Fertilizer, Weeds, and Backyard Chickens!

Skip takes calls addressing bark scale, how to save a variety of infested plants, planting seed depths and more!! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to k t r H Guarded Line with Skip Rickard.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's trim.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just watch him as manas supt by.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Not sid.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Well.

Speaker 6 (00:33):
Good morning, Good morning, folks. I am glad you are listening.
Good have you with us? Hope you got a cup
of coffee in one hand and at least one eye
at least at half mast open.

Speaker 7 (00:43):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
It's going to be a good good day. We've got
a lot of good stuff going on. I have a
lot to talk about and I hope you do too.
If you would like to ask a question, this is
a call in show. Uh seven one three two one
two k t r H seven one three two one
two kt RH. It's always quiet as first thing in
the morning. So if you got a question, do want

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to wait in line? This is a good time to
find your answer, and I'll be happy to do that.
You know, our goal here on Guarden Line is to
help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
It's as simple as that, and it's not rocket science.
You can't fail at gardening. You can only give up.
And so all it takes is some information. The way
I like to put it is, there are no brown thumbs.

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There are uninformed thumbs, and we're going to inform your
thumb here on garden line. You know the reason grandma
could grow anything, you know, it's just like anything she
put in the ground grew well. It's because she just
know how to do it. It's as simple as that.
There's no magic to it. There's no magic. You give
plants what they want to be happy, and they will
make you happy by giving you flowers and fruit and

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everything else. So hey, let's turn our landscapes into something
pretty and have some good gardens. For your lawn, for example,
now's the time to do three things in the lawn.
And Nitrofoss kind of got you covered with what they
call their three steps. The text is three step. You
know you do the two step on the dance floor,
the three step in your lawn. That is a fertilizer,
a pre emergent weed control, and a disease prevention product.

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The fertilizer is Nitroposs Fall Special Winter Riser. It's a
different blend than we would use in the summer because
it's for helping plants, the grass plant and this case
your lawn grass become heartier for winter and come out
in spring stronger, that's as simple as it is a
special design mix and it works very very well. That's

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Nitroposs Fall special. Number two Nitrofos barricade is a pre
emergent herbicide. It helps prevent both grassy and broad leaf
weeds from sprouting this fall and they will get a
low col front and some water and here they come,
So get it down now and barricade will prevent that.
Then next spring you're not dealing with clover and chickweed

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and hand betting all those weeds you had last spring
in your yard. Finally, number three Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide.
That is a systemach fungicide. Again, you put it down
ahead of time. This is not one where you wait
until you got the big brown patch circles. So you
see takeoff patch taking out your lawn. You put it
down now. Then it soaks in, moves into the tissue,

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and when those diseases hit, it's there to prevent them.
Nitrofoss Eagle Turf Fungicide. You're going to find these products
of Fisher's hardware, both the one in Baytown, the one
in Mount Bellevue and Pasadena, and in Laporte as well.
Nitrofoss Texas. Three steps. All right, well, I said, now
it's a good time to call in. Here we go,

(03:35):
let's head out to Pearland. We're going to talk to Beverly.
First thing up, Hey Beverly, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Thank you, Kip. I have a question about cestrums. I
have five of them. They were doing really well. They're
all about four years old, but then right here in
the middle of the year, the tops of them started dying.
I mean, you know, every day you'd go out, there

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were the new growth, the little sprigs were all dead.
So can I cut those back this fall and maybe
they'll come back better in the spring.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
Totally yeah, you know, I wouldn't cut past the dead
just to get the dead, the ugly out of there.
We don't want to stimulate growth. You know, when you
prune back a plant, it responds by sprouting new growth.
And we still have warm temperatures, so we don't wanted
to do that because that succulent growth will get burned
by the first freeze. So just cut the dead parts back.

(04:38):
Probably something wrong in the ground too wet to dry,
something damaged roots. I'm not sure exactly what would have
done it. But system is a pretty good plant for
our area, and as you know, it's a wonderful, wonderful
one to have around. So I would just bring the
dead out and then hopefully in spring they'll come out
and be just fine.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Okay, So but in the spring, I don't need to
print them back either.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
Just if you want. Yeah, well, they like you, they
like your place. Quit treating them so nigh. But seriously,
you can cut them back so much as you want.
There's not a specific pruning style for sastrum. It's a
shrub that just you you. You printed as you need to.

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If you like the height of them, then leave them
that high. If you want to cut them back, you
can cut them back some. But wait until spring to
do that kind of cutting back.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Way until spring. Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
I appreciate it, all right, you bet, thank you, Beverly.
I appreciate your call very much.

Speaker 8 (05:40):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
I wanted to mention the Buchanans native plants. I'm going
to be out there today. I'm going to be out
there after the show. I'm going to head over there
and get to Buchanans about twelve o'clock. You'll be there
from twelve to two they are having their big shindig today,
and I mean it is unbelievable. There's going to be
all kinds of stuff going on. I mean there's color

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stations for kids and painting pumpkins and face painting and
the moon Bounce that they can play in. Jay White
from Texas Gardener Magazine will be out there with me today.
There's a coffee truck and it just goes on and on.
A band called Yopan, which I think is the most
appropriate name for a band in Southeast Texas. Maybe Chinese tallow,
but we don't like Chinese tallis, so we're glad to

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have Yopun there. Jess Chef Marchella from the Kitchen will
be there, Medino will be there. Of course, I'll be
there from twelve to two answering your gardening question. So
if you have any samples you want to bring in,
put them in a plastic bag and come by. You
know Buchanans by the way. When you're there, plan on
picking up your pumpkins for the season. They have all

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kinds of pump every kind of pumpkin slash gourd you
can imagine for your front porch makeover. It's ready to go,
so you'll be set for Halloween and the whole fall
season there at Buchanans. And while you're out there too,
I would highly recommend you pick up a hummingbird plant birds.
You know they come through in the fall. We have
a number of months of the year here and Buchanans

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has got literally dozens of different plants that attract hummingbirds.
Fall is for planting. Why not grab one of their
plants for hummingbirds and get that thing in the ground,
and next year your place will just be even more
of a way station for those cool little birds that
are coming through. I'm going to head now out to Cyprus,
Texas and we're going to talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon,

(07:27):
Welcome to garden Line, hay Stiff.

Speaker 8 (07:31):
I was gifted a set of Good Morning. I was
gifted a set of aggy blue bonnet seeds, and I
need to know when to plant them and how to
plant them.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
You plant them now, you get some bare soil area
as much as you can. You know, they don't want
a lot of competition. Scratch the soil up with like
a you know, a rake or hoe or some just
kind of break the surface, scatter the seeds out rake
it a little bit, and watermen really good keep it
moist if it doesn't rain. So the best blue bonnet

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stands or years where we have good fall rains, because
that's when they're getting their sprouting and getting the roots
in the ground, and that's the most important thing. Once
they get established, then you don't really really need to
worry about them so much. But they're pretty easy to grow.
Just give them a sunny spot. Bluebonnets want as much
sun as you can give them.

Speaker 8 (08:24):
Okay, I don't have to soak I was reading maybe
soak the seef beforehand. I don't need to do that.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
You can to speed germination. But if you're going to
do that, you would just put them in very hot
water inside the evening before and that warm water. It
makes the water being warm, it makes the water soak
up faster, and let it sit all overnight and then
in the morning pour the water off. I usually put

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them on a cloth or towel just to kind of
dry them off just a little bit, because they're easier
to handle when they're not wet. They don't stick together
as much, and then you can scatter them as you want,
plant them and then water them in again. And remember
keep them wet, especially for the first couple of weeks.
Just a little bit of moisture to keep them wet.

Speaker 8 (09:11):
Okay, okay, all right, you're awesome, skipp thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, thank you, and then send me a picture of
the planting so I can start singing the Aggie Warham
as tears streamed down my cheeks.

Speaker 9 (09:23):
Thank you, sir, Oh you and my kids both.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
All right, appreciate your.

Speaker 10 (09:29):
Kids so much.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
You bet bye bye, all right, we're going to go
to break folks, We'll be right back. Bring me all right,
good morning. I thought i'd play that first thing this morning. Hey,
we are glad you're listening to guarden Line. Thanks for
being with us. I really appre I do appreciate that.
It makes it a lot more fun when you're in
listening and we can answer questions and have a good time.

(09:53):
You know, anytime you need supplies. And I talk about
all these products all the time on Guardline. Things that
I believe in companies that I've used, the companies that
I know their product or I've seen the research on it.
And where do you get them? Well, Ace Hardware is
where you get them. There's forty Ace Hardware stores in
the Greater Houston area forty that's a lot. I'm pretty
sure if you walked outside, close your eyes and throw

(10:13):
a rock, you'd hit an Ace Hardware store. No matter
where you live, they're everywhere. Don't by the way, don't
throw rocks at a sardware store. But if you need
your fertilizers for fall, if you need I was just
talking about those Nitrofis products. They carry all the brands,
and they carry the products for controlling diseases. They're controlling
insects and pests. Do you want to decorate your patio?

(10:34):
You know it's going to cool off now, and the
evenings are a great time to be out there. They
can turn your patio into something magical. All at Ace Hardware.
It's time to do fire ants too. By the way,
fire ant baits now now, now get those out. Ace
Hardware's got you covered. Just go to Ace Hardware dot
com and find the store locator, find the ones near you.
You need to check it out. Every time I go

(10:56):
into an Ace Hardware store, I'm impressed, and I really
mean that. They're into leon so each one's a little different.
They still have all the standard stuff. So when I
make my statements about Ace, they're true of all the
Ace Hardware stores, but each one is unique and you'll
see things it's like I didn't know they had that here.
I promise you will go to Ace Hardware and check
it out. I'm going to head up to camp Logan

(11:19):
now and talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
Hey, good morning up, thanks for taking my call. About
ten minutes ago. Sent you a picture of my improved
my livon true. I got it, okay, you could say
it's about seven feet tall, probably about six seven feet
dam or. My question is it's making now and everything
is great, but I'm looking forward to the winner, and
I wanted your opinion on when exactly to print it,

(11:47):
if I should, and then how much I should prove it.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah. Well, printing is a stimulating process, and anything that's
semi tender, like a ctris, we don't want to stimulate
new growth because it was more likely to get damaged
about cold. I would leave it for now and just
let it slow down, let the weather cool off, let
it slow down and everything. When you're gonna have to
cover it and we're likely to have that, I would

(12:14):
get me some of those long half inch gray PVC
pipes and make create basically an IgG glue over it.
In other words, you know a pipe that arches over
from north to south, and yeah, and they have the
gray have belt ends, so you can slide one piece
of pipe into the other one without having to glue anything.

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And that's what I would do. And then get you
some lamps. Some they can be heat lamps, but even
just a good one hundred and fifty watt bulb is helpful.
I get those on the little clamps with the aluminum shield,
you know what I'm talking about. Put those attached those
I see you got a little box around the bottom.
Attach them to that box and point them down. Don't

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point them at the tissues of the tree. You can
burn those underneath a plastic cover, something that doesn't air,
doesn't let air move through. You can really make a
big difference in temperature underneath there on a very very
cold night.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Great and into spring, I mean like some march or so,
should I go ahead and prune it? And it's so
how much?

Speaker 11 (13:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (13:21):
I would? You know, so you got turf around that
side so you could mow around it. Those low hanging ones,
you probably need to get those out of the way,
and just there's not a real system for pruning that tree.
It's just a matter of when you got that much
lanky growth and you get some lemons on it, it's
going to pull everything towards the ground. So just kind

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of pruning as needed. Maybe be willing to prop a
few things up to get you through a harvest season
if you need to. But those trees tend to throw
off extra fruit and not carry too terribly many. They
set a lot more than they normally will carry. Okay, okay, great,
thank you, stef. I appreciate it. Well, you bet you,

(14:03):
bet Ron. Thanks thanks for that question. I appreciate that
very much.

Speaker 11 (14:06):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Moss Nursery done in Seabrook. I haven't talked about them
in a while. Moss Nursery is an outstanding place to
visit and it's eight acres you wander through and if
you've never been there, I don't care where you live
north south east west, you got to go down to
Moss and just just walk through that place and see
number one. You'll never want to come out of their
houseplant greenhouse. It's unbelievable. It's outstanding.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
Moss Nursery is down on Toddville Road in Seabrook, Texas.
You can look it up. But right now they have
lots of fall color plants, lots of annuals, things like
you know, petunias and snap dragons and million bills will
be you'll Beilia dianthus all that kind of stuff. They'll beginning.
They got a little bit of the cool, cold coal
season stuff in and they'll be getting more in. They
have statuary that is incredible. I promise you you will

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see stuff. It's like I have never seen that before.
They just make places cool. And if you want to
turn your landscape into a special outdoor high to be
something unique, something cool, Moss Nurseries got you covered. They
always have the plants for the season right now. They've
also got some trees in that well, they always have
trees in, but the Chinese fringe tree one of my

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favorite spring booming blooming trees. Falls for planting woody ornamentals.
Get it in the ground, get you one from us,
put it in the ground and get going, because then
for years you'll have this beautiful shaggy white billows of
blossoms that have a nice fragrance. Again. Moss Nursery dot
Com m a a s Nursery dot com to find

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out how to get there and anything else you need
to know. I'm gonna head up to Oak Forest now
and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line
A good morning, Skip.

Speaker 12 (15:47):
Yes, I'm Mike and I live in Oak Forest and
I have an issue with an infestation of a weed.
And I know that's a common theme on your show.
I used a an app, a picture this app called
It's a Plant identify Er app, and I took pictures

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and I sent some to you as well. And the
plant I believe is called arrow leaf Sieda. It's it's
really kind of like a miniature bond said tree that's
like about an inch high and really really naughty, thick,
weedy or shrubbery, shrubbery like not. So you have to

(16:28):
like pull it out and it's a mechanical process and
it's and it's all over the.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
I know it. It's it's like it's made out of
out of iron wire or something. It is tough.

Speaker 12 (16:39):
Yes, yes, it absolutely, And so it hasn't taken over
the whole yard or anything. It's mainly in the back,
but it's starting to creep into the front and I
treated it a couple of years ago with a weed
meter Ultra, which was a broad leaf killer.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
It did. It just wilted a little bit.

Speaker 12 (16:58):
And then it kind of came back. But I have
a yard full of Saint Augustine grass and I don't
want to kill the grass, and I don't want to
hurt the surrounding trees. I live in oaklorus, so I
have a few oak trees. So I'm looking for something
that will get rid of this product once and for all.
I get rid of the weed once.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
All right, here's what you Yeah, here's what you need
to do. The weed beater alter won't do it. It's
got an ingredient called a camba in it that can
help with ceda. But it's also called by the way,
tea weed, interestingly enough, but it doesn't have enough of it.
It's made for wimpier weeds. This one is tough. And

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if you look for ceda in lawns online, you're just
not going to find almost nothing. It's like it's not
a lawn weed to the turf people around the country,
but it can be. And it's tough to control anything that.
What I would recommend is a product called Southern ag.

(17:59):
That's the company other NAG Basigran, and I'm gonna spell
it b A s A g r A n Bassigran.
Now it's sold for sedge control, but it'll also work
pretty good on the SEDA, and so I would use that.
It's labeled for Saint Augustine and it has SEDA, one

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of the sedas on its label. There's more than one
Sieda too. They're very similar, but more than one. I
would use that, and I would spot treat it. And
if it were in my yard, I would either water
or after a rain when the soil is soft, I
would do some hand pulling because it's coming out of
one spot and it's a little easier to get out
when it's like that. It's not it does want to

(18:43):
break off. You gotta grab it down low. But if
you can do some of that, that's helpful. But the
Basigrand as a spot spray is what I would recommend.

Speaker 12 (18:51):
Okay, And where can I get the bassigram?

Speaker 6 (18:56):
I would try an ACE hardware store in your area
you are located forest, you know. I would also try
Southwest Fertilizer on bisin ut and Runwick Southwest Fertilizer on
the corner of busin Ut and Runwick. Bob carries everything there.
I mean he carries stuff that nobody has, so he

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probably call him first, but he probably has it in stock.
If he doesn't, I bet he can get it. Okay, Okay,
So spot Tree, there are some other approaches with the
bass ground, I would try that. There are some other things,
but everything has its caveats, and I think i'd start
with the BASSI ground. If you have trouble with that,

(19:39):
let me know. We can try some other approaches, but
I think that's probably the best first shot.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Okay, Okay, Well, thank you, Skip. I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
Hey, thank you, you bet, thank you, thank you for
the call. I appreciate that very much. We're gonna have
to go to a break here, Kim and Copperfield and
Ronnie up in Magnolia. You will be our first two
up when we come right back. You have to have
some upbeat stuff to get us awake this morning. For
those of you who are little sleepy eyed. You know,

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my eyes opened very slowly this morning, but they are
wide awake now ready to go. Hey, we love feed
stores on Guarden Line. You know that. I tell you
that all the time, and if you are up in
the Magnolia area, Spring Creek Feed there's your hometown feed store.
They're conveniently located right there on FM twenty nine seventy eight,
just minutes a few minutes away from Grand Parkway and

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Highway two forty nine. When you go into Spring Creek,
you're gonna find the fertilizers that I talk about on
guardline for your lawn. When I say fall fertilizer, you
got to put a fall furtig. It's time to put
a fall fertilizer down. When my schedule, which by the way,
my gardening schedules are available online at gardening with skip
dot com. They're free. You just print them out and
take them in and say I want that one. When

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it's the one you want there, Well, Spring Creek has them.
They have herbicide, pest aside, fungde asides, all the different
things you need to control the issues that attack your plans.
The staff is is friendly. I like walking in. First
of all, when you walk in, it's gorgeous. I mean
you look around and you go, okay, this looks like
a boutique and it's a feed store. And the staff
is so friendly. They greet you they take care of you.

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If you are senior, citizen or military, there discounts for that.
If you're four h r FFA maybe you're raising livestock
for the fair, there is also discounts for you as well,
and they can special order at Spring Creek Feed Again.
They're on FM twenty nine seventy eight up in Magnolia.
It's your hometown feed store. Check them out. You will

(21:33):
be impressed. It really is impressive. I'm going to be
going up to Nature's Way Resources on October the twelfth.
Now what would that be? That'd be a week from today.
Nature's Way Resources is still having their Fungal Friday sale.
Fungal Friday, so twenty percent off their fungal compost. Now

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you hear me talk about compost top dressing and leafmold compost.
Neature's weighs, the one that made that famous leb mool compost.
Fungal compost is also very good to use for compost
stop dressing. It works well, you get it screened down
to a good particle size, and at twenty percent off
on Friday, so that's something you always need to pull

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on the counter on Friday, I'm gonna go buy I'm
gonna pick it up. I'm gonna call them and have
them to deliver it. Buy it by the bag, buy
it by the bulk, and every other product they carry.
Rose soils, vegetable soils, soils for acid loving plants, mulches.
They have it all there in Nature's Way and many
of the products we talk about in the Greater Houston
area all the time now, like rose soil, for example,

(22:36):
they invented it. That's where it was born. At Nature's
Way Resources. Now on next Saturday, they're going to have
a real shindig and that is my official I'm officially
designating this as a shindig. That's the highest level of
party praise you can give in the South. It's the
Fall Festival, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales. I'll be

(22:59):
there from eleven to third one thirty with some Q
and A with you. They'll be live music, there'll be
children's activities, food and it's just a good time. It's
going on from nine am to two pm next Saturday
at Nature's Way Resources. They're on Sherbrooks Circle right where
the road from Magnolia fourteen eighty eight comes into Interstate

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forty five going north. Just turn right across the tracks.
Don't go left to Magnolia. Turn right across the tracks
and you're there and I'll be there again from eleven
thirty to one. There. I hope you can make it.
Really looking forward to getting out and doing that. Let's
set out now to Copperfield and talk to Kim. Hey Kim,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (23:39):
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 14 (23:41):
I have a question about a Camelia japonica. It's been
in in the ground about a year now, and a
few weeks ago I noticed some ground patches on some
of the leaves, and I suspect their sunburn because they're
only on the side that gets exposure to sun for
a few hours a day.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
But I wanted a second on that.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
Did you send me a picture of that?

Speaker 15 (24:04):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (24:04):
I did?

Speaker 6 (24:06):
Did you send Yeah? I remember seeing that. That is sunburn, Kim.
And you know, did you remove anything that may have
been partially shading that plant in the last year.

Speaker 14 (24:18):
So the oak tree that shades it has had some
leaf loss over the past few months and also some
branches that were damaged as part of the storms that
we had this year.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
I got you, okay, well that that would explain it.
It's not a big problem the camelle. You will adjust
and be just fine. But because of where it's located
on the leaves and which leaves it's located on, that
is not a disease or an insect or anything for
you to worry about.

Speaker 14 (24:49):
Okay, perfect, That's what I wanted to just confirm. Hey,
can I ask you your opinion checked? Can I ask
you your opinion on using com post as a maulch.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
It's fine. It is very fine textured, so it blocks
the light very well. But it's also a good medium
for seeds to grow in. So if little seeds land
in it, they're going to just sprout in the compost itself,
whereas a chunkier malts it's a little thicker. You know,
they're going to kind of fall down in there and
and what not. But there's nothing wrong with using composts

(25:27):
as a mult Every time it rains, it's just like
the nutrients and the composts percolate out, just like you're
making coffee in the morning. You just dribble the rain
water irrigation right through the compost and it percolates out
the nutrients. So it has the benefit of that as well.

Speaker 14 (25:47):
Perfect all right, Well, I really appreciate your taking my
call this morning.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
You bet, thanks for being patient. Glad to have you
here on Guardenline. You take care, thank you.

Speaker 16 (25:57):
Ye.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
A compost is a compost is that's an interesting, you
know thing that has so many different uses. You know,
it's almost like the answer to everything is compost. Have
you ever noticed that you just need compost? Put composts
in the soil whatever. It fixes everything, and it kind
of does, you know. Compost takes a sandy soil that
the water nutrients run right through. Sand is just like

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broken glass. Basically on a microscopic level, nothing sticks to
sand much and it makes it whole water and nutrients
better like little sponges in the broken glass of sand.
A clay soil that's heavy and doesn't drain well, compost
helps those particles to form clumps, so the water and
air moved through it better as well. So compost fixes everything.

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We're talking about. Fees source while ago. If you live
down in the South of Houston area, down in League City,
your hometown feed stores League City Feed. And it's not
just for folks in League City, that whole region. Santa
Fe Dickinson, Lamart Bay Cliff Webster clearly City el Comina Reale.
I mean that could go on and on. This is
your hometown feed store. You go to League City and

(27:02):
it's just a few miles south of Highway ninety six
on Highway three. So just take Highway three a few blocks,
A few block miles. What am I saying? A few
blocks south on Highway three from ninety six. It's easy
to get to right there inside of the road. It's
the old time feed store, been around forty years. Still
carry the bags out for you. And when you go

(27:23):
in there and you go, ah, Skip was talking about
this fertilizer, they're gonna have it. They're at League City
Feed anything control pest, weeds, diseases, you need quality pet food.
They've got things for your backyard, chicken supplies. They've got
you covered on that League City Feed Monday through Saturday,
nine to six. So they're open today nine to six,

(27:44):
closed on Sundays two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.
Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. We're going
to go now to Ronnie at Magnolia. Hey, Ronnie, welcome
to Guarden Line.

Speaker 17 (27:58):
Borning Skip skip uh questioning your thoughts on planting a
winter rye on my vegetable garden.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Winter rye is fine. Uh what is your goal to
protect the soil or build the soil or build it?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Are you trying to nutrients?

Speaker 17 (28:18):
I do this out on my cotton farm in West Texas,
and uh it's it helps us, you know, the the
next year. And I just it's laying here door does
after a burrow come through and took care of my garden?
I kind of just been piecemeling it and uh, okay,
I'm ready.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
Well, Ronnie, do you do you know? Do you know
if you had have any nematodes in the soil? Have
you noticed any knots on the roots of any plants?

Speaker 18 (28:44):
No?

Speaker 16 (28:44):
I have knocked.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
Okay, then you could use you could use regular rye
that you oversee the lawn with. That's fine. We use
a cereal, a grain type rye. The variety LBoN is
what's most often so locally and feed stores and things,
but to help manage nematode problems. But it also grows
and produces the biomass that you can turn under the

(29:09):
soil to build the soil and protect the soil. But
either one would be fine. If you're not dealing with
nemotoad's either one. Some people will plant a cover crop
of something like mustard out there and turn that under
the soil as well. But what about any way you
want to go about it, the cereal rye, the grain. Yeah,
the grain type of rye. The one I mentioned is

(29:32):
h it's l bond e LB O N and the
nemetoads go in the roots and they can't reproduce and
they die, they don't.

Speaker 19 (29:40):
You know.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
It's a it slowly is reducing numbers and nematods. But
it's going to be upright like oats and wheat. You know,
it's an upright grain crop, and so you have to
mow it down. It's not like the overseating your lawn rye.
That's just a little turf grass kind of thing. So
either one is fine, sir.

Speaker 17 (30:01):
It wouldn't hurt to be prepared for them until then,
just go with that cerial rilee yourself.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yeah, it wouldn't hurt either way. And sometimes I'll have
it and I'll just kind of crimp it over, you know,
you can. You can mash it down over and I
just plant right through it and it sort of becomes
a mulch. In the spring too. So anyway, either way
you want to go about it.

Speaker 17 (30:22):
Where do you get that?

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, it's like the no tilt. Uh, let's see you
are up in Magnolia. I you know, I would call
Why don't you call the Spring Creek Feed up there
in the Magnolia area and see if they have it
or if they can if they can get it. I

(30:43):
think that would be That's what I would That's where
I would start. If you're if you're not able, good
and if you're not able to find them there, you
might try not too far away from you over on
the west side of tom Ball's D and D feed
they may have it as well. But those two places
is where I would start.

Speaker 16 (31:03):
Okay, buddy, all right, I'm I'm gonna have to run.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Thank you, sir. Appreciate your call. Uh, Mark and Pearline.
You'll be the first up when we come back. All right,
welcome back to the garden Line. Good to have you
with us today. Have you been to RCW Nursery? That
is the garden center where Tomball Parkway I WE two
forty nine comes into Beltway eight north west side of Houston.

(31:28):
Easy easy to get to RCW Nursery. Has everything you
need for fall. They have got some outstanding color. By
the way, did you know marrigols are a great fall
color plant, And they've got some. They got the big
pump palm types of marigols, orange and yellow, and you
know kind of variations within those. They glow in the fall.
Because spider mites do not thrive in the fall. Their

(31:49):
populations are crashing now on spider mites. We're not worried
about them like we are in the summer. People plant
marigoles in the summer. They auto plant them in the fall.
Oh my gosh. Get some at RCW Nursery. They have
every thing you can imagine. Great new shipments of citrus.
Outstanding shipments of ceterrus. If you've never had citrus before,
whether you plant it in the ground or put it
in the container and you know, roll it in the garage,

(32:11):
you got to try it. Because the ballooms are heavenly scented.
I mean, plus you get fruit. But that is great.
They've got the a Cuba gold dust a Cuba. People
call me and say, what is a shrub that grows
in shade? Well, it's like you can't have foliage in
the shade. On a shrub that that gets thin not
with a cuba. It's a great choice for shady areas.

(32:34):
Got those little flecks of yellow in the leaves that
make it kind of brighten up in the shade. Really beautiful.
And their trees are on say listen, shrubs are twenty
percent off right now. Shrubs are twenty percent off at
RCEW Nurseries. They have beautiful box cherry laurel trees. Their
trees are fifteen percent off for the month of October,

(32:56):
So grab you one. Do you need a tree that's
small you can plant. They've got those sizes. Do you
want something two hundred gallon like a tunnerd gallon burrow
or laspark elm lace parkser gorgeous. They'll connot and plan
them for you. Just go to r CW Nurseries again,
corner of Bela eight and Tmaa Parkway there right there,
easy to get to r cwnurseries dot com. That's their website.

(33:20):
All right, I'm gonna head out to h let's see,
we're gonna go to Mark in Parland. Hey Mark, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 20 (33:28):
Good by, good morning man. I've spent a couple of
years bringing my yard back from my killing.

Speaker 21 (33:34):
It with a.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Uh this, I lost this.

Speaker 6 (33:40):
Uh sir, I lost you for a second. Go ahead,
I got you back.

Speaker 20 (33:46):
Okay, great, I was forbad to put down the winter
risers schedule, and man, my dog will rescue a chicken
out the side of the road. So now I have
one of those backyard chickens you were just talking about
advertisement just a while back, and now I'm wondering, I
can't use that not your fall pre step, so I

(34:09):
need to is there is there something I can do
to keep that chicken from croaking after I put you
on something put down the treatment or some of treatment.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
Well, yeah, I've never I've never had a I've never
had a question about a backyard chicken and fertilizers and
pesticides like that. That's a that's a good one. Uh well,
I mean, if you want to be if you want
to be extra safe. Nitro Fuss does have something called
sweet Green that's normally when we put on in the summertime. Right,
it's an eleven zero four, So I wouldn't recommend it
as a fall fertilizer, but you could use Microlife's brown pat.

(34:43):
It's called Microlife brown Patch it's in a brown bag.
It's a five to one three fertilizer and that would
do that would do very very good for you. And
you're gonna find it down at your ace hardware. They're
in pairland, they're going to have that for life.

Speaker 20 (34:56):
Brown okay and probably but probably no pre pre emergency either.

Speaker 16 (35:01):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Well, for the pre emergence. From an organic end, what
we have to do is either use something called corn
gluten meal, which I bet the chicken likes, but it's
kind of hidden miss. Yeah, it's hidden, miss, But you'd
put it down and you water it in and it

(35:24):
can work on some weeds and the right conditions. And
I won't go into details on it, but basically, we
get too much rain and the way that product works,
if it keeps getting wet, it's not going to be
as effective. So that's where for an organic standpoint, we
just focus on cultural practices that increase turf density, which

(35:45):
is mowing, watering, and fertilizing. So you can build your
way out of a weed problem by building a denser
turf by proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing. And by the way,
if you go online to gardening with skip dot com
The Pest Disease and Eat Schedule and the lawn Schedule
both have organic alternative options on them. So just go

(36:06):
go find my schedules online and it's all right there,
we'll do okay, well, good, thanks for the call man.

Speaker 16 (36:15):
Good.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
Yeah, I have fun with that chicken. Bye. That's good.
Speaking of birds, Wabird's unlimited. Oh my gosh, will they
ever take care of you when it comes to every
kind of feed you need. By the way that your
chicken would like any birds seed that drops out of

(36:36):
the feeder, But well, wabirds, that doesn't happen. You know
why because wabirds has no messed blends that you can purchase,
and they have blends. All their blends are what the
birds want to eat. Those old red beabies and cheap
bird seed birds kick them out. They don't eat that.
That's not that's like putting. That's like putting Brussels sprouts
on my plate. I'm gonna kick it off on the floor.

(36:56):
I'm not going to eat it. But I know some
of you like that. But wildbird stuff is stuff birds like.
Right now, wildbirds they have their annual feeder swap and
this is so cool. I saw a picture, and it
is this pile of old bird feeders that people are
brought in. You bring your old bird feeder in, I
don't care what condition it's in. You bring in. Trade
in your old bird feeder twenty percent off a new

(37:19):
bird feeder. And we're entering the cool season when we
want to be out there feeding our birds as if
we didn't all year anyway, any feeder you bring in
twenty percent off at all six wild Birds locations. So
how do you find one? WBU dot com forward slash Houston.
WBU dot com forward slash Houston and that'll get you

(37:39):
right there to your Wildbird's store, simple as that. All right, folks,
I hear music that means we're about to go to
the top of the hour on the news, George and
Jersey Village. You'll be our first up. If you can
hang on till we come back. I want to remind
you I'm going to be at Buchanan's Native Plants today.
That's right today, I'll be there from twelve to two pm.

(38:02):
Come on out and see me. Let's visit. I always
like to put a face to the people that are
out there listening to guarden Line. It's all invisible. I'm
talking out into the darkness, so let me see your
pretty face. Come on out, Bring me some samples, bring
me your questions. Do you have photos on a phone,
make sure they're in sharp focus. Bring me your photos,
will diagnose, will identify. We'll make suggestions on how to

(38:24):
have a more bountiful and beautiful garden, a landscape. There
will be giving away a one hundred dollars gift card.
You got to register to win one hundred dollars gift
card from Buchana's Native Plants. We'll be giving away back
a microlife brown patch and boy, they have all kinds
of things going on and it's all free today. Buchana's
Native Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rict.

Speaker 22 (38:52):
It's so.

Speaker 19 (38:59):
Trim.

Speaker 15 (39:00):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 19 (39:14):
Well.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
Welcome back, Welcome back to Guarden Line. Hey, it's good
to have you with us. We are looking forward to
spending the rest of this morning up to ten am
with you talking about the things that interest you in gardening.
That's why we're here. You can give a call if
you like at seven one three two one two k
t r H seven one three two one two K

(39:35):
T R H. I'm your host, Skip Richt, and we're
here to help you have a bountiful, bountiful garden, a beautiful,
beautiful landscape. And one way you can do that is
by heading up to Arbrogate. Have you been to Have
you been to Arbrogate in Tomball recently there on the
west side on twenty nine twenty. If you haven't been there,
you need to crawl out from under a rock and
go find that place because you have never seen anything

(39:58):
like it. It is a wonderland. Their display gardens are gorgeous.
They have plants that you this bit this way. When
you go to Arburgate and you see a plant number one,
there's a chance you may not have seen it anywhere
else because they do a great job of bringing in
some really cool and new ones. But they also do

(40:18):
an outstanding job of making sure what they bring in
is stuff that's going to grow here, and then they've
got the expertise to go with it.

Speaker 15 (40:26):
You know.

Speaker 6 (40:26):
I talk all the time about the fact that it's
so important to support our independent nurseries because they live here,
they grow here. They don't order stuff to go to
stores all over the country. In some big box where
you're getting sold black raspberries and Tomball Texas in Houston, Texas,
which don't grow. Here, you got people that know what

(40:47):
they're doing and they grow. They bring in the plants
you need to have success and Arbigate they're experts. I'm
telling you that I've visited with Beverly Ken and a
lot of the staff there. They know what they're talking about.
And when you walk in, your jaw's going to drop
because it's always gorgeous and beautiful. Their gift shops are outstanding,
their fault color is outstanding. I mean I could just

(41:09):
go on and on all day. You need to go
to Arbrogate if you haven't been there, Arborgate dot com.
Arburgate dot com. It's on the west side of tom
Ball twenty nine to twenty go out there, park in
the back, take Trishel Road around the back. They've got
a great old weather parking lot back there, and they
are stocked up and ready for fall, and every season
it's just new wonderful things coming in. I love going there.

(41:32):
I love it, absolutely do, and you will too. If
you don't already go by the way, take a friend
when you go, because there there is so much fun
to have, and you know that your friends will love
going with you as well. It's good, I don't know,
turns a what would be a shopping trip into a
personal time with friends. That's a good thing. Gardeners like

(41:55):
to hang out together. Let's go to George now in
Jersey Village. Hey, George, welcome to garden.

Speaker 22 (42:01):
Good morning, Good morning Skip. I'll just listening to your
your Arborgate advertisement. They sell your plants that are going
to grow by in my yard and stuff like that,
or they just very pretty for display something like that.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
Oh my gosh. No, they have gorgeous plants that will
grow here. And if you have issue with the plant,
I mean, you go into Arburgate shopping. Maybe it's a
plane you didn't buy there. You just said, hey, I
got this plant that's doing this. They'll help you with it.
They'll help you with it.

Speaker 22 (42:26):
Okay. So my question is, and the resolve of dispute
for me about how deep your plant the seed. I'd
heard that depends on the size of the seed. Like
the little bed seeds like poppies. They can put them
a sprinkle them across the top of the ground and
sprinkle dirt on top of them. Bigger seeds like peppers,
hot peppers you got to put on people like half
inchs in the ground something like that. What what do

(42:48):
you know?

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Okay, now now you know I'm I'm I'm getting alarmed here.
You said you're an argument. Isn't with your wife?

Speaker 15 (42:55):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (42:58):
I'm not gonna tell you, smart man, I was going
to tell you because if it was, you know, gardening
advice is free. Marriage counseling is three hundred dollars an hour.

Speaker 16 (43:07):
So I don't know how you.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
Want to go now, Seriously, seeds in general, in general,
when in doubt, plan a seed about three to four
times it's with deep so a pento bean. You know,
just take a simple, big old seed that's going to
go about half inch three quarters of an inch or
so down in the ground. Something small like a poppy seed.
You're not even really partly bearing it. You're scratching it

(43:30):
in and pressing it. There are a few seeds that
need light. Lettuce and carrots typically or better put on
the surface and just watered in, really pressed to the
surface and watered in really good because they need a
little bit of light. But that's the exception. Most seeds
want to be buried about three to four times are.

Speaker 22 (43:46):
With deep Okay, answer the informans, all right, thanks.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
A lot, all right, good, thank you, thank bye bye.
Have fun yeah, okay, we got to have some fun
here on line right. Microlife fertilizer. Someone called me earlier
and was talking about lawns and they got a chicken
in the backyard and they want a fertilizer that's inorganic
for the in case chicken picks it up. Well, Microlife,

(44:14):
that's that's what you can do. Microlife has a wide
variety of products that are all natural loaded with microbes.
They understand that microbes rule the world and when it
comes to plants especially, microbes are essential for healthy plants.
We have just scratched the surface on learning how important

(44:34):
microbes are and all the things they do. They fight disease,
you know, they fend off, they outcompete other other organisms
on the surface of a plant that might want to
attack that plant. So things like micro grow bioanoculant, you
can put that out. It comes in a bag, comes
in the clear jars as well. You put that on
on your lawn when you do your fall fertilizing. That's

(44:56):
what I would recommend to the Microlife brown Patch. Microlife
brown Patch. It's a five to one to three fertilizer.
That's your fall fertilizer for microlife. Then do the micro
grow bioinoculant. Spread it also. Don't mix them together, spread
them separate leabag. You can do it the same day
and then watered in. And the micro grow has sixty
three different beneficial microorganism strains in it. And these are

(45:19):
things that do fight against disease issues. They are out
compete disease issues. Microlife's got it all. You can find
Microlife lots of places. You can go to Microlifefertilizer dot
com if you want to find their sources. But I
can just tell you this, it's everywhere. It's easy, easy
to find, and the stuff works. I've used it myself.
I know that it works. I wanted to talk about

(45:43):
trees a little bit. Someone was talking earlier about their
camella that's getting some sunburn, and they said they had
some tree damage in the storm and now more suns
coming through. We had a lot of tree damage. In fact,
I'm surprised there's a living tree in Houston after the
hurricane and the other horrible storm that we had that
knocked out powerful couple weeks. Affordable Tree Service is the

(46:03):
person I would trust for your tree care here in
the Houston area. It's as simple as that. I want
to give you their number, and I'd like you to
write this down because you never know when you're gonna
need it. It's seven one three six nine nine two
six six three. If you don't have a pen, grab
one and we'll keep talking. I'll give it to you
again just a second here. Martin Spinmore has been doing

(46:23):
this for a long time and he and his wife
Joe are the ones that answer. The phone's there, so
when you call, if you don't get Martin or Joe
on the phone, the owners, you've called the wrong place.
You want to dial seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty three. If you like websites aff tree
Service dot com aff tree Service dot com, you got

(46:45):
to get on his schedule asap. October through February is
the big printing season. He stays very, very busy, and
if you call him, tell him your guardline lister. Get
on the schedule because it doesn't matter when in there
you get the printing done. Just get on the schedule
so you can get the printing done. So don't delay,
you wait too long. And he who hesitates as lost
as they say, call Martin an affordable tree and get

(47:08):
on the schedule seven one three, six nine nine two
six sixth tree. He'll look at your He'll look at
your trees. He'll decide what's needed or not and tell
you and give you a plan for what to do
about it. If you're gonna do any changes in your
landscape around the tree, anywhere within the branch spread of
the tree, or even beyond, let him look first, let
him come out and consult first, because you can do

(47:29):
a lot of damage when you don't do it right,
and he can tell you how to do it right.
We're gonna now go. Let's him know. I'm gonna really
go to a commercial right now. When I come back,
Tammy in the Woodlands, you'll be our first upright. Welcome back,
Welcome back to your garden line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden,

(47:51):
a beautiful landscape. That's as simple as that. I have
one way to do it. If you live down in
the Richmond Rosenberg area, you and if you've been out
in Chenni Gardens, you got to go check it out.
This place is it is a destination garden center. I've
been there and talk to people from Austin, Texas. It
drove all the way over just to see in Chenne Gardens.

(48:12):
That's the kind of place it is. I love our
mum and pop garden centers because they just they just
make things special, and I really mean that. For example,
at Channa Gardens right now, they got their pumpkin house.
If you've never seen it, you got to go buy.
It's a house in the wall. It's just solid covered
with pumpkins. It's gorgeous. They got places that you can
do your photos where you stand in front of like

(48:33):
a giant butterfly or something like that to take photos.
Bring the kids out, have some fun, bring your friends. Actually,
come on, man, we're having fun here gardening. You want
to know how to make our herb basket. They have
a little video and you have to go to their
Facebook page, and I would recommend.

Speaker 16 (48:48):
That you do that.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
That you absolutely follow our garden centers on their Facebook
and Instagram. They sign up for the newsletters and Channi
Gardens has an outstanding newsletter. You can just watch how
to do it and they'll do it for you. If
you want to go buy one that's already done, you
can go that route. You can do it. But I
would just say check it out and learn do some
do it yourself. It's fun as always. Whatever the season

(49:12):
has in store, they've got it in in Chanted Gardens.
That includes a fall color that includes beautiful decorations for
Halloween and the whole fall season. Here's where they are
FM three fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond and
you go north toward Katie Fuller, Katie fullsher direction, that
is the direction to go Enchented Gardens on FM three

(49:36):
fifty nine. Here's the website. You need to go to
the website Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com. We're now going to the Woodlands and we're
going to talk to Tammy. Hello, Tammy, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 23 (49:51):
Hi Skip, good morning. I'm calling for a friend who
has the backyard that is it's all weed. I couldn't
even find it. The runners of Saint Augustine in there,
and she wants to put Saint Augustine down and My
question is, and I can't remember, is this a good
time to do it, say, in the next month, or

(50:12):
would she would it be better for her to wait
until the spring, some time after the new year, And
if so, you know what time period would you recommend
to have sad sit down?

Speaker 15 (50:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (50:24):
I would wait. You can plant sod pretty much any
month of the year, but when we get further and
further into fall, the root growth slows down a lot.
So if you were going to do it now, you
need to do it immediately. But if she's got a
big weed problem and there are any perennial weeds, you
need to get rid of those before you put the
sod down. So if you were putting it on Saint

(50:45):
Augustine and you had bermuda grass which is a perennial weed,
or nuts edge or things like that, it's better to
eradicate those and then lay your sod. Now, if it's
all annual weeds, all you got to do is scrape
it off or spray it and kill it and put
the sod down on the soil and you're okay. But
this may be a good time to start killing the
perennial weeds that are there. Any low areas to fill

(51:08):
them in. Randy used to talk about kill till phil process,
where you know, you get rid of the perennials, you
til things up. You're fill in any low spots to
level it all off, and then when you put the
new side in, it's ready to go. And by the
time we get to sometime later in March, it'll be
warming up enough for the roots to begin to grow

(51:28):
and for the sod to go down really well. And
the warmer it gets, the happier the sod gets when
it comes to rooting quickly.

Speaker 23 (51:36):
Okay, well, she's helping to sellar home in March, so
that might be a little late.

Speaker 6 (51:42):
Well, then, Ques, she needs to go out there and roto.
She needs to go out and roto till it now
and get some side down right now, just like this
week if possible, to give it the best chance, because
that way, coming out in the spring, it'll look better.

Speaker 23 (51:57):
Okay, there's a part of the yard it's really shady.
She wants Saint Augustine for the part that gets more sun.
What type of grass grows in a more shady area
is that bring to.

Speaker 6 (52:13):
No, Saint Augustine is the most shade tolerant, and so
it is. I would go ahead and get the same.
If it's a deciduous shade, then as she plants it now,
it'll get light through the wintertime. Our grass doesn't go
fully dormant. Saint Augustine doesn't go fully dormant in the winter,
and so it will do okay until the leaves come out,

(52:34):
and then sometime next summer it may start struggling if
there's too much shade. But other than trimming out some
tree limbs to brighten it up, that's about all that's
in her power.

Speaker 23 (52:44):
Okay, perfect, awesome, Well, thank you so much, really helpful.

Speaker 16 (52:49):
Bye.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
Yeah, thanks, appreciate the call. Bye bye. When I talk
about supplies, I talked to somebody earlier today about Southwest
Fertilizer being the place to go for it everything. Southwest
Fertilizer has every product you could possibly need for your lawn, garden,
your landscape of vegetables, herbs, flowers, tree, shrubs, fruit ones,
you name it, they've got it. If you hear me

(53:12):
say any product, it comes out of my mouth on
guard line. Bob's got it a Southwest fertilizer, And if
he doesn't have it, you can probably get it because
he has a wide, wide variety of things everything you need.
Plus he and his team there have the knowledge to
point you at the right thing. You bring some weed
in and a plastic bag, they'll tell you what to
use for it, and they won't steer you wrong. They

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know their products, they know their stuff, and that's important.
Remember Also, they've got they sharpened more blades there. They've
got a small engine repair in the back. So we're
entering that fall season where we're putting some things up.
Now'd be a good time to get things right so
when you come out in the spring you're ready to go.
You know, that's when there's the rush at the shops
or getting things tuned up and fixed. Why not do

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that now, here's the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. There's
a phone number seven one three six six six one
seven four four. Southwest Fertilizer been runs. It's nineteen fifty
five and I don't care where you live in this
listening area, it's worth a trip to drive over to
see Southwest Fertilizer and all the things that they carry

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there in the store. We'll own out to spring and
talk to Roderick. Hello, Roderick. Welcome to garden Line morning skip.
How are you cop I'm well, sir. How can we
help tonight?

Speaker 21 (54:30):
Got two questions for you. In my backyard, I have
an area where I have a gutter.

Speaker 16 (54:34):
And it gets extremely wet.

Speaker 6 (54:36):
Is there anything I can put in that area too,
so it's so anytime that it ranks not as wet
like I thought about putting.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Some fans had no idea what's put.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
So if your only two options are to reroute that
gutter down spout somewhere else, or like into an underwater
pipe that takes it somewhere else, or to put in
a gravel bed to catch it and a trench and
gravel to carry it off somewhere else. You just got

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to keep the water from getting there, or find a
way to get it to a lower spot, because you
know gravity is taking it wherever it's going to go,
so uh, those are the things that are in your power.
Or put a little you know, put a little rainwater
collection system there and then you plus you get rainwater
out of the deal. But those would be the options,

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all right.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Number two, In my front flower bed, I'm getting this weed.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
It's a two LEAs weed.

Speaker 15 (55:37):
The weaves go right and.

Speaker 21 (55:39):
Left, and inside of the bait, it's just nothing but roses.
But I'm trying to figure out what can I.

Speaker 18 (55:43):
Put in the flower bed to get all these weeds
out by having it without having to just pull all
the weeds myself.

Speaker 6 (55:52):
Are there currently flowers in the bed or are you
between plantings?

Speaker 24 (55:58):
No curly roses in the bed that are still blooming.

Speaker 6 (56:02):
Yeah, it's tough to kill weeds without killing the good stuff.
These weeds sound like broadleaf weeds as opposed to grasses
and the things that kill broadly weeds kill petunias and
kill roses and kill you know, other broadly plants. So
your options are either hand pulling, or if it's an

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annual weed, sometimes you can kind of mow it down
a little bit weed eat it down or whatever, and
then cover it with a real thick mulch and smother
it with me smother meaning block the light out of it.
And you can go that route. But other than that,
the only other thing would be to do a weed wiper,
where you apply the herbicide to a sponge and wipe

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it on the weeds, And I have one on my
on my website Gardening with Skip dot com. It tells
you how to build a weed wiper if you want
to go check that out, and that way you can
go underneath the rosebush. This little device applies to the
herbicide to the weed and doesn't spray, doesn't get on
your rosebush or in the soil or anything.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
I may try the mulching idea first, so I appreciate it.

Speaker 16 (57:11):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
With Mike, all right, if you happen to have a
newspaper and know someone who still takes a paper, you
put about four to six sheets a newspaper down after
you've kind of mowed the weeds back or weeded in
them back a little bit. You put four to six
sheets a newspaper and then throw your mulch on top
of that. That paper will rot in time, but it
does a better job of blocking all the light out

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and getting those weeds under control.

Speaker 22 (57:36):
All right, I appreciate it, thanks sir, have a good.

Speaker 6 (57:39):
Day, all right, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that.
The folks at Medina have been making products for a
very long time. In fact, I think that's one of
the first sponsors of garden Line, before it was even
Gardenline was Medina agg products, and Medina has, you know,
really made a name for themselves with things like the
has to Grow. Has to Grow is kind of a

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standard product they have. They have one called has to
Grow plant Food. It's a six twelve six and fallish
for planting. And if you're going to put a plant
in the ground, get you some has to Grow six
twelve six, put it in a watering can and just
water your plants in with it. Use that as your
drench to water your plants in six twelve six lots

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of phosphorus the middle number. You can even put a
little bit water some down in the bottom of the hole,
put the plant in, water it again, and then fill
up with soil and water it again. And that medinosoil
activator that's in there will stimulate biological activity. They've got
humic acid in has to Grow six to twelve six
plant food as well. You can get in a quart
bottle with a measuring cup. That makes it real easy.

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You can do hose in sprayer if you want to
go that route about it. It's not gonna burn your plants.
It will build up the biological activity. It will promote
fruiting and blooming, and it's excellent for transplanting excellent. So
whether you're putting in fall vegetables or fall flours, or
that are a rose bush or a tree, this fall
has to grow six twelve six. That's as simple as that.

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You need to do that really really help get them
off to goods. Are I always like to do it.
People forget to give their plants a boost when they're
getting unplanted, and that is very important. That plant is
trying to get established and it's just not real easy
easy for the plant it needs. It needs a little
help in that process. For those of you up in

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the Montgomery area, you've got an A plants and produce
right on your doorstep there on one oh five on
the east side of Montgomery. I was up there recently,
had a really good time out there for the folks
that came out and visited with us. We had a
good time.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
You know.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
A and A has got every fertilizer I talk about
Nitroposs Nelson, the All Nelson's turf Star line, microlife products.
They've got all of the heirloom soils in nature's way,
the leaf mole compost for example. They have you set
up to have success with I say, brown stuff before
green stuff, meaning fix the soil, then plant the plant.
They've got everything you need for the brown stuff to

(01:00:00):
get off to a good start. Their fall colors outstanding.
I just saw some beautiful asters, beautiful moms. A and
A has what you need. Just swing by there on
one oh five, if you're on on one, if you
live at one of those lake neighborhoods out at Lake Conroe,
this is your backyard garden center. A and A Plants
and produce in Montgomery. All right, time for me to

(01:00:22):
take a break. I will be right back, and when
we come back, Suzanne and Laporte, you'll be our first stop.
Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line, Little Kobe
Calais this month. You know, I have talked about Nelson
products for a number of years and I've used them

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for a number year. Nelson makes quality fertilizers, they just do.
Their turf Star line is outstanding. And when it comes
to fall, the turf Star product you need to be
looking at is carbo load. Carbo load white carbo load,
because when you put it down, it's got good potassium
and some nitrogen. Good potassium content to help the grass

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build carbohydrates. Sun shines on plant leaves. Plant leaves make carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates creates winter hardiness and helps your long come out
stronger in the spring. The most important fertilization of the
year if you want to have a good, strong early
growth in your grass, is the fall fertilization because it's
using the nutrient load that it went into winter with

(01:01:30):
to come out in spring. Carbo Load by turf Star
it works. It has a pre emergent herbicide in it,
and so you do not want to delay. With just
regular fertilizers. You can put them on and late September,
in October, you know, whenever you want to put them down,
you can put them down. But with carbo load, I
would do that early. I would do that now. Now

(01:01:51):
is the time to do that, because you're going to
put it down. You're going to water it in with
about a half inch or so of water just to
move the nutrients and that product pre emergent into the
soil surface. That way, when we get a call front,
when the weather cools off a bit, when we get
some rain and those weed seeds starts to sprout, the
carboload pre emergent is there ready for it. So you

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get the nutrient and you get the pre emergent all
in one product from Nelson plant Food. And again Nelson
widely available, not hard to find Nelson products in the
Greater Houston area. Let's go to Laporte now and talk
to Suzanne. Hey, Suzanne, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 25 (01:02:27):
Hi Skip, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it.
I live down here in Laporte near the bay, and
I have an enormous backyard. It receives full sun. It's
about one thousand feet. It has several places that are browning,
and it looks kind of tacky, however, and it still

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has areas that are green. We were out of town
on travel for a long time, and when we returned,
that's the way it was. The lawn crew took care
of it, but just mode and you know, typical yard
care like that. My question is now, some green grass
is growing through all of the brown throughout the yard.

(01:03:14):
And I purchased the stuff the Texas three Steps. So
I was wondering, Okay, should we go ahead and apply
that or is that foolish to apply it to a
yard in such bad shape?

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
No, No, you need to apply it to the yard
and bad shape here's why the three step is going
to be three. As you know, three things. It's a
fall special Winner riser designed for that, and so that
will help your lawn get stronger. So coming out in
spring it's going to be in better shape. So you
definitely need to do the fall Special Winner riser. The

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barricade is of course the pre emergent herbicide, and both
the fertilizer and the barricade you want to water them
in after you apply them, to get them down in
the soil surface, because your lawn struggling means the sunlight
is hitting the soil, and wherever sunlight hits the soil,
nature plants of weeds. So you're gonna have cool season

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weeds germinating in a lawn that's gotten thinner like that.
So barricade ahead of time is important. That means, that
means to it. Now, who knows when the neck round
coldfront's going to hit the cool things off a little,
and so go ahead and get it down. And then
the fung aside that one, you don't need to water
in so much. It's a systemic product that you put
on your lawn. Just a little bit of water, just

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a little bit to put down and it'll move into
the grass plant. And so when brown patch hits or
take all root route, which both occur in the fall,
that it is in the plant to defend the plant.
If you wait until after the circles appear, it's a
little late to stop because they've already it's already created
the brown spots, brown circles in the lawn. So yes,

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all of those are important, especially and you're so situation okay?

Speaker 19 (01:05:02):
Perfect?

Speaker 25 (01:05:03):
And should I do all should we do all three
of those at the same time?

Speaker 6 (01:05:10):
You can do them all on the same day. Don't
mix products in the same hopper. So spread the fertilizer,
then come back and put the barricade in. Spread it,
then come back.

Speaker 25 (01:05:20):
You know, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
I would do the fertilizer. That's okay, I would do
maybe I was talking over you. I would I would
do the fertilizer in the barricade on the ground, and
then water men really good, okay. And then with the eagle,
just follow the label. Follow the label on that. It
is going to be a granular you put on, so
you are going to want to water it too. Just
check the volumes on those, uh it, Maybe you can

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put all three and then water or that you would
do the first two water and then maybe when you
put the eagle down watered in as well.

Speaker 25 (01:05:53):
But it'll tell you okay, perfect, And that last one
is is the turf eagle right?

Speaker 6 (01:06:02):
Yeah, eagle turf funder side eagle.

Speaker 25 (01:06:04):
Turf that's on your side. Okay, Oh that sounds great.
I'm excited, Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:06:10):
Yeah, what you bet?

Speaker 16 (01:06:12):
You bet.

Speaker 6 (01:06:12):
If you go to my website gardening with skip dot com,
you can see my schedule there. There's one for fertilizing
and there's one for pest disease and weeds. If you
look on there, you'll see those products and you'll see
exactly the timing on the eagle turf fung your side.
I might do a second if you feel like you've
got some take all root rot, which I'm kind of

(01:06:33):
wondering if you do, based on some things you've said,
you may want to repeat it again in November again,
because that take all is a problem and we really
need to get ahead of it. So just be ready
to do a second eagle in November if you think
you may have some of the take all root rot,
and i'd have to see a sample to know for

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sure on that.

Speaker 25 (01:06:55):
All right, that's great advice. Okay, now that chands good.
I enjoy your program so much. Thank you for your help.

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That's what we're up to. Have you been to the
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that's the main thing. But don't just think roses. They
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plants like violas and snap dragons, Dianthus alvia's fall asters.
Everybody needs to have fall aster in their landscape because
it gives you, you know, we have four seasons. We
had to have color in four seasons. Every year the
fall asters come back with beautiful color. Your pollinators will

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be happy. They are loaded with all these plants. Like
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Especially I want to tell you about the Fall Festival
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It's free and open to the public. And they have

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outstanding speakers. Paul Zimmerman, one of our rosariums, will be
there talking. Chris Weissinger, the bulb Hunter. Chris is always outstanding.
Mike Sarrant for Microlife, Henry Flowers, doctor Steven George. Oh
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They're gonna have gift items, and of course they're gonna
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if you do it online coupon code Skip. Twenty twenty four.
We're gonna go now to friends Wood and talk tomorrow, Kello, Mark,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (01:11:53):
Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call. Yes, so I
have a question. Hey, I'm sorry, Yeah, I have a
question on a crate myrtle. I cut it last year.

Speaker 7 (01:12:04):
I cut all my crate myrtles last year, and one
in particular.

Speaker 19 (01:12:10):
It just it's quick growing. I did spray it down
with I've got some I guess some.

Speaker 21 (01:12:16):
I don't know what it is so.

Speaker 19 (01:12:17):
Black that grows on one of the and it was
actually on a different.

Speaker 24 (01:12:20):
Crape myrtle, but the one in particular I actually spray
down and I cut it and it is totally quick growing.
I've recut it and I see that it has green
and it actually is blowing. It's growing a little bit
of a black stuff on the sides.

Speaker 7 (01:12:33):
Of on the on the trunk, but.

Speaker 19 (01:12:37):
It hasn't grown in eight months, nine months, So I
don't know if you had a solution or what I
should do.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
That's very strange. Yeah, it's very strange. Crapes are usually
pretty good about re sprouting when you cut them back.
Something is not quite right with it. I don't know
if maybe it's a little on the dry side or
some other issue is going on. You know, I don't
have the crystal ball on what it could be, but
but it sounds to me like first thing I think about,
is it getting outequate soul moisture.

Speaker 21 (01:13:06):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:13:06):
The black on the trunk is a sign of crepe
myrtle bark scale. And if you can get a systemic
insecticide that you apply as a drench around the plant, Okay,
systemic insecticide. And if you go into your down there
in Friendswood, you got an ACE hardware store close by, uh,
and go in and say I need a I need

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a systemic drench herbicide for scale insecticide, not herbicide insecticide
for scale. I'm gonna give you. Do you have a
pin or pencil handy?

Speaker 15 (01:13:38):
I do?

Speaker 21 (01:13:39):
I do?

Speaker 6 (01:13:40):
Okay, I'm gonna spell something out, d I n O dino.

Speaker 10 (01:13:46):
T e f.

Speaker 6 (01:13:49):
T e F you are a n so I'm gonna
say it again, dino taf fr ron d E d
I n O t e you are an oh n an. Anyway,
ask for that ingredient if you can find it. If
they don't, they have another one, that's okay too. But

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if you can find the dinner tept run, follow the label,
mix it up, drench it. It goes up in the plants, plumbing,
and it kills those scale because they're just like ticks
on a dog, you know, just sort of dragging it
down a little bit more. And let's go ahead and
knock that out on that particular Kramer.

Speaker 19 (01:14:28):
Okay, I appreciate it, Thank you so much. Yes, sir,
all right, you bet.

Speaker 6 (01:14:32):
You good luck, good luck with that. If you want
to have compost op dressing done, now is a good
time to do it. And if you live in the
northwest quadrant of Houston. And what do I mean by that,
I mean just imagine Interstate forty five Interstate ten, the
northwest quadrant that is the service area for green Pro.
They cover about forty five minutes from or forty five

(01:14:54):
miles from Magnolia. That's Spring Cyprus Woodlands, Conrad Willis and
then over up into Magnolia, Montgomery and down to Katie
West Houston, Central North Houston, that area all right now
through fall. You need to hear this now through fall.
If you hire them to do a compost top dressing,
they will do for free the aeration of your lawn,

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but you have to do a two yard minimum. You
can't buy a yard a compost and do that. If
you get a two yard minimum of compost top dressing done,
then they do the aeration for free. Price to start
at five seventy five plus tax. It they're hauling a
very expensive equipment around. They're hauling a lot of bulk
material around. That's why they have a service area. But

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they do a good job. And if your lawn is struggling,
if it's take all damage, if it's chinchbugs, if it's
just drought or whatever it is foot traffic, especially compaction
compost top dressing follow with a aerration is a way
to get oxygen and organic material back down into the
soil and really help that grassroots system to thrive. Greenpro

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greenpro dot net is the website, the phone number two
eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. I'm
gonna give you that again two eight one three five
one four seven three three greenpro dot Net. Well, now
go to Charlie in Spring Texas. Hey, Charlie, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 21 (01:16:22):
Hey skip that we're doing this morning?

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
Well, sir, how can it help? Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:16:28):
So, I have a pair of a crape myrtles at
my house and for the last light I would say
two years or so, and there's just like this thick
like black tar that's just literally you can see it
dripping off of the leaves. I mean, it's getting all
over the cars. But it's only the two that are

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about ten feet from each other. The other one on
the other side of the driveway it doesn't have it.
And my wife and I, I mean we returned them
every year they roll back, but it's just like I
would say, about six months out of the year, there's
just this real thick black tar that's just literally just
dripping all over our cars.

Speaker 6 (01:17:11):
Okay, Well, Charlie, that is crepe myrtle bark scale, and
the crpe myrtle itself will sometimes drip. There are different
insects that suck the sugary juices out of plants, and
then they basically pee out the sugar water and wherever
it lands, you get soot all over the plant. And
if it's if it's a sugary water, it may be

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black as well. But the bottom line is you got
to kill the insect to stop that. And it's not
generally something that kills crpe myrtles, but it sure makes
them look bad. And then you get the junk on
your picnic table or your car or whatever you're sitting
underneath the tree. I don't know if you heard that
last color, but Dino Teferon is a drench that you

(01:17:56):
can purchase that I think would be the way to
go at this point in the season. I hesitate recommending
it earlier in the season just because the great myrtles
and the blooms and the bees and things. But at
this point in the season you could go ahead and
do that and it would be fine. And are you
are you in spring or are you in a spring branch?

Speaker 21 (01:18:18):
I'm in a Spring?

Speaker 5 (01:18:21):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:18:21):
Okay, okay, good? Well up around spring. You've got an
Ace Hardware store there on Spring Stiper's Road, Spring Ace Hardware.
That's probably the closest to you. There's some other aces around.
There's one over on Rayford Road as well, all Star Ace.
But they're gonna probably have the systemics. They'll have Dino Tevron,
or they'll have and that's the ingredient, not the brand name,

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or they'll have something else that's a systemic insecticide for scale.
They can point you to just follow the label and
go ahead and get it done while they're still sap
flowing in the plant.

Speaker 21 (01:18:55):
Okay, yeah, we'll do, We'll do, sir.

Speaker 16 (01:18:56):
I appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
I appreciate your call very much. Well, we guy as
far as we could this hour. Folks Ms V and Conroe,
Charlie and are a Rose in texts Textra Cana. You'll
be our first two up. If you can hang around
until we come back. I want to remind you today
I'm gonna head over to U. Cannon's Native Plants. They
are having their fall Fest, and their fall Fest is

(01:19:21):
a very very fun time. Go by and check it out.
They're gonna have things like the Wonder Pops, which is
a frozen dessert company. It's gonna be there. They'll have
a costume contest. They're gonna have live live music going on.
I'll be there answering your gardening questions from twelve to two. Now,
the whole Fall Fest is from ten to three, but

(01:19:42):
I'll be there from twelve to two for two hours
giving them one hundred dollars gift certificate. You got a
register to win and a bag of Microlife brown Patch
as well. For those lucky folks that come by and
happen to win. Stop in, Bring me some samples, bring
me some photos. Let's figure out how to help you
have a better lawn and garden. That's what we're there for.

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Can't wait to meet you. Come on out.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Scape Richard.

Speaker 6 (01:20:10):
It's just watch him as.

Speaker 10 (01:20:25):
Us.

Speaker 6 (01:20:25):
So many things to suppos.

Speaker 10 (01:20:35):
A sign.

Speaker 6 (01:20:38):
Hey, welcome back to Garden Line. Welcome back. Good to
have you with us today. We are talking plants, Surprise Surprise,
and it's a call in show Surprise Surprise seven one
three two one two k t r H. We're here
to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Remember,
your thumb is not brown. It is not brown. It
is uninformed and if if if you want to call

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it brown then let's turn it green with a little
good information and advice. That's what we're here about here.
You know, when you get the right kind of plant,
when you take care of it right, when you plant
it right and give it the care it needs, you're
going to have success. And that's exactly a reason why
I would tell you to go to a place like
Plants for All Seasons on two forty nine up toward

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Tomball Parkway, right just north of Luetta. So if you're
going up toward Tomball and you exit Luetta crossover Luetta,
it's right there on the right hand side. And what
am I What do I mean by that? What I
mean by that is this. They sell plants that grow here.
They've been doing this since nineteen seventy three. They know
what grows here. They've seen it all. They've been through
the years where said web worms were sabed. They couldn't

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even put the phone down before it rang again. You know,
they know those kinds of things, and they know how
to take care of plants. You walk in and you go,
you know what, here's a picture of a plan, here's
a sample of a plant. Can you help me with this?
Of course they will whether you bought it there or not,
they'll ho with it and then they'll put a plant
in your hand that will be a better choice for it.
If that's what's needed. Do you need products to go

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with your plants? Outstanding supply of products if you're organic,
if you're synthetic, whatever it is, they've got the supplies
that you need for you. So if you have got
a brown thumb and you want to turn it green,
you need to visit Plants for All Seasons. If your
thumb's already green, well you already know about plants for
all seasons. This family owned and operated Say's nineteen seventy three,

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from education, a selection to delivery, you name it. They
can do it at Plants for All Seasons dot com.
That's the website, Plants for All Seasons dot com, or
give them a call to eight one three seven six
sixteen forty six. They're stocked up with all your fall, fertilization, pest, theeze,
disease control, all that. They're stocked up on that. So

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swing by there and when you're grabbing some plants, grab
some of that as well. For example, they also have
a great selection of microlife products. You know microlife life
is the fertilizer. It's what we think of as our
Houston born organic fertilizer sold all over the state now.
But microlife is loaded with micronutrients. And those of you
who are interested in gardening organically, you already know about microlife.

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For fall, the microlife you want to be putting out?
Is there? Brown patch, that's what it's called. Now that
sounds like a disease fungicide, Well it's not. It is
a fertilizer. Microlife brown patch. It's a five to one
to three fertilizer, got a little extra potassium in it
to help it. But it's loaded with microbes. And when
you load something up with microbes, you make the plants happier.

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Plants need microbes. And when it comes to diseases like
the brown patch that attacks our grass in the fall,
things like microlife brown patch and microlife bioenoculant. That's a
second thing, bioinoculan. Sixty three different beneficial microorganism strains, and
there's just loaded different kinds of things. Some of them

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produce antibiotics. Some of these microbes produce antibiotics to help
the plant. Some of them out compete the disease on
the plant's surface. So you're putting out good guys out
there if you will, to just create this jungle that
some of the diseases have a more difficult time establishing in.
And by applying microlife you get a good gradual feed
to take care of your plants the way plants want

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to be taken care of. Microlife brown patch and micro
grow bioenoculent. Those are the two you need to be
putting down for your fall season. Just go to my
gardening schedule online at gardening skip dot com you learn
more about these types of things. I'm going to go now,
let's see where were we We're going to go to

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talk to Miss V in Conroe. Hello, Miss V, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 26 (01:24:46):
Bye, Hi, sir, Hi. I just came across your strict station,
so I quickly jotted down what I wanted to ask,
and you can give me the shortcut quickly because it's
five questions.

Speaker 22 (01:24:59):
From I ask.

Speaker 26 (01:25:01):
I have a hot and I'm eighty years old, so
I'll catch on very quick. I just bought a Honda,
the most modern how you say, push one that goes,
it walks or whatever. It can bag back and mulsh
and mulch. I would like to know, should I use
the mult setting when I'm cutting my grass and let

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the grass just fall and leave it there.

Speaker 6 (01:25:28):
Okay, First of all, misbae, I like you already. I
like you already. So here's what you need to do.
Whenever you maulch, you're chopping up the grass clippings to
put them back in the lawn. And that is a
good thing to do. Now, if it rains and you
can't mow for a while, and now you got this
knee deep grass out there in the front yard, go
ahead and bag those and use them as a mulch

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around your plants and the gardens and beds. But whenever
you can turn those clippings back into the soil, it's
a good idea because that adds nutrients. It's free or
gain fertilizer every time you mow and you return the clipping.
So yes, you should do that. Okay, with your nice now.

Speaker 26 (01:26:07):
Now for and don't ask me why I keep forgetting
When it's like going to the grocery store. I keep
buying this winter rise at home depot. I have eight bags.
Can I put the winter rise now or not?

Speaker 11 (01:26:22):
Now?

Speaker 26 (01:26:22):
Wait for November December, winter rise.

Speaker 6 (01:26:27):
Now's the time. I don't know what's in that product.
I wouldn't I would shop definitely. Well, all right, all
the label on it.

Speaker 26 (01:26:40):
Okay, okay, this is a month to do.

Speaker 6 (01:26:42):
I don't know if you can take any of that bag.
But you don't need eight bags of fertilizer. I I
can tell you that, no, without getting into which one.

Speaker 26 (01:26:50):
Yeah, I'll all of it, but I just want to
start using it now. And okay, divide the balls? Can
I divide my ball to my day lilies? And anything
that's balls?

Speaker 22 (01:27:03):
Can I divide it any here?

Speaker 6 (01:27:06):
It is anything that blooms in the spring and summer,
you can. You can divide it now. But if it's
gonna bloom in the fall, you can divide it in spring.
That's the better time. Think of it as the season
opposite when it blooms.

Speaker 26 (01:27:21):
Okay, okay. Now, you remember, many many, many many years ago,
the gentleman that had to get off the air. You
know why, And I ain't gonna go there. He used
to promote Medina, Medina, Medina. You know who I'm speaking about, right, No.

Speaker 6 (01:27:38):
But listen, this is gonna have to be my last question.
But you can call back. What is your question?

Speaker 26 (01:27:42):
Yeah? Can I use the medina that I've had for
fifteen years or close to twenty years. I've never opened it.
It's all liquid and different things has growed the whole thing.
It's all medina. Can I use to think of promoting?

Speaker 6 (01:28:00):
Yeah, don't, don't worry about it. Just I don't know.
It's not gonna be bad, but it's probably it may
not be effective at what it's doing. Like what if
they're not made to last that long? Mix it up
in some water and apply it on a few plants,
see how it does, and then apply the rest of you. Okay,
thank you, ma'am. I gotta run. I gotta run. I

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got a line of people here that are waiting to
talk to me, So feel free to call any time
you want you. I like you all right. Oh gosh,
that you threw me off there, ladies, thank you, miss me. Hey,
I gotta go to a break right now. I'll be

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right back. Rose in textall Canada, Paula, Missouri City. You'll
be our first up come. I think there. I think

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I threw through the board off as well. Okay, boy,
I like talking to people here on guarden line. You
know that's this good. I like gardeners. Gardeners are fun.
That is that is fun right to the hay No more,
all right, welcome back to garden Line. I'm ready to

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go for the next hour. Here, folks, I want to
remind you I'm gonna be up Buchanan's Native Plants today
after the show. I'll be there from twelve noon to
two pm for their Fall festival. This is one heck
of a party. You don't want to miss. Bring the kids.
If you don't got any kids, go knock on the
neighbor's door. Bring their kids. They're gonna have a pumpkin painting,
they're gonna have face painting, they're gonna have coloring stations.

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Hey right, just all kinds of stuff, beanbag toss, ring toss,
scavenger hunt, on and on and on. Moon Bounced? Did
I say moon Bounce. I'm gonna have to get in
that one myself. I'll be there from twelve to two
answer your gardening questions, giving away a one hundred dollars
gift certificate. You got a registered to win and micro
like brown Patch fertilizer whenever you're planting a tree. And

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I hope if you have any intention of planting a
tree in the next year, you do it now because
fall is the best time. It gives that new tree
all winter to build roots in preparation for summer heat
that's coming next year. First summer is a killer on
young trees, shrubs, woody vines, all those things. Get them planted.

Speaker 19 (01:30:26):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
When you plant that tree, gets you a three sixty
degree tree stabilizer.

Speaker 19 (01:30:31):
What is that.

Speaker 6 (01:30:32):
It's a bar you hammer in a t post. You
attach it to the teeposts or any kind of post
of work. It has a loose soft strap that holds
onto the tree and allows it to move a little.
Movement is important. Movement builds trunk strength, so you don't
want to just honker it down with three tight guy
wires like you see people do. One three sixty tree stabilizer.

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If it's a big tree, you can use two at
right angles to each other. Will help get that tree
established and it last. They last a long time. You
just put up hanging up in the garage. Next thing,
you plant a tree. Your neighbor plants a tree. You
got one. You can get them at RCW, you can
get them at Southwest Fertilizer. You can get them at
Buchanan's Native Plants, where I'll be today. You can get
them at Jorges Hidden Gardens done in Alvin plants for

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all seasons. I was just talking about them up on
two forty nine Arbrigade out west of Tomball. All these
places carry the three sixty tree stabilizer. Fall is the
best time by far for planting a tree. Three sixty
tree stabilizer is the best way to secure that tree
but allow the movement needed to build the ultimate trunk

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strength as it grows. We're going to go now to
Missouri City and talk to Paul. Hello Paul, and welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 22 (01:31:46):
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 13 (01:31:47):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (01:31:48):
Yeah, I called a couple of weeks ago with an
issue on my lugustrium bushes, and at the time you
told me that I probably had a fungus and you
told me to spray with the decument and another chemical.
You told me to alternate the spring. What was the
name of that other the application, the other.

Speaker 6 (01:32:11):
One that Yeah, the other one would have been something
called Belaton. Yeah, b A y l e B A
y l e t o n B A y l
e t o n. Now you're going to find that
in a lot of different brands. Okay, there's a number

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of different kinds of belaton out there on the mark.
I mean different brands of belaton out there on the market.
But the reason I recommend that is because the the
the beilaton, the dacanila itself, and the belaton are different
types of fungicides, and so by alternating you prevent resistance

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and it does a better job of controlling the particular
disease you've got.

Speaker 10 (01:33:01):
Okay, okay, okay, understand. So what does the frequency that
I spray? Of course I did the Dalcon Hill about
two weeks ago, So do.

Speaker 6 (01:33:13):
What I would do now, go ahead and spray it.
Now you can alternate weekly. What is most important is
after we get a rain or hopefully your irrigation isn't
wetting the foliage, because that makes it a lot worse.
But if we get a rain, after the rain drives off,
just go out there and spray with the bailaton or

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the dakanel, and then next time you spray, spray with
the other one. And so if we went for like
three weeks without a drop of rain, you wouldn't have
to spray every week. But you just want to make
sure following a rain, you spray because that's when those
spores are starting to sprout to infect.

Speaker 10 (01:33:52):
Okay, so now the foliage that's kind of lime going
colored and spotted, and I have to wait for those
leaves to fall off before I get new.

Speaker 6 (01:34:01):
Booms or well no, I mean, you know, it's always
good to rake up fallen leaves, always a good idea.
And if you've got some on there that are pretty infected,
I would just pull them off because they're sick. They're
full of spores to reinfect the healthy leaves that are
coming out, and so it's just a good idea to
go ahead and get rid of those leaves. I know

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your plants drop leaves, and now I'm telling you to
pull more off, but I'm just saying that it's important
to make sure that those spores are not out there
to reinfect so much.

Speaker 10 (01:34:35):
Okay, yes, yes, okay, very good, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:34:39):
Yeah, yeah, those sick leaves aren't doing Imagine this. Imagine
you had a house full of people and five people
were sick and coughing. Wouldn't you want to send them
out of the house so everybody else. That's what those
that's what those infected leaves are you know, you go, well,
it's only leaves I got left. Well, okay, but when
a new one comes and rain splashes, it's going to

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splash the disease onto the new leaves. So okay, I
think you get the idea. Hey, thanks, I appreciate that call.
You bet, you bet. Absolutely. Jeges and Gardens is down
in Alvin, Texas. Now you probably have heard me talk
about horages before. Hoy uh. It's fairly new when it

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comes to our garden centers here in the Greater Houston area.
But they're they're way down there due south, so it's
real easy. If you're down in that whole area anywhere
around Alvin, Texas, this is this is your hometown garden center.
You maybe you're in Santa Fe or Dickens Center, Hillcrest
or Arcadia, al Diloma. I'll go even for example, they've
got it. They by the way, they carry that three

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sixty tree stabilizer I was just talking about. They always
have a good supply of fruit trees, especially the Centris two.
They're always getting in vegetable plants. They got roses, they've
got crpe myrtles. They have an outstanding selection of all
kinds of quality trees. Jorge has some pretty large ones too. Wednesday.

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You're not going to pick out and plant, but you
want that instant look. He can take care of you
and he can do that as well. So I think
it's important that you remember when you're going to plant
a tree, now's the time to do it. And Jorge
has got a great selection right now, So don't delay.
Go ahead and stop in there, you know, check it out,
and I think you'll find everything that you need at

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Jorge Hiding Guards. He has own special line of fertilizers too,
from Nelson Fertilizer Products. That's excellent for purchasing. When you
bring your plants home to put a little bit in,
mix it in the soil so those plants take off
and do well. Hey is fall hours. He's closed on
Mondays now Fall hours closed on Mondays, but Tuesday through
Friday nine to three, Saturday and Sunday eight to four.

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It's got some specials right now on those peaches and
pairs and apples and plums and neck greens, all in
fifteen gallons and listen, falls a good time to plant them.
Fall is a good time to plant those fruit trees
as well. From Jorge Hidden Gardens down in Alvin. We
are going to go now to Baytown, Texas and talk
to Glenn.

Speaker 16 (01:37:06):
Hello, Glenn, good morning. I've got two quick questions. I
know you're busy at tar. I've got when's a good
time transplant crape myrtles, And that's the first question. Second question,
I've got some tall, wild looking grass growing in my
flower beds. It's got long white roots on it, multiple roots,

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and they all have spikes on the end of them,
like needles. It's about three foot tall and it is
all over one of my flower beds.

Speaker 6 (01:37:40):
The roots have spikes on them.

Speaker 16 (01:37:43):
Yeah, they've got sharp points on them. They're white.

Speaker 6 (01:37:48):
Okay, Yeah, Glenn, I'm gonna I'm gonna give it my
best guess. But that's a little vague of a description
for me to be sure. But I think you're talking
about torpedo.

Speaker 16 (01:38:00):
Grass, crazy grass.

Speaker 6 (01:38:05):
Well, do you know what? Do you know what bermuda
grass looks like?

Speaker 16 (01:38:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:38:09):
Are you familiar with bermuda? If you imagine bermuda on steroids,
it's huge, like a giant, monster sized bermuda. That's what
torpedo grass looks like. So you just got to make
it a lot bigger and a lot taller and stuff.
I think that's what you're dealing with. But it doesn't
really matter. If it's truly a grass and you get

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a grass only killer, you can spray it, and those
products are made to be able to spray on most
ornamentals and it won't hurt them. So like if you
have petunias in there or a rose bush, yeah, those
grass killers are not going to hurt the petunias in
the rose bush, but they move down in the grass
and they kill it. So it's really good for getting
grass out of your flower beds and things. Oh yeah, yeah.

(01:38:58):
It moves down in the roots and kills the whole thing,
because otherwise you're not going to kill that grass you're
describing without a systemic So if you if you go
to my website Gardening with Skip dot com garden that's
me Skip Gardening with Skip dot com and look for
there's a publication right at the top of the list
on the website herbicides to use with Skip's weed wiper.

(01:39:22):
You don't have to put these on a weed wiper,
but that's just what the publication says. Go down and
look for grass killers and the two ingredients that do this,
and all the products for each of those two ingredients
are listed right there for you, and then you can
go shopping. Put that out, take a shopping and say
what do you got from this list? I need one

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of these and that then take it home, spray on
those on those grass week.

Speaker 16 (01:39:46):
Do I need to get your roots up and stuff
after it kills it?

Speaker 7 (01:39:50):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:39:51):
You know, no, you don't have to just leave it.
You can, you know, the dead grass on top, you
want to rake it out of the way or something.
You can, But no, this is made. You need to
give it about a week or so to move down
and do its work. They're not real fast, but they're
thorough and that's what you need. Your thorough All right, Glenn,
we did.

Speaker 16 (01:40:08):
And my other question was transplanking myrtles. When do I transplane?

Speaker 17 (01:40:14):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:40:15):
Now, well, late October and November is the best time.
So I would say November if all, if you don't
have too much transplanting to do any shrub, tree, woody vine,
all of those. Once it cools off a little bit,
leaves start to fall off of things, you just that's
the best time to get a move to put them

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at the same level they were watermen. Really good and
you should be good to go.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
All right.

Speaker 16 (01:40:39):
I appreciate it so much. Skip, thank you much. Have
a good day, you.

Speaker 6 (01:40:43):
Bet, you bet, Glenn, you have a good day and
rest of the weekend. All right, folks, time for a
little break. I shall be right back.

Speaker 19 (01:40:52):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:40:52):
Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with
us this morning. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
here to help you have success in your garden. That
that's how you go about it. Phone number is seven
to one three two one two k t r H
seven one three two one two kt r H. Folks
at Nelson plant Food one of our local plant food
producers here in the Greater Houston area been around a

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long time. I've been popular for a long time because
our products work. I've tried their products and they are
everything I've ever tried. From Nelson Plant Food has been
an effective fertilizer product. And it's effective because they're designed
to be that way, meaning they're designed for our soils
and temperatures. They're designed for the plants that you would

(01:41:36):
use them on. For example, azalea and acid loving plant food, azaleas, blueberries,
the camellias for example, dogwoods, Guardina's, Holly's hydraegen. These are
all plants that benefit from azalea and acid loving plant
food from Nelson no it's part of the Nutri Star

(01:41:56):
line that's one of Nelson plant food lines and nutrist
and this particular one helps acidify, getting that pH in
a place where plants can thrive, where acid loving plants
can thrive. Because this pH moves too high or too
low or whatever, certain plants aren't going to be happy
well with azela food from the Nutri Star line. You're

(01:42:18):
going to have success. And don't just think of it
as those kinds of plants. Think of it as irises
for magnolias. You got some red buds, if you've got
some strawberries, they will do well very well with this
as well ferns. You get the idea. Lots of different
kinds of plants benefit from it. And it's not going
to make your flowerbed just turned suddenly acidic overnight, but

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it's going to gradually move it in that direction and
the plants can get the nutrients and they just do
as four different acidifying sources of fertilizer in it and
slow released nitrogen for a gradual balanced s feed that's
going to last two three months when you put it down.
Lots of cottonseed meal and iron in it to supply micronutrients.
You know, when pH gets high, iron is limited. Nelson

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Plant Food, Azalea plant food and for all acid loving
plants part of their nutri star line. Easy to find
around town and very very effective, that is for sure.
Speaking of Nelson, have you been out to Nelson Water
Gardens and Katie? Different company, same name, same first name.

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Nelson Water Gardens is one of those show place garden centers.
You go out and they've got all kinds of plants.
They've got citrus right now. They got lots of nice
citrus streets, all the fall color plants you're looking for, shrubs, trees, vines,
just everything you need. They are also and have always
been known for their water gardens. So do you need

(01:43:44):
koy or shabunkin or some kind of a fish for
your water gardens? Do you need water garden plants? You know,
everybody knows about lily pads. There's a lot of other
cool plants that go in water gardens, and Nelson's has it.
You know, they're the inventor of the disappearing fountain, the
one that comes out of an urn like a large
pottery vase that goes in the ground and the water
recirculates back, so it's just like constantly, forever spilling out

(01:44:06):
of that large vase in the garden. Oh my gosh,
you will not believe the supply of those that they have.
You need to go out there, take a friend. And
I always say they need to charge admission, because I
would pay it just to go sit and listen to
the sound of the running water all around you. I'm
telling you it is psychotherapy. It is so calming and

(01:44:29):
pleasing and when you go, you're going to want to
have that at home too. They can come do it
for you. They can build a waterfall, they can put
in one of those disappearing based fountains, or they can
tay you how to do it yourself, however you want
to go about it. The folks at Nelson Water Garden
and Katie are going to be able to get you
set up. Now here's how you get there. You go
out to Katie on Iten. You turn right on Katie

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Fort Ben Road and they're just up the street on
the right hand side. The website Nelson Water Gardens. Go
check it out. All this stuff going on there, their
social media, their website, wealth of good information at Nelson
Water Gardens out in Katie. Think of it as your
West Houston destination garden center. We are going to head

(01:45:16):
now to Ed in Northwest Houston. Hello Ed, Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:45:22):
Thank you, thank you for having me back my net edge,
s edge whichever way you're supposed to pronounce it, has
gotten out of control in about an area maybe call it.

Speaker 19 (01:45:36):
Six eight feet square.

Speaker 15 (01:45:38):
It's amongst Saint Augustine at UDI four has been pretty healthy.
And I've been organic, okay for or four years long
and short. I'm so afraid to just dump anything on
there and maybe missed the dose I'm supposed to put.

Speaker 6 (01:45:56):
Tell me what you would do, Okay, what I would do?
I don't know a good effective organic control for nuts
edge other than hand digging it or very long term
shading it out, which you can't do in the long yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:46:13):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:46:14):
And so if you go to my website gardening with
Skip dot com, there is a publication called going nuts.
Is it called going nuts over nuts Edge? I can't
eve remember what I called it. It's something like no,
it's an in depth look nuts Edge and end depth look.
I can't even remember my own website anyway, when you
go there, there's also another one on nuts edge. It's briefer,

(01:46:35):
but you need to go read those because they are
very helpful in how to control it. I'm going to
tell you the fast answer, but I would encourage you
to go to my website gardening with Skip dot com
and read those free publications. They're very helpful. Now you
can do a couple of things. You're going to want
to use a product that contains halo sulfur on and

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most of the time people buy it in some thing
called sedge hammer or sedge ender. There are other phone relations.
Again those are they're the same product. It's like generic
tylenol and not generic tile. It's the same ingredient. So
you just you just give which everyone you want, but

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they're listed on that publication, Mix it according to the
label and spray it onto the foliage. It's going to
take it a while. Be patient. It may be two
weeks and you're going it's just barely looking like it's
getting sick. It works, trust me, it does. Anytime that
nutsedge comes back and has three to five leaves. You
need to spray it again because if you don't, what

(01:47:40):
happens is you'll kill the one you spray, but it
already has eight daughter plants, so you have eight times
the nuts said you had. And then people that's when
people tell me the spray didn't work. Well, the spray
didn't work because you waited and let it make eight
times more nuts edge before you spray. So make sure
and do that. I have got to run here in

(01:48:02):
just a bit, but that is the fastest answer that
I can give you. But if you go to that website,
it has a lot of good information that will help you.
The other thing you can do if you're trying to
put less product out is use a weed wiper, and
I show you how to build one on the website
where you don't spray it, but the spray won't hurt

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your grass.

Speaker 15 (01:48:24):
So just okay, that was because I was willing to
get out there with cotton bowls and Q tips and
try to get it.

Speaker 6 (01:48:34):
Okay, Yeah, no need of that, but you ought to.
You ought to go check out my weed wiper on there.
I think it's pretty cool. It's homemade, and it's cheap
and easy and it works better than cotton balls and qtas. Yeah,
all right, you bet, Thank you very much. I appreciate
appreciate your call a lot.

Speaker 24 (01:48:53):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:48:54):
You know, when it comes to making sure your lawn
looks its best, you not going to do better than
a good quality aeration and compost top dressing. It has
two things. It puts oxygen in the soil by creating holes.
It pops the plugs out. It doesn't just squeeze a
hole in the pops them out. B and B turf
Pros they do it. Here's their website BB Turfpros dot com.

(01:49:18):
BB turf Pros dot com. High quality work. Their goal
is to do top quality work and make the customer satisfied,
and they really do. They only use quality products like
Ciena Maltz for example, for their their top dressing compost.
They do things right. I've talked to them, I've seen
the jobs, I've seen the reviews. They get no question

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about recommending BB turf Pros. They cover the south and
west part of the listening area. So if you are
somewhere out there, let's say you're out in Sugarland or
Missouri City, all the way across to Pearland and down
to Manville. You know that includes all down Highway six, Fresno,
CNR Cola, Iowa, Calmly. That's their service area and you

(01:50:00):
need to give them a call or go to the
website bb Turfpros dot com. Here's the phone number seven
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one three two three four five five nine eight. Without hesitation,
I can tell you you're going to be happy with
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(01:50:20):
your lun It's time for me to take a little
break when we come back. We got a load here.
Ruth and fullsher Ralph, Charlie and Lee. You'll all be
lined up when we come back. Welcome back, folks, Welcome
back to guarden Line. Good to have you with us today.
Good to have you with us day. I was telling
somebody a while to go that BnB turf Pros uses
the top quality materials from CN Malts and cnamals, does

(01:50:44):
things right. I talk on garden Line about brown stuff
before green stuff, which means if you fix the soil first,
your plants will thrive. So before you put a plant
in the ground, get the soil right. CN Malts is
your brown stuff place. They've got the composts, they've got
the bed mixes. They've got stuff like the heirloom soils,

(01:51:04):
veggie and herb mix for example, that's just an example.
They got mulches, they got compost they got bed mixes.
They have every fertilizer I talk about. I mean everyone,
we're talking about microlife, Azamite, Nelson, turf Star, products from
heirloom soils, products from Landscaper's Pride. They've got nitrophost fertilizers,
Nelson fertilizer, Medina fertilizers. That's what I mean. They've got

(01:51:27):
it all, and the mulches as well. The Cienamlts is
down just north of Road Sharon. They're on FM five
twenty one. So those of you south of Houston, this
is your local place for everything you need to create
the best soil on earth for your plants and falls
for planting. That means you need to get out to
Ciena Maltz. They're open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five,

(01:51:50):
Saturday seven thirty to two, open till two today and
closed on Sunday. They'll deliver within twenty miles for small
fee and you can go pick it up if you
want to do that, by the bag, by the bulk,
whatever you want. They're near Highway six and two eighty eight,
just north of Road Sharon, FM five twenty one. Here's
the website that'll tell it all, Sienna Mulch dot com

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Ciena Multch dot com. We're gonna go now to fullsher
and talk to Ruth. Hey, Ruth, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
Hi Skip, I have a quick question.

Speaker 27 (01:52:22):
About now it's leaving my brain the pre emergent Okay, barricade.

Speaker 16 (01:52:31):
Yep.

Speaker 27 (01:52:31):
I have my yards scheduled for corporation and compost top
dressing in mid November. Should I put barricade down now
or will that be negated by the correoration.

Speaker 6 (01:52:46):
That is a that's a tough call. When if you
put the barricade down now, it'll be ready whenever the
weeds sprout. If you wait until after the November aerration,
you're probably already gonna have weeds that have sprouted by
that time. There are some that's brought in November and
December and whatnot, but we like to get ahead of
them all now the problem of putting barricade down now

(01:53:08):
is whenever they come in in core air rate. They're
making a hole and bringing soil up to the surface
to sit on top, and you potentially could get some
weed germination in that. I think, all things considered, i'd
go ahead and do the barricade now, and then in
November do the cororation and compost stop dressing. The compost
top dressing will help a little bit with weed germination too,

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because compost shades the soil a little bit. It's not
a thick layer of compost top dressing, but it helps
a little bit.

Speaker 27 (01:53:37):
And will the compost top dressing replace the fall fertilization
or do I need to fertilize on top?

Speaker 6 (01:53:44):
No, it's not near the quantity. Yeah, the fall fertilization.
I would get that done now too. Go ahead and
let's see you were in full Sure, Yeah, I would
go ahead and do that in the next two weeks
or so. I'd get the barricade out in early October.
And the longer you wait, the more risk you run

(01:54:04):
of a colfront coming in with some rain and here
come the weed seed sprouting before you've gotten the barricade down. Well,
you just gave me a whole bunch of work to do.
I know, I did I'm sorry, but that's that's the
fun part, you know, funny. You know there's a there
that is the fun part. There's a quote I like,

(01:54:25):
and it says, when I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable
to think, I go out in the garden to work.
It's cheaper than a shrink. So think of it this way.
I just saved your money.

Speaker 22 (01:54:36):
Thank you, Bye.

Speaker 6 (01:54:39):
Bye bye. You take care. Yeah, that's right. D and
D Feed and Tomball is your hometown feed store out there.
They're west Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. If you
hit out twenty nine to twenty, they're just low ways
out on the left hand side. D and D Feed's
been around a while and they just keep making the
place better. Last summer they expanded it made it even
better place than it was before. They've got their nitrofoss

(01:55:01):
fertilizers in. You know, you can find things like you
hear me talk about here on garden line. They've got
it there at D and Defeed inside. Oh, by the way,
they also have age leaf, more composts. They've got airloom soils,
rose soil, their fruit berry and citrus soil, their veggie
and herb soil, I mean they stock up and when
you go inside you're going to find things for weeds

(01:55:23):
and diseases and insects on your plants. I check in
there every now and then, and I'm always amazed at
the supply of things. Some things I would have thought, yeah,
you probably can't buy that over the counter. They've got
it at D and Defeat. Just to help you have success,
that's what they're all about. D and Defeed on twenty
nine to twenty just west of Tomball. Here's a phone

(01:55:44):
number two eight one three five one seventy one forty four.
We're going to head now out to Chapel Hill and
talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph, welcome to garden Line. Well,
thank you very much.

Speaker 16 (01:55:56):
Appreciate your show. Box Woods.

Speaker 6 (01:55:59):
Yes, sir, the occasionally, sometimes frequently, we have individual stems
and leaves just die, so we cut them out. The
rest of the slant looks fine and typically it fills in.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
But what can we do to know what's going on
and to prevent this?

Speaker 6 (01:56:19):
You know, it's weird. Different things can cause that. You know,
a couple of Decembers ago we had an early freeze
that did some stem damage. The boxers weren't ready and
they got some damage like that. If you've got a
canker disease of the stem that kills the stem, then
everything out from that spot turns turns tan colored on

(01:56:40):
a box wood and dye, and you just want to
prune out below them. When you prone out, get some
lyesol and spray your printer in between cuts. Just in
case it was a canker on the stem. You don't
want to spread that disease with your pruning wounds. So
that's just a side tip for that. It could be
something going on in the soil diseases. There's nematodes that

(01:57:01):
attack box woods, and so it's kind of hard to
say what it is. Just make sure they get adequate
water and do that sanitary pruning. That's what I would
suggest based on what you've told me. All Right, all right,
we'll do that. Thank you, all right, Ralph, all right,
have fun, boy. Chapel Hill is a beautiful place. I

(01:57:22):
envy you living out there. Thanks thanks for Colin. Appreciate
that a lot. Yep, that's right. While ago I was
talking about the barricade of Lady called in about barricade
Ruth did, and I forgot to tell you. You know,
if you want to buy any of the three step
products from Nitrofoss, you can go to in Chenney Gardens
and Richmond. You can go to Shades of Texas up

(01:57:43):
in the Woodlands. You can go to Plants for All
Seasons on Tombaill Parkway, the D and D Feed. I
was just telling you about them. They've got it down
down in Student Airline area or over in stupid a
hiding and Feed carries them out there as well, so
they're really really easy to find. Uh, let's see. I'm
gonna go now to Charlie at West U. Hey, Charlie,

(01:58:05):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:58:07):
Hi, Skip, I have newds in the yard. And and
also it's new Asian jasmine. The person that put it
in advised me to I could to water it for
five minutes.

Speaker 15 (01:58:24):
A day in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:58:27):
And every other day. Okay, but that doesn't seem like enough.
It seems like yeah, no, but.

Speaker 6 (01:58:34):
I'm hearing music in my ear, so yeah, I'm hearing
music America. I'm gonna give you a quick one. If
you want to hang on over the break, we can
keep talking. But basically the first week, twice a day,
not too much, but twice a day. The second week
every day once a day, and the third week every
other day, and then you can back off.

Speaker 22 (01:58:57):
I'll be okay.

Speaker 5 (01:58:58):
How long should I keep it on in the first
especially the first week?

Speaker 6 (01:59:01):
Oh just put a put a straight side container and
water until you've caught about a half inch of water.
That's enough.

Speaker 22 (01:59:07):
Okay, all right, okay, you bet.

Speaker 6 (01:59:12):
All right, Thank you, sir. I appreciate that I am
not hearing music, so I'm assuming I'm done. I'll be
right back.

Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with scamp Rictor.

Speaker 10 (01:59:36):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 6 (01:59:43):
Many birthdays. All right, folks, welcome back, Welcome back to
your guard line. We are entering our last hour of
the morning, nine to ten. We're here from six am
to ten am every Saturday and Sunday morning, and so

(02:00:03):
some of you have called in today. I have said
this the first time to listen in. Welcome. Tell your
friends and neighbors about it. We get calls from pretty
far away, so where they live, I think they can
find some things that will be helpful to them. And
maybe that neighbor that won't take care of his yard
just I'm just saying, you know, maybe an't, hey, why
don't you listen to garden line. Maybe we can help
with that too. No promises there though, No promises there,

(02:00:28):
that's for sure. I've wanted to tell you a little
bit about Pierce Caapes. I've talked about them a lot,
and I've told you things like, if you need landscape lighting,
they can do it. If you need hard escape, they
can do it. If you have drainage issues, they can
do it. If you want design work, they can do it.

(02:00:48):
I know that's a lot, right that, right there is
more than not, but it gets better. They do quarterly maintenance.
So your beds aren't looking really good, just sign up
with the Peerscape. Say I want you to do the
quarterly man and it's they'll come out, they'll weed, they'll fertilize,
they'll put in extra molts. They'll change color seasonally, you know,
every time we change from summer to winter and so on,

(02:01:09):
it's time to change the flowers out. And they'll do
all that air rating, trimming, they'll check the irrigation make
sure it's working. That's a pretty cool thing. But if
you want to create just an outstanding outdoor location, I'm
talking about an outdoor living room and yes, outdoors is
rooms too, to go out to have a barbecue pet,

(02:01:30):
maybe a beautiful rock barbecue pet, a gorgeous water feature
in the landscape. I mean, you want to create magic outside,
they can do that. If Piercescapes does it all, I'd
highly recommend you go to the website because when you
get there, you're going to see the kind of work
they do. When Piercecapes does work, it is showplace work.
I mean it really is. Here's the web piercescapes dot com.

(02:01:54):
Piercescapes dot com to eight one three seven fifty sixty
two eight one three seven five zero six zero. Listen.
If this summer is taking its toll and you need
to revamp some badge, redesign, get some new plants in.
Maybe some things are a little more uh heat tolerant
of our area. Whatever you're looking for, give Pierscapes a

(02:02:18):
call and they'll come out and they can do it
big or small. They do outstanding work. Go to the website. Please.
Every time I go there, I see about ten things.
It's like, Oh, I'd like to do that in my yard.
That's pretty cool. Let's go out to Humble, Texas and
we're going to talk to Lee. Hey, Lee, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 22 (02:02:38):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (02:02:39):
I'm going to student. I went to Warrens and bought
some plants and I have to repot them.

Speaker 22 (02:02:44):
Now.

Speaker 9 (02:02:45):
Does it matter whether I use garden soil or potting soil.

Speaker 6 (02:02:50):
You're going to put them in containers?

Speaker 22 (02:02:52):
Right, Yes?

Speaker 9 (02:02:53):
I am a seven gallon containers.

Speaker 5 (02:02:57):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (02:02:58):
Yeah? You want a potting mix for a seven gallon container? Yeah,
use a potting mix. Warren sells something by Earloom Soils
called The Works potting soil. The Works, that's the name
of it, and it is outstanding for that. Now in
a seven gallon container, you probably could get away using

(02:03:18):
you know, like a rose soil or a veggie and
herb mixed soil as well a bag of those. But
either way you go, you're going to have success well,
and just make sure your your drainage is good in
those containers. Okay. That means the holes in the bottom
are draining out well. If they don't have holes, you
need to make sure they do. And that with a
good soil and good drainage, you're gonna have success.

Speaker 9 (02:03:41):
One, thank you, Skip appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (02:03:45):
You bet Hey, did you have fun out there at Warren's.
They got a lot of cool stuff in out there. Yeah,
all right, you take care. I'm sorry you did I
miss something? Did you say something?

Speaker 2 (02:03:59):
All right?

Speaker 6 (02:03:59):
I think we think we passed like ships in the
night on that last little bit. By the way, Warrens
has got your organic lawn care options ready to go.
They carry the micro Life six two four, or they
carry the Sweet Green for example. They carry that as MTE.
They carry the things to deal with weeds, you know,
the fall special fertilizer from Nitrofoss, the carbe load which

(02:04:21):
is a fall fertilizer plus pro emergent from Nelson. It's
all there. They've got mums, an ornamental kale, oh gosh, beautiful,
beautiful color for fall, and the ornamental kale will go
all through the wintertime. It is a very very hearty
foliage plant, and the cool season color beds. If you
are looking to get a fall planter, you can buy

(02:04:43):
one there, or they can help you pick out the
best plants and make your own if you want to
go about it that way, they can do that too.
The pumpkin patches open, Grab the kids, phone the neighbors,
get out there. The pump and patch ed warrens. Even
gardens is open, you can go pick the perfect one.
And there's a lot of good photo opportunities. So take

(02:05:03):
the kids, set them up in there and get a
good photo of them. Fall vegetables, all of them ready
to go. At One's Southern Gardens out there in Kingwood, Texas.
Good seat selection too. You know, we can plan a
lot of vegetables by seed, Spinach excellent by seed, let
us excellent by seed, and then things like radishes and
turnips and everything else. They've got it. Now here's the

(02:05:24):
important thing. You need to listen to this. If you
spend one hundred dollars or more and say that I
sent you Skip from Garden Line sent me, receive twenty
bucks off your purchase. That is a significant discount off
your purchase. But you got to tell them that I
sent you. Now that doesn't include sale items or clearance

(02:05:44):
items or things like that. And it's only good until
October thirteenth, which is guess what coming around the corner
next weekend, next Sunday. Only good this weekend, and next
tell them SKIP sent you. Spend one hundred dollars or
more and get twenty bucks off the purchase. Don't forget
join the newsletter. You can do it on the website.
You can call them at the store and say put

(02:06:05):
me on the newsletter list, or you can just go
in and tell them put me on the newsletter list.
They've got an outstanding newsletter there at Warren Southern Gardens
in Kingwood, Texas. I love going out there. It's always beautiful,
and the folks there they know what they're talking about.
You know, it's important to have people that can guide
you and point you to the right plants and give

(02:06:27):
you advice on how to take care of it and
how to deal with problems. You know, Michael's out there
and the whole team. Really, they just are a wealth
of information. Does really really well. I've told you about
Landscaper's Pride products before, and Landscaper's Pride has many high
quality products that will help you have success. Remember it

(02:06:47):
all begins in the soil, brown stuff before green stuff.
So do you need a quality planting mix like their
compost ped or their regular. They have one called Planting Mix.
It's got locally sourced pine bark, sandy loam, and organics
all mixed together. Pretty much grow any kind of plants
you want in that they've got that high quality black
velvet mulch. It's not dyed, it's naturally dark in color,

(02:07:11):
just beautiful, absolutely beautiful, velvety, dark, rich texture. It looks good.
Every month out of the year is mulching time. In
summer it's hot, you gotta hold in moisture. You gotta
prevent soil crusting and erosion and overheating of the soil.
In winter time, you got to prevent the winter weeds
and tender perennials will benefit from a mulch because it

(02:07:33):
kind of holds in some of that soil warmth around
the base of the plant. Black velvet mulch will do that.
You can go to Landscaperspride dot com. You can follow
them on social media too for more information. But on
the website you can find all the places that you
can get landscapers Pride products and they are widely available
here in the Greater Houston area. As they say, Landscaper's Pride,

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Let's grow together, and that's exactly why they put their
local products together and make them available to hear here
to you here locally in the Greater Houston area. You
are listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm
gonna take a break and I'll be right back there.

Speaker 1 (02:08:16):
Ain't nobody here about, ain't nobody here at all so far?

Speaker 6 (02:08:22):
All right, ladies, choice, everybody day a little asleep at
the wheel, Western swinging going there. Welcome back to guard Line.
Good to have you with us. Hey, if you're looking
to do any planting of shrubs, trees, and woody vines
this fall, that includes roses, I hope that you will
swing by RCW Nursery because they've got you covered. RCW

(02:08:43):
they number one. They're rose selections like none other. It's
amazing the number of plants that the varieties stuff that
they can get in and have. But when it comes
to trees, they grow their own up in Plantersville. And
whether you need something, you know, just a smaller tree
that you can plant yourself, or something huge that you
got to have somebody come in and plant, Like how
about a two hundred gallon lace bark elm or a

(02:09:05):
two hundred gallon burroke And I'll save you some time.
You can just bout hang a hammock in one of
those well. RCW is having a sale fifteen percent off
fifteen percent off for the month of October, and the
best month to get things planted is October, November, even
December is good, but get those things and get them
in because the best time to plant a tree was

(02:09:26):
forty years ago. Second best time is today. Do you
need citrus, rcw's got you covered. They have a great
selection of citrus. Do you want decorations for Halloween or
just fall in general, they've got you covered. RCW Nurseries
is on the corner of where Highway two forty nine
Timball Parkway comes into belt Way eight, so it's really
easy to get to. You can go to the website

(02:09:48):
RCW Nurseries dot com or give them a call two
eight one four to four zero fifty one sixty one
two eight one four four zero five to one six one.
We are now going to go and talk to Charlie.
Hello Charlie, and welcome to Garden Mine.

Speaker 3 (02:10:05):
Hey, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I've
got an issue with Chinese box woods. Some of them
are established and been here for a long time, but
just one or two of them are dying and my
neighbor planning something about three years ago, and he's got
to have half of his or dead and half of

(02:10:25):
them are alive. And that's a really puzzling.

Speaker 28 (02:10:30):
Issue.

Speaker 3 (02:10:31):
What was what the the bay box woods? You know,
thought maybe you might be able to give you a
little information. I said, why this is happening?

Speaker 16 (02:10:42):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (02:10:43):
Are they dying kind of like one shoot at a time,
not to hold the whole bush or just the whole
bush dies? Okay? Are they dying pretty suddenly or is
it a gradual decline?

Speaker 15 (02:10:54):
Well?

Speaker 6 (02:10:55):
It is it sudden.

Speaker 22 (02:10:57):
It's pretty sudden.

Speaker 3 (02:10:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:10:58):
And I took pictures of them.

Speaker 3 (02:11:00):
Okay, And they say, I don't know if that would help,
you know, to determine, to let you look at them
and see what the well.

Speaker 6 (02:11:09):
Here, it could be different things. You know, nemotodes will
get on box woods. That's typically a very slow decline,
not a not a fairly quick death.

Speaker 3 (02:11:18):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:11:19):
There is a fungal disease or two that gets in
the roots that can kill them. And when you kill
the roots, the top turns brown really quick. And so
that is a possibility if you will take one that
is not dead but dying, it needs to be alive,
but it needs to be like, obviously I'm not. This
one's going to be gone. You know, you've seen it die.
You've watched them die. You know it looks like, so,

(02:11:41):
this one's dying, but it's not dead. Take your pocket knife,
a good sharp knife, and slice vertically down the stem
near the base. Down that what will be the trunk
or the main branches down low, and look underneath the bark.
It should be kind of a creamy colored, creamy white,
or maybe a little bit of green in there. That's normal.

(02:12:01):
But if what you see looks more like an old
cigarette filter, it's got those brown and gray tar stains
and stuff. Yes, that's a fungal disease symptom, and there's
not an easy cure for that. You're going to need
to go with something that doesn't get those diseases. But
that is a possibility. Now, it could be that different
things are causing different plants that yours or your neighbors

(02:12:22):
to die. It's probably not one cause that's doing it all,
but those are possibilities. There are cankers that can hit
the top of the plant kill branches of them, but
there you typically see a branch dye the rest of
it's alive. Then another branch dies and so on, and
that doesn't fit your description very.

Speaker 16 (02:12:41):
Well, Well, yeah, there's.

Speaker 3 (02:12:46):
Here at the hell there's well as everage they're ten
at fifteen, twenty years old, and just one one right
on the end they just completely just i mean is gone.
And my neighbors over there they've got some I'm about
three years old and it maybe every every other.

Speaker 16 (02:13:02):
One is just did.

Speaker 6 (02:13:05):
Yeah, well you know the only the only, yeah, Charlie,
the only way to know for sure would be to
take a plant that is sick and dig it up,
shake the soil off, get as much of the roots
as you can, shake the soil off, and send it
to the plant clinic, State plant clinic up in College Station.

Speaker 21 (02:13:23):
Now.

Speaker 6 (02:13:23):
You can mail it there, or you can just drive
it up, and maybe may be easier to drive it up,
but either way they charge a fee. But they bring
it in. They culture the disease out in a petri
dish and they look at it under a microscope and
they'll tell you exactly what kill that plant, and once
you know that, then they can also recommend what you
should do about it. But otherwise I'm kind of giving

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you a shotgun blast of possibilities. So if you've got
a whole bunch of plants, it's worth definitely worth having
an analysis done because at least then you know where
to go from there, because you're going to spend a
lot of money replacing plants.

Speaker 22 (02:14:00):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 (02:14:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:14:02):
And this guy across the street, he's a whare he
dog them open and replanted and during the state they did.
You know, you're young, young.

Speaker 6 (02:14:10):
Girl that he needs. He needs to do the same thing.
That's what I would do.

Speaker 16 (02:14:16):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:14:16):
You know, if you're having that kind of trouble, there's
something wrong, and I would try my little slice through
the bark thing. See if you see that. If not,
the State Plank clinic is the is the best way
to go. That way, you you find out and you
you stop the continual loss. Okay, sir, okay, appreciate you
taking my call.

Speaker 22 (02:14:36):
Have a good one. Bye bye.

Speaker 6 (02:14:38):
Yes, sir, you too, Thank you very much. I appreciate
your call.

Speaker 22 (02:14:41):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:14:42):
Ace Hardware Stores. I like Ace Hardware Store because they
have everything you need. Do you want to have a
beautiful lawn? You don't have a bountiful landscape. Ace has
got you covered. Do you want to have beautiful outdoor areas.
ACE has got you covered. How about barbecuing. I was
in an ACE the other day. I was down in Wharton,
Texas in Ace Hardware down there just opened up and
oh my gosh, the traggers and the big green egg,

(02:15:04):
you know, the weber grills. It's just I love barbecuing
in the fall because finally we're getting a little break
in the late day from that heat. Oh it's good.
Ace Hardware has your fire ant control products. And listen.
Fall is for tackling fire ants. Easy to remember. Falls,
football season, falls, fire ant tackling season two. You just

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get you a good quality bait from Ace Hardware. Put
it out now, do it now, minimum application of pesticide.
There's even organic baits, by the way. Put them out
at a low rate over a large area and shut
those things down. It's important to do that. Falls in
important season, don't let them go into winter strong. Let's

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go to Jersey Village and we're going to talk to
w C.

Speaker 16 (02:15:49):
Hey, w C.

Speaker 6 (02:15:50):
Welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 11 (02:15:52):
Good morning, Thank you. A couple of quick questions.

Speaker 19 (02:15:55):
Yes, sir, look in my yard.

Speaker 11 (02:15:58):
I've got a bunch of chamber better Virginia butt weed
and then some other type of weed. I can't find
a name for it, but it's a really woody type stam.
It's really short. It grows in crops. So I'm looking
for if if you've got a weed and see a

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fall weed and sea that you would recommend.

Speaker 6 (02:16:24):
Well for the things you're saying, a fall weed and
feed won't work. You have to do it in the spring,
and I would use just the weed control product, the
pre emergent weed control product in the spring. Now those
plants can be sprayed with a post emergent broad leaf
weed control. If you use something called celsius, like the

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temperature celsius. Now it comes in little kay I've used.

Speaker 11 (02:16:52):
I've used Bonair Ultra before and it seems to work.

Speaker 6 (02:16:58):
Okay, Well, if that's working for you, you can use that.
You just with the boneyed weed beater Ultra. You want
to not use it when the temperatures are, you know,
above the mid eighties, so maybe cool off a little
bit and then use it. But the Celsius is a
little bit more forgiving. Either way. You can go either way.
It's fine, just go after himnother one that you're saying

(02:17:21):
is the third one. You described. I think he says
a little bit woody or something. It was done lower growing.

Speaker 11 (02:17:28):
That could be a inch and a half long. Sorry,
I'll be quiet.

Speaker 6 (02:17:34):
That's okay. Why don't we do this. I'm going to
put you on hold and would you send me a
picture of it by email? My producer, Will Trey, will
give you. He'll give you the email to send it.
To get up close if you have to pull it
up and set it on the table so I can
really see the weed up close and good focus, then
I can reply with the best approach. I'm not sure

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the products we're talking about are going to be effective
against that weed, but I need to identify it first, okay, okay.

Speaker 11 (02:18:04):
So best not to use a weed and feed. I've
tried barricade in the spring before and the late fall
doesn't seem to work for me.

Speaker 6 (02:18:15):
Yep ye, Well, it works on broad leaf weeds and
grassy weeds that are coming from seed. So if you
put barricade out now, that's going to take care of clover, hindbit,
chick weed, carpet weed, all those cool season weeds. It's
going to do a pretty good job on those. Now,
depending on the weed, you know, it's like any medicine.

(02:18:36):
It's not for everything under the sun. Not you know,
it's not going to control every possible weed that could germinate,
so sometimes we have to switch over to something else
for a specific problem. But as far as a good
broad wide spectrum of control, barricade should be pretty good
for that, but not against existing weeds.

Speaker 19 (02:18:53):
Okay, Okay, it's going to put.

Speaker 6 (02:18:57):
You on hold and Trey will pick up and give
you an email, send me a picture. We'll take it
from here. Appreciate that call very much. Absolutely. I've talked
about azemite before.

Speaker 3 (02:19:07):
You know.

Speaker 6 (02:19:07):
Azimite is the trace mineral supplement, and people get confused
a lot. They go, well, if I do azmite, do
I have to fertilize? Okay, well, technically any nutrient is fertilizing,
but when we say fertilizing, we're usually talking about the
big three numbers on the bag, you know, the the nitrogen, phosphorus,
and potassium. We need lots of that for the lawn.

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Azmite is trace minerals. We just need a little bit,
but they're essential minerals, so if you don't have them,
you can't grow plants. For example. Do you know that
if you could take every molecule of manganese out of
the soil, no plant could grow. If you took every
molecule of iron eye of the soil, no plant could grow,
or zinc or others. Azmite provides trace minerals that are

(02:19:51):
essential for plants. I recommend it about once a year.
Put it out. You can go to azmite Texas dot
com for more information. Just to remember, it's particle size
different than your fertilizers, so don't mix it in the
same hopper. Put out the fertilizer, and if you want
to do azemite at that time of the year, put
out the azmite. You can do azebait at any time
of the year. It's not like nitrogen fertilizers where we're

(02:20:13):
doing the mainly during the growing season. Uh asm at
any time of the year, but do it once a
year asimite Texas dot com. That'll get you off to
a good start. Where are we now? I always have
to watch my time, and the time says I got
to quit talking and turn it over to the news.
I'll be right back, folks. Just hang on. I could

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just keep listening to that.

Speaker 11 (02:20:36):
I love.

Speaker 16 (02:20:37):
Let me use it.

Speaker 6 (02:20:39):
Welcome to the Bate Garden Life. We're glad to have
you with us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we've got a little bit of time. I got a
half hour left in the day show. Guess what I'm
gonna do after the show's over, I'm gonna head over
to Buchanan's Native Plants. I'll be there by the way
from twelve to two today for their Fall Fest. And
this is a big cool deal going on. I mean,

(02:21:00):
if you have kids, you gotta bring them. If you
don't go knock on the door of your neighbors, can
I bring your kids? Pumpkin ring toss, beanbag toss, scavenger hunt,
coloring stations, Halloween mask craft, pumpkin painting, hay Ride, moon Balance,
and their stuff for adults two food, wine, coffee, beer,
and more. And a local band called Yopon. Of course

(02:21:20):
it's called Yopon. What a better name for a band
from Southeast Texas than Yopan. And I'll be there answering
your gardening questions. I'm gonna give away a bag of
Microlife brown Patch. I'm gonna giveway one hundred dollars gift certificate,
but you gotta be present and register in order to win.
Bring me samples of plants, bring me things to identify,
things to diagnose, Bring me pictures. Here's my landscape, this

(02:21:42):
area over here, What would look good? What might I
plant there? What a rose grow there? We'll talk about
all that stuff. Mainly we'll just shake hands, look eye
to eye, and this is your one on one gens
to ask me questions. I've kind of had to go
fast today telling people I get to keep asking answering questions. Well,
I can now when you show up at Buchana's Native
Plants today, I'll be there from twelve to two. Hope

(02:22:05):
you can make it. Nature's Way Resources out in Well.
It's on Interstate forty five. It's on the way to Conro.
So if you go up forty five right where fourteen
eighty eight comes in from Magnolia, you turn right, cross
over the railroad tracks and you're right there Sherbrooke Circle,
which is Nature's Way Resources. Next Saturday, I'll be there

(02:22:27):
doing Q and A at Nature's Way and they're having
their shindig, the Fall Festival, Latin food, local vendors, plant
sales again, live music, children's activities. It's just going to
be fun. We have a good time at these events, folks.
And I want to remind you that at Nature's Way,
their Fungal Friday sale is still on twenty percent off
their fungal compost. So you want to do some do

(02:22:50):
it yourself compost, top dressing, air raiding, whatever, go there.
Get the Fungal Friday deal on fungo compost twenty percent
office signal magnificant discount. You can buy bulk, you can
buy bags, you can buy mulches, you can buy pretty
much a mix for anything. Do you undergrow zilias, do
you undergrow vegetables? What do you want? Nature's Way has

(02:23:11):
been designing top quality soil blends for a very long
time and they invented some of the ones that are
popular in the industry now. It all was born in
there a Nature's Way. So go by there. You can
call them for delivery, you can pick up bags, you
can pick up bulk. But you just got to get
by and a good time to go. Buy me next Saturday,
because I'll be there uh Fungal Friday, twenty percent of

(02:23:34):
fungal composts, and I'll be there on Saturday for their
fall festival. Hope you can make it I'm going to
go now to Cleveland and we're going to talk to David. Hey, David,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (02:23:48):
Hey, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 24 (02:23:50):
I have a question about us overwintering Halpaania pepper plants
that are in a container.

Speaker 19 (02:24:00):
I've seen stuff like that on YouTube.

Speaker 21 (02:24:02):
I didn't know if it would really work.

Speaker 19 (02:24:03):
Or not, of wanting to get your opinion on that.

Speaker 6 (02:24:09):
Yeah, you absolutely can. So what you're gonna do is,
whenever we're going to have weather, oh let's say the
mid thirties or something, go ahead and bring them inside.
Put them in a garage, put them wherever you got them.
How big are these pots.

Speaker 28 (02:24:25):
Are?

Speaker 19 (02:24:25):
They are a five gallon buckets?

Speaker 6 (02:24:28):
Five gallon? Okay, well, you know I just use a
handtruck a dolly. You know, you can slide it under
the lip, strap them to the dolly, a little strap
around the pot, and it makes it effortless. I mean,
if you want to bend over and pick them up,
five gallons, not too bad. But if you either way,
just get them into a protected garage area when it's

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going to be cold. They're not going to be happy
and they're not gonna do much, but they'll stay alive.
That way, you need to make sure the soil stays
moist but not soggy. You don't have to water much
in the cool season because the demands are very low.
But you just need to watch it because if he
gets droughty, that's that's going to hurt him. But I
have carried peppers over. I've carried them over in ground,

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but there you're having to go to pretty great links
to cover them up and protect the base, and they
may die back a little bit and then come back.
But in the containers you've got the advantage of being
able to just move into a protected spot. Now, if
you want to go to great links and put an
indoor light up for plants in a garage or someplace
where they can just stay there and get good quality

(02:25:32):
light down close to the plant, you can do that,
but it's got to be very bright and very close
to the plant.

Speaker 24 (02:25:40):
Yes, I happen to be an electrician, and I have
some hot bake commercial lights that I could put over
them that are very very bright LEDs.

Speaker 19 (02:25:51):
And Okay, but do I need to pune them back?

Speaker 15 (02:25:53):
Do I need to pun them back in?

Speaker 6 (02:25:55):
And you don't need to. I would just leave them
and let them be unless the growth of them is
getting in the way of moving them around. If you
need to, if you need to pune them to move
them easier, that's fine. But pruning stimulates new growth, and
we don't want them to try to grow right now.
We want them to settle in and just be on

(02:26:16):
hold until we get to spring. Just make sure those
led lights have got a good blend of red and
blue spectrum inum for the plants to do their best.

Speaker 15 (02:26:28):
Alrighty, do I need to do any kind of fooding
with them whenever I let them in, or or just.

Speaker 2 (02:26:35):
Let them wait until next year?

Speaker 6 (02:26:38):
Yeah, I just let them wait because we're not trying
to push growth on them. They've got enough nutrients to
just go on hold. If you start to see a
little bit of yellowing, it may be due to overwatering,
or it may maybe they need just a little bit
of a complete fertilizer, something's got a little bit of
iron in it. Maybe sometimes we'll get that in cold
weather because the soil is cold and the root uptake

(02:27:00):
isn't as good in those raised containers. You know, the
roots get colder and a container than they do in
the ground. So sometimes that's a little bit of a
factor and nutrient uptake.

Speaker 16 (02:27:10):
Okay, got you.

Speaker 19 (02:27:13):
I appreciate it, all right, sir.

Speaker 6 (02:27:16):
Good luck. Now you know, on Garden Line we don't
charge for advice, but we do ask you to bring
half the produce and drop it off at the studio
and we'll call it even, all right. I love helipinia.
Take care, David, you take care. Appreciate you being a
good sport about all that. Oh boy, well, Enchanted Forest
is down there in Richmond. Enchanted Forest is an enchanting place.

(02:27:38):
I love going there. You know, every time you go
to Enchanted Forest you've entered a new wonderland. And it
is a destination nursery. It is beautiful, beautiful place. They've
always got stuff. Right now, They've got camellias in that
are full of buds, their herbs, their veggies, their fall
color is absolutely outstanding. You really need to check it out.

(02:27:59):
See what I'm talking about. And Chanted Forest is a
kind of place. When you go there, you're gonna find
every plant for the season. And right now, oh my gosh,
if you've never seen Talavera pumpkins, you've got to see
their decorative stuff. Talavera pumpkins and those Thanksgiving cactus and
Christmas cactus. They are loaded up and they're loaded with

(02:28:20):
blooms ready to go. Hey, that'd be a good gift.
You're gonna go to somebody's house, why not take them
A Christmas cactus is a gift. I know they'd appreciate it.
Everything you need, from vegetables to flowers, to herbs, to
butterfly plants, to container plants to cool season fall color.
Enchanted Forest. They're on FM twenty seven to fifty nine
in Richmond, Texas. Enchanted Forest twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas.

(02:28:45):
Here's the website. It's a good one. You need to
go check it out. Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com,
enchended Forest, Richmond TX dot com.

Speaker 12 (02:29:01):
He got.

Speaker 6 (02:29:07):
All right, welcome back. You're back to Garden Line and
we are here to answer your gardening questions. All you
gotta do is give us call seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 22 (02:29:21):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:29:22):
I have mentioned some products from Heirloom Soils a couple
times today, but I just wanted to tell you about
the products as a group. You know, Heirloom Soils has
been blending top quality soil for a long time. They
are where you would get a veggie nerd mix, a
rose soil. There where you get the works potting soil.
I was discussing that with the Lady earlier today. Do

(02:29:45):
you need a leithmal compost? Do you want a compost
mixed with expanded shale? Very important for heavy clay soils
that expanded shell sticks around long past when the compost
does and helps keep the soil open. Do you need
a fruit berry and citrus mix, a lenscape bed mix.
They've got it all. They have it all there now.
You can go to the website Heirloomsoils dot com, airloomsols

(02:30:08):
dot com and find out about their products and where
to get them. Very widely available, easy to get. They
work really really well. I have used a number of
their blands. I've used their their cactus mix for example,
cactus and succulent. It's very gritty. It helps drainage for
those things that don't want to have wet feet, like

(02:30:28):
cactus and succulents. It has performed well for me. I've
used the rose soil, the veggiean nerd mix for example,
and I just find that in every situation that I've
tried a man, they've they've been superior soils that work
very well. So airlom sALS of Texas you can get
it bulk. You can call the porter location and have
them deliver a bulk mix to you. Just go to

(02:30:49):
Airloomsoils dot Com. By the way. There you're going to
find a calculator. They'll tell you exactly how much soil
you need. Have you ever been like, okay, I want
to make a bed about this big? How much so
do I need for that? Or how many wheelbarrows or
five gallon buckets through in a QB car to soil?
The calculator can tell you all of that stuff. So
they'll help you have success. But remember success begins in

(02:31:13):
the soil, brown stuff before green stuff. Go to airlom Soils,
get a quality blend to improve your soil, and then
when you put your cool plants in it, they are
going to thrive and perform and make you look good.
Airlom Soals makes you look good. Let's go out to
League City, Texas and we're going to talk to Kelly. Hello, Kelly,

(02:31:35):
Welcome to garden.

Speaker 21 (02:31:36):
Line, Sir.

Speaker 18 (02:31:38):
We are building an RB resort up on Late Livingston.
And during the grading process and the cutting and get
the elevations right, we lost a majority of our trees
that were out there. We were able to save quite
a few, but we're wanting to put plant trees between

(02:32:00):
all of the sites that don't have them.

Speaker 21 (02:32:03):
And we're looking at probably one hundred and seventy.

Speaker 18 (02:32:06):
Five you know plantings, and so I'm looking for something
that will grow pretty quick, something where and where to
buy them?

Speaker 22 (02:32:18):
You know what?

Speaker 18 (02:32:19):
What you know, we're looking at a fifteen gallon tub
of these things. Uh, you know, just just looking for
something that's gonna work good at the sandy loan type
soil up there. And you know it's on the north
shore of Lake Livingston.

Speaker 6 (02:32:36):
So I don't know the producers up in that area. Well,
I know here RCW Nursery has their tree farm, whim
some tree farm which is in Cleannersville, and that is
that is north but it's the west of forty five.
You may want to call them and say, look, this

(02:32:58):
is what we're looking at. What you got kind of prices.
They're a wholesale a grower up there, But I would
call RCW. That would be the easiest way. I don't
have that in the top of my head. I don't
have Williamson Tree Farm phone number. But they can put
you in touch with them. They can do that.

Speaker 11 (02:33:14):
Now.

Speaker 6 (02:33:14):
That's if you want to buy container trees that have
some size and they look good, and if you're just
doing what we called oh gosh, I can't even say
the word conservation planting.

Speaker 21 (02:33:25):
You know.

Speaker 6 (02:33:25):
That's where people go out like they're reforesting a hillside
and they just have little seedlings are popping in the ground.
That's a whole different thing. It's less expensive, but your
trees are tiny and a lot of them won't make it,
you know, so it's up to you either way.

Speaker 18 (02:33:42):
Okay, all right, well then I will reach out to
those groups you said that.

Speaker 21 (02:33:47):
Was r c W.

Speaker 6 (02:33:51):
Yes, RCW. If you do Williamson Tree Farm, Williamson Tree
Farm in Plantersville, I can't. I can't walk in you
gum at the same time, so I can't go looking
while I'm talking to you. But Williamson Tree Farm in
Plantersville is a wholesale grower. They're there by the Renaissance
Festival out there.

Speaker 2 (02:34:10):
Okay, perfect, perfect, okay, all right, thanks time, Thank you all.

Speaker 6 (02:34:16):
Right, good luck with that great project you got going
up there. We're going to go now to Jeremy in Seabrook, Texas. Hey, Jeremy,
welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 2 (02:34:26):
How's the going Skip.

Speaker 6 (02:34:29):
Doing well? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:34:33):
I got a question, how can I hail? I bought
just a nursery stock juniper.

Speaker 28 (02:34:40):
It's a green mound, and I let it sit in
the yard for a couple of months and then I'm
using them to cut to make in the bonds, all right,
So I left it in. I left it in the
five gallons, okay, for about four months. I did some
minor trimming on it, just to kind of get some
shape to it. And about two months ago I took

(02:35:00):
it out and put it in a little bit smaller
pot and majority of the roots in it. But now
it's starting to it looks like it's turning yellow and
starting to dry up. Is there any save in that tree?

Speaker 6 (02:35:14):
Okay? There might be, depending on how much damage has
been done. If you can get it out of just
the full brun of the sun, maybe give it a
little western late day shade, keep the soltw moist. Junipers
do not like wet feet, but they got to have moisture,
and so the roots that are left that weren't lost,

(02:35:36):
making sure they have adequate moisture, and then taking the
brunt of the hottest part of the day, let's say
definitely two o'clock to four or five o'clock, that's the
worst part of the day, taking that away from them,
give them a little chance. If it's not too far gone,
it ought to come back.

Speaker 2 (02:35:53):
You should have come back in the spring, or should
I see some immediate bounce back.

Speaker 6 (02:35:58):
You should see some respond we're still having warm temperatures.
You see some response pretty soon. But you know, the
first thing is it gets its feet under it and
essentially just decides, okay, I'm going to stay alive the
second it gets enough energy to actually grow. So as
long as it's not continuing to decline, that's a good sign.

Speaker 28 (02:36:16):
Yeah, okay, is there anything I can feed it outside
of just normal regular fertilizer?

Speaker 6 (02:36:23):
Not until it begins to grow in the spring, I
would say, yeah, just regular. I would go very easy.
I may even get like an organic solution kind of thing,
fish emulsion, seaweed, one of the Medina products would be
really good, or microlife. Microlife has some products pardon.

Speaker 2 (02:36:40):
That's what I'm using as a Microlife seaweed.

Speaker 6 (02:36:45):
Yeah, Microlife seaweed and Microlife fish emulsion. If they're indoors,
the fish emulsion can smell a little bit, the seaweed
not so much. Microlife has some other good products like that.
I used their orange label. That is excellent product for
a liquid. You're not going to burn things with the
micro Life. That's why I just want to be real

(02:37:06):
careful because a little salt based fertilizer too concentrated in
there can also do it's damage. So we'll stay away
from those for now.

Speaker 2 (02:37:14):
Oat all right, Jeremy, I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (02:37:18):
All right, Hey, you bet, thanks for the call.

Speaker 16 (02:37:21):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 6 (02:37:22):
Sounds like a fun project. You're going to go now
to Beaumont and talk to Linda.

Speaker 11 (02:37:26):
Hey Linda, Hi, how are you.

Speaker 16 (02:37:31):
I'm good.

Speaker 6 (02:37:31):
I'm good. What's up in Beaumont? Yes, I'm.

Speaker 13 (02:37:36):
But okay, I have a couple of kret those that
are growing now they're I mean they start out a
little now they're big and they're kind of touching my
roof from the top. So I did talk to somebody
about trimming those back, you know, off of my roof. Okay,

(02:37:58):
and then I also have a huge live oak tree
that has been at my house for the thirty years
that we've owned the property, and Beryl took half of
that down. But I've had a couple of tree people
out okay that.

Speaker 6 (02:38:16):
The music is already playing. The music's already playing, So
I got about two seconds to help you here the
great myrtle pruning. One thing to consider would be moving
them and planning a smaller one there. That just falls
the time to do that. But that's just a quick
tip there. As far as the oak, send me some
pictures of that. I think you have some other questions.

(02:38:38):
Would you send me pictures of those, and I'll handle
those via email so that we can do a better job.
Just show me the problems, show me from a distance,
show me up close, good sharp photos, and I'll be
happy to help you with them. Sorry, we just ran
for that today, but I do appreciate your call. Folks,
Come see me at Buchanan's Native Plants twelve to two.

(02:39:00):
I'm on my way, are you