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Welcome to Katie r. H GardenLine with Scared Rickard's crazy trip. Just
watch him as many good things tosepty not a sound sun beam done.

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Good morning, Good morning, welcometo garden Line. Boy. We are
ready to go today. We gotplenty to talk about. You know,
it's summertime and it's a little hotand uncomfortable to be outside during the heat
of the day. But there's alot of things we can get done with
a little early morning, a littlebit late afternoon hours as well. I

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even take advantage of the mid partsof the day to get some other things
done. Perhaps inside we've been pottingup some string ofves. Do you know
what I'm talking about? String ofves? My wife has a bunch of different
kinds of string, string of purple, string of tears, string of bananas,
string of turtles, all that kindof thing, string of pearls.

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Anyway, getting some of those repottedup, doing some propagating on them.
By the way, succulents are oneof the most popular plants and have been
for a number of years now.Just really grew in popularity because they're so
easy to care for, you know, with succulents. But the worst thing
you can do is water them toomuch. But if you ignore them,

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if you neglect them, if youforget them, they just have the ability
to hang on and wait for youto show up again and take off growing
again. And boy, they're fun, they're easy, and they're so many
kinds of succulents, Lots and lotsof options out there, and this would
be a great time when you're outand about visiting garden centers. Pick you
up some of those, bring themhome. Some of our garden centers are

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doing a great job of putting togethercombination planters of all kinds. You can
do a combination planter for succulents.And whereas with most things we put in
a container, I'm telling you onecontainer size bigger than you think. You
know, go bigger, go bigger, more soil, more moisture holding ability.
Well, with succulents, you canput them in things that don't have
as much. In fact, you'reless likely to overwater a succulent if you

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don't put it in too much soil. If you take a you know,
you can have a succulent that's inI don't know what two cups of soil
and it's got strings hanging three feetdown all sides, and it's perfectly happy.
It dries out quickly, which iswhat it wants. It doesn't want
to sit there and soggy wet soil. And it's just an easy plant to
grow. And you know when youbuy from a nursery that knows what they're

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talking about, and that would includeevery one of our sponsors here on Guarden
Line. You can talk to thefolks. They understand the plants, they
understand how to take care of them. If you have issues, they help
you with that, and that isso valuable. Plus it's more fun to
shop at those places. They justhave more selection than knowledgeable staff. Though
I think that you can't you can'toverestimate the value of that. And I

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see so many people go home withplants from places. Well, let me
just say, you will not beeven be shopping at because the plants are
not in good condition in many cases, and they may not even be plants
that need to grow. Here,I just cringe when I'm trying to stay

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out of the naming game here.But you probably can figure out the kind
of places I'm talking about when yougo into those places and you see things
for sale that don't grow here.They will not grow here. They are
destined for death in our climate.And it's because some national company is ordering
them for all the stores. Iguess. I don't know how that works,
but it doesn't make sense. Goto a good garden center and right

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now succulents are a cool thing topick up. I hope you'll consider doing
that. You're listening to garden Line. It kind of would help for me
to give you a phone number sincethis is a call in show. Uh
seven one three two one two fiftyeight seventy four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four, giveus a call listen if you have been
Maybe you're okay on your lawn fertilizer. You've got that covered for summer.

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When was the last time you putdown the azamite application. Asamite is the
micronutrient, the trace mineral supplement thathelps make sure the bank account has the
small things that are essential for plantgrowth. They're not needed in quantity,
but they are absolutely needed. That'sazamite. Asimite Texas dot com is the

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website azimite Texas dot com. Youcan find azamite everywhere. It's easy,
easy to find. When we talkabout feet stores and garden centers and ace
hardware stores and Southwest fertiliz All theseplaces you hear me talk about, they're
going to have as might And that'ssomething you don't do it every time you
fertilize. You just once a year. Even best thing of all is just
have a soil test done periodically andsee where you are on nutrients, because

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nutrients are essential and a nutrient balanceis very important, and so I encourage
sol testing whenever you get a chance, and especially though, make sure if
your soil is lacking some micros isa mite important thing to know. I
was up in the Tumbul area theother day and D and D Feed Store
is your local feed store on thewest side there of Tombul on twenty nine

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to twenty. I always like tostop in at D and D because they
have a good selection of all thekinds of things that you would need in
order to have success. So likeif I talk about fertilizers, you're going
to find them at D and Dfeed. When we talk about things like
a soil blends, a D andD is going to have things like the
aged leaf mold compost. It's soimportant for a top dressing. And I

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don't talk. I don't mention thisenough and I should more. But it's
you can do the complete yard deeptinme aerration, you know core aeration.
You can do the top dressing ofcompost over the whole yard. That's a
great idea. It's especially helpful whenyou have a heavy clay or a compacted
type soil. But if you're justpatching up spots, grab you a few

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bags of age leaf more compost,like a D and D feat and put
it out, sprinkle it out.You only have to put it about third
to a half inch deep over thearea, so even a bag goes pretty
far and that will help patch itup. I've got a spot that is
struggling with some take all root rotthat has come in due to some stress

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from excessive shade. And so thefirst thing I did was, you know,
puur in the trees to get alittle more light in there. This
happened to be a big old matches, crape myrtle, and then secondly,
do some air rating, just handaer rating in that because it's a small
area, and then leaf more compostover the top. That's what we've done.
We've got it we're bringing it backalong with regular watering to keep it

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happy. But anyway, place likeD and D Feed, you're going to
find heirloom rose soil, You're goingto find the fruit berry and citrus,
the veggie and herb soils, andevery kind of product you need to control
pest, weeds and diseases in yourlandscape. D and D Feed again,
they're on the west side of Tombulltwenty nine to twenty. If you want
to give them a call to eightone three five one seventy one forty four.

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Say hey to them when you goin. I think you'll enjoy also
seeing when you walk in if youhaven't been there in a good while,
you're gonna be surprised at the newmaterial that they have that. Of course,
they expanded the store last summer andit just is a great place to
shop. If you'd like to aska question or discuss something that you're dealing
with, give us a call atseven one three two one two kt r

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H. I'll be right good tohave you with us today. Again,
if you'd like to give Uskull sevento one three two one two k t
rh ktr makes it easy to diethat way. I hate you just a
kind of public service announcement if you'redown anywhere near the Richmond area today after
the show starting in other words,at ten am this morning, going to

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noon, Enchanted Gardens is having aContainer Herb Gardening class now Maria, who
is their magician of all kinds ofcombination planters. If you've been to Enchanted
Gardens, you have seen the work. It is beautiful. And I'm telling
you a combination planter is so beautiful. Whether it's flowers or herbs or even

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vegetables, there are a lot ofways to combine things to make it really
really interesting. Today there'll be thatclass, and that is going to be
from ten am to twelve noon ContainerHerb Gardening. She's going to share how
to combine things, how to putthem together. The cost is based on
kind of what you select. Youknow, you pick out the plants you

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want to put together, you purchasethose plants, and they're going to help
you learn how to create that kindof beautiful, beautiful planting. By the
way, if you haven't been toEnchanted Gardens, first of all, you
need to crawl out from under arock, because pretty much everybody has.
I think by now it's on FMthree point fifty nine north of Richmond.
So if you're heading up toward KatieWay from Richmond at trut there, and

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while you're out there, you needto check out some other stuff. They've
got some really cool plants. Forexample, have you seen the Texas sage
blooming all over town? The TexasAge is kind of the color varies from
kind of a pinkish, there's somewhite versions, kind of lavender colors,
beautiful shrub. It grows wild outwest to San Antonio. You see it
out in the hillsides out there.So that tells you how much water it

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needs, which is none. Tellsyou how much care it needs, which
is essentially none. You can dosome pruning and things on it. But
they've got some beautiful and so theygot one called silver Star that has silvery
foliage. And so following periods ofrain, the Texas Age just bursts out
and blooms. We see those cyclesall through the year. And I'm telling
you there are very few plants that'lltrack the honey he's in Like that plant.

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When it blooms, it's like anotice goes out to all the bees
and they show up. But whileyou're riding in Jenny Gardens. Why don't
you grab you one of those Texassages. The one called Silver Star is
just one of many beautiful ones thatare out there. Excuse me. This
past week have been working on myyard. I let mowing get away from

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me. And I'm the guy whotells you the most single most important thing
you do to your lawn to makedensity is mow it. Sunlight's important,
fertilizers important, water is important,of course, of course, but mowing
regularly creates density, and I letit get away from you. I've had
some things going on here and therewhere I can't get around to mowing my
lawn. Finally did cut it wayback, and now it's time to start

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over again on regular mowing to createthat density. That's an important aspect of
long care. Another important aspect is, of course, fertilizing your lawn.
If you haven't fertilized your lawn thissummer, now's a good time to do
it. I create a schedule thattwo schedules that are on my website,
gardening with Skip dot com. They'refree, you can download them. They

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got the products, they got thetimes you apply them. It's all really
easy, really easy to do.But if you haven't fertilized yet, or
you look at the schedule and go, well, the schedule said do it
back here, and I didn't getit done, then then go ahead and
do it now. You can stilldo it now. The product that will
release those nutrients rather quickly for youin an organic type form is sweet Green.

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Sweet green is made by nitrofoss andsweet green is naturally occurring. It's
made from a molasses space and itwill absolutely energize the beneficial bacteria in the
soil. That's why organic gardeners putmolasses in the soil. It helps with
all the microbes that are there helpingyou in your plants. Sweet Green's eleven

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percent nitrogen, very high percent foran organic type product. I would recommend
using it this way rather than creatinga flush excessive flush of growth. Why
not split that sweet green in half. And you're going to want to put
ten pounds per thousand square feet ofsweet green, So do five pounds now
and six to eight weeks from nowit do the other five pounds. Just

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small doses. You know. Wecan use a slow release product and get
gradual release, or we can takea not slow release product and immediate release
and put it on in small amountsand in a period that could be two
or three applications. And that's whatI would do this summer at this point
in time. Starting off with thatsweet green, Let's take the ten pounds
and cut it in half and doit in two about six to eight weeks

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apart. I think you'll be verypleased. It dissolves quickly, it moves
down in the soil and the plantswill respond. You will see a really
nice response. You can buy sweetGreen many places. If you're up in
the Willis area, Grows Outlet hasit up in the Woodlands, you're going
to find it at all Spa AceHardware Shades of Texas as well, and
then in the Memorial area Memorial Drive. Ace City Hardware is another place you

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can find that sweet Green. You'relistening to Garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and we're here tohelp you have a more bountiful garden,
a more beautiful landscape. That iswhat it's all about. Gardening is
the best hobby in the world.It just is. And for those of
you who haven't gotten around to ityet, that's okay. Just one of

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these days, I'm gonna talk youinto it. I think we need to
find gateways into gardening, you know, like gateway drugs into gardening, such
as taking care of house plants,or learning to propagate plants, or just
a few plants in a small areafor cut flowers to bring in. There's
so many ways. If you havea five gallon bucket, you can drill

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some holes in it, fill itfull of a quality product, like a
veggie and herb mix for example,that would be a good one, and
then plant some herbs in it,plant a pepper in it for plant a
small tomato. Five gowns a littlesmall for a tomato. But you can
do it. There's lots of thingsyou can and grow and kind of start
getting your feet wet and trying outguarding. I'd encourage you to do that.

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It is a lot of fun,it's not hard to do, and
the best thing of all is I'mhere officially giving you permission to fail.
That's right. Didn't that sound strange? Where that come from? I'll tell
you why I have failed at growingthings many times in my life. Listen,
to be a good gardener, yougot to kill a lot of plans.
That's one good way to look atit. That's what I call the

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permission to fail. No, we'renot killing them on purpose, but you
never know. You know, naturehas throws its curves, and sometimes we
try something that doesn't want to growhere. Sometimes we try it in a
way that doesn't work. Really well, that's okay. You just learned something
and became a better gardener. Andgardening is not like you're painting your house.

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You know, you paint the wholehouse and you look at it and
you go, oh, I hateit. Now I got to hire somebody
to paint the house again. Gardeningis a constant rearranging. It's like inside
your house, you rearrange the furniture. You may add some new chair,
couch, your love seat here,you may put in new curtains, or
you may move this from here toover there. And you see what I'm

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saying. Gardening is that way youcan do from A to Z the whole
yard from scratch. Good luck withthat and bring your checkbook. Or you
can just do it a little ata time. You know that front flower
bed that needs redoing, you canredo that bed and just make it look
nice. Maybe it's just reshaping thebed so it's a nice flowing bed that

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has a more esthetic shape and morebalance to it. Didn't matter what you
want to do. It may justbe putting in one plant like that silver
star sage I was talking about danin Chinne Gardens. It may just be
putting that one plant out in asunny spot so in the brutal heat of
summer we get a little rainstorm andboom, you've got beautiful color. Whatever
you do, have fun doing it, and keep listening to garden Line and

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call us when you have problems.Let's help you get it right. Because
this is a really fun, relaxingand healthy both physically and mentally healthy hobby
and you can have success. Youwill. Don't give up, just keep
keep trying and get good advice.One of the things I often say on

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garden Line is the brown stuff comesbefore the green stuff. Take care of
the soil first, and then getgood plants, put them in, and
that's the steps to success. Anotherthing I say is there aren't any brown
thumbs that are only uninformed thumbs,and we're going to inform your thumb.
When you see somebody that can growthings and you can't grow things, it's

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not because they have some special kindof thumb. It's because they've learned some
things. Maybe they got lucky andlearned them that way. Maybe they paid
attention and learned them that way.Whatever it is is you get the right
information on how to create success,you get better and better at it,
and your thumb gets greener and greener. So in the meantime, let's keep
listening to guard Line. If you'vegot a question, you'd like to give

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us a call about seven one threetwo one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three, two one two fiveeight seven four. One of the important
things for summer is making sure thatyou do not leave bear soil anywhere on
your property. Where the soil isbare, nature plants of weed. Wherever
sunlight hits the soil, nature plantsa weed. That's how it works.

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Mulch is your friend. Mulch doesa number of things. It blocks the
sunlight out so weed seeds cannot germinateand establish successfully. That's important. It
prevents erosion when we get the gullywashers, and we've already had them this
year, already more than one.It also help prevents crusting when when rain

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hits the soil and then it driesout. You get this little shell,
this little crust over the surface,and many types of soils and mulch helps
prevent that. One of the mostimportant things it does in summer is moderate
soil temperature. It is bla hothere and you can measure the temperature an
inch deep or even three inches deep, and it's hotter than roots are gonna

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thrive in. It just is,and that's taking away some of your root
zone of your plant. And theroots tend to be up near the surface
where there's good oxygen. And ifyou make that area too hot by not
mulching in the heat of summer,then you're just dressing your plants. Mulch
is wonderful and the folks at Landscaper'sPride have a number of excellent mulch products.

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They've got their black Velvet and thatis a beautiful velvety, dark,
naturally dark, not dyed mulch thatis excellent for use in your plants.
You can find it in bags allover town. The hardwood mulch is another
good one. Ground up hardwood.This is ground up the trees. The

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hardwood is a clear lands. Theytake down trees and things. They grind
that up and make a mulch outof it. That's excellent. This isn't
ground up palets like Jo products willbe. You do not want that.
It's pine bark Moltz. There's anotherone, probably their most popular one,
very slow to decompose. And thenthings like cedar and Cypress. Cedar and
Cypress both are very nice natural multus. I like cedar because initially you know

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it comes out with this wonderful airaroma, beautiful natural red streaking through the
mulch. Cypress is very durable andvery very i'll say heavy, and that
when it gets wet, it staysin place and doesn't just float around and
go places. Very light colored.All from Landscaper's Pride. You can go
to Landscaperspride dot com find the storesthat carry it. But I can just

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tell you this, it is verywidely available in the human Houston area.
Whichever molts you choose, get itdone and keep it done, meaning add
to the mulch as needed. Multdecomposes away where it touches the soil.
That's how the forest floor works,and so you have to top it off
each time. Don't take the ulmulchaway that's just getting really good for the

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soil. Just add some new tothe top. But just remember this.
Wherever the sunlight hits a soil,nature plants a weed, so don't let
it get the surface of the soil. It's time for me to take a
break for some news here. Ourphone number is seven one three two one
two k t RH if you'd liketo give us a call broadline. Glad
you're with us today. Good tohave you with us today. Listen,

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we've gotten that rain recently, andoh boy, do we ever get some
rain. Most of you did itat least, and some of in excess.
When that happens, your clay soilswells up. It literally gets bigger,
It literally swells up. And thenwhen it gets dry. A lot
of our clay soils have that samecharacteristic. They shrink down. And that
movement, that soil movement. That'swhy when you down drive through streets downtown

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and you see it's like you're drivingdown a mountain range. You know the
street is buckling and pushing up andsinking down, and that's from the movement.
It breaks water lines, it's notpowerful, and it breaks foundations,
and it breaks sidewalks and it breaksdriveways. Fix my slab Foundation repair is
a place that you want to callwhen you're dealing with anything like that.

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Ty Strickland's been doing this for twentythree years. It's a local small business.
But I'm telling you he knows whathe's talking about. He's got the
experience. I've sat on him withhim and picked his brain and just learned
a lot about the whole world ofsoil movement and the effect that has on
foundations and other things. Do youhave sicky doors in the house, that's

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a possible sign of movement. Doyou see cracks in the brick or cracks
in your sheet rock indoors. Don'twaste time. It's not going to get
better, it only gets worse.So give him a call. You can
reach time. Let me give youa phone number two eight one two five
five forty nine forty nine two eightone two f five forty nine forty nine.
Or go to the website fixmyslab dotcom. Let me tell you something

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about tie in his business. Heshows up on time, he fixes it
right, and he does it ata fair price. What more can you
ask from any kind of a servicecompany? On time, fixed right and
fair price. That's fixed. Mylab foundation repair Tietrickland two eight one two
five five forty nine forty nine ourphone number if you'd like to give us

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a call seven one three two onetwo K t R H. And we're
going to head straight out to thephones now and talk to Troy and Plantersville.
Hello Troy, and welcome to gardenLine. How's it going? Hey?
I got me thinking about fifty areathat I'm working with and it's I've
tore it down because I'm doing somelandscaping in it and it's uh clay,

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and I want to bring it back. And I got a tractor with a
killer on the back that I wasgoing to kill it up. Can I
put regular tree uh chippings that's comingfrom the trees, that from the chippers.
Can I put that in that mixmix that into soil to bring it
back? Well, I wouldn't mix. Yeah, I wouldn't mix those chunky

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wood things in the soil. Well, that is fine for use as a
surface mult you know, shredded whateveris fine to use as a surface mult.
I would The thing is when weput a lot of undecomposed wood type
material in the soil, it tiesup nitrogen quite a bit and that eventually

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that balances back out. But wewould rather use something that's already decomposed in
the soil. That's why you alwayshear people talk about putting compost and bed
mix things like that in the soil. Now, if you're not going to
deal with that soil for a longtime, if you're not going to plant
in it, and you know it'sgonna be six months or something, you
could mix some things in the soil. But the bigger and chunkier it is,

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the more the soil is going tosettle down as it decomposes away.
And it just for some kinds ofgardening things like planting seeds, it's very
hard to plant them when you don'thave a nice fine seed bed mix.
You know, when you got bigchunks, do what I want to do
in that area? Well, youknow one thing I might do is pile

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it up and let it decompose.And if you got the equipment sounds like
you do, uh, you know, every month or two, just turn
that pile over and mix it alittle bit and let it keep decomposing,
and then you're going to have somethingready to go right into the soil.
If you want to go that route. So that's another option there. But

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yeah, if you mix it again, I got it, it'll settle in
time. But yeah, okay,because I got something's about four years old
is sitting there too, just multimulting away, you know, decomposing too.
So yeah, okay, yeah,And so I'd scrape the outside of
that pile off because it's not goingto be decomposed on the outside, just

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like leaves on the forest floor ontop or not decomposed. Uh, And
get to the stuff down in thepile that is breaking down well and use
that material. That's why I saidmix the piles occasionally because and you may
even have to water them occasionally,you know, get them wet again,
and that helps the decomposition. Allright, that'll work, all right,

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appreciate it sounds like a plant drug. Hey, thanks for the call you
Yes, sorry, take care.Yeah, that is that is important.
I'm going to go now to belAir and talk to Beth. Hello,
Beth, good morning, Good morning. I have a question about poison ivy.
I have been fighting poison ivy ina bed with an oak tree and

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some you know plants that I wantto keep, and now I have discovered
in another part of my yard.I've been trying to pull it out,
but it's gotten beyond beyond that stage, and I was wondering, Okay,
what can I do to try andget rid of it but not damage you
know, trees and other plants thatI want to keep good. Question,

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So is the poison ivy a littletiny spinley stemmed plants still very small or
is it something that has a trunkon it, like the size of one
of your fingers are bigger? Mostof it is small. There's one area
in a bed that I haven't gottento because it's it's gotten so overgrown.

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But it's in some lagustrum which aresurrounding my air conditioner condensers outside and we
had to have one replaced, andI just want to get it out of
there. I was waiting for thereins to try and pull it out,
but I thought, if there issomething I can spray on it, you
know, protect everything else around andsystemically it gets drawn in, I would

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I try and do organic, butI'm really allergic, and so it's most
other people in my family, soI'm just I don't know. I don't
know an organic there's an ivy controlthat's it's very effective. But there is
a product ingredient called triclo pier tryas in tricycle clowe pier tr i c

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l o p y r, andyou'll find it in things like brush and
stump killer poison ivy killer. Buttriclop pier is what you're looking for,
and that's going to help you getto the You know you're down in bel
Air. You're not far away fromSouthwest Fertilizer. Oh, they know me.
I go there all the time.Well, just go in there and

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say I need some triclo peer forpoison ivy. And then what you're gonna
do now. Triclo peer kills thingsthat are broad leaf, especially effective against
woody things that many other broad leafkillers won't kill. So if you've got
it on a little augustrum and youspray it, you kill the lugustrium and
the poison ivy. So what you'regoing to need to do is go down

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to where the stems are and Iwould take the straight tricle peer, And
if you want to be extra effectivein that, you could mix a little
bit of like an oil product.People typically will use diesel, which is
an oil, but you could useeven a cooking oil. Put a little
bit in the straight tricle paer andthat helps it stick to the surface of

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the thing. Get you a littletiny foam brush, you know those little
things you get for painting, thoselittle brushes with a wooden handle. Just
get one of those and dip itin that and then just paint it right
on the stem of the plant.You don't have to do the whole stem,
just even a section, you know, four to six inches long.
Get it all around that and it'llsoak into those tissues. Now, if

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you ever have to cut a poisonivy off, dab the fresh cut immediately
with the same thing. In fact, you don't have to have the oil
for that, but just dab thecut with that. If you've got areas
where there's poison ivy and not adesirable plant, you can spray the tricle
paer on the foliage of the poisonivy, but it moves down. It
does a good job. Sometimes youhave to do another application, depending on

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how strong the plant is and howmuch you get on it. But that
is the best way to do withpoison ivy and any other kind of witty
weed that shows up in your landscape. I really appreciate it. Thank you
so much. All right, goodluck, Thank you for your call.
I appreciate that very much. We'regonna have to take a little break here.

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I'll be right back when we comeback. Let's see Terry and Steven.
You'll be our first two up yoursummer get away from the shoot.
Good to have you with us,looking forward to talking about the things that
most interest you. That's what wetry to do here. If you're done
in the League City area, yourlocal hometown feed store, and we do

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love feed stores. Here on GardenLine is League City Feed. League City
Feed has been around for forty yearsnow. In other words, they know
what they're doing and you get thesame kind of old fashioned service that they've
always provided there at League City Feed. They, by the way, are
a few blocks south of Highway ninetysix on Highway three in League City.
So you're heading across ninety six,just turn south on Highway three just a

(29:57):
few blocks and it'll be if youturn south, that'll be there on the
left hand side. They serve SantaFe. They serve Webster, Clear Lake
City, Lamark Baycliff, San Leone, El Camino Real. That whole region
down there. They're open from nineam to six pm Monday through Saturday,
clothes on Sunday, so anytime,even if you're at work through the week,

(30:18):
you can just head right after workswing by there on the way home,
grab the things you're looking for,such as I was talking about azamide
earlier. They carry nitrofoss products,microlife products, Nature's creation, Nelson plant
food, airloom soils, all thedifferent kinds of brands that you may hear
me talk about here on guardenline,pesticide, herbicide, fungicides to control the

(30:38):
things that are messing up your garden. They can help you with that as
well. Phone number if you wantto give them a call two eight one
three three two sixteen twelve two eightone three three two one six one two.
Of course, it's a feed store, so you're going to find everything
for your backyard, chickens, forpet foods and whatnot. They're at League
City Feed City Feed just a fewblocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway

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three in League City. Let's headnow out to the phone. We are
going to go to Rosenberg, Texasand talk to Stephen. Hello Stephen,
Hello, my name step Yes sir, Yeah, how can we help welcome?
Regard line first? Foremost, Sir, I want to say, hey,
I've been listening to this show forprobably about fifteen twenty years, and

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I had a lot of time inwith Randy Lemon, and you have been
an excellent replacement for him, orthank you, I should say, yeah,
nobody replaces Randy, but I've enjoyedhere on the show for it.
That's good. How can we helpyou? So, I just got rid
of a water road thanks to thisstorm, and I'm looking to replace it

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with a jack Aranda. I don'tknow. I'm not sure if I'm saying
that correctly. It's a big purpletree. Internet of all of us wisdom
tells me they grow down here prettywell. I've never seen one down here.
Do you have any tips or adviceon how to get started with at
Randy used to always say, dorose soil for starting trees. But what

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do you got for me, sir? So? Jack aroanda is beautiful blooms,
but most of the trees that growfast are not strong wooded and long
lived and whatnot. So if you'relooking for a nice, big shade tree,
I'd go a different direction. Theblooms. I won't question the fact
that they are beautiful. I justwouldn't look at it, especially when you

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look at future storms and other thingslike that is probably the best choice for
that. There's a lot of goodtrees if you want small blooming trees,
if you want a big old shadetree, there's a lot of options out
there. But my advice would beto look elsewhere. Okay, how do
you feel about red maples? Redmaples are okay. They do have some

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issues. One of the issues withred maples. You know, every plant
has pros and cons. Stephen kindof like people, right, and so
red maples tend to have narrow branchangles, so you have to really work
with training them to keep them fromhaving limbs that are more likely to split.
They do okay here, and you'reeven further south than a lot of

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the listening area, being down beloweye ten. There they're not going to
have the color that you expect outof a red maple. Like if you
went up to the northeast during thefall and saw a beautiful maple color.
We don't quite get that color downhere. So one of the biggest pluses
of red maple we kind of don'tget much of so that's one reason why

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I tend to not put them highon the list. But there's nothing wrong
with planting one other than the branchangle thing. You just have to watch
for understood. If you have anysuggestions as far as what you think I
should put in. I'm looking forsomething with pretty blooms and it doesn't go
down here pretty blims. How bigdoes it need to be real big?
Or do you want a medium orsmall size tree? Or what are you

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looking for on size? If amedium or it can be it can be
huge though. The one that isit's replacing effectively was the giant water oak.
Run it out from the inside andluckily fell in my yard at out
of my house. Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm glad to hear that.
So. Chinese fringe is a smallto medium sized tree. It grows

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a little bit slower, but ithas beautiful shaggy white blooms that have a
honey like fragrance in the spring.That's a nice one. There are crape
myrtles that'll get thirty feet tall.Natchez is one that has beautiful cinnamon colored
bark and white blooms and if youtrain it and prone it. You can
make a single trunk tree out ofthem, or you can have multi trunk

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trees and they will cast nice shade, and of course they bloom for like
ninety days during the summer, threemonths of bloom. That's what a crape
myrtle can do for you. Sothat would be a good choice for that.
I'm trying to think. You know, as you get in a bigger
and bigger tree, Stephen, youdon't really get to see the blooms because
they're way up high, as opposedto a smaller tree where you have a

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line of sight on the blooms.So the bigger the tree gets, I
would say, the less significant thefact that it blooms is. You may
just start looking instead for something thathas good structure and long term health and
a good growth rate. Red oaksare that way. If your area is
a little on the web side redoak, I would plant the nut tall

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and newt l I may be misspellingthat by a letter. Nut tall red
oak is good if you have soggysoils. It's very tolerant of that.
It'll grow on not soggy soils too, but it's tolerant of soggy Shumart oak.
If you've got a really nice,deep quality soil, Shumart would be
a good red oak to plant.And then there is let's see, Mexican

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white oak grows at a very goodrate and it is a white oak that
it makes a beautiful shade tree too. And then we have things like Chinese
elm, Drake elm or other Chineseelms that have beautiful exfoliating bark that's gray
and rusty patched, and I thinkit would be another good choice. So

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there's dozens of good trees out there. Okay, took a lot. I
appreciate it, all right, Youtake care. I appreciate the call.
Thank you very very much. Speakingof trees, folks, Affordable tree Service.
Martin spoon Moore, boy, ishe ever busy right now? He
always is busy because he does agood job. But when we get storms

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in he's, you know, outdealing with the things that have happened since
the storm. What I'm trying toget you to consider is having Martin come
out before the storms, not rightbefore a storm, but like go ahead
and get on the schedule now withhim to come out and prepare your trees
for the storm and Just because youmade it through a hurricane barrel or made
it through the storms before, doesn'tmean that the next summer storm, hurricane

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or not, isn't going to causeproblems to your tree. That's just how
this thing works in nature. HaveMartin come out do some selective printing in
order to make your get the deadareas out of your tree, make it
safer during the heavy winds, toset your trees up to do the best
they're going to do. As faras being ready for a storm, I
can't express enough the importance of propertree care. As we move more and

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more into this storm season, it'spredicted to be a bad one with their
early arrival of barrel. So justget Martin a call seven one three six
nine twenty six sixty thirty. Letme say that again, seven one three
six nine nine two six sixty three. Or go to a f F Tree
Service dot Com, a f FTree Service dot in holland tell him your

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guardenline listener that gets you to thefront of the line because he does good
work, he stays busy. Orcall him back again and again because they
know the kind of word Martin.Though well, I hear the music that
means we're about to put this hourinto books and then Katie, you will
be our first caller if you canhang on until we come back out of
this break. Thank you for beingpatient on that you're listening to Garden Line.

(38:07):
I'm your host, Skip Richter ourphone number if you would like to
call Chris and get on the boards. Uh seven one three two one two
kat t r H. I'll beright Brown. Just watch you as many

(38:35):
good things to welcome back to theGarden Line. Welcome back. Good to
have you back. We've got plentyto go talk about here. We've got
some calls on the line. Ijust want to remind you that if you
are looking to renovate your landscape,or if you're looking to put in a

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brand new landscape, or if you'relooking to just do some small work here
and there. Maybe you need someirrigation work done, Maybe you need just
a bed redone, some new plants, put in a little bit of a
redesign on something. Maybe you wantto go all out and do landscape lighting,
you want to do hard scapes,you get the idea. Pierscapes is
a company that can do all ofthe above. Also, by the way,

(39:21):
they do quarterly maintenance. So ifyou just already have your landscape,
you're happy with it, you wantsomebody to come in and do trimming and
weeding and fertilizing, to inspect theirrigation in the beds, to do seasonal
color changes. As you know,you pull out the old flowers and put
out the new ones, add moltsto the surface, top it off.
Pierscapes can do that. Pierscapes isan outstanding company that does outstanding work.

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And if you don't believe me,just check out their website. In fact,
whether you believe me or not,please go to Pierscapes dot com pierscapes
dot com. You can see theirwork there and you see what I'm talking
about. You can give them acall at two eight one three seven oh
fifty two eight one three seven ohfifty sixty. No matter what you need

(40:05):
done, even if it's just quarterlymaintenance or if it's new installations, Peerscapes
can do it. And listen.Summer is a great time to contact him
and get that work done. Theyhave excellent crews out there. They stay
busy and you want to get onthe schedule get the plan done. Maybe
you need to sit down with them, do a little bit of a you
know, kind of a design outand plan and figure out what it is

(40:28):
you want done, and then havethem come out and get that work done.
Now's a great time to give thema call. Perscapes. We're going
to go back to the phones.Now, we're going to go to Sharon
and Katie. Hello Sharon, thanksfor waiting. Good morning, morning,
Thank you, Good morning. Ihave a question about my oak tree.
I have a question about my oaktree. Can you hear me? Yes,

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ma'am, go for it. Okay. The oak tree is probably thirty
five years old. I keep ittrim every other year. It's beautiful.
I discovered the other day. Solet's say the main trunk is about eight
feet tall, and then I havethree big branches that come out from that.

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Well in the middle there is alittle like cavern, and I noticed
the other day it fills with water. Yeah, what do I do?
Yeh? Well, so what's happened. A branch was cut or broke off
or something, and water got accessto that interior wood, which has no
ability to resist rot. And sobecause it was moist exposed to air and

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microbes and water, it's going tostart decomposing away, and a lot of
older trees have dark and partially hollowinterior areas just where branches over the years
have given that open the opportunity formicrobes to get in and start working on
the wood. You know, there'sno really covering that anymore. If it's

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an older tree, it's probably nevergoing to heal back over, even if
you provided it with some sort ofa little shelf for the callus to grow
over. So I would say thebest thing you can do is occasionally throw
some mosquito bit's up in that area, because mosquitoes will be very happy to
breed in that wet standing water insideof a tree hollow like that. That

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would be one thing to do.And other than that, you may want
to have an arborist come out andlook and see if there's anything they could
suggest. But most of the time, by the time you have a hollowed
out area that's reached that stage ofdecay, there's no fixing it. It's
not like you squirt something in thereand it stops the decay. I did
have a neighbor that said I didhave a neighbor that said, try expandable

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foam. Yeah, things have beentried over the years, from concrete,
which is a very big mistake,to expendable foam and creating a Yeah,
don't do the concrete one. Creatinga kind of a shelf with the expendable
phone and it sort of occupies thatspace. It's not going to stop the

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decay. The decay is already activeand going on down in there, and
it'll continue. If the hole wasa smaller one and you could create a
shelf with the expendable foam, thenmaybe as the callous forms from the sides
of the hole, it would itwould go across that equivalent of a shelf
and close over. That's the concept, but in reality that generally is not

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going to work, And especially ifit's a larger opening like you're describing,
I don't think you're ever going tosee closure on it go ahead. Probably
about the size of a large dinnerplate. Yeah, I think that's yeah,
I think that's that's too large.You probably heard me talk about affordable

(43:54):
Tree earlier. But I would giveMartin a call if you want to make
sure that there's nothing they can do. Just if there's anything they can do,
I would I would have him comeout and look at it. But
anyway, I've kind of the bottomline, right, Okay, I have
one more question. Sure, ifI have a tree removed and the stump

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grind, how soon can I installa new tree? And do I have
to get out all those chips orfine sand that they turned it into?
Got to get all that out.It's the more you get out the better
because all that woody, any kindof an organic material, as it decomposes
away, it shrinks down to nothing. And so what was a level area

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of soil is going to become ahole again as that sinks down, and
as the soil settles, So twothings are going on. The soil is
settling itself and the organic materials thechips are decomposing. So I usually try
to get as much of that asyou can. If you can't, then
leave it as a mound as opposedto flat, because it will sink down.

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And if you start with like apitcher's mound, then as it sinks
down, you end up more level. Okay, they ground it so much
that it looks like sand or soil. Does that make sense? In other
words, there's a bunch of chipsthere, right, And what about getting
out the whole stump. I'm surethey only went down a foot. That's

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all we need to do. Now, there are tree roots all over your
yard from that, and you're goingto see areas other areas where there was
a big root. Maybe of theroot was you know, big as you're
part of your leg and it's butit's underground somewhere and it's going to decompose
a way too. But you canput a new tree in that spot.
I might move over just enough tonot be right in that hole itself.

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That I think that would be you. I think you would longer term be
better served by that, unless there'sfor some reason you can't move at all.
The tree has to go right there, which I can't think of.
A one area where it would gois a small area and that would be
the center point where they took theold tree out that in other words,

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something else would look awkward if youanyway, okay, okay, thank you
for your all right, And likethe previous caller, like the previous caller,
been the longtime listener. Love RandyLemon, you're doing a great job
and I love listening to you too, and best of best swishes for your

(46:37):
future. Thank you, Thanks forthe kind words. Sure, I appreciate
that we're going to take a breakright now. When we come back,
Michael and Kingwood Shane, you'll beour first two callers up the back of
the garden line. Good to haveyou around today. Hope you are enjoying
the show. We certainly want youto. We want you to have success
with your garden, with your landscape. And if you like, you can

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us a called it's seven one threetwo one two fifty eight seventy four.
I do not know if you havebeen to Ana Plants and Produce. They
are up in the Montgomery area.In fact, if you are on Highway
one to five goes from Conroy toMontgomery, they're on the east side of
Montgomery. So all of you upthere in Lake Conro area, well they're
in your backyard. They've got somegood deals going on right now. All

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their hanging baskets are on sale.That you need beautiful ferm baskets or other
things. It's a great way todecorate a patio or a porch. Now's
a good time to do it.At A and A Plants and Produce on
Highway one to five and Montgomery.They also have a forty percent sale off
all of plants that they have goingon right now. That is that's a

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lot that's an incredible on a sale. You know when you go to Ana,
you're going to find every fertilizer Italk about on garden line, and
I mean that on nitrophoss and Nelson'sin microlife in Nature's Way and the heirloom
soils, the soil mix and blendsfrom heirloom soils and from Nature's way are
there. They have a landscape crewthat can come out and do some cleanup

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and work. If you're out therein the Lake Conroe area, you need
to give them a call A andA plants and produce swing by there.
Now is the time to get areally good deal on a lot of different
kinds of plant opportunities that you mightwant to put in. And remember just
because it's summer doesn't mean you can'tplant. Now's the time to get in
color that will carry you all theway up until it's time for fall planting.

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We had several months before we're talkingabout putting in fall flowers, so
take advantage of it. Let's havesome beautiful color so your landscape isn't just
a sea of green during the summertime. We're going to go out to Kingwood
now and talk to Michael. HelloMichael, and welcome to garden Line.
Thank you. I appreciate your callback. Here. I have a gallon jug

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that a purchase from Ace Hardware andKingwood. It's by Microlife and it's humous.
Plus I read the instructions to applyit. However, I'm not quite
sure the per application. I haveabout one thousand square foot of grass and
says to put like four to sixounces in the water. Do I put

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that in a sprayer that I puton my hose, Do I fill it
completely up? Or do I putit in a pump up sprayer with a
gallon the water? Well, youcould do the pump up. I think
the easiest thing is to hook upone of those sprayers to the end of
your end of your garden hose andput it in and you want to apply
it somewhere between three and six ouncesper thousand square feet. Okay, okay,

(49:39):
So however that little hose end sprayerworks, you can do it that
way. Get let me give yousomething. I was just talking about A
and A plants and produce. They'vegot some information on their I think it's
their Facebook page. I believe it'stheir Facebook page where it tells about differ

(50:00):
diferent ways of applying these microlife productslike seaweed and whatnot. And you ought
to just go check it out Aand A Plants and produce, go on
there and just have to scroll down. But it's from Microlife's Facebook page too,
but it talks about how to applythe different products. You can put
them in a watering can, youcan put them in a pitcher, you

(50:20):
can put it into your hose inspray er. You know, however you
want to go about it, okay, And what about the frequency on application
is that once every six months,once every three months? You know,
if you're using one of the productsthat we would consider more of a fertilizer,
then you would do that according tolike our fertilizing schedule. Depending on
the plant you're going after, likewith your lawn, you could do that

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several times during the summer season.If it's a liquid application, I've spread
them out about six weeks apart probablynow. If you're looking at something like
the humates plus there we're going afterthat concentrated compost and the benefits to the
microbe activity so you can apply thathowever you wish, as often as you

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want. You know, you canuse it in different ways. I wouldn't
just wait until you see a problemto use it. I would use it
on an ongoing basis to avoid problems. Okay, so something in the neighborhood
of every two or three months,apply it to the lawn. That would
be fun. And it's okay,Yeah, you could do that flower beds

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around the lawn. You can doit in anything. Humates. We're putting
hum mates down. Think of himas putting down concentrated composts. It's a
it's a carbon source that really helpsmicrobes which need carbon sources. And so
there's the granular form from microlife andthere's also the liquid form that you're talking

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about in the gallon, Joe,and you get same kind of idea,
same kind of ingredient. We're justapplying it in different ways. With the
granule, you're getting more of itin a granule that's going to go out
there. With the liquid, you'reapplying it in smaller amounts each time you
apply it. Same thing, okay, And do you water it in after

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you apply it? Or is theGordon hose enough when garden hoses enough.
I mean, you know, itwouldn't hurt to water it in a little
bit because with the humans, plus, we're not it's not a folier feed
that we're putting on the foliage likeseaweed or their ocean harvest would be Uh.

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It's more something we're wanting to getdown in the soil, and so
if you followed it with a wateringend, that would be fine. Uh.
It's gonna get watered in either way, you know, and when next
time it rains, next time irrigationcomes on. Okay, Well, appreciate
your show, and we'll get withyou again when we need some help here.

(52:55):
All right, Michael, thank you, thank you very much. I
appreciate your call. Yes, therebob, that is the case. We
want to make sure that we getthose ingredients into the soil. Very important.
And by the way, if you'reinterested, you're hearing him Michael and
I talk about Microlife. You cango to their website Microlifefertilizer dot com and
learn about hummates. Plus you canlearn about all their products and also where

(53:19):
to find them, which is Ican just give you the shortcut to that.
It's everywhere. If you hear metalk about a good garden center.
Ace hardware stores OUTUS fertilizer speed stores. They're going to carry quality products from
Microlife like that. Let's see,We're going to go now out to Shane.
Hello Shane, and welcome to gardenLine. Good morning, Good morning.

(53:44):
I wanted to say too, I'ma huge fan of the show and
even got my sixteen year old sonand seventeen year old daughters while I'm watching
it now are listening to it.Now They've they've become big fans. Whenever
they're they're always in the truck withme and they're like, man, dam
why are you listening to the allthe time? And then now they're loving
it, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, this is great.

(54:04):
You know how I have callers.Go ahead, I was gonna say,
Shane, I have callers from timeto time that they used to listen
to Dewey Compton in the same waywith their parents, wondering why is dad
listening to this or why is momlistening to this? And they're still Guarden
Line listeners. So good to hearthat. Exactly the generational thing. Now,
I just had a quick question aboutmy primeria. We've my my wife

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and I we you know, wekeep quite a few of them in different
pots and such, and uh wewe brought the plan in during the hurricane
and saved it and everything that wasno issue, and we kind of had
it underneath our patio for maybe abouta week or so, and then I
noticed that the leaves started to kindof droop a little bit. So I

(54:52):
was like, okay, well itneeds to go in ahead and go back
out where you know, it wasnormally put in the yard. It gets
a good amount of morning sun andthen in the afternoon it's it's kind of
shaded, and then it gets justa little bit of evening sun. And
of course, we you know,we water you know, pretty religiously,
like every either every night or everyother night, because we don't usually let

(55:14):
it go too far without having water. However, we've noticed that I guess
it was probably Wednesday, there wasa couple of leaves that were turning yellow
then, you know, like krispybrown. And it was like, oh,
okay, so you know, Ithought, well, maybe there was
just a couple of leaves that maybegot damaged or something. So I went
ahead and I plucked them off.Well, then I go out there this

(55:36):
morning, and I got about anotherfour or five on there, and I'm
like, oh no, this isnot good. And even the wandering Jew
that we have planted in the inthe bottom of the pot, you know
that kind of surrounds the perimeter ofthe of the pot. I'm starting to
notice a couple of leaves on thatthey're starting to go bad, and I'm
like, oh gosh, if it'shitting that too, I don't, you
know, I'm wondering if maybe afungus or something. Probably not. Diseases

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tend to be pretty specific to onekind of plant, and so I don't
think you have the same disease onwandering Jew as you would have on plumeria.
I think it's a water issue andplants, you know, they leaves
don't live forever, and so olderleaves can be cast off, and when
you go through fluctuations like a littledrowdy, a little too soggy, wet,

(56:22):
or fluctuations, we often see that. You'll even notice that on your
pothus ivy house plant. You know, you let it get a little dry
and then you water it and itperks up, but then the old leaves
try yellow and fall off. Andthat's just part of that's just kind of
how nature is. Make sure it'sgetting adequate moisture, makes sure not soggy,
but adequate, and make sure you'refertilizing it periodically to help, you

(56:43):
know, provide the nutrition that itneeds to support vigor and growth. And
even as older leaves might be lost, new leaves are going to be coming
on to replace them, and sojust a little bit of that leaf yellowing
and loss is not a big concernin my book. Okay, would just
be like a you know, justlike your regular uh you know, miracle
grow plant food. Would that beadequate enough? But like you were,

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that's not a fund That's not aone that I'm fond of. I think
Electropas makes a plumeria type food thatworks very very well. Uh know.
Some plant food makes a very goodplumera food too, And wherever you are,
you're going to find one or bothof those that do an excellent job
designed just for tropical blooming plants likeplumereas. Oh wonderful. I didn't.

(57:29):
I wasn't aware of that because yeah, I don't come the miracle grow stuff
for wherever, you know, yeah, just follow wonderful all right, wonderful.
Well, I appreciate it. Thankyou so much. Thanks for the
call. I appreciate that. Andwe are hitting up against a break here,
So Jody from West Columbia. Whenwe come back, you will be
the first caller up. In themeantime, if you would like to give

(57:52):
Crystal call, get on the boardsseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. I'll be right back. Yesterday with one of my kids and
we were looking at birds that areoutside in our landscape. I've got bird
feeders set so where I sit typicallyin the house in the especially in the

(58:14):
mornings, I can look out twodifferent windows and see two different bird feeders.
I like that. It's kind ofentertaining to see what's going on.
You know, Wildbird's Unlimited is thesource of everything bird and that includes good
information about birds. You can goto the website. In fact, I
write this down WBU dot com forwardslash Houston WBU dot Com forward slash Houston

(58:38):
that gives you the wabird stores inHouston. There's six of them. Wherever
you live, there's going to bea wallbird store fairly close to you that
you can run over to to pickup things like bird seeds, bird feeders,
bird houses, any kind of informationyou need. They got quality feeds
like nesting super blend. It's alwaysa good time to be using that.
I use it myself in my landEscape. They have wonderful feeders, lots

(59:02):
of different types, from tray feedersto the squirrel excluding feeder. That's my
favorite. One squirrel excluding feeder toyou just name it. If you can
imagine a bird feeder, they're goingto have it there at Wallbird's unlimited and
a quality version of that. Now, if you're going to take a trip
out of town, you need toconsider a seed cylinder. That is seed

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that is compressed into a cylinder,kind of like one of those candles that
you put on your table, youknow it stands up a cylinder. Well,
it's like that, but it's packeda bird seed and so it takes
them a while to pick that seedout of it, and so they don't
just grab a bite and run away. You get to watch them for a
little longer. And if you're goingon a vacation a trip out of town
for a little while, seed cylinderis the easiest, longest lasting, most

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convenient way to feed your birds andWabbirds Unlimited has those. They even have
them that have the hot pepper oilin them. So if squirrels come along,
ouch, they will not they willnot mess with that. They'll leave
it alone. So you can feedyour birds Birds Unlimited, wbu dot Com
Forward Slash Houston. You just needto go by Hey a little quick tip.

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The stores are air conditioned. Itwould be wonderful, a wonderful way
to spend part of your Saturday afternoonstopping in at a wild Bird's Unlimited store
to see what this is that Ikeep talking about as being such a cool
place. We're going to head nowout to West Columbia and talk to Jody.
Hello Jody, and welcome to gardenLine. Good morning ship. How

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you doing? I really enjoy yourshow. Thank you, sir. How
can I help? I think I'veoverdosed my yard. I've got about a
forty by sixty area of Saint Augustine, and early in the spring had a
lot of dollar week come up,and I took the chief chief way out
and I put a weeding feet onit. Waited a period of time,

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nothing happened. I did it again, nothing happened. I sprayed it with
image. Nothing happened. I sprayedit with two spots raid with two four
d nothing happened. Uh. Myneighbor gave me the product Euge called We'd
be gone on Gordon Sprayer. Isprayed it and all my Saint Augustine grass
died dollars dollar wheed is still growing. Oh my gosh, jerdy. So

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at nighttime when the at night time, when it's dark and you look at
the lawn, is it glowing?You've neew. I believe this isn't a
this isn't a laughing matter. ButI that that was quite a I believe
you. There are very few thingsyou left out of that list. But

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seriously, if the grass is diedback, you know you're going to have
to replace it, whether if it'sseverely damaged, I would just do a
wall to wall replacement of it asbeing the fastest easiest way to get back
in town there on it. Uh, if you wanted to do some plugging
or patching here and there, youcould do that and have that grow in.

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It's going to be a more ongoingtea thing. And anywhere the grass
gets thin, you're going to startto seaweeds come through because sunlight's reaching the
soil surface, so it's you knowthe fast ways you just reside. That
costs more money, but it's doneand you're done with it. The less
expensive what would be the patch patchyour way back to it. I think

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I will resaw what can I doin the future to prevent dollar weed or
kill dollar weed? If it comesback it's up under a microtree kind of
in a shaded area. Yeah,yeah, well dollar weed. First of
all, know this dollar weed likeswet soil. So the weather it is,
the happier dollar weed is. Sothe first step is on you water,
give it a good soaking, butdon't water so often. Don't water

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so much. I mean, youcan't control hurricanes and rainstorms and other things,
but you can't control the irrigation.So that would be the first step
on a lot of weeds like dollarweed and Virginia button weed. The like
wet conditions is cut back on thewater because the grass will be happier and
you the weed will be less happy. Secondly, you're going to have to
treat it, but I would usea product called Celsius when you're having to

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treat it. Now, if thegrass has dyed and you're going to replace
it. A lot of it hasdied and you're going to replace it.
Now would be a good time totreat that dollar weed when you don't have
any grass you're worried about hurting.So yeah, there are a number of
products that control the dollar weed reallywell, and with where you're located.

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I would go over to Southwest Fertilizerand talk to them there on the corner
business Notton Runwick. Go to SouthwestFertilizer. They have got every product you
can imagine. Explain to them whatyou told me and say, you know,
we talked about it, and you'rewanting to come in, and this
is your chance to get something toreally hit that dollar weed because you don't

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have any lawn at risk. Onceyou get the lawn in I would use
a product called Celsius on the dollarweed, but it's much better to get
rid of it, and now's yourchance to go after it. And I
think that would and stay away fromthe future, stay away from the weed
and feed. Let's instead pick aquality fertilizer and use it, and then

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let's pick a herbicide to match theweed you're going after and do that.
Because weed and feeds can have anythingfrom broadly if we control to pre emergent
weed control in them, and thoseare very different products. So I like
the idea of being able to dothem separately, where I can pick the
best fertilizer and the best weed controlfor the particular weed as opposed to the

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combo. I understand why people dothe combos. That's fine. You can
use them, and if the particularthing in the combo is and the timing
is right, you can do that. Just overall, I think we should
aim for the dollar weed and nottry to combo it with the weed and
feed. Thank you very much,and I will do that. I appreciate

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it. Stup and enjoy your show, all right, you take care.
Thanks for the call. I appreciatethat. Yes, yeah, the whole
thing of the weed and feed,it's complicated, and uh, you know,
I can go into it more,but uh, just know that depending
on the time of year, thetime to put out a pre emergent weeden
feed may not be the time tofertilize and vice versa, and so to

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combine them sometimes the timing is off. It doesn't mean there's never a place
for them. There is. There'sa place where you can use them and
they and it works and it doeswhat you want to do. Uh,
it's just I don't know. Ilike the idea of prescribing going after one
and the other. You know,if you need a barricade application for pre
emergent, put it down when youneed to put it down. Don't don't

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try to make it match up withyour your fertilization. But in the fall
time, it's actually a time whenthey tend to overlap a little bit better.
And that's that's coming out. Butyou'll find all that stuff on my
on my lun care schedules at Gardeningwith Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip
dot com. Well, we're comingup on a break here. When we
come back, Carol and a tascasita, you'll be our first up. I'm

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gonna go ahead and take a break. If you'd like to give us a
call seven one three two one twofifty eight seventy four. Have you with
us today? We are talking aboutall kinds of things gardening. We've got
some folks on the line we're goingto head to in just one second.
When was the last time you wereat enchanted Forest out in Richmond? And
if you haven't been well, Today'sthe next time you need to go.

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And Channa Forest has the best selectionof all kinds of plants, everything from
you know, gifts in the giftshop to house plants to annual color to
shrubs and trees and bulbs and containers. And they really specialize in plants that
attract beneficial insects like pollinators and uh, perhaps plants that attract butterflies that you're

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interested in creating that right now,they got an excellent, excellent selection of
all kinds of things that take theheat, like Vinka periwinkle at agascar periwinkle,
or people call it menca. It'san annual plant. It is absolutely
fireproof. It comes in colors ofyou know, like white and pink and
kind of a lavendery. The magentamay be the proper name for it.

(01:07:12):
I'm color challenge so anyway, butthey've got that. They also have an
unbelievable selection of herbs. You needto go check out their herbs right now.
The happiest herb in your garden isprobably basil. It just loves warm
weather. And our basil is growinglike crazy. And listen when basil blooms,
here comes the pollinators. The beesare all over it and they have
a number of different selections of basil. They're at Enchanted Forest Richmond. Whether

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you put it in a container,whether you put it in a bed,
a garden bed, you know,you can plant basil and flower garden.
You can plant it in your vegetablegarden. It doesn't have to just be
in an herb garden. It's anexcellent plant and basil along with many other
herbs at Enchanted Forest and Richmond.It is an fm twe fifty nine in

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outside of Richmond. If you're headingup towards sugar Land Way, it's off
to the right. Here's the websiteEnchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dotcom. Go check out their website.
You will see why I think itis such an impressive place to go,
and with all the shade and stuffthey have around there, it would

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be a wonderful place to go thisafternoon to just enjoy being out and about.
You are listening to Garden Line ourphone number seven one three two fifty
eight seventy four. We're going togo now to Carol and a Taskasita.
Hello Carol, good morning, I'mlooking for a recommendation for a tree service

(01:08:40):
that will upright a tree that Ihave. It's a great myrtle about fifteen
feet call. Can you recommend someone? I would recommend Martin's. I would
recommend Martin Spoon Moore at Affordable Treefor about Do you need a phone number
or a website? Yes? Ineed phone number? Please okay seven to
one three six nine nine twenty sixsixty three. We'll give it to you

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again seven one three six nine ninetwo six six three, And that's Affordable
Tree. Affordable Tree. Martin SpoonMoore is the guy you won't talk to.
Okay, thank you so much,thank you, thanks for waiting,
and I appreciate your call. Absolutelyno hesitation on that one. Uh Ace

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Hardware Stores or the place where youfind whatever you're looking for. To have
a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscapethat includes fertilizers like nitrophoss, for example,
they have they have an outstanding selectionof all though nitropos fertilizers. I
would recommend stopping in and getting someof the silver bag that that is the

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one that we carry through our warmseason with the silver bag. It's called
super Turf Nitrofoss superturf. Just thinksilver. It's only silver bag I've ever
seen in a garden center. Allright, So Nitrofoss Superturf is going to
carry your lawn all the way upuntil the fall fertilization. Now, if
you just fertilized already with the slowrelease this summer, don't do it again.

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But if you haven't, now's thetime to do the super turf.
It's always good to have it onhand. You can use it any month
of the year. But the bottomline is we primarily are doing our summer
fertilization to keep the grass going throughits busiest growing season of the year.
And super turf does that with achemistry that is designed for our soils and
designed for our climate. That isimportant. And again, you do it

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now, you're not going to doit again until the fall season. You
know, ace hardware not just fertilizer. It's also a place where you get
fireant control. And it's time.I've got fire antce. I just discovered
them in my ear. All thisrain made them come to the surface,
and that's why baits are so important. Fire ant. Baits control fireance.
You don't see the mountains even yetbecause the foragers are out there, they're

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picking up food to bring it back, but they just haven't increased the mound
and brought it up to the surfaceto where you see it on the surface.
Fire bait works and ACE Hardware hasit. Do you have mosquito problems?
Listen, it's been long enough nowsince that rain. The mosquitoes are
popping up everywhere. Anywhere there's atablespoon of water. A mosquito can lay
an egg and go through its larvalstage and come out as an adult.

(01:11:16):
So we got to be diligent,and we've got to find things like the
mosquita dunks, the mosquito granules,mosquito bits that is, and put them
in these areas where there's any kindof standing water and it'll take care of
them. It's a natural mosquita control. By the way, it didn't hurt
birds then her cat dinners of thedog very very safe. It's just an
issue with the mosquito larvae. Now, do you need mosquito repellents? Do

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you need maybe a fogging machine?What do you need to make your outdoor
landscape a place you can't wait togo be in? That's ACE hardware,
That is ACE is the place fora beautiful outdoor landscape, garden and sitting
area to enjoy during the cooler evening. I always we've we've been taking care

(01:12:03):
of our backyard area, trying toget some the patios, some enhancements done
and things. And we just putup actually, my daughter just put up
a string of lights at her placeand it's one of those out We call
them beer garden lights because it's kindof that, you know, that outdoor
setting where you have the strings ofbulbs that aren't really bright each one,

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but overall it just creates a greatambience. By the way, as hardware
has those strings too, But wewere just getting some set up and man,
it transforms that outdoor area into placeyou want to be, that is
for sure. Have you been toArburgate Nursery lately? Arburgate is an outstanding
destination garden center. I mean thereare people all over the state and even

(01:12:46):
out of state that know about ArburgateNursery because it's been that kind of place
for a very long time. Theygot a wonderful new parking lot. It's
in the back of the store.You just turn down Trischel Road by the
way Arburgate on twenty nine to twentyjust west of Tumball, Texas. And
as you're going out that direction,you'll see Trishel Road. You just you

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can turn down it before Arburgate orafter Arburgate and either way it's a loop.
It swims around behind Arburgate, greatparking lot. While you're there at
Arburgate, you're gonna have people thatknow what they're Their staff is so educated,
they're so on top of things.They can tell you about every single
plant you walk in and you say, here's a situation, what do you

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recommend? And they're gonna have threeor four recommendations. And when it comes
to summer, color that color that'sgoing to carry you all the way into
fall. Arburgate has options upon optionsupon options. You can have a beautiful
plate. Don't let your lawn andlandscape be a sea of green. Put
some color in it and Arburgate willhelp you do that. While you're there,
grab their one two three completely easysystem that is a fertilizer for anything

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that has roots. That is asoil mix that has expanded shale in it.
Also and a compost that has exbanditshell and it also all of those
build up the soil and set youup for success. You know, on
garden line, I say brown stuffcomes before green stuff. The one two
three completely easy system is brown stuff, soil, compost, and a fertilizer

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that sets the stage for their wonderfulplants to do absolutely stunningly in your landscape
and garden. We're going to goback out to the phones now to clear
Lake and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, good morning. Sure,
hope you're doing well. Thank you? How can I help? Did you
see the picture I sent? Letme go look, I'll check that quick

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cure morning early this morning. Nope, oh yes I did. Hang on
just a second. Are you talkingabout vines? Yes, okay, that
is Virginia creeper. Virginia creeper forthose of you listening on radio going,
hey, I can't picture this well, and some people think it looks like

(01:15:02):
poison ivy. It doesn't because thishas sets of five leaves all coming out
of the exact same point on thestem, and it's not poisonous, but
it is vigorous. Virginia creeper isfine. I've seen people use it as
a vine to cover a wall.The question, your question Mark, is
is it a danger to the tree, and the bottom line is only if

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it gets up in the tree andshades the canopy. The one that it
is in for you is a cedartree. And cedars when they lose their
foliage. Let's say you get someVirginia creeper or something over the limbs and
the leaves can't get light, they'lldie, and that branch will never reach
sprout, so it's really weird.Compared to other trees that you could cut

(01:15:45):
them off like a hat rack andthey'd sprout back out again. Cedar can't
do that. So I would justsay, mark, it's fine until if
you see it getting on the branchesand becoming a shading like an umbrella over
the tree, and just go tothe base where it's going up the stem
and cut those stems and everything abovewhere you cut or die. Okay,
sounds to me like it's better toget rid of it now before it becomes

(01:16:11):
impossible to get rid of So yeah, yeah, And but it's never impossible
because you always have one little trunkat the bottom and if you cut every
vine going up that trunk, everythingabove it dies, so it can you
can shut it down real quick ifyou need to. But if you don't
do it now, that's fine too, Thank you very much. Sure,
take care. Yeah, let megive you a real quick tip. When
I come back, i'm gonna talkabout what to do about it. Hold

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on if you want, Yes,we'll be right back. Folks, credit
for deciding whilst just watch. Hey, welcome back to Guardline. I'm your

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garden, a more beautiful landscape.And let me tell you, all it
takes is some good information and guidanceand advice, because as we say here,
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Com. We're going to go nowto clear Like Texas and talk to Mark.
Welcome to Garden Line, Mark.Well, this is a continuation of
the first call. Oh, that'sright, for the break I forgot you.
We were talking about your Virginia creeperand the cedar trees. So Mark,

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what you need is a product thatcontains the ingredient Trichlo Peer t ri
i clo P where I are now, Tricla Peer you'll find it. Sometimes
the product will be called Stump andBrush Control sometimes it'll be called poison,
ivy killer or something. It's theingredient triclo peer that you're looking for.

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You can spray it on the foliage. If you get it on the trunk
of the tree and it's just deadbark on the outside trunk, it's not
going to hurt the tree. Ifthere's a living shoot or any broad leaf
plant that you like and you gettricle paer on it, it'll damage it
or kill it. So from yourphoto, I see you ought to have

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pretty good access to spray in thetrunk. You can also get a little
spongebrush like you would use for paintingat a hardware store, the little wooden
handle spongebrushes and dip it straight inthe triclo peer and paint it on the
stem of that Virginia creeper. Iwould do it down low, kind of

(01:20:54):
near the base and just paint iton the stem. I would even put
a little bit of vegetable or ifyou have diesel oil in the tricle pair
and it helps it stick and soakin better to that outer stem. But
in the photo I see those stemsare very small still. The Virginia button
weeds of Virginia button. Virginia creeperstems are very small, so you just

(01:21:18):
painted on there and it'll soak intothat tissue and go down in the plant
and kill it. And that's thefastest, easiest, least damage to the
environment, way and safest that Ican think of. Well, on those
two trees that I took a pictureof, it'll be easy just to snip
each each run. I'm pretty sureI can get it that way, and

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then I can dab the end ofthe cut. A little bit of a
story about thirty years ago, webought a small Leland cypress, a little
baby for a Christmas tree, andI planted it out there in the front.
And I should have made this calltwenty years ago to you, because

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some of that creeper got all overthe tree and eventually went to the top
and start hanging down. It wasreal green, and I liked it.
The tree was dead underneath all that. The storm just knocked it down.
Saved me about twelve hundred dollars.So fortunately it went the right way.

(01:22:19):
I guess it went to the mailboxrather than the houses. So if I
had known what you were telling meabout it shading the tree to the point
where it could be damaged. Iwouldn't have let it die like that apparently,
Yeah, but I mean it wasso thick you couldn't tell the underneath
there were much of dead leaves.I mean, yeah, it's you know,

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we had lines like that in thesoutheast. They have kudzoo that is
like on steroids. It covers upeverything. But I see you also had
I mentioned in cedary you also havingit in a pine tree too. But
yeah, just cut it off atthe bottom. Even though you dab it
on the ends, that's a littlesmall cut surface, So I would still
paint it on the sides of thestem of that Virginia. Cut it off

(01:23:03):
to ab the end, but thenjust maybe four or five inches just kind
of painted on that stem, andI think that'll do the job for it.
Okay, Well, at this pointit's easy enough to get to and
ahead and start killing the tree.So thank you very much for the advice
that we should have given it tome twenty years ago. Well, I'll
try to do better next time.Thanks Mark, I appreciate the call.

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You take care if you'd like togive us a call seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four,seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. If you want successwith plants, it starts with the soil.
You know, it's the foundation.Soil is the foundation. So what
is a good soil? Well?A good soil holds some moisture, but

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it also drains well. It drainsinternally by letting water percolate down through the
soil so that oxygen comes in andthe plant roots are not sitting submerged.
That is a good well. Agood soil has organic matter in it which
stimulates biological activity, microbial activity thatjust enhances the root system in ways that

(01:24:09):
I could spend a whole garden lineshow talking about. A good soil has
nutrients at the right balance in thesoil. That is important so that when
the plant needs any of twenty plusnutrients, it just its root has access
to them. They're in the bankaccount. That is a good soil.
So what makes a good soil?Adding organic matter to the soil quality?

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Organic matter? Ciena Malts. They'redown south of Houston in the Siena area.
They're just north of Road sharing nearwhere Higway six and two eighty eight
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on Sunday. Here's the website,Sienna bolts dot com. When you go
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which is part of the brown stuffof the soil. You're gonna find composts
and rose soil, and you're goingto find a veggiane herb mix that's part
of the brown stuff. You're goingto find Landscaper's Pride, black velvet malts

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and other quality mulches. That's partof the brown stuff. When you drive
off from cienamultch or if you're withintwenty miles, have them deliver it to
you. You're going to have thisfoundation for success with your plants. Don't
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(01:25:42):
to take a break. We'll beright back. Look forward to your calls
two eight one excuse me, sevento one three two one two ktr h.
Every year we talk about today.What are your questions? Well,
let's help you with that. Giveus a call at seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.If your lawn is struggling, you're looking
at your lawn and you're saying,I hear skipsay all the time. Wherever

(01:26:05):
sunlight it's a soil, nature plants, a weed will. Sunlight is hitting
the soil all over my yard.Well, here come the weeds, weed
seeds. Warm season, weed seedswill sprout. That gives them the opportunity.
What do you do. You gotto get that lawn denser. And
one of the best things you cando for a lawn that is struggling is
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(01:26:30):
What's core aeration? That means wepull a plug out of the soil and
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core aeration, you will think thatthere was a little tiny fufu dog convention
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It's the best thing you can dofor a heavy compacted clay soil,

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and whether it's compacted from foot trafficor whatever, it helps with that.
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Getting organic matter onto the surface anddown in those holes is important. That's
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(01:28:39):
Not just punching squeezing a hole byshoving something into the soil. We're talking
about popping a plug out, leavingit on the surface and then compost top
dressing. That's how you do itright, and that's how B and B
does it because they do things right. We're going to go now to the
phones and head out to let's seeFort ben County and talk to Lee Helle.

(01:29:00):
Hey, good morning, how youdoing. I'm good I'm good.
How are you good? I'm well, Thank you for asking. Hey,
here's what happened during that storm.I've got a mature Texas Mountain Laurel,
and it blew it over. Now, it's not dead. The roots didn't

(01:29:20):
come up. It slipped the anchorroots through the mud. It's laying there
better than a forty five degree angle, like the side of the crown is
almost at the ground, and it'svery much alive. There's nothing dead about
it. And I'm trying to Iwondered, how do I stand this thing
back up? And unless you haveany questions for me, Yeah, unless

(01:29:45):
you have any questions for me,I'm gonna hang up and listen because it's
kind of hard to hear on thisold one. I got got you,
all right, We'll take it fromthere, all right. Thanks. We
have had yes, sir, We'vehad a number of folks that have asked
questions about trees leaning over. AndI discussed that pretty much in depth last
week. But let me go intoit again because I know a lot of

(01:30:09):
you had that same question. Leedoes if a plant has been in the
ground for like, let's say,three to five years or more, it's
probably going to be difficult for itto recover, especially if it's a larger
tree. The bigger the tree,it's just you're just not going to have
success. I can go into greatdetail on it, but bottom line is

(01:30:31):
a big old tree, don't trystanding it up, get rid of it,
get a new one in there.And I can explain why if you
want to call in, we talkabout that. But if it's a younger
tree, the first three years,for example, it's very practical to have
them stood back up and staked intoplace. But you're gonna have to leave
mom a while. Now. InLee's tree, he's not talking about broken
roots. He's just talking about kindof they just pulled and sunk in and

(01:30:56):
everything, and the tree still looksgood. Well, if the roots are
broken, which happens some and Isuspect there's some breaking on this Texas Mountain
rarel, you're going to have toleave it staked for a while because what's
going to have to happen is newroots are gonna have to come out.
They're a little tiny things, theycan't hold on anything. And after a
year, two years, three years, four years, it just gets stronger

(01:31:17):
and stronger. So for at leastthree years, you're gonna need that steak
in place, depending on the sizeof the tree and everything else before it
is really well anchored again, becauseremember it was a well anchored tree to
begin with and the storm blew itover, So now you're starting with a
much weaker anchored tree, and soyou're going to have to be patient.
If it's not a big trunk,I would get a three sixty tree stabilizer

(01:31:41):
and a steak and attach it tothat. If it's a bigger you may
need to use some guy wires topull it in, But at three sixty
for most of the things that areworth standing up, three sixty tree stabilizer
is going to be perfect for that. If as you stand it up,
if you're feeling some resistance, itmay be that water has washed in underneath
roots and now you're pulling against thatwashed soil in. Now you're pulling against

(01:32:05):
that soil, so you may haveto kind of get under there a little
bit, and you know, openit up a little bit so the tree
can stand up a little better,and then put soil around the roots.
Water it in real goods, settlethem in, get it staked, and
be patient. It's going to taketime to do that, but you can
do that. You want to pullgradually. You can kind of tell when
if I pull any further, Ithink I'm going to break something. And

(01:32:27):
it may be that later you canmove it a little bit more, but
probably not. You probably need toget that move done all at once.
But a Texas Mount Laurel is aslow growing plant. It's a very resilient
plant. As long as it hasgood drainage. It does okay here in
the Houston area and Lee, that'swhat I would recommend that you do on
that particular one. I do wantto mention a garden center for the folks

(01:32:49):
in West Houston, really for thefolks all over the place, because it's
a destination. That is Nelson WaterGarden and Nursery that's out in Katie.
As you head out, I tento Katie. When you get to Katie
Fort Ben Road, you turn rightand it's just a little north across the
tracks right there in Katy. Easyto get to. I mean just a
hop skipping. It won't take longat all to get out there. It's

(01:33:12):
our West Houston destination garden center.One of a kind plants, one of
kind pots. They got fish andfountains. You know, water gardening.
They are nationally known for their watergardens. They designed that. You've seen
the large beautiful glazed pottery urns thatcome upward then have water coming over the
side and go into some gravel atthe bottom and it recirculates and comes back

(01:33:34):
out through the middle of the pot. They designed that idea, and they
have all the equipment to do it. They'll come out and do it,
or they'll tell you how to doit. You can buy the components and
do it yourself if you want togo that route and do it. But
what you need to do now isjust go get some friends and go out
there and walk around. I mean, they ought to charge admission for the

(01:33:55):
therapy of walking through all of theirwater garden features and just hearing that soothing
water. To walk in the shadyarea, you know, today be a
great day. We're always watching theweather to see when it's safe to go
out in terms of rain and things. But you know, anytime you can
get out to Nelson Watergarden and walkthrough and enjoy and hear that beautiful music

(01:34:17):
of water, you're gonna want todo this at your house and while you're
out there, check out the nursery. I'm telling you they have an outstanding
selection of all kinds of landscape plants, including citrus trees and annual color and
groundcovers and herbs and whatnot. NelsonWatergarden and Nursery. Here's the website Nelsonwatergardens

(01:34:39):
dot com. Nelsonwatergardens dot com.Go check it out. But when you
do, take your friends. I'mtelling you it is a fun place to
go and visit. We're gonna headnow out to the phones and go to
Fairfield and talk to Marty. Hello, Martyn kip I earlier here your four
hanging back? Did and what youplay cross? And he's got tobina because

(01:35:03):
she said, oh, don't handleall that well, I'm Marty, Martie.
Let me cut in. I'm sorry, let me interrupt you. I'm
having trouble hearing you. It's it'sa little muffled. I don't know if
you can go ahead. I thinkyou did you say guardena nobina verbina.

(01:35:25):
Okay, let me call you that. I just got through a walk.
I've got my Okay, all right, we'll put you back. Chris Crys
will put you up the front ofthe line. When you go back.
Thanks a lot, appreciate that verymuch. Let's go to Conroe and talk
to Bill. Hello Bill, Hey, good morning Skip. I bought a
book and Vilia about it six weeksago and it was a small little guy,

(01:35:49):
about eight inches round at most.And now it's really growing well.
It's two and a half feet roundand it's even when I pinched it back,
it's really well. But it's gotthe flowers. That's not good.
But yeah, the growth is reallygreat. It looks really healthy and happy
and all that stuff. Anyway,that what's the what's the secret or the

(01:36:13):
secret? Uh? Yeah, anyideas for pushing the flowers out? I've
heard I'm sorry say that last thing? Salt? No you heard putting salt
around it? No, don't dothat. Nelson plant food makes a Boogainvillia
food. It's good for all kindsof tropical vines and vines like that.

(01:36:35):
Comes a little canister. You justsprinkle it in. You want to do
that. Boom Villa does best whenit's a little root bound, and so
your new plant probably hadn't quite hitthat stage yet. It's still growing actively.
You don't want to overfertilize it,but you do want to fertilize it
periodically. That's important. Make sureit gets full sunlight and it'll settle down
and you will get some bloom.It's just right now in kind of a

(01:36:56):
growth spurt. Face, So maybebe a little sparring with the water,
don't you know. Subject it tosevere drought, but let it dry out
a little bit between waterings, andthat'll also cut back a little bit on
that vigor and help it settle ina little bit. Okay, Oh,
hey, sounds good, very good. Thank you, thank you. Good

(01:37:17):
luck with that. I appreciate that. Hey, we got to take a
break. Scott and Cypress you'll beour next up when we come back from
break. Let's see our phone numberseven to one, and greener and greener
as we go along. You know, it's all about informing our thumbs and
that's what makes them green. That'swhat we do here on Garden Line.
We're gonna head out now to Cypress, Texas and talk to Scott. Hello,
Scott, Hello, got a cuzonfor you. I think one of

(01:37:41):
my pine trees has pine beetle init, and I'm just curious what to
look forward to see if it hasit, and then if it does what
I need to do? Tell mewhat you're seeing that's making you think maybe
pop it? Never like the otherpine trees are really green, really got
a lot of needles on them.This one's real thin, almost looking,
it's kind of dying off, likeit's barely making it. And then I

(01:38:02):
did look around the tree and Isee a bunch of little holes all over
it that the other ones don't have. Some of them have a little sap
kind of coming out. I'm juststopped, really sure, Okay, it's
a plus. Okay, how big? How big are the holes that you're
seeing that little bitty circle? Youknow small? You are they in horizontal

(01:38:27):
are they in horizontal rows going acrossor are they just random everywhere? They're
Okay, they're random and some ofthem have yeah, okay, well,
I mean it could be. Itcould be. There's I think five different
species of pine bark beetles from turpentinebeetle that attacks down low and has large
gloves of sap typically associated with it, to ips and graver beetles, and

(01:38:51):
the southern pine bark beetle, andso there's a lot of them. Some
of them will attack, you know, all the way up the trunk and
signs or typically globs a sap whenthe tree has enough energy to push them
out. Sometimes you'll see sawdust catchingin the bark as it falls down the
trunk that the beetle is pushing out. So I think you probably need to

(01:39:19):
get a professional arbist in there,Scott to take a look at it,
because me on the radio, notseeing your tree and stuff, I'm not
going to be able to diagnose itaccurately. I've given you kind of some
facts to look for, but havingan arborist come out some of you can
trust to come out and look atit and assess it. Oftentimes, by

(01:39:40):
the time you're seeing globs the sapand holes all up and down the trunk,
it's a little too late to savethat tree. That's usually the case.
But if you have other trees aroundit, you can put products on
them to protect them from the beetlesmoving in. But that's where a professional
arborist coming in and kind of bootson the ground to take a look at
it. That's where that would bereal hopeful, all right. And what

(01:40:01):
about if it does happen to haveit. I've heard different varying things with
it do so you need to removethat tree out and have it hauled off.
Don't heard somewhere with redsmore like youdon't burn it as firewood? Is
that true? No, there's noproblem with burning Well, you wouldn't burn
a pine anyway as farwood. Butif there's no problem with burning it.

(01:40:25):
The pinmarked beetles are really poor flyers, and just in the forest where they
can't go through all the spraying andstuff, they can't afford to do that.
In a natural forest, they justtake a chainsa. I'll cut them
off at the ground and drop themhorizontal on the ground and the beetles they
come out of it, or theyhave a very difficult time like flying up
to the tree to attack another tree. So they get them down as soon

(01:40:49):
as possible. That's the first thing, because the beetles are going through their
life cycle in a tree. Butbefore we jump to conclusions, I really
think you need to have an armlook at it and let me let me
give you a phone number if ifyou don't have it for Martin spoon More
it's a seven to one to threesix nine nine twenty six sixty three six

(01:41:11):
six Cale Martin. Have them comeout and look at it. Because you
know, it may be that yougot a problem, maybe that there's nothing
you can do for that tree,but something you can do for other trees,
or maybe your neighbors need to beaware of it if they have pine
trees. Right, exactly cool,All right, all right, sir,
thank you, bet, thanks alot, appreciate appreciate your call very much.

(01:41:32):
Uh. One of my favorite newproducts that has come on the market
this year, or let me doa bit this way, that has become
widely available this year is Medina's SupergrowPlus. It's one of the Hastro Grow
line of products from Medina. Medinahas to Grow. You're familiar with that
that's been used for decades and decadesaround. Uh. There is the hast

(01:41:54):
Grow Lawn, which is a fertilizer, hashed form of has to Grow that's
used in the lawns. And thenthe super Girl Plus is another fertilizer.
It's a sixteen zero two. It'sgot a low metal number of phosphors.
Most of our lawns already have enoughphosphorus, so that design that sixteen zero
two is a good one. Really, it contains more than just the nutrients

(01:42:15):
though, by the way, abouta fifth of those nutrients, a fifth
of the nitrogen, its slow releaseform and supergro plus, but it also
has molasses, it's got humic acidin it, it's got seaweed extract in
it, and it's got a kelatedform of iron that gets into your plant.
And if you've got a lawn that'sstruggling with take a root rod and
you're seeing the yellowing from the lossof roots. When you can get a

(01:42:39):
folia or iron into that plant,that is helpful for greening it up.
It's like you're bypassing the roots thatin essence don't exist because of being lost
to the disease, and it helpssustain that plant while it tries to get
back on its feet again. Thegrass plant. I'm speaking of supergrou Plus
from Medena sixteen zero two. You'regonna find it widely available all over town,

(01:43:01):
easy to find and an excellent product. Hooks up to a hose en
sprayer, takes ten minutes to coverabout four thousand squeak square feet. That's
what air will cover of the MedinaSupergirl Plus. We're going to go back
out now to Fairfield and talk toMary Mary Marty on a brand new phone.
Hey, Marty, is this better? Can you hear me now?

(01:43:26):
Okay? Like that? Yeah?Sorry, so we're talking right. Yeah,
Well that's what I had. That'swhat the galles Over Plants for all
season told me to put in there. At the time, that was all
they had. It was still cold. But I was wondering if you had
some suggestions. I've I've thought aboutthe Angelonia and the the purse lane and

(01:43:54):
the vinka, but you know,I want something. I like things that
are different, and it's it ishanging baskets. There's four of them,
and I just wondered if you hadsome other types of suggestions that would work.
It gets full sun almost all day, full son. Okay, Well,
Boogovillia is always an option, youknow when you've got lots of sun

(01:44:16):
and a hanging basket and that's kindof unusual. Uh, kind of nice
one to do. Uh let's see, did you mention scavola. That is
uh fan flower. Uh it comesin a purple, a blue, kind
of a pinkish white and white colors. That will be an option. It
uh fan flower s c A Es c A E v O l A.

(01:44:45):
The flowers are not big and showy, but they're pretty and I'm telling
you that thing just about can growin a barbecue pit. When it comes
to heat. It's a it isa very very tough plant. Uh.
That would be a good one.Uh, you know, plant for all
season. Have a lot of those, since I believe that sounds like that's
where you like to shop, andthey're going to have some good selections of
those. I'm trying to think ofperson laying baskets. Did you mention that

(01:45:10):
as being one that is too common? Okay, yeah, trying to think
of either. There are I likethe hangings, there are several other possible
options on it. I'm just tryingto think. I like colorful foliage too,
and so something doesn't just have aflower to add color. And so
there are some some colises that willtrail over, but they're not They are

(01:45:33):
heat tolerant. But when you dothe combo is sticking them in full sun
and the heat. You just gotto keep them watered for them to do
well. Uh. Oh that's morethan enough for anything. Yeah. That
so those would be some options,okay, all right? And then the
ones in the front are shape fullshade, no sun, and should I

(01:45:57):
am in the soil that they're in. Everything put in there, it seems
to die. I've done in patiencecore Line Colius, everything's dying. All
right? Hey Marty, can youhang through break? I'm gonna have to
run, but I'd like to continuethe discussion. Yeah, all right,
no problem, hang on, I'llbe right back our phone number seven.

(01:46:19):
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them a call seven one three quality. We're going to head back out to
the phones now and continue our conversationwith Marty. Hey, Marty, sure,
I'll just make it short and sweet. I do. I do the
fillerspiller, thriller, and my pot'sup front and they're I just I'm wondering

(01:49:12):
if the soil needs to be amendedbecause everything I've been putting in there is
dying. And it's full shade,no sun at all, full shade,
no sun, and you got plantsthat want to be in shade. I
assume, right, yes, cois in patience, cordaline, yeah,
all those things. So I assumeyou're watering enough to keep it moist.

(01:49:39):
I know you know how to garden, so you're you're not letting it dry
out and you're not keeping it submergedin water undergrown, right correct? Uh.
The only thing I can think ofis just check the drain holes on
the pot and make sure they're notplugged. If a pot is sitting on
the ground, the soil seals thedrain hole that they're not with the pot.

(01:50:00):
Okay, then I would say,perhaps dump that soil out and get
some fresh new soil and put itin there. Maybe if it's been in
a while, all soil continues todecompose away and it gets thicker and muckier
as it sits there. So whatstarted off as a really good loose weldering
potting mix or growing mix becomes youknow, muckier if you will, as

(01:50:24):
it decomposes away. So maybe that'sit. It's not a lack of nutrients.
It's just like killing them, youknow. That would be lack of
growth or not good color in theleaves and things like that. So I
did one time, I put thatthe indoor microlife stuff on them, the
orange one, the orange bottle.Yeah. Would that have done it?

(01:50:47):
Would that have? No? No? That's good, No, I have.
I have used it over and overand over again in house plants,
and it no that doesn't do it. And if you had a salt based
fertilizer and you over applied it andwatered it, and you can burn plant
roots and plants with the salt basedfertilizer. But this the uh is it

(01:51:09):
seven to one two? I'm tryingto remember the third number on it the
orange label. But anyway that thatwon't burn them. Okay, well I'll
just keep I'll put some more souland then just change it out, all
right. Yeah, I had afeeling. I knew the brown before the
green, and you know how itgoes. Yeah, yeah, well that's

(01:51:30):
that's what it is. Now.One other thing that will help is you
know people tell you to talk toyour plants, right, have you heard
of that talking to you? Well, I'm talking to my dogs while I'm
outside at the front port, somaybe they think I'm talking to them.
There is a last dish effort attalking to your plants, and that's called
threatening your plants. I'm not peopleto walk out with a chainsaw fired up,

(01:51:54):
stand in front of a tree andsay if you don't start growing,
I'm coming back and I'm going tofinish the job. You know, walk
out there with some round up andshow the plant and go, I know
how to use this if you don'tstart drowing, And of course you wouldn't
do that, but the plant doesn'tknow that, so you know, scared
straight. I just bought some theother day. I will go out and
see if that works. Don't beafraid to throat. Thank you, Barty,

(01:52:18):
appreciate your call. Oh gosh,the things that come out of this
mouth on garden lines. All right, at least we're having fun. At
least I hope you are too.Speaking of having fun, have you've been
to Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heightslately? They're on eleven Street in the
Heights, and boy, with weatheredthe storms and cleaned up and the place

(01:52:38):
is in good shape and it's agreat, great fun place to visit.
You just head down eleven Street andit's this little place off to the side.
You know, it's kind of likea secluded and the way I like
to think of it. And boy, when you park and go in there,
it's just a fun place to walkthrough. There's every kind of plant
you can imagine. Any Buchanan's NativePlants they specialize in natives, but they

(01:53:00):
don't at all limit themselves to natives. You can buy anything, buy house
plants or herbs, or vegetables orflower things that aren't native there. Buchanansplants
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show you their Houston area natives.We talk about a plant that is going
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(01:53:20):
started trying to quote garden with it. Buchan's Native Plants in the Heights.
They can get you set up onthat. They have all the fertilizers that
talk about on guardline, quality,soils. Everything you need to have success,
including knowledgeable people and good advice.Eleven Street in the Heights. Buchanan's
Native Plants. Put that on yourtwo do list. It would be a

(01:53:41):
fun outing any day to go buyand enjoy well. I hear music.
That means time to put this hourin the books. But we will be
back. Our phone number if you'dlike to get on the board. By
the way, board just opened up. That last call seven one three two
one two k t RH give Cristo call and if you're the first call
and going to be the first oneup when we come back. Thank you.

(01:54:17):
Welcome back to guarden Line. Welcomeback. Good to have you with
us. Looking forward to talking toyou about the things that are of most
interest to you. What are thekind of questions that you might have.
Well give us a call seven onethree two one two K t R H.
If you'd like to talk gardening.We love to do that and we'd
be happy to visit with you.We're going to start off by going out

(01:54:40):
to League City and talking to Dina. Welcome to garden Line, Dina,
thank you, thank you for takingmy call. Sure, I just recently
purchased some as am I put thesuper turf down in spring, and my
lawn looks great that I've got afew little jealous spots. But my question
is my lawn is so wet rightnow and I have stand in water in

(01:55:03):
certain places. When's the best time? And how do you put the eighth
and mic down? I know youdon't use a lot, but I'm just
concerned is it too wet to putit down right now? It's it's the
issue with wet is it's more thanjust you know, trying to get out
in the lawn if it if it'ssoggy and sop and wet and stuff.

(01:55:24):
It's not easy, but it didn'tmatter when you put it down. You
can wait until it drives out alittle bit, get your spreader and set
it so you know you put outthe right amount. Asamite bags will tell
you what to put out, andthen you just apply it. I would.
I usually like to use half ofan application. This is true a
fertilizer too, going one direction acrossthe lawn. Just for example, let's

(01:55:45):
say north and south, and thenturn around and go east and west and
put down the other half. Andthat way, you know, if you
misestimated, you know, maybe you'reputting it out too fast or not fast
enough. You can kind of adjustthat accordingly and get a good, nice,
even application if it dries out.If the lawn dries out and it

(01:56:09):
appears to be pretty dry, doI need to spray water and wet it
down before put the a's and mitedown or spray water it down. It's
better for the lawn not to bewet because you want the granules to fall
to the ground and not stick tothe leaves, so you don't have the
water spread it well, you couldand I water it to work to wash

(01:56:30):
it in into the soil a littlebit that eventually it's going to have to
have moisture to move that particle ondown. But it's really wet now.
Yeah, so there's no hurry.Listen. This is not like nitrogen.
This is trace minerals and there's norush at all. So just take your
time. When you get around toit and it's dry, go ahead and

(01:56:54):
put it down. A forty fourpound bag is going to cover six to
twelve thousand square feet. I havea huge backyard, a very very big
backyard. Well, you can makeit go a little further, you know,
that would be fine? You betthis? Yeah, yeah, you
bet. Hey, thanks for thecall, Dean. I appreciate you calling

(01:57:15):
to get that clarified. All right, welcome back to Guarden Line, folks.
We're ready to continue with this lasthour of the day. We got
one more hour in us today andthen I'll be back tomorrow morning. By
the way, while i'm talking aboutthat, uh, if you are enjoying
garden Line, I want to tellyour friends and family and neighbors about it.
We would appreciate that they can listento us. Certainly listen on the

(01:57:38):
radio. If you're in the ktR H listening area, which is pretty
broad. It goes all the wayup I knowed at least Huntsville and a
little beyond that. I've had callsand calls from almost all the way over
to New Bronfels and then over tothe Louisiana border. So we got a
big area that can listen by radio. I like to listen on my phone
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(01:58:26):
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what was he saying? You goback and listen. You can catch
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that listen, you know, longroad truckers halfway across the country. We
got folks that listen way outside thearea that just listen by phone. A
lot of our people will just absolutelyput it on their phone and that's the

(01:58:49):
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it's easy to find one. Justgo to Acehardware dot com and find
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nearest to you. We're going togo now back to the phones and head
out to Arlington, Virginia. Speakingof far away and talk to Joe,
Hello Joe Hoddy in Arlington, Oh, the amazing and the English ivy are

(02:01:10):
growing profusely. Okay, But backJersey Village, I cannot. I've given
up on grass under my oak trees, and so I'm going for ground cover.
English ivy Arlington is amazingly lush andplentiful. And I'm thinking, would
English ivy work under the oak treesthere in Jersey Village for the summer in

(02:01:36):
the winter, well the summer heatanyway, and or would jazmine be better
choice? Uh? English ivy Ithink will do a little bit better and
more shade than jasmine, but bothwould be okay if the shade is dright
enough. The positive of jasmine overivy is that jasmine doesn't climb up your

(02:01:59):
trees and take over the world.It does grow, and you've got to
edge the sides of the bed tokeep it from crawling out of the bed.
But English ivy grabs onto stuff,and it'll grab a tree trunk and
go to the top and completely envelopthat tree if you ignore it for a
long period of time. So ifyou're willing to keep it trimmed and keep
it from doing that, English ivyis a very good tough groundcover. It

(02:02:24):
can also be used as something growingon a wall because it has the ability
to grab a wall or a treechunk. But they both have their advantages.
Just remember with the English ivy thatit it does not understand what you
consider the border of the bed,and it looks on the street and wants
to go seven blocks down the roadto keep growing. All okay, I

(02:02:44):
think that answer that question. SoI'll go with jazzmine or some other than
you. You bet, if yougot enough light, Jazz, I'm gonna
be okay. Thank you, sir. I appreciate appreciate your phone call.
We're we're going to go to WESUvisiting with Charlie. Hey, Charlie,
Hi, good morning. Yip.I called you because they've got some maybe

(02:03:06):
mars flying around in lariaty. Okay, maybe a hap happened long light pan.
I could send you a picture ifthat would help, Okay, I'd
be happy to look at a picture. There is not a lorioty pest that's

(02:03:27):
a moth that I'm aware of,at least not one that's of any significance.
Uh So, there's a bazillion differentkinds of moths out there in nature.
We encounter them all the time.There could be a hatch out and
so I mean they hatch out thelarva eat something and then they go into
pupas. And now you got themoths flying around. So if you had

(02:03:48):
seen a bunch of damage on something, then we might look at that as
a possible culprit the moths that you'renow seeing. But my gut on this
one is it's probably not a problemof what you're say. If you want
to send me a picture of one, I'll take a look. I'm not
a moth expert, but if it'sany of the common pests, I'll know
what it is, okay, allright, yeah, well, thanks for

(02:04:14):
the call, and I'm going toput you on hold. Chris will pick
up and get you an email tosend me. Make sure the photos are
as close as you can get themin as sharp a focus as you can
get, and if you kind ofget some different angles on it, that
would be helpful. While you're outtaking pictures, look see if something has
been decimated by a caterpillar. Thatwould be another helpful thing to know.
All right, all right, youtake care. I'm going to run back

(02:04:38):
out now and we're going to headto Matthew and Livingston, Texas. Hey
Matthew, Hey, how's it going. I'm good, I'm good. Help.
So my godfather out there in Luston, Texas. He's lived on the
same property for about forty years andhe's had a constant battle with cutter ants
over the years. He's been ableto kind of push him back, but

(02:04:58):
they always come back and usually comeback worse. As one ANSWER's anything we
can do to completely eliminate those well, you know, in nature, we
usually don't use the term eliminade.It's kind of like saying eliminate mosquitoes.
You know, there's gonna be morethat fly in kind of thing. But
I do have a little a mixthat I would like to send you,

(02:05:20):
And so what I'm gonna need todo, I'm not going to try to
read it all out over there.If I'm gonna put you on hold here
and have Chris pick up the phone, get your email, and I will
send you a combination of a coupleof things that can be mixed together.
But the instructions are key. Sobut that's why I would like to put

(02:05:41):
it in print and send it toyou that way. It's a couple of
ingredients you mix together, you letit's sit in a bucket a while,
and then you put it out andit seems to be as good as we've
been able to do in terms ofa bait to control leaf cutter ants because
they are a problem. Excellent,Thank you, all right, So here
we go on hold and Chris willpick up and give you that recipe.

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Okay, let's oh. I didwant to mention something for those of you
down south. Have you been toHoges Hidden Gardens. I've been meaning to
talk about this. Horace Hidden Gardensis in Alvin, Texas. It is
on Elizabeth Street, Elizabeth Street andAlvin, Texas, and it's a really
unique little place. Hoorge has beenbuilding this place for a while now and

(02:06:26):
it just keeps getting better and better. They carry a lot of good products.
They have quality fertilizer options. They'vegot lots of different kinds of plants.
Always Horace Hidden Gardens is a placewhere you're going to be able to
find the three sixty tree stabilizer,for example. That would be definitely worth
the price of admission right now.They got a really good selection of avocados

(02:06:47):
and yes, if you're down southlike that. Avocados is an option.
Occasionally we got one of those doozyfreezes it comes through, but a lot
of people have fun growing some avocadosout in the art. You're going to
find Mexicola, Lula, the Arizona, the Joey, just a lot of
different varieties that are the ones youneed to be planting here at Hojragez Hidden

(02:07:10):
Gardens. Now, they're open Fridaysfrom nine to three and Saturday and Sunday
from eight to four, So todayand tomorrow eight am to four pm.
And again, the avocados are stillin stock there, so I suspect other
people are heading that way to getone, so don't delay. But for
those of you down south though,in Alvin area, Horayes Hidden Gardens is

(02:07:33):
a nearby nursery that is going toprovide quality plants and I think you will
enjoy give them. Check them out. We'll see what you think. I'm
going to head out now to Tumball, Texas. We're going to talk to
John. Hello, John, goodmorning to Skip. How you doing.
I'm good sir. How can Ihelp? Well, I've met you in

(02:07:55):
the past at Arbor Gate and I'mkind of wrapping my brain around this.
I'm looking for some hedges to goin front of my fence to kind of
kind of like a privacy to kindof bounce off the noise behind me.
And I don't have a lot ofroom to work with with my cable box.

(02:08:16):
Fact, I've got two three feet. So what do you think about
the linebacker the stelium? Is thata good would that be a good fit
for what you think? Or whatabout the Eagles? Now that's a good
question. I do not know linebacker. I mean I would have to look
into that one. Yeah, thechallenge the hedge, Yeah, well,

(02:08:39):
I don't doubt that Arburgate's got abouteverything you could possibly want. Uh.
They I would talk to them becausethey're gonna know obviously, they're gonna know
that plant better than I do.Uh. And in terms of how will
it perform, you know, ifthey're selling it, it's a good plant,
Okay, So I don't I don'thave any question about it doing well
here, but the specifics of theperformance of it. My concern on the

(02:09:05):
distillium is you're gonna have a prettywide plant, and so you're talking about
only having a couple of feet,Is that right? A couple of feet.
A couple of feet, you know, you don't have to have these
table boxes, these concast boxes.Is probably a couple of feet from the
fence. So my concern was theroots and if I could keep it trained

(02:09:26):
to where it would be a littlemore thinner. The roots don't worry me
as much as you know. Itwants to be about probably six to eight
feet wide, and so keeping itat two feet is going to be quite
a chore to do. There arenot a lot of plants that will stay
that narrow. Arbigate is going tohave some. They may have a juniper

(02:09:46):
that's that way. They may havea upright yo pond that stays kind of
narrow. The other thing to bejust be aware of so your expectations are
at the right level. John isplants as a sound bear or helpful,
but they're not huge. Okay,you're gonna you're gonna hear the sound coming
through. It's gonna there's gonna besome reflections and muffling and benefits. But

(02:10:09):
just know that it's not gonna youknow, it's not loyal, it's not
noise canceling headphones. Uh. Levelof help there. So something you might
want to try go ahead. Allright, So what do you think about
the Eagleston Do you think that's soundedbig enough area either it's also narrow for
Eagleston holly, But Egleston's fine.Anytime you're gonna do a holly, you

(02:10:31):
want to make sure the first twoor three years to hand water it,
because it's very important that it notget dry, that you water all of
the root system all around it.Uh. And I just I see a
lot of times people have an automaticsystem and something foliage or something is blocking
one of the emitters, and theeagle you're holly of any kind starts to

(02:10:56):
have issues because it's not getting gettingthat. But Wilson will get quite large,
in fact get very large, whichis also helpful in terms of a
sound barrier. But it's going toget big. It wants to be.
You know, it'll get twelve feetor so wide in time, So you're
going to have to stay with thepruning of it. I'm just when you

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got that limited of it with,it's hard to find something that's going to
do well and be thick enough.Some people will put in like maybe some
sort of a trellis panel, likea livestock panel or something, and they'll
put vines on it to block ofyou, but you don't have the depth

(02:11:39):
of foliage. It's giving you thebest sound barrier that way. But that
is one way you can when wedon't have room for a shrub, that
we can get a good flat panelof foliage out there. Okay, thank
you, Yeah, go ahead,I'm sorry skip the teddy bear may know
you can I keep that in adifferent But could I keep that tour it

(02:12:01):
doesn't continue to grow high? Realreal high? Can I keep them somewhat
six to eight ten feet tall?Boy? I think that would be a
challenge. Teddy bear wants to bebigger than that. It's a fairly slow
grower, as man southern magnolias are. But I think that would be a

(02:12:22):
little bit of a little bit ofa challenge. So theoretically, yes,
you could. I mean people takeelm trees that are sixty feet tall,
put them in little pots to makebones eye plants out of them by burning
them all the time and going throughgreat links. So you can keep any
plants small. But it's going tobe a lot of work over a long

(02:12:43):
term, and I don't know ifyou'd get tired of having to do that,
but you certainly could try. Allright, thank you Skip, All
right, well, good luck,thank you for the call. Appreciate that.
Tom. Let's see here, whereare we a little short on time?
Here? I tell you what,I'm going to have to take a

(02:13:05):
little break here for the news.When when I do come back from a
break, d in Montgomery, You'regonna be our first up, and Randy
you'll be right after that as wecome back. I just want to remind
you that my website, Gardening withSkip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot
Com is where you find my gardenschedules. The law and Care schedule tells

(02:13:26):
you mowing, watering, and fertilizingadvice, what do apply, when to
apply it, organic and synthetic options. The other one, Pest, Disease
and Weed Management schedule, talks aboutcontrolling insects like chinchbugs and side web worms,
for example. It talks about diseaseslike take all root rot and brown
patch, are large patch and soon. It talks about the various weeds.

(02:13:50):
What do you use pre emergence,When do you use them? Which
ones do you use? How aboutpost emergence? And again for all these
things. There's organic and sonthetic optionson those schedules are multicolor January through December.
One page free to download, printup, carry with you when you
go shopping, or stick up inthe garage. So next time. So,

(02:14:24):
welcome back to the guard Line.Thanks for joining us again today.
We are so glad to talk toyou and I hope that this is a
helpful show that gives you the opportunityand the what the information you need to
have a more bountiful garden, amore beautiful landscape, or the way I
like to put it, the informationyou need to turn brewn Thumb's green.
That's what it's about. We're goingto go out to Montgomery, Texas and

(02:14:46):
talk to d Hello, d Hi, how are you today? I'm good,
I'm good. How can we help? Well? Unfortunately I lost my
absolutely gorgeous giants eighty but oak treein the storm and it was my porch
shade tree. Do you have anysuggestions for a fast growing tree I can

(02:15:09):
put replace it with something that's agood long lived tree. Could be a
red oak, that's one option.Red oak, a red oak, red
oak? Okay, it is yoursoil. Does a spot tend to stay
a little wet after rains. Isit a little bit soggy a time?

(02:15:33):
Sure, it's a little in myit's in my sprinkler system, so it
does get water, it doesn't retainit. It's a little It was a
little on an angle this tree.I'll plant it a little farther down this
time. Okay, Well, ifthe soil drains well, then a shoemard
red oak would be the one.I would choose. Nut or nuttall in

(02:15:54):
u t T a L not tallt a l okay, read out book
either of those. Another good onewould be a Chinese elm. It is
very open. It's a drake elm. You see them all over town.
They are tough. They use themin landscaping and parking lots and stuff like

(02:16:16):
that, and shopping center parking lots. Because they're tough. You just want
to make sure that it's it's grownright and it is very well anchored.
Sometimes they can lean a little bitwhen they're young. Uh, And so
just picture it's planted properly and itdoes really well. But there's some big
beautiful specimens of Chinese elm around too. They cast a nice light shade.
So okay, and where in myarea. What you think Arborgate or I'm

(02:16:43):
not by AA nurseries? Do theycarry something like that? A Montgomery?
Uh, give them a call,give Kathy or whoever they're a call and
see if they have If they don'thave anything, probably get them in for
you. We certainly have tree companiesthat carry all of these things as well.
But if you're I think Arburgate,if they don't have it, they
can get it in for you.Or again A and A F and Montgomery

(02:17:05):
that I think they could. Yeah, I haven't been there. There's so
many nurseries I don't keep up with, you know, every plant that everyone
carries, I can't. But theones I recommend it are pretty common and
should be pretty widely available. Andthen when you go there they may have
some other options. I mean Ipulled two out of the air here there
I can give you probably a dozengood options that would work well. So

(02:17:26):
it doesn't have to be either youknow, the red oak or the drake
or the Chinese elm. Okay,well, thank you so much. By
all right, You take care goodto talk to you. Appreciate that Nelson
Plant Food is a purveyor of allkinds of quality plant foods. And here's
what I'm talking about, the turfStar line. We have lots of products

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that are used for the lawn andthe turf Star line by Nelson. Probably
the one that I most would focuson right now is slow and Easy.
That's the one that will feed graduallyfor three or four months. You put
down slow and Easy. Now,if you've not fertilized for summer yet,
you don't have a slow release alreadyin your lawn, then do the slow
and Easy and it'll carry all theway until it's time for fall fertilization.

(02:18:11):
Turf Star Slow and Easy, excellentproduct. Then they have the Color Star.
Color Star works on all kinds offlowering plants. It's one of the
most popular products they have and widelywidely available. Then they have their specialty
plant foods. For example, earliersomeone was talking to me. We were
talking about the Nelson Plumeria plant foodand it's not just plumerias, it's all

(02:18:33):
the flowering tropical plants. It willdo very well for those. Bougain villa
plant food any kind of a viningplant, a flowering vine is what they
recommend the bougainvilla plant food for.It works very well. The rose food
another example, the tree and shrubfood, the crape myrtle food, the
vegetable garden azalea, citrus fruit,and avocado hibiscus. They have all of

(02:18:58):
these by Nelson Plant Food. They'reavailable in jars, and we also have
local retail garden centers that will havea refail station, so you take your
jar back in you can refill it, save the plastic and save a little
bit of money on the cost ofrefilling those jars. Just makes them even
more convenient. And all of thisis from Nelson Plant Food. We're going

(02:19:20):
to go now back to the phonesand let's see here. We're going to
go to Randy. And where areyou located, Randy. I can't quite
make it out there. We're downin Bay City, Texas. Skip Ah,
Okay, good well, welcome tothe show. Yeah, thanks for
having us on and answering our questions. Hey, my wife and I were

(02:19:41):
recently in the Pacific Northwest on theOregon coast, and we were kind of
mesmerized by the road of dendrons thatthey had up there, and so we
started doing some research online about whetheror not you could grow them down in
our grow zone and there's a lotof conflicting information out there. Ohther or
not you can be successful with rhododendronson the Gulf, I don't know if

(02:20:03):
you have an opinion on it.And if if you can grow them,
what type you some type you wouldrecommend? Okay, Well, I think
it's a challenge, and by andlarge, as you move further and further
south, the rhododendrons just don't performas well as, for example, the
azalias might perform. I've seen somerhododendrons further up in East Texas, you

(02:20:24):
know, you get up the Tylerand areas like that, you'll see some.
But even there, it's asking alot for them. And I'm not
a rhododendron expert, I'll just admitthat. But the times that I've talked
to people that grow them and havetried growing them and things, it's just
it's quite a challenge. So ifI told you no, you can't do

(02:20:45):
it, I'll get ten calls frompeople saying they do. Because that's how
it is with all plants. Butbottom line is, I think if you're
looking for something, I think aziliasare probably the ones that you would be
interested in. There are even somename of azaleas that are deciduous, uh,
and they drop their leaves and thenthey come out with the blooms and
things. And then there's our standardtypes of azaleas. And there's a lot

(02:21:09):
of options out there. But Idon't blame you for falling in love with
the rhododendrons when you get up there. Uh, they have some gorgeous ones.
They do absolutely okay, and youanswer my next question, so we'll
look into the zailies. Thank youso much. Skip all right, Randy,
thanks for the call. Appreciate thata lot. All Right, well,
folks, Uh time taking another littlebreak here, Lloyd. When we

(02:21:33):
get back, I'll I'll put youfirst up and we'll come right to you
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(02:24:26):
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to the phones. Now, we'regoing to go talk to Lloyd and Growton.
Hey Lloyd, how are you doingtoday? I'm good, sir.
How can we help? Okay,A couple of weeks ago, my daughter

(02:24:52):
in law brought me a peach offor her grandfather's tree. I beat into
it that peach blue. It wasa dark, dark blue. The flesh
of it was. Can you tellme what kind of peach that is?
Well? If today was April first, I would have an explanation for your

(02:25:15):
question. I have never heard ofa blue fleshed peach, and I would
almost say that doesn't exist. Idon't oh boy uh. Anyway you could
send me a picture of one,or get more information on it. I'll
see if I got any more.She had to tag where she boughted,

(02:25:37):
and he said, okay, butI know, yeah, no is a
good peach for this this area.But it's a yellow flesh peach. It's
not not blue. I don't know. Uh, go ahead, This peach

(02:26:05):
was blue. I mean it wasa dark blue cad and but it was
a good it was an absolutely goodpeach. It was good. Well,
I'm gonna rewind this. You havewon. You have won the game called
Stump the chump today because you gotme on that one. I think I'm

(02:26:26):
just gonna put you on on holdhere in a second half, producer Chris,
give you my email and if youcan find it more information on it.
Mainly send me a picture because whatI'm picturing in my head does not
does not exist. I've called aboutfive nurse reagions and nobody had ever heard

(02:26:46):
of Well, my master's my master'sdegree in horticulture was in pomology, which
is a study of fruit. Thatis what I specialized in. I've had
peach orchards myself. I've advised speechorchard just I've never heard of this and
I'm old enough to know never saynever, right, So I'm not going

(02:27:07):
to tell you nothing exists. ButI'll tell you this. I'd bet a
lot of money that there's no suchthing, and you're telling me you saw
it. So I'm willing to openmy mind and say, send me a
picture. Let's take a look.I'll be happy to see what I can
figure out on it. But letme well, okay, but that would
be something completely different. And stillyou using the word blue for the interior

(02:27:31):
doesn't sound right now? Maybe exteriorit's got a it's it doesn't have a
fuzzy skin, right, that's right, it doesn't. Listening to her,
I appreciate, all right, willhang on. I want to because I

(02:27:52):
really want to see more on this. If you can provide it, I'll
put you on whole right here,Uh, Chris, if you'll pick that
up and get in my email,because we're gonna have to look into it.
There's the first time for everything.We're going to go to Bess in
Conroe. Now, Hey, Bess, Hello, thus are you there?
Yeah? Hey, welcome to Droudline. Can you hear me? Yes?

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I can can you hear me?Yes? Okay, we have a new
build in Huntsville, Texas, fortypallets of grass. My husband was a
little overachieved, and how do Itake care of it. It's been down
about a month. Do I needto fertilize or just keep water and it's

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really struggling of course in this heat. Yeah, the most important thing on
grass that's been down a month.As you were planting it in June,
that grass needed water from day onemore than once a day to help it
get established. But now that we'rea month out, if it's still alive,
you're in pretty good shape. Iwould water it with a good soak,

(02:29:00):
but just once, maybe twice aweek. If you do it once
a week, try to get aninch on it. It may take more
than one application over the course ofa morning with about a forty five minute
soak in between them to get aninch down, But to give it a
good soaking and frequently helps develop adeep root system and a resilient grass.
If you need to go twice aweek, do about a half inch with

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each irrigation. As far as fertilizing, if it's been in a month,
you can go ahead and fertilize itif you feel like you know it needs
it. Just use a slow releaseproduct. A slow release product, and
if you go to my schedule.Have you seen my lawn schedule that's on
the website Gardening with skip dot com. I have not, but we are

(02:29:46):
definitely going to follow that with thisnew grass. Yeah good, We'll just
go there and do the lawn careschedule and it'll tell you the slow releases.
We have several options. Here aregreat companies here in the Houston area
that provide you with summer fertilization options. I would go with a slow release
and it's going to carry you graduallyfeeding the grass all the way in into

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fall, and that's what you want. You don't want to overdo just this
giant flush of nitrogen all at once. That's not good. But you do
want a little bit of nitrogen overa long period of time, and that
they do that perfectly. These thesefor products do that perfectly. Well.
He's been they told him, whenhe put it down to water three times
a day. And because we stilllive in Conroe and he's traveling back to

(02:30:31):
Huspital, he's only done it oncea day, but he's done a deep
soak every time. But it isstruggling with his heat so he needs to
back off on the watering. Wellthis next week is oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Twice a weekis often enough. Twice a week
is often enough. If it's beenin a month, you don't need to
be watering it that often. Butwhen you water it, give it a

(02:30:54):
good soaking. But just twice aweek, and if you can move toward
once, that's fine. You know, in shade, it's not I can't
need near that much water. Insun it's gonna need that much water.
In a sandy soil, you're gonnahave to water more often than you are
in a clay soil. So it'shard to have a one size fits all.
But what the advice I gave youon an inch a week is about
as close to one size fits allas I can give you. Okay,

(02:31:18):
thank you very much, Good luckwith that. Did you say forty pallettes
forty palletts? It's an overachieaver,yes. And how many riding lawnmowers do
y'all own? Probably a new one? Yeah? All right, well,

(02:31:39):
I have fun. So I waslike, you need to like start a
golf course or something. Hey,best, thanks to the call. I
appreciate it. Good bet, wellthe music means we're done with garden Line.
Thank you for listening. I'll beback in the morning six am all
the way to ten am tomorrow morning, four hours of gard Line. John

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back with us again. In themeantime, go check out my website gardening
with Skip dot com Gardening with Skipdot Com. There you'll find the schedules
and you know, we're slowly buildingstuff. To keep building that website out
make it more and more valuable.I don't quit making promises as to what
I'm going to put up and justtell you when they're up. How about
that? I think that works?About that? Thanks for listening to the

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