Hibiscus Horrors

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Richards.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
A trip.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Just watch him as many bats the super batsy.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Not a sign.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Hey, good morning. I hope you got both eyes open.
Maybe a cup of coffee would help that I'm running
on it this morning. Uh. I stayed up last night,
of course, to watch the Haggie game.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'm glad I stayed up, by the way, that was fun.
But wowow this this morning comes early, But I'm here
to talk about gardening. I'm ready, I'm raring and ready
to go. Really, I really mean that I'm looking forward
to visiting with you today. You know, if you want
to give us a call, here's how you do it.
Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four

(01:17):
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
talk about any kind of gardening things you want. I've
started saying this pretty regularly on the days, but usually
by the time we get toward the end of a show,
that's when I guess everybody's awaiting, everybody's calling, and it
gets a little busy. Yesterday I just pretty much half
finished the last call because we literally ran out of seconds.

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So the earlier you call, the better off. It is
and not having to wait in line, get and get through.
So just a word for the wise whenever you get
your thoughts together and want to give me a call.
Seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
So we're at the time of the year where we
are kind of entering the fall season from the standpoint
of getting everything ready to go for putting our lawns

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to bed for winter. And I know you're thinking, wait, winter.
It was a ninety something degrees yesterday, how can it
be winter. Well, here's the deal. When we start going
into fall, the shortening days and the cooling temperatures slow
things down. We're not there yet, We're not there at all,
but we will be soon. When we hit that point,

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we want our plants to be in the best shape
that they can. Our perennials and shrubs and trees, they
all begin to pull their carbohydrates into the plant for
storage as we get later and later going into the fall.
So having good leaf area is important. If you've got roses,
for example, and they're covered up with black spot and

(02:46):
powdery mildew and other things, that is basically that's like
having solar panels out. But you go and just splash
big globs of pain all over the top of them.
How well would a solar panel perform if you did that.
Leaves are solar panels. They capture the sun's light. They
make carbohydrates, which is the full of the fool, the

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fuel of the plant. And we talk about you know,
fertilizer is plant food, and in a sense, okay, I
get that, it's things plants used to make food, though,
and so when the sun shines on leaves, it makes
the carbohydrates carbohydrates do they dry everything that's made in
the leaf drives everything in the plant, from vigor to health,

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to the ability to fight disease, to ability to recover
from insects, to the ability to store sugars carbohydrates in
the leaves and in the plant tissues, so that when
cold comes, that plant's heartier, it's more resilient. So that's
what we're talking about. We're looking for ways to make
our plants tougher and heartier, and that is done by

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making sure they have the nutrition they want as they
go into the fall season. That is not that that
difficult to do, you know, for our lawns were put
we're gonna be as we get into October putting down
our fall fertilizers because like I said, it's hot now,
it's not quite there, but we're getting ready for it.
It's time to have those on hand and be ready

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to go. So whenever we're trying to, you know, put
together a package like that for the plant to get
it ready, it's important to start off with a good nutrition.
So now would be a time to go ahead and
pick up the Texas three step program from Nitrofoss. If

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you haven't heard me talk about that before, I should
because it's it is a key step in getting your
lawn ready for the fall. One of the steps is barricade.
That is a pre emergent herbicide. Now, if you remember
last spring, if in your yard you had all these
weeds coming up, chickweed and had bit and annual bluegrass

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and gosh, I just old cleavers. There's another one. Clover
would be another. Those kind of weeds sprout in the fall.
They are doing the same thing our blue bunnets do.
So think about cool season long weeds as blue bonnet schedule.
Blue bonnets sprout in the fall. You don't really see
blue bonnets on the roadside. You go through the fall

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in the winter, but they're there. They're tiny little plants
that are developing and getting a root down and getting stronger.
Then when spring comes and days get longer and it
warms up, they take off grow and make big old
bluebonnet bushes and they bloom on the roadsides from sea
to shining seas so beautiful. Well, that's what your weeds
are doing. They don't get noticed much until spring comes

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and oh my gosh, now I got weeds everywhere in
the lawn. You can spram at that time and try
to kill them, or you can put down barricade this fall.
If you look at my schedule, which you'll find at
gardening skip dot com. If you look at my schedule,
it says October is the prime time for doing that,
because I would do it earlier in October rather than later.

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But you could do it, you know, anytime in the month.
It's just you want to get ahead of the weeds sprouting.
And it depends on the fall we have. If we've
got a fall where it cools off and starts raining
earlier on, you're going to get some earlier sprouting of
those weeds. So I can't predict that, can't predict the weather.
But the barricade product itself from Nitrofoss is one that

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we can have success with. Now I will be let's see.
Let me give you a few places where you can
buy nitro Foss products. You can find them at Planch
Fall Seasons on two forty nine. You can find them
at in Chenne Gardens done in Richmond, and you can
find them at Bearings Hardware on West Teimer, which is
where I will be next Saturday from twelve thirty to
two thirty a guest of Nitrofoss out there at Barings

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Hardware on Bissonet. So I hope you'll come out and
see me. I'll be giving away six bags of the
fall products. The text is three step from Nitrofoss. There'll
be two bags of Eagle Turf fungicide, two bags of barricade,
and two bags of Fall Special. That's their special fertilizer
designed and the formulation is made for what grass needs

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in the fall. So come on out and see me.
We'll look forward to visiting with you. Let's now go
out to Michelle in Jersey Village. Hello, Michelle, welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I'm seeing
white mushrooms appear in lawn. I'm seeing it through many
lawns in the neighborhood, and I'm wondering how to take
care of that issue.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Okay, Well, first of all, you can do nothing. That
is an option. What's happening is in the thatch and
in the organic matter at the surface, these fungi they
grow through it, and then when we get the right
kind of weather change, they pop up their mushrooms. And
we just had a little bit of a spell come through.

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And that happens in the fall A lot is we
get them rainy, we get a cool spell, and suddenly
various kinds of mushrooms start popping up in flower beds
and other places, and it's just a weather related phenomenon.
Those mushrooms aren't diseases of the lawn. They they're just there.
The only negative thing would be if you don't like

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looking at them, and you can just go, you know,
knock the top off of them or something, and they'll
shriple away, but they'll come they'll come back again, but
they'll they'll they'll quit doing this when we get a
little further out into fall. The the other thing that's
somewhat of a negative for some people is because they're
decomposing organic matter. The nutrients senat are getting released, and

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the grass actually gets a little greener where those mushrooms were, uh,
and or where the fungus is. So just something to
think about. There's no spray for them, you know it.
Just if you like playing golf. They're kind of fun
to go through there and knock them into your neighbors
yard for something that no cause for concern.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
Michelle, Oh, thank you so much. I feel so much better,
have a wonderful day. All right, thank you, bye.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
I appreciate that. Appreciate your call. I've got it. I've
changed my setup here at the studio. So now where
I normally reach over in a certain spot to grab something,
it's somewhere else. I probably should have thought about that
before I made that, before I made that change in
the schedule. Well, anyway, you're listening to Garden Line. I'm

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your host skip rictor, and we're here to help you
have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Let me
reach them here. There we go, all right, and more
fun in the process. Don't forget the most important part
gardening is supposed to be fun. Remember the days when
if we were going to eat, we had to produce something.
You know, you'd starve to death if the crops didn't

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come in that year. Well, we don't have to worry
about those things so much now, at least not here
in this country. But we get to garden, we get
to grow things, and we get to enjoy it, and
there's no pressure on it. And the weather always shows
us a curve, so that's all right. We can deal
with that. That's the part of the fun and challenge
of gardening is that it's always different. Every year is different.

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You never know what's coming up because it is so different.
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First of all, they serve the greater Houston area from
Texas City all the way up inter State forty five
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So if you're here, my boys, you're probably within their
area at least close to it, and they cover everything.
I like their policies. Their goal is to make sure
that they treat effectively with ways that they treat that

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may that give you pest control for a period of time,
not just come out today and they got to come
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so that you get long term results without the worries.
Nobody wants to have the kids rolling around on grass.

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For example, a little trench around the house, It goes
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forty six seventy. We'll take a little break here and
we'll be right back. Alrighty, welcome back to garden Line.
That is not gene Autry. It's the whole group right well.
That happens to be a group called Writers in the Sky.

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I went to see them a couple of nights ago,
and they are so injrouable. It's like, you know, the
old singing cowboys, the days of you know, everybody knows
about gene Autry, people like that Roy Rogers all those guys.
Well back in. These guys are still carrying that music
on and it's really it's really good. Plus they're funny.
I'll get out they it's a comedy show and a

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real cool music deal. So just have to play some
of them this morning. Plus it's nice and soothing. We
try not to wake you up with yodeling first thing.
That would be a cruel and unusual punishment. But I
hang on, I got one coming up later today. Hey,
welcome to garden Line phone number seven one three two
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one two five eight seven four Houston powder Coats can
take any kind of old metal you've got that needs
to be refinished, you know, essentially the equivalent of painted,
and they can turn it brand new. Powder coating is
a very unusual, uh, I think a process. It's not
like your spray and paint. If you ever had spray
paint and it always runs, you know, get the little

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run down down the side.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, powder coating it's like a powder that's in the
air in this chamber that they have, and the metal
has an electric charge and the powder just like is
like a magnet. It just pulls up to it and
then it melts into the on surface of the metal.
It's very hearty, very durable. When you buy, like if
you buy a new barbecue pet and it's got that
nice dark black, shiny coating on the surface, that was

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powder coated. They didn't spray paint that, uh. And powder
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lawn furniture that looks bad, get it powder coated. I
mean it'll be brand new and I don't care if
it's sitting out there and it's gotten a little rusty,
and you know some of the straps and the bolts
and nuts and the little feet plastic feet on it

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eighty eight. So, in a little bit of outdoor work
that I had get done yesterday, I am getting ready

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to do a revamp of some flower bed already redid
one and I'm doing a revamp another one. And this
is just a thought. If you know it may appeal
to you to try at your house. But I'm doing
my flower beds based on not just the beauty of them,
but what I want to get out of them. So
in the backyard, for example, well in the front, let

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me start in the front. In the front, there's this
sort of hoa expectation that the lawn look a certain
the landscape look a certain way, and so you know,
you put in kind of more traditional stuff that's not
it's going to be pretty all year. And maybe that's
what you like too, by the way, and that's fine.
In the backyard, we have an area where we sit,
and so the wind is often out of the southwest

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during the growing season particularly, and so to the southwest
of the patio, I'm planting things that are pretty but
that have fragrance. I love white butterfly ginger headkium, one
of the headiculums. White butterfly ginger has a fragrance I
think kind of like gardenias. I just love it. Also,
we're putting in some Osmanthus, which is a very fragrant shrub.

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The flowers are tiny, but boy do they pack a
punch and a detura those who are going to be
blooming here in the early fall. And that's another one
that has fragrance, so we can sit and enjoy the fragrance. Oh,
another one is Confederate jasmine that's on a fence over
that direction. Then in another area where we're looking out,
I want to see the hummingbirds, and so I'm putting

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in a number of different plants through the area, not
just one little spot, but where the hummingbirds can come
so we can sit and we can look out and
watch them doing their antics. Do you see what I'm saying?
So what appeals to you? Maybe you like certain colors,
Maybe there is some other aspect of gardening that you
would really like to feature and be able to enjoy.

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So think about your landscape and you don't have to
do a revamp to do these things. You can just
begin one by one to put in the kinds of
plants that bring in the kinds of things you want. Remember,
when you plant, you gotta take care of those plants
with a good dose of Microlife fertilizers. And there are
so many good ones. You know the six two four
of the green bag. We think of it as lawns

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ie fertilized shrubs, trees, vegetables, a lot of different things
with the Microlife product Biomatrix orange label liquid seven to
one three fertilizer, a great drench to give plants a
boost to get them going. If you like fish fertilizers,
you can't find a better. When the Microlife Ocean harvests
the blue label, it's a four to two three. You

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mix them up in water, you drench them on the soil.
These products are not salt based. You're not going to
burn your plants with them. They you know, you over
apply them and it'll be okay. They won't burn the plants.
They work. And you're gonna find Microlife fertilizer everywhere. If
you don't see it at your local nursery or garden center,
at these hardware store, then go to Microlife Fertilizer dot

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com and you'll find exactly where you can get them there.
Time for me to take a break, will be right back.
Welcome back to garden line. Folks. Hey, you got a
gardening question, I'll get you an answer. Seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four in Chenna Gardens
one of my favorite places to stop because, you know,

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first of all, when I drive up every time, and
I've been there a bunch, but every time I drive up,
I just look at the expanse of all the plants
and the pottery. It's it doesn't matter what kind of
plant you're looking for, especially those that are seasonal. You know,
some plants are sold all year, tree shrubs, roses, things
like that, but the seasonal areas, for example, the vegetables

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or the color plants. Right now it's time to be
thinking about your fall colors. The warm season color. We've
been planting it for a while now, but the cool
season color is coming up just not too far from now.
In fact, you begin planning things like snap dragons. I
think they do very well. I like Dianthus it's a
good one to go into the cool season. And they

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got you covered. They got all that kind of stuff.
They absolutely know how to do the best of the best,
and that that is what they do. That's why people
love going there too. In Channa Gardens, it's by the
way on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond, which is
f on FM three point fifty nine. Now. I like
websites because at the website you can see where it is,
you can see what they have, you can find out

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about their newsletter, you can find out about events going on.
And Chenna Garden's always got events going on in the fall,
really good ones. You'll want to go to Enchanted Gardens
Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. When you're there,
ask if you don't see them, ask say where are
Maria's combo planters and hanging baskets and things like that,

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and let them show you. It is amazing the work
that they do. You can go just buy a ready
to go in and take it home, or the folks
there at in Chenny Gardens will walk you through and say, well,
here's some baskets. You pick one out, you know, get
you some soil, Get these plants. What are some that
go well together that would be good for fall. You know,
you're going to have some folks over to the house,

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and you want them to walk in and just be
amazed before they even get in the house at your
planters on the outside Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's
that's it. That's all you need to know. When we
had a rainy period not too long ago, and I
noticed I was over at someone's house and I walked

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outside and it's like right there in the entrance way,
mosquitoes were just swarming. Have you ever noticed that at
your house, Like you got to like an enclosed entrance
during the heat of the day. You know, they look
they don't just want to be out in the yard.
Typically they attack us more in the evening and earlier
in the day hours and they hide in the shrubs
and whatnot. But I was just swarm vibe and I

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was thinking, man, you you folks need to get some
mosquito dunks and throw throw those things in some stagnant
waters from whether. When I say stagnant, it could be
a bird bath, it could be the catch basins underneath
you your plants. You got a tree with a hollow
spot in it, water gathers in there. They love that.
They love stagnant water with some decaying organic matter. That's

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what makes mosquitos the happiest. Mosquito dunks do not make
them happy. It kills them. And it is the safest
thing you can use. It will not hurt birds, It
will not hurt your pets. It will not hurt fish
that are in the water, a migo, a little fish
pond or something. It won't hurt them. Mosquito dunks float
in the water. They cover about one hundred square feet
per dunk. They're like little doughnuts. You can break them

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up if you want to use a few crumbles, and
you know underneath the catch basin of a plant. The
main thing is just do it and have them on
hand all the time. If you've got a rain barrel,
if you have any kind of place where water gathers.
Mosquita dunks you can find them anywhere. They're at Ace
hardware stores, there, all my feed stores, all my independent
nurseries that we talk about here on guarden Line. Mosquito dunks,

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they work, they're safe, and what more can you ask for. Well,
let's head out to Pelasio's now and we're gonna visit
with James. Hey, James, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
Good morning, sir, Good morning. I have a question about
a red oak tree. I can almost close my hand
around the trunk. It's about twenty foot tall, and all
of the leaves are real dark green, but at the
ends on some of them, the leaves start turning yellow.
Then they get brown spots all over them. Then they

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completely die and they fall off. What am I looking at?

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Huh? How long has this treemen in the ground?

Speaker 7 (22:49):
I planned about a year and a half ago. It's
had a hard life. It was in a pot at
my neighbor's house. She passed away. They found it growing
in the weeds. They gave it to me planted. It
was about the size of a number two pencil. When
I got it, and I've been babing it alone. But yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
You're you're done there? And plasus, do you do you
have some Would it be subject to getting some salt
spray or any other any other thing like that where
it'd be the roots could be subject to some salty soil.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
No, I'm probably as the kroll flies, I'm probably four
or five six miles from the water.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Okay, all right, Well, that that's one of the things
that salt damage can can look like. I don't know
what your water quality is like down There are some
areas in the listening area have a lot of sodium
in the water. That's another issue that can pop up.
It sounds to me if it's none of those, it
sounds to me like a water supply problem, like it

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got a little dry or something damage to roots or
something along those lines. I'm listening to your description. When
you see tip and margin die back on leaves, that's
a plumbing problem. It could be excessive salts, it could
be lack of water. Either way. It's the final place
where the water goes as it moves through the plant

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and it goes out the leaves, and when there's a
limit that's where we often begin to see it. If
you'd like to send me a picture, I take a
look at it. Maybe when I see the picture it's like, oh,
that's not what I was picturing in my head. But
that's the most likely thing. But let me take a look.
Let me ask you to do one other thing, and

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that is to go to the base of the tree.
By the way, did you did this tree come out
of a container when you planted it?

Speaker 8 (24:46):
Yes, little.

Speaker 7 (24:49):
Plastic pot. And whenever I planted it, I took a
box knife and I cut the roofs on it, and
then I plan.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Okay, yes, okay, that was the next place. I was
going to send you down to the base of the
trunk with a trowel and a water hose and wash
out and see if there's a root strangling the trunk
if that would cause similar symptoms too. If you think
you got them all, don't bother Otherwise I would just
check it again to be sure. But let me put

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you on on hold, James. I think what I've told
you is kind of what I think so far. If
you would like to take some pictures of the tree
from a distance in its setting, and then show me
some leaves up close into different stages of what you're seeing,
and I'll be happy to reply based on me being
able to actually see the leaf.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
Okay, all right, good deal, all right.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Just hang on.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
My producer will pick up here in just a second. Yeah.
Well yeah, tips and margin burn on leaves is almost
always related to a plumbing issue or as salt or
sodium type of issue. Somebody, I need to do a
little map of the greater Houston areas to all the
places where there's high sodium water. I know they have

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it up in College Station Brian area up in a
brass canty. I know there's some other places too, and
I just because I haven't lived in different places, I'm
not aware of where that might be. But when you
water a lot with that kind of water, you end
up with some of those kinds of issues. Let's take
a little break here. We will be back in one
moment with your calls at seven one three, two one

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two five eight seven four. Hey, welcome back to guard Line.
Glad to have you back. We are here to answer
your questions, help you have success, and make gardening a
more enjoyable endeavor for you, because it really is a
great endeavor. Excuse me. The folks at cenemalch are they

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do things right when it comes to providing the products
you need to have success with your plants. I always
talk about the fact that if for having success, the
most important thing I believe that you do is get
the soil right, and that means the nutrient levels plants
and nutrients. You got to put the fertilizers and things

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in there that they need. Based on a soil test
is the best way find out what your soil has
and add the things it needs. But continuing fertilized, especially
with nitrogen to support gross important. You got to get
good organic matter. Nature takes care of plants through microbial
activity around the roots, decomposing organic matter and just protecting plants,

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helping them be happy. And good composts. That's one of
the reasons compost is so effective. And then you got
to have good drainage. You got to build up a
raised bed so that it drains well well. Sienna has
got you covered on those products. You know they carry
microlife fertilizers from Medina as well nitroposs and now some
products both you'll find there. You'll find heirloom soils blends

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like the veggie and nerb mix at CNMALS. You'll also
find azebite, the micronutrient supplement at CNMLS. They'll deliver it.
You can get the nice neat one cubic yard supersacks.
They'll deliver if you order three within about twenty miles.
And if you just want to go get them pick
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on a trailer for you. You can have bulk delivery
or pick up bulk. They have things by the bag
as well, and so one stop shop for homeowners. It
really is now. When you're there, check out their store.
They got a lot of new items. Pottery, the shrooms,
a little colorful ceramics not the right word, but mushrooms

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out in the garden, leather goods. They've got the smart pots.
Those are the fabric bags that you can fill up
with soil and grow in local honey, soaps, candles, lotions,
even harvest baskets where you take them out and they
got a wire bottom so you can just squirt your
harvest off, wash off the cucumbers or tomatoes or whatever
you have. The potatoes you dug up. See anemals, they're

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out down south and a little to the west of
Houston on a f Here's the website. This is where
you find out everything you want to know. Sienna multch
dot com, sannamulch dot com. Main thing is just go there,
Just go there. Let's go now out to meyer Land
and we are gonna talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome

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to guard Line.

Speaker 9 (29:20):
How are you doing scale? I got some seeds for
my wife. Got some seeds from Southwest fertilizers number High
High discus. So anyway, they're supposed to be three foot tall.
I planted them. They're six foot tall and I don't
have any flowers. I'm thinking maybe I can cut them

(29:43):
down and move them and maybe next year they'll do something.
Any opinion about.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
That these were? Is this for for making tea? The
the hibiscus tea or a don okay, okay, Well, tie

(30:09):
can mean a lot of things. It could be the
name of variety. It could be uh one of the
tropicals uh, tropical types of hibiscus, but those generally we
don't get by pea. What we can get our skied
by seed. What we can get by seed is something
called roselle. And there's a type called thy red roselle,
and it's a it makes long arching stems rather than

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making a little bush like a tropical hibiscus wood. It's
got long arching stems and it has flowers. They're pretty,
but they're not like tropical hibiscus looking beauty. But then
it has these dark, dark burgundy pods that people pick
and they make Hibiscus tea out of and that's the
main reason that it's grown. Not knowing which one you have,

(30:56):
it's kind of hard to go too far into it.
But tell me, tell me again, what is your concern?

Speaker 9 (31:02):
Okay, everything you said describes what what came up from
the seeds, But there's no flowers, no pods, and there's
six foot tall, and they're in front of the regular
high thoscus and you know, stealing all the sunlight. So right,
the two questions, Can they be moved? And what can

(31:26):
I do next year prevent the flower? Maybe?

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Okay, want something that I don't have? Yeah, they well,
you can move them, but they're not super hardy Okay,
so I would probably start over from seeds myself. With them.
They like a lot of sunlight and they take a

(31:52):
long time to reach the harvest maturity. They'll grow for
a lot, like three months or more. Uh, and then
they'll start, you know, producing the it's called calyxes. That's
the base of the flower that that people use for
hibiscus tea and herbal remedies and all kinds of things

(32:13):
that they do. They just need room for those sprawling
arms that to sprawl outward. It works, It works pretty good.
Sometimes people call them Florida cranberry. I don't quite get that,
but I get they have a tanginess to them, kind
of like cranberry. Uh So, I guess that's a good
name for them.

Speaker 9 (32:32):
I don't I don't know if you might remember, might
not remember, but I'm the guy that cut down the
tree and then the root group grinding made a lake
underneath the soil, and we had that discussion about raised
beds and stuff. But anyway, I put them right over it.
And I mean, they're they're a good sick with paul

(32:54):
and arch. It's the arching brown.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Uh yeah, yeah, well, I think that's what you're looking at.
The leaves are kind of unique too. They're they're not
like they're kind of different from a lot of different
types of plant leaves. They're getting sunlight.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
Yeah uh uh lots of Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Well then they're they're happy. Just next year, get them
out earlier. If you're a person who kind of starts
seeds inside under lights or something, you could even get
ahead start that way. They like hot weather though, uh,
and they do take their time to reach a point
where they're blooming and uh and doing what they do.

(33:42):
Three three months, three months?

Speaker 9 (33:46):
Okay, well they've been in the ground for mine.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, well, then then they need to they need to
straighten up.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
You know.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Sometimes you have to talk to our plants. You've heard
about people talking to plants before. Yeah, well, but there's
different ways to talk to plants. You can be nice
to them or you cannot be nice. You know, with
something like hibiscus, you could walk out there and hold
a bottle around up out in front of it and say,
see this stuff. Next time I come out, I'm gonna
spray you with it if you don't start producing, and

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that usually that usually makes them, you know, straighten up
and fly right.

Speaker 9 (34:19):
All right, Well, I'll I'll tell her she needs to
be talking to him if she wants.

Speaker 7 (34:25):
Them to flower.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
Yeah, tell her to threaten him if she has to.
All right, Thanks a lot, I appreciate your calling. Good bye, Yeah, plants.
Sometimes I say this a lot of times when I'm
giving talks, speaking engagements and stuff. But plants can't read.
Did you know that they can't read? I mean it

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can say clearly in a book that this plant wants
such and such, or it'll do this, or oh, here's
a big one. Deer don't need it. Yeah, deer can't
read either. If they read it, they would know they
can't eat that plant, but then they eat it. Anyway.
We're joking around about it, but that's that's how it goes. Hey,
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to me, the fastest hour I've had on guardline. I
don't know, but it went fast. If they say time
flies when you're having fun, Hermit the frog says times

(36:00):
fun when you're having flies. Sorry, I h I love
dad jokes when I was a kid. When my kids
were small, they loved dad jokes until about age eight.
Somewhere in there. Suddenly I couldn't own the room anymore.

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And I wasn't that funny. But they did roll their eyes,
So I'll take that.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
We'll be right.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skimp Richards.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Past to see sand All right, folks, Hey, welcome back

(37:21):
to garden Line. What kind of gardening are you going
to do this fall? Yesterday I was talking about fall vegetables,
and if you've never grown vegetables before, or even if
you have and you're just not currently, I would just
really encourage you to give it or try this fall.
If you don't have room for a garden, do it

(37:43):
in a container. You can absolutely grow anything in a container.
You can grow in the ground. Now, there's some things
that are not going to be very productive and effective.
You know, sweet corn and a container, by the way,
it's not sweet corn season, but sweet corn and a container,
you know, not going to get that much production out
of it. It's not going to pollinate that well either.

(38:04):
But pretty much anything you can grow in the ground
you can grow in a container if the container is
large enough. But for most vegetables, five gallons is good.
I've grown broccoli in like a two and a half
three gallon size container before it did Okay, I did
kale in that, but it's just you have to really
the whole root system is confined to the container, so

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you really need to be diligent to make sure it
is consistently moist and there's good nutrient content in it,
which you can do both of them. It's just a
little extra extra trouble to do that. So I usually
go with a larger container and find that to work
a lot better. When you are looking at fall, you're
looking at planting season. There's not a better season for vegetables,

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fruit of landscape, shrubs and trees than there is in
the fall. The temperatures are cooling off, the demands are lower,
so you're not into water water water constantly just trying
to keep that thing alive as if we were still
in a pot on top of the ground. And it
follows a good season, so I would encourage you dis

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planting this fault. Earlier I was talking about attracting hummingbirds
or talking about attracting or providing a nice fragrance outdoors.
What are those kind of plants would you like to
put in. I'll tell you a group of plants that
I really love, and that's Salvia's. Salvia's as a genus
or just diverse. I think there's nine hundred different salvias

(39:33):
something like that, and I think I like about seven
hundred of those, so the others won't grow here. But seriously,
it's a great genus to do, and there's so many
good salvius. Talking about hummingbirds, there is Salvia gary nitica.
Sometimes it's called a nice scented sage, but Salvia garnettica

(39:57):
has typically dark blue to purplish blue flowers. There is
a very light sky blue version called Argentine skies. But
most of them, or as I describe, they get about
as a group about four feet high something like that,
and the hummingbirds just love them. They like other types

(40:19):
of Salvius too, So why not add some of those.
When you're putting plants in the ground, you need to
provide those plants what they need to have success, and
it starts at planting. So a product that I really
enjoy using from the folks at Medina is called Medina Plus.
And there's another one called Medina has to grow six
twelve six. And I want to tell you about those

(40:41):
two right quick has to grow six to twelve six
has got that extra phosphorus boost that really helps a
plant that's trying to develop a good strong root system.
Medina has to grow six twelve six has got six
percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six percent potassium in it.
It's got medina so will activate in it, which stimulates
biological activity. It's got humate humic acid that helps improve

(41:05):
soil structure, improves nutrient uptake. As a result, you can
use this as follar feeding, use it a lot of things.
I like to drench plants in with it. After I
plant them, you put the plant in the holes, you're
starting to fill it back up about halfway full. I'll
get a watering can and drench it with Medina has
to grow six twelve six and then fill up the
whole drench it again to finish, watering it in, settling

(41:28):
the soil in, and then wait about a week and
do it again, wait about a week and do it again.
So three different applications about a week apart is what
I like to do, and that gets plants off to
a great start. Following that, Medina plus fortified with essentral
micronutrients is a great way to continue to get plants aboose.
Not just plants you just planted, but those and the

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ones that have been in the ground for a good while.
And those are all from the folks at Medina. Easy
to find our feed stores, our ace hardware stores, our
independent garden centers, all of those kind of places. Southwest
Fertilizer included, they carry Medina products. You're listening to Garden Line.

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has got a heck of us all going on. I
don't I don't know how they're doing this. It is
it is really it is special.

Speaker 8 (42:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
And I say that because RCW, first of all, they
grow things that want to grow here. And when it
comes to trees, a lot of those that are producing
themselves up in Plannersville on their property up there. Uh.
And so you know you're getting a quality grown tree,
and you know that you're getting a tree that is
a species that is going to do well here. That's important.

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But right now RCW has their September sales still on
trees are fifteen percent off the Cajun hibiscus that I
just love. I know you're gonna have to protect these
over winter in a protected spot, but you know I
can find a better price. Fifteen percent off Cajun hibiscus.
Crate myrtles et ceteras thirty percent off. Say that again,

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crate myrtles et ceteras thirty percent off and select roses
or thirty percent off. And one of my favorite things
I always when I go to RCW. One of the
first things I do, and it's just right inside the
gate there to the right is go look at at
all their metal yard art and signs. I got some
hilarious those old time painted kind of looking like you know,

(43:53):
their aged metal signs. Go see them. Thirty percent off
all of that, including the trellises. You need a license,
nice little metal trellis to go over a walkway entrance.
It's a good thing. R CW nurseres dot com. They're
located where two forty nine and belt Waita come together
and it's easy to get to two forty nine belt
Wait eight. RCW Nurseries don't delay septembers for planting, and

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all of those things are things you really need to have.
Take advantage of this opportunity. Let's take a little break
right here. When we come back, we'll go to the
phones if you would like to call in seven win
three two one two fifty eight seventy four one Bay, Hey, hey,

(44:41):
welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with
us this morning. We're gonna head straight out to the
phones by the way the numbers seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. First, we're gonna head
to Katie and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 10 (44:55):
Good morning and happy Sunday to eave Skip.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
I think I have.

Speaker 10 (45:00):
I'm pretty sure take all root rot in the corner
of my front yard. I was raking it and all
of a sudden, the whole roots and everything just came
up and I have exposed in about twenty percent of
my yard.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Okay, so I want.

Speaker 11 (45:22):
To know this morning what I should do.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Okay, is this progressed? Did it start off turning a
little yellow before it then went.

Speaker 10 (45:30):
To oh yeah, yes, yes, yes, it went from yellow
to brown.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
To well, so yeah, take all is we had to
take off from a number of angles. It's not just
a one and done fixed thing. First of all, stresses
of the grass opened the door for take all to
come in. That could be compaction soil, that could be
excessive shade. That could be drought. That's that's a biggie

(45:58):
for us. It could be damaged from a herbicide that's
damaging the grass, it's misused, so it could be any
of those. But if you go onto my website gardeningwith
Skip dot com, you will find two publications on take all.
There's a one pager that's just STI kind of a
quick shot, and then a two pager that goes in
more in depth. But you really ought to look those

(46:19):
over because to go into all of the detail that's
in a packed two pages, you know, in the airs,
it is difficult to do. But there's a number of
things you can do. There are there is a fungicide
treatment that can be done. We typically will do it
in October and then again in November, and possibly again

(46:40):
in the spring in the late winter spring season. That's
all on my schedule, which is on my website, so
that that's also there that take all publications on the schedule,
But read them over and look, you're not going to
have to do everything that's on there, but each thing
can be helpful in its own way. Now, if you
catch take all, you can.

Speaker 10 (47:02):
Stop it and set it down.

Speaker 12 (47:07):
Yeah, that would not help.

Speaker 10 (47:09):
If and just kind of fill in the areas that
I have, I should put some fung aside down first,
and then okay.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
No, no, no, put the sod down, and then in
October do the fungicide. In November, I'd do it again
to the hole on just because that's when an infection
period occurs. We see take all die back typically when
it's blazing hot, but yeah, it can the infection occurs
in the cool, mild seasons of fallen spring. But anyway,

(47:43):
take a look at those. They will tell you. If
you got any other questions, call me back, happy to
take it forward real quick. Here to another call uh.
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Pierscapes creates a shows a show stopping landscape for you.

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If you want to have them come in and do
their quarterly maintenance, that's one level of working with Pierscapes.
Every quarter that come out, they spruce things up, put
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I make sure the irrigation's working and so on. It's
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also change out the color and the beds. You know,
if it's time for a color change, pull out the
old plants and put in the new ones. So they

(48:26):
keep your landscape at top notch beauty. But if you
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Pierscapes dot com call them two eight one, three, seven
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(48:47):
six zero. We're going to go now out to Spring
Branch and talk to Herda. Well, hello, Herda, Welcome to
Guarden Line.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
Thank you, ye shake you were gonna be it very
you on this and that.

Speaker 13 (49:01):
What are that date?

Speaker 7 (49:02):
Please?

Speaker 4 (49:04):
This coming Saturday, like six days from now. It'll be
there friend from twelve to two, from twelve noon to
two pm. Two.

Speaker 8 (49:19):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
I'm gonna be giving you bet thank you appreciate that call. Also,
I'll be giving away uh the uh nitrofoss uh three
step there their fall Texas three step and that is
Barricade Fall special fertilizer and Eagle to our friends. A
side I'm gonna give away. Every twenty minutes, I'm gonna

(49:40):
give away a bag of one of those. I'll be
giving away six bags of course of that two hours,
so good chance to win. But you got to come
on out in order to be there. Come see me.
Let's see. We're gonna head now out to fair Field
and talk to Marty. Hello Marty, welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 14 (49:57):
Good good morning, skipt Hey.

Speaker 15 (50:00):
I applied Celsius about two weeks ago to my Virginia
button wheed and I've got it. It's kind of starting
to take over again, but it doesn't seem to be working.
I applied it in the morning. I put the packet
in two yallons of water, and it's just.

Speaker 16 (50:17):
I don't know any time. Okay, okay, you probably did well.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
You probably did it if if you followed the label
on mixing it, you did it right. Uh and if
you There's one aspect of it though, and this could
be affecting it, and that is that it helps to
put a spreader sticker around, as with pretty much anything
you spray, so it sticks better to those Oh you

(50:42):
did okay, Well, then it can be two or three
weeks before you really see the results. But it's because
it's working right. It's moving weight down into the plant
and doing its work, so that that should knock it
out for you. You know, it'll be back next spring,
but just jump on it a little bit earlier before
it heats up too hot and uh, and I'd be
ready to do it again.

Speaker 15 (51:03):
Okay, Well, I'll probably have to sell some produce on
the side of the uh, on the side of the
road before I can afford it again.

Speaker 16 (51:11):
That's did you buy a bottle of it?

Speaker 4 (51:14):
Did you buy a bottle just by a little package.

Speaker 15 (51:17):
No, I just bought a package from Plants for All Seasons?

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Okay, yeah, well it is you know, the the the
old products are not very expensive and as they come
up with new chemistries and things at work, or have
advantages like celsius being able to use it in warmer
temperature and also being better against a lot of weeds. Uh,
there's a price on them. Unfortunately.

Speaker 15 (51:42):
It's okay, I'll, i'll kind of, I'll try to be patient.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
All right, Thanks, sell your sell your pickled, sell your
pickled okra at a little lemonade stand.

Speaker 17 (51:56):
All right?

Speaker 4 (51:58):
All right by Yeah. Warrens Southern Gardens in Kingwood, Texas.
It's on North Park Drive. It's a place you got
to go. See. They always have good supply of everything
you need out there. You know, you want to make
the soil right before you plant the plants. Well, when

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you're at Warrens, when you're picking out your fall vegetables,
when you're picking out your cool seasoned color plants or
maybe shrubs and trees, my gosh, you have a lot
of those. They look really good too. You just stop
in and grab some of the products from airloom cells.
They've got, for example, the veggie and irb mix, and
they've got leaf mold composts, and they have other heirloom

(52:41):
products there. They carry the brands of fertilizer. I talk
about Microlife and Nelson plant Food, and they have the
filling stations for those. Nelson and Microlife both. You can
buy them by the jar and you take your jar
back in and you fill them up there at Warren's
Southern Garden or at Kingwood Garden Center, which is also

(53:04):
in Kingwood. It's located on Stone Hollow Drive, by the way.
Both of these are open seven days a week. But
you just take them there, you pull the handle and
you refill them up. And it's more economical by fertilizer
that way. And it just makes sense. Why throw away
a plastic bottle every time you buy one? Why not
refill it? And Warren Southern Gardens, Kingwoo Garden Center, those

(53:25):
are places that understand that and they provide that service
or that opportunity for you, both of them seven days
a week in Kingwood, Waruns on North Park, Kingwoo Garden
Center on Stone Hollow. We need to go out now
to Katie, Texas. And we're going to visit with George.

Speaker 18 (53:45):
Yes, sir, good morning. Quick question for you.

Speaker 9 (53:49):
I have.

Speaker 18 (53:51):
I have a sen augustine grass and I have noticing
lately more weeds are bopping up and I really like
to take care of it and keep it healthy looking
and green. What do you recommend this time of the year.
Of course, I look at Euston, Texas. UH, this time

(54:14):
of the year. Is there anything I should do or
I can do? Do it to, cannot prepare it or
just wait not?

Speaker 4 (54:24):
Yes, yes, there is a there is a very important
season coming up on us here in the fall for
your grass, and I would suggest there is a program
called the Texas three Step. It's not by nitroposs and
what it is is it's a fall fertilizer and there's

(54:45):
a special kinds of fertilizer we use in the fall,
different from the summer.

Speaker 5 (54:49):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
And then there is a product called Barricade that fights weeds.
And if you've had weed problems, you would want to
do the barricade to head off the upcoming weed problems.
If you we never had weed problems, then you kind
of wait and see. If you've got a nice, dense,
healthy lawn, it chocks out most weeds, but the barricade
is part of that process. You can do that. And

(55:10):
then there's the Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide that takes care
of the diseases that are going to be attacking in
the fall, and so we put these on. Typically October
is when we do all three of these. You being
in the Katy area, October is pretty good. Early October
would be a good target date of that. But it's

(55:30):
called the Nitrofoss three step, and it's those three because
in the fall. The bigger answer to your question is
in the fall, we need to use a fall fertilizer,
we need to prevent winter weeds, and we need to
prevent diseases like the big brown circles that occur in
Saint Augustine often times in the fall. So those are

(55:52):
the three things you need to do. If you go
to my website, George, it is gardening with Skip. That's
me gardening with Skip dot com.

Speaker 18 (56:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
There's two schedules and they're free to download.

Speaker 11 (56:07):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
There's one of them is a long care schedule. One
of them is the pest, weed and Disease management. And
so I would download those two and they'll tell you
about the three things we're doing this fall.

Speaker 18 (56:19):
Okay. And also on your website, does you tell me
where I can buy those items?

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Uh, it doesn't tell you where. But if you're out
in Katie, you're going to find them. A number of
places out that way, uh, that you I would call.
I would give a call out to Nelson Watergardens. They're
out there in Katie on Katie for Benroad, just not
north of iten.

Speaker 19 (56:45):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
You also have some really good hardware stores. There's a
Katie Ace Hardware right there that's pretty close to you.
In fact, there's a couple of them there that are
pretty close to you. If you go to Ace Hardware
Texas dot com Hacehardware Texas dot com, you'll get a
little map and it'll show you that hardware is right

(57:06):
there in Katie that to carry night fossproducts.

Speaker 18 (57:12):
Thanks, great information, Thank you for your time.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
All right, Yeah, thanks a lot. Appreciate appreciate your call. Yeah.
And when you're when you're looking for the three step places, UH,
let me just give you a few other places where
you're gonna find that. Uh, you go to the Arburgate
and Tomball they're gonna have some night fossproducts at the
Arborgate Fisher's Hardware and Laport. And if you're Don and
Alvin stop in the Stent and Shopping Center you're going

(57:36):
to find night fossproducts here as well. Got to go
to a break. We'll be right back with David and
Dave Hoop sending their names. Oh yes, it does. Alrighty,
we're back. We are back on garden line. Welcome. We
are here to help you have success. And success begins
on the soil. It does round stuff before green stuff.

(57:58):
That's what that means. It's the simplest way you can
put it. Nature's way. Resources knows how to make brown stuff.
I was just talking about. You could get quality products
that will move down into the soil, or you mix
them down into the soil and they build it. They
stimulate the microbial activity, They open the soil particles up.
If you have a heavy clay, you mix compost in

(58:20):
it and suddenly, instead of being a sticky mess, it
starts to break apart and it becomes more The proper
term is friable. You grab a clod in your hand
and squeeze it and it just crumbles apart. That's what
you want and Nature's Way Resources is built on that process,
which is what nature does. Nature improves the soil as
time goes on. You can do that by going to

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Nature's Way by buying some of the products that they
have their fungel based compost, one of their specific blends
like for fruit trees. That and citrus are for vegetables
and herb type plants. They have a blend for everything.
In Nature's Way is where things like rose soil were
born and where leaf more compost was born. Super quality

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products Nature'sway Resources dot Com. They're up Interstate forty five
toward Conroe, right where fourteen eighty eight goes off to
the left to go to Magnoia. Instead you turn right
and go across the railroad tracks to Sherbrook Circle. That
is Nature's Way Resources, And I just want to remind
you again on Saturday, October the eleventh, I'll be out

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at Nature's Way from twelve noon to two pm. They've
got a heck of a shindate going on, which I'll
talk about more as we get a little bit closer
to that. Let's now head out to Lake Conroe and
talk to Dave this morning. Hey, Dave, welcome to Garden line.

Speaker 20 (59:41):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 7 (59:42):
Hey, I appreciate.

Speaker 16 (59:45):
What you do.

Speaker 11 (59:45):
Man.

Speaker 20 (59:46):
You know, you remind us a lot of stuff that
I forgot in the past forty five years. You know,
we used I used to farm, and I'm trying to
re remember.

Speaker 21 (59:55):
You know.

Speaker 20 (59:56):
Hey, I got zucchini squash in a number three wash
tub in the back and it's coming up about it's
about four inches now, and I got it in some
pot and soil, and uh, is there anything else you
think I need to put in there for fertilizing.

Speaker 17 (01:00:15):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
When you say pond soil, you mean you dug it
out of a pot like oh potting.

Speaker 20 (01:00:24):
Yeah, okay, it's the one with that already has Bottoman's
minerals in.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Yeah, I would get uh. The Nelson Plame Food has
jars of uh uh fertilizers as part of their Nutri
Star line, and you can buy a little jar of
Nutra Star vegetable. The Nutri Star line has specific plant
names on them, and the Nutri Star vegetable would be
a good one to use for that and just follow
the label. Put a little bit in there, because you know,

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just one, one little container of zucchini. You don't need
giant bags of fertilizer or anything like that.

Speaker 20 (01:00:57):
No, No, And then I got onions, green onions, and
then I got some garlic growing around it too, you know.
So that's all I kind of remember how to.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Do all that.

Speaker 20 (01:01:08):
But i'veout on the oprah.

Speaker 11 (01:01:11):
The oprah.

Speaker 20 (01:01:13):
You think I could root up, you know, because I
got a big piece of property over here now, And
if I could root up, you know, maybe a couple
of two three feet wide, you know, square and then
plants from ochra now or when should I do that?

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
When you say root up you mean cold seeds or
do you mean take take cut?

Speaker 20 (01:01:36):
No, I'm talking about I need to dig it up.
I got to dig the grass off the top and
make a flower bed, you know, kind of sort of.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Oh okay, okay, uh. Okra is going to be declining
pretty quick. Some some feels right now. Are some plantings
right now are already declining just because they've been going
all here, But they're going to decline with the cooling,
cooling temperatures. We still have good month of okra harvest
to do, but it could be dwindling to the part

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of not even messing with it anymore because it loves
hot weather.

Speaker 20 (01:02:11):
Yeah, well, well, that's what I'm saying. That's what I
was going to ask you, is when do you think
I need to plant my opra sleeeds.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
I would begin planning them when it warms up pretty good,
so I would say April would be a good time
to start planning okra. And I've planted okra as as
late as July. Uh and it does. Okay, it's a
tough plan now.

Speaker 20 (01:02:36):
No, I've grown some like six or seven feet high.
You know how you better wear some wall sleeves when
you're out there picking it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
And oh, yeah, it's itchy, it's itsy.

Speaker 20 (01:02:46):
Yeah. And on the corn, yeah, you said, you know,
I had some deer corn, so I just threw it
in one of my little planters in the front. But
I kind of like it because it's it just reminds
me of us planting corn fields, you know. And but
you go back here and dig a hole up in
the back back here and then replant it back there

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in the backyard.

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
Could you move corn plants?

Speaker 20 (01:03:11):
You mean, yeah, out of the out of the out
of the No, no, no, you're asking about I'm asking
if I could take them out of the pot plant
the pot thing that I got them in and dig
a hole in the backyard and put them back here.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Well you could, you know, corn season, if it's getting
close to the end. I don't know that they don't
like being transplanted. But if you just carefully slip them
out of the pot and put them on the ground,
I guess you could. Hey, Dave, I'm gonna have to run.
I got some of the callers.

Speaker 12 (01:03:43):
Here, but yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 20 (01:03:45):
Sounds like, Hey, what I'm going to do is just
let it grow and look at it and just remember,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Hey, all right, okay, well call me back then call
me back sometime.

Speaker 20 (01:03:57):
I'll call you next week. Yeah, I will do more. Yeah, okay, all.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Right, all right, take care. Uh let's see, we're gonna
go to spring now and talk to David.

Speaker 17 (01:04:08):
Hey David, Yes, can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Yes, sir, I can?

Speaker 17 (01:04:16):
Okay, I sent I send you some pictures, three pictures. Yes,
I want to see if you got them.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Got it? I did get them. Get them to.

Speaker 17 (01:04:26):
The pictures are for Uh. I'm trying to identify the weed.

Speaker 19 (01:04:31):
Uh huh.

Speaker 17 (01:04:32):
I took one one of the pictures. Can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
Yes, yes, I'm.

Speaker 17 (01:04:41):
Trying to identify the weed, and two of the pictures.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Yes, okay, the one with the little four pedaled white flowers,
that's Virginia button weed. By the way, you have a knack.
You have a knack forgetting the most difficult weeds in
your lawn. Virginia button one of them, by the way,
peak peaking out of the corner of that picture is

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some bermuda grass, and you're Saint Augustine, So that's a
that's a mess too. But Virginia button on the other
one is called dove weed. Dove weed.

Speaker 17 (01:05:18):
I got two weeds, the same weed.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
No, the other one.

Speaker 9 (01:05:24):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
The doveweed has much longer strappy leaves than the Virginia
button weed, and the dove weeds leaves or are shiny,
unlike the virginia. That's how you tell these a park.
So bottom line, Virginia button weed. There's a product called
Celsius that is about as the factory as you're going
to get. You need a spreader sticker to mix in

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the spray water so that it sticks on the leaves better.
Actually I got okay, yeah, okay, well it takes a while. Well, well, it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
Takes a while.

Speaker 8 (01:06:03):
On top of that, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Well, the spreadersticker is very important when you're using it
the other weed, the other weed, doveweed, you can use
celsius on it also. It will take a while to
be patient, but mainly for the for the dove weed,
the shiny, long strappy leaf on the doveweed, you need

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to do a pre emergent herbicide, and you need to
apply it when the weather warms up, not at the
time we apply our other pre emergence. You need to
put it out there. I would say probably April would
be a good time to get that out because you've
got to get ahead of its emergence. Uh. And so

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a pre emergent herbicide in April. So if you do
the on my schedule, I've got the pre emergent in
fall or in February for all the spring weeds coming up.
But you got to come back and do it again
in April for the dove weed. All right, I've got
to run. I'm running past to break here, David.

Speaker 17 (01:07:08):
One more, one more important question.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
Uh, you're gonna have to hold. I'm put your I'm
gonna put your on hold. Hang on, We'll be right back, folks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
All right, we're back.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
Welcome back to Guardline, folks. Good to be with you
this morning on a nice little Sunday morning. Sure is
beautiful outside. Uh, listen, if you are hearing me talk
about that fall go to my schedule. We got to
deal with this and this and this and this, and
we've got to fertilize with this and this and this.
Where do you go? Where you just it's all there

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is the entry of Southwest Fertilizer. It is They've been
around since nineteen fifty five. Yeah, seventy years ago, Southwest
Fertilizer was founded. Now they're on the corner of bustin
It and Runwick in Southwest Houston. So it's easy to
get to. What you need to do is you need
to go by there and take your schedules with you.
So if you need some of this or that or
the other you don't remember them, just go in there,
take your schedule and tell them to point at it.

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This is what I need. Uh. They carry products from
every major fertilizer and then some Nitrofis, surf Star, Microlife,
Uh folks from Medina for example, the asimide, and on
and on and on and on. In fact, if I
just read you all the different fertilizers they carry and options.
It would use up a whole segment for me just

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telling you all the names of all the different ones
and the blends and the nutrients and all that. That's
Southwest Fertilizer. And then you apply that to the products
to control insects, the products to control weeds, the products
to control diseases. And if you're sitting there listening to
me going I'm an organic gardener, I don't use chemical spine.
There's no place in the whole region that has as
much organic gardening supplies as Southwest Fertilizer. There you go

(01:08:47):
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Corner of this and net and
runwick seven one three six sixty six one seven four four.
We're going to run back out here and uh Dave,
I think you had one follow up quick question.

Speaker 17 (01:09:00):
Sure, I'll make it quick. The third picture I sent
you was I think a little lairopie with a bunch
of white sposh on it. I'm trying to see if
that's a wheel with a bug.

Speaker 7 (01:09:10):
Or a disease.

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
It is a scale insect, and we can control scale
a couple of ways. One is with a horticultural oil spray,
not Dorman oil, but it's a summer oil, a horticultural oil,
very lightweight. Don't spray it. And if any loriope is
in the baking down hot ninety degrees sun. But if
you go out early in the morning and spray with it,

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it smothers the scale. So that's one option. You're typically
not going to get it all it Also, by the way,
when I'm looking at it, some of that could be
mealybugs too. It's kind of hard to pick them out
from a distance, but oils will work on them. The
other option would be to put down a systemic insecticide.
You drench it down in the soil the roots of

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the loriope, pick it up and transport it through the
plumbing of the plant. So meemie bugs and scale and
avids and anything sucking juices out of that plant is
going to pick up the poison when they drink the
juice out of the plant, because it's inside the plant,
not outside the plant. You're putting it in the roots.
That would be you. That would be your other option.

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And I would go ahead and do it while we're
still in you know, don't wait until middle winter to
do it.

Speaker 19 (01:10:28):
Okay, Okay, I will all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Good luck you got.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
Thanks for the call. You take care by bye. Earlier
I mentioned Nelson Water Gardens, Nursery and water Gardens out
there in Katie. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens has unbelievable
selection of plants. First of all, when you walk in,
you got to see the house. I keep telling you,
got to look at the house plants. They're beautiful tropicals

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just they're in gorgeous shape. The way I look at
it is like you walk in there and you just go,
I want that, and you've got a gift ready to
give somebody or bring home for your own house, because
they're that attractive. Those plants, shrubs, trees, vines. They got
in their fall a shipment recently, a shipment of all

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kinds of fruit trees, citrus and all kinds of other
fruit trees as well. You know, if you have a
water garden, they are a great place to get the lilies,
the various kinds of water lilies. You know, there's the
tropical types of water lilies, and we call them hardy
types of water lilies that are hardier than the tropical
in our area, I'm told Rolf tells me that actually

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even the tropicals make it back here in our area
pretty well. So they're gorgeous. And I'm going to post
a picture this week of a Victoria type of tropical
water lily that occurs like in places I think like
the Amazon, and there's these giant things and they have
a lip on the edges, so it's like a big

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flat owned pan or maybe you think of a pyrex
I don't know, brandy Brownie thing. Anyway, gorgeous, gorgeous, and
they have them there. In fact, you can go see
some of the largest ones you're going to see here
in the Greater Houston area at Nelson Nursery and Water
Gardens Nelsonwatergardens dot com. That's the website. Katie fort Ben's

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side Katie fort Ben Road on the north side of
itin go north from I ten Katie fort Benrose, not
very far up the street, Nelson Nursery and Watergardens.

Speaker 17 (01:12:33):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
The last time I was out there, I just sat
and listened to the water. I talk about that often
because I just it's therapy. I told Ralph, I said,
you guys need to charge in mission and people instead
of you know, instead of going for counseling, just come
sit here and let the waters wash your cares away

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because it's that way. I love that. I love that
sound anyway. Yeah, I have to warn you though, when
you go you are going to want a fountain or
a disappearing fountain or a little waterfall or something like
that in your backyard. You're just gonna love it. I do.
I've got two in my backyard. When I tell you
I like this sound, I mean it. I mentioned earlier azamite,

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you know, a Southwest furtilizers one of the places many
places carries asamite. You can find out more about asamite
if you have questions by going to azimite texas dot com. Basically,
azamite is a micro nutrient supplement. Micronutrients also called trace minerals,
are things that plants have to have to live, but

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they only need tiny amounts. And azimite can be done
anytime of the year. You know, we have times where
we do our regular fertilizing. Asmite can be done at
those times, but it can be done any time of
the year. If you if you're going to do fall
fertilizing and you want to put out azamite, also what
you need to do is put out your fertilizer, come back,

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reload the hopper, change the setting, different particle size, and
put out the azemite. Don't mix them together. You mix
something big with something small and they settle out and
you end up putting all the azmite in one spot
and all the fertilizer in another spot. You don't do
that the same day is just fine. Just put them
in a different spreader. When you put them out, they

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will go into the soil and they'll be available in
that bank account. And that's what we want to do.
We want to create a bank account of nutrients for plants.
Sometimes when we use terms like plant feeding, we're kind
of picturing like feeding a child. You know, you got
to feed them several times a day every day, like
you're feeding them and feeding them and feeding them. What

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we really do with plants is we put nutrients in
the soil bank account, and then the plants take them
up day by day by day. Some nutrients stick around
a long time. Some nutrients, like nitrogen, they come and go,
they wash away, they volatilize, the plants use them, the
microbes pick them up other things. But when you think

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about taking care of your plants, it's really about building
yourself number brown stuff for green stuff. That's what we do.
I would encourage you to get your salt tested now.
If you download my lawn care schedule, there's a link
to salt testing right on there. You can see it
online the link to soil testing, or you can just
write this down soil testing dot t A m U

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TAMU dot E e U E d U sell testing
dot TAMA dot EU. Why not have your seal testing
follow the instructions. When you get results in you can
talk to your county extension agent to get help with that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
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Now that the name says what Buchanan's native plants, right,
You're not gonna find a better selection in natives anywhere
in the Greater Houston area. But it's not just natives.
Natives are a smaller fraction of the plants that they have,
and even at that, they have more than anybody else does.
If you are looking for pumpkins and you just enjoy

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you know, decorating the home and things, if you're looking
for fall color plants, this is a place to go.
I mean they One of the things I like best
about the whole Buchanans Native Plants experience is their website
Buchanansplants dot com. When you go there, you're going to
find lots of information how to do things, when to

(01:17:35):
do things like for example, just recently they posted their
top twenty five native plants for fall. Now where do
you find some information like that top twenty five native
plants for fall. So earlier I was talking about how
do you want to change your landscape? You know, do
you want to attract hummingbirds? Do you want things that
have scent? Well? How about this, how about considering the

(01:17:57):
fall season. I was talking with one of my daughters
yesterday about a bed that they are redoing our building actually,
and I said, well, always think about the four seasons
you know, everything blooms in spring. Summer is harder to
get color in, and then fall is often forgotten. But
there are many great blooming plants for fall. Some bloom
in the summer and keep going in the fall. Some

(01:18:18):
just bloom in the fall. Buchanans got it all. They've
got you covered. Buchanus Native Plants on Eleventh Street in
the Heights. You need to go by there and check
them out. But first go to Buchanansplants dot com and
sign up for their newsletter. All right, somebody let a
fire under the telephones here. We're going to run out
first and talk to Carolyn in Southwest Houston. Hey, Carolyn,

(01:18:41):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (01:18:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
I have a question about long beings. This is the
first time I have grown them. I ordered the seeds
from Baker Creek Catalog, and I ordered the bush variety
that's supposed to have foot long beans. But my bush
just started climbing and kept climbing, and the only traillis

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I have is the one that I have the malabar
spinach on. So I don't know if this is a
bush variety with a foot long bean or if it's
going to be a climbing variety with an eighteen inch bean.
Have you had any suggestions with or have you had
any experience with long beans?

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
That is that is very unusual. I've never heard of
a bush variety of long beans.

Speaker 9 (01:19:39):
Hm.

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
Baker Creek's a great, a great catalog. I love, uh,
I love that catalog. Yeah, I'd have to check on that.
I just have never long beans typically are on vines,
and and that's good because those beans are so long
that it seems like on a bush that that they

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would have have trouble. I don't know how they would
do that, but my guess is that it should be
a vine. I'll have to check into it, though. I've
never heard of a bush type of long bean. But
they're being they're basically just a regular old bean kind
of plant. Actually, they're more closely related to Southern peas
like black eyed bes and things than they are the

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just a regular pento bean. But anyway, that that is
that that's how I look. I'm trying to pull up
their catalog here just to see, uh, you know, you're long,
ti Soldier. I don't see a bush that them them
listing a bush type here, So anyway, just treat them

(01:20:45):
like a regular bean though they ought to produce for you.

Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
Though, Melucas bean and half now is eight and a
half inches, so I don't know when to cut when
to cut it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
I'll just keep saying at it and see it. Yeah,
they call them yard long beans, but the ones that
I have seen or grown are going to get eighteen inches,
are even longer depending on the growing season. And now
I did see they do have one that they say
it's a vigorous bush habit, and the beans on this

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one are only a foot long, So I guess, I
guess yours are doing what they're supposed to do. Then,
you know, eight inches, let it get a little bit longer.
You know, with beans, when you're growing them, you want
the pods to be plump, but you don't want the
beans to be like swollen the seeds inside the pod
to be swollen and sticking out, because that's when it's

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at the stage where you would be shelling it as
opposed to eating the whole pod. So if you want
the seeds, you let them go further. But if you
only eat the pods like you would green beans, then
you need to pick them a little younger. There's no
ripening of them. You can pick them the minute the
bloom falls off, or only half an inch long, or

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you can let them get longer. But just don't. You're
gonna have to test it on your plants, really, Carolyn,
in order to know exactly, because again I can't tell
you I haven't grown this particular one. But if you
pick one and you try to snap it and it's
got a little bit of a string to it, then
it's gone too far.

Speaker 5 (01:22:22):
Yeah, okay, okay, Well just try, just try, try and
see what works.

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
Yeah. That's a fun of gardening. It's always a surprise.
So that sound like cool. Well, if you got into
that catalog, you can get in a lot of trouble
in a rare seeds catalog, right, You kind of need
to open a second bank account just to support your
gardening habit, because there's eight hundred thousand things you can't

(01:22:54):
live without in there. Carolyn, thanks for the call. I
appreciate it alrighty. The folks at Nelson have created so
many quality fertilizers. I was talking about the nutri Star
vegetable garden just a little bit ago. The Genesis transplant

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mix is another one that comes in the jars and
what it is is it's a fertilizer, but it's a
non salt based type fertilizer because it includes things like
mich Riisei and bacteria another fungi that supports your soul microbiome,
the things that makes roots happy, which makes plants healthy
and happy and productive. It's designed to be mixed into

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the soil at transplanting. So if you're bumping pots up,
maybe you're growing some seedlings and you want to move
them to the next level, that soil you move them
into should have some Nelson Genesis, the nutristar genesis mixed
in the soil. If you're going to plant in the
raised container, above ground container, if you're going to plant
it in the ground in bed, maybe you're gonna put

(01:23:57):
a rosebush in mix some neltson in genesis. Transplant mix
in the soil when you've dug the hole, and use
it to fill back in around that plant as you're
planting it. And it's a great way to give the
roots and the plant a really good start. From the
folks at Nelson Fertilizer and they're available at garden centers,
hardware stores, feed stores all over down of course, Southwest

(01:24:21):
fertilizer as well. I'm going to take quick break here.
When I come back from break, Lynn and Alvin and
Joe and Kingwood will be my first threw up. All right,
we're back. Hey, how can we help the day? What
kinds of gardening questions do you have? What kinds of
issues do you need to solve? Bugs, diseases, weeds to identify?

(01:24:43):
I don't know, whatever you want to do, maybe just
suggestions for success. By the way, I was just talking
about the yard long bean question that we had, and
if you've never grown them before, they're worth growing. And
a lot of times this happens in plants, but plants
are given a name that's not what they are. And
a bean, when you say like a green bean, you're

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talking about a very different genus and species from yard
long beans. Yard lung beans are related to black eyed peas,
purple whole peas, crowder peas, zipper cream peas, all the
southern peas that grow in the heat so well, green
beans when it gets hot, they kind of quit producing.

(01:25:25):
And so with yard long beans, it would be just
like a succession crop that you could carry your spring
garden in a little further our planet at the same time,
it doesn't matter. But the bottom line is just to
make a clarification there. Often with plants, we put a
word in the name that is not what they are,
and I think it causes confusion, especially when you would

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think about growing Like I wouldn't consider planting green beans
in June because it's just not going to be a
productive harvest for you. But I would consider planting yard
long beans or black eyed peas or something like that
because they can take the heat all right enough that Hey,
if you're planning a tree this fall, and I hope
you are, it's the best season to do it. You
need to get it done this fall. October November the

(01:26:07):
best times. But you can plant a tree any month
of the year. Okay, any month of the year, but
you got to get a three sixty tree stabilizer. It
does it all. It allows. It holds the tree firmly
in terms of it's not going to blow over or anything.
But the way it holds it, you can set that
strap to be a little loose, and you should because
you want the tree to move. If you strap a

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tree down like a saturn rocket that you don't want
to budget at all. It's not going to develop the
strength of trunk. Then then it would if you allow
it to move some in the wind. That's how nature works.
Maybe we'll go and nerd on that some other time,
but it's kind of cool process. But three sixty tree stabilizers.
You can get them at RCW at Jghesedon Gardens down

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in Alvin See anamlts down southwest of Houston. If you
can just needed plants in the heights the arborgate and
Tomball plants for all seasons on two forty nine where
it comes into Luettah and they're widely available. But they're
so important to have them on hand because they work
so well, and you just when you get done with that,

(01:27:12):
you put them in the garage because you're gonna play
something else, or maybe your neighbor or somebody in the
family will need to borrow it for theirs, because it
really is a good product. Let's go out now to
Lynn and Alvin. Hello, Lyn, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 22 (01:27:28):
Good morning, doing wonderful. I have a hibiscus problem. I
had probably six plants. They're in pots and they all
they're dead. They got a white and I thought it
was fungus. Started at the top, moved its way down

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the plant. I sprayed funge aside, insect a side, everything
I can think of, and they all died.

Speaker 4 (01:28:02):
When you say, what described me the symptoms like when
it first occurred, and then as it began to progress,
what are you seeing?

Speaker 22 (01:28:10):
It was white and I could rub it between my fingers,
So it wasn't It wasn't little bugs.

Speaker 8 (01:28:18):
It was.

Speaker 22 (01:28:20):
Soft, powdery, and it started at the top, and it
started on the joints, and then as it moved down
the plant where the little little limbs attached to the
main one, it grew right there in the joint and
it just moved down the plant.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
All right. And when you rubbed it in your fingers,
did you try smashing it? And did it smear a
little bit when you smashed it?

Speaker 6 (01:28:43):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (01:28:45):
Yes, it was kind of yes, it it was soft.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
Okay, Well, I think what you have is meatley bugs.
That's my best shot based on description of it. So
midi bugs are a pain and they love hibiscus. And
the way to deal with meata bugs it's a couple
of things. You can squirt them with the horticulture oil
or insecticidal, so they're little powdery furry covering that they have.

(01:29:16):
It keeps those things off of their bodies pretty well.
So unless you do a really good job of coating
them with it and doing it on a regular basis,
it's hard to get ahead of meatia bugs because they're
just their little tiny things crawl out and you don't
know what. You don't see them until they become larger
and turn white and start creating that mess. Uh. The
other option is to put something in the soil that

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goes up in the plants plumbing, and that way, that's
called a systemic insecticide. Because you don't spray the plant,
the plant remains, you know, unsprayed. So I mean if
a lady beat across across the plant, it's not going
to hurt it because the poison isn't the plumbing because
you drenched it on the soil.

Speaker 6 (01:30:00):
Okay, okay, well they are I'll.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
Go find yeah, catch them early because as you know,
they spoke, they spoil the show.

Speaker 7 (01:30:12):
They certainly did.

Speaker 4 (01:30:13):
All right, Thank you, Hey, thanks Linn. You take care.
We're going to go now. Let's see, we're gonna head
out to Kingwood and talk to Joe.

Speaker 14 (01:30:22):
Hey, Joe, good morning. Skip.

Speaker 17 (01:30:25):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:30:26):
One's your advice on pruning my double knockout roses. I'd
sent you a photo earlier this morning, and I've got
about six of them planted pretty close together, and they've
gotten long and leggy. Is it okay for me to
prune about a fourth of them now and then feed
and water them.

Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
Sure you can do that. You can print a rose,
you know, as you need to normally. Here's the rose
pruning schedule. And in wintertime people say Valentine's Day, but
just mean late winter or mid to late winter. You
just go ahead and you prune your roses way back.
You can do it in midwinter or two. And that

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is a more severe cutting, depending you know, knockouts can
get pretty large over time. So typically you know, you
may have one that's even head high. They'll get they'll
get that high, and you cut it way back to
waiste high, you know, pretty severe pruning, or it could
just be about a third of the top taken out
in the winter. That may be a little more common

(01:31:31):
to do that amount of pruning. Then they do their
blooming through the year in cycles. If you needed to
share them a little bit to get all the dead
bloom stuff out of a rosebush. Knockouts aren't too bad
about leaving all that dead stuff, but you could do
that and then and going into fall, typically late August,
I will do a sharing of the roses about out

(01:31:53):
a fourth, cut them back a little bit more, and
then fertilize and water them, and then your October rose
show will be awesome. They come back out on new
growth and they set the blooms, and it just as good.
We're already now, you know, halfway into this September. So
I've never tried pruning one this late, but you know,

(01:32:16):
with where we live down here, this far south, it
might be worth taking one as an experiment and trying it,
cutting it back by a bot forth or so enough
to get some new growth. And see, you'll probably get
a few roses if we don't have a you know,
a hard, hard early early freeze, and so it might
be worth trying. Uh. Do you think the picture makes

(01:32:37):
it look like they're in a lot of shade? Are they?

Speaker 14 (01:32:40):
Yes, they do get quite a bit of shades, but
they do bloom in certainly in the spring they bloom profusely.

Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
Yeah. Well that's part of the reason they're growing lanky. Yeah. Yeah,
anything in the sun sunlight would be helpful. But otherwise, yeah,
my pretty as I said that, I think I'll stick
with that.

Speaker 14 (01:33:04):
Skip. Can I've got a bunch of them there. Can
I use my electric heads trimmers to trim them all
at once? Or do I need to use the printing
shears in one stay amount of time?

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
You you can do the hedge trimmers. And I know
rose enthusiasts are probably cringing to hear that right nowgs
tend to make very ragged cuts and you're going to
have little branches that are hanging off that were cut
nine tenths of the way off or something, and so
it's better to do nice clean cuts on your roses.
But if you got a bunch up there like that

(01:33:37):
and you want to print them, you can do that
for now. I would be more precise as we get
back in the next year and you do your your
cutbacks and things. But yeah, whatever whatever you need to
do to get by, just enjoy those.

Speaker 14 (01:33:50):
Roses, all right, Thank you for your real.

Speaker 4 (01:33:54):
You've been thanks a lot for the call. Take care
all right in the garden line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and here is the number you need seven to one
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gotta put that in your phone. Just put it in
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eight to seventy four. Never know when you need to

(01:34:16):
call in. I uh talking earlier today about various things
like landscaping for certain specific purposes.

Speaker 18 (01:34:25):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
We're kind of getting to the end of a brutal summer,
right and as a result of that, Uh, it kind
of makes me think about arbors, because when you go
out and try to be outside in the summer, you
better have a shade tree or an arbor to be
able to be under right. Arbors offer they're beautiful in
and of themselves if they're built well. Uh, and they

(01:34:46):
also offer the opportunity for plants. They could have lucky
It could be a grape vine with grapesinging down. It
could be a beautiful blooming rose, you know, like Peggy
Martin or some other nice climbing rose. It could be
any kind of vine and that grows on them and
provides you that shade in the summer. It could even
be something perennial that in the spring it sprouts about

(01:35:08):
of the ground and as things start to get warm,
it's starting to provide you some shade cover, but why
not think about where an arbor, a pergola, or even
an archway that has vines over the top of it,
where you could use those for next year, especially in
those areas where you want to sit and you want
to relax. Hey, Ace Hardware, been talking about them all

(01:35:28):
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Got to have some good summer music, right, you need
to play more beach Boys. Hey, welcome back to Guardenline.
Glad to have you with us today. Listen, it is
still hurricane season, but you don't have to have a

(01:36:32):
hurricane to have issues with your trees. They need to
be properly pruned, and Martin Spoon Moore with Affordable Tree
Service knows how to do that. Right now, he is
scheduling his dormant season pruning because that's where we are.
If I think Martin, I believe he's already scheduling way
out in November already. So if you need, if you

(01:36:54):
need to have your trees pruned, or if you want
to have him looked at, you need to call him
right now before he gets completely booked up. He stays
busy because he does a good job. If you want
to call him seven to one three six ninety nine
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out and do a tree trimming for you, that he'll

(01:37:15):
provide a free deep root feeding on that tree to
help keep your trees healthy all year long.

Speaker 8 (01:37:21):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
Now you're gonna call Martin at Affordable Tree Service at
seven one three, six nine nine two six six three.
And for some reason, it's not Martin. It's not who
you want to come and work on your trees. There's
people that find a way to make make their phone
ring that by I don't want to go into it,
but anyway, bottom line is, UH, if you're not talking

(01:37:43):
to Martin spoon More and his family, then you're not
talking to Affordable Tree Service seven one three, six nine
nine two six sixty three. Have him come out. If
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one three, six, two six six three. Let's go now
to Tumball, Texas. We're going to visit with Ronnie. Good morning, Ronnie,
Welcome to Guardenline.

Speaker 8 (01:38:15):
Weird Marskip.

Speaker 21 (01:38:17):
I've read both your lawn care schedule and your week
management schedule, and I know October is the target month
for both the barricade pre emergence and your Paul fertilizer
have both question a little bit more specific in terms
of timing the application. Should would you recommend one versus

(01:38:41):
the other being applied first, and if so, with time
interval would you think be best?

Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
Uh No, not really so our cool season weeds start
to germinate when we get a good drop in the
temperatures and some rain, and so October is generally that's
going to happen, and so we put the October is
the month to put down the pre emergent. For that reason.

(01:39:07):
As far as the fertilizing, if you wanted to do
it a little earlier, you could. You don't have to
have to wait until October. You can do it late September.
But in general the month of October, especially early to
mid month, being the ideal time you want to get
that down. If you wait too long on the fertilizer,
like let's say you go into November, the grass has

(01:39:27):
already hit a point where it's just not doing a
lot of root growth like it is in September October.
So that's why we have it scheduled for that time.
And then the final one. I don't think you mentioned
this one, but that is for the brown patch issues
that we often have if you've got a lawn that's
been plagued with brown patch in past years. Then getting

(01:39:48):
ahead of that with the third part of Nitrofoss's Texas
three step, and that is the fungicide that we're putting
down at that time. That would be the other one,
and again a cool spell and some rain and here
comes the brown patch. And the third part of that

(01:40:08):
is the reason that I bring it up, because it's
equally important. And by the way, that that third the
fungicide is called Eagle Turf fungicide.

Speaker 21 (01:40:17):
Well, yeah, I left that out because I do have
that as well, But I was just wondering more specifically,
and apparently what my schedule is going to be what
you just said, because I have it for October first
or second to do the barricade, and then in the
middle of the month I was going to do the
fall fertilizer. So apparently that's.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
Okay, yeah, yeah, that's okay, perfectly, okay, good. The only
the one that's the two that are most important as
far as timing, is to get ahead of the weeds sprouting,
don't wait untill after they sprout, and ahead of the
brown patch. Don't wit until you see circles. The fertilizer
is more flexible in there.

Speaker 8 (01:40:55):
Okay, all right, well, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
Hey, hey, thanks Ronning, shate your call. You take care.
And by the way, how would you like to get
a free bag of Nitrofoss fertilizer. I'm going to be
at Bearings Hardware on Biscinet next Saturday. Next Saturday, Bearings
Hardware on'm Bicinet. I'll be there from twelve thirty to
two thirty, So grab your bite to eat, come on out.

(01:41:20):
I'm going to be giving away six bags of Nitrofos
Texas three step so two bags of each the Eagle
Turf fungde aside, the Barricade and the Fall Special fertilizer,
all by Nitropos. So ever, twenty minutes, we'll be drawing
for one you stand a good time so winning something.
I'll be giving away some other things too that I

(01:41:40):
have plenty of around. I always tell you guys you
need to subscribe to Texas Gardener. I'm gonna bring some
magazines with me and provide them. Is a giveaway for
people to show up. You need to read that, look
at it, and then you need to subscribe. It is,
without a doubt the best magazine in text is about gardening.

Speaker 19 (01:42:01):
Now there.

Speaker 20 (01:42:01):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
There're those coffee table magazines that you look at for
the pretty pictures. But if you want to get down
in the dirt and have success, Texas Gardeners are one.
It's written by Texas gardeners for Texas gardeners, and so
well just just come let me put a copy in
your hand and take a look at it. They're really

(01:42:23):
really good. I write for them too, by the way,
So there you go. All right, Bearings Hardware on this net.
Next Saturday, twelve thirty to two thirty, come out and
see me. If you've got samples of plants that you
want to identify it or diagnosed, if there's an issue
or maybe it's a bug or something, put it in
a bag, bring it in, let me take a look

(01:42:44):
at it. Weeds, we can do the same thing usually
at these things. I get people to give me a
bag of ten weeds or something. I got to go
through identifying each one, telling you what to do about it.
We often try to do that kind of as a group.
So if you show up, somebody else is going to
have something. I'll hold it up, Oh this is such
and such, and you go, yeah, I got that in
my yard. Well, everybody gets to learn that way. We'll

(01:43:05):
have a good time there. I'd love to meet you.
I always get to get to have a I always
enjoy getting out and meeting gardeners. That's one of my
happy places. It's talking to gardeners. I've enjoyed. I've enjoyed
that for what. I've spent thirty five years in Agrilife,
Texas A and m Agrilife Extension, spent it in a
number of different counties. I started off in Conroe and

(01:43:26):
Montgomery County, went to Austin to Travis County, came back
to Houston to Harris County, and then I finished my
career in College Station in Brocess County, and so lots
of time to get the visit with gardeners. I love it.
Gardeners are just fun people to talk to you. They're hopeful,
they enjoy getting out in nature and enjoying things and

(01:43:47):
sharing and I just love that. So that's why I
love to do these appearances like the one that bearings
next Saturday, twelve thirty to two thirty, where you can
win your nicro FoST products from the Texas three Step.
Where are we on time? Time for me to take
a quick break and then we will come back with
more calls. Welcome back to Garb folks. Good to have

(01:44:12):
you back with us. Have you been to the Arborgate recently?
I have, and you really need to go. The selection
that they have gotten in for fall is just outstanding.
You know, falls the time for bulbs and Arburgate is
a great place to get bulbs. They have bulbs from
the Southern Bulb Company, which is a Texas company that

(01:44:32):
produces bulbs, and Arburgate carries them and you're going to
find the bulbs when you go. You know, there's lue
shot wonder bulbs like tulips, you know that someone puts
in the ground. They pop up, they bloom once they
are gone. Because we're so hot down here, the blooms
don't even last that long. But then they are bulbs
that are repeating, bulbs that come back year after year
after year. That's an investment on your money. I would

(01:44:55):
put it this way. You put your money down and
get you some bulbs and they pay dividends year after
year after year. Arbrogate's got that kind of ball for you.
They also have classes going on, by the way, coming
up on September seventeenth. So when is that, Well, that's
three days from now. They're going to have a class
by Cynthia Graham on fire Sider and it's all about
making herbal remedy for flu, cold and other viruses and

(01:45:19):
other kinds of teas and tinctures and toddies and things.
And if you're kind of interested in that kind of
thing I am. I think you'll find it very very interesting.
You know, there's all kinds of herbs and flavoring things
that we can do grow them in our own garden. Well,
the date is September seventeenth. It's at ten am. But
this is the important part. There's only forty spots and

(01:45:41):
you have to preregister and prepay. That helps make sure
you show up. Pre register and peep pre pay. It's
ten bucks and you call Arbigate to reserve your spot
two eight one three five one eighty eight fifty one
to two eight one three five one eight eight five one.
You need to make sure and do that. And while
you're at Arburgate, have fun. Those folks will greet you,

(01:46:04):
they will help you find success, they will take you
around if you want them to help you, Like I
want to put together a color container, They'll walk you
around and help you choose and pick out the container
plants that will go well together. And this follow you
have the most beautiful patio that you've ever had thanks
to arbrogate.

Speaker 18 (01:46:22):
It.

Speaker 4 (01:46:22):
Let's head out to Beaumont now and we're going to
talk to Karen. Hey, Karen, welcome to gardenho Thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:46:30):
I've just bought a patio palm and it's in a
one gallon pot. I want to transplanet to a big pot,
and I need to know what kind of soil to buy.

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
Okay, So what you're going to want is this are
you trying to keep it mostly outdoors or indoors?

Speaker 15 (01:46:54):
It's going to be on a patio like a covered
you know, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:47:01):
Yeah, a covered area. So you're you're gonna want to
a container of an adequate size to support it, so
it it you know, it doesn't struggle too much. Uh.
They get they don't get large like outdoor and the
ground palm trees on them. Yeah, and so I would

(01:47:23):
get a quality mix. There are a number of different
ones that it would do well in airlomselves makes one
uh and it's called rose another bloomers blend. And I
know you're thinking palm trees don't have flowers. Well, it's
a good blend of soil that your palm tree will
do well in. Uh. They have also a product called

(01:47:45):
oh gosh, what's it? Tropic gosh? I just went blank. Huh, Well,
let me let me pull it up. Let me pull
it up here. My brain just dropped it right out
right there, tropic sheeeesz. Hang on. Uh, I'm gonna find this.

Speaker 13 (01:48:04):
All we have here are big Bucks stores and maybe
a little garden nursery. I'm not in Houston, so I
can't go to all.

Speaker 4 (01:48:13):
The great you got some good nurses out there, and
they also you have a if you go to Ace
Hardware Texas dot Com, we've got some Ace hardware out
there too, so that huh yeah. So the one I
was trying to think of is called the works Potting Soil.

(01:48:35):
The works Punting sold that's a decent one for medium
sized pots and things. If you're going to get into
a larger pot, I would probably do the Rods and
Bloomers blend, or you could also do uh, the veggie
and herb mix. That one's fine. I know the names
are like, there's no, there's not one called palm because

(01:48:55):
palms will grow and some of these those well it's
just fine. And those are all all by heirloom soils.
So yeah, if you if you head out there, you
can do that. That's a great palm. By the way,
I'm I'm jealous. I need one.

Speaker 8 (01:49:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:49:14):
I may have to go. I may have to go
and get me one. Uh So when you're if you
go to the Airloom Sol's website, you can find places
where their soils are sold. Okay, okay, wherever you live there,
they're gonna there's gonna be a place where you can
find where's the locator? Checked my website and right right

(01:49:37):
at this moment, it's another There we go. I got
it to work, all right. Let me let me just
tell you, I'm gonna pull this up here, and I
don't see one out in your direction. I thought for
sure there was one out there. All right. Well, anyway,
get your quality blend, anything from heirloom soils, anything from
Nature's way resources is going to be a very good blend.

(01:49:59):
And if you're coming into the Houston area, we've got
a lot of places that have those out here.

Speaker 13 (01:50:04):
Okay, well I appreciate that, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:50:08):
All right, well, thank you, take care. Okay, Yeah, Heirloom
sold all over the creations, so I'm kind of surprised
that they are not out there in that area. I
bet they are. Maybe someone from Heirloom will call me
and tell me where they are. That would be good. Well,
you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

(01:50:30):
and if we can help you have success, that's what
we're here about. Heirloom Soils Outstanding. Go to airlomsoils dot
com and look at all their soils and look at
the calculator that they have there. It is excellent. Microlife fertilizers.
When we enter the fall season, Microlife has one called
brown Patch and it is the fall fertilizer and you

(01:50:52):
can start putting it down later in September and go
on through October if you want. Microlife brown Patch is
the right ratio of nutrients to prepare that plant going
into winter. Very very important to do that. We don't
use our summer fertilizers in the fall. We use a
fall based fertilizer and Microlife brown Patch in the brown
bag that makes sense. Available all over the place. You

(01:51:15):
can go to Microlifefertilizer dot com and find out more
about it, but it is one that you definitely are
going to want to have on hand and use. This
fall with checking out BnB turf Pros on their website.
It's bb turf Pros no end in the website bb
turf Pros dot com, and you should go there and
look at the work they do. It's outstanding. They can

(01:51:37):
do aeration and compost top dressing and they do an
outstanding job of that. By the way, prices start around
five hundred dollars because it is expensive equipment and it's
bulky to hall enough compost out to do that. They
cover the area from Sugarland and Missouri City all the
way down to Interstate forty five, you know, League City
and Dickinson, Paarland, Friends with Manville, al than everything in between.

(01:52:01):
B B turf Pros dot com seven to one, three
two three four fifty five ninety eight. If you've got
a loan that's been struggling for summer, have them come out,
and now's a good time. Don't wait too long because
there's still plenty of time for those roots to rejuvenate,
and when they do composts top dressing and narrating, it
breinges life back into the soil and the plant. Your

(01:52:22):
grass plants will have a chance to thrive, to take
a good breath of fresh air. Get those nutritions, get
the microbes and the roots stimulated. Bb turf pros dot
com seven one three, two three four fifty five ninety eight.
Give them a call, go that website, Look at them,
Look at the work they do. Oh thattstanding, gorgeous, gorgeous work. Hey,

(01:52:46):
you're listening to Guardline and we're about to go into
a break. So we got one more hour in US today.
Stick around if you want to be first up when
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does garden artist loves her landscape? Tell my guarden Line.
We should be sending out a finder's fee. I could
send you a sample of some fertilizer or a bag
of malt or something. We love getting new listeners in.
And you know, there's a lot of folks here in
the greater Houston area that don't he don't even know
we exist, believe it or not been around for a
long time. This show has gone on since the nineteen fifties,

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had a different name back in those days. But you
go through the times of Doey Compton, through the many
many people that well know, let me take that back,
not many people. The people that have hosted a garden
Line over the years, to Bill Back, John Burrows, There's
lots of lots of people that are part of the

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Houston gardening world have been. And then Randy Lemon, who
held this chair for a good Night over I think
twenty six years. I believe it was for Randy here
a long time and he basically put the program on
the map. Randy an old college dorm mate of mine.
It's such a tragic loss when we lost Randy as

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a privilege to get to sit here and do the show,
knowing that Randy was such an integral part of taking
Garden Line and just really making it just a popular,
popular show in the greater Houston area. So but we're
glad you're listening, and I'm glad to be here today.
Nitrofoss has their Texas three Step. I was talking about

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it earlier. I want to go into a little bit
more again. Nitrofous is three step or the three things
that your lawn needs in the fall. Okay, Now, if
you've been struggling with brown patch every cool season, those
big brown circles, well they're going to be back this year.
Then for you, that's just how that works. If you
never had them. You still may have them this year

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brown patch. Once the circles appears too late to stop
that circle, it's going to be a brown circle until
spring when the grass screen's up. But as a result
of that, we say, we'll put down your nitropos eagle
turf funge de side ahead of time and then they
don't show up. Or if you catch it really early
and you get it on, you can prevent other circles

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from showing up or maybe those from growing even larger.
Nitrofoss eagle turf funge a side shuts down bron patch,
it does and other fall diseases. It has a good
effect on take a root rod as well. Now the
nitro fross barricade prevents winter weeds, which they're sprouting October, November,
even in December, and you don't really notice them until

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spring when you really notice them. And that's when people call,
how do I control these weeds? Well, I get in
a time machine, go back in time, and in October
put down nitrofoss texas three step. You don't need a
time machine right now, you can do it next month.
Nitrofoss barricade as part of the three step Third step
Night fuss Fall Winter Special Fertilizer. In fall, we want

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more potassium compared to the nitrogen levels we were using
in the summer, so we drop the nitrogen a little.
You still need nitrogen in the fall, but not as much.
You need more potassium. Nitrovas Fall Special Winteriser is an
a twelve sixteen fertilizer that D's just sat and it works.
Now you're going to get nitro frost products. Lots of
places Dandy Feed and Tomball carries them, Fish or Hardware

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not in mont Bellevue Lake Hardware and Angleton carries them.
And if you'll come out to Bearings Hardware on Bisonette
this coming Saturday, I'll be there from twelve to two
thirty and I give away six bags, two of each
of the three parts of the Nitrofast Texas three step.
While we're there, we'll visit I got some other giveaways
for you. We'll be there to meet you, answer your

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questions and just have a good time. So there you go.
You want to learn more about these, coming out and
see me all right, Well, I got to get out
here to the phones. Things are loading up out here.
We're gonna go to Tom and West Houston Hey, Tom,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (01:58:27):
Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 4 (01:58:28):
Skip.

Speaker 19 (01:58:29):
I sent you a picture of a giant weed. I
want to know if you got it and what it
is and how it killing.

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
Alrighty would it come in as the name Mike were
to come in as tjm Okay, let me put you
on hold. Just hang on. I'm gonna have to find that.
And rather than do that on the air here, I'm
gonna go to the call and I'll come right back
to you once I've had a chance to find that photo.

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We're gonna go to friends with now and talk to Mike.

Speaker 8 (01:59:00):
Hey, Mike, Hey, Skip, good morning, Thanks for taking a call.
I sent a picture to you as well, but I
just good, Okay. That's a plant that was gone as
a gift for my neighbor lady, a very beautiful woman
sitting right here next to me, and uh, I say,

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it's been had too many plants in it. It was
an arrangement of sorts and it looked to have well
you can see what it's got left. I think it's
got like a little uh what do we call it? Mandavilla?
And then some other plants around that are dead, and
I believe it's been over watered and also had too

(01:59:44):
many plants to begin with and in the bucket. So
I'm wondering what's what's the best way to possibly say
what's left here? Do I remove all the dead roots
and all? Do I cut it off at the soil?

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Do I stop watering it for a while? What how
do we help?

Speaker 4 (02:00:10):
So my guess is overwatering the way it's looking there,
the other plants look okay. If it was always sitting
in the orientation that it is now, could it be
that the part that died is more on a western

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side of the pot, where the soil would heat up
as the sun is shining down and the plant would
have demands on it, so that that could have caused
those two parts of this planting to die while the
others still lived. So there's a possibility to that. But
over or underwatering. I don't think it's under because I

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don't see signs of underwatering on the other parts of
the pot.

Speaker 8 (02:00:58):
Yeah, so what you're saying is it is definitely over watered.
And what do we do about what's what's brown and
sticky coming up that doesn't look alive? Should I just
up at the soil and let the energy go to
the other plants, the ones that are green.

Speaker 4 (02:01:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, after we do one quick check, and
that is go to the bottom where the stem goes
into the soil, and take your thumbnail or a little
knife and scrape back the bark. And if it is
pecan brown or paper sack brown underneath the outer bark,
it's dead. If it has a cre to it, yeah
it might come back, but I think ninety chance it's dead.

(02:01:38):
But I hate to pull them up until we know that.
When we if you want, you can carefully move one
or two of those other plants to create a more
even not circle, but triangle of plants if there's if
I gotten numbers right in that pot. But in the meantime,

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let's just keep it happy, which the other plants are
very happy. So you're doing some things.

Speaker 8 (02:02:04):
Right, Okay, So basically over watered, and I'm just going
to check the the guys that are looking around, as
you said, and as I should remember, And then for now,
just let it go dry for a while because the
sun is not going to hit it so hard this
time of year. Just let it drive for a while,

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and then water once a week or so.

Speaker 4 (02:02:29):
Right, that would be it. Did it come with the
plant tag?

Speaker 8 (02:02:34):
Yes, I'll let you talk to my friend now, Yes,
it came with a plant tag.

Speaker 4 (02:02:41):
Okay, Uh what what did it say it was? Do
you remember?

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
And what.

Speaker 8 (02:02:49):
Kind of planet it is?

Speaker 4 (02:02:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:02:51):
Yeah, okay, let me get let me get the kay
I'm going to it.

Speaker 4 (02:02:58):
Okay, all right, Well, it's gonna have care. Can it's
gonna have care instructions on the tag too. It'll tell
you how much sun to put it in.

Speaker 24 (02:03:08):
Uh yeah, four plus hours of sun.

Speaker 21 (02:03:14):
Oh okay, of and water as needed.

Speaker 8 (02:03:21):
Up this plant food every two weeks.

Speaker 4 (02:03:24):
Follow follow those instructions. That's that's what you want to
give it. And if you can give it more morning
sun than afternoon sun in those four hours, it would
be better to have money.

Speaker 8 (02:03:36):
A lot of sun hit my porch.

Speaker 11 (02:03:38):
I'm upstairs in an apartment.

Speaker 4 (02:03:40):
Okay, all right, we'll give it, give it the best
you can. Uh, just watch the watering. We kill more
plants about overwatering than underwatering. And the roots get soggy
and can't get oxygen. They start to rot. And so
I believe we've we've covered it. I got some other
folks online here, so I'm gonna I'm gonna run, but
good luck with getting that plant back in show. Let's

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see here we are going to go, now to where
are we on time? I got to take a quick
break and we'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to
garden Line, folks. Good navy with us. Looking forward to
visiting with you about the questions that you might have
in chanting Forest Garden Center down in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Actually,

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if you're heading from Richmond Rosenberg toward sugar Land, it's
off to the right. It's on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
Outstanding garden center. I mean, you go there. I love
shopping there, big giant trees. Even on a hot day.
It's a nice and nice day to shop and get
out and really enjoy that. Enchanted Forrest just has a

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way of, I don't know, creating that ambience and setting
that makes it fun to be out there and be around.
They've got all kinds of things going on. They have
talks going on every Saturday, every weekend. Some really nice
talks coming up and you don't want to miss those.
You can also buy kits to grow your own mushrooms there.
How about that? You know the mushrooms you get in

(02:05:05):
the store. There's one called Lion's Maine. There's one called
snow oyster, pink oyster, and antler, one of the rishy mushrooms.
By the way, that one is supposed to have some
mental benefits to it. So you can buy the kits.
You can grow them yourself. Check out their talavera pumpkins
and other things. So many plants, butterfly plants, plants for

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attracting birds or hummingbirds specifically, vegetables for your fall garden,
herbs for fall planting. Falls the best time to plant herbs,
and it's all there at Enchanted Forest. Now you need
to go to their website, so write this down. Enchented Forest, Richmond,
TX dot com. Intented Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. That's

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the place you go. Sign up for the information that
they send out. Check them out, find out that about
any kind of specials going on, any kind of plants
that they just got in. It's a great place to
visit and take some friends with you when you go too.
By the way, we're going to head now to let's see,
I'm trying to go to the longest call doug in

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Mount Bellevue, Hey, Doug, welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 12 (02:06:13):
Hey, good morning, Skip. You might have covered this already,
but I know you're talking about the matter falls three
step fertilizer deal. My question was just when to kind
of what the schedule was for putting it out. Is
it okay to put all three products out at the
same time or stretched out a little bit?

Speaker 4 (02:06:33):
Well, you can't.

Speaker 5 (02:06:33):
Here.

Speaker 4 (02:06:33):
Here's what I would do. So the barricade needs to
be watered in, and so you wouldn't want to put
like the fung your side down and then the barricade
down and one water in the barricade. I would do
the barricade and watered in. Then I would do well. Actually,
the fungicide two can be watered so I'm gonna take

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that back. You can do all three and then you
can water all three in at one time.

Speaker 12 (02:07:01):
The barricade gets already put down two of them, and
was just curious about the last.

Speaker 4 (02:07:07):
Yeah, yeah, and even the even the the eagle turf
is going to be something that you want to move
down into the root system where the plants can pick
it up and do the protection. So you got your deal.

Speaker 12 (02:07:19):
That's that's all ahead, man. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (02:07:21):
Well, thanks for hanging around. I appreciate that we're going
to now go to Harry in Spring. Hey, Harry, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (02:07:29):
Good morning. Quick question for you.

Speaker 25 (02:07:31):
I've got a problem with Virginia button weed that plants
for all seasons. Has been helping me with the buying
products to combat it. But my problem is is my
neighbor in his yard, his yard is full of Virginia
button weed, and it keeps creeping over to my yard.

Speaker 4 (02:07:55):
Just seeing what you may think, I don't know. We
don't have to talk about your relationship with your neighbor
on the air, but if they would be willing to
let you spray a little path over across the line
three feet or so, that would be one thing. When
you're treating for yours, you're just keeping it out, and

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so that's one option. If you overwater, or if it's
a low spot and it rains and stays too wet,
Virginia button weed's gonna be much more vigorous and much
more of a problem. So adjusting the irrigation is also helpful.
Then get rid of it. It just slows it down
and then the spray gets rid of it.

Speaker 8 (02:08:37):
Okay, all right, I do appreciate your health, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (02:08:41):
All right, thank you, appreciate you, appreciate you call very much.
You take care all right. Neilson fertilizers so many different kinds.
There is one call cartload. It is a fall fertilizer
ten ten twenty fertilizer and as our temperatures cool off,
that is the one from Neilson. It's got that high
see him right, A little bit lower nitrogen. But by

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the way, I just want to be clear about this.
In the fall, potassium and nitrogen are both needed because
they go into the plant together, and you need a
good strong potassium amount in the fall for optimum winter heartiness.
And turf Star carbo load from Nelson does just that.
It's a purple bag, easy to find, available all over

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the place, as are Nelson products. But follow my schedule
on the timing and you will be good to go.
Let's head now, let me check my emails. I'm watching
for some photos so I haven't gotten them in yet. Okay,
I need to get those photos. I am my producer.
To check back on those photos, please, I put it

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in chat. We're going to go to Hallettsville and talk
to Scott Hey Scott, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (02:09:53):
Yes, sir, how are you? I am doing well, sir, and.

Speaker 4 (02:09:58):
Yourself doing good? Doing good?

Speaker 14 (02:10:02):
All right?

Speaker 11 (02:10:03):
So my question is, well, it's not a question I'll
get it is a question my wife and I My
wife loves mountain laurels and we've been trying to propagate
and grow and I think we've done pretty much everything
we can to kill them. We bought them in the
pots and we didn't realize you're not supposed to separate

(02:10:25):
them from their root ball systems because there's you know,
like five of them growing in a pot. Okay, but
they're all coming back in And of course they're slow growers.
As far as we've seen, they're they're pretty slow. But
I have a couple of them that I can't there.

(02:10:46):
I guess just with the heat. Is it? Is it
the heat that's killing or or browning them up so bad?
They're yellowing really hard.

Speaker 4 (02:10:55):
Well, Texas, mounta laurel is a tough plant. It lives
on a limestone cleff and the hell so there's not
much soil to that right, and it takes a lot.
It gets a lot of heat. What it doesn't like
is too much wet and the yellowing of the foliage
could be a result of them staying too wet. But remember,
when it's a young plant, you've pulled it out of

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the pod and maybe taken some apart or whatever and
planeted them. Their root system is very limited, so their
genetic potential of ability to take heat and drought and
all kinds of things is not being realized until they
get established well like they would in nature. So watch
the overwatering, keep them moderately wet, and you'll be giving

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them the best shut you got. Make sure the area
does naturally drain well for those times, and we have to.

Speaker 11 (02:11:41):
Matrain right, and that's with us. We've got that wonderful
it's a great black gumbo soil, but of course about
not even eighteen inches. We've got just that gray clay
that just holds water.

Speaker 4 (02:11:56):
Yeah, yeah, well, amund amount of sod. They grow in
a clay type soil in the hill country, but if
it slopes or as long as it's not a soggy
low spot, they'll do well and you can enjoy them.
They're a nice plant to have. Hey is Grumpy still
in business out there in Hallettsville. No, No, okay, we

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used to stop there all the time going.

Speaker 11 (02:12:24):
Yes, sir, yes, no, they are not alright, it's fertilizing.
What's kind of schedule on that.

Speaker 4 (02:12:33):
Very little. They're actually a lagoon type plant, and you'll
see them in the hill country, dark dark green, and
nobody's fertilizing them. So if anything, just moderately, I would
use the fertilizer you use for your lawns. Just sprint,
let some sprinkle over there on it. But in general,
that's one plant that other than a little bit of

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nitrogen to kind of speed some growth along, you don't
need to worry about that. Hey, I got to run,
but good luck with that. I hope you enjoy that plant.
It is time just about for me to take a break. Hey.
Quality Home Products of Texas. That's where you get your
generator to be ready for when the power goes out,
and it could be a hurricane, could be another storm,
could be whatever. Quality Home has got. The Generac automatic

(02:13:17):
standby generator outstanding product works well. But it's the service
of Quality Home. It's the way that they take care
of their customers from the time you call and they
put you in the right generator for what you need
to them dealing with all the regulations and permits to
put it in to them bringing in quality slabs and
everybody that comes from Quality Home to work on, whether

(02:13:37):
it's an electrician, whether whatever, they are Quality Home employees.
They're not subbed out qualitytx dot com. That's the website
to call them seven one three quality. It takes a
while to get one. Don't delay, going to give a
call start that process. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome

(02:13:58):
back to Guardenline. Did you have it with us today?
We are talking about all kinds of things, all kinds
of things going on here in gardening. We're going to
head back now. Tom in West Houston. Tom, I've got
that picture. It took a while. Well what it looks like.

(02:14:21):
It looks like something that is related to mulberry. Uh,
there is a there is a weed called crab weed
that it could be that kind of looks like that, Uh, crabweed.
How to get rid of it? Where's it growing?

Speaker 19 (02:14:42):
It's growing in an area that's just got molds. So
there's nothing else that can kill something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:14:47):
They take care of it.

Speaker 4 (02:14:48):
You think, oh yeah, glack to sate would take care
of it. Glaves say it or any broad leaf type
weed killer. You probably if you you've got that on hand,
you can ah and use that. Trimac would be another one,
but don't get either of those on other nearby desirable plants.

Speaker 19 (02:15:08):
Well, I've tried grass and wheat killer on it, and
it doesn't phases.

Speaker 4 (02:15:13):
It at all. Well, anything for killing grass won't. But
if you you can, if you yeah, if you can
do the other, it will kill it.

Speaker 17 (02:15:26):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:15:29):
While, well, it'll keep it probably keep it from coming
from seed. But this isn't a lawn weed. So you know,
when I when I think about I think about like
using barricade or something on it, I don't. I don't
know that I would. I would try that root on it.

Speaker 11 (02:15:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:15:47):
Is this something that apparently you're dealing with every year.

Speaker 19 (02:15:51):
In the last two or three years. It's about a
fifteen by ten foot area and it comes up every year.
So I haven't put barricade on it, but I yes,
I could.

Speaker 4 (02:16:02):
You could try that. I think, well, if you want
to try if you got barricade, you want to try it,
you could do that. If it doesn't work, there's a
product called Gallery that is just a broad leaf pre emergent,
just broad leaves, and you could try that out. But again,
this is a this isn't a super common weed. It's around.

(02:16:23):
Some people call it mulberry weed because it does sort
of look like mulberry's but it's a it's a deal.
Hen digging it is the main way we deal with
things like that, using the pre emergent, using a post emergent.
But I would I would just say be careful when
you use those, but they will kill it. And the
earlier you catch these things, the better off they are.

(02:16:45):
If you wait until they already got blooms and little
seed things on them, they are a little harder to kill.
So catch it. Catch it.

Speaker 19 (02:16:54):
While we were out of town for a couple of weeks,
we came back and some of these things were two
feet tall.

Speaker 4 (02:17:02):
They're enthusiastic.

Speaker 19 (02:17:05):
They are kind of like, I appreciate your health.

Speaker 4 (02:17:10):
Oh, don't get me started. Don't get me started. I
only have a four hour radio show and I can't
get it all fitted in in four hours. Yeah we'll
take that one, all right. You take care, thanks a lot,
appreciate your call. Ace Hardware is the place you get
those things we're just talking about. You know, I mentioned Trimac,

(02:17:30):
I mentioned he talked about the glyphysaid. Anything you're needing
to control weeds or pests or diseases, go to ACE Harder.
They're going to have it. You got ACE Hardware stores
all over this listening area. Go to ACE Hardware Texas
dot com and find a store that's near you. It's
easy to do because they're out there. Get the products
you need, get the tools that you need. Get the

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when it comes to fertilizing and stuff, get those as well.
Because ACE Hardware carries those name brands you hear me
talk about here on guard Line. ACE is like a
lake Hunrace on Highway one O five West, A Cypress,
Ace on Jones Road, Champions, Ace on Spring, Cypress up
in Spring Brenna, Ace North Austin Parkway, which I'm going

(02:18:14):
to be for you folks live out in Brenham Way.
I'm want to be there Saturday, October twenty fifth, so
we'll be heading out your direction for that. ACE Hardware
has what you need. That's why we say ACE is
a place, because it is. Let's go to bel Air
now and we're going to talk to Larry. Hey, Larry,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (02:18:35):
Thank you, good morning.

Speaker 4 (02:18:36):
You're doing okay, I'm doing good this morning, enjoying it good.
I went to go happy last week, so woke up
out nice.

Speaker 16 (02:18:47):
That's a good way to do it. Hey, I have
a kind of a unique problem, I would think anyway,
I only shade shop over on Richmond Avenue, and so
our esplanade in the middle of Richmond gone to the
city and they have an adoption estimated program. You may
know about that. But a unique problem to this estimate

(02:19:08):
is that it's got concrete underneath the soil, maybe twelve
to eighteen inches deep, respectively. Is it's a city block long, right,
And so you know, I got a price to beautify
it with you know, grass and some shrubs and gravel
and things like that, and it was so expensive that

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and the largest part of that cost was removing the
concrete so that everything could grow naturally. And so I
just didn't know, given that shallow depth, is there anything
that would work besides the weeds, which of course can
grow anywhere, to any type of grass or anything you

(02:19:59):
could say of to beautify that esplanade?

Speaker 4 (02:20:04):
Would you would you tell me the depth again? How
much depth?

Speaker 16 (02:20:08):
I would say it's about twelve to eighteen inches.

Speaker 4 (02:20:12):
Yeah, you can grow turfs and that just fine. Yeah,
you can go turf crash just grass. Okay.

Speaker 16 (02:20:18):
So when you say tress.

Speaker 4 (02:20:22):
If that's what you wants.

Speaker 16 (02:20:25):
Well, I would love like any kind of grass.

Speaker 14 (02:20:28):
And so the.

Speaker 16 (02:20:30):
You know what we had started talking about with Saint Augustine,
and you know, I didn't know if something like like
a bermuda would do well or whatever. But is turf
grass a specific kind of grass?

Speaker 4 (02:20:44):
Oh no, it's just any that you grow for a
turf for a loan. So Saint Augustine would do it,
and it's going to take more frequent watering out there.
Bermuda grass is invasive, so if you plant anything else
in the island, bermuda grass is going to take it over.
So I'm not a big failure bermuda for that reason.
But it has its own attributes that are reasons to

(02:21:05):
plant it. Zouza would grow too, if you want to
make it more ornamental. Any of the clumping ornamental grasses
will grow there. You just need some sort of a
watering system so you can water them. That's true with
any grass or any flower.

Speaker 16 (02:21:18):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have to bring water from
underneath the street over there anyway, so we'll have a
full sprinkling system.

Speaker 4 (02:21:26):
So twelve inches of soil is enough. I would come
in and put in some quality mix, one of these
bed mixes. You know, you can talk about things like
rose soil and vegetable nerd mix, one of those bed mixes.
Mix it in to what you have and then add
a little bit more on top, so you don't go
straight from the bed mix, just a solid interface right

(02:21:47):
to the underlying soil that you have. So you kind
of mix that, uh that in between together and make
a little bit of a mound on it. It's gonna settle,
so you can make a mound foot high. It's going
to end up being six inches high when it settles.

Speaker 11 (02:22:04):
Gotcha, But that.

Speaker 4 (02:22:06):
That would also help make sure you get a good
mulch over the surface or you're not pulling weeds. If
you have any ornamentals like grasses or ornamental grasses, clumping grasses,
or if you do flowers.

Speaker 16 (02:22:21):
Okay, are there any specific you know, shrubs or decorative
plantings that would do better in shallow soil.

Speaker 4 (02:22:31):
If you've got twelve inches, you can pretty much do
anything if you have water, which you're going to have water,
So I would think esthetically what you want to see? Uh,
you know, does it need to stay under a certain
heights because you've got to be able to see across
it or not?

Speaker 16 (02:22:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:22:48):
Do you want do you want flowers? Do you want
something to be tough?

Speaker 5 (02:22:51):
Right?

Speaker 4 (02:22:52):
You know that people that can do the flowers and uh?
And how much maintenance do you want to do on it?
If it's turf, you've got to mowent every week. If
it's if it's ornamentals perennials, you're gonna have to be
cleaning them up at least once. And just keep those
things in mind. But there's a lot of good I mean,
you could do the whole bed and knock out roses,

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you know, if you want to do that beautiful rose show.
But that's a little bit of monoculture, just one thing.
But your aesthetics you want to be the main determining factor.

Speaker 16 (02:23:25):
Okay, perfect, Well you've given me some hope for the
project and I appreciate all your input.

Speaker 4 (02:23:32):
Yeah, and you can also swing by, you know, go
to Buchanan's and the heights, you know, or if you're
far enough's out there and where you're located, you can
head out to one of the enchants and take a
look at the plants that they have and talk to
them about this, show them a picture of it, and

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that way they can go, look at this, I don't
like that, look at that, and you can kind of
they'll even suggest waste to put them together, you know,
because I always say, when people ask me to recommend plants,
it's like giving me your credit card and sending me
the mall to buy your car. I'm gonna have a
hard time knowing what to buy, you know.

Speaker 16 (02:24:11):
Of course, of course that's funny. Yeah, I'm inside, I'm
inside the loop. So Buchanons is close to us, so
that's fine, that's good. I'll take that advice as well.

Speaker 4 (02:24:24):
All right, thanks a lot.

Speaker 16 (02:24:27):
Yeah, I have a good balance of the weekend, you bet.

Speaker 4 (02:24:29):
Bye bye you as well. All right, we're here on
our last little segment coming up here. I'm gonna go
to a break and when we come back, we'll finish
up Guarden Line for today. Alrighty, alrighty, welcome back. We're back.
Maybe not back in black, but we are. We are

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back on garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey,
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Speaker 9 (02:25:43):
UH.

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to Katie and talk to Shahoul this morning. Hello shohoo,

(02:26:26):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 24 (02:26:29):
Good morning, Escape.

Speaker 4 (02:26:32):
Morning. How can we help?

Speaker 11 (02:26:35):
Hi?

Speaker 24 (02:26:37):
Yeah, I've been talking another dish to you before with
might think I've just seen launch issues, okay, And I
put a new salt in this season, like you know,
a couple of months ago, because it's good for for
a month or you know, two months, and then after

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that it's the developing kind of a catch. It's a
mixed off green and then again I see some kind
of brown that in between everywhere.

Speaker 9 (02:27:08):
Throughout my lan.

Speaker 24 (02:27:10):
I don't know what's what I can do to really
fix that?

Speaker 16 (02:27:15):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:27:15):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (02:27:17):
How big are the spots that you're seeing it.

Speaker 24 (02:27:21):
It's not like a specific spot. It's almost everywhere, and
I see mixed off green, let's graw.

Speaker 4 (02:27:28):
Okay, is there yellow in there or is it just
kind of green and then shriveling up to tan brown?

Speaker 24 (02:27:38):
Pretty much brown? I mean I don't get yellow.

Speaker 4 (02:27:42):
Well, I don't want to guess because it could be
it could be insects, it could be diseases, it could
be drought, it could be injury from herbicide. By the way,
have you used any herbicide products on it this year
since you planted it?

Speaker 5 (02:27:57):
No?

Speaker 24 (02:27:58):
I I mean the time of new sid. I think,
uh my gardener used the probably red and fee for later,
and then I used another round of just the what's
called the the summer food summer lawn food maybe can

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tagle or something like that. There's a gap between them
and month.

Speaker 4 (02:28:26):
So are you just so unclear? Are you saying that
when the side was planted, somebody put weed and feed.

Speaker 10 (02:28:33):
On it, right?

Speaker 24 (02:28:36):
I think micropoult probably.

Speaker 4 (02:28:40):
Okay, Well, when when side is planted, it has a
little half inch three quarter inch roots, and the goal
is getting those in the ground and getting it healthy.
Some of the wheat and feed products work by preventing
roots from getting down on the ground, and some of
the ones that are poster murder can actually stress the
grass when the others hot, which it was hot when

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you planted. Now, if if that's the case, it's just
gonna have to grow out of it. But let's do
this so that I can give you the best answer.
I'm going to put you on hold. I will wind
the call up here. I'm gonna put you on hold,
and I want you to take pictures of the lawn
and get up close. Also show me the whole one.
But then show me, like up close, some pictures of

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the symptoms and send them to me by email. My
producer will give you an email and let me look
at them, and let tell them you called it. Tell
me when you send the email that you call me
on guardenline, because yeah, I always connect emails with the
phone calls. And let me look at it and then
let me give you my assessment and tell you what

(02:29:44):
I think you should do. Okay, that's better than me
nicking wild guests. All right, thank you, thank you for calling.

Speaker 24 (02:29:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:29:52):
Don't hang up. My producer will pick right up and
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I mean you can buy a little birds eating stuff
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them if they're starving, but they don't like them. They
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So what no mess means. It means that if you
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success bringing birds in. They can help you do that.

Speaker 20 (02:31:47):
Well.

Speaker 4 (02:31:48):
The music always makes me sad. Maybe we should play
some sad mournful tune at the end because I enjoy
talking to you guys on Guardline. We got to put
this show in the books.

Speaker 2 (02:31:58):
We'll do that.

Speaker 4 (02:31:59):
Let's see you next Saturday. Let's see what time six
o'clock to ten o'clock and next Sunday as well. Tell
your neighbors about garden Line.