Crepe Myrtle Confusion

Skip Richter takes your questions all morning long!

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
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Speaker 4 (00:21):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
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Speaker 5 (00:40):
All Right, folks, good morning on a really nice Saturday morning.
We're looking forward to visiting with you today about the
things that are of interest to you. How can we
help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
and more fun in the process. That's kind of what
it amounts to. I was visiting with some folks this

(01:03):
week about soil and about microbes and soil. That's one
of my favorite topics. And you know, microbes do make
the world go around. They really do. I mean I
could drone on and on about everything that they do
for us, from the serotonin they produce in our intestinal
tracks that make us feel better. You know, Serotonin's a

(01:23):
good feel Do you know most of the serotonin that is
in your body that does help your brain it comes
from microbes, not you make it. It's for microbes and
your digestive track making it. And then we could get
into things like their role in making cheese and beer
and kim chi and a thousand other things that we enjoy.
But when it comes to the soil, they make things

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really good for plant roots. That's what they do. They
get down in the soil, they're there, they're proliferating. And
there are microbes that are bad. You know, we have
things that infect cuts in our arms and other bad microbes.
Plants do too, but there's so many good ones, lots
of good micropes. That's the thing I want you to
be thinking about microlife. The fertilizer we talk about all

(02:07):
the time. They have their brown Patch. Brown Patch is
a fall fertilizer. Now, I know with that name you're thinking, well,
there must be a fungicide. Now, it's not a fungicide,
but it is loaded with disease fighting fungi, and there
are sixty three different species of fungi that have been

(02:27):
proven by research to fight disease. That's part of the
role that they do. There's one called the Scillus subtlest.
You can actually buy that in a bottle, the Sillu
subtlest and spray it as a disease fighter, organic disease
fighter on your vegetables and flowers and things. But it's
all packed up in the bag that is inoculated into
the Microlife brown patch. Excuse me, So when you get

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the brown patch, you're getting the fall fertilizer that's in it,
but you're also getting sixty three different beneficial micropes and
you're just not That just makes sense. It just makes sense.
You put it out there, you water it in, let
those things splash around a little bit, let them go
down in the soil, and they do their work for
you that way. If you'd like to get a bag
of Microlife's brown patch, I'm going to be at Moss

(03:17):
Nursery today. I'll be out at Moss Nursery. I'll get
there at one o'clock, done in Seabrook, and I'll be
there until at three o'clock. And so we're going to
be given away several bags of Microlife brown patch while
we're down there. And this is a chance. You know,
you bought Moss carries it too. You can pick one
up there if you don't happen to be fortunate enough
to win one. But I hope you'll come on down

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and see us and let me tell you about that
brown patch while you're down there. So this past week
I kind of working on doing some caretaking for my yard.
There's a saying that I like to I like the
saying and I like to use it as an excuse,
and that's that the cobblers kids go barefoot. Have you

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ever heard that the cobbler's kids go barefoot? The guy
that makes shoes doesn't have time to make his own
kid's shoes. Well, if you saw my landscape at certain times,
you would say, yep, the Cobbler's kids do indeed go barefoot.
But I've been out taking care of it, trying to
catch up some things from being away, like I'll be
today done at Moss in the afternoon, and I noticed

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some of the beds that I had, you know, wherever
I've maulched, well, there's no weeds, and it's like months
and months go by and it's like there's a weed here,
a weed there. You know, it's nothing. And then there's
a couple of spots that were bear and it looked
like a little chia pat growing right out of the
soil there with all the weeds sprouting up. And so
I had to go and clean them up and throw

(04:43):
some mulch on top of them and fix it. And
it just makes sense to do things that reduce your work,
doesn't it? And maulching is the easiest thing in the
world to do to save you a lot of trouble
and ugliness in your planting beds, whether it's vegetables, herbs,
or flowers, whatever you're growing, always keep a mulch on

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the surface. Listen. Nature does not like blank spaces. It
does not like scars on the land. It does not
like what do they say. Nature pores a vacuum. If
sunlight hits the soil, nature will plant a weed there
to cover that soil up. Because it's important to keep
soil covered up with plants or with mult something. Nature

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will drop mults on the ground. Nature will do a
lot of things in order to protect that soil surface.
So if you're not going to take care of it,
nature will take care of it. But you won't like
the way that nature takes care of it when it
comes to putting weeds all over the place. So keep
your soul mulch. It's just a tip. It's not hard
to do it, it's simple, it looks good, and it's

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sure to save you a lot of work. Plus, there's
gonna be less watering as a result of having melt
your soil temperatures will be significantly cooler over molt soil
than over soiled with sun blazing down on it, which
means food systems are going to be able to be
more effective up closer to the surface where there's great oxygenation.

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And so there's just a lot of good reasons to
do that. If you're growing vegetables and the soil is
splashing up onto your vegetables, you're more likely to be
splash splashing some spores of diseases that can cause problems
on that. So we can just go on and on
all the reasons we want to mulch in the cool season.
Mulch actually also helps moderate the soil temperature. You know,

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we don't have the kind of climate here where we
you know, we get a freeze line down a foot
down deep in the soil like some areas do even
deeper than that, but it does help keep those soil
temperatures moderated. All right, Well, anyway, there's a lot of
information there, but just a tip. Folks at ACE Hardware

(06:54):
are ready to go with hallerene decorations. I know that
people love to put out and when I say Halloween,
I don't just mean Halloween. I mean the whole fall season,
you know, the Thanksgiving whereverything turns the colors of brown
and orange and the leaf colors of fall. That's kind
of the colors of the season, and they have them.

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They're ready to go there. They also are set up
with far safety items. You know, I talk about ACE
all the time from a standpoint of our yards because
they carry the fertilizers that you need for your lawn.
They carry the products to control weeds and diseases and
also insect pests that you might have. They have all
the tools you need for your gardening activities, but they

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also have things that maybe you haven't thought of in
a while. You know, have you checked your firearms? Are
they all up to date? They got batteries in them.
Do you have a little fire extinguisher handy somewhere? Aces
got that stuff. They got that and much much more.
Now you can find You can find your hardware store
by going to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. But you'll

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find stores like Crosby ACE on f twenty one hundred
northeast part of the area, Langham Creek, ACE on five
twenty nine in Cypress Plantation, ACE on Mason Road down
in Richmond Rosenberg and Spring Ace on Spring Cypress up
in the north part of the Houston area. Ace Harder,

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let's take a little break here. We'll come back with
your calls.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Right back to Guarden Line.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
I'm thinking a minute, go, I tell you can give
me a call, but I didn't give you a number.
Kind of need a number to make a phone call,
don't you. Seven one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. And we're going to start this segment by
going out to Ronnie and Magnolia. Hello Ronnie, welcome to
Garden Line.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Hey, good morning, Skip.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
I sent some pictures of some cabbage in.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
The garden and get your ideas on what's going on
with them? Did you get them?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (08:54):
See them here? Let me see if I can open
these up.

Speaker 7 (08:57):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (08:57):
When how long How long ago did you plant.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
The prompt a promptly three weeks?

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Okay? If you used any kind of products around them?
Uh for controlling anything from weeds, diseases or insects or
anything like that.

Speaker 8 (09:14):
Oh, we use the uh.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Or cattle pillar spray that you had recommended before. Put
that on and uh and I've got some nitrogen in
there as well, in the soul.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Okay, all right, let's see. Does the baseball game have
anything to do with the question here or is that
something else? So what, there's a clip of a baseball game.
All right, I got your I got I see the photos.

(09:48):
I got pictures a movie. It's kind of exciting. If
we could put the show on hold, I'd like to
watch it for a little while now that I see
I see your vegetables here as well. Hey, it's early
in the morning.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
So.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
It looks to me something is wrong in the soil,
and I don't know. I can't tell you exactly what
it is. It could be a root rid, it could
be stuff chewing on the roots. But there's a lot
of cupping on those leaves and twisting that. That's the
kind of thing we see with certain types of herbicide damage.
So sometimes people put it in a lawn next to

(10:25):
the plants, and the volatiles drift over and cause damage.
But I think in this case, boy, I tell you
I would, I might lift a plant up and take
a look at the root system. You can set it
back in when you're done, but just lift it up
and kind of look at the roots and are they
white and healthy? Are you seeing brown? Are you seeing
them eating away? Something's going on on those and then

(10:47):
the symptoms are showing up above ground as a result
of that. You might have some disease on top, but
it's I don't think that's the big problem.

Speaker 9 (11:02):
Yeah, thanks sir.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Yeah, give give them a little fertilizer waterman, real good
and see if we can get them. Get them going,
give them a little boost, but get underground. Micro life
is weird going on underground? Oh you.

Speaker 8 (11:19):
Okay, we'll do Yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
I would They have a They have a blue bag
called it's the Ultimate. It's got a little higher boost
of nitrogen in it, and I would probably if you
have that one, I would use that one because it's
a little extra boost in nitrogen for what you're trying
to get going here in this particular bed. But I
wish you lota. And what about urea, Well, you can

(11:42):
use it, but be very careful. You know, regular microlife
is uh six percent nitrogen. Urea is about forty percent
nitrogen or more, and so you can we really easily
overdo it. And there's some other pros and cons with urea.
But I generally don't tell people to do that, just
because it's kind of hard to get it right and

(12:04):
people tend to overdo it. So all right, Ronnie, Okay,
you want to do the math on your reil. You've
got you take care, all righty, Yeah, So much begins
in the soil, you know. And I'm that broken record
that's always saying round stuff before green stuff, But it's
just true. It's just true. Plants live in their roots

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and when you've got lack of nutrients, when you've got
lack of water, when you've got too much water, when
you've got root rots in the ground, there's just insects
chewing on the leaves. There's a lot of things that
happen in the soil and getting getting that right is
one of the biggest challenges. But when you do, it's
kind of like I was saying earlier. If you mulch well, well,

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you end up with you know, a lot less work. Well,
same is true when you build a soil well you
have better results with less work done. In League City,
there is a feed source been around for forty years
called League City Feed. Thunderbergs have run that store three
generations now at League City feet when you go to
League City, you're going to find the products I talk about,

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like products from nitrofoss Azamite, Microlife, Nelson, plant food. You
know they carry They carry lots of different things down there.
And if you got a problem with pests and weeds
and diseases, they got you covered on that too. If
you're looking for some quality pet food, premium brands, they've
got that also at League City feet It is on

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Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety
six in League City. Open six days a week, Monday
through Saturday, nine to six, closed on Sunday two eight
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three two one six one two. I was visiting with

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Beverly at the Arborgate yesterday. We're talking about some things,
and uh, just that place, it just reminds me fall color.
If you want fall color, for example, the Arborgate is
loaded with fall color. I mean the of course, people
think of chrysanthemums in the fall, and they're beautiful, and
they've Arbigate's got those in spades, but so many other

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good options for fall color. If you are looking for
fruit trees, you can plant fruit trees now it is
okay to plant fruit trees now. In fact, fall is
the best season of the year for planting fruit trees.
It is winter's great too, Spring's okay too, but you're
just not going to do better in fall. And they
just got a big shipment of all kinds of fruit
trees in at the Arborgate in Tombole, those of you

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who haven't been there, it's a mile and a half
west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty FM
twenty nine twenty in Tumble. While there, grab the three bags.
The one two three system completely easy system of food
that feeds anything with roots, a soil for any application,
and a compost that improves any and all soil. And
both the soil and the compost contain expanded shale, which

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in our clay soils gives you longer term benefits even
than the compost itself does. And they're available by the
bulk soil complete in the compass complete. You can have
Arbrogate deliver them by the cubic yard to your place,
and they can do that, but mainly just go by
there and check that place out. It is gorgeous and
today'd be a good day to do it. Let's head

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out now to Houston to talk to Glenn. Hey Glenn,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
Good morning, Skip. I've got some questions I want to
ask you. What do you know about virus?

Speaker 10 (15:35):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (15:36):
They grow fast? Uh and you don't want to get
them give them a chance? Well, well, I mean what
do you mean, like, what do I want to know?

Speaker 8 (15:46):
Uh? Okay. I did a little bit of research on
on the on the cudsy vines and the way. What
what I discovered was is they were introduced here from agent.
They were used for erosion control, that's right, and some
yeah and uh yeah, they've got like a heart shake

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leaf and yeah. I've used some round up on them,
but they keep coming back and they're like all over
the place. Yeah, yeah, what do.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
You think you can't? Uh well, number one, never let
them a prayer. I mean, you get in there, you
can pull them out. They're gonna sprang back out of
the ground when they come out or before you pull
them a spray them glyphasate. I don't use the word
round up now because roundup means a lot of different things.
It used to just mean one thing, glaphys. Now now

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the homeowner the roundup doesn't even have glass, but glass
will do a great job of knocking them back. But
when they come back again, you're not gonna get it
all with one spray. When they come back again, you
got to hit them again. You gotta hit them again.
There's another are called tricl or ingredient called triclope here
t r I c l O p y r and

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you can put that on them. Uh, but with both
clifa satan, tricli peer anything you like, don't get them
on it. It'll kill them too. You know, your flowers,
your vegetables, your trees or shrubs, so be very very
careful using those. But the main thing with kudzu is
it just grows so fast and takes over that If
you it's kind of like starting a race and you
let the other guy run for ten yards before you

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take off, you're never gonna catch him. And so with
with around with the kudzu, you gotta you gotta stay
on them. Yeah, it's a took over the Southeast. I
mean you see forests just draped in it.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
Yeah. Well they tried to take over up a corn
try and I had, I had, I had, I had
to pull them off of it.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Yeah, that's it. Well, I would I wouldn't. I wouldn't
sleep until it was all gone, every last leaf of it.
And that's just that's gonna take diligent, ongoing effort. You know,
you give it a you give it a minute to recover,
and you're just kind of like starting back over again. Almost.
So stay on it. Well, this is.

Speaker 8 (18:09):
This is the first year that I've noticed these this stuff.
I mean, last last summer I didn't see any.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
Hmm, okay, well, uh, I don't know where it came from.
But that's kind of beside the point. The point is
just just stay on it. And uh it's one of
the it's one of the prime examples of you ever
heard anyone say it seemed like a good idea at
the time. Kudzu is an example of seemed like a

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good idea at the time. It would do the things
they wanted it to do, but it wasn't well willing
to stop there. It wanted to take over the world.
So anyway, hey, I appreciate you. I appreciate you calling.

Speaker 8 (18:50):
I got I got one more. I talked to evfore
about my pecan tree. Uh. I finally started getting some
pecans on it. But let's and now what's happening now
is I'm noticing some bark is starting to come loose
from from from the tree like it's talking to the peel.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Okay, you know, the barky.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
Okay, and the and the leaves, the leaves are turning. Uh.
First of all, I'm saying some yellow spots. Then then
they're turning brown and they're falling off the tree.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Okay, Glenna, if you wanted to send me pictures of
some of that, I could comment on it. But here's
a quick answer because I'm going to heartbreak here. Uh.
The peeling bark can be natural on a pecan the
way it peels. Uh, there's a natural way bark peels
on a pecan. Uh, and it kind of lifts up
off so you kind of wonder what's going on. But
it could also mean that that the tissues are dead

(19:45):
under there also, Uh, the leaves, the yellow spots could
be diseases or where the black pecane that has sucked
juices out. But when you send me pictures, I'll tell
you which it is.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
And it's it's the time of year for pecan leaves
to be given up anyway, So uh, those are some natural.
I'm gonna put you on hole Glenn, and if you
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three step four fall the Texas three step. I know
you know how to do the Texas two step? Do
you know how to do the Texas three step? The
three step is first of all, Nitropos Fall Special Winter Riser.
It's an eight twelve sixteen fertilizer high in potassium for
winter hardiness and to support that initial growth in the spring.
Second step is barricade Nitropos barricade. It prevents all those

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cool season weeds from ever showing up. And it is
way easier to prevent weeds with barricade than it is
to kill them out of your lawn once they're already growing.
Later on third step Nitropos Eagle turf fungicide. Eagle turf
fungicide goes down in the soil, goes up in the roots,
goes into the plant, and when the brown patch circles

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try to show up, you've already got your plant ready
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that when the diseases try to get in, they're prevented
by that. Now that is the Eagle turf fungicide. Now
you're going to find the nitrofas products like this three
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Hardware and Baytown Plants and things in Brenham, Texas. You'll

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find them at Bearings hardware and Biscinet Enchanted Forest in
Richmond and Lingham Creek Ace Hardware in Cyprus, Texas. That's
it out the phones and we're gonna talk with Bonnie
this morning in Spring. Hello Bonnie, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (22:24):
Good morning, Skip. I sent some pictures of crepe myrtle
I'd like tree to look at if.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
You mine, I have something, I sure have.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
Something white on the bench. Yeah, what is going on?

Speaker 12 (22:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (22:39):
First of all, they are nice little trees. The problem
going on with them is a couple of things. They
have been exposed to a little bit of dry conditions.
That's why you're seeing some of the yellowing and the
leaves falling off. And list my crepes in my yard
have done the same thing. I don't water them constantly,
just a lot. They're tough plants. They can take a

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little of that. Plus it's getting to be fallen. Those
leaves are ready to come off. The white stuff that
you see that is an insect called crape myrtle bark scale,
and crape myrtle bark scale sucks juices out of the plant.
What it does is it drinks the sap and then
it basically peas out the sugary substances in the sap

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because it really just wants the minerals. And when it
does that, that sugary substance grows that black sooty mold
that you're seeing, that's what the black is. It's just
all growing on sugary substances. So the way to get
rid of them a little plant like that, you can
do some spraying and scrubbing and things. That's tedious and

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most people just aren't going to be able to do
it or do a good enough job of it. And
the contact insecticides aren't as effective on this scale. So
what people do is put a systemic on the ground
to go up in the plant, and that way, when
the scale sucks, juice is out of the plant, it
picks up that insecticide. And if a lady is crawling
over the plant, it's not be exposed because the insecticide

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is inside the plant. It's not on the outside, but
it's drenched on the soil. If you go, you know,
to where you purchase your products or chemicals or things
like that, and just look for something that has a
meadow cloared, it's I am id oh. If you just
write down those those letters I am id oh, a midoh,

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and then the clopred is the other. But nothing else
starts with a middow. It's an insecticide. The systemic that
starts with a meadow that will do it. There are
some other systemics that will work, but I don't want
to confuse you with throwing eight hundred names out there.
It's just just just the meadow clopridge is a good
one for that.

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Okay, okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Had you said pictures earlier, Yeah, you sent me some
pictures earlier, and there was one picture that looked like
it had an insect in it. Maybe it did, Maybe
that was just a little leaf.

Speaker 11 (25:02):
I don't sam, I didn't know that they that they
went to you, so I send it again. So sorry
about that. Yeah, but all right, So you think the
insect is said, are, yeah, systemic will take care of it.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
Okay, it will.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
I would do it. I would do it asap because
what's happening now is that those trees are shutting down
for a fall, so there's not a lot when there's
no leaves, there's not stuff going up in the tree,
there's no no leaves to for it to go to
the waters and things. So in the spring. You need
to when the new growth begins, you need to do
that amid a cloport again on it in the spring.

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But I would try it now just for some benefit.
But today is better than you are. In other words,
don't don't delay. Okay, okay, thank you very much, Thank you,
Bonning you beat. Appreciate your call. If you'd like to
give us a call. Seven one three two one two
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five eight seven to four. Have you been to Enchanted Gardens,
Donna Richmond Roseberg. If you haven't, you need to go.
I mean, and I really mean that in Chanted Gardens.
It's just this is a wonderful place to visit. It's enchanting.
Like the name would suggest. In Chanted Gardens will provide
you with everything you need for fall color. They got

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their Pumpkin House going. If you haven't seen the Pumpkin
House down there, you got to go check that out.
That is super cool. The Pumpkin Palooza. They're loaded up.
And when we say pumpkins, I mean every kind of pumpkin, squash, gourd,
crazy thing you can imagine, you know, for the little
things you decorate the table to whatever. It just tables
and tables and tables full of that stuff. And then

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of course for fall, you're gonna want some moms and
you're gonna want some other cool fall color and they're
ready to go. They've got that Night to f Uss
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They carry that there at Enchanted Gardens. They carry a
lot of different lines there. You're gonna find micro life
products and Nilsen products and Medina products and heirloom soils products,

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for example. There at that place, it's a great place
to visit. Good knowledgeable people. They greet you, they know
what they're talking about, and it's just fun. Take some
friends when you go, though, because this is kind of
an outing. Y'all will have a good time, all Righty
and Chenny Gardens Katie fullsher Side of Richmond on FM
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four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you've got a question, you're thinking, well, this is
just my silly question. No, it's not. Other people will
have the same question. Believe me, a garden line. There

(27:55):
are days when I answer the same question four times. Uh,
it's just because a lot of people have a question.
So give us a call. Somebody else will benefit from
from that as well. Someone asked me one time, don't
you get tired of just always answering the question? No,
I don't. I won't tell you why. Here's why. If
it's a legitimate question that you have, then I'm happy

(28:19):
to answer it. And you know, if I've answered it
a hundred times, well okay, that's my problem one hundred times. Okay, whatever.
But if it's a question you have, let's give us
a call. Let's talk about it, because somebody else will
have it. I promise you that they do. They do. Uh,
don't forget. I'm going to be at Moss Nursery today
down in Seabrook, Texas, and I hope that you will

(28:40):
come out and visit us. Out at Moss, we're going
to be giving away some bags of the microlife brown patch,
the fall fertilizer that's loaded chock full of microbes that
have proven their disease fighting abilities. Sixty three different strains
in that that are put into the bag along with

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that good fertilizer. So you need to you need to
check that out. I'll be there, don't forget. Come on out,
all right, can we do that? That sounds good? Uh, well,
we're getting close to a little bit of a break
time here. I did want to tell you about Houston
powder Coders. They are the place that takes your old
metal furniture and makes it new again. They really do,

(29:22):
uh do this just out of curious, just to do
me a favor. Go Houston Powdercoders dot com. Houston Powdercoders
dot com. Look at the pictures, follow look at their
Facebook page. Check out the kinds of jobs that they do.
It is amazing. They can do anything that metal furniture,
the table and chairs that are metal outside of all
types cast iron, rod iron, aluminum, tubular aluminum, all that

(29:45):
kind of stuff they can do it. Got a barbecue
pits looking a little on the rusty side, They'll get
that rust off. They'll get it set up in powder coating.
You think you just bought the thing. Beautiful, beautiful work
two eight one six seven six thirty eight. Make that
furniture new again, Houston Powder Coters. Let's take a little
break here and we'll be back for our last segment

(30:06):
of this hour. Boy tomorrow, this morning is flying by.
In just a moment. I got a lot of sore
joints and muscles because I said the same thing as
yeah I left that. Hey, welcome back to Gardline. Good
to have you with us. Seven one three two one

(30:27):
two fifty eight seventy four. That's what you need to know.
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Give me a call. Let's talk about the things that
are of interest to you. Uh, if you have not
had your trees looked at in the last couple of years,
you need to You need to call Martin Spoon Moore
Affordable Tree Service. Martin been doing this.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
A long long time.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
The family business has been going on for what fifty
four years now now, Martin not been doing it for
fifty four.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
He might have been. He had taken him around. But
he knows what he's doing. And uh, he's busy too,
because he does a good job. So, uh, you need
to give him a call now to get on the
schedule he he books out, he's I don't know. I
don't know if he still has any more November bookings
than I need to ask him and see, but I
know at one point they were getting full. But he's
the cool season pruning, the uh Dorman season pruning the

(31:17):
most important, is the best time of the year to
get major pruning work done. And he'll come out to
take a look at it, see what it needs, tell
you honestly what he thinks needs to be done. And
forever tree that you have him pruned on that tree,
he'll do a free deep root feeding on that tree
that he prunes. So uh, this is a good time
to take advantage of that to have Martin come out.

(31:39):
You can call him up seven to one three six
nine two six sixty three. That's seven to one three
six nine two six six three. If Martin or his
wife Judah Nazer not affordable tree service and hang up,
call again. Seven one three six nine nine two six
six three. Let's go to the woodlands. Now we're going

(32:01):
to talk to Sandy this morning. Hello Sandy, Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 13 (32:06):
Hi, Skip, I was just I heard that it's a
little too warm for me to plant my new annuals
since it's in the nineties.

Speaker 14 (32:15):
Is that true? Or can I go ahead and plant them?

Speaker 5 (32:19):
What kind of plants do you have to plant?

Speaker 10 (32:22):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (32:23):
Just like pentas and petunias.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
Okay, no, you can go ahead and get the No,
you need to get those in. Those are warm season plants,
and we've been planting. We've been planting those since the
end of August, you know. So they're warm season for
the fall, and they'll last you all the way up
until the first frost and that then, okay, that's when
the cool season flowers, things like pansies and petunias and listen,

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and you know all the dianthus and others that we
plant those for the cool seasons.

Speaker 14 (32:55):
Okay, so what about dianthus? Can I plant that?

Speaker 15 (32:59):
Now?

Speaker 14 (33:00):
Can I plan?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Now?

Speaker 5 (33:03):
You can't plant dianthus, and you can plant snap dragons. Listen,
you could plant it's just hold off a little bit
on the pansies and violas. Let's get a little cool
cool friend in here. I know we have kind of
one here, but they're happier when it's a little cooler.
So okay, you can do what you want to do,

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but I on those I'd wait a little bit.

Speaker 8 (33:26):
Okay, okay, all right, thanks a lot, Thank you, thank you, bet.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
Thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much. Yes, Irie,
it is time to It's always time to plant something.
I really mean that, it's always time to plant something.
And you know the brown stuff thing I say, I'll
wait and let you say it out loud. Here I'll
give you the my brown stuff before green stuff. Seeing
the maltch the place you get the brown stuff. See

(33:51):
in the maltch, the place you create the perfect foundation
for your plants. Seeing them altch, the place that your
plants want you to go to because Sienna's got it
all and they got quality. You want it by the back,
you want it by the bulk. Do you want to
go get it from there? Do you want to bring
it to you within twenty miles of their location, which
is on FM five twenty one south of Houston. Go

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to the website Ciena Moltz dot com. You'll find the
phone number, you'll find the address, you'll find other information
you need to know. They can bring it in the bulk.
They can bring it in supersacks with a three sack minimum.
Each supersackle is a cubit yard. Go buy there. I
think you ought to go. At least it's good to
having to deliver you and do that. But at least

(34:34):
once go by there and check out this place. Check
out the Veggo beds. They sell those and they've got
them set up as demos out front. Check Out the
cool landscape art and the metal you know, those metal
figures that stand out in the yard, the artistic things,
the little shrooms that are like ceramic little mushrooms that
you decorate around with. They got lots of stuff there

(34:56):
to see. But when it comes to the soil, nobody
can do better. I mean they they've got it all.
And then fertilizers like from Nilsen's and from Microlife and
from Medina, from Nitrophis, from Asmite, they've got it all
at cnimalts because it's the place you go to make
your soul the best it can be for success with
your plants. Cinamals dot com, So go check them out.

(35:21):
As I was mentioning that they carry Medina products, I
was in seeing a little while back looking at some
of the product line that they have, and it is extensive.
As I was saying, if you're looking things like Medina's humate,
that's a liquid humus. It's it's essentially concentrated compost in
the in a bag. So the way I like to

(35:41):
describe it as imagine a giant pol of leaves and
you compost them, and now you've got a small pile
of compost. It takes a lot of material to make compost,
and then you take that compost and you let it
fully compost all the way to its final stage that's
called humus. And it's even smaller, so it's constant and
traded composts. That's what Medina humate, humic acid is. It's

(36:05):
got the ingredients that nature puts in the soil. The
humic acid, the fovic acid, those kinds of things are
all part of that process and they make the soil better.
And why are you there? You need to grab Medina
plus that's another one for Medina, Perfect for transplanting, perfect
for folier feeding, if you want to go that route.
I use it drenching into the soil all the time

(36:26):
around my plants because it's got that old Medina soil
activator that we've enjoyed for years plus over forty different
trace elements and plant hormones from the seaweed that's in it.
There are you know, plants like human beings. The hormones
direct a lot of things in our bodies. And Medina
plus is fortified with that kind of thing as well,

(36:47):
and it works. Medina Plus Medina humates humic acid and
you're going to get it right there at Cienamals and
many many other places. Medina product are sold all over
all over the greater Houston area. Well, let's see when
we come back. I want to talk a little bit

(37:07):
about some fruit tree tips because we are entering a
great season to plant fruit trees. So I'll try to
remember to do that. You may have to call me
and remind me, but I'll try to remember to do
that so that you and I can visit about some
of the tips for success with fruit trees. We want
you to have success. Don't forget. Today from one to three,

(37:31):
I will be at Moss Nursery in c Brook, Texas.
Moss Nursery eight acres of cool, cool stuff. And if
you haven't been to Moss before, here's a good excuse
to come come on down. Grab you some lunch on
the board walk at keymar or whatever you want to do.
Come on down and let's visit about gardening. We're going

(37:51):
to give away four bags of microlife brown patch that's
fortified with beneficial microbes. While we're down there and i'll
be answering your gardening question. You can bring me samples
of things you want me to look at. I just
ask that you put those samples in a plastic bag. Okay,
whether it's insects, diseases, weeds, whatever, just put them in
a plastic bag. And also take pictures in your phone

(38:13):
so I can see the setting and things and we'll
solve it. It's your chance. If you've got a yard problem,
take a four by four square segment of soil of
sod from did I say soil? If you have a
lawn problem, a four x four segment or four x
six four x six is a little better. But listen

(38:33):
to this part. Everybody, stop the presses in the zone
between healthy and debt. If you bring me dead grass,
I'll give it last rites. But I can't do autopsies.
Sick grass. That's what we need. Sick plants. That's how
I did. That's where we find out what's wrong with them. Okay,
so put it in a ziplock bag, bring it down,

(38:53):
Bring me a picture of the area too, and we'll
get to the bottom of it and we'll help you
have success with that. If you haven't. Jorges Hidden Gardens
they're down in Alvin, Texas on Elizabeth Street between Alvin
and Santa Fe. You go south of six and you'll
get the Elizabeth Street down there. That's where Jorges Hidden
Gardens is. Here's a phone number seven one three, six

(39:15):
three two five two nine zero Tuesday through Friday nine
to three, Saturday and Sunday. That would be today eight
to four. Jorge has got a fresh stock of all
kinds of wonderful vegetables down there, really really nice selection
of herbs as well, and fruit trees and beautiful shade
trees and shrubs with a yard from roses to you

(39:38):
name it, you're gonna find them in Jorges Hidden Gardens.
So stop by there, give them a call first if
you want to check on anything. Seven one three six
three two five two nine zero seven one three six
three two fifty two ninety. All right, we got the
first hour in the books here on guarden Line. When

(39:59):
we come back, talk a little bit about fruit trees
and success with fruit trees, because I would love for
you to plant some fruit trees this fall. We can
give you some suggestions. If you think I don't have
room for a fruit tree, let's talk about that. I
bet you do. I bet we have some ideas that
can help you have room for a fruit tree. All righty,

(40:19):
all right, folks, I'm gonna go to a little top
of the hour, the daylight outside. I don't have a
window open here, right and see I think we're probably
hitting daylight about now. Get outside, take some pictures of
plants of problems from a distance, from close. Bring them
on down to Boss Nursery today. Let's take a look.

(40:42):
You don't like that place. I love wandering through it.
It's kind of like a combination. If you were to
take a museum and a botanical garden and fill a
full of plants for sale and pottery. That's Moss Nursery.
You have a good time, trust me you will. All right,
We'll be back in a bit.

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Speaker 5 (42:26):
Alrighty, alrighty, welcome back to the guard line. What are
you going to talk about today? Seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's talk about some
stuff I want to Let's just start off. I would
like to talk about fruit tree season and some tips
for success. We're there here, we are. What do you

(42:50):
do to have success for fruit trees? First of all,
fruit trees want son. If you can give them six hours,
most of them do okay, they'll do okay. They like more,
but they do okay with six. As you start getting
below that, your production starts to go down. And the
reason is why do we grow fruit trees because they
have sweet fruit. How do you get sugars from carbohydrates

(43:13):
that the leaves make? How do you get carbohydrates from
leaves when sun shines on them? So the more you
put that leaf, that fruit tree foliage in the shade,
the less sugars, carbohydrates they can produce, they won't set
as many blooms and they won't have as nice of
large and quality fruit. So sun sun sun sun sun

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very important to give them as much as you can. Secondly,
they want good drainage. There are very few fruit that
live in a swamp. One called mayhaw can live in
a swamp. Not common commonly seen and sold around, but
that is an example. But most of them want good drainage. Secondly,
you want to make sure you're picking a species in

(43:54):
a variety that grows here. And when I say fruit,
I mean fruits and nuts. You know, pecan you're native here. Yes,
pecans do very well here, while not so do okay,
if you get the right kind, they're a little bit
a little bit iffy. The black walnut in East Texas
is native and there are actually some varieties of that.

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You typically don't see those for sale, but there are
some varieties of those out there. But when it comes
to things like Filbert's and macadamia nuts and all the
other they're not going to do other So the right
species and they're none the right varieties. And with peaches
and plums and apples and pears, and percimons and things.

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There's a thing called chill hours. And what that means
is when the tree goes dormant in the fall, inside
the buds on that tree bloom buds and leaf buds.
Inside the buds, there is an inhibiting chemical that prevents
that bud from growing on the first warm day in January.
And that's a good thing because otherwise it would bloom

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and then we have our next frost and you would
never that year. And that chemical is broken down by
temperatures around forty five and we call those chilling hours
forty five degrees. It's not the colder it gets, the
more chilling you get. It's temperatures around forty five that
are the best. Actually, I shouldn't say forty five. Forty
to forty five would be ideal. U thirty five to

(45:18):
forty is okay.

Speaker 8 (45:19):
And so on.

Speaker 5 (45:22):
If we don't get enough chilling, that plant never wakes
up and starts to grow because chilling is what breaks
that chemical down that's preventing it from growing. So what
we need is to pick varieties that are for our area. Now,
when I say our area, I got people listening in Huntsville, Texas.
I got people listening in Galveston, Texas, And there's a
little bit of difference in the chilling hours between those two,

(45:43):
probably about six fifties seven hundred in Huntsville, is my guess.
I haven't looked at the map on it specifically. But
then you know, we get some berries down near the
coast where you know, three hundred chilling hours is you know,
maybe kind of more what you look at depending on
the season. It varies from year to year. So you
want to pick a variety that fits that area. Over

(46:04):
the ways you don't have a chance for success. And
then finally you want to pick, if needed, a second
variety for pollination. The cowboys say you can't raise cattle
if you shoot the ball, Well, you got to have
both the pollen from one variety and the receptive pistol

(46:25):
from the other variety for those two to go together
for it to work. They can't pollinate themselves in some cases.
And then and there's it's actually not a black or
white issue, so let's just do it this way. Peaches
pollinate themselves, some plums pollinate themselves, most don't. Pears are

(46:45):
kind of another one where it's better if they have
a pollinator variety in general for most pairs apples almost
always you have to have two. You just have one.
You're not gonna get apples, okay. And it goes on
and on. We don't have time today to go through
every fruit and nut that there is out there, but
that information is available if you go to the Aggi

(47:06):
Horticulture website Aggie Horticulture dot Ta MU dot edu. Okay,
aggiehyphen Horticulture. Look at the fruit section. There's a publication
on every fruit dimensioned and more. Okay, so go look there.
It'll tell you the varieties that are best to grow.
A good local independent garden center I'm not talking about

(47:27):
big box I'm talking about an independent garden center where
they know what they're talking about. They can tell you,
and they will carry the varieties they should be carrying
in the first place. I could rent all day about
stuff I see in big box stores that should need
to be sold here. And it's true when it comes
to fruit. Don't plant black cap raspberries. They won't grow here,
but they're for sale there. Don't plant concord grapes they

(47:49):
you don't want those here. It's a waste of time
and money. But they sell them here in some of
the big box. Go to a place that knows what
they're talking about. All right, well that's a little rent
on fruit. Hopefully it'll help you make sure and do
all the things you do to take care of a
plant planet at the proper depth. Give it water, give
it fertilizer, give it sunlight. And then the final thing

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and we don't have time for that to maybe late
winter we'll talk about this is proper pruning. Very important.
From the minute you put that plant in the ground,
pruning begins. Pruning starts off with training, very little pruning,
but important pruning, and then it continues on through the
life of that that fruit tree. All right, well there
you are. That's it really fast. Southwest Fertilizer corner of

(48:34):
Bisonet and Runwick and Southwest Houston been around for ages now.
In fact, they're celebrating their seventieth birthday. That place has
got everything you need to have success. They stock what
is necessary for preventing weeds and diseases and insects from
attacking your plants, the fertilizers to make things grow. A

(48:54):
product never comes out of my mouth, to my knowledge,
has ever come out of my mouth that they don't
have a Southwest and it's just because they have everything.
That is what they do there. Corner of bisin Net
and Runwick. If you got questions, if you got maybe
pictures or a plant or an insect or something you
need help with, haul it in there, show it to them,

(49:14):
let them put a pair of eyes on it. They'll
take a look, they will tell you what you need
to do, and then they're going to have the product
that you need if a product is required. Southwest Fertilizer,
corner of Bisinet and Runwick seven one three six six
six one seven four four. Let's take a little break
here and we will be right back with your calls
at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
Good to have you with us.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
How can we help the day homebody almost have beautiful place?
Do you want to have fun out in the garden?
You maybe want to grow some good stuff to eat,
certainly want beautiful things to look at. That's why we
say we're here to help you have a bountiful garden,
a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. That
is the import to part. More fun. You know, you

(50:02):
can hire somebody to come in and do your landscape
for you. Take care of it, plant it, plan it,
all of that. That's legit. You're welcome to do that,
of course you are, but you also be a do
it yourself for and you can choose to what level
you want to do that in. And I think the
more you get out and play in the dirt, the
better off we are. You know, I was, I was

(50:22):
born to plan the dirt. I saw Calvin and Hobbs
cartoon one time and it was something that you know,
that's the one where the little boy talks to the
tiger that's always wandering around with him. I think it's
his imaginary friend anyway, and it says, if at the
end of the day you're you're not dirty and your
knees aren't green from sitting in the grass and stuff,

(50:43):
you need to seriously reconsider your life. I think that's
a good point. I'll go along with that one. Welcome
back to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
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(52:33):
Give me call us talk about the things that are
of interest to you. When was the last time you
were over at Plants for All Seasons? You know, that's
the garden center there on Tomball Parkway in between Houston Tomball.
If you're going toward Tomball from Houston, you exit Luetta
across over Luetta and it's right there on Tomball Parkway.
Haaby two forty nine. They've got an excellent selection right now,

(52:56):
lots of good things in there. Always always to check
out their pottery. You want to check out the plants
for the season, Plants for all seasons, right See how
that works. Whether it's house plants, whether it's beautiful fall color,
whether it is vegetables. You know it's time right now
to be planning a lot of things by seed and
by transplant for your fall garden. They got a whole

(53:20):
bunch of new arrivals in the bulb category for the
vegetable garden. Onion bulbs, garlic bulbs, wide variety of those
are there ready to go for you to take out
and plant and enjoy. Later on, you're going to find
the expertise at Plants for All Seasons to tell you
how to do it, to tell you how to do
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for All Seasons dot Com two eight one three seven
six one six for six two eight one three seven
six one six for six. I was telling you earlier
on to talk about those fruit trees, and when we
did kind of an overview of some of that. Whenever

(54:03):
you plant, you want to make sure that the soil
is right, that it drains well, it's got the good
nutrients and things in it. And with fruit, you have
the option of planting bear root in the dormant time
of the year. The bear root trees would be around
in like January, for example. They're not around right now

(54:24):
for good reason. But container plants are available year round
and so you can plant year round, and container plants
already have that head start. They work well. Just remember
when you pull them out of a container, if their
roots going in circles around the container. Whether it's an
ornamental shrub or tree, or whether it's a fruit tree,
you want to cut those roots in three or four

(54:45):
places around the circle around the pot. I use a
box cutter knife and just slice straight down. If the
root's too big for that, then use pruners. But cut them.
Cut them because when you cut them, they will branch
from right behind where you you cut them, just like
a branch would if you went out right now to
one of your trees. Of course, it's fall, it's not
going to sprout right now. But if you prone off

(55:06):
a branch on a tree, what happens. You get shoots
that come out from behind where you cut it. That's
what happens to roots. So don't leave circling roots. Make
sure and cut them. It is time to take care
of your lawn for fall, and a lot of things
come to a head in October, which guess what, that's
where we are right now. In October. You need to

(55:28):
fertilize if you're going to do any weed prevention. You
gotta do it now. It's like playing baseball. You got
to swing before the ball gets to the plate. To
hit the ball, you can't wait till the catcher's holding
it right. You wouldn't hit very many if you swing.

Speaker 10 (55:41):
Then.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
That's how it is with applying a pre emergent herbicide.
You get it down just you start a little ahead
of time, so when the weed starts to sprout, it's
there and it's ready to go. Same is true with
diseases like the large patch now or used to be
called brown patch circles. Brown patch circles. By the time
they're there already rided the leaves off the runner. It's
not gonna be green again until next spring when it

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comes back ugly all winter. But you got to get
ahead of it. Nightrofoss Texas three Step does those street things.
It's the fall Special winter Riser, it's the barricade to
prevent weeds, and it's the Eagle turf funge aside. And
I would do them right now. I would do them
right now. My schedule shows all through October. We even
have weeds that could germinate November Germany in December. But

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the bulk of it is going to happen when we
get that cold runt in, the temperatures drop and we
get a little rain on them. Here come all the
weeds and you need to have everything down ahead of them,
ahead of that time. Same thing's true with brown patch.
The circles show up after we get a low coal
front and some rain, and here they come. You got
to have the eagle down ahead of time. So where

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do you get these things? Well, Court Hardware and Stafford
carries Night Foss products, ospas Ace in the Woodlands, RCW Nursery,
a beult Way eight and two forty nine feed in Houston,
plants for all seasons on Luetta just told you about
those a minute ago. And Fisher's Hardware down in Pasadena.
All places where you can get the Knight Foss Texas

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three step. But remember, remember, remember, don't delay. It's all
about the timing. If you wait until November to put
down these products, you're gonna have missed a lot of
the things you could have controlled had you gotten them
done sooner. All right, to think about, Well, you're listening

(57:34):
to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
here to help you have success in your lawn and
in your garden and in your landscape. You can give
me a call. It's seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. We'll be happy to visit with
you and maybe get to the bottom of some of
the things that you're dealing with and your lawn in

(57:56):
your garden. I always like when people call me ahead
of time before the problems occur. You know, it's like,
I got big brown circles all over my yard. Well, okay,
can't help that. Can't make them green again? Other than
spray paint. You don't want to do that, But you
call before and we'll tell you how to prevent them.
That's just an example of what I'm talking about. Call

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ahead of time. Don't wait until you bought the tree
and planted it to call and ask if it's a
good one to plan. You know, why not let me
help you pick the tree out that's going to best
fit what you want. Do you want shade? Do you
want flowers? Do you want something that's huge it covers
the whole area for shade everywhere, or do you just
want a small tree or a medium sized tree. When

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Good to have you with us.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
How can we help the day you're listening to garden
Line By the way, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to help you have bounty, beauty and fun.
That's what gardening should be, bounty, beauty and fun. So
let's do that. You can give me a call seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three, two one two five eight seven four. Let's
go straight out to the phones and head to pair

(01:02:14):
land and talk to Robin this morning. Hey, Robin, welcome
to garden.

Speaker 14 (01:02:19):
Good morning, good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
Yeah, could you get that radio down in the background there?

Speaker 14 (01:02:28):
Sure?

Speaker 16 (01:02:28):
Sure, sure?

Speaker 6 (01:02:31):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:02:33):
All right, okay, can we have of course?

Speaker 10 (01:02:38):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
I have, yeah, sure, why not?

Speaker 14 (01:02:42):
I have what I have figured out it's probably boxwood light, okay,
and my boxwoods are turning brown like on a weekly basis,
I'll probably have thirty fairly large boxwoods and a third

(01:03:03):
of them are have got the fungus, and I don't
know what to treat it with.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
Out Okay, Well, there's not a good treatment for boxwood blight.
That is a problem disease, and it's it's it is
a disease that, along with a couple of others, is
basically making boxwood kind of lose favor as a as
a shrub for the area.

Speaker 10 (01:03:29):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
They're trying to they're trying to breed resistance and varieties
and things like that, but it's a challenge. Uh, you know,
you avoiding like pruning one plant and then that has it,
and then pruning the other. I always recommend people sterilize
pruners anytime there's potential above ground diseases and blights and
cankers and things like that as you go through when

(01:03:53):
you're pruning, prune the diseased one last or probably better yet,
once this disease, just get it out of there. A
s a p uh And I know yeh, box foods,
we tend to plant in rows to make a little
row or a headge or something of them, and and
so losing one in the middle is a problem, you know.
I mean, you've got a hold in your in your
plan there h. So but that that basically is is

(01:04:15):
the bottom line on it, or we just don't have
a great solution for it right now.

Speaker 14 (01:04:20):
Yeah, that's what I've run across. So I've heard it
in the soil. I know it's airborne, but uh more
in the soil than you know on the on the shrub.
But then they say they are borne also, so that
makes not a whole lot of sense.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
But yeah, well, diseases come and come in all different
forms and types. But boxwoods have several several soil related issues.
Nemo toods will get box woods. There's a vascular wilt
that plugs up the plumbing of the plant. It gets
in the roots and kills them that way. So they
do have some issues. But anyway, I wish I had a.

Speaker 14 (01:05:05):
Twenty five years old so it's just kind of strained.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Yeah. Well, and I'll tell you what, why don't you
do this? Would you?

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Would you be?

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
If you want, you can send me some pictures of
these shrubs from a distance and up course and let
me look at it. If I see anything different, remind
me on there. This isn't a new question. We've talked
on the air about it. When you send the email,
but I'm going to put you on hold and my
producer will give you an email to send those pictures too.
And I just want to be extra sure we're talking

(01:05:34):
about the right thing before we give up on them.

Speaker 14 (01:05:36):
Okay, okay, yes, very good, Thank you so much.

Speaker 8 (01:05:41):
You bet.

Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
Thanks, Robin. Appreciate that A Lot Intended Forest is one
of those garden centers that you just love going to.
I mean, even if you weren't in the market for plants.
Take your non gardening friends with you. It's just a cool,
fun place to look around.

Speaker 18 (01:05:59):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
They really have an unbelievable selection of plants that attract
birds and hummingbirds, and plants that attract butterflies of all types.
And you can just sit there and just watch the
butterflies lined up on these plants. They love them. And
that's a good clue also as to things you might
want a plant, but take your friends with you. They're

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herbs right now are just top notch. They have an
excellent vegetable section, an excellent herb section. And if you
aren't growing at least a half dozen different herbs, you
need to, you really do need to. We have herbs
that are groundcovers. We have herbs that make clumping plants
like you would use down a walkway to line the walkway.

(01:06:42):
We have, of course herbs that are culinary for cooking,
but also culinary herbs for teas and things like that.
Why not try some of those and then try some vegetables.
If you don't have room for a garden, then put
them in containers. You absolutely can grow great vegetables and container.
I took a little two and a half ellen bucket
one year, one of those nursery pots, and I put

(01:07:03):
three different kale plants in it, three kind of a
burgundy one and a bluish green one three different types
of kale and grow them in that and they did well.
You know, in the cool season, you don't the water's
much because they're not blazing hot. The demands are lower.
So a little two and a half gallon with three plants,
I'd be watering that twice a day in the summer,
not in the cool season. There's some really nice vegetables

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that way, So try that out when you're out there. Also,
when you're out there, check out their houseplants, absolutely beautiful.
Check out their gift selection. Their gift shops are very nice,
and get ready to bring home a truckload of pumpkins.
Pumpkins and gorgs, big, small, every kind you can imagine,
even the talavera ceramic types that you can just use

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year after year after year. You're gonna need room for
their onions. You're gonna need room for the garlic. Have
you ever grown garlic? Try growing garlic. They've got them
out there at the Chanted Forest. All right, Well, where
is it? It is in the Richmond Rosenberg area. If
you're heading from Richmond towards sugar Land toward Houston direction,

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it's off to the right on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
You need to check out their website. It's outstanding and
you need to sign up to be notified if things
going on there. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted
Forest Richmond, TX dot com. I hope you enjoy it
and you need to and you will if you go.

(01:08:32):
It's a great place. You are listening to Gardenline and
our phone number is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. I'll be down at the Moss
Nursery today from one to three, so you have time

(01:08:53):
to grab lunch in Chema, have a little fun there
and uh then come on over one to three. Will
be at Moss Nurse. I will be answering gardening questions
like we always do. Bring me pictures, bring me samples,
let's talk, or just come visit. I always like to
meet listeners. I haven't been down in the Far Southeast,
but it's been a while since I was there for

(01:09:14):
an appearance anywhere in that area, so this is a
good chance to come on out and I'd love to
meet you out at Moss Nursery. I'll be giving away
some of the Microlife brown Patch.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Now what that is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
It's a fertilizer for fall. But in addition to the
organic nutrient sources and Microlife brown patch, it is loaded
with bioanoculants. What does that mean. That means that there
are microbes of many different types, many different genera of
microbes Trichoderma, Streptomyces, Panabacillus, Pseudamonis, Bacillus, all of those. Okay,

(01:09:54):
there are sixty three different species and every one of
them does something to fight disease. Some type that's sixty
three fortified in that Microlife brown pat. Now when you
put it out, you're getting the fertilizer. That's why we're
putting it out there, to get the fertilizer. But here
comes this season of the year. We also want to
make sure that we're putting the good guys out as

(01:10:15):
much as we can to help fight the problems that
come along. And Microlife brown Patch with that biinoculant does
just that. Come on out and see me, maybe you'll
win one of the four bags at Moss Nursery today.
Let's take a little break here. We will be back
with your calls in just a moment, all right, folks,
welcome back to the guard Line. Good to have you

(01:10:36):
with us. Hey, if you are planting a tree, you
need to have a three sixty tree stabilizer on hand
to help stabilize that tree. But rather than getting wires
and steaks and you know, strapping it down and tripping
over the wires and everything else, all the trouble of that,
you just put a post in the ground. Could be
a little te poster driving the ground. Doesn't have to

(01:10:57):
be taposts, but it could be. And you attach three
sixty tree stabilizer to it. You attach it to the tree.
It's got a nice soft metal strap or rubber strap
that can be kept very loose, and it allows movement,
which is critical for developing trunk strength, but still it
prevents it from blowing over or anything like that. It's
a it's a controlled way of holding that tree in

(01:11:18):
place where it needs to be. You can find them
at RCW Nurseries. You go down to Siena Maltz, you
go up to Buchanan's Nursery, down to Jorges ed and
Gardens in Alvin, or maybe up to the arbor Gate.
You're going to find the three sixty tree stabilizers at
all those places, and you shouldn't planet a tree without one.
They work well, they last, they're strong, their quality three

(01:11:40):
sixty tree stabilizer. We're going to go now out to
Cyprus and talk to Dave this morning. Hey, Dave, welcome
to garden.

Speaker 19 (01:11:47):
Line Boying Skip. I had sent you an email about
a neighbor's yard. Morning man, I'd sent you an email
about a neighbor's yard lawn that was had some dead spots,
and then follow that after you responded with a couple
of photographs of the yard. I've since found out because
I had somebody with plants for all seasons come out

(01:12:08):
and take a look at it, that it is chinchbugs.
And so they recommended it by by a fenrun Po
granular by Howard Johnson's that I'm going to go ahead
and put down on her yard today. He also recommended
that since it hadn't been fertilized for the entire year,
he says, the yard's week, it needs to be fertilized.

(01:12:30):
And so this is really my follow up question because
I appreciate your opinions that you give on the radio.
He recommended that I not do the nitroposs eight twelve
sixteen but that I go with this Bruce's Brew eighteen
four to nine. And because there's such a difference in
the hit on nitrogen, I'd like to get your thoughts

(01:12:52):
on that. Which fertilizer would you think I would go with,
Go with the fall fertilizer.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
You want you want less nitrogen than we were putting
on in the summer, and you want more potassium. Ratio wise,
in the summer, we're doing a lot more nitrogen than potassium.
In the fall, we'd like a little more potassium than
nitrogen if possible. Uh So, yeah, go with go with that.
And so uh the Fall special that Nitruss does, if

(01:13:22):
you're doing a Nitropuss product, the Fall special is the
one that does just that. Yeah, yeah, hold the hold
the Bruces Bruce. It's a good product, but hold it
until we get to spring. That's a Nelson product. Nelson
also has a fall fertilizer. But I'm saying that the
the it's better to to use the fall fertilizers than

(01:13:44):
the than the Bruces Bruce for for summer time, spring
and summer wonderful.

Speaker 19 (01:13:50):
Okay, the only other last question, dude, do you agree
that that probably shouldn't cut the yard for two weeks
after I put this down so that a mower doesn't
suck it right back up again.

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
The fertilizer. No, no, put it down, and put it
down and then watered in with a half inch of
water or so. And arch would be fine too. Put
it down and it'll move it down and no mower
is going to pick that up once you've watered it ahead.
All right, Thank you very much, good luck Dave you met,

(01:14:23):
thanks for the call. I appreciate that. RCW Nurseries. That
is right where belt wag eight and Highway two forty
nine Tomball Parkway come together. They are having their Fall
October special right now. The fall sail fall is the
perfect time to plant, to decorate your yard, and they've
got all the deals you need to make it happen, like,
for example, metal art, concrete yard art thirty percent off

(01:14:46):
boog and veas fifty percent off. Perennials thirty percent off
in a one gallon sized perennials. That's a nice sized perennial.
And fall is the best time to plant a perennial.
Citrus trees, roses both forty percent and off selectros It's
not ever rows and the property, but select ones, but
the citrus trees, creat myrtles thirty percent, of azaleas and

(01:15:07):
camellias fifteen percent. I mean, listen, it's the perfect storm.
It's the best planning season of the year. Combined with
all of these woody ornamental plants, whether they're ornamentals or
edibles or decoratives, that it's the best season of plant them.
And now we got the sale at RCW. I don't
know what else you're looking for. RCEW Nursery dot com

(01:15:29):
corner of tomball Park, went Belt Wag eight RCW nurseres
dot com. You'll like the metal art they have. That's
the first thing I go to. You usually want to
go there is to see what kind of fun, crazy
stuff they have in that department. Of course, the plants
is a real reason you go. Let's go to Clark
in the Heights now, Hello Clark, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (01:15:48):
Good morning. I have a problem with a sego palm.
I've got like I six or seven my yard, but
this one, it's the stalk is about three and a
half feet I suppose, and for some reason you started
leaning over and it cracked it at the bottom at

(01:16:09):
the ground. So I got I got a one of
those green steaks, heavy duty and put it in the
ground and use some wire and garden hose to straighten
it up, but it's not really straightened up. I was
wondering if somebody made something that I could put on

(01:16:31):
there to support the stalk, to try to straighten it
completely up.

Speaker 5 (01:16:37):
Other than a you know, a good tea post driven
pretty far in the ground for strength and angled a
little bit away so that when you pull on it,
you can pull it up at least a straight if
not a little bit passed. Because I'm wondering it could
just be a physical break that is happening, but it
also could be something was affecting the trunk and weakening.
In that spot.

Speaker 10 (01:17:00):
You can see, oh, it just tunnel falling over and
it was cracked, and the lady at Carnelia said, oh,
you can see the roots. She said, we'll cover them up.
So anyway, I did all that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
Well, yeah, and sometimes when the plant leans soil it
is sort of lifting the roots up on one side,
you know, as it's leaning, and soil kind of sinks
in under there, so when you try to pull it up,
that soil is kind of in the way of bringing
it back up right, So sometimes getting on the soil
out so you can pull it fully up, get it staked,
and then that soil when you water it, you can

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put the soil it'll settle back in. That's about all
that's in your power to control. Uh right now, Clark, Uh,
that sounds like you're on the right path. We'll just
have to see if the plant, if the plan will cooperate.

Speaker 10 (01:17:53):
All right, sir, well, I help, Thank you so much.
I do.

Speaker 5 (01:17:56):
I do too, I do too. Good luck with them.

Speaker 10 (01:18:00):
And do you have a thing you can email me?
I mean I could get off the web to like
for lone schedules all that kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:18:08):
Yes, go to my web go to gardening with Skip.
That's gardening with me, gardening with Skip website. All my
schedules are right there.

Speaker 8 (01:18:20):
Okay, cool beans?

Speaker 10 (01:18:22):
All right? Thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:18:23):
This other good stuff you bet, thank you very much
for being a listener. As amit. Micronutrient supplement mind in
Utah comes naturally right out of the ground. They grind
it up, you put it on your lawn, and you
provide the trace minerals that are essential for plant growth
and development. Now as might provides micronutrients. It is not

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used instead of the fertilizers we talk about all the
time with the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. It is the micronutrients.
It goes with them. So you can do ASMIT the
same day you fertilize with the standard fertilizers. Don't mix
them together and the same hopper. Apply one and then
come back and apply the other. One forty four pound

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bag will cover six to twelve thousand square feet. If
you want more information, you can go to azimite Texas
dot com. But I can tell you this. You're gonna
find azmite all over the place, lots of feed stores,
lots of garden centers, ACE hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer as M.
It's easy to find. You just need to use it.
That's the bottom line. And it's all my schedule. Micronutrient

(01:19:25):
supplementation is also on my schedule. All right, we're going
to go now to David in California. David, we'll see
how far we get here. I think we got music
starting in about thirty seconds. We'll give it a shot.

Speaker 7 (01:19:36):
I'll be as quick as I can.

Speaker 16 (01:19:38):
Yeah, I'll be as quick as I can.

Speaker 7 (01:19:39):
I understand about.

Speaker 20 (01:19:40):
A month or so ago, fracking water is going to
be allowed to be put on agriculture and Texas.

Speaker 17 (01:19:49):
I think this was just some.

Speaker 20 (01:19:50):
Brand new legislation from August or something, and so it
sounds like poison to me. Have you got the opinion
on using fracking wa and agriculture.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
Yeah, I don't know anything about that. Surely if it had,
if it had poisons in it, they couldn't use it.
There'd be a lawsuit and heartbeat. So I don't know.
I'll just have to say I don't know that's the
real answer. But something, something in the whole story is off.
I think the devil's in the details and we're missing
the details right now on that.

Speaker 20 (01:20:21):
But yeah, sure, even hay or el selfa. You know,
if you're gonna feed your horses, you get good horses
and you're gonna feed them al alfa that was fused
with fracking or hay or you know, much less potatoes
or god knows what else you know.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
But well, yeah, yeah, I'm just a I'm just a
lonely horticulture is Dave. I don't have the wisdom of
the oil industry issues and all that, but I'm gonna
look at that look for a story on that. That's
that is interesting. But I can just tell you that
that there's some details that are missing and we'll have

(01:21:00):
to get to those. Hey, thanks for the call though,
I appreciate it. All right, all right, Well what did
I do? I just closed my closed my window that
I talked to people. That's crazy. Hey, you're listening to
the Guarden Line. We're gonna take a little break here.
You've got time to get a cup of coffee. I
hope you are planning on coming out to Moss Nursery

(01:21:22):
today in Seabrook, Texas. I'll be there. I'll be giving
away four bags of Microlife's all fertilizer called brown Patch
in the brown bag. Doesn't that match?

Speaker 16 (01:21:32):
Ooh?

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
That Ryan too? Anyway, come on and see me, bring
me some samples. Love to meet you, and you have
got to see Moss Nursery. You got to see them.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Welcome to kat r H. Garden Line with Skip Richard's please.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
Us double again not a sad.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Guys, sal beam and dreams.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Hey, welcome back. We are back in the saddle again
here on Guarden Line, looking for our next hour. 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 fifty eight seventy four. Let's talk about

(01:22:44):
the things that are of interest to you. Hey, U,
BnB turf Pros. You need to know about BnB turf Pros.
These folks can take old, sad, struggling turf and make
it new again. It needs composting, it needs core, and
need some fertilization. They can do all that for you.
They work down south of the Houston area. So if

(01:23:06):
you're over let's say, on the west end of where
they cover, that's over Sugarland, Missouri City over that direction,
all the way down Highway six, all the communities Siena, Arcola, Manville,
Alvin up to Pearland and friends Wood, and all the
way across over Interstate forty five. You know, if you're
in League City, if you're in Dickinson. Those are just
some other areas that is part of where they serve

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and they can come in. They do a quality job
of core aer rating with very special equipment that does
it right. That's important, better than the stuff you can
rent from the store. Then they bring a quality mulch
in from Ciena Mulch excuse me, top dressing Ciena mulch.
That would be the leaf mold fine top quality screen

(01:23:49):
leaf moll compost from cienamulch and they put that down.
They can do, like I said, the fertilizing. Here's the
bottom line. If you've had drought damage, if you've had
takeo root right damage, if you've got compacted soil especially,
it's really good for compacted soils. Fixes that problem. If
you've got a thatch problem, called BMB turf Pros, they

(01:24:10):
can do it. Here's the website bb turf Pros dot com.
No end in the website b B Turfpros dot com
seven one three two three four fifty ninety eight. Give
them a call, let them come out and work magic
on your place. We will go to Kingwood now and
visit with Scott this morning. Hey Scott, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 21 (01:24:31):
So thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:24:32):
Good morning.

Speaker 18 (01:24:34):
Actually got two little problems that I just went out
this morning and I realized doveweed is coming in from
my neighbor's yard into my yard, which is not fun.
And the well, my main question was is we have
a Japanese maple which you planted this spring and it
just hasn't done anything, and the leaves on all the

(01:24:55):
edges are brown. But okay, just I get completely dormous.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
Yeah, how much sun is it, end Scott?

Speaker 18 (01:25:06):
It gets probably about half the day it gets some.

Speaker 5 (01:25:13):
Morning half or morning half or afternoon half morning half
or in the middle half. Okay, pretty much, that's okay. Yeah,
they in our warm, hot one not warm climate and
our hot blazing climate, they do appreciate a little afternoon shade,
which sounds like it's getting that moisture sell moisture. You know,
those are very picky. If they get a little on

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the dry side, the tips and edges of the leaves
turn brown because that's the last part of the leaf
to get water, you know, as it comes up through
the stem of the plant and out into the leaf.
And so a little bit of that is kind of normal,
you know. I mean, it just means that it needed
to stay a little wetter, maybe a little maybe mulched
a little better and watered a little better to keep

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the soul evenly moist If it's in a little too
much sun, then it's hard sometimes to do that. But
that's probably one of the things. But the fact that
you just planted it you said less than a year ago,
Did I miss hear that?

Speaker 18 (01:26:12):
So in the spring, this early spring.

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
Yeah, So that first year that tree is just getting
roots out, and in fact, first couple of years easy
maybe three, and once it gets an extensive root system,
it's not going to be so picky about that water thing.
But you know, it started off with all its roots
wound up in a cylinder and a pot, and so

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the process of going from that to a strong, established,
resilient plant is what it's in the middle of now.
So I wouldn't sweat a little bit of the tip
burn on the leaves. Just be a little extra nice
to it. Realize that root system isn't spread out for yet.
Even over the course of years, it's on its way.
It's way better than when it was planted, but it

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still has a lot more root development. So concentrate your
water on the area underneath the branch spread of the
tree and just beyond that, and then as the tree grows,
expanding that wedding area a little more, and I think
you'll be giving it the best shot that it has
going into there. Now it's got a nice break on
everything and the roots will continue to develop some So

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it'll be better off next spring than it was this
first spring, for sure.

Speaker 18 (01:27:23):
Okay, great, any advice on the dove weed this first year.
I've ever had a problem with that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:29):
You know, it's just a problem. Celsius will do a
fair job of hitting it back, but you need to
hit it before we get late in the season and
it's got blooms and seeds and things on it. Once
weeds hit that, we call it the reproductive stage. They're
harder to kill. There are not a pre emergent can

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do it, but you have to hire somebody to put
out the kinds of things that will prevent dove weed.
Our standard home pre emergence you buy at the garden
center are not gonna be a good pre emergent for
dove weed, specifically that weed that's a problem.

Speaker 18 (01:28:11):
I work at home, so when I take a break,
I usually go out and pull dove weeds off the
edge of the yard.

Speaker 5 (01:28:18):
So yeah, well, and you know pulling it, it's not
gonna it's not gonna get rid of that weed. But
what it will do is every time you pull one
up and it's got seeds on it, you just took
those seeds out.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Of your yard.

Speaker 5 (01:28:27):
And so next year. You've made it a little easier
on yourself. The other thing you can do, uh Scott,
is to give it a good soaking watering, uh and
and then let it dry out. Don't keep it too wet,
dove weed. If you keep it wet, doveweed goes crazy.
And we want to slow it down a little bit.
And and a less wet soil helps do that enough

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to keep the grass happy, but not so much as
to make the dove weed get all excited.

Speaker 8 (01:28:57):
All right, sir, okay, all right, well, thank you very.

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Much, you bet, thank you appreciate your call, uh boss. Nursery.
Where I'm going to be today is I said this
earlier today. It's it's a combination of a botanical garden
with a museum filled with gorgeous plants of all types
and pottery that you can buy. That's kind of what
mas is. Eight acres, eight acres, a seventy year old
nursery eight acres to wander through. Whatever kind of plant

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you want, they're gonna have it there. And you wouldn't
believe the pottery that they have. It's outstanding. Come out
and see me today at Moss Nursery. They got a
new shipment of camellias in They look good. They've got
the the Japonicas uh, which is one type of camellia.
Then they have the su Sanquis that's a whole other
type of community. These bloom at different times of the
cool season. And then they've got communa sentensus. That's the

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tea camellia. That's what you make. That's what you make
your They say, china tea. You know the tea leaves
and things. We make tea a lot of things. But
the china tea camellia sentensus you can grow. You can
grow that plant yourself. Done and just go to Moss Nursery.
Grab you one Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas, two eight one
four seven four twenty four eighty eight. Come on, I'd

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like to show you that I'll be there today from
one o'clock to three o'clock answering your gardening questions. Alrighty
our phone number here seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I'm going to go to break
early here so that I'll have plenty of time in
this next segment. We'll be right back. We'll a's sleep
at the wheel I've got lots of friends keeping Texas

(01:30:29):
swing alive. Hey, welcome back to your guard line. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. Give
me a call if we can assist you in helping
you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
and certainly if we can assist you and help helping
you have more fun in the process. The nitrofoss Texas

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three step, We've been talking about it quite a bit today.
It is the Fall Special Winter Riser, a fertilizer high
and potassium for winter heartiness and early strong bring growth.
That's what that does. Second night fuss barricade, preventative weed
control stops the weed seeds from becoming weed plants. It
heads them off in that process. It's much easier to

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prevent a weed than it is to kill an existing weed.
Night fuss barricade prevents weeds night to fuss eagle turf fungicide.
It is taken up by the roots, it goes into
the grass plant and when brown patch tries to attack,
it's there to prevent it. So you have to do
it ahead of time. Once the circles are there. You
apply it still, it'll prevent additional circles, but it doesn't

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make brown circles green. So do it ahead of time.
Follow my schedule. October is a good time. Today's a
good day to get all these out all together. People
ask me, well, which one do you do? Does it
matter the order? Can I do them all on the
same day. You can do all of them on the
same day if you want. You can do them in
whatever order you want. But I would do this. I

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would do them all the same day, and then at
the end of that I would put on a half
into water and move them all into the soil. The
fertilizer needs to go into the soil with water. The
barricade needs to go into the soil's surface with water.
The eagle turf funge aside needs to get down to
the roots of the grass plant, and that takes water.

(01:32:14):
You gotta water these in. Now, where do you get them? Well,
you get them, you know night Foss Products, D and
D Feed and Tombal carries them. Fisher's Hardware and Mott Bellevue.
Go to Angleton at Lake Hardware. You'll find them there.
Go to the Arborgate you'll find night Foss product. Go
to Fisher's Hardware and La Port or Stanton's Shopping Center
and Alvin. All of those places carry night Foss products.

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And you need to get that Texas three step and
get it gone for success in your lawn. It's the
best most important thing you can do this time of
the year is has send that lawn into winter strong.
Let's go to West Houston. Now we're going to talk
with Ken this morning. Hey, Ken, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:32:55):
Oh that best be me.

Speaker 5 (01:32:58):
That's you.

Speaker 16 (01:33:00):
Talling about the crape burdles and you could get natrol
fox off. The trees were diseased or dying and needed
something special.

Speaker 7 (01:33:11):
But apparently it just needs some.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
I lost you there. Uh what your crpe myrtle is
not growing or what? What's the problem on it?

Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
Well, it has beautiful blossoms on all three other them
and then when Matt finished, then usually you get a
burst of new foliage. Well that didn't happen, and the
foliage looks very meager. It's uh so it's falled off.

Speaker 16 (01:33:38):
One crate burrel is loaded with ball boss, the other
two are not, and it's not driving. It's within and
they had done this before. It's the crate burrels around
in the neighborhood or like this. So I figured something
is wrong with the possibly of the soil, the cloth
all three or EFFECTA.

Speaker 5 (01:33:59):
That's that's right, something is wrong in the soil. Probably
I can't see the crape myrtle, you know, so I
can't tell you for sure. But when a crape myrtle
lacks growth, when it starts to load up on bal
moss and things, that tells me that it's got a
lack of vigor and so you need it needs to
be invigorated. Now, the question is what's wrong in the soil,

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and if it's very compacted and tight, if it gets dry,
if it goes through some you know, we went through
hot summer like we do every year, and that takes
its toll, especially late in the summer. These plants are
lacking water and they just they struggle along and they
need a good deep soaking periodically to keep them going.

Speaker 10 (01:34:44):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
You could do some holes and air rate, yeah, aerrating it,
putting putting a quality leaf more compost around it and
doing air rating and then putting that compost on to
kind of fall down in the aeration holes. You do
that with a little spading for it, just by wiggling
when the soil is it's wiggling it down in the
soil and kind of crack cracking that soil open just
a little bit. And then uh, and then fertilizing it.

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You know, the night Fruss does make a fertilizer for
trees and shrubs.

Speaker 10 (01:35:11):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:35:11):
They also you know, you can put a quality lawn
fertilizer around it and help it out. Give it about
about two cups a fertilizer for every inch of trunk diameter,
two cups one to two cups per inch of trunk diameter.
And you know, so you make the holes, you put

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some some fertilizer down, you throw some litho compost around it,
and as big a circle as you can, keep the
weeds and grass away as far away as you can,
and all of that should rejuvenate it. Just just add water,
as they say you always need. We're going into a
season where they're not going to need water because the
leaves are falling off and it's cooling off. But when

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we get back in the next summer, good soakings periodically
would be helpful.

Speaker 16 (01:35:59):
I keep track of the rainfall right here on this property,
and it has.

Speaker 7 (01:36:03):
Really been dry. Uh yeah, it's been a big while,
had a decent rain, so it was very dry. Well
that's water officially, but it doesn't get there deep at all.
And there's a big you need to It soaks up
everything you can, yeah, okay, yeah, and so.

Speaker 5 (01:36:25):
You need to water that area pretty good. There's a
there's a little gadget called a tree hugger sprinkler. It's
an orange and it kind of goes around the tree,
comes in three sizes. You can turn that on, set
you a little get you one of those little egg
timer setters on the on the to hook up to
the to the faucet, hook up your host to that,
and you can set it and say, I want you
to water for however long and with that tree hugger.

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And then I would do that, probably for about thirty minutes,
and then I would do it again after an hour,
doing it for another thirty minutes, and maybe even a
third time because it slowed to soak water into that soil.
So it takes it takes more than just your finger
on the end of a hose to get that done.

Speaker 7 (01:37:05):
All right, Ken, I've got a lower pedal of too
suddenly dried up, looked like it was slowing water and
it just kept trill and trivial that head. But the
one that push ride next to it privy, So I.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
Don't know, Okay, on that one, I don't know. You'd
have to dig down and look. Maybe it's something going
on in the roots. But two same plant side by side.
One's not doing good. Something's wrong underground on that one.
But that's as best as I can tell you just
just with that information. But hey, I got I got
to run to another call. But thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:37:41):
I appreciate your.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
Call, and I wish you well. You bet happy to
do it. Call back anytime anytime. Nature's Way Resources up
toward Conroe off forty five. In fact, it's right where
fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia into forty five.
It comes in from the west and you cross east
over the railroad tracks in your Nature's Way Resources where

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I will be by the way. This is coming in
this month of October, so that'll be next weekend that
I'll be out at Nature's Way for their big shin dig.
And I want to tell you they're Friday, October eleventh. Event.
I'll go from twelve to two. They got over forty
and I think they have forty now vendors that are
going to be there, So this is gonna be a show.

(01:38:24):
Peggy Martin roses are on special. Three gallon Peggy Martins
for thirty bucks. That is a good deal. Now fifty
percent off. They're bagged or rose soil. If hear the
if you purchase the Peggy Martin rose, so you buy
a Peggy Martin rose, you get half off a bulk
rose soil by the cubic yard or bagged ros soil.

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That's a good deal as well. All right, now, this
is something you don't want to miss again. I'll be
there on October the eleventh, very very important. They got
this deal going on for the roses, the Peggy Martin
roses from the twenty ninth to the eleventh, so it's
not just on the on the eleventh. It started back
on the twenty ninth. So we're in the big middle

(01:39:07):
of this Peggy Martin sale, which is three gallon Peggy
Martins now for thirty bucks on so and Peggy Martins
are great rows. One you need Nature's Way Resources Sherbrooke Circle.
Got to check them out, got to check them out.
Go to the website Nature'sway Resources dot com. Let's go
now to Humble and we're going to talk to Walter. Hey, Walter,

(01:39:28):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:39:30):
Hey, good morning. I had a question in a front
flowerbed around the trees. We I guess I know they didn't.
They have some Mexican petunias and some crape myrtles that
we kind of want to get rid of it. They
keep talking back up. Is there something that I can
either inject into it or it'll kill it?

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
Or the Mexican petunias you can spray them with something
that translocates down into them. There's also the crpe myrtles.
It's the same way you need to get almost a
brush killer. If you're gonna spray those to get rid
of them, you can. What I would do is if

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you cut a trunk off near the ground, dab immediately,
within the hour, dab on a product called tri clow
pier that's the ingredient comes in many brand names. Usually
they have a name like brush Control or poison ivy control.
But tri Clo peer t r I c l O
p y R that is the ingredient that'll move down
and that will kill those. Other than just hand digging

(01:40:33):
out all the roots and hand digging out as much
of the Mexican petunia as you can, it's going to
take a series of sprays to get ahead of those.
But but that that's what I would use it.

Speaker 18 (01:40:47):
Does it also work on the creamertleslico.

Speaker 7 (01:40:52):
Try.

Speaker 5 (01:40:55):
I don't know that, I'm not I'm not following. Try
to you. I tell you what. Let's do this. If
you go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com
Gardening with Skip dot com, there is a publication it's
called Herbicides for Skipsweed Wiper Herbicides for Skips. It is
a page and whatever kind of weed you have, it

(01:41:16):
tells you what ingredient you need and the products that
contain that ingredient. That way, no matter what these weeds
are that they have, you would use that. And I
would use the one for a broadleafweed control on that
Mexico petunia, and I would use the one for wood
woody weed control on the crant myrtle. But it's all

(01:41:36):
on that sheet and I'm gonna have to run, but
hopefully that'll that'll get you off to you bet to
a good start. Hey, Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights.
The place you need to go. It's on Eleventh Street.
Check out the website Buchanansplants dot com. They are having
just all kinds of good things going on around there.
It's a false sail, lots of stuff happening with that.

(01:42:00):
I was checking out Buchanans the other day. They always
had that big shindig going on at Buchanans in the fall,
and when I come back, I want to tell you
a little bit more about it. It is really really cool.
It's on October the fourth, which is today. You don't
want to miss it. Doesn't ragtime? Just make you happy?
Does me? There we go? All right, welcome back to Guardline.

(01:42:24):
Good to have you with us. I was talking about
telling you about Buchanans Native Plants and the shindig that
they have coming up, and boy do they ever. Their
fall special is today and it will be going on
from ten am to three pm. They've got live music,
they got drinks, they got kids crafts, beer, wine, coffee, kidscrafts,
live music. I said, all that face painting, local vendors,

(01:42:45):
Hey ride, Oh my gosh, Pumpkins food truck told you
they put on quite a shindig. It's all there at
Buchanans All eleven Street in the Heights. Those of you
in that area, we'll swing by, glad to have you
with us today. You are listening to Garden Line and
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to
help you have success. That's the bottom line. How do
we make sure that gardening is something you enjoy, that

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beautifies your place, that gives you good, healthy food that
you enjoy. That's what it's all about. And so what
you got to do is give us a call now.
If you got problems with your plants, bring them on
down to Moss Nursery today. I'll be there from one
to three pm. And it is worth coming to Moss.
You got to see this eight acre wonderland of all

(01:43:30):
kinds of cool stuff. Leave room in your car because
you're going to see a lot of stuff that you
can't live without when you go to Moss Nursery. That's
always it is down there, all right, But I hope
you come on out and see me. Look forward to that.
Wild Birds Unlimited has a deal going on right now
and you need to hear this. You got any old

(01:43:50):
feeders I actually have one that my mother in law
had and she got rid of it and it was
kind of in disrepair and I just hadn't had the
heart to throw it away yet. In their feeder swap,
they do this ever fall, and it's going to go
from now and you need to hear this through October twelfth.
From now to October twelfth. Any old feeder, any old feeder,

(01:44:12):
I don't care what condition it's in. Take it in
to one of the six locally owned Wildbirds Unlimited stores
and they'll give you a discount on a brand new feeder.
That is a good deal because they have some. In fact,
that is the place I would go to get any
kind of bird feeder. They've got them from hummingbird feeders
to specialty suet feeders for the winter season. It's coming

(01:44:35):
up on us. To whatever kind of feeder you want.
They've got them all there, including the eliminator, which is
my favorite feeder that keeps the squirrels out and it works,
it does. But you got to take them an old feeder,
some old broken down thing could be, whatever condition it's in.
They'll give you a good discount on a new feeder

(01:44:55):
when you come in there. Now where are the six
Wildbirds Unlimited stores? One in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, up
in Cypress on Barker Cypress. Down in Pearland. The wild
Bird's Unlimited store is on East Broadway in clear Lake.
It is on Eldorado Boulevard. We got a couple of
them on the west and southwest side of Houston, one
on bel Air and one on Memorial Drive. All good

(01:45:18):
stores to have all kinds of good things. It's still
hummingbird season. Hummingbirds are still coming to my feeders right now.
You got to go by there. Get that nectar defender.
It makes that sugar water last in the heat and
not go bad so fast. It's a good addition for
your hummingbirds. Let's go out to the phones now. We're
going to go to Missouri City and talk to Dan. Hello, Dan,

(01:45:40):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:45:42):
Good morning. I have an issue with a crape myrtle.
It happens every year. It could see tiny white spots
on the leaves and on the on the branches, and Okay,
I don't know if I need to do something preventative
or if anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:46:06):
An idea.

Speaker 5 (01:46:07):
Probably, yeah, what's your probably? Are you seeing any black
city stuff on it. Yes, on the branches. Okay, I
think what you have is crepe myrtle bark scale. It's
a little white thing that sits among the soot that
it actually caused. Those scale suck the juices out of
the plant. They keep the minerals and they pee out,

(01:46:30):
pee out the sugars, the sugars in the sap. They
don't care about the sugars. And then they that gets
all over the branches, and then the soot grows on
sugar water. You know that that's just it's not a disease.
It's just grown on the sugar water. But that's one
of the signs that you got creat myrtle bark scale.

Speaker 22 (01:46:47):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:46:47):
The best way to manage them most scale we use
horticulture loyals and things. For for some reason, that's been
difficult on the crepe myrtle bark scale to have good
success with. So what they're recommending these days is a
systemic insecticide to go up in the plant and from
inside out to control them. Because the the insecticide becomes

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part of the sap that they're drinking from. So a
good bug crawling around on the plant isn't affected because
the poison isn't on the outside of the planet's in
the sap, so only things that suck juices out of
a crape myrtle would have access to that insecticide, And
there's a number of good ones on the market. You
go to your local ace hardware store there you know
there where you're located.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
They're near you.

Speaker 5 (01:47:32):
You're really close to Southwest Fertilizer corner Bissinet and Renwick.
I know Bob's got several things. If you just explained
to him what you got, uh, and you put them
these you put them on the soil, you water them in,
and the roots of the crape myrtle take them up. Now,
crape myrtles are about to stop that with the cool
season heating. So if you were going to try it now,

(01:47:52):
I would do it right now, not next week. Uh,
And then next spring is a begin new growth. Make
sure you have that stuff down on the soil so
the roots will take it up to protect some next year.
It lasts a while. It's not just gonna It takes
a while to get up in there, and it lasts
a while, all right.

Speaker 18 (01:48:11):
I really appreciate your luck with that.

Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
You bet you take care appreciate that. Nelson Plant Food.
The folks at Nelson Plant Food have a product called Carboload.
Carboload is a ten ten twenty lawn fertilizer. Okay, So
that last number, that's the potassium. That's the magic. You
don't put just potassium on your lawn. You want potassium

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and nitrogen. And that's why there's ten percent nitrogen and
ten percent are in twenty percent potassium and very important
for fall. It helps them be more cold hearty the
grass plants, that is, it helps them come out strong
and early in the spring. Very important. All spring, initial
spring growth all comes from the fall fertilization, all comes

(01:48:55):
from the stored carbohydrates that are in the plant. Carboload
does that. It all has an ingredient in it to
prevent weeds from sprouting. So you want to apply it.
You want to apply it right, You want to water
it in, and you want to do it now. Don't
wait until after the winter weeds are up. Get it
done this month, preferably earlier than later. Carbo Load Purple

(01:49:19):
Bag from the folks at Nelson part of the turf
Star line. The stuff works. You're listening to Garden Line
our phone number seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
eight seven four give me a call. Let's see if
we can help you with the kinds of questions that
you might have. Uh, I'll tell you what. Let's do this.

(01:49:41):
We're going to go to the phones to uh it
says Missouri and talk to Frank. Hey, Frank, are you
in Missouri or Missouri City?

Speaker 8 (01:49:49):
Well, this is the same prime that called you about
a month or so ago. I'm in Spring Texas. Last
first time I called you was Missouri. And Uh, I'll
have the pictures that I sent in Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:50:01):
Yeah, they uh send.

Speaker 18 (01:50:07):
Fifteen twenty minutes ago.

Speaker 5 (01:50:10):
No, that they didn't come through. They didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:50:16):
Here.

Speaker 5 (01:50:16):
Here's here's what we need to do, Frank. I'm gonna
put you on hold, and my producer's gonna get get
this right you and we're about to go to break.

Speaker 22 (01:50:24):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
You can hang around or we'll talk to you first
if you're there, but you may have to resend those
pictures so that I have them. All right, I'm gonna
put you on hold right now so y'all can work
that out. All right, There we go, folks, I gotta
go to a break. I'll be right back with your call.
Seven one, three fifty eight seventy four. All right, folks,

(01:50:45):
welcome back to the guard Line.

Speaker 16 (01:50:46):
Can have you with us?

Speaker 5 (01:50:48):
I'll tell you Ace Hardware stores have got you covered
for everything you need for your loan and garden. They do, uh,
and they also have you covered for your Halloween and
fall decorations outdoors. They're ready to go on that. You
need to check them out. They have the home safety
items like fire alarms, like fire extinguishers. Have you thought
about those things? It's time do you?

Speaker 18 (01:51:09):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:51:10):
You know, you never know you need it until you
need it, right, and you're just not aware of it.
Having those things to protect your home is very important
and Ace Hardware can do that. Of course, things like
that I always forget, like a new filter in the
AC unit, right, we're supposed to change those every month.
ACE Hardware's got you covered on that. Well, whatever you're
looking for. Whatever you're looking for, remember, Ace Hardware's the

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place and Sienna. Ace Hardware is having their grand opening.
That would be yesterday, no excuse me, Friday the tenth,
Saturday the eleventh, and Sunday the twelfth. Next weekend Friday
the tenth, Saturday the eleventh, Sunday the twelfth. I was
at Sienna a while back. Great store. They got giveaways
all weekend. They got live grilling demos from ten to

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two on Saturday. Here's the address. Nine thirty two Highway six,
Missouri City Harbor. Think of the Missouri City area. Think
of where Sienna Parkway comes into Highway six. That's where
it's located. Siena Parkway and Highway six. Sienna Ace Harbor
Ground opening next weekend. Go enjoy that. Lots of fun
festivities going on. We're gonna run now out to Let's

(01:52:18):
see you. Going to talk to Jerry and West Houston.
Hey Jerry, how can we help this morning?

Speaker 7 (01:52:23):
Hey morning Skip.

Speaker 8 (01:52:25):
I got a little problem here.

Speaker 12 (01:52:28):
My lawn was looking good and healthy, and I decided
to throw down some little fertilizer for the summer stress
and all that, and I didn't pay attention to what
I was buying and I wind up going down weed
and feed on it. Now my yard it's not completely dead,
but I still have some green fiscus coming up. But

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what's your remedy for?

Speaker 10 (01:52:55):
Uh time?

Speaker 8 (01:52:58):
You have to resize.

Speaker 5 (01:53:01):
Well, depending on the amount of damage maybe. Yeah, time
is your is the only thing. Let's see, we're going
into winter now, you know, at least there's some brown
grass on the ground to help protect the soil and stuff.
It's you can still reside, but it depends on what
kind of weed and feed you used as to whether

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you want to do that or not right now. Definitely
when things warm up in the spring.

Speaker 12 (01:53:27):
Yeah, that's where it made to the thick. I don't
use a whedon feed. I wasn't paying attention to the
bag that I purchased, and after it started dying out,
lift it and trash and it.

Speaker 8 (01:53:37):
Was whaeding feed.

Speaker 12 (01:53:38):
And if I okay, let it go water it through
the winter, will.

Speaker 18 (01:53:43):
It come back in the spring.

Speaker 5 (01:53:47):
Well, if it's not dead, what kind of grass do
you have, Saint Augustine age? Yeah, yeah, if it's brown
and the runners are brown, it's dead. Uh So anywhere
there's not a green runner not gonna come back. But
so that would require residing with Saint Augustine. Uh and
so yeah, that's probably it. Hey, Jerry, Yeah, there's no

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magic out there at this point. You just the damage
is the damage and you take it from there. I'm
gonna before I'm not. Rather than hang up, I'm gonna
put you on hold, and would you mind talking and
giving my producer. I don't want to do this in
the air. Give them the produce. I'd like to know
the product that you used, if you had it just
off hand, and I want to kind of look into that.

(01:54:30):
But that is that's where you are right now. It's
you can't make it come back to life. Saint Augustine
has no life underground like runner like rhizomes like bermuda
and zoysia do. And so it's if it's brown on top,
it's gone, it's gone. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:54:45):
I did some light breaking to get the dead thatch
out of it, you know, without really Yeah, pairing up
the whole yard to a bird der, Well, yeah, do
that sweet green on it or something organic to help
the soil. Maybe what's left?

Speaker 5 (01:55:02):
Well, hold off, hold off, hold off on that. Send
me some send me a picture of your line, send
me some close ups to the email address you're going
to get from my producer, and send me a picture
of or the name of the product, and I'll look
at the pictures and if there's anything I can suggest
based on that, I'll do that. But for right now,
I'm gonna I'm gonna have to run. I gotta keep
moving here. Cienamultch. I told you about them earlier. It's

(01:55:26):
the place to go for everything you need. But you know,
people don't think about this, but Cenamalts carries all the
fertilizers too. Cenamulch is about the soil, and the soil
is where success begin. So the way I like to
put it is Cienamaltz gives you the foundation for success.
Don't PLoP a poor plant into an unprepared plot. Fix

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the soil first, create the foundation. Brown stuff before green stuff.
And it starts at Ciena Maltch. They are south of
Houston on FM five point twenty one. Go to their
website find out everything you need to know Sienna Mulch dot.
It's a one stop shop for homeowners, whether it's bags
of fertilizer, all the products I talk about fertilizer wise

(01:56:06):
here on garden line, the soil products like composts and
bed mixes, the veggie herb mix from heirloom soils, mulches
of all types, rock stone, gravel, you name it, it's
all there at Cienamulch. All right, Ciana maltch dot com.
We're going to go now to Champions Forest and talk
to Paul. Hello, Paul, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 23 (01:56:28):
Hey man, Hey, yeah, welcome, thank you. I've only got
about a minute, but real quick. For the past twenty years, ish,
in two different yards, I have generally planted winter rye grass.
You know, I just like I like grass to be green,
you know. And you know, for the most part, you know,

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my Saint Augustine has you know, been pretty healthy. But
I've often wondered does doing that sheeting my yard with
you know, win awry you know, right around Thanksgiving Ish,
does it? Does it compromise the integrity of my Saint Augustine.

Speaker 5 (01:57:10):
Yes, of all of all long turf, it does. There's
reasons we overseed so it looks pretty in the winter.
The downside You've got to mow in the winter. You
may have to water in the winter, uh some. But
the biggest downside is when that Saint Augustine Zeizier Aubermuda
is trying to come out in the spring, it's got

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this thick patch of rye grass that is blocking sunlight,
stealing nutrients and stealing water. The way I like to
put it, that I think helps it make sense for
folks is to say overseeding is like planting hundreds of
thousands of weeds in your lawn. That's what it amounts to.

Speaker 10 (01:57:52):
Thought.

Speaker 23 (01:57:53):
That's kind of what I always thought. Uh, and I
may continue to do it anyway. Be I'm kind of vain.

Speaker 10 (01:58:00):
But yeah, you.

Speaker 23 (01:58:01):
Mentioned bermuda grass.

Speaker 8 (01:58:03):
Uh, you know people I'm thinking of people do it.

Speaker 23 (01:58:06):
Yeah, I want to say water And I've been studying it.
I've been watching about six or seven lawns in the
neighborhood and uh, and I recently came across bermuda tiff
tuff And so if you know, gun to your head.
If somebody were to make a quick decision in Champion Force,
you had to make a decision your life depending on it.
Would you plant tiff tough or would you plant zeusia?

Speaker 5 (01:58:30):
I would plant zouzia. It's a little more shade tolerant.
And a lot of champions LUNs have a lot of
shade on them. Uh, it's a lot more shade tolerant.
It's a very tough grass. It's a very attractive grass.
It doesn't yeah, yeah, it's it's it's got that, it's
got what Bermuda has. It also has a little bit
of that flower bed invasiveness that Bermuda has. But I

(01:58:52):
think Zoysia for that setting is a superior choice. I
would either do a thinly variety variety like Xeon, or
I would do a broadly variety like Palisades. There's many
of the good varieties out there of Zoysia.

Speaker 23 (01:59:08):
Yeah, I like the Xeon.

Speaker 8 (01:59:10):
It's really good. And thinking about it.

Speaker 23 (01:59:15):
Yeah'm thinking about doing this.

Speaker 10 (01:59:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:59:19):
There you go, And the Xeon has some of the
best uh shade tolerance of all the zoysias too. All right,
thanks a lot. I appreciate appreciate that question a lot.
Uh D and D Feed and Tomball I talk about
them all the time. They're three miles west of Highway
to forty nine and they've been around for a long time.
Opened up in nineteen eighty nine, and they carry nitrofoss products,

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micro Life products, Nelson, Turf Star products, Medina products. Uh
they have airloom soils, they have those in stock there,
and of course what you would expect from a feed store,
quality feed, including high end dog line dog food lines
like Star Pro, Diamond, Victor, Origin U and other things
you hear me talk about like the mosquito dunks that

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we always say you need to have on hand at
all time. D and D feed three miles west of
two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty two eight
one three five to one seventy one forty four two
eight one three five to one seventy one forty four. Alrighty,
there you go. I'm going to be at Moss Nursery today.

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I would like you to come out if you can,
If you live down southeast of Houston, anywhere in that region,
just come on over. Let me show you Moss Nursery.
If you haven't been there before, you've got to come
just for that period. That's a great nursery. I'll be
giving away four bags of Microlife brown Patch. That is
the microbe loaded microbe meaning disease fighting microbe loaded a

(02:00:50):
fertilizer for fall made by the folks at Microlife brown Bag.
Well out, We're going to give away a few bags
of that. We'll be diagnosing your plant questions and problems.
Mostly you're gonna be wandering around having a really good time.
Bring some friends with you. If you come, it is
really worth it. They will enjoy it even non plant.
People will love that place. It is cool. Hope to

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see you there from one at three o'clock to day.

Speaker 1 (02:01:19):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
It's miss Trim. Just watch him as well.

Speaker 3 (02:01:38):
Many broad things to sup blow basin in ways.

Speaker 4 (02:01:46):
Back again, not a sign credit gas.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
So beamon tweet.

Speaker 5 (02:01:59):
All right, we're back. Good to be back with you
on garden Line. If you've got a gardening question, here's
the last hour for today. Time to give me a call.
Seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy
four seven one three two one two five eight seven
to four Out in Kingwood. Those folks, you folks out

(02:02:20):
there in Kingwood, are so fortunate. You've got a couple
of outstanding garden centers, Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. Now,
Warrens Southern Gardens is on North Park Drive. Kingwood Garden
Center is on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of them are
open seven days a week, and both of them are

(02:02:41):
great places to visit. If you haven't been out there,
you need to go check them out. They're really really nice,
lots of good things going on. They're stocked up right now.
They got that Microlife brown Patch and I will be
giving away today down on the opposite end of the
world down south in Moss Nursery. But they've got that
stocked up there at Warren's ready to go for you.

(02:03:03):
They got the carbload from the folks at Nelson's, a
turf star line carbload. All the stuff there for fall,
ready to go. Beautiful decorations and lots of beautiful pumpkins,
wonderful moms, many many good things. You'll also find some
things that'll attract hummingbirds, some things that will attract butterflies,
some things shrubs and trees and things. You know, it's

(02:03:25):
the best season to get all that stuff planted, so
do that. Go by and grab you some of their
beautiful Talavera pumpkins. You can store those and use them
year after year after year after year, all at warn
Southern Gardens, Kingwood Garden Center out in the Kingwood area.
Both of those are open, by the way, seven days
a week. You can't beat that. Holy Moly, the phone lines,

(02:03:46):
I like everybody called it once. How did y'all time that?
That's amazing? Anyway, they're a lit up here. We're going
to talk to them in just a minute. If you
were dealing with any kind of pests, and if you
don't know, you have best, but you would like somebody
to come in and make sure you don't. You know,
you don't want to wait until the termites are eating
up the two by fours before you do something about termites.

(02:04:06):
They've got a way of doing it where it last
ten years. It's a little trench outside around the property.
They put it in it. You're good to go, and
that reminds me about safety. You know, no one wants
our kids runn kid and dogs rolling around in grass
and that's been treated with things well. Pest Bros Knows
the safest, most effective way to do things so you

(02:04:26):
get the results you need without the worries, long term results,
whether it's roaches inside, whether it is the termites in
the house, whether it is fire innts in the yard,
mosquitoes flying around eating you alive. They're the ones who
got that one. Some mosquita buckets that I brag on
all the time because they work. I got them in
my house. The pestbros dot Com is a website, thepestbros

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dot com. Here's a phone number. You want to write
this down hadn't come by, give you a quote, and
let's prevent the problem that would occur at your house.
Two eight one two oh six forty six seventy two
eight one two o six four six seven zero. We're
going to go now to Houston and talk to Karen
this morning. Hello Karen, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (02:05:14):
Good morning. I have a Myers Women that I am
not sure if what growth is actually the Myers Women
and what is the tree that was it was grafted
on because it has these huge storms on them, and
a friend of mine told me that was the prior

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the main tree.

Speaker 14 (02:05:38):
Did I reach the nose off right?

Speaker 5 (02:05:41):
Yeah, that's called the rootstock, and so what uh so,
basically the if it's a lot of big thorns, that's
probably the rootstock. But if you follow that shoot down
near the bottom of the tree, and it varies a
little bit on how high, usually it's a couple of
inches of the ground somewhere in that range right there,
you'll was budded. And if you see shoots coming from

(02:06:02):
below that that are thorny. If you look at that,
you can kind of see it's a little bit of
a little zigzag in the trunk, just a little bit.
But anyway, you cut those out, cut them where they
attached to the plant at the bottom. The sooner you
get them off, the better. It makes less of a wound,
and the plant puts its energy into growing fruiting branches
rather than thorny rootstock.

Speaker 13 (02:06:24):
Okay, And can I trim it now or should I
wait till closer to winter?

Speaker 5 (02:06:31):
Well, you could remove you could remove it now. I
wouldn't delay. I'd go ahead and just get them out now.

Speaker 24 (02:06:37):
Okay, great, And then I forgot to mention I had
one other question. My husband bought the Nitro Sauce full
special fertilizer. But we have a free range chickens. Is
is that harmful for them?

Speaker 13 (02:06:56):
Should we just do the front yard?

Speaker 5 (02:06:57):
And yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't think they would enjoy it.
But if you put it down, if you put it down,
you need to water it in anyway. So I would
put it down and watered in, and then you know,
a week later, I'd watered again just to get it
down in the soil. And I think that'll minimize the
issue with the chickens. Just feed your chickens off to
the side, keep them over there. I know chickens.

Speaker 10 (02:07:20):
They loved it.

Speaker 5 (02:07:21):
They love to scratch and peck and carry on and stuff.
So anyway, I think you ought.

Speaker 24 (02:07:26):
To be okay, all right, thank you so much.

Speaker 13 (02:07:31):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (02:07:32):
Thank you, Karen. I appreciate that very very much. I
appreciate your call. Yeah, that is true. Speaking of nitrofoss,
that three step, it is the fall special winter riser,
it is the Barricade weed preventter, and it is the
Eagle turf fungicide brown patch prevnter. It also works on
some other diseases too. All three go down, all three

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get watered in. And you can find these kinds of
products at a number of different places. For example, if
you were to go to Plants and Things in Brenham,
if you were going to Fisher's Hardware in Baytown. Lake
Hardware include Bearings Hardware on Bissonet, Enchanted Forest and Richmond
or Langham Creek as Hardware and Cyprus. Those are all
places that carry these nitropost products. Let's go back now

(02:08:17):
to the phones. We're going to go to friends with
now and talk to Alan.

Speaker 18 (02:08:20):
Hello, Allen, good morning, Skip.

Speaker 22 (02:08:23):
My wife and I just laid about thirty six hundred
square feet of SOD. I think it's a Raleigh variety,
and we're wondering what kind of microlife fertilizer. We like
to stay away from the synthetics as much as possible,
so I didn't know. If you had a Microsoft like
suggestion for new SOD.

Speaker 5 (02:08:44):
At this time of the year, I would use the
brown bag. It's called brown patch. It's fall, and your
side does not need a boost of nitrogen. It actually
has enough nitrogen to go for a month at least
before it needs nitrogen. But going into winter, it's very
important that it has the potassium that's the third number,

(02:09:05):
and that's why the third number on brown patches a
little higher than on a summer fertilizers. But I would
do that all of the label. Put it out at
the right rate, but go ahead and get it down
as soon as possible because we're getting close to when
the grass growth will really slow down a lot.

Speaker 8 (02:09:21):
Okay, So brown Patch is the name on the bag.

Speaker 5 (02:09:25):
It's a name on the bag, and it's the color
of the bag brown yep.

Speaker 8 (02:09:29):
Okay, And you think about thirty minutes, good.

Speaker 5 (02:09:34):
Well, I would uh, Well, we're cooling off now, but
generally ill water twice a day the first week, once
a day the second week, and then back off when
I lay new sod in the summer. This time of year,
you might have a one watering a day.

Speaker 10 (02:09:49):
Do it.

Speaker 5 (02:09:49):
It's you know, it's not a black and white thing.
It's a matter of how hot is it. But the
bottom line that has to happen is that that turf
needs to not get dry and drought stressed because it
has almost no root system that comes in on that side.
And if you don't keep it moist, it will die
in a heartbeat on you. And so you really need
to keep it moist. And maybe once a day should

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be good. But just watch the weather. If it's cloudy
and overcast, little drizzly, you don't need to water at all.
Probably they just watch the weather.

Speaker 8 (02:10:19):
Appreciate your health, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:10:21):
Thanks sir, appreciate that. Good luck with getting to the
bottom of that. All right. It looks like I got
to run to a break here, Chico and Houston. You'll
be our first when we come back. Oh no, the
late great Jim Crouch, welcome back to the Guardline. Good
to have you with us. RCW nursery has got one
heck of a sail, and I call it the perfect storm.

(02:10:42):
And here's why. This season that is best for planting
shrubs and trees, good fruit trees and ornamental trees, even
perennials is the fall and RCW is giving an incredible
discount on all these things. For example, Azellius and committees

(02:11:02):
fifteen percent off, great myrtles, thirty percent off, perennials, thirty
percent off, metaling, concrete, yard art and they got some
cool stuff there thirty percent off. How about select roses
and citrus for forty percent off and boom and villias
for fifty percent off. You protect that thing, get it
through the wintertime and you're good to go. You I
can find a better price than all this kind of stuff.

(02:11:24):
This is absolutely and they have good selection there. It's
just a great place to visit RCW nurseres dot com.
They're on the corner of Tombol Parkway in belt Wag
eight and it's just a place you need to go.
And there's not a better time. This is your chance.
You got the time to plant now, you got the
plants to plant at RCW and a great, great deal

(02:11:44):
in the process. Let's go to Houston now and talk
to Chico this morning. Hello, Chico.

Speaker 25 (02:11:50):
Hello, and good morning, and thank your call screener very
much for getting me on. I'm I'm actually ten miles
west of Winnie. I'm heading eastbound on I ten, and
I'm gonna end up in upstate South Carolina where this
little oh.

Speaker 21 (02:12:07):
Yeah, it's about from where I'm at.

Speaker 25 (02:12:09):
It's gonna be at least fifteen hours, so I won't
I'll be shutting down in about eight hours and i'll
get there.

Speaker 5 (02:12:15):
Well, don't fall asleep after you don't fall asud on
ten when you go across the Chafalaya Swamp and that
with them with them, with them asleep.

Speaker 8 (02:12:25):
You know, speaking of that. So I just I just
picked up in Seabrook.

Speaker 25 (02:12:30):
You said you were going to be down there, Oh
I am?

Speaker 5 (02:12:33):
Or was that somebody else?

Speaker 18 (02:12:34):
You make it?

Speaker 5 (02:12:35):
If you make a turn, you can still catch me.

Speaker 8 (02:12:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (02:12:40):
I picked up this bload that I've got now, okay, good,
And you said, all right, well, but but it reminded
me of one forty six.

Speaker 5 (02:12:49):
Oh gosh, because.

Speaker 7 (02:12:49):
That's a little bit of up I love the road.

Speaker 25 (02:12:52):
But anyway, and it's a beautiful, beautiful day. So I've
got what I think is a hydrangea bush, a big
one in front of my house, but there's a there's
a little one now spriting around the corner of the
house that I'm going to have to move, and it's
already about a foot and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:13:08):
I've been trying.

Speaker 10 (02:13:09):
I've been wanting to get to it and move it
for over.

Speaker 25 (02:13:12):
A month now, but I can't decide where to put it,
and I don't want to kill it.

Speaker 8 (02:13:17):
So I just wanted to know the best.

Speaker 5 (02:13:19):
Way to dig it up and move it, and should
I do it now? Should I do it later? And
that's it, Okay.

Speaker 19 (02:13:25):
I mean I'm.

Speaker 5 (02:13:27):
Mid to late falls ideal, and we're pretty far south,
so mid fall starts at the end of October here,
but I would say late October November would be a
good time if you need to. You can pot it
up and water it and put it in a nice, bright,
shady area with maybe a little bit of morning sun

(02:13:48):
just to help it kind of establish, and then it
can be planted at your convenience going forward. If you
can find a spot where you know you want, you
would dig it. I would slide a tarp underneath it,
the way I do this with rose bushes and things.
Hydrin is a little bit different kind of plant. But
I'll cut under one side, go underneath the plant, slide
the tarp under, and then with a shovel lean the

(02:14:10):
plant the other way and cut under the other side
and just slide it up on the tarp. You never
have to pick up that heavy root ball. And then
a couple of people on a tarp can carry it.
Or you can just drag it across the yard on
that tarp, slide it right off into a pre dug hole,
and it's new home, watered in really good right away,
and that gives it its best shot. If the new
place is a little bit sunny, you can throw a

(02:14:33):
little bit of a shade or do something to kind
of provide it a little bit of a break from
the sun. But if you wait until late October November,
that won't be necessary probably, And.

Speaker 25 (02:14:43):
Then go to home depot and get a pot if
I want to put it. I like that idea better
is that way I don't have to decide too quickly
where to plant it exactly, because.

Speaker 5 (02:14:58):
Yeah, no, how big is this hydrogy? You said a
foot high?

Speaker 25 (02:15:04):
It's about a foot and a half right now, I
should have done this.

Speaker 5 (02:15:10):
Yeah, give it, get it a five gallon pot. And
it may not even need to have five gallon depth
of soil in it, but you need you want to
get some roots in there, put them in there watered
in real well. Uh And like I described earlier, don't
fertilize it now, just keep the roots moist and once
it's established, then you can take it to its new home. Well,

(02:15:32):
good luck with that. You have a safe trip to
South Carolina.

Speaker 19 (02:15:35):
Thank you, Thank you very much, great show.

Speaker 5 (02:15:38):
Thank you all right. Thanks appreciate that you take care.
That is a fact. Nature's are resources. Two acres of
nursery there. Did you know that I talk about I
brag on their soils all the time, their soils and
they's soil blends and all the products that they have
two acres of nursery. And they're having the shindig next weekend,

(02:15:59):
which I will on October the eleventh. I'll be there
from twelve to two and now the event goes on
or more through that day. I'll be there from twelve
to two. They've got like forty vendors now right now,
they've got Peggy Martin roses on special, three gallon roses
for thirty dollars. And if you buy a Peggy Martin.
You have to buy a rose Peggy Martin. Then you

(02:16:21):
can also buy bagged or bulk roast soil for fifty
percent off. So there you go. You got member, how
I say brown stuff before green stuff. You take home
that quality rose soil that was born at Nature's Way,
by the way you take it home. You get that
so already you put that Peggy martin in and as
a wonderful, lovely rose. I got one on an arbor
in my backyard. I love it. But you got to
buy a Peggy Martin to get the fifty percent off.

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The rose soil and the Peggy Martins are on special
now already, and this lasts all the way up until
October the eleventh, So if you want to come that
day and get them as as long as supplies last,
there you go. Now Nature's Way resources products are available
in a lot of places now they've got them. Central
rock and mulch, where I and Yell come together, are

(02:17:03):
now carrying Nature's Ways. Fine leaf moill accomplished just that
one product, the fine leaf mo accomplished by the bulk
by the cubic yard, and you can pick it up
there if you don't want to head up to Nature's
way to get it all right, there you go. Uh,
let's see here. We're gonna go to Parland now and
talk to Don. Hello, Don, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 8 (02:17:22):
Hello, good morning. How are you?

Speaker 5 (02:17:26):
I'm good? Thank you?

Speaker 10 (02:17:27):
Hello?

Speaker 8 (02:17:28):
Good good, Yes, I'm here. The worst one is can
I continue to feed my roses? And my seventh question
is can I plant as? Is now?

Speaker 5 (02:17:40):
You don't need to keep feeding roses now. Uh, you
can plan azaleas now. The fall is the best time
to plan azaleas. As it gets a little later, it's
a little easier on the plants. But we're already. Okay,
you just you just need a waterman. Good. And remember
they were getting water in that little cylinder of soil
that was on the pot. And after you plant them,

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the roots are all still in that same place, and
it takes months for those roots to form their fully good,
well expanded root system. So early on you got to
water that spot initially.

Speaker 8 (02:18:15):
Oh okay, I don't know. Yes it does. And do
not feed the roses no more.

Speaker 5 (02:18:23):
You don't need to feed them now, No, there's no
need to. When we get into spring and they start growing,
you can feed them. I mean, if I had a
rosebush and it was struggling with nutrient deficiency, I'd feed
it now because the thing has got a problem. I'm
fixing right. But it's just far as taking care of them.
We're getting late enough in the season now where you
shouldn't need them and we don't need to push a
lot of growth even, you know, like later in the season.

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They're okay for now.

Speaker 8 (02:18:48):
All right, okay, great, thank you. I appreciate that, you.

Speaker 5 (02:18:52):
Bet, thank you very much. I appreciate appreciate your call.
Nelson Nurcier and Water Gardens out there and Katie. You
head out to Katie on it you turn north on
Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just up the street
a little bit on the right hand side. It's a
great place. It's a one of a kind place for fountains,
for fish, for the water lilies that go in and

(02:19:15):
other water plants that go into fountains and the pots.
You know, you want one of those beautiful tall, ceramic
glazed disappearing fountains. You know, the water comes out of
the top and rolls down the side of the container
and goes into the ground and then it recirculates. They
can set you up with that, then come out and
create it at your spot or if you're at yourself,
or they'll sell you everything you need, including giving you

(02:19:36):
the instructions, you can go home build it yourself. Is
not that difficult to do. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens,
now this is a season where they've got the plants
they have ever seasoned. But this is a season those
plants for fall that we're talking about. Nelson Nursery and
Water Garden's got a great selection of those. I've checking
out some of the herbs that they have a while back.

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They always have a good selection of those right there,
and you just need to go check them out. That's
the bottom line. Take some kids with you. They'll give
your kids some little fish foods so they can feed
the fish, which is a lot of fun for them.
You'll grab the onions and all kinds of things that
you need for your vegetable garden. You'll grab the various
Texas natives. They got them in four inch pots and

(02:20:19):
gallon pots. Some of the best plants in the world
that do so well here. They carry those out at
Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens in Katie and of course
the fountains and the fish, allow yourself a little extra
time to just sit for some quiet water therapy. I
promise you're gonna want to bring something like that home
for your own yard, to create that paradise. I told

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I just said this before, but I tell Dean a
Dean Ralph Nelson. There's also a Dean Nelson, but not
same family. But anyway, I tell Rolf, you need charge
admission out here because people could come in here. It's
cheaper than a shrink. You could get all your problems
solved by closing your eyes and listening to water.

Speaker 10 (02:21:05):
It is that.

Speaker 5 (02:21:06):
It is that relaxing and that good. Maybe I'm overselling
it a little bit, but you get the idea Nelson
Nursery and water gardens cool place. If you are looking
to have success with any kind of issues that are
out there after your plants, Southwest Fertilizer can put the
product in your hand that fixes the problem. Weeds, insect attack,

(02:21:29):
spider mate attacks, disease attacks, you name it. They've got
everything there and all the fertilizers. When you hear me
talk about all these fertilizers, they're all as Southwest Fertilizer.
Just go there it's a one stop shop. You get
it all. They also carry airloom soils by the bag
out there too, another good thing. And yes they have asimite.
Of course they have everything. That's what I keep saying.

(02:21:50):
They have everything. The largest organic selection in the entire
Greater Houston area is at Southwest Fertilizer. And if you
are looking for tools, my goodness, they've got a wall
full of wonderful, not cheap tools, quality tools that work.
Corner Abyssinett and Renwick, Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Just go

(02:22:14):
by there and check them out. That's what you need
to do. We'll be right back right folks, Welcome back
to guarden Line.

Speaker 2 (02:22:22):
Good to have you with us.

Speaker 5 (02:22:23):
Glad you're listening in today. If you'd like to give
me a call seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Have you got thirty minutes or just
under thirty minutes left in garden Line today before I
head out to Mos Nursery in Seabrook, Texas, where I'll
be from one to three o'clock today. And if you've
never been to Moss, I gotta come see it. It
is a special place. Let's head out now to West

(02:22:45):
memorial and talk to Joe this morning. Hello Joe, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 21 (02:22:50):
Hi there, Skip. I had a serious plumbing problem that
resulted in having to have a new sewer line h
dug and cut through my entire front yard. The people
that did it didn't do a very good job of
putting the dirt back and the grass back, and it's

(02:23:10):
scraggly and there's some green, but there's a lot of
brown and dirt.

Speaker 8 (02:23:15):
And so forth.

Speaker 20 (02:23:17):
What should I do?

Speaker 21 (02:23:18):
Is there anything I can do this late in the
growing season to fertilize it, or what do you suggest just.

Speaker 5 (02:23:25):
The normal fall fertilization on my schedule. I've got a
number of product options out there that work really well.
One that would be a good one is Nelson Plant
Foods carbo Load. Carbo Load is a ten ten twenty.
It also includes a pre emerging herbicide in it, so
that if you can get it down now, then when

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the weeds try to sprout, which is coming up here,
once we get a good coal front and break in
the temperatures and some wet condition, those weeds are going
to be up and going, and so carbo load also
has that in it, but it's a ten ten twenty
purple bag from Nelson Fertilizers, pretty widely available in the
Houston area.

Speaker 21 (02:24:05):
Okay, all right, that sounds good. Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (02:24:11):
You bet you t take care, appreciate your call. We're
going to go to Angleton now and talk to Thomas. Hey, Thomas,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (02:24:22):
More than skipp. I got a great mertle here. We
planted a year ago and it was doing pretty good.
But later this summer it started showing some decline. It's
probably about ten foot tall, but it started dropping a
lot of leaves lately. I went, okay, dug around the
dirt about twenty inches down and I found a lot

(02:24:44):
of grubs down deep. Okay, I do see a lot
of small feeder roots, you know, spreading out. So I
don't believe it was group bound or anything. Would the
grubs be affecting that? There was quite a few. I
probably saw about eight to ten of them.

Speaker 5 (02:25:01):
Yeah, So how old is this crape myrtle? How long
has it been in the ground at your house?

Speaker 16 (02:25:06):
One year?

Speaker 5 (02:25:09):
Well, I don't think the grubs okay, I don't think
they're the issue on the crepe myrtle, But grubs are
out there they're in the soil. They really like grassroots,
that's one of their preferences. But it's not time to
treat for grubs anyway, even if you were going to treat,

(02:25:31):
so don't bother with them. Cray myrtles are tough plants.
But when it gets toward mid to late summer and
we're not getting rain and it's hot, the soil dries
out and it dries out more than you think, and
they go into stress. You can look at the leaves
and just see they're not shriveled, but they don't look right.
They're not plump and flatten like a normal leaf should be.

(02:25:55):
And then you get the brown edges and tips and
leaves turn yellow and they fall off early. I've seen
that going on since, you know, back in early August
that was already happening to krate myrtles. So at this
point in time, the season's over. There's no need to
try to fix anything. Just make sure they have adequate
moisture with a good soaking in the absence of rainfall.

(02:26:18):
If you dig down about I'll get your hand trial
diged down about four or five inches and feel the soil.
If it's not moist then give them a good soaking,
and a good soaking means about an inch of water applied,
so you wet the soil at least eight inches deep,
and then that'll be all they need for now. Just
remember next summer.

Speaker 16 (02:26:38):
Sure, well, I'll give it. Make sure it has more
consistent watering next summer. This summer was not quite as
consistent as I wanted, and it might be stressing out
from that. Okay, I was probably the biggest grubs.

Speaker 5 (02:26:53):
Yeah, And while you're in the you know, with a
trial down there checking water amount, dig around the route
around the base of the trunk, and just make sure
there's not a route that's going in a circle around
that trunk strangling it. When when roots hit the side
of a pot, they go in a circle, and if
they started the crape myrtle off in a small pot,

(02:27:13):
that's a small circle. And as the root gets bigger
and the crape myrtle gets bigger, they can come together.
I don't I'd say there's a very slim chance that's
happening to your tree at the age your tree is,
but check for it. And if you see a circling
route follows a good time to just cut it. Don't
don't let it keep going, all right, sir?

Speaker 16 (02:27:32):
All righty, how will it take a look at the head.
We'll give it a a little bit of time. Thanks
a lot, Uh, you bet, there you go. We're going
to go to Katie now and talk to Tom. Hey, Tom,
welcome to garden Line. Thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 18 (02:27:48):
One of your earlier callers a little while ago was
talking about situation with a your yard and anyway, I
have a somewhat of a similar problem already has been
under stress for several years, and I need to rest
it a good portion of it, and I would like

(02:28:10):
to get your recommendation.

Speaker 6 (02:28:12):
Is now a time that.

Speaker 8 (02:28:16):
A good time to resided?

Speaker 5 (02:28:18):
It's Saint Augustine. And if if now is right away,
you can reside as we get okay into late October,
uh and in November, that grassroot growth is slowing down
and slowing down, and you want to side at a
time where that said will hit the ground and the

(02:28:39):
roots will go down deep in the soil and get established.
And while you can sid all through the winter, you can, uh,
the issues are greater and the chance of losing something
is greater. And so I would say do it now
or wait until we get into spring and the grass
is actively growing and things, and then put your side

(02:29:01):
down then when it can hit the ground running.

Speaker 18 (02:29:04):
All right, Well, I'm prepared to go on and start
the project now. And what I wouldn't know. The thing
I would like is the kind of recommended. The ground
is hard, I'm assuming I need to till it up,
and do I put any kind of dressing down at all, or.

Speaker 5 (02:29:26):
I would just loosen it up. If you want to
put a little bit of compost, maybe an inch, then
mix it in you can. The problem with tilling is
if there's any trees anywhere nearby, there're going to be
roots everywhere, and tilling is very difficult to get done.
You're not gonna get very deep, and you don't need
to get very deep. I would just tell it when
you're trying to loosen it and do some leveling, you know,

(02:29:47):
fill it in and get it all ready to plant
the sod in. You could do that, but i'd wait
until before you plant so you don't have dirt that's
washing away all winter. I've got a bunch of callers
lined up here. I'm going to have to run, but
luck with that. Tom appreciate it. All right, thanks, all right,
you taking care. I don't know who left the gate open,
but here we go. Uh Bill in Liverpool, welcome to

(02:30:10):
garden line.

Speaker 17 (02:30:11):
Yeah, thanks good for taking my call. I've got three
boroughs that were forty five gallon that I planted in
March twenty four and they've done okay through the summer.
I've watered them through the through the dry times. But
about a week ago they started dropping leaves and now
look button back out and leafing out.

Speaker 5 (02:30:30):
Yeah okay, and I did. So what happens to stressed well,
uh yeah, there's still young plant trees though their their
root system is not extensive, just being a year in
the ground. Uh so, a little over a year in
the ground. Uh, that's probably some sort of stress. Does that.

(02:30:51):
It happens a lot at the end of summer. Sometimes
happens to pear trees, like our ornamental pairs. They just
get hot and dry and they go into a drought
stressed door dormancy or any kind of a stress dormancy,
even though it's not cold weather dormant. They drop their
leaves and when they do that, then they think well
it's spring, and they start leafing out again, and it

(02:31:12):
won't be the end of the plant. They'll be fine,
but they just are wasting their energy on things that
the leaves are putting out now aren't going to last
when winter hits, so you wish they'd even do it,
but it's not the end of the world if they
do in the future. A good deep soaking on an
infrequent basis it's the best thing you can do. Burroke
is one of the toughest species out there. They're going

(02:31:34):
to be fine, but early on like this, you want
them to grow for you, and there are slow growing species,
so always giving them adequate water, good moist soil, a
little bit of fertilizer moderately through the season helps speed
that growth rate up a little.

Speaker 9 (02:31:49):
Bit for you.

Speaker 17 (02:31:49):
Okay, okay, How often do you recommend on the water.

Speaker 5 (02:31:55):
In the absence of rainfall in the heat of summer.
I would water once every week on a plant like
you got. If it was an old established tree, ever,
two weeks would be okay, But once every week with
a good soaking. Make sure you apply an inch and
wet that sold as deep as you can.

Speaker 17 (02:32:12):
Okay, okay, thank you, making sure there was still hope.

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to Katie and talk to Danielle. Hello, Danielle, Welcome to
Garden Line.

Speaker 15 (02:34:43):
Hi Skips. I have a question for you and involves
torpedo grass, which I'm sure you're familiar with. We've been
battling torpedographs for probably ten plus years in our yard
and our beds and it is completely taken over our street,
our neighborhood, and we're right now we're just looking for

(02:35:07):
a way to stop getting the hoa letters. We have
a two year old who's a runner, and we have
baby number five on the way, so we're looking for
something low key or no maintenance type thing to either
hide it or choke it out, especially in our tree ring.

Speaker 5 (02:35:26):
Well the ho ad I come get rid of it
for you, because you know, yeah, torpedo grass is a
very difficult weed to control. And if if anyone's listening
and you have the start of torpedo grass, drop everything

(02:35:47):
and don't stop until that start of it is dead,
because once it gets going, it is hard to stop
and it's hard to get rid of. There's only two
things I know of. One of them, if it's extensively
throughout your yard, kill everything and replant that because there's
not a weed killer that kills torpedograss. In a grassy

(02:36:08):
lawn without killing the grassy lawn. In fact, it'll kill
the lawn better than it kills the torpedograss, so there's
not that option of selectivity. So wiping out everything with
a herbicide and waiting a week or two after you
do that for re sprouts, because there will be resprouts.
You never get it all at once, and then doing
it again and then wait a couple of weeks, water

(02:36:30):
the soil and make it show its face so you
have something to spray, and then get rid of it.
That's option one. It's drastic, but no one said this
is going to be easy. Number two if it's a
little bit here and there, and you can use my
weed wiper, which is you can see how to build
one on my website gardening with skip dot com. It's
a sponge grabber that you put the herbicide on the

(02:36:53):
sponge because torpedograss comes up above your turf, and when
it does, you just reach down and you squeeze the
sponges together and pull them up and wipe the herbicide
that you would have used to kill everything, you wipe
it only on the torpedo grass, and every time one
comes up, and this is gonna be every week, a
couple times a week, you know, just staying on it

(02:37:15):
and that way you can kill it without killing your lawn.
But it does not a one off deal. It's going
to take a while to do that. But if it's extensive,
that is, it is too tedious. A weed wiper is
not practical.

Speaker 15 (02:37:28):
Yeah, and it's not just my lawn, it's my neighbor's
lawn across the street, down the street every nobody has,
and it blends well enough in with the grass that
nobody cares. If it's in the grass, it's just dead.

Speaker 5 (02:37:43):
Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 15 (02:37:46):
Or and my brother in law keeps saying, well, put
a good ground cover in, but I don't know what
would be a good one too.

Speaker 5 (02:37:54):
No, it'll it'll be in the it'll be on the groundcover,
it'll be nothing's gonna check out, torpedo grass. It's in
the ground Carver. I'll tell you what. Let's do this.
I'm going to I've got a couple of callers and
I'm running out of show. I'm going to put you
on hold, and my producer is going to give you
an email. Will you email me this question and I've
got a couple more things I can explain to you.

(02:38:15):
I just can't go. I don't have time right now
to go over them, but I will. I'll respond to
your email and we can take this a little bit further.
I understand the situation you're in. Let's go to Kingwood.
We're going to talk to Jimmy. Hey, Jimmy, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 8 (02:38:28):
Hey, step how you doing today?

Speaker 5 (02:38:31):
Doing good? How can we help?

Speaker 21 (02:38:33):
Okay, okay, I think that we're bitter.

Speaker 8 (02:38:37):
I have it coming up in my Saint Augustine Grass.

Speaker 21 (02:38:39):
I'm trying to figure out how to get recalled chain.

Speaker 5 (02:38:44):
Yeah, you're cutting out on me, Jimmy. But I did
hear that you have chamber bidder. We got that far
uh so a pre emergent herbicide, but chamber bidd is
a late sprouter. So we're putting that barricade, you know,
on in the spring in February to prevent all the
warm season weeds. You can do that for all the

(02:39:06):
other weeds you got, and then when we get to
about April, uh you you're gonna want to switch and
use a product called gallery for the chamber bidder. This
is a this is not a weed that every premergent
is gonna kill. But gallery will work. It's available in

(02:39:26):
a lot of places.

Speaker 10 (02:39:27):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:39:28):
And but there you're going to apply it probably, I
would say mid April, maybe late April, uh, to get
ahead of the chamber bitter sprouting and and it it
like other products that are pre emerging, they only last
a certain amount of time. But preventing it is way
easier than trying to control it.

Speaker 10 (02:39:48):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:39:49):
There's just not a great way to spray it when
it's already in the lawn. Okay, okay, remember that when yeah,
it dies in the winter time. Yeah, it is an annual.
But when it's a little bitty plant, it's already got
little seeds and flowers underneath the leaves. It puts those
little balls up underneath the leaves. Those are seeds and flowers,

(02:40:12):
and so you got to you gotta catch it for
them because it'll just send us you and everything you do, Jimmy,
that makes you un denser, helps helps reduce the ability
of any weed seed to get sunlight and sprout successfully.
So work on that. Mow water, fertilize as hard as
you can and that'll help. To Thank you. I appreciate
your call. We're going to go now to Brian and

(02:40:33):
the Woodlands. Hey, Brian, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (02:40:36):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. I know you're about
to get out, so I'll make it quick. I put
in a two fifteen gallon blue Point Jennifer's yesterday in
my house. I need to know how much to water them?
Then how often? I said, we we don't get.

Speaker 5 (02:40:51):
Any right, okay, yeah, so they answer to your question,
I'm going to answer it a little different way than
you ask. You want to keep the soilt heavenly moist.
So if it's one hundred degrees, you're going to water
more often. If it's sixty degrees, you're not gonna water
hardly at all. But you got to keep the root
ball moist. That's the thing to remember. In the garden Center,

(02:41:12):
they're being watered every day because it was a cylinder
of soil in a pot. Now it's still a cylinder
of soil, but it's in the ground, so the roots
won't be spread out until they'll start doing that in
the cool season and next year, month by month more
and more. But don't just water around it. Water that
where that cylinder was, and about a foot or so

(02:41:35):
beyond that cylinder and do that daily with a little
bit of water and just kind of watch and see
how they do if the temperature's cool off. Don't worry
about the daily you don't. You can go every other
day and they'll be okay. But if you don't want
to drown them, that would be very bad for them.
But at the same time, you yeah, they just have

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a confined root system and if you keep that in mind,
you'll be fine. Thank you, sir, you bet, thank you
appreciate your call. Take care, Brian. All right, we're racing.
I didn't want to leave anybody out there. And it
looks like we made it through and just in time,
we got music starting up here. Just a second, hey,
don't forget today, I'll be at Moss Nursery. Listen. For

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those of you who haven't been to Moss, please come down,
come see us down there. I want you to see
this place. I want you to walk through and see it.
Check out the greenhouse where the house plants are. I
mean these guys giant staghorn ferns hanging from chains. I
mean they have got all kinds of cool stuff. They
got your fruit trees already, they got their flowers that

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are ready. They've got hanging baskets that are ready to go.
All the fall decorations for Halloween and Thanksgiving and all
of that are there. Bring me some samples and bring
me some photos. Let's talk about how to make your
place better. Let's talk about how to have success, how
to solve the problems that arise, but mainly how to
have fun. But thinking good plants, preparing the soil and

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getting them off to a good start. I'll be there
from one o'clock to three o'clock and I'll be giving
away four bags of Microlife brown Patch whatever. Twenty minutes,
we'll give away a bag of Microlife brown Patch that's
a fall fertilizer, and the brown bag from Microlife that
is loaded with microbes to help fight diseases. That's how
it's designed. It's a great one to put on Right now,

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Boss Nursery, come on down. Look forward to seeing you.
We'll be back on the air again tomorrow morning, every
weekend six am to ten am Saturday and Sunday,