Don't Delay Fall Lawn Care

Skip Richter answers your questions all morning long!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just watch him as many thanks to see bats.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Not a sign credit.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Sunamwe all right? Good morning folks, Good Sunday morning. We
are glad to have you joining us today. I'm your host,
Skip Rictor, and this is Garden Line. Garden Line. For
those of you who are tuning in for the first time,
well welcome. First of all, it's a call in show
where we answer your gardening questions and basically my job

(00:58):
or what I try to accomplish or three things. I
want you to have a more bountiful garden, I want
you to have a more beautiful landscape, and I want
you to have fun in the process. So that's what
we try to do here. We'll have a little bit
of fun today as we go along. But if you
have a question you would like to call in seven
one three two one two five eight seven four for

(01:18):
our first public service announcement of the day is it
is time to get stuff done in the garden and
landscape and the folks at Nelson's have put together a
combination of really great products. It works well. I was
out at RCW Nursery yesterday and by the way, thanks
folks for having us out there and for everybody that
came out. We had a really really good time. And

(01:40):
I was visiting with someone about carbo load they had
they had a question about it. And carbo load is
a product for fall fertilizing from Nelson's Okay, So carbo
load has the perfect blend of nutrients for fall. The
blend you want a little less nitrogen, a little more
potassium to go into the fall season with good cold

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heartiness and to come out in the spring strong. It
also has a pre emergent herbicide in it, so that
means it's more important to get that thing down soon,
like today tomorrow because our cool season, we'd start germinating
when the soil taps sit about seventy degrees, which we're
pretty much there. We just need a little water on

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the ground and we're going to see some cool season weeds.
Well that's coming later this week, perhaps the rainfall. Get
your carbo load down now, follow the label, put it
down at the right rate and then watered inn with
about a half inch of water, so that moves the
fertilizer down into the soil, and it also moves the
pre emerging into the soil surface where it can do

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its work. That's carbo load from Nelson. They call it
carbo load because when you put it down, your grass
plant kicks into gear, being able not just to take
off growth. We don't need a lot of that now,
but to produce carbohydrates in order to capture those stored
energies for winter and for coming out in spring. Carboloat

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But I know, anyways, explaining to them how some of
those different things work. You know, it's important that when
we're gardening. I mean, we don't have to know all
the details and the science of gardening and everything else
like that, but it is important to be able to
understand some of the principles because when you do, then

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you're able to have more success. You know, it's not
just one particular go do this or go do that.
But why why do we do that? Why do we
time our things applications when we do well? This is
your public a service public Oh, cal let me try
it again. This is your public service announcement Number two.

(03:50):
Don't delay your fall lawn care. It's important. There's three
things basically that are part of fall lawn care, and
that is number one and making sure we get our
nutrients down. The sooner you get them down, the more
time the plant has to take them up before we
get into cold weather. And as the soil gets colder
and colder, the root activity goes down and you don't

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get it's good to take up. So get it done now.
Number two, if you're going to do a pre emergent,
if you have a thin lawn where sunlight is hitting
the soil, if you've got a problem with weeds every year,
cool season weeds are about to germinate, get the pre
emergent down now. It's like playing baseball. That's my analogy
for this. If you wait to swing until the ball
is in front of you at the plate, it's too late.

(04:35):
You got to swing when the picture lets it go.
The picture has let the ball go, It's time to
get the pre emergent out so that when the weeds germinate,
you've already put that protection down. Third thing is if
you have a lawn that's been plagued by take all
root rot and by a brown patch in the cool season,
it's time to get something down to protect against that.

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And the reason is once the circles up here, it's
you know, you can apply it and maybe stop additional circles,
but you're gonna have brown ugly all winter until it
greens up in the spring. So get ahead of these things.
He who hesitates is lost. It is time to get
all those done. You're listening to Guardline. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and I yesterday was down at or over

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at RCW Nursery and we had a really good time.
They put on a really nice event over there, and
I was just noticing that, you know, they are always
loaded up on different kinds of things. They've got the
shrubs and trees, for example, that they grow themselves up
in the planters bill area at the tree farm. And

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so when you go to RCW and you buy a
shrubber tree or woody vine, rose bush, those things, you
know you're getting quality plants. You know you're getting plants
that are going to succeed here because they're the right
species for our area. They have all the things you
need to plant those plants. It's the root stimulators and
other things fertilizers that you might utilize in that process.

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And they can also, especially for larger plants, come out
and do the planting for you at your place. So
whatever size the plants you're looking for, you're going to
find them there at RCW Chris. They always have things
like vegetables and herbs and so on. But this is
the fall season so important to plant. And RCW that's
the garden center for those of you who don't know

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where tom Ball Parkway comes into Beltway eight right there.
It's easy to get too, and all you got to
do is just go in and check it out. The
place looks great. They're doing a little renovation there and
it's it just keeps getting better. And so RCW is
it's a garden center you definitely need to go see.
And especially now. You know I was talking about doing

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things sooner rather than later, Well it is time to
get things planted. When you put a plant in right now,
it's got all the rest of fall in winter to
get roots going in the ground in a very low
stress time, and then when next summer comes, which arrives
early here, it has a better chance of survival and

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thriving even in fact, So go out to arciat I
we get those woodies that you think you may want
a plant, like a shrub or like a tree, get
them in the ground. This is the time to do it.
Someone when I was out there was asking me about
some of the flowers, the fall flowers, the ones that

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look good in fall, and we kind of have a
double season in fall. We've got the season where we're
planting our warm season. Like you can still plant maragoles,
for example, they just glow, they're beautiful in the fault,
and then right at the towards the end of that
they overlap with when we start planting cool season. Someone
was talking to me about planting dianthus and we were
talking about pansies, and we were talking about alyssum and

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snap dragons and all the things that can take a
little bit of cold, some of which can take a
lot of cold. Now time to get that done as well. Well,
I will take a little break here and I'll be
right back with your questions. Seven one three two one
two KTRH seven three two one two k t RH.
If you like to give us a call, if you
got a gardening question, we'll be happy to help you

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with that.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
You know santamultch down south of Houston. They're located on
FM five point twenty one, just north of Road Sharon,
kind of near Highway six. And two eighty eight. That
area sana mulch is the the like one stop shop
for everything you need to set the foundation for a
successful garden. And there's some things in horticulture that are

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hard sells to people, meaning that it's hard to get
people to change, to think different or whatever. One of
those is fall planting as boasted to spring. You can
plan any month of the year, but fall is awesome,
and it's just hard. Everybody's excited in spring. We should
be just as excited in the fall. That's one Number two.
Build the soil before you plant the plants. You know,

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you go to a garden center and there's flowers and
colors and vegetables and everything everywhere, and it's just like, yeah,
I get it. You love that stuff, but you want
to be able to have success with it. And your
plants live in their roots. Just think of it that way.
Plants live in their root system. So how good is it?
Is it compacted, is it water logged, is it droughty?
Does it have nutrients? Does it have lots of organic

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matter just to stimulate microbial activity in the soil. You
get all of that stuff at cienamals, and when you
leave cenamalts with that and you put it in your yard,
you get your gardens ready, you have a thousand percent
chance increase in your success when you put your plants in.
So I'm talking about things like mulch is on top

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of the ground. I'm talking about things like bed mixes
and composts to go under the ground. I'm talking about
things like every fertilizer you hear me mention on garden line,
Microlife products, the Nelson products, the nitrofoss products, the Medina products,
you know, Azamite on down the line, talking about brands
like Landscaper's Pride, black Velvet molts, like Heirloom Soils, Veggie

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and Herb mix. They've got it all there and they'll
deliver within about twenty miles of their location for a
small fee, So if you need to have them bring
it to you, they can do that. But the main
thing is just go get that done. Follows planting season,
it's time to get those products that you need to
have success. And all cnimals carries as high quality products.

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Their stuff is good. You're not going to get cheap
molts if somebody rushed through the process and now it's
just a problem for your plants rather than a benefit.
They know how to build it, they know how to
do it. They know how to provide you the tools
you need to have success. So let's do it. Let's
get it done. It's fall. Let's get planting done with cnimals.
Here's our website, Ciena mult dot com. A simple as that,

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cnamultch dot com. Go buy there, give them a call.
Maps on the website if you want to know exactly
how to get there and all that. But the main
thing is just get going. Let's do it. Time to
get that done. They say make hay while the sun shines.
I say, make soil while the sunshines. You know, once
it starts raining, it's hard to get out there and

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mix compost into soil. But now's a good time. We
got quite a bit a week here where we can
get stuff like that done. All right. I just always
harp on that, you know, it's soil, soil, so for
But it's true, it's true. One day everybody's can believe me,
and what a wonderful world it will be. Well about

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the horticultural stuff, maybe all right, Well, in Channy Gardens
in Richmond, they're on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond.
And if you've been out there, you know what I'm
talking about when I say it is a sprawling wonderland
of plants, it really is. You. They're on FM three
fifty nine again north of Richmond, Katie follsher side. And

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here's the website, write this down Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
They've got a great website with a lot of good
information on it. And I tell you, the Lendermann family
has been in the gardening business down there since nineteen
ninety five, you know when in Chenna Gardens first open
and that independent nursery, that garden center, that mom and
pop the kind we love here in the Greater Houston area.

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They've got everything that you need. They've whatever kind of
plant you want to plant, whatever kind of bling you
want to add to the landscape, whatever is seasonal for
that time of the year. And also they had the
products to go with that that you need. So remember
when you take a plan home, take something for the
plant's roots, home, compost, fertilizer, things like that to have

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success with it.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
They're open Saturday or Monday through Saturday from eight to
five today Sundays from ten am to four pm. It's
always a good day to visit. Why not hop out
there this summer or this summer, this afternoon and grab
some things. They've got a lot of cool stuff, including
some really nice bulbs inside of their gift shop area.

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And boy, those are great for forcing things like m
r ells for example. They just look so beautiful. Make
a good gift too, if you're going anywhere for Thanksgiving,
that would be a great gift for people you go see.
We're going to go now out to Clear Lake, Texas
and talk to Alan. Hey, Alan, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
Good morning, Skip. My question actually got three about leaf
mold compost. Every spring, every fall I go over to
Master Nurse three can get a picked up truck full
of They're a good leaf mold compost, and about one
third of it goes into my garden beds. The other
two thirds I scattered by hand over the whole yard.

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And I don't know why I did that, scattered over
the whole yard. Maybe I heard it from some on
the guarden line anyway, a long time ago. But I've
been doing this for about five or six years, and
this past Saturday, just to set it up a little bit,
more this. I mean the second Saturday of October, I

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did the Texas three step. So okay, So since I
put down the eagle and everything else, is it still
okay for me? The scatter the extra leaf mold compost
on the lawn.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's fine. Huh, it's uh. It's
it's organic matter that's in an advanced stage of decomposition
that's ready to go down and enrich the soil. It's
a lot of microbes, and anytime you put compost in
your it's it's loaded with microbes that are helping those plants.
You've got issues like brown patch, it may be attacking

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and things. So you've you've done with the three step.
You've you've gotten everything down and done. Now throwing some
compost on top, I've certainly done hurting thing, but in
fact it helps.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
Yeah, okay, and then doing it twice a year, all right,
spring and fall? Is that is that good?

Speaker 2 (14:50):
You can do that if you want to do that,
that's fine. You just don't put it real deep. You know,
you're putting it about a third of an inch or
so deep.

Speaker 7 (14:59):
Yeah, well, this okay gets scattered the follow up, that's it.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh okay, all right, well, good luck with that. Hope
you have a beautiful lawn. Thanks Kevin, Thanks Thanks Allan.
I appreciate your call. Take care you are listening to
Garden Line our phone number if you'd like to call
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love feed stores here on Garden Line. And if you
are down south of Houston in the League City area,
when I say League City Area, I mean Santa Fe, Dickinson, Webster,
El Camino, Real, Clare, Like Lamark Bankliss, San Leon, all
those communities down there. League City Feed is your hometown
feed store. And League City Feed has the fertilizers I'm
talking about. When I'm sitting here telling you it's time

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to fertilize. If you're going to prevent, if you've got
a brown Patch annual issue, now's the time to get
something down. If you're going to prevent winner weeds, now's it.
League City Feed's got all that. They've got it all there.
It's it's an old time feedst or built over forty
years ago. And you know, I love feed source because
I just like the smell of feed stores. I just
like the ambiance of a feedstore if you will. Uh,

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it's just fun. It's fun place to go, and they'll
carry your bags out for you too. It's that kind
of old time service. They're at League City Feed. But
you will find what you need there, and I encourage
you if you need really quality pet foods as well,
they've got those always available there at a League City Feed.
The phone number two eight one three three two one

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six one to two. They're located on Highway three, just
a few blocks south of Highway ninety six in League City.
League City Feed. They got a Dalmatian. Uh, they're one
of the family pets named Rorshak. Now, I think Rorshak
is the best name for a Dalmatian. You know, you
walk into League City Feed, stare at the dog a while,

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and then tell them what you see. You know, maybe
they'll help analyze what's going on. Rorshak for a delmat
of course, you name it dalmation Rorshak. That's perfect. We
were talking about with the Alan there. He said he
did the Texas three step, and some of you may
be going, what's the Texas three step? Well, it's Nitrofos's
program that takes care of your nutrients, takes care of

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the weeds, takes care of the diseases. And here's how
that works. Nutrients Nitropos fall special win riser. It's designed
for building a strong turf plant to go into winter,
to be heardy and resilient, and to come out stronger
in the spring. Secondly, Nitropos barricade pre emergent that is

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washing down into the soil. After you apply it, it
goes into the soil surface and it stays there, forming
a barricade that weeds can't come through. Weed seeds trying
to sprout cannot come through it. The third is Nitropos
Eagle turf fungicide. If you plagued with brown patch, you've
had that big brown circles in your lawn in the past,

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and you want to avoid that, Well, you get Eagle
down ahead of time. The plant takes it up and
it's kind of like our bodies. You know, you have
antibiotics in your body and a disease tries to come
and it says, you're not going to make this guy sick.
That's what's happening in your lawn. With Eagle to our fundicide,
the product moves in and it helps protect the plant.
So don't wait until after the circles appear. Get it

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down now, all three of those right away. And I
explained earlier why we get those things done soon. With fertilizing,
you want the grass to have time to take it
up and while it's still warm. With the barricade and
the Eagle, you want to get it in the soil
and in the plant in the case of Eagle, before
the weeds sprout in the soil, before the disease appears

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in the plants. You're going to find Texas three Step
at D and D Feed and Tomball Plantation, Ace Hardware,
and Richmond and Hiden and Feed on Stubner Airline, among
many many places you'll find nitro Fross products here in
the Greater Houston area. Our phone here on Guarden Line
if you'd like to give me a call seven to
one three two one two kt r H seven one

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three two one two k t r H. I was
up at the Arbor Gate a while back looking at
some of the things that they have gotten in. You know,
at the Arborgate there's always something coming in.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
You go around the back of Arburgate, which is where
that cool parking lot is. It's so convenient to get
in and out just really easy. It's on Trishel Road,
so you can it's a loop. So as you're coming
toward Arburgate you're going to pass Treischel before you get
to Arburgate, and then if you went past Arburgate you'd
pass Trishel again, it's a loop behind Arburgate. Well, when

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you come in from that parking lot in the back,
there's always giant racks of plants that have been coming
in there on whe I mean, just like here we
go a new set because they always keep up with
the things that are timely for the season. That's important.
You don't want to plant a plant when it's not
time to plant it. But they also plant the species
and the varieties that are going to do so very

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very well here, and that is important.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I've talked to Beverly and Kenn and all the folks
out there from time to time, and the enthusiasm there
for what they do, the quality of plants that they have,
and just the variety, and you know, most importantly, I
would say, most importantly the advice you get. You can
go a lot of places to buy a plant, but

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when you go there, do they know what they're talking
about and can they really help you with issues that
you have? Can they help solve those issues? Can you
walk in with a picture and say, hey, I need
something to go in this bed? It's just kind of blah.
How they can give you a lot of ideas for
doing exactly that and taking care of it, and that
is really really important. Wonderful plants, wonderful folks and wonderful products.

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Why are you there? Pick up their one two three
completely easy system. There's three bags. One is a fertilize
organic food Complete, one is a soil blend Organic soil Complete,
and one is a compost blend organic compost complete member.
Brown Stuff before green stuff. Those three bags set the
foundation for your success with your plants that you're going
to take home from Arburgate. Oh yeah, also got to

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check out there that just want blank gift shops Awesome,
awesome gift shops loaded up for the holidays. All right,
time for a break. I'll be right back country swinging
with a sleep at the wheel on a Sunday morning.
Welcome back to Guarden Line. We are glad you're listening
this morning. I hope you got a cup of coffee
and at least one eye opened at this hour seven

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And if you would like to get give us a
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Speaker 5 (22:15):
The.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
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the time in fact pass the time that everything is

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set up and they walk away because they continue three
sixty five twenty four to seven to provide that kind
of service. The other day, I was out dealing with
some nut sedge in my yard. Yes, I have nutsedge.
Don't tell anybody though, because I'm supposed to have everything
together here on horticulturally on guarden line, But yeah, I

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have some nuts edge, And you know, I produce that
nuts edge to publications on nuts edge that are on
my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And I was
using my weed wiper, which is also on the website
at gardening with Skip dot com, to apply some product
directly to the nutsedge. You know, I didn't want to
spend money on a whole lot of product to kill
it and just blast in the whole yards. I just
put it on with the weed wiper wherever nutsedge sticks

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up above the grass, reach in there and wipe that
stuff on it. And I'll tell you I've done it
twice now and I'm down to a fraction of what
I had. When we come back out in the spring,
I will see some because there will be nuts that
never did sprout, and then they sprout. But I get
on it fast, and once the nutsedge has three to
five leaves, you need to do something because after that

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it's going to start. It's gonna have enough. It's going
to have enough leaf area up in the light to
produce a lot of carbohydrates which go down and replenish
what the bulb used to create that sprout, and then
enough for the bulb to start sending out daughter bulbs
in all directions. And you don't want to. If you wait,

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you're just you're just making it worse. If you don't
stay up with it, it's gonna get worse, and it
will get worse. And those of you when I said,
you know what I'm talking about. But anyway, I was
out wiping. I do that about every over a couple
of weeks or so. I'll just if I'm looking around
and I see, oh, there's a little bit popping back
up over here over there, I just get the wiper
out Saturday morning, cup of coffee in one hand, wiper

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on the other hand, and there we go. We go
to town, get it done real easy, and I will win.
I am winning, and I will win and you can
too against this pernicious weed. By the way, that wiper
is good for a lot of other things too, Like
you got poison ivy growing among plants that are desirable,
or bermuda grass coming up underneath your rose bush and

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you don't want to spray that. We'll round up and
kill your rose bush when you kill the bermuda grass.
The wiper applicator is the way to get in there
and get that done. It's easy to make yourself. You
got anybody who's got one tiny, tiny bit, I'll do
it yourself on them. They can, they can make one
of those real easy. We make that easy for you

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our phone number seven one three two one two k
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off forty five. If you're going north on forty five.
When you get where fourteen eighty eight comes in from
Magnolia from your left hand side, going north, you just

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turn right, cross over the railroad tracks, turn right again
and you're there at Nature's Way. Nature's Way is a
place with some really nice plants as well. I don't
know if you've ever seen it. But they have, especially natives,
but a lot of different kinds of plants that they
have out there, and it's they're having a really big
sale on plant right now. You can go everything, but

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the native sun perennials is on a great sale. Go
through the end of the year. But the sooner you
get out there, the better your your selection is going
to be. But while you're out there, take take advantage
of the fact that you're at the place where a
lot of the well known soil products here in the
Greater Houston area were born. So you've heard of rose

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soil well that was born at Nature's Way. You've heard
of leaf mold compost that was that began at Nature's Way.
You see what I'm saying. They John Ferguson his son Ian,
They they have created a place where quality products come
out of there to help you have quality results with
your plans. So no matter what you're buying that you

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know when you leave there, or when you order it
to be delivered, or when you buy a bag at
a local garden center or some other place, you're going
to get good stuff if it's a Nature's Way product,
and the other the other thing that I would just
mention about it is. Don't forget that every Friday is
Fungal Friday, and they give twenty percent off their fungal compost,

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which is a really good deal. Fungal composts could be
used for top dressing a lawn, for mixing into a bed.
It's good stuff. And so on a Friday, that's your
day to get out there get ready for that weekend
by purchasing either going to pick it up or having
it delivered some fungal compost. Time for me to take
a little break. Now, I'll be right back, folks. We

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are going to continue here on Guardline with your questions.
All right back here at Garden Line, we're ready to go.
Seven three two one two k t RH if you'd
like to give us a call. If you I've been
looking at your landscape and it is like looks horrible
coming out of summer, or maybe just for a couple
of years now, you've been thinking, you know, it's kind

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of boring. What can I do to spice this up?
Call Greenpro? Call Greenpro or go to their website greenpro
dot net. I'm telling you, the one thing you do
that makes your lawn just pop is that it's kind
of a combo thing is aerration and compost top dressing.

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If you've got a loan that's struggling and it's like
what can I do, well, call Greenpro They'll come out.
They'll do a quality core aerration. That means they pop
the cores out of the soil and eve on the surface.
That's how you do it, not just those rental things
that press the soil open, compacting the sides of the hole.
They come out with really heavy duty equipment that I

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don't mean heavy duty equipment that can get the job
done like you just can't do yourself. And then they
come out with the compost spreaders to put that over
the top. And when you do that, you got a
in the soil, you got roots thriving. It's again, it's
all about the soil. Even your lawn is all about
soil quality and nutrient content, and Greenbroke can do that.
They serve a forty five mile area for magnolia. So

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the easiest way to think about it is if you
take Interstate forty five north and I ten west, that
northwest quadrant of Houston area, that's what they serve. So
that would be all the way up in Conroe and
Willison Woodland, Cyprus, spring Over and Magnoliam Montgomery and then
down Katie West Houston. You get the idea central Houston.

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If from now through fall, this is a special deal.
If they will aerate your lawn for free if you
purchase the compost top dressing service. So there's a two
yard minimum. Don't just say well I need only one yard.
Come all the way to timbuck to and now the
two yard minimum and then they come out, they do
the aer ration and the compost stop dressing. Their prices

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start at five point seventy five plus tax depends on
how big area is. You can go to Greenpro dotting
at the website or you can call them to eight
one three five one three. Let's go out and out
of Pairland. We're going to talk to Jason. Hey, Jason,
welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
Hey, good morning, Skip, Thank you very much for taking
my call. Got a small home in uh in the
Pearland area, and about within the last four to six weeks,
I'm seeing our grass started getting getting brown, started dying off,
and our oak tree in the front some of the

(31:32):
leaves started dropping and I noticed on the back of
the leaves on the oak tree is some yellow fuzz.
I really don't know any better way to describe it.
But all season plans for all season is where I
always purchase and try to follow the schedule. So within
the last four weeks we've done the uh, the car

(31:53):
belowed barricade, and the brown patch and the and they
had also had some kind of a and I can't
pronounce it, but it's it's similar to the bug out match,
but it's a different things product. So, okay, I need
some help. I don't know what to do now.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Okay, Well, first of all, I have good news. You
don't need to worry about those oak leaves. That is
a little insect called a gall wasp that did that,
and they there are different kinds of gall wasps. Some
people to find these little round wooden balls on their
oak trees. There's some little red things, little red slick
balls that are underneath the leaf. And then this little

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fuzzy one that you're describing. Those are all caused by
a little wasp that lays an egg inside the leaf tissue.
And because of the the the actions of the plant
and then what's the insects putting out? It causes that
little gall to grow, but it's essentially of no harm
to the tree. I mean it. You know if you

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had a little young tree and every single leaf was
falling off because of it, Okay, yeah, But basically they're
part of nature. They're out there. We just notice some
when the leaves fall off and stuff. But you don't
have to worry about that. Excellent peace of mind. I
appreciate it very much, sir, peace of mind. You bet,
you bet. Thanks for the call, Jason, take care you

(33:20):
you bet. If you're in the Heights area, you already
know about Buchanans native plants. But Buchanans is just a
It's an awesome place. You know. They have every kind
of it says native plants in the name, but they
have every kind of plant from houseplants to fruit trees.
Do you name it? But Texas Natives is what they
specialize in it. I don't know anyone that has the
selection that Buchanans does. For example, when you go in,

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you may say, you know what, I want some native
plants to attract wildlife, or I want some native plants
to support our birds, the ones that live here and
the ones that migrate through. They can direct you to those.
Do you need native plants that are for shady areas?
Do you need native plants that you want a plant
that are more on the zero side, meaning they can
take drought better than other plants. Do do you want

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to hedge or something for privacy? They can set you
up with natives for all those characteristics. You know, native
plants are crucial in our ecosystems and important to support
these birds and things like our native bees, moths, and
butterflies that are here. And Buchanans is a place to
get them. You've got a easy, easy access. They are

(34:30):
on Eleventh Street and the Heights, and when you go
in there, you will be very impressed with the kinds
and the variety of things that they carry. And oh
my gosh, go in the gift shop. Christmas is already
arriving at the Buchanans gift shop and you got to
check out the things they have there. I'm going to
head now out to Galleria area and talk to guitar Dave.

Speaker 10 (34:54):
All right, Dave, Well, anyway, meanwhile, back at the ranch,
you know, like when I was a kid, we had
sixty two acres, sixteen cows, a bull and a horse
and everything else. And I remember when we were planting
corn purple hull peas, corn purple hull peas. And then
one of the things my mom was always telling us

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is she swore by thirteen thirteen thirteen fertilizers and and
but I mean my question is, you know, my dad
would go out there with the once the cows were
out there doing their business, then he would go out
there with a disk and get that all in to
the ground. And then every year we would mark where

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we did the corn and the purple hole peas, and
then we changed the rows because I think the way
we were taught that the nutrients from the purple old
peas helped the corn, and like you know, vice versa.
All right, Hello, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Mean, yeah, I'm here. What's your question?

Speaker 10 (36:00):
Well, I mean, is that well, I mean, and then
my mom told us about the manure or stuff like that,
don't put it too close around a plant because it'll
burn the roots or something like that.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Huh you think, all right, so manure, Yeah, let me
just address those things. A manure straight manur can cause
damage to plant roots and I guess a tender stem
if you put too much. Some miners are we say
very hot, and that would be like poultry maneuver that
that's tons of nitrogen and things like that in it.

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Other things like horse and cattle especially, they're they're kind
of on the other end, not as potent and strong.
The main thing with manure we worry about in an
edible garden, though, is you can have some human diseases
like salmonella and E. Coli and whatnot, and so if
that splashes up onto your tomatoes or lettuce leaves or
things like that. That's why even organic gardeners cannot use

(36:57):
fresh manure that's not being composted for a very appropriate
and long period of time.

Speaker 10 (37:04):
Golly, I got a question about my fig tree out here.
You know it's actually it's a fig bush now, But
what do I do about when the leaves start turning
kind of yellows?

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Looking, all right, let's let's address that. And you're gonna
hear music in just a second, and that'll be the
end of this segment. EIGs get yellow leaves when they're
stressed from a drought, from excessive nematodes on the roots,
You'll get older leaves turning yellow and falling. It could
also be a sign of extremely poor soil. But figs

(37:38):
are pretty tough. They're not divas that need lots of fertilizer.
The other thing that can cause that is a disease
called rust that gets on the leaves and there's really
not a practical control for that. But figs are tough.

Speaker 10 (37:52):
I appreciate everything, Man, Thanks for you. Thanks for Stephania Man.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yeah, thanks, thanks, appreciate that. Dave, take care all right,
here we go. We are going to another break at
the top of the hour. Guess where I'm gonna be
next Saturday. Next Saturday, get this on your calendar. I'm
gonna be at Katie Hardware out there in Katie, Texas.
I'm going to tell you more about it as we
go through the show this morning, but I'll be there
from twelve to two Katie Hardware out in Katie, Texas.

(38:19):
So all of you out that direction, Katie and all
over there, come on, make plans, come out to see me,
bring me some samples. We're gonna be having lots of
good giveaways and as always, a good time leading you
and basically helping you have a more pountiful garden than
a beautiful landscape.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Welcome to kat r h garden line with Skip Richter's.

Speaker 7 (38:50):
Trip.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Just watch him as see.

Speaker 7 (39:08):
A side.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Sun.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Good Sunday morning, Good Sunday morning, on what's going to
be a beautiful day out there. I hope this afternoon
you got some plans to get out and about get
a few things done in the landscaping in the garden.
You know, if you've never planted a vegetable garden, why
not do one this year? And when I say that,
I'm not talking about you plowing up the back forty

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and turn in your yard into mixed up dirt. I'm
talking about any kind of gardening that is at the
level and the extent that you are interested in. For example,
I've never grown anything for I'm going to get a
five gallon bucket, droll holes in the bottom, put good
soil in it, and grow a broccoli plant. I mean,
it could be a container. It could be a nice bed.
You know, one of those store bought beds that you

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fill up with quality mix. I've got one that we put.
We put a veggo bed on our patio in the back,
kind of an L shaped bed, and it's filled with
a good quality mix. And my wife has a lot
of our flowers and vegetables. You've got some broccoli in
there right now, but those are very attractive. And rather
than getting a rottailer out, we just dropped this thing

(40:17):
on the ground, put it together, filled it with soil,
and here we go. And you can garden that way. Now,
if you want to plow up the back forty of
course you can do that too, but make it easy
on yourself. But above all, do something, grow something. Some
of the best most health promoting vegetables you can grow
all year you grow this season. And that would be

(40:38):
things like kale and broccoli, the cruciferous plants, the blue
leafed vegetables, the coal crops, those are all. They're all
that describing the same thing. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, coabbie, kale, collareds.
What am I leaving out? I think, well that's enough
for right now. Anyway. Those are excellent for your health

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and they grow easy. How about carrots. Carrots are excellent
for your health, and they grow in the cool season.
In fact, they like to be a little bit cooler
than it is right now to grow. So a good
container with some depth, maybe ten inches of depth or so,
can grow some really good carrots and we've done that before.
How about other greens like Swiss charred or beats which

(41:21):
we get the tops and the bottoms the greens and
the swollen root for the beats. When I do that
this year, that's kind of my I don't want to
say challenge. That's a little corny, but that's what I
would encourage you to consider. And if you've got kids,
please consider it because as youth grow up growing food

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that number one. When you grow it, you're more likely
to eat it. And our number one health problems are
due to what we put in our mouth and our
lack of activity. And gardening solves both. You know that
thing that says every thirty minutes, get up, leave your desk,
walk around for a minute, come back and sit down.
That's true. What have I going out in the guard now?
That is really true? And you know, rather than fast

(42:04):
food and processed foods, healthy stuff, you grow yourself and
you can and we'll help you do it. Here so
well are independent garden centers all over the Greater Houston
area that are stocked with plants and that are loaded
with good advice people that know what they're talking about
to help you have success. All right, Well, there was

(42:25):
a little soapbox, but I believe it. I hope you
will believe it too. While Birds Unlimited is the place
I go for all the things related to birds that
I do. If you need a bird house, if you
need a bird feeder, if you need advice on birds especial, boy,
they they know what they're talking about. If you are looking,

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you know, for quality bird food. You know, the winter season,
as we're going into fall and then eventually winter, the
day length, the day length gets shorter and shorter, and
in that there's less time for birds to be out
there finding food and a high quality food like Wildbirds
Unlimited Winter super Blend that would be a great choice

(43:08):
for this season because it's packed with bat and protein
to help those birds out. It's still very dry out there.
I know maybe at the end of the week we're
going to get some rain, but every day of the
year a bird has to drink water, So I don't
care if it's December and cool outside, where are they
going to get water? And if you make that war
in your yard, they'll come to your yard. And that's

(43:29):
why we want to put bird feeders and things out
to attract birds. Water is one of the simplest way
to do it. Warbird's Unlimited encourages you to leave a
small hummingbird feeder filled out there through the holidays. You
might be lucky enough to have one of these rufous hummingbirds.
A lot of the rufous birds, they basically migrate all
the way down to Mexico. Some of them come along

(43:51):
the Gulf coast and hang out here for the winter,
so we can still have one of that type of
hummingbird still around. Wibirds Unlimited, WBUT dot com forward slash Houston.
We'll give you the six stores here in the Greater
Houston area. WBU dot com forward slash Houston. You are

(44:11):
listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our
phone number here if you'd like to give me a call.
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Microlife has put together an outstanding list of products that

(44:32):
are just perfect for the things you need to do
to make the brown stuff richer for the plants that
you put in it browns up in the soil. Microlife
specializes in providing additional microbes and the things that microbes
like to eat if you will, uh, so that those
nutrients can get released to your plants. They also have

(44:54):
a product now the fall. The fall fertilization from microlife
is called brown patch. The bag of round patch is
what you put out in the fall to provide those
nutrients to your lawn. I would add to that especially
the season micro grow bioanoculan. And this product has sixty
three different beneficial microbes. And I'm looking here at the

(45:16):
list of strains that are in it, and I mean
there's some microbes here that are famous for what they do.
A trichoderma microbe, for example. Their products you buy the
commercial growers will buy to put in soil so that
their little seedlings don't get root rot, and Trachoderma is
in those because it helps fight root disease on those seedlings.

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There's other things like basilla subtlest. Basilla subtlest is sold
in a bottle of liquid that you spray on your
plants to fight disease. These are microbes that are in
micro grow, sixty three different ones. I just told you
about two put out a bag of micro grow. It
goes out at a super low rate. It's not like fertilizing rate.

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So we're talking about you know, five to ten pounds
per thousand square feet, and if you've got a lot
of problems, you know, you can take that up to
twenty pounds. But anytime you're wanting to improve the situation
in the soil and on the plant surface, getting these
products down from micro especially this micro grow in this
specific situation, I would recommend you do that. You can

(46:21):
find Microlife all over town. Just go to Microlife Fertilizer
dot com. You can find out where to get it.
But I can just tell you this, if it's a
garden center, if it's a feed store, if it's an
Ace hardware store, if it's Southwest Fertilizer, all those kinds
of places, and also Cienemulch too. As Carrius. That all right,
time for me to take a break. I'll be right
back with your calls. If you want to call now

(46:43):
and get on the board, you can be first up.
Seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to
garden Line, folks. Good to be back with you. I
tell you it is early in the morning right now,
and I congratulate you for being up listening to garden Line.
But I'm telling you today is going to be a
great day, and I hope this afternoon you will get
out and do some gardening, maybe some garden shopping. The

(47:06):
garden centers right now or oh, they're beautiful loaded with
fall color. They are just brimming to the top and
starting to get a lot of winter color into a
lot of good options for that. You know, we have
four seasons a year here, like they do everywhere. Ours
are different. You know, Summer is basically what ten months,

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Winter is about five days and fall in spring total
of the rest of the time. No, seriously, though, every
season there are flowers that do well, and there's foliage
that does well. Don't forget foliage too, and so when
wintertime comes, there's no reason not to have beautiful color
in your landscape. There's a lot of ways we can

(47:52):
go about that. But things like pansies and viola's everybody
knows about those. Listen, snap dragons. Nastciam is one some
people to grow those colendulas do well in the cool season,
Dusty Miller. It's kind of a silvery plant, looks really
good with blue flowers like blue iolas and things. There's
a lot of cool color plants that we can put
out there. Ornamental kale, there's a there are a number

(48:14):
of kales that and cabbage too, that they're just grown
for ornament because of the colors in the foliage. There's
an edible kale that actually I guess all of it
technically is edible, but there's one that is a very
burgundy colored one that's really beautiful. I would like to
call it maroon as a matter of fact, but it

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is a gorgeous, gorgeous little plant that looks good in
the landscape, and in the spring when it bolts and
sends up yellow flowers, it's even prettier. Then it's everything
changes and suddenly from a little short plant, now you've
got a big tall bloomstalks and things on it. Take
advantage of that. And to do that first you got
to get the soil right. So that's something to focus on. First,
get the soil right, and then go out and get

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some quality plants. You know, a place like Plants for
All Seas. For example, they're on two forty nine, right
just north of Luetta on two forty nine, right there.
It's easy to get in and out. They've been around
since nineteen seventy three, and so everybody in that region
knows them. I mean they're well known, a very very
popular place because when you go there, they've got all
the products you need to have success. You know, you

(49:18):
hear me talk about a fertilizer or a soil here
on Guardline, they're going to have them at Plants for
all seasons. Then you hear me talk about plants. Well,
no matter what it is, from your cool seasoned vegetables
that I was encouraging you to get in plant earlier
to herbs. Now fall is a great time for almost
all herbs. Basils an exception, but I mean all of

(49:39):
these perennial herbs, you know, time and rosemary and marjoram
and oh gosh, what am I regano and I could
just go on and on, chives and different things. Now's
the time to get those planted. They got them at
Plants for All seasons. If you need help with a problem,
you can take a picture or a sample in there.
They can help you with. That's the here's the phone number.

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You need to write this down because you'll need to
give them a call. Seven or excuse me, two eight, one, three, seven,
six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six
one six four six plants for all seasons. You are
gonna take pride in your landscape when you start using
their plants and taking their advice. To have that kind

(50:21):
of success in your landscape, you need to visit. If
you have a brown thumb and you won't turn it green,
you need to visit plants for all seasons. If you've
got a green thumb, well they'll make it greener. How
about that you're listening to garden Line our phone number
if you would like to give us a call and
actually right now be top of the list. Seven one
three two one two k t R eight seven one

(50:45):
three two one two k t RH. So if you
got a gardening question, this would be a good time
to ask that question. I was talking earlier about airlom soils,
the fact that some of the airlom cel products are
available down there at Cnmulch Well airlom soils. If you
go up to the Porter area, that's the soil yard
up there, we're on rock and malts and airlom soils

(51:07):
up in Porter they are I guess the source. I
would say of a wide variety of quality products that
are available in a wide range of places. It's hard
to find places where you're not going to have somewhere
nearby that you're going to find those airlom soil products.

(51:28):
And we're talking about the kinds of things that make
your garden successful, that make your landscape successful. For example,
are you going to put in shrubs this fall or
roses a type of shrub. How about the roses and
bloomers blend that is an excellent soil for that. How
about citrus mix. Fruit Berry and citrus mix is what

(51:48):
it's called very good for all of those kinds of plants.
They got landscape bed mixes. They've got the veggie and
herb mix that is just pretty much good for anything
growing like that that you're going to eat. I use
the cactus, some succulent. My wife loves strings, strings of pearl,
strings of We have strings of everything, strings of stuff.
I didn't know there were strings of anyway, it's growing

(52:12):
that you should see them. They look beautiful and they're
growing in airloom soils. Cactus and succulent soil mix. They
got the standard potting soil called the works. And then
if you've got heavy clay expanded shale. You got to
put expanded shell down. Compost improves a clay, but in
time compost breaks down. So having expanded shale also in

(52:32):
there with it, it's like hot I think of this.
This isn't a totally accurate but it'll give you the
right idea. If you take kitty litter and fire it
in an oven so hot that it expands and you
get all these little pores on it, so it looks
like a lava rock under a microscope that's expanded shale
and expanded jalil is a rock that holds its porosity

(52:53):
and holds its structure over time and the soil, and
it really really helps our heavy, heavy clay. Three or
four inches of expanded shale would be good to fully
do the job on a really yucky, sticky clay. And
you can get it from Heirloom Soils. Just go to
Heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. You can learn about

(53:15):
all the products they have and then go to your
local garden center, ace hardware store, feed store, sofa's fertilizer
and all those kinds of places are going to carry
the products. You're listening to Guardline, I'm your host Skip Richter,
and we are now going to head out to sugar
Land and talk to Ann. Hello Ann, good morning, and
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (53:36):
Good morning. I have squirrels that are digging in my
pots of pansies and wondered if there was anything I
could do to discourage them.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Well, you know that that's what squirrels do, and so
it's hard to talk them out of that. I've known
people that tried different things. You this is a little trouble.
But if you've got some some plants that you can
plant through a mesh like a like maybe you cut
out a section a chicken wire or something like that,

(54:10):
put it on the ground, and then and then you
know your plants are going in there. Uh, it's trouble
to do that. But it's hard for dogs and squirrels
and cats and other things to dig in any four
better pot like that that. The only other thing would
be some sort of a repellent. Uh. And the ones
that are mainly used on squirrels are basically based on

(54:31):
hot pepper oil. And that that's because if they chew
on it, it burns their little mouths and they realize
they don't want to chew on that anymore. And so
that help some with the squirrels, but they are a problem.
You know, our urban neighborhoods are filled with squirrels.

Speaker 11 (54:49):
Where would I get on.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
A go to go to wild Birds unlimited.

Speaker 11 (54:57):
Wold Bird?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Yeah, okay, warbirds will have it. They carry all those
kinds of things.

Speaker 5 (55:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
And I would say, let me do something while we're
talking here. I'm gonna try to find that actually for you.
But you can go to w b U dot com
forward slash s Houston, okay, and that'll give you the
Wallbirds stores that are the closest to you. And you're
down in sugar Land, so you've got a store on
bel Air Boulevard that's probably the closest to you. Oh okay,

(55:31):
good good, okay, okay. Now test it on plants, because
you know oils just it's an oil and any kind
of an oil. We use a lot of types on plants.
But I've never tried spraying hot pepper on plants. So
test it on a little spot first before you just

(55:52):
you know, nuke the whole flower flower pot of pansies.
Make sure that's going to be okay.

Speaker 11 (55:57):
All right, okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
All right, thank you you take care. Yes, squirrels are
a problem, and that's a tough one. You know, if
they're if they're eating like bird seed, you can put
the pepper oil on them and they get a bite,
and I mean they're not gonna like that, you know,
like putting hob and arrow on my ice cream. I
think I would even stop eating ice cream if it
had hobbinn arrow oil on it. But when it comes

(56:25):
to like here's the plants and they're just digging around,
that's that's more difficult. In a little pot where you
got pansies, it's kind of hard to do. The wire
thing that works in a bed pretty well, I had
that in a bed where my dogs decided they wanted
to dig. Do you know I have two Golden retrievers,
Texan Ellie. Didn't I sound like a like some kind
of Stoga wagon going west Texan Ellie heading out to anyway?

(56:50):
They're Golden Retrievers. And I didn't know this when I
got them, but I thought golden retrievers were bred for
like retrieving a duck from a pond or retrieving Apparently
they were bread for retrieving plants. I'll go out and
plant a plant when these dogs were young. We've gotten
planet a plant i'd come back out. In fact, I've
posted this to Instagram a long long time ago. My

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little four inch pots of I think it was cone
flower that I'd put out there. They Ellie retrieved them
for me. She brought him to the back porch and
had them lay in there while she sat with dirt
on her mouth, looking at me like I was going
to praise her. I guess I don't know what she
brought them to show me. But anyway, we need a
dog rehab service that can teach dogs how to retrieve

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weeds instead of plants. Now, that would be a dog worth.
We love those dogs, but they also My wife planted
a rudbeccia recently and we came out and about half
the petals re eating off one flower, and it came
out and the flowers were gone. They just like to
chew on stuff. Anyway. They're good dogs other than that.

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So if any of you know how to, if you
want to start a money making business, train dogs how
to retrieve weeds, I think that would be great. All right,
Spring Creek Feed is up there in Magnolion FM twenty
nine seventy eight, and you hear me talk about it
from time to time. It is an awesome feedstore is
actually a beautiful feed store. You go, you drive up

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and this building is just inviting. I mean it's like, oh,
that looks good. And then you walk in and you
first thing, the first thing I think about is Okay,
did I come to the wrong place or this looks
more like a beautiful store of just all kinds of
displays of everything in the world you might want. And
then you look over to the side, Oh, there's feed there.
And then you look the other side and oh, there

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is everything I need for my plants in the garden,
yard and landscape. So that would be the fertilizers I
talk about. That would be disease control, insect control, weed control.
It's all there. They've got it at Sprint Creek Feed. Now,
if you are a senior citizen or military or FFA
for hu raising animals, their discounts for that. They can

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also special order and they do have a delivery service
if you need that, if you like to do that.
But the staff is friendly and courteous. And when you
consider the full line of Nelson, turf Star, the microlife,
the nitrophoss, all the things that they carry. It's just
an easy, one stop shop and you will like them
when you go in there. Though, if you're into backyard

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chickens too, I mean, can they ever get you set
up on that? Lots of stuff? All right, time for
me to take a little break here. I am going
to be right back if you'd like to call us
seven one three two one two kt rh All right, folks,
welcome back to garden Line. We are going to keep
going here with advising and helping and doing whatever we

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can to help you have a more bountiful garden, a
more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That's
the that is the important one too. You know, gardening
is not remember the days when people had to like
hunt and gather. Member, of course you don't remember. None
of us are around people. I had hunt and gather
just to survive, right, And then we discovered farming and

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you had to if you had a crop failure, you
starved out. Well, we don't live in that time anymore,
and here in the States at least, and we're fortunate,
extremely blessed for that. But you can grow your own food,
You can do all kinds of things and have fun
in the process, and gardening is just in our blood.
I really believe that. By the way, I will tell

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people that I know that are under other professions, including medicine,
the ministry, all kinds of things. I'll say, you know,
I actually am in the profession, the first profession ever,
the profession officially ordained by God. Because he didn't make
a guard, a cubicle of Eden or a clinic of Eden.
He made a garden of Eden. And we get to

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as gardeners. We get to do what I just think
mankind is basically designed for, and that that is to
get out there, to enjoy nature, to create, to build,
do all kinds of things. That's a little bit of
a soapbox, but I know this that I am happiest
when I'm in my garden. Someone once said that I
can't imagine when it comes to like building the soil,

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allowing someone else else to rob for me. The opportunity
to get out in the soil and dirt and garden
and grow. It is a good with a lot of
good analogies too. By the way, I know I'm going
off topic here, but I think it's fun. For example,
Abraham Lincoln said this die when I may I want

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it said by those who knew me the best, that
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where
I thought a flower would grow. You know, he said that,
and't that? What we try to do is get out
there and make life a little better. When we say
improve your lot in life, well, your property is city
lots or country acreage, how can we improve it? That

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is what it's about. Gardeners are optimists, and we know
we can it'll be better. You know, the best garden
I've ever had is the one I'm gonna plant. When
I go to a garden center and buy a fruit tree,
I let's say it's a peach. I can already see
that tree five years old in my yard, loaded with

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the most delicious peaches on earth. Because we have that optimism,
we have that ability to do that. And Thomas Cooper
years ago said, garden is never so good as it
will be next year. And that's really true, really really true.
All Right, I'm gonna stop pontificating and we'll talk to
you about the things you're interested in if you give

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us a call seven one three two one two K
t R. H Ace Hardware stores are all over the
Houston area over forty stores now in the Greater Houston area.
And when you go into ACE, first of all, if
you're one of the folks trying to do the nitrofoss one, two,
three or three step excuse me, the nine of us

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three step fertilizer disease prevention, weed prevention in your yard,
go to Ace Hardware store. They're going to have it.
They're gonna have the whole package there. And you know,
in any season of the year, Ace is going to
have the things you need to have a beautiful lawn
and a beautiful garden and a productive garden. You got
pest and disease problems. They got you covered. Fall is

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it's very important in the fall if you have fire ants,
which pretty much eyboy does.

Speaker 12 (01:03:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
If you have fire ants, fall baiting is really really
a great way to knock them down a lot. So
next spring it's like, oh my gosh, I'm inundated. This
is way worse than it was in the fall. If
you will do your baiting now, and Ace Hardware has
all kinds of different bait options for you, that is
the least toxic way to control fire ants, and now's

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the time to get it done. You want to put
baits out when the weather is conducive to the ants
being out, and in summertime during the middle of the day.
Do you know, even though they're called fire ants, they
don't like the hot, hot heat of the middle of
the day. They tend to come out more in the
mornings and later, cooler afternoon hours and things. But if

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you don't know if it's time to put a bait out,
it's easy to get something that's oily, like an empty
tunican packed in oil or a potato chip. That's the
easiest one. I think. Toss a potato chip or two
or three around the garden a landscape, come back fifteen
minutes later, and if they're fire ants on it, if
they found it, which they will, they love that oil,
then it's time to put out the bait. I knew

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a guy that took little flags, those little wire flags
that you put out marking a pipeline or something, and
he would cut a hot dog into little sections, little slices,
stick the wire flag through it, and stick that hot
dog out in the landscape. And with the flag, he
knew exactly where the hot dogs were. Come back fifteen
minutes later. That's how they decided when they were going

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to do their treatments. He was actually a fire researcher
that taught me that Ester lives in the Greater Houston area.
But anyway, however you go about it, find the timing
that's right, and then get out there and get it done.
And ACE Hardware Store is going to have you covered
on the baits that you need. Go to ACE Hardware
dot com and find the store locator and when you do,
you're going to see the stores stores plural that are

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nearest to you. Our phone number is seven one three
two one two k t R H. Give us a
call if you've got a question that we can help
you with. I heard something a while back. In fact,
I got a notice from Texas A and M Aggerlife
and the Research and Vegetable Improvement Center. That is a

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facility that's a program too there on the Texas A
and M Campus Research and Vegetable Improvement Center. They have
for years worked on making healthier vegetables. You know, there's
compound in onions called corsetan that helps fight I believe
it's cancer with the corsetan. And they're so breeding onions

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that have more corstant or breeding tomatoes and the lycopene
is one of the health things that we have in
tomatoes and developing vegetables that not only are more productive,
but that are better well. Now, there is a multi
university consortium that's been put together. This is led by

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Texas A and m Agrilife and Extension and it includes
the University of Florida, Michigan, State University of California, Cornell, Arizona,
University of Washington, n C, State University of Georgia, Oregon
all over the country. This consortiums get together and guess what.
Experts from these major tomato breeding programs are developing regionally

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adapted disease free tomato varieties to improve water use, sufficiency
and heat tolerance. They rang all the bells with that sentence,
because we know tomato struggle in the heat. Breeding tomatoes
that can grow in the heat better. We know water
is a limited resource. More efficient tomatoes when you consider,

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you know, thousands of acres of tomatoes around the state
and the country, what are you Sufficiency is important? And
then disease resistance. How about not having to spray your
tomatoes as much because they've developed one that doesn't get
that disease. And then perhaps the most important flavor quality, flavor.

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They are focusing on the old time flavors, the taste,
the texture, the aroma. Doctor Pattil who leads that up,
he made a statement, he said, the breeding programs will
focus on enhancing not just resilience of the tomatoes, but
also their taste, their texture, and their aroma. So I'm

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all in. And it takes a while, and when these
programs get going on breeding and developing, it'll be a
while before we see the results. But can you imagine
tomatoes that are more tolerant, that are more disease tolerant,
that taste better, and that require less water to produce.
That's a that's a home run if they can hit
that one over the fence. So congratulations on lending that

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that grant. And they're working with also the oh gosh,
what is it, the USDA Agriculture Research Service on that.
All right, folks, I have jabbered my way all the
way to another break. We will be right back. Hey,
if you want to be first up when we come back.
Calls seven one three two one two kt RH All right,

(01:08:28):
welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you,
Good to have you with us. Today we are going
to continue on here with your calls and also just
general advice about having success with gardening. I was out
at Enchanted Forest Garden Center, which is down there in
the Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact, if you're in Richmond
and you're heading towards sugar Land, it's way off to

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the right. It's on a road called FM twenty seven
twenty seven fifty nine, and boy, when you get there,
you know it. I mean, this place is just a showplace.
It's beautiful, beautiful. They're loaded up. There's any pumpkins everywhere,
and moms everywhere, all kinds of fall color. It's really cool.
One thing I want to mention, they've gotten in some

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plants that I think are under utilized, and that would
be cyclemen. Cyclemen is a gorgeous plant. Oftentimes they're given
as a gift plant to take inside and put on
a table, and they're not going to do good long
term in the house, but you can bring them in
these little falling star looking blooms. That blooms look like
falling stars, so you just have to see one, see
what I'm talking about. They're beautiful. They would be a

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great decoration. They'd be a great gift to take to
family and friends for if you're traveling for Thanksgiving. But
put them in your own garden, if you've got a
bright shade an area like under even a live oak
tree area. They will do okay in there for a
good while, and you can put them in. They take
cold as long as it's not bitter bitter cold, so
they hold up. It's just a great plant for this

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time of year. And I driving around town, I don't
see enough of those, I think in landscapes because they
are so pretty. Oh my, there Greenhouse has produced a
bunch more of these awesome vegetables that you find it
in Chenny Forest. They are loaded vegetables and herbs. You
just need to go in and see it. I was
talking to you earlier trying to get you plan a

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gardener at least a container with vegetables this fall. That
is a great idea, and in Chenny Forest as you
set up for that.

Speaker 13 (01:10:22):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine now. If you
would like to go to their website, I hope you
will because it is awesome. Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com.
In chenned Forest, Richmond TX dot com, we're gonna go
down to north West Houston and talk to Ibrahim. Ibrahim,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (01:10:44):
Oh yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
My question.

Speaker 14 (01:10:49):
I don't know I can get the answer it the whole.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
Come up.

Speaker 14 (01:10:53):
So I was talking about the tomato and I can
what kind of ground I can use because the sun
is shifting and that I cannot put the full sun
and then all kind of stuff uh, drying in the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
I mean, so you want to know about it about
the soiler. Yeah, so you want soil and then the yes, okay,
So if you're going to plant them in the ground,
I would get a quality soil blend for that, and
I would build up a little bit of a raised bed.
You can mix it into the soil you have and

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then add more of the blend on top of that mix.
That way, as the roots go down, it's not like
they go down through this mix and suddenly they hit
clay soil or whatever is underneath. You sort of blend
them together a little bit. There's a veggie and herb
mix by Heirloom Soils that is excellent for that. Veggie
and herb mix by Airlomb Soil.

Speaker 14 (01:11:53):
A g that's the name in the soil.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Veggie uh, veggie like vegetable veg They just veggie is
a short word for vegetable, but vegete veggie and herb mix,
heirloom soils uh. And wherever you shop, if you're if
you in your location, you've got some grade these hardware stores.
And you also have some great nurseries that will carry

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these kinds of mixes. If you want to grow them
in a container, you need a container. I think you
need a container.

Speaker 15 (01:12:23):
That's about exactly okay, yeah, so get get the veggie
and R mixed, put it in a container, but make
sure the container.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
But by the way, it's it's too late now for tomatoes,
but next spring we will be planting them again. They
can't take take our freezing weather. But next spring, veggie
and RB mix and a container, and get a container
that's at least ten gallons in size. So you think
of a five gallon bucket, Yeah, a ten is better.
You can do it in a five gallon if it's

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not too big of a tomato. And if you water
it when it gets hot, you're gonna be watering it,
like I said, ay, and a five gallon bucket. And
so that's why I like ten because it holds more
soil and more water available for the roots. So you
just have a little better success with that.

Speaker 14 (01:13:12):
Yes, I appreciate the things. So I got two more
things to ask you. But if you have a private.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Yeah, go ahead, we got time. Go ahead.

Speaker 14 (01:13:20):
One thing I want to tell you. The winter time
I plant tomato and that sounds funny. Uh, my sisters,
are you crazy? What you're doing in the is coming.
I just took them inside a couple of time, and
the real branches dry, but the fresh one came up too,
and the summertime turns out like a tomato and then
h five or six tomato, big tomato. I get. I

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just showed my sisters that was funny for stuff. And yeah,
I want to ask you dogs pooping and anywhere. I
just I don't have that much experience that teach dogs.
Anybody can I mean, I don't know. If you can
give me some chip, how I can tell those how
I can teach where they can put.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
You know, And it's a I don't know any way
to do that. I'm sure there are trainers who can
do it. What we do is we can let our
dogs out to a certain area first, uh, and and
get them over there and they get used to going there.
But uh it, I have that same problem in my yard,
and I don't know a good answer to that. Did
you have a follow up question?

Speaker 16 (01:14:25):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (01:14:27):
Oh, yes, sir, this is ea.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Okay, yes, yes, yeah. Did you have another question?

Speaker 14 (01:14:34):
Another question I have? I have a birth for putting
the birth water, and I have a little birth full
and sometimes coming like somebody don't power top in the
water and this water doesn't look like good and I
just looked afresh every day. Do you know how I
can check this water? What's the problem? And that is somebody,

(01:14:57):
like you said, put in the power. Do you know
any place I can check?

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Is this like a little pond in the ground or
is this like a little bowl above ground that holds
the water.

Speaker 14 (01:15:09):
Hold just like berstwater like get in bed and all
kind of stuff drinking the same same place just like
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
I don't know. I don't know what Okay, I don't
know what. Powder on? Okay, why don't we do this? Abraham?
I'm going to put you on and my well, I
can't see it right now, but I will. I'm gonna
put you on hold and makes you get an email.
So you can email me that a picture if you

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don't already have it, and they'll take a look at
it and see what I can see. I'm gonna have
to run. We're at the end of the hour. Uh. Okay,
I'm going to put you on hold and my producer
will give you my email. Okay, just hang on, don't
hang out. Yeah you bet, Yeah, and thanks for the call.
Appreciate that.

Speaker 13 (01:15:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
I've talked a lot about Medina products. Medina has been
around for a very long time, and gardeners have been
fans of Medina for a very long time. The Medina
Soil Activator is one of their most famous products that
they put out there. They have taken Medina Soil Activator
and added to it some things and called it Medina Plus.

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And that Medina Plus has over forty different trace elements.
It's got natural growth hormones from seaweed, It's got a
number of different additional nutrients, including even things like vitamins
and trace elements, and it just works. I just planted
a whole bit of strawberries. I don't know what I'm
gonna do if they'll start producing. I keep joking, you'll
have to bring strawberry your produce to the station. When

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I advise you on something, I may have to take
my strawberries to your house because I'm going to have
more strawberries than I know what to do with. But anyway,
and one reason I am is when I planted on
my watered amen with medina plus, you just put it
in a watering can. That's how I do it. And
anything you plan, I mean tomato plants, broccoli plants, herb plants,

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rose bushes. Shrubs it up, drench it in over the
soil and give those plants a head start boost. It's
okay to get it on the foliage. In fact, if
you've got foliage above on what you're planning, you can
sprinkle it over there because it also is a good
folio feed and will not burn. Thedina plus widely available
here in the Houston area, easy to find. And I'll

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just say this, when you think about a plant going
in the ground, think about the dina plus put any
at the same time. It can be used for other things,
but definitely let that transplanting get that in the ground.
I don't know how time flies like this, but I'm
having a good time. I hope you are. We're about
to put an hour in the books. Next Saturday, I'm
going to be at the Ace Hardware storing Katie. Katie

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Hardware is the name of the star Katie Hardware. I'll
tell you a little bit more about it when we
come back from this break. But twelve to two, go
ahead and just market on your calendar. Twelve to two
we're going to be giving away a lot of cool stuff.
I love to meet all of you the way out
that direction, but don't come to some of the other the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Ricord's.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Crazy trim.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
Just watch him as well us so many good things
to Suprasyay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Sorry you all right, welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line.
Glad you are joining us today. Thanks for listening. We
appreciate that. We enjoy visiting with you as well. And
if you have a gardening question, just give me a call.
Seven one three two one two k t r H

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seven one three you want to kt RH. I talk
all the time about the importance of brown stuff, the soil,
the importance of the foundation for the plant, the importance
of everything we do before the plant goes in the ground.
Well Landscaper's pride. They fully understand that, and they have
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it crumbles because it has airspace. It also adds the
opportunity and food for microbes to thrive in your soil,
which helps roots thrive. Now, they also have something called
mushroom compost. I remember mushroom compost from years ago probably
oh gosh, I don't even remember how many years, over
thirty I know in the Conro area. I had a

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little demonstration garden at the extension office and it was
a vacant lot that the builders had scraped everything off
of because that's what you do when you're gonna put
a building in, you know, you just get all flat
and hardened level so you can drop a building on it. Well,
it was horrible, I mean, it wouldn't grow. The weeds
it grew were even shartruse colored. They weren't They couldn't
even fully turn green. We went out there, we spread

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mushroom compost. We disked it in with a little tractor
with a disc behind it and so not an't even
any fine rodotilling thing, and then scattered rye grass seed
all over that area. Some of it went past where
the mushroom compost was. We were just scattering it over.
When that came up where there wasn't mushroom compost, the
rye grass seed was spin ley. You could see soil

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between the little spinley rye grass plants where there was
mushroom compost. That rye grass was emerald green, like two
feet toll flopping back over again and just dense, dense dance.
And the only difference and water differently, it was just rainfall,
same seeds it was. It was the mushroom compost. And

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I go into that. It's kind of a long explanation,
but I want to tell you I've seen the results
of mushroom compost, and Landscaper's Pride has some really clean
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It's what happens after they grow a crop of mushrooms.
They don't use that same stuff. They move it on
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(01:21:33):
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I always talk about the soil. Dale in Jersey Village
is our next caller, up Dale, Welcome to garden.

Speaker 17 (01:21:54):
Line, Good morning, Thank you for all you do. Two
questions one is just if it's I don't know if
it does it good or bad at this point in
time to trim or to prune some roses.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
That's one.

Speaker 17 (01:22:09):
And the second question is I think the name of
the the other type of weed slash grass in my
Saint Augustine Bahia or Bari.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
Something like that.

Speaker 17 (01:22:20):
It has the V type seed, if you know what
I mean, what's the best way of creating that in
my life? And it's quite a few different places, so
it's not a small amount to dig dig out will
not be practical so.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
Yeah, uh yeah, okay, Oh boy, are you pretty sure
it's behea? Yeah, yeah, okay, because for me to go,
you know, recommending something it, we need to make sure
we have the right weed, you know, or right, I
would be mistaking you. So the hair grass is it

(01:23:00):
is a very tough grass. You see it everywhere on
the roadsides and whatnot, and it's a challenge, you know,
to get it under control. The hair grass. I think,
let me see what is the product that controls that
selectively in Saint Augustine's. I won't try to find it.
It's gonna take me just a second to find it.

(01:23:22):
I think I know what it is, but I don't
want to say it until I'm sure I'll find it
here in just a second. But you had a follow
up question. Let's go to that one for just a moment. Then, yeah,
not follow up, but another right, okay, another question, okay,
go ahead. Huh what it was? The other question?

Speaker 17 (01:23:47):
Roses if now is a good time to prune or
should I hold off till later on the ear or
to say spring?

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
I don't know. Yeah, actually I would not prune them now.
I think it would be better, you know, to hold
off on Yeah, to hold off on that. The thing
that pruning does is it stimulates growth. And when you
stimulate growth, and we're, you know, just about to go

(01:24:14):
into this cold, cold weather, then you end up getting
more problems uh there on your on your lawns, I mean,
excuse me, on your roses.

Speaker 8 (01:24:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
And so I would hold off and probably when we
get into February, go ahead and do most of your
pruning at that time. Okay, Yeah, I am not finding
the answer on behaey. I'm I'm pretty sure that a
product called man or M A n O R will
control it. But I tell you what I'm going to do.

(01:24:47):
Dale as I get a chance here and breaks and stuff,
I'm going to look into that because I should have
it at the top of my head and I just
want to be sure that I'm correct about it. But
that is a product that you can put down that
kills bhean doesn't kill your saint Augustine.

Speaker 15 (01:25:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
But I'll just have to I'll just have to hunt
it down when I can actually do it. I can't
walk in chew gum at the same time, So talking
and searching, isn't it. Yes, thank you very much, and
good luck with those roses too. I'm glad to hear
you have those. Our phone number seven one three two
one two k t R H seven one three two

(01:25:22):
one two k t R h. Uh. If you have
a question and I'd like to give us a call,
be happy to answer that. I am checking the my
email periodically and people will often email me and send
photos and we want to I want to be able
to help that way as well. A lot of times,
you know, I'll get a question and there's the description

(01:25:45):
or maybe someone I get. I get this a lot.
People say I've got crib grass in my lawn, and
I think about half the time, it's not crabgrass that
they have in their lawn. It's just crabgrass. Everybody knows it.
And it looks like other grasses. Grasses look like grasses.

Speaker 5 (01:25:58):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
And that's probably where people are coming up with that.
But anyway, being able to know for sure, have a picture,
make sure we're right about the identification that helps us
with the diagnosis and recommended controls. All right, I'm gonna
take a quick break. I'll be right back.

Speaker 6 (01:26:14):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
Welcome back, folks. Good to be back with you. We
were just having that question about controlling the haagrass and
a Saint Augustine lawn and I was correct. The first
thought that came to I was man or M A
and O R. It's a selective herbicide. It's also sold
in other names like MSM turf. That's another name for it.

(01:26:38):
There are some other names. I won't give all that
on the ear. But if you got to be careful
with manner. A manner can severely damage shrubs and trees.
So don't spray it onto your flower beds for example.
Just get it on the turf, don't overapply it as always,
follow the label and don't do it right before you
get a gully washer rain to wash it downe in
the root system. You want to be real careful with

(01:26:59):
It's very effect of herbicide, but you gotta be careful
also follow again, follow the label. It can yellow you're
Saint Augustine a little bit. But we're talking about trying
to kill a grass and a grass which generally is
quite impossible to try to do uh, but manner will
do that. If you want to go that route with it.
There are some other things that you can use. You
can spot treat with anything that kills the grass. You

(01:27:23):
can spot treat with that if you just have some
behavior and there that pray be the better way to
go about it. All right, We're going to go out
to Eagle Lake, Texas and talk to Stanley. Hey, Stanley,
welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:27:39):
Hey.

Speaker 18 (01:27:40):
Regarding regarding.

Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
Previously, Hey you great, I guess I can say. It's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
Stanley. Uh, you're cutting out a lot, so I'm having
a hard time following you. Just go ahead. I heard
that regarding by Hey, you were going to give me
something you'd used.

Speaker 18 (01:28:06):
Sammarron.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Okay, yeah, that's even I find but I.

Speaker 18 (01:28:14):
Use that in hay patches, and I mean it took
me a second when he was talking about it, but yeah,
I guess it doesn't hurt Saint Augustine. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
But AnyWho, well, I didn't know that it has a
Saint august I just have to say, since a lot
of people are listening, and people don't always listen carefully,
do not use that on Saint Augustine without checking the label. Folks.
I'm not sure it has a label for Saint Augustine.
But okay, go ahead, Stanley.

Speaker 18 (01:28:43):
Neither am I but I wanted to compliment you on
your soapbox earlier this morning and talking about kids, which
one talking about kids and grandkids whatever. I mean, uh,
and just just if you haven't planned the garden, do it.

(01:29:06):
And you know, turnips like for kids, you know, if
you remember when you and I were young, I mean,
like turnip seed they come up in what four days
for example?

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
Yeah, you know just now yeah, well there you go.

Speaker 18 (01:29:25):
So you know it's something that way, you know, because
attention span on children, but it works. And broccoli you
were you were talking about broccoli and if with limited space,
I mean once you cut the head off and and
you know the main stem I mean a little bit later,
you have little flower ets that you can throw in

(01:29:46):
a salad or something some Yeah. Yeah, so as opposed
to cauliflower, you cut that off and you're done. I
mean you've got dead space now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Yeah, I understand that that is true. Hey, thank you
Stanley for giving us a call.

Speaker 18 (01:30:07):
Y'all have a great one. Thank you, bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Yeah, you take care, that's for sure. Now is the
time for your fall lawn care. I keep telling you
every day you wait is not good because one of
these days the weeds are going to be up. One
of these days the brown patch circles are going to
be there. One of these days, it's going to be
so cold that root's ability to take up some of

(01:30:32):
these nutrients is going to be greatly reduced. And so
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disease prevention nightro Fass Fall Special is a fertilizer. Nitrofos
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(01:30:52):
And you can put all three down on the same day.
Just just do one, then come back, do the next one,
then come back and do the next one. Then turn
on the sprinklers for about a half inch of water.
Put something straight side containers out there to find out
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(01:31:12):
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Speaker 16 (01:31:36):
H Uh.

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which is north of Brunham, so it's just a nice
little drive, not too far at all. In fact, this
afternoon be a great time to get out and about
and see that. Uh So when you go to the

(01:32:00):
Antique rosen Porium you find a place overflowing with roses
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I went to rosen por I was out there when
it first opened up back in I don't know what
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like that was the first time I'd been out there,
hadn't been opened that long at least, and that was

(01:34:13):
That was a magical and still is a very magical
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stunningly beautiful. I was pulling some weeds in the front yard.
You know, those fall asters go to a neighbor who
does not control their weeds, and their weeds go to seed,

(01:36:04):
and the seed comes to see me. Because my yard
is a place that wants to be So every fall
I go out and here comes the fall aster. It's
actually called slender aster. You don't really notice them through
the year, although I've kind of learned to see them
because they have a dark blue green color of the leaf,
a very thin strappy leaves blue green color. But you

(01:36:27):
know they're there when it's time to bloom, and that's fall,
that's October. They start producing these little dime sized flowers
that look like multi pedal, strappy petal, skinny petal daisies
about the size of a dime. That's the time you
got to take action. It's too late to spray them.
So I go out in the morning. If I have
to wet the soil just to get it soft, go
out and every one of those things is coming out

(01:36:49):
of a tap root, and you may see something the
size of the steer wheel on your car growing everywhere.
Catch it at first, bloom, grab it and pull it
out and you'll get rid of potentially thousands of weed
seeds that will then be making it worse next year.
And I know people don't like to hand pull weeds,
but you know, take my little kneeling bench out there,

(01:37:10):
my folding kneeling bench by the way they got those
Southwest fertilizer, and I just kneel down a cup of
coffee usually out there, setting down in the grass to enjoy,
and just pull a few pill a five gallon bucket
here and there. I saw a guy the other day
that had probably four wheelbarrows full of those things because
they had cleaned. They were cleaning them out of their

(01:37:31):
entire front yard where they had proliferated. Don't let it
get that far along. Just when you see them, go
ahead and get them real quick. If your neighbor will
let you pull a few on the other side of
the line there this year, would make your life easier
on your side of the line. Anyway. I'm just saying
that's what I was spending some time doing out there. Well,
it is about time for me to take a break here,

(01:37:53):
so Jim in Meadows Place, you will be my first
up when I come right back from break. For the
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(01:38:37):
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Get out there this afternoon, get that stuff, get it
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(01:38:59):
weeds are they are ready to They're on the verge
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(01:39:20):
I'm going to head out.

Speaker 19 (01:39:21):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
Let's see, we're going to go to gym in Meadows Place.
Hello Jim, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:39:27):
Hello Rick.

Speaker 8 (01:39:29):
About two weeks ago, a friend gave me three crape myrtles.
One of them is about three foot tall, the other
two were about five foot tall. They had a limited
root base on them, and I dug up my spots.
I added some premium potting saw I got from garden

(01:39:55):
store and water moon, soaked the ground with the root
stimulator and planted them. The small one, the three footer,
is doing well, got green leaves, seems to be doing okay.
The two five footers with their limited root ball, We're
all green when I put them in, But after about

(01:40:17):
four days all the leaves have died, and I'm wondering
if then I'm not going to be able to save them.
There's still some green wood on the big ones, but
all the leaves that were on their died.

Speaker 6 (01:40:31):
Can I say it should I.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Wait, I don't think they should have died. They should
have died that fast. Some sort of stress, transplant shock,
a little bit of droughty period for they got in
the ground, or who knows what caused them to drop
the leaves. Plus it's a season where micrapes that are
growing in the yard are dropping their leaves. I've been
for a while, so just make sure the soil stays moist.

(01:40:55):
Don't keep it soggy, trying to overwater, but just keep
it moist. And I think they're going to come out
in spring and be just fine. Sounds like you did
everything you need to do. You're on a good start.
As they begin growing next spring, just get you some
some fertilizer for shrubs and trees. Put it out there
and give them a little boost.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
Already got that.

Speaker 6 (01:41:11):
I got some great fertilizer. All right, ready to go?

Speaker 14 (01:41:17):
Okay, well, all right, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:41:19):
I'll give them a shot.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Thank you, sir. I appreciate your call. Let's see here,
all of a sudden people woke up and found the phones.
These are all the aggies that partied all night last night.
They're finally getting a little bit donald in West Houston.
Welcome to Carlne.

Speaker 16 (01:41:34):
How are you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
I'm good, I'm good.

Speaker 16 (01:41:38):
Now here's a question. Yeah, what about walking around with
a long nozzle prop Paine torch. They make one that
you hold in your hand and you put the standard
canister on it and running those weeds.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
That can be done if people do that, especially when
you got like a brick sidewalk and the weeds you're
coming up in the cracks and those things. Once you
get out in the garden and you got you know,
mulches and I don't know, dry grass or something as
dry as everything is now, I'd be a little concerned.
But if it's if there's nothing desirable in that area
and you don't have dry burnable stuff on the surface,

(01:42:16):
that's that's a legit deal. I've got one of those
and I use it driveway and weeds come up in
the driveway because it's hard to get in there with
a little hoe and get them out of me. You
can spray them too, but it's just another option.

Speaker 16 (01:42:30):
Yeah, And because a lot of people are kind of
against the round up spring, you know, you want to
spray round up around that's that's commercially. That's how they
do it. So does it kill the roots though? When
you when you burn the top of the plant of
the weeds off that it doesn't kill the roots, especially
the dandelion.

Speaker 6 (01:42:48):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:42:49):
Oh, so they'll be.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
Back, No, it doesn't. They'll be back. Yeah, they'll be back.
And if it's a very young plant, maybe, but if
it but some plants or annuals and they don't have
a system, that's going to come back. If it were
bermuda grass, it would bounce back through. If it's something
that's got underground structures like nut grass, that's gonna come
right back through that too.

Speaker 16 (01:43:09):
Right, But you said you have a torch. You have
a torch, so you know it would be a week
two three probably, but two or three weeks before they
might even show up again. So you just take another
little pass on them with the burner and they're gone again.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
Right, you could do that. Yeah, if you if you
never let them up for air, never let them a
chance to get gas on sunlight very long, you will
win that. You'll weaken them and you'll win that way too. Hey, Donald,
I got a few other calls I need to run to.
But good luck with that. Be careful though, be careful
out there. Let's see we are gonna I wanted to
just go to Lakes Side Estates and talk to Maureene. Hey, Maureen,

(01:43:45):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 20 (01:43:47):
Yes, good morning, and you nailed me. I watched the
AM game and.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
I wondered why y'all weren't calling.

Speaker 20 (01:43:56):
Well, no, I've been up for a while trying to
catch up from.

Speaker 16 (01:43:59):
What I want than doing while I was watching the game.

Speaker 20 (01:44:02):
Okay, so here's the question. I always listened to you,
and but I didn't have a pencil to write it down.
You were talking about some plants have a disease, and
the plant some I believe you were talking about was
Vinca or dianthus, and there was nothing wrong with them
if they didn't get the disease. But you mentioned a

(01:44:23):
plant that was more resistant. It sounded like collistrum or no.

Speaker 12 (01:44:35):
Whatever.

Speaker 20 (01:44:36):
It was just a little it just had it was
more resistant. So I guess I have to listen.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
To the Let me do well, let me do that
said something else?

Speaker 8 (01:44:49):
Go ahead and tell.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Yeah, I liked I called vinca madagascar periwinkle, because we
have other things like a vining groundcover called venca too,
and so anyway, that that plant the summer bloomer and pink,
red and yellow and white. Uh, that plant can get
a disease that wipes it out. And there are there
is a resistant variety called Cora c o r a

(01:45:14):
like the girl's name. It doesn't resistant to that disease.
So if you want you need to get you need
to get Cora vinka and and that will be resistant.
Maybe that's what you're talking thinking, Yes.

Speaker 13 (01:45:28):
It was, I just knew it was the sea.

Speaker 14 (01:45:31):
But I've been reading a.

Speaker 10 (01:45:32):
Lot about that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
That's the summer. Yeah, that's that's a summertime.

Speaker 20 (01:45:37):
Okay, So what can I get?

Speaker 6 (01:45:39):
Like the vinka?

Speaker 20 (01:45:40):
I like the dianthus and the venka because they have
lots of variety of colors. So you can suggest something
else other than snap. Dragons that don't do well with snap, Well,
I need partial sonkay.

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
Okay? Well, uh, stock stock is pretty good in a
partial sun pretty much if it's a flower. Almost all
of them like sun because that helps them make carbohydrates.
But I would say another one. I like Viola's even
better than pansies in the cool season. They're extremely cold

(01:46:17):
hearty and they produce a lot more blooms than pansies,
even though they're smaller blooms. And after a rain, the
pansy blooms kind of get beat up pretty good, and
the viola blooms seem to just keep going better. So
a viola would be one I would put in the
cool season garden.

Speaker 20 (01:46:34):
And for distance, for distance from my sidewalk, I get
a particular color I used to do when I've forgotten.

Speaker 14 (01:46:40):
What it was.

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
Usually I would do.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
It's going to be if it's no, No, it needs
to be a light bright color, especially in semi shade,
so light blues and bright yellows and white and things
like that. Hey, I'm there telling me in my ear
I got to go to a commercial. Thanks for the call, Marine,
I really appreciate it very much. When we come back,

(01:47:07):
let's see we've got Edward and Carol and Howard. You'll
be the first ones out, all right, Welcome back, Welcome
back to the garden line. Good to have you with us.
We are rolling today, got a lot of things to
cover and talk about. You know, I was selling you
Microlife had that micro grow bioinoculant. That's a dry granular.
You can buy it in a bag. You can buy
it in on one of the canisters plastic screw top

(01:47:27):
lid canisters. Either way. If you're looking for something similar
that is a liquid, they had Microlife liquid AF liquid AF.
It's also kind of in a maroon colored container. Buy
by the gallons what I'd recommend. But it has the
inoculation of all kinds of beneficial, very important microbes that

(01:47:50):
help fight soil and leaf pathogen. So you could use
it as a foliar spray. Then a spore lands on
a leaf and tries to attack, and you got things
on that leaf that are fighting that disease. You could
also use it as a drench. You could use it
as a folio spray over it through your flower beds,
through your lawn even if you would want to go

(01:48:11):
that route. One gallon jug micro Grow liquid AF would
be a good thing also to have on hand for
that natural approach to disease control. I'm going to head
now to let's see here who is who is hung
with us through the break. We're gonna go to Ed
and Dan Berry. Hey, Ed, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:48:31):
Hik you I question hurt gang barrow. When it hit,
I had about a twenty foot tall cond tree and
a forty foot sycamore tree fall on the east side
of it, broke some limbs off. Should I put some
prune and spray or something with all those collars are.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
No, you don't need to on a pecond tree. But
where it's all broken typically, yeah, Typically where branches break,
it's a very rough break, and you know it, it's
not gonna heal well. So usually you'll go back in there,
follow that branch back and cut it off where it
joins another branch with a fresh cut, that would be better.

(01:49:10):
But the treatment of a spray or a printing paint
that's not necessary.

Speaker 6 (01:49:16):
So I'll do that about teguary normally, because I might
have to trim that west side real hard. It's gonna
grow all uneven. Yeah, he be on with the west side.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
Next question, well do that, I'll go ahead, No, I said, yeah,
go do that.

Speaker 6 (01:49:34):
Okay. The next question is BlackBerry bushes. I bought two
at pro Birds and I got them to Siftoes. I
overfertilized one and killed it. I was curious, where's a
good place to get any this time of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
Oh gosh, they're They're available all over the place.

Speaker 12 (01:49:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
That I didn't realize Probergs carried those things. That's that's
kind of news.

Speaker 6 (01:49:59):
Yeah, I found them there and I just had a
few on the table and I bought two of them.
That's the first time I ever saw in there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
Yeah, I'm looking at let's see what's near down there
near you. I would drive up to Alvin and I
would go to jose hold on just a second, let
me get his phone, his numb contact information here for you.
He has a backyard garden center there and he does

(01:50:27):
carry fruit and so you're gonna be able to get
blackberries from him.

Speaker 6 (01:50:30):
Just a second, get all right on the.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
Dead air space is bad radio, and all right now,
Heyjorges Hidden Gardens. I just I was letting go the
things go silent, which you don't do on the radio.
Jorges Hidden Gardens is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, south
of Highway sixth, so it's it's pretty close to you

(01:50:57):
or Hayes Hidden Gardens Ores Hidden Gardens. He's opened today
from eight to four, that's the weekend hours and during
the week closed on Monday and open Tuesday through Friday
from nine to three. Oh right, you got to run here.
I don't have one right here in front of me.
But you can find.

Speaker 6 (01:51:18):
Him, okay, Elizabeth Street off Highway six.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
Yeah, thank you, just do a search for him. You
bet you take care. Thanks for the cow book. Uh,
there we go, all right. Three sixty tree stabilizer. If
you're going to plant a tree, you need a three
sixty tree stabilizer. And I really mean that. I'm not
being facetious when I say that. I have done the
thing where you cut pieces of garden hose, put them

(01:51:44):
through wires and strap it down. You know those guy
wires to steaks on the ground and three different directions,
and now you've got something to trip over. You had
to go buy wire and go do these things and
steaks and it's it's just a hassle. A three sixty
tree stable is a stiff, a very strong plastic arm

(01:52:04):
that attaches to a post. In fact, it even comes
with the thing that attaches perfectly to a t post,
so you can just hammer one in the ground, you know,
a couple of feet away from the plant. Attach that,
and then the other side attaches to your tree. But
it holds it loosely with a soft rubber type strap
that allows some movement, but not too much and a
little bit of movement helps the root structure gets stronger,

(01:52:27):
and it helps the trunk structure get stronger. Plants grow
stronger when there's movement, when they're stressed just a little bit,
when they're stretched and bent and things like that. Three
sixty allows that. And you can find these in a
lot of different places. You find them, you know Sienamltch.
I just mentioned Jorge Hidden Gardens. Orge has them down
there in Alvin Southwest Fertilizer. You go up to Arborgate

(01:52:48):
or Buchanans Native Plants or Plants for all Seasons RCW.
These are all places that you can get the three
sixty tree stabilizer. And I would recommend having it because
you're going to hang it up on the shelf after
it's done, after you've used it, and the next time
you need to plant something, you're ready to go, or
maybe you got a neighbor that would like to borrow it.
Three sixty tree Stabilizer. Let's go back now to Parland

(01:53:11):
and we're going to talk to Howard. Hello, Howard, welcome
to Regard Line.

Speaker 5 (01:53:15):
Good morning, Skip. How are you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
I'm well? Thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
Yeah, let me take it off. Speaker might be easier.
See if I can do that. Okay, this is probably better.
I had sent you in some pictures earlier in the
week of some of my hot pepper plants.

Speaker 2 (01:53:36):
Okay, yeah, and I'm I'm finding them. I'm pulling them up.

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
Yeah. The leave for a little bit, Yeah, stunted and curled.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
And you said it was probably.

Speaker 5 (01:53:48):
A nutrient deficiency, but I should give you a call,
So here I am.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
Yeah, it looks like nutrient deficiency, the curling, the twisting.
It could also be a virus. There are a lot
of different viruses that can get into plants. And you know,
a virus typically occurs on new growth, so it's the
new like if you have an old leave, that leaf
that's normal, it doesn't become twisted, it stays normal, and

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then the new growth shows the twisting on a virus.
So you might look your plants over. From what I
can see kind of in the fuzzy distance in the picture,
it looks like you had some normal leaves for a
while that now have But I see a lot of
what looks to me like iron deficiency, possibly a little
bit of magnesium deficiency. But that's just kind of guessing

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from a photoshot. I would get a good complete fertilizer,
work it into the soil, especially one with micro nutrients.
Now that pepper is about to be toasted when we
get some cold weather. So I don't know if it's
worth trying to save this one, but if that starts
to happen again, definitely a good fertilizer that contains micros.

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You could even get some aze mine and put it
in the soil, and then a spray that would would
be a liquid that you could spray on them to
do the same thing.

Speaker 5 (01:55:03):
Yeah, you know what, Like you said, it's once you
get the cold weather, they're going to be gone. I'm
thinking it might almost be beneficial to me at this
point just to uproot them, get some fresh soil. He'll
lay it down in the in the bucket cover. I
cover it usually with like trash bags to keep the
weeds out of it. And when spring rolls are on
the corner, which would be right after January here in Houston, yeah,

(01:55:28):
I'll get some more pepper plants and start again.

Speaker 2 (01:55:32):
Yeah, you could do that. You could even mix in.
These are in containers, you said, right, Yeah, these are.

Speaker 5 (01:55:37):
In those thirty five gallon mesh bags.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
Oh okay, yeah, you could even mix in something, you know,
like a microlife. I would just use the standard green
bag sixty four microlife in there. Mix it down in
really well because it's going to slowly decompose and release
and stimulate some microbactivity. And anytime you had compost or
what was once alive, you're adding micros because it took

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micros to grow the plant material that they make the
material out of. So you know you're getting iron and
zinc and all kinds of things when you had composts,
because that's that's where it took to grow the plant
successfully that's now been composted. So that'd be my recommendation.

Speaker 5 (01:56:17):
Okay, I'm good. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
All right, you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate
I appreciate your call. Well, there, there we go, there
we go. We are now back in the big middle
of a excuse my brain just went sideways of a
commercial break. I wanted to mention I'm going to be

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at Katya's Hardware or Katie Hardware. It's on pin Oak Road,
hen Oak Road in Katie. I'll be there next Saturday
from noon until two. Definitely want to come out, bring
your samples and plants and questions and let's have some fun.
There'll be a lot of giveaways as well.

Speaker 1 (01:56:58):
Welcome to kt RAGED garden Line with Scar Richard.

Speaker 3 (01:57:02):
It's crazy just watching as many things to see.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
You're not a sign. Welcome to guarden Line, folks. It
is good to have you with us, Glad to have
you back. Thanks for being a listener to guarden Line.
By the way, we really appreciate that. It is a
lot of fun to get to talk to gardeners and
help you have success. It breaks my heart to hear

(01:57:48):
someone say I tried gardening, I got a brown thumb.
I can't do it.

Speaker 4 (01:57:51):
You do not.

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
You cannot fail at gardening. You do not have a
brown thumb. You can give up at gardening, and you
cannot continue to learn. You know, the more you learn,
the greener your thumb gets. It's true, because all the
green thumb is is people that know the right things
to do to make plants happy. You understand a plant,
your thumb gets greener. And that's what we do here
on garden Line that and hopefully help you have some
fun in the process. Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden

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Center they're both out there in Kingwood. Warns is on
North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both open seven days
a week out of Warrens set. Right now, they've got
their pansies party. What does that mean, Well, you buy
a flat of four inch pot pansies. They're eighteen of
them in a flat for twenty five bucks and it's
going to go all the way to November third, So
you don't have a lot of time here to drag

(01:58:37):
your feet get that done. But you put those out,
grab some pansy fertilizer while you're there and get those
in the ground. You're gonna have color all the way
through the cool season. Pansies are very, very cold, hardy.
They also have Amarilla's bulbs in stock. They've got an
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Kingwood Gardens that are both open seven days a week
in Kingwood. I'm going to go now to Tomball, Texas

(01:59:22):
and talk to David Hey. David, welcome to garden Line. Well,
good morning, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:59:27):
Hey.

Speaker 21 (01:59:27):
I got two things. First thing is I've got it
appears to be some kind of a fungus growing on
my oak trees. It's kind of an avocado green and
it just just just covering the round the trunk, going
up about six feet or so. It doesn't bother me,

(01:59:47):
but it is if it's harming the tree, I want
to deal with it. The second thing is I'm okay,
do what or The second thing is I was looking
at your lawn for at your lawn furlization schedule, and
I don't see anything about when to put barricade down.
I want to get so aggressive to control these stickers.

(02:00:11):
I've been fighting them for three years. I put the
barricade down, and I just can't seem to get completely
rid of them. So when, when and how much can
I overdo it? I want to get rid of them stickers.

Speaker 2 (02:00:23):
All right, So be careful with overdoing it. You can
damage your lawn. When you overdo a pre emergent herbicide,
it'll affect the rooting of your lawn runners. So don't
overdo it. Just follow the label. UH if you you
found online My lawn care schedule also online at gardening
with Skip dot com is a free lawn pest, disease

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and weed schedule. It goes from January to December, and
as you go down it's like, what are we are?
You're going to use a pre emergent or a post
emergon on the weeds, how to control insects, how to
control diseases, and it tells you when for everything. The
bottom line is for grass in the lawn, is it
a grasper or is it a broadly plant with a
sticker on it?

Speaker 21 (02:01:06):
I think it's the grass birds and things that stick
to your socks and tiny shoes when you're mowing grass.
They can't walk through the yard barefoot.

Speaker 2 (02:01:16):
Okay, well, picker as you begin to get those, send
me pictures of them, because there's several different stickery things
that it could be, and a product that works on
one may not work on the other. So anyway, the
time to do that is in late February, okay, late February,
and then you're going to want to repeat it about

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three months later, maybe two and a half months later.
So let's see, that'd be March April, about mid May
or early June, you know, probably mid May is when
I would do it. I would repeat that application because
those things will continue to sprout through the summer, and
the product that prevents them doesn't last forever. It breaks down.

Speaker 21 (02:01:57):
Okay, And on your schedule it was called three.

Speaker 11 (02:01:59):
Two one.

Speaker 2 (02:02:03):
Oh oh no.

Speaker 21 (02:02:04):
The what was the name of the schedule?

Speaker 5 (02:02:09):
The publication.

Speaker 2 (02:02:11):
The publication is the Pest Disease and Weed Management schedule.
If you go to gardening with skip dot com, it's
just right there. It's easy. You can scroll down and
see it. In fact, there's a little button there for
my schedules, and both schedules in full color are there.
I just print my not burnt and back so I
can flip it over and know how to keep up
with two pieces of paper.

Speaker 21 (02:02:33):
Okay, So what about the oak tree? Do do anything
about the fungus it They ain't bothering me, But is
it harming the tree?

Speaker 2 (02:02:39):
No? Now that's just on the bark it's grown on
the outer bark and it just ignore it. There are
a live things. Liking is the same way. Some of
the mosses that grow on things are the same way.
They're not a disease. They're just growing because they're getting
the right amount of moisture and light and something to
grow on that happens on oaks.

Speaker 21 (02:03:00):
Alrighty, thank you, that's all I got. Have a good dame.

Speaker 13 (02:03:03):
You too.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
Thanks, take care all right our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know,
he was talking about the the things that we do
in the fall and the nitropous three step. The three
step method is a fertilizer in the fall that is
designed for fall. It gets your grass into the fall

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season with a lot of carbohydrate build up, which is
needed for cold heartiness and for spring growth. Your fall
fertilizer is what fuels your early spring growth next year.
So it's the most important fertilization of the year is
in the fall. Second is nitropas barricade, which you put
down and it prevents weeds seeds from coming through. It

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doesn't kill existing weeds. When a seed sprouts, it can't
come through the barricade, that's why they call it a barricade.
And then nitroposs Eagle turf fungicide is a systemic product
that gets into the grass and so when let's say
spores of brown patch, large patch, or take a root
rod here, there is a protection in the plant against

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that infection. So all three of those need to be
done asap. The longer you wait, the less good things
are going to happen because he uses these you wait
until we's already up too late for barricade. That's just
an example. So get him done. Now, where do you
find him, Well, you're going to find him at Ace Hardware,
at Single Ranch. You're going to find him at the

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Arborgate tombol at Fisher's Hardware, both the ones in Baytown,
the one in Mount Bellevue, the one in Pasadena. The
Fishers Hardware and Report they all carry those things. And
if you go to Katie Ace Hardware, you're going to
find those two out there. Let's see you are listening
to Guardenline our phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. You know when I talk

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about nutrients and things, I also like to mention the
product azo mighte ASA might is a micro nutrient, a
trace than same thing micronutrient trace mineral product that you
put in the soil to put those micros in the
bank account of the soil. Now, some nutrients we need
a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. That's why you have

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three numbers on every fertilizer bag. Well, trace minerals are
equally essential, but they're needed in tiny amounts, and that's
why we do microlife fertilizers. That's why we do some
of the things that have traces in them. Asamite is
designed exactly for that kind of thing. You put azamite
out in your lawn, watered in really good, you don't

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have to do about once a year, and you're going
to be in really good shape going forward. It makes
it easy, easy to do. It's building the bank account.
It's not making the lawn grow, it's having the nutrients
the lawn needs when it tries to grow. Go to
Azamite Texas dot com. You're going to find asamite pretty
much every place I talk about, you know, garden centers,
land hardware store, ace hardware stores. The Southwest. Fertilizer feed

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stores also are going to carry asme. We'll be right back,
and when we do, Dina, you'll be our first up.
All right, folks, we're back. We are back here on
a beautiful sunday talking gardening with you. If you'd like
to give us call someone three two on two KTRH.
We're going to run right out to the phones here
and talk to Dina in League City. Hey, Dinna, welcome

(02:06:17):
to Gardenline.

Speaker 13 (02:06:18):
Thank you taking a call. I have a question. Recently,
Horhei cleaned out one of my flower beds and it
looks great. I have roses in there and some peaches
and monkey grass, but I see the baby nutsit coming
back up. Can I use weed lead complete in it
to prevent them coming up?

Speaker 16 (02:06:38):
From?

Speaker 5 (02:06:40):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:06:40):
It won't work. What you need to do, And this
is a it's a lot too what I'm going to say.
So I'm going to refer you to my website where
I've written something for that. It's Gardening with Skip dot
com and there's a publication called Nutsedge and Inside Look,
and I write about the how it grows and the
timing of what you do and what you use. It's

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all there in that website tells you exactly what to
buy and but bottom line, if I were to summarize it,
it's when nutsedge comes up in your garden, let it
get three to five leaves, and then treat it with
one of the products that's on my list. One of
them would be called sedge hammer. There's other sed gender.

Speaker 13 (02:07:22):
Pardon, can I use this in my yard?

Speaker 2 (02:07:27):
Can use sedgehammer in your yard?

Speaker 13 (02:07:31):
A sed hammer?

Speaker 2 (02:07:33):
Oh? Oh, I see what you're saying. The we complete
it is fine to use in your yard. Just long
read the label, make sure it's labeled for the kind
of grass you have and all that. But I'm saying
for the nuts edge, let it get threely And but
you here's the deal, Denny. You gotta stay on it.
Like two weeks later, I've been dealing with some in
a bed, and two weeks later there's some new sprouts

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in there, and you just when they get three to
five leaves, you get them. Don't leave them too long
or they'll make a bunch of daughter plants. Now more
nutsedge than you started with. But if on your.

Speaker 13 (02:08:04):
Website is it a granular.

Speaker 2 (02:08:07):
You mix No, No, you mix it in water and
you spray it on the leaves or wipe it on
the leaves. That's good. But if you're gonna there's a
bunch of brands that are in that publication. But if
you get sedgehammer, you want to get sedgehammer plus because
it already has something in it to make it stick
to those slick nutsedge leaves, sedge.

Speaker 16 (02:08:28):
Anything.

Speaker 6 (02:08:29):
It won't hurt.

Speaker 2 (02:08:30):
You got to read. There are a lot of different
kinds of plants. If you get it. If you get
it on some plants, it will hurt them. It will,
but you have to read the label as to what
you can use it around. But here's what I do.
I use a wiper, a sponge of wiper that and
I wipe it right on the nutsedge leaves. There's no
need in spraying spray everywhere that might hurt something else.

(02:08:51):
Just wipe it right on those nuts edge leaves. And
I also on my website it shows you how to
how to create a little homemade wiper that you can
use to do that.

Speaker 13 (02:09:00):
Okay, he is putting mults after I do that, putting
moulfs on top with that.

Speaker 2 (02:09:04):
Hell, it won't touch nut sage. It'll stop weed seeds
of other weeds from coming out, but it won't hurt
nutsedge at all. West as not.

Speaker 13 (02:09:14):
Put barricade after I cleaned out the flower bed. But
that's not helping it at all, So okay, right.

Speaker 2 (02:09:22):
Barricade barricades for weed seeds. Okay, good, good luck with that, Nita,
Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. You know,
if you've got tree issues, folks, Affordable Trees the one
to call. They've been a sponsor of guarden Line and
the go to place since back when Randy was doing
the show. Affordable Tree Service. Uh, here's the phone number.

(02:09:42):
Seven one three six twenty six sixty three. Winter season
prime time for getting pruning done. Get on Martin's schedule.
Tell them you heard about it on guarden Line. Get
on the schedule so you can come out, take a look,
see what you got, see what's needed, and do it right.
Whatever your trees need, mark and can do it, not
just pruning, but you can do it all. But this

(02:10:04):
is printing season. Don't delay. The best time to get
your tree pruning done is upon us. Go to the
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F tree Service dot Com, but give them a call
seven one three six nine two six sixty three. If
Martin or Joe does not answer the phone. You've called

(02:10:25):
the wrong place. Hang up. Call again. Don't let just
anybody have access to your trees. They can do damage.
That's forever. You need someone that knows what they're doing.
That's Martin Spoon More Affordable Tree Service. We're gonna go
now to Brookshire and talk to Louise. Hello, Louise, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (02:10:41):
Oh, thank you so much. Good morning, Skip, Good morning Houston,
and good morning and our loud goos are God rest
his soul. Randy Lemon, I just wanted to ask you, Skip,
how do I combat this disease that is creeping on
my junipers?

Speaker 16 (02:11:01):
I've got it.

Speaker 12 (02:11:01):
I had an Italian cypress, beautiful, fervent, dark green tree,
and it started getting brown leaves, like brown brown branches,
and before I knew it, it overtook the whole tree
and the tree died. And now because the strong winds

(02:11:21):
out here, I think it's blown over to my junipers
and it's starting to show up on my junipers at
the bottom. Do you know what that could be?

Speaker 2 (02:11:31):
So yeah, let me ask you a couple of real
quick questions. When it appears, do you see kind of
a slow loss of green color kind of almost gets
kind of yellow eve for a little bit and then
finally turns brown. And it's happening in a general area.
Or do you see individual branches that turn brown and
are tan and around them the branches are green.

Speaker 12 (02:11:55):
The first one, he said, the first.

Speaker 2 (02:11:58):
One, Okay, well, the first one. The first one could
be a canker that is killing the branches on it.
It could be something in the soil like a root rot.
Junifers and all that group of plants does not like
soggy soil conditions. It could be that too, Or it
could be a canker disease that attacks the branches. And
if you follow a branch that's dying backwards, look at

(02:12:20):
the stem, look all around and see if you see
a split in the bark. That's a sign of a
canker right there. These things are prone to those. It
could also be spider mites. They're not a problem we
have now this time of year that they love warm
weather and so all summer they've been going crazy and
they love They just basically suck the juices out of

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the branch, and that's why it turns brown so gradually
and slowly as they feed on it. As their numbers
build up, so it's going to be one of the two.
The cankers you spray a funderside for and it's only
partially effective. The spider mites you would have to blast
them with water or spray something that kills mites in
there on them. But either way you just need to

(02:13:01):
watch your watering other plants. Make sure you're not keeping
them too soggy wet.

Speaker 12 (02:13:06):
Wow, thank you, I'm gonna do it. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:13:10):
I appreciate Sure, we'll good. There are not many people
in my life that listen to what I say, so
I'm glad you did that. Thank you, Thank you so much.
Good luck.

Speaker 12 (02:13:19):
I have a great weekend, you too, My god.

Speaker 2 (02:13:25):
Okay, I never know it's gonna come in my mouth.
My wife says, if I'm wondering if I should say
something or not, the anches always know because if I'm wondering,
then somewhere back way back when I passed the line
of what should come out of my mouth. Good advice
for a lot of us, and some of you listening
to RCW. Nurseres had a great time out there yesterday.
You know RCW is the garden center there where uh

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Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes into belt wagh eight
and I call it to get It, Got It Nursery,
because if they don't have it, they'll get it. They'll
do their best to find it. They can find it,
they'll get it for you. They grow their own shrubs
up there in Plantersville at the tree Farm, And so
when you buy a shrubber tree from the RCW Nursery,
you know you're getting things that are grown right, first

(02:14:10):
of all, and secondly, want to be here. It's not
some species, you know, Colorado blue spruce that doesn't belong
in the Houston, Texas area for sure. No, they grow
the best kinds of things. They have one of the
best selections of roses you'll ever find. When we get
back into the early spring season and things start busting
and everybody thinks roses in February, oh my gosh, RCW
is gonna have a long list of roses. But right

(02:14:32):
now they've got trees from fifteen gallon up the two
hundred gallon. If it's too big for you to plant,
they can plant it. They got the supplies you need
to do that. And I was just out there yesterday
a really good time with everybody that came out herbs perennials, annuals,
a lot of different plants that are native too to
our area. RCW nurseries dot com. That's the website, RCW

(02:14:53):
nurseries dot com. All right, We're gonna go to Brookshire
and talk to Louise. Hello Louise, Hello, Hello Louise. Alrighty,
I think we just lost her there. Okay, Well, I
want to talk a little bit about Nelson fertilizer. Then.

(02:15:15):
You know, we have so many options when it comes
to making our plants happy. Nelson has created a product
called Genesis that I just think is one of the
best coolest new things I've seen on the market. When
I say new, it means in the last five years.
Actually Genesis is younger than five years. But Nelson's nutristar.

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Genesis is loaded with microiza, the fungus that grows with
the roots and makes the roots more healthy and more
effective with the bacteria and other things that are part
of that microbiome in the soil that helps plants. We
use it as an amendment into the planting hole. Most
SAW based fertilizers, I would say, don't dump them in

(02:15:57):
the planting hole. You burn roots. Well, this isn't a
salt based fertile, and this does go in the planting hole.
You mix it in with the soil and then set
your plant and the plant thrives. If you're growing plants,
maybe for your garden, and you're growing them indoors, like
next spring, you'll be doing tomatoes, right, and so you're
growing them, you're gonna bump them up to a bigger size.

(02:16:17):
Always have Nelson in that potting mix that you're moving
them to. When you're out in the garden and you're
going to put a rose bush in or maybe an
herb in the herb garden mix, Nelson in that soil around.
Put that plant in and they will take off and
grow really really well. Whether it's soil in the ground,
soiling a container, soil in a raised bed, well, however
you go about it. Nutristar genesis for new plants is awesome.

(02:16:40):
It comes in a little jug, a plastic jug with
a screw top lid, easy to use, and it works.
I can tell you it works all right. Now I
am hearing in my ear that it is time for
a break, so I'm gonna stop talking. If you'd like
to give us a call, seven one three two one
two KTRH. All right, welcome back, folks, Welcome back to

(02:17:01):
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seven one three two to one two KTRH seven one
three two one two kt r H. If you're looking
for a place to find any product name that comes
out of my mouth on Garden Line, that Southwest Fertilizer.
Southwest Fertilizer has been around since what nineteen fifty five,

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and they it's a fixture in the Houston area. I mean,
everybody knows that's where you go. I mean, I'm the
people that drive a great distance because there's things you
just have trouble finding in certain places. They're just not
commonly in the trade. Bob's got them in Southwest. That's
why I like to say, if Southwest doesn't have it,
you don't need it, because they have it. Because they

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have it. All the fertilizers you hear me talk about,
you know, I'm talking about the the UH weed control,
the disease control in your lawn, of those kinds of things.
I used to say they had an eighty foot wall
of tools. Now I found out there's ninety feet long,
and I mean it is ever kind of tool you
can imagine, including if you want to make my little
weed wiper. I was talking to someone earlier just a

(02:18:03):
bit ago about the weed wiper. Making it yourself. You
have to start with this little grabber tool with suction cups,
and Bob's got them hanging right there on the wall.
They're ready to go. Go in there and grab one.
It is such a handy little tool. Bob's got the
start of it there for you, and it's easy to make,
easy to use. It helps you put out less pesticide
in the environment too, and in a safer way as well.

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Another reason I like that tool. Do you need products
like azemite, like Nature's Way resources, heirloom soils, things from Medina.
They've got all of that. Bob is also in the
back that got this shop. Or you can get your
lawnmower blade sharp and ring it, small engine repair done.
We're entering the cool season. It's time to put some
of those things to bed for the fall. And when

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you do, why not take them in there and go
ahead and get them ready to go for spring. That way,
in spring, when everybody else is trying to get their
blade sharpen and everything, you've already done. You don't have
to wait in a line like that. Bob can do
that there for you seven to three seventeen forty four,
or go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot Comt's in
Southwest Houston, corner of Bisonet and Renwick. Bissonet and Renwick.

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I'm gonna give you that phone number again. We've got
some openings on the line today. I usually it gets
real busy at the end. We kind of got a
low quiet here, so I still think that it's because
everybody stayed up last night watching football and whatever else
is sleeping in today. Our phone number is seven one
three two one two kt r H. Seven to one

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three two one two kt r H. When was the
last time that you went out to Katie to Nelson Watergardens.
Nelson Watergardens is a wonderland. And I always call it
water gardens because that's what they begin with. That's what
they are famous, nationally famous for. But it's Nelson Nursery

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and water Gardens, and that means they've got a lot
of different plants, and boy do they ever. They are
stocked up on everything that you might need this time
of the year. So are you looking for things like Dianthus,
Are you looking for things like cyclomon or Moms and
on and on and on down the line. They've got it.
Their interior plant list is awesome and it's beautiful stuff.

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And I just you know, boring sea green house plants.
They've got some really cool stuff. When you walk in
the store, you have to walk right by the house plants,
And I think that's a good plan because beautiful, beautiful
old plants in awesome shape, and you're going to see
ones it's like, I've never seen that before. Well, that's
why they specialize in things that you've never seen before

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and things that you have while you're out there. Of course,
you want to be around the water gardens, enjoy those.
Learn how to do that. You can do it yourself
with their supplies. If you want to, they'll hope you
do that, or if you want them to come out,
they'll come out. They can build a complete rock waterfall
that's just unbelievable. Stock it with all the cool kinds

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of fish, you know, coy and shabunkin and things. Stock
it with lance. If you've got a low water feature
in your garden, you want some really cool water plants.
For They've got you covered on that too. All of
it is in Katie, Texas. Think of it as your
West Houston garden center, your West Houston destination garden center.
Nelson Watergardens plural dot com, Nelson watergardenswi an s dot com.

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Head back to the phones here and we're going to
talk to Ronda in Magnolia.

Speaker 22 (02:21:27):
Hello, Ronda, Hi, skim Say, I've got a question regarding Hello,
can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (02:21:37):
Yeah, I'm here, you bet.

Speaker 22 (02:21:38):
Okay, I've got a question regarding I've noticed in my yard.
I've got acreage I've got that.

Speaker 12 (02:21:48):
Is it a wild rose or whatever?

Speaker 5 (02:21:51):
It's that?

Speaker 22 (02:21:52):
Yes, scrubby looks okay, I've got it, popsible mul there
you go. I've got it all over in kind of
my front pasture area that we actually keep mode that.
Now that the grass is kind of diminishing with the
drought and all, it's popping up everywhere, and I'd like

(02:22:13):
to get rid of it because I don't. I have dogs,
and you know they like to run in that pasture.
It's pretty strict, you know, prickly. Yeah, So what's there
to dig it up? Montgomery County?

Speaker 2 (02:22:27):
No, you want to use it. Yeah, you're Montgomer County,
So the Montgomer Kenny Extension Office. There's a fellow over
there named Brandon. He's the ag agent, and I would
give him a call. He'll give you the best, most
up to date answer. I I'm aware of all the
pasture stuff, but that's not I deal more with stuff
in the yard and the garden and orchard and things.

(02:22:48):
You're probably going to use a product containing triclop here
t r I c l O p y r t
r I l O p y r. It kills, it
kills brush. People use it. There's versions in the garden
for poison ivy and little weed seed rush seeds coming
up in the fence. But there's a versions of it too,

(02:23:09):
And so you're gonna need more than off a garden
shelf bottle. You're gonna need quantity. And Brandon can talk
to you about that and get you get you perfect.

Speaker 22 (02:23:19):
Yeah, that's that's the problem we've got. We've got like
four acres and I'm finding it, you know, popping up everywhere, and.

Speaker 2 (02:23:28):
It's gonna be that's a problem.

Speaker 14 (02:23:31):
Yes, major one.

Speaker 22 (02:23:32):
So well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:23:34):
I think very much. I think Falls Falls a good
time to hit it, so I would call them first
thing Monday morning and find out because in fall, plants
are pulling in carbohydrates to go through winter and whatnot,
and that's a good time to put a translocated herbicide
into that wild rose to take it down. You'll get
a good knockback. And I think in spring, when it's

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pushing out the other way, it's not quite as effective.
But again I'll defer to Brand and tell him SKIP
sent you and he'll he'll get you straightened out on it.

Speaker 14 (02:24:03):
Awesome, Thank you so much.

Speaker 22 (02:24:05):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:24:07):
All right, you take care. You know, those of you
listening out there, did you know that there is an
Agrolife Extension office serving every county in Texas two hundred
and fifty four counties. Now, if you get way out
west where there's more jack rabbits and people in the county, uh,
the you may have an office that serves two counties.
Most counties two and fifty of the counties in Texas

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have their own office and when you go in there
you can get help. I mean, if you got kiddos,
the four h program is awesome way for them to
learn about everything, including horticulture. If you are looking at
inside the home kinds of things, you know, they've got
agents that focus on that. If you're looking at agriculture,

(02:24:49):
they got agents that focus on that as well.

Speaker 5 (02:24:51):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:24:51):
I got to take a little break here. It's time
and if you want to give us a call for
our last segment, here's last call seven one three two
one two KTRH. All right, all right, folks, welcome back.
Good to have you back with us on Guardline. Look,
we're in our last segment of the weekend. We're here
on Saturdays and Sundays from six am to ten am,
and I've got probably time for another call, maybe two

(02:25:14):
if we get going here. We're gonna start though, first
with Stephen in Sugarland. Hey Steven, welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 4 (02:25:21):
Yes, sir, how are you doing today? I just have
a quick question.

Speaker 2 (02:25:24):
I am good.

Speaker 4 (02:25:26):
I think it's called a ROUNDO.

Speaker 2 (02:25:29):
Okay, and it's in.

Speaker 12 (02:25:31):
The back yard.

Speaker 4 (02:25:33):
I chop down all the stems already, but the roots
are massive. Is there anything else I could do them?

Speaker 2 (02:25:42):
Yeah? Other than digging them out, which is a job
because it has one heck of a root system. What
I would recommend you do next time? You're gonna next
time you have it growing, if you can do a
couple of things. You can put a glyco sate product
on the leaves. And if you go to my website
gardeningwiskip dot com, there's a publication for herbicides on there

(02:26:06):
and it talks about herbicides for grass and one of
them is glyphosate, and I give you all the examples
of it we used. People are familiar with the product
round Up, but now round Up at the Garden Center
does not contain glyphosate. It's the craziest thing I've ever
seen that they would keep that name and change the ingredient,
but anyway, they did so. But glyphase products are listed there.

(02:26:28):
You can put it on the leaves, but remember if
it gets on anything else, it'll kill that too. Round
Up kills lawns and flowers and other things. Another approach
is to when it grows up next year, when you
cut it off immediately I'll use the word paint that
cut surface with the glyphosate concoction, so you're not spraying it.

(02:26:52):
You're just you could use a little foam brush like
you use for painting, just dabbing all the cut ins
that you cut off, dabbing them. Even wiping a little
bit on the stems and leaves that are down low
like that, that'll help it get right into the plant
and move down. You're probably not going to get it
with one application. It's got enough underground storage that it's
going to have enough survive to try to come back again.

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But after two, and definitely after three of those, you
should win that battle.

Speaker 4 (02:27:21):
So the problem is that the property is next to
a city park and there's a lot of them, right,
So is this something that the city could get involved
as well?

Speaker 2 (02:27:32):
Or well they could, you know, I if I ask
them about it, just say you know, you got this
and it's invading. They may want it there for some reason,
like a It makes a good screen, but it is
very invasive. You see it, and you drive through the
countryside and you'll see it, like you a little slough
comes underneath the highway or something, and there'll be a

(02:27:53):
whole bunch of We used to call it Georgia cane.
It's got some other names, but a roundo is its
proper name. It's a tough one to control. Yeah, especially
when it's around things you care about, plants you don't
want to get.

Speaker 4 (02:28:06):
So the practice that I do could could I could
definitely limit on my property right the Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:28:13):
Yeah you could. And this is extra work for you.
But if you could go to your property line, dig
a trench and put in I don't know how deep
you need to go for this. When you dig one up,
you'll know most of the major rhizomes are up fairly
close to the surface. So let's say you got down
at least twelve inches, maybe twelve to eighteen inches, and

(02:28:34):
you had a vertical wall like a They make things
that are thick thick plastic that are made for creating
a barrier underground. Some people will use ten in that
same way, although ten doesn't last forever, but create that
wall barrier, then it can't come across to your side.
So if the city won't cooperate, that would save you
the constant having to retreat.

Speaker 4 (02:28:56):
Okay, great, Thank you very much for information.

Speaker 2 (02:29:00):
You bet good luck with that. Thanks for being a listener,
Thanks for being a caller. Appreciate that a lot. Stephen.
All right, folks, are we here? Yeah, I've been telling
you today that I'm going to be at Katie Ace
Hardware Katie Ace Hardware next Saturday. I'll be there from
twelve to two, twelve to two, And if you go
to Katie Ace Hardware and bring me samples, I'll be

(02:29:23):
glad to look at those, to identify them or to
diagnose them, depending on you know what kind of sample
it is. You can bring me pictures on your phone.
We'll do that. We're gonna have a lot of giveaways.
We always do. And Ace Hardware's are just wonderful places
to go. I mean a decision to coming out and
see me asking your questions, you're right there for everything

(02:29:44):
you're going to need for your fall gardening, your fall landscaping,
lawn care and whatnot. Katie Ace Hardware is on pin
Oak Road five point fifty nine pin Oak Road in Katie, Texas.
So it's it's easy to get to. But when you come,
come prepared with your questions and your samples, and come
prepared to have a good time. We're going to have

(02:30:05):
some fun there. I always like it's just by the
way Pinoak Road. It's north of IT ten, So if
you're going around I ten, you turn north to get
to Katie. Katie Hardware. One of the favorite things I
have is just having a good time with gardeners and
you know on the phone. Here, I've got just a
few maybe a minute or so with you for me
to help you with your question. There we can just

(02:30:27):
visit I mean, you know, and there are people that
will walk you over if I say you need this
or that, they'll walk over in the store to find
what that product is. But we can talk about all
kinds of things. It's a lot better opportunity for you
to get one on one to eye help from me
out there. And again, Katie is Hardware. So where do
you live? Where in that area do you live? I
hope you'll come out Katie. We got listeners out there

(02:30:51):
in Sealy. There's a pretty close chance. Drive on over
Eagle a come on up, Come up from wherever you
are and let's see you next Saturday from twelve to
two again Katie Hardware and Pennok Road just north of
by ten and we are going to have a good
time looking forward to that kind of winding down appearances.
So if you would like to get out to one

(02:31:12):
of the appearances, don't delay, because we're just about done
with that and a Katie Hardware visit would be a
good time for you to come out and to do that.
I have here. Pat from Fort Bend on the phone. Hey, Pat,
how can we help?

Speaker 13 (02:31:28):
Hey?

Speaker 19 (02:31:29):
I have a question about how close you can get
concrete to a pecan tree before it damages any roots,
because I know it has to get the water.

Speaker 12 (02:31:38):
Down through the roots.

Speaker 19 (02:31:40):
And my husband wants to redo our deck and concrete
and we've got a nice pecantry right beside it.

Speaker 22 (02:31:46):
So I just want little ammunition here.

Speaker 2 (02:31:52):
Uh oh, you're putting me on the spot. Okay, all right, Pat,
So here's here. Here's the deal. There's not a black
and white line. Okay. So if you were to get
in a bird's eye flying above, you're a hummingbird. You're
hovering above the pecan tree, looking straight down. You see
the trunk. The roots are going out as far as
the branches, and then two and a half times that

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far in all directions. So anywhere you put something down,
you're gonna be covering some roots. But the closer you
get to the trunk, the more branches. So now, from
that hummingbird's eye view, imagine that's a big pie. And
where are you going to take your knife and slice
across the pie? If you slice right next to the trunk,
you've taken half the root system off because everything going

(02:32:35):
out in all directions, you've cut in half of it off.
You go out maybe where you just come in a
third from the outer branch bread and you've taken very
little of the root system. Again, think of a pie
and you slice it across with a knife, with the
trunk in the middle of the pie, and so you
determine how big is this trunk, how far away did
the branches go, how far in are you going to come.

(02:32:57):
That's the percentage of the roots that you're going to hurt. Now,
if there's a time to do it, it would be
now because we're entering the fall season and the stresses
are lower. But next summer if you do this, the
part of the roots that didn't get covered with the
slab need to get extra TLC and water because the
tree is having to get all of its nutrients and
water from living roots which are going to be over there.

(02:33:20):
The others are going to slowly mostly die the ones
you cover up because they're not ready for that kind
of covering. Had you put the slab in and then
planted a tree, that would be a different story. But
right now that tree thinks it can have roots where
you're about to say it can't.

Speaker 19 (02:33:36):
Okay, Okay, may I ask one more question shot about trees. Okay,
I have a whole bunch of camarillas in ground. When
and how do I separate them?

Speaker 2 (02:33:52):
Well, I mean you could, you could do that now.
They're they're gonna bloom, you know, late in the wintertime,
so it falls a good time to separate ahead and
dig them up, separate them out, and get them reset asap.
They are putting on the leaves. As things get cooler,
they're gonna be interested in growing again. Emma Ellis is
from a part of the world I believe it's South

(02:34:12):
Africa where they have hot, hot, dry late summers and
they basically go dormant at the end of summer. And
so people that have them in pots here will sometimes
set their pots on the side and let them just
dry out and shrivel and during the late summer and
then pop them back up again and that rejuvenates them
and they bloom much better as a result of that. Okay,

(02:34:34):
So get that dividing done asap, because they're fixing the
kick in the gear and get ready for what's going
to be a very beautiful show.

Speaker 19 (02:34:43):
Okay, Well, thank you, So much for your help.

Speaker 12 (02:34:45):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:34:47):
All right, Pat, thanks for listening. Glad to have you
as a listener. Look forward to you come up. See
me in Katie is harder if you get a chance
next weekend. Well, the music is playing the what do
they say? The Fat Lady has sun? So here we go.
I'm glad you're listening. I thank you for that. Any
questions during the week go to my website gardeningwiskip dot com.

(02:35:11):
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page and the Instagram page for garden Line, and there
you will find constant posts giving you a little tips
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on nematodes this coming week, and I got some other
stuff too to put up. In the meantime, We'll see
you next Saturday, once you get to put kda's hardware

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on your calendar.