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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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this program. Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with
Skip Richter.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's just watch him as suprazy not sorry.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Good morning, Good morning on a good Sunday morning. I'm
glad you are with us today. You're listening to Garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help
you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and
have fun in the process. If you'd like to give
us a call, we're here to answer your gardening question.

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Seven to one three two one two k t r H.
Seven to one, three, two to one two k t
r H. I want to thank everybody down there in Wharton,
Texas at the Ace Hardware Store, Uh Wharton Feed and
Ace Hardware Store. It's called and boy, thats a nice
new place.

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You know.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
They've they've relocated and expanded into an A store and
it is loaded with products and stuff. I was really
impressed walking around and seeing everything. You're fortunate done in
that area to get an Ace Hardware store to provide
all those kinds of things that Ace provides. Thanks for
having us out, first of all. Secondly, thanks to everybody
who came out a good time. It was an enthusiastic

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crowd and really enjoyed visiting with you, answering gardening questions
and whatnot. I appreciate also nitro Fross providing plenty of
giveaways for that as well as the Ace Hardware store there.
We had a giveaways of plants, we had just had
a lot of different things people were getting. It was
a it was a good day to come out and

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talk gardening. Well, here we are on Sunday and we're
talking about looking at a week it's going to have
some warm temperatures in it. And remember that I always
tell you this, look at the calendar, not at the thermometer.
Look at the calendar, not at thermometer. And what does
the calendar say. The calendar says we're right at the

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beginning of October, and that is when pre emergent products
for weed control need to go out. That's when our
fall fertilization begins to go out. Actually late September early October.
We look at fall fertilization. It can continue on into
October if you like with the fertilizer. Don't delay though
on the pre emergence because when you delay on pre emergence.

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You missed the boat. It's like my baseball analogy. You
got to start swinging before the ball gets to the
plate if you want to hit it. If you wait
until it's already there, it's too late, you're going to miss.
And let me tell you this. The ball is on
the way, folks. That is true. NITROPHSS has their three
step program to deal with things like this. First of all,
there's a fall special fertilizer design for fall design to

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send your turf into the summer with more resilience, with
more carbohydrates for cold protection, and therefore to come out
in the spring better. This is something a lot of
people don't know or think about, and that is that
the fall fertilization is what your grass uses in the
spring to come out of winter. That's the stored energy

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that helps your grass be stronger coming out in the spring.
Second step from the Nitropas three step is barricade, which
is a pre emergent herbicide. You put it down, you
water it in, put enough water on there to get
it down in the soil surface. You use half inch
of water. You can just make sure you get it
in there a little more as fine, it's not going
to wash away. Those things are made to cling to

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the soil particles and when they do we try to
sprout and it can't. But you got to get it
down before the weed tries to sprout, because it's a
pre emergent, before the weed emerges. Okay, if you already
got weeds, that's a post emergent. That's a different approach,
different timing, different approach. Pre emergent is barricade and it's

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in the fall, and timing is critical. Third step of
the nitroposs three step is the fungicide called Eagle nitrophoss
Eagle turf fungicide. It is a systemic meaning the grass
takes it up, holds on to it so that when
brown patch or large patches it's called a pierce, or
when take all root rot tries to infect, you've already

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got the protective fungicide in there to prevent infection by
those diseases. Again, timing is critical. If you wait until
brown circles appear, fungicides are not going to turn brown
circles green. They prevent brown circles. So you got to
get down ahead of it. We get a cul front,
get over it. The rain we're going to at San
brown Patch, so you got to get that thing down

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ahead of it. One two, three, Night Fruss three step.
Now you're going to find night Fuss three step and
in chinned gardens and Richmond Shades of Texas, in the
woodlands and plants for all seasons up there on Tomball Parkway.
Whatever you do. If you're going to do something, don't
delay because when you delay, what if they say he
who hesitates is lost? I guess, and that is certainly now.

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The fertilizer, you know, if you delay on that, it's
not the end of the world. Don't delay too long.
But if you delay, it's not the end of the world.
But boy, when it comes to preventing weed seeds and
preventing diseases, don't delay. Get it done at the right time.
You can go to my schedule online. For those of
you who've never been to gardening with skip dot com,

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I encourage you to go. The free schedules are up there.
The free nutsedge control information is up there, the free
weed wiper is up there. The products to use in
controlling various kinds of weed, it's up there and free,
so bookmark that. Check back periodically. We are planning some

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new additions coming soon to the website, and I'd like
you to be up to speed on it. You know,
we answer gardening questions here online, but a lot of
questions it's too long of an answer to try to
talk through on the air. With all these product names
and things that you know, you can't write it all
down fast enough. That's why I put those things on

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the web so I can just point you to that
and you can have success. Plus, you know, the day
after the day after I hear something genses you remembering
it or not always that great, right, especially if it's
an unfamiliar term or something. But when you have the website,
when you have those publications, you can refer back to
them again and again. Or maybe your neighbor comes over

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and goes, I got those brown circles every year? What
can I do? So you can say, right here, print
it yourself. I'm not going to use my ink on
your publication. Go home and print it yourself. That's good. Well,
Plants for All Seasons is one of those what do
we say, Mom and pop independent garden center here in

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the Houston area that has been here for a long time,
and there's a reason for that, and the reason is
they provide quality plants that want to grow here, and
most important of all, quality help and assistance and products.
When you walk into Plants for All Seasons, you may
not even know what plant you need. You could just

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have got a shady area over here. I want some
fall color in it. I've got a you know what
I'm saying, I need a groundcover that grows in the sun.
Whatever you tell them, they're going to be able to
direct you to the plants. Maybe you say, you know
what I'm want of those beautiful fall color planters, but
I don't know what plants to put in it, what
plants go together. They'll just walk you right through there,
and next thing you know, you're on your way home

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with those and a quality bag of potting mix for
putting in a container or for amending your soil, for example,
they've got all all of that it. Plants for All Seasons.
They're on the corner of Luetta and Tomball Parkway. That's
high Way to forty nine, on the way to Tomball
two eight, one, three, seven, six, sixteen forty six. Or

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go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com.
They are truly lon and garden experts. I'm going to
take a quick break here and I'll be right back,
and we are looking forward to visiting with you and
helping with your questions. You know, we want you to
have a bountiful garden. We want you to have a
beautiful landscape, and especially I want you to have fun
in the process. Gardening is fun. It should be fun.

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It's not fun when you're fighting weeds. It's not fun
when you're dealing with fire ants and when you're dealing
with heat and all those kinds of things. When you're
having to dig up stuff and replant it because it died,
that's not fun. But those can be avoided, they really can.
This is not that difficult to do if you just
follow some rules. You know, I always say, wherever sunlight

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hits a soil, nature plants of weeds. So how do
you avoid weeding all the time in your gardens and
your garden beds, Well, malts, don't don't leave the soil. Bear,
don't let sunlight hits of soil, because if it does,
you're going to get the opportunity, let's put it that way,
to pull weeds. Now, there's some weeds that come through
malts like bermuda grass for example, and others. But in general,

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the weed seeds, you don't give them sunlight, they're not
gonna come up. So that's just one tip that makes
gardening easier and more fun. And we'll give you a
lot more than that. Is to go through the course
of the shows each weekend here on Guardline. We're on
from six am to ten am on Saturday and Sunday.
So tell your friends and neighbors about garden Line. That
guy that won't take care of his yard, maybe just

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drop a hint that, oh, there's this fun show. Won't
you listen to it? Help all our property values go up? Well,
you get the idea. Anyway, I'm your host skip director.
We're here to answer your gardening questions. I want to
tell you that, you know, a lot of people are
doing it yourselfers. They want to do everything themselves, and
that's good, that's fine. A lot of people want people
to come in and just just take care of it.

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Just I want it to look good. I don't know
what I'm doing. I'm not good at this. I don't
have an eye for design or whatever. Well, Pierscapes is
the company for that. They can do a lot of
those things. They can create gorgeous landscapes and they do.
You can go to their website peerscapes dot com and
see examples of the outstanding work that they do. I
mean you need to go check it because don't believe me.

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Just go look yourself and you'll go, oh, I didn't
realize it was that nice, And yes it is. They
do outdoor hardscapes. They do at a landscape, lighting, drainage,
and you know how it is here in the Southeast
Texas area, when it rains, it pours, and when it pours,
we have standing water and plants don't like that, and
so they can fix that. Is your irrigation system not working,

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you know, you're sprinkling drinking water all over the landscape
trying to trying to keep things alive. And boy, you
sure would like to do it efficiently, right, so you
don't waste your money and the water. Well, they can
fix that for you too. They do quarterly maintenance of
your beds if you wish, they'll come out in every quarter.
They'll do the mulching in, the planting new color plants,

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and the aeration, fertilizing, weeding. You know, check your irrigation system,
all of that. It's all a Pierscapes. Piercescapes dot com
is the website. I would recommend you do that or
just give them a call to eight one three seven
fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five zero
six zero at Piercecapes. So we were talking yesterday when

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when I was down in the Wharton area with some gardeners.
We're covering a lot of different topics. The one of
the things we spent some time talking about was nuts edge,
because that's such a problem for a lot of people.
One of the worst weeds worldwide, one of the worst
weeds that there is, and if you've dealt with it,
you know what I'm talking about. It is frustrating. It

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causes sweet gardeners to use language that should never come
out their mouth on a Sunday morning because it is
so frustrating. It's like you can't get rid of it. Yes,
you can go to my website look for the publication
an in depth look at nutset. There's two nut Sets publications.
One short you can just skim over it, but you
need to read the longer one because it explains the

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weed and how it works and therefore, how you go
about controlling it. And if you don't do that, if
you just squirt it once in a while with herbicides,
you're not going to get anywhere, as you may already know,
if you chop it off or try to dig it up,
you're not going to finish the job that way. But
there are ways to get ahead of it. And it's
on the website and it's all free. It's as simple.
It's as simple as that. Did any of you go

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out to chenn It Forest yesterday? Danny was out there
giving a talk. Well, of course he's out there as
the owner, but he was out giving a talk on trees,
because fall is for trees. He was talking about the
favorite trees that he has for gardening, the things that
he most enjoys that if he finds the best success with.
And hope you got a chance to do that. If

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you didn't go on out there now and just say, hey,
I wuldn't hear yesterday, what are the trees you recommend?
Because they have a great stock of trees out there.
While you're out there, you're going to find fall color.
You know, we talk about mums in the fall all
the time. Well, asters are another great fall color plant.
And that place in Chennon Forest is loaded with beautiful asters,

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really really impressive. Every time I walk out and see
the newest color that they have, it is, it is outstanding.
All your fall color plants are out there. It doesn't
matter what you're looking for to have beauty, it's going
to be there. They got lots of events coming up
all the time. They got some. Oh, they got great camellias.
If you've ever thought about planning a camellia for blooms
in the winter. One type blooms more in December, one

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a little bit in January. Better in January. They are
full of buds. Their commitees are loaded up and ready
to pop, and now is the time to get them.
In fall is the best time to plant. What are
you ornamentals and perennials of any type in your gardens
and garden beds, and so take advantage of it. If
you haven't seen their Talavera pumpkins for decoration, unbelievable, they

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are just just go see them or look that up
online or so I. Talivera pumpkins are gorgeous and they've
got them at a Genta Forest Nursery and they're beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
You won't your fall color. Hey falls for gardening in
the vegetable garden and in the herb garden, and they're
loaded up and of course all the landscape color. Enchanting
Forest is at on FM twenty seven to fifty nine,

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FM twenty seven to fifty nine. So if you're at
Richmond heading towards sugar Land, it's off to the right
FM twenty seven fifty nine. Here's a phone number two
eight one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. Two
eight one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. I
would also encourage you to go to their website, enchanted

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Forest Richmond TX dot com. Chanted Forest Richmond, t X
dot COM's outstanding site. Lots of good information there. Well,
you're listening Guardenline. Our phone number is seven one three
two one two k t r H. You know, early
in the morning, it's a good time to get on

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the phones.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
Now.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
I know a lot of you gonna wait till the
end of the show on Sunday to make your calls.
It's a tougher time to get in then, so take
advantage of it. If you want to give us a call,
do it when we have a little more time to
be able to handle your calls. One of the things
that was talking with some gardeners about down at the
Ace Hardware and Wharton yesterday, we were discussing someone was

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looking for an organic fertilizer that would, you know, provide
the nutrients that they needed for fall, and we were
talking about the micro Life brown Patch. Brown Patch by
Microlife is a fertilizer that has a little less nitron,
a little bit more potassium, which is what we look
for in the fall, and it's loaded with micronutrients. And

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so you had a couple of things going on there.
You got the nutrition at the proper balance and rate. Secondly,
you've got all the microbes. And there are good microbes
and bad microbes, at least from our opinion, there are.
And when you have a lot of good microbes, it
can do several things. Number one, they can directly compete
against or attack microbes that are not let's say they're malevolent.

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Oh I like that malevolent microbes. MM. The good guys
fight the bad guys in that sense, but they also
outpopulate them or outcompete them on the plant's surface, because
everything's covered with the microbes. Your skin is covered with
microbes right now. I mean even just took a bath,
You've got microbes all over your skin and they often help.

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And so by putting out microlife fertilizers, adding good microbes
to the surface, you help fight diseases and brown patch.
That's why they called it brown patch. That's a Faull
disease and got to get in ahead of it. Also
recommend you do micro grow bio inoculant when you do
the microlife brown patch. Now, biinoculant is not a nutrient

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laden fertilizer. It is a microbe proliferation of microbes fertilizer.
Sixty three different beneficial strains of micro organisms in that product.
You sprinkle it out there, you turn on the water,
splash it around a little bit, and it is a
way it inoculates your soil with just treetons of beneficial

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microorganisms for better success. So that combo punch for fall
is really a good im It's for microlife. You know,
Microlife's available everywhere you can go to You can go
to excuse me, the website Microlife Fertilizer dot com and
see the places that it has. But you're gonna find
it a lot of places. I talked about being at
an ACE Hardware down and Wharton. ACE hardware stores carrying

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microlife products. In fact, ACE hardware stores carry every kind
of thing. If I talk about a pest control, we
control a fertilizer, it's going to be at ACE Hardware.
And there's forty eight ACE Hardware stores in the area.
So the thing I like about ACE, I always like
going into a new ACE because each one's a little
bit different, you know, each one's just a little bit

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different because they're independently owned. So I was down in
Wharton looking at that ACE. I've never seen an ACE
just like that one. It had all these cool features.
There's standard things you're going to get in every ACE
Hardware store. There are, including from a landscape standpoint, the
fertilizers I talk about on guardline for a beautiful lawn,
a beautiful garden success and growing trees and shrubs and

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other plants. You're going to find the tools you need.
You're going to find things from water hoses to pruning
tools to you name it at ACE Hardware stores, and
you're going to find that array of products to control
pest weeds. Diseases and fertilizer plants to stimulate good growth
and good health. So if you want fall fertilizer, you're
going to find it at Ace Hardware store, and you're
going to find options, more than one option. When you

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go into an ACE hardware store and they have a
wonderful new one down in Wharton that was just I
really enjoy I was very very impressed with it. I
was telling my wife on the way back as we
came back that you know, when I grew up, the
Ace hardware stores were kind of a generic thing. You know,
they had their standard kind of brands and things that

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they carried. Now it is so different. I mean, you
look at the top brands of anything, and you're going
to find him at Ace Hardware. I was walking around
the Wharton Ace and you know, I happen to never
see a power tool that I don't like. I'm really
into power tools like that, and they had just top brands,

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the brands I like especially they're at Ace Hardware. And
that's true of everything you find when you go into
an Ace. It's a case they say Ace is the place,
Well it sure is. ACE is a place for it.
You fell in the blank and it will be true.
We got holiday seasons coming up. It's important. We got
it's time now to control fire ants. Get you a

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good fire at bait, a good fireant bait and Ace
Hardware is going to be able to set you up
on that tackle fire ants in the fall. Remember football's
in the fall. Fire tackling curves in the fall with
a product from Ace Hardware store a good bait. All right,
time for me to take a break. I will be
back in just a moment with your gardening questions. In

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the meantime, if you want to call Chris and get
on the boards seven to one three two one two
kt r H. Welcome back, folks. Good to have you
with us today on Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter
and our phone number if you'd like to call in
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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I want to remind you that the folks with OBA,
the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance, are going to have a
program next Saturday on October fifth, called so you want
to Grow Good Food? It's a conference that they're doing
and the doctor Bob Randall, who is the author of
lear Year Round Gardening is X. If you're interested in

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growing vegetables, it is the book you need to have
here in the greater Houston area. Great detail, lots of
good detail on it from a lifetime of learning, hands
on and reading doctor Randall's excellent auth He'll be one
of the speakers there. By the way, it's going to
be at the Houston Arboretam and Nature Center from eight
am to three thirty pm. If you want more information

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on the So you want to Grow Good Food conference,
that will be found at OBA online dot org, HbA online,
dot o, RG online dot or book. They always put
on great programs the Organic or Culture Benefits Alliance.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
That is.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
This week. I've got a lot of stuff to get
done out in the garden, and I know it's going
to be warm. I'll get my work done earlier in
the morning. But remember, as I tell you over and over,
it's the calendar that you need to look at, not
the thermometer. So just get out early in the morning,
get out late in the day, and get it done.
Because now is the time. We had a lot of
fall vegetables to get planted. If you've not planted broccoli

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and cabbage and cauliflying and coroabbie and collars and kale,
and let's see what else. So we're putting out there.
Charred can be planted now, Beets can be planning now,
turnups can be planning now. A lot of things that
can go in right now. As it cools off a
little bit, then we'll start looking more toward things like
spinach and lettuce, carrots like it to cool off a
little bit more before they're going to be happy. But

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there's lots of great vegetables and vegetables. They're fun to grow,
they're tasty. Your food will be fifteen hundred miles fresher
if you grow at yourself. And if you got kiddos, well,
they need to have the experience of growing their own
food for a number of reasons, one of which is
a lifetime of eating healthier. When kids grow vegetables, they're

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likely to eat the vegetables grew and a life habit
of that is amazing. One of my granddaughters and this
this has just always amazes me, but my daughter and
son in law I have raised their kids to eat
vegetables and it's just kind of a standard. You know,
they're not big sugar eaters. In fact, the kids don't
even really like sugar, which I think is what can

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a kid not like sugar? It's because they never eat
it all and they love vegetables. I was gonna take
We were going somewhere with one of my granddaughters in
and we were going to go to get a bite
to eat, and I thought, well, what would you like
to buy? What would you like to eat? I was thinking,
you know, I was going to hear fast food come out? No,
they can we get a salad? Are you kidding me?
What is wrong with you? It's not anything wrong, it's

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something right. And it's just you know, you you learned
your taste PUDs or trained, you learn stuff and things.
But I'm not saying, you know, advocating that you do
all that kind of thing, although it wouldn't be bad
for the kids. Good. But when you grow vegetables, you
eat vegetables. When you eat right, you are healthier. And

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our number one problem health wise in this country is
what we put in our mouth. That and lack of
exercise and gardening gives you both. Get the kids out there.
If you don't have you don't want to plow up
a big back forty That is no longer what a
garden has to be. That was the old days of gardening.
Now you can drop a box on the ground, fill

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it with good quality soil, blend mix, and grow in it.
It's as easy as that it is. Or a container.
How about one container something if you don't even want
to buy a container, get a five gallon bucket, droll
holes in the bottom, fill it full of a quality
putting soil, and grow some carrots or lettuce or kale
or broccoli or whatever you want to grow. It is
easy to do. So okay, that was my soapbox. That

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was my and it won't be the last one, by
the way. I always say it will be, but it
never is. But I just encourage you to do that.
If you are up in the Magnoia area, Spring Creek
Feed is our favorite feed store up there Spring Creek.
I love going to it. It's a gorgeous, beautiful building
out there on FM twenty nine, seventy eight and Magnolia.

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You walk out and it's amazing. You walk in and
it's like wow this I expected a bunch of sacks
of feed in front of the door when I walked in.
It's beautiful, all kinds of products. If you have a
garden or landscape, Spring Creek Feed has what you need.
They've got pesticides like insecticide, fungicide, they have the herbicides,
they've got organic, they've got synthetic. They even have some

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plants outside. And you know it when it comes to fertilizers,
you're going to find the things you need to have
a beautiful lawn there at Sprint Creek Feed too. Now,
of course they're a full feed store. They got quality feeds.
If you are a senior citizen or a military, there's
a discount. If you are a youth in FFA or
four eight raising animals, there's a discount. They do special

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orders there, and I can tell you this too. You
will be greeted by friendly, courteous staff that that is
they really specialize in that at Spring Creek Feed. Sore
again at Magnolia on I FM twenty nine seventy eight,
just a few minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway
to forty nine. We're going to head now to Spring,

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Texas and talk to Bonnie. Hello, Bonnie, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Yees I weed that I can't get rid of well,
I need something to put on. Okay, I looked it
up on your Google winds that you recommend. Well, you
said it was pretty good. It said it's naked stem
dew flower.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Whoa, I don't even know that one, Oh stem flower.
Describe the weed to me. Does it have a bloom
on it?

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Well, I've noticed it early in the morning. It's a tiny,
little green purple flower that they the least look a
light a lot like my Saint Augustine. And it grows
along the edges of the house and the fence and
the patio.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
And yeah, do you have a lot of it or
is it?

Speaker 7 (27:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Is it just in small patches or is there a
lot of it?

Speaker 6 (27:12):
It's a lot, and it is encroaching on the grass
a lot. I mean I let it go for a
long time.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
And so yeah, that's cold. That's cold. Well, it's called dovewed.
I think Google lens let you down on this one.
But it's doveweed, and you can control it small patches.
You can control it with a product that's a cinnamon
based product from Agrillon sprinkling. You get it wet and

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sprinkle the cinnamon product on it and it just turns
it black pretty quick. If you are looking at a
larger area, I would suggest you get a product called Celsius.
Like the temperature and it is very good against the doveweed,
and just you just have to spray it. Follow the
label very carefully. Since we're going to be up in
the mid nineties, I would do the Celsius spray early

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in the morning when it's the coolest temperature of the day,
and it will do the job for you. And you're
going to find Celsius a number of different places. You
know you're in the spring area. You got some ice
hardware stores near you, that would be a place where
I know you could find it up in your area.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
And just it's a spray or a granule.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
It is.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
It's a spray, it's a little it's a little packet,
So don't look for a bottle or a bag. It's
it's a we call them blister packets. It's like a
piece of cardboard with clear hard plastic over it and
inside is this little packet. So when you walk up
and that packet makes a gallon, and if you're just
going to spot spray at a gallon will cover the

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pretty large area.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
So is this going to be harmful to my dog
who likes to eat.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Grass well used as directed on the label. It's it's
not a concern. But if you, you know, if I
would spray it, I would let it fully dry on
the before you let Fido go out and play in
the grass. But in general you should be okay on that.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll try it.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Thank you all right, Yeah, thanks, Boma. Appreciate the calls
very much. Sure, good day. Yeah. I've never you know,
I've never paid attention to what all dogs eat. That
would be a good that'd be a good study. Maybe
the garden line listeners could do that for me. What
weeds and grasses and plants do your dogs eat? And
we'll just accumulate a long list and we'll learn a

(29:36):
lot from that. I know mine get this. They eat zenias.
They go to a flower my wife flower beds, and
they pass up all the plants and eat the zenias.
I don't know why, but anyway, hey, let's take a break.
I'll be right back. The phone number if you'd like
to give us a call seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I was in a wa

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bird story the other day looking at some of their
products because I love to do that. They have a
lot of quality products, and it just reminded me this
is hummingbird season and they have a ton of beautiful
humming bird feeders. At Wildbird's Unlimited, they have a ton
of any kind of bird feeder there. They have great
feed quality feed, feed that goes into a bird's stomach.

(30:20):
Now why would I say that. Of course, feed goes
into bird summit. Not really. You buy cheap bird feed
and those little red bebes get kicked off on the ground.
Birds don't that's not their favorite. They don't care for
that as much. And with wild birds, you get a
sack of feed and it goes into a bird stomach
if you don't want any mess at all. By mess,
I mean you know kicking bird seed on the ground,

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or the little sunflower holes. You know, if they crack
them open and get the seed, the holes fall down.
You can get their no mess blends where something like
sunflowers already shelled out, so it's all one hundred percent
into the stomach of the bird if you will, And
that way you get what you pay for, And I
think that makes sense. At Waburs now my favorite feeder
for the hummingbirds. By the way, they have is called

(31:03):
the high perch, and the reason I like it. Think
of it as a little bowl that the birds sit
on and you can see the birds all around it.
I've got some great, beautiful hummingbird feeders, but sometimes the
hummingbirds on the back side and I can't see them.
With a high perch, you can. It's just wash your
safe on the top shelf. It's really easy to do.

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And you know, when you really want to bring in hummingbirds,
you need more than one feeder, and you need to
space them out because those little boogers they are territorial
and they are just always fussing at each other and
chasing each other around. And with a high perch feeder
in more than one, you're able to really enjoy their antics,
and boy are they for fun. We've got to get
those little boggers fed and fueled up for the big

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flight across the Gulf of Mexico. So it's time to
do that now. On a hummingbird stuff. You know, the orioles,
Baltimore orioles have been coming through. They're on their way
through as well. And then we get into the wintertime
and we're taking care of our birds and a lot
of other things. Want things that the squirrels can't get into.
Wilbirds has got those. But mainly Wilbirds has the knowledge.

(32:06):
You walk in there, you ask questions and they know
what they're talking about, and they can help you have success.
You know, if you say, well, I've been having trouble
with filling the blank, they can help you fix that
problem and have success at Wilberds. All you have to
do is go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston.
There's six of them here in the greater Houston area.

(32:29):
You can go to Clear Lake, you can go to
Cyprus bel Air Boulevard down in Paarland to Kingwood and
then Memorial Drive. Those are six Wilbirds unlimited source. So
north south east west, they got you covered this week.
In the lawn, I'm gonna go ahead and get my
lawn fertilization done. I've been trying to get around it

(32:50):
to it and I just keep running around going to
see gardeners and give talks and stuff, and so it's
time for me to get that done. I always want
to them that when you're fertilizing, if especially if you
have a new fertilizer or a new fertilizer spreader. It's
kind of like, well, what do I set it on?
How do I know? You know, what is the best

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setting for me to have success? Well, a lot of
times on the bag it'll tell you. But inevitably you
got a bag and it lists all these spreaders, and
you're spreader in on the list, and so what do
you do? Well, if you're not sure, put the setting
a notch or two above halfway. So if there's twenty settings,
put it at eleven or twelve ten being halfway. If

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there's five settings, they're done three. That's probably about right.
That's the best guess. But what I generally do, and
I advise you to do this is to make sure
and do that go a little lighter on it the
first time. For example, if you go, let's just say
north south doing your spreading a fertilizer, but you only

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do half of it north south, you do the other
half east west, it helps create a more even spreading
of the fertilizer. You don't have the stripes as much
as if you accidentally do it wrong. Just go in
one way. It also by doing it half it avoids
if you overapply or underapply, you still have you know,

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you still have fertilizer there in the hopper where you
can go the other way and keep going. I have
fertilized before a number of years ago. I put fertilizer
on a spreader, figured out how much I needed, and
I took off across the yard. In about three fourths
of the way across the yard, I ran out a fertilizer.
It's like, oh, I misestimated how fast I needed to
put it out. But if you underestimate, you can always

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go back the other way and finish the job. And
it just makes it a little leisure and avoids that
striping of the lawn. But there's a little tip there
on the fertilizer. But whatever you do, get a fall
fertilizer for fall one that is designed to help the
plants go into winter. And basically what that means is
drop the nitrogen down. We're not going to push them
with growth nitrogen anymore for this fall, but have some

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nitrogen and then push that last number, the third number up,
that's potassium. Because potassium and nitrogen going into a plant
at the right ratio that helps build winter hardiness. It
helps produce the carbohydrates which amount to anafreeze and the plant.
Someone was asking me, you know, how can you say

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you know carbohydrates or ana freeze. Well, here, think of
it this way. Carbohydrates sugars are carbohydrate. And if you
make popsicles, you've ever made homemade popsicles, and you notice
how the bot when they're frozen, the bottom is like water,
and then up at the top is real sticky sugary
stuff that didn't quite freeze even in the freezer, and
that is because it's concentrated up there. The more sugar

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you have, the more carbohydrates you have in the water
in a plant, the more cold, hardy it can be,
and of course then you've got the fuel to come
out in spring. I was visiting with the folks at
RCW a while back about some of the trees and stuff.
You know, they grow their own trees, and they have
got an outstanding sale on plants, and you need to

(36:07):
go check this out. RCW has their shrubs twenty percent
off right now. Shrubs, and that includes one of one
shrub I don't talk about much. Is gold Dust a Cuba.
It's an evergreen. It's got big broad green leaves, the
gold spots on them. It's reattractive, it's cold hearty in
our area, and it grows in shade, shrub in shade.

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That's not a long list of plants, but gold dust
to Cuba does well. They also have their trees fifteen
percent off and they have the best trees. They've got
the varieties that you know you need to plant here.
If you want to something small you can plant like
a seven gallon, they got it. If you want to
go up to two hundred gallons, they got it, and
they will plant it for you as well. They know
how to do it, and then they have the supplies

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you need, the root stimulator and things to help that
tree get off to a good start and have success.
So RCW it's just the place to go. And now,
of course they've got great fall decorations. It's always our
go to place. When you're looking for the largest list
of roses in town, that would be RCW Nurseries. And

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we're gonna be talking about that a lot. When we
get past the first of the year. People think of
February as rose planting and printing. Well, let me tell
you this, so is the fall. The fall is an
excellent time to plant roses. The fall is that the
best time, hands down to plant shrubs, woody ornamentals like
woody vines, woody woody tree. Of course, trees are woody

(37:34):
and it just gives them all winter to get those
roots established so they're ready for spring. We were talking
about that just the other day, and so I encourage
you to get that job done. There is not a
better time. And if URCW is going to give you
a discount like that, why don't I just go get
them and get them in the ground. It's a win
win win for you, that is for sure. So just

(37:56):
keep that in mind. We're about to hit the end
of our hour here. When we come back, Keith, you'll
be our first biding here the music beginning. I want
to remind you that next Saturday, I'm going to be
at Buchanan's Native Plants and they are having one Hack
of ash in Bog out there. I'm going to tell
you about it as we go through the day to day.

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But they're going to have all kinds of activities for
kids and stuff. We're going to be doing some really
good giveaways out there. I'll be there to answer your
gardening questions and Buchanan's is on Eleventh Street and the Heights,
right in the big middle of this north of downtown Houston.
It is a wonderful place to go visit. And I'll
tell you this. When they throw a party, it's a

(38:37):
good one, and they are they are throwing. There's even
a band called Yopon. Is that a good name for
a Southeast Texas band? Yopon? Of course it is. I
guess it's better than Chinese talos. Another point, all too
familiar round. All right, we'll be there, so make plans
for next Saturday. I'll be there from twelve noons to

(38:57):
two three m and I'll be right back in just
a moment.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skimp Richard.

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It's just watch him as many things to see, Baty.

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Hey, good morning, Good morning on a Sunday morning. Glad
you're with us today on garden Line. I'm your host, Skiprector.
We're here to answer your gardening question, simple as that.
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place to look good. We want our place to produce
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Landscapes are basically a reflection of what we see indoors.
You know, indoors, you've got carpet or hardwood or stone
or whatever kinds of floors. You've got walls, and you've

(40:22):
got ceilings. And when you go outside, the carpet is
the grass your lawn. It is the groundcovers and the
walls or shrubs, they could be vines, and the ceilings
are certainly trees, and they could be arbors and other
things like that with plants. So we have wall, ceilings
and floors outside just like we do inside, and as
we begin to build our landscape, we can create a really,

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lens and we are going to talk to Keith this morning.
Hello Keith, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (42:12):
Good morning.

Speaker 10 (42:12):
I'm certainly glad to be here. It's my first call
I have. Oh good, I have a Japanese maple tree
that appears to be infested in the trunk area near
the base. I sent you two photographs. It's a little,
very small, little black bug. The lack of a knowledge
or a better word, it appears to be a mite

(42:34):
of some kind that's infesting this tree. I need to
need to identify it and figure out how to deal
with it.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Okay, And you said there were two photos in it, Yes,
in your email? Okay, yes, Oh, I don't see mites,
but I see splits in the trunk. Do I have
the right emi? That is correct? Yes? When you look
really really sick, very fall Okay. Well, I don't doubt

(43:04):
that there's some critters crawling around. Let me ask you
a question. Is that a damage on the southwest side
of the tree, north and south, north and south? Okay?
Something has has physically damaged the bark and it looks
like a canker type disease has gotten into it. Pretty soon.

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That outer bark is going to be flaking off. It'll
just pull loose if it had and already. But the
bottom line is you don't have a spray or anything
you do for a canker. You just need to get
the tree healthy. So what I would do is I
would if you can create a moultched area around the
base of that tree that keeps the lawnmower and the

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weed eater from bumping the bottom of the bark. That
may have been how this got all got started. I
don't know, but anyway, create a moltched area around the
tree as wide as you can stand to look at,
and then as far as the loose bark if you
if it comes loose, pull it off, open it up
with some vigor which means water during the hot, dry

(44:05):
summer season, and fertilizer periodically to encourage vigor. That tree
will close that area over with callous from the sides.
And I already see in one of the photos where
it's beginning to do that. But that's the best way
to get rid of a problem like that, and I
get that tree back in good health again.

Speaker 10 (44:26):
Okays, as far as a fertilizer is concerned, what do
you recommend.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
There are a number of different ones. Nitrofoss makes a
tree fertilizer that you can find in canisters and a
lot of your local garden stores and things. I haven't
shopped up in the woodlands closely for it. I know
you've got some ace hardware stores that you can you
can call on, uh and that that's a good thing.
There's there's one, oh gosh, it's over there on Kirkandaal

(44:54):
It's called Auspa Ace up in the woodlands. Go there.
They may have a nitroposs. They may have one in
Nelson's tree fertilizers too there and then Microlife also has
a fertilizer designed for trees. But any of those, get
them on the ground, follow the labels, get a good
mulch around it. Japanese maples want to live in the woods,

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and so when we put them in the middle of
the meadow, which is called our lawn, they're not as
happy as they are when they're surrounded by decomposing organic
matter like nature does in the woods. So try to
recreate that for it with a little fertilizer water again
during summer when it's dry, and I think they'll be okay, okay, wonderful.

(45:36):
Thank you. So much. All right, you bet good luck
with that, good luck without that one. Yeah, boy, photos help.
I'm telling you guys, if you're going to give us
a call and you want to call him, get email
us in a photo, that's fine. Just remember. I just
always have to remind of this because there's kind of
an expectation. If someone emails you, they think you're going
to answer, they expect you to. If my situation, I

(46:02):
just time wise am not able to listen. There's a
lot of folks already that are requesting things, and a
lot of projects and things going on with the show,
and I just there's a deluge of emails and I'm
just not able to just answer all of them, and
plus a lot of them require back and forth and
photos and things. So if you just can semi photo

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give us a call, we'll be happy to do it.
By the way, KEITHA, if you're still listening, it's interesting
on one of your photos up at the top right
on the trunk, there's a tiny little hair sticking out
with a white glob on the end. That's a lacewing egg.
Just noticed that in the photo. Lace wings lay their
beneficial insects they eat aphids and other things, but the

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larva do. But they lay eggs by creating this silken strand.
It's a quarter inch long, maybe maybe a little longer,
and there's a white glob on the end that's the egg.
And that way, when things are running along the surf
of the plant that would eat their eggs, they don't
see them because they're up there in the trees, if
you will, trees being that strand, so got a beneficial

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inset going on. There's something good is happening on that plant.
You're listening to Garden Line our phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Listen out
in Kingwood you have two great garden centers, worn Southern
Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. And they've got their fall

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veggies and stock all the things I was talking about
while ago, trying to talk you in to growing vegetables
this fall, even if it's just in a container, hopefully
a full garden bed. But even if it's in a container,
they're pumpkin patches open. And I saw numerous varieties of
pumpkins out there. I mean, all your decorating needs. You know,
they've got the whole nine yards for fall decorating. Many

(47:51):
of their trees are thirty percent off. And then they
also have a sale on the turf Star carbo load,
the micro Life sixty four, Microlife, brown Patch, Microlife' small Fermilizer,
Sweet Green from Nitrovas, nitrovos is Fall Special, and Asimite
are all on sale. But here's the deal you need
to remember at Warren Southern Gardens. Tell them Skip sent

(48:13):
you and you if you spend one hundred dollars or more,
you get twenty bucks off. That's a huge discount on
your purchase. Tell them Skip sent you. Warn Southern Gardens
out there in Kingwood. Time for a break. I'll be
right back. Looked outside a minute ago. Got a little
light coming up, and boy, it's gonna be a good day.
We got some good days in fall, and I'm telling you,
cool weather is arriving. It will get here. I know,

(48:36):
it's like, come on, man, get over with well. If
you're new to this area, if you're new to Texas,
just to remember, we have things called false falls first.
That means the colfront comes through. We get some cool airs,
like eh, summer's over and then summer comes back, and
that's just the way it is. It's okay, it is okay.
We will get our cool weather. It'll get here. But

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now's the time to do the things you're supposed to
do now, because you should look at the calendar, not
the thermometer when you're planning your garden and doing your
garden activities. Work early in the day, take care of yourself,
you know, don't overdo it. I get all that, but
right now, fall planting of vegetables right now, fall flowers,
lots of things that can go in right now. There

(49:17):
is a ton of stuff that we need to do
right now now. If you go to my website gardening
with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll
find the schedules for your lawn, both lawn care schedules
and the lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule. You'll
find information on weed control that's very helpful. And we

(49:38):
are planning a bunch of new things. So bookmark Gardening
with Skip dot Com so you can keep coming back there,
and all of our gardenline kinds of information that we
talk about here are going to be available as we
build it out further. And further, we're going to now
go out to the woodlands and talk to Mike.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Hello, Mike, Hey you, good morning, Skip. I just moved
into a new home that's been vacant for some time,
and I found out that they planted a hybrid bermuda
called tiff Turf or tiff Tough. I'm sorry, tiff Tough. Okay,
I'm wondering what you may know about that grass.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Well, it is a hybrid bermuda, and it does just fine.
It's a semi dwarf, and by semi dwarf, you know,
it's not real tall, like a cattle pasture type of bermuda.
But it's also not a golf course green bermuda. It's
kind of in between. So we see it on golf
course fairways, we see it on plate playing fields, you know,
football fields, those kinds of things. But it's a good one.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Yeah, they said it's pretty. It's pretty grout tolerant, so
that's good. I was getting ready to well thinking about
in the fall doing a compost top dressing with the aeration.
There's a lot of thatch in the grass. I'm just wondering, go,

(51:03):
I need to remove that thatch before I put down
the compost or just let it.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
It'll get to the surf. Yeah, it'll get to the
surface a little bit better. The shorter your mobile muta,
the denter it is, and the more difficult with a
real dent. Like if you put compost on top of
a golf green, to use an extreme example, it couldn't
get through the thick tough you know, turf to get
into the soil level.

Speaker 6 (51:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
And so as you mowgrass a little bit higher, it's
a little looser and stuff can move down in there. Uh.
As far as that is concerned, you can use you
know de thatching types of equipment or what they call
verdict cutting, a vertical cutter. It's a machine that cuts
vertical slices every few inches you know, across to get

(51:49):
a lot of that thatch out and then you can
rake it out and mold the lawn again, real nice
and it gets better that way. You can do that. Uh,
if it's not too dense, Yeah, go ahead and do
the the corporation and compos stop dressing. Remember, the main
thing bermuda needs is lots of sunlight and frequent mowing

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to look its best. Those are the two things that
are the biggest factors with a nice bermuta one.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
Yeah, there's a few neighbors that have the same type
of grass and they have got theirs up really high.
It's like two inches or almost three inches thick. If
you look at it from the curb, it just sticks
up real high and it looks great. But this hadn't
been taken care of, probably for over a year and
a half.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Yeah. Well, and you know, the higher you mow, the
less often you have to mow. And it's not a
huge difference, but it's a little difference because we try
to cut about a third of the leaf blade off
when we mow, and with bermuda, if you let it
get real tall and then mow it way back, you're
cutting all the green that's up on top off and
it looks real brown and twiggy. You know, it's not

(52:59):
very attractive, but it will get attractive again. But you
go through ugly periods with an infrequent mowing schedule, and
so mowing more often is a little bit better, and
you don't have to mow twice a week, so you know,
you about ever seven days is fine. If you set
it a little higher, I think that would you say,
three inches that sounds a little high for bermuda. I

(53:21):
would say two two and a half would be a
real good height for the tiff toff and all the tiff.
There's several tiff type bermudas.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Yeah, okay, all right. There's also a lot of weeds
in the grass, especially crabgrass. Is what can I use
to spot treat the crab grass.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
So if you have true crabgrass, don't worry about it.
Just keep mowing now it's going to go away with
the cold weather. You can't kill crabgrass and not kill
the bermuda. Next spring, you need to put a pre
emergent herbicide containing the barricade out and then water it
in real well because crabgrass starts germinating pretty early. And
if you go to my schedule online at gardeningwith Skip

(54:07):
dot com, you'll see exactly when to apply the pre
emergence in the spring. And there's also a list of
products for all your lawn care on both of those
schedule launch schedules.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
Okay, okay, very good, all right, Okay, well, thank you
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Well, yeah, you take care, good to talk to you.
Appreciate your call. Uh, you know, we still have some
mosquitoes around this warm weather. They're like hanging out and
having fun. They haven't flown south for winter yet, not
that they do, but I'd like to think they would anyway.
Mosquito dunks, what do they? Well, Mosquito dunks are a
disease of mosquitoes. They're a little donuts. There's also a

(54:46):
granular formulation that you can use if you just want
to use a little bit here and there. But you
put them anywhere stagnant water is. It could be a
little place in the backyard that doesn't drain well and
this is kind of a puddle all the time. It
could be sagging utter. It could be you know those
little containers underneath your pots at whole water. That's where
the granules help. By the way, if you have a

(55:06):
donut type dunk, you can take a hammer and break
it up into little granules and do that yourself. That
works fine, last about a month a doughnut does. And
the mosquitoes, they the larva get in that water with
the dunks, and it's a disease that kills them. They
never become adults. It will not hurt birds or pets
or beneficial insects or anything else. That drinks from that water.

(55:30):
It is a disease of mosquito's very specific and that
makes it very helpful, organic type natural product, very very
very low toxicity, and very very very effective. Mosquita dunks.
You can find them at almost all our independent garden centers.
You're can find them at feed stores. You're gonna find
them in these hardware stores. It's Southwest Fertilizer, all those

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kind of places. It's not hard to find mosquita dunks.
When you go shopping at a place you hear me
talk about the mosquito dunks. There are more chances than not,
but that's the easy way to get rid of them
without you know, toxifying the water. So around the place
that you have speaking of things that you're going to

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find at all these places ace Southwest Fertilizer, feed stores
and garden center, it seems like azemite is just available everywhere,
and asmite is that micronutrient supplement. So when we fertilize,
we're putting out the big three numbers nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium
on every bag of fertilizer. Those are the three numbers.

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Sometimes you get a fourth number, like sulfur or magnesium
or something. But in general, those are the three numbers.
You're not going to see the ingredients in asmite on
a fertilizer label because they're trace minerals. They're trace minerals,
like the numbers on the bag don't include the trace
minerals as might contains trace minerals about once a year
put it out. You get the minerals in the soil

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bank account. So as that grass grows, as you fur
and encourage the grass to take off and grow, those
trace minerals are going to be needed and they're there
for the roots to take up. That's why I call
it a bank account. That is what fertilizing is. And
asmites widely available as I said, and it works. You
can go to azemite Texas dot com if you want
more information on it. But that's kind of the bottom line.

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I was talking to the folks down in Wharton yesterday
at the Ace Hardware store and we were discussing the
idea of nutrients and one oversimplified perhaps way of looking
at it is nitrogen pushes new growth. It is the
fuel to make that plant vigorous and get it going.
But when a plant gets going, it needs nutrients to

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go with it. And so when you fertilize, instead of
thinking of it as feeding your plant, think of it
as building the soil bank account. So the plant can
draw exactly the nutrients it needs because all the important
ones are there, all the essential ones are there. It
can draw those nutrients to build plant parts, runners and

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leaves and flowers and fruit and everything else. It's got
what it needs. And so it's like if you went
to the store and you want to buy something, well,
you would have to go to your bank account right
to get the money unless you're carrying cash with you.
And that's kind of how the soil is. And as
we fertilize, that's what we're doing now. Again, Nitrogen, a
volatile nutrient, comes and goes. We're always adding it in

(58:29):
small amounts, but the other nutrients. Think of a more
of as a bank account building. And that I think
that mindset will kind of help you understand. Because plants
produce their food and their leaves, the carbohydrates and other
products produced in the plant or plant food. Okay, that's
that is the food for the plant. But you can't

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make plant food without three things. You need sunlight, you
need water, and you need the nutrients and you put
all those together, and the leaves, the leaf are food
factories for the plant that turn it out. So build
your bank account and the soil. Think of fertilizing as
building the soil bank account. And the better that bank

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account is, the more things can flow because there's nothing
holding it back. There's nitrogen that is encouraging new vigorous growth,
and there's every nutrient you need to build cell walls
in every other part of that plant. Okay, Hope, that helped, Hope,
That made a little bit of sense. You heard me
talk about Star of Hope a lot here on guard Line,
and I just wanted to say that, you know, Star

(59:34):
of Hope has been around for a long time. For
two dollars and eighty five cents, you can feed somebody.
They feed over six thousand meals a week. They provide
six thousand meals a week. How many meals will you provide?
Would you join? My wife and I we've been supporting
for Star of Hope for a long time, go back
decades to when first began to volunteer there. I know

(59:55):
the place I've been in the place, I believe in
the place, and I can tell you this as you
give away your hard earned dollars, and I know with
a compassionate heart you do. I cannot think of a
better place than Starve Hope to do that. Go to
shmission dot org and put your compassion to work at
Starve Hope. We take a break, I'll be right back.

(01:00:18):
Welcome back to Gardenline. Good have you with us. We
got things to talk about today. You know, I've been
planning to do some renovations in the backyard. I've got
a bed that I have been working on for a while,
but I just keep getting sidetracked and don't get around
to it. Well, I'm going to practice what I preach
Paul is planting season. I'm not putting it off any longer.

(01:00:39):
I've already begun to work things into the soil and
I'm doing a number of different things back there. We've
got a little bit of expanded shale that's going in
because it is a heavy clay in that area. I've
got some organic materials that I've been putting in a
really a real quality mix from a nature's way, by
the way, and just just getting that soil up to shape,

(01:01:02):
you know, getting it in the condition that we need
it to be in order to have success. Have you
ever done that kind of thing to your gardening beds?
If you do, you're going to see the results that
we want to see. And you know, Nature's Way Resources
is an excellent source of things like that. They kind
of were the originator of a lot of the special

(01:01:24):
soil products we talk about here on Garden Line and
have talked about for years, things like roast soil was
born in Nature's Way, Leithmo compos born in Nature's Way.
See what I'm talking about. They have all kinds of
bed mixes that are high quality. They're very ack. I've
used myself. I've found them to just be like rocket

(01:01:46):
fuel really for the plants. They're having their Friday Fungal
Friday sale, still going on, still going on, And what
does that mean. That means on Fridays twenty percent off
their fungal compost, fungo based compost. That is a high
quality thing. You can use it for top dressing your launch,
you can mix it into beds. It's just good. Wherever

(01:02:08):
you want to use fungo compost, it's good for that.
It works well for that. I want to remind you too.
The big shindig at Nature's Way Resources. The Fall Festival
is coming up October twelfth. October twelfth, they're going to
have plant sales, They're going to have local vendors, live music, children,
activities of some Latin food. It basically fun hours, I

(01:02:31):
like to say, basically a shindig. I'll be there from
by the way. The event itself is from nine to
two on Saturday, October twelfth. I'll be there from eleven
thirty to one, kind of in the middle of that
over the noon hour time, actually two hours, and I'll
be answering your gardening questions. So come on out, bring
me samples. We'll talk about that more as we go forward.

(01:02:52):
But when you're thinking about Nature's Way, there's not a
better time than now to get the products and to
have success. And that's what they say. You up for
brown stuff before green stuff. Good night. How many times
have I said that. I'm going to keep saying it
because it is the key to good success with your plants.
You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is

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seven one three two one two KTRH. We've had a
little lull in the calls here, so if you'd like
to get in not have to wait as long as
you're the first few of call that. Now, wou'd be
a good time to do that, no weight right away?

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
I love Medina products. Medina has so many good products.
And if you're gonna do fault planting, there are a
number of Medina products that are excellent for transplanting. They
just help the plants. I want to suggest a combo
of two. As you put in a plant, water them
in with these two things. One has to grow six

(01:03:49):
twelve six. That's a high phosphorus compound. It's got nitrogen
potassium in it as well. That helps stimulate the root growth. Now,
it also contains Medina soile active to stimulate biological activity.
It's got humate humic acid a little bit of that
in it as well, and I would also just add
some more of the hum humic acid. That's another product

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that can be used for transplanting. Basically, it's concentrated compost
in a bottle. It is a liquid product that you
here's how you use any of these liquid Medinas. You
can mix them in a sprayer and spram on foliage.
They're not going to burn planting fold your feed. What
I'm talking about here is putting them in a watering
can and after you've watered to drenched that plant two

(01:04:32):
or three times, because it takes a while to soak
things down, soak it down into the root ball very
very well and you're going to have success. I like
that combo of has to grow six to twelve six
and the humatee humic acid. Even though that's a little
extra humate, it just helps stimulate the root growth. And
when you put a new plant in, you want to
stimulate the root growth. That first job of that plant

(01:04:53):
while it sits there for a while deciding if it's
going to grow or not, is to stimulate the roots
and encourage good, good root development because the roots are
the key to the success plants. I like to say
that plants live in their roots in that as the
root system goes, as the soil quality is, that is

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the bar. That's the level of success that you can
have with your plants, and you want that to be
at the top level. We're going to go out to
Houston now and talk to Shnnon this morning. Good morning,
shann and welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:05:29):
Good morning, Thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Yes, I have a question about.

Speaker 11 (01:05:35):
Peggy Martin roses. I've got a beautiful plant, but it's
not blooming. It hasn't blue since I've had it, and
it's climbing up the trailer. It looks fairly healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Okay, when did you plant it?

Speaker 11 (01:05:55):
Oh, probably three or four months ago and it's been
a container.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Okay, all right, Well, Peggy Martin is primarily a spring bloomer.
That's when it puts on its biggest show. So I
think you're okay. Is the area lots of sun?

Speaker 11 (01:06:13):
Lots of sun?

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Yes? Good. So the last thing I want you to
do is, as you're putting it on the trellis, as
much as you can weave the canes horizontally back and forth.
Do that. Roses climbing roses in general, they're going to grow,
they'll go straight up the trellis. But as you move
it horizontal, you get more bloom bud production as it

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sets buds for next year, which it's been doing for
a little while now. But is you got that new growth,
you know, kind of go back and forth a little
bit because late summer and really fall is when the
bloom buds get set and you're going to see a real,
real nice bloom next spring. On your Peggy Martins.

Speaker 11 (01:06:58):
Okay, question is do I have to worry about the
soil being alkaline or a stick as far as adding
maybe ebbs and salts or something to the soil, and
is there a way that tests.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Yes. There were three questions in one, so let's do this.
The soil be an alkaline or acidic. Roses are pretty forgiving.
They would prefer not to be too high pH, but
they're pretty forgiving. If you start to see the new
growth getting kind of a yellow or bleachy white look
to it, that means the high pH is creating an

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iron deficiency, and you can respond by applying iron. But
anything you do to bring the soil pH down. Do
you have a particular fertilizer that you use on your
roses or plants.

Speaker 11 (01:07:51):
It's just called rose fertilizer for roses.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
Okay, got it.

Speaker 11 (01:07:55):
I got it from a hardware and it's just called rose.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Okay, Well, that's fine. Anything that they have there too,
that helps acidify the soil slowly over time would be
a good idea for your roses. If you feel like
the pH maybe a little on the high side. So
things that you would put on azilias and camellias and
blueberries and things would all be examples of that. Hey,
Peggy or excuse me, Shannon, would you hang on just

(01:08:21):
a second. I'm gonna have to take a break and
I'd like to come back and finish answering that question.
All right, we'll be right back back the garden line.
Good to have you with us. We were in a
conversation when we went to break with Shannon in Houston
and we were talking about Peggy Martin Roses. Let's see, Shannon,
you had several questions in one and I think you
may have to help me here. We talked about, you know,

(01:08:42):
how to get them to bloom in what time of
year they bloom? What would the other parts of your
question again?

Speaker 11 (01:08:48):
What is there a way to test soil?

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
Yes, you go to soil Testing dot t a m
U e ed U soil Testing dot TAMOUD dot ed U.
If you go to my lawn care schedule on at
Gardening with skip dot com at the bottom is a
direct link to the soil testing form that you use.

(01:09:15):
And you want to use the Urban soil test when
you test. Okay, if you're growing, if you're doing horticulture,
the lawns trees, shrubs, binds, herbs, vegetables, flowers, that's horticulture.
You use the urban soil test form.

Speaker 11 (01:09:30):
Okay, that would work also for like high ranges to
test the soil.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Yeah, okay, everything but pastures and farms.

Speaker 12 (01:09:40):
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 11 (01:09:42):
Okay, Well answer my question. Thank you so much. Okay,
all yeah, I think I thank you. I think you
covered everything. And what about one more? What about freezing?
What about the cold weather in Houston in the winter time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Peggy Martin can handle it, don't worry about it.

Speaker 8 (01:10:01):
Okay, okay, Well, I'm gonna do what you suggested and
hopefully we'll have some blooms in the spring.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
All right, send me pictures when you do. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:10:12):
I appreciate your health.

Speaker 13 (01:10:14):
Thank you, Bye bye you bet bye bye.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
I was talking about the importance of soil. And you
know Ciena Mulch is south of Houston. They're down in
the Siena area, just oh what north of Roach Sharon
near Highway six and two eighty eight intersection. They're on
FM five twenty one. You can go to Cienamultch dot com.
That's the website Ciena Maltz dot com. When you go

(01:10:38):
to Ciana Malt. You get quality materials and you get
everything you need to set your plants up for success.
Brown stuff before green stuff is my mantra. And Sienna
Maulch has all the brown stuff. They've got the composts,
they've got the soil blends like for example, they carry
Landscaper's Pride, like Velvet malt. They've got heirloom soils, veggie
and herbs and many other high quality materials. They've got

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mulches for you. And they have every fertilizer I talk
about on garden Line. All the brands of fertilizer that
you might want to use, organic and synthetic are available
there at Ciena Molts. So when you go home from there,
you've got everything you need to create the setting for
success with whatever you're going to plant. Cienamlt dot Com
is the website. Check them out. They're closed on Sunday,

(01:11:23):
but they're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five
and Saturday seven thirty to two. We're going to go
now back to the phones and talk to Matt in Houston. Hello, Matt.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
Skip, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Hibe Will?

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
I live in Hempstead, Texas, and I was calling to
ask you what what kind of weed killer is good
to use to kill weeds that are popping up in
your lawn but will not kill your lawn.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
It depends on the weed matt. If you know, there's
grassy weeds and there's broad leaf weeds, and then we
have two approaches. One is to put a pre emergent
down so the seeds never are able to come up
from the weeds. Second is to kill weeds that are
already growing now. If you've got growing weeds right now,
if they're perennial weeds, you can spram and kill them

(01:12:16):
with a post emergent broad leaf weed killer. We have
some types of that. If you are dealing with the
summer weeds, they're going to die when it gets cold,
and so controlling them at this point is kind of
it's a little late to try to do that. Now

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is when we put on a pre emergent for cool
season weeds, and barricade is the product for that, and
it will not hurt your your lawn if you use
it as directed. You always want to follow the label
on anything, but especially on a weed killer. You want
to follow the label and you put it down, you
water it in with the bottom. I've inch of water

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somewhere in there is fine and get that in the
soil surface and then all the cool season weeds like
clover is an example of that, and many others, they
don't germinate, and in spring you're not dealing with them
because you prevented them. Once weeds are growing, then it
depends on the weed, and it depends on your type
of turf grass as to what I could recommend to
control an existing weed. So I'd need to see some

(01:13:20):
pictures or have a name of a weed to be
able to prescribe the proper product.

Speaker 5 (01:13:26):
All right, So I mean, and I don't know if
I'm going to losing battle here, but I live right
next to an easement, which is which nothing is owing.
So I'm thinking that's what's causing the weeds to come
over into my lawn is from that Eastman because it's
all weeds.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
Okay, yeah, it could be. But you know, the denser
you make your lawn, the more you mow, water and
fertilize it and get it really dense, those weed seeds
can't come up because they can't get sunlight in that
dense lawn. As your lawn gets a little drowdy, a
little thin doesn't do so good, then weeds are going
to come in even more.

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
All right, So just mean water more.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Water, mow regularly, and fertilize adequately. That all buildscity. Yeah,
and gardening with skip dot. Go to gardening with skip
dot com my website Gardening with skip and look at
the two schedules. You can print them up. And they
got a lot of information on them about taking care
of and making a better lawn.

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
All right. I just had I just had one more question.
I was told, if you overwater you're prone to fungus.

Speaker 4 (01:14:38):
Is that true?

Speaker 14 (01:14:41):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
If you water really frequently, you it can increase disease problems. Yes, yes, okay,
but mostels that I'm telling you about, they tell you
exactly how much the water to put on each month
of the year so that they all right, thank you
on yours. Yes, I gotta do that. You bet you

(01:15:04):
take care, hope you hope you enjoyed that. Buginnan's Native
Plants is having their fall fest coming up, and guess
what I'm going to be there. I'm really looking forward
to going because they always put on a good show.
It began as native plants, you know, Beginner's Native Plants
has all kinds of great plants for you, absolutely awesome
plants for you. And when I go to Buginnons, I'm

(01:15:28):
always amazed at things they have that I didn't even
know they carried, because they always have some new stuff
coming on. Don't forget that Fall festival though. It is
going to be from let's see, it's on October fifth,
next weekend, from ten am to three pm. I'll be
there from twelve to two two hours from noon to
two there we be giveing away one hundred dollars gift

(01:15:50):
card and you got to register to winchy I show
up and do that. Hang around a bit. Microfe brown
patch will be given away there. They're gonna have pumpkin painting,
Halloween mass coloring station, hay rides, kids games like ring Toss,
pumpkin Toss or bembag Toss and pumpkin Toss, scavenger hunt.
There's live music from a bank called Jopah, which I
love that name. Kids craft, moon Bounce, food, coffee, beer,

(01:16:12):
wine and more. Good night, make your way over there
next Saturday. Put it on counter a big circle right now.
If buchan as Native Plants eleven Street in the heights.
I'll be there from twelve to two and I hope,
I definitely hope that you can make it. Let's see here,
I'm short on time to take a call, so Catherine,
so that I can give you adequate time, I'll be

(01:16:34):
taking you first when we come right back from break.
I did want to mention one more time a reminder
that the nitroposs three step is fertilizer, the fall special barricade.
I was just talking about that on the collar that
is the pre emergent herbicide and Eagle turf, which is
a fung a side. All three. You're going to get

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those at D and D Feed and tom Maaul Plantation,
Ace Hardware and Richmond Hiding and Feed all of around.
Stubner Airline carries them as well. You want to do
all three this fall one two three Fall Special fertilizer
designed for fall barricade to stop the cool season weeds
which are sprouting soon, and nitro foss Eagle turf to
shut down brown patch and take off before they get started.

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Got to give them a head of coup, follow my
schedule on all three of those. They are on the schedule,
follow it. Timing is critical if you're going to prevent weeds,
Timing is critical. If you're going to prevent brown patch,
Don't wait till the weeds are up. Don't wait till
the brown pat surfers are there. You've got to get
ahead of them. Why night us put that together three

(01:17:40):
step schedule. I just again want to thank the folks
at weren't Ace really had a good time. Richard and
Sarah Lockley down there have an awesome store. You have
to go see it. If you haven't been down there,
I don't want to remind you. The inaugural fig Toberfest
in Brazoria County is next weekend down and Ingleton on

(01:18:01):
Enchanted Oaks Drive from eight to one. They're gonna have
some awesome speakers. For more information, contact Kimberly Mayer at
the Bassouri County Office at ninety seven nine eight six
four fifteen fifty eight.

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Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Alrighty, alrighty, let's do this. You're listening to garden Line.
We are starting our eight o'clock hour, eight to nine,
third hour of the day, and we're here for your
gardening questions. Seven one seven one three two one two
k t r H seven one three two one two
k t r H. And we're gonna run right out
to bel air and talk to Catherine to start off

(01:21:01):
this hour. Welcome to gardener and Catherine.

Speaker 9 (01:21:04):
Hi Skiff, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
So I'm calling so I have a lot of boxwoods
in my landscaping. I've had them for years and they
start getting an issue where part of the plant will
turn a very pale yellowish white. It'll be one branch

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and it will spread the other branches and then I'm
ripping the plant out, putting a new one in, and
then it pops up somewhere else. So this has been
going on for a while. So my question is, I mean,
I've been told before that it's fungled, but my question is,
is this fungle? Is it something inevitable or is there
a way I can treat it and prevent it from

(01:21:48):
coming back and when I put in new ones that
it won't recur with the new ones.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
Yes, that's a good question. The best thing you can do,
and this is a little trouble, a little bit of expense,
but if you can take a plant that is declining
in that hedge, and by the way, I got those pictures,
that's those great shots. If you take it declining and
it's like okay, this one, I'm about to lose it.
Don't wait until it's dead, but while it's sick. But

(01:22:16):
it's like, okay, I'm not going to say I know
this and what's going to happen. Take it, pull it up,
shake the soil off the roots, try to get as
much of the roots as you can, and then send
it to the plant clinic at anm. What they'll do
is they will culture out the fungus, look at it
under a microscope, culture dot in a petri dish, and

(01:22:37):
do a true plant clinic analysis and determine exactly what
is causing it. So that's the best approach, and then
they tell you what to do about it. If they
see it, they may find nematodes on the roots, they
may find a canker type disease on the branches, or
they may just see splits from pole damage or physical
damage or something else. But they'll be able to tell

(01:22:57):
exactly what's doing it. Now. To do that, the website
is really easy. It's Plant Clinic dot t a Mu
dot edu. Plant Clinic one word at TAMU dot edu.
And when you get there, there's a form you fill out.
Just follow the instructions and that is the real way. See,

(01:23:19):
you've got a lot of boxwoods in these hedges, and
so if you're losing them one and one at a
time and stuff, it's worth gwinn and paying a diagnostic
fee to get that get that analyzed. I can give
you things to look at, like follow the dead branches
down to where they join branches that end up having
green on them, and in that intersection there, look for

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splits in the bark, look for holes in the bark,
like a little something mate tunnel into the bark or something.
Just look for all of that and see what you find,
and then we take it from there based on what
you find. But chances are this because of your description,
it could be an above ground canker type disease. But

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it also could be something going on in the roots.
And the more the root system you lose, the more
of the top goes out, not to a large degree,
each root is you could follow the tube all the
way up to us a top part on the plant, okay,
And so as you lose a section of roots, there's

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gonna be a section of top that dies as a
result of that. So that's why I'm saying it could
be above ground, could be below ground. One other thing
you can do is if you've got a plant that's
looking really bad, take a very sharp knife and slice
vertically down through that branch tissue that's not dead, but

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it's dying. And if under the bark, instead of being
creamy white or green, under the bark, you see streaks
of kind of a brown and gray. The way I
describe it as it looks like one of those nicotine
stained cigarette filters. You know, it's got that staining on
the inside. Uh, then that's a sign of a vascular

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root disease for that particular symptom. So those are some
tips on things you can look for. But I think
if I were you, I would go ahead and send
the plant. You can box it up personally. I would
just drive it up there and get a good fresh
plant to them. Get to them on a Monday. If
you're going to mail it, go ahead and mail it
on maybe a Friday or Saturday, so when they come

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in it's fresh and ready to go. It hadn't you know,
if you mailed it on a let's say a Tuesday,
and it didn't get there in time for them to
look at it until after the weekend, it's not in
as good as shape. You get a little better, okay,
patient to them to diagnose, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 9 (01:25:51):
And are there any new varieties of boxwoods that are
more disease resistant? Just in general, like if I'm replacing
the ones that have died off? Is there anything actually
looking for in the nursery.

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
Well, there is some of that, but a lot of
the things we do I don't know. I'd have to
go look to see if there's a boxwood that's verticillium
and fusarium resistant. Those are two soil diseases. I know
there's not one that's an ema toade resistant. As far.
There's a boxwood light that's going around some parts of
the country. I just I don't think your answer is

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going to be found in that. But I'm going to
look into that a little bit more and see what
the availability is. Some of that stuff is new, The
light and stuff is fairly new, and so I doubt
breeders have had time to go through the whole process
of developing a resistant one.

Speaker 9 (01:26:48):
Okay, all right, Well, I'll send one off to an
m and I'll let you know what they tell me.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Yeah, please do let me know. In fact, if you'll
hold on my producer can give you the email where
you can just directly send it right back to the
information back to me. And you may have a question
about what they tell you in the diagnosis and I'll
be happy ify email to answer that for you.

Speaker 9 (01:27:09):
Okay, okay, great, well, thanks so much, skip.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
You bet, Catherine. I put you on hold, Crystal, pick
it up and give you that email. All right. You're
listening to guard Line folks seven one three two one
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of the season, then they're ready to go. First thing,
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it's real easy, makes it real easy to do that.
Uh Nelson Plant Food has a fall fertilizer designed for
our area and definitely design for fall, and it's called

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carbo Load. Carbo Load has a lower nitrogen a little
higher potassium, which is what we want in a fall fertilizer.
A forty pound bag covers five thousand square feet and
it will help get your grass ready for cold and
ready for spring. That's why we call it carbo load,
because grass produces carbohydrates which increase cold heartiness and increase

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spring growth. Early spring growth is based on your fall fertilization,
not your spring. Early spring growth comes from fall fertilization.
Carboload does that. Carboload also has a pre emergent herbicide
in it. So while I say with fall fertilizing, eh,
do it in early October. Anytime in October, get it done.
That's fine. If you're going to do something like carbload

(01:29:42):
that's got the pre emergent there, go ahead and get
that done early in the month. Get that done early
in October, all right now if you want, because that
gets the ingredient down so that when we get a
little cool spelled and some rain and the seed starts sprouting,
you don't miss that window. You're already in there ahead
of it to prevent seed sprouting of all all those
weeds that are cool season weeds and infest your plants.

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And now some plant foods, the turf star line and
others and other things like carbaload are going to be
available widely throughout the Greater Houston area and they do
do work. We're going to go now to Huntsville and
talk to Charles. Hey, Charles, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:30:20):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Skip.

Speaker 12 (01:30:21):
Before I moved retired from Texas and moved up here
to Tennessee, I had a beautiful fig tree and a
fig bush and we missed those that fig preserves. Will
figs live up here in mid mid Tennessee. When we
get some cold weather, it'll get below freezing two or
three days, and that'll happen two or three times a year,

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and we'll figs.

Speaker 5 (01:30:46):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
I've never I've never lived up up there and tried
to grow figs, but I can tell you this research
is done at Ohio State University a number of years
ago found that the varieties brown turkey and hardy Chicago
Chicago Hardy it's sometimes called, are very cold hardy among
the fig varieties. Now that said, I'm not that impressed

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with Chicago hardy Chicago it just for us. I would
say there are better figs to grow. You can grow
around turkey down here as well, But anyway, those figs
are the cultivar end. That's probably your better too, that
you're going to have. I would say maybe probably a

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bigger factor on figs up in Tennessee is going to
be the way you care for them to fertilize in
water and late in the season and encourage new late
season growth is a no no, that's going to be
more cold tender, so allowing if they get if you
get a cooling period and they kind of cool off
and everything, they're fine. The other thing I would do

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is very thickly malts the base and the winter time.
That would be you know, like a good mult product,
even a finer textured, composty kind of product, piled up
all over the base and around the bottoms of the shoots.
That way, should you get a cold that kills them back,
you'll still have lots of buds at the bottom that

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will sprout right back. And with many types of figs,
they will actually produce later that season from those basil buds.

Speaker 13 (01:32:23):
Great.

Speaker 12 (01:32:23):
Well, I miss those pig preserves that my wife makes.
So I think I'll try the brown turkey. I'll make
sure that when I order a plant that it's a
brown turkey.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Okay, well, there you go, try that one.

Speaker 13 (01:32:37):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
Brown turkey is one. There's a little confusion in names.
There's there there used to be one those a California
brown turkey and not the same as the regular brown
turkey fig. But down here in Texas, if you get
a brown turkey, you're probably getting the right one.

Speaker 12 (01:32:52):
Great, I appreciate the information, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
All right, and what I'm gonna give you one last
thing to be extra sure. Your Tennessee University Sency has
an extension service, just like we do in Texas, and
whereever county you're in, you got a county extension agent.
Call them up and say, what are you guys recommending. Now,
my information may be a little older because I don't
I don't have to keep up with what to grow

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in Tennessee like I do in Texas, and so they
may have something as a suggestion in addition to what
I gave you, and I would I would go to
that local source for that too. Okay, that's as best
as I can help you. But now if you head
up there normally, if you've listened to Guardline, you know

(01:33:38):
that I don't charge for advice, but I do ask
for half the produce you grow if it's successful. So
ship me a box of turkey figs from cal from
Tennessee down here, to the station and we'll call it
even I'm kidding. Thanks a lot, Charles. I appreciate that

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a lot. All right, folks.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
I actually muted him there at the end, so didn't
get to hear the very end of what he said. Uh,
you're listening to Guardenline our phone number seven one three
two one two kt r H seven one three two
one two k t r H. Let me. Let me
mention a soil that I think you really need to
make part of your gardening, and that is Heirloom soils.

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They've had a lot of products. Go to Heirloom Soils
of Texas or just Heirloomsoils dot com, Airloomsoils dot com
and look at what they have. They've got a ton
of them. I've used several of their soils. I've used
the their their indoor plant UH soil, the potting soil
for indoors. I have used it's called the Works. I

(01:34:46):
have used their veggie herb mix. I've used their rosesoil,
just a lot of the different ones they have, and
everyone I've used has been outstanding in a way it performs.
Right now, I want to mention something. It's a special
deal and you got to go to the porter locatee
that's where airloom soils are made. Porter Location to pick
it up. But it's a bulk purchase of rose soil

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or the veggie and herb mix. You pick up a
bulk purchase of that or have them deliver it. Either
way they can deliver it to you and you get
a free bag of Microlife sixty four fertilizer to go
with it. So that's a really good deal because you
always need some Microlife sixty four to go with it.
But remember it all starts in the soil. Heirloom soils
will set you up for success. They will. I've tried

(01:35:33):
it myself. They work. And when you prepare the soil
before you plant the plants, that is the only way
to go about it falls for planting. Get those beds
prepared with a quality mix from those heirloom soils, and
you will have success. I can just tell you that's
the most important thing in success. Let's go here to Magnolia,

(01:35:56):
Texas and talk to Sarah. Hello, Sarah, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:36:00):
You. I have several questions. I'm good, that's glad. I'm glad.
I have several questions and I'm in sort of a dilemma.
I wasn't able. I had to have someone to mow
my yard last year, and consequently I have many new
weeds that I've never had before. See that saidge is one,

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doveweed is another. And there's something I've had ever since
I've owned the property. I haven't been able to identify it.
The closest thing it looks like is a jew grass,
and but I thought that was for my research. That's
primarily in Georgia, and I think there is either chickweed

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or Virginia button weed. I can't identify between the two
of them. My I do have celsius and I do
have sedgehammer. So it's being that we're really close to
the fall season. I tip have used weed beat or
complete granular. I'm thinking about considering to the carbo load

(01:37:10):
this year, but I'm not sure if I should or
how do I work this altogether to kill these new
weeds as well as continue with the fall fertilization.

Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
Okay, well, just go with the carbo load. That's going
to shut down weed seeds for the cool season. Weeds germinating,
which is not the doveweed or the grass you were
talking about the weed you were talking about, So carbo load,
get it down early October, get it watered in. I'd
put about a half inch of water on it, move

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it down into the soil where it can do its work. Now,
as far as those others, they're going to be burning
back with the coal weather and going away till next spring.
They'll be back again. The celsius will work on the doveweed,
and I would try it on the other one. I
don't I don't know exactly which plant you're talking about.
When you say jew grass. I think maybe it's basket

(01:38:08):
grass that you're seeing, but I'm not real sure.

Speaker 7 (01:38:11):
Well, it's kind of crazy. It's a small little one
whenever I was told originally Sam bamboo grass, but I've
never heard that, and I can't confirm it either.

Speaker 3 (01:38:25):
Yeah, let's do this so we get you a real
good answer. If you I'm going to put you on
hold here and if you will send me a picture,
send me a picture, and I'll be happy to take
a look at it and get a good accurate analysis
and tell you what to do for it. Okay, for
that one that we haven't determined what it is, Okay, Okay, great,

(01:38:45):
all right, Sarah, Hey, thanks for the call. Good luck
with you getting ahead of this. But I look forward.
I'm putting you on host, so don't go away. Chris
is gonna come give you an email. Okay, send me
good pictures and sharp focus, sharp focus, all right, that's important. Listen,
you've heard me talk about quality home products. That is
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they have a number of different products and services they offer,
and right now they are hiring with Quality Home. You
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you know, servicemen to come in. They have their own
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(01:39:28):
I like Quality Home. They're hiring license electricians and plumbers.
And so if you take pride in you know, making
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go to apply online at QUALITYTX dot com Quality tx
dot com. Licensed electricians and plumbers. You need to check
this out. All right, I'm gonna have to take a break.
When I come back, Judy, you will be our first stop.
Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to have you with
us today. I always, I always enjoy visiting with gardeners,

(01:40:31):
and boy, we we try to do that here every
Saturday and Sunday from six to ten here on Guardline.
You know, Ace Hardware stores are all over the greater
Houston area, and I was just at a new one
out there in Wharton, Texas yesterday. Ace Hardware has every
fertilizer I talk about on Guardenline. They've got the pest control,
disease control, weed control we talk about. They have everything

(01:40:55):
you need to have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape.
It's as simple as that. And they all also have
things you need to make that outdoor living area even better,
such as quality barbecue pits like Big Green Egg and
Treyger and oh gosh, Weber Grill. I've got a Weber myself.
Those are awesome. They got the strings of lights and

(01:41:15):
all the things for the decorations for the holidays, for
the fall season. Ace is a place. It's as simple
as that. Go to ACE Hardware stores forty of them.
If you don't know where the one near you is,
go to Acehardware dot Com. Look at the store locator
and they're going to have it. And when you're in there,
if you got fire ants, by the way, this is
your warning. It's the season. Get it done. Football season

(01:41:37):
means we tackle fire ants in the fall with a
good bait. That is the best way to get ahead
of those little boogers. And Ace has got it. They've
got the baits that you need. We're going to head
out now on the phones and we're going to go
to NATA Texas and talk to Judy. Hello, Judy, Welcome
to Gardenline.

Speaker 22 (01:41:55):
Good morning. It was good senior yesterday. Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
Oh you're out there Wharton Feed, Yes, you're right at Warton.

Speaker 8 (01:42:04):
Feed right, good, good, can I help today? Okay, well,
thank you. I had showed you a picture that I
took of my peaches with.

Speaker 23 (01:42:16):
The brown You called it a brown rot there, and
you were going to help me figure out what to.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Do with that, Yes, you bet. And here here's I
wanted to check and make sure I had the latest
products and the stuff available, and I did. Uh. So,
peach brown rot. It can occur at bloom time, and
you never have the bloom never makes a peach because
the bloom rots. It can occur on green peaches bits
especially bad. As those peaches reach harvest, they get real

(01:42:41):
sweet and sugary and the brown rot hit some. If
it's wet conditions, brown rot is going to be especially bad.
And so when you get a little bit of rain
closer to harvest, that makes it even worse. There are
a couple of products out there. One's called cap tan
c A p T A N. Now. I know Bonney
makes a Captain. I know high Yield makes a Captain.

(01:43:02):
There may be some others, but that works. Uh. Then
there's a product called and the ingredient is pro piccanazole,
and I'm gonna spell that out for you. It's p
R O.

Speaker 24 (01:43:14):
P I c.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
O n A z O l E pro pig con
A zol Bone Eye makes a product called Infuse Systemic
Disease Control that has pro pacanazole. There are many other
products that have it, but not all of them are
labeled for peaches, but those are ones that you could use.

(01:43:40):
And then any anything label for peaches with miclobutan nil
would work too, and I'm gonna spell that one out.
Sorry for this. This is why I make online publications
so we don't have to do m y c l
O b U t A n I L my clo
beew ten Ill and Monterey has one called fungjamac Spectra

(01:44:05):
side has immunoc spectra side emmunox. Those are all things
that will control brown rot on peaches. But you want
to start spraying. You can spray them at the end
of bloom a little bit and for a little bit later.
You're going to need to spray about every ten to
fourteen days, and when we go into wet weather following
a rain, give them a spray. And especially as we

(01:44:26):
approach harvest, some people don't spray until the peaches are
getting close to full size, and then they begin their
spray about every seven days going up to the harvest
period to prevent that disease. The other thing you need
to know for sure on that disease judy is anytime
you see fallen peaches, pick them up and get rid

(01:44:47):
of them, Bury them, put them in the trash, get
them out of there. Anytime you see a peach dried
on the branch, snip that whole branch off, that little
section of branch that holds the peach and throw the
whole thing away and get that those brown rots spores
out of there, because we call those mummies and in
the spring, when rain drops hit those mummies, those spores

(01:45:08):
splash everywhere in Your next crop is going to be
really hit harder than it was last year.

Speaker 22 (01:45:13):
Oh okay, okay, so I spray that sanitition.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
Okay, you can do it at the end of bloom.

Speaker 22 (01:45:20):
Uh yeah, pretend.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
Yeah. Brown ride is an ongoing problem un to fourteen. Yeah,
and especially as we get a little bit closer to harvest.
Don't wait until they're they're harvestable. You gotta start earlier.
But as those speeches get them off close to full size,
that's the most important time to do your spraying. So
you don't have to start at the end of bloom.
But if it's a bad year and you have it

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every year, I would start it end of bloom. But
other than that, i'd start you know.

Speaker 23 (01:45:49):
Yeah, once I treat this safe for this coming up
year harvest season, will I have it again? Or will
I slowly you know, not have this problem.

Speaker 3 (01:45:59):
No, it'll likely be that. But it's a very very
weather related, very weather related. So your sanitation reduces it.
Having good weather reduces it. But still the diseases out
there in nature. And it loves peaches.

Speaker 23 (01:46:17):
Okay, okay, and none of these these products, these products
don't affect eating them, you know, it doesn't do anything
to the peaches.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
No, follow the label though, it'll say like wait seven
wait seven days, you know, before harvest, or it'll say
something like I just read the label. That's that's the one.
And then wash it when you bring it in if
you want to do that. All right, all right, thank.

Speaker 22 (01:46:37):
You, thank you, Thanks for all your great info.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
All right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate very much your call.
You know, Nitropos has their three step program. What is
the Nitropas three step Well, it's a fall special fertilizer
that's step one. By the way, we gave these the
way down there weren't at the Ace Hardware store. Nitopos
provided fall special We also gave away some barricade Step
two for prove hing winter weeds, and then Nitrofoss turf

(01:47:02):
Eagle fungicide for preventing brown patch and take all root
rot both and those are all on my schedule too.
You can go to guarding with Skip dot com see
the schedule. But remember the Nitropos three step fertilizer we'd
prevention and disease prevention simple as that. You can find
it at the Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch. Arborgate carries it

(01:47:24):
out in Tomball Shades of Texas, Southeast Houston on Genoa
Red Bluff another place you can find Nitrofoss products. We're
gonna go to Stephanie now in League City. Hey, Stephanie,
let's sey if we can get a call in here
before I have to go to break.

Speaker 25 (01:47:37):
Okay, I listened to you last weekend, and I have
a small magnolia tree and it's got the black suit
and I have been training it. I wiped the leaves
off with a diluted soap and then I treated it
as a fungicide folier that you were saying something about
a drench, so I went ahead and ordered the drench.

(01:48:01):
My question is, I noticed my neighbor's tree is hanging
over that tree and another tree, and it's full of
that black soot and mold or whatever not molded.

Speaker 10 (01:48:15):
Is that going to kill my trees?

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
No, it shades them out. It doesn't do them any
good because of the shades the leaves a little bit.
But you know, it is possible that your tree does
not have a pest on it that your neighbor's tree does,
and that sooty, that sugary honeydew basically honeydew is the
nice word for bug pee. It is falling on your
trees causing the city mold. So it's either gonna on

(01:48:40):
a magnolia. Probably scale is the cause, so you may
just look around for scales on the magnolia. But it
could be that it's your neighbors that's doing that, and
in which case you're just kind of left with trying
to blast off with some soapy water over now and
then those those leaves to get the soot off. Tell

(01:49:00):
your neighbor to listen to garden Line and we'll tell
them to put us system.

Speaker 26 (01:49:05):
They just moved in and it's a rental and they're
so I'm going to have those trees trimmed because the
problem is that tree is touching my larger tree. But
the leaves are just falling off and they're black, like
they're black and they're falling.

Speaker 4 (01:49:20):
I'm strownd dying.

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
Yep, I understand.

Speaker 25 (01:49:24):
Okay, trench still.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Uh, since you bought it, go ahead and use it.
But uh, you know I can't. I don't have a
crystal ball to know whether you have the insects on
your true or not. But if you don't see anything,
you may you may just wait. But anyway, that would
be my suggestion. Hey, I'm sorry I got to run
to a break, but that's a lot for your call.
Thank you, good luck, bye bye. I'll be right back. Folks,

(01:49:48):
you are listening in today. We are here to help
you have success with what you grow. You know, ana
plants and produce up in Montgomery. It's the same thing there.
They always have a good supply of all kinds of plants.
They always have really cool landscape link too. If you're
looking for things like it's going to get chili here soon.
How about an outside chimney for the patio, or some
sort of an iron work for a trellis or something

(01:50:09):
like that in your garden. Certainly for plants, they carry
every fertilizer I talk about it. A and A Plants
and Produce Ana is located on the east side of Montgomery.
That is Highway one oh five and you've driven past
it a million times if you've been between Conroe and Montgomery. Again,
all of those quality products are available there at A

(01:50:32):
and A Plants and Produce, along with some really cool
plants and other things like decorations for this holiday season.
Let's head out now to sugar Land. We're going to
talk to Dean. Hey, Dean, welcome to garden.

Speaker 14 (01:50:43):
Line, a long time listener, first down caller, got some
welcome thank you. So we got some roots running in
the ground in the lawn and sprouting needles, nails when
you walk on them. You have food trees around like

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big parsimuen.

Speaker 12 (01:51:06):
Peach.

Speaker 14 (01:51:08):
No big trees, but the neighbors have some big trees.
I'm just curious how to get rid of that because
it's hard to walk on.

Speaker 4 (01:51:14):
And mo.

Speaker 3 (01:51:17):
I'm not I'm not picturing what you're talking about so
you're stepping on things that's not the lawn that's coming up,
that's real pointed right right.

Speaker 14 (01:51:27):
Yes, It's like I feel like, you know, roots are
running under on the ground and running across with nubs
or needles coming out, and they're pretty hard because they
feel like nails when you walk on barefoot on the
you know, on the lawn and also in the food
trees and so forth. But I'm just curious what would

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cause that. I mean, I don't think the food trees
would would have root systems like that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
The only thing that is coming to my mind, and
it would be little sprouts of little tree ceilings, like
you know, oak seedlings coming up or something out of
the ground. They would have a stiff little trunk like that.
But I don't you know what, Dean, I nothing is
ringing a bell right now on that other than like

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little oak seedlings or something coming up. Could I get
you to take a picture of that and send it
to me up close? I can, you know, put your
hand on fingers on one saying this is it, show
me the lawn area a little bit further back, and
then get in real close, make sure they're in sharp focus,
and let me take a look, not ringing a bell.
If you pull on them, did they come out? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:52:41):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:52:42):
Okay, also, well pull on, pull on a few, pull
them out and set them on a flat surface like
a table, and take a picture of that too. I'm
gonna put your on hold and we'll get to the
bottom of this. Just send me those good quality photos
by email. Crystal, get on and give you an email
for that. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that call. Look
forward to solving this mystery. Let's see, we're gonna what

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time we got here. Okay, we're going to go to
Paul and Laporte. Hey Paul, welcome to Guarden Line. Good morning, sir.

Speaker 27 (01:53:12):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
I'm well today, I'm well. How can we help you?

Speaker 27 (01:53:17):
Well, I've got a limit a lime tree I believe
in my back. If it has spikes on it, it's
a line I heard and it was about four foot
tall when I moved in four years ago. Now it's
about eight foot. But I need to trim it real good.
When is a good time to do that?

Speaker 5 (01:53:38):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
I would wait until spring. You do not want your
tree to put on growth going into cold weather, because
it'll just be more cold susceptible than normal. So if
you need to trim it, if you're going to bring
it in like the greenhouse or garage or something over winter,
you can so that it's easier to get in the garage. Okay,
then I would wait until spring. Okay, it's the same

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with roses. Planning roses. Yeah, roses we will do kind
of in February at the end of winter. We don't
wait until spring because roses are cold hearty, unlike etceterus,
being a little iffy.

Speaker 27 (01:54:18):
Especially, I'm going to get my rose. I'm getting my
rose garden going today. So I was wondering when it's
a good time to buy and plant.

Speaker 3 (01:54:25):
So with roses, Oh, there now is the time to
buy and plant. So is February that if you will
buy and plant your roses this fall. Number one, there's
some sales on around at some of our garden centers,
and if you buy them this fall, you will have
a head start on something that you waited until a
spring to plant. And if you're going to oh, all

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kinds of places have roses a year down in the
La Port area. I think you got some garden centers
down in your area there you might I don't know
if up in Seabrook, you know at Moss they have those.
I would call uh, I would call Jorges Place over
Jorges Hidden Gardens. That's over in Alvin. I don't know
if you've ever been over there. Oh, yes, he also

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he also carries roses. I'll give you a phone number
for him. Just let me get to my head. Uh, well,
I don't have the phone here. He is on Elizabeth
Road in Alvin, and I had just a second. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna get it for him. But anyway,

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he I know has gotten some roses in uh and
should have those as well. So that would be another
another place that you might want to uh, you might
want to check when you're doing a rose searching. But
fall fall is the best time, absolutely, absolutely the best time.

Speaker 27 (01:55:51):
All right, I appreciate your time today, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:55:55):
All right, very much, Yes, sir, you as well take care.
All right, folks, there we go. Let's see what are
we doing here in time wise? Oh my gosh, we're
a run out of time. We don't have time for
another call. So I'm won't tell you about a couple
of things. First of all, when you're over at Jorges
you ought to grab his three sixty tree stabilizer has

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a lot of trees for sale too, by the way,
but those three sixty tree stabilizers are excellent for new plants.
You're putting in a tree, you're putting in a multi
trunk crape myrtle or regular trees or whatever. They work.
They hold the plant strongly. They're very strong, but they
have a loose strap on the end and you want

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your staked trees to move just a little. That movement
helps strengthen the trunk and it's important in thirty sixties
designed for that. You're going to find them not only
at Jorges Hidden Gardens down in Alven. You're gonna find
them a Southwest Fertilizer Bisonett and Renwick up in Tombauld
at Arborgate on two forty nine plants for all seasons
down on the Heights Leven Street if you can Nursery

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and where two forty nine comes into belt wag eight
r CW Nursery carries the three sixty tree stabilizers as well. Wow,
that was fast. We got one hour left folks today.
I want to remind you next Saturday, October fifth, from
ten to three is the Fall Fest at Buchanan's Plants,

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and it is awesome. Buchanans puts on such a really
really cool party for Fallfest. They are going to have
all kinds of things like Halloween mass crafting and pumpkin
painting and color stations, hay rides and more. That's for
the kids game. Oh Aisha mentioned pumpkin ring toss, bean
bag toss, cavenger.

Speaker 4 (01:57:41):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
For the adults, we got a band called Yo Pond.
Of course we do it Southeast Texas. And they're going
to have all kinds of coffee, food, beer, wine, all
kinds of cool stuff. It's a good It's always a
good time to go to Buchini's. But this is a shindig.
And guess what I'll be there from twelve to two,
twelve to two next Saturday, Buchanan splans. We're gonna give
away one hundred dollars gift card, some bags of Microlife

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brown patch as well. Hope you can make it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:09):
It's scared Rickard, It's shoes, the crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:58:16):
Gas.

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
Just watch him as world, Many teas the sea, Batasy by.

Speaker 21 (01:58:31):
Gables, not a.

Speaker 2 (01:58:36):
Sign gass salmon.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
All right, folks, we are back. Welcome to garden Line,
last hour a garden line this weekend. Looking forward to
talking to you on the phone with your gardening questions
at seven one three two one two k t r H.
Seven one three two one two k t r H.
You know, Microlife has a number of fertilizers, all of

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which are designed designed to build the soil. They're chalk
full of beneficial microbes. We know that's important. That is
important in helping plant roots to be more successful. It's
important and out competing the bad guys in the soil,
the bad microbes with good ones. In some cases just
flat outright attacking the bad microbes with good ones. That

(01:59:28):
works very well. Now, you know, this is a season
where we put down the Microlife brown patch. It is
a fertilizer that is designed for fall and with all
the microbes in it, it is beneficial not only the soil,
but also in terms of providing those plant structures protection
from a population of microbes that sort of out competes

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in many cases some of the problems that we do
with you know, brown patch being an example, prime example
of diseases in the fall. I would suggest if you're
going to do the Microlife brown patch. Go ahead and
do the Microlife bio inoculant as well. That is not
a nutrient source. It's sixty three you're that sixty three
different beneficial micro organism strains. There are a lot of

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good guys in there. The basillas subtlests. That is a
ten strains of that one basilla subtlest in and of itself.
And I'm just picking one out there, but that there's
even disease control products that are based on basillas subtlests
that you spray. Bacillis is a good micro most of
them are. And the soil you know BT kills caterpillars.
That's a basillis. Uh, the mosquito dunks we talk about,

(02:00:38):
that's a bacillus for mosquitoes. So there's a lot of
good kinds of basillis. And this one has ten different
strains of basillos in it. Micro micro grow bioinoculant. Put
out the fertilizer, come back, load up the micro grow bioinoculant.
It's a maroon colored bag. And do that to your
lawn and then water doon really good and you'll be

(02:00:59):
on your way to succes us from microlife Microlife for
Lazers dot com are available lots of different places, easy,
easy to find them on the market. I visiting with
the folks at Microlife while back, learning a lot about
some of the new products that they have out. You know,
they have so many products that staying up to date
on them and what they do and what they have

(02:01:20):
and everything. It's an ongoing process, but they really strive
to create array of organic options for success in your
garden and in your lawn, your landscape and whatnot. Antennet
Gardens done in Richmond is the kind of place you
go where you grabble a carload of friends and say,

(02:01:41):
come on, man, hop in, let's go, let's have a
good time. It is a destination garden center out there
in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Plenty of different kinds of
plants and a lots of bling for the garden. I mean,
they really specialize in that you want to create a
beautiful fall planting basket, you got there and just buy one.
They've got them ready to go, or you make one yourself.

(02:02:03):
They'll put the plants, you know, help you give you
suggestions on why don't you put these plants together and
put this in the middle of it. Typically an ornamental
grass for a fall planting container, a large container. They've
got really cool bling to stick out in the garden,
and they always have programs going on. You know, in
the fall they kick into gear with their different educational contacts,

(02:02:25):
educational events that are going on and in chanted gardens.
You just know when you go there, you're gonna get
good plants, you're gonna get good advice, and you're gonna
have fun. It's a fun place to visit. A lot
of times on weekends off a food truck out there
or something like that just adds a little bit to
the to the celebration. Last I think just Saturday they

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had Andy from Medina out there doing a fall veggie seminar.
They've always got stuff going on out there and enchanted gardens,
and when it comes to holiday decoration for Halloween, Thanksgiving,
they are loaded up and you can really make your
place fun and cool. Plus you get to meet all
the all the unpaid staff. That would be like Cheeto

(02:03:08):
the cat. If you haven't met Cheeto, go meet Cheeto.
They've got some really cool pets all around that place.
You're listening to Guarden Line again our phone number seven
one three two one two K T R H. I'm
gonna go to the woodlands and now and we're going
to talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 28 (02:03:27):
Sure, a quick question for Saint Augustine grass. Looks like
I've got some sort of weed or maybe another type
of grass that's encroaching. It's starting to crowd it out.
It's a low broad leaf, really dense grass or weed
that has little white flowers on it. And I'm not

(02:03:47):
sure what that is and how to get rid of it.

Speaker 3 (02:03:52):
White flowers if it's four petals kind of in like
I'm making a plus sign, that is a junior button weed.
And yeah, and so all those little things along the vine,
those are the I guess the buttons. That's the seed pods. Now,
you're not going to get rid of Virginia button weed
by hand pulling it. It breaks off. But any that

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you do pull up with those seed pods and get
them out of there, well that's less seed for the
future for it. So if you have time and or
able getting it pulled up is good. But as far
as the spray, you want to use something called celsius.
It's like the temperature celsius. Okay, So celsius on it.
Virginia button weed is not easy to kill. You could

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spray it now. You could also, especially it's important you're
going to have it next year, so go ahead when
you see it coming out in the spring, hit it
with celsius and then be ready to do that again
in about six weeks. Hit it again. Because sometimes you
knock it back and weaken it and then the second
one fully takes it out. But that would be the

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approach to it. The wetter you keep the lawn, the
happier that weed is. So a good soaking and then
let it dry out. It won't make the weed go away,
but it'll keep it from proliferating as fast, so that
that's in your control aside from rainfall.

Speaker 28 (02:05:12):
Is celsius something I can just get at home depot,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:05:17):
I don't know on that, okay, but it's great in
the woodlands, yeah, I would. What I would do is
I would probably look at the you know, the nearby
ace hardware stores that you have, and let's see, being
in the woodlands, if you go over to Auspa's Ace
on kirkandall in the woodlands, I'll bet you they I

(02:05:40):
bet you they have Celsius there. The other another nearby
is all Star Ace up on fourteen eighty eight toward
Magnolia direction from you. But they're going to have it.
And then there's some other aces nearby. I found it.
I was at an ace down and Wharton yesterday and
they had they had Celsius there, okay, right, and being

(02:06:00):
told well, if you were willing to hold, I'll catch
you right after this break. So with you on hold,
if you want to ask another one, just hang around, folks,
I'll be right back in the big middle of our
last hour of the week here on guarden Line. You know,
this summer we had those storms. They knocked down trees
left and right, knocked out power. It was a mess.
As I said before, I'm surprised there's a single tree

(02:06:22):
standing in Houston with the kind of damage that those
storms came through and did. But if you need to
get your trees taken care of, there's one place to go,
and that's affordable tree care. Martin spoon Moore. Martin spoon
More is an expert on tree care. He's been around
a long time doing it in the Houston area. He
knows what he's doing. Don't let people touch the trees.

(02:06:44):
They don't know what they're doing. Just because someone owns it.
Pick up in a chainsaw does not make them a
tree service. I call that the two jerks on a chainsaw.
Tree services don't do that. They can do damage that
is forever on your trees. Martin knows what to do,
and we're ending printing time October through February prime time
to get printing done. Martin stays busy because Martin does

(02:07:06):
good work, and so get on his schedule. You need
to call him and get on the schedule if you
want to get printing done, and you need to at
least have him come out and look at your trees.
He can pruning due to things like deeper feeding, checking
the tree's health, any kind of you know, issues that
might be going on with the tree. If you need
to do something around a tree, like put in a

(02:07:26):
trench or add a driveway, call Martin first to come out.
Let him advise you on what to do, because after
damage is done, it's kind of hard to turn back time.
Martin can do that. Here's the number you need to
write down seven to one three six nine twenty six
sixty three. I'll say that again. Seven one three six
nine nine two six six three. If you want to

(02:07:49):
go to a website afftree service dot com. When you
call Martin or Joe, his wife will answer the phone,
and if they don't, you call the wrong place. Hang
up in all seven month three six two six six three.
Get on the schedule now tell them your guardline listener
gets you up a little bit on the list there

(02:08:10):
so that you don't wait a long time. But Martin
stay's busy, so don't know. Let's go out to the woodlands.
Now we're going to talk to Andy.

Speaker 27 (02:08:17):
Hello Andy, Yes, sir.

Speaker 28 (02:08:21):
Quick question on groundcovers, We use lemons set them and
it's really a nice groundcover in the summer. Drought resistant
does a great job. It'll die down in the winter,
but when it comes back in the spring, it comes
back bringing with it a lot of clover. Can I
use a pre emergent weed killer or something that will

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kind of take care of the clover but not damage
to set them.

Speaker 5 (02:08:48):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:08:50):
Well, the answer to the word can is yes. The
answer to the word you know, is it labeled is depends.
I don't. I don't think barricade has an ornamental label.
There is a product around I think it's called prem
that where you sprinkle it around in your in your
garden beds, your flower beds for that purpose. I generally

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don't recommend it because flower beds get you know, mixed.
You you pull out plants, you put in plants, you
mix in compost, and you're breaking the soil surface with
each of those activities, and so you're the effectiveness of
a premergent goes away when you when you break up
the soil surface. But you might try that, and I
think it should be labeled for succulents like that. That

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should be fine. But yes, any pre emergent would potentially
stop the weeds from coming up in that And clover
is a broad leaf weed, so it sprouts. It'll be
sprouting in October when we get some cold weather. So
follow my lawn care schedules to timing, and i'd get
in early October. If you're going to try a pro emergent,

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do that in early October.

Speaker 28 (02:09:56):
Okay, And I guess since the settem's already rooted, then
it shouldn't damage the setum.

Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
That's correct. That that is it is correct, But uh,
the label is the law. That's the bottom line. And
so you know, we only have ten bazillion plants that
potentially could have something put around them like that, and
I can't know exactly each one off the top of
my head, but read the label to be sure. That's
why I think I think Prene is going to be

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close to it for you. But there's probably some other products,
you know, where you get out there and shop. You
go to aspose ace up there in your woodlands and
tell them what you're looking to do and see what
they have on the shelf there.

Speaker 28 (02:10:37):
Okay, and how did you spell that.

Speaker 3 (02:10:41):
The pre the Ace hardware O her e e N yeah,
r e e N.

Speaker 28 (02:10:50):
All right, great, all right, thank you for your.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Time, and that may yeah yeah, and and Andy, that
may not be the only one. That's just one that
I'm familiar with that's been on the market for a while.
For on them it's a thing you just carried around,
Shake it and that stuff comes out.

Speaker 28 (02:11:04):
So yeah, all right, all right, thank you, you bet.

Speaker 3 (02:11:09):
You take care of good luck with that, and thank
you for the call. Our phone number is seven one
three two one two kt RH seven one three two
one two k t RH. Give us a call. We'll
be glad to help you with your gardening. Questions. If
you live down in League City, League City Feed is
your hometown feed store. And I don't mean just League City.

(02:11:32):
I mean that whole area like Webster and Elkamina, Reale, Clearlake, Lamark,
San Leon Dickinson, that whole region down there. League City
Feed is your hometown feed store. They are located on
Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety
six in League City. You just from ninety six, just
head down Highway three a few blocks. It'll be there
on the left hand side. League City Feed has been

(02:11:54):
around for forty years and the thing that I like
about them is they have old time customer service like
you've grown to expect over the years. It's becoming rarer
and rarer these days. League City Feed has every fertilizer
that I talk about on guard line that you need
for your lawn and gardens. They've got pest control week
controlled disease control. It's easy there. I mean it's a

(02:12:17):
feed story. Yes, pet feeds up for your backyard chickens.
They carry that. But Leake City Feed is the place
to go. There open Monday through Saturday, nine to six,
so you can stop by after work. Closed on Sunday.
Close today but open again tomorrow Monday nine to six.
Good time to swing by and grab what you need
to have a beautiful lawn and landscape there at Leake City.

(02:12:39):
Feed makes it really really easy. I like the place
to stay open until six because that way, on the
way home from work you can stop in and grab
the things you need. Have you been to Arburgate up
in Tomball, Texas? If you've never been, where have you been?
Crawl out from under that rock and go to Arburgate.
Arburgate has been around a long time and they are
an outstanding place. I love going there. It is fun

(02:13:02):
you walk around. The First of all, the staff is
friendly and they are so knowledgeable. We collaborate a lot
of times staff of Arbigate and myself on various things.
Customers come in and ask about and do. But those
folks know what they're doing. I mean, they are very
hard to stomp with gardening questions. I can tell you
that because they are gardeners here who are trained and know.

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When you're at Arburgate, pick up some of their organic
food Complete. That's a fertilizer for anything with roots. Organic
soil complete, well, it's a soil blend that also has
expanded shale. And then organic Compost Complete, which is a
compost that has expanded shale. Remember brown stuff before green stuff.
You do those three things and the brown stuff is done,

(02:13:45):
you're ready to plant. And Arborgate has a ton of plants.
Of course, we're entering the fall season, so there is
a bazillion great ideas for decorating your lawn, decorating the
indoors from their gift shop, decorating your flower beds out
there with bling Arbrogag's got you loaded up on that,
and of course the widest variety of plants of all types,

(02:14:08):
always up to date, always in season. Stop by Arburgate.
You can go to Arburgate dot com or just head
out two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. They'll
be there on the left hand side. Go behind Arburgate
on Trishel Road for that great parking space that's now
out and back. That is really cool. One of the
best thing new things that's happened there this year. We're

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going to go now to Cypress, Texas and talk to Rachel. Hey, Rachel,
welcome to Garmline.

Speaker 29 (02:14:36):
Hie Skip, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 11 (02:14:38):
So my front yard the grass.

Speaker 7 (02:14:43):
It's starting to brown, but it doesn't look like it's
brown patch.

Speaker 9 (02:14:48):
It's a mix of the green grass with the brown
grass like straw.

Speaker 3 (02:14:52):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (02:14:53):
And then the soil.

Speaker 4 (02:14:54):
Around that area looks kind of like it's sinning.

Speaker 9 (02:14:57):
What can I do to help this?

Speaker 3 (02:15:00):
The soil looks like what please?

Speaker 9 (02:15:03):
The soil around it looks like it's spinning.

Speaker 3 (02:15:08):
Okay, So so you're seeing the soil through the grass, yes, okay, Well,
it could be a lot of things. The browning of
the leaves is a sign is not getting water. That
is a sign of that. Now it could be wet soil,
but it doesn't have the roots to take up the water.
So it could be it could be a lack of

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irrigation because we're still in the mid nineties, you know,
in our weather and grass is using water. It could
it could be a lack of a good deep soaking
on a on an infrequent basis. You may have a
shallow root system that's very prone to drying out. But
it also could be a disease called take all root rot,
take all kills grass. And if you you know, if

(02:15:51):
you if you have that in you need to treat
for it. It's on my schedule. You know, I have
two schedules on my website. The website is Gardening with
Skip dot Com, and the schedules are the lawn care schedule,
which is mowing, watering, fertilizing, micronutrients, that sort of thing.
The other one is the lawn pest Disease and Weed Management,
which includes the take all root rot in October November

(02:16:13):
or primetimes to put out treatments for take all root
rot if that is what is indeed causing this and
we've seen a lot of it this year.

Speaker 14 (02:16:21):
Yeah, okay, okay, great, I will check out your website.

Speaker 3 (02:16:27):
Yeah, it has the ingredients you need to see for that. Again,
Gardening with Skip dot Com. Rachel, thank you and hope
we get this under control. Feel free to call back
if you have any ongoing issues.

Speaker 4 (02:16:37):
Okay, great, thank you?

Speaker 3 (02:16:39):
All right, you bet you take care, You take care.
Where are we here? I got a little bit of
time for the next break. I usually let break sneak
up on me. About the time I pick up a call,
I realize I can't take it. We're working on that
operator error. Grain Pro. You need to know green Pro
if you live in the northwest quadrant of the Houston area.

(02:17:02):
We're talking I ten to I forty five. In the
Northwest quadrant. Green Pro they serve the area about forty
five miles from Montgomery. That's why I say Northwest quadrant,
So Conrad Willis Woodlands over to Cyprus and Spring you know,
over to Magnolia and Montgomery up in the north End
and Katie West, Houston, Central North Euston that area, that quadrant.

(02:17:24):
They serve it with quality lawn care services of air
raiding and compost top dressing. There's some of the things
they do, but air rating and compost top dressing that's
the main thing. Now there's a deal going on with
them right now. They will air rate your lawn for
free when you purchase a two yard minimum of compost

(02:17:47):
top dressing service. So if you I mean if you
need a half yard, that they're not going to errate
for free. But if you cover enough area where you
need two yards of compost and you hire them for
the compost stop dressing, they're going to do the air
for free. Now, prices start around five seventy five plus tax.
It is expensive to hault the expensive equipment and all

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those bulk supplies around all over the place. But it
is one of the most important things you can do
to take a long that's struggling and have success with it.
Aerating helps with the compaction the compost. Top dressing falls
into the aeration holes and it falls in among the
grass runners and it just is good for the grass.
They use quality materials. Greenpro dot net is their website,

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greenpro dot net And if you're looking to call them,
just doll two eight one three five one forty seven
thirty three tell them you heard about it here on
Guardline two eight one thirty five to one forty seven
thirty three. We're going to go now to Conroe and
talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 30 (02:18:52):
Hi, Skip A quick question about top dressing. Doing the
aeration and top dressing, I want to do that this
next week. But I also have some take all rocks
and I want to use say and I have started
a fungus side program for that at using your schedule. Okay,
to what extent does fungus side interfere with the breakdown

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of the top dressing.

Speaker 3 (02:19:16):
That is a very good question, Bill. I'm coming up
on a break in order to be able to really
answer your questions, I'm going to hold you until after
break if you can stick around, and we will get
to that. But that is an excellent, excellent question I'd
like to delve into with you, folks. I got to
take a break here. Our phone number is seven one
three two one two ktr H and I'll be right back.

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If you'd like to give us a call, I feel
free to do so seven one three two one two
k TRH. Simply as that we're going to go. Now
back to Bill and Conro. Bill, as I recall you
were asking, one of your questions was if you use
the fungicide, does it affect the breakdown of the compost
you put as a top dressing. Is that correct?

Speaker 30 (02:19:58):
That's right, just the main question I'm asking.

Speaker 3 (02:20:02):
Yeah, funge of side skill fungus and part of the
decomposition to compost is fungus. Part of it is fungus,
part of it is bacteria actinomy seats. There's a lot
of things active in that. That effect would be very brief.
Nature is more resilient than that, and it would be
very brief. And to the extent of it, I couldn't

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tell you. There are a lot of different fungi that
are involved in organic matter decomposition, and then there are
other fungi that are involved in plant disease. And so
the product that you would put on your lawn the
likelihood of it having major effects on the fungus decomposition.
It's iffy as to how much that would be, and

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it would be very short lived. If you want to
be extra careful, you go ahead and spread it with
fun side and then do the compost top dressing. You
could do it in that order if you want, but
that would be my best answer that I can give
you to that. I'm not aware of a study that
was done comparing all the different possible products with all
the different organisms that might be part of that. Okay,

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you had.

Speaker 30 (02:21:08):
Another great I really helped a lot.

Speaker 29 (02:21:11):
You know.

Speaker 30 (02:21:12):
I've been using two products in the alternate every two
weeks for the last six weeks. Pro pa connasol a zoxystroban.
Is that they're good, and I think I got those
from your website here.

Speaker 3 (02:21:24):
Yes, well, they're good. They're good. They're good products, but
that's really overkill. You know, you should do like a
oxystrobin for take all. I would do it in October
and i'd do it November, and that's it. In the fall.
Oh really okay, Yeah, propa conasol will do about the
thing that a oxystrobin does and cut pretty much the
similar diseases we're going after. So if you did one,

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you wouldn't have to do both of them twice or
something like that. I think, yeah, overkill. And when you
start doing that, now you're looking at, you know, an
excessive application, and so negative effects would be increased by overdoing.
Oh yeah, yeah for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:22:06):
Okay, all right, thanks a lot for the info.

Speaker 30 (02:22:08):
You suiting me strong.

Speaker 3 (02:22:09):
Good Hey, well, good luck with your lawn. I hope
you hope you enjoy it, and I hope you have success.
Thanks for reading the schedule. That's why you put them
up there. You have a rest of your weekend. All right,
let's see, we're going to go to Patterson, Texas and
talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 24 (02:22:28):
Hey, Skip, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
I've purchased several of the vegio or vego wherever they
are garden beds that you talk about, and I have
a large area and I'm trying to reduce maintenance and
what have you, and I was thinking about right now.
We live kind of out in the country and so
it's just whatever weeds in bermuda, whatever comes up. I

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was thinking about covering that with about three inches of
mulch and then putting the beds on top of that.
Would you recommend any other kind of like total groundcover
like that. Someone mentioned decompos granted, but I don't really
want to go with something that gets that hot and
now what have you?

Speaker 3 (02:23:05):
Okay, well you compose granted is fine. But here's the
question is what are the bad perennial weeds. Like if
you have bermuda grass that's going to come through pretty
much everything and get into the bounce from the bottom,
so you would need a really good thick landscape fabric
for that. That's the black fabricy stuff that's put on

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the ground at a at a nursery grower. You know
they put the butts on it.

Speaker 12 (02:23:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:23:33):
Yeah, The compost won't help a lot. You can use
cardboard under them, but it is going to break down
and the and the bermuda grass will come through it. Now,
if we're talking about just normal weeds, you know, annual
weed seed kind of stuff, and most weeds, even like
a Saint Augustine lawn. You could set that vego bed
on the lawn filled up and the lawn and never

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come through it. You can't do that. It just doesn't
have the ability. Saint Augustine doesn't. So that would be
my advice you on that. Okay.

Speaker 24 (02:24:02):
I was thinking more like there where not where the
bids specifically are, but like the like where you walk
in between them, would is there? So you're saying that
Bermuda is gonna laugh at the mult basically.

Speaker 3 (02:24:14):
Right, it'll laugh at everything. They'll get put it down,
So I would before you put the veggos down, or
if they're already down, just anytime you see bermuda, you
gotta spray it. And if you go online to a
garden garden schedule, if you go on my website gardening
with Skip dot com, I have a publication called herbicides.

(02:24:37):
Herbicides for skips weed wiper. Forget the weed wiper part,
although you can use that, but that list of herbicides
tells you by weed type what products and ingredients you're
looking for. So with the grass is like bermuda, you
have three options, two grass only killers and one general
product killer. And you can find the brand names on

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there' you go shop, you can find what you're looking
for to kill that bermuda grass.

Speaker 24 (02:25:04):
Okay, if I put the landscape fabric down and then
put mulch on top of it, the bermuda is still
going to come through that probably, No.

Speaker 3 (02:25:14):
It won't come through the landscape fabric. Now it came
from the side. Grow over the top of it and
then get in that way. YEA bermuda has two types
of of the equivalent of runners. One is the stolons
on top of the ground like Saint Augustine has that too,
and the other is the rhizomes underground. That's where you

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could scrape all the back out of the ground. Yeah,
the submarines that you don't know where they're going to
pop up and so that. But so the landscape fabric
would stop those. But if you from the side had
bermuda crawl over the top of the landscape.

Speaker 4 (02:25:53):
Over the top.

Speaker 24 (02:25:53):
Yeah, okay, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (02:25:55):
It's not going to be able to stop it yet.

Speaker 24 (02:25:57):
Okay, all right, appreciate your help.

Speaker 3 (02:26:02):
All right, thank you very much. I appreciate you.

Speaker 24 (02:26:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:26:06):
You bet you take care. Let's see here, where are
we going?

Speaker 24 (02:26:10):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:26:10):
We are gonna go. Yeah, we don't quite have enough
time to take the next calls. I'm going to hold
off on that so I can give you guys a
little bit more time when we come back from that break.
Hey Nelson plant Food has a product called nutristar genesis
genesis easy to remember. Whenever you transplant a plant, you
should have that jar genesis handy so you can mix

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it into the soil with the transplant. When you're bumping
plants up from one sized pot to another, the new
soil the new pot, put genesis in it. When you're
planting shrubs and trees and perennials, anything vegetables out in
the garden beds, mix in some genesis, then plant your plant.
It works really well. It's loaded with micariza bacteria and

(02:26:54):
other good microbes that help your soil, and it gradually feeds.
It doesn't burn. It gradually feeds, helps with that transplant shock,
and then you do your other fertilization on top of
it all. But the genesis is what you're looking for
from nitrofoss comes at a big jar and it really
really works. We want to take a quick break. I'll
be back and got our last segment for all you

(02:27:15):
cool kids out there in gardening. Cool gardening kids. You know,
gardening makes you cool. By the way, I don't know
if you knew that you need to tell your kids that.
They probably don't realize that it's true. Let's head out
to Donald in Hisston and Hello, Donald, Welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 14 (02:27:32):
How are you skip?

Speaker 31 (02:27:33):
This is a great show. I want to ask, here
is my audio?

Speaker 3 (02:27:37):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (02:27:37):
Does my phone sound okay?

Speaker 3 (02:27:39):
Perfect? Perfect?

Speaker 22 (02:27:41):
Is my phone?

Speaker 29 (02:27:42):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:27:42):
It's a clearer absolutely, okay.

Speaker 10 (02:27:46):
Good.

Speaker 31 (02:27:47):
I wanted to mention to you that some time ago
I mentioned to you there were about thirty acres not
about there were thirty acres plus in love Lady, Texas.
And I wanted to plant thornless BlackBerry bushes up there
and let them grow naturally. And I just want to
I just wanted to update you that thornless BlackBerry bushes
are great because I had BlackBerry bushes with thorns and

(02:28:10):
they were out of control and you can't fit. They're
real tricky to they grow like crazy everywhere. So can
you still get thornless BlackBerry bushes?

Speaker 14 (02:28:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:28:20):
Yeah, you can a number of varieties out there on
the market. All right, go ahead, are you looking for
some suggestion varieties.

Speaker 31 (02:28:34):
Well, no, really, when I go to where they're growing,
I don't care what the variety as long as there
are a BlackBerry without thorns on the thorns are terrible,
so right, And I wanted to update to what happened
with the thornless BlackBerry patch up there and Love Lady,
which was the thirty acres. It's now growing hay for
hay for cows, because the cows like hey more than blackberries.

(02:28:57):
And I know I'm trying to I don't actually you
need gardening advice because I have a small memorial garden
outside my patio, and we never talk about squirrels. We
never talk about the squirrel war. And the other thing
I wanted to mention quick like is I have a
garden hose, a five ace's garden hose with an adapter

(02:29:18):
which has a gallonage meter on it, and I can
just let people know I've used it a lot. If
you take a five eighths hose and you turn it
on let's say almost full, in about five minutes, it'll
put out forty gallons. That's remember I talk to you
about overwatering or underwatering.

Speaker 3 (02:29:36):
Yeah, that's true. All right, good to know, Hey, good
to know, Donald, Yes, sounds like.

Speaker 31 (02:29:42):
And to keep the squirrels away, I bought some stuff
in a catalog called Rodent Sheriff and it's in a
little spray bottle.

Speaker 3 (02:29:49):
And what it is.

Speaker 31 (02:29:50):
It's a very heavily minted kind of a smell. You know,
you can actually spray it on your hand and lick it.
It's not going to hurt you, but it's a heavy
mint smell. And I guess squirrel don't like this this.

Speaker 3 (02:30:01):
Did it work for you?

Speaker 31 (02:30:03):
I'm not sure because the only the only way to
really keep this is great. The only way to really
keep squirrels away from your garden is to have Roscoe.
Roscoe's the dog who monitors and takes care of love lady.
Nobody goes anywhere staring at you, and he would keep everything,
every squirrel, every animal, and every person away from it.

Speaker 3 (02:30:22):
There you go, Hey, Donald, Thanks, I got I got
a few folks. I got a few folks waiting in line.
I'm gonna have to run to you, but thanks for
that update. And keep me posted on the on the
mint flavored squirrel repellent. I'd like to know if that were.

Speaker 31 (02:30:35):
I really eventually. I really like to get out and
meet with you. It's great that you go around and
have actual meet the people.

Speaker 3 (02:30:41):
Yeah, yeah, good, well i'll be I'll be at Buchanan's
Native Plants next Saturday from twelve to two. If you
get a chance to come out. Thanks a lot, and
I look forward to seeing you out there. I got
to keep going here. We got short time and some
callers to get to Greg and Conro. How can we help?

Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
Yeah, how are you doing?

Speaker 13 (02:31:00):
Skip?

Speaker 12 (02:31:01):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (02:31:01):
Yeah, I've heard you say this before on the on
the show, and I didn't write it down, but I've
got a lemon tree, kind a lime tree, and about
eight inches of the very top of them and they're
still short or the leaves are curling all up.

Speaker 3 (02:31:19):
Real bad. I think you said it was probably Yeah,
it's probably the citrus leaf miner. If the trees are
large and doing fine, you can ignore the leaf miner.
I mean it'll take some leaves out, but there it
won't really affect production much. If they're young and you're
trying to get them to grow, Uh, then I would
treat for leaf minor. And the product you want to

(02:31:40):
get is called spin no set, and I'll spell that
s p I n O S A. D.

Speaker 13 (02:31:50):
Spinner said, Okay, so this has been happening for quite
a while. I need to cut some limbs off or.

Speaker 3 (02:31:57):
What now that won't have Just whenever you get a
new flesh of growth, spray with spinosid because they go
after that tender new growth. So get some new growth,
go ahead and spray it with spinosid. Don't worry about
the old leathery dark leaves. The citrus minor won't attack those.

Speaker 13 (02:32:14):
Well, there's still a lot of growth that's just on
the very tips up top of now it was on
my line for you're not getting a lemon. And they're
like I said, they're both small. I've had them happy here.

Speaker 3 (02:32:26):
Yeah, well they're they're going to tag all types of ceterrus.
So I just have something, put a little handsquirter and
just squirt that new growth and it'll soak in and
it'll keep that lead miner from tearing them up, like
curling them up like.

Speaker 29 (02:32:37):
It does.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
Work right, all right, sir?

Speaker 4 (02:32:41):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:32:42):
Greg, thanks for the call. All I asked is you
bring me half the production off your citrus trees. Leave
it at the station. We'll call it even all right.

Speaker 4 (02:32:49):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (02:32:51):
Thank you all right, Southwest Houston, Carolyn, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 29 (02:32:57):
Yes, yesterday, I might have a note put down barricade
for the spring weeds. Do I also need to put
down carbo load at the same time?

Speaker 3 (02:33:10):
Do not use both of those carbo loads a pre
emergent and right, carbo load has a pre emergent. Barricade
is a pre emergent. So if you do one or
the other, if you're going to do the carbel load,
then you've already got the pre emergent. You don't have
to also do you don't want to also do the barricade.
If you're just using a fertilizer, it's just a fertilizer,

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then you can use a barricade with that.

Speaker 29 (02:33:35):
Okay, So I need the carbo load instead of the barricade.
Uh huh, oh okay, great, that's all I need to know.

Speaker 3 (02:33:46):
Yeah, it's kind of like if you I don't know,
I can't get think of a good example. But if
you had some food that had ibuprofen in it, you know,
and then you also had some title and all to take,
you wouldn't take both. You would take one or the other.
Oh okay, carbo load is food with pre emerging in it.

Speaker 29 (02:34:08):
Oh great, okay, we'll make that change. Put down the
carbo load. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:34:16):
Yeah, when you put it, get it done in early
October and watered in right after you put it in
with about half inch of water and you'll be set
to go.

Speaker 29 (02:34:25):
Great halfach water terracing.

Speaker 3 (02:34:29):
Thank you, oneful you bet a good rest of your weekend.

Speaker 29 (02:34:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:34:38):
All right, Wow, this this show has flown by. That's
been pretty pretty fast. We really got got to move
in here down the line on calls and stuff. Glad
to talk to you all. Thanks for listening to Garlan.
I appreciate that. Don't forget. I'm going to be at
Buchanan's Native Plants on Saturday, October fifth, that's six days
from now ten am to tu three pm. Is the

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event of Fall Fest at Buchanans. I'll be there from
twelve to two answering your gardening questions. Hey, bring me
some samples, put them in a bag, so enclose. Any
insects or disease or anything you got, put them in
a bag, bring them on in. We'll take a look,
we'll identify, we'll diagnose. Also if you have photos on
your phone. We can look at them that way. Just

(02:35:21):
make sure they're good, crisp, sharp, focused photos and we'll
be happy to help you with that. Love to meet
listeners all the time, So come on out to Buchanans.
I'll be giving away one hundred dollars gift certificate from
Buchanans that you register to win for. We'll give them
away Microlife brown Patch as well. And this event is fun.
I mean the kids, bring kids. If you don't have

(02:35:43):
any kids, just knocked on the door next door and
bring some of their kids. They're gonna have pumpkin ring toss,
beam bag toss, scavenger hunt. They're gonna have crafts and
a moon balance and on and on, pumpkin painting, Halloween
mass color coloring stations, Hey rides. I can't say all
that stuff. They have it all going on. Right There
a band called Yopon. Every time I hear say that,

(02:36:06):
I'll laugh. Of course it's called Yopon. It's Southeast tasty.
And then there'll be things for adults like food and
coffee and beer and wine. And me I'm for adults.
That's what I'm there for. So we'll be glad to
help you bring your kiddos out have a good time
at Buchanan's Native Plants. Next Saturday, they'll be going on
the Fallfest is going on from ten to three. I'll
be there from twelve to two over the noon hour.

(02:36:28):
Come on and see me. Look forward to having a
very good time with you out there at Buckin's Native Plants. Remember,
in the meantime, if you want information on gardening, go
to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. Follow us,
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(02:36:49):
We're on both places. We're constantly posting stuff that you
would be interested in as a gardener. In the meantime,
have a fun week out in the garden and we'll
see you next time.

Speaker 4 (02:37:00):
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