Gardening on the go

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're having a good start to the day. I sure

(00:03):
am looking forward to talking to gardeners. That's my happy place.
So welcome to garden Line. My name is Skip Rictor.
I'm your host, and if you would like to give
me a call to talk about anything related to gardening,
all you have to do is pick up a phone
and I'll seven to one three, two to one two
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one two k t RH. I know we have listeners

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who do this, but I just want to remind the
rest of you that if you take your phone and
go to the iHeartMedia app or whatever whatever app you
use for connecting to radio, you can find the garden
Line radio show and just listen to it on your phone.
Some people go out in the garden in the morning,
which is the time to get work done around here,
right especially in the summer, and they just listen on

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the phone as they were. Who knows, you might turn
over some kind of bug and need to take a
picture of it and send it to me for identification.
Well here, we're here for that too. We can help
recommend different kinds of plan we can help you diagnose
different diseases and insects, we identify weeds, any kind of
thing like that. We're happy to do it because our

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goal is for you to have success. It's as simple
as that I would in terms of how I look
at this exchange between you and I here on the
radio is I'm here to help you have a more
bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That is the goal.
And we were going to turn that thumb green topic

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by topic as we continue to cover the various things
that are part of success in gardening here in the southeast,
a greater Houston area and really across a good section
of the state to folks that listen. Done in this
quadrant of the state. I this past week have been
getting ready to head out of town for a little bit.

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I'm going to I've got some folks here who can
do my watering of course for me and things. But
there are a number of tips that I'm gonna give
for helping you to maybe make a trip like that.
What do you do when you're trying to get out
of town and you need to, you know, make sure

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your plants are taken care of. Well, we're gonna do that.
For example. One thing that I do that just makes
it really easy is I've got a number of different plants.
I've got a couple of gingers, for example, that are
in containers still the garden nursery container, and they just
don't like to get super dry. And so when what

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I've done is moved them where they were from where
they were where I could water them every day, to
run the back to a very very bright, shady spot
with a little dapple shade through the day, but not
much more than that, and put them in a big
old washtub, big old galvanized washtub. I put about maybe
two inches or so of water in the bottom, depending
on how far I'm how long it'll be gone away,

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and set them in there, and that gives them a
bottom of watering where the water just wicks up into
the plant and keeps them from going into major drop stress.
I also will throw some mosquito granules in. It's a
little area like that's too small for a whole mosquito dunk,

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but you can break them apart, put some of the
crumbles in there, and now when the mosquitoes come along,
go oh boy, let's lay eggs in there. Well, you
just have basically a disease of their larvae, then they
cannot take off and succeed. That works really well if
you can have somebody, if you're going to be gone
an extended trip, you could have somebody come by maybe
every four days three days and just check on that

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and make sure you get enough water in it. Some
people use a little three foot wide you know kids
waiting pools, those little super cheap plastic things. Those are
great for this. You put the water in there and
you have even a better amount of water. Just think
of it this way. The bigger the reservoir holding that
supplemental water for waking up into the plant, the less

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that water is going to drop. You're going to get
evaporation from the surface anyway. But if you have a
big old kiddy waiting pool on little one plant in
the middle, well lasts a long time because that's a
lot of water. They can wake up in there. Anyway.
That's just one tip for when you're going on a trip.
Another one would be to make sure your bird feeders
are filled up, or better yet, get one of the

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low bird compact bird cylinders.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Wild birds has us the compact cylinders of seed, and
those last a longer time because it takes the birds
a little more to peck those seeds out of there.
So a couple of vacation tips there for your plants
or for going on trips. Let's see, we're going to
go now to talk to Abraham. Is this Abraham?

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yes, it is h I'm good.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
How can we help?

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, sir, I have plants, reaper, turning, gask working and
roast pepper, all three of them. The leaves are small,
they don't grow big, like see a bushy plant, and
they're black and they've been like that all season. I'm
just wondering what I could do to to have it

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beautiful plants.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
You know, black is in dead black as in like
a mold type looking thing.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh okay, okay, gotcha, well U turnovers, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I said the leaves are small, they don't grow big,
and this kind of.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
All right. Well, the fact that they're not growing large
is definitely assigned. Something's wrong. It could be a virus
in the plant, and which there's no cure for. It
just is what it is. Once a virus gets in,
you can't cure it, so we tend to pull those
plants out and put new ones in. It could also

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be related to stresses, you know, as the plant has
various stresses from droughts to whatever, it affects its ability
to put on fresh, large, healthy leaves. When I see
the black, that's now making me think that there's something
that is sucking juices out of either that pepper plant
or some plant above it and then dropping honeydew onto

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the foliage which is the black. If you turn leaves
over underneath, you should see you may see aphids, you
may see white flies. Meatia bugs can do that, but
you would have already noticed the white cottony material from them.
But there are a number of little insects that feed
underneath the leaf that can cause that honeydew which causes

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the black city mold. As far as the plant health overall,
have you tried giving them a boost of some sort
of liquid fertilizer.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's what I was gonna try.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
And next yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what I would.
I would grab, you know, just to get a kind
of a quicker boost or something like that. There are
some great products out there that do that. Know. Microlife
has a fisher mulsion. They've got a seaweed type product
called Lotion Harvest. And then they've got one that is

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a seven.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
To one four.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's the orange label. It's called Biomatrix. It's a little
quart bottle. You shake it up, mix a little in water,
and you put it down in it. It will if
it's gonna If the problem is a nutrient problem, you
should see a pretty quick result from a trying that.
So I think you may have more than one thing

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going on. Again, if it were a problem with the virus,
then there's no curing it. If you would like, I
can put you on hold and have my producer pick
it up and give you an email address, and if
you could send me some really good close up photos
of that plant, the foliage, so I can see what

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you mean by small leaves or black leaves, and where
it is on the bush and that kind of thing.
Turn over a leaf for two and take a good,
well focused picture of the bottom of the leaf, and
I think I can get better nail it down to
exactly what's going on all right with us today? You know,
we love feed stores here on guard Line. And if
you are up in Tomball, especially out to the west direction,

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D and De feed is your hometown feed store. You
just go out twenty nine to twenty and they're right
out there on the left hand side, just a little
bit outside of Tomball. And when you go to D
and D you're going to find ever fertilizer that I
talk about here on guarden Line. So I mean, if
you're interested in getting something that is going to feed
your lawn for any season of the year, you follow
my schedule. You see all the different products on there.

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Maybe it's you know, putting up barricade to prevent weeds
or other. They've got it all right there at D
D Feed. Now you'll also find the age leaf mol compost,
an heirloom rose, soil of fruit berry, citrus, and veggie
nerb mixes, all those good mixes from heirloom soils. They've
got those as well. The phone number is two eight

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one three five. You need to stop in there. They've
got plants out front too, and inside a lot of
quality feed. If you've got pets, you're going to find many,
many options for very high quality feed for your pets
there at D and D Feed. Just so easy to
get in and out of there. I'm very very convenient
again out on just west to Tomball's head out. Now

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we're going to go to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Rick.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Hello Rick, Hello scoop, good morning, and thank you for
taking my call today.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yes, sir, Well, so I.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Have a question. I just bought a couple of acres
out in kind of the random Chapel Hill area. It's uh,
it's a little south of two ninety in between Chapel
Hill and Brenham. And it's it's kind of a just
a prairie, kind of open rolling hill, kind of peace

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of land. And I'm wanting to plant some trees on it,
but I don't know which trees would would do really
well there and that would kind of grow big and
and and in a short period of time. And the
second question is is there a place out in that
direction that you would recommend that could talk to me
about native landscaping and things that would do well in

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that area.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Well, I would I would probably head up to Anti
grosenpor Him, which is just in the backyard up there.
It's north of Brenham. Uh, independence area that's pretty close
to you up there. Uh. And they do carry a
lot of native plants and you could visit with them
about it. Uh. You know that you're you're out in
beautiful country. Out there by the way, congratulations on on
the and the property, and but there's just not a

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lot of you know, garden centers all over the place
once you get out a little more rural like that.
So Antiq Rose of you a good a good one
to talk to. You know that as you come in
toward the Houston area, we've got a lot of garden
centers that are excellent when it comes to native plants.
And so you hear me talk about those on Guardline

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all the time. That's a little bit of a drive
in to do that, but still worth worthwhile.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Okay, what would you recommend tree wise? If I wanted
to plant some trees that were that we're going to
grow and get some shade, and I realized it's not
going to happen overnight, but something that would grow, you know,
a something within the part, you know, within five years
or so, what would you recommend?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Are we talking about trees around the yard out there
or are you talking about trees lining the roadway or
coming in your drive or what what kind of location?
And are you talking.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
About, yeah, kind of around the yard area. If I
wanted to put just not like right up against the house,
but you know, just to have some trees around where
the yard is gonna be right.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well, there's a couple of there's a number of great
trees that could be done for that. Now, if you've
got an area that can be a little on the
droughty side, which it sounds like in your yard, that's
not going to need to be the case, but droughty
type trees. The cedar elm is a good native elm
that does very well out in that area. That's one
that a lot of people like and go to. If

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you've got some things you can put a little water
on as you need it. Red oaks there is a
red oak called nuttall and u T t a l
or Schumart s h u m a r d. Both
of those red oaks will do very well. They get
a good growth rate if you water them and fertilize
them and keep the weeds away when they're young, let

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them have a mulched area around them. Those two would
be good and then they're you know, just there's just
so many other good trees. There's several different types of
elms that are are quality, and a couple of that
are pretty easy to find. Like I mentioned, the seat
around the lace bark elm or Chinese elm is another

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name for it. That is another decent tree. I would
recommend on all these. You go online, take a look
at pictures and see if that's what you like to
look at. And we're talking about big shade trees, right,
not not smaller trees.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, you know, a couple of big a couple of
big shade trees. And then maybe some trees that give
some color you know as well that aren't so big.
Maybe some kind of mix, you know, some ornamental type.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, yeah, so out in the sun. You know, great
myrtles or are a good choice. We still use them
a lot around here. And there's crapes that will get
up thirty feet tall if you like them that. I
like the one Natches, which has white blooms, but it
has a beautiful cinnamon colored bark, and it gets quite large.
You could even prune it or purchase it as a

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single trunk tree and continue to maintain that form. So
it's not like the three stems coming out of the
ground typical krape myrtle bush, but it's more of a
trained up into a tree like farm Chinese fringe. Fringe
tree has white blooms in the spring, shaggy white blooms
and a nice little pleasant honey like fragrance to the blooms.

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That would be another good one. Vitex is a blue
typically blue, dark blue to purple flowering plant that makes
more of a multi stem shrub, but it will it's
almost impossible to make it cooperate and turn into a
tree form, but that would be an option. And then
there's some others that are a little more touching go

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like red bud. They kind of prefer to be understory.
Although they can grow in full sun. You just have
to keep them watered so they don't get stressed. And
some of those have kind of burgundy like foliage instead
of just green.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
All right, well that's been really helpful. Thank you so much.
I appreciate all your all.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Your help with that, you bet. Well that's the quick answer.
Now you know, there's one hundred trees we could be
talking about on here. We take the rest of the
show just to talk trees. But that helps you, all right,
Thank you, thank you very much, Thank you pie, you bet.
I'd like to give us a call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. You hear me

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talk about night foss products all the time because there's
a lot of high quality night foss products there. Summer
regimen is basically focuses on the silver bag. It's called
super turf by the way, and super turf gives you
gradual release of nutrients over time and you can still

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put that out now. It will prevent that flush of
growth that an immediate release fertilizer can cause, which means
you're mowing a lot more and you're essentially having the
water to kind of keep up with that because excessive
nitrogen is not a good thing. But super turf takes
that nitrogen and it spreads it out slowly over time.

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It's as if you're going out there every day giving
a little bite d That's kind of what it amounts to.
Super Turf's available in many different places. You go out
to Katie Ace Hardware on Pinook, You're going to find
it there. You're going to find it at Ace Hardware
City or Memorial Drive in Houston. You can find super
Turf at Stanton Shopping Center, North Taylor and Alvin as well.
Super Turf just one of mini quality products from the

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folks at Nitrophiles. I was getting my plants ready for vacation,
as I talked about a little bit earlier, and one
of the things that I noticed, you know, I tend
to go out and find these plants I just can't
live without, and I buy them and I bring them home,
and then I do what I tell you not to do,

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you know, buy the plant, bring it home, and there's
no place to put it. Because remember brown stuff comes
before green stuff, meaning the soil at its peak quality
is your first goal, first goal, because then you put
the plan in and you're going to have long term success.
The other way around, bring it home and PLoP it
into an unprepared plot is not a plan for success,

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and it's just an excuse for a lot of painful
watching that plant not thrive and maybe even having to
buy another one. So anyway, I've got some plants that
are sitting in pots getting watered by me every day,
So instead of the garden center having to water them
every day, I'm watering them every day. And so I've
got some soil prep that I'm trying to get done,
because you know, it is important to get it right,

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and soil prep means can mean different things depending on
the soil you're dealing with pretty much any soil needs
organic matter, decomposed organic matter. We call that compost. That's
what that's organic matter that we have decomposed on purpose
to put into the soil. When you add compost to

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a clay, it takes that heavy clay that is dense
and air and water can hardly move through it at all,
and it loosens it up and creates clumps of soil particles,
so there's airspace that can now flow through. The analogy
I use for that is like a bowl of popcorn.
So a bowl of popcorn, you know, you've got all

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these clumpy looking individual things, but there's airspace in between them,
and that's that is building the soil. That's done with
organic matter. It can also be done with expanded shale.
Expanded shale lasts a long time. Think of it as
just remember the old gray kitty litter. Think of that,
but imagine it getting fired to a super hot, super

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hot hot level with steam that causes those particles to
expand and sort of turn into Swiss cheese that mixed
into your soil at about three inches takes a lot
of it to make a difference in a clay, but
about three inches mixed in will make a huge difference
in a clay, or you can do small amounts over
time as well. Well, it's time for me to take
a break. I'm going to shut up right now and

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I'll be right back in a minute with your calls
at seven one three, two, one two, five eight seven four.
Welcome back, Welcome back to garden LINEA glad to have
you listening on a Saturday morning. It's going to be
a good day. I'm looking forward to getting out today
after the show and getting some things done. You know
what they say, have you ever heard the turn the

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cobblers' kids go barefoot? Well, sometimes I'm glad you can't
see my yard. There's certain times when I'm traveling. I
was out at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association this
past week, their convention in San Antonio. Man, was that
ever a great convention. Saw a lot of good folks there,
just the ioids and I go into that. But when

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I go away, and then when I sit in here
and talk to you about gardening, I'm not outside taking
care of my own. So I'm really love catching up
to do. But I can do that. That's okay, my
okra patch right now is looking great. It is. You know,
Okra loves this weather. The more miserable you are outside
in summer, the happier Okra seems to be. It can

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take hot, it can take humid. It's from It's from Africa,
basically a portion of Africa up and kind of in
the direction up toward I don't know, middle Eastern area,
you know, kind of through there. And in fact, they've
debated whether India, Africa where exactly did okra originate. But
the bottom line is it loves Houston, it loves out

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East Texas. It is very happy in the South in general, hot, humid,
that's its happy place. Got something going on because I
was gone. I had something that kind of got past prime.
And you know, with okra, you don't want to let
those things get past prime. Some some cultures pick okra.
It's small, small sizes. In Turkey, they pick it when

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it's like a inch inch and a half long and
dry it and put it on strings and then that
string just think of it like a big old mop,
you know, with all the strands of a mop. They
just put it in a soup pot and cook the
ochre that way. It's like it's like a tea bag
and tea bag making tea or something. But first time

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I saw that is amazing. I've got a little package
of that. But we tend to pick it a little longer,
when it's maybe three inches four inches long somewhere in there.
In general, some ocres can go a little longer. Some
don't go as far. But I'll tell you this, when
you go too far, it is woody, it's got the
fibers in it. It is no longer a succulent little

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something you want to eat. Just a point about that also, though,
is when you're harvesting okre, if you'll bend the pod,
if it snaps cleanly in two with no low fibers
hanging on, that's one sign that it's still at a
good tender. And remember it's not the size that the
pod achieves. It determines whether or not it's tough for

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woody or tender. It's honey days since bloom, So basically
when you get about three or four days past bloom,
that ocre should be in your kitchen by that time.
Sometimes you have little pods just the plant's stress. They're
not growing very fast, and you go, oh, well, that's
small enough. No, it's not this, it's not how long
does that pod reach? It's it's honey days pass blooe.

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That's your tender. All right, let's go. We're gonna head
straight out to Spring, Texas and talk to Phil.

Speaker 7 (22:28):
Hey, Phil, morning skit. I've got a large morning lovel
It's about thirty five feet tall. And during the hurricane,
I lost a couple of fairly large branches, so it
started dropping leaves and the blooms aren't chilling out stuff
like that. Is that pretty normal?

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, drought itself can cause leaf drop when it goes
through periods that are hot and dry, and we're kind
of in one now, although I would say it hadn't
been hot right long enough to be where we'd worry
about drought stress on a krapmer. But that could be
a factor to it, you know, the damage that it
went through could be a factor in summertime. Unless you

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give them a lot of water, they can they can
start to kind of look like you're describing.

Speaker 9 (23:17):
Well years ago.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I say it. I'm sorry. Let me just say when
I say a lot of water, I don't mean your
water in them every day. I mean that they just
have a constant adequate supply of moisture as opposed to
being allowed to go a love droughty. But go ahead.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
So they're in the irrigation system, which runs two times
a week. So what I was going to mention is
that a few years ago I made the mistake of
printing a thing during the summer and take some large
a couple of not real big lands, but fairly large,
and it did the same thing. Start, dropped off sleeves

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and went into high renation sort of, and they came
back the next year.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I've never heard about ruining causing that, so I I
don't think that's the I don't think that's a pruning thing,
even though it seems to be associated with it when
you've done it in the past.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
Okay, well, my question really is is should I go
ahead and fertilize this now, which I would usually do.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
You could do that, you sure could. It's it. Uh,
you know, it's not going to hurt the planet at all.
And if you're lacking nutrients, that is helpful. Typically in
the summer, what we're lacking is water. That's the thing
we're worried about, uh, and not so much nutrients. But
you can provide a little bit of fertilizer. There's some
you know, good quality products out there that are designed

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specifically to make uh with the ratios and stuff that
would do best for trees.

Speaker 10 (24:51):
Right.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Well, let me let me make one comment about watering film.
If you're watering three times a week, that would be
too often. If you you give a kripe myrtle a
good inch inch and a half of water once a week,
that is that should be more than enough, because we're
going to wet the soil really deeply and then let
it dry out really well, instead of building a very

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shallow root system with those frequent little squirts of water
right at the surface that are not soaking as far in.
So you might want to gradually move from three times
a week toward once a week by applying a little
more water when you apply it.

Speaker 7 (25:31):
Okay, all right, well I'll do that, all right, thank you, Buch.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
All right, yes, sir, take care. I've been talking about
this weed wiper that I put online. I talk about
the last couple of weekends, I believe. But if you
haven't heard it yet or seen it yet, you need
to go online to my website Gardening with Skip dot com.
Gardening with Skip dot Com. There's also two articles on

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nuts Edge there that I think you will find to
be very very helpful, especially the in depth one which
helps you understand what you're up against and how to
what do they say, know your enemy. You've got to
understand how that little creature works so that you can
provide good protection for it. Hey, that weed wiper. Questions

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have come in, Where do I get that little thing
with the section cops. Well, they're pretty widely available. I'll
tell you where I know you can get them. As
a Southwest fertilizer. Bob's got those in stock over there now,
and I say that if you'll do a run on it.
The next person that shows up you may say it's
on order, but seriously, Bob has everything at Southwest Fertilizer,

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every fertilizer. I talk about every product you could possibly
need for insects, diseases, weeds, fertilizing, supplementing plants. They're all there, organic, synthetic,
the tools, everything you need, like the little device that
you would make your own homemade weed wiper. And go
to Gardening with Skip dot com and see what that

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looks like and then swing by Southwest fertilizer corner of
Bis and Nut and Runwick in southwest Houston. Well, I
believe it's time for me to take a little break.
When we come back, Alex, you'll be our first up.
I was talking with Ty Strickland. He's the guy that
owns fixed my slab foundation repair. Oh, I guess it

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is about week and a half, two weeks ago, I believe,
And I'm just asking him some questions. One of my
daughters is building or purchasing a house over in another
part of the state, and there were some issues on
the foundation. And I'm telling you that Ty knows it all.
He has been doing well. He's been doing it for
twenty three years in the Greater Houston area. And you know,

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when it rains, these soils, these clays here in Houston,
they swell up real big and then when it gets dry,
they shrink up. That's where you get the big cracks
in the backyard and a heavy clay soil. Well, when
that happens, it wrecks havoc on foundations and driveways and sidewalks.
Ty knows how to go in do an accurate assessment,
tell you exactly what's going on and whether you need

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it to be fixed or not. I'm telling you he
is not just out there. Every time he shows up
he tells someone they have to hire him to fix something.
An honest fella, and he I was talking to him.
He says, you know, if if it hasn't changed more
than certain such and such amount, then you don't need
to mess with it. It's not worth going in to
mess with And he'll do that. You call him, You
tell him that you're a guardline listener. First of all,

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that's going to get you a free estimate. Uh So,
if you see cracks in your brick, cracks in your
sheet rock, if you see doors that if you have
doors that are sticking that used to you know, open
and close real easily, all signs of potential foundation repair.
Don't put it off. Go ahead and give him a call.
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you know they're going to show up on time. You
know they're going to give you a fair price, and
you know that when they fix it, it's fixed. Right.
That is important. Let's head out to Richmond. Texas and
talk to Alex. Hello, Alex, thanks you are you? I'm good, sir.

(29:10):
How can we help? Hey?

Speaker 11 (29:12):
So, I've been a Virginia buttonweed infestation. Obviously the pre
emergent doesn't do anything for it. And with the temperatures
where they're right now, is there anything that's spray on it?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Is it in St? Augustine? Yes, sir? Is your long?
You're long? Okay? The best option you've got is called Celsius.
It's not cheap, but it is effective and it will
work very, very well as far as temperatures. It can

(29:46):
go up above ninety, whereas the others once you get
in the upper eighties and you cross ninety, it's like
you may not want to do that, but this one can. Now,
I wouldn't go outside on a ninety five degree day
with a sun bacon down right right. Then I'd get
up early in the morning and do it while we
still have as cool as we're going to be, which
is about eighty degrees around here, first thing in the morning,

(30:08):
and so go ahead and do it at that time.
But it is effective. However, Virginia button weed is a
tough one and it's going to take more than one
application most likely, so read the Celsius label carefully. You
may have to come back a little bit later in
the season and hit it again. Very importantly. We'll be
next spring when you're first seeing the good growth on

(30:31):
Virginia button weed. It temperature is a little bit cooler
at that time, and that will be the time to
start next year. You have more effective results than you
will typically trying to hit it in the middle of summer.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
All right, I'll find some Celsius they need to order
online or will the garden center se it.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
You're going to find that as the gardens that you
find it. ACE Hardware stores probably too. If you're out
there in Richmond Rosenberg area, you've got the plantation ACE.
It's not too far away from you out there, and
there's some there's a you can got ACE Hardware dot
Com and find the store locator if you don't already
know where your aces are out in that year. Also
coming in from you, you come into Southwest Fertilizer Business

(31:11):
and Renwick and they're going to add to you there.

Speaker 11 (31:15):
All right, skipe, I appreciate it, all.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Right, you take care. Appreciate call very much. Yeah, I
feel like I'm becoming a broken record on Celsius. It's
not the only product out there that you need to
use for weed control. There's a lot of good products,
but I tell you, once we hit the summertime, a
lot of the things, the Trimex and whatnot, the two forty's,

(31:39):
all those kinds of mixes and stuff that are in
various products. It's just too hard on your Saint Augustine
when it's hot. And the last thing we need is
to stress our Saint Augustine trying to kill a weed
and then end up will take our root rot infecting
it because it got stressed and weakened. And that's how
it works. Plants in some ways are like people in

(32:02):
that if you don't take care of your body and
you don't eat right, and you don't sleep enough, you know,
and on and on, you don't exercise at all, you're
more likely to get sick. It doesn't mean it will
get sick and you won't. You can't get sick if
you're healthy. It just means you're more likely to. And
there are diseases that are opportunists that they jump onto

(32:23):
a weak patient and they're able to move in and
take over and take all root rot on Saint Augustine.
Is that kind of disease. You can have a perfectly
healthy lawn, you go through some drought stress, you apply
a herbicide that is not okay to use in the summertime.
It weakens your grass and all of a sudden, take
all it shows up. Where did it come from? It

(32:44):
was there? What had happened? The patient got weak and
the disease moved in. The hypoxylan canker on trees causes
the bark to fall off and kills trees. Same kind
of organism we call those opportunists. I mentioned Ace Hardware,
the plantation Ace down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area.

(33:05):
There's Ace Hardware's all over. Just go to Acehardware dot
com and you'll find the one near you. Congratulations to
the folks out at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Now that's
on five twenty nine in Cypress. It's the intersection of
Barker Cypress in five twenty nine, So Barker Cypress North
south five twenty nine east west. Right there Langham Creek

(33:27):
Ace Hardware. They're having their reopening. They opened up and
got going and then they did a revamp of the
store and now is their reopening. Oh my gosh, listen,
you need to do this. It's Friday, August thirtieth. Next Friday,
Saturday thirty first, and Sunday the first, next weekend. Okay,
I say next. Excuse me, I'm two weekends away. My

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brain is shifting here anyway, thirtieth, thirty first and first,
Why am I telling you about this? Lots of fun activities,
vendor demonstrations. They're going to draw for really sweet prizes
on There'll be a still discount day on Saturday. If
you want still Power equipment, awesome quality brand, they'll have

(34:10):
a discount special, really good discount on Saturday, and lots
of exclusive deals on many items. Like on Friday, they're
given away an Eggo Power Plus straight shaft battery string
Treamer two hundred and fifty dollars machine. Given it away.
It's part of the giveaway. They'll be demos on Weber
grills and on Sunday they're going to give away the
Weber Spirit two gas grill four hundred and fifty dollars

(34:32):
value and demonstrating the Big Green Egg and other things.
Do you see what I'm saying? Fifteen percent off still
By the way, on that Saturday, August thirty first, and
then on Sunday they're given away a paint, a room makeover,
a two hundred dollars value and demoing trigger grills. It's
barbecue season. You need to get by. But what a
great opportunity, and that is Langham Crease Creek Ace Hardware

(34:56):
at the intersection of Barker Cypress and FM five point
twenty nine. Let's see here. I'm gonna go now, Janey
in Missouri City. Janie, welcome to garden Line. I've got
a little bit of time here. See if we can
get your call done. If not, well we'll finish it
after the noon break on the top of the eye.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Okay, Well, I have two questions for you that are
sort of related to the burrel storm. I had a
degree that was out in my front yard, and of
course it was there for a while, and I now
have several dead patches, and I used the has to
grow laws treatment on it, and I was wondering whether
I needed to do more rating to clear up the

(35:39):
group they did grasp. I've cleaned out all the leaves
as much as I can, and I've had it most
several times, and I didn't know what else I could
treat that dad area with.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Okay, is it a bigger irregular area that's dead?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Well, it's about three feet by three feet?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh okay, all right, all right, well I'm not gonna
be able to fully answer it before I already hear
the music plan. You hang on, and when you come back,
we'll take that to the next stop. Can you think
of anything that happened there other than it just suddenly
it died and nothing got spilled or dumped or applied.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
It was where the debris was from virel from my tree.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, okay, but nothing else of then? All right, well
we'll get right back on it when we come back.

Speaker 9 (36:29):
You hang on, okay, thank you, you bet?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
All right, folks, I'll.

Speaker 12 (36:44):
Just watch you as Welcome.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Back, Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are here to do what to help you
have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. All
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your landscape and thought you know it's time to take
this thing up a level. It's kind of getting boring here,
or it's been boring here. Maybe it's a sea of
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living areas, like a nice hardescape where you could have
things like a fountain or like a waterfall, or what
like a barbecue pit designed in. Maybe you want landscape lighting.

(37:49):
Maybe you got a spot that's soggy wet after a
rain and it needs to not be because plants like
good drainage. Well, Pierscapes can help you with that. Peerscapes
does all all of those things. They can do landscape lighting,
They can take a wet spot and dry it out.
And by the way, we had all that rain this year,
so that ought to tell you where you had places

(38:10):
that stay wet too long. Now's a good time it's
drying out, and so you know, he can't he can't
go out and fix the thing when it's as still
a swamp. So this would be a good time to
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not thinking I'm not going to do anything right. Go

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You will get inspiration and ideas and you'll go, oh wow,
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I head to let's see, we're going to Magnolia, Texas
and talking to Sunday. Now, Hey Sunday, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 9 (39:07):
Thank you, Stiff.

Speaker 13 (39:07):
How are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (39:10):
I'm well, thanks.

Speaker 13 (39:12):
I have two questions. One, my roses are have been
losing leaf. I had one that started doing that, so
I cut it back and I treated all of them
with that bio advanced Rose and flower tear, which is
the fertilizer insect control and disease control. I don't see

(39:32):
where that did anything. I watered them about twice a
week and I still lost leave on probably three of
the rose bushes.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
And then okay, well, when when roses do that? First
of all, it is a brutal, hot, stressful season for them,
so that in and of itself is already giving them
a bit of a challenge if you if you add
to that either soil that is too wet or that

(40:04):
is too dry, you know, go through a little drought,
or you keep it too wet or nature keeps it
too wet, you can also have some you know, significant
issues with them doing the kinds of symptoms you're describing
right there. So I would, you know, I would say
probably just watch the soul moisture. First of all. A

(40:28):
little nutrients are always important for roses, but right now
I would hold off on that, especially if you've done
any kind of fertilizing before, and if you use the
biodvents that has fertilizer in it, mostly phosphorus, but it's
got fertilizer in it.

Speaker 13 (40:45):
All right, okay? And should I just leave them alone,
or should I boyhead cut out the dead stalks and
cut them back, or should I just wait?

Speaker 1 (40:57):
I you know, generally with my roses, I'll at the
end of August do a shearing back on them, and
then I'll water them and fertilize them to get a
boost of new growth. Because October is an awesome rose
month and to start getting that new shoots growing. You
could do that same thing in September if you want

(41:17):
to early September, if you want to do it at
that time, but you want to get new growth because
every time you get a new shoot, the roses will
form on the end of a new shoot. Okay, so
the more when you cut them back and where you
had one shoot, now it sprouts into two, you just
double the amount of roses that you can have on
that plant. Does that make sense?

Speaker 9 (41:36):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (41:37):
What fur launch er?

Speaker 9 (41:39):
Do you suggest anything on them?

Speaker 1 (41:43):
I think whether there's a number of good ones. Are
you particularly interested in organic or synthetic or what?

Speaker 13 (41:52):
I don't have particular Okay, well.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
There are how many roses do you have? By the way,
I mean roughly? What do we talk about, like about twelve? Okay,
well you can I was going to say, you can
go and purchase you know, Nitroposs and Nelson both have
a high quality rose foods that are available in little
canisters and you can sprinkle that around and water it
in and it will it will do the job for you. Now,

(42:19):
twelve roses, that's quite a bit for a little canister.
You may want to buy something in a little larger
bag because roses are something we do fertilize more than
once through the season because again vigor equals more ballooms,
and so we are feeding them regularly. But you are
let's see, you're up in the magnolia Yeah, up in

(42:39):
the Magnolia area. Yeah, I can come down your coat.

Speaker 12 (42:45):
Well.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Arbrogate has a rose food and the other thing. In fact,
they've got there. They're one two three completely easy system
at Arburgate. That's a soil, a compost, and a fertilizer.
The fertilizer in that has a really good ratio roses.
So that would be Arbigate's one two three easy system.

(43:06):
They call it Organic Soil Complete, Organic compost complete, and
organic food complete. It's organic food complete one. But get
that bag. You want to sprinkle it around your roses,
follow the label and scratch it into the soil and
then water it in real well, okay, because it's an organic,
it's going to be microbially broken down, so you need

(43:27):
good moist soil around those particles and it will go
to town. It's an excellent fertilizer for that.

Speaker 13 (43:33):
That's what I want okay, wonderful, Thank you very much.
I've noticed my oaks in the front bark have started
to lose some leaves. Not a lot, but I've noticed
some leaf dropping. Is it because of the heat and
because they are because they need more water? Sorry, that's my.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah, I hear that like those I'm sorry, that's okay.
The you said it was a live oak, Is that
what you said?

Speaker 13 (44:06):
I don't know. I've got I've got three oaks out there.
I don't know what kind they are, but I know.

Speaker 9 (44:12):
They're oak tree.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Got you. Well, I gotta I gotta run a break,
but so real quick. A good soaking on an infrequent
basis will be fine, but you can also have some
transitioning of leaves. What I'm gonna put you on hold,
my producer will pick it up, and I want you
to send me a photo of that so I can
see exactly what you got. Okay, uh, sorry, thank you,

(44:35):
But let me look at the photo and then I'll
on the oaks and i'll comment. All right, folks, time
for a break. We'll be right back. Have you with
us today. We are we're talking about all kinds of
things gardening, and we are in the big middle of
your calls as we try to help you have a
more bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape. One way that you
can have a more bountiful and beautiful garden and landscape

(44:58):
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(45:20):
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It also has seaweed extract, it's got molassets, it's got
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(45:41):
in fact, don't just use it for their lawns, they'll
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We'll just squared it with some of the has to
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just another one of the many good products that you

(46:03):
will find with Medina. We're going to head out now
to southwest Houston and I'm going to talk to Maxie.

Speaker 14 (46:10):
Hello, Maxi, Hi, good morning. My question is about powdery mildew.
I have a saucer magnolia. It's never gotten very tall
because it's planted in clay, and it had lots and
lots of leaves and a few buds. But I have
powdery mildew every year. Last year I used a more

(46:34):
popular spray, didn't affect the powdery mildew, didn't affect the plant.
This year, I got a different one and I sprayed
it and most of the leaves, probably eighty percent of
the leaves fell off. Now it has new leaves at
the bottom. So what shall I do about my powdery mildew?

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Okay, tell me again the plant that we're talking about.

Speaker 14 (47:00):
It's locals call it tulip tree, and I think Okay,
scientifically sauc or magnolia.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Oh okay, so yeah, I know what you're about. Okay, Well,
that one we got it on its southern the southern
end of where it wants to live. You can grow
them here, but we're now on the low end. So
hot weather. Hot weather will cause the edges of the
leaves to tips of the leaves to brown and shrivel
and curl up. And if it's enough, if you throw
a little drought in with it, you can you can

(47:30):
get some significant damage. The powdery mildey will also cause
that damage, as you've seen on that I would There
are a number of different products that you can use
for it. There is an ingredient called beylaton b A
y L E t O n b A y l
l Okay. That is a fungicide ingredient that works pretty well.

(47:54):
And Maxie, you are just a hop skipping a jump
away from Southwest fertilizer on biss and ut and run.
And I guarantee that has probably several types. Yeah, he's
got several types of beilaton. You can just tell him.
You talk to me on guardline and and that, uh,
you got powdery mildew. And I was suggesting he has
that's not the only ingredient that will control powdery mildew,

(48:14):
but it is systemic into the planet a little bit,
so that it's not just a surface thing that washes
off with the next rain, and it'll give you a
little bit longer term control. I would suggest that one.
I mean, I could recommend other things, but I think
that would be the one i'd start with in your
situation on that particular plant.

Speaker 14 (48:33):
Well, do do you think it's a little weird that
I sprayed the plant and all the leaves sail off?
I mean, it was perfectly healthy except a little powdery
mill down do especially down the veins.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
It could have been coincidental, but it could have been.
I don't want to accuse you anything because I don't
know how you mixed it, but you know, it could
have been.

Speaker 14 (48:54):
Oh what didn't just to spray?

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Just to spray, it's like a hose end.

Speaker 14 (49:00):
No, not oppose, it's just.

Speaker 7 (49:03):
Just the.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Oh was it labeled for use on plants?

Speaker 14 (49:12):
Yes, sir, for my okay, I'm just checking and sure, okay, yes.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Just because I listen, I've had people spray things that
basically it was like putting gasoline.

Speaker 14 (49:28):
Oh, yeah, no, Dand I thought about soap. I do
have a soap that the plants love as long as
it didn't have it on the leavest after it's treated.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Well the thing. Yeah, and don't do soaps now when
you put soap out on a hot sunny day, you
can burn the hack out of with that as well.
I don't know, I mean it could it could have
been the product. But you know, products that are labeled
for something, they're designed, but they ought to have a
warning on the label. But uh, it could have been

(49:59):
could have been the on a day you put it on,
and it could have just been coincidental that I don't know,
for whatever reason, you happen to spray on the day
that this problem was going to hit.

Speaker 14 (50:08):
But it's hard to be happy to go to Southwest Fertilizer.
I love selflest fertilizer.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah, I know you too, I do too. It's one
stop shopping, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (50:21):
All right?

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Maxie, thanks for the call much Bye you bet you
take care bye bye.

Speaker 6 (50:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Those of you who still haven't gotten around to having
your trees looked at in terms of any needed pruning
for summer, you know, summer's the storm season. And I
don't just mean hurricanes, although that certainly is a big deal.
Anytime you have a storm, if you're if you've got
narrow branch angles, if you've got trees that have been
poorly trained or pruned, they need to be looked at.

(50:51):
And Affordable Tree, Affordable Tree Martin spoon More is our
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knows what he's doing. But I'm telling you I can't
express enough the importance of proper tree care coming into
the storm season. From the time you plant a tree
until whatever day it is that you're looking at that

(51:14):
it could be thirty years later. From that time, you
want to make sure that tree was trained and pruned
properly and right. Because you get people that don't know
what they're doing. They run it and there's no refixing it.
You know, they can get turn somebody loose with the chainsaw.
It doesn't know what they're doing, and you got a
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nine nine two six sixty three. We're going to head
out now to Highland area, I believe, is that right?
Are we talking to Houston? Oh?

Speaker 15 (52:13):
Yeah, I wanted a question about you Beheo grass. I've
got a loan that's infested with beheo. Is there a
herbicide that's specifically for herb bo gray?

Speaker 1 (52:27):
There are some that are pretty effective against it, and
I believe one called man or m A n O R.
I'm want check that just to make sure don't get
a lot of beheo grass calls. Huh didn't show up
here to find it here in a second. But the

(52:49):
getting bigger. Yeah, it's a tough grass. I mean it
can take you know, it can take the drought. So
it's a disease that I mean a weed that it
is a challenge to be able to deal with. I
understand that. Uh yeah, it's it's called the ingredient. And

(53:13):
do you have a pan or pencil handy. Yeah, let
me see here. It's met sulfur on methyl and I'm
gonna I'm gonna spell that out because there are other
herbicides that have met sulfur on methyl in them. Now,
they're not going to be cheap, I can tell you that,
but this is a unique situation. One of them is

(53:36):
called ms M turf. But here's the ingredient m E
T s u L. If you are O N met
sull f on. If you are O N methyl U
and one of the ones would be ms M turf.

Speaker 12 (53:56):
Now you.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
I don't know, I don't know your area of that
well to know where where to send you. If you
got an ACE hardware store on they may be able
to they may have that, they may be able to
get it for you. Uh I would, all right, well
I would, I would try that. But it's not a
super super common thing. So mm hmm. But will it killed?

(54:22):
Is that it makes stand with it? No? No, But
you have to be careful and want and read the
label carefully because that is one that you know during
certain kinds of weather conditions and issues, and we were
real careful with it. Uh. So don't just get in
a hurry, but it does kill bhagrass, and it is labeled.

(54:45):
It is labeled for for use if you it is
but that, but remember this, and I just have to
give these caveats because it doesn't matter. A product can
be labeled for use on a plant, but if you
misuse it, you still hurt that plant. So it doesn't
mean that it won't it can't hurt the planet. It

(55:05):
just means, yeah, the other thing you need, Yeah, the
other thing you need to be careful with is uh,
don't overapply it and then watered in real good on
around root zones of trees and shrubs, which is basically
the whole yard. But if you get it down in

(55:26):
the roots, it can do damage. Not kill the whole
tree necessarily, but do damage to trees and shrubs. So
this is a specialized product with special caveats. But follow
that label carefully and it will do the job on
the pail for you. Thank you much, all right, sir,
you take care. Appreciate that time for us to take

(55:46):
a little break here top or for the half hour news.
I'll be right back at seven one three two one
two k t RH Welcome back to garden Line, Glad
to have you with us. We are looking forward to
talking to you about the kind of questions you have,
the kind of things you're interested in. You know, we
love feed stores here on Guarden Line and down in
League City. You've got a great one. League City Feed

(56:08):
has been around for forty years now, and it's the
kind of place you go in. It's that old time
feed store that carries your products to you to the car,
your bags or whatever you need carried out to the car.
It's the kind that's going to have all the fertilizers
you hear me talk about on Guardline. If I say,
well here, if it's on my schedule, you know, here's one.

(56:28):
They're going to have it there. It also is a
place where you're going to find pest disease and weed
management products and quality pet foods as well. League City
Feed is on Highway three, a few blocks south of
Highway ninety six. So on Highway three a few blocks south.
So if you're in League City, just head south on three.

(56:49):
It's not very far blow Highway ninety six. So all
of those communities out there, Santa Fe and Dickinson and
Lamar and Baycliffe, Clear Lake City, all of those this
is your hometown feed store. They are going to have
a wide variety. Also, they're gonna have some soils like
heirloom soils, superquality airloom soils as well. They've got backyard chickens.
They can get you fixed up on that as well.

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League City Feeds open Monday through Saturday nine to six,
closed on Sunday, so any day of the week I
have to work on the way home, you can swing
by there and grab what you need. Two eight one
three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three
two sixteen twelve for League City feed I was earlier

(57:30):
talking about going on vacation and take care of your plants,
you know, making sure they have adequate water. Also taking
care of the birds and being ready for that. You know,
it's always a good time to put down mulch as well.
Now most people don't think about, oh, I'm about to
go up and hike the rocky mountains. I think I'll
stop and put mulch down first. Well, when you have

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sunlight hitting the soil, nature plants weeds. And when nature
plants weeds, you get to pull the weeds up or
hold them. I'll hold them off if you need to
do that, but nobody wants to do that. I mean,
ninety five degrees outside sun, bacon down fire, it's crawling
up your arms. You don't be pulling weeds out there.
Put down maltch. Put in a quality thick layer of

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mulch about three inches. It depends on the density of
the mults. You know, if you get something real chunky
and loose, you're gonna have to put a little thicker.
If you had something that's very dense, not much space
between the particles as compared to a big old chunky malts,
then you wouldn't have to go as deep, but about
three inches. As a good general rule of thumb, I

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use all kinds of things that basically are organic based
as mulches. We've got some super high quality mulches here
in the Greater Houston area. You got folks like Nature's
Way that produces a beautiful mult Up there in the
Conroad direction, we've got airloom soils out Porter direction produces
a super high quality mult Landscaper's Pride produces good quality

(58:58):
mulches for you. It's not hard to find and equality mulch,
but we've got to use it. It's an inexpensive way
to save yourself a lot of work, and I would
highly recommend you do that. We're going to go back
out to the phones now and talk to Hank in
West U. Hello Hank, and welcome to garden Line. Hello, Skip,

(59:19):
how are you? I'm good, sir, awesome, So I got your.

Speaker 16 (59:26):
Excellent good.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Yeah, as you can tell, I've got what.

Speaker 17 (59:30):
I think are some fairly common shrubs. The builder put
these in like seventeen years ago, and I've never had
any problems with them until recently. And now they're getting
these you know, portions that are just turning their dying
and turning white.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
I'm hoping they'll be able. That's right. I stop the
spread of that well. So that shrub brow is a
series of individual shrubs. So wherever a branch is attached
to a plant that is having the problem, those branches
are going downhill. What I see is the completely loss
of color, that dead that you described that as white,

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that tan color dead is gone. But next to it
is a branch that is going It is on its
way down. I would dig that plant up. It's not
coming back to life. Pull it up and gets try
to get roots. As you pull it up a little
bit and look at those roots and see what you see.
You might see roots that look like the Michelin man,

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all bumpy and naughty, and you know, like a string
of pearls. Sometimes along a roote little knives instead of
a normal root look. And that is nematodes. That is
a possibility there. You may see on the stem splits
at the bottom or other things that are the sign
of a canker disease that is killing those I can't

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tell you what is doing it. I can tell you
things that could be doing it, which I just did.
But I can tell you this. It is a root
problem or possibly a base of the stem problem. That
what you're seeing something is preventing the flow of water
nutrients up into the shrub.

Speaker 16 (01:01:11):
Okay, and you think by removing that section of the
bush it will it could help prevent it from continuing
on to the other well shrugs.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
If if it's root related, that no, that won't it.
Nematodes You're not going to get them out of the soil,
and they will spread over time. They tend to make
plants less efficient. It's not like a nematoad gets on
it and the whole plant dies. It's like it's think
of it as like ticks on a dog. If you will,
I mean two texts is not going to kill a dog.

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But if you just were completely in festivtext that would
be too much of a drain and and take the
health of the of the target organism down. So it
could be that it could also be there's a root
rot that uh, the last thing I want you to do.
If you don't see not on the roots, if you
don't see splits in the stem, then take your knife

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a sharp knife could be a box cutter blade, and
slice down through the stem vertically like you're splitting the stem,
not cutting into it, straight into it, but the direction
parallel with the stem. And look for strips of brown
and the tissues that should be creamy white underneath. That
is the fungal disease. Once you find one of those,

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let me know and we can tell you what you
can or can't do. Some things there's nothing you can do.
Some things you can't.

Speaker 16 (01:02:32):
In the case of nematodes, is there something that I
could sprinkle on the you know, near their base of
the shrubs?

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Yeah, not really. There are products that have claims to
be nomaticidal. We don't have a silver bullet for nematodes.
There's things you're keeping the soil extra moist so the
plants don't struggle because the nematodes are making them inefficient
and taking up water. There are some products you can

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water into the soil. I have not had one yet
that I noticed really worked. I'm not saying none of
them do, but jury's out. Let me leave it that way.
The jury's out on those, and I don't think you're
going to find the magical cure you're looking for.

Speaker 9 (01:03:19):
You got it all right?

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Well, let me let me take your advice.

Speaker 16 (01:03:23):
I'll check the roots out and see if I can
determine what it may be and give you a heart.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Take pictures along the way so that if you do
get back to me on this email you can you
can show me what you saw. Thanks a lot, I appreciate, Hank.
I'll do a call. Good luck with getting to the
bottom of that one. Let's see here. It's time for
me to take a little break. When we come back, Dwayne,
you will be our first up, so just hang in
there and our phone number is seven one three one

(01:03:51):
two K t R H. If you'd like to give
us a call. Here glad you're with us today. We're
going to head back out to the phone calls right away. Uh,
and we'll start with Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, Welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:04:04):
Good morning, Skip, a longtime listener, first time caller. I
have for the last several years, most probably ten years,
been growing Eastern screech owls in the front yard in
an owl box. And I built a handbuilt box in
the backyard for the rooster to set in during the
day so the other birds wouldn't catch him. Well, a

(01:04:25):
couple of years ago I U the bees swarmed and
they got in this owl box. Last week they're trimming
the power lines at the back of the fence here,
and of course they didn't trim that particular tree. I
need someone there to come rescue these bees and give
them a good home. Do you have any recommendations?

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Oh? Boy, I would. I think I would call bee
supply out in a date and hang on one second.

Speaker 18 (01:04:59):
I didn't look at then, but that's a pretty good
drive if they turned in decline. Do you have any
second chances there?

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Well, what they could do is they could probably tell
you who could do it. If they can't.

Speaker 9 (01:05:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
The phone number is nine three six seven six o
seven three nine nine three six seven seven six oh
seven three nine. You know that for those of you
listening that don't know what I'm talking about here, this
isn't a company that their job is to come out
and get these. It's there a B supply company. They

(01:05:33):
have all the equipment stuff, but they're going to be
the ones that are in the know. The website is
the b supply dot com. Where are you located, Duean.

Speaker 18 (01:05:43):
I'm here inside the lupp here on Buffalo speed Boy
and I did look at their site and he does
have some impressive videos and know the different types the
yeahlum No Corona, the Texas flight thousand and something. I
was looking just last week.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:05:58):
Also, uh, just give for his liability if I get
another bee hive on my back. That's who is something?
What is the liability issues? The wife is just hysterical
about one of the mowers getting beast under something like
that or something.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Yeah, yeah, I understand you're talking to you. No, talk
to Paul Paul Fagala at the Bee Supply. He can
tell you and tell you all about those kind of
issues like people that want to put a beehive in
the backyard and they're in a neighborhood. Can you do it?
And answer is basically us, but he's more the expert

(01:06:37):
on that. Also, if you have trouble finding someone local,
called the Harris County Extension officeye agra Life Extension Office
in Harris County. Uh, they the horticulture folks there should
have access to a list of people that might be
willing to come out and capture a wild hive or

(01:06:58):
kill a wild hive, whichever you need to go about it.
But that would be that would be my answer number three.
And so I'll eat one one way or another. You
can get this under control.

Speaker 18 (01:07:08):
Well, it's an easy rescue. All they've got to do
is click the wires and there the box. It's ready
to go. It's just they're busy this morning and this heat.
They're outside and it looks really like it's something out
of a horror movie because the bees are outside. No,
they're just cooling to hide down. Yeah, so I will
give a bee supes I called there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
I do appreciate it, thanks, sir, appreciate you very much.
Let's see where are we going next? Uh, do a
quick check on time we're going to go to Katie
and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, good morning.

Speaker 19 (01:07:46):
I was watering my yard this week and I noticed
a bunch of tiny tan moths, and my memory tells
me that might be a sign that I'm going to
get sid webworms.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Is that correct?

Speaker 9 (01:07:57):
And if so, what do I do about it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Well, sid webworms, before you see all the grass being eaten,
do appear as little moths When you walk across the lawn.
They come flying up out of the lawn. They just
go a little bit and then they settle back down
into the lawn.

Speaker 7 (01:08:12):
But yeah, they are.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
One of one hundred different moths that could be out
there doing that. So just because you see moths doesn't
mean you have side web worms. There is some good information.
In fact, I tear what I'm gonna I'm gonna post
something online to our Facebook page. This week, I name
and put it on the website about side webworms and
what to do if I were you go out at night,

(01:08:38):
get your little flashlight, get out on the hands and
knees and anywhere you see grass blades being eaten, and
they chew the sides of grass blades, They just chew
them up. But they're nocturnal. The caterpillars are nocturnal, and
you don't want to spray until you know you have
sid webworms be unnecessary. But when you do, then you

(01:08:58):
can put an appropriate insecticide spray down and shut them down.
You're a store out there, and Katie, they're going to
have a lot of different options for side web or.

Speaker 19 (01:09:12):
A very cool things.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Yes, and I will get something if I get it
up on my website, I'll announce it on the air here.
But that that's something we need to do. But it's time,
it's the season when if we're going to happen, you'll
have them, but don't don't pull the trigger too quick
until you know you've got them.

Speaker 19 (01:09:31):
Okay, But is it a spray and that's something granular
that you apply.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
There there are granulars that insecticides, you know, the nitroposs
bug out is a granular. Then you wet the lawn
and it washes off, the granule gets downe and that
it's real good for chinch bugs. It will kill side
web worms. But a lot of time there are in
the thatch during the day and then they go out

(01:09:57):
and eat on the leaves. So another approach is to
spray the foliage of the grass. The grass weeds, and
when they come up and eat that, it gets them directly.
So there's there's more than one way to go about
controlling them. But on my online have you ever looked
at my lawn care schedules online by any chance? Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:10:16):
I have.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
Okay, So the lawn cair is of course fertilizing the
other one pest control. It lists when side web worms
tend to attack, if they attack this year, and it
has the products at the bottom that are all the
ones you would use to control them.

Speaker 19 (01:10:33):
Okay, great, I'll go look at that again.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
All right, you take care. Thanks a lot, appreciate that.
Thank you very much. I'm having trouble getting my trouble
getting my mouth to work here. Hey, for those of
you who are out on the west side of town,
your hometown garden center, your absolute destination, mom and pop

(01:10:58):
independent garden center, you need to go to Nelson Water
Gardens and Nursery, nursery and water gardens. They're in Katie.
You go out to Katie, you turn north on Katie
Fort Ben Road, and you almost throw a rock and
hit Nelson Water Nursery and water Gardens. From there. Of course,
they have nursery plants, they've got outstanding selection and a
lot of great deals right now. You know, this is

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a time of the year when you can pick up
some really good deals and they are loaded up on
some things that save a dollar and get you some
quality plants. Bring them home, take care of them. You
can plan them now, you can wait and plant them
in the fall. If you want to hold on to
them and water, it's up to you. Kind of like
I was talking about my situation where I don't have
the beds ready yet. Well I got the plants. They're

(01:11:41):
just waiting to go into the beds. They have beautiful
water gardens supplies. I mean, do you want them to
come out and create a waterfall or one of those
disappearing fountains where the water just circulates through the beautiful
glazed pottery back into the rocky pebbles and things below
it back into the plant the fountain again, I can't

(01:12:04):
even talk. They've got that. They invented that. By the way,
if do you want to do it yourself, they can
sell you the stuff you need to do it yourself
and tell you how to do it if you want
to go that route. But I'll tell you they have
an excellent plant selection every time I go there, I'm surprised. Oh,
I didn't know you had that. And they're just they
just do first rate job. And summer is houseplant season

(01:12:26):
in the sense of we spend more time inside because
of the heat. You should see in the foyer when
you walk right into the store. Look at the houseplants.
For me, I mean it is beautiful. I like something
other than just green, and they have it. They've got
a lot of irrigations and colors and things and house
plants that you can choose. Nelson Watergarden and Nursery, Nelson

(01:12:49):
Watergardens dot com, Nelson Watergardens dot Com. Out there in
Katie Well, I hear the music playing, which means I
need to quit talking and we need to go to
copy our of the break bill in spring. You are
our first caller when we come back from break and
we'll go to you first. I just want to remind

(01:13:10):
you about my website, Gardening with Skip dot Com. There
you'll find information on controlling nut set a brand new publication,
two of them. As a matter of fact, you'll find
information on how to build a weed wiper so that
you can control weeds and hard to get spots. You
just need to go check it out. I think people
like what you're saying.

Speaker 20 (01:13:29):
That orse any of the products or services advertised on
this program.

Speaker 21 (01:13:41):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 12 (01:14:00):
So many good things to see back again again.

Speaker 22 (01:14:09):
They're not a sound.

Speaker 16 (01:14:15):
The side.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you are
still with us this morning. We've got a lot to
talk about. There is plenty plenty to be talking about
right now. Uh last hour, we're talking about a product
called bug Out Max by Nitrophoss, and you know we're
discussing I think the call was about sod web worms

(01:14:41):
being a possible problem going on in that lawn. You know,
this is a season when chinchbugs and sod web worms
both are gonna be appearing. If they're going to appear
in your lawn, and so it's it's the time they
like the biggest population. There's several generations of chinchbugs through
the course of the summer seat and the first one
very very small. But then when you have the second one,

(01:15:04):
or in some areas even a third, that's when you
start to see the long brining out and you got
big problems and that's when you need to step in
very quickly. So you got a spot in your lawn
and it looks like it needs water, and you water
and it doesn't get better. Get on your hands and knees,
part the part the grass and look for a little
black and white bugs about an eighth of an inch long.

(01:15:26):
You go on line and see what they look like.
But if you got chinchbugs, you need to treat sooner
rather than later because they kill grass. We have a
lot of problems in our grass that don't kill the grass,
but chinchbugs kill the grass and they only get worse,
and you got to step in soon. And night Fruss
bug Out Max is designed to do just that. It
goes down it's granules, they go down into the thatch area.

(01:15:48):
Then you water it and the insecticide comes off of
those granules and it's now present out in the thatch.
So stuff crawling around in the thatch that would be
the side web worms in the in the daytime, they
hide down there and they come out at night, and
the chinch bugs are down there all the time. And
that is going to be an effective product. When you

(01:16:09):
use nightro Vous bugout Max, you're going to have success
in getting those under control, and you can find Night
of Fuss bug Out Max. You can find in a
lot of places. Ace Hardware and Sinkle Ranch carries that
particular product, a tascaseda Ace on Timber Forest Drive carries it.
Lake Hardware and Clute and Jim's Hardware up in Montgomery,

(01:16:30):
they both are all carry Night Fuss Bug Out Max.
I'm going to head now to Bill in Spring, Texas. Hello, Bill,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 23 (01:16:40):
Good morning Skip. I have a question about a high
biscus that I just repotted. It was doing very well
and it has blooms on it like crazy, But the
blooms are not opening up. They just come to top
look like they're going to open, and then they just

(01:17:02):
fall off and die. What did I do?

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Hmm, that's very interesting. Uh, nothing you did? I think
you may be we may be looking at some insect
feeding inside. There's a thing called threaps that can feed
inside flowers and cause problems. I've not I have a
tropical hibiscus and I have not had problems with them

(01:17:28):
not opening up. Sometime they will abord a bloom if
they go through a stress. If you have like are
these in containers bill in the ground in contain. Okay,
so in a container. Yeah, mine's in a container too,
And I've got mine. I had it in an area
that was just the full brunt of the western sun
for hours and hours, and I moved it to a

(01:17:50):
little more protected spot because I couldn't watered enough to
keep that container so adequately moist, and just even a
temporary little drought period there, they'll they'll abort bloom. So
you may be looking at that. You may be looking
at a little insight called thrips. If you get some
blooms that you know, okay, this one is gonna open,
but it's you know, it hadn't turned brown or hadn't

(01:18:11):
started dying yet. Just take it and kind of put
it over a white piece of paper and just tap
the bloom and see what falls out. If you see
some little, tiny, skinny, scrawny things that are hopping around
down in there, that is thrips. And they can affect ballooms. Generally,
they don't cause a hibiscus bloom to abort, though I

(01:18:32):
think it's more of a water problem.

Speaker 23 (01:18:35):
Okay, all right, Well that I've read some about some
cage and high biscus and they're done excellent. This is
just a regular gorgeous yes. And but it's said in
there that high biscus like to be root bound. And
I'm just wondering if it's maybe because I just repotted

(01:18:59):
that into a large your pot.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
Well, that it's more of a thing where plants like
bouba and villia is one that we say needs to
be a little or does better when routebount. It's just
because you get them in a big, luxurious growing soil
and they just go vegetative and you know, buy them
settling in and blooming better.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
And so I think, no, you're you're repotting it unless
you lost some roots in the repotting. Maybe they dried
out because you can get it in the new container
fast enough, or you didn't get it watered in real
good or something. That's all gonna fix itself. Just just
start providing good soakings on regular bases. Maybe a little
boost of fertilizer wouldn't hurt. And I think it's going

(01:19:44):
to turn around for you.

Speaker 23 (01:19:46):
All right, Well, thank you, apprechie.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
All right, yeah, yes, sir, thank you for the call.
I appreciate that. Bye bye, uh Landscaper's Pride is a
company I mentioned them earlier as a company that's those
quality soil and maltz products. And you know, summer's the
time to have mulching, and they've got all kinds of mulches.
They've got, you know, cedar molt, Cyprus molts, they ground

(01:20:11):
hardwood mulches, and pine bark malts are most popular one
and more. But they also have high quality soil mixes.
Gardener's Magic is an organic pine based blend. It's got
humis in it, screened pine composted rice holts and a
chicken pellet fertilizer gives you about three months feeding with that.
It's ideal for raised beds and you can use it
in containers and it does super well too. Mushroom Compost

(01:20:34):
is regionally sourced, as are their other products, and it's
composted with age pine and it Mushroom compost is just
rocket fuel to give plants a boost to get them
going healthy. Soil compost is made with one recycled composted
plant material. It's got a neutral pH and it just
is an excellent product in general for amending and improving

(01:20:58):
any soil. And then black humus, dark and organic mixed.
It's compassed at Pineburg based, very very nicely screened. It's
got a loamy topsoil in it which helps hold water
in the soil. It's good for putting in a new
bed or really most any gardening situation you're looking at.
And all that's from Landscaper's Pride. Widely available products. You

(01:21:18):
can go online Landscaperspride dot com and find out where
you can get them. But I'll just tell you this.
It's a lot of places widely available here in the
Greater Houston area. Let's end out now. I'll tell you
what before before we do, Curtis, I was about to
move to you. I've got to run to it. I'm
up against a break here. I'll be right back and
you'll be first up. You can put on your lawns.

(01:21:41):
It has a good boost of nitrogen and stimulates biological activity.
Sweegering Sweegering for Nait Fross is an example of that
kind of product. It's got eleven percent nitrogen. It is
on a molasses based molasses based so organic gardeners know
you put molasses on the soil well. That carbon is

(01:22:01):
rocket fuel for stimulating beneficial microbial development. For example, bacteria.
Beneficial bacteria in the soil feed on that carbon and
it really kicks them into high gear. Nitrofoss. Sweet Green
is available widely all over the Houston area, as are
other night foss products. You're going to find it at
Shades of Texas up in the woodlands, for example, Enchanted

(01:22:24):
Gardens out there in Richmond. Rosenberg is going to carry
that one also, as well as to Fishers Hardware, the
one in southeaston on Southmore, the one over and Laporte
on South Broadway Street. Both of those Fishers Hardware, you're
going to find night foss products like sweet Green. Let's
go to the phones and we're going to now go

(01:22:46):
to Friends Wood and talk to Curtis. Hello Curtis, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:22:52):
Good morning, Skip. I have a my home has been
raised and I have now have a crawl space under
it and the surrounding wall is a cement block with
a sixteen by eight inch vents in it, and one

(01:23:17):
of those vents has been knocked out and apparently the
possums and raccoons have decided that's a nice place to
move in.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
Well, I'm sure they appreciate you creating that spot for them.

Speaker 9 (01:23:35):
Well, I want to close it back off, but I
don't want to close it off with them in there
and have them die and the smell and everything else.
Is there any suggestions for getting them out of there,
knowing that they're out of there before I seal it up.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
Yeah, that's a that's a good question. Boy. I don't
know how you would know they're not in there. I
guess you know, if you if you had something like
a little board that they had to push over to
come out through that hole, if you put the board
up at night then or or during the day, then

(01:24:19):
maybe you could see that they had knocked it down
and gone through or something. But there could be more
than one, and that wouldn't that wouldn't really do the trick.

Speaker 9 (01:24:27):
Well, I've set up a game camera and I've seen
two raccoons and one possum come out of there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Okay, huh. And how big is this area underneath there?

Speaker 9 (01:24:43):
Well, it's under the whole house two thousand square.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Feet oh okay, the whole nine yards Okay. Yeah. Other
than having somebody go under there and check, which is
going to be a task, right, I would I don't
no way to tell you to know if they're out
or not. Uh. There is a publication on possum control

(01:25:07):
uh that's available on the agro Life Learn website. It's
Agrolife Learn one word A E G R I L
I F E L E A R n uh and
basically what they are going to recommend in that publication
it's free. By the way, I'm sorry I started to
give you the website and I didn't finish. Agrolife Learn

(01:25:29):
dot T A m U which stands for Texas A
and M University dot E E d U which stands
for education.

Speaker 21 (01:25:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
So agro Life Learning now that what they're going to
tell you basically is, uh, live trapping, you know things
like that. The problem is you you have to put
them into another get them out of there and into
another area. So that can be a little bit interesting
when you've got an upset possumer raccoon and one of
those like have a art live traps.

Speaker 9 (01:26:01):
But if I if I trap some, the city will
come and take them, Oh will they Okay, yeah, the
relocates into one of the one of the parks.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Okay, Well that's what I would do.

Speaker 24 (01:26:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
You know, they're they're going to come to various kinds
of baits any pretty much any type of food. If
you use fruit like apple, pear, banana in the bait,
you don't tend to get like a dog or cat
that goes into that trap. So that that's one way
to kind of interest the possum without interesting the the

(01:26:40):
neighborhood pets.

Speaker 9 (01:26:44):
Okay, I understand that's good to suggest.

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
All right, okay, yeah, unless, well, I'm not going to
say that on the air. I'm sorry. I was about
to say.

Speaker 9 (01:26:55):
No, I'm not going to shoot him.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
No, no, no, I wasn't gonna say that. No, We're
gonna look, I'm gonna I know how to quit when
I'm behind. Hey, Curtis, thank you, thank you for the call.
Good luck getting those possums under control. Boy, that is hilarious.
Uh let's go now to Paarland and we're gonna talk
to Archie. Hey, Archie morning, Skip.

Speaker 25 (01:27:20):
I'm gonna put out some fertilizer today and it's gonna
be organic. But I've got bags of Microlife sixty four
and I've also got bags of Microlife Humates plus. Which
do you think would be better to put out today?

Speaker 9 (01:27:33):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
Have you used Teammates plus this year yet? No? No, Okay,
I would, I would do both because they do different things.
He makes it. Yeah, both. The sixty four is your
organic basic three one two fertilizer that is outstanding and
works very very well. I would, I would do that. Uh.

(01:27:55):
The the humates plus has a little potassium in it.
But your primer it's it's like hunt compost concentrated into
a bag. It's you know, you can take a big
old chunk of leaves and tournamented composts, and you can
take that big old chunk of composts and you turn
it into humans and now you got very little of
it because it's the final decomposition process. So that's something

(01:28:16):
you put out periodically just to add the humus to
the soil, just to improve slowly over time soil condition
down there in the lawn. So it think of it
as separate from fertilizing. It's kind of a different purpose.
Although the purpose of both is to make your lawn
nice and healthy. It's working a little bit in a
different way. So you can use them both and there's

(01:28:38):
not an overlap issue there.

Speaker 9 (01:28:41):
Now.

Speaker 25 (01:28:42):
I did put some as of mind out earlier in
the summer, back in early June.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
That's okay, right, and that would give you some of
the micro nutrients, which is good. Sounds like you're doing
a lot of good things there, got a lot of great.

Speaker 25 (01:28:55):
Product as long as my energy holds up.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
All right. My neighbor has the same problem.

Speaker 25 (01:29:03):
The lady call this morning about where he had a
bunch of fencing that was down and he piled up
the fencing and the city just picked it up yesterday.
But I mean, the little grass looks dead where it's
been there for weeks land land there. If if he
if he sprays that area with like something like the

(01:29:23):
has to grow, would that be good?

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
Uh, well, if he's got living grass runners in that area,
that would be good. If it's truly all dead, you
got to get the plants in there to apply the
has to grow to, meaning you got and get it
ridded in.

Speaker 25 (01:29:43):
Yeah, it looks mushy to me, you know, kind of
just yellow.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
It could be mushy. Yeah, that yellow and mushy is all.
It's all. Okay, Just get down on your hands and knees,
look at the runners and if the runners have some
green to them, then they're going to resprought foliage and
you'll be back in business in time, and that has
to grow would be a very hast I would use
the Hast grow for lawns or the super supergrow. You

(01:30:12):
could use that. There's nothing wrong with using it. But
the hods is going to have a three one. It's
gonna have a fertilize boost. Okay, Well that's what I
got you can use. I'm just telling you what the
has to grow for lawns. You're getting the fertilization, all right,
address to the other.

Speaker 25 (01:30:29):
But I had an extra you know, container of that.
I was just gonna get it to them so I
could put it out there.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Anywhere you got plants, you can use it. That's okay,
that's for sure. All right, Thanks so much. Good you had.
Thanks Arch appreciate that a lot. Uh yeah, a lot
of good has to grow products and other products from Medina.

Speaker 26 (01:30:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
When was the last time you're up at Plants for
All Seasons? I was visiting with Sherry and Kelly at
the Texas Nurcery and Landscape Association show just the other day. Boy,
I teya that Plants for All Seasons is the kind
of garden center where you go in to get all
kinds of quality plants, quality products to help boost those
plants like fertilizers and incredible advice. And so you walk

(01:31:15):
in there. You got a bag, you got a picture,
some plant, this is dying. What's this bug? Here's a weed?
How do I kill it? Whatever your question is, walk
in there, because they know what they're talking about. The
min arounds is nineteen seventy three. They're right there, just
north of Luetta on FM two forty nine, which is
Tomball Parkway, Tomboll Parkway. And you go in there and

(01:31:36):
you're going to find the quality and the help. By
the way, too, that you need to have success. That
is very very important. And Plants for All Seasons dot
Com is the website. Plants for All Seasons dot Com.
That's the website. And then what is the phone number?
Seven excuse me two eight one three seven six sixteen

(01:31:58):
forty six one three seven six sixteen forty six. It's
as simple as that. Plants for All Seasons dot Com.
I was love going by there and visiting with them
because they are a wealth of information. By the way,
they've got tomato plants, all kinds of good quality ones,
you know, like sun gold for example, the beautiful old

(01:32:21):
cherry yellow cherry tomato they've got beautiful foliage plants beautiful,
but goona. It's just all kinds of things. There's always
something that you need to be planting from plants for
all seasons, every month of the year. Head out there,
check them out. You are listening to Garden Line and
we're here to help you have more success in whatever

(01:32:42):
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and you can be the first up when we come
back from break, which we're about to head to in
just one moment. I want to remind you of something
coming up or tell you about something coming up. The

(01:33:05):
second Annual Strawberry Jamboree is going to be down in
Lake Jackson, Texas at the Lake Jackson Civic Center. It'll
be September twenty first, from eight to twelve. September twenty first,
from eight to twelve. There are everything you want to
know about success with strawberries is going to be in
that program and you need to be doing the planting.

(01:33:26):
In October there'll be the opportunity to order some strawberry plants,
if you'll be that wonderful speakers a freest or a
strawberry shortcake contest. Now there, that alone is worth the
reason to go. I'll tell you more about it when
I come back. Right now, we're going to take a
quick break the guard Line. We are glad to have
you with us today. Hey, we're going to go out

(01:33:47):
to Missouri City now and talk to Paul. Hey, Paul,
welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 27 (01:33:52):
Pull skip I cold last week. We're regarding this issue,
but I need some follow up. I had an area
maybe's three by eight of bermuda grass that I wanted
to kill, so I sprayed around up on it, killed it,
and over the last two days, I've been digging all

(01:34:12):
that up, going after the roots deep with a pickaxe,
you know, swinging down from over my head and digging
down deep. And I've rotated all the dirt out. But
now I want to make sure I've killed all the roots.
I pulled up a lot of roots, but there's still
a little fragment here, like residual stuff. Can I spray

(01:34:38):
again with round up and then maybe in a week's
time come back with the sod.

Speaker 26 (01:34:43):
Or what.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Well, not yet. Here's what you need to do. First
of all, you want the area to be all smoothed out,
so pickaxe generally leaves it pretty rough, so any kind
of raking breaking it up, smoothing it out. Then water it,
put in air, put sprinkler on that bare dirt area,
that whole area, and your neighbors are going to talk
about you because you're water and dirt and but that's okay.

(01:35:08):
They talk about us anyway. The reason your water in
the dirt is to get any bermuda, grass or other
weeds that are under the soil that are gonna that
are perennials that are going to sprout out. It's it's
to encourage them to come on up and show their face.
And once you have some foliage on those weeds, and

(01:35:29):
I doubt you got all the bermuda with one spray,
but that'll be your time to know, then spray it again.

Speaker 9 (01:35:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:35:36):
And then once you've sprayed it, you can you know,
within the week you can lay sod down in that area.
It's not going to be a problem for the sod.
You just want the soil to be loosened in the
surface so that sod contacts it really well.

Speaker 27 (01:35:53):
Okay, so I can water it. But then about how
long good do you think it's going to take before
some bermuta it just starts to show your face because
this could take a month.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
It depends probably not. The bottom line is it depends
on how much of a bermuda sprig you got under there.
I mean, if you had a perfectly healthy one, it
would pop up in a few days. If you've got
one that you know, you really knocked it back, but
it kind of comes back to life and not to life,
but it starts to regroup and come back. That could

(01:36:26):
take a couple of weeks before you see it coming
back again. But the goal is just you know, since
you're going to reside, you don't want to see bermuda
grass right back in there after you reside. So we
just want to make sure we got it all is.
And that's what you called about is doing that.

Speaker 27 (01:36:42):
So okay, yeah, very good.

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Sometime as long as you keep it moist, it will
encourage it to grow. I don't care how hot it gets,
some bermuna will come back up through there. Also, you
should know this that when you want to kill bermuda grass,
the bermuda grass needs to be healthy and growing. If
it's drought stressed, that glacys will not kill it well.

(01:37:04):
If it's healthy and lush growing, that life say, kills
it very well. So the goal is to get it
healthy and growing lushly. And so that's what the water
is all about.

Speaker 27 (01:37:17):
Okay, thank you for your advice.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
Thanks sir, I appreciate that call very much. Let's see here.
We are going to now go to the heights and
talk to Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:37:28):
Hello, Mike Heykski. A friend of mine has a house
in Shenandoah, wants to sell it eventually in a near future.
Lots of damage from the trees that have been taken out,
but she'd liked to have her backyard look presentable in
terms of putting it for sale and instead of sodding.

(01:37:52):
Instead of sodding Saint Augustine, uh, thinking she's having someone
come in to smooth the line out because when the
tree people came in that there's a lot of ruts
in the backyard and add some soil recommendation bermuta seed

(01:38:13):
are instead of siding, but trying to do it economically
because it's going to be most likely a house is
going to be sold as is, but also wants to
make it presentable the yard.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
How soon do they want to put it on the market.

Speaker 5 (01:38:31):
Probably sometime next year.

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
Yeah, oh okay, yeah bermuda, you can do the bermuda
seed now, okay, So they could do bermuda seed. They
just want to get a good semi dwarf type of bermuda.
They're bermudas that are coastal bermuda that grows in pastures
for cattle to eat. Very tall, right, there's bermuda's that
are so short they make golf course greens. Eve want

(01:38:56):
a medium one like would be used on a football field,
for example, or a golf course fight. And there's cultivars
of seed like that that you could use. I know
you're in the heights. You might talk to Bob out
at Southwest Fertilizer. He does carry seeds of some different
things and he probably has one. There is a website

(01:39:17):
called Aggie Turf Aggie Turf on there in the lower
left corner of it. It has like types of turf grasses,
and if you click on that and then click on
the bermuda and scroll down, there's a list of all
the sodded varieties and there's a list of the seeded varieties,

(01:39:38):
and just look at that whole list. If you can
find anything on that list, you know it's going to work.
If it's not. If you find one that's not on
the list, as long as you check it out and
it's a semi dwarf bermuta, that'll work okay. But what
they're going to have to do is water frequently, because
tender little bermuda seedlings in the heat of summer turn

(01:40:00):
turn to toast quickly if it dries out. They don't
have a root system yet to speak of, so they
just need to get sprinklers set up out there and
run them for a little while. And I'm pretty much
every day just getting keeping the surface moist and because
it's touch and go until that bermuda seed becomes a

(01:40:21):
robust plant with rhizomes and underground storage and all of that.
And at that point, and the more often you mow bermuda,
the better it looks. Saint Augustine is forgiving of infrequent mowing,
but if they put it on the market and want
it to look good, they need to get somebody in
there mowing at every five at the most seven days
to get it looking as good as it's going to look. Okay,

(01:40:45):
question time for it? All right?

Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
What what's the period of time that's recommended to sh
to plant the seed or slight of them here in
Texas and Houston.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
Yeah, well, you know, I would just say sooner rather
than later. You know, as we get closer and closer
to fall, when it cools off, bermuda is going to
slow to growth to almost nothing, and so you want
to get as robust of a plant as you can
get before we go into winter, or you have issues
with that. So I wouldn't put it off until September.

(01:41:20):
I would, I would. I would do it right now.
And if you have to do it in September, do
it in early September. See what I'm saying, Just as
much time as possible. Okay, Yeah, I got a run
to break. Thank you, Mike. I appreciate appreciate your call.
When we come back Christ in Jersey Village and Morgan
up in Spring Branch, we are going to come to
you first, go back to garden line. Good to have

(01:41:43):
you with us today. Hey, have you noticed that the
hummingbirds are back? Yep. I looked out the other day
and there was a hummingbird flying around? Did I have
a feeder out?

Speaker 15 (01:41:53):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:41:53):
Was it disappointed? Probably? Will he come back? I hope.
So time to get your hummingbird feeders out. If you
don't have a humming bird feeder, you got to go
buy Wildbirds and get their high perch feeder. Ask them
they got a bunch of hummingbird feeders. My favorite is
the high perch. Go by and say I want to
see your high perch feeder and why is that so special?
And get you one and get it out. It is time.

(01:42:16):
Get you a good quality sugar water. You don't have
to but red food color and a feeder. They also
sell quality hummingbird liquid feed there at Wildbirds Unlimited. What
you're gonna find is that it's a little slower to
go bad. You know, in the hot weather, sugary water,
sugar tends to fermat out there, and you don't want

(01:42:38):
that happening. So you need to clean the feeders out.
You need to replace. Don't put a whole feeder fold.
If you don't have a bunch of hummingbirds coming, you
need to put After about three days out there outside,
you probably need to go ahead and just wash it
out and put some fresh in because it does go bad.
But Wildbirds Unlimited WBU dot com forward slash Euston continue

(01:42:59):
to put out your quality super blend and other quality
feats from Wildbirds because the birds are molting. You should
see how ugly the birds coming to my feet are.
They're feathers. It looks like they ran through a weed eater.
They're just in their molting. They're getting their new foliage
and they can't fly around. It's harder to fly around
as much. So having a good feeder nearby where they

(01:43:21):
can go and get a dependable snack is really really important.
And Wildbird's Unlimited as you cover WBU dot com forward
slash Houston WBU dot Com forward slash Houston for the
six Wildbirds Unlimited stores near you. Let's go to Jersey
Village now and talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome to

(01:43:41):
garden Line. Oh, thank you for taking my call. You
bet Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:43:50):
Two things.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
I've got a really big yard.

Speaker 28 (01:43:53):
It's a double lot on a corner, about a third
of an acre backyard.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
I'm not worried about in this heat.

Speaker 19 (01:44:01):
How often should I water if it's not yard?

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
All right? If you've got a good quality soil, of
any close to a decent soil, and if you have
a fairly healthy grass plant already, you can water once
a week even in the sun. You can also that
just doesn't seem often enough, so you can go to
twice a week. But the goal is to put an
inch of water down a week. So if you tried

(01:44:26):
to put an inch down at at one time, cress,
you would find it running off. So we do cycle soap,
which means your sprinkler comes on, you know, however long,
and then goes off for forty five minutes it comes
back on again. What that does is it gets a
good deep soaking, which encourages your grass to have a
good deep resilient root system, which is important in the heat.

(01:44:49):
And it also by not watering all the time, oxygen
gets down in the soil between waterings better and that's
also important for your root system.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
Okay, one last, yeah, one last question.

Speaker 1 (01:45:07):
I've got.

Speaker 29 (01:45:09):
Crepe myrtles front and back, and my buddy, who's really knowledgeable, said,
you're never supposed.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
To trim them in the hot sun or when it's hot.
You're supposed to wake to cooler weather.

Speaker 9 (01:45:22):
It's that right.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
In general with anybody ornamental it's better to do any
significant amount of pruning when the when we're in the
late winter time.

Speaker 29 (01:45:35):
That that's the okay, but you can And one last
thing show, I just wanted to tell you how much you.

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
Appreciate. That's very kind to you say that, Chris, good luck.
We have throw your plants out there. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir,
all right, where are we going next? We're going to
go to spring Brand and talk to Morgan. Hey, Morgan,
Hey there, I got a quick question. I hope it
is a quick question, but it's got multiple pieces to it.

Speaker 30 (01:46:07):
So I've got some old kitty litter that I've had
in the back of the car for about a year
now to help take it to decrease the humidity in
the car. And so now I want to the the
k litter is like clay kitty litter. I don't have
the original packaging, so I don't know what the actual
chemicals are there in it. What I want to do

(01:46:28):
is I've also got about a gallon of coffee grounds
that I've been that I've been collecting. Now I understand
that caught that count of grounds are good, UH can
be a good fertilizer. And you know, provide petrins to
your soil or your garden. And here's what I want
to do, because because the auth the grounds are so
or so, they can they can come up. I want

(01:46:48):
to use the clay kitty litter as an agitator, but
as I'm spreading it out in my yard, and I
don't know how safe kitty litter.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
Would be for that purpose. It's fine, it's fine if
you want to do that. It's like it's not going
to the kidding leader is not going to hurt anything.
It hasn't been fired to the too hot enough temperatures
to do what expanded shale can do in terms of
improving a clay. So you're basically adding the equivalent of

(01:47:21):
a clay to the to the soil. But if you're
using it just to kind of spread out the coffee
grounds a little bit, it's not going to hurt anything
to do that. The only difference is a particle size
is different, So as you try to put it in
a spread or the small particles tend to settle down
to the bottom and the large particles as it's bouncing along,
tend to rise up. So you're not going to get

(01:47:42):
a real good even spread that way, I think I
would just take the coffee grounds, dry them out well
and then put them in with those little hand whirllybirds.
I don't know how many pounds of coffee grounds you got,
but it shouldn't be worried about if you hand whirlybird. Okay,
well you could do that in two or three fills
of of a handspreader, you know, just walking around. If

(01:48:02):
you want to do that, it's called a wordlybird. Well,
put fire ant bait. Fire ant bait. You hold it
in one hand, you pull a trigger and you crank
on the other side. It's got a little hopper about
about half gallon sized hopper on them. It's it's got
the push and walk behind spreaders. It's it's a little

(01:48:24):
handheld which just for a little bit.

Speaker 30 (01:48:26):
Yeah, I've got I've got I've got a walk behind
the spread which is what I plan on using.

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
So okay, well, that's going to just make sure that
that you've thoroughly dried those coffee grounds out.

Speaker 27 (01:48:37):
Well.

Speaker 30 (01:48:38):
Thanks so much for your show.

Speaker 1 (01:48:39):
By yes, sar, thank you appreciate the call very much.
Uh well, I tell you, if we're time is moving
along here, you know, Ice Hardware stores where you're gonna
find everything you need for your lawn, your garden. That's
just Ace Hardware. And where is ACE Hardware. Go to
Ace Hardware dot Com. Look at the store locator and
I think with forty around here, you're gonna one near you.

(01:49:01):
Congratulations to Langham Creek Ase Hardware. I was there a
little bit earlier this year for an event. They are
on FM five twenty nine in Cypress at the intersection
of Barker, Cypress and five twenty nine. So all of
you up there in that Greater Copperfield area, this is
your local ACE Hardware store, Langham Creek. They're having a
big shindig. It is on Friday, the thirtieth of August,

(01:49:25):
Saturday the thirty first, and Sunday, the first of September.
Tons of giverways, demonstrations by vendors, prizes. On Saturday they're
having fifteen percent off Still units. Still is one of
those power equipment companies that makes high quality equipment. They're there.
The giveaway on Friday is an Ego battery string tremor

(01:49:47):
ten or fifty dollars value though to be demonstrating Weber grills.
On Saturday, they're giving away a Weber Spirit to gas
grill four hundred and fifty dollars grill, giving it away
as a prize. They'll demonstrate Big Green Egg and something
called Guy Coney's Pizza Oven. Oh my gosh, it's really cool.
It's like you're a little private pizza oven. You can
sit outside like you would you barbecue or whatever. All right, Well, anyway,

(01:50:09):
Sunday they're giving away a painting room makeover two hundred
dollars value in demonstrating trigger grill. This is this is
a really nice deal. There are all kinds of prize
demonstrations that still discount on Saturday, and then great deals,
exclusive deals on a variety of other items, all at

(01:50:29):
Langham Creek Ace Hardware on FM five twenty nine. It's
at the intersection of five twenty nine and Barker Cypress Road.
Real easy to get to. Like I said, it's in
your backyardperfield, and all of you around that area need
to run over there and check out this revamped It's
called the reopening because I was there when they were
open earlier in the year. They revamped that place and

(01:50:52):
now it's like a grand reopening going on. He's hard
We're gonna take a little break John in Memoria, our
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and Memorial. Hello John, and how can we help? Yes,
thank you.

Speaker 35 (01:59:45):
I've just noticed ever since the hurricane, it just seems
like my pine trees are dropping an awful lot of
pine needles and just kind of curious what that means.

Speaker 1 (01:59:57):
Al they'll do that when they're in stresses. You know,
all evergreens drop leaves. The leaves are not forever the
plant just always has leaves on it, so whether it's
a live oak, they go through periods where they drop
some of the old leaves, especially as the new growth
comes on. Pines will do that. But also stresses I
don't know that the hurricane is causing the demit or

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any effects of that hurricane are causing it, but you know,
they get dry, they get thirsty, just whatever. That can
happen a lot as long as they have adequate soul moisture.
And it just has gotten hot and dried these last
couple of weeks, but overall we've had a pretty good year,
so I'm not as concerned about it as I might otherwise.

Speaker 35 (02:00:42):
Be okay, perfect And then just quick quick question, what's
your favorite privacy edge between houses these days?

Speaker 1 (02:00:53):
Oh boy, that's a tough one. One of the challenges
because our properties have gotten smaller over the decades from
back when everybody have had a third of an acre
lot to now you reach out your window and you
can close your neighbors blinds hardly leaning out is that

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we have to have thin hedges because otherwise it just
takes up the whole property. When it comes to thin,
then we're looking at more upright, narrow growing things or
junipers that are grown for that purpose. There's a variety
of different trees that can kind of fit that bill.
You want a plant that's going to be evergreen. Sometimes
what I'll do when the property line is really limiting

(02:01:35):
us is I'll use a trellis that goes above the
privacy fence, so it may be tall posts. Then maybe
a livestock panel or something stretched across and grow an
evergreen vine on that. So you end up with a
really nice screen, but you don't have something that's ten
feet wide sticking out in your lawn and on the

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other side of the fence.

Speaker 22 (02:02:02):
Well, thank you, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:05):
You bet, John, You take our Yeah, John, take care that. Yeah.
There's a lot of different options if you had a
little more information, Like, for example, you're trying to block
a house it's fifteen feet away, it's gonna be hard
to do with anything if it's a longer distance. Just
think about where you sit and what you see, and

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that'll tell you how high it needs to be. The
closer the hedge or screen is to you, the shorter
it needs to be the block of you. The further
away it gets, the taller. It needs to be the
block of you. Just some things like that. All right,
Thanks for the call, appreciate that. We're going to now
head out to Bill and Conroe. Hello Bill, Welcome to
guard Line.

Speaker 36 (02:02:49):
Hey Skip, good morning. I've cleaned out my backyard and
killed the sod and breaked it out and got some
drainage in there, and so I'm getting ready to.

Speaker 26 (02:03:00):
Lay down some new side. And my question is this.

Speaker 36 (02:03:04):
I know, Funus kind of lives in his dormant in
the dirt all the time and everything else. Would it
make any sense to use this opportunity to put something down.

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
That would.

Speaker 36 (02:03:16):
Kill some fungicide that's I might be lying there.

Speaker 1 (02:03:21):
You know, Bill, it wouldn't. It would be a complete
waste of your money. There isn't a fungicide we put
in the soil that then controls everything that might come
later on the turf. So I would wait until you
have your turf, and then as you start to see
an issue, you can deal with it at that point
in time. But most fungicides, they just don't have that

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kind of link of protection or root uptake. In the
case of what you're describing, that would require root uptake
and a fungicide. Yeah, and so I would, I would wait,
I would, I would wait. If you go online, I
don't know if you've seen my lawn care schedule and
my pest yeah, and management schedules. Yeah. Yeah, at gardening
with skip dot com and look at that. And there's

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a fungus row as you go across from January to December,
and it talks about the things we do and when
on that, and I would more focus on that. But
I'm not one to just want to nuke everything with
insecticides and fundicides every time I turn around. I'd rather
try to manage it and use it when I need it.
You know. It's like you're taking an antibiotic every day

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in case you might get sick some day. That's not
a good plan. And so yeah, the watch the schedule.
It is important to step in. Go ahead. Yeah, well
let me see it's early.

Speaker 4 (02:04:44):
Okay.

Speaker 36 (02:04:44):
Follow up question is, what about doing something for insects
is the same kind of deal?

Speaker 26 (02:04:50):
Why do it?

Speaker 12 (02:04:50):
Now?

Speaker 36 (02:04:50):
Why Why waste all that killers in the lawn when
you don't even know what you have or don't have
the same thing the same thing again, I got a
wide I just got a bunch of dirt there.

Speaker 1 (02:05:03):
Yeah, yeah, Well, when when it comes to insects, basically
we're dealing with two things for our this is Saint
Augustine I assume, is that right? Yeah, okay, yeah, when
it comes to insects, we're talking about chinchbugs and sideweb
worms and grubs three three pests and there's a very
specific time on those. We're in that time on those,

(02:05:26):
but in nothing ahead of time will help. All right,
all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to gearrun bill,
but yeah, good luck with all that. I hope that helped.
Gary and Alvin. You'll be first up when we come back.
If you want to give Chrystal, call seven one three
two one two. Kat r H will get you on
the board. We'll be ready to talk to you next

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and glad you're with us today. Hey, have you been
down to Jeges Hidden Gardens. It's done in Alvin. You
heard me talk about it before. It's on Elizabeth Street
in Alvin and they're open today by the way, from
eight to four and tomorrow again from eight to four.
When you get down to Hoorze Sidden Gardens, you're going
to find a wide variety of things. Number one. They
have a variety of products, for example, the tree stabilizer

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three sixty tree stabilizer. If you've got a young tree,
that's the thing you need for that, and they've got
them right there, including his own proprietary blend fertilizer products.
He has got a good selection of fruit trees, lots
of citrus right now is on hand. And if you
need like let's say you want to grow an apple, well,
you know, apples are for up north, but we have

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varieties that will grow down here. And Hora carries things
like anna and Dorset golden, for example, that can handle
the lower chill that we receive down in this area.
So you're going to find a lot of things like that.
They're at Horae Sidden Gardens. You're also at Hoges going
to be able to find the things that you need
to have success in terms of plants, for shade plants

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that are perennial that come out year after year, the
tropical look you know, you like the big old elephant
ear looking things, you like the the I like foxdale fern.
He's got those. They are very tough plants to grow,
very tough and resilient. Or he's got all of that.
But remember today eight to four tomorrow eight to four
again or Haes Hidden Gardens there on Alvin Street. Excuse me,

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Elizabeth Street and Alvin, Texas just south Highway sixth seventeen
seven twenty one Elizabeth Street. Go check them out. We're
going to head now over to Alvin speaking of or
Haes Hidden Gardens, and we're going to talk to Gary. Hello.

Speaker 26 (02:07:36):
Gary, Yes, sir, my wife has several raised garden beds.
They're like four foot by four foot, and we have
lots of rabbits. We have twelve full grown rabbits. She
breeds most of the rabbits and the and it's cooler
the rabbit manure. Can you put too much on? And
then you only two on the raised beds there like

(02:08:00):
four foot but four foot and you got several of them.
And like I said, putting the rabbit maneuver on there?
Can you put too much? And we're not raised anything
right now? Can we go ahead and put the rabbit
maneuver on there?

Speaker 7 (02:08:09):
Will it?

Speaker 26 (02:08:10):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (02:08:11):
Uh?

Speaker 26 (02:08:11):
And there again they the dozen full grown that we
have produce a whole lot of maneuver. But is this
good or bad? And then also we were trying to
raise what we can feed the rabbits.

Speaker 1 (02:08:23):
All right, sounds good. Well, yeah, it's wonderful manure. My
kid drese rabbits when they were growing up. We had
rabbits for more years than I care to remember. And
but we didn't call it manure. We called it funny pooh.
In fact, if you want to sound, if you want
to sound a little more, you know, high falutin, you

(02:08:44):
just call it pooh de boney, pooh de boney. It sounds,
it sounds exotic. It's the same stuff. It's not like
chicken manu where it's really easy to burn plants with it.
Rabbit manure is typically not that hot. Now, can you
put too much? We can put too much of anything,
you know, anything, you can overdo it. But in general

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we don't worry about it burning like rabbits can do.
I would say, if you put out you know, you know,
maybe a half inch at a time, kind of scratched
it into the surface, that would be a pretty good
application rate.

Speaker 26 (02:09:16):
Wow, half inch in much.

Speaker 1 (02:09:20):
No, not at one time, but you know, experiment with
it and see. You know, some plants do not need
much fertilizer. Other plants are heavy feeders, so I would
adjust according to that as well.

Speaker 26 (02:09:33):
Okay, and then we're not we're trying to grow what
the rabbits will eat. Worse, we can't never have let
grown carrots, of course, but other kails and things like
that that we can feed the rabbits.

Speaker 15 (02:09:44):
Do that.

Speaker 26 (02:09:44):
What do you recommend?

Speaker 1 (02:09:45):
Okay, yeah, that's what I do on those. What I
would do is that you're talking about vegetable grun there,
so I would before you can't, I would put the
rabbit manure down at about an inch inch and a
half and rototillert in is deeply, are spaded in as
deeply as practical, and then plant and and then that
way you're not having to put the maneuver around existing plants,

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which is a little more challenging in a dense vegetable garden.

Speaker 26 (02:10:13):
Sure, okay, very good, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:10:17):
So but it works. It works very well. It's already pelletized,
so once it's dry, you can you can put it
in a sack and store it for later if you want.
Have you ever thought about raising earthworms underneath there are
those cages?

Speaker 26 (02:10:30):
No, no, never never considered that.

Speaker 1 (02:10:33):
The red wiggler, not nightcrawlers, but red earthworms. There's also
something called a brown noseworm that's basically like a red wigular.
They go crazy into there and they'll transform that manure
and it's almost like you're turning it into a compost material.
Plus you get fishing worms or some people even purchase

(02:10:55):
those things. People that have vermiculture bins where they add
worms to to decompose food scraps. They'll buy your red
regular worms to put in their verma culture bend. So
I know you're not looking for another business to get into,
but that's just another option. And they can take our
temperatures better, uh than like the nightcrawlers can.

Speaker 26 (02:11:17):
Yes, sir, I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (02:11:20):
That's more than you, more than you ask. So thanks
sont Gary, thanks for listening.

Speaker 9 (02:11:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:11:26):
Good care. You are listening to garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Rickor and we're here to answer your gardening questions.
That's what we try to do. Here. We're going to
head out to Austin County and talk to Doris.

Speaker 22 (02:11:41):
Hello, Doris, Hello, can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (02:11:47):
How can we help today? I can?

Speaker 6 (02:11:50):
Okay, I have urbinas. I have the purple ones, the
white ones, and the red ones, and they were doing
really well. Now some of the bushes are getting white
spots like on their leaves and they're starting to die
from underneath.

Speaker 9 (02:12:09):
What's wrong with.

Speaker 1 (02:12:09):
Them, Well, Verbina is a pretty tough plant, but when
we get to the full brunt of Texas summers, it's
stressed and so it is easy for issues to arise
from them. I think though, that the white spots, if
they're very very small specks, that kind of more and
more of them occur until the leaf almost turns white.

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That is a piercing sucking insect that is sucking juices
out of those leaves from the underside of the leaf.
They hide under the leaf and they suck the juices out,
and so getting a blast of spray up under there
to kill them would be one option to try to
bring those under control. But we have several different kinds
of plants, from lace bugs to a little plant hoppers

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and others that can cause that kind of damage.

Speaker 6 (02:13:00):
Some of these are almost white, but I don't see
anything under the leak.

Speaker 1 (02:13:07):
That's what you will some of these things are. They're
they're skittish and by the time you turn it over
they've hopped away. So you kind of have to go
out in the morning, maybe look at the top of
the leaves. Some of them may be up there, but
when you turn them over, if it's a lace bug,
the uh, they don't jump around, they'll be there. You
can turn it over and you'll see them. So another

(02:13:28):
sign of lace bugs is little black tar like spots.
That's they're poop underneath the leak. They stick it to
the bottom of the leaf. I don't know why.

Speaker 15 (02:13:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:13:37):
And the other kind, the piercing sucking plant hoppers, those
are the more skittish ones uh. And you just kind
of have to to go out real carefully and slowly
turn it over to see them. But there'll be little
bugs that are about the size of a of an aphid,
a big plump black aphid. Typically they're very dark colored,

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but that would be something to look for.

Speaker 6 (02:14:02):
And what do I use on them?

Speaker 1 (02:14:06):
There's there are a number of products that will knock
them down. Pyrietherns is an organic type spray that you
could use to knock them down, a pyrite and spray,
you could use really any insecticide labeled for use on
your flowers. You just want to be careful because you
got bees. And so sometimes I'll do that real late
in the day, uh, and so that that it all

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dries up and the next days the bees come out.
You know, the the product isn't just wet there on
the leaf where or the flowers where bees would be
infected affected.

Speaker 6 (02:14:38):
Okay, all right, all right, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1 (02:21:30):
Welcome back to garden Line. Glad to have you with
us this morning. We have got a little bit of
time live. We got about thirty minutes left in the
show today, a little less than that. Actually, if you'd
like to give us a call, this would be a
good time. Seven one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. We're gonna go out to college station now
and talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, and welcome to Garden Lines.

Speaker 24 (02:21:54):
Hey, Skip, how you doing? I appreciate you taking my
call again. I uh talk to you last week. I
was putting a kind of a crushed granite walk away
and circle around for a for my fire pits and
smokers and stuff. I had said I had Saint Augustine.
When I looked a little bit closer and it's a
it's a lot of permuta and weeds mixed in with

(02:22:16):
it as well too. So I guess my my thought
is prepare it? Do I?

Speaker 9 (02:22:21):
Uh?

Speaker 24 (02:22:23):
Do I do the round up and at first, and
then let it sit for a while. Maybe do it
twice before I before I do anything to it or
what for preparing for it?

Speaker 1 (02:22:33):
Okay, yes, twice would be the case, because you don't
always get it all the first time. Lifeasay run ups
just one name. By the way, if you go to
a store now and buy something that says round up,
it probably isn't life usay because when the in the

(02:22:53):
retail market, the homeowner market, uh, that's being pulled, pulled
and its other ingredients and they're being called round up.
I wish they wouldn't do that, but that is what
companies do. But anyway, so gli, I'm gonna use the
word glyphosay because that's the ingredient you can find in
a lot of other brands. I've been round up.

Speaker 14 (02:23:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:23:12):
That kills broad leaf and grasses, and it moves down
in the plant and it kills the underground parts too,
which is why it's so good for taking bermuda grass out.
If your If your main weed weeds are grassy, you
can use a grass only killer as an alternative to
the glyphosay. But if you've got broad leaf weeds, the

(02:23:32):
grass only killers won't work. Okay, can you spell the
name of that product?

Speaker 20 (02:23:38):
What is that.

Speaker 1 (02:23:40):
Glyphosate? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (02:23:42):
G L Y P H O S A T E.

Speaker 1 (02:23:48):
I tell you something I want I want you to do.

Speaker 9 (02:23:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:23:51):
Have you ever been to my website, Gardening with Skip
dot com?

Speaker 19 (02:23:57):
Actually?

Speaker 1 (02:23:57):
Now, if okay, if not write that down gardening with
Skip dot com. When you go there, there's a tag
for all the publications, and I have a publication called
herbicide products to use with Skip's weed wiper tool. It's
the only publication that starts off saying herbicide at the beginning.

(02:24:19):
If you click on that, it's products that I put
on the list for using with a little homemade tool
I show you how to make. By the way, this
tool is not for the kind of bermuda situation you have.
But those products you see products for brushyweeds, products for
grass plants, products for plants with underground bulbs like wild

(02:24:41):
onion and garlic in the lawn. But if you look there,
you can find the products for each of those that
work well and for grassyweeds. That's kind of what we've
been talking about. Those products are there, even though that
publications made for things to put on the weed wiper.
Those are the products you would use to control to
get that bermua kill back. And then again, like you said,

(02:25:03):
get water it good, give it some time to try
to get it to come back up again, show its face.
So do you have something else to spray a second time?

Speaker 12 (02:25:11):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:25:12):
Awesome, that is great. I appreciate that.

Speaker 24 (02:25:14):
Yeah, I didn't really look at it before and as much.
And it's a it's we've just been in the house
a couple of months now. It's ten years old, and
so we've been mowing a couple of times a week
to keep the weeds down and stuff. So I didn't
actually really notice we had a lot more going on
in there than I thought.

Speaker 1 (02:25:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's often the way it is. That's all right,
and good luck, Thank you. Take one last one last
where did the wise ending? Before you go? You get
much better killed with whatever you spray if the target
weed is healthy and vigorous growing. If it's drought stressed,

(02:25:53):
these products don't work well at all. So you want
to water it, do whatever you guy do. You want
to get it up and growing and where it's moving
and then it takes that herbicide up and you get
much better results. So just a final thought there, Okay,
oh yeah, I got you. I'll take it down into
the roots so it does better. Yeah, thanks Ben, you

(02:26:14):
take care. Hey, our phone number if you'd like to
give us a call seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four out at the Texas Nursery and
Landscape Association Convention in San Antonio that's this past week. Uh, well,
that was a great convention. I saw a lot of
good friends out there. I ran into the folks at

(02:26:36):
Nelson Plant Food, Dean uh the guy who created Nelson
Plant Food, Dean Nelson, and also Shelby and some of
the other folks that work with them, and we're just
visiting about the different products they have, what all they
have on hand. And they have a lot of quality products.
You know, there's the fertilizer bag lines, that's the turf
Star line. That's where you find Bruce's Brew, which releases

(02:27:00):
it's a perfect blend of nutrients and it releases them
initially pretty good, and then it has some ongoing slow release.
Slow and Easy is another turf Star product. That one.
It releases some early, but it releases for three or
four months going forward. I would say at this point,
if you needed a fertilizer to hold you until we

(02:27:21):
get to the fall, maybe a little Bruce's Brew would
be a good one for the lawn there. Now, when
it comes to trees and shrubs, there's the nutri Star
for tree and shrub. There's nutri Star for all kinds
of for tropical plants, for vining plants. It's just a
wide variety. So little jars, plastic jars, you can find
them a lot of different places. The thing I like
about those nutri Star jars, about the color Star jars,

(02:27:44):
is that you can go to a garden center. Certain
garden centers have the little refill stations. It's kind of
like when you buy peanuts in the grocery store. You
pull the little handle down and fill up the bag.
You know what I'm talking about. Well, it's like that,
but you get a lot of really good savings on
the fertilizer because they're not having to make a jar
and sell it to you and the environments not trying

(02:28:04):
to figure out what to do with even more plastic.
Because you buy a jar in another jar and another jar,
you can just refill them the Nelson plant few jars.
So just another reason that Nelson products are so handy
and they do work very very well. I've used them myself.
One of my favorites, by the way, is Genesis Transplant Mix.
I'll have to tell you more about that at another time,

(02:28:25):
But if you're going to transplant anything into the ground,
mix a little Genesis transplant mix into the soil around there,
then dig the hole and replant and you will see results.
If you're going to pot something up, mix it into
the potting salt that you're about to use. Genesis Transplant
Mix from Nelson just another good one. We're going to
go to Spring now and talk to Nicole. Hello, Nicole, Hello,

(02:28:49):
how are you? I'm good? How can we help?

Speaker 40 (02:28:54):
I have a weed in my flower bed that I
am constantly fighting and I cannot figure out what to
do about it.

Speaker 38 (02:29:02):
It pulls up very easily.

Speaker 41 (02:29:04):
It has it's almost a fern type leaf. It has
very tiny.

Speaker 22 (02:29:09):
Little leafs on it, spores on the back.

Speaker 26 (02:29:12):
Huh.

Speaker 40 (02:29:14):
It almost reminds me of like.

Speaker 41 (02:29:16):
A little mimosa leaf, like a little mimosa tree leaf.
I mean that's what it sort of looks like a
little tiny leaves. And I don't know what did you
to keep this thing from coming back?

Speaker 1 (02:29:27):
Got you? What did you say it had on the
back of the leaf spores? Okay, I know what it is.
I've got to go to break and it's gonna take
a while to talk about this. When hang on, we'll
be right back with you and we will solve the
problem to the mystery weed. Thanks. Thanks a lot, Nicole
and Tiffany. You'll be the next up. After we solve

(02:29:49):
Nichole's problem, we'll be right back all right, all right,
welcome back. Good to have you with us here on
Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here
to answer your gardening question. We speaking of gardening questions.
We were just talking to Tiffany, no excuse me, Nicole
in spring and Nicole that we just called chamber bitter

(02:30:10):
and it is the weed of summer. It's slow to
wake up in the spring. A lot of spring things
pop up like crabgrass and they're growing. This one's a
little bit slower, but when it shows up, it can
be just proliferating through a thin lawn or through garden
beds and things. The answers to what to do about is,

(02:30:30):
first of all, any if you can hoe or hand
pull when it's first coming up, depending on where it's growing.
You can't hoe in the lawn, but just taking a
hole right underneath the surface, don't. You're not chopping with
a hoe, you're just slicing it off under the surface.
That's the best because pretty quickly it starts producing what
you were calling a spore, that's actually the seed bop pod.

(02:30:53):
It has a tiny little bloom you'll never think of
as a flower, and then it produces these seed pods
all along the lea petiole underneath, their little balls all
along there. And so once it's doing that, you're about
to have a lot of seeds, and so you're gonna
have to be dealing with it a year after year.
So the earlier you can hand pull it, the better

(02:31:14):
mulches will keep it from coming up if the mulch
blocks all the sunlight out. So that's another thing, and
I realized we'd have to go back in time to
do some of those steps, but that's FYI for next year.
You can spray it with a product like Celsius for example.
It does a pretty good job on it, but once

(02:31:37):
it's getting really woody and established, it's hard to kill
with sprays.

Speaker 40 (02:31:43):
Okay, okay, yeah, it's it just pops up so quickly,
and it's like I can I pull it. It's easy
to pull handful. I mean, it's really easy to pull
out of the ground. It's not one of those ones
that has the chaining root or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (02:31:57):
It's just that's everywhere. Yep. Well, like what in general,
where is it? And what is it a flower bed
or what are you seeing it? Then?

Speaker 40 (02:32:09):
Yes, mostly it's in the flowerbed. It's on the edge
of the flower bed where I don't have any bushes
or plants, you know, close to the rocks. And we've
molted we most every spring, so I don't know if
the molts just.

Speaker 1 (02:32:24):
Got thin or I don't know. Yeah, yes, that is
what it is. Because when a seed sprouts, that tiny
little seed has some stored energy, but not a lot,
and so if you prevent it from being able to
reach sunlight, you'll kill it. And I don't suppose you
still subscribe to a print copy of the newspaper, do you?

(02:32:47):
Most people I don't. Yeah, the newspaper for it. When
it first comes up, you can lay newspaper on it,
four to six sheets thick, and wet that newspaper so
it sort of sticks down, and then throw mulch on
top and you're done. That works really well because it
completely blocks the light out. The newspaper does. Yeah, four
to six sheets thick, just so it doesn't tear so easy.

(02:33:09):
But you don't have to go buy newspaper, just gets
you a good mulge to smother it. I will often
use like a rake in a garden bed, just kind
of to really roughly rake the soil to kind of
tear it up, and then throw a mulch on top
of it. Whatever it takes. Just just don't give it sunlight,
and then once it's up you're going to have to

(02:33:29):
In a flower bed, you're not going to use celsius.
But if it's a bear area without other desirable plants,
you could use a glycysate type herbicide that kills whatever
you spray it on, and that it would kill it.
Those post emergin will kill it even if it's getting
a little bit older. But my big concern once it

(02:33:50):
gets a little bit older is that you've already got
viable seeds, So just to kill it isn't sufficient. I
want those seeds out of there before they drop on
the ground, right.

Speaker 40 (02:34:01):
Right, okay, all right, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (02:34:04):
I appreciate it. You didn't have anything better to do
on a ninety five degree day in the middle of summers,
And get out on your hands and knees and pull
chamber better rights, rights into the mix, and it'll be
a perfect day.

Speaker 40 (02:34:19):
Super fun, super fun. I water the flower bed this morning.
I'm gonna make them really.

Speaker 14 (02:34:22):
Easy to pull out.

Speaker 1 (02:34:25):
That's smart, That is smart. All right, Nicole, you take care.
Good to talk to you. We're going to go to
Cypress and talk to Tiffany. Hello, Tiffany, welcome, reguardline, Hi.

Speaker 42 (02:34:35):
Skip, good morning.

Speaker 6 (02:34:37):
I have a three point question.

Speaker 42 (02:34:40):
When do you recommend like heavy pruning for our front
and backyard ornamentals? When do you recommend for trees and
then create myrtles. I know you mentioned it this morning
with a gentleman that you like to wait till the
end of winter because we do little pruning here there.

Speaker 9 (02:35:00):
But I mean, like the heavy pruning.

Speaker 42 (02:35:02):
When do you recommend for those those three.

Speaker 1 (02:35:06):
Heavy pruning is best done on a woody ornamental plant,
a tree or shrub or woody vine. It's best done
in the late wintertime. But if you need to get
a little trimming here and there, you can do that
at any time. And sometimes there's extenuating circumstances where you
can't wait that long, and that's fine too, But just
remember that if it blooms only in the spring, like

(02:35:29):
a climbing rose is oftener once blooming roses, or if
it is like a dogwood or a red bud or
a spyreea shrub or something that flowering quints it just
blooms in the spring, you want to prune it in
the summertime right after it blooms, or in the spring
late spring, early summer, right after it blooms. If you
prune those now, they're trying to set buds for next

(02:35:52):
springs bloom and you'd be cutting with the blue buds
or the ability for them to develop a wooden time.

Speaker 42 (02:36:00):
Right, Okay, that sounds great. And saying with trees, I
know that no affordable tree service. They are so wonderful,
but they I mean, is it a time when you
really recommend for them to come out just about February
ish as well?

Speaker 1 (02:36:15):
Well, that would be ideal. Now, a tree service like that,
they can't do every customer's printing all it one month
would work? Sure, you trimming like, they'll come out like
let's say right now, you got a tree with some
branch problems, they'll come out now and do it. If
you've got a tree that needs a selective printing to
make it a little more resilient in storms, they'll come

(02:36:37):
out now and do that. So you can do printing
any time of the year. Ideally with woody ornamentals, we
would like to do most of it at the end
of winter.

Speaker 42 (02:36:48):
But you do what you gotta do, right, No, that
sounds great. I really appreciate it. And just a little
side note. Earlier this morning, a gentleman called about having
raccoons and possums under his house. And my mother and
father in law live in Lake Conroe, and my father
in law had two little raccoons that loved making beds

(02:37:10):
in his.

Speaker 4 (02:37:10):
Boat, like under the cover.

Speaker 42 (02:37:12):
So he put two humane traps and just like you said,
he cut up apples. They really loved that and they
would be in there and so and then he has
this park that's you know, pretty far from them, but
he would take them out there, very wooded park, not
many busy streets around. And so that might be what
that gentleman could do. He might have to do it
one at a time since he has a party under

(02:37:35):
his house.

Speaker 6 (02:37:37):
Well, thank you so much.

Speaker 42 (02:37:38):
If we love your show, appreciate you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (02:37:43):
Appreciate your calls very much. We are going to now
run out and run out to Diana and Cyprus. Diana,
I'm watching the clock go in here. Let's see if
we can get your call in.

Speaker 6 (02:37:53):
Okay, I have to laugh because that was my daughter
that just called kiddy.

Speaker 1 (02:37:58):
Oh son or grandfather calling next.

Speaker 18 (02:38:04):
A mother.

Speaker 6 (02:38:05):
I said that that that's our daughter that just called
it about you know, the preening.

Speaker 1 (02:38:09):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:38:09):
But I have a question real quick. My husband and
I were both real sick during you know, the early
part of the summer, and all of our plants in
our yard was just absolutely gorgeous, and but our that
illness kind of extended what we couldn't get out and
take care of our plants like we normally would and
monitor our yard. But our knocked out rose bushes say,

(02:38:31):
look like the way I can describe it is, how
if you were to take Brussels sprout's or roccolini and
roast them in the oven? How kind of Well, there's
up some edges they're they're doing that, and one of
them we think we've completely lost. But I'm trying to
see what I can do to save these others. And
then another question too real quick, is that our yard

(02:38:53):
was beautiful. The back is still looks good, but the
front started dying. Uh and our Saint August.

Speaker 1 (02:39:01):
Okay, I'm gonna have to stop you because the music
is already playing here. So about those roses, good soul
moisture is very important, and in the heat it is
too stressful for them, So that is the main thing.
Wait and watch they'll they could look bad and then
bounce tr it back. And if they don't come back,
I know a lady up in the Cypress area. Her

(02:39:21):
name is Tiffany, and I bet you could get her
to come over and replant the roses for you. That's
the least she could do after all that you've done
for her her whole life. For crying out loud, Diana,
I hope that he'll listen on the next call. It
could possibly be like like black spot of black Spot,

(02:39:42):
which causes black spots and leaves. The leaves turn yellow
and fall off.

Speaker 5 (02:39:46):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:39:46):
It could be powdering mildew on the leaves too. Uh,
you could send me some pictures. I'm going to put
you on hold and maybe my producer can give you
an email and we can talk again tomorrow.

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