Get Planting Before Summer!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with skin Rictor.

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

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Trim.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Just watch him as so many goings to sleep by.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
A sign.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Sun beaming down.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Alright, the rooster has crewed. It is time to be
up and about, well at least for garden line. We'll
take a minute to fuel up on coffee, get a
little inspiration here on our garden before we head out
for the day, to get some good things done. You
know that you in a bad day in the garden

(01:02):
is better I don't than a good day doing a
lot of other things, in my opinion, getting out there
and enjoying it. I was playing in the dirt yesterday mulching.
I had some bags of a type of malta was
trying out from the folks up at Natural Ice. Kid.
I can't even I can't even talk here. Nature's Way Okay,

(01:24):
who am I talking to here? There we go Nature's
Way Resources, Nature's Way Resources, you know, is is outstanding
place and they've got all kinds of different products up there.
But anyway, I was trying out some one of their mulches.
Like I said, I always tell you this on Gardland,
I'm always trying new products because I gotta tryumph. I
got to know how they work. I haven't know how
they look and how they perform and hold up and

(01:46):
everything else. Are they effective or not? Anyway, I was
mulching a front bed and pretty much got it all done.
I had some old mulch on the bed, but as
I tell you all the time, don't get rid of
the old malts put the new mulch on top, because
the old multch is decomposing away. Especially when you put
more mulch on top of it, it just speeds the decomposition.

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It stays moist that old mulch, and it decomposes away
and makes really good soil materials. So even though we're
not putting it on to b compost, it becomes compost.
We're using it on the surface to block weeds. And two,
I've got an area where the sun just really breaks
down on the bed and it gets hot and the
soil gets really hot in the summer, and mosch helps

(02:31):
with that as well. Anyway, felt good to get that done,
and when you step back and look at it, it
really looks nice. I got some more areas that are
waiting on me to get some other mulch on as well,
I hope you're having a good day so far, and
we look forward to visiting with you here on garden
Line if you'd like to give me a call seven
to one three two one two ktr H seven one

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three two one two ktrh. Jungle Land distributed by Nitroposs
is an outstanding actually it's too different. Outstanding potting soils
or planting soils. Jungle and flour and vegetable is for outdoors.
Jungle and water saving potting soil is for indoors. It's
got the crystals in it to help when you forget
the water. Sometimes those crystals whole moisture and don't dry

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out as fast as the growing nex or a potting
soil itself wood, which is why they add those into
the indoor version of jungle in you're going to find
nit Foss products in many places. You got up to
Brunham plants and things. They've got them up there a
Baiting on a Baytown, Fisher's Hardware, Alexander, or maybe out
in Clute Lake Hardware and Clute on Dixie Drive, all
places where you'll find nitropost products. We're going to head

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out to camp Wood now and talk to Milo Hello Milo. Alrighty,
let's see here. I'm gonna can you hear us?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
There? You are?

Speaker 5 (03:53):
Hey Milo?

Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah I can, Yes, I sent Yeah, I sent you
an email about whether I have a pipe dream or
a feasible dream to plant lavender out here on our
ranch and have it success.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Yes, mm hmm. Well, first of all, yes, I was
gonna say, first of all, how'd you find garden line
out in camp Wood?

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Well, I used to live in Kingwood. I used to
live in Kingwood. Randy Lemon was there before you. And
I've listened to you out here on iHeart Radio and yeah, wonderful.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, glad, glad you're doing it.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah you.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
For those of you who don't know, he's he's north
of u Valley out way west.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
So lavender, Yeah, lavender struggles struggles here because of our
our moisture and humidity, especially very soggy, wet in the
winter times and things. You've got a better, I think,
a better climate for it out there. There's a reason
you don't see a lot of lavender forms, even the
lavender planted out Blanco that direction west to San Antonio

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struggles when we have kind of some wet seasons there.
So drainage is critical if you're going to have success
with it. I think the alkalin soil isn't too much
of a problem as long as you mentioned to use
iron and sulfur containing fertilizers to make sure that you know,
you keep those leaves nice and healthy. I have not,

(05:27):
of course, grown anything out of camp wood, but I
would say that it's worth a try. I wouldn't take it.
I wouldn't bite off too much at one time as
an investment, you know, just a testing of it. Did
you did you send your email that you had had
better success with a French lavender?

Speaker 6 (05:49):
Yes, I have French. I've had French, English and Spanish
and the French. The plant is growing, but it has
never bloomed in four years, okay.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Mm hmm yeah. Yeah, Well I don't know why. Getting
up lots of sunlight, I'm sure. Oh yes, oh yes,
that it has to have sunlight. Yes, why would it not?
Why would it not bloom if the plant looks good,
that's a mystery.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
I got them from an online place called High Country
Gardens or something.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
High Country Gardens, Yeah, that's out there in New Mexico. Yes, yeah,
it's a great, it's a great place. Yeah, place, they
focus on things I was just gonna say, they focus
on things that are you know, it's called high country
for a reason. They have some elevation, so they've got

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some very cool nights and uh so, not everything from
there is going to grow well for you, but by
and large, they've got a lot of good things that will.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Right.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Could I cut some shoots off of their and have
them roots off of a plant or you know, because
they're not inexpensive if I want to do a significant amount.
But like you say, I'm not going to bite that
all off at one time. But let's say let's say
I get five plants and they seem to be doing well.
Could I take cuttings and propagate that way.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
You should be able to Lavender will root from cuttings
you want to be just go on do this. Go
online and find some information on propagating lavender. There's a
lot of good information out there. You can kind of
weed through it. Basically, it's done like rosemary. You take
little shoot cuttings that are about oh maybe I would
say four or five inches long, strip the leaves off

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the bottom half, deplemental rooting hormone, and then put them
in a moist soil condition like a propagating a loose
propagating because the cuttings don't want to be soggy wet either.
But yes, it's doable.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah, we have lots of rosemary out here, and I've
been very successful at taking salvia and propagating it. That
has worked tremendously for me.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
You know so well, sounds like you're having fun out there.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
In between doing a lot of work out in the weather.
You kind of get beat down sometimes, but well.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Let me let me tell you one more thing. I've
got a few seconds and I'm going to have to
go here, but if you go to something called Grow
Green Plant Guide, it's in Austin, Texas. Grow Green Plant Guide.
I help write that many years ago, and it's a
booklet online that has lots of plants that do well
in an arid climate and a semi arid climate. And

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I think you'll find a lot of great options for
you and your your growing conditions out there in Camp Wood.
I've got a hard break here.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
For I thank thank you. I love your show.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
You take care, all right, appreciate that. All right, We'll
be right back, alrighty, welcome back, Welcome back, to the
guard line. Good to have you with us. We hit
the ground running this morning and apparently a few of
you are up and within reach of a phone, so
good to have you with us. Hey Plants Fall Seasons
on Tumball Parkway Highway two forty nine, just north of Luetta.

(09:17):
This is a full service retail garden center, family owned
Flowerty family has run that place now since nineteen seventy three,
so it's been around a good while. They are true
lawn and garden experts, whether it's education, because when you
walk in there, they will help you learn all kinds
of things about gardening and how to choose the plants

(09:37):
that are going to do best for you. To selection.
Always a great selection there, delivery, planting, even custom potting. Plants.
Fall Seasons can do it all. You can take them
samples and pictures if you want assistance with a problem
you might be having, or just walk in and just
visit with them. They are going to point you to
the plants that do what you need to do. You know,
if you've got an area that's a little wet and

(09:58):
it's a little shady and you want, you know, fill
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Let's go out now to a Taskasita and we're going
to talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Good morning, and how are you doing this morning?

Speaker 5 (10:20):
I did well, Thank you?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Hemming great great great. Uh yes, I know you're real busy,
real early this morning. Here's the situation. I did it again.
I've got the ConA plant and it's a constant Canova.
It's a Canova version, which would be the shorter version
correct of the KNA.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
You're you're talking about cannas. Uh huh go ahead, yeah,
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, yeah, Okay. What I did was route bound again.
And what I did was I there was so tight,
got them out of the pot that was so tight.
What I did was a siltumun water for about twenty
hours and try to put apart, put it the ground
and shock. Should I cut back or just let the

(11:07):
leaves turn brown and yellow and they're curling under and
the plant looks like it's God.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, I don't think it will, you know, I don't.
I don't know the degree of the damage that happened
to it. But cannons are tough. They will grow in
standing water, they will grow, and once they're established there,
they put up a drought pretty well. Then you know
they'll they'll come back. They'll look bad, but they'll come
back out again fresh. So I think, uh, I think
that'll be a good one. And you've got your little

(11:36):
kind of a compact version there, so that ought to
be yes to do.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well for you, okay. And then another question is you
can see the little round ball on top, Now that
is the seed? Correct? Can I take that seed and
cut it off and plant it or what can I
do with that seed?

Speaker 5 (11:55):
I don't know that the particular canova can in terms
of whether they set viable seed or not, but if
they do, yes, you can just allow that pod to dry.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
It.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
It's kind of a little bit kind of a spiky,
bumpy pod up there on top, and there'll be a
seed inside it. Let it, make sure it starts to dry,
but don't let it get too terribly dry, and then
plant it. And I think, you know, if it's viable.
Some plants, as they've been bred, they don't produce viable seed,

(12:28):
but you'll just have to find out on that one.
I've never tried on a Canova canna.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
So your direction will be just cut it now and
let it dry out. Let the little ball dry out,
and then plant that in a pot.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Correct well, let me let me change that a little bit.
I would let it mature so that it begins to dry,
not completely dead dry, but you know that. You know,
those seeds are fully developed and mature in there, just
like any plant, you know, a green bean. At some
point the pod starts turning brown and are yellow and

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brown because it's mature. And take the seeds out and
plant those in very rich potting soil, keep them very moist,
have them in good light. Doesn't have to be full sunned,
but at least good light to get them started. Good
luck with that.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Thank you so much, sir.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
All right, Jim, Yes, sir, thanks call. Appreciate that. Appreciate
that a lot nite. VI Superturf, I've been talking about
it for a while now because we've been in superturf
season for a while. Super Turf's a silver bag from
nitrovivis in nineteen four to ten. It has about a
sixteen week release, which means at this point in the
season you put it down and return your clippings, and

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it'll carry all the way into the fall fertilization because
those clippings also decompose and they gradually feed as we
have nice warm and moist weather from moist from rain,
but also you irrigating your lawn. Ninety five superturf is
available in many places. You're going to find it at
Lake Hardware in Ankleton on Velasco down in Alvin Stanson

(14:08):
Shopping Center on North Taylor, and in clear Lake there's
an M and D Hardware on Bay Area Boulevard that
will carry nine to five superturf as well. We're going
to go now to Thomas in Nevasota. Hey, Thomas, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (14:25):
How you doing Goop?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Good?

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Doing good?

Speaker 8 (14:29):
I love the show. I got a question about my tomatoes.
I've got better boys, and they're probably those to six
foot tall now and they've got fruit set, but they're
dropping Lee's from the from the bottom to the top,
and probably two thirds of the plant is there? Is it?
I know it's a fungus.

Speaker 9 (14:50):
I've got some.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
I've got some dacnhil. Do you have any other suggestions?

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Daccan Hill is good for leaf spots being great. An
chlorothalonil is a is a pretty good leaf spot fungicide.
Most I don't you know, not seeing this is where
a picture would be helpful. But not seeing the leaves
you say dropping tomato. Tomato leaves don't typically drop. They
shrivel up. You know, they don't have enough sick.

Speaker 8 (15:19):
As they turn yellow.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
So okay, well, yeah, I would make sure you're giving
it adequate nitrogen so you promote fresh new growth. So
those leaves that are lost are not so much of
a loss to the plant because it's got lots of
new leaves coming on. But yeah, a sprays of the uh,
the dacanel I, since you have it on hand, I

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would try that one and that at that out of help.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
There's a lot of different diseases and it may be
that you need to switch to a different fungicide, but
dacanil is pretty good for leaf spots and uh septoria
leaf spots or caspro. Let's see what's uh the late
blight and things like that are spots early black those
are ultimato diseases and you should get some response from
backing hill.

Speaker 8 (16:06):
Well, this didn't really start happening until we had that
first ground of rain, I guess towards the latter part
of April, and then I noticed it started from the
bottom and started going to the top. So there's probably
you know, I guess it was a rain that started
on Uh. Can I ask you another question?

Speaker 5 (16:25):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (16:27):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
We've got a family branch in Lee Counting Gettings, and
for the past ten or fifteen years, we have been
losing post o trees, primarily post o trees by live oaks.
And you can go up on a Saturday and the
tree looks fine. Come up the next Saturday, the leaves
are turning yellow. The next Saturday is completely dead.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (16:51):
And we've lost man probably hundreds post up big post oats,
and we're even starting to lose some of the coastal
live oaks and some of the smartt live oaks start
to come to this, whatever this is? Do you have
any idea what it is?

Speaker 5 (17:11):
That's very weird? Where did you say this was?

Speaker 8 (17:15):
This is a Lee County getting.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Lee County, Okay. I don't know of Lee County as
a hot spot for oak twilt. It doesn't quite sound
like oak tilt either. The post oaks shouldn't be as
susceptible to oak wilt, as like a live oak or
a red oak would be. There are other diseases. There

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is a canker called hypoxylin canker that will cause the
bark to fallow, some of it patches to fall off,
and then you have this kind of dusty olive material
that's underneath the bark. You rub your finger across it
and it comes off on your fingers, or you'll see
a silver or a black, almost tar like substance under there.

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Those that's a stress related disease. I would talk to
your Lee County Agriculture agent at the Extension office there
see if they can get involved and help you. And
also they might involve the state Plant Clinic in looking
at that. Just based on the description you gave me,
those are the first things that come to mind.

Speaker 8 (18:21):
We've had a low rainfall. That area is a snake
bit when it comes to weather, but we've had a
low rainfall for probably twenty years. Gets really really dry
and then we'll get a flood and I don't know
if I have something. I'm sure it has stuff to
do with it, but it's just really devastating to see
these big trees have to have a doser come push

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them down.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah, those are both. Those are both very resilient species too,
so I would get them involved in it. And once
a plant gets stressed, it's not unusual for some disease
to move in that otherwise would not have heard it.
It's kind of like us. We get weak and we're
more likely to catch something. And that that's that's what
it amounts to. Hey, Thomas, thanks a lot and good luck,

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but but do talk to your a county agent out there.
You got it, Yes, sir, thank you appreciate appreciate that
very much. Uh that that call reminded me of a
concept that I think is worth mentioning, and that is
that diseases. He mentioned that, you know, after a rainy period,
you saw a lot of diseases on the tomatoes, fungus,

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diseases and bacteria to some degree. But but the fungus
puts spores out that lands on leaves, and those spores
are like seeds. If you throw weed seeds in dry dirt,
they will not come up. But the minute you get
a little bit of water on that dry dirt, it
turns into a chia pet of weeds. They come up
everywhere fungal spores are like that. In most cases, you

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get a little film of water over them with which
would be rain or irrigation, and the right temperature for
the right number of hours, and that in each disease
has its own specs like that. Then the spore sprouts,
it sends it's little the equivalent of a root called
a hyphee end of the leaf and infects it, and
then we see leaf spots okay on the leaves or

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those foliage diseases. Bacteria are somewhat similar. They don't form
a hyphie that infects, but when it's wet and they
get splashed around in that condition, they're able to infect
the leave and cause the types of spots. Bacteria costs.
So that's one of the reasons we say don't squirt
to foliage all the time. You can't control rain, you
can't control irrigation. But the more you keep plants wet,

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whether it is Saint Augustine grass, you get Saint Augustine
in shade right now and you keep it extra moist,
and you're going to see gray leaf spot all over
the place because it's taken off right now. But all
kinds of diseases are promoted by that. So when you
plant roses, don't crowd them. You want good air circulation,
don't have a sprinkler hitting the leaves, use drip irrigation.

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All of those are ways to avoid disease, probably just
by understanding what's going on spore lands. It sends a
root into the leaf and infects, and then after a
little period of time you see the leaf spot that
could be avoided in those ways. Time for me to
take a quick break. We'll be right back, all right, folks,
welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us.

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Tomball and we're going to talk to David. Hey, David,
welcome to gardenline. Yoh, good morning, Skip.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
I bought a fifty pound bag of a barricade from
D and D there in Tomball, and unfortunately it got accident.
Half of that bag would have been sufficient from my line,
but unfortunately it accidentally all fifty pounds got spread on
my yard. It got spread evenly, but it all got

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the whole bag. It got a double dose. Is it
gonna kill my grass or what's it? What can I expect?

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Well, the barricade itself doesn't kill. It's not like putting
you know, round up on a on a yard that
it kills the grass. A barricade does, is it it
prevents root formation. That's how it kills weeds or prevents
weeds is because when a weed seed tries to put
a root down, barricade says no, and without a root,
the seed dies in your lawn. That's going to mean

(23:17):
runners that can't peg down their roots. You know, how
is it Saint Augustine lawn that you.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Have about eighty percent? It's got a little bermuda in there.
I'm hoping that Saint Augustine will eventually take over.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Okay, this may give the bermuda a little bit of
an upper hand because Bermuda's got the rhizomes underground, and
so those runners on top they don't have to if
there can't. If they can't root down, good, the grass
is probably still gonna be Okay. Here's the deal. It's
a matter of how much God applied. The more you apply,
the longer it's gonna last and do what it does.

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So your goal is to keep that grass as healthy
as you can. As the runners they typically die down
toward the older part of the runner and the new
growth continues on. That new growth is not going to
be able to get a root down for a while,
and so you've got to make sure it has adequate
moisture for that plant to survive it by putting moisture

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down through that runner to reach the end of the
areas that can't get roots down themselves. So adequate moisture.
You know, normally I talk about watering maybe once a
week in the summer. If you've got a good deep
root system, you're going to have to go to more
often than that for sure. But just watch it and
in time that barricado breakdown and the grass will resume

(24:37):
normal growth. So that's what you're out now, all right,
all right, thank you sir, all right, thank you, appreciate
the call. You take care. That is how most of
our pre emerging fungicides work. He was talking about barricade,
but there's a lot of other ones. There's dimension, there's bayland.

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There's a whole lot of different surfling, a lot of
different kinds of pre emergent herbicides that we put our
laws to stop weed seeds, and so always important use
the label rate and that way you're not going to
have the degrees of the problems that you have when
you overdo things. We find that a lot and I

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know people there's mistakes get made and things happen, but
that that is always important. Follow that label as close
as you can because if a tea spoons good, a
tablespoons not not better, that's for sure, and gene it
for us out there in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are
a specialist in so many things. I mean they they're

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the vegetable selections, they're herbs, they're they're blooming plants, the basket.
I mean, there's so many good things. But I'm telling
you they have an incredible selection in native pollinator plants
and locally sourced uh. These plants support not only are
local bees and butterflies and hummingbirds, but they thrive in
our client with a lot of excessive water and fertilizer

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trying to keep them alive. They have things that are
nectar rich that are going to bring these good guys
in the bees, the butterflies, the hummingbirds, such as native milkweed.
They have several varieties in fact of native milkweed Echinasia,
which is conflower, lantanas, other plants that may be a
host plant like Dutchman's pipe vine. Dutchman's pipe brings in

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a particular type of a swallowtail like Caterpillar, Texas Elbow Bush.
They have salvia's two ninety I believe in ninety. I
looked at the list one time. Ninety different types of salvia.
Did you even know there were ninety? Yeah, there's way
more than ninety in the world, but ninety different options
on salvia. So whatever kind of salvi you're looking for,

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they have variety after variety after variety of them. My
favorite genus genus of plants is salvia. My favorite one
ninety types at Intented for Us. You need to go
check them out. They are on FM twenty seven fifty
nine outside of Richmond, Texas, just south of Highway sixty
nine Interstate sixty nine. Here's the website. This is the

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most important thing to write down. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
dot com. That's what it is. That's where it is.
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Go check it out.
It's a great website too. By the way, if you'd
like to give me a call this morning, we've finally
cleared out that early rush seven one three two one

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two k t r H seven one three two one
two k t r H. Nitrofross makes a fire ant killer.
Now for those of you who are welcome, who are
new to Texas. Uh, there's this thing called fire ants.
And when you move here after a while, you make
adjustments in the way that you go about your gardening

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and landscape life. For example, when you're in Texas, if
you're walking along looking up and you step in something soft,
it's either a cow pie or a fire ant mound,
and neither one of them do you want your foot
to be in.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Right.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
So the mounds we just learned to respond to that.
We have to manage them. Here. A fire ant killer
from Nitrofoss has a product in it that is very
effective in doing a quick kill to fiance with some
residual lasting you used. This is one you would use
as a mound treatment getting rid of an individual mound.

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Nitropos fire ant Killer Nightfoss products available at places like
M and D Beamer which is in the Sagemont area,
Fishers Hardware on FM thirty one eighty down in Mont
Bellevue and D and Defeat up there in Tombull FM
twenty nine twenty just west of Tumbule that stay ahead

(28:51):
on those fire ants. I was out the other day
and looking at one of my wife has a flower
raised flower bed and a vego bed, and there were
some little ant like things coming crawling out of the
oregano and some of them had wings, and I got
to looking. First thought is like, is that termites? There's
that ants? And sure enough it was ants, and they

(29:13):
were taking flight. They fly like three hundred feet up
in the air to mate, and then they drop down.
The queen that now has everything she needs to start
a family digs into the ground and you get a
new fire mount. That's what happens. So you got to
stay alert to stay ahead of those things and make
sure you get control. Open Affordable Tree Service is our

(29:36):
go to tree care company here on Garden Line. You know,
now is the time to get those trees in shape.
Hurricane season we're on the doorstep of it here, and
even if they're at a hurricane, devastating summer storms, as
we learned last year, can really do damage. So tree
you need to get them in there to do any
trimming that's needed. You know, they do everything they do trimming,
They do pruning, deep root feeding, past and disease controls,

(30:01):
stump grinding. If you're gonna have any construction done around
your property, take care of those tree routes. Call them
in First Affordable Tree Martin Spoonmore's Company seven to one
three six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one
three six nine nine two six six three. You probably
end up talking to Martin's mom. This is a family

(30:23):
operation and garden Line customers are their top priority, So
tell them you heard about them on garden Line. I'm
gonna take a little break here. When we come back,
we're gonna head up to Willis to talk to Douglas.
All right, little boogie woogie on garden Line this morning.
Good to have you with us. We're looking forward to
visiting with you about the questions you might have regarding

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your landscape, your garden, any kind of thing related to
horticulture and gardening. RCW Nurseries is the garden center that's
right there where Tamboll Parkway, which is Highway two forty
nine comes into belt wag eight. It's really easy to
get to and they always have an unbelievable selection there.
You know, they're known for the roses. All the rosarians

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know about RCW because they have one of the biggest
selections of roses you'll find anywhere, and probably by long shot,
it's the place to go, the place to go to
get your trees from fifteen gallon up the two hundred gallon,
from ornamental trees to shade trees, blooming trees, whatever you're
looking for. They grow their own trees up there at
the Williamson Tree Farm up there in Plantersville. And so

(31:29):
you have a tree not only that's grown right, but
that is a species or variety that wants to do
well here. They're not going to sell you a blue spruce,
as pretty as those are, just leave them in Colorado
and enjoy them on vacation and then come home without one.
Get you a tree that wants to grow here, and
that is exactly what they grow and sell with RCW

(31:50):
Nursery again, Hibay two fourty and nine, belt Way eight
is just a great place to shop. You're going to
find some cool hot season color. I know that sounds
like I just said two different things. Cool hot season color.
That's a good way to put it. Beautiful things like
the Cajun hibiscus, one of my favorite lines of tropical hibiscus.
You're going to find that there at RCW nurses and

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a whole lot more. Let's go up now to Willis Texas,
and we are going to speak to Douglas. Hello Douglas,
Welcome to Garden.

Speaker 11 (32:21):
Line and I go, good morning.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I am building a house out here in Willis and
I have a bunch of really beautiful mature oak trees.
And as the build is finishing, we're really noticing some
low spots on the property. We have about three acres
and we need to take and raise up some grade

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and they're going to be around these oak trees. I
want to make sure. I've heard that we could put
too much soil on top of the roots of the
oak trees and damage. I mean, that's the last thing
we want to do. So I was planning using sandy loam.
Is there a such thing as putting too much dirt
around oak tree?

Speaker 8 (33:04):
Is my question?

Speaker 5 (33:07):
Yeah, there absolutely is. Oak roots grow primarily in the
top foot of soil ninety percent even a giant tree.
People think the roots go down deep like the top
goes tall up. It's not. The root zone of a
tree is like a pancake. It's flat and wide, and
so when you put let's say you put four inches,
you have dramatically changed the amount of oxygen that roots

(33:30):
were getting. And it's a very stressful thing for trees.
So there's not a black and white answer to it,
but as a general guide, I wouldn't put more than
about two maybe three inches at the most around a
tree's root system. If you're going to do like, let's say,
the whole area underneath the branch spread of the tree,

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I would probably go with just about two inches at
a time. If you're going to just do maybe on
one side or just a little area where you're filling
in around the roots that are sticking up above the ground,
then that's not so big of a concern. But it's
a matter of percentage of the root zone that you're
covering and how deep you're covering it. And sandylan's a
good a good choice of soil to.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Do that with.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Is so is it two inches let's say per year
or the two inch total for the light of the.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Per year.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Per year? Yeah, per year. The roots will adjust, they
just can't adjust that fast. And so again, to use
an extreme example, you know, you put six inches or
a foot of soil over it, and those roots are
going to be in major stress before the tree can
grow roots back up to a closer to the surface level.

Speaker 11 (34:44):
Understood.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Have a good day, all right, thanks you take care alrighty,
Welcome back to garden Line. By the way, I was
talking earlier about some things that I was doing in
my yard. This is the time to get fertilization done.
And you know, if you're up, if you're up in
the let's say north and east of Tomball, Spring Creek
Feed is on FM twenty nine to seventy eight, and

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they have got a great line of these fertilizers that
I keep talking about, whether it's Nelson Turf Star line,
whether it's the Microlifeline or the nitrofoss line, or maybe
you're needing something to control weeds, to prevent weeds or
kill weeds, or a fungicide to protect the plants, or
a insecticide or something to kill spider mic. They've got

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it all there. Friendly and curtious staff at Spring Creek Feed.
I always love it when I walk in there, the
folks just greet you, and it's a cool place to
visit too. This is a really unique feed store. When
you first walk in, you feel like you walked into
a boutique. It's so beautiful. Straight ahead of you, all
the things for your home and whatnot that are just
just gorgeous. And then you look to the left and

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you got all your pet foods like Victor and Purina
quality feed lines. You look to the right and there's
the garden center. My favorite place, all right, Spring Creek
feed in my No you on FM twenty nine seventy eight.
Let's see here, We're going to go to Mark in Sweeney. Hello, Mark,
welcome to garden line forhead.

Speaker 12 (36:11):
Yeah, I got a question, boy. I normally with my
grass clip it's probably put them back up in the
compost smile. But when they're dead and dry it out,
can I use them to put down around my fruit
trees and take these because my dad my answers, I
chip up and go away my chip whatever. It's top
leable around the fruit trees.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
So you can use dried group. You can use dried
grass clippings. I do it all the time in my garden.
But I wouldn't put them more than an inch or
so deep. If you put them about four inches deep,
they're going to stay green. In turn, guy, in the
summer heat, there's a lot of moisture in those, and uh,
it's just better to put them in small amounts. You

(36:55):
mentioned yours were already dry, so it's not as big
of a concern for you. But I would yeah, I
would mix the in they do. Just find that it's
kind of like a fertilizer actually, uh Mark, because they
they have a lot of nitrogen content and other things
in them, so it would be a good thing. Just
the only another caveat would be, you know, if you

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treated your yard with certain kinds of herbicides, you might
not want to do that in like a vegetable garden
or something where you're gonna plant some little seeds and things.
But in general, nature has a way of breaking all
that stuff down over time. And uh yeah, you're just
speeding the process.

Speaker 12 (37:34):
Oh perfect, then yeah, I think final stuff fruit store then.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
All right, all right, well good luck with that. All right,
thank you very much, you bet. I appreciate your call.
Thanks a lot. Alrighty, that is a fact. Nelson Plant Food.
I was talking about Nelson Turf star line at Sprint
Creek Feed Nelson plant Food. Part of their tourch star

(38:01):
line is Bruce's Brew and Bruces Brew is a unique fertilizer.
You know, I've got my early spring green up if
you want to use something that releases fast. We talk
about those products, and then we've got the slow releases
for summer. Bruces Brew does both. You're going to get
some immediate release, an initial fast release of nutrients, but
then it evens out over time for that nice regulated growth,

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which is what we want going through the summertime. Lots
of good carbon based nitrogen sources are going to feed
those microbes in your soil. And you know, when you
have healthy soil, you have healthy grass. That's kind of
how it works, and the vulnerability to pests and diseases
really goes down when you create a good, strong, healthy
grass plant. And Bruce's Brew does that. You can apply

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it about every six months forget that green up and
continue on further into the line. So do it now,
you know you probably carry on pretty far, but I
might do another one as we get into about July
to carry us on into the all season July or yeah,
probably July be a good time to repeat if you

(39:05):
do a Brusus brew right now, Brusus Brew from Nelson Fertilizers.
I'm going to go now out to Atasca Cita and
we're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, Welcome, to guardline.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Hey, good morning, sir, thank you for taking my call.
I've got a project. Here we go, a thirty five
gallon vitect tree. I was told that you're supposed to
put gravel pee gravel around the size of it and
also underneath. Is this correct?

Speaker 5 (39:36):
That is absolutely incorrect. I can go on into detail
on why for some at some point, but the bottom
line is it doesn't make water go away from the plant.
It just doesn't. And I'll talk about that a little
sometime this morning. I'll go into that a little more.
Don't do that, Just put do like nature does, set

(39:59):
those reached down in good quality soil, and that's the
way to go on it. Don't put the gravel.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Okay, the next thing actually described? Could you describe the
soil I should put down?

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Well?

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Is it going to be in a container or are
you taking it out of a container and.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Put out of the container. I'm going to try to
break apart the roots to steam again because it's going
to be tight in there. It's very very tight, all right, So.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
I'm about to run out of time here. What you
want to do is planet in the soil you have.
Don't put don't put compost in the hole or anything.
It's got to go and the soil you're in, loosen
the soil up and then water it in real good. Sorry,
but I'm out of time. Thanks Jim, appreciate it. Appreciate
your very much. All Right, folks, we'll be back. I'm
going to describe that reason why we don't put pe

(40:47):
gravel in when we come back. All right, I want
to jump back in here. We had a we hit
a comments that you know, we're made about putting gravel
in the bottom of a pot or in the bottom
of a planting hole. Now here's the deal. It is
a very It makes sense that water runs right through gravel,

(41:11):
so gravel should help drainage, right, But that's not what's
going on here. If you put it, if you put
gravel in the bottom of a pot, a container, or
if you put it in the bottom of a planting hole,
water does not move from the soil and the container
into the gravel until it literally is so wet that
it drips out of the container. Because the smaller particle

(41:33):
size holds water better than large particle size. So therefore,
gravel doesn't pull water out of soil. Soil pulls water
out of gravel if the two were side by side.
So what happens when you put gravel in is you
just take away some of the rooting volume of that container.
Or in a planting hole, think of it this way.
You dig a clay planting hole, that's like an underground bathtub.

(41:57):
It's like an aquarium. Just putting gravel in the bottom
of an aquarium make the water run out, No, because
the clay is preventing it from running out. Gravel doesn't
do anything to help any of that. And I know
it seems like, well that can't be I could go
more into it, but there's a science of physics to it,
and it's just what happens. So you want to use

(42:19):
quality soil. You want to have good drainage holes in
a container, and then they will saturate with water and
it will literally drip out of the container. But instead
of losing some of the volume, you could have put
as soil because plants need a lot of soil moisture
to make it through summer. In a container, you're going
to have that extra volume of soil rather than gravel.

(42:40):
And then again in a planting hole does nothing, It
does nothing, nothing, nothing. Don't think about it. Think of
the aquarium and that is that is why gravel doesn't
help a clay planting hole to drain better. Okay, and
the same is true in a pot. All right, there
you go. More in Southern Gardens is doing something that

(43:01):
I don't think I've seen before. Warren's Southern Gardens is
out there in Kingwood. Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center are
both out there. I've seen sales before, but they are
doing a sale starting today going through the end of
this month, twenty percent off purchases of one hundred dollars
or more. Now, if you want to do a major

(43:22):
landscape job, here is your chance. Are you ready for this?
Purchases of three thousand dollars or more. We're talking about
lots of plants, were talking about soil products from you know,
tons of stuff here, Well, forty percent off. It's the
largest sale ever, I know, three thousands a lot. But

(43:43):
you know, when you're looking at it, you ring up
three thousand dollars that you only pay eighteen hundred dollars
at a minto all right, So this is a hugemongas sale.
So if you are wanting to do some major work
and you know the plants, the trees, the shrubs, the flowers,
the again, the soils. All that purchase three thousand or

(44:06):
forty percent of largest sale I've ever heard of anywhere
now and if it's just one hundred dollars twenty percent,
that's still a good sale megasale. In fact, at one
in Southern Gardens. By the way, did you know that
they do custom potting jobs out there. A lady named
D is magical when it comes to creating combination plantings.
And she's working on hanging baskets, she's working on planting containers.

(44:30):
She can make your vision come true and just you
if you need a custom potting job, something created beautiful,
maybe for your business outside the business, or maybe for
your home, your patio, go out there and tell them
you want to talk to miss D about doing a
custom potting job at or in Southern Gardens. Nice stuff.

(44:51):
I was looking at Piercecape's website, which is piercescapes dot
com just the other day. I was looking at some
information that they had put up there about drainage systems
and other things, and I'm just so impressed with the
work they do. And you will be too. I mean,
if you hear nothing else about Piercescapes right now, just

(45:11):
hear piercescapes dot Com and go there. This is a
professional quality landscaper. They can do everything from scratch like
create the whole landscape to revamping certain areas. Do you
need lighting, drainage? You know we do need drainage when
it rains too much?

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Right?

Speaker 5 (45:32):
Do you need irrigation work? Do you need just the
design of the landscape. They can do it all piercescapes
dot Com if you want to give them a call
two eight one three seven h five zero six zero.
One of the things you hear me talk about on
garden Line all the time is brown stuff before green stuff.

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And for those of you who are kind of new
to garden line and don't know what I'm saying when
I say that, I'm talking about you get the soil
right and everything follows. If you want your plantings to
be beautiful or productive, whether it's a vegetable garden, a
flower bed, a shrubbed, get the soil right first. It's
all about the soil. Do you know that may is

(46:15):
natural national humates month. Humates is a final decomposed state
of organic matter. Microlife has a product call humates plus,
and that's basically what it is. Humus helps improve the soil,
especially you got an old clay soil, even a sandy soil,
it's going to be beneficial to them. It provides the

(46:35):
carbon to help feed the microbes. It's got lots of
different mental I think you have sixty three minerals and
the humans plus that microlife has. But there's also some
strains of microhizol, fungi and now these things work with
the roots to help the fight the diseases of roots
and some of the microhizol can reach out in the

(46:57):
soil communicate with other plants. Amazing biology going on there
in the soil. But over time, as you add humus
over and over and over over time, it's just each
time you're improving that soil to an area. Think of microlights,
you mats plus, which is a product we talk about
here when it comes to humus as concentrated compost in

(47:17):
a bag. Concentrated compost in a bag. Now you're going
to find micro life products everywhere. It's easy to find them,
so you can get your humans plus. That's the purple bag.
By the way, when you do your fertilizing. Just go
ahead and put out the purple bag Hu mats plus
and you can do it a couple times a year
if you want. I know people that do it more
than that. But just know this, it's what nature does,

(47:38):
and you can do it yourself in your home garden
and look at it as circumventing what would take a
lot of time in nature to do. And take that product,
which is the final result of composting, and just put
it right down there in your yard. We are coming
up on a little bit of a break here in
just a second. If you want to give us a call,

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you can be one of the first ones up when
we come back. Seven to one three two one two
kt r H seven to one three two one two
kt r h. H's got a really good rain a
while back, but then we got this warm week really
heated up pretty good for us. And boy, we know,
those of us who've lived here, we know summer's coming

(48:23):
and trees struggle in extended summer droughts, which we have
almost every year. Now, if it's a brand new tree
that just got put in the ground, it's got to
be watered where that root zone is, So take care
of your trees by watering that root zone, gradually increasing
the area that you water as time goes on and
as the roots expand. You know, you put a let's

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say you put a five gallon sized plant in a hole.
Well you go out just beyond that root ball, and
there's no roots there in the hole yet, but they
will be and they keep expanding further and further out.
That's why I like the tree hugger sprinkler. They come
in a seven inch, eleven inch and a fifteen inch size.
Hook it up to a garden hose. It it's like

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the pac Man. It's hinged and it just closes around
the tree trunk. It reminds me of pac Man. Anyway
you turn it on. If you had a new plant,
I would just barely turn it on and water that
root ball really good frequently to help it get going
as that tree grows. Maybe you got a tree in
your yard that's five or ten years old and we're
going into summer drought. You want to rescue that tree,

(49:27):
and not just rescue it, but get it growing faster.
Because water is the single most important thing you can
do to a tree to get it to grow fast.
Fertilizer's important, but not as important as a good dependable
moist soil for the root system. Tree hunder Sprinkler will
do that. You can get them at Arborgate. You can
get them at Warren Southern Garden, at Kingwoock Garden Center.

(49:48):
You go do under Richmond. You got them into Enchanted
Gardens and Forests, DA de Feed and supply the arbor
Gate I mentioned, I believe Nelson Water Garden out in
Katie RCW Garden Center, the Spring Creek Feed Center, League
City Feeds. Southwest Fertilizer and ACE Hardware is at Single
Ranch and Katie and the K and M Ace Hardware
and at Tascasita and the Full Share Ace Hardware. They're

(50:11):
easy to find. You need to have one, and you
need to hang in on the garage wall because you
will use it over and over again every year. It's
a good product. Time for me to take a break.
We'll be back. Hey, welcome back to guard Line. Good
to have you with us today. Hey, have you been
to in Channa Gardens recently? Oh, my gosh, that place

(50:34):
is it's just fun to go. It is, it's fun
to go. Number one, they've got plants like you just
can't imagine. Number two. They have service and friendly folks
that know what they're talking about. That is so important.
That's why we love our independent garden centers is because
they know what they're doing. And it certainly is true

(50:54):
when it comes to in Chenna Garden. They're not in
Richmond Rosenberg on FM three point fifty nine on the
Katie Folshire side of Richmond. They've got some classes coming
up here on June twenty eighth. There's a class on
creating your own custom succulent container. Isn't that cool? On
June twenty first, we're getting closure here. Plant a Butterfly
Container Garden is a class out there at Enchanted Gardens,

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and then June fourteenth, plots for your patio or pool.
That's gonna be a good boy. They specializing containers out there,
and then discover the joy or the fun a fairy gardening.
If you've never seen a faery garden, you need to.
They're little, miniature, really cool gardens. That class is on
June seventh, So lots of opportunities coming up here in June.

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You need to get out there check them out. Look
at the beautiful selection of plants and pottery. I'm telling
you it is always fun to go out to Enchanted Gardens.
On FM three point fifty nine. Katie Fullscher side of
Richmond website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com was out there or recently and was looking

(52:02):
at some of the combo containers that they had done
in large baskets. You know, there're these metal it's like
a wire, but it's like real thick wire, like not
quite pencil size, but very very sturdy baskets and they
put the coconut core liners in and then they plan
them up with a combination of things. They specialize in
that out there. Maria does a great job out there,

(52:24):
and you need to go see some of those. Now
you can. You can buy the ingredients and put it
together yourself, or you can go buy one that's already done.
Either way you want to go about it, it's good.
And by the way, if you head out today, the
Juicy Lemonade stand will be there. Oh boy, it'd be
a good day to have some fresh watermelon lemonade. You

(52:44):
heard that right. Watermelon lemonade makes my mouth water just
to say those words. You're listening to Guardenline our phone
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H seven one three two one two kt r H.
Medina products had been went around for a very very
long time. I mean they have. They've been a supporter
of garden Line since before it was garden Line, a

(53:07):
long long time ago. And they have so many excellent
products that people really love.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
You know.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
There's there's the Medina, the Medina plus the Medina has
to Grow six twelve six plant food. That's a that's
a really good one. Medina Soil Activator was the first
one I was talking about. The Medina. It's kind of
the standard. They've got the humic acid product, and all
of these products are excellent. You know, this is National
Humate's month and Medina Liquid Humus. It's called Humate Liquid Humus.

(53:36):
It's like that concentrated compost. It's got humic and fulvic acid.
It's this as a basics for taking care of your soil.
It's because it's what nature puts in the soil, humic
and full of acids. That's what nature creates, and you
can do it yourself. You can improve the soil quality,
you can improve the way that your plants grow. As
a result of that by getting some quality humate, humus,

(54:01):
excuse me, humide, humic acid. Stumbling over our words there,
but check it out. And also when you're there, the
Medina plus is just an outstanding products. Got Medina soil activator,
It's got seaweed in it, it's got a some trace
forty different trace elements in it. It's just a good
tonic for your plants. Alrighty, let's go out to clear

(54:26):
Lake and we're going to talk to Joyce this morning.
Hello Joyce, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (54:33):
Good morning, Rick. Okay, did you see those pictures?

Speaker 2 (54:37):
I sent you an email with the photos?

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Yes I did, Yes, Yeah, Apple has cankers. It has
cankers that have attacked it and they could be fungal,
they could be bacterial. One of the pictures looks like
something called fire blight, and it's a bacteria that gets
in the plant and it just kills all the issues
and the whole the leaves just wilt and hang over.

(55:05):
Another one of the pictures looks like it could be
a fungal canker. But either way, here's what you need
to do to get you some pruners that are sharp
and get you some life salt spray, and I say
life salt because it's convenient. It's not the only thing
to use, but it's convenient. You're going to prune those
out as far down below as you can get all

(55:27):
the canker out of there. So go below the dead
and the sunken and the dark areas that you see
and prune them out, and then spray your prunters with
lysol because as you make new cuts, you don't want
to spread the problem by making a new wound and
infecting it with your pruners. So that's that's why we
disinfect our pruners between cots. Easy way to do it.

(55:50):
Some people use bleach water, but that causes your prunters
to rust really bad if you don't immediately clean and
oil them. And seventy calls an option, but it's not
as convenient. It's just getting some esol spraying your prain.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
No problem I have.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
But you see working right cut the big one where
it's black coming in, it's it's yeah, should I sy
to seal it?

Speaker 9 (56:22):
No?

Speaker 5 (56:22):
No spring, No, there's no spraying. No, don't do that,
just cut it. Just put a fresh put a fresh
uh cut to get that disease. Part out of there
and stay with it. Hopefully you'll get ahead of it
that way.

Speaker 13 (56:35):
Okay, Oh yeah, I think it's taken over the tree,
all right, all right.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
Well, hopefully it won't keep that tree healthy, keep it vigorous.
That's in your control to try to do that. Appreciate
your call very much. Sweet Green from Nitrophoss is a
natural fertilizer that is made through microbial activity to release
eleven percent nitrogen into the soils, one of the most
highest concentrations of organic nitrogen sources. You're gonna find sweet green.

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Is it smells gray, That's what it's sweet green. It
smells smells like molasses to me. But it's a wonderful product.
It works well, and you're gonna find it at lots
of retailers around the area. Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena.
You go to Plants for All Seasons up northwest Tomball Parkway. Uh,
and we're just north of Luetta. You're gonna find it

(57:26):
there and RCW Nursery too by the way Tomball Parkway
places you can find nitropuss products like that Sweet green. Okay,
we're going to go now out to Kline area. And
talk to Curtis. Hey, Curtis, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (57:41):
So I'm trying to delerate the process of a compost.
And when I mean compost, it's basically a lot of
clippings and leads, anything you can suggest. And one of
my baby roma tomatoes has a black dot on the
bottom of it. What do I do wrong?

Speaker 5 (57:58):
Okay, okay, a black spot on the end of the
tomato where the flower was before that tomatoes started growing
informing the part away from the stem. That's usually something
called blossom and rot. And it's due to a lack
of calcium reaching the end of the fruit. And it's
not usually due to a lack of calcium in the soil,
although it could be. It's usually due to sole moisture

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fluctuations from dry to wet that can cause that. So
try to even out the sole moisture and I don't
think you'll have any more problems with that. So as
far as the compost acceleration, the things that make composts
go fast are a good mix of green stuff and
brown stuff. So the green stuff needs nitrogen, the brown

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stuff needs carbon, so it's dried leaves would be brown stuff.
Fresh grass clippings would be green stuff. Nitrogen fertilizer would
be the equivalent of green stuff. But you want to
get those in a good balance in the compost. And
the finer you grind the materials up, the faster they decompose.
So if you take a bunch of magnolia leaves and

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just lay them whole in a compost pile, it's going
to be very slow. If you run over them with
a lawnmower and chop them up real good, it's going
to speed it up. And keeping it adequately moist, evenly moist.
Those are the tips.

Speaker 14 (59:19):
So to go out there once a week and dump
a five gallon bucket of water on it.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
Yeah, probably more of a sprinkling to keep the material moist.
When you make a compost pile, you should lay down
about a four to six inch of layer and then
water it with a garden hose sprayer. Wet it real good.
Then lay some more and wet it real good, because
if you build the whole pile and then try to
wet it, it's hard to get that water evenly through
the pile. It just doesn't want to do that.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
Then for thanks, sure, all right, all right.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
There you go I have a website. It's called Composting
for Kids. I did it when I was working with
Texas A and m Agrolife Extension. And if you do
a search for Composting for Kids, you can find a
link to it. And I did it to teach kids
how to compost. But it's just basically the steps that
you need to do, and so you might check that out.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Is that ready, Joey Jury Weekend?

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
All right? Thanks Curtis, you too appreciate your call very much.
Buchanan's Native Plants is in the Heights and it is
one of those garden centers where you just want to
go and hang out a while because there's so much
to see. I could spend forty five minutes even an
hour in the in the houseplant greenhouse that they have

(01:00:38):
because there's so many things going on there, but walking
around from the fruit trees, to the annuals and perennials,
vegetables and herbs, the beautiful, beautiful plants that are natives.
They specialize in natives bugin as native plants. Here's the website,
Buchanan's Plants dot com. I want you to go to
Buchanan's Plants dot com because you can sign up for

(01:00:58):
their newsletter and it is incredibly helpful and informative and
it's free. That's a good price, right, it's free. While
you're there, you're gonna find micro life products, nitrofost products,
Nelson plant food products, soils from Nature's Way, soils from
airloom soils. The Cannon's has their own Life Below product
and one called top trop Tropic Core, which is a

(01:01:21):
peat free container mix that they designed themselves. So while
you're there, check out the bungalow, the gift shop. It
is awesome. Buchanan's Native Plants Eleventh Street and the Heights.
Buchanan's NATed Plants Eleventh Street in the Heights. Let's now
go to Katie, Texas and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian,
welcome to Guardenline.

Speaker 11 (01:01:43):
Good morning. Hey, I sent you an email some pictures.
You're run in my yard in a tree. Okay, the
bear spot is there's a bunch of thin roots from
the tree growing there and I can't get the grass
to reditor and the ha is not happy about it.
I want to give you something about it, but I
don't know how to get the rest of the road
that I tried to plant it's got a really small

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roots running all across the surface. The other issue is, okay,
it looks like there's sucking from the tree, the roots
coming up, and I don't know what to do about
any of that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
So all right, Brian, I'm glad we got started on this.
I got to go to our half hour break, but
when we come back, I will address both of those.
Thanks for the pictures. They are excellent and we're gonna
we got a lot we can talk about. Thank you, sir.
Just hang on, we'll be right back with you just
a second. All right, here we go, Welcome back to Guardline.

(01:02:39):
Glad that we have you with us today. Night of
Us distributes a product called jungle Land. It's a it's
a potting a soil, a grower's mix, a container soil,
a growing mix, however you want to put it, and
it works. There's an indoor version with water saving crystals.
The outdoor version is called jungle Land Flour and Vegetable
planting Soil. It's got several different sources of decomposing organic matter,

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and it's got microhizal fungi that work with plant roots
to help make them more efficient, and it drains well.
It holds water adequately, but excessive water drains away very well,
which is important in a potting mix. Now you're going
to find jungle Land available at M and D on
Beamer in the Sagemont area. You're going to find it
at Fisher's Hardware and Laporte on Broadway Street, as well

(01:03:27):
as at Hiding and Feet Up on Studenter Airline. Easy
to find night fast products. All right, let's go back here.
We started a call with Brian, and Brian we're going
to jump back in here. So I'm looking at your
pictures and let's take these one at a time. First
of all, the lack of growth in the grass, the
die back in the grass that looks to me like

(01:03:49):
a disease called take all root rot. And exactly what
it is for sure is not. You can't look at
a picture and say for sure it's this disease, but
I'm about ninety percent sure that's what's going on there.
If you go online to my website Gardening with Skip
dot com, you'll find the lawn pest Disease and Weed

(01:04:12):
Management schedule. It's free to download. There's two lawn schedules,
the second one on pest diseases and weeds has take
all root run on it, and it tells you what
to use and when to do it. If I were
you right now, I would get some spagnum peat moss,
compacted spagnum peat moss, break it up and spread it
out there. You can take a rake and turn it

(01:04:33):
upside down, a little soil rake, or you can use
a bamboo rake or a leaf break if you want,
and spread it out about third of an inch half
an inch deep. Just third of an inch is probably enough.
Put it all through that area and then watered in
really good, and that's going to help a little bit.
Then when the grass blades are going to need to
be sprayed with a product from fertile loan that is

(01:04:56):
a liquid iron and other micronutrients. So it'll say liquid
iron and other micronutrients. You mix it with water and
you spray those grass blades all through there. And the
reason is take all kills roots. And when roots die,
they can't take up nutrients like iron. That's why if
you look around the edges of the spot that I

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think is take all, you'll see yellowing grass. That's a
lack of iron. But it's not because there's no iron
in the soil. The rest of your lawn looks fine.
There's iron in the soil, it's the grass doesn't have roots.
So this is sort of like doing an IV for
your grass. By spraying the foliage with that micronutrient, you're
getting what it needs through the foliage rather than through
the root system, which isn't which is dying. And then

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the products for take all are listed on my schedule there.
That is the takeoll routine. Now as far as the
sprouts different, when you see live oaks coming up underneath
the live oak, it could be seeds from acorns from
the tree coming up, or could be root sprouts coming

(01:06:02):
off the roots. Did you do anything in that area
where you see all the sprouts. It's very unique that
it's just a whole bunch of sprouts in that one area,
but nowhere else.

Speaker 11 (01:06:14):
No, Well, there's some on the other side of the tree,
but they're sporadic definitely where it's like just one big
group of sprouts.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
And didn't I didn't do anything to it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're just gonna need to mow it,
chop the tops off of them. Uh, and if you
you know, keep them from getting leaves up in the sunlight.
They're they're not going to thrive there. There's nothing you
can spray on them, because my guess is they're probably
connected to the tree roots, and so if you sprayed
a killer on those, then it would go up in

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damage or tree. So it's just a matter of mowing
them and trying to get the grass in nice and thick.

Speaker 11 (01:06:56):
Okay, okay, going by to the bear spot, well the
grass road there or ways upset about it. There's not
only grass there, and then went grass there. Yeah, but
I don't yeah, follow that pras.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
If you if you're gonna, if you're gonna replant that area,
which isn't a bad idea, I would take everything that's
there out and go out even a little bit past
the yellow because that that take all is going to
be affecting. I can see up going towards your front door,
there's some old dead areas where it is suffered in
the past up there, and I would take all that
grass out and then it would put new fresh new

(01:07:36):
sod in and water twice a day for the first week,
once a day for the second week, and then gradually
wean it back and get some fresh in there. Then
this fall you can do what my schedule says about
take all, but do it to your whole lawn.

Speaker 11 (01:07:54):
Okay, okay, okay, all right, all right, well.

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
Good luck with that. Yes, sir, thanks very much. I
appreciate your call. It's a little bit of a complicated
deal there, but it can be done. Greenpro. The folks
at Greenpro, they are really truly the experts when it
comes to putting compost, top dressing and core aeration together
to make your lawn come alive. Whether it's struggling, you know,

(01:08:20):
with drought or take our root rod here that we're
talking about, whether it's compacted soil from foot traffic. Boy,
that is a big problem for the lawn. Core aeration
pops a little, plugs the soil out of the ground,
drops them on the surface, and gets oxygen into the soil.
It breathes life into the soil. Then you put the
compost top dressing over it. That's feeding the soil biology

(01:08:42):
down in the ground. It is decomposing to release those
nutrients into the soil, and it's just a way to
get your grass to kick back in gear again. Now,
green Pro services an area about forty five miles from
the Magnolia area. So we're talking about Spring Cypress, Woodland's, Conroe, Willis, Magnolia,
Montgomery all the way down to I ten, basically the
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I forty five and I ten, that northwest quadrant, that's
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three two. Alrighty here, well let's see here. We're gonna

(01:09:26):
have the go out to Wharton and now and talk
to Susan. Hello, Susan, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Good morning, Skip. This is actually not Susan.

Speaker 15 (01:09:36):
This is her husband, John.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
Okay, Who am I talking to? John? How can we
help John?

Speaker 16 (01:09:43):
Yes, okay, okay, Skip. We have we have two bogan
Via vias and uh I got this big pot. Oh,
it's probably about a forty gallon pot. And I planted
these two boguan vials in it. Uh one of them
is blue nice. The other one is doing this not

(01:10:04):
blooming at all. It's growing good, but it's not blooming
at all.

Speaker 17 (01:10:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
Yeah, boogom Vy has caused me to pull my hair out.
I tell you, they Uh, I don't know why, I
bottom lize. I don't know why. I don't know why
that one is and the other one isn't. Something it's it.
It affects, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
I was.

Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
I was in Yuma, Arizona, a couple of weeks ago,
and it doesn't rain there. The sun is blazing hot.
And I looked at boom bee's around town that were
stuck in places where no one's watering them, no one's
fertilizing them, and they were covered with flowers, and it
just made me want to go chop them down because
they were It's like they were taunting me. It's hard
to get them to do that. For us, I would

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just say, continue to fertilize moderately, not too much nitrogen,
adequate soil, moisture, full sun, as much sun as you
can give it. And that's kind of what's within your power. Uh, John,
the I don't know why one is and the other
one isn't. They should be, they should be blooming. If
one is, the other ones in the same pot. Maybe
something in the root competition one has the upper hand.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:11:11):
That's crazy, Okay, Yeah, it's just a mystery to me,
you know, it's just I don't know either.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
All we can do on those plants is give them
go ahead.

Speaker 16 (01:11:27):
You think I should separate them, Maybe get take that
one out and put it in another pot and just
leave that one of them in there.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
Yeah, I mean you could if you can get them apart.
The roots are pretty entangled. You're probably gonna have to
really wet it and soak it and kind of work
them apart carefully. But boo and bees do well when
they're pot bound, when they're a little you know, the
roots that fill the pot and you get them in
a big giant pot with a little plant, lots of soil,
little plant, lots of nitrogen, and they tend to grow vegetatively,

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but not bloom as well as you want them to
do so. But anyway, that's that's the best I can
can help you with that one. There is one other
technique that might work, and that is if you get
a bottle of round up and you walk up to
the plant and you show it the round up and saying, look,
either you have blooms next week or I'm coming back

(01:12:17):
with this stuff. I think by the time you walk
away and go in the house, it's already going to
be blooming because you just scare the.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
Heck out of it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
That's what you need to do. Sorry, Sorry, humor is
all I got to help with those booga and vilias.
All right, I feel your pain and take care. We'll
be back folks.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
There we go, There we go.

Speaker 5 (01:12:37):
It's we're calling it. It's summer. It's beach boys time,
let's do it. Welcome back to the guard Line. Good
to have you with us. Listen, if you are looking
for products to have a beautiful garden and a beautiful
lawn and a lovely outdoor setting for enjoying the barbecuing
and all the things we enjoy as we move our
life outdoors in the late day with things cool off

(01:13:00):
a little bit. ACE Hardware, that's where you got to go.
ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's the website you got
to go too. That is our that is my group
of ACE Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area.
Ace Hardwaretexas dot Com. I every time I go into
an ACE I'm impressed and it. In fact, I'm going

(01:13:21):
to be at an ACE Hardware store later today. I've
got some run around to do. I'm heading up there
take care of that. But anyway, Ace Hardware Texas dot
com it's where you're gonna find all the fertilizers, all
the pest weed disease control, everything you need, including tools
to make your lawn and your patio and beautiful outdoor
setting areas just more special. Trust me, just go to

(01:13:45):
an ACE Hardware Tech. Go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com.
Just go to an ACE Hardware store and see what
I'm talking about. This is not your grandpa's Ace Hardware store.
I mean, it has all the stuff that Grandpa's Ace
Hardware store had, but oh my gosh, way more. Nelson
Plant Food has a product called color Star Plus. Colorstar

(01:14:06):
Plus is their famous, most popular fertilizer blend for over
forty years now with an added fungicide in it. Now
regular Color Star or Color Star Plus with the fungicide.
They both work. If something has blooms, color Star works. Okay,
that's annuals and perennial shrubs and trees and other flowering plants,
things and containers, things in the landscape. You got a

(01:14:27):
slow release of ingredients feeding for three to four months.
And this stuff is so popular that they get they
send shipments out out of state to people who've discovered
it and are calling, going, we need to have that
here colorstar plus from Nelson Plant Food. We're going to
go now to talk to Marine up at lakeside of States.

Speaker 18 (01:14:47):
Hello, Marine, to picture for you to look at my bros.

Speaker 10 (01:14:53):
It's still blooming prolific greed. However, I guess I need
to use a spysmic.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
I don't know what to spreadch.

Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
Okay, let me get that. Uh well, Marine, I don't
have a picture attached. It just says a rose leaf light,
So describe to me what the leaves look like real quick.

Speaker 8 (01:15:20):
Okay.

Speaker 19 (01:15:20):
Some of them are very pale, soft yellowy color, and
then a newer leaves have little speckles on them, but
they're losing their color.

Speaker 10 (01:15:33):
So apparently I did attach the picture. But that's about
all you're going to see anyhow.

Speaker 5 (01:15:39):
Yeah, I know it's tim about so bottom line is
there's something wrong in the roots. The yellowing is a
lack of iron, but it probably isn't a lack of
iron in the soil. It's probably iron not being taken up.
I would get an iron key late. It spells c
h E l A t e like and chi late

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pronounce che late spelled. Uh, put that around them. Watch
the watering. Excessive water, poor drainage, soggy roots can cause
what you're describing, and so I would I would check
for that, make sure that's not happening, and if it is,
back off of it a little bit, and then get
you a quality rose food.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
The folks that Nelson have part of their nature star line,
there is a rose food for there comes in little
jars and I would sprinkle that around it and watered
in really good. Uh, and then see if we can
bring that thing back that if it's.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
Not about.

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
Not for this situation, not for this situation. Yeah, yeah,
that econized, but that's more of a phosphorus.

Speaker 10 (01:16:51):
Go ahead, Okay, Now I's going to switch the topic sometimes.
I know you get backed up so quickly. I will, Yeah,
shoot this question and maybe we can chat a little bit,
all right. I went to several OVA meetings. Hello okay, yes,

(01:17:12):
oh okay, I didn't know I could still go all right.
So the thing was that the gentleman was there, and
I believe he is from microlife, and I listened to
a lecture.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
But this is like five years ago.

Speaker 13 (01:17:24):
My data may be incorrect.

Speaker 10 (01:17:25):
His point was if you are feeding and you dining
his particular product, that you could cut back the intensity.

Speaker 19 (01:17:33):
Of water that we were really every day when we water.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
It's too short.

Speaker 10 (01:17:38):
So I was trying to use his procedure, which was
to let it run longer so that you don't have
to run it every day.

Speaker 11 (01:17:48):
Eventually.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
It's not a short term thing.

Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
It's something that I understand, right, I mean, let me
give you a quick answer on that. It's better to
water with a good soaking on ane frequent basis than
escort it a little every day. So that was right.
Just set your watering schedules so you give it. You
wet the so thoroughly, but then allow it to dry
out some before you water again. And I'm sorry, I'm

(01:18:12):
gonna have to run, but that that is, that's true
what you heard. All right, Well, thank you for that. Listen,
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They're done, and it just minimizes concerns, you know, people
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was looking the other day and they got all those

(01:19:16):
little mosquito regulars in them. That's a good thing because
those regulars will never grow up. They attract the mosquitos
to come in and lay eggs there, and then the
mosquito flies away and controls mosquitos with what's on its
feet and other little tiny spots where there's a little water.
And by the way, we had all that rain recently,
mosquitos are breaking out everywhere. They are really taking off

(01:19:40):
right now. Well, if you want to, if you really
want a quality product for making your plants thrive, I
would I would go to Airloom Soils and I would
talk to them about which product you want. Now you can,
I want to say, go to airlom cells. I mean
go to the website Airloomsoils dot com, airloomsals dot com.
You see all the list of products there. Do you
want to grow roses and blooming plants, they got a

(01:20:03):
product for that. Do you want to grow fruit trees,
they got a product. How about vegetables and herbs, they
got a product for that. Do you need to fill
in your lawn. There's a product called Premium lawn Mix.
It's got some mason sand and compost and bed mix
mixed together. Great for preparing your soil for planting a lawn.
We talk about Leatho composts for top dressing. They have

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that Everything they carry is high quality. And I know
that because they use their products they work. Heirloomsoils dot com.
They can sell it to you by the bag all
over town in places sold by the bag. You can
buy it bulk dumped on the driveway. You can buy
what's called a supersack, which is really cool because a

(01:20:43):
supersack is a cubic yard that's in a big sack
and they just set it on your driveway. It's neat,
it's clean, it's easy. I've used myself. I love supersacks.
They really really work well. Airloom soils don't go out
and plant without pairing your soil brown stuff before green stuff.
And you're not going to find a better product for

(01:21:05):
the brown stuff for the foundation for success than you'll
find with the folks at Heirloom Soils. You're listening to
Guardenline and we're about to take a little break here.
It is time for that top of the hour break.
When we come back, we'll be coming back to your calls,
and maybe you could be first up if you're quick
with the phone. Seven one three two one two k

(01:21:27):
t RH seven to one three two one two k
t RH A gosh. I got so many things I
want to talk about today. All will start with your calls.
But before we have to go to break, I just
want to remind you that with summer coming on, it
is time to get as much planted as you can.
We got plants that can take this heat, but they

(01:21:48):
do best when they have a little bit of time
to get roots established before the demands and the stresses
of summer come on them. So let's go. Let's get
this done. Flowers, vegetables, herbs, all kinds of wonderful things
out there. I'm going to be planning some okrah in
my vegetable garden this week. Been delayed on it, which

(01:22:09):
is a shame because I have an okra problem, meaning
it's like an obsession with me. And anyway, we're going
to get that taken care of out there. If you
have planted questions that might need a photo to help
me diagnose, and boy, I got some good photos in here.
I'm just looking at a series of them that came
in an email just a minute ago. Uh, send me

(01:22:31):
the photos and then follow up with a call to
garden line. I'm not gonna be able to type out
answers to all the emails, but I'll be happy to
provide you personal one on one service if you give
me a call at seven one three two one two
kt R to make sure your photos are a good,
cris clear ocus. I want to give you a crisp answer,
not a fuzzy one. Okay, welcome back. Welcome back to

(01:22:57):
garden Line. We're glad you're joining us today. By the way,
did you know that plants that listen to garden Line
are greener and more productive. You should grab your houseplants
that are struggling, set them by the radio with you,
and let them join in. I think you will see
by the end of the show they look greener and
are clearly happier. Nine out of ten plant psychologists agree

(01:23:19):
with this. By the way, asamite is a product that
we put out on our lawns inputting in gardens too,
By the way, that releases micronutrients to the growing plants.
It builds the plant's bank account of micronutrients. That's why
we do azamite. It's not like you put the fertilizer
with the three one two, the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium numbers

(01:23:43):
on the bag. That's good, that pushes growth, especially the
nitrogen makes it grow. But there's over twenty nutrients, not
just three, that a plant needs and in order for
them to have that in the bank account, so the
roots need it every day of the year. Roots are
taking up nutrients all the time, not just you fertilize asumite.
Is a product for that. You can put it out

(01:24:04):
about six thousand to twelve thousand square feet. A long,
one forty four pound bag will cover that in a
vegetable garden about ten pounds per thousand square feet. And
it works well. You can use it when you're out fertilizing.
Just come back from fertilizing, load it up with the
asumite and go back and do the as at the
same time. Makes it easier to remember, but it doesn't

(01:24:24):
have to be done at the same time that you fertilize.
All right, Well, earlier I was telling you about this
sale at Warren's Southern Gardens, and it's just insane. It's like,
is this is this written correctly? Did I really get
this right? So I've got somebody from Warren's on the
line that I want to talk to and just get
a confirmation on this, and that is d Mally. Hey,

(01:24:47):
d are you there earning? I am here, Good morning,
Good morning. I can hear you loud. I can hear
you loud and clear. Is this a typo that I'm
looking at?

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
No, it is not.

Speaker 20 (01:25:01):
It is the real deal, yues. We have a sale Okay,
May seventeens through May thirty first, and we have twenty
percent off any purchases.

Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
Of over one hundred dollars.

Speaker 20 (01:25:17):
And then we have a mega mega megasale, which we've
never done before.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
This is wild and crazy.

Speaker 20 (01:25:24):
I'll tell you, any purchases over three thousand dollars you
get a whopping forty percent discount. So if you spend
three thousand, eighteen hundred dollars, yes, yes, it's really cool
and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
A good time to.

Speaker 20 (01:25:43):
Really revamp your your garden and have all those dreams
come true and put the add ons in there with
the statuary and the arbors and the trellises. And needless
to say, I'm a flat person and I do all
the cut some flower pots at Warren Southern Gardens, and
I help out also somewhat at Kingwood Garden Center and

(01:26:09):
a pottery. I mean forty percent off if you buy gorgeous,
gorgeous pots or just the twenty anything over one hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:26:18):
So and it's anything that we have sture fertilized that
is amazing.

Speaker 20 (01:26:24):
You know. He's which I'm a fan of. I use
it twice a year, so I understand that.

Speaker 15 (01:26:30):
So do you have any questions?

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
This is.

Speaker 5 (01:26:34):
Well it's it's a it's a big deal. I mean
it's a chunk of change, you know, to drop that
kind of money out there. But over time people are
going to spend the money. And this is like, okay,
here's your chance to get forty percent off of everything.
You mentioned Trellis's. You mentioned the pottery, Oh my beautiful
pottery is not cheap and you could really set yourself up.

(01:26:57):
And then of course all the bags of soil from
Airlomb soil and the fertilizers and things. I'm telling you
that people need to think about this because there's gonna
be some folks out there that are they're looking at
their yard and they're going, I'm getting tired of looking
at this. I'd love to redo it, but I can't
afford to redo it. Well, you just got an opportunity

(01:27:17):
to afford to redo it right here. Forty percent.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:27:21):
In one of the things that we have done, we'd
expanded our services with Warren's location on North Park. We
now have a wholesale division also, so the landscapers have
the opportunity to help their clients with that department. So
lots of stuff going on, and I would highly suggest

(01:27:43):
for people just to come visit our location. It is
I've been in this industry for twenty thirty forty years,
who knows how long. The nursery itself is spectacularly gorgeous.
It is worth the walk through, walking through a park.

Speaker 7 (01:28:02):
I know you were there.

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
I was so skip Yeah, yeah, yeah, gorgeous, gorgeous. Yes,
the sale unbelievable. Well, right, so people basically have a
cop Yeah, so starting today, going through the end of
May is starting today, going through the end of May

(01:28:24):
is the period. So think about it, folks. But I'm
telling you when you consider, we're not just saying you
have to buy three thousand dollars of the plants. We're
talking about all kinds of things and d you make
beautiful mixed containers there. I love your work. I think
I could probably spend three thousand dollars on just the
containers you can. Thank you so beautiful, So people people

(01:28:47):
can come out and have that.

Speaker 20 (01:28:51):
We can think about his Father's days coming up. So,
you know, plants and all the fun stuff for yards
are awesome for you know, Mother's Day was.

Speaker 5 (01:29:02):
A big hit, wonderful, you know, and but just wow,
I love what I do.

Speaker 20 (01:29:08):
It is awesome it's good for the mind and the
soul and the beauty that it gives to us much
less the rest.

Speaker 9 (01:29:15):
Of the world.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
So to sale, Yes, that is true. So just to
wrap it up, twenty percent off, twenty percent off on
purchase of one hundred dollars or more forty percent off
three thousand or more. Folks, think about this, do the
math in your head. Go to war on Southern gardens,
look around, and suddenly you're going to go, oh, yeah,

(01:29:38):
I could find three thousand dollars here in a heartbeat
of all kinds of work and stuff. D Thanks for
being on. I really appreciate you doing that, and take
care out there. Look forward to seeing you sometime.

Speaker 20 (01:29:50):
Thank you for the information or the opportunity. I'm sorry,
I have a great day.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
Okay, you bet, you bet? Bye bye. All right, folks,
there you have it. Unbelievable, unbelievable. One thing that's moving
on with some horticultural topics. I'm noticing a lot of
gray leaf spot in people's yards. I've gotten a number
of pictures of it. I've seen some spots and yards

(01:30:16):
that I've been to. Gray leaf spot is a fungal
disease that likes the early summertime, especially it's it's milder
heat that we're having right now. It loves moisture if
it rains a lot, if you irrigate frequently. One of
the reasons we say water deeply and infrequently is to
avoid promoting diseases like like gray leaf spot. Now nine

(01:30:38):
to fist has a product called Eagle Turf Fungicide, and
it contains a systemic fungicide that moves through the plant
and it does a great job of a number of
different diseases of the turf. And right now, take a
root rot and the gray leaf spot or two big
ones that we're dealing with right now. To find night

(01:31:00):
fross products like the Eagle turf fund a side at
a number of places you know, go to RCW Nursery
for example Tomball Parkway, you head up to D and
D Feed and Tomball, or maybe Fisher's hard Way down
in Laporte on Broadway Street, just examples of places that
carry night foss products. I'm gonna take a little break
here and when I come back, Tracy and Richmond and

(01:31:22):
Joeanne in Lake Conro you'll be our first two up. Well,
there's a blast from the past. Welcome back to Guardline.
Good to have you with us phone number seven one
three two one two k t RH. Listen to the
Antique rose Imporium been around since nineteen eighty three. I
first visited there in nineteen eighty three. As a matter

(01:31:43):
of fact, I was a grad student in horticulture at
A and M. And the place has just been a
must visit destination the whole time. They are roses, Oh
my gosh, there roses, but there's so much more, so
many different kinds of plants. By the way, right now
May tenth through thirtieth, they're going to have twenty percent
off select roses, twenty three different varieties, by the way,

(01:32:04):
in that group of select roses, and twenty percent off
all the annuals and perennials and trees and shrubs and succulents.
They have two new bundles available exclusively from the antiqu Rosenporium.
One of them is called the Soft Cottage Core Bundle
the Vibrant Cottage Core Bundle. That's the two Soft Cottage
Vibrant Cottage. It's a bundle of plants. You just need

(01:32:27):
to ask them about it. Go to antiqu Rosenber and
talk one of the associates find out about that. Just
want to remind you that the Beneficial Insects Seminar for
Kids is today today. It's a free seminar. Ages well
actually ages three through ten can enjoy Nature Nectar, a
hands on activity exploring the wonders of pollinators through hand

(01:32:49):
garden inspired crafts and a butterfly story, unfun facts. Kids
will love it, trust me. It'll culminate with the release
of a Magical Ladybug oil at Magical Ladybug Release. I
think they're Magical Lady books too, but anyway, you get
the idea. Tickets are available on the website if you'd
like to do that. This free seminar on Beneficial Insects too.

(01:33:10):
It highlights incredible ways beneficial support our healthy gardens and
how to invite them to your your space as well.
Here's the website that's where you go for everything you
need to know. Antique Roseimporium dot com. Antique Rosenmporium dot
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(01:33:30):
They are roses, but so so much more. Let's set
up now to Richmond and we are going to talk
to Tracy this morning. Hello, Tracy and welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 21 (01:33:42):
Good morning. The reason why I'm calling is to follow
up on an email that I had sent in regard
to watering of lawns.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
I know that they that you.

Speaker 21 (01:33:54):
Guys have always stated a longer period of time more infrequently,
But what I'm looking at is what time of the
day or nine that it's best to actually do that.
So if you could give us some insight, oh boy,
some of the brown patch and all that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
Yes, So what we're doing is we're watering early, early
in the morning for two reasons. Number One, the appotranspiration
is least at that time of day, so you don't
lose so much to evaporation as you're going through the
water cycle. Number Two, the sun is about to come

(01:34:33):
out and warm things up and dry those leaves off
very quickly. If you were to water at ten at night,
that lawn may sit wet for a much longer period
of time. And I was talking earlier about gray leaf
spot being a disease for right now that would really
aggravate things like gray leaf spot that love that wet
leaf tissue, the wet grass blades. So early in the
morning is the best time you can do that. With

(01:34:55):
your good soakings when you do water.

Speaker 21 (01:34:58):
Okay, great, wonderful because in the past we had done it,
you know, at night, and then noticed a larger issue
when it came to those types of problems that we
were experiencing. So we're trying to get all that under control,
and so our kind of thought was, you know, do
it three point thirty in the morning and then let
it start to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
So yeah, well, I mean, you know you could, you could,
and you know, it's not the end of the world
if you water at the wrong time of day or something.
It's just if you're choosing the best time, that would
be the best time. Okay, okay, perfect, Thanks Tracy. I
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thirty eight eighty eight. We're going to go out to
Cinafe now and talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome reguardline.

Speaker 11 (01:36:53):
Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:36:54):
Skip as soon as some photos.

Speaker 7 (01:37:00):
On.

Speaker 22 (01:37:00):
I got some spots on cucumber plants. First of all, okay,
all right, so again I've gotten a couple of cucumber
well I got see Chris I got one of you.
That's peppervine weed. I think I got cucumbers with spots.

(01:37:22):
That's pepper vine.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
Yeah, okay, So the cucumber spots are fungal leaf spots.
It's a disease. And I would leaves that look like
the one you sent me just go ahead and pick
them off because they're basically like the typhoid mary and
the cucumber patch. Meaning all those spots are producing spores
to make the other leaves get sick. So take those out.

(01:37:44):
A product like dac o'nill d A c o n
i L will help shut down leaf spots. It does
nothing cures the spots you have, but it prevents additional
ones from happening. And the more you can keep the
leaves dry like water the soil, don't spray the foliage,
the less problems you have with this leaf spot.

Speaker 11 (01:38:06):
All righty okay, I have I have some bone eyed
copper funge a side.

Speaker 3 (01:38:11):
Will that work? It might?

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
It might. U copper is pretty good on bacteria and
on some some fungus diseases too, But you could you
could try that one. Now, the weed that you have,
this pepper but decon hill for leaf spots is generally better.
But if you got in your hand, just go ahead
and try it and see see if it if it

(01:38:35):
works for you. I have a publication on my website.
The website is Gardening with Skip dot Com and it's
a free publication called Controlling Woody Weeds in the Landscape.
There is another publication called Herbicides for Skips Weed Wiper.
On the Herbicides for Skips Weed Wiper, it tells you

(01:38:57):
what product to you use on which weeds, and peppervine
is one of the many weeds on the list, and
you can see which product I would recommend you use.
And then the Controlling Woody Weeds publication tells you one
of the ways that you can do it.

Speaker 11 (01:39:13):
Okay, okay, I'll head it over there.

Speaker 5 (01:39:16):
I sure appreciate it, all right, Thank you very much.
You take care. Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
You bet alrighty wild Birds Unlimited. I tell you, every
morning I go out and I listen to the first
songs of birds. For some reason, in my yard, a
robin is the first one to sing in the morning
every morning. And I know that because I use the
Merlin app, which is a free app from the folks

(01:39:45):
at Cornell University and you can tell it to listen
and it'll tell you what bird it here is. It
is fascinating. Even if you're not a bird person, you
got to get this app and check it out. It's
pretty cool. But anyway, we're in nesting season for many
of our songbirds, and the folks at Wildbirds Unlimited designed
really the perfect blend of seeds to make sure the
birds get what they need most this season. Now it's

(01:40:07):
called Nesting Super Blend. You're only going to get it
at wild Birds Unlimited. It's got things like sunflower chips
and peanuts and dried mealworms. Boy birds love those bark
butter bits, save flower tree nuts. It's got the extra protein,
it's got the extra calcium that's needed during nesting season
for eggshell formation and skeletal development for the young birds.

(01:40:29):
You can buy it loose in bags. You can buy
it in the little compacted seed cylinders that the birds
have to kind of peck into to get the seeds out.
Look for it at wild Birds Unlimited. There's six Wildbirds
Unlimited stores in the Houston area. There's one on Cypress
on Barker Cypress in Houston on Memorial Drive in Houston
on bel Air out west of town and in Paarland

(01:40:51):
on East Broadway, clear Lake on Eldorado Boulevard and Kingwood Drive,
there is Kingwood Wildbird's Unlimited Store. There are you there
pick up a wild Bird's Unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder.
It's my favorite one. I just replenished it. Put some
new sugar water in it and some of that nectar defender.
It's a little bottle of stuff. You put a little

(01:41:11):
bit in the water and it makes it last a
lot longer because you know, sugar water sitting outside on
a hot day, day after day is going to go bad.
So the nectar defender gives you a few more days
out of your hummingbird supplies in the feeders. Let's head
now to Lake Conroe and we're going to talk to Joeanne. Hello, Joanne,

(01:41:33):
h morning.

Speaker 13 (01:41:35):
You did get my emails? Yes, I did, so that
proves I have a brown thumb that I can't keep
plants going.

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
Don't worry about that. Everybody, everybody deals with this. Tell
me what was in the pictures that you sent me?

Speaker 23 (01:41:55):
There were The last picture was a single green beans
in a container and the one leaf is you know,
it's just all shriveled up and brown.

Speaker 13 (01:42:06):
And then there were a couple of others and they
have the little black spots. And I also send a
zucchini plant.

Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
Okay, those, yeah, I see them. Don't worry about the
black spots. That's just a weakened plant getting problems on
the leaves. We need to fix the fact that the
plant is weak. And here's here's part of the problem.
It's getting too dry in that container. You got a
real good chunky mix in there, so it doesn't hold

(01:42:36):
water for a very long time. But you need to
water a little more often. And first thing you do
is you put down a little bit of nitrogen. Normally
we don't fertilize beans much, but these need a little
bit of nitrogen, as does the the the a squash
or is a squash plant. But also finally, one of
the bean pictures shows spider mites. Those are those speckled

(01:42:59):
white leaves that are kind of curled and cupped under.
Get you a hand sprayer on the end of a
garden hose and hold that plant and turn it over
and blast the bottom of the leaves, just with a
strong blast of water to knock all the mites off
and that'll that'll keep them away for long enough for
that plant to get going again. All righty, I've got

(01:43:19):
a heartbreak here coming in ten seconds.

Speaker 13 (01:43:22):
Seven is good for anything.

Speaker 5 (01:43:26):
No, no, do use seven. That makes spider mites worse. Hey,
I got to run, but thank you for the call.
I appreciate that. Just use water. I'll be right back. Folks. Hey,
welcome back, Welcome back to garden line. What do we
want to talk about today? You tell me I got
a bunch I want to talk about. But this shows
about you your calls. What do you want to ask seven? One, three,

(01:43:49):
two and two kt r H. My goal is to
help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. And
this third part is very important and more fun in
the process. Gardening should be fun, It should be rewarding. Yes,
sometimes we fail, sometimes things don't work out like we wanted,
but you don't really fail unless you give up. We're

(01:44:09):
not gonna give up. We're gonna fix it. We're gonna
make it work, and we're gonna make gardening fun and
make gardening fun again. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
I said that. All right, anyway, there you go h
Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie. You
just go out to Katie on it in turn north
on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's up a little
bit on the road off to the right. Nelson Water

(01:44:31):
Gardens and Nursery.

Speaker 3 (01:44:33):
They have.

Speaker 5 (01:44:34):
Of course, their water gardens are nationally famous. Literally, I
mean that nationally famous. They have invented stuff that's now
common in the water gardening industry that started there at
Nelson Water Garden. But their nursery, their garden center is awesome,
beautiful cone flowers, all kinds of plants that love to
grow in summer.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:44:52):
You get things like a hardy ice plant. That's one
that we don't plan it off. Hardy house plant is
a beautiful little succulent that does well in the heat.
Eat and it's just beautiful. The little fisha colored blooms
are gorgeous. Now they've also got yarrow. They also have
something called it's it's like a buttercup, but it's it's
own Thera Missourians zouriensis. It's yellow, it's blooming, it's tough.

(01:45:17):
You see it growing out in Austin, Texas on a
side of the road kind of thing where nobody's taking
care of it and it just does well. It's a superplant,
all right. Look at some of the fountains while you're
out there. They're gorgeous, they're decorative, they're beautiful. But whatever
you're looking for, from succulents to cacti, to shrubs and
trees and vines, oh, beautiful vines all at Nelson Water

(01:45:41):
Gardens and Nursery. The website. You need to know this,
Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Go check them out. They do really
really good work and they have excellent, excellent products as well.
Nature's Vat Resources is north of Conroe off Interstate forty five.
You're head and like you're going to Conroe. And before

(01:46:03):
you get to did I say north of Conroe? I
met north of Houston. You're heading like you're going to Conroe.
Before you get to Conroe, it's going to be off
to the right. It's on Sherbroock Circle. But the way
I remembered is when you see the road that goes
off to Magnolia to the left fourteen eighty eight. Instead
of that, you turn right there and you get to
Nature's Way Resources. Beautiful, beautiful products. And I get excited

(01:46:27):
about so I could lay in a pile of compost
and make compost angels and be very very happy. That's
how I endo dirt and soil. I am, but so
is John Ferguson, who created Nature's Way Resources, and his
son Ian now runs the place. And I'm telling you
their products are second to none. It's where things like leaf, moal,
compost and rose soil were born and they still make

(01:46:50):
top quality by taking their time to make things right
at Nature's Way Resources. Nature'sway Resources dot Com. Go to
that website. It's a newly revamped website. It's great. Nature's
Way Resources dot Com. Go pick it up there, go
buy it in local garden centers by the back, or

(01:47:10):
call them and have them deliver it to your house.
Find leaf, more composts, double ground mulches, rosesoil, garden and
flowerbed mixes. You want to grow acidic plants. Ask for
their blueberry mix. They also have a citrus mix. Natures
Way Resources dot Com. Let's go out to Spring Branch.
Now we are going to talk to Jeff. Hello Jeff,

(01:47:33):
and welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
Hi Skip, thanks for having me.

Speaker 8 (01:47:39):
Quick question about some picks that I just emailed you.
You have you looked at those pictures?

Speaker 5 (01:47:48):
Let me see you just emailed. Uh, I don't see them.

Speaker 8 (01:48:01):
Duty line is Virginia play Way versus question.

Speaker 5 (01:48:06):
No, I haven't. I haven't received anything in the last
thirty minutes. So let me let's do this. I am
gonna put you on hold, uh if you want to
try re sending them. If I get them, I can
pop back up, or you can call back on and
my producer Alejandro will put you at the top of
the list if you call back. Okay, all right, thanks,

(01:48:28):
thank you giving all right? You bet you bet alrighty, Yeah,
it's it's uh, sometimes things just don't go right on
the emails, but it sure does help for me giving
a diagnosis to have a good picture like that night five.
Super Turf is a product that is a lot of nitrogen,
but it's in a very slow release form. It's a

(01:48:51):
nineteen four ten fertilizer. Sixteen weeks it takes for that
nitrogen to be fully released, so you get nice even growth.
You don't go crazy mowen because you're overfertilized.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:49:03):
It takes care of the grass plant by getting it
to grow gradually. And a good healthy green way, so
you don't have lots of top growth at the expense
of root growth, which means the grass is less resilient,
less drought tolerant. With nitrophass superturf, you get good healthy
grass and you get it for a very long time.
It's in a silver bag. Silver bags. What you're looking for.

(01:49:25):
You can go to Plantation Ace Hardware on three point
fifty nine and Richmond Rosenberg. You can find it there.
You can find it at M and D and Cyprus
on Luetta Road, as well as Court Hardware on South
Maine in Stafford. Let's go to Brenham now and we're
going to talk to Mark this morning. Hello Mark, welcome
to garden Line. Good morning.

Speaker 24 (01:49:46):
A couple of quick things if I could, Did I
understand you correctly the last caller you said that seven
dusts causes more issues with spider mics.

Speaker 5 (01:49:57):
It does it because it doesn't kill spider mand but
it kills the things that control them. Studies have also shown,
and this is weird, that it causes them to reproduce
more for whatever reason, and it also causes a response
in the plant where some of the things that the
spider mites are sucking the juices out of the plant.

(01:50:18):
On the plant produces more of that, So it's like
you're feeding the spider mites more. You're making them reproduce faster,
and you're killing everything that eats them. That's why that is,
you know what makes sense. But that's something I would
have never thought of.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
So well, I am no.

Speaker 5 (01:50:34):
Nine of the gardeners don't even know that. Yeah, well,
I know.

Speaker 24 (01:50:40):
My younger brother smokes me every year on garden so
I'm going to teach him a little something.

Speaker 5 (01:50:45):
But anyway, well, when he argues, when he argues with you,
go to the University of California Extension Service and you
can find more information there on the specifics of it.
But he's probably going to challenge it and say you
don't know what you're talking. I'm sure he will because
that's all he uses.

Speaker 24 (01:51:00):
And I'm telling you, he produces broccoli the heads literally
or the size.

Speaker 5 (01:51:04):
Of a five gallon bucket.

Speaker 1 (01:51:05):
It's incredible, but.

Speaker 5 (01:51:07):
I don't doubt it. Seven is a great control for
caterpillars on his broccoli. But I'll tell you this, the
days where we use that, there's two kinds of pesticides.
There's grenades, and there's arrows. A grenade kills everything in
the vicinity. An arrow flies past everything and hits one target.
And those are the surgical strikes. And that's what we're
doing more now in pest control in the modern era

(01:51:31):
than just dumping things like seven dust out to kill everything.
Those things worked, Yeah, they had secondaries issues.

Speaker 24 (01:51:38):
Well normally, all right, I try to do I try
to do most things organic, and he convinced me to
use the seven dust because I was getting like all
my my nectarines on my tree just got destroyed and
all that said, I'm having my tomato plants okay, literally
five feet tall, and they're blooming like crazy, but not

(01:51:58):
setting much fruit.

Speaker 5 (01:51:59):
What what are your thoughts our suggestions. If they're not
setting fruit, it's it could be due to a lack
of movement. Tomatoes that are in an area where the
wind isn't moving. They pollinate when something shakes the blooms
and wind is typically what does that or a bumblebee
buzzing them. Don't overdo the nitrogen. When you get a

(01:52:21):
good green, crazy green, fast growing tomato, extra nitrogen can
come at the expense of fruit set. So those two
things are the primary reasons that you wouldn't get fruit set.
A lack of sunlight could be another reason, but those
are the primaries. And Mark, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna
I'm gonna have to run here. But hopefully that that helps, Yes, sir,

(01:52:42):
you bet hey, mosquito season is here. It rained, therefore
we will have more and more mosquitos. Mosquito dunks can
fix that. Mosquita dunks a little small beiged donut floats
on water. One dunk control controls mosquitos and a hundred
square feet of water for thirty days or more if
you want a break them up and put them in
places like you know there's a hole in a tree

(01:53:03):
where water gathers in there, a bird bath, a rain barrel,
you know, any kind of reservoir under a plant you
can throw some mosquito dunks in and save yourself from
the hassle of breeding mosquitoes. Don't be a skeeter breeder.
Get you some mosquito dunks. I'm going to go for
a break here. When we come back, Jeff and Spring Branch,
we got your photos. You'll be first up, all right, folks,

(01:53:24):
welcome back. Good to have you with us. RCW nursery
has got an excellent selection right now of Btex trees
have a lot in the christmer shrubs and trees, they've
got everything. But the Vitext just look good. And right
now they are putting on their big show.

Speaker 7 (01:53:41):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
You share those back a little bit periodically, and they
just keep blooming through the heat of summer. And blue
is a color. It's kind of hard to come by.
Blue purple in the summertimes, not as common as it
is in spring. But Vitex does it. It's an excellent plant,
I mean, and it's you want something that, once it's established,
is drought tolerant, that's it. If you want something that
bees and butterflies and hummingbirds a door, that's it. Ytex

(01:54:04):
brings all those in. It's a great plant. It's a
really really good one. Now again, I keep talking about
the Cajun hibiscus. You just have to go see them.
It's colors that I couldn't even begin to tell you
what color that is. I mean it it goes from
kind of a pinkish to a reddish to a purple
lamauv I mean, it's all in one bloom. Some of

(01:54:24):
these things are just stunning. They got a great selection.
There are other heat loving plants like cilosia just laughs
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(01:54:45):
dot com. Let's go now, we're gonna head over to
Jeff in Spring Branch. Hey, Jeff, I did get your photos.
I got those opened up here, and that is indeed
Virginia button weed that you're.

Speaker 9 (01:54:57):
Dealing with, all right, So definitely the top one is
that one. It has a smaller diameter stem if you
were the white flowers.

Speaker 8 (01:55:07):
Is the bottom one Virginia button weed as well?

Speaker 5 (01:55:11):
It looks like it to me, Yeah, it does. It
could be something else because right there's very little on
it to identify it by. But the way the plant
structure looks like Virginia button weed. Virginia button weed's hard
to control. It likes wet, So the wetter you keep
the grass, the faster Virginia button weed grows. So number one,

(01:55:31):
your grass does better with less watering than what makes
virginia button weed happy, so back off a little on
that and then sprays. There's a product called celsius, like
the temperature celsius, that is pretty good against Virginia button weed.
Most of the time, even products label for Virginia button

(01:55:53):
weed need to be applied more than once. So try
the celsius six weeks later. If you're seeing any growth
on it, hit it again. But itius a reason I
like it. Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:56:06):
So this is in my father in law's yard, and
I've controlled Virginia button we the celsius and my zoisa
this is sant Augustine. Well you see that picture, and
but I've always been told this earlier I can do
it the better that once it gets hot, it hardens off,
and even the celsius isn't I mean, so I think

(01:56:28):
you'd recommend go ahead and get celsius on it now
and then another treatment.

Speaker 5 (01:56:33):
Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely. And some of the weeds you put
in the picture already have blims on them, which means
they're going to have the little buttons on them, which
means you already got new seeds coming. So you want
to shut those things down before they do that. Yeah,
that's for sure. Yeah, I get that on them as
soon as you can. Just target spray it. Uh and
that's probably your best bet. Okay, great, thank you Skip

(01:56:55):
all right, yeah, Jeff, thanks glad we were able to
get those photos and complete that. Good to know. ACE
hardware stores are the place.

Speaker 3 (01:57:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:57:05):
The motto is ACE is the place, and then you
can fill in the blank ware. ACE is a place
for lighting and plumbing and electrical and fixtures and all
the hardware stuff, of course, but ACE is a place
for your yard. Ace is a place for your garden.
Ace is a place you get fertilizer and pest control
and weed control and disease control. ACE is a place
where you get garden hoses and garden shovels and spades

(01:57:29):
and every kind of tool you can imagine that you
might need outside. Ace is a place where you get
barbecue pits that you will not believe the top brands,
brands like Big Green Egg and Tragger and Rectag and
on and on down the line. ACE is a place
for that. Weber is another one that carry then all
the accessories that go with them. If you want to

(01:57:50):
enjoy your outdoor living, you got to start at ACE
because there's so much that you need. I got some
of those string lights that ACE carries us that you
put above it kind of creates and beyond like a
little beer garden light kind of deal. Wonderful things there
and so many other things that make the outdoors more lovable.
ACE is a place. Go to Acehardwaretexas dot com. Don't

(01:58:11):
forget Texas. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. You'll find my
local Houston area ACE Hardware stores there and you can
go straight to the one that you want to go to.
Like I said earlier, I'm going to be at an
ACE Hardware store later today. I've got some shopping to
do and can't wait to get over there. Uh, you're
listening to garden Line. The phone number is seven one

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because that squeezes the soil apart and compacts the sides
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Speaker 3 (01:59:01):
To do it, that way.

Speaker 5 (01:59:02):
But a core erator goes down in the soil with
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So one of the best ways to get rid of
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that thatch area as it dissolves away with the rain.
It helps speed the decomposition at thatch. That's important. Follow

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out a good date where we can get us all
in the same place at the same time. But anyway,
I'm looking forward to that. I'll show you some pictures
of the kind of work they do and how that works,
how that goes. Whenever I can get that, we'll put
it on our guarden Line Facebook page, and I'll also

(02:01:20):
put it on my garden Line Instagram page as well.
I hope you follow us on that. If you don't,
you should look for garden Line on Facebook. And then
it just I like the social media in terms of
being able to get quick messages out to folks in
a way that goes fast. It's easy to follow, and

(02:01:44):
I like social media a lot. I guess a lot
of you guys do too, right, So on Instagram it's
called garden Line with skip. On Facebook it's called garden Line. Okay,
there you go. Well let's see here. I am up
again a break. I tell you what I'm gonna do.
Martha and Menville. Let's see if we can get started

(02:02:06):
on this question and we'll finish up after I have
to take a break here in just a second.

Speaker 7 (02:02:11):
Yeah, it's it's in regards to my pear tree, which
I've had for about eight years. Never did bear andy pears,
and we planted other fruit trees in the backyard close
to it, and this year is loaded with pairs. But
the pears have black markings on them, like I don't
know if they're gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:02:30):
Come to.

Speaker 7 (02:02:32):
I need to know what is causing and what.

Speaker 6 (02:02:34):
I can do to you know, have a better.

Speaker 5 (02:02:38):
And it's okay, Martha, it's on the fruit, not the leaves. Correct, correct, Okay,
So take your thumb and lick your thumb, get it wet,
and see if you can wipe that black off. There's
a city that grows on pear fruit that doesn't do
any damage. If you can't wipe it off off, then

(02:03:00):
it's a disease that's entered the fruit, and that would
probably take some types of sprays, but we'd have to
figure out which disease. If you if you can't wipe
it off, take some pictures of the black spots and
send them to me by email. I'm gonna put you
on hold. My producer Alejandro, will give you an email
to send those two and we'll we'll take it from there,

(02:03:21):
but first try to wipe them off with the wet thumb.
Usually it's a city mold that we're seeing.

Speaker 6 (02:03:27):
Okay, okay, I'll wait on and get that email.

Speaker 5 (02:03:31):
Al right here, I'll be right with you. All right, folks,
there you go, putting another hour in the books. We'll
be back for the final hour of guarden Line this morning.
Hang around back, get ready to doll seven one three
two one two kt r H. All right, ladies and gentlemen, gardeners,

(02:03:55):
here we go with our last hour of the day
on guarden Line. Just a reminder for those of you
listen for the first time. Perhaps we're here every Saturday
and Sunday from six am to ten am Saturday and
Sunday six to ten on KTRH seven forty am. Now
you can also listen to garden Line with the iHeartMedia app.

(02:04:16):
It's a little red heart app with an eye in
the middle. Download that on your phone. It's a great app.
And if you find garden Line on there, you can
just listen live right from the app, or you can
listen to past shows either way, which is kind of cool.
Now I keep telling people to do that. One of
these days, I'm gonna get somebody to call in that
actually does this. But you take your phone with you

(02:04:37):
out in the garden. Look outside right now. You need
to be out there gardening, and here I am on
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Take the phone with you, turn it on and listen
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just take a picture of what you see, email it
to garden line, follow it up with a phone call
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Look forward to doing that. When our clay soils get wet,
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It certainly heaves sidewalks and driveways and cracks foundations of

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your house. If you got cracks in the brick on
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eight one two fi five forty nine forty nine two
eight one two five five four nine four nine. You
know this is National Humates Month. What are humates? You say, well,
I'm glad you ask. Or there's a wonderfully designed system

(02:06:31):
in nature. And in that system, I'll just use the
forests as an example. This could also be a meadow
we're talking about, but organic matter, which would in the
case of a forest be pieces of bark and leaves
and branches that fall to the ground. It could even
be living animals that die and decompose into the soil.

(02:06:52):
All of that turns back into soil. Everything that was
once alive becomes soil again. Okay. And we call that
process when we do it in our yards composting, breaking
down organic matter into compost. But compost keeps breaking down
and it becomes humius. Humus is a final decomposition stage

(02:07:13):
of organic matter. And it's wonderful. I mean, like I said,
it's designed to work well, and it does. It improves
the soil, especially clay soils, even sandy soils, adds carbon
back into the soil. So that is a good thing too,
because there we're looking at the carbon dioxide and the

(02:07:35):
issues and global warming and all the things that happen
out there. Well, the more carbon we sequester into the soil,
the better off we are in general. Okay, but it's
not just for that. It's for the soil, it's for
the plants, it's for the roots, it's for the microbes.
Humates are very important for that. That's why Microlife created
a product called Humates plus Humans plus is not only

(02:07:57):
does it have the humates as the basic for the
beneficial microbes and general soil biology. Those are over sixty
three minerals in it and includes things like eleven strains
of microhizal fungi. So there there's lots of good different microbes,
seventy different species of microbes. Some of them fight disease,
some of them help fix nitrogen in the soil. When

(02:08:19):
you put humts plus on your soil year after year,
when you mix it into the soil when you're preparing
the oil, all of this stuff helps stimulate the soil.
Now you when you go out and fertilize your lawn
with the green bag the six y two four for microlife,
grab a purple bag of humts plus and after you fertilize,
then put the humans plus out or vice versa, doesn't matter.

(02:08:39):
Which you can do it as many times a year
as you want. You're not gonna burn soil with it,
and you're not gonna burn your plants with it. In
other words, and as you do, you just get better
and better. And when you get better soil, you get
better plants. That's just how that grows. That's why nature
works the way that it does, because it makes plant
life thrive.

Speaker 3 (02:08:58):
All right.

Speaker 5 (02:08:59):
Microlife for a Life's the website if you want to
find out where to get it, or I can save
you some time and just say everywhere. It's pretty much.
I you're hard pressed to go to a garden center,
mom and pop garden center, an independent garden center, a
feed store, or a ace certainly a hardware stores, off
ies fertilizer. All places that carry micro life products and

(02:09:24):
they work. And I know that because I use them.
I don't just say that I actually use them. I
spend more time in my yard, trying things out, not
just products either, but different systems. I'm trying a different
pruning system on Vitex right now a plant that I have.
I don't know if it's gonna work or not. I'm
gonna try it and then i'll know. But just trying

(02:09:45):
something else out with the vitexs, Planning different species and
varieties of plants to see which ones do well, which
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to take a quick break. When we come back, Josh
in Spring and Runnie and Magnolia you will be our

(02:11:35):
first two up. All right, but just maybe that lou
take youre look at Arburgate Arburgate Gardens. I was out
there a couple of weeks ago, and I'm telling you
that place is amazing. Actually it was a week ago,
I believe I lose track of time. We had a

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good time. Lots of people came out. It was good
to visit with everybody. And that Arbrogate just looked outstanding.
I mean, the place just keeps getting better and better,
you know. Think I think are eight new parking lot
in the back, which is where you should park by
the way, good safe parking. Just turned on Trischel Road.
Go around behind Arburgate. You'll see the big sign all
weather easy, easy convenience parking lot. You need to check

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that out. I don't even know where to begin. The
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hanging baskets, pottery, outstanding, the selection have I said this
outstanding fruit trees year round. Okay, we're talking about shrubs
and trees and roses. Oh my gosh, I have a

(02:12:39):
good selection of roses. Everything you need to have a beautiful,
bountiful garden and to enjoy it more. Or is that Arburgate?
You can find it there. They are on twenty nine
to twenty a mile and a half west of Tomball.
It's easy to find them, easy to get to. Remember,
brown stuff comes before green stuff, so when you take home,
those wonderful plants take home a bad of organic food Complete,

(02:13:01):
which is an organic fertilizer with calcium addition to it,
Organic soil Complete, which is soil with expanded shale in it,
and Organic Compost Complete, which is compost with expanded shale.
That sets the foundation so your plants thrive and do well.
By the way, if you want those three in larger amounts,
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(02:13:23):
in a whole bed. The say those three, the two
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Center a gardener's paradise for sure. Let's heeat out. Now
to Magnolia and we're going to talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie,

(02:13:43):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (02:13:45):
Hey, good morning. Yeah, sent some pictures of a couple
of tomatoes. Okay, the grain tomatoes are fantastic. I mean,
I hadn't it look any better. But when the turning red,
some of them are eaten. And that's the picture got
for you.

Speaker 5 (02:14:03):
All right, I'm trying to pull that. Oh there we go. Okay,
I've got that opened up. There is a caterpillar that
does that. It burrows into the fruit and eats the
inside and then all the rotten mess occurs from that.
If you would spray your tomatoes with the product containing
dt B as in boy tea is in tom the

(02:14:26):
bt product will go in there and it will do
a very good job of a say, go in there,
it'll go on the fruit. When a caterpillar tries to
chew in it'll it'll shut them down. It works pretty well.
There's also a product called spinosid s p I N
O s A D. Spinosid is another good one for

(02:14:48):
controlling these pests. But you have to spray it on
ahead of time and then you know, just probably about
another two weeks, spray it on again and prevent that entry.

Speaker 15 (02:15:00):
Okay, so I just can cover the entire I have
several plants.

Speaker 3 (02:15:05):
Just cover the entire plant crop that I have.

Speaker 5 (02:15:09):
Okay, yeah, spray the whole plants. Some types of caterpillars
will feed on the leaves and the fruit, and then
that way you get them there. But especially cover the fruit,
but also get some coverage on the leaves and you
ought to be able to shut this down. They're spoiling
your show out there.

Speaker 15 (02:15:23):
Also, is that the same caterpillar that you'd say would
be eating my broccoli and turnips leaves?

Speaker 5 (02:15:30):
No, it's it's actually a different one, one of the
tomato caterpillars. You'll find it on corn and tobacco plants,
but not on broccoli. But then there are others that
just occur on the tomatoes.

Speaker 15 (02:15:45):
Well, would this work on them though, the spinosa or
BT products.

Speaker 5 (02:15:48):
Yes, yes it will if it eats leaves spinosia and
b T well if it if it eat okay, if
it's a caterpillar, b T works on it, only caterpillars.
If it's eats leaves, spinosa, it works on it. It
could be you know, it could be a beetle, or
it could be a caterpillar or something chewing. The spinosa
will work on both of those.

Speaker 3 (02:16:10):
All right, Well, bit all right?

Speaker 15 (02:16:12):
Flapping them with name ol that has a little okay, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:16:17):
Not a whole lot, though not a whole lot. All right,
you take care. Thanks a lot for the call. Reading
appreciate that for sure. Super turf from the folks at nitroposs.
It's kind of the premiere fertilizer. When we're looking at
our lawns for summer. It's a silver bag nineteen four ten.

(02:16:39):
It just does what needs to be done. Our southern
turf crosses in Augustine, Bermuda, Zoisa, our southern soils here
in the Houston area, and our climate. Super Turf is
designed for all of that because we need something to
give our lawn a gradual feeding of nitrogen over time,
not a dump of nitrogen at one time. That's not
good for the grass. All kinds of problems happen when

(02:16:59):
you overdo that. But even though it has nineteen percent
nitrogen in super Turf, that nineteen percent, it takes sixteen
weeks for to release it all out into your soil.
So it's like you just put little amounts of fertilizer
out at a time, which is ideal. It's a silver bag,
so it's easy to find when you go into Ace
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(02:17:20):
Creek Ace Hardware on FM five twenty nine on the
backside of Copperfield Subdivision up towards Cyprus. Yeah, you're going
to see the silver bag from across the store. If
you go to RCW Nursery on Tomball Parkway. You're going
to find Nito frost products there as well, like the
super turf. All right, let's see, We're gonna head back

(02:17:41):
out to the phones here if I can get my
grab the right mouse. I got too many mice, all right,
Josh in Spring Welcome to garden Line. I finally did
get those photos, so I'm ready to talk. Hey, so
you see, uh you see the photos of the angel trumpet.

(02:18:03):
I've been fighting this for a few weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:18:06):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:18:06):
You see the discoloration of the leaves. I think it
was mites or aphids or over water. And I've hit
it with.

Speaker 3 (02:18:17):
I've hit it.

Speaker 5 (02:18:20):
All right, Yead in Spring Welcome to Dark You turned
the radio off? Yeah all right, so so what did
you What did you say you used on it?

Speaker 25 (02:18:32):
So I've hit it with Talstar Pro, and then I
hit it with Alpine, and then I hit it with
like the.

Speaker 5 (02:18:42):
Like the seven dust liquid. Okay, and I still I'm
still getting these yellow leaves, man, So I'm just wondering,
Uh you take it? Yeah, No, it's a lack of
nitrogen partly, but you've also got spider miights pretty seriously
on these I had a brigmancio that got them pretty

(02:19:04):
good one year. And you know what I did. I
just took a handgun sprayer on the end of a
hose and I put my hand on top of the
leaves and I blasted the bottom of the leaf, you know,
I just like squirted it from upward under the plant,
just blasted all the spider mites off. They'll come back,
but slowly. But if you do that about once a
week for about three weeks, it basically it goes away.

(02:19:28):
It just does. And so all the chemicals and things,
some of them have secondary effects. The seven desks you
use made the spider mites worse. Actually, so I would
just I would do the hand squirt with water. It's
easier than mixing up stuff to spray, and it works
good on the spider miights. And then provide some nitrogen.
Give your plants a good boost of nitrogen and keep

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the soil evenly moist and though brigmancio will take off
and you will enjoy those gorgeous blooms.

Speaker 8 (02:19:57):
Okay, so just rip them with water, give them some
fertilizer and we're good.

Speaker 5 (02:20:01):
Yeap, blast them. You got to hit the bottom of
the leaves and you gotta have That's why I put
my hand over them, because if you hit that leaf
with a s strong spray of water, it just it
just knocks a leaf straight up vertical. You know you
don't you don't blast them off, so it didn't take
it just a little tedious bid take that long. It's
easy to do. And spider mites, just getting them wet
causes them to get all kinds of diseases and fungus

(02:20:24):
and stuff on their bodies that kills them. But physically
removing them with a strong blast is important too. Hope
that works, man, Thanks, thanks for calingis appreciate that you
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Corner of this Nut and Runwick seven one three six
sixty six one seven four four. We're gonna go now
out to Crosby and talk to Bob. Oh, Bob, Welcome
to garden Line. Good morning, good morning, yes, good morning.

Speaker 3 (02:22:16):
Morning.

Speaker 17 (02:22:16):
I planned at Rosemary and lavender about three times from
seeds and I never get any results. I'm just trying
to figure out what's going on.

Speaker 5 (02:22:30):
Well, lavender is a challenge in our area. We just
get so much rain over here. It prefers to be
in a drier, more Mediterranean like climate that isn't isn't
so rainy. To grow lavender successfully here, you need full sun,
outstanding drainage, and don't keep it too wet, and that'll
give you your best shot. It's success with lavender that

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rosemary is on the other end of the spectrum. It's
easy to grow, but it also doesn't like to be
so wet in the roots. So again Mediterranean.

Speaker 3 (02:23:04):
Uh it.

Speaker 5 (02:23:05):
It is one that I would say when it comes
to drought tolerance, rosemary is one of our best plants
that we have for our landscape. So if you need
to build up the bed in a raised bed to
help a little bit, I think I would do that.
I put some of my rosemary in big giant pots
because that works really well too.

Speaker 3 (02:23:26):
Good.

Speaker 17 (02:23:28):
Biggest problem is I'm not getting any seed germination.

Speaker 5 (02:23:33):
And oh, you're planning them from seed, Yes, okay, planning
them from seed? I see, Okay, Well that's different. I
always either start them from plants or from cuttings. Both
can be rooted from cuttings as well. Seed germination, keep
it moist, provide it good sunlight, but not necessarily direct

(02:23:56):
sun initially, uh, and just keeping it moist. I've not
tried starting those from seed because it's so easy to
start him from cuttings and from plants, but but that
that would be what they need. Just don't keep them
too soggy wet.

Speaker 3 (02:24:10):
All right, all right, all right, sir, thank you, all.

Speaker 5 (02:24:13):
Right, Bob, you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate
your call. All right. Time for me to take a
little break if you'd like to be first up when
we come back. Seven to one three two one two
k t RH Welcome back to the guardline. Good heavy
with us this morning. We're going to get to your
calls here in just one moment.

Speaker 6 (02:24:32):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:24:33):
Hoorgesitt and Gardens is down in Alvin, Texas, and if
you haven't been there, you ought to check it out,
especially those of you who live down that direction south
of Houston. He's actually in between kind of Alvin and
Santa Fe. It's an Alvin address on Elizabeth Road. Elizabeth
Road and Alvin Texas and Horayes got an outstanding selection
of trees and shrubs. Beautiful, beautiful trees and shrubs. He's

(02:24:56):
got vitex. He has great myrtles, he has oaks, and
pretty much everything that you can think about. He knows
how to grow and he knows how to install these plants.
If you're looking for fruit trees like lemonade blueberry, do
you know pick lemonade blueberry? The berries get pink instead
of blue like a blueberry. It's kind of cool. Whatever

(02:25:17):
you want installed, he can install it for you. You
just got to get out there and check him out.
The vitex he has right now are just beautiful and outstanding.
He also has some a good selection too of avocado trees.
Still some of may have fruit on him, I believe.
But give him a call or go out there. Jorge
Seddon Gardens on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of

(02:25:37):
Highway six. Easy, easy, easy to get to and really nice,
really nice selection as well. Let's head out on the
phones now we're going to go to Seabrook and talk
to Jeremy. Hello, Jeremy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (02:25:51):
How's it going, Skip.

Speaker 5 (02:25:54):
Doing well? Thank you.

Speaker 25 (02:25:57):
So My question is I got I bought a rose
bush last year. It's still in the nursery pot and
I've cut it back to who make it a box eye?
It did really good growing in the early spring, but
now you know, I've tried keep it in the sun,
keeping it in parts on, but the leaves are withering

(02:26:18):
and part of the branches are dying back, turning brown.
I thought it was a bug issue, but I've looked
at it and it doesn't look like bugs.

Speaker 3 (02:26:28):
But just looking for some help, so I don't want
this thing to die. Okay.

Speaker 5 (02:26:33):
Well, I am not a bones eye expert, but I've
never seen a rose bon's eye, and so part of
the problem may be that's plants response to this.

Speaker 7 (02:26:43):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:26:44):
You know, with bones eye, you're you're basically limiting plants
so that they can't grow, but that they stay alive.
You know, you're doing root printing, and you're doing a
lot of other things that basically keep it dwarf. So
what I'm going to do in this to give you
an accurate sure?

Speaker 3 (02:27:00):
Not?

Speaker 5 (02:27:01):
Okay? Well, I want to give you an accurate answer,
but not my best guess. Okay, So if I were you,
I would call Ken at Quality Feed. Quality Feed is
in north central Houston, you know, just in town, just
north of the heights in there. Quality Feed Ken is
a bones eye expert. They have occasionally meetings of Bonesye

(02:27:22):
Society and things going on out there, and I would
ask him your question, and I think he could do it.
I don't have a connection reference number for someone with
the Bones Eye Society, but I would rather let someone
who's much more experienced with bones eye on a plant
like rose, which I've never even seen bones eye to
help you with that. Okay, all right, So I guess

(02:27:49):
what I'm saying is I could I could sit here
and ramble and guess, or I could send you to
people that know. So I'd like to give you the
better answer by doing that. Thank you, Thank you a lot.
I appreciate that. All Right, We're going to go out
to clear Leg now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (02:28:09):
Good morning, sir. I don't have to ask you how
you are so, because you've already said you're I've sent
a couple of pictures.

Speaker 13 (02:28:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (02:28:19):
Well, I guess that's great. Is better than fine, it's super?

Speaker 3 (02:28:23):
Uh yeah, it is it is? Mark?

Speaker 5 (02:28:25):
What is what is the topic of the picture remind
me of that, so I grabbed the right one.

Speaker 18 (02:28:30):
I think it says what are.

Speaker 8 (02:28:33):
I don't like.

Speaker 3 (02:28:38):
It does?

Speaker 5 (02:28:38):
And that's that's one of the common names for it,
mimosa weed, but it's not a mimosa. That is called
chamber better, chamber better.

Speaker 17 (02:28:47):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:28:48):
It's also called flower because, yes, sir, because at the
base of each leaf there's a little tiny flower that
you wouldn't even know it's a flower because it's so conspicuous,
but it makes the seeds. And the minute that thing
gets up and gets a few inches on it, it's
already producing seed. So it's a problem. The best well,

(02:29:10):
I'll start with the more manual way of controlling, and
that is to pull them up the minute they come up.
Be careful, get all those out of there, because you
don't want to leave the seeds behind. And then mulch
with about three inches of a good dense mulch, not
something big and chunky, but a little denser, and block
all the sunlight out so they can't sprout. Now, you

(02:29:30):
can use a pre emergent in the soil called gallery
gallery like like a foat, like a painting gallery. Okay,
that is put down like Mattrosmat Gallery, right, and you

(02:29:51):
put that down watered in like you would. You know,
I talk about barricade all the time. It controls grasses
and broad leaf weeds, this particular one, I think gallery
will do a little bit better job for you. You
might get bark may work on it, but the galleries
for broad leaf weeds only doesn't control grasses. But if
you get it down, you're gonna have to get it
down in April, early April, maybe late March, because this

(02:30:14):
stuff starts sprouting a little late, but as you know,
is already well sprouted by now, so I would say
probably late March would even be a better time for
the gallery application watered in.

Speaker 18 (02:30:25):
It's everywhere, It's in all kinds of pots and other places.
I was wondering, you know, if some weeds are edible.
I don't suppose this is one of them, because it
is I A feed a whole lot of people.

Speaker 5 (02:30:36):
Yeah, not to my knowledge that that is for sure,
not to my knowledge, but it is. It is an
ongoing problem, and we really struggle with this particular weed
because it's not easy to kill. Now, if you can
find a product that is like a trimech product, Okay,
trimech it's a broad leaf weed killer. If you apply it,

(02:30:57):
you got to be real careful because it kills broad
leaf weeds and lawns, but it can damage your lawn
if temperatures are like above ninety degrees, so you get
out early in the morning and spray it. I do
find that chamber Better is a little hard to control,
and so since it's growing so close with other desirable plants,
you just want to be real careful not to get

(02:31:19):
that trimeach on those desirable plants.

Speaker 18 (02:31:23):
Ok, well, thanks very much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (02:31:28):
All right. You take care. You're my first chamber Better
call of this season. We usually get a few of
them here.

Speaker 3 (02:31:34):
Eat you.

Speaker 18 (02:31:34):
You know, I'm not thanks very many things. Thanks, there
you go.

Speaker 5 (02:31:39):
I wish there was a reward for it, but we're
fresh out today. Take care of her. You know, normally
I tell people normally I tell people want to help
them with like tomatoes or something. I say, well, just
bring me half your produce to the station and we'll
call it. Even I don't need half your chamber Better.
You just keep it to yourself. Thank you. I appreciate that,

(02:32:02):
all right. There you go, Ah boy, jungle Land. Jungle
Land is a product distributed by Nitropos comes in two forms.
One is the flour and vegetable planting soil. The other
is jungle and water savor planting soil. I'm gonna talk
about that second one, water savor potting soil. It's got
a little crystals in it that swell up with water,
and after your mix starts to dry out, those crystals

(02:32:24):
remain moist with water to help your plants get by
until the plant owner gets around, if only remember to
water them again. That's the nice thing about jungle Land
water saving potting soil. Jungle Land is distributed by night Fross.
Night Fast products are available in a lot of places.
You got under Fisher's Hardware and La Port on Broadway Street,
you're gonna find nitrofoss products.

Speaker 3 (02:32:46):
You go to M and D.

Speaker 5 (02:32:47):
Beamer in Sagemont and you're gonna find nitro frost type
products there, Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive and Ausposes
up in the Woodlands on Kirkandal. Those are all places
where you find nitrofoss products and our Ny among others.
I'm looking at a break here, so I'll tell you
what Martha and Kingwood and Gary and West Houston. You're
gonna be first when we come right back. All right, folks,

(02:33:10):
here we go. Got one little quick segment left. We're
gonna get that done. Hey, what is the mantra of
garden line? Well, I got a bunch of mantras, but
the main one I think seems to be brown stuff
before green stuff. Right, I'll tell you where to get
the brown stuff. Seein the malts. See in amalts. They
carry products that are top quality of every type you need,

(02:33:31):
mulches of various types. They got a bunch of different
options for multis. Do you need compost, Oh, my gosh,
they got incredible selection of composts, really quality stuff too.
Do you want to do maybe a vegetable nerve bed? Well,
they carry from the folks at Heirloom Soils, Veggie and Herbmex.
You know you're gonna find the fertilizers there that are

(02:33:52):
part of fixing the brown stuff, part of building the soil,
part of creating the foundation for success with plants. That
would be micro Life products, Nelson Products, Medina Products, nitrofoss Products,
Azamite product that is a one stop shop. Ciena Molts
there south of Houston on FM five point twenty one.
Go to the website Sienna Multch dot com Sienna Maltz

(02:34:17):
dot com. Start there. They'll deliver within twenty miles of
the area that they're in for a small fee. Or
you can go pick it up. You can go pick
it up there by the bag, by the bulk, however
you want to do it. Ciena Maltch is the place
where you begin. Once you created that foundation at Cienamltch,
then you put the great plants in and take care

(02:34:38):
of them and you're guaranteed success. I mean, it's as
simple as that. All right, We're going to run out
now to Kingwood and talk to Martha this morning. Hey, Martha,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (02:34:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 26 (02:34:51):
I have a question on my blackberries. I've had this
last year and I read it article and I can't
find the article anymore. But what happens is.

Speaker 13 (02:35:05):
When the.

Speaker 26 (02:35:07):
Berries turn red and then when they start turning the
black part of the I call them seed. They they're white.
And it's this year it is more prevalent than it's
ever been on my berries. So something and I remember

(02:35:30):
the article. It was lacking something in the salt, and
I can't find the article.

Speaker 2 (02:35:37):
You have any suggestions, Well.

Speaker 5 (02:35:40):
Yeah, you see that a lot. The white those are
called druplets. You see the white druplets on there. Now,
this happens quite a bit when temperatures are really high.
That can happen. Whenever they use shade cloth in the
test trials, it cuts down on that a little bit.
So sometimes it's a sun related thing. It also sometimes

(02:36:06):
when you get too much water on them, we say
excessive rainfall, but it could come from irrigation too. You
notice red druplets that just don't turn their full color
or that wine. There's also sometimes brown and shrunken druplets
on a berry, and that's a disease called anthractnose that
can affect the berries. Normally, we don't do a lot

(02:36:26):
of spray in for any of this stuff, but when
if you had the anthractnose part, there's a product called
lime liquid lime sulfur that can be put on them
when they're dormant, before the berries even begin to put
a new growth dormant dormant that can be put on
for the anthractnose part. I think, based on what you're describing,

(02:36:49):
it seems to be more of a temperature related thing,
and especially sudden changes in that temperature.

Speaker 26 (02:36:57):
Well that could be the boys lot more than it
ever has. And the berries don't really have a good taste,
not like they used you know they did, like, yeah, they.

Speaker 5 (02:37:09):
Because they're not fully fully ripening and getting all that
sugar in. There's one other thing I didn't mention. That's
stink bugs. Stink bugs can put their little beak and
a BlackBerry and feed on it too and cause damage
to it. And you may be seeing a little bit
of that. But with blackberries, we like a moderate amount
of moisture. So the plants are good and strong and healthy,
but we need we need lots of sunlight to get

(02:37:32):
those berries fully ripened. And you kind of have to
let them ripen where they go past the shiny stage
to kind of a dull, shiny kind of color.

Speaker 26 (02:37:41):
When they're fully ripe, well they are out in the sun,
so it's that's not a problem for sure.

Speaker 12 (02:37:50):
Well, yeah, what.

Speaker 5 (02:37:51):
Kind of blackberries? What kind of blackberries do you have?

Speaker 2 (02:37:55):
The rap a hole.

Speaker 5 (02:37:58):
Rapa ho Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Well anyway, yeah, yeah, well, uh so, Arkansas, which is
our number one breeder of blackberries now all the good
new varieties like a rapa ho. In fact, any BlackBerry
that has a name that's a Native American tribe like

(02:38:20):
Kaiowa and a rappah and those names. They're bread in Arkansas,
and they say that whenever you get a drop in
humidity and an increase in temperature, they get a lot
more of those white berries on the fruit from that.
So anyway, I don't know exactly on yours. Yeah, they

(02:38:40):
one of their one of their varieties is called Apache,
and it's more prone to to that problem. We see
that more on Apache, but I'm not familiar with a
rapa hoe and the white drupelet. If it's more.

Speaker 2 (02:38:51):
Prone to it or not, we all be there.

Speaker 26 (02:38:56):
Okay, Well, thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:38:58):
Out, Okay, worry about it like all.

Speaker 5 (02:39:01):
Thanks for the call.

Speaker 3 (02:39:02):
Okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (02:39:03):
Mar I appreciate, appreciate you call very much. Hey, Moss Nursery,
if you haven't been there, you got to go. I
don't care where you live, you gotta go to Moss Nursery.
And why do I say that, Well, it is amazing.
This is a family owed nursery. You've been around seventy years,
eight acres. You wander through eight acres of wonderfulness. Oh
my gosh, the houseplat Greenhouse, I love it. I almost

(02:39:25):
had their first ever time because of the selection and
things that they have just so good. But everywhere you
walk in Moss, you're gonna see pottery, You're gonna see plants,
you're gonna see water features, You're gonna it's just a
fun place to go visit. And I'll tell you this,
you will see a lot of stuff that you can't
find anywhere else. They specialize in having a very wide

(02:39:46):
variety of things. You know, like unusual varieties of pathos,
for example. Everybody knows what apothus ivy is. Well, how
about varieties you never seen in your life before. They've
got those there. If you want color plants like dwarf
zenias for betting plants, they got you covered. Do you
want hanging baskets? Do you want trees and shrubs and
those little discipring fountain water features, the small ones you

(02:40:06):
just sit on yours like a container and a container
so it's bubbling water over the top, but it just
recircles around. They've got those down there at Moss Nursery.
It's in Seabrook, Texas. It's on Toddville Road. The website
Maas Nursery Moss Nursery dot com. Check out the beautiful

(02:40:28):
passion mines. They have purple, blue, creamy, white, red, all
kinds of colors. The Gulf fritillary caterpillars. They will fly
ten miles to get to a passion vine because that's
what their babies love to munch on. And you get
more caterpillars, you get more butterflies that way. Go check
them out Moss Nursery. We're going to head now over

(02:40:49):
to West Houston and talk to Gary. Gary, you're the
caboose today on the show, our last caller. How can
we help?

Speaker 3 (02:40:56):
Well, thank you and I'll try to make it real.
Did you get the pictures? I said to the producer.

Speaker 5 (02:41:02):
I bet I did, I bet I did. Hang on
one second, what would they? What would they pictures of Gary?

Speaker 27 (02:41:08):
I get the grass and there's one with Saint Augustine
with the American flag in the background.

Speaker 5 (02:41:17):
Oh uh no, I don't have those.

Speaker 3 (02:41:22):
I can.

Speaker 5 (02:41:25):
Okay, tell me, tell me. Let's see if I can
help you without the pictures.

Speaker 3 (02:41:29):
Sure, yes, that's where it's going.

Speaker 27 (02:41:31):
One of my neighbors is real sick in their yards,
gone to you know where, and they got a behea infestation.

Speaker 3 (02:41:38):
And I know how to grow Saint Augustine. I'm really
good at it, but I've researched it. I can't find
a way to help her with that problem with behea.

Speaker 5 (02:41:48):
Mm hmm. Okay, I mean it's a lot there's behea
in the Saint Augustine, right.

Speaker 3 (02:41:56):
Yes, yes, sir, but a lot of Okay, I know
lot of.

Speaker 5 (02:42:03):
Okay, here's what you do, okay, sir. Yeah, here's what
you do if you've if you're going to control beeo
grass in Saint Augustine, Uh, we are gonna what is
the name of that, oh, met sulfur on.

Speaker 17 (02:42:20):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:42:20):
The ingredient is met sulfur On M E T s
U L F U R O N. The brand is
either going to be called M S M turf or
manor M A N O R. Now, big, big, big, big,
big warning. That will damage trees and shrubs. Do not

(02:42:41):
overdrench them. Don't put it on before a rain. You
do not want it in the root system in the soil.
You just want to barely wet the beheograss and Saint
Augustine is not bothered by the M S M turf
hardly at all, but the beheograss is killed by it.
But be very careful with the application. That's one reason

(02:43:02):
I recommend that product.

Speaker 3 (02:43:04):
Okay, go ahead, are they find no?

Speaker 5 (02:43:10):
Uh, you you were in West Houston, I would go
to Southwest Fertilizer corner Abyssinett and Runwick. You may find
those at an Ace hardware store. It would. You just
have to check the stores near you to see if
they carry them. But I know has them done at Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:43:28):
Yes, I appreciate the information.

Speaker 27 (02:43:30):
It's it's it's green, but they put up those ugly
peace signed things and it's just so ugly.

Speaker 5 (02:43:36):
Oh, I know the day the day after it's it's
a great turf for out there in areas where you
don't want to water and take care of it. But
the day after, you know, you already got seat heads,
knee hike.

Speaker 27 (02:43:47):
Yes, I'm gonna the rest of her long and I
really feel like I can help because I know I've
been listening the guard line a long time, so I.

Speaker 3 (02:43:55):
Know how to do it.

Speaker 5 (02:43:57):
So if you find those all righty Gary, Thanks thank
you for the call, sir. I gotta run. I appreciate
that very much. Wow, we had a busy day today.
I'm glad. I like busy. I hope you enjoyed listening,
had a little bit of fun in the process. All right,
tomorrow morning, sect your clock six am. Let's do this again.

(02:44:19):
Let's talk gardening here on garden Line. In the meantime,
gardening with skip dot com. The website lots of new stuff.
I meant to talk about some of the new stuff today.
Maybe I'll get to that tomorrow.