West Houston and talk toRam. Hello, Randy, Hey,
good morning, Skip, Hope you'redoing well this morning. Thank you.
I've I've started on a long termproject here that I want to get your

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opinion on. I've started heart orstarted digging up a number of these oak
tree saplings that are starting to comeup from all the acorns that have been
dropping the last six or seven months, and I've been putting them into Dixie
cups that got holes in the bottomso that they're well watered and then drained,

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and I've been using uh Medina oncea week on them. And so
my my next question is is howmuch direct sun should they be getting each
day while they're in this process,And what's the next size of container I
should be considering. Okay, fullfull son is what you want now if

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you're I don't know how serious youare about the project or how many you
want to grow. If you're justa few, that's one thing. If
you're going to do more, thereare actually some special pots you can buy
that prevent the roots from going incircles around the container. They have holes
in the sides where the roots goout, and we say they burn off,
meaning the air causes a pruning ofthe root and it makes a denser

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root system and the container. Thosewould be the way to go for if
you were going to do a lotof this, if you're just doing it
on your own. I used touse the little square milk cartons. You
remember those days when you can buya little like a quart milk carton or
not even a half gallones a littlequart size or pint. Anything that creates
something that's not round that the rootwill hit the corners and go down is

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better if you have whatever it iswithout a bottom sitting on mesh on like
a quarter and tardark cloth or anythingthat's just a mesh. The roots will
hit the bottom and they will alsoair prune down there. And so as
you move them from the dixie cupto something else, cut any roots that
are going in a circle and theywill rebranch and put them in a new

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container that where they're going to godown and root. That's the biggest challenge
on new trees that are grown insomething small. As you get a root
that goes in a circle, andas you keep bumping it up, that
root gets bigger and the trunk getsbigger, and before long, when it's
in the landscape, you start tosee it decline because the trunk now is
being strangled by the root like alike an anaconda wrapped around something, strangling

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it to death. So that's whatyou want to avoid by that root pruning
or by trimming the roots when youbump them from the dixie cup on up.
So should I take them out ofthe dixie cup now and find these
type of pots that you're talking about? Would that be best? You could?
It would be best if you coulddo that, And depending on you

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know your level of do it yourselffor I mean, people will build things
to grow them in. Uh,but you can also buy it. There's
a number of places that will justsell you containers online. There's a place
called Greenhouse Superstore out there and livesin California that will sell containers for people
that are in the growing stuff ingreenhouses and things. But they also have

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those air pruning root containers out there. All right, air pruning that's what
I was saying. Air printing container. Yeah, yeah, air pruning container.
But it's real simple. It's likeinstead of a slick round container,
slick slided round container, it's gonnaeither have holes in the sides, it's
gonna have fins that direct the rootfrom just continuing to circle it hits the

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wall and has to go down becausea fin is sticking out inside the container.
Just do some online searching and you'regonna find what I'm talking about.
No, that's perfect, No,because I'm doing about one hundred of these.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,you got to buy some containers.
You gotta buy some and you canbuy a small one. There's a lot
of forms of them. They allwork as long as they prevent the circling

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route. Okay, super, okay, good luck. Look, thank you
very much. You take care byLet's see here. We're gonna now go
to Jason. Hello, Jason,how can we help today? Good morning,
sir. Yeah. So, theso my grandfather he recently passed away,
and he had about three crate myrtlesback in I guess it was last

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year of the year prior he hadsomebody to try to come prove them and
they just destroyed them. And Iknow about the creat myrtle murder and all
this odd what have you from,Randy the I wanted to see if you
had any recommendation on a professional servicebecause I'm not really too familiar on bringing
them back or revising them. SoI wanted to see if you had any
recommendations on professionals they might be ableto come out to help me. Yeah.

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Well, Martin spoon Moore at AffordableTree, he knows how to print
a crepe myrtle so I would youknow, that would be that would be
who I would call to have himcome out when you've got one that's been
butchered by the way. First ofall, I'm I'm sorry to hear about
the loss of your grandpa. Butthe uh, the when they've been butchered,

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they're again. What happens is peoplecut them off. They look like
the top of a fence post,and now they re sprout and you get
this what we call a crow's foot, all these shoots coming straight up.
If you can thin all of thoseout and leave one or two shoots where
instead of one branch, now it'sforked into two, instead of turned into
a crows foot, like you youpointed all your fingers straight up. You

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know, that's kind of what itlooks like when when we don't prove them
right. You can thin those outand do it yourself. But if it's
a bigger tree, it's a littlebit, you know, you need something
a little more on a on aprofessional level, I would I would call
Martin at the Affordable Tree. Doyou need a phone number for him or
a website? Serious? Well,I just wrote down Affordable Tree. That's

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that's in Houston. Yeah, it'sAfordable Tree in Houston. Aff Tree Service
is the website aff Tree Service dotcom and the phone number is seven to
one three six nine twenty six sixtythree. He knows how to print a
tree and he can certainly take careof it. And there's no big rush

(02:23:16):
on it. I mean, youwant to get it done sooner rather than
later, but it's not like ithas to be done this week. Yes,
sir, no, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for your
time. All right, good luck, wish you well with that. Thank
you, Thank you, sir.Bye bye. All right, let's see
here. Well we're going to gonow out to Cleveland and talk to Sonny.
Hello, Sonny, Yes, sir, good morning. How are you

(02:23:37):
doing today, sir? I'm good, thank you. I had lots of
palm trees that died a couple ofyears back, well three years now,
and we had a high hard freeze, and you know, it look pretty
everything else, and I was thinkingyou'll be replacing. Can I replace with
the date trees and maybe coconut trees. You will really produce fruits in this
weather. Coconuts too cold, hardyor two call tender for us a date.

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There is a palm called a Pindopalm. It's a type of date
palm that is moderately hearty. It'snot the hardiest palm trees that you have,
but it's but it's there. Now, I know you're out. Pardon
p I n d o Pindo pendopalm. Uh. It's it's a moderately

(02:24:22):
heardy date palm. Uh. Now, if I were you, I would
I would probably call Verdant Tree Farm. Verdont has three locations in Houston.
There's one probably the one closest toyou is going to be the one in
the Heights, which is where Iten and ye'll come together. But vert
Patrick there they specialize in palms,and they know the different types, they

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know the heartiness, and he couldreally point you to what would probably be
the best for here. He mighteven I suspect he probably carries Pindo palm.
But you're, you know, beingup in Cleveland, you're it's it's
a little bit of a challenge becausethere's going to be one of those winners
that comes by. I move,I move now, and I'm an humble
Okay, well a little bit.It's still you know, it's it gets

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cold sometimes and you just got toaccept the fact that when we have one
of those doozy winters, Uh,it affects even hearty things here. But
uh, Verdant Tree Farm is thewebsite v E R d a n T.
Verdant Tree Farm. You can goonline and look at them. I
would go to the website because whenyou go there, what you're going to

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find is they have a list ofall these trees and include in a different
list for all the palms where youcan scroll through it and it will show
you each type of palm tree andit will tell you about it and how
well it does and stuff. ButI definitely would call them because appreciate it.
They're experts and they're going to havethe details you're looking for. Awesome.

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Thank you so much for you takecare of them else. Uh.
If you've got issues that are problemsin your lawn, like with bugs,
well nitrofoss bug out Max is anexcellent product for that. We're entering chinchbug
season, we will soon be cominginto sideweb worm season. Do you have
fleas, do you have ticks thatare down in the lawn or even ants

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crawling on the surface. Bug outMax is going to kill about one hundred
and thirty different kinds of insects.I'd say that's a lot. Just doing
you me a lot and within fortyeight hours when you put it down,
wash it in with a little bitirrigation, it's going to do its job.
Bug Out Max is widely available.You know, it's a nitrofoss product,
so you're going to find it allkinds of places. All our ace
hardware stores are going to carry nitrofossa bug Out Max. You're gonna find

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it down in Southwest feed and Fertilizer. There many many other places like nitrofoss
products. They're easy to find.Well, it's time for me take a
little quick break before we go intoour last segment of the day. I'll
be here right back. Welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good to
have you with us. We arelooking forward to visiting with you about the

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out. They'll look at what doyou need. Do you need just to

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product. We're gonna go out toAngleton now and talk to Jason next.

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Hello, Jason, Hey, Skip, are you? I'm good, sir?
What's up? Oh man? I'vewatched it eat a big breakfast here,
So what my question? As Skip, I built a house here in
Angleton, right on at the land. So I built it up, Son't
what's just out in this field?I went around the perimeter of it was

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like native. My theme was goingto be native evergreen. Did some oak
trees, pine trees, stuff likethat, yo, pun. But on
the internal part of the yard,I don't. I don't want to go
willy nilly and just oh, letme just throw red tipped potini over here
or something. I want somebody thatcan lay this out, but I want
it to be more like a Ineed something very specialized, like a zoo

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thing. Well, you go intothe Houston Zoo. You got raised beds,
drainages and mine. You have sidewalks, water garden. Who in the
heck is knowledgeable enough design your outsidelandscape? But incorporate the sidewalks, the
flower bed water. You're going tohave a backyard patio, Yeah, or

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rocks, but that's something I justhave to have in my mind. Yeah,
you know, I just I don'tknow the landscapers down in your area,
specifically down here to tell out hereuntil you're garding up. I mean,
yeah, I put some rocks in, it'll throw some plants from Yeah,
but you're you're wanting more. Iused to work with and college station

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when I was going to school upthere, so I mean, and I'm
older, so I just don't Idon't have the back for doing that,
but I want to get to anotherlevel, if you understand. So I
figured maybe in the Houston area itwould be somebody. Well we got some
we got some good Yeah, wegot some good ones. The one that
I'd like to recommend for you isPierce Scapes. But they just don't go

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down that far south. They stopat about I ten uh, maybe a
little below item, but not notall the way down to Engleton. Uh,
you know, so, I mean, actually Pierre Pierce will go a
little wider than that, a littlefurther than I ten. But my point
is just there there. I don'tthink they're gonna come down as far as
you are. You could try givingthem a call. You could try giving

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them a call. Maybe they wouldknow someone down in that area they'd recommend
to you. They might, theymight somebody League City gals, And I
think they would travel over here.We're not that far away, yeah,
from either over those areas, andyou know the internet well and and some
something else you might want to do. Uh, you may want to call,

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like calling Enchanted Forest, which isjust you know, just kind of
a little bit south of Richmond,Sugarland area, uh And and they they're
pretty close to you, and justsay, hey, do you know any
good landscapers it would service this areabecause that's a quality garden center that's gonna
know. And you might I mighteven call Sienna Mulch and they're just north

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of you and say, hey,do you got a landscaper that you would
recommend and tell them what you wantAnd they're just up the road from you.
Sienna is and so they could probablykeep it. But before you start
a landscape, when you need tolay it out. So he's gonna lay
that design out, Yeah, youneed somebody that's gonna draw it out.
Somebody. Yeah, I just goto a landscape. There's landscape designers and

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landscape architects. Well, I mean, if you're talking about doing the taj
Mahal here, yes, I wouldhire a la a landscape architect, a
landscape designer in there. If you'rejust talking about a standard you know,
kind of home landscape, a goodquality landscaping company that offers that service,
ought to be able to draw somethingout for you. Now, you know,

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like I said, give give Piercecapesa call, knowing that they're probably
too far north. Maybe they woulddo the drawing if you send them some
picture. I don't know, butyeah, but just basically that's it.
You got it. I appreciate allright there, all right, Jason,

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thank you appreciate that call. Hey, I'm going to run over here to
Turker and Conro. Can we dothis in a few seconds here? We
can? We can? Yeah?Yes, sir, so I got got
Thank you And also a quick question, thank you because last time I called
you, I had a I liveup in Dallas and I asked for a

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I asked for a recommendation and whoto go through for landscaping. And you
recommended me to Scotti Rigsby and he'sgreat. Yeah, he came and hey,
I'm afraid, I'm I'm afraid you'regonna run out of time. How
can I help you with this BermudaBermuda heights cutting heights two inches. I
couldn't decide on the blade height.I'm sorry, We're in a time.

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Two inches is what I would recommend. That's the easiest level to main contain.
You can go a little lower ifyou need to. That's a busy hour.