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Katie r h Garden Line does notnecessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome toKatie r h Garden Line with Scape Rictor.
It's crazy Trim. Just watch himas sea a sun. Good Sunday

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morning. Glad to have you withus today. What are we here for
today, Well, what we're herefor is to talk about gardening, to
help you have a more beautiful garden, more bountiful garden, and certainly a
more beautiful landscape and lawn. Thatis the goal. You know, the
horticulture is not rocket science. Imean it really isn't. I don't know

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if rocket science is rocket science sometimes, but anyway, basically, it's a
matter of principles, following principles,just like good health, just like a
lot of things. You learn afew basic things about what causes plants to
succeed, and you follow those thingsand you find yourself well on the way
to success. There's a lot ofmiscon conceptions out there about horticulture. Oh

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my gosh. I have a hardtime looking at sometimes looking at social media
and other places where you see horticulturalinformation. Just because it's the wild West.
Everybody is an expert, and thatoften causes cringing because to lead people
wrong with information that is just notaccurate. Maybe it's something you heard someone

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say and then so you repeat it. Maybe it is something that you did
once and it worked, and thereforeyou associate what you did with the fact
that it worked, which is notalways a good way to go about it.
For example, there is things thatcorrelate together that means you do one

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and the other happens, and thenthere's things that cause each other to happen.
So let's say I knew I knewa fellow one time who well,
actually I didn't know the guy.The story as it was told to me,
there's a fellow that sat out onhis porch and just to be honest,
he clipped his toenails out there onthe porch and he would toss them

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over the rail under a hydrangea bush. And that hydranga bush got bigger and
better than the one at the otherend of the porch. And so it
is very clear that Grandpa's toenails makesthe dranges grow. No, it is
not at all. That's called correlation, but not causation. You would have
to get a lot of hydrangea bushes, plan them all out randomly and treat

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some of them with bostonhails than otherswithout to really assess whether that worked or
not. And we see a lotthat's of course ridiculous, but it is
true. But we see a lotof that in a gardening information. It's
just like, well, you know, that's not right, and because there's
no principle that will cause that tobe able to work anyway, that's what

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we aim for here, trying tolead you down the right path. A
lot of you are interested in gardeningorganically, and my goal is to help
you to be as successful as possibleat however garden and whatever you want to
grow. And so if you're anorganic gardener, you're working with nature.
Your goal is to build the soil. That is number one. Long before

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organic pesticides became part of the bigpicture of organic gardening, it started with
the soil. Organics began with thesoil. And you build the soil,
you make the soil better, youmake the roots better, and plants grow.
No, what do I say everytime on guarden line, I say
the brown stuff before the green stuff, meaning get the soil right. That

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means good internal drainage, that meansgood water holding capacity. Also it means
good nutrient holding capacity. You makethat soil right for the plant you want
to grow and you're going to havesuccess. Yeah, there are sometimes times
to treat an insect or a pest, and they're organic options for most things
like that, But number one isthe soil and that's what Microlife's all about.

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Microlife is about building the soil.That's why they have a product called
hum Mates plus. The purple bag. It is zero zero four those are
the numbers on it, so it'sgot some potassium in it. But it's
not about the fertilizers that you're puttingthe hum made on for. It's about
the microbial activity and it's about thehumus. Humus is a final decomposition stage

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of organic matter, and humates humusproducts are part of what helps build the
soil effectively. And you put outMicrolife Humates Plus and each time you do
that, adding in small quantities.Each time you do it, you are
adding the kinds of compounds and thekinds of micropial activity too as well that

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help build the soil for success.Now, Microlife also has their Green bag
that's the standard of all their products. In my opinion, it is an
excellent lan fertilizer. It's a sixtwo four. You put it out,
follow the instructions, get it downon the ground, and again you're adding
not just six two and four,you're adding all the secondaries and the microves

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that are part of organic matter.You know, if you pick up a
piece of a leaf, it hasink in it and manganese and other things
because it requires those to grow aleaf. So now when you turn that
into compost or humus, or whenyou turn it into an organic product,
any organic materials, you've got thewhole nine yards. And that's what Microlife's
all about. Hey, if youwant to find out more, go to

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microlifefertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dotCOM's widely available. They have a store
located there where you can find it. But as an organic system, this
is what we do. We startwith soil, We create the best soil
we can, and after that we'rewell on our way to success. By

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the time you put a plant inthe ground, you are seventy five to
eighty percent the way to success becauseyou've picked a plant that either grows there
or doesn't. You've prepared a soilthat is the elephant in the room right
there, and you've planted it atthe right time or not. And so
that is the key. Start withthe soil. It is so important to

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do that. You know, microlife products are I said there widely,
but you can get places like Plantsfor All Seasons. For example, Plants
for All Seasons is on FM twoforty nine. We call that Tomball Parkway.
It's the road that goes up towardTumble. If you go north and
you cross over exit Lueta crossover Luetaand you're at Plants for All Seasons or

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right there on the right the website. We need to check out the websites
Plants for All Seasons dot com,Plants for All Seasons dot com. The
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two eight one, three seven six, sixteen forty six. When you're at
Plants for All Seasons, you areamong people that know what they're doing.
They've been growing things here for along time. They're very knowledgeable. You're

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among plants that do well here,and you are on your way to success.
The Flerdy family has been doing thissince nineteen seventy three. From education
to selection, to delivery, toplanning, custom potting. They are truly
lawn and garden experts, and that'swhy people love plants for all seasons.
I think it's time to take alittle break here. We will be back

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in just a moment. Albert,you will be my first up when we
come back. Our phone number ifyou would like to. Would you like
to give us a call? Imean it does help if I give you
a phone number, doesn't it Ithink it does. I tell you what,
I'll keep that when I come back. I got it a break.
I'll be right back. Welcome back, guard Line. Good to have you
with us today. Hey, Iwanted to let you all know something those

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of you listening to guard Line.This is my preser Josh is last day.
I am sad to see him go. He has been a great support
and companion. He keeps me outof the ditches, even though sometimes I
purposefully run the car off the road. It seems like it's certainly a big
loss for me in the show.But I just want to wish him well.

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If you give him a call,just just tell him you wish him
well. And he's moving on tosome other things that we will. We
will wish him well, even thoughwe don't want to see Josh go.
That is for sure. I'd liketo head out now. I think we
had Albert on the phone. We'regoing to go up to Montgomery. Hello
Albert, Hello Skip, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.

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Yes, sir, I got anut all oak tree I planted about two
years ago. It's probably eight feettall, and this spring, you know,
leaves start coming out, but onlylike half the tree has leaves on
that the other halves there's some branchesthat are just bear with no leaves and

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guess it's struggling. Is there anythingI can do to help that little tree
out? Let me ask you afew questions. The if you're looking at
the tree, are the branches thatare not doing well? Are they on
the south or southwest west side ofthe tree in that directly? They're kind
of distributed all over. Okay,last summer was pretty brutal for a tree

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that's only been in the ground acouple of years and doesn't have the full
root system. I don't know whatyour watering schedule is like, but you
know a good supply of water toget it through the intense heat, which
is almost zero rain at times forextended periods. That also could play a
factor in it. Another thing youmight want to check is dig down around

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it with a little hand trowel,maybe even get a garden hose and wash
some soil away from the and seeif you've got a root that's going around
in a circle around the trunk.It probably is not the case because it's
still a younger tree, but beworth just checking that. Other than those
things, I think it's a matterof fertilizer and water and getting the weeds

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away. The single most thing youcan do to make that tree, make
any tree grow well in its youngeryears, to have good growth rate,
is to get the weeds away,the grass away. The bigger of a
moult bed you can put around it, kind of recreate the forest floor with
a bunch of leaves and compost andmolts and all that, the better off
it'll be. And so I woulddo that. If you want to fertilize

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about take a lawn fertilizer that doesn'thave herbicide in it and give it a
cup or two for every inch oftrunk diameter on the tree, and then
water it in well. And thenwhen we go into summer and it hadn't
rained for a week and a half. Go ahead and give it a little
bit of a soaking through that wholearea of an area as you can,

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and hopefully you'll see some vigor returnto the tree. Okay, Skip,
that's a lot of good points Inever thought of. So thank you so
much. Hey, yes, thankyou, thank you for the call.
I appreciate that very much. Byby, the folks at Landscaper's Pride have
created a wonderful collection of soil buildingproducts and molt products. This spring has

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just been a whirlwind. I meanwe are going and going and going,
trying to get all kinds of thingsdone that are important. For example,
it's time to get mulch down.How about a black velvet multch from Landscaper's
Pride. It's very velvety dense multch. It's not dyed. It's black,
but it is not dyed. Thatthis is unnatural color and the way they
do this mulch it just helps insulatefrom extreme temperatures. That matters a lot.

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Hardwood multch is another product they have. It's a hardwood based fresh hardwood
is not ground up palettes or woodor things like that it is truly a
hardwood from trees, hardwood trees ifyou can put it in flower beds,
and you can do it in yourwalkways is and all where the pathway.
They got a pine bark mulch,very popular, locally sourced pine bark.

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A slow decomposition rate with that pinebark, so people like it for that.
And then the garden Magic soil,which is a pine based blend.
It's got humus center, it's gotscreened pine and composted rice holes too,
and a chicken pill at fertilizer lastsup to three months, so that is
a That's why they call it Gardener'sMagic. It is packed with good information
again from the folks at Landscaper's Pride. Twenty seven different products available. Go

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to Landscaperspride dot com find out whereyou can get them near you. Let's
head out to Humble and talk toBeth. Hello, Beth, Hello,
good morning to you. Thank youfor taking my call. I have a
beautiful potatoes and bean plants coming along, but they've developed something on it looks

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like rust. Okay, yeah,well could be a rust. There is
a rust that attacks beans. Uh. And then there are several leaf diseases
that attack these. It could becaused by fungi, it could be caused
by bacteria. The leaf diseases dependingon I can't see what you're saying,
but I am of the Some ofthe leaves are completely rust colored and some

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of them just have a little speckson them where it's coming out at this
point. At this point, there'snot much you can do that will be
really helpful. There are disease thereare fungicides that will prevent rust, but
once you've got a rust infected leaf, they don't cure it. It doesn't
go back to being a healthy greenleaf. And so they we have I

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just cut those off because it's justnow starting. You could, but rust
spores are everywhere there. I meanwe're breathing them right now as we talk.
They literally are floating through the aireverywhere. And so the leaves that
don't have the symptom yet probably alreadyhave some rust words that have landed,
and some may have even germinated.But again, rust is just one of

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many diseases that can kind of fitthe symptoms. Yeah, so I'll lose
a whole plant in and they won'tproduce right, they will produce if you
can. It depends on how faralong they are, but you want to
protect as much of the leaf areaas you can if you wanted. If
you feel like you're catching it earlyand you only have some of the foliage

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that's got that rest on it,or what you're describing as rest on it,
you can go ahead and spray witha preventative. I'm just side to
protect things that have not shown thesymptoms yet to try to get kind of
it products that contain chlorothalonil. It'sit's sometimes called dack o'nil d A c
O n i L. If yougo over to you you're or you're up

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in the Tomball area. No,no umble, oh umble, okay,
excuse me? Yeah, you cango over to uh that's see Warrens Southern
Gardens is pretty close to you there. You've also got I also got some
ace hard restores in your area,and just tell them you're looking for something
with dac O'Neil d A c dA c O n i L. Just

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like it said, that's a brand. That's a brand name. The ingredient.
Though, if they well, whatwhat what causes this rust? Is
it too much water or something?No? Well, it's a spore landing
on a leaf, and then youget leaf wetness from rain or whatever,
even even dew, and the sporegoes into the leaf. It germinates and

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goes into the leaf and it causesthe disease and the leaf. I thought
maybe, I thought maybe it wastoo much water, because I have a
sprinkler out in the yard to keepthe deer away, and this this emotionally,
and and then when I go,the deer in front of that lins
that the water sprays on them,and I'm thinking that, well, I

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don't know. The more often youwet foldge, the more diseases you're going
to have. Does that sprinkler workon your deer? Pretty good? Oh?
I love it. I love itbecause I don't have anything eating my
plants now with that sprinkler c hthem good? Is it? That little
scarecrow one? It looks like alittle black and yellow scarecrow. It's black,

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kind of stands up as a littlelinbs on it and you say it
walks. I have it just setfor night, okay, because in the
daytime they don't bother in the daytimebecause I'm out there, okay, but
uh, at night, the deercome up there, and but since I
got that little sprinkler, they walkin front of the sprinker, console them
off. I love it. I'mgoing to have to I'm gonna have to

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run. But get that product.Spray your your plants and try to get
ahead of it. If it's not, you may do some good. You
bet, you bet glad to gladto help. Have you ever tried sweet
green? Sweet Green is a productby Nitrofoss. It's eleven percent nitrogen.
It is a molasses and microbe createdproduct. There's a process that that happens

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the sweet green. It smells wonderfulbecause I mean, you know how molasses
smells. It has that kind offragrance to it. But you put it
down, it dissolves away, goesinto the soil. Anytime you put a
molasses basically on the soil, you'regonna make a lot of bacteria and other
microbes very happy, and it'll makeyour lawn happy too. You can find
it in a lot of places,you know, nitro Foss products being widely

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available. You can find it BearingsHardware on Bissonette and Westheimer, go out
to Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond. Rosenberg you'll find the sweet green out
there and up on a stuber airlinehiding and feed also carries that sweet green.
We're going to head out now,back to Tomball and talk to Mel.
Hello, Mel, Hey, goodmorning. Okay, here we go.

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Grubs eat the uh roots like inmy flower bait, I imagine,
correct, especially grassroots. But yes, okay, and and and and and
clawless you okay. And moles eatthe grubs. And coons and possums and
what not all eat the moles.Now do I keep the moles to eat

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the grubs? You know, Idon't know if moles eat grubs or not.
I'm not a wildlife expert. There'smoles and voles. Bowles are like
a little rat like things. Let'ssee moles. I don't know. They
may be just feeding. They mayfeed on them. I should know that,

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but I don't off him. Okay, well that's fine, that's cool.
I just didn't know. Man.You know, I don't know what
to do. You know, putstuff down to get rid of the grubs
or any holes are just you know, they dig tunnels under and everything.
Yeah, yeah, I know,and uh so I would say the grubs
in your flower bed are probably nota big problem. Probably not. In

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a logon. You need to havefive to seven grubs per square foot before
there's enough of them to where it'sdoing enough damage to warrant treatment. And
so we always encounter grubs, andwe dig into flower beds and gardens and
lawns and things. You're always goingto see them. But it's not that
there's a grub there, two orthree or four. It's it's that there's

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a whole bunch of them, andthey primarily are a problem for us on
grass. But so I wouldn't worryabout them unless you're just finding a ton
of them and you're seeing an effecton plants. Then no, I haven't
found a ton of them. Sohey, mel, Mel, I'm gonna
have to go to a break.If you want to hang on, i'm
gonna put you on hold, andif we're done, that's good. If

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not, i'll talk to you whenwe come back. On the other side,
you're listening to garden Line and ourphone number is seven one three two
one two k t r H.And there's the man himself straight. Oh
my gosh, that goes back intime. You talk about a legend in
the music business. Welcome back togarden line. Good to have you with
us. I'm your host, SkipRichter, and we're here to answer gardening

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one two kt r H seven onethree two one two k t r H.
Listen, when our Houston soils,in fact, the Gulf Coast and
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when they get dry they shrink up. That's just the movement some some clays

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are much worse than others. Butboy, do we ever have a time
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slab foundation repair. I'm gonna goup now we're going to go back to
mail mel. I guess we've gotsome more to talk about, right yeah.
Well, Also, by the way, I just side note, I
like the music you play, sothat's cool. Thank you. We go
all over the place, so sometimessometimes it gets weird. Yeah, that's
all right. Hey, uh,you know, back to my moles,

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I've got all kinds of stuff.Do you know anything about getting rid of
those critters because they just kind ofmole under everything and may dig all these
tunnels. I'm afraid to uproot plantsor whatever. Right, Well, not
being a wildlife expert, I'm goingto refer you to a place that knows
everything about it. Okay, ifyou go to there's a website at A
and M that all of the likehorticulture publications and wildlife publications and all canning

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food and everything else. It's calledAgrolife Learn. So it's a g R
I L I F E L EA r N dot Okay dot t A
m U Texas A and M Universityt A m U dot E d U.
And if you go there and typein moles or gophers or you know

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any kind of wildlife issues, you'llget a publication that's free to download that
will tell you all about it.If you's if baiting is part of the
deal, it'll tell you how todo it. If you know those traps
are part of the deal, willit will tell you what to do Okay,
I appreciate it. And as faras as far as the grubs,
you'd say, that's probably not anissue. I don't think it is.

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Nat could be. I mean,if you have ornamental grasses and things in
your flower bed, that could bean issue. But just finding some is
not the problem. It's it's thequantity that that is the problem. Got
it, appreciate it, Thank youvery much. You bet you take care.
You're listening to garden Line. Ourphone number is seven to one three

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two one two. K t rH. Makes it easy, easy,
k t r H. Hey haveyou seen the new parking lot at the
Arborgate. I was out there justsaid that. I had a little Facebook
clip on it, just showing youthe parking lot. This is a really
nice design. This isn't like asphaltor concrete. This is a special grid
that the rain water just runs rightthrough it and it just soaks right through.

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So I mean it could be agully washer for days and you just
drive right in there. I mean, it makes it easy. You go,
you enter off Trishel Road, whichis like think of it as a
little loop that leaves twenty nine excuseme, twenty nine to twenty and goes
behind Arburgate and comes back into twentynine to twenty. So whether it's before
or after Arbrogate, you can jumpon Trishe'll run around behind it and there

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you are the parking lot and whenyou get in there, you know what
you're going to find. I mean, Arbrogate is one of those destinations that
people come from far and wide becausethey have everything and it's set up so
beautiful. It's one of the gardencenters you just love to wander through and
look. And when you're there,you're going to find people that know what
they're talking about. They guide youto the right plants and then advise you.

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I mean, you can just walkin there and ask them a question
if you want. They're there tohelp you have success, and they know
that that is the key. Thatis the key, is to help their
customers have success. So they sellyou plants that do well. Here,
they give you advice that helps youhave success, and that you know.
I can't tell you how many timesI've in visiting with them or being out

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there, I just see them interactingwith customers and I just realized, Yep,
that's why they're here and doing wellbecause they know how to take care
of of the folks that come andvisit. When you're there, take advice
that I give all the time,and that is get the soil right before
you put the plant in the ground. And they've got you set up with
a three bag system. It's afood, organic food complete, organic soil

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complete, and organic compost complete.So a food that feeds anything with roots,
a soil that does have expanded shalein it, by the way,
and a compost that has expanded shale. With those three together will will create
that perfect roots environment so your plantscan thrive. And it's all at the
Arborgate. You can go to thewebsite arborgate dot com. You can follow

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them on social media. But whateveryou do, go out and visit.
This afternoon wouldn't be a bad dayto go do that at the arbor Gate.
Let's see. I'm going to headnow out to Santa Fe and talk
to Terry. Hello, Terry,Hey, Skip, good morning morning.
Hey, I have a bad caseof dollar weed. Okay, Now,
I went through the drought like everybodydid. Everybody else did, and h

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third of my front yard is butdollar weed, and they're starting to look
like the seed put out seeds.I'm kind of worried about. I need
to get rid of it. Yeah, yeah, no, can Well.
Dollar weed is the first of all, it is encouraged by wet conditions.
So anything you can do to alleviatecontinual extra moist conditions would be very very

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helpful. Okay, So that wouldmean not overwatering, That might mean redirecting
drainage, you know, from oneone place to another, anything you can
do along those lines. That wouldbe step one. Then as far as
dealing with the dollar weed that youhave in there, there are a number
of different products that you can putout that will control it, that will

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do pretty good at controlling it postemergent, now that you've already got it
and it's growing. There's a productcalled Image, the regular Image. It's
not all there's a bunch of differentthings now that go by the name of
Image, but the standard regular Imagewould work really well. If you wanted
to do like a fertile loan weedfree zone that would also control dollar weed,

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you could use that as well.So either way you want to go,
I'd probably try the fertile loan weedfree zone first. But remember on
these things, when the temperatures getup warmer. Those effective products can be
a little stressful damaging to the grass. So get it done soon within I'd
say, within the next week ortwo if possible, and do it.

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Do the spray early in the morningso that it can dry off before the
temperatures get up in the upper eighties. Right, I put barricade down in
October. Okay, bar can huh. But I still have the dollar weed.
But it looks like they're starting toseed. I guess a little yellow
things on top of them. Okay, well they they might as well.

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I need to check the barricade labelon the dollar weed. Off the top
of my head, I cannot rememberif that if that particular product for that
particular weed. Barricade controls a lotof grasses and broad leaf weeds. I
just need to I need to besure before I would tell you yes absolutely

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on that one. What would ithurt if I put it down anyway or
the No, it wouldn't hurt.Just follow the able and do it according
to the label. Okay, Okay, do you yeah? Yeah, go
ahead. Do you recommend us ahose type tied onto your hose and spray

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well the way Barricade's a granule.So you're gonna put it out with a
fertilizer type spreader set to poly barricade. Oh yeah, I'll talk about the
ms though. Oh the image couldbe a spray. You get it on
the foldage. You need a surfactantbecause dollarweed has a slick leaf and a
surfactant makes spray stick. So whenyou buy that, make sure and buy

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the surfactant. Hey, I've gota run for a break terry. But
good luck in getting that one undercontrol. And thanks for the call.
I appreciate that. We'll be rightback. The phone number is seven one
three two one two kt r H. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to
have you with us today. Hey, what do you want to talk about?
We will talk about that. Sevenone three two one two k t
r H. ACE Hardware Stores isthe place. ACE is the place where

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you fill in the blank. Whatdo you need? Do you need fertilizer
for your lawn? Yep, they'vegot it. Everything I talk about on
gardland, they've got it. Doyou need pest control? Disease control?
We control you know. I wastelling talking to someone earlier about a couple
of things to control things in thelawn. Ace has got it. And
there's forty ACE Hardware stores in theGreater Houston area, so it's easy,
easy to find one. Just goto Acehardware dot com, Acehardware dot Com,

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use the store locator, or whenyou load ASE Hardware, just say
yeah, you can use my locationthis time, and you'll get this great
little map with red dots all overthe place, and that is ACE.
They're going to have things that arevery timely too, like fire ant control
time to get out to fire antbait. They have the individual mound treatments
that two weeks after baiting if youneed. If you have some mounds that

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you missed, you can hit thosewith the individual treatment. They've got mosquito
controls everything from repellence to the granulesand dunks and things that stop the mosquitos
by putting them in water and controllingthe little larvae. They've got foggers and
whatever you need to do to makeyour outdoor patio enjoyable, beautiful place even

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more beautiful and entertaining. ACE isa place for that everything. To get
you set up and ready to go. We are going to go to Joseph
and Katie. Now, Hello Joseph, Hello, good morning, morning.
So I've got a couple of itemsfor you. Number One, I've got
a company that comes out and fertilizesmy yard, and they come out about

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every six weeks and lay down fertilizer, and for the most part, my
lawn looks really good. But I'vegot areas where the grass has virtually disappeared,
and all I've got is dirty,and I don't know whether the best
way forward is to put down newsod or do I need to do something

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else. Yeah, So here's howI approach that, Joseph. If you've
got grass, let's say within afoot foot and a half of each other,
Like you know, there's a livingsprays or plugs here, and then
a put a half away, it'llclose back over. We're proper fertilizing by
the time we get into through thesummer. If it's further than that,
you probably need to plug some thingsin or put some sawd in, or

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if it's really bad, just residethe whole area. Because every time you
have that bare soil, you're gonnabe fighting weeds on it. And that's
the challenge out there. So Iwould I would just make the decision based
on that, All right, Allright, And then I had I had
Randy come out to my house afew years back. And the problem is

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that at the back of my fence, and I'm right on a commercial site
is right behind me, and I'vegot areas at my back fence where the
ground is falling down. And hehad said that he felt that when the

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can instruction on the house was done, they didn't properly tie off the ground
at the back of the of thethe yard. And so he had recommended
a company that would come out andlook and and give me some advice on
that, and I tried calling themseveral times and I never got a call

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back. So I wanted to seeif you had any companies in mind that
might be able to come out andhave a look and be able to Are
you telling me give me some advice? Are you talking about bringing in soil
or what? What do you want? So? Well, So, hey,
jose I'm sorry to interruption. Ican see this is gonna be one

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that I'm going to have hard timesolving on the air. I want to
put you on hold and will youemail me some pictures and the details and
let me have a chance to kindof look into that and I'll get right
back to maybe a better answer thatway, U, And I'm going to
put you on hold. Don't don'tgo away, Joshua Pickop and he will
get you an email. Please sendme some pictures from different angles with a

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little bit of a description of whatyou were starting to tell me there on
the air. Okay, okay,thank you. I think that'll work a
lot better for us. If you'relooking at fertilizing and you have done it
this spring yet, maybe you didone early on, but if it's been
like you did a fast release earlyon and it's been a month or two,
it's time to go ahead and doyour summer treatments. And here's what

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I would recommend, Slow and easyfrom Nelson's It gradually feeds that lawn over
months, I mean four months fromnow, it's still going to be releasing
some nitrogen into your soil. Slowand Easy is designed to give you that
nice gradual feeding because that creates abetter root growth balance with the top.
You have a more resilient, amore drought resilient a grass plant as a

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result, and it just continues tohelp that grass get denture and denture.
Now. Bruce is Bruce another goodone. It's got more of its nitrogen
in an immediate release form, withjust a little bit in a slow release
as well, so it's not totallyimmediate release. You could do a couple
of applications through the summer of Brucesbrew and go that route. If you
prefer slow and easy. That's theCadillac to give you that. What you

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apply it, now you're done.I mean it's taken you all the way
into your fall. Fertilization works reallywell, and again it's part of that
turf Star line from Nelson Plant Food. Let's see, I want to go
to We're going to Copperfield now andtalk to Adam. Hello, Adam,
Hey, good morning, good morning. We have a oak tree, a

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twenty plus year old oak tree inour front yard, and four days ago
it is started shedding leaves very rapidly. The leaves have a black speckled spots
on the back of the leaves.They're very green and fresh. I'm just
curious if it's insect ridden or adisease, or if it's just trying to
conserve itself because of drought of water. Can we talk about live oak tree?

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No, No, I believe it'sa red oak, a red oak
black spec Okay, well the specsif they're just on the back, I
don't have to think about that one. The diseases that would get on the
red oak leaves typically go all theway through the leaf. Whether it's a
fungal leaf spot or something bacterial,you have to be able to turn the

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leaf over and see it on eitherside. If it's on the back,
it may be something more superficial.There are some algal and related types of
organisms that can cause just a spot. You see it on magnolia's with a
little gray spots. You see iton live oaks with the little tar spots,
and red oak can have it too. Why the leaves are coming off,

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I don't know right now. Theyshouldn't be, but it could be
anything from are they coming off individuallyor are you getting little ends of branches
with a bunch of leaves on them? No, I mean it's the entire
tree. Like four days has probablytook twenty five percent of our leaves of
the tree. Wow, Adam,once again, I'm going to ask you

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to give me an email. Sendme an email, let me see a
picture of the tree, and thenget a whole bunch of leaves and lay
them down on table and take agood close up, well focused photo.
Let me look at that, soI'm picturing what you're describing correctly, and
I'll reply with what I think isgoing on there. Okay, I certainly
appreciate that. Thank you, youbet it. Put you on hold right

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now and Josh will pick up andsend you that email. All right,
Well, here we go. Weare heading into another top of the hour
break. Morning's flying by. We'llbe back in a little bit. My
phone number is seven one three twoone two k t r H. If
you would like to call Josh bythe way, tell him, tell him

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wish him well. This is Josh'slast day with guard Line and I'm sad
to see him go. He's beena great support for me here. He
and I kind of jumped on somewhatclose to the same time. And anyway,
do definitely want to wish Josh well, So say hey, say hey
to Josh when you call in today. Freda, I see out there.

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I know you've been waiting. We'regoing to get to you very first when
we come back from break. Wejust have had quite a few folks calling
in this morning. I want toremind you that next week I'm going to
be at Wildbirds Unlimited in Paarland.Wildbird's Unlimited in Pairland, that's on East
Broadway down in Pairland. I'll bedoing this after the show, so it'll

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be starting at eleven thirty and gointo one thirty and I'll be there to
answer your gardening questions. And youknow, come see me. You can
bring samples in, you bring photosin, we can talk about anything you
want. Bring your bird questions in. And while you're in there, you're
going to see a really cool store. Hey, save your mother's day shopping
because you definitely will want to dothat at Wildbird's. Katrh garden Line does

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not necessarily endorse any of the productsor services advertised on this program. Welcome
to a c r H. GardenLine with Skip Richard. It's so crazy,
Trim, just watch him as fillus so many crazy. Welcome back

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to Guardline. Good to have youwith us today. We are here to
answer your gardening questions. At sevenone three two one two k t r
H. I was visiting with Ianactually via text email Nature's Way and we
were conversing. Basically, the topicwas about the leaf mo compost and the

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fungal compost, and uh, hewas telling me that he had done a
little kind of a test on thethe products, and you know, we
always talk about the importance of leafmole compost is super super high quality product
that, by the way, wascreated there at Nature's Way resources. They're
the ones that that's where it wasoriginated. And the leaf the fungel based

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composts are also a super high qualityproduct and a finely screened down to I
think three eighths of an inch orsomething, little bitty particles that just fall
in between the grass blades. Hehad done a little trial where he put
the leaf more compost and the fungalscreened compost side by side as a top
dressing on laun and basically they bothperformed very very well. And so that

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was eye opening for me, youknow, because I know all the products
they make are good products. Imean they John Ferguson has been a student
of soil science for a very verylong time and he knows what he's doing
out there, and he and nnow are putting out just a lot of
quality products at Nature's Way. Whetheryou need a rose soil or a leaf

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mole compost. The nice thing aboutthe the fungal based compost information is you
know they still have their fungal Fridays. It's ten percent off all the bag
products and twenty percent off all thebulk. And so do you need a
load of that delivered to your house, they can put it right there on
the driveway and you can go rightto town if you want to do your
own top dressing, or if youwant to use it as an amendment in

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flower beds. There is a mulchon the surface of the far I mean,
how do you want to use it? Nine three six three two one
sixty nine ninety. That's the numberfor Nature's Way Resources ninety three six three
two one sixty nine ninety. They'reup on Interstate forty five almost to Conro
and it's just really easy to getthere. If you want to go out
and pay them a visit. Whileyou're there, leave some room in the
car for some of the cool nativeplants that they grow, or that they

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I say grow they sell there fromthe place they also grow them. We're
going to go now to Pasadena andtalk to Frida. Frida, you get
the Patience Award of the Week.Thank you. So much for hanging on.
Thank you. Actually, I'll talkto you yesterday about my Peggy Martin
Rose bush. I was expecting well, I ordered that, you know,

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online, and I wound up withfour cuttings instead of a bush. And
yeah, and it came with instructionsto use perlite, let's find bark,
mulch, sand, and pearlite tomooted with. So I went to Low's

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and they didn't have any kind ofmixture like that. I had to buy
a sack of each. And sothen I went to another little place here
in Pasadena that was kind of aninteresting place. It's called Everlasting Earth unless
you've ever heard of them. Butthey didn't have anything either, but they
did have they make their own flowerof flower mulch okay. And then so

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I bought a sack of bad Itwas not I'm really being bag, but
I bought a sack of that andand perlite. And but then I got
to thinking, hey, no,I think I need to call Skip and
see what he has to say abouthow to root these short of him and
to buy you know, big bagsof stuff that I won't use right right?

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Oh boy, Well that's that's that'sinteresting that they sent you unrooted cuttings
to yeah road, all right,So here's here's what you need to do.
You need to get you some rootinghormone, and you can get it.
Typically it's sold as a powder ingarden centers and stores, but there's
sometimes are liquid forms. If yougo to you got Nace hardware over there,

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not too far away from over inDeer Park on Center Street. It's
called Deer Park lumber Ace. They'regoing to have a rooting hormone on the
shelf there, okay, and youcan do that. You want to take
the cuttings, I don't how longare they? How many inches long?
Oh? They're probably about eight orten inches long? Oh wow? Okay,

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well I would cut cut those inhalf. Are there leaves all the
way up and down the cutting ornot? Now there's no leaves at all
on Now you know, I'm notgood at measurements, so I'm not sure
how long they or let me lookat the think about it. Think about
a piece of typing paper, alittle printed paper. Okay, they're probably

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about six inches long? Maybe.Okay, well let's just go with one.
Then what you're gonna do is you'regonna dip the bottom inch into In
fact, I would at the bottomwhere they cut them. Do you see
any callous forming or is it justlike it got cut with scissors? I
mean the printers and that's it.Okay, I don't know. I don't

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have to look at them. Well, you know what, I don't want
to have to do all that,But just just dip these things in rooting
hormone, the bottom inch of themin a rooting hormone, okay, powder,
and then put them into you canput them into a regular potting soil
if if you want to that thatis okay. If you peer light is

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it drains better and you have lessproblems with rot. And so when you
go to this ace, you're gonnaprobably find little bags of pearlte too.
You can you can mix two littlethings together. Well, you get a
little per lighte and a little bitof a of a PD kind of a
potting soil kind of material. Butyou want to put the bottom about an
inch deep, maybe an inch anda half deep in the pear lighter potting

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soil kind of firm it in alittle bit and then cover it with something
clear. So I've done this manyways. I've used cut the bottom out
of a two liter coke bottle,you know, to put over the top
like a greenhouse. I've put themin a box, like a rubber made
type box with a clear lid overit. I've put them. I've used

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saran wrap over the you know,anything that holds the moisture all in and
allows light in. And then youwant it in a bright spot, but
not in direct sunlight, and it'sgonna take it any rate. Did you
say, I'm trying to write thisdown. Okay, okay, okay.
I got to the point where youtalked about the rubber maid box, and

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then what you say, yeah,let me let me scratch the rubber maid
with just doing one or two inor three or four that it's not just
get you, get you something thatyou can put them in that will hold
that moisture in and something clear togo over the top. I would probably
say saran wrap might be the easiestway. If you've got a bread wrapper,
an old bread wrapper, you couldslip over the top and slide it

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down. You're just creating a littletemporary greenhouse to hold the moisture in and
allow light. Okay, okay,put it in a bright spot, not
direct sunlight. Make sure it staysmoist. You may need to miss it
with a little water once or twice, just because it is gonna dry out
a little bit. And then hopefullywithin two or three weeks you should begin

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to get some roots on it.But you'll know it's got roots and is
growing when you see buds start togrow. But don't don't hurry up and
pull them right up and try toplant them. Give them a little bit
of time. Once the leaves arecoming on, you can take the bag
off the top and allow them tohave full access to the air, and
then probably within a month, goahead and pot them up. Okay,

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okay, So how often should yousprint them? Sprint them with water just
enough to keep it moist inside there. You're creating a humidity chamber, is
what you're doing. I know Ido that when I first gets the bag
do it? Tell you what freedomdo I keep? Let me put you
on hold. I'm gonna I'm gonnahave Josh pick it up and give you
my email address. Will you emailme and I will send you a publication

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on how to do this? AndI think that'd be the easiest way.
Okay, okay, okay, justhang on. In the meantime, what
I do with my coddings, putme water, put them in moist paper
towels, and put the moist papertowels in a plastic bag and put them
in the refrigerator. You're gonna getthis from me fast. Don't worry about
that, all right, you bet. Thank you for the call. Appreciate

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that. Hey, I have torun to a break here. Sandy and
Terry, you'll be the first upwhen we come back. Our phone number
seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Guardline. Good heavy
with us today. You are listeningto a show that is dedicated to helping
you have a more bountiful garden anda beautiful landscape. That's what we're here

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for to answer your gardening questions.The Anti Rosing Porium is one way that
you can have a more beautiful landscape, that is for sure. You know
they're up in Independence, Texas andit is a great little drive out into
the country not too far and yougo out there and it's like you enter
another world. That place is trulya destination. People drive from all over
just to see the place, muchless to get the roses. They have

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roses and two gallon containers, allonce at price twenty nine ninety five each.
That two gallon container allows them togrow a little bit bigger, more
robust rose for you to get goodstart. When you're there, just realize
they're not just roses, although theydefinitely are roses, but they have so
much more. You can get fruit, trees and flowers, lots and lots
of native species. They even havehouse plans and herbs there the Antique Rosing

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Porium. Every Friday and Saturday,they have their kids program called the Tinker
Garden Workshop, starts at one pm. It's an outdoor, play based education
curriculum for kids two to eight yearsold. It's a ticketed event and go
through mid May. So what youwant to do is go to their website
Antique Roseiemporium dot com and look atthe upcoming events tab. You want to

(49:37):
do that now. On May eleventh, from nine to noon, you can
treat your mama to a memorial morningsurrounded by nature's beauty and their nursery and
display gardens. They're going to havegarmet sharcuterie options. There's a do it
yourself flower bar, an opportunity fora mini session photo shoot. I mean,
whoa, how can you pamper yourmom better than that? For information

(49:58):
the tickets again, Anti gu Rosenporumdot com. That's the website. Here's
the phone number nine seven nine eightthree six fifty five forty eight. We're
gonna now go to Cyprus, Texasand talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy,
good morning, Yes morning are you? I'm very well? Thank you
for taking my call. I havea question about my my okras. They

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have holes in the lead okay,and I put Captain Jackson it okay,
And you say not to use thesame thing every time, so I use
meme oil okay, have time onthe front and the back of the lead.
Yes, my egments are doing wonderful, but my oprahs aren't. And

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I don't know what's going on.What do you when you say doing wonderful,
you mean they're not meaning they're gettingmore holes? Or what do you
mean by not doing more? Yeah, we're getting more holes? You know
what. Okra is one tough plant, and I have never in my life
felt like I had so many holesI needed spray it. I'll be honest
with you now, it could happen. I'm not saying you don't have a

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lot of holes, and it isn'ttime to shut things down. But if
it's eating holes in an okra leaf, it's got chewing mouth parts and spinosid
should work. That's the Captain JacksI believe has spinosid in it. The
anime also should work on leaf feedingbeetles and caterpillars. So I'm not sure
why that you're getting more in there. But those two products both work,

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and I just I mean, Icould tell you a different insecticide, but
obviously you're trying to stay organic withthose two choices, and those are your
two best organic products. If youturn leaves over, you're not seeing a
caterpillars hiding anywhere, no, okay. And it's only on my not my

(51:50):
green oakra. It's on my redburgundy oakras, okay. And those are
the ones I'm having a lot oftime with. Well, again, just
to loop back, I'm questioning whetherthey it's a it's a problem or not,
whether you have enough leaf loss forit to be a problem. I
don't know why those two products aren'tworking. The only other thing would be
to switch to a different insecticide.Uh somesynthetic insecticide to go after them.

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But I don't know, Well,use the Can I try the Captain Jacks
again? Oh yeah, you surecan. Yep. Just follow the label
and mixing it, spray it ontop and the bottom of the leaves,
and that that ought to shut itdown. Okay, okay, all right,
thanks so much, all right anythingyou bet you too. I appreciate

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that call. Told. I talkedto about Sweet Green a little bit earlier
today. And sweet Green is thatproduct that is a molasses based microbially built
if you will product that is bynitroposs. It's that's eleven percent nitrogen in
it and it smells wonderful. Youput it down, you water it in,
it just dissolves in and when youget into the soil bent official microbes

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like bacteria especially, they love thatmolasses type base that really and rejuvenates them,
if you will, and gets themfired up and going. Sweet Green
is widely available. You can getit just like other night Fosh products that
growers outlet up there in Willis.You can go to Enchanted Forest out in
the Richmond Rosenberg area or RCW Nurseryup on Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight.

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All good places where you can goand get that product. I want to
go now to Lake Conrae and we'regoing to talk to Teres. Hello Teres,
good morning Skipping. Thanks so muchfor having me on your program.
I have a couple of questions.My issue is my hydrangees. I have

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four plants. They're only about acouple of months old, and they were
so beautiful when we bought them.They were blue, and you know what,
they have turned green. And Iknow that's supposed to be age,
I believe, but anyway, Iwas about to turn I do have them
on a drip line, you know, for deep rooting, for deep deep

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watering, you know, deep rootwatering, right, And so I guess
one of my questions, how numberone? How long do I I've had
them on for thirty minutes every likethree days something like that, every three
days. Oh water, deep waterthem and so they've turned brown and pink,

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you know, so am I overwatering? Is there a way to what
do I ever get the color back? The beautiful blue? Are they?
Are they old? How do Irevive them? Okay, they're away?
Well the brown is the old oldblooms, and those are actually used in

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dried arrangements. Sometimes they're even dyedor painted or something like that. But
with adranges, if you make thesoul more acidic, it makes the blooms
more blue. If you make thesoil higher pH and I don't mean like
super high pH, but like sixpoint five range, then you're going to
get a pink flower. So itand there's a variation between cultivars of hydrangaes

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or varieties of headrangas, in theirtendency toward a color. But what I
would suggest, if you want togo from pink to blue, you can
buy something called aluminum sulfate and youput one table one tablespoon in a gallon
of water and put it in yourwatering can and drench it all around all

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around the plant, and that willhelp move that pH toward more acidic,
and it will move the bloom colortoward more blue. And you would just
do that as needed. Aluminum sulfateis widely available in little bags and garden
centers as needed, So how doI know when they need it? Is
well needed? Meaning if the coloris kind of going from blue, you

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know, in toward a purplesh onits way to pink or something, then
you would want to add more again, if you want your her dren just
to stay blue, I see wonderful. Oh, so there's hope for them,
absolutely absolutely, as far as wateringwater enough to keep them moist not
soggy. But they don't like todry out. So it depends on your
soil. It depends on how muchsun they're in, and it depends on

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the temperature. So I can't tellyou water them, you know, twice
a week or four times a weekor it just depends on all that.
But you reach down, feel thesoil, keep it moist. They'll tell
you. If they get a littledry, you'll see a little wiltiness on
them, and that means you needto just water them a little more often,
but avoid keeping them. Don't makeit a swamp, okay. And

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you know they're planted around a peartree, and our soil out here is
very clay, like you know,but the soil is good enough for the
tree. But does that tend tochange things at all? Uh? Anytime
plants are around each other, itchanges things. But I wouldn't worry about
that at all. I think you'rein I think you're on the right track.
Just to follow those things I wassuggesting, and I think you're going

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to have success that along with alittle bit of fertilizer here and there,
and choose a fertilizer for acid lovingplants, for example, Microlife. Microlife
has a pink bag and it's gota sulfur addition in it that helps produce
more acidity in the soil. SoMicrolife. Find the pink bag of Microlife

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and use that to fertilize your hedranges. It's an organic food, it's going
to gradually release. Just spread itaround the plants, scratch it in underneath
the plants, and that will alsohelp move them toward blue and Microlife you
can find it everywhere. If youdon't know, go to Microlife Fertilizer dot
com and that'll point you to it. But the pink bag is the one
you want for Microlife. Okay,okay, okay. Do I have time

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for a quick question on geraniums areyellow? Yes? If it's really really
quick, yes, go ahead.Just that the leaves on the geranium they're
not you know, the little thenew blooms have kind of drooped and the
leaves are yellow. So uh,new blooms drooping could be truly drying out
too much, or it could justbe their their spent and they're they're on

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their way out. The leaves turningyellow is usually a sign of a watering
problem in the soil on the geraniums, So to wet to dry, just
watch out for either extreme. Uh. They can stay a little on the
dry side and be okay, nottoo much, but just a little bit.
They if you keep them too wet, they're gonna get root rots,

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and then that leads to the lossof the whole plant. Okay, okay,
good luck. That helps a lot. Thank you so much. All
right, thank you for the call. Hey, have you've been to Chanted
Gardens done in Richmond? In EnchantedGardens? And let me give you the
website first, because you want towrite this one down. Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com. And the reason Isay that is when you go to the
website, you're going to find awealth of information. You need to sign

(58:59):
up for the newsletter so you canfind out what's going on there. They've
got a great stock of plumerias.In yesterday I was saying, you need
to grow something different, do somethingyou never done. Have you ever grown
a plumeria? A lot of peoplehaven't and they're not hard to grow.
They are not that hard to grow, and they have a good selection there
at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. That'sthe garden center on three fifty nine FM

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three fifty nine. So if you'rein Richmond and you're going toward the Katie
fullsher direction h FM three fifty nine, Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. They're open
today from ten am to four pm. So get out there and check them
out. It's an enchanting place andyou'll see why we call it one of
our destination garden centers. People lovethe drive there because I mean, they

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got everything you need. We're goingto take a break for Nicky and the
news my number seven one three twoone two KTRH. All right, welcome
back to garden I good, hey, you with us today. We are
talking about everything plans, everything thingplants. So what do you want to
talk about? Seven one three twoone two kt RH. Those of you

(01:00:06):
up in Montgomery, you know yourhometown garden center that is Ana Plants,
Ana Plants and Produce. So tryit on one O five on the way,
let's say the Conro side, theeast side of Montgomery. Now,
Ana Plants is a place where youcan go and get any kind of things
you want. They always have goodcolor in there. They've got wonderful bling
in the landscape. I always liketo go in and look at the different
kinds of art work. You knowthat you could hang out metal art and

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signs and just all kinds of decorations, things like chim And as for the
patio, they they always are stockedup well on that. They also are
always stocked up well on the fertilizersthat I talk about on guard line.
You know, if you hear metalk about a fertilizer, Ana Plants and
Produce has got it. They gota landscape crew that can come out and

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work on your homes. If you'reup there in the Lake Conroe area,
for example, call Ana Plant andProduce and find out, you know,
talk about what you need done andwhat they can do. And when you
go by you I'm talking about allthe fertilizers. Grab you some of that
nitrofus nineteen four ten, the slowrelease by nitroposs the silver bag that is

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half of the nitrogen. Half ofthat nineteen percent nitrogen is slow release and
it's going to feed for three monthsor more out there in your landscape,
real nice, gradual feed. It'sgot iron in it to help with color
and color. You know, nitrogenadds green color or causes the plant to
develop the green color, but ironis very important in that. And a

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lot of our Saint Augustine lawns getthese little yellowish areas because of a lack
of iron reaching the leaves. Thisproduct four percent iron nitrofus superture can help
avoid that, avoid that problem orremedy. If you've already got it,
you can go to the woodlands toall spas ace and you can find it
there. Also, in addition,if you're not out in the A and

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A plant and produce area, youcan come down to Plants for all seasons
on two forty nine, or youcan go up to random plants and things.
Lots of places to get the superturf nineteen four to ten by Nitrofoss.
We're going to now head out toRichmond and talk to Karen. Hello
Karen, good morning Skip. Ihave a question regarding my broccoli. I

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have a small bed maybe just eightor ten plants, and they've been beautiful,
They've done great. I'm now gettingthe broccoli and it's not that real.
Rich blue green color. I've gotyellow mixed in with all of them.
Okay, what is it generally likean older well, is it an

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older leaf that's kind of generally turningyellow or are you seeing yellow spots on
the leaves and the brown they're brownmore in the middle of the spot and
yellow on the outsides. No,the leaves of the plants themselves are just
normal. I don't see any thing, you know, on them at all.

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I was out yesterday looking for stuffI've discovered that, you know,
I'm actually making the broccoli, andon about six of the plants that I
have, there's just small heads formingand they're all yellowly green over the heads.
Yeah, sometimes there's some nutrient issuesthat can arise that can cause yellowing

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or browning. Ultimately, browning ofa head is long. Really, what's
in your power right now at thispoint in the season is to make sure
they have adequate water and continue toprovide them with a moderate dose of nitrogen
fertilizer to encourage new growth. There'snot a spray for it, there's not
a treatment for it like that.Hopefully they'll pull out of it and be

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fine. But occasionally I have seensituations where you get a yellowing and a
browning of the head, and it'sjust because something's not making it up there.
It's either not in the soil orthere's issues with the roots being able
to take up the nutrients. Butwhen we hit this point, there's just
no like quick fix. We'll gogo do this, although I would try

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giving them a light dose of nitrogenand see if that If that helps,
Okay, perfect, Okay, goodluck Karen, bye bye. That is
important. I forgot to remind herthat advice is free. But I need
half that broccoli delivered to the radiostation as a thank you gift if if

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my suggestion works. Gosh, hey, yesterday I was out at South lest
Fertilizer. Great place to go.You know, I love going there.
I talk about it all the time. But we were out there visiting with
folks. A lot of you cameby, brought me all kinds of questions
and things, and we had agood time. Gave way some skip Bucks.
You guys got a lot of greatproducts. We were out there.

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We gave a way, or Bobgave a way. After the appearance people
that won the Toro, there's aleaf blower. I think there was a
weed trimmer I believe was the otherone. Two battery operated devices by Toro
Quality Company. He won those aswell. I want to thank Medina for
giving us some samples of things toput out there. We had a really

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good time. Well, you know, Bob's always got everything that you need.
And I was walking through as Ialways do yesterday, just looking at
all the products. I mean,the fertilizers. Do you want organic?
Do you want synthetic? Do youwant liquid? Do you want solid?
Do you want immediate release? Doyou want slow release? Everything I mentioned
on guardline and then some and thenwe were people were coming in and they

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had this weed or that thing orthat malady. And I mean it's just
without a doubt. I mean,Bob would have three or four or five
different options for just about everything thatpeople were coming in with questions about,
because that's what he does. Hestays up on top. If a new
product arrives on the market, Bob'sgoing to get it. He's going to
have it. And that includes thingslike that folding kneeling bench that I brag

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about all the time. That's agreat device. You can sit on it
as a bench, you can flipit upside down and kneel on it,
and when you flip it upside down, the legs or your handles to get
back up. If you're north offorty, you know what I mean by
getting up and getting down and gettingup and getting down working in the garden
through a day, it takes atoll. That kneeling bench is really cool,

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really slick. He's got a goodstock of those, and he has
the you know, the three sixtytree stabilizer that we talk about out there.
I mean, you know, Bobhas always made sure and carry anything
that's going to be something to helpyou have success in the garden. And
Southwest Fertilizer if you haven't been there, you need to go. It's on
the corner of bis Sinett and Renwickdone in Southwest Houston and the website just

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write this down Southwest Fertilizer dot com. And thanks thanks to Bob and the
folks at Southwest. Good to seeAaron and a lot of the jobs.
There's a lot of a lot ofgood folks are very not eligible. When
you walk in, they're gonna they'regonna know what to do to diagnose and
to direct you to have success andturn turn the corner on things. If

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you'd like to give us a calltoday, our number is seven one three
two one two k t r Hseven one three two on two k t
r H. Just reminding you again, today's Josh, my producer's last day,
and I am sad to see himgo. From the time I came
on board, Josh had just comeon board, and we've had a really
good working relationship. Uh. Hekeeps me out of the ditches, and

(01:07:30):
so I don't know, things mayget wild and wooly here on garden Line
when he heads out the door,but he's had a full time job just
keeping this host going. Uh.But anyway, give him a call and
say, hey, Josh hates yougo, thank you for the things you've
done. Seven one three two onetwo k t r H. And he'll
send you over to me. Wecan talk about the things that are of

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interest to you. Out in Kingwood. You got Kingwood Garden Center and you
got Warnings Southern Gardens both outstays nurseries. You're very fortunate out there to have
two good nurseries right there in yourbackyard. Warren Southern Gardens. They're always
getting something new as a shipment inthere's always something cool and right now the

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color is outstanding. I mean allkinds of beautiful flowering plants. They've got
a little vinka, you know,venka. I call it Madagascar. Periwinkle
is another name. Vinka is whatmost people call it. It's different than
the groundcover venka. This is alittle annual flowering plant that goes through heat
like nobody. It just laughs atheat. You throw it on your barbecue

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pit when you're grilling burgers. Fiveminutes later, lift the lid and it's
just laugh and having a good time. And that this plant can take heat,
I'm telling you. And it comesin pink, it comes in shades
of pink, and it comes inwhite typically, but they have one called
Sorri Kawaii, not h Hawaii,but Kawaii venka. And it's like a

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little dwarf venka. Just imagine makingshrunk down. The leaves are smaller,
the blooms are smaller, but it'sstill blooms and blooms and blooms. And
I think it would be one ofthe best plants you could choose to put
in a mixed container because of itsstature and the form of the plant.
Excellent when you're at Warrans Garden Center, say show me that dwarf vinka that
you've got, and they'll show youand it is really really cool stuff.

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We're going to take a break.Time for a break. I'll be back
at seven one three two one twokatrh We welcome back to the garden line.
It is early in the morning.We got a little cloudy day here
today, but that ain't gonna stopus gardeners. We have got plenty of
things we can be working on outand about in the garden. If you
have planted a tree, if you'regonna plant a tree, three sixty tree

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stabilizer is what you need to knowabout. It is a strong plastic arm
that grabs the post and grabs thetree. And I said post, not
posts. You know, we usedto put three posts and guy wires.
You had to go buy wires.You had to get garden hose and cut
them up to put them around thebranch so you don't cut into the tree,
and then you trip over them whenyou're trying to mow around them.

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No one tea post hammered into theground just pretty close to the tree,
actually very close to the tree.These three sixties are not that long,
and it attaches to the tea postor it'll attach to another post. They
have two different versions of it.And then it grabs a tree and allows
a little bit of movement, whichis important for building strength. Anytime you

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bend in stress plants, you endup getting stronger plants. And it lasts
forever. I mean it's a verydurable product. So you're going to have
it and your neighbor plants a tree. You can loan it to your neighbor
to do that too. I meanit's that easy, widely available. You
can go Southwest Fertilizer or just talkingabout they had them there RCW Buchanans arbor
gaate plants for all seasons. Theyhave them in all those places you go

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on south to Alvins and Jorges HiddenGardens or Hay carries them down there as
well. Three sixty Tree Stabilizer.It is the best most innovative thing I
have seen in decades for securing atree and helping it get off to a
good start. Let's head out toKatie now and we're going to talk to
Doug. Hello, Doug Skip,good morning, sir. I'm remembering here

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on the not too distant past.You had a gentleman on that was talking
about honeybees. Yes, sir,I did. Okay. The reason I'm
calling is uh uh a company Iworked for, they had some material that
was stored out in the back andthe weeds, and we were moving that
out there, trying to trying toget that moved out the other day.

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And thankfully the forklift driver was ina totally enclosed forklift because he uh,
when he went to move one pieceof equipment, there was a large honey
bee nest there and uh, hegot they got them all stirred up.
Yeah, I bet they did.Oh yeah. And and the reason I'm
calling is I have some vague recollectionthat these guys, the gentleman you talked

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to, or the organization he was, if that that you know, they're
obviously for preserving honeybees and that sortof thing, rather than just you know,
killing killing something like this off wouldwould they have any interest in coming
out and trying to you know,collect those bees, Doug, You'd have
to ask them. I'm gonna giveyou you got a pin or paper paper,
I'm ready, all right, I'mgonna give you the website. It's

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the thebesupply dot com, the bsupply dot Com and they're out in Dayton,
Texas, so they're kind of alittle northeast of downtown Houston. Are
okay? And uh, you wouldneed to call them though what they They
may do that, but they mayalso refer you to some bee keepers that

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will go out and get swarms andand and and whatnot. I don't know
offhand. I know that you knowthey there are a lot of things like
you're describing going on, and Idon't know if they chase all that down
or not, but I would definitelytalk to them about it, okay,
because they they know bees. Idon't know any Paul Fagala is the guy
I had on over the Believe itis over the holidays, and the guy

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knows more about bees than anybody Iknow so well. I've heard on on
on your show and otherwise that youknow, honeybee populations are in decline and
and would seem like not the smartthing to do to just go out there
and eradicate them. But well,yeah, and but I tell you that
with good companies like B Supply andthe products they sell, people are we

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are seeing a resurgence in honeybees becausewhen you tend for them and take care
of them, Uh, there's alot you can do. You know.
They have they have tests that theycan get. They got diseases they can
get, but that can all bemanaged. And so we're we're seeing a
resurgence thanks to people like the BSupply that that know how to keep keeping
skip. Just to confirm, whatis the correct spelling of that website again?

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Okay, it's I'm gonna spell itletter by letter T th H E
B E E supp l y.Okay, thebsupply dot com. Just give
them a call out there and seewhat they can do for you. I'll
definitely do that, sir. Appreciateyour help. All right, thank you,
I appreciate appreciate that call. Yeah, the B Supply they keep innovating

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out there too. First of all, those of you listening that have a
backyard garden, if you want moreproductivity, better pollination, what about putting
a hive in your backyard, youcan do that. You know, even
in the city you can do that. There's regulations on you know, you
can't put it right underneath your neighbor'sbackyard window or something. I don't know.
They have regulations, but you cando it in the backyard. You

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make honey for yourself and then youbecome the little honey producer there. In
addition to getting the benefit, theyalso do a b rental program and that's
for folks of five to twenty acresthat are within fifty miles of Dayton.
Go to the website dbsupply dot comcheck out the b rental program. When
you put those bs on your property. When they put those on your property,

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they also tend them and so thatis an agricultural exemption. Bee keeping
is an agricultural exemption too, soit helps a little bit on your taxes
as well as being part of youknow, managing honeybee hives. They just
come out and do that makes itreally really easy. You can also take
classes. They have all kinds ofclasses. I mean, the beekeeping class,

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a honey extraction class come up thisfall. They're going to do a
candle making class that'll be fun,and a mead making class. There you
go, now the beesupply dot Common, Dayton. All of that and more
that I used to keep bees whenI lived in Willis. I used to
live in Willis many years ago.I had a little farm out there in

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Willis and I had bees on thefarm. I learned a lot about beekeeping.
But I'm telling you, every timeI talked to Paul Fagal at the
Bee Supply, it's like, Okay, there's a whole new world. I
didn't know that either. So therewe go. It makes it good.
Have you been to Buchanans and theHeights lately? Buchanans is one of those
It's just an iconic garden center.People all over Houston know about Buchanans.

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It's just one of the destination placesyou want to go. And I love
going there. It's almost like youget to go to the park, you
know, that feeling of your walkingthrough nature and whatnot. Buchanans nestled away
there on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Every time you turn the corner,
you know, for you're there lookingat all their native plants, and they

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Buchanans Native Plants has the best selectionnaty plants I've seen anywhere. Just tons
of native plants. They're doing.They're celebrating the Earth Day by planning a
native tree. That's a promotion.They're saying, why don't you come and
do that? There? They wereoffering a discount off of native trees.
They were offering a discount off oftheir life below all purpose soil to get

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them started. They can advise youon the tree that will do well in
your area, a native tree thatwill do well in your And there's a
lot of great ones, lots ofgreat ones for here. But then you
turn a corner and you go intothe shade area and you're seeing kalladiums and
all kinds of things that just performwell in the shade, from groundcovers to
color plants to foliage plants. They'vegot it. And you turn in another

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corner and you're in near a giftshop that's outstanding. Another corner you see
the herbs and the vegetables, andthen you walk into this huge greenhouse full
of nate, full of house plants. And when I say houseplants, I
mean, of course the standard thingsyou think about, but stuff you've never
seen before. And you see stuffthat's succulents that are really cool that could

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be indoor or outdoor. Buchanans hasit all. They're on the eleven Street
and the heights and here's the website, and the website is Buchanans Plants dot
com. Buchanansplants dot Com. Ihope you wrote that down. When you
go there, you must sign upfor the newsletter. It is one of
the best newsletters I've ever seen,always good information. Their website too,

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has edge occasional information because they're abouthelping you have success. That's what a
good nursery does, and that isabsolutely Buchanus Native Plants. They do that.
I love visiting garden centers. Infact, I visit them too much,
meaning every time I walk into it. You know, there's stuff you
can't live without, and so yougo home with plants. That's part of

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the fun thing though about it.Right, Gardening is a great hobby.
I hope you are actively involved ingardening and expanding your gardening world as you
go. You know, we're talkingabout things like herbs. Have you ever
grown herbs? Earlier I was talkingabout plumeria. Have you ever grown a
plumeria? Beautiful Hawaiian layflower people cometo your house. You can just pick

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a bunch of flowers, string themup and put them around their neck and
say welcome to Hawaii. In mybackyard, there's a lot of fun things
we can do with plants, andwe need to be continuing to try new
things. Don't be afraid you're goingto kill a plant. A famous horticulturist
once said you got to kill alot of plants to be a good hortic,
and that is true. We don'twant to kill them, but don't
be afraid to. We learn thatway. We learn by getting out.

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We also learned by listening to GardenLine. At least I hope we do.
That's what we're here for. Ifyou want to get on the boards
with Josh when we come back fromour top of the hour news break here,
you could be the first one upseven one three two one two k
t R seven one three two onetwo k t r H. Next Saturday,
the fourth of May, Wall BirdsUnlimited in Pairland. That is on

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East Broadway Street in Pairland, WallBirds Unlimited. It will be there from
eleven thirty to one thirty doing whatI always do at appearances. I look
at samples, I look at pictures, I visit with folks that listen to
Guardlane. To help you have success, come to Wallbirds and don't do your
mother's day shopping until you do that. Because Wabirds is loaded with awesome ideas

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that your mom will h see younext Saturday out there. Katie r H.
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse anyof the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to Katie rH. Garden Line with Skip Richard.
It's crazy Trim just watch him aswell. You us so many goings to

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supposing not a sou Hey, welcomeback to the Garden Line. Good to
have you with us today. Whatdo you want to talk about? What
plants are you having problems with?What areas are not performing well for you?

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Maybe you need a little some suggestionsor a little advice. Perhaps there's
a pest situation we'd like to getahead of. Whatever we want to talk
about, we'll talk about that.Our goal is to help you have a
bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.That is the goal here. So how
can we help? Give us acall at seven one three two one two
KTRH if you'd like to ask aquestion, and I'll be happy too obliged.

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I want to remind you those ofyou out there that if you have
not gone to my website and downloadedthe lawn care schedule and the lawn Pest
Disease and Weed Management Schedule. That'sa long title, but it covers it
all. Let me put it thisway. Two schedules. The first one
is how to grow a lawn.The second one is how to deal with
things that mess with your lawn.Okay, that makes it easy. These

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schedules cover January through December, andthey give you organic and synthetic options and
they're free. Can't beat that todownload. You know. For example,
let's say you've heard that there aregrubs in lawns and you might need to
treat them. Well, you goto my lawn Pest Disease and Weed Management
schedule, look at the insect row, and you go across in June.

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Boom. June is when we beginto treat for grubs. We can do
a separate treatment in July and Augustfor older grubs, and that's different products
and those are all laid out rightthere on the schedule. It's time to
fertilize. We once we hit April, it is time to put that slow
release fertilizer out. If you missedit, that's okay, do it now.
You can do it now. Youcan do it in June. The

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goal is to continue to provide nutrientsfor your lawn to have success. You
know, when we do that,we end up creating density, and density
is the key to having a goodweed free lawn. Now, there are
weeds that grow in a dense SaintAugustine, but that is the exception,
not the rule. If you've gota sparse, thin lawn, and last

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summer made a lot of lawns sparseand thin with a drought in the heat,
when sunlight can hit the soil,nature will plant a weed. And
here we go. Now we're talkingabout how do you kill the weed or
how do you prevent the weed.Well, the first step and weed control
is a dense, healthy lawn.After that we can talk about pre emerging,
we can talk post emergent. Wetalk about a lot of things ham

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pulling and timing and everything, butdense, healthy lawn that comes first.
The folks at Madena they have anumber of has to Grow products. You've
heard me talk about the different hasto grow products that are out there in
the market. Well, they havea new one. This is a new
one, and this is one I'mreally excited about. It is has to

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Grow super Grow Plus, has toGrow super Grow Plus but here's the way
to pick it out off the shelf. Sixteen zero two. Those are the
three numbers. Sixteen zero two.Very low in the phosphorus. Most of
our lawns really probably don't need phosphorus, but if they do, it need
any it's very small. But Ilike this blend the sixteen zero two.

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It's got a about let's say fourfifths or what would they be, eighty
percent of the nitrogen that's sixteen percent. Eighty percent is going to be available
immediately of that sixteen percent, andthen the other twenty percent of it,
the other fifth of nitrogen is goingto be available a little more slowly over

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time. It's got iron eedta,which means it is a kelated iron that
will get to your grass. Thesoils can't tie it up as easily as
it can unkelated iron. It's gotseaweed extracts in it, and many many
other things, many many other thingsthere. But you put it on a
hose end. You can buy itin different bottle sizes. But let's say

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you buy the quirt which has thelittle screw on attachment to the end of
your hose, and it takes aboutten minutes to go over your lawn.
One quart will cover about four thousandsquare feet. And it's just a good
product for giving quick results. Ilike that it's got the iron in it,
you know. I like that it'sgot the kinds of combinations that are

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in the Medina Supergrow Plus. Youneed to find it. It's been stocked
out. I was talking to Medinafolks. It has been and stocked out
into the garden centers and things here. You're going to be seeing it on
the shelf if you haven't already.And it's one you need to give a
try. You want to give aquick boost to your lawn. You got
lawn that's not looking really good.You want to give a quick boost and
get going. This would be aproduct that would do that. It's got

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molasses, it's got humic acid init. I mean, it is just
it is just the whole package rightthere, Medina Supergrow Plus sixteen zero four.
It's formulated to both promote and toenhance the plant growth of the plants
in your lawn, that is,the grass plants in your lawn. We

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directed a lot of people to that. At Southwest Fertilizer yesterday, a lot
of people came in and they showedme pictures and little grass is a little
bit yellowing, and so we needto give it some nitroty. We need
to get some iron and stuff,give it a quick boost and it just
makes it really really simple. Nocalibrating, hook it up, spread it
on your lawn. You're done.Doesn't take long at all. If you're

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doing flower beds are in flower potsrather, excuse me, flower pots out
containers on the patio, or vegetablepots containers in the patio. Jungle land
flour and vegetable potting soil will dothat. Jungle land drains well, but
it also holds moisture. So whatdoes that mean. That means your roots
are in a moist environment that iswell oxygenated because it drains the excess away

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and that is the key to successwith your plants. You can find jungle
land vegetable or excuse me, flourand vegetable potting soil in a number of
places. You're going to find itat Ace Hardware over in the Memorial area
on Memorial Drive. You're going tofind it in Katiace Hardware on Penoak too,
they have it there as well.You're going to find these and other

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nitrofoss products at Alvin in Alvin atStanton Shopping Center, so lots of places
to go get it, jungle landfor your outdoor potting containers. We're going
to head out to full shren outand talk to Clint Hellom Hey, Skip,
how you doing this morning? I'mgood, sir. How can we
help? Good? Hey? So? I have some flower beds of the
Froyt yard. We recently dug upall the mult I have some incredibly invasive

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Saint Augustine that has taken over thebeds last season. I put down a
I don't know what the materially isone of the barriers if you buy the
big box stores and is put downand it came up through the barriers.
Now I just have the soil andnothing on it. But I cannot get
rid of that grass. Any recommendations. You can't get rid of the Saint
Augustine in the flower bed. Isthere other grasses Augustine? It's just St

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Augustine's coming through. So we havea brick I guess wall that we've kind
of built the beds of inside of, and it looks like the Saint Augustine
is kind of going under it andcoming out the other side into the actual
beds, and I don't know ifthere's a subtack of spray on to just
rid of it completely. I hateto question you, but I just need

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to know. Are you sure it'sSaint Augustine that's coming in the bed now?
Now I'm question myself, Okay,So well, the reason I asked
Saint Augustine runners are on top ofthe ground. Saint Augustine can't go submarine
like Zoisia and Bermuda Grass can,and all of a sudden they pop up
somewhere else. So and it's easy. You just grab the runner and it

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just rips right up. And whenyou edge the bed, you can grab
the runners in the bed and ripthem right up. I'm gonna run,
Clint, I got to run toa break. Let's hang on to this.
I want to come back to it. We're going to get the bottom
of this. Okay, just hangon with me. I'll be right back.
Seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to garden Line.
You never know what you're gonna hearon Gardenline when it comes to music,

(01:28:36):
but we try to have a littlebit of fun here. Okay. We
were talking to Clint in full Shore. We're talking about some flower bed issues
and Clint, we can do thisa couple of ways. I can suggest
some things. If it is agrass that you're seeing, no matter what
the grass, you can use agrass only weed killer on it. And
there are a couple of products outthere. That couple of ingredients that are

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in products out there that kill grassbut not broadleaf weeds. So if you
get them on your rose bush orpetunias, you're not going to kill the
petunias or rose bush. They justkill the grass. The other alternative would
be for you to send me apicture of it, let me take a
close look at it and determine whatit is. But I'm going to end
up recommending the same products probably sowould you. I'm not going to give
these long chemical names out it justgets confusing because I can simplify it.

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There are two ingredients you need tolook for. One of them begins with
the boys name seth. It's forkilling grass. It's s E T H,
and then there's a lot more letters. The other one begins with the
four letter F l U five Fl U A Z flu as, so
seth and flu as those are thetwo beginning names of ingredients that are grass

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only killers. And you know you'reout there in the fullsher area. You
probably are going to find those atyour chinny gardens down there. You're going
to probably find those for sure atyour plantation ace hardware down there in Richmond
Rosenberg area. So it's not gonnabe hard to find those things. But
you just spray them on the grassand it kills the grass. Sounds good

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after looking. During a break,I look, I look up some stuff
and it may be dove weed.Oh do okay, let's see that.
I'm glad. I'm glad you didthat, because that is technically not a
grass. It has parallel veins likegrass does, but that would be a
little different. There are different thingsyou can use for that. There's a
cinnamon based product and I'm trying toagra ugh, I have to come up

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with the name. It's not onthe top of my head right now.
A cinnamon based product when the whenthe dew is out, when the leaves
are wet, or if you justspray it with a little water, you
sprinkle it on it, and Imean it just quickly turns them brown.
It fries them. That is onething that you can use for dove weed.
There are some other products that canbe used on it. Why don't
we do this. I'm gonna putyou on hold, and would you go

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to make some close up pictures ofit and send them to me, and
let's make sure we got the rightthing so that I don't recommend the wrong
product. Sounds good? All right, Glint, I'll put you on hold,
Josh, we'll pick up and getyou the email you need to send
those pictures to make sure they're ingood sharp focus. Do you have a

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landscape that has struggled through last year'sheat and drought, Well, it's going
to get hot and dry again thisyear. Just kind of how things go.
Hopefully not like last year was,but it does happen well, Jason
at Pierscapes, the whole team thereat Peerscapes, they specialize in turning your
lawn and landscape into eden. That'swhat they do. Do you need new

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flower beds put in? Do youhave some wimpy things that just aren't taking
the weather down here? Well?Do you need to revamp a bit?
Do you want to do hardescapes,landscape lighting? Do you have poor drainage?
That needs fixing. Do you havean irrigation system that needs work?
Do you need design? Do youwant to create a rock patio in the
back with beautiful landscape lighting. Theycan do everything and more there. They

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also have a quarterly maintenance program quarterly, four times a year. They come
out. They trim, they weed, they fertilize, they check the irrigation.
By the way, this is foryour bed's not your lawn. They
don't mow the lawn once everyfore everythree months. But for your beds,
trimming, weeding, fertilizing, seasonalcolor changes. You know the old pansies

(01:32:27):
are looking bad because spring is here. Well, it's time to put in
warm season. Then the hot weathercomes. They can do two season changes
a year. They can do fortychanges a year. You tell them.
They molt, they check the irrigation, make sure it's working, all of
it. At Piercecapes they do allthat everything that I just mentioned. I
don't know how to get all thatdone, but they do. They absolutely
do. Pierceescapes dot Com. Here'sthe number. Write this down two eight

(01:32:54):
one three seven oh fifty sixty twoeight one three seven o five six zero.
They are professionals. They do excellentwork. Get on the phone and
call them, even if you don'twant the work done right now, because
they book up and because they doa good job and people call them back.
So give them a call, geton the schedule. Depending on the

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size of the job you're asking themto do, they may be able to
jump on it fairly soon, orit may take a while to get around
to doing that kind of level ofwork. So don't delay. Give them
a call. I want to goto Parland now and talk to Steve.
Hello, Steve, good morning.Say I've got some I'm making a vegetable
garden in Potts and I use theMarri Crow Grow organic soil. Okay,

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but it looks like I'm having somesunburn on my green beans, which you
know usually you know, they growreal easy, Okay, And I'm kind
of concerned about that. And thereseems to be a bit of a cat
of a help killer problem. Igot several different varieties of tomatoes. Some
of them are doing great, andthe aroma tomatoes are not doing very well.

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What is not well described to me? What not well? Looks like
they're looking a little yellowish and theedges are sensed. Okay, all right,
Well, you probably have more thanone thing going on there. First
of all, in containers for vegetables, you need plenty of potting soil so

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that holds plenty of moisture and plentyof nutrients. That would be step one
to look at, and they probablycan't change that now. But going forward,
look at that. Make sure theholes in the pot are draining well.
You may have holes, but they'rein the bottom, and if it's
sitting on soil, it's like theclay just plugs those holes and you don't
get good drainage even though they're there. That's why I tell people when you

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can put holes around the sides ofthe pot at the bottom rather than just
underneath. It may I don't knowthat soil mix well, and it may
be a little on the mucky sideand tend to kind of be a little
soggy water log. That can causeproblems, as can drying out. Now,
if it truly is sunburn you wereseeing on those beans, that is

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probably only going to happen if theywere in a low light location and you
move the pots to the brun afull sun pretty quick. If they've come
up in full sun, they shouldn'tsunburn that should not happen because they adjust
to that. Beans are made togrow in full sun. As far as
the tomatoes, you know, thereare a number of things that can cause

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issues with the tomatoes. Aroma isnot a super disease resistant variety. It's
a great variety, good pastd tomato. But there are things like early blight
they can get on the leaves.If the new growth is kind of yellowing,
then it may be like an irondeficiency brought on by so that's too

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wet, or other issues. Soyou kind of have a shotgun here of
issues going on. But maybe someof those comments that I made will at
least lead you toward the right direction. And it never hurts to add a
little extra nutrition in the way afertilizer. Okay, thank you. Yeah,
just one last thought on that lastcomment I made, Steve, beans

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and peas, you don't want topush them with too much nitrogen, so
on those don't do the extra fertilizing, but on the tomatoes they sure could
use it. Okay, Okay,thank you, good luck, good luck
with that. I hope you hopethat does well for those of you that
are still needing to do your summerfertilization on the lawn. Nitroposs has a
product called super Turf. You hearme talk about it a lot because it's

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a great product. Half the nitrogenis slow release, so you're gonna get
like three months of feeding maybe moreout of that super Turf as we go
into the summertime. It's a nineteenfour to ten ratio. Those are the
three numbers on the bag. Butthe easy way to know it is walk
in the store and look for asilver bag. It's a silver bag.

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You're talking about Superturf by Nitropos.It's got iron the net to help promote
a uniform good grass color and growthtoo. By the way, you're gonna
find Superturf in Shades of Texas upin the Woodlands. You're gonna find super
Turf at Fisher's Hardware, both theone on Southmoor and the one in southeaston
the one on Broadway Street in Laport, it's easy to find super Turf.

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And Chaney Gardens has Superturf too,by the way out there in Richmond Rosenberg
area. What's head over to Baytownnow and we're going to talk to Ronnie.
Hello, Ronnie, good morning morning. What we have is a new
garden spot, so we could getsome sunlight and we plant. All of

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the plants were playing with squash,yellow squash. They're grown. The plants
are beautiful, big keach Lee's thelittle yellow squash that's about two and a
half inches long, and there's fifteenor so on one protected plant. But
they're not growing anymore. I don'tknow what to do, whether it go
cut some of them off so thatthe others can grow, or change fertilizer.

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I need a recommendation. Okay,you have yellow squash that the fruit
is how long? Probably two twoand a half? Thank you? Okay,
okay, yeah, and it's notshriveling or turning brown on the end
or anything like that. No,so fore ahead done that. But they're

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you're hard. I would my memoryis a yellow squash would be tender or
no, that's small. But theresome of them have already gotten hard without
growing like they should. From thebest I can tell from the description,
you're probably looking at a poor pollination, not a complete pollination of that fruit.

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Uh as far as it getting hard, that is very unusual. I
don't know any there's no disease orinsect that would cause the fruit to get
hard other than just getting older,the skin gets tougher, So I would
I'd probably pull that fruit off that'snot looking right and just keep going here.

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If you if you've got male andfemale blooms both that are on the
plants, and you got some beesto do the work for you, the
subsequent fruit should turn out okay,that that should not continue if you don't
have a Yeah, if you don'thave the okay, all right. So
what you need to do is getout there with either a little artist brush

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or a Q tip. Some peoplejust pick the male bloom off and rip
the petals off of it and useit to dab pollen onto the female flowers,
because it's a separate flower and squash. Male flower is one, a
female flower is separate, and youcan do the pollinating yourself. You just
do that once a day, becauseevery day there's new blooms opening up,

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and the better you do at pollinating, the better it's gonna set and produce.
I think I'd switched to that.I take matters into my own hands,
literally, runnie squash. Okay,okay, all right, I've got
one of the course, if youhave I have about twenty seconds. Yep,
Well I'll call back next week.Oh you can, you can hold

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let me let me get just hangon. You can ask me after I
come back from break that no needto call back next week. Okay,
all right, thanks a lot.We're going to take a little break here
for Nicky and the news. Ourphone number is seven one three two one
two k t r H. Sevento one three two one two k t
r H. Give Josh a call, by the way, Tell him that

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you appreciate him being a excellent producerhere for us on Garden Line. When
you call, get you on theboard. Yep, there's applause coming from
Nicky. Hey, Nicky, I'mturning it over to you. Welcome back
Guardline. Good have you with ustoday? What do you want to talk
about related to gardening? You can? I have a skull seven one three
two one two k t r H. We are going to head back out

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to Runnie in Baytown and running.We were in the middle of something.
What's what was the follow up onthis? Okay, in the yard we
lost almost all the Saint August thing. Now we have a little short weed.
It's got a seed on it witha tiny needle point, and it

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will if we're not very careful rubberboots in the cart yard, these things
sticking our feet. A seed lookslike it's about an eighth of an inch
in diameter and real fin but it'sgot a sharp point on it that will
get your feet every day. Interesting. Okay, I am not picturing the
weed you're describing. Is it possiblefor you to take a picture of it

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and send me that so I canmake sure we're we're getting the right product.
So it's probably gonna have to bea I'll call you back on next
Saturday. Huh. Okay, withthat, how do I send a picture
to Josh? I'll put you onhold, Josh will give you my email

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and just take a picture before yousend it, check it and make sure
it's really sharp focused, because thisis a little tiny thing and I'm gonna
have to get a good close lookat it. If you can show me
the leaves of the plant that it'son, that's even better. Uh,
And we'll try to do you.Can you tell if it's a grassy plant
or a broad leaf plant. Iwould call it more of a broad leaf.

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Okay, it's tiny leaves, it'snot it's not a grass. It's
not something that you know, flatleaf like san Auguster anything. Chance chances
are you may be talking about burrweed that that is a little tiny weed
with kind of a friendlyish looking partiallylooking leaf, but very small. So

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if that's the case, then youdon't need to send me a picture.
Just what you want to do isget a product that is a post emergent
broad leaf weed control. And ifyou go to my land my schedule online,
I don't know, have you everseen my schedules online on Gardening with
skip dot com? All right,they're still okay, I lost them.

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Uh So, Ronnie, if youare still listening, go to Gardening with
Skip dot Com. Look at mylawn piss Disease and weed managed schedule again
the website Gardening with skip dot Com. Toward the bottom of that you'll see
weeds kill existing and it has alist of products that will work on that
particular weed that you were describing tome. And I hope that hope that

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uh solves it and works out foryou. Those products are very very effective.
When was the last time you wentto in Channon Forest? And if
you say I've never been to inChannet Forest. Then I have to ask
you why not when Channet Forest isa wonderful place to visit. Uh.
It is an outstanding nursery that hasextremely wide variety of everything. They are

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classes going on in the spring justabout ever Saturday there. They always have
a food truck there as well.Do you need things like color like lanana,
or like annual flowers or other perennialflowers or Salvia's they've got that.
Are you looking for roses like PeggyMartin? They are stocked up on Peggy
Martin roses and they sure do lookgood right now, Absolutely look awesome right

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now. They have alstromeras. That'sa plant you probably have not grown before,
but I bet you've gotten it whenyou went to the store and got
your big bouquet of flowers to bringhome. It's one of the longest lasting
flowers that are out there. Theyhave native types of plants like the Texas
primrose. That's an excellent little yellowflowered native. It does very very well.

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Enchanted Forest is the kind of placeyou go and you just want to
spend time walking around because it isenchanting to be out and about to see
that place. They if you're inRichmond and you're heading up towards sugar Land
Way. They're off to the righton FM twenty seven fifty nine. FM
twenty seven fifty nine, Richmond,Texas. There's always something going on,
and I'm telling you that if youwant a butterfly garden, they have every

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plant you can need for that,and they also have plants for the larval
food sources. You know, youyou know that monarch butterflies they love flowers,
right, but they also their theirlarva need to have milk weed to
eat, go fritillaries, they needpassion vine pipevine swallowtails need pipefine for the
larva to eat. That's the completedeal. You know. Just plant flowers,

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you plant things for the babies aswell. And Chenny Forest can get
you set up on all of thatstuff again FM twenty seven fifty nine in
Richmond, Texas. I always loveit when I go out there and visit.
You know, they they Danny andClay, they're just knowledgeable, very
helpful, and they've just turned theplace into a real showplace, really nice.

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Mother's Day coming up is not faraway. That's your warning. Don't
forget for your mother, for yourgrandmother, for your mother in law,
yes, your mother in law,or if you have a mother outlaw.
Some of you have that it's agreat gift ideas to go to the wibirds
Unlimited. Wibird's Unlimited has They havea classic it's called the Eco Tough Classic

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Feeder and it looks like it's madeof wood, but it's actually made from
recycled plastic milk. Chokes a beautifulold thing. They've got the hyperch hummingbird
feeders. This is the best hummingbird feeder I've ever used, and I
love my hyperch hummingbird feeder. They'vegot the Cadillac of bird feeders called the
Eliminator squirrel proof feeder. This onethe squirrels can't get into. And squirrels

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are creative, they're smart. Theyout overcome anything we set before them as
an obstacle in my yard. Atleast they can't get into this one.
They just sit in the trees andfuss and use language that nobody should use,
but they do because they can't getinto my feeder. It's called the
Eliminator. They have books, theyhave other feeders. Wabirds Unlimited is the

(01:47:09):
place for that. And by theway, next Saturday, the May fourth,
albe at Wallbirds in Pairland in Paarland. They're six stores by the way
around the Houston area. I'll bethere from eleven thirty to one thirty,
so come by and see me anddo your Mother's Day shopping there. I
guarantee you at Wildbirds you can comeup with something that your mother, your
grandmother or your mother outlaw would nothave seen coming because they just have so

(01:47:33):
many great gifts there. By theway, the one in Pairland is on
East Broadway Street. If you goto WBU dot com that sends for Wildbirds
Unlimited WBU dot com forward slash Houston, you can see the six Wallbird locations
all around the area. Make anote Mother's Day gifts. Wabird's Unlimited goes

(01:47:56):
really really well together. Those ofyou who live down in Seabrook are fortunes
to have Moss Nursery in your backyard. And when I say why do I
say that you're fortune? Well,Moss Nursery has been around for a long
term. Do you know that thatnursery is not just another garden center?
I mean it is eight acres ofwandering plants everywhere of every type. You

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can imagine the trucks are always downloadingmore and more plants, setting them out
there for you to come by andget because people love to shop at Moss
Nursery. Moss nurseryesmen a run forseventy years, the family operated garden center
again eight acres of anything you canimagine that you might need. Tropical kinds

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of things. Do you love tropicalfoliage? Welcome to the Southeast Texas area.
We got hot, we got sultry, and tropicals are very happy here.
Elephantears do you have ten or twelvedifferent kinds of elephantears? Five or
six different kinds of bananas? Yes, you can grow bananas here. Some
types are just grown for the beautifulfoliage. The bird of Paradise, the
orange and blue one, they've gotthose. You got shady areas you need

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something for? How about ginger?Ginger does great in the shade, A
white butterfly like GARDENA fragrance. It'sunbelievable ligulary. It's a big like a
lily pad leaf, but sitting onit grows in the ground, not in
the water, and it has thesebig, old round lily pad leaves.
Puts up with a lot of shadetoo. Moss Nursery, you know,

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it's easy to get to. It'son Toddville Road by the way in Seabrook.
Go to the website Moss Nursery dotcom. It's m A A S
Nursery dot com. When you wanderaround there, you turn a corner and
you see this like some sort oflike an wooden carved ethnic mask. There

(01:49:44):
you see all kinds of artwork,kinds of stone and what it's just,
it's just like a little wonderland likeyou're in the jungle. That's it.
Like you're in the jungle and you'rewandering through all this foliage and every time
you turn a corner you see somethingnew. We're gonna take a little break.
It is time for that. Ourphone number is seven one three two
one two ktrhil be right back,hy Welcome back to guarden Line. Good

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to have you with us today.Listen, if you are looking for quality
soil products what I refer to asthe brown stuff that sets the stage for
success with plants, and you're downsouth of the Houston area, CNA Moltch
is the place to go. Cein a Multch carries high quality stuff.

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They have roast soil. They havelead mole composts. They have all kinds
of mulches available in bulk and inbag. If you hear me talk about
a fertilizer, it's at CNA mols. They carry them all Microlife and turf
Star, the bonite products, theairloom soils, landscapers, Pride, Nailson,
plant food, Medina, Nitrophuss.They've got it all there. They

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will deliver within about twenty miles oftheir location and they are on Highway five
twenty one FM five twenty one justnorth of Sharon, FM five twenty one.
Siena molt dot com is a website. For example, something that they
have a great supply of is asmite. They have asmite and you hear me

(01:51:09):
talk about as mte, it's amineral supplement. It is a trace mineral
supplement, not the big three numberson fertilizer bags. You need a lot
of This is trace minerals, butthere are central minerals. Plants have to
have them, and when you putazmite down, you are building the bank
account in the soil of minerals thatplants can use. Azmite Texas is the

(01:51:30):
website if you'll learn more about it, or just swing by Ciana Moulton pick
it up there, because that justlike all the other things I talk about,
Cianna Molch carries that azamite product aswell. We're going to head out
to Kingwood now and talk to Dean. Hello, Dean, Hello, thanks
for taking my call. I gota little spot in my garden gets full

(01:51:53):
sun afternoon sun, and I wantto plant seven or eight rosebushes in it
and make a little rosegarden. AndI'm looking for a place where I can
buy big beautiful roses, not knockoutroses, not climbing roses, just big
beautiful blooms. No place like that. Well, you're in Kingwood, so
you got Kingwood Garden Center and WarrenSouthern Gardens and they they do have a

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good selection of roses there, Soif you're looking for something local, that
is what I would suggest. GardenCenter they don't have They've got knockout roses,
but they really don't have any.They don't have any regular like hybrid
type ros That's what the other placeyou said, Uh, warrens Southern Gardens.
Is that what you yes words?What street is that? Is that

(01:52:35):
Kingwood itself? Yeah, it isin. It is in Kingwood, and
let me give you the exact address. One second, Well you said Kingwood
Garden Center, So what you said, Well, Kingwood Garden Center is one.
Warren's Southern Garden is on North ParkDrive in Kingwood. That's okay.
I was thinking. I was thinkingHouston's. I would know I would not

(01:52:59):
be sentding. Okay, Kingwogarden Centerand Warrens Warboroughs. Yeah, I think
you're going to find maybe a littlebit better selection at Warren's. Do you
just have to go check? ButWarrens is on North Park Drive. Okay,
Yeah, I think I know wherethat is. Yeah, they're going
to have ch you bet, youbet, Thank you. I appreciate that
call very much. If you livein the Tombail area, your hometown,

(01:53:21):
feed stores D and DE feed Dand D. They've been around a long
time and they know how to carrythe things people need. They got plants,
they've got fertilizers. When I talkabout fertilizers, D and D is
going to have them. They're goingto have things like nitrif I like the
Sweet Green and the Super Turf andthe Imperial and so on. They're going

(01:53:42):
to have products like the Age leafcompost or heirlooms, rose soil or their
fruit, berry citrus, their veggieand herbs. All of those are gonna
be a d and de feed,d and de feed through the spring.
They are always getting in baby chicks. I think we may be drawn to
the end of that. I needto go check their website and see that.
But that has been that is inthe place people have been flocking to.
Oh my gosh, sorry about that, but flocking to to get their

(01:54:05):
baby chicks offspring. They're on twentynine to twenty just west to Tombol and
you're gonna find the fertilizers I recommendthe products I recommend. You're gonna find
quality quality dog food, pet food, and livestock food there. And you're
gonna find mosquito dunks there. Mosquitodunks are the little things you put in

(01:54:26):
the in the water. They floatin the water and they release a disease
of mosquitos. Mosquitos only birds candrink out of the water. Your little
honeybee can go to the water's edgeand drink out of it. Your cat
and your dog can. Drek isnot a poison. It is a disease
of mosquitoes. Called mosquito dunks.It's a little beige donut floats in water.
One donut will cover up to onehundred square feet of water and it'll

(01:54:49):
last for about thirty days and theyjust throw another one out there. So,
do you have a rain barrel,do you have a hole up in
a tree, you know where thewater gathers in there, throw one up
into that. You have a pondor something where you're wanting to, you
know, protect that water surface frommosquito larvae. Mosquito dunk will do it.
And they got them at d anddefeed makes it easy easy to get

(01:55:10):
them. Just one stop shopping asyou go by there. We're going to
go now out to Galveston and talkto Michael. Hello, Michael Hello.
Three part question one, how toget rid of wild onion weed. I
have a little olive tree on theplot where they're taking over in the hold

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the end there. Don't want toharm them. And the other part is
what is a good landscaping company yourecommend that will give me honest price for
putting land on ground cover? Andthe third I saw in this Auder magazine

(01:55:59):
on what wordly looks good creeping timeground cover. Matt with the seed and
if that's thirty by seventeen, whichis pretty big, and do it yourself.
And that's a good idea. Allright, well, let's see it.

(01:56:19):
Yeah, good, good, Michael. Let's take those in that order.
For the onions products that have atwo four D herbicide in them,
the Furtloan wheat free zone is anothergood one that you can use on them.
You just spray it on them.But you need to do those products
in the morning when it's cooler,and you need to do them very very

(01:56:41):
soon because once it heats up,they can damage your turf. But do
that soon and that'll work bad.Let me get to your Can you go
ahead? Can you repeat those products? Yeah? You said four D.
Two four D is an ingredient that'sin products that contain something like trimech.
So a trimech type product would beone example. A Burdalone company makes something

(01:57:09):
called weed freeze Zone. That wouldbe another one that you could use free
we'd freeze zone. Follow the labelvery carefully, do it in the morning
when it's cool, and don't waitto get it done this week because as
it us, those create problems.Now the second, the third question you

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had was about the creeping time.Time is a decent little groundcover, but
it there's a lot of different kindsof time and they don't all perform equally
well. And if the area doesn'tdrain very well, the time is not
going to perform well for you.So that is something you can keep in
mind. What was the middle question? Right quick? And then I'm gonna

(01:57:49):
have to run a good landscape andcup, Yes, I do not know
companies in your area to recommend.We generally have not gotten into recommending Pacific
landscapers, so I'm not going tobe able to help you with that one,
but I do I do appreciate yourcall. I'm going to have to
run, but hopefully that'll get youoff the bed start. If you should

(01:58:13):
look for a sign that suitable forthis area, I guess yes, and
just to go to a good gardencenter and they ought to be able to
direct you to a landscaper. Andby the way, instead of time,
I would do a regano. AndI'm sorry I have to cut it short,
but I have to run on thatone. If you're looking for a

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quality tree, a quality tree,Verdant Tree Farm has got you covered,
and there are three different locations therein West Houston and Barker Cypress. They
are in South Houston in the Pearlandarea actually on Broadway Street, and they're
in the Heights where I ten andYell come together. They have quality palms,

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hardy palms. You can get hardypalms there. They have quality trees.
They come out, they plant them. They got the tree you want,
they bring it to your house andthey do it right and they make
sure you have success and verdant tree. Patrick and his team there they know
what they're doing. They even havelarge, very large shrubs like you want
to specific kind of holly to createa screen. They can get you set
up on that. They have theright trees at every kind of budget and

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they can assist you to get youoff to a good start. And that
is very important, it really is. It is important that a tree is
chosen right, that it's planted right, and then it's cared for right and
they get you off. They havea little system they set up so you
can check the soul, moisture levels, of water levels down in the planting
hole. Just talk to Patrick andthe team at Verden and they can show

(01:59:40):
you how they do all of that. It makes it really simple. I
think it's a really good idea,very good it all right, we put
another hour in the books here,got one left today. If you'd like
to give Josh a call and sayhey, Josh, thanks for thanks for
being a producer there on guarden Lineand keeping Skip from running the a car
off in the ditch all the time. Well do that seven one three two

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one two kt RH. He'll putyou on the board and you'll be the
first stop when we come out ofthis hour into the hour news break.
Don't forget next Saturday, Hairland WildBird's Unlimited. It's on. It's on
Broadway Street and Paarland. So hey, while you're done there, you can

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go to Ferd and Tree Farm getyour trees. Come over from eleven thirty
to one thirty and see me atWabirds Unlimited Wa Bird's Unlimited eleven thirty to
one thirty. I'll be answering gardeningquestions. Remember, hold off on your
mama day shopping because they have everythingyou need for a really cool surprise.
Mom doesn't already have one out.KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

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of the products or services advertised onthis program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line
with scamp Ricter. It's so trim. Just watch him as so many sat.

(02:01:23):
Hey, welcome back to garden Linefor the last hour of this weekend.
That's right, we wind up atten o'clock. We're here every Saturday,
every Sunday six am to ten am. So anybody in the greater listening
area of k t r H,which is a huge section of southeast Texas
and even almost all the way tous to the Interstate thirty five. Uh,

(02:01:45):
we are glad you're with us.We're glad you're listening. If you
have friends that don't get the signalwhere they are, they can listen online
via the iHeart Radio app. Yeah, iHeart Media, a little red app
with a white heart in it that'seasy to pick out. You listen live,
you can listen to pass shows there. You can go online to the
ktery's website and you can listen topass shows of garden Line there as well,

(02:02:08):
if you'd like to take that approach. I just know a lot of
people that use their phones to listen. So they got working in the garden
and who knows, they may thinkof a question while they're out there.
Working and want to call in,well, just take your phone with you.
If you've got the If you've gotit, the app, you can
listen live and also any kind ofa podcasting app you can listen to pass
shows of Garden Line as well.Those of you who haven't fertilized your lawn

(02:02:31):
yet, it is time to getthat done, and we want to do
it with a slow, gradual releasefertilizer that's going to release that nitrogen gradually
over time to promote slow even growth. That is very important not to get
a flush of growth, because thenyou get a top heavy grass plant that
has lots of green top, butactually at the expense of a root system

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development. So when you gradually feedover time you get with a modern amount
of fertilizer, you get good topgrowth, good root growth, and it's
just balanced, more resilient when itcomes to hot, dry weather. Superturf.
The Silver Bag by Nitrofoss nineteen fourto ten will do that. In
addition to having half the nitrogen inslow release form, it's got four percent

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iron for good green color. Justget it spread out there, get it
down. You're going to put outabout five pounds per thousand square feet of
it, so it goes a longway being a good concentration there of the
nitrogen. And it's easy to find. You know, nitrofoss products are widely
available here in the Greater Houston area. You're going to find them at the
Arbor Gate. You're going to findthem out Shades of Texas, out on

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Genoa Red Bluff Road. You're goingto find them in a lot of different
locations like Kingwood. Ace Hardware's gotthose as well, easy to find nitrofoss
products, including Superturf. By theway, Ace Hardwares just in general all
around Ace Hardware's are going to havethem, and Ace Hardware it's the place

(02:03:54):
to go for anything you want tomake your backyard look beautiful. Certainly fertilizers,
certainly, pest controlled disease, weeds, insects, things like that.
They've got you covered on that.But Ace Hardware also has you covered on
things like that beautiful barbecue pit,the big green egg, the Traeger and
others. The uh yard lights wecall them, we call them beer garden

(02:04:17):
lights. You know, you stringthem along and it's just that ambiance in
the backyard. They actually covered onthat kind of stuff. Do you need
foggers to deal with mosquitoes or mosquitodunks that we keep talking about. This
is the season for mosquito duck.Do you need fire ant control in your
yard? Whatever? You want tomake that outdoor place a place you just
want to hang out with family andfriends even through the evening hours. ACE

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Hardware has got you covered. Acehardwaredot Com is a website find the store
locator. You got forty of themhere in the Greater Houston area to choose
from. Easy to find an ACEHardware and when you go in, it's
easy to get what you need.We're going to head out now to Brenham
and talk to Leonard. Hello,Leonard, good morning morning. I've got

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I just pull up the old plantsthat's been in front of my house all
the way down the front of thehouse, that's been there for like twenty
years, and they just don't dowell at all. So I'm replacing them.
I've already went out and bought maybeit's a mistake that I bought twenty
four box Japanese box woods, Okay, and prepare my bed and I want

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to do everything I could do toenhance the possibility of them surviving. And
doing well because the other ones werehaving difficulty. I have crape myrtles on
each end of the house. Ithink they maybe we're not getting enough sun
because of those crape myrtles. Idon't know. Okay, well, box

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woods will take a little bit ofshade. They like sign, but they'll
take a little bit of shade ifit's bright or if they get part day
sign a little bit like that theyshould do. Okay, you just you're
you're correct and wanting to get thesoil right before you begin. I would
buy some quality mix to blend inwith the soil you have, and then
even add on top of that tomake a raised bed that drains well.

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They need good drainage. They lovethat forest floor environment. So when you
put in a even a rose mix, a rose soil name roses on it,
but it's good for all kinds ofshrubs. I thought, I'm onna
dig all these holes, and thenI thought about putting some mushroom soil in
their mulch into the bottom of them, and would that be bad or yeah,

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yeah, that would be bad.I would not do that. What
I would do a lot of peoplewant to put stuff in a planting hole
and that is not the best wayto go about it. Think about nature,
you know nature in the forest,leave fall on the ground, they
rot, more leaf swallow on them, they rot, and you end up
with this real rich material at thesurface all through the soil. Think of
it that way. So get youa good blend. It could be composed,

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it could be a rose mix.I mean, there's a lot of
good blends. And lay it onthe soil and mix it all into the
whole bed evenly, and then I'llput more on top of it. And
so now what you've got is asimulation of the forest floor. Those roots
don't just have stuff in the bottomof the hole. By the way,
mushroom compost is a little high inpH and for your box woods, I
don't I don't think that's the bestway to go What about it. I've

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got a big bag of cottonseed burr, they call it cotton Seabird compost is
fine, But you're gonna you seta whole lot of boxwoods there, and
so you're gonna need quite a bitof organic matter to spread, because you're
gonna put it about four or fiveinches deep at least through there to create
that bed. You're gonna mix themin with the soil and put more on

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top of it. So it's gonnatake You may need to get a little
bulk delivery out there to the place, or just buy a whole bunch of
bags. It gets more expensive everymoment. I've got some mulch piles,
but I don't think they're quite ready. Yeah, are you wood chips and
mix it with a lot of Yeah, that's good stuff. Do that after

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you plant maulch with that and justlet it decompose, and as it decomposes,
which will take a while, putmore of that same stuff on top.
You just keep making it better andbetter that way after you get them
in the ground. But do anythingyou can to get some organic matter in
that soil evenly all through the bed. And I think you're going to find
they do super well for you.Thank you so much. You did well

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again. Thank you. I appreciateit. Cal take care. Good to
talk with you. Good to talkwith you. If you are looking for
a quality soil blend potting soil foryour indoor plants, jungle land water saving
potting soil is one you need toknow about. Jungle land water What does

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that mean? Water saving putting soil. It means when you water this mix.
Of course, it wets the organicmaterial, which is basically what putting
soil is, or decomposed organic materials, but it also has crystals in it
that swell up without water. Andeven after the organic material begins to lose
its water as the plants pump itout or evaporates away, those crystals hang

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on a little longer and so theroots get an extended release of moisture.
Are extended availability of moisture to keepthose plants going. In case you forget
the water, it just works reallywell. You can get jungle land water
putting shore with water saving crystals atplaces like Asen Sinko Ranch. You can
get it at a Tascasta Ace.You can get it at Lake Hardware Include

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or Jim's hard Rep in Montgomery.It's time for us to take a little
break. We'll be right back donein sugar Land. You will be the
first up. And you heard itfirst tier on guard. Maybe not first,
but you probably remember that one.How many you remember Alvin and the
Chipmunks? I do. I wasmildly amused. Alven and the Chipmunks actually

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had a record of theirs by theway, I don't know. That's kind
of weird, isn't it. Hey, If you are looking at doing some
compost top dressing and air rating,and you are up in the let's say
the northwest quadrant of the Houston areaquadrant, being like Interstate forty five,
Interstate ten, that kind of thing, greenpro is your place. Greenpro dot

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net. That's the website. Now. Greenpro is up in the Montgomery Magnolia
area actually, so they service SpringCyprus, the Woodlands, Conroe, Willis
over to Montgomery and Magnolia down toKatie West, Houston area, Central Houston,
North Houston. So think of themas your northwest section of the city
for core aeration, which is theonly way to go popping those cores out

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of the ground to get air downin the soil, followed by a quality
compost drop dressing. Greenpro only usesquality compost, finely screened for the top
dressing so that it moves down inthe soil. That alleviates compaction. It
helps with the heavy clay soils thatwe do deal with here. And I

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would do the quality compostop dressing afterthe aeration. I would also do a
fertilization at that point if you haven'tfertilized yet, and it'll move down in
those holes as well, and theroot system just gets stimulated in the grass
as well. Remember it's part ofthat brown stuff before green stuff. You
want to make your lawn happy,make the soil a better place for the
roots to be, and green Procan do just that. You can go

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to the website greenpro dot net tofind out about what it costs to have
it done, what the options are, and to get them scheduled to come
out to your place. I wantto go over now to sugar Land and
we're going to talk to Don.Hello, Don, Good morning, skip
morning. Last time I called in, I asked you about behavior grass and

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I have some that's kind of nearfruit trees, and you gave me the
poison to use to kill it.Is it going to be toxic around the
trees or how close would be safeto use around it? And then I'll
also ask you. I want toask you what is your favorite that's does
it pretty much disease free without youknow, I got a friend too that

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has John Kennedy Rose, the realbig one, and she likes that,
but she'd like to get maybe somethingelse. Yeah, let's see here.
Well, the beeograss control is okayif you do not just drench it all

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over the soils, which is nothow you need to do it anyway.
So just lightly dampen the leaves ofthe beeograss with your control products, and
that is that is the way thatyou would properly apply it. And you
don't have to worry about hurting thosetrees. And that's true with any herbicide
around trees. There's no sense indrenching the soil. Herbicides are made to

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work the post emergence, are madeto work on the foliage of the plant
itself. Okay, So what's thename. What's the name of it,
the beheograss control? Oh, letme see, I think hang on just
second, let me try to pullthat up. It's the over the counter

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one that we're needing, we're needingto be able to do. Your dad,
is it okay to spray it too? Or do you just paint brush
it on? No? No,no, you spray it. You can
spray it. Spray it on itMETS sulfur on methyl Okay, So that
would be a product a manor MA N O R would be one example.
It's a little hard to find Manner, but a lot of our places

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it's specializing, carrying a wide varietyas well as they have it. And
so I would say that mets sulfuron methyl that that would probably be the
best one for dealing with controlling thebeaeographs. That's that's the Manner. Man
Manner is a brand name of metsulfur on methyl. Then let me let

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me say there are there are otherbrands of it out there, okay,
other than Manner. But you needto be careful with that. That product.
If you overapply it and get itdown in the root zone, yes,
it will damage. It will damageuh woody ornamental trees and shrubs and
things like that. So follow thelabel carefully. Okay. I called Southwest

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Fertilizer and they said they had someother product that was similar to it.
Yeah, yeah, they do.They. I'm trying to think of what
the other one is with metsulfur onmetal. But if you if you go
into Southwest and you say you talkto Guardline and they were talking about manor
M A n O R. They'regonna put you They're gonna put a different
product in your hand or they mayhave manner, but they put a different
product in your hand and it'll bethe good one to be used to.

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Don't worry about that. They knowwhat they're talking about. Okay. And
what's your favorite rose? Oh man, that is that is an unfair question.
That's like saying, what's your favoritechild. I think for me,
if I had if you had to, like you can have only rose,
I think it would be Belinda's dream. And here's why. In fact,
at Disneyland in Florida, they saidto Belinda's dream was probably the best all

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around rose. And here's why.It's it looks like a rose. So
people that don't think single roses looklike roses and things. Belinda's dream has
that hybrid t sort of look tothe bloom, you know a rose.
Look, it's pink, it hasfragrance, and it has a bush that
is very resistant to disease problems.And it doesn't mean he can't get any

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but it's just not gonna be plaguedby him like some roses. So you
get a green bush even if it'snot blooming. It's a pretty bush.
It's a shrub. You can shrubprune it, so you're not having to
learn all kinds of pruning schemes totry to prune, like with hybrid teas.
So I'd say Belinda's dream. Itwas bread. This is a fun
fact about it. It was breadat tex A and M. But it
was bread not by horticulturists, butby a math professor who did this as

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a hobby. So that was kindof fun. But a math professor to
developed it and named it after oneof his friends, his daughter. I
believe I interested. Yeahun Uch,I'll give it a try. I think
that'd be the one. Yeah,you bet, take care all right,
Bye bye bye boy. I tellyou to make me pick one rowse Ugh,

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that is unfair. That's cruel andunusual punishment right there. If you're
down in Dickinson, San Leone,Baycliffe, El Camino, Real, Webster,
Clear Lake City, League City,Santa Fe, La Mark, listen
up. Your hometown feed store isLeague City feed League City Feeds on Highway
three, just a few blocks southof Highway ninety six in League City.

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That store has been around, thatfeed source since nineteen forties when there's three
generations now Thunderbergs that have run thatstore. But the grandfather built it over
forty years ago in an oakre patch. And they carry every fertilizer I talk
about. So you hear me saythings like microlife and nitrophoss and Nature's Way
or Nature's Create and the Nelson plantfood and heirloom soils and all on and

(02:17:05):
azemite, on and on down theline. They've got it. They're at
League City Feed. They have qualitypremium pet food. They have everything for
your backyard chickens. They have thepest control, disease control, weed control,
everything you need. League City Feedis open Monday through Saturday, nine
to six, so after work youswing by there. They're open. You
can grab your stuff you need.They treat you like they should treat you.

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An all time feed store, carrythings out for you. That is
the kind of service we love.Closed on Sunday. Here's the phone number
two eight one three three two sixteentwelve. Say hello to the Wes and
Madison and Thunderberg's there at League CityFeed and they will get you set up
with the products you need to havesuccess with your lawn. That is important.

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Affordable tree service, You've heard metalk about them a lot. Randy
talked about them a lot. Affordabletree service is the go to place when
you need stuff done to your trees. Listen, trees are long term investments
in your landscape, and all ittakes is an hour of somebody that doesn't
know what they're doing coming in andbutcher in that tree. And it's for

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life. I mean, you cando everything you can to try to help
out as it tries to recover,but it will never be the same.
So the the business card in yourdoor, just throw it away. The
guy who mows your lawn, Iknow he owns a chainsaw. He's not
a tree person. Martin spoon Mooreis. And you call Martin spoon Moore

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at Affordable Tree seven one three,six nine nine twenty six sixty three.
Tell them that you are a guardlinelistener. So you go to the front
of the line. Martin stays busybecause he does a good job, and
everybody knows Martin and they call himback again. It costs one hundred and
fifty dollars for him to come outand do a consultation. He'll tell you
what he thinks needs to be done. If you hire him to do the

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work, that one fifty goes rightinto your price, so he didn't lose
one fifty. But he knows whathe's talking about. So anything done around
your trees needs to be done byMartin and that includes advice for Hey,
we're gonna put a trench in here, We're gonna put a sidewalk over here,
call him, have him come out. Afftree Service dot com seven one
three six nine nine twenty six sixtythree. Do not trust your trees to

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two jerks on a chainsaw tree service. You know they own a pickup,
they own a chainsaw, they're treeexperts. No, they're not, absolutely
not. You're listening to Guardline.Our phone number is seven one three two
one two k t r H.Seven one three two one two k t
r H. We would love tohave you give us a call if you

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got a question that we can helpwith. That's what we are here for.
That's what we're all about. Ifyou haven't fertilized your lawn yet,
and you probably have heard me talkabout Nelson Plant Food, turf Star products.
You know, Nelson is the companythat makes color Star and we all
know that when you want a colorbed to pop, you know, your
annual flowers and things boom, Imean, color Star will make it do

(02:20:05):
that turf Star several different products inthe turf Star line. Two of them
you need to know about for summer. One of them is Bruce's Brew primarily
it's gonna be immediately available with someslow release in it as well. And
the second is Slow and Easy,which is all slow release. I mean,
it's got a little bit, it'sgoing to release some right away,

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but it is going to give youfeeding all the way four months. In
other words, you put Slow andEasy down on your lawn right now.
The next time we need to talkabout fertilizing is going to be for a
fall fertilization. It lasts that long, superquality. The chemistry of these,
the way they design the nitrogen isnice, and slow release works really really

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well. Bruce's Brew and slowly.Either where you're gonna go slow release,
I do it now and not forgetabout it. You're done. If you
want to do Bruce's Brew, doit now. You're going to do it
again toward the mid part of summer. Do it again, Stretch it out
a little bit, and it willcarry you on into fall. Two.
Either way you go, you're justnot going to lose with a quality product
like that, like those two fromNelson's Well, we're going to take a

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little half hour break into not endof your halfway through the hour. There
you go, I'm doing a halfwaygood job. Attacker was going, you
want me to do half an hourof news? Yeah, yeah, that's
well. If it was important news, we could do it. Was all
right, all right, we needto do gardening news too. By the
way, sometime soon, I'm gonnaturn it over to Nikki. We'll be

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right back, little bread. Paisleythere impatiently sitting in church waiting to hit
the hit the road and get inthe water. Uh. You're listening to
garden Line and I'm your host skipericCareer to answer your gardening questions. If
those of you who have not beento RCW, I keep telling you you
need to go, and you doneed to go. We had somebody earlier

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that was asking about what's my favoriterose? And if they they pinned me
down, they held a gun tomy head. You couldn't see it on
the radio, but they were doingthat, and I said, well,
I think I would go with Belinda'sdream just because it's got all the above.
It's not an antique, but it'san old rose. It's been around
a while, so rcw's got it. They've got four pages of different roses
that they can get in and rightnow they got a deal going on on

(02:22:15):
the roses. They've got to saleactually going on on the roses. They're
at RCW. They have the beautifultypes of Hibiscus Cajun, the Cajun series
of Hibiscus and others. They havea deal going on on their arbors and
the metal artwork twenty off arbors andmetal artwork, and they have beautiful ones.
As you walk through there, thoseof you in king and saw me

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there the other day, you know, you know how awesome that is.
Ten percent off all the trees andall the roses. They grow their own
trees as well up in Plantersville,they bring them in. So RCW is
just a good nursery. And ifthey don't have it, they'll get it.
That's why we call it. Theyget it. Got a nursery r
c W Nursery Nurseries Plural dot com. Rc nurseries dot com. That's the

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website there at two forty nine TombaParkway and belt Wag eight. Makes it
real easy to find them and getin there and get what you need.
We're going to now go to Stephenin clear like, Hello Stephen, good
morning sir. I hope you appreciatethe fact that the wind is building stronger
tree trunks have it? Okay?It is? I hear you talking about

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that. Yeah, I thought thiswas your kind of weather. Then I
just sent you a picture of grapebelief. Have you had a chance to
look at it? Oh? Yes, but that came from Mark. Well.
Stephen is my radio name. BecauseI don't want people to know who
I really am asking stupid questions.I just blew it. I just blew
Hey, it's not a stupid question. What I like to sound guardline?

(02:23:48):
You may heart me say this isthere are any stupid questions, just stupid
answers. So the pressure's on menot you don't worry. Well, I
have a different view. When Iever I speak in front of people,
I say, please ask your ququestions. There are no stupid questions.
Are just stupid people asking them that. Oh boy, well, I won't
go there. I won't go there. That's funny. Your grape has a

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fungal leaf spot disease. Now theexact one. It may be. It
may be black spot that you're seeingon there, it could be something else
that it's not an insect, it'sa disease. And there are a number
of fungicides out there on the market, most of them for grape foliage disease
control are a little more difficult tofind in the home market, but you

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will find things on your garden gardeningshelf if you will that are available that
are listed for grape disease control andthat are listed for foliage diseases. So
that's just what you're going to need. You're out there and clear Lake.
You know, you get out there, you go to your ace hardware store
and say, I need I needa funge a side, but I need

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it to be labeled for grapes.That's the key. That's something will be
organic so they can be eaten rightaway or not. There is there are
copper based sprays that you can use, but you need to be very careful
with those and read the label carefullythat that is organic. But you don't
want to overuse that the copper basedsprays. So you know, there's a

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lot of products on the market andyou just need to find one that's labeled
for the grape control. A grapefoliage disease control because grapes are really a
lot of grapes are really prone tothat. That's why we recommend certain grapes
to try to, you know,avoid these kind of issues. Some are
a little more resistant than others,but in general, grapes are a little

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bit of a problem. Okay,So I guess that's something that a BT
wouldn't take care of it. Iwouldn't even come close. Nope, it'll
kill. All that will do iskill the caterpillars that you would have eating
your grapevine and grapes. I havecaterpillars. They can they can well,
I know, I think I spokewith you when you first started here about

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the grape belief skeletonizer. I hadthat one year that wiped out everything in
my backyard. Yes, and soI keep a close eye to see if
there's any evidence of that, andthen I hit it with b T right
away. Yeah. Yeah, that'sthat is the that is the case.
So yeah, you might be looking. They're just a number of different kinds
of things that that can attack grapes. That's that's that's one reason why you

(02:26:28):
don't see more people growing them athome because they are a little bit of
a challenge. They do really veryhard to grow grapes organically. Yeah,
but if you don't tend to them, they'll take over an entire piece of
property. It's amazing. Yes,that's true. Okay, Well, thank
you very much for advice. Appreciateit, I hope. But I'm sure
it's worth more and I just paidfor it. All right. Well,
hey, and you know what,that was a very intelligent question. Thank

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you? Does that for my friends, for you, for anyone listening,
listen, listen to this guy,cross your legs instead at his feet and
receive wisdom that whoa, oh man, am I going to screw up a
whole bunch of people? Wow?Okay, Steven, thanks for having thanks
for having some fun with me heretoday. Thank thank you very much.

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Take care all right, bye byebye bye. Let's see, let's go
to sugar Land. Talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, good morning,
Skiff, Good morning. I hopeyou're having a great morning. I got
several questions. I spoke to youa couple of weeks ago about some problems
I was having with Bermuta. Yes, I went in and I took out
a whole section about twelve by twelveof commuter and put back my Saint Augustine.

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Okay, now, first question iswhat can I do to help that
grass that I've just put down topall Number two, we've got some yellow
spots in the backyard. I've beenon your schedule for quite a while and
now about five years. What canI do about those yellow spots? And
number three, I'm looking at kalladiums. Is it too late to put down

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kalladiums? Not at all too late. Go ahead and plant the kalladiums now.
It's a good time. Watermen,really good. Make sure they get
good water initially to get them established, and then they'll do very well for
you. You're gonna put them insun or shade. They're gonna be on
the southeastern corner, which gets abouti'd say maybe eight hours a day of
sun. Okay, Well, thenew kalladiums are pretty darn sun tolerant,

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so you should be good there.Just have the water a little bit more
in that kind of environment. Asfar as the yellow areas in your grass,
that is probably a sign of irondeficiency. Now, if you grab
one yellow grass blade and hold it, pick it and hold it up to
the light, it will have greenand yellow streaks through it. It looks
yellow yellower than regular green Saint Augustine. But you see the streaks, the

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stripes, and that means iron deficiency. So one of two things is happening.
Either it needs iron in a formthat soil doesn't tie up so fast,
or you could have a disease calledtake all root rot that kills roots.
And when you kill the root tips, the plant can't take up iron.
Even if it's there and available,it can't take it up. And

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so those are two issues with twodifferent approaches to For the first one,
we need a keylated form of ironto put down on it. Have you
fertilized that area this year yet?Yeah? I thought the schedule both on
the front in the back. Fund'sdoing great. But as I'm speaking to
you right now, I just actuallypicked up a leaf of grass. It
is amazing. I could actually seethe stripes inside. There you go,

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that's what it is. That Butno, it's just certain little spots death
or like little stripts. I'm thinkingit out. Maybe over fertilized in some
areas well. You could have.I mean if the application was not even.
But if you see the yellow,you need to do a little keylated
iron in those areas, and Ithink that'll hope out for you. Great

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appreciate you guys usually have a greatSunday. Thank you, Michael. Do
you take care? Good to talkto you. As always. I'm gonna
take a little break here and wewill be back for the last segment of
the day of the weekend. Soif you I like to ask a question
seven one three two one two ktrh letting that play out a little bit.

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Welcome back to the guard Line.Good to have you with us today.
Hey, have you been out tothe Nelson's Water Gardens in Katie.
You need to trust mount this oneand go and see this place. Nelson's
Water Gardens is. It's a wonderland. It's a destination. It is a
garden center. Yes, you canbuy all kinds of plants there. They

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have lots of different kinds of plants. Now, water gardens became famous long
ago because they were a leader fromthe beginning in the water garden industry.
People from all over the place havecalled on them to help design and install
water gardens. They do that.They can do fountains, they can do
the disappearing fountains. You know,a big beautiful pottery where the water comes

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over the side and ripples down anddisappears into pebbles. And then you turn
around and here comes back in throughthe center of the fountain. Good for
birds to stop, good for youto enjoy. Anytime you have moving water.
It just creates a peaceful setting.And when you walk through Nelson's water
gardens, you're gonna see inspiration everywhereyou turn. By the way, if

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you'd like a good excuse to goout Saturday, May fourth, yep,
that's just around the corner. Theyare gonna have what's called a sip and
stroll Saturday, May fourth. Andnow listen, it's it's five pm to
seven pm, so it's late inthe day, five pm to seven pm.
Get off, you know, getoff what you're doing and work or
whatever on Saturday, and head outthere five pm to seven. You're gonna

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be able to walk through. They'regonna have free drinks, they're gonna have
light refreshments, they're gonna have livemusic out there, and just go through
and see what I'm talking about aboutthe inspiration they are out in Katie.
You just head out I ten turnnorth on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's
a stone's throw off of Ian rightthere. Here's the website. Go there

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and you can learn everything you wantto know. Nelsonwatergardens dot Comilsonwatergardens dot com.
And when you're there, you're goingto find that you can hire them
to come out and do stuff.You can get advice from them if you
do it yourself. For you takewhatever level you want to get into it,
and they will set you up.And I'm telling you, a beautiful

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water garden, the sound of water, whether you use water plants or goldfish
or waterfalls, Nelson's can get youfixed up and it is It is enchanting
to see that kind of setting.So take advantage. Saturday Sip and stroll
May fourth, five pm to sevenpm. Go ahead and enjoy it with
them. We're going to now headto Spring and talk to Bill. Hello

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Bill, Hey, Skip, appreciateyou taking my call. Yes, I've
got a product and I'm not surewhat it is or where I got it.
It's called high Yield Curve and armamentalWeed and grass stopper with dimension.
Okay, that is right? Isit? What do I do with it?
That is a pre emergent. Itis it is a product. That

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you would use like you would usebarricade. It's a different ingredients Okay,
it's a different ingredient than barricade.But it is a pre emergent herbicide.
So you'd put it down, you'dwater it in to prevent weeds. So
the primetimes. If you go onlineto gardening with Skip dot com and look
at my weed management schedule, you'llsee that we do in the in the

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February is when you put on apre emergent for warm season weeds, and
October is when you want to putthat down for cool season weeds. Fantastic,
gotta do that. I put thatdown with the Raider like I did
my fertilizer, right. You justhave a different setting, of course,
because it's a smaller grand Okay,but yeah, it's a preventatives. It

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doesn't kill existing weeds. It preventsweeds, just like just like the barricade
that I talk about all the time. Wonderful, Thank you very much.
I really appreciate it. All right, Bill, good luck with that.
We're going to now head out toMontgomery and talk to carry in. Okay,
in good morning, Skip, I'mcalling. I'm recovering from take all
root rot and I replaced probably atleast a quarter of my yard, and

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I'm wondering how to care for thesurrounding area as I do have some of
those yellowing leaves. We did puta fungicide down last month, but it
needs food. I can tell itlooks, so I'm not sure what to
use because what I've read is nitrofossI mean you want to kind of stay
away from iron. Is that correct? No? Iron is often missing when

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take all root rot affects the grassbecause take all kills roots. That's why
we call it root rot. Takeall root rot the tips of the grass
roots or where iron is taken up. So when you when you kill the
ends of the grass or kill thewhole root, it can't take up iron,
and so you see the yellowing asa result. Can I ask,
what do you know what fungicide youused for the take all before? I

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don't because I'd hired a yard companyalong company to try to help me.
Okay, So if you go togardening skip dot com, my website gardening
with skip dot com, there aretwo schedules there. One is the lawn
pest disease and we'd management and onit. If you look at diseases.
You'll see that in March we doan optional treatment for take all root rot.

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If it's present in your lawn.You don't just treat because you have
a lawn in the But in Octoberand November, those are the two most
important months for treating for take allroot rot. You want to do it
in October and then repeat it againa month later in November. And if
you look on the chart, thereare a number of products that are listed
there. The ones that I wouldrecommend most is something called a zoxystroban,

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and the brand is called Heritage HeritageUH, and it has a zoxystrobin in
it. There are other products thatcontain a zoxystroban, but you go to
a go to your you know whereveryou shop for your supplies and things,
and just tell them you're looking forthat. Take this printed out schedule with
you. The other ingredient on there. There's one called propaconnaisole and I know

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remembering those names, but you canprint it out. It's right there.
There are products that have those twocombined in them and they are even better
against the take all. The mainthing to remember what take all is don't
stress your grass. If your grassis stressed, it's going to get take
all worse. Shade stresses grass,Drought stresses grass. Using broad leaf herbicides

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when the temperature is above the uppereighties stresses grass. So try to avoid
that. Okay, all right,that I can go ahead and can I
use like sweet green right now andgo yeah, yeah, yeah, fertilizers
get it down, yep, fertilizer. You can go right ahead with no
problem. Okay, all right,thank you, carry thank you so much.
Good luck with that. I guesswe're going to end today. I

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got one more call, Jerry.I'll get to you just one second.
Here. We're going to end todaykind of like I begin most days.
And let's say in brown stuff beforegreen stuff. You gotta build the soil
before you plant the plants. Thatis a secret to success. Garden shoppers
all the time pick out a bunchof flowers at the garden center. They
come home and they walk around lookingword to plut them. That is not

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the way to do it. Youget you some quality soil materials with the
plants or before the plants, andyou put it down. You get the
bed ready. Once you've made thebed, the plants hop happily hop right
in it and take off growing Veggianherb mix from heirloom soil. That's one
of those fruit berry and citrus mixfrom heirloom soil. That's one of those

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quality compost products, leaf mold compost. All the products, many products from
heirloom soils are designed to create theperfect environment for plant success. You go
to Airloomsoilsoftexas dot com. There's acalculator on the website to figure out how
much you need. You can buyit by the bag. It's sold everywhere.

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You can buy it by the bulk. You can go get it,
you can have them deliver it.But whatever you do, get the soil
ready first, and then when youput the plants in, it's gonna look
like your thumb turned green. That'sthe way you do it. I'm going
to head out now to Jerry andJerry, you're in Damon. Yes,
sir, okay, how can Ihelp pay you? What I got is

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I have a pond and I havethis it's called short bristlet orange beach's edge
growing around it. It grows everyyear and I usually put round up on
it kill it. But my neighbornext door is got about eight bee hives
now, and she's concerned if Iput round up on it's trying to kill
her bees. It will not killher bees. It won't hurt on Okay,

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I can tell her that for sure. The only the only effect of
round up on bees is when youkill the flowers that the bees want to
be on, including a lot ofweeds that you know bees use the blooms
of. Well, you're taking awaya food source. But you know when
you got to get rid of weed, you gotta get rid of weed.
Well, they got they got plentyof oak in Chinese calla and everything else

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for a source. Right now.I think if your weed is a sedge,
though, and I'm we've got abouta minute left for a run out
of time here, a little lessthan a minute. If it's a sedge,
I might try something different. Imight try something like sedge hammer,
for example. Or there's a numberof sedge control herbicides that work best on

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the sedges. Kills all or somethinglike that kills all is going to be
a round up. That's a that'sa glyca product, But sedge hammer,
uh manage image. Those are allsedge control products. And if it's sedges
you're going after, and that's it. Then you could use that instead of

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the round up or the glycasate orkills all kind of product. Okay,
that sound great, man, thatsound good. I'll let her know then
that I'm going to hear her Bethand I'll i'll I'll talk to you about
it, all right. I gotit from the authority. I appreciate you,
all right, all right, youtake care of Jerry. Could to
talk to you well. And withthat we close the day on callers.

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I'm glad you listened today. Ihope you learned something. I hope you
enjoyed it too. We try tomake it a little bit fun here.
If you want to give us acall next week, just write this number
down and keep it with you whereyou where your phone is seven one three
two one two k t RH putus on speed doll. How about that
that'll work. I'm going to benext Saturday after the show. That's May

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fourth. By the way, youcan wear your star Wars garb to come
out and see me. You knowabout that. May the fourth be with
you Wilbird's Unlimited in Paarland. I'llbe at Wibird's Unlimited in Pairland. We'll
be answering gardening questions. And listen. I keep telling you it's Mother's Day
shopping time, and you come outto Wilbirds, you are going to find

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something with your mom would love