How To Remove and Re-Plant Magnolia Trees

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
The basest trip.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
You just watch him as we're good, so many good
things to see.

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gas sun Beam and down between.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Starting.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Good morning, Good morning, how you guys doing this morning.
We're ready to do this. Welcome to Garden Line. Good
to have you with us. As always, I'm your host,
Skip Rictor, and we're here to help you have a
bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process.

(01:06):
And that last part is very important. Gardening should be fine,
and we're going to make it that way. You're having
some frustrations and some difficulties. I'm trying this, My lawn's dying. Whatever,
give me a call, we'll talk about it, we'll walk
you through it, and let's just say we'll make it
a more verdant place around your home. Seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. That's the number.
Seven one three, two one two five eight seven four.
Just starting right off today, letting you know I'm going
to be at Sienna Ace Hardware Sienna Ace Hardware today
after the show I will be arriving there, oh, I

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guess about one o'clock and be there until three o'clock.
So grab you lunch and come on out and see me.
We're going to be giving away some cool stuff from
the folks at Nitrofoss. The Fall Texas three Step as
we call it, will be part of what we're giving away.
In fact, that Texas three Step from Nitrofoss. It includes,

(02:12):
of course three things. The first thing is the nighte
Foss Fall Special Winneriser, The second thing is the knight
Foss Barricade, and the third thing is night Fross's Eagle
Turf funderside. Note No, the reason we do those three,
and they're all important for fall is the Fall Special
Winneriser is a fertilizer of the in potassium really helps

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build that winter heartiness that is important. And October is
a great time to put that down. You put a
little earlier if you want, but definitely in October. That's
when I have it on my schedule. And then the barricade.
All those weeds you dealt with last spring, they sprouted
in the fall, so we put barricade down in October
because that way when all the cool season weeds clover

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and hand bit and chick weed and all the cool
season leads when they try to germinate. Barricade is there
to form a barricade and not allow those plants to
ever get going. And then third is eagle tar fungicide.
You know how the brown pat circles appear. That's just
the deal we have to deal with every cool season
and eagle tar fundr side is taken up by the

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roots and it shuts them down. Those are all three,
the Night Trust three. Steff. I'll be giving a couple
of sets of out of Way out at Sienna Ace
Hardware today, so I hope you can come out and
see me. Yeah, let's see here. Let's go ahead, and
we're going to head now to Cypris Hi Skip, Yes, sir,

(03:46):
I lost you. That's okay, all right, good morning. So
while back about a month ago, you helped me diagnose
the topiary hollie that was dying from the top down,
and you correct. We guessed it was bores, and I've
since found evidence treated for it, found a dead boorer.

(04:06):
My question is I have three or four other of
those hollies, and I have some large Eagleston hollies and
when is the best time to apply the systemic or
the folier spray to keep this from happening next year. Well,

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in general, bores are not just a thing that goes
and grabs a healthy holly and takes them down. That
I can count a number of holly questions I've had
in thirty five years on one hand. So I guess
what I'm saying is, it's not like you just have
to keep that thing full of insecticide in its veins
in order to keep it out. If you want to

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give it one more year, just to be sure, I
would wait until the early spring to put it down.
In fact, I probably wait until about let's say you're
in Cypressyria. I'd say about late March, go ahead and
put it down. Then we're going to go a little earlier.
And what happens is it has to get in the

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ground and then it has to move up into the
plant and it'll give you several months of protection. But
we don't want to put it on too early because
the plant isn't actively taking stuff up as much. We
wanted to warm up just a bit, and so that
that's when I would do it. I just know you
shouldn't have to keep doing this. Bores are like weak plants,
they like stress plants, and so yeah, it shouldn't have

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to be an ongoing thing.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Okay, good, Well, I just I had it and I've
used it, and I just want to keep up with
it just in case. And appreciate the information.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
You brought. And which border product did you end up
getting already?

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, I'm a cloprit. It was the bone eye annual
tree and shrub.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Okay, it's a metocloper. Okay, good, good to know, all right, man, Okay,
well is it hope hopefully you'll be bore free. Thank you,
take care, Yes, you've got would like to give me
a call this morning. Seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two fifty eight

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seventy four. Uh, you've probably noticed this summer we got
kind of dry for a while, and when we did,
uh we started, I saw a couple of cracks forming,
and uh, I've got clay soil too, Like a lot
of the listeners do a couple of cracks farming because
that that soil, the clay soils some of them, and
especially the kind shit we have here in Houston, they

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they have a shrink swell potential. What that means is
they get wet, they swell to get dry, they shrink,
and that that is a powerful movement. Uh, It's why
you go down in Houston and drive down some of
these streets and it's like you're going across the top
of the Rocky mountains. I mean that they've they've heaved
up the street itself. You got broken sidewalks and all

(07:05):
kinds of stuff going on, broken water lines. Even I
remember somewhere it was a bad down deep into there
were water lines breaking. Well, fix my slab. Is the
people you need to talk to when it comes to
anything concrete at your house, like your foundation, like your driveway, sidewalks,
things like that. They know how to deal with it.
And when you know, it's one thing for a sidewalk

(07:27):
to get a little bumpy, it's another thing when your
house starts to get cracks in the sheet rock or
cracks in the brick, or doors starts sticking. Those are
all signs something's moving. And just know things are moving
at your house. I was talking to Tie one time
that fixed my slab, and he's been doing this like
twenty five years. He was saying, you know, almost every
slab is going to have some kind of cracking it eventually,

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you know, not maybe not the day it was made,
but hopefully not. But they do have little cracks. But
some of that is just it's just part of the deal.
It's not a problem. But when a movement is enough,
it is a problem, and he can come out and
he can do an honest assessment of it, give you
a free estimate, tell me your guardline listener. And the
thing I like about Tie is he shows up on time.

(08:11):
Oh my gosh, how many times have you had a
repair or service or whatever kind of person come out
to your house and you know they didn't show up
on time. He's in the right day. He prices things fair,
and he fixes him right. And so go to his
website fix myselab dot com check him out. Also give
him a call. Two eight one, two five five forty nine,

(08:33):
forty nine. Don't be an ostrich and stick your head
in the sand. Doesn't get better. You know, he's not
going to show up and just automatically try to sell
you a repair job. He'll give you an honest assessment
and tell you what you need to do if you
need to do anything. Two eight one two five five
forty nine forty nine. So the out of my front

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yard this week, I had been trying to repair some
sawed area is where the couple of trenches were put in.
I did some reworking of my irrigation system. Most home
law irrigation systems are quite inefficient, they really are. There's
no perfect lawn irrigation system. Well, I had some that

(09:17):
were more than quite inefficient. They were very inefficient. Someone
who I don't know, back before I bought this house,
they put they put pop up sprinklers on the same
zone as rotors. Rotors are the kind that kind of
go back and forth across the yard really slowly wetting
the yard. And you can't do that. It just doesn't

(09:38):
work right that way. It doesn't. They don't put water
out at the same rate, and on and on. So
we were fixing all of that stuff. Is that I
had these areas where the grass had kind of died
out because they didn't the guys that were doing the
repair on it didn't actually put the fresh crash back
right back in and so they wouldn't die out. So

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I'm fixing those things, and I noticed the hummingbirds. Hummingbirds
are like they're still around, and they were. I have
some salvias out front, and they love those salvias. And
you know, there's a lot of plants we can put
in our landscape that attract hummingbirds. And generally if it's
a red tubular flower, hummingbirds are going to like it.

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But not just red tubular flowers. My purple salvia garynitica,
which is a nice scented saves they call it, is
a wonderful plant, dark blue to purple flowers and just
really a hummingbird magnet. There's many, many others, and I
would encourage you. Just reminded me. I've got an area
in the backyard where we sit on a patio and

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on the fence the back fence from that, I have
a bunch of hummingbird plants there too, because I'm gonna
be a little watch those things. Of course, I have
my feeders, you know, and if you don't have a feeder,
you do need to get one. Hummingbird season, you know,
it's almost year round in some cases. There's sometimes you
have hummingbirds that hang around and don't do the migration,

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but when they come, it is a wonderful thing to
have them come through I always enjoy them, and they're
antics bloy. They sure can be bossy about what feeders
they get to be in and stuff, but that's just
how they are. But anyway, just reminded me to plant
some more humming bird types of plants now. While Bird's
Unlimited is the place you hear me talk about them
all the time, because that's where I get all of

(11:24):
my bird related items from quality bird seed. No that.
I was at a un named store two days ago
and I walked in. I was looking at the bird
seed there, not because I needed to buy some, but
just just kind of checking it out. And I looked
at the ingredients, and on the ingredients the number one

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ingredient was mi low milo or sort of. It's those
red bebes, those little red bebes, and that birds don't
like those. And so here was this bag of seed
that looked pretty reasonably priced. But if you figure half
of that or more is stuff the birds aren't going
to eat, then you might as well double the price,

(12:06):
because that's really what you're getting as far as birds seed.
The rest you get to clean up the sprouted milo
on the ground later on. Wilbirds didn't do that. They
make blends that birds want to eat and will eat.
And I mean if you don't even want like sunflower
shells on the ground, they have things called the Nomess blend.

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Birds love sunflowers by the way they crack them open,
get the seed, the seed inside. But if you don't
even want that, get a no mess blend from Wallbirds Unlimited.
These slips know what they're doing. Six area stores here
in the greater Houston area. There's one in king one
and Kingwood Drive in Houston. We got one on bel Air,
we got one Memorial Drive up in Cypress on Barker

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Cypress in pair Land on East Broadway. Love that store,
been out there number of times. And clear Lake on
Eldorado Boulevard and none. These are all great stores. I've
been to them. I like them. I'll go in Wildbirds
want it, need anything, because I just like talking with
the people and learning about this stuff they have and
checking out what's new. Wild Birds Unlimited. Here is the website,

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wild Birds Unlimited website, WBU dot com, Forward Slash Houston.
WBU dot com Forward Slash Houston. Give them a call.
They know what they're doing, all right. I am overdue
for a break, so I'll be right back. Hey, welcome
back to Jarden Line. Hey, thanks for turning in today.

(13:34):
By the way, good morning on the new Saturday Morning.
I hope you have good plans out there. I'm going
to be heading out to Sienna Ace Hardware today. I'll
be there a little bit later today. I'm gonna be
there from one to three, so you have time to
grab some lunch. They're gonna have all kinds of stuff
going on there. You need to come by and check
it out. I'll be giving away a couple of sets

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of the nitrofoss Texas three step all three parts of that,
the fertilizer for fall, the disease control called Eagle, and
the weed prevention called Barricade, so you can grab come on,
you might win one of those three different sets yourself.

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We'll be doing about every twenty minutes to give away.
Also be a bag of Microlife's brown Patch, the fall
fertilizer for them that we're given away. And the folks
at Siena Ace Hardware have has some other things, some
special things that are going to be part of the
prizes that you potentially could come out and win. If
you have any samples of plants or bugs, or whatever

(14:41):
that you'd like me to diagnose or identify. Bring those
with you, put them a locastic bag is it lock
bag or whatever, and bring them on in. We'll take
a look at them. One of the common things people
always bring in his weeds and bring me a bag
of weeds. We'll look at what they are, you talk
about them, and tell you what to do about them,
so you can get all there. I'll be giving away
some copies of my schedule. If like to grab one

(15:03):
of those nice, nice color printed ones, you're welcome to
take some of those. And we'll also have some other
things on hand in the way of information. Now, if
you will put whatever you're bringing in in a plastic
bag like I mentioned, or think about just doing some

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photos on the phone. Sometimes that's the best way, you know, Like,
here's a picture of an area. Maybe it's a darker
area and you just want to put some kind of
color or something in there. It's kind of boring right now.
We can give you ideas for that too. So if
you get some pictures of your landscape, just remember that
photos have to be in sharp focus. Fuzzy photos, get

(15:45):
your fuzzy answers. And I don't want you to get
a fuzzy answer, which you ge an accurate, sharp answer.
So bring me a nice, crisp, focused photo and we'll
be able to help you with that as well. If
you'd like, you make all this morning seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. For those of
you who just like to can't remember all the letter

(16:07):
of the numbers, it's seven one three two into ktr
h ktrights. That's seven forty am. That's what you're listening
to us on, whether you're listening online or actually on
a real radio. Maybe some of you're in your car
this morning, feel free to give me a call seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. Heirloom

(16:30):
Soils makes quality soil blends, and they make a lot
of different quality soil blends. You'll find their stuff all
over town, you know. I've seen Airlom soil in the
feed stores and in garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer,
just all kinds of places. It's it's widely available and

(16:54):
it doesn't matter what you're going after. Some of their
more famous blends are the Veggie and Herb Mix, which
is great for veggies and herbs. By the way, if
you've got a flower bed you want to put it in,
it's perfect for that too, don't worry about that. They
also have a landscape bed mixed specifically. And then they
got the rose and bloomers blend. That is a multipurpose
rose soil. You can use it for things way beyond roses.

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Beautiful bloomers do do well in it. I've used these
products myself and they work. I've also used their putting
soil called the Works, putting salt, the Works a number
of things. And now if you've got a clay soil,
we're talking about that earlier with the problems with clay.
If you want just to add some expanded shale or
expanded shale plus compost, they have both of those by

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the bag, as well as they do leaf mold compost
age lethal composts. So see what I'm talking about, No
matter what you need, and I'm not even mentioning all
of the different things have had. They have a cactus
and succulent blend. They have a fruit berry and citrus blend,
all from AirLand soils. Now AirLand soils you go. If
you want to pick it up by the bulk, you

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drive out the porter and you can pick it up there.
You want to get them a call first, and that
is two eight one three five four nineteen fifty two
eight one three five four eighteen fifty. What I'd suggest
you do is go to the website airlomsoils dot com
airloomsals dot com. Check out the products that they have.

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They have way more than just soil products. You can
get granite and pee gravel and sand and blackstar gravel,
all of that type of thing. But they can also
deliver it. They can deliver it by the supersac which
is a cubic yard and a very nice neat sack
just sat down right on your driveway, or they can
deliver it in the bulk. Go to airlomsols dot com
check out the products. But the main thing is start

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using them because when you fix the soil, your plants
are going to thrive. Very very important to remember that
plants do you thrive when you take care of the soil.
I'm driving by the other day DND feed up in
I would like to go in there that that feed
store always has anything that you're looking for when it

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comes to products. I was looking for a particular product
to control the past is a pestoral weed. I can't remember,
and it was I was looking for something that you're
just not going to find everywhere, and they add it,
which is not surprising that dndfeed. It's three miles west
of tom Ball on two or twenty nine twenty having
twenty nine to twenty and they carry the also the

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fertilizers that I talk about, things from microposts. They carry
products from Microlife, they carry Medema products, They carry Nelson
Turf Star line as well as the Nelson jars, the
plant food jars, and they do carry air and soils
like I was just talking about. They buy the bag
there a high end dog food like Origin, Diamond Star Pro.

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They carry all those brands. So whatever you're looking for,
it's an easy end, it's an easy app and they're
going to have it at d And defeed, if you
only get McCall two eight one three seventy one forty four,
that's two eight one three five one seventy one forty four.
Uh So to later today when I get in months

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later in the day, I'm going to do some work
in a vegetable garden and I want to talk to
you a little bit about getting vegetable gardens, herb gardens
and flower beds ready for fall, and some of the
tips for success with all of those kinds of gardening beds.
It is time to start all terms of planting for fall,

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and let me give you a few tips to help
get your started. In the meantime, if you want to
be first in line, we'll we come back. Seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Already, welcome.
Good to have you with us this morning on garden Line.

(20:54):
You'd got to give me a call. Seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're in Southern
Gardens in Kingwood Garden Center out in Kingwood. Two great
garden centers. I don't know how you got two in
Kingwood like that, but you do. And one of Warrens
is on North Park North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Centers

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on Stone Hollow and they're both help them are open
seven days a week and they carry the products that
I recommend on garden Line, you know, for micro Life
for example, and then Nelson turf Star lines for example.
They got the Bruce's Brew that is one of the
Nelson products. They also carry in fact, everything they got
Nelson's carbo load out there. They've gotten just whatever product

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you're looking for, you're going to find it. For microlife,
you know the brown pats when they put down in
the fall, they've got those out there. They even have
filling filling stations. What is a filling station for fertilizer. Well,
you know how when you go to the grocery shore
and you want to buy peanuts, you just put that
little bag up there and pull the handle and you
fill it up with peanuts. That's how it is. They
have that for microlife, and they have that for Elson

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plant food. The little jars or screwtop jars that you
buy that product in you when you go fill it's
it's more economical and you're not doing the plastic away,
which is you know how we throw too much plastic wail.
As it is now, they're already loaded up for everything
you need for fall, beautiful shrubs and trees, perfect season
to plant those very important season. As you saw, Kingwoock

(22:22):
Garden Center have gotten the chiming in of a number
of different really nice shrubs and trees. They're ready to
go out there, and Wrens always has that they're always
loaded up and ready to go. If you are wanting
to create a beautiful container planter for this fall or
this cool season, they can get you set up with
everything you need to get that done. And that includes
the soil lens. You know, I was talking earlier about

(22:43):
airlom soils cutting soil mix that I like so much. Well,
they've got that. They have all those kind of products
and they're going to have the rose and other bloomers
blend from airliom soil and the veggie or mix also
from aridom soil. You can get all those at the
those products. You can get all those products at both
of those places out there. You also get expert advice

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people that know what they're talking about. And I love
to go visit them. I'll go visit one turn Around
drive on Stream and go visit the Ivaluent. I just
love to see all the different things that they have
on hand. Excellent, excellent places, both of them One Southern Gardens,
kingw of Garden Center, both open seven days a week.
That makes it really nice. I was talking about Nilsen products.

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Because it's fall planting season. I really want to talk
to you about this Genesis transplant mix If you listen
to Guardline much, you've heard me brag about it, because
that's one of them. When it came new on the market,
like anything, I'm not just going to say, well, this
is great. I had to try it, and I tried it,
and I was amazed that how well it did. And

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when then I say transplant mixed. What I mean is
when you're moving a plant from one container to another,
or from a container to the ground, you want to
mix the genesis into the soil where you're moving it.
So I've done it. Where I was bumping tomatoes up
from small tomatoes you know you get at the nursery,

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I was moving it up to a larger container to
grown in a pie. Genesis transplant mix. Even believe that
they jump out of the ground with that stuff. It
really works. Got mike rizo bacteria and other fungi in it,
all part of that good soul microbiome and that makes
plants thrive. Now, maybe you're planting into the ground. How
about a rosebush this fall or eat season. The plant

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roses get genesis transplant mixed, mix it into the soil
and the planting hole. Now normally you say don't put
fertilizer in the planting hole. Well, that's true of a
dry salt based fertilizer that could burn the roots, but
that's not going to happen the Genesis transplant mix. This
is more of a natural type product. It's just not
going to be that mix it into the soil in
the transplant hole. Plant that plant watered in really good,

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and you just watch how it performs. It'll hit the
ground running. And that's from the folks and Nelson Orlizer,
and again that stuff works. I always have some on
the shelf because I like it a lot. All Right,
you're listening to the guard line. You know, this happens every
almost every Saturday and Sunday morning. Early in the morning.

(25:18):
It's a little slower, I know, people are waking up
and all that kind of thing. By the way, if
you are waking up and you look next door to
your neighbor and the lights aren't on, go bang on
the door and tell them they're missing guard line. They
will really appreciate that, at least someday they will. But
people are waking up and the calls are a little slower,

(25:39):
and then it gets started the end and we got
people waiting and waiting in line with man, I don't
won't you have to do that? Move your call up
a little bit and you can have more more available
air time and get on a lot faster. And so
that's just a little till. I doubt anybody's gonna step
their alarm clock for earlier. But if you did, you

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a faster. I was taking care of some things at
my daughter's house and in their landscape, and I'm just
over there doing a couple of things for them, and
I noticed their mosquito buckets. They have mosquito buckets from Pestros.
Pestpros comes out. They set these buckets up. They come

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about once a month and they rejuvenate them. You know,
there's stuff that you put in there to attract the
mosquitos to them, because when mosquitoes lay eggs in the bucket,
those eggs never become adult mosquitos. They'll become a little regulars.
You'll see them in the water. That's a good thing.
You want to see that because that means the mosquitos
are coming there and laying their eggs. But those regulars

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never never turned into adults. The larvae, but also the
mosquito when it lands on the screen in the bucket.
It carries away two things. One is a natural fungus
disease of mosquitos that will kill them in about seven days,
which is kind of cool. And why do I be killed?
Why don't we kill them right away when you get there,

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because they carry some of that over to that bird
back or that saggy gutter or that catch basin underneath
the plant where mosquitoes like to lay eggs for doing
their thing, and when they do, then that spot becomes
unsuitable for mosquito breathing breathing. So what we're trying to

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do is we're trying to, of course get rid of
the mosquitoes, draw them in, make them lay eggs, you know,
make them want to lay eggs, but also send them
away with something that makes those other areas where they're
where they're laying eggs you don't know about, makes it
less likely that they can raise young there as well.
Way pestpos does that. They do other things. If you

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got issues, you're concerned about termites and you should be
in this climate, they can do a ten year turnite
treatment a little trench, very very good to do. I
like the way they go about things because at number one.
They know how to treat anything effectively, whether it's cockroaches
in the house or mosquitos outside, or fire into in
the yard, or termites or you name it. But they

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also know how to do it in the safest possible manner,
so you get long term results without worries. Call them
for a quote two eight one two oh six forty
six seventy two eight one two oh six for six
seven zero, or you can just go to the website
inn Iselt website, d pest Bros b Ros. Dpestbros dot com,

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thepestbros dot com. I uh, I was talking about wanting
to discuss getting flower beds and things. Ready, let's start.
Let's do a little bit of that right now. The
most important thing you can do anytime you're going to
replant into soil is to improve that soil and for annuals,
you know, flowers in the flowering bed, your vegetable gardens

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and things. Every time I transition, I do something to
improve the soil. Maybe it needs a new and maybe
at a boost. Maybe you need some more composts mixed down.
If it's a heavy clay. Every time you put in
a little bit more expanded shale. You're making that a
better and better drained soil, which is very important because
when it rains, it pours. Build up raised beds so

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that when it rains it pours, you get good drainage.
That's so important. And so as you move along, you
just make your beds better and better and the plants
do better and better. Let's take a little break here
and we'll be right back with your calls. Myron and
North Houston looks like it will be our first one
up already. Welcome back to Guarden Line, folks. I'm good

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to heavy with us. Place for all seasons is the
kind of garden center where you go and just you
just wander, you relax, you have a good time, you visit,
you learn, and you go home with something that wants
to grow here. This place has been around since nineteen
seventy three. It is on Tomball Parkway, FM two seventy

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excuse me, through forty nine Highway to forty nine, just
north of Luetta. And you know, I don't talk about
this much, but they have such a great selection of containers.
I've got containers from there. I love them, quality containers
that are going to last for a very long time.
But they have everything from giant, beautiful glazed pottery. It's

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a little small things that you might use inside or
a low porch or patio or a kitchen window or
something like that. Nice selection of pottery. It's also the
place when you go there, you're going to find the
plants for the season, no matter what season it is.
Right now, it's fall, we need fall color. It's fall,
we need shrugs and trees. We need to get those done.

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By the way, they also offer a tree planting service
for you. They have a number of services. They can
do delivery, they can do a number of things to
help you garden more successfully. So if you have physical
limitations or whatever, don't let that stop you. You go
by there and busit those friendly folks and while are
there asking your questions because they know what they're talking about.

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Plants for all seasons. That's the nice thing about a
good independent garden center that provides the local customers that
they have and what people know about plants for all seasons,
provides them the advice and the help so they can
have success. Two eight one three seven six one six
four six Plants for All Seasons dot com We're going

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to go up to northwest Hoston now and visit with Myron.
Hello Myron, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Good morning, sir. I have a new to meet house
that we're redoing landscaping, and we didn't think very much
of what they had. And they had a sunshineling ghosts
room right up against the house that they use to
kind of hide the gas meter.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
And I don't like those little leaves of the of that.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
Plant. The sunshine and guns from this is on the
south east corner of the house, so we it gets
the morning sun. And what would you suggest. There's a
walkway off to the side a little bit, so it
cannot get very very wide.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Okay, so we've got some limitations there on that planet. Well,
you're going to want something that's evergreen so that it
hides it all year, and finding something smaller that I
was going to suggest one of the dwarf types of holly,
but that that may be a little too wide for you.
Upon Holly the dwarf Jopon is gonna be a little

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small morning sun. Well, I'm drawing a blank right now
trying to think of a good plant to suggest for you.
I'll think of one the minute we hang up, though
I have there are how how.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
Strong are the root systems of say a windmill palm
met close to the house.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
It'd be right at the fact, you know, Yeah, well
it needs to have room to put its fronds out
and not be like pushing against the house or something.
I'm not as worried about the root system on that palm.
But also it's not going to do a great job
of hiding that gas gas line or gas meter, so

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that you might that might not be acceptable if you
if you use that low palm for that, you could
you could use an ornamental grass. There's gonna be a
season where you do cut it back, but a nice
clumping grass would be an option. Uh, then it'll come back.
It'll be exposed for a little bit when you cut

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it back, to be in the winter, but then then
you can have it go back again. That would be
an option if it gets a decent amount of sunlight. There,
I say, I had another one that just went through
my head. Oh, nandina. There are some dwarf types of nandina.
There's also the nandina's more upright, so the width is
not a concern. There's also Chinese witch hazel, which some

(34:17):
very dwarf type needs to be a very dwarf type
of witch hazel could be kept in a range like that,
but it's gonna want to get a little wider. You're
going to have to do printing on it to keep
it more confined. Those are a few iteas.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
Okay, yeah, all right, all right.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
But you know what I knew I would What I
would do is go visit I don't know who you're
close to there in northwest? How far are you in
Cyprus or how far out northwest are you?

Speaker 6 (34:47):
Oh, we know exactly where plants for all seasons are.
We to go to forty nine and Luetta. I mean
we're on the other side of the Luetta, I mean
the other side of my forty nine and yeah, well
you don't.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
You don't even have to drive, you can just walk
over there. Uh yeah. They've got a number of really
nice little shrubs and they're gonna be able to give
you some ideas on all of that as well. I
wish I was standing I'm sitting here now trying I'm
picturing their shrub area so a pliant will jump out
at me. Let's escape in my brain right now. But
then they'll get you footed up.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
All right, thank you sir.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
All right, you take care of you know, you might
get in a zelie to work there if it's not
too two shape, too sunny in the morning. But if
it just gets a little morning sun, a zolo would
be would be fine for that spot too. All right, Well,
thank you, I do appreciate the thank you. Yep, bye,

(35:46):
all right, folks. Uh seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Call, let's discuss the kinds of
questions you might have this morning. Uh see them down
south of Houston. By the way, I'm going to be
down at it's kind of south southwest. I'm going to

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be down there coming up. Oh gosh, there's gonna be
a ways from now, but I need to I was
down to see other day. One of the things that
I was surprised when I got there is how they've
revamped the store. The store you know, first of all,
you know, cianamals everything you need for the soil to

(36:28):
create the perfect foundation for success. That includes the composts
and expanded jails, and that includes the bed mixes and
like the veggie nerb mixes and that includes mulches. That
includes all the fertilizers to hear me talk about on
guarden line. They're there. It's in the mulch, including as life,
but the store candles, lotion, soaps, local honeys, smart pots,

(36:51):
smart pots of those those are fabric type pots that
you fill with soil. The harvesting baskets, shrooms, shreomys. Excuse me,
there's a little ceramic mushrooms that you put out for decoration, pottery,
leather goods. They're outside. Another surprise was they have their
vego beds moved out front and set up and they

(37:12):
look really good. By the way, and if you all
know what a vego bed looks like for you buy one,
you go there. You can see them and see how
they work. You'll like them, and then you'll be able
to buy one right there at seeing them all. They
also have some really nice metal art for the garden area, cute,
cute decorations, just really cool stuff. I know you're going

(37:32):
there to get the soil and that's the main reason,
but you got to check out these other things because
it's really really nice. They also carry stone, They carry
river rock, all kinds of things that you would need
to beautify, to decorate, to create that perfect little outdoor
patio that you can enjoy. That is CMOLS now the
website Cienamalts dot com. They're on FM five twenty one

(37:56):
south of Houston, but Siena Maltz dot com. They're open
to from seven thirty to two during the week seven
thirty to five, closed on Sunday. And if you do
want to order a supersack, that's the cubic yard they
can deliver at the three supersacked minimum. You know, to
drive this big truck out there to deliver supersack. You

(38:17):
can't just take buy one supersack three minimums for that.
Or you can drive up there with your trailer and
no set one supersack in. If that's all you want
your trailer, you can take it home. Well, the music
means I need to quit talking. I want to remind you.
I'm going to be at Siena Ace Hardware today Sienna
Ace Hardware, and I'm going to be given away while

(38:37):
I'm there. The Night of Fiss. Texas three Step per
fall Now, the Texas three Step is a fertilizer. It
is a disease control for that round patch and it
is a weed preventer. The barricade prevents weeds from establishing,
and October is the time to do all of that.
Come out, maybe a winter bag. We're going to give
away a bag, one of each of those bags every

(39:00):
twenty minutes the time I'm out there. There'll be some
other cool giveaways while I'm out there. Give me a
bag of the micro life Uh they're fall uh special
or Fall bron Patch fertilizer. You just got to come
on out, bring me some samples. Always love to meet
folks that listen to guarden Line.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Welcome to k d r H garden Line with Skip Rickard, So.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Bring you just watch him as let's say, brings not

(39:49):
a sign sign demon.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Folks. Welcome back to garden Line. It's good having back
with us. If you have a question, we can assist with,
or I can assist with. Give me a call seven
to win three two one two five eight seven four.
For those of you just tuning in, I'm going to

(40:21):
be at Sienna Ace Hardware today, Sienna Ace Hardware, and
I'll be giving away some Nike Fuss products there. We'll
be answering your questions. Come on in. We look forward
to visiting with you. If you've got any kind of
samples you want to bring in for identification, now would
be a good time to do it.

Speaker 8 (40:38):
Now.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
If you're dealing with weeds, put them in a bag,
bring them in. We'll identify them. We'll put them under
a hot lamp and make them confess their name, and
then tell you what to do about it now. Also,
if if there is some way we can assist you
with your planning, and maybe there's a plant you like
and you don't know what it is, take a picture
of it I'm bringing in. We can take a look

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at that. Anyway that we can access, we're happy to
do that. Make sure that you get off to a
good start in your gardening for the fall. There is
no better gardening season than the fall. That is just
a fact, It really really is true. So I would
recommend you not let this fall go by without doing
some really really extensive planting gardens, flower beds, herb gardens,

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or herbs. Just put herbs anywhere you want to put them.
They're very versatile shrubs and trees. That the reason fall
is so important, or one reason is because it gives
you the most time for a plant to become established
prior to the arrival of hot weather next summer. You
can plant a tree or shrub anytime of the year,

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but it's touch and go. In the summer. You're having
to keep it watered enough so that it didn't dry
out until it gets roots in without overwatering, and it's
just more of a chilbums to do it during that time.
It can be done, just more of a challenge. Well,
if you plant in the fall, it's you know, the
challenge is kind of taken care of for you because

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the weather is mild and month after month after month,
even though the top may be dormant, the roots are
making some growth. There is some development that's going on
so that when next summer comes, that plan is much
more ready to tackle the summer. Another reason why I
fall planting is so very important. So we help you'll

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come by, give us some questions, let's help you have success.
That's the bottom life. I would like to you have
a picture taken with the folks that are listening in too,
So if you'd like to stop in, we will also
do that. We can get a picture taken and you
can go around telling people that I said, thank you
for teaching. When did I say thank you for teaching

(42:52):
me everything I know in gardening and then you can
tell people ILL said that. So anyway, Hey, gardening is
a learning experience. Do you know that there's not a
day that goes by I pretty much not a day
that goes by that I don't learn something related to
gardening because I'm always reading. I'm most studying, looking into things,
and out in my yard growing things. Every day there's

(43:16):
something that's like, oh, I've never noticed that, Like.

Speaker 7 (43:20):
Can you tell me this?

Speaker 4 (43:21):
This is just a fun fact. Which way does a
plant twine around something going up? Like we got a
vine a pee line or a star jasmine vine or
something and it's grabbing onto something and twirling around it.
Does it go you know, cackwise or kind of properties
if you're looking down on it. I'm gonna let that
be a mystery. Go outside and find out fun stuff.

(43:44):
There's always something to learn. I think things that I
know are not so true when I get out and
I try them and I find out that doesn't hold water,
or maybe it used to be the case, but now
there's other factors. There's other and the pests that we're
dealing with or there's new products that come along that
help us to have more success. And so it's all

(44:07):
about just get out there and learn. You know, the
first step in success the plants is getting the soil right,
and that if you want to look like you have
a green thumb, make sure that you take care of
the brown stuff before you plant the green stuff. That
means fix the soil. And Nature's Way knows how to

(44:28):
make soil products. That's what they do. Long ago, John
Ferguson founded that place and they called it Nature's Way
because basically it's how does nature take care of soil.
That's how they do it there. And Nature's Way you
make the quality compost. The bed mixes things like leaf
mole compost. We use it for top dressing. You can
use it for compost in the soil. You do whatever

(44:50):
you want. I mean so many uses. Commonly you hear
us talk about it the fine screen leaf more compost
is the top dressing. Well, they got plenty of that
there way resources. In fact, they now central Rock and
molts down it and Yale are now carrying Nature's Way
fine leaf mold compost by the yard, by the cubic yard.

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If you don't to drive up to Nature's Way Resources,
which is on I forty five getting up Conrad direction.
Then just Central Rock and Molts has got it there
and they're located again it and Yale. But that's the
fine leaf More Compost. That's the one that you want.
Fine Screen Leap More Compost. Nature'sway Resources dot Com is

(45:35):
a website where you gonna learn everything you need to
know about it so that you can have success with that.
Let's go now out to Danny and uh let's see here, Danny,
how can we help you today on guard line?

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Yes, sir, I'm interested in I have never planned any
cree or anything like that, but I want some concrete
on my properties.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
So how do I go about? Okay, where do you
look at it? Denny? I live in a small town
down on the Colts called Palacias. Okay, Okay, Well, I
would go to your county agro like extension office. They're
going to have handouts and things they can print up

(46:18):
for you. They're very hopeful. You can also go to
the Aggie Horticulture website. Just search for Aggie Horticulture and
on the front page there's a fruit and nut thing
you click on and if you go there. There's there's
more than one publication just on pecans. There's one that's
basically everything you need to know the cultivars. If there

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are other pecans in the area, it's not so important
the type that you pick the plant, but if they're
not pecans nearby, you want to There's two types of pecans.
One of them sends out the pollen first and then
later the nutlets that would have received that pollen. There's
not a lot of overlap. The other type does it

(47:03):
vice versa and so on that website you Horticulture Pecan publication.
It tells you these are the fancy words of protagonists
and pretandres. Doesn't matter what the name of it is.
You just want to get one from each type to
plant down there. And if you're going to do two trees,
I do one of each type. If you got some

(47:24):
other pecans nearby, there's probably going to be pollen blowing
in the wind. That'll take care of them for you,
and so you don't have to worry so much about that.
Okay about information, all righty, yeah, but check out that
website and go see your extension agent down there and
they'll they can help with that. This publication tells you

(47:45):
how to plant them, how to prone them, how to
fertilize them, everything you need to know, and I would
definitely do. That's good thing you called because a lot
of people don't know about Sometimes you might need two
different kinds of pecans, so that's that's a good question.
All right, Yeah, sir, thank you, thanks for calling me

(48:05):
right now. You know, on Guarden Line, I don't charge
for my advice, Danny, but I do ask for half
of the produce that you grow in return for the advice.
So I'm going to be I'm going to look at
my watch, and about twelve years from now, I expect
to see some pecans. So all right, you have to
find out there. I won't. Let's say the break, folks,

(48:30):
we'll be back. It's been a while. We were doing
a live you know, broadcast from out somewhere. I would
offer a free bag of fertilizer. Whoever can tell me
which band that was, But since we're not, I'll just
tell you man for me blind about the life. It's

(48:50):
been a long time. Hey, welcome back to the Guarden Line.
Glad you're with us today. Looking forward to listening with
you about the questions that you might have intended gardens
down there in Richmond Rosenberg area. They're actually on the
Katie Fulsher side of Richmond. Let me just start off
and give you the website because you need to go there.

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You need to sign up to get their newsletter. It
is wonderful. It is helpful and there's a lot of
good information there and when they have upcoming events you
can find out. You need to know ahead of time
so you can you know, plan to be out there
because they have excellent educational events going on all the
time out there at Enchanted Gardens, for example, they're getting

(49:32):
the pumpkins in. You know, on the fall season they
always have the big pumpkin house, and of course you
can go out by pumpkins and things like that, but
getting out and seeing the pumpkin house when it gets
all set up and ready to go, stopping by to
check them out chick out. Also some of the bling
that they have around it is really cool stuff, you know,

(49:54):
stuff you put out in your garden decorations for the
holiday season. Really cool, really nice. And I always enjoy
and brag on them because of the plants, because they
have such a great selection of plants. But They also
have a great selection of containers that do just they
will even if you didn't put a plant in them.

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The containers are so pretty that you would you would
just want to have the containers themselves because they are
that pretty. All right, Well, you get the idea. Enchanted
Gardens on the Katie Fushier side of Richmond, they're on
three point fifty nine. Whether you're looking for plants, whether
you're looking for products to get that soil right, they
have all the products I talk about here on garden Line.

(50:37):
When it comes to fertilizers and soils and soil blends,
they have Nature's Way for example. They do have air
and soil products as well, and then the fertilizers from
nitophiles for microlife, from Nelson plant Food and from Medina
plant Food. All there at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. It's
a fun place to go. Take friends. Then you go

(50:57):
because it's a fun time. Just walking through you are
listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to help you have success. I like to say,
we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. All three
of those very very important, because I can give me

(51:17):
a call seven one three two one two five eight
seven four happy to visit with you about the things
that are most of interest to you. I mentioned Microlife.
You know, I'm going to be given away a bag
of Microlife's brown patch today when I'm out at Ciena
Ace Hardware, and so I hope you stop by and
when we're going to be giving stuff away about every

(51:39):
twenty minutes out there, got plenty of things. Microlifs brown
patch is not a fund deicide. You know, with that name,
you may go, oh, that's for spraying on brown pat No,
it's not. It's a fertilizer. It's a fall fertilizer with
the arrangement of nutrients, a percentage of nutrients such that
it's better for the fall season. We shift from our

(52:01):
summer fertilizers and spring summer fertilizers. In fall. We drop
the nitrogen a little, we raise potassium. The third number
a little. First number goes down, third number comes up.
That's what we do for the best thing for your
lawn in the fall. And micro like brown patches that
kind of fertilizer. Microlife has mini products. They've got them

(52:22):
by the jars as plastic scree top lead jars, and
there is about a dozen places around town you can
get those refilled, which is cool. They also have some
really nice liquid products. I probably have I guess four
or five right now, different liquids on my shelf that
I go and use from time to time depending on
what's needed. Things like the Biometrix Orange label, it's a

(52:45):
seven to one to three high nitrogen fertilizer. Use out
a lot of mass plants, but you can use it
outdoors too, and then the ocean harvests. The blue label,
it's a four two three fish based fertilizer bottom lines
that works. MicroC products work. That's a that's as simple
as I can put it. Go to microf Fertilizer dot
com and find out more about where to get them,

(53:08):
which is I can save your time or that everywhere
and the different products that they carry. We're gonna go
now back to the phones and head out to talk
to Gary and the Montgomery make Commrado area. Hey, Gary,
welcome to garden Line. Thank you.

Speaker 9 (53:27):
My question is I have a I'm on the lake.
I have a fairly large lot and I have a
bad infestation of Virginia button weed. And Okay, I've heard
there's a product called Celsius w G.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Are you familiar with that at all? Yes, I am.

Speaker 9 (53:54):
Well, I like your opinion of how I attacked this.
I don't have a sprayer, but I can buy all
that stuff.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Yeah, well, you're gonna you're gonna spot spray. You're not
gonna spray the whole yard, just where you see the
button weed. Gary, we're in a part of the season
now where you can still spray it. But I would
if you have a limited amount of button weed, I

(54:27):
would get out there and just reach down to rip
up as much of it as you can. Uh, that's
not going to get rid of it, but what it
will do is it'll take all those little buttons along
the button weed, which are seeds for next year, and
at least get that out of your yard.

Speaker 8 (54:41):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
Spraying it with Celsius is fine. I would start in
the spring when you first see the button weed beginning
to show up and grow. Just wait a little spring,
early summer is fine. Just go ahead and hit it.
Then you're probably going to need to come back in
the label of cel We'll tell you how soon. I
think it's about uh, six weeks later, it may be

(55:06):
much shorter. Not I don't now, I'm drawing a blank
on the label. Time or not. But and any button
weed that's starting to show new growth, then hit it
again with celsius a second time. Button lead is hard
to kill, but Celsius is one of the best products
to do it. Okay.

Speaker 9 (55:25):
I Well, I have a large yard and it's it's
infested throughout the yard.

Speaker 10 (55:33):
I'm right over the lake and we do have a
lot where uh, when the water rises, we do get
water up in the yard, and I'm assuming some of
that is where this.

Speaker 9 (55:46):
Stuff favorite, so it's spread across the entire yard.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Okay. Well, one other thing to remember about Virginia button
weed is is that it loves wet conditions. So you
can't control lake coming up. You can't control rainfall, but
you can't control how often and much you water. And
if Saint Augustine does well with a good soaking on

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an infrequent basis, but if you scored it all the
time with the irrigation, button weed is going to proliferate
even faster. And so we try to back off and
not encourage it any more than it already is.

Speaker 9 (56:26):
Okay, Is there anything effectively other are better than the celsius.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Nope. Not for Virginia button weed. That's available homeowners. That's
that's as good as you're going to get. That's part
of my question. Would would I be able to get
that at like a Lows or a home depot? Yeah,
well you can get it. A lot of ACE hardware
stores will carry it. You just have to call ahead

(56:58):
and make sure that they have it. You've got you
know your ACE hardware stores out there. There's one out
on the lake on one oh five. I don't know
if you've if you've seen it or not, but okay, Uh,
well I would I would call them and see if
they had that there. Uh if they don't. Trying to

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think of who's close to you.

Speaker 11 (57:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
The celsius, first of all, it comes in a very
a small bottle that's extremely expensive because it will cover
every yard on Lake Honroe. It's it's got plenty of
it in there.

Speaker 12 (57:37):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
The kind that you're going to want to look for
is a little cardboard something that's about a four by
six piece of cardboard with a little bubble clear bubble
wrap over a small packet of celsius. So when you
look at it on the shelf. It'll be hanging with
a hole in that, you know, little little cardboard, and
that's the one that you're gonna want to because it's

(58:00):
more affordable. I think it makes two gallons, but read
the label to be sure.

Speaker 13 (58:08):
Okay, ah, is there anything? Is there anything? Well, you
said that now is not the optimal time to do it.
Is the optimal term would.

Speaker 9 (58:23):
Be in the spring?

Speaker 4 (58:24):
You said, uh, yes, Well, when our plants are about
to go down for winter. Uh and they already have
seeds and balloons and all. They're a little harder to kill.
With your description of how much you have, I think
that I would I think that I would go ahead

(58:46):
and do it now and then be ready to come
back and do it again when we get to that
spring season.

Speaker 9 (58:55):
Okay, okay, So basically it'll be probably two applications at however,
the labels.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
That we have far parts to do it, yes, and
when you do it when we get into the heat
of summer. Celsius itself is not so damaging to the lawn.
It has a little bit of a growth regulator effect,
meaning your lawn just doesn't grow, It just sits there

(59:27):
a little bit. But when it gets hot, normally we
put a surfacta in with our sprays to make them
stick to the weeds better. And don't use the surfact
that when it's hot, because there you will get some
damage to your Saint Augustine. But if it's not hot,

(59:49):
it's not about ninety degrees, you know, then go out
in the morning and you can get the job done. Hey,
I'm up against a hard break here, but good luck
with that gear. I wish I do. Wish you well
and talk to the folks at your county Extension officer
in Montgomery County, Michael Potter is very knowledgeable about lawns
and weeds and all that kind of stuff. We'll be

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right back. I think that means valt. Hey, welcome back
to Guardline. Folks, good davy with us. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the
process of doing just that. I talk about ACE Hardware

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Stores all the time you're on guard Line, because ACE
isn't place. I was in an ACE just the other
day looking at some of the selection that they have
on products, and I'm telling you, if you want a
beautiful lawn and landscape. The fertilizers are there, the pest controlled,
disease control, the weed controlled, the tools, the hoses know.
Whatever you need to have success is there at ACE Hardware.

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ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's the website. If you
go to ACE Hardwork Texas, you'll see a map app
is all of my area ACE Hardware stores. And we've
got stores north, south, east, west, central, even as far
out as you go out to the to the far
far east. And you find one in Orange, Texas on

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North sixteenth it's called Charles Building Supply. You go way
way southwest to go. You got Warrens feed An ACE
which is on North Richmond and Wharton. I said, Warrens Wharton,
excuse me, Warrens Wharton, Phoenix, Ace, Torth Richmond. Good. And
then go far enough and you get to Port Levaka
and Rockport both have ACE Hardware stores down there. You're

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gonna find ACE up in the Kingwood area. You got
one K and M Ace on Kingwood Drive. You've got
Jnr's and Porter. You got K and M in a
Taska ced you got Crosby Ace on FM twenty one.
Lots of ACE hardware stores and they carry the stuff
that you need. That's what you need to know. The
other thing you need to know is I'm going to
be at Sienna Ace. A'lbe at Sienna Ace today from

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one to three. We'll be giving away some products. We'll
out every twenty minutes. We'll have a drawing and I'll
have nice schedules on him there for you to pick up.
Bring me some samples, go out in the art, pull
up some leads, pick up some leads, take some pictures,
good sharp focus. Room with you and we'll help you
have success. Now tell me what it is and what

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you need to do about it. Come on out there
to CNAACE. Look forward to seeing you. I hope I
do see you out there today. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
I always like to go to Arburgate. Arburgate. Arburgate is

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the kind of garden center where it's just you end
up spending a lot of time there, right, And so
just tell whoever your significant other is that you know
if I don't show up for two days, don't send
out an ap. I'm Okay, I'm just at Arbrogate and
I can't. I can't see everything I want to see
in just a few minutes because this place is loaded

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with everything, beautiful plants, everything for fall. Right now. Gosh,
it looks so good out there at Arbigate. I hope
that you will take advantage of it and head out yourself.
By the way today, I don't know. Let's see Angela
Chandlers doing their fall gardening class today. They probably have

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filled that what out because Angela brings in a crowd.
I suspect it's full. But on the thirtieth that would
be tu sty. The thirtieth, Cynthia Graham is going to
be doing a talk on the sweet life fall and
winter holidays full of sweet foods and delicious drinks and
all kinds of stuff like that. She's going to provide

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a lot of information on the herbs and spices and
food that can help with balancing your blood segar. If
you're someone who has to walk about the blood sugar,
you're gonna walk this because here come the holiday days,
and you know what happens when holidays come when it
comes to our eating habits. The Sweetlve with Synthegram on
Tuesday at ten am. Call the Aubigate maybe they're still

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submerom today at ten o'clock for Angel the Chandler two
eight one three five one eighty eight fifty one two
eight one three five one eighty eight point fifty one.
While you're out there, make sure you got plenty of
room in the car or the pickup or whatever you
drive out there in because you're going to see a
lot of cool stuff from containers to beautiful plants, lots

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of inspiration. And the people that are there know so much,
and they are so patient and so helpful. They'll walk
you around, They'll they'll make sure you find the plants
that you want. You don't have to be a gardening
expert and know exactly what you want. Just go out
to Arbigate and let them help you, and they will
help you have success, including getting that soil right for

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the foundation with their one two three completely easy system. Hey,
what's this thing one two three completely easy system that
Skip keeps talking about. I'll give you a hat. It's
the round stuff and makes the green stuff thrive. Phone
number is eight excuse me seven to one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four. Give me a call,
and we'll be glad to visit about the things that
are of most interest to you. I was like stopping
in at League City Feed when I'm down in that area,
because first of all, I grew up going to feed
stores as a kid. You know, my dad would haul
me in the feed stores one and just the I

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love that smell of the feed store just it just
is kind of like how fragrances can take us back.
So maybe you remember the smell of grandma's cookies, bacon
in the kitchen or something like that. Well, that's a
lot of feed stores for me. I love that. And
this League City Feed is back in a place they
still carry the bags out for you.

Speaker 8 (01:05:58):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
It's it's at a fashion service, third generation now Thunderbirds
running that deep store that began forty years ago. In there,
you're going to find products for diseases and weeds and
pasts and whatnot. And you're also going to find fertilizers
from nitrophos from microlife, from azo might from Nelson plant food.

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You're going to find the heirloom soils bags. You heard
me talk about them earlier. Airlom soils. They carried bags
of airlin soil product at League City fee. They're open
Monday through Saturday nine to six, so six o'clock all week,
saw By after work closed on Sunday. Here's a number
to eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Give them

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a call if you want to make sure they have
something pretty head over. They probably do two eight one
three three two sixteen twelve League City fee. By the way,
the stores located on Highway three, a few blocks south
of Highway ninety six. They're in League City. I was
talking earlier about Paul prep in our beds and things,

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and the importance of adding organic matter, of having raised
beds so that when it rains, your plant roots are
not left submerged. Ninety nine percent of the plants out
there cannot take living in submerged poot conditions. Two sagy
too wet. They like water, but they need oxygen, and

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when you fill up the soil with water, there's no oxygen,
like when you get underwater, you can't breathe. Right, Okay,
that's how it is for your plant roots. Well, when
you provide good quality soil, then you're going to end
up having plants that can drive, so raised beds are
critical here in the Houston area because sometimes it really rains.
I was living in Cyprus when the hurricane hit, where

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it rained for like I don't know how many days,
but I know we got fifty two inches about in
two days. That was I don't know. That's like I
was about raised start building an arc to be honest,
making out my favorite two dogs, all right, that was
that was an exaggeration. But you get the idea that

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you need raised beds to do that. You need to
get the soil nutrients right, and you know they're nutrients
that move down in the soil. Nitrogen washes down in
the soil, that washes off the soil that it volatilizes
the way. It's very mobile. Nutrient the phosphorus ef If
you need phosphorus, you need to put it down in
the soil because did you know if you went out

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on your lawn and you sprinkle the phosphorus and your
fertilizer year after year after year, it's going to basically
be on the top inch or two of soil. That's
as far down as it's going to go. And then
soil type affects that sand a little further down clasoil,
not two inches even it's going to tie up. So
building that soil first allows you to get all the

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nutrient content you need down in the soil, and then
you supplementally fertilize later as you go forward. That's part
of the soil building process. That's why I always say
bronze stuff before green stuff, and why with Paul being
the most important planning season of the year, you need
to get that soil right. So go ahead and do that. Now,

(01:09:10):
let's take a little break and we'll be back with
your calls seven one three, two one two five eight
seven four and good to have you with us. Let's
get going on this last segment we got. The folks
at Nitrovoss have developed that Texas three step for fall.
It is an outstanding package of products because it includes

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the Nitrofoss Fall Special Winter Riser eight twelve sixteen. See
how that third number is higher and the first number lower.
That's a good fall fertilizer. It has a nit Fross
barricade as part of the second step. That second step
prevents weeds from getting established, so why wait until spring
and then you're spraying weeds and trying not to hurt
your lawn and other things. Just put the barricade down

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and prevent them from even coming up. And then the
third step nitro Fuss Eagle turf f underside. It's taken
up by the turf routes in your Saint Augustine lawn
and other lawns, and it prevents diseases like that big
brown pat circle that keeps appearing every year. Right, you
know those night Foss Texas three step It gets your
lawn looking good this fall and winter, but also it

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really helps it come back stronger in the spring. And
I'll be giving away every twenty minutes one of the
bags of the Nitrofoss Texas three step system during the
two hours I'm at Siena Ace Hardware today out CNACE
Hardware be given away those night Foss bags at that time.
Those of you live in south of town, you know

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you know about Hojorges Hidden Gardens. I hope that is
your hometown garden center. They are down there on Elizabeth Street.
I sound like a wobbling there Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas.
So if you're in Alvin, heading down towards Santa Fe
down Highway six towards Santa Fe, it's off to the
right Elizabeth. You turn down to get the Orges Hidden Gardens.

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You can give him a call on three six three
two fifty two ninety seven one three six three two
five two nine zero. I believe he's still open Tuesday
through Friday now from nine to three, and on Saturday
and Sunday. That would be today and tomorrow eight o'clock
in the morning until four pm. He has got a
lot of fresh veggies in stock, all kinds of things,

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you know, the tomatoes and cucumbers and leafy greens and
broccoli and root crops and squash and herbs, and even
has some little maringa trees. I got one of those
in my garden.

Speaker 14 (01:11:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
You can eat the leaves of those things and they
make a little tree dies back to the ground in
the winter. Ringus go buy, Go Buy, check out harge
on Elizabeth in Alvin, Texas and uh if you need
to give him a call again. Seven one three six
three two fifty two ninety We're going to run out
now to Dickinson, Texas and talk to Sandy this morning. Hello, Sandy,

(01:11:52):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:11:54):
Good morning, good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
How can I help?

Speaker 15 (01:12:02):
I have recently planted some knockout roses and they're in
a large flower bed. I need something underneath them, I
would I'd like to know a good ground cover for
the knockout roses.

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
Yeah, you want something that stays down, very very low.

Speaker 15 (01:12:20):
I would like to keep evergreen if I can.

Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
Okay, Well, there's a native plant called horse herb Wait
frog fruit. Sorry, I had the wrong one. Frog fruit.
It's native, and I mean it's just like a weed
grown out there. Native, but it stays very low. It's
extremely tough. And you go to some place that is
going to sell kind of some native plants, you're going

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to find frog fruit is one of their options. It's
a very very nice one for that. I like that.
There is a type of plumbago called lead work plumbago
that stays down low to the ground too. In the
coldest of winter, it'll die back, but it's a good
one to try to grow. There's another little plant called
polygonum p o l y g o n um. It's

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got little leaves and little tiny pink pomp poms that
stick up about a couple of inches above the ground.
All of these are ground hugging groundcovers. You could also
do time or or regano. Those are both good groundcovers. Now,
regano can tend to get up a little taller as
it grows, you'd have to share it down a little bit.
But the time tends to stay low enough to where

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it's not as big of a concern. So those are
a few ideas for you if you want a living groundcover.

Speaker 15 (01:13:37):
Are any of these? Do any of these flower?

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
The polygonum has the equivalent of a little pomp pom
type flower on it. The fruit has a little match
stick looking thing that sticks up that has a little
tiny white flowers around it. The leadwort plumb by goo
has a deep blue flower, but it's about I'm going

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to say a half inch I guess in size, So
that would be What else did I recommend for you?

Speaker 8 (01:14:13):
I think that the time in a regano, I know
that sour.

Speaker 4 (01:14:17):
Yeah, the time especially uh huh yeah, Well this sounds great.
I appreciate your time. All right, Sandy, thank you very much,
appreciate your call. You take care. Southwest Fertilizer has been
a Houston lawn and garden tradition since nineteen fifty five.
Did you know I'm the fifth garden line host to
talk about Southwest Fertilizer. So basically everybody has talked about

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Southwest Fertilizer because it's been great for a long time,
and that's why it's still around seventy years later, celebrating
their seventieth anniversary this year. Southwest Fertilizer carries everything you need.
That's why people like to go there. You don't have
to wonder are they going to have it? They have it,
I mean, and if it is the most obscure thing
on earth, we'll give them a call, make sure seven

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to one three six six six one seven four four.
I just say it this way. If they don't have it,
you don't need it, because they have it, from fertilizers
to pest disease and weed control, to tools to get
in your lawnmower, blade sharp your small engine repaired to
seeds by the bulk seeds in the packet. See what
I'm talking about, spreaders, fertilizer and fire ant and all

(01:15:23):
that kind of stuff. They've got it all. Southwest Fertilizer
corner of Bisnett and Runwick in Southwest Houston. I always
like going by there checking them out. They do have stuff,
and I tell you this. I've been in Southwest a
number of times and I had to stop and read
the label on something. She's like, I have, this is
a new product. I didn't know this was out. This

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is something I need to know about. And that's that's
kind of what you'd expect there, good friendly help to
ware you there. Buchanans and the Heights is one of
those garden centers. That's it's just people in Houston. Their
gardeners know about Buchanans because Buchanans is so unique. First

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of all, they call it Buchanans native plants. But while
they have the largest selection of natives anywhere, and I
really mean that anywhere, they have a lot of non
natives too. Natives are a smaller part of all that
they carry at Buchanans. But boy do they have a
great selection of natives. But right now, you need cool

(01:16:28):
season color. So do you need some snap dragons? Do
you need some dianthus? Do you need some stock? You
know what I'm saying. Things get cooner. We'll be looking
at pansies and petunias and viola's. In fact, they already
got some of that in they're at Buchanans Native Plants.
They got you covered there. You need to sign up
for the website or for the newsletter. Go to the

(01:16:51):
website Buchanansplants dot com sign up for their newsletter. It
is outstanding, It really really is cool. I love going
to buchan and I find that anytime I go there,
I see things that, you know, I didn't even know
that they carried it here, but of course they carry
it there. They carry everything at Buchanans Native Plants. By

(01:17:12):
the way, the Fall Fest is in one week now.
This is a big shindig. There, live music, kids, crafts,
a moon balance, face painting, and lots of cool plants
and events. Hey, Saturday, October fourth, ten am to three
pm at Buchanans is the Fall Fest, all right, So

(01:17:34):
stop buy and check them out. Put that on your calendar. Well,
you're listening to garden Line and we're about to have
take break here at the top of the hour. Just
another reminder that I'm going to be at Sienna Ace
Hardware Sienna Ace Hardware, and we'll be there from one
to three today. I'll be giving away some a number

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of different products, including every twenty minutes the Nitrofoss three
step for fall, so you may be want of one
of those bags. If you show up, throw your name
in the hat. Bring me samples to look at, bring
me photos. Let's diagnose, let's recommend, let's advise. Let's make
sure that we make sure gardening is fun for you

(01:18:17):
by helping you have success. That's what it's all about.
Love to meet folks that listen to garden Line. Anyone
out there on the west side and the southwest side
and the south side, come on over see na Ace Hardware.
The enna Ace Hardware be there from one o'clock to
three o'clock today. All right. I'll have some of my

(01:18:38):
schedules on hand too, by the way, for you when
we're there. All right, folks, I'm gonna take a little break,
grab me another cup of coffee, and we'll be right
back in a bit with your calls. Hey, if you
want to be first s up when you come back,
why not call ahead before we get out of this break,
and then you'll be first when we come back. Seven
one three, two, one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richt.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
It's crazy man trim. Just watch him as world.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
Well welcome back. If somebody put my advice on falling
in during the break here, I'm right out there and
take care of that. Hey, Sienna Mulch, I told you
about him earlier. Today I'll tell you about him again.
It is the place to go you're down south of Houston.
They delivered within about twenty miles of their location, which

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is on f M five twenty one, kind of in
the Highway six two eighty eight sort of area. Go
to the website Sienna Mulch dot com, cianimals dot com.
Check them out. They've got those supersacks now. You can
get them delivered or you can go pick them up,
whichever way you want to do it. It's a cubic
yard if you want them delivered. Takes three supersacks, that's
a minimum for delivery. But it's a cubic yard. And

(01:20:14):
you know how fast a qbicyard goes when you're out
working in the garden and improving the soil. They've got
every kind of blend that you would need, every ingredient
you know, from different kinds of composts Leipmo composts, veggie
and herbicx, from hairloom soils. They carry that there. It's
quality stuff, friendly folks, good selection. What more could you

(01:20:34):
ask for? Good service there when you go to Sianumulch.
And whether you're wanting a rose soil or whether you're
wanting a veggie and herb mix or just compost or
maltz or rock or stone or whatever it is, they're
going to have it. They're going to be able to
fix up. Oh. By the way, they also carry all
the fertilizers I talk about on guardline, the stuff you
need to make that brown stuff so good that the

(01:20:57):
green stuff can't wait to send its roots down and
start to thrive. Let's go out to Tomball now, and
we're going to visit with John this morning. Hey, John,
welcome to garden Line here.

Speaker 14 (01:21:08):
Moner Skip. I had a quick question. I went to
as put out some pre emergent lot, the micro Life
six two four, and the gentleman told me that works
there and works in that department, said I don't need
to apply as amit since I did the Microlife sixty
two four.

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
Well you might, yeah, you might. Microlife, being an organic product,
has a lot of things in it beyond just the
three numbers on the bag. Okay, so there is there
is some truth in the fact that microlife does have
some of those other minor micro trace type nutrients in it. However,

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when you're getting wanting to make sure you are addressing
them directly and you're wanting to build up those levels
in your soil, the asmit product, that's what it is.
It's all kinds of micros, just many, many types of micros.
So you may have a let's say, a boron deficiency
you don't know about, and that that azemite is the

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primary way we would recommend you you take care of that.
In the meantime, continuing to fertilize with the microlife products
is a good idea because you're always going to be
adding those things. It's just they're they're designed more, uh,
you know, to enhance the microbial activity in the soil
and to provide those nutrients that are there on the
bag with them. So yes, it's partly true, but I

(01:22:33):
still would do the asimite if, especially if a soil
test tells you that you're a little bit low in
some of those micros.

Speaker 14 (01:22:40):
Okay, and one more quick question, if you don't mind
fertilizing this time of the year, excuse me, like tomatoes
and lemon trees. Should I hold off since it's getting
towards the end of this the season.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
Yes, I anything that is somewhat cold tender, h and
and centris would be that way. Avocados certainly would be
that way. Even in some of the listening area. You know,
up there in Tombol, you can have a freeze that
comes in and knocks your figs back, you know. And
so I would not fertilize any of those semi cold

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tender plants after I generally wind down on those by
the end of August, for sure, if not a little earlier,
just to be sure. Okay, you don't want to push
late season growth. Yeah you bet. Thanks, John, appreciate that
call very much, that is for sure.

Speaker 15 (01:23:34):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
Now, the folks at Medina have so many quality products. Yeah,
I could just could go on and on about them. Uh,
I'm gonna do this. Since we're talking about the fall
soil prep season, I want to talk about a couple
real quick. One of them is Humate humic acid. It's
liquid humous. It's like concentrated composts put into a bottle. Now,

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this product improves your soil in so many different ways.
In hntces the soil's ability to hold and release the nutrients.
The physical properties are important, you know, Humus is a
final stage of decomposition of organic matter, and so the
whole design in nature, and it was a beautiful design
by the way, is that nature builds its soil through

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organic materials dropped on the soil or put into the
ground that decay away and it just makes the soil
better and better. And humic acid is like taking one
of the final stages and just going straight to the
soil with it, which is a good idea. Also microlife Microlife.
The folks at Medina have a product on Medina Plus.

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The Medina Plus is Medina Soil Activator, which has been
around for a very long time and many gardeners for
decades and decades and decades have loved that stuff. It
also though, has added to it forty trace elements and
natural growth hormones from seaweed extract and so on. Lots
of good things in the Medina Plus that is perfect

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for fertilizing your soil, for fertilizing the plants, for providing
a boost for doing if you want to do a
folier feet of things, this would be a good one.
Always direct full of your feeds upward from underneath the
plant to get the most effect, and do them early
in the morning before it gets too warm and the
stowmates are still open early in the morning. It takes
it in better that way. Anyway, Medina products, they're available

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all over the place. Feed stores, garden centers, these hardware stores.
You're gonna find Medina in a lot of different places.
We're going to go now to I believe talk to
Finice in the hobby area. Is that correct? Am I
saying that? Right? Well? Good enough? Yeah, okay, I have

(01:25:51):
a question.

Speaker 16 (01:25:51):
Then of course my lawn. I have actually three trees
in my front yard, but in uh there's area. I'm
assuming that the trees that I thought I would have
watered enough, but obviously I didn't because it had some
dead grass and I'm assuming it was the roots that
took out the moisture. But that actually the grass is dead.

Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
So is it best for me to take.

Speaker 16 (01:26:16):
Care of that and I remove it and put some
new side on there or.

Speaker 4 (01:26:20):
What you can still put some side down. I wouldn't
wait much longer the further we go into fall. Once
we get into you know, late October, November, the root
growth has slowed down enough to where that side doesn't
root down as quickly as we would like it to soul,
I would go ahead and do that now. Now, maybe
a lack of sunlight and it may be a lack

(01:26:41):
of water that's affecting your side there, So you just
also have to fix out so the new side doesn't
go the same way as the old side did. Right.

Speaker 16 (01:26:50):
Well, actually, the it's been I mean this long has
been there, sixty something years. But for some reason, I
probably it is probably don't water enough because it's just
that one area which is probably maybe a ten square
feed something like that. So the rest of the lawn

(01:27:11):
it looks great. And but also now, if if I
was to winterize it, is it I really haven't listened
to your station lately for a while.

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
No, but uh okay, do winterize it. Oh yeah, in October.
If if you got the lawn put down now, I
would say probably maybe mid October, go ahead and put
it's a little early after a lawn goes down to
we generally we wait a month, but you don't have

(01:27:44):
a month to wait, so I would go ahead and
do the winterrizer mid October, but get that lawne in
tomorrow if not this afternoon.

Speaker 16 (01:27:53):
Well I'm going to actually so appreciate your help either way.

Speaker 4 (01:27:58):
Thank you, sir, You too appreciate your call very much.
Good luck with that lawn. Let's take a quick break here.
We'll be right back with your calls. Dennis and Katie
you'll be our first up. All right, folks, we're back.
Welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you
with us this morning. If you'd like to give me
a call and talk about gardening questions, you might have

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seven to one three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Going into this fall planting season, I would like you
to have a couple of fertilizers on hand and uh
to just set things off right. One of them is
Nutrastar Vegetable Garden from the folks at Nelson. Fertilizer comes

(01:28:41):
in jars Nutristar vegetable Garden. It's an excellent blend. It's
got five different sources of nitrogen, so you get a
nice even release of the nutrients. Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:28:51):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
You know, vegetables are a short term crop, so you
need to apply it and apply it next month, apply
it the next month whenever you're putting a plant in.
Once those things get rooted in, put that vegetable garden
out there and get them a boost and get them
going so they have a good quality harvest for you.
Good vigor is important for good harvests. That is just
a fact, and Nelson nutri Star does that. The other

(01:29:14):
product is Nelson color Star. Now that's probably the most
famous product Nelson's ever made. I've been around for almost
forty years now, in fact it is forty years now.
I believe landscape professionals love it. Home gardeners have used it,
love it. I don't care what it is. If it's
got a flower on it, color Star is a good
product for it. Now we think about it for our
annuals and perennial flowers and things like that, but it

(01:29:35):
could be for flowering shrubs or trees or other flowering plants.
Got fast acting effects, but also that organic nutrient source
included in that that slowly releases into the soil. So
you can apply it every three to four months for
best results. So you do it now, come back and
do it again, and this winter starts to wane, it
warms up a little bit. Put another application of color

(01:29:58):
Star down at that time. Keep everything floor refer us
in your planting beds and beautiful around the place. Let's
head out now to Katie, Texas and we're going to
talk to Denta. Dennis. Hey Dennis, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (01:30:14):
Hi Skip, thank you, Good morning to you. I have
a problem. I've got about fifteen or twenty feet of
boxwood that line my walkway leading up to my house,
and for the past couple of months they have started
dying one by one, stem by stem. Do you have

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any suggestion the advice on this. They're about three feet
high and probably fifteen to twenty years old.

Speaker 4 (01:30:46):
Oh my gosh, but I know that this wood was
in the.

Speaker 17 (01:30:49):
Same I thought they were like wax leaf augustum. I
didn't think anything could kill them. But something's killing these boxwoods.

Speaker 4 (01:30:57):
That used to be fairly true that box woods are
tough and dependable. There are about five things, No, let
me say it this way. They're about three things that'll
just flat kill them. One of them is nematodes. It
takes time and they tend to hang on, but they
just look horrible. The other is a fungal disease that

(01:31:18):
goes in through the roots. There's vertish, cilium, fuzarium types
of fungi in the soil that can kill them. And
then there's the biggie. Now that's the boxwood blight. And
typically you're going to see entire branches die. Maybe the
whole bush dies at once, but typically one branch leads
it and then another, then another. It's gonna be one
of those things.

Speaker 7 (01:31:37):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
There's also root rot, a root rot, and the soil
that can kill them. None of those has a simple cure.
You know, I can't just say go buy this product
and squirt it on the plant and it's all better.
Uh So, unfortunately, boxwoods in many cases are going by
the wayside as far as plants. Now, you may have

(01:32:00):
someone here lists may go, I've had box woods and
there never been a problem. Yes, that's true, and you could.
You might plant box woods in some location and not
have a problem for a while. But these problems are
here and when they hit that's the end of that
nice hedge that you spend a lot of money on
those plants. So I would pull them out and switch
to something else. If you pull them out, I'd like

(01:32:20):
you to do two things.

Speaker 18 (01:32:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
Take a plant that you know is going to die,
uh and not dead but dyeing. And when you pull
it out, look at the roots, get a little spading
for it, and kind of lift up the soil and
shake the dirt off the roots, and look for knots
and bumps like little string of pearls or a snake
that swallowed a rabbit. Look you know that kind of
look in the roots. That's nematodes. The reason you're checking

(01:32:46):
for that is when you replant, you want to replant
something that nematodes are not going to do the same
thing too, so that that would be one. Secondly, take
your knife, a good sharp box cutter knife would be good,
and ice through the roots near near kind of where
they attach. Slice through them lengthwise, you know, so you're
like splitting down the middle of the route and look

(01:33:08):
in there. Instead of being a creamy white color or
starting to brown a little bit, it almost looks like
an old cigarette filter with that gray black brown tar
stain streaking through the root on the inside. That's a
sign of a fungal wilt. And then if you find
one or the other of those, give me a call

(01:33:29):
back or some shoot me an email, tell me talk.
We talked about it and and uh, let's let's try
to guide you and what to replace them with. But
I don't see a long term benefit. And I think
putting more boxwoods in to replace the dead ones is
just going to lead to the same thing.

Speaker 17 (01:33:47):
Well, if I replace them, what do you suggest, you say,
box with a kind of becoming a thing in the past,
what what is taking its place?

Speaker 3 (01:33:57):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Uh, dwarf you opin is a good one. Dwarf jopon
does well.

Speaker 13 (01:34:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:34:03):
It's a very compact plant.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:34:05):
And it's native here. You can share it and make
it whatever shape you want it.

Speaker 14 (01:34:10):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
Another one, there are some dwarf hollies that that do okay.
And you just have to go wherever you're you're gonna
do your your shopping. You know, you're out there being
in Katie. I would stop in at Nelson Water Gardens
and uh just ask them, you know what do they
have as alternative to box woods? And they may have
some dwarf hollies for example. Uh, it just depends on

(01:34:31):
the look you're going for, you know, Nandina's or another
one that can be a quite dwarf shrub. But that's
a very different look than a box would whereas the
coffee and a little more box would like in its appearance.

Speaker 6 (01:34:46):
What what has been?

Speaker 17 (01:34:47):
What are you saying that is? And you said dwarf
holly and and uh nandina, But what is the first
recommendation you had?

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Dwarf yopon holly. The yopon is the native opine that
grows wild on the road sides. And uh there's a
dwarf version that makes a little. People often trim them
up like little meatballs or little squares or you know,
I meant can tremorrock you want like you do a
box box with. All right, Dennis, Well, good luck. I
got some folks hanging on here. But good luck getting

(01:35:20):
to the bottom of that. Okay. Yeah, And by the way,
if you if you do the the examination that I said,
and you don't know for sure about it, send me
a picture close up in sharp focus and I'll tell
you if that's nematodes or or one of the vascular worlds,
I'll be happy to do.

Speaker 17 (01:35:37):
Give them address quickly.

Speaker 4 (01:35:39):
I'm putting you on hold and my producer will give
you the email address. All right, let's head out now
to Bill and Conroe. Hey Bill, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (01:35:50):
Hi, Skip, I've got a page of unimus and they're
very gear Yeah, and the leaves are light green and
are kind of a cream white. Got a bunch of

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very dark green, solid green coming up from various areas.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
Okay, yes, of course, right rid of them. Yes, you
follow the dark green down to where it attaches to
another branch. And if that other branch is the variegated color,
prune the dark green branch off right where it attaches.
Those are variegated shrubs that we say revert. Euonymus is

(01:36:38):
especially bad about that. Lagustrum is bad about that that
that are variegated. Then suddenly you get back that old
normal green one coming up in there. And it's just
a genetic switch that happens in the plant. And all
you gotta do is just prune it out. And the
earlier you catch it the better.

Speaker 19 (01:36:56):
Yeah, Okay, I didn't. I didn't jump on it right away.
So I've cut a lot of them out and they're
coming back. I guess I just keep cutting them out.

Speaker 4 (01:37:07):
Yeah, yeah, Uh just do that, Just stay with them.
Uh they you know, it'll those plants will bounce back. Okay,
that sounds great. Thanks all right, you bet, thanks a lot,
appreciate your call. Uh hey, uh, everybody out there that
lives down in the south and the southwest part of

(01:37:27):
the Greater Houston area, have you been out to Moss
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Speaker 20 (01:37:31):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:37:31):
Now Here people often ask me about, you know, like, well,
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They've never been, They wonder should I drive over there? Yes?
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you'd have Moss Nursery in Seabrook, Texas simple as that.

(01:37:55):
In addition to all the great plants for fall planting
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Did you know that Camellia senensus that when you drink tea,
you know, china tea as they call it, Well, that's
Camellia sentensis. And you can grow that plant here. You

(01:38:18):
can you can I'm going to be there next Saturday,
by the way, at Moss October fourth, from twelve thirty
to two thirty. We're going to be doing some giveaways.
Jim's gonna give away a free tomato plant and everybody
shows up that Saturday.

Speaker 18 (01:38:31):
Uh.

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Speaker 5 (01:39:52):
Glad to have you with us.

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
You'd like to give me a call seven one three
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(01:40:19):
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(01:40:41):
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(01:41:03):
have done on your trees. But at least have him
take a look at him and advise you on what
he thinks is most needed. All right, We're going to
go now out to Spring Branch and talk to Herda. Hello, Herda,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:41:17):
Thank you, good morning.

Speaker 20 (01:41:20):
My question.

Speaker 12 (01:41:22):
My questions about.

Speaker 20 (01:41:26):
Well, my yard was horrible after that hurricane and tornado.
But anyway, a yard man came and you know, chop
things down. But anyway, I have I call him squirts

(01:41:46):
under my magnolia tree. I have three little ones coming up.
Ones may be a foot tall, the others maybe three
or four inches taller than that. What is the best
way too I'm playing to dig them up and put

(01:42:07):
them in a pot, but I'm giving them away. I've
already offered one to a friend of mine.

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
Okay, all right, So here's what I would suggest. I
would wait until November. Number one, it's easier to be
outside November than it is when it's hot, but it's
easier on that. When you dig them, get as much
root as you can. Magnolias aren't real crazy about being
dug and moved. But if they're as young as you

(01:42:36):
described their little one foot high plan or so, dig it,
get as much root and immediately slip it into a
pot if you can find a pot that'll fit that,
and then water it in really good, so try to
help it not suffer in the digging process, and then
put it in a spot that has bright morning sun

(01:42:58):
but afternoon shape. It needs a little sun, but not
a lot. Magnolia's you know, when they've been dug like that,
they got to recover from it, even though it is November,
which is the best time to do it, and then
by next spring you can give them to somebody, or
if they want to take them right then they can
take them and plant them. But they just got to
keep those roots wet, because in digging, most of the

(01:43:20):
roots get cut off.

Speaker 12 (01:43:23):
I see, okay, let's see how much bigger than the root?

Speaker 20 (01:43:32):
Well, I'm gonna.

Speaker 12 (01:43:33):
Try to get you know, keep the saw all around
it and everything.

Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
Yeah, how wide.

Speaker 12 (01:43:43):
Should I dig around them? Well, I mean how much? Finally,
as much toil as I can around them?

Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
Yeah, it probably has somewhat of a tap root because
it probably came from a seed that fell off the tree,
and so digging down to get as much of that
as you can is helpful. If you can get about
a you know, eight ten inches deep at least on
those little tiny trees, I would do that. You know,
there's not a magic number though, herd on you got

(01:44:14):
to dig this, widen this deep or anything like that.
The main magic number is is how young the tree is,
and that is young, young, young, which yours are.

Speaker 9 (01:44:23):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
And you have the best sense of them surviving that way.
So you can even have someone come over on that
day and let them dig it with you or dig
it for you, because you're away. They should they should
have to bring you a pound cake and a Christmas
card if you're going to give them a free magnolia tree.

Speaker 20 (01:44:40):
I'll tell you you I can't take well.

Speaker 12 (01:44:44):
This magnolia was full grown.

Speaker 20 (01:44:46):
Yeah when we bought the house, and I've had it
two times.

Speaker 12 (01:44:51):
To be ninety feet tall by now.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
Oh my gosh, oh my god. Well, hey, I got
to run. But thank you, thank you so much for
your calling. Good luck getting getting all that taken care of.
If you haven't been to RCW Nurseries in a while,
you need to go. My gosh, that place is always
it's always fun to go, and they always have stuff
going on there. If you're looking to purchase, let's say
you're trying to purchase a tree or a shrub, because

(01:45:15):
you know they grow a lot of their own up
in a Plantersville area. Now be a great time to
do it because they're having their tree sale. It ends
at the end of this month. Guess how far away.
The end of this month is three days away. Fifteen
percent all off all the trees, thirty percent off all
cranpe myrtles and citrus trees. They're located at Highway two

(01:45:35):
forty nine and about Way eight. Easy to get to RCW.
Go buy there, check out, check out the roses, check
out the fall plants. They got some other specials going
on too, by the way, in September. But the main
thing is just do it because you're not gonna get
a better deal than that. It's time to plan them now.
So get out there and get you one. That's what
you want to do. We're going to go now to

(01:45:56):
Fairfield and talk to Marty this morning. Hey Marty, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:46:00):
Morey skip, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:46:01):
Hey, send you pictures.

Speaker 12 (01:46:04):
I don't know what that plant is called.

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
If you can identify it, is it nicotinia, That is ruellia.
It's also called Mexican petunia. That's the upright form that
you have. Those are those are Those are vigorous and
they are enthusiastic spreaders. They spread under that kind spreads underground,

(01:46:26):
and it also cast seed that will wash down the
sidewalk and come up ten feet away somewhere else. Okay, Yeah,
it's a it's a great plant, but just want to
keep it confined. Yeah, what you got on?

Speaker 7 (01:46:39):
What you got on?

Speaker 4 (01:46:39):
It is not a fungus. It's actually an insect, or
actually not an insect. It's a mite called the eerieo
fied mite. It's a little tiny mite that's feeding on
them and causing those white blotches all over the leaves.
And what I would do, we're coming close to the
winter time anyway, when it's going to die back, I

(01:47:00):
would cut those things off at the ground. You're not
gonna kill them, they'll come back, but cut them off
kind of carefully so you don't shake all the mites loose,
and you know, ripping and pulling and everything. Cut them
off near the ground, cut all of it off, and
then let them come back up fresh, and it ought
to be less of a problem. And as they come up,
you may need to do some spraying with insecticidal soap

(01:47:23):
or horticultural oil on the bottoms of the leaves in
order to kill those mites that might be present. But
right now you got so much of them up there
that I wouldn't even try to save that. Plus it's
going to die back in.

Speaker 12 (01:47:36):
The winter anyway, Okay, I will cut them down.

Speaker 17 (01:47:40):
And you answered my question about the celsius.

Speaker 8 (01:47:42):
I must have put it on. It was a little
bit hot when I applied it.

Speaker 17 (01:47:46):
It was like about post to ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:47:48):
But it killed it. But it also killed some of
my grass.

Speaker 20 (01:47:53):
But it's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:47:54):
Did you have it? Ok did you have A. Did
you have a spreader sticker? A They surfactant in it. Okay,
well those are good to use, but when when it
gets warm, it's the spreader sticker with it that's the problem, Celsie.
It's itself. Actually it does less damage than trimac and
other things when it's hot, But that spreader sticker is

(01:48:15):
really really the problem. So you can use them just
as long as it's not too hot. Thanks a lot. Hey,
all right, thank you, you take care. All right, I'm
gonna have to run to a break here. Kevin, Scott
and Katie will come to you first when we come back. Hey,
welcome back to Guardline. Listen, you know it's all about

(01:48:38):
getting the soil right, and getting the soil right means
getting the nutrients right, but it also means keeping the
microbes happy, and that is what Microlife Fertilizer is all about.
Most of their products are going to contain a good
supply of all kinds of microbes, some of them some
products are even specifically designed with the beneficial microbes that
you apply in or to enhance their presence in the soil,

(01:49:03):
because what they do is they fight disease. Do you
know you have microbes in the soil that are fighting
against the bad microbes if you will, that cause diseases
on things. For example, micro grow liquid af That one
right there has got eight different beneficial microbes put together
in it's a liquid. You just slash it into the soil.
You can just mix it into way. I like to

(01:49:26):
put a little bit of molasses with it. When I do.
Both of them are going to be very helpful making
microbes really happy. But you put that down there and
water it in, and it's not a fungicide, but it works.
It's safe, and it's effective because it helps enhance that
aspect of the soil. That's true of all the microlifes,
including for example, the microlife brown patch, which is a

(01:49:48):
fertilizer that we need to be putting on now. It
is time to start putting down the microlife brown patch
for fall. And that one also is enhanced. It's got
its own microbes that are part of the scheme organic
type fertilizers. They build soil over time, they improve plant
growth and when microbes are happy, roots are happy. When

(01:50:08):
soil is good, roots are happy. That's how it works,
and microlife can provide that just for you. By the way,
I'm going to be giving away a bag of Microlife
brown patch today at Siena Ace Hardware. Albeit at Sienna
Ace Hardware today from one to three. I hope you
can come out and see me. Look forward to visiting
with you. Let's go now to Katie and we're going
to visit with Kevin this morning. Hey, Kevin, welcome to

(01:50:30):
garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:50:32):
Hey, good morning Skip.

Speaker 4 (01:50:34):
I have a question.

Speaker 11 (01:50:35):
I'm about to play in thirty five gallon holly trees
and two questions. One how big should the hole be?

Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
And two?

Speaker 11 (01:50:46):
Do I need to add any kind of special dirt?

Speaker 4 (01:50:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:50:49):
I usually have beet mold compost on hand, but I'm
not sure if I need to have that or not.

Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
Okay, do you know, can you tell me which kind
of holly and what kind of soil you have, sand
or clay or what.

Speaker 11 (01:51:03):
Yeah, it's Eagleston hollies and I've got I've got, you know,
pretty much clay. I mean I top drift for the
past seven eight years, you know Paul and Randy's schedule. Yeah,
so I mean it's probably down. I've probably got good
soil for about three four inches.

Speaker 4 (01:51:21):
Okay, Well, uh, Holly's love an acidic woodland type soil.
Woodland type soils. It's got a lot of organic matter
in it, uh, you know, and they like it. They
don't have to have it, you know. It's not like
they're a blueberry or something that they really need it low.
But they just do a little bit better if it's
slightly acidic on the so don't worry about changing the

(01:51:43):
pH just worry about enhancing the soil. Now, they don't
tolerate wet feet and soggy conditions. And when you dig
a hole in the clay, it becomes an underground bathtub,
and so water goes down in that clay hole but
doesn't drain. So now you have all the roots and
organic matter down there that's in a robe, and it
starts to decompose and give off nasty smells and gases

(01:52:03):
and bad bad for the trees. So if you could
raise the bed up a little bit for them, that
would be helpful. Three inches a little bit is very low.

Speaker 11 (01:52:12):
But you're talking about the soil around the trunk.

Speaker 4 (01:52:17):
Well, are these holly trees going to be planted in
one long bed or are they just going to be
individual trees planted in different spots.

Speaker 11 (01:52:28):
They're going to be in one long bed is going
to be probably you know, eighty feet long, so it's
going to be spaced out equally, you know between senstions.

Speaker 4 (01:52:41):
Right, we'll know this that those hollies, when when they
reach their sizes Egoston's, are going to be quite large
and they're going to have roots that are going out
fifteen plus feet in all directions. So a'mnding a little
planting hole doesn't really accomplish a whole lot. I would say,
lay down a nice thick layer of a planting mix,

(01:53:03):
a bed mix, uh and mix it in to the
surface of the soil a little bit if you can,
uh to blend it so there's not a sudden transition,
and then dig the hole and plant the hollies. And
that don't put complished in the hole, but amend the
area and that down that bed and then put the
hollies in. And I think that's the best thing. The

(01:53:26):
wider the area you amend the better, the better off
they'll be. But that that's what they We're trying to
give them good drainage, and we're trying to give them
a better soil mix and just a heavy black clay.

Speaker 11 (01:53:37):
Okay, you bring up a concern when you say there
from about feet, I thought they were more of a
fibrous root. And I'm concerned because I have a real mower,
you know, and I mow my grass by happy. Should
I be worried that these roots may come to the
surface at some point?

Speaker 4 (01:53:58):
No? No, I mean, you know, twenty years down the line,
a few feet from the tree maybe, but not not
like you know, a live oak tree in your yard
or anything like that. Don't worry about that. But that's
why again that raised bed. Spending a little money on
some soil, so a number of QB cards of soil
there to get that up a little bit is helpful.

(01:54:21):
But yeah, that's the main thing. Good drainage, good organic
matter content. And then during the first two years, I
would hand water them as much as you can. And
I know that's a lot to ask with that many
holly trees, but the sprinkler systems often are blocked by
the holly leaves or something else, and they don't evenly

(01:54:42):
apply water all around them. And holly's during the first
two years are really picky about getting a little dried out.
And if a section of the roots don't get water,
you may have a section of the plant that starts
to die back on you, you know, avoid that. So
for the first couple of years, the more you can
do to make sure they're getting a good soaking, not
too much, good soaking frequently to help them establish those

(01:55:03):
roots out in the soil around where they were planted.

Speaker 11 (01:55:06):
Okay, my plan was to convert to the sprinkler heads
into a drip system for him.

Speaker 4 (01:55:15):
That'd be great, that would be great. Just make sure
it's functioning, but drips sometimes. You know, there's water here
and then over there there's water down. Look further there's water.
Make sure that goes around the plant and that that
root ball whatever size you said, thirty five gallon, make
sure that thirty five gallon spot is getting plenty of water.
And I might even initially put a little it's called

(01:55:37):
a bubbler, but it attaches to your dripose and it
comes up and it sprays water out in a small circle.
And that way you get to get soaking where the
holly roots are and get older, that's not so important.
The drip is fine, but early on it's that cylinder
of roots goes dry really quick. And Kevin, I got
to run. But good luck with those okay, all right,

(01:56:02):
all right, thank you for the call, sir. I appreciate
that very much. Micro Life Fertilizer, I'll telling you how
that I'll be given away today when I'm there at
Sienna Ace from one to three today. By the way,
Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer been around a long time, seventy years.
They have got a great selection of all kinds of
stuff you need. But they also have tools, the Falco

(01:56:24):
and Corona high quality brands, the Kneeling seat, the Garden
Kneeling Seat I keep talking about. They'll change your life
if you're north of forty. It is a wonderful product
that Bob carries him there. He also has a nice
selection of the soil amendments. They have stuff from heirloom soils.
You're going to find things like Nature's Way there, Nature's

(01:56:45):
Way resources You're going to find is the mite there
as well. Southwest Fertilizer corner Abyssinet and Runwick in Southwest Houston,
very very important. Hey, oh, I did want to tell
you one more thing. In Jenny Forest you got to
go and Chenni Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
If you haven't been there just go. Lots of pollinator plants,

(01:57:07):
native milkweeds, beautiful native flowers like achanasia, lantana, salvia's. They
have all the fall color you're looking for. Beautiful talavera
decorations right now are gorgeous. There you gotta get Go
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(01:57:28):
Enchanted Forestrichmond TX dot com. They're on FM twenty seven
fifty nine, twenty seven to fifty nine south of Ice
sixty nine south of fifty nine, twenty seven to fifty
nine out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. You'll love it.
I promise you you'll like it. They they have. Go
to that website in Chenni Forest, Richmond, TX. That's where
you'll see the events that they have going on. And

(01:57:50):
they have a nice slate of events there too.

Speaker 11 (01:57:54):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
Music means I gotta quit talking. I wasn't done talking.
I got more to say. We'll stick around for that.
Don't forget or sa Mons Sienna Ace Hardware Today one
pm to three pm. Let's stop gardening. Bring me some samples,
bring me some pictures, Let's get your hands on a
couple of bags of good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:58:19):
Welcome to Katy r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictard.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
It's crazy. Just watch him as we may give things
to set.

Speaker 4 (01:58:47):
All right, we're back. We are back. Got the last
hour of guard Line on this nice Saturday morning. Go
in here. Welcome back. Thanks for being a listener. We
appreciate that. I hope you're having fun. I am. I
hope you are too. Here on guard Line. Listen to

(01:59:09):
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(01:59:32):
and to come out in spring faster. Your spring lawn growth,
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The answer is yes, you can use them on the

(02:00:15):
same day. It doesn't matter what order you do them in.
You could put all three down. You could go fertilized, turnround,
go barricade, turnroun, put the eagle down, and then water
it all in. All three of those need to be
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(02:00:58):
Meadows Place and visit with Jim this morning. Hey Jim,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:01:02):
Good morning, Skip A quick question. Two kialapena pepper plants
in ten gallon pods good soil. I use the Magic
Soil mixture. One plan is about four feet tall, fully
green producing peppers. The second one is only about two

(02:01:25):
feet tall and it had yellow leaves on it about.

Speaker 4 (02:01:30):
Two weeks ago.

Speaker 7 (02:01:31):
I put some twelve twenty four to twelve down on
both of them, and I'm asking, is there something else
I can do for the small one. I've got organic
fertilizer two five three, I've got the twenty four to twelve,
I've got thirteen thirteen. What would you recommend on that

(02:01:52):
small one to help it progress a little more?

Speaker 4 (02:01:56):
I would back off those high phosphorus numbers. That's not necessary,
and phosphorus in high levels can tie up iron, causing
yellowing new leaves, new growth coming out. You probably were
seeing yellowing the older leaves. Is that correct? Or was
the whole plant turned yellow?

Speaker 8 (02:02:13):
No?

Speaker 7 (02:02:13):
Yellow the older leaves top leaves on the bush.

Speaker 4 (02:02:16):
Yeah, that means either a lack of nitrogen or probably
more likely a water root issue, not enough water, too
much water, soggy soil, the pot doesn't drain well, or
some issue with the roots is probably what was going
on there. I can't tell you which of the ones
it is. I mean, it could even be nematodes on

(02:02:38):
the roots if the plant, that plant came in with
some nematodes. But bottom line is, just keep them adequately
moist consistently and give them small amounts of nitrogen to
promote growth, but not too much. Just to small amounts
to promote growth, because we don't we want them to
settle down and set blooms and peppers. We don't want
to just push vegetative gres owth too much, So go

(02:03:01):
easy on.

Speaker 7 (02:03:01):
The Nay, what which nitrogen are you referring to?

Speaker 19 (02:03:05):
What should I do?

Speaker 8 (02:03:06):
Well?

Speaker 4 (02:03:06):
I would I would do something. You know, generally, I'll
fertilize my vegetables with a product that the nitrogen is
the highest number. It may have some of the other
things in it, but the nitrogen is the is the
highest of the of the numbers. Do you see what
I'm does that make sense what I'm saying or am

(02:03:27):
I not being clear?

Speaker 7 (02:03:28):
Well, will the triple thirteen and the light application be
useful or not?

Speaker 4 (02:03:35):
If you got it on hand, that would be okay now,
but in general I would I would go with more
of a nitrogen. I like to use the the Nelson
nutri Star genesis. So that's a six one three nutristar
genesis six one three. That's a good one when you're
when you're preparing the soil to put in the plants themselves.
But they also the folks at Nelson also have a

(02:03:57):
nutri Star vegetable. Now it's kind of more even in
the numbers. It's a ten twelve nine. But I think
with yours, with all that phosphorus you've already put in,
I think you'd be fine just going with something to
give them a little bit of a nitrogen boost. So
whatever you have on hand, to go ahead and use it,
but just just going forward in the future, you know,

(02:04:17):
not quite so much phosphorus all the time.

Speaker 7 (02:04:20):
Okay, all right, I understand. Appreciate the help.

Speaker 4 (02:04:23):
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do it all. Now, the folks at green Pro, they
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So you know, it's hard to draw. They don't look
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that they service up there. Now, what happens is they
come out and they do a cororation and then that
opens up the soil to oxygen. It breathes life into
the root system of the soil. Because our heavy clay soils,
they just oxygen can't get very deep in those. Secondly,
they put a compost top dressing over the top and

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that is going to settle down. Some of it'll go
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dressing which is what they use. And it also some
of it lands on the soil, and you know, compost
it stimulates microbial activity, it decomposes away in time to
release those nutrients, and it'll just take that lawn and
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(02:06:13):
managers or local ACE stores the other day. We were
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kinds that each a store is independently owned, so every
no two stores are identical and just exactly what they
might carry. They're all going to have all the standard
things you would expect from an A store and then
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(02:06:35):
the barbecue selections, it's unbelievable quality brands. When you look
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raftsmen du Walt, Black and Decker Stanley, Milwaukee. Ace's own
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(02:06:55):
you know you're supposed changes every month. It's a place
you go when you need to rejuvenate your deck. Maybe
it needs some preservation put on it, maybe you need
some pay put on it. If you need propane for
your gas type grill. There you go. That's the place
to go. Now there's Ace stores all over. We got
all Stars Ace in Magnolia. We've got Spring Ace on

(02:07:16):
Spring Cypress, we got u Valdi Ace on you Valdi
Road and eastside of Houston, Deer Park, Ace on Center Street,
on the east side, Bay City, Ace on Seventh Street,
Cypress Ace on Jones Road, Brenna Mace out there on
North Austin Parkway. And by the way, I'm going to
be at Brenna Mace October twenty fifth. Write that down.

(02:07:37):
I'll be out there, all you folks out that direction,
October twenty fifth. I'm coming out Pacoace on West Willis
Down and Alvin. That's just a few Go to Ace
Hardware Texas dot com. Acehardware Texas dot com. Find your
local Ace Hardware stores. We're gonna take a break. I'll
be right back and our first caller will be Beth
from Pearland. Oh yeah, hey we're back. Welcome back to

(02:08:00):
the Guarden Line. What do you want to talk about today?
You know this is a call in show, so you
get to set an agenda. I guess what kind of
topics related to gardening can we discuss? Be happy to
do that. Give me a call seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. You got questions, some

(02:08:22):
people are I've talked to people all the time. This
is frustrating. I talk to people all the time and
it's like, yeah, i'd call in, but I don't want
to be on the air and stop. Look, I get that,
I understand that. But you know if you listen to
guard Line one day that we're kind to our callers.
Nobody's gonna embarrass you or anything. Your question. You may

(02:08:43):
think it's a stupid question, as somebody else has the
same question, and if you wonder about it, it's not
a stupid question. You want to know and you need help,
and we're happy to do that. Now there are stupid answers,
so the pressure's on me. I'll try not to give
a stupid answer, but don't worry about your question, give
us a call, let's figure out how we can help you. Hey,
books at Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery have a shipment

(02:09:04):
of the Texas native Gregg's blue mistflower. It is outstanding.
And if you want to see monarch and queen butterflies
around your property, Oh my gosh, this is a plant
that does most of it's blooming in late summer fall
season and boil. Boy, did they ever lie? I mean

(02:09:24):
it's crazy. I've seen dozens of them in a little
like square or yard area three about three air I mean,
dygo knots on this plant. They love it. By the way,
Nelson's also has some beautiful decorative tiles for decorating inside
the home. We don't talk about that much. If you're
looking for Nelson plant food products like the carbload that

(02:09:45):
they that Nelson makes, Nelson has got those. Now. These
are two different Nelson's by the way, Nelson Fertilizers and
Nelson Water Gardens, same name, different companies, different people. But
fall color Dianthus snap dragons still timed. You can plant
still some marigolds and they'll give you some color all
the way up until we get our first frost. So

(02:10:07):
check it out. Nelson's is West Houston's full service local nursery.
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a sound of water in your backyard, whether it's a
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You'll see them when you get out there to toe
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(02:10:49):
ten Nelsonwatergardens dot com. That is the website. We're going
to go now to Mike in Sharpstown. Hey, Mike, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (02:11:00):
Skip morning, honey. I had a quick question for you.
All right, I got the Texas step, I got the asmite,
and I got the soil activator. What what kind of
order do you think I should put that in?

Speaker 4 (02:11:14):
If?

Speaker 19 (02:11:15):
Do I wait a day?

Speaker 11 (02:11:16):
Do I put it all one day? You can?

Speaker 4 (02:11:19):
You can do them all at the same time and
then water them all in. Yeah. Yeah, just don't put
them in the same fertilizer hopper at the same time
because particle size is different and you won't get even distribution.
I've spread one, come back, spread the other one, come back. Yeah,
that's it. You can do them all the same time,
same day.

Speaker 11 (02:11:39):
That's okay, all right, I got a weekend, then.

Speaker 4 (02:11:43):
Well it won't take long. If you do all three
in one day, you'll have time to time.

Speaker 11 (02:11:47):
Take my time.

Speaker 4 (02:11:48):
Put it there, you go, get you get you a
lawn chair and a shady spot, and you spend the
rest of your day work and watching it grow. That's important, Yes, sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 11 (02:12:00):
Down there, I think the bye bye.

Speaker 4 (02:12:04):
A guy named Jerry Baker used to talk about using
beer on your lawn. Oh my gosh, don't get me started.
Some day I want to do a whole show where
I can just gripe about things I see out there
that are nonsense, I mean, absolute nonsense. H heye. When
people get misled by by you know, those kinds of things,

(02:12:26):
it does happen. We're gonna go now to Jeff and
clear like, hey, Jeff, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (02:12:32):
This good morning sir, I have two types of Camullias.
An issue on one of them is there's like a
little bit of die back on brown leaves on some
of the branches. But also there's like this green looking
fungus thing. I don't know, you know what you call it.
It's just like attached to the branch in some spots there,

(02:12:54):
you know, maybe eighth of an inch long, and it
looks velvety. So I don't know if there's an issue
with it or if it's just but the brown leaves,
it's probably only like ten percent of the plant on
one stalk. That's one is okay, and then I can
ask the question on my other type of Chamelia.

Speaker 4 (02:13:12):
Yeah, So the die back, it's due to something preventing
water nutrients from making it to the ends of those branches.
That's when you start to see die back. That can
be lack of water in the soil. It could be
soggy soil that the roots can't get oxygen and they
die back. It could be a borer chewing through the trunk,

(02:13:34):
cutting those tubes that are taking water up and down
through the nutrients up and down through the plant. It
could be a canker that kills a section of the branch,
so that again those connecting tubes that are the plumbing
that's taking water up there is disrupted. It's gonna be
one of those. As far as the moss like thing
you were describing, that's called lichen l I C H

(02:13:57):
E N. And it's not a disease of thel. It
just means it's a humid area and there's a little
light shining in there. You see lichen on rocks, on
fence posts, on the bark of trees of various types,
so that the lichen is not a concern. Okay, And
what was the other coming here?

Speaker 8 (02:14:17):
The other one? It's a slightly different variety. I think
it's a different color and it seems to be a
little bit shorter. But there's you know, probably fifty percent
of the plant has leaves that have a little bit
of yellow striping. I don't know if that's again a soil, water,
fertilizer or some other issue, but there's it's a yellow

(02:14:40):
striping in the.

Speaker 4 (02:14:41):
Described Is it like following where the veins are?

Speaker 8 (02:14:47):
Yeah, no, great question. So I'm looking at them right now.
If you've took that thought about a leaf down the
spine of it. It looks nice and green, but on
the edges leading into that spine where it is green
pretty much the whole length of the leaf. On both
sides it's getting yellow. But it's not all leaves. It's
only you know, it's like it's a mystery. It's just

(02:15:09):
right to it.

Speaker 4 (02:15:10):
Let's do this, Jeff. I'm gonna put you on hold.
My producer will give you an email, and I would
like you to send me that email, or send me
an email with pictures of the bush from it as
a whole, but then some close ups top and bottom
of the leaves and let me see exactly what you're
looking at so I can see which leaves are affected.

(02:15:31):
That's kind of a semi closeup shot. And then a
close up of exactly what this yellowing looks like. And
I'll that way I can give you the most accurate answer.
I don't want to guess. So I'm gonna cat jone hold.
Just staying around. Thanks to your call, by the way,
and we'll look forward to getting those photos from you.
Now we're going to go to Beth in Paarland. Beth,

(02:15:53):
I don't know what's going on, but the photos are
just coming through as a little box with a question
mark that I can't open. Let's see if we can
do this verbally rather than visually.

Speaker 21 (02:16:03):
Okay, Okay, Honestly, it looks like a lot of lawns
that you see around this time of the year, and
so I kind of I kind of narrowed it down
to chinchbugs and or brown patch. And so my thoughts was, maybe.

Speaker 22 (02:16:26):
Can I treat them both and both at the.

Speaker 21 (02:16:28):
Same time on the same day, just to cover just
just to cover gypes.

Speaker 4 (02:16:35):
When did you you know, when did you yeah, when'd
you first notice this, Beth?

Speaker 21 (02:16:40):
Honestly, it's been maybe five weeks, maybe six weeks?

Speaker 4 (02:16:45):
Okay, good? It started off well all and it's kind
of ye transgress. I mean, so it wasn't it wasn't
brown patch. It wasn't brown patch. It could have been
take on a root rot, but it wasn't brown p h.
It could have been chinch bugs. But as we get
into the fall, chinchbug season dwindles away. And if you
look at my lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule,

(02:17:10):
have you seen me? Yeah, So if you look at
when we say chinchbugs and side web worms, by the
end of September. I don't even the bar stops. And really,
to be honest, even the last week or two of
September is not really much of a chinchbug season. They
can occur, but so even if it was chinchbugs, there's

(02:17:31):
no sense in treating it. Now they're going away and
there's no benefit to trying to treat them. But what
there is benefit to treat. Drop down a line to
the diseases and you'll see treat for take all root
rot if present. Now, I don't know what to do
to get me a picture if I could get but
I have a take All root Rock publication on my website.
Is that one of the ones you said you really.

Speaker 21 (02:17:53):
No, I've just got the weed management schedule?

Speaker 4 (02:17:57):
Okay, Well, if you go to gardening skip dot com
and look at the take All Take All root Rot,
there's a couple of there's a small one pager and
then there's a two pager. Read the two pager and
look at those pictures on both of them. And if
you think that's what you have, follow the instructions and
do in October and then again a November treatment on that.

(02:18:19):
I've got about one second, so I gotta run I'm
gonna have to I'm gonna have to put you on hold.
I gotta go. Hey, welcome to guard Line. Welcome back
to the Guarden Line. Good to have you with us.
We're gonna go back to Beth real quick here for
I think she has a follow up question. And there
we go. Hey, Beth, welcome back. How can we help hey?

Speaker 7 (02:18:42):
Thank you?

Speaker 21 (02:18:43):
Yes, So getting back to the root, all I would
I could put that you say, October. But if we
wanted to put that down today, would that be allrions?

Speaker 4 (02:18:56):
Uh? You could? Yeah, you could? And then about a month.

Speaker 21 (02:18:59):
Later in yeah, okay, months later okay, and then could
we fertilized as well today or no? Do you want
us to wait on that?

Speaker 4 (02:19:08):
On the you can you can also fertilize. Yeah, you
can do all of that.

Speaker 21 (02:19:13):
Okay, all of that today. Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:19:16):
Everything needs to everything needs to be watered in, so
I have to apply it, and that includes you know,
treating for take all those products go up through the
root system to help defend the grass.

Speaker 21 (02:19:27):
Okay, So all right, okay, and one one more quick
bick thing, okay, on the next sledge on that horrible grass.
Can I pull it all out mulch over it, and
then if it comes up again, then using that sledge
because it's an.

Speaker 22 (02:19:42):
Asshole right now.

Speaker 4 (02:19:43):
It looks horrible. That's tall and yuck. I'm sorry, I'm
not following you. Uh you.

Speaker 21 (02:19:51):
The cross, I think it's not cross. You know it's
fairly tall because I know if you pull them out
then they propagate, et cetera. So what I wanted to
do is pull them all out because it's easy now,
and then mulch over it, and then if they come up,
then use the net sledge on you know, maybe one

(02:20:12):
or two inch. When it comes up one or two inches,
then you I.

Speaker 4 (02:20:15):
Would know, I would, I would spray what you have now.
And here's why. In the fall it's pulling in carbohydrates
to the tubers to store for over winter. Now's a
great time to get the sedge hammer or whatever you
that I that's another publication on my website. It takes
it down better now, So don't don't pull those off.

(02:20:36):
Go ahead and spray on, okay now. And it takes
a while for it to work a reputation. Maybe a
couple of weeks. Sure, yes, And I'm sorry, I got
I'm gonna have to run Beth, but I do appreciate
you do appreciate your call very very much. Pierce Scapes
knows how to create dreamscapes. That's the bottom line. Go
look at their website, piercescapes dot com. You will get

(02:20:58):
inspired and you'll be impressed all the things they do,
whether it's rock borders, hardscapes, walkways, drainage issues, irrigation, putting
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they also have their quarterly maintenance service where they come
out once a quarter they spruce up the beds, They
pull out the weeds if they're any, They replenish the malts,

(02:21:18):
they check the irrigation. You know, it's just a general makeover.
When the color needs to change in the beds, you
know it's's gonna be time to plant pansies here pretty quick,
pulling out that old warm season color, putting in the
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Give them a call two eight one three, seven oh
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(02:21:40):
we're going to go to Jeff and Clarke. Now, Jeff,
thanks for waiting. Yes, sir, who can help.

Speaker 8 (02:21:49):
Yeah, I had your producer had me send the photos
an email.

Speaker 4 (02:21:54):
Oh yes, yeah, yes, wonderful photos. By the way, thank you.
That helps a lot. I see some things that look
like they might be there may be scale underneath the leaves,
and those are the pictures where the yellowing is more
little spots on the leaf. Turn the leaf over and

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look for a white, kind of scally like, waxy like
white things underneath the leaf. If it's scale, you need
to use the systemic insecticide to get up there and
kill the scale that is sucking juices out of the plant.
The poison goes in the roots up the plant, and
anything sucks juices out of the plant gets the poison.

(02:22:37):
Check for that. The other thing is right now, yeah, yeah.
And the other thing is do you see that?

Speaker 7 (02:22:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:22:47):
I do want one of the plants and the other
one I don't. But it may just be early onset
and it's not.

Speaker 4 (02:22:53):
Yeah, if you're going to treat, treat them both. The
other is magnesium deficiency. This is why photos are so important.
That's magnesium. It You have a little green Christmas tree
in the camellia leaf. It's a yellow on the outside,
but the inside as a Christmas tree shaped green thing
that that's magnesium and there you just need to add

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a magnesium supplement. You can put some EPs and salts
in water and drench it over the plant. Epps and
salts is magnesium sulfate and you can do that. Or
you can buy a fertilizer. There's one called k mag
or soulpo mag. Just go, you know, wherever you go
for your fertilizers and things in your area and and

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see if they have a magnesium supplement. Or like I said,
you can use ups and salts just you just have
to look at the rate that you put it out.
Basically you're mixing it in water and drenching it around
the root system all around, so all the roots in
that whole area have access to this supplemental magnesium.

Speaker 8 (02:23:55):
All right, sir, Yes, certain scale, what would you recommend
to put for scale type?

Speaker 4 (02:24:02):
A systemic one would be the mido cloprid. It's I
if you just write down I am I d O
that that'll get you far enough in It's the only
insecticide with that name, or dinotepheron, which is d I
N O t E F dino teph uh that's the

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first letters of the other one. Either of those does
the same thing. They move systemically in the plant. There
are a number of products with the medicloprid, number of
brand names out there with the mediclopred on the shelves
of the garden centers and ace hardware stores and places
like that. Okay, excellent, thank you sir. All right, thank
you very much. Appreciate you call. You take care. Where

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are we on time? I got a little bit of
time here. Yeah, we've been rolling trying to catch up
all those calls. Uh So we do have some room
on the calls if you would like to call in
seven to one three two one two five eight seven four. Amite.
We talked about it today already as MTE is a
micronutrients supplement. You can put it anywhere. We talk about

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it for lawns all the time because that's where most
people use it. But it contains all those micronutrients that
are essential for plant growth. So have your sal tested,
and this is a general statement, not just asmite. Have
your saw tested. See what your nutrient levels are. That
ought to inform your fertilizing because based on what's there,

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you know what you need to add. But micronutrients. Without them,
plants cannot grow if the levels are low. Maybe that's
not without them, but there's just low levels. That is
the level to which plants can perform. So if they
only have half of what they need, you're only going
to get half out of the plant what you need. Okay,
So there you go. Yeah, as mite does just exactly that.

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It's mind out of the ground in Utah, just two
hours south of Salt Lake City, and so it's a
natural product pulled out of the ground and you put
it in your fertile sliser hoppers, set the fertilizer hopper
to spread the asimite. You can do it on the
same day you fertilize, but don't mix them. Again, particle
size being different, you won't get even distribution of the

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two products. So if you've ever opened a bag of
potato chips, you know what I'm talking about. All the
crumbs are in the bottom and all the big chips
are up on top, right, same thing happens in fertilizer spreader.
Don't mix them, but you can do the same day.
Run out there, put out your asmite, come back, load
up on your fertilid, run out and put out your
fall fertilizer. You can do that or vice versa. It

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doesn't matter. As works asmitexas dot com check it out.
I don't know where that potatoes. I just ate some
potato chips last night as a matter of fact, and
we were down near the bottom of the bag and yeah, yeah,
we definitely needed some help there. Houston Powder Coders is
the biggest powder coder in this region, over six acres,

(02:26:54):
seventy five plus employees. These folks know how to do it,
and I don't care. I mean, if you got a
trailer that you need powder coated to provide that weather resistant,
beautiful paint coat on this trailer, they can do it.
They bring into a big, old, giant room that they have.
Basically the metal gets electrostatically charged and the powder coating

(02:27:21):
is a dust in the air that's electrostatically charged and
it clings to the metal sort of melts into it
like a like a paint coating on the outside. One
hundred plus different colors. I don't care what color you want.
If you say brown, they're gonna say what shade of brown?
Do you want? Rust? Brown? Do you want dirt? Brown.

(02:27:41):
You see what I'm saying. They one hundred colors. And
you can take any of that old furniture in your
yard that looks bad, they can make it new. If
you've got a barbecue pit starting to rest out, hey,
barbecue bits are expensive, let them have it. They will
fix it up. And you think you just brought it
home from the store. When they get through with it,
and that's true of anything cast iron, rod iron, aluminum,

(02:28:03):
patio furniture, they will come pick it up, they'll get
the job done, they'll take it back. If you want
to get a quote, take pictures and send them to
sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houston Cooders dot com.
They will give you a quick quote. Here's the website,
Houston Powdercoders dot com. If you're want to call them
two eight one or six seven six thirty eight eighty

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eight two eight one, six seven six thirty eight eighty eight.
I'm gonna take a quick break and when we come back,
we got a line full of calls here, all right,
and we're back right now. Welcome back to garden Line.
Good to have you with us. Hey, how can we
help you? Well, let's find out We're about to go
to the phones here and assist some folks that have

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called in. We're gonna go to pair Land first and
talk to Diane. Hello, Diane, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 22 (02:28:54):
Hello, Thank you, Randy. So, we've got a Chinese fringe
tree that that got hit. We had a really bad
infestation of white flies on our property and we live
kind of out in the country, so there's heavy tree lines,
lots of trees. We've treated it with safer soap. Now
it's covered with this black city mold and the new

(02:29:15):
leaves are coming out bright green. But what do I
do about the old The old.

Speaker 4 (02:29:20):
Leaves, well, you know, it wears off in flakes off
in time. You can use a very very mild soapy
water with a pressured spray on them. You can just
use a pressured spray itself too. It's basically a sugary
substance that's dried on the leaf, and the city mold
has grown on that sugar. So imagine dry sugar. You know,

(02:29:42):
you kind of have to dissolve it away, and so
it doesn't just blast right off, but you can wet
it and come back and spray it again. I probably
get a decent job of it. Done that way, a
little soap hops a little bit, but I just don't
make it too strong. You don't want to burn your plants.

Speaker 22 (02:29:58):
Right right, Okay, we'll do. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (02:30:02):
Yeah, yeah, you bet appreciate your call. All right, here,
let's see here we are now going to go to uh,
let's see. I believe it's is it Jerry or Sherry? Hello?

Speaker 2 (02:30:17):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (02:30:18):
Are you there?

Speaker 10 (02:30:19):
Mary?

Speaker 18 (02:30:21):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:30:21):
Mary? Well, let's do Mary?

Speaker 2 (02:30:25):
Whoever?

Speaker 4 (02:30:25):
I'm talking to?

Speaker 20 (02:30:26):
Mary?

Speaker 4 (02:30:27):
How can I help?

Speaker 22 (02:30:31):
I have a really bad mealy bug problem.

Speaker 11 (02:30:34):
And I know that you've said something before.

Speaker 4 (02:30:37):
About I guess meme oil. Okay, I've tried.

Speaker 21 (02:30:44):
I tried another product that has.

Speaker 15 (02:30:46):
Three different kinds of oil.

Speaker 22 (02:30:47):
It's got meme oil, clove oil, and something else in it.

Speaker 21 (02:30:51):
I have tried insecticides that I don't like to use
because they kill everything.

Speaker 2 (02:30:57):
Can you tell me?

Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
Okay, can you tell me what you've tried insexicidewise? Do
you recall?

Speaker 10 (02:31:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (02:31:07):
It's oh, I have the name of it in my mind.

Speaker 9 (02:31:10):
Here, let's see.

Speaker 4 (02:31:11):
That's okay, that's all right, that's right. Something something for
termites and ants and oh okay, all right, well here
here's the thing. So meatie bugs can be killed by
like an oil type spray or even a soap type spray.
If you get it, get it on them and give

(02:31:33):
them a good bath in it. What I would, what
I think you probably need to do, is you probably
need to go ahead and use a systemic insecticide. And
what that will do is it goes in the soil.
So if a lady beetle is crawling across the leaf

(02:31:54):
of a plant, the insex side is not on the
outside of the plant. It's on the inside. So so
anything sucking juices out of the pant, which is what
meata bugs and scale and aphids and whiteflies all do
that it'll all get the poisoned into that insect without
hurting the others so much, so that I think is
what you're gonna have to do. Meelli bugs are difficult

(02:32:16):
to get rid of there because they hide and they're
done kind of where the leaf attaches to the stem
and places like that sometimes that are hard to get to.

Speaker 21 (02:32:25):
Okay, right, it was called Tramador, the one that I used.

Speaker 4 (02:32:30):
Okay, all right, well, just just do the systemic. Anywhere
you go, tell them you need a systemic insecticide. Rrace
hardware stores down there have got them in that area.
But anyway, that's it. I'm gonna have to run because
I'm running out of show and I got some more
folks to talk to. But good luck with getting to
the bottom of those. I do appreciate your call. Let's see,

(02:32:52):
we are now gonna go. I'll tell you what. Let's
go to Joe and Stafford. Hey, Joe, welcome to garden Line.
Thank you, skip morning.

Speaker 18 (02:33:03):
I sent you a couple of photos of a plant
that uh has been there for about two and a
half months, and I let it grow to see what it.

Speaker 7 (02:33:14):
Was, and I have no idea what it is.

Speaker 4 (02:33:19):
Well, it's in the mint family. It looks a little
like parilla to me. P E R I l l A.
And that one is p what p E P E
R I L l A parilla? Oh okay, now that's
what it looks like. But it is in the mint

(02:33:41):
family for sure. Uh. And that one can be a
little invasive, so you're gonna be careful with it. But
whichever it is, it's in the mint family.

Speaker 15 (02:33:50):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:33:50):
Some parillas have beautiful foliage. This one is just green,
nothing special. I'd pull I'd pull the thing up, uh
and just let your Asian asthman be in that spot
and if it were mine, yeah exactly. Okay, well, okay,
you bet you.

Speaker 18 (02:34:10):
Thank you so much, Skip, have a wonderful day, all right.

Speaker 4 (02:34:14):
You take care, appreciate, appreciate very much your call, your call.
All right, folks. Well we're running down here, Oh Nitrophus
Texas three step. Guess what I'm gonna be giving away
three sets of that at Sienna Ace Hardware today. Come
on out and see me that. That's ever twenty minutes.
Somebody's gonna win one, and you stick around the odds

(02:34:35):
are you're gonna win one. That's how that works. We
got a lot of the cool giveaways the stores providing
out there. I'll be also providing a bag of the
Microlife brown Patch for those of you who had been
hiding under a rock and have not heard me all
day today and last week and the week before. Nitrophus
Texas three Step. It's a fertilizer designed for fall. It

(02:34:57):
is a prev provent of weeds called barricade. The weed
seeds never establish weed plants, and so next spring all
those clover and hand bit and chickweed and cleavers and
what else annual bluegrass and all those other things. They're
not there because you stopped them with barricade in the fall.
Third step eagle turf funge aside, put it on the

(02:35:21):
All three of these need watering in with a half
inch of water. Okay, so you put them all three
out and water them all in it once, or you
can do one today, another one another day. It doesn't
matter what order. It doesn't matter what day. It just
matters that you water them in when you're done. Eagle
turf fungicide is taken up by your grassroots and those
ugly brown patch circles that you see. You get in

(02:35:43):
ahead of them. They're way easier to prevent than to cure.
Come on out to Sienna Ace Hardware. I'll show you
these bags and throw your name in the hat and
you may win one. Ever twenty minutes we're given one away,
as well as a lot of other cool prizes. I
hope that you'll come out out. If you've got samples.
People have been sending me pictures all day and samples

(02:36:04):
and things. Bring them on out. If you got a
turf problem and you would like it and analyze. Take
a four by four inch or four by six inch
plug of turf with some roots underneath. Slip it into
a zip block bag, zip it up and bring it.
But it needs to be this. If I haven't said
anything else today, you listen to you listen to this.

(02:36:25):
In the zone between healthy and dead. You bring me
dead turf, I'll tell you I can't do autopsies. You
bring me sick turf. I'll do a diagnosis for free,
and we'll tell you. We'll get to the bottom of it,
what caused it, then tell you what to use on it. Okay,
you bring me healthy turf, and I'll say, that's a
beautiful lawn. You don't need to do anything. The zone

(02:36:45):
between healthy and dead? All right? Have I beat that
horse today? All right? Hey, I'm excited. I'm going to
be at Sienna from one to three. I'll be there
a long time, so come on out. We're gonna have
some fun. Looking forward to it. In the meantime, thanks
for looking in the garden line, and we'll be back
tomorrow morning at six am. As you saw again today,

(02:37:06):
in the early birds, they get to call in and
get answered quick, and you wait till the end. You've
got to wait a while. You're smart, call early tomorrow morning,