Lawn Watering, Critters, and Strange Occurrences

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All right, we're here, We're ready you talk gardening, Well,
welcome to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you
have success. Well, I like to put it is, I
want you to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape,
and more fun in the process. That's what we're up
to today. Well, I'll tell you I am. I've been

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getting a few things done outside in the landscape and
in the garden too. I had I'm going I had
and pulled out my tomato patch that I had because
I'm planning another round of okra. And this is just
primarily for me doing the okra crossing that I've been doing,
breeding new varieties and things like that. Something I like

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to play with. That's kind of how gardening is, you know,
you can there's a big range in gardening from I
just want a pretty yard. I'm gonna pay somebody to
mow it and take care of it and make it
look that way, which is a very legit go for it,
to people that are out there doing all kinds of
crazy things, and from breeding plants, crossing flowers, pollinating and

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all that to trying things that don't want to grow
here and giving them the conditions they need to grow here.
When I was over in the Santonio area, people wanted
to grow blueberries and pH over there is pretty high,
so the soil isn't that suited for most areas. But
you get you a big old bag of peete moss
and fill a giant container with it and mix some

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sand in it and throw you a blueberry in there,
and then use rain water. You could grow a blueberry
up on the Limestone Hills west of Austin if you want.
But you got to give plants special conditions to do that.
So anyway, that's a fun thing of gardening. You can
do that if you want. I mean, if you want

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to build a giant conservatory and grow a blue spruce
tree from Colorado, well go for it. Have fun. The
point is there's a wide range and everybody is to
enjoy some things. I'll just tell you this. You start off,
you know, maybe it's just a houseplant, or maybe it's
just some vegetables and a container. Next thing, you know,
you're trying new things. You're learning how to propagate, you're
learning how to start your own seeds, make your own transplant,

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you're learning how to uh oh, this is one of
the best ones. Root cuttings, so that you know, you
see a plant that you like and you can take
cutting off of it and you can root it and
you can make another one. That's kind of cool. That's
what basically is how a lot of things in the
nursery industry get done. And so what are you interested
in however you want to go about it, Well we're

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here to help you do that. If you want to
give me a call today the morning. The phone number
this morning, as always all mornings are seven one three, two,
one two five eight seven four seven, one three two
one two KTRH be glad to visit with you about that.
I was looking at our our forecast, and today's not
gonna be too bad. We're going get about ninety three degrees, which, hey,

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if ninety three by there's you you need to go
on a very long vacation and come back in October,
because that's kind of that's kind of where we're going
to be for a very long time. But like I said,
not too bad. We've got a lot of good sunshine
in the days to come. Tomorrow, now it's gonna get
a little rough. It's gonna get up around ninety eight

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according to the last forecast that I saw, and then
when you start you know, getting out further and further
days ahead, we're just pushing on the edge of one
hundred depending on where you are in the area. So
that is that is pretty tough, pretty tough, But it
doesn't mean you got to quit gardening. We've got a
lot of plants that can grow in hot temperatures, and

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I just encourage you to, you know, shift the gardening
to the morning times and maybe maybe late day. Sometimes
I'll do some very at the end of the day.
Is still hot at the end of the day, but
when the sun's not baking down, not so bad. But
getting those things done. We're going to talk about watering
plants this morning, too, and I think that is that

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is an important one, knowing how to water plants properly.
We'll be doing some discussion of that because everybody goes, well,
I know how to turn on a water hose and
water plants. Skip. You're not going to tell me how
to water plants, are you, well, Actually, yes I am.
There is a right way to water for the sake

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of having plants that are going to perform well for you,
And then there is a wrong way to water, a
way that increases problems and wastes water. That's another thing
keep in mind. So anyway, we'll talk about those things
as we get going here a little bit further. I
do want to mention to you though, that you know,

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we had those rains, some of you had the rains
a while back, not too far back, that created a
lot of little puddles here and there, puddles you don't
even see, like in a hanging gutter or something like that.
And that's where mosquitoes breed. Mosquitoes are incredibly efficient at
reproducing and essentially almost no water. I was shocked the

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first time they told me that a mosquito can lay
an egg and that egg can go through the larval
stage and come out as an adult mosquito in a
bottle cap full of water. A bottle cap full of
water that is not much water. And they like stagnant water.
They don't like moving water. So if you've got ripples
in the water, maybe a fountain splashing things around, mosquitos,

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they're just not able to go through the cycle in
that kind of thing. So that helps. But it also
helps to dump out the little standing water basins you
see everywhere, and everywhere you can find one. You need
to do that underneath the catch basins, underneath your vehicle.
I had a tarp that I had set aside. I

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had it over something and I pulled it off to
the side and didn't fold it up yet. And I
went out the other day and I looked and there
were little puddles in it because it had rained a
little bit that night. And every one of those is
a Skeeter breeder spot, and you don't want to be
a Skeeter breeder. So to find water wherever it is.

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Now.

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If you got water that you know you don't want
to dump out, maybe a bird bath you want birds
to be able to come and enjoy. Just get you
some mosquito dunks and put them in. Those Mosquito dunks
or mosquito bits. Bits are little things like the old
breakfast cereal grape nuts, you know, the little crumbles, and
you can use those anywhere you want to use them.
They don't last as long as a dunk, but they

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go right to work for you, and they work. Mosquito dunks.
Those are little doughnuts, and you can float those on
water for a long time. And I went on vacation
a couple of weeks ago, actually more than that. We
took the little kiddie pools and put our pot plants
in them, maybe I should say potted plants.

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In them.

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And what we did is we fill them up with
enough water, a couple of inches of water, just enough
to soak up to wake up into those places and
keep them good while we're gone. And then I threw
about a quarter of a mosquito dunk, because there's a
little four foot kiddie pool, since one dunk covers one
hundred square feet. Just let it float in there while
we're gone. Not a single mosquito when we came back.
We were gone for gosh, almost two weeks, so that

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was that was kind of cool. We appreciate the fact
that mosquito dunks are available. You can get them at
a feed stores and garden centers and all kinds of places.
Ace Hardware stores carry them, Southwest Fertilizer, lots of places
carry the mosquito dunks and always have them on hand.
I've got a package. I keep it inside and to
washer room up in the cabinet. Just wear safte. Kind

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of cool. But the bottom line is they're ready for
me anytime I need them, and you will need them,
especially if you've got some standing water. Let's take a
little break and we'll be back. Here's the phone number,
one more time, seven to one to three two one
two five eight seven four. Well, I want to talk
a little bit about watering. Uh, we were going to
get the opportunity to do a lot of that here.

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When you look at we're we're bumping on one hundred
degrees for well as far out as the forecast I'm
seeing ghoest. So we're gonna be ready for that. Just
remember that our plants, most of our plants that survive
and that are planted here at this time of the year,
it can take hot weather, but they have to have

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water in order to do that. So you take something
like Saint Augustine grass, which is most lawns, or Saint Augustine,
but any of the Bermuda grass or Asio grass are lawns.
They can take the heat, but they can't take the
heat without water. The things in our gardens. We've got
some summer vegetables that can take the heat, but they
can't take the heat without water. And the problem people

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make is one of two things. One they don't water enough,
which happens, or maybe they water too much. And when
you water log the soil in summertime with horrible heat
that is baking down on those plants, it is it
is probably more deadly than the plant not getting enough water.

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Of course, both can kill a plant, but I'm just
saying that overwatering, and that's true of houseplants too. Doesn't
matter inside whether it's summer or winter. But we overwater
more than we underwater, and we want to be careful
with that. So how do you properly water a lawn well,
a lawn in our area needs about one inch of

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water a week in the summer in the absence of rain.
Of course, rain, you know that, there's common sense, does
you if for raine you don't have the water, But
about an inch a week is what it's going to
need in the temperatures that we're having, and so it's
better to put that inch on at one time, or
at the most at two times. It's like a half

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inch and then a half inch in the same week,
or one inch for the whole week. And if you
water an inch and you soak that soil deeply, that
plant can get by until the next week. I especially
in shade. If you got lawns in shade, they don't
even need that all often, and they don't when they
build a good deep root system, because when you water

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with an inch, you're going to wet the soil. Depending
on the kind of soil, it wets a sind quite deeply,
but a clay about six inches deep or so. And
that is a bank account of water that the plants
can draw on. And as they draw that water out
and use it, then air moves into the soil and
that roots need oxygen. That's important. If you just water

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water water all the time, you're not going to get
oxygen in the soil. You're not going to have a
resilient root system. And yes, you are not going to
get a week between waterings when you create that kind
of a root system. So a good soaking followed by
a good drying out and that you can wean your
lawn into that schedule. That's important. Now if your lawn
has to take a root rod, if your lawn is

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dealing with compacted soil and all these other issues that
affects the LUN's ability to take in water. Compacted soil,
it just runs off for it soaks in and a
clace well especially, and so you want to work your
lawn toward the direction that we're talking about here by
giving it a good soaking, letting it dry out, giving

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it a little better soaking. And with mine, I actually
was just about to water my lawn the other day
when it started raining here at my house and I
didn't but I've yet to turn on the sprinklers for
the lawn this year, and that I mean, my lawn
was getting really thirsty. I was like a day away
and I looked at the weather and decided I'm gonna

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hold off, Thank goodness because we got some good rain.
The bottom line is a good soaking on an infrequent basis.
That is so important. So how do you know when
you ply an inch of water? Well, the way to
tell the simplest way to tell us to get any
kind of straight sided container that could be rain gauges ideally,
but who wants to buy ten rain gauges? Maybe you do,

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or straight sided cans, anything with straight sides, so you know,
don't put a pint jar out there that's got a
little opening the top and then it gets bigger going down.
That's not a very good rain gauge. Get you a
pinto bean can, or a cat food can or a
tuna fish can. Do you see what I'm talking about.
I like the deeper ones than the little one inch
tuna fish because it splashes out of those. But the

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bottom line is, just get you a straight sided cans,
put those all around, and then turn on your sprinkler
system and see how long it takes to catch an
inch of water. Now, you don't have the water for
an inch to do that test. If you watered for
thirty minutes, then multiply at times two. That's how much

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inches per hour your system is putting out if you
just turn it on for twenty minutes, Well, there's three
of those in an hour, right, twenty twenty twenty is
an hour, So you would take twenty inches of watering
and multiply the depth times three, and then you know
your system. Do you have rotors? Do you have multi
stream rotors or single stream rotors? Do you have a

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pop up solid state sprinkler, solid set sprinkler. Each of
the puts out water at different rates. So I'm not
going to tell you water for fifteen minutes or twenty
minutes or thirty mins. I'm not going to give you
a time because I can't. But you can know by
putting something out there, turning your system on, and then
you know my system puts out water at this rate.
You're going to notice two things when you do that.

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Number One, you're going to notice that it's not uniform.
Our systems are not as uniform as they should be.
A good designer, a good irrigation company knows how to
do it in the best way where it is as
uniform as you can get it. But a lot of
times that's not what's done. And I know in my
yard whoever put it in before we bought the house,

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that system is not uniform. And that's a problem because
you water enough to keep the driest spot alive, and
so there's other spots that are getting too much water.
But if you take it all and look at it
as an average, you can kind of figure it out. Okay,
my system, I'm going to run for X minutes to
get that inch. Secondly, you'll find that you can't put

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that much water on at one time time either because
it runs off. Our soils, especially Houston black clay does
not take in water fast at all, and so you're
gonna have to water for a little while. Let's say
that this is Saturday. It's say Saturday is your watering day,
and this morning, at six o'clock, you know, the water
comes on and it runs for a while. It may

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run for I don't know, a period of time, twenty minutes,
fifteen minutes to thirty minutes, whatever, and it starts to
run off, but you haven't gotten your inch on yet. Okay,
So what you're going to do then is have it
set for forty five minutes and soak in and then
come back on again. So you have two cycles on
your watering morning, or could be three. If it's a

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slope and it's a clay soil, it doesn't take much
for it to run off a slope. But that's called
cycle and soak and your clocks can do it. Your
irrigation clock should be able to do that. And so
when you do that, then you get that good deep
soaking and then you find you know what, watered for
over a week and it still looks okay out there.

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That's what we're aiming for. But however you go about it,
try to get an inch a minimum of a half inch.
Half inch is not ideal, but it's it's better than less.
And I know people that water for fifteen minutes with
a type of sprinkler that doesn't put water out very fast.
It just doesn't do the job. That's not gonna be enough, Okay,

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So forget the time. Look at your system with a
little rain gauge setup of empty cans. Find out how
long it takes. Okay, I know I've kind of circled
around on that one a little bit. But once you
know that, then you know how to water properly, and
a good soaking is the way to go. Now, another
reason why we don't do a bunch of small soakings

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like we'll skip why out water a little bit every day? Well,
here's why. When you turn on your sprinkler system, the
water goes flying out and it lands on the grass
blades and they get wet. And then as it water's
a little bit it starts to wet the thatch at
the surface. And then as water is a little bit more,
it starts to wet the surface of the soil. And
a lot of people's cycle goes off at about that time.

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When you barely wet the soil two inches deep, that
is very inefficient because what's going to happen to all
the water in the thatch and on the grass blades.
It's going to evaporate away and make Houston more humid.
Thank you very much. As if we need that, you
lost that water. The reason we water early in the
morning too, is because the temperature is as cool as

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it's going to be for the day. Typically the wind
hasn't picked up quite yet, and so you get the
most efficient You see your water into the soil that way.
But if you were to take an inch of water
and put it on in four quarter inch applications, you
would have almost none, in fact, essentially none in the soil,
and it would all evaporate away. It would do very

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little good if you took that inch of water and
put it on in one application. The percent that evaporates
away as minimal, and the amount that goes in the
soil maximum that way, and that's why we give a
good soaking on an infrequent basis. A third reason is disease.
Every time you wet a plant, every fungal spore that's

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flown through the air and landed on that plant, and
they're everywhere, it has the opportunity to germinate, to infect
the leaf and to create gray leaf spot or whatever
disease black spotter roses, whatever disease you're going after, and
so you don't want to keep the surface wet. The
fewer times you wet the surface of plants, the less

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disease problems you'll have. Doesn't mean you won't have any.
It just means that you sit there and square a
plant every day, and it is going to have disease
issues and you're making it that way. So a third
reason there for giving a good deep soaking on an
infrequent basis. All Right, we're going to come back and
talk about watering in a little bit here some more.
I'm going to shift gears, and I'm going to talk

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a little bit about watering containers, proper watering of containers,
and a little bit about just general garden beds and
things like that when we come back. If you have
a gardening question seven one, three, two, one two fifty
eight seventy four. By the way, if you haven't fertilized
your lawn superturf the silver bag from Knight Foss nineteen

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four ten, it'd be a good time to get that done.
You get it done now, and you're not gonna worry
about fertilizing again until we hit our fall fertilization. You're
gonna find super turf as all night Foss products all
over the place are widely available. But you know someplace
like Ospase Ace up in the Woodlands would carry the
super turf. Langham Creek Ace, which is over on five
twenty nine on the backside of Copper Field does as

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well as he as does heating and feet over there
on Stubner Airline, they carry night Foss products there as well.
If you got a gardening question seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four, and we will be
happy to visit with you. In fact, that's what we're
gonna go do right now. We're gonna head out here

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to mag know you and talk with Dean this morning.
Hello Dean, welcome to Garden Line. We have Dean there
with us to what I'm gonna put that on hold there,
could you check check on that and we'll come back.
We'll grab Dean here in this second. So any way,

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I was talking about, you know, proper lawn and watering
and things, and I know you you probably have heard
some of those things, if not all of them before.
But I tell you, I drive down the road in
our neighborhood and other neighborhoods that where I lived, and
I just see people doing the opposites and so you know,
I hate to hate to create problems, but uh, water right,

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you can avoid a lot of those kinds of things.
We'll be ready to go on Dean. So all right,
I'm gonna we got we're dealing with a little phone
deal here. We'll get it. We'll get it going here
in just a second. So with this heat, that we have.

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The effect of heat on plants is significant, not just
because it's hot and the plants need a lot of water,
but plants have processes that go on. You've heard a photosynthesis.
You know, sunshines on leaves and the leaves take compounds
that the roots have taken up and they make sugars
and carbohydrates, which is basically plant food. True plant food

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is not fertilizer. It's it's what that was made in
the leaves. Fertilizer is the ingredients that are needed to
make plant food in the plant. That's being technical, but
the bottom line is when you look at excessive temperatures,
the plant are not able to do the photosynthesis as well,
depends on the plants. Some are better than others. And secondly,

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when the temperatures are excessive, the plants are opening the
holes in the leaves called stomates. At the bottom of
the leaves have holes called stomachs where the plant lets.
When it makes full of synthesis, it's got to kind
of breathe out the water, if you will, and it's
taking in carbon dioxide and putting out oxygen and when

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it does respirations to do in the other but that's
a gas exchange that has to happen. When those those
leaves are open all the time, it's hard for the
plant to hold onto water when it's kneeding water, and
the excessive amount of heat we're having, it's closing those
and it just affects the plant's ability to do all
the things that it needs to do to thrive and
to grow and to give you roses and tomatoes or

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whatever else you're trying to get out of that plant.
And so the excessive heat, that's the effect that one
of the effects that it has on it. And it
doesn't take that much heat to start to shut some
things down. The kind of heat we're going to be
having is very significant. Unfortunately, most of our plants here
are going to be able to take it. They won't
like it, some of them will shut down. You might
as well just you know, forget the tomatoes for now

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being set. The ones that are already on there is fine,
and I would probably go ahead and pick some of
those that are reached maturity and let them ripen indoors,
especially if they're exposed to the intense, intense sunlight that
will be experiencing as well as this intensive heat. So
that that's kind of the bottom line on the heat

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and the temperatures. You can't really affect the temperature that much.
You know, if we were looking at marginal differences in
terms of what a plant can take and what it's getting,
a little shade cloth will help a little bit. But
then we have to walk that line between well, if
you put them in too much shade, you know, a
tomato is not going to produce, a rose isn't going
to bloom, and a lot of shade. So I saw

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some research where I think it was it tomatoes or
peppers or both. They were looking at shade. How much
shade could they put on the plant before it affected
the performance of it and in order to keep that
leaf temperature down a little bit. It was about thirty
percent shade. So if you have a tomato patch again,
I want to be real clear here ninety nine degrees,

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you're not going to fix that with shade. Okay, you're
not going to fix that with shade. But when it's
just a little on the warm side, or you can
help a little bit by doing about a thirty percent
shade over your vegetables. So nobody's going out and put
in shade all over the landscapes. But anyway, that heat
is going to take its toll, and it affects the photosynthesis,

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that affects respiration, and it affects the biochemical things that
go on inside the plant that turn sunshine and nutrients
into plant food and therefore human food. Do you know
that without plants? Think about all the creatures of Earth.
There are there are creatures that justy plants. There are

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creatures that eat animals, and there are creatures that eat
both on the omnivores. But everything is driven by the plants.
Because you know, you may go, well, I eat I
eat beef, I don't eat, well, okay, what did the
cow eat? The cow eat plants. That's why you have
meat and milk and cheese and leather and all the

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things we get out of a cow. It's because of plants.
And why are the plants able to do that? Because
the sunshines. And it's really a miraculous thing when you
think about it. Sunshine and plants feed the world period period.
They feed the world. And that fact is just the
more you think about it, the more amazing I think

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that it really is, that the fact that sunshine somewhere
on a plant somewhere creates food and creates the oxygen
as well that we enjoy breathing. Plants they do both.
They convert people say, well, plants take carbonoxide make oxygen.

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They do that primarily. They also a little bit do
the opposite. They take oxygen make carbon dioxide. That's part
of their respiration process. I'm getting nerdy on you here,
but I just think it's kind of an interesting fun fact.
Are we ready to go on the call here? Justin? Okay,

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we may have to have them recall back then, Okay, well, tee,
what we'll do. I'm going to do this, Dean if
you are listening, and justin, if you'll talk to them,
see what you can do there. Dean, if you're listening,
I'm going to go ahead and answer your question because
I did receive your photos, and let's do it that way.
I'm going to answer it on the air. This isn't

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one where we need to kind of go back and
forth on Q and I. I've got a picture of
roses here, and these roses a nice long row roses
that look really bad. And this is not the first
time that this has happened. The two roses have been replanted,
and we still have this problem. And the problem is
bad news. It is very bad news. It is a

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disease called rose rosette, and rose rosette gets into the
plant through little insects that feed on the plant and
that transmit that into the plant itself. Just like a
mosquito would feed on someone with malaria and then come
and feed on your blood and you would get the

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malaria from the mosquito as the carrier of the disease.
That's how rososette is. It's not carried by mosquitoes, carried
by other insects, tiny insects. But once you have it,
you start to see stunting. You there's a reddish look
to the foliage and the leaves. Now roses already can
have reddish colored foliage, new growth and stuff that's not

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alone the sign, the primary sign most people see is
just excessive thorniness. Rather than a big old curved catclaw
rose thorn sticking out there, you just have a ton
of little tiny pruck that are just almost side by side,
just filling the stems out in the new growth. It
doesn't affect the growth that has already occurred. It affects

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the growth that is growing. That's where the distortion occurs
on the new growth. Once you have that, there's no
cure in it. You cannot spray a rose for rose rosette,
and you don't get rid of the disease. Now, as
a preventative, you can spray, you know, for insects carrying
it in. You can do the insecticide kind of approach.

(28:30):
But bottom line is from the standpoint of just the
disease itself, you can't cure it. So if you go
to a website for those of you are interested in
this or those of you go, yeah, that is what
my roses look like. If you go to a website,
it's roseroosette dot org o org Rose rosette Rosette is

(28:52):
spelled r O S E T t E dot org.
And everybody in the Houston Rose Society can tell you
all you want to know about rose rosette because this
disease is kind of like about about as bad of
one as you can get. Did you say we're ready
to go on? Deane? Just oh, okay, all right, we're

(29:12):
gonna have to go to a break here. I too,
what let's do this? H hang on, We'll be right
back and I'm going to continue this discussion about rose
rosette disease. The gremlins have been chased out of all
the wires as far as we know. Here we are
back again. You're listening to Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to help you have success. So we

(29:33):
were in the middle of talking about some things about roses.
I just want to mention if you haven't done your
lawn fertilization this summer, if your lawn looks like you
know it just needs a boost. How about Sweet Green.
Sweet Green is a product from Nightfross. Eleven percent nitrogen
dissolves away makes some microbes happy because it's basically a
molosses based product, which all organic gardeners know. Molasses and

(29:56):
microbes get along well together and real stimulating for them,
and Sweet Green will do that. They'll turn that eleven
percent nitrogen loose and make your lawn look good. You're
gonna find Sweet Green and other night Fast products at
Bearings Hardware, both the one on Missing Out and one
on Westheimer, as well as Done an Enchanted Forest on
f IM twenty seven fifty nine down in the Richmond

(30:16):
Rosenberg area. That's a sweet Green. All right, let's do this.
We're gonna go back here to the phones. I think
we have Dean. Now, Dean, are you there?

Speaker 9 (30:26):
I am.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Good Morningead, good so good morning. I think you heard
all that I said about the rose rosette on the
roses and you know the fact that it's a terminal disease.
I think you had a follow up though, Go ahead,
I did.

Speaker 10 (30:45):
So if I replant, how do I prevent it from
how do I know it's coming back? And how do
I prevent it or vice versa.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Okay, good question. So preventing it means it's kind of
like use the mosquito and malaria question. The thing is
to make sure there's no one with malaria around you
and no mosquitos carrying it over to you. And so
that's that's the same with the roses. So what you're
gonna want to do, what I would highly recommend is

(31:17):
get you a trash bag like the kind with a
little drawstring top or something, slip it over the roses
and go to the very bottom and then pull that
drawstring tight because those roses have the disease and they're
full of the bugs that can spread it. And if
you go yanking on a rose and shaking it and
digging it up, you know, you're just sending them floating
on the wind everywhere. So bag up as much as

(31:39):
you can there and then pull those roses up, get
as much of the roots as you can out of
the ground, especially the bigger roots. Just take a little
time to get those out of there, and then once
it's completely rose free, pick up any debris maybe leaves
fell off or anything else. Just clean clean out the
area and then give it a couple of weeks. Two
weeks is probably longer than you need to wait. The

(32:01):
research I had had sent to me by someone from
the Houston Roads Society on this that had been doing
some research on it. They sent me some stuff. Two
weeks ought to be more than enough for sure, because
the bottom line is, it's not like it's in the soil.
It's in it's in the plant, and so let it

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sit out in the sun for a couple of weeks
then you can replant. But uh, since this has happened
more than once, either there was some you didn't pull
all the plants out, maybe and that's how it got
back into this next batch, Or maybe there's a neighbor
you know, with an eye distance across the street, or
something that has rose rosette on roses, it could float

(32:43):
in from them, because a little mite that carries this
in is so tiny, tiny that it floats. It produces
a little strand of silk, and it floats on the wind,
and so it can blow blow in, you know, not
from two miles away, but for it could blow in
from across the street theoretically if the wind is right.

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So the preventing is just making two things, getting all
of it, three things, getting all of it out of there,
making sure there's not another sick rows nearby. That's it's
just gonna float back in. And here we go, going
back to my mosquito and malaria example. And number three, Uh,
making sure that you don't bring it in with the

(33:27):
next plant you purchase. Go to a reputable place, get
some really good plants, make sure they're they're in good
shape and everything. Uh. And and that would that ought
to that ought to eliminate the problem.

Speaker 10 (33:39):
Okay, And then one last question, what is it when
is a good time to plant? Plant anytime?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Or well, if you can plant anytime, if you water
the plants as if they're still in the pots. So
when you pull a rose out, it's got that cylinder
of roots that came out of the pot, and that's
the entire root system right there. So when you put
them in the ground, imagine that you had set that

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pot in the ground with them, which you're not gonna do,
but imagine that you would water right there where the
pot is. That's what the nurseries are doing that have
the roses you're gonna buy next as they're sitting on
top of the ground in a pot and they're watering
them every day right there. If you can do that
at home, your rose has a chance of establishing even
in the hot weather that we're having. But you just

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you don't want it to be drowned. You don't want
it to be saturated because pots have good drain holes.
So when it's in the soil, just watch that sole moisture,
but keep that area wet because that's the danger of
summer planting is that in a day it can pump
a pot dry and that root system is still in
the in that shape, and it'll it'll pump it dry
in a day if you're not watching it, maybe two days.

(34:51):
But you know what I'm saying, You gotta water them
little bits, and that's that's an abnormal. Normally we say
a good soaking on an frequent basis for your roses.
Very seldom do you need to water them, but a
good soaking when you do. And and but a new rose,
you're treating it like it's still in a pot for
a while as it gradually gets a root system.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Good.

Speaker 10 (35:14):
All right, Well, thanks for the thanks for the bad news.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, yeah, we welcome. Well hopefully we'll save you money
on the third batch of roses going in and not
having to do that. So this this auta this aught
to do it, all right, sir, Thank you dean. Okay, thanks,
appreciate your call. All right, folks, there you go seven
one three two one two five eight seven four seven

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one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If
you think you have rose rosette, go to Rose Rosette
dot org. Poke around, look at pictures se which you think,
because as soon as you notice it, it's time to
start taking action. There's no waiting in it getting better.
As soon as you see it. Maybe it's one rose.
You may be able to spray for the mites and

(36:01):
prevent spread. Were you to have caught it that early.
Chances are it's already in some other plants. It just
hasn't showed up yet. But that's the bottom line on that. Okay. Now,
East Hardware Stores, they've got you covered on anything you
need for your lawn, your garden, your outdoor barbecuing, and
all the other things we enjoy. In fact, they even

(36:22):
have a deal right now at the at the ACE
Hardware Stores on a ball regular mouth court Mason jars.
Now why am I talking about that? Well, you have
a garden. You need to you know, you want to
you want to can some some vegetables or free some
vegetables that in the jars too. They've got you covered
even on things like that. You know, ACE is that
place where you go for whatever you need. Is it

(36:44):
time for some new lawn care equipment? They've got you covered.
You want the battery types, the type that just I
mean the new battery type. I got new ego mower.

Speaker 11 (36:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Ace Hardware Stores got those. And the Ego mower is
it's as powerful, well is if not more powerful than
one I have than a gas power It is really cool. Equipment.
Garden hoses, you know you're gonna be watering in sprinklers
and you name it. Just think of it this way.
Do you need it for outdoors? Really? You're indoors. Ace

(37:15):
is a place. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com is how
you find my ACE Hardware stores. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com.
Don't forget the Texas.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
All right, let's take a break quick and we'll be back.
Bill and Kingwood. Your first stup, Hey, have you been
to Buchanans. Bu Canons is in the heights, you know
on Eleventh Street. You've probably been there before. If you haven't,
you need to go for sure. In fact, today it'd
be a good day to go right after the show
from a ten to eleven. Uh, they're gonna have a
program on creating a moonlight garden. What a good idea

(37:46):
for summer, right, I mean, you don't want to go
outside when it's one hundred degrees, but you sure can
go outside in the evening times and enjoy those flowers
that bloom in the evenings oftentimes white libry, light color blooms,
moth pollinated mini cases. Creating a moonlight garden with Persephony
Hagen today at ten to eleven am at Buchanans on

(38:08):
Eleventh Street and the heights. While you're there, you got
to stop by and look at their jumping jungle jack
jumping jack jungle jack plumerius. Now, plumeria is that beautiful
plant that you know in Hawaii they make the Hawaiian
lay flowers out of the necklaces of flowers. But you
can grow those here. They do very well here in
our area. And they're gorgeous tropical plants and they have

(38:32):
it's a series I'm called jungle jack plumerius. They're really beautiful.
Some of them have a gorgeous fragrance, a beautiful fragrance.
You just got to go by there check them out.
When you're a buchanans, stop by and say show me
those jungle jack plume arias if you are. If you
don't have a fig tree yet, grab you one of
those too. They've got all kinds of good varieties, you know,
the lsu, purple, purple, passion, banana, figs. Lots of options

(38:56):
there and figs. Laugh. At the heat of summer, they
will love it and this kind of temperatures we're going
to be having. And they're easy to grow, very easy
to grow. One of the least need to spray of
Any fruit you're going to have is figs super super plant.
Get them at Buchanans. There you go, a simple as that. Oh,

(39:17):
if you have not done your slow release for summer,
Superturf from Nitrofoss. It's a nineteen four to ten product,
nineteen four ten. You put it out, you water it in,
you're done. And if you get a gully washer rain,
don't worry about it. This product does not make all
that nitrogen available at once. It holds on to some
and gradually feeds over time. So a gully washer like

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we have had in the past recently is not going
to affect it. Superturf's available at places like in Genet
Gardens down on FM three point fifty nine. You're going
to get it at Court Hardware on South Main down
in Stafford, and it's like many night Foss products are
just available everywhere. Let's go out now. We're going to
head to Kingwood and talk to Bill this morning. Hey, oh,

(40:00):
welcome to guarden Line. Good morning, Skip, Good morning you
hearing me, Yes, sir.

Speaker 12 (40:09):
So boxwoods are dying.

Speaker 7 (40:11):
I before and since I'm probed, everything including plutonium, doesn't
seem like anything's gonna kill it. So as an agronomus,
I would have thought by now you would make a
huge fortune by breeding a boxwood that's resistant to the
fungus that tends to kill them all. But since you
haven't stepped up to that, I guess maybe you might

(40:33):
have a recommendation for replacement.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Well no, unfortunately I have not, but someone else has.
H There are some breed there are some breeding lines
that are out there. There's a company I think it's
called better Boxwood dot Com. Now they're not You don't
go there to buy them. They they they produce a
better boxwood and they've got at least four different boxwoods

(40:59):
of different size and things that are that are blight resistant.
Now boxwood has its own other issues on nematodes will
get box woods and uh. But if you want to
go back with a boxwood, I would just go somewhere.

Speaker 13 (41:12):
Now.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Just because some company sells them doesn't mean every nursery
is going to carry them though, either, And so you're
gonna have to ask around and say, can you can
you get a disease resistant boxwood in or do you
have one?

Speaker 14 (41:23):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (41:24):
And so that option is there for those who are
determined to stay with boxwoods. Otherwise. Otherwise people are shifting
over to some very dwarf, very dwarf types of Hollies.
Maybe the dwarf Yopon that's you know, pruned in a
little boxwood like shapes. Uh is another option. It's not
going to get that disease. So you do have some

(41:44):
other shrub options.

Speaker 7 (41:48):
Okayr Fopon and door Polly.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
The very dwarf Hollies. Talk to you know you're yeah,
you're there in Kingwood. Go over to Kingwood guard not
born in Southern Gardens there in Kingwood and ask them
you know what you have and can you can you
get a disease resisting in here? They they may have
it or they may be able to get it.

Speaker 7 (42:12):
What's the name of the company? I might look them
up to see where they've distributed.

Speaker 11 (42:18):
You.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I want to look at this one. Yeah, this is
This is just one company that I mentioned, So there
may be some others out there. I haven't checked lately,
but it's called Better Boxwood dot com. Better dot Com.
That's that is one group. Now, I want to be
real careful here, and I'm just saying this on the air,
so I want everybody that's listening to listen double carefully

(42:39):
here because sometimes I say things and people understand don't
understand what I said. Uh, I have not tried these
from that company. I don't I don't know how well
they will do right here. I would have to do
some research and stuff into those. I'm just telling you
people are breeding for boxwood blight resistance, and that's one
company that's doing it.

Speaker 7 (42:58):
Okay, well, you mentioned the worst thing in the entire
world of nematods. I'm constantly in a battle with those
damn things.

Speaker 11 (43:09):
I don't know what.

Speaker 7 (43:09):
There's really not any great uh destruction too bad. We
can't breathe. It depends attack nematodes.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah, yeah, well there there actually are things that do
attack nematodes. But I pulled my boxwoods out in the
front of the house when we moved into the house.
It had boxwoods that were struggling, and when I pulled
them up, there were nemotods all over the roots. So
I've been replanting. Go online and look for nematode resistant plants,
things that don't get nematodes, and plant that kind of
stuff in that area. With that, when you have nematods,

(43:44):
that's that's the best there's no eradicating them. You can
manage them, and they're easier to manage and like a
vegetable garden where you can rotate crops and things.

Speaker 7 (43:52):
Yeah, they are what I'm doing now.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
I have yeah, yeah, on my on my website, gardening
with Skip. I've got a little publication, little video both
on on dealing with nematodes. So those might be helpful
for you. It's Gardening with Skip dot com. Okay, so
I want to look at that. Thank you. I gotta appreciate.

Speaker 10 (44:09):
I gotta keep.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Rolling here so much, you bet, you bet, Thank you, Bill.
Appreciate that we're doing our little catch up here after
having the glitches we were dealing with. League City Feed
done in Leake City, Texas. What a great place. It's
old time feed store, old time service. It's what you
would expect from that old time feed store.

Speaker 11 (44:30):
You know.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
The they treat you right, They carry the bags out
for you, They have the things you need in stock.
And I mean like all of these fertilizers you hear
me talk about, you know, I talk about nitrofoss and
talk about Nelson plant food. I talk about microlife and
things like he's a mite. They got a source from
heirloom soils by the bag there too. I mean telling you.

(44:50):
And if you're dealing with you're needing a product to
deal with some pest, weed or disease. They got it
at League City Feed. Now where is it? Well, it's
in League City. It's on Highway three, a few blocks
south of Highway ninety six in League City. Two eight
one three three two one six one two. Let me
give you that again. Two eight one three three two
sixteen twelve. Open Monday through Saturday nine to six, so

(45:13):
you can swing by afterwork if you need to. Closed
on Sunday. That's League City Feed. Speaking of League City,
we we'll go that direction and talk to William and Laporte. Hey, William,
welcome to gardener.

Speaker 15 (45:25):
I do hey doing skip?

Speaker 12 (45:27):
I need help?

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Okay, what I'm hoping?

Speaker 15 (45:30):
And then I'll tell you the story behind this is
a someone makes a small container of a fertilizer for
my Saint Augustine UH to fertilize roughly a five foot
by eight foot area. Okay, it's not happy now, this
is what's this is what's going on. I've got a
giant live oak in the front yard. All my grass
is happy. As can be green healthy. But I had

(45:51):
had for a handful of years an area, this area
where there was no grass. So early spring I put downside, okay,
and there is zero direct sunshine coming through. It's full shady, right,
But all the rest of you are get nice and happy.
Put this in of course, you know, being new, this
is green, it can be okay. Starting a couple of

(46:11):
months ago, this one area it's just literally fizzling and
not as happy.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (46:18):
And it was thinking it's because and I should have
called you first, that it's just not getting direct sunshine
for this new sod. Okay, yesterday some tree trimmers came out.
They opened up this area, so I should have started
getting some direct sunshine on this one spot, okay, But
I was thinking, should I fertilize it? I say, it's

(46:39):
you know, it's not dying, it's just you know, not
happy like the grass sided. Does that makes sense?

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Okay? Yeah, I got you. Okay, If in answer to
your first thing, somebody make a little container for small fertilizing,
you can do that. Microlife puts their six two four
the green bag. They put it in a jar, a
large jar that would be fine for fertilizing a small

(47:06):
spot of lawn like just like that. That's micro Life
sixty four in the big jar. I believe it's a
seven pound jar. It's escaping me right now the way
it's a good sized jar. The other option would be
to go to get the Medina product that's a hose
en product called has to Grow twelve four eight one
food and that you hook up to your garden hose

(47:26):
and you squared it where you want the fertilizer. You
don't have to do the whole yard if you want
to go that approach. I don't know what's causing that
area though, just based on the description you gave, it
could be it could be a root disease. It could
be you know that the spot didn't make good contact
with the soil and the dried out, the roots dried
out a little bit because they I mean, don't I

(47:49):
don't know what did it based on what you've said,
but anyway that, depending on what caused it, we would
have to go that way to determine what to do
about it.

Speaker 15 (48:01):
All right, hate does Ace Hardware carry either one of
these here in Laporte?

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Do you know they generally do? Yeah, they generally do
I would I would try your your local ACE Hardware stores. Uh,
give them a call if you want to. But well,
just go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. You'll find
all the ones that are around you.

Speaker 12 (48:18):
Done there, Okay?

Speaker 15 (48:20):
Would you would you recommend one over the other or
just trying both? It doesn't either one.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
They're they're both excellent products. The has to grow, probably
give it a little quicker result being a liquid. Uh,
but but you don't just need just a quick result,
So either one would be just fine.

Speaker 15 (48:40):
Yeah, okay, last question for this. Okay, since the sod
you know, start its life on the full sun and
I planted it here in total shade, I mean, is
is that's what I was thinking has taken place?

Speaker 8 (48:54):
Right?

Speaker 15 (48:54):
Because it was then thrown into go ahead?

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Yeah, I don't think so. I don't know. I don't
know what did it. If you want, I'm gonna put
you on hold. My producer will pick up and give
you an email. Send me a picture of this area
from a distance, and send me some up really close
and sharp focus. I'm gonna have to run here, but
I'll take a look at them and we'll see. If
I see anything else, I'll let you know from that
and appreciate your call. William Peerscapes pierscapes dot com. Write

(49:27):
that down piercescapes dot com. That is our preferred landscaper
here on guarden Line. They are professionals from the designers
that create gorgeous beauty to all the different things they
can do for your lawn from hard scapes to lighting,
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quarterly maintenance coming in and sprucing up and keeping your

(49:47):
flower beds and things looking their best. Piercescapes dot com.
That's who you need to know. Give them a call
pierscapes dot com. We are glad to have you with
us this morning. If you've got a gardening question, well
here is number seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Affordable Tree Service is our go to service.

(50:11):
Probably've had a bunch of people ask me about tree
questions and stuff uh lately and several in fact emails
come in. Who who's that guy you recommended for doing?

Speaker 10 (50:20):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (50:21):
It's Martin spoon Moore Affordable Tree. Martin spoon Moore Affordable
Tree here's a phone number. Write this down. Seven one three,
six nine nine two six sixty three. Now is the
time to schedule your fall tree pruning. It's coming up,
folks here. Proper pruning is going to keep your trees healthy.
And when you take care of a tree right, you know,

(50:42):
you avoid issues that the tree may have. I mean,
trees is getting attacked by insects and diseases and certainly
the structural integrity as a branch breaks who the damage
can be costly. Don't trust your trees to someone who
just stuck a sign down under in a street corner
on the road. Make sure you're hiring someone who is insured,
very important, experienced, very important. You know they didn't get

(51:06):
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you call Martin seven one three, six ninety nine two
six sixty three, make sure that you were talking to
Martin or his wife Joe, or Martin's mama. If it's
not one of those three, hang up. There are people

(51:28):
out there that you know, they try to take advantage
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Now here's the number again, seven one three six ninety
nine two six six three. You want to go to

(51:50):
the website and see all the services that they offer.
A FF tree service dot com, a f F tree
service dot com. All right, there you go. You're listening
to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and if
you got a gardening question seven one three two one
two five eight seven four, it will be happy to
help you. Without Folks at Nelson Plant Food they have

(52:12):
got some outstanding products, so many different ones. And I always,
you know, the I talk about the Genesis the transplant
Mix all the time because it's just it's an outstanding product.
It just really really does work well. I've used it.
I know, I know what I'm talking about. There very good.
But here in the in the yard, in the lawn,

(52:34):
slow and Easy for summer is a great, super slow
release product. It doesn't mean you put it down and
it doesn't get green for a long time. It starts
right away releasing nutrients, but it's got a series of
different chemistries in it that allow that release to go
gradually over time. And again you get a gully washer rain.

(52:55):
It's not gonna all wash away. It's going to be there.
It doesn't all dissolve a like a fast release wood. Now,
this product slow and easy than a blue bag. Bright,
pretty blue bags. Easy to see. You're going to find
it many places around town. It also does something it
hasn't acidifire in it, which helps bring the surface up

(53:18):
there where the runners are in the top of the
soil there. It brings that pH down a little bit
as you use this over time, and that not only
increases the availability of nutrients, but you know with take
all root rot, anything that does anything to avoid pushing
the pH higher, but maybe bringing it a little bit
lower is helpful. Slow and easy for the folks at Nelson.

(53:39):
You're going to find it all over the place. Great product.
Just remember to look for the blue bag. Pretty blue bag.
Let's head out now to Paarland. We're going to talk
with Archie this morning. Hey Archie, welcome the garden line.

Speaker 8 (53:50):
Hey Skip, I just.

Speaker 16 (53:53):
Sent you a picture of some weeds that I've been
battling in my rosebds for I don't know how many years,
or scram so I always pick them by hand, trying
to get the roots and everything. Okay, they come back
and I was gonna let you look at it, and
I've seen them everywhere before. They come up in the
grass as well.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
But is there anything I can.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Yeah, that's a well, you know, that's a weed called spurge.
There's more than one kind of spurge. And you can
always tell a spurge by when you break it. When
if you pull on it and the stem breaks, you'll
get a little drop of white, milky sap coming out.
That is one of the signs that we look at

(54:38):
for spurge. You can do a couple of things. Number One,
as you improve on the mulch depth and coverage. The
seeds can't get sunlight and they have trouble sprouting and growing.
Multch helps prevent weed seeds no matter what the weed is,
and the spurge comes from seed is not a perennial.
You can do that getting a little a hole underneath

(55:00):
there and scraping it all out and loosen, you know,
just scraping just under the surface to loosen it all
out and then lifting it either get it cleaned up,
put a good layer of mulch on. That's probably the simplest,
easiest way to go about it.

Speaker 11 (55:13):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
The alternative to that would be to use a pre
emergent herbicide for broad leaf weeds. And there's a product
called Gallery g A L L E r Y, like
a picture gallery that focuses not on the grass sea weeds,
but on the broad leaf weeds, and so that would
be one for broadly. Well, if you've got crabgrass coming

(55:34):
up in there too, it's not going to help with that.
It's a broad leaf weed product. So putting it down
and following the label, follow the label very carefully, you
can do that. I prefer to go the route of, hey,
let's just let's get the weeds out, let's put a
strup so I'll get a good layer of mulch over
the top to block the sunlight. And that's my general approach.
But those are your.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Talking I don't use so much malt. I use more compost.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
The most Well, well, that's fine compost. No compost can
be a mulch. Compost is very fine textured, so it
blocks light when it's just when the seed lands in it. Yeah,
you have the prettiest greenest weeds on earth when they sprout,
because that compost that good stuff.

Speaker 12 (56:22):
The other thing.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Sometimes that I don't know, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
No, it doesn't hurt anything. In fact, you could even
put a little thin layer of that over it and
it makes a very good block of the light. Because
some people don't like their looks of it. But I
have areas that I melt with grass blades. But anyway,
the bottom the bottom line on these is you just
you just need to keep the light out. What I
would do too. I know we get busy and we

(56:55):
don't get around to it. But if you go by
there occasionally just with the rake and just stir the
soil when you got little tiny seedlings just sprouting. I
see in the top part of your picture there's some
little seedlings sprouting. Just a little rake stirring the soil
just breaks the roots and it gets them. You know,
you're then you're not having to pull weeds or anything
like that. But occasionally stirring a mulch will will help too.

Speaker 9 (57:19):
So those are your best And I'm back at my age,
like have they get down on my knees and stuff
and getting in there.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Okay, looking forward to seeing you next.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're in a Roads society. Good, I'm
looking forward to being there.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
In fact, I just had gave the other night.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
We No, I wasn't trying to cut you off. I
just I'm looking forward to it. So that that's such
a good group. Houston Roast Society. They're open to the public.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
Right, Oh yeah, sure, yeah, good listening.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
All right, I'll mention I'll mention that on air. I
need to talk about the date and time for anybody
that wants to come by. All right, thanks, arching, thank you,
bye bye. All right, yeah, Houston Road. I'll tell you
more about that as we get a little bit closer
to it here. So anyway, let's do this. Where am
I on time? Okay, looks like I got to take

(58:29):
a quick break. When I come back, we're going to
try to get Mike and Lake Jackson and Sarah and Clarlake.
Good to have you with us this morning. If you
are in the if you were in the market for
some mulch, I want to tell you about something that
you gotta please drop what you're doing and listen to this.
I don't if you're not in the market for mulch,

(58:51):
you will be soon and you need to hear this.
The folks at the ground up are having the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our USA cell. It's been
going on for a while. Yeah, it started in June
twenty sixth going all the way to the end of
this month thirty first of July. Not passing them this month. Okay,
you got to get out there and you got to

(59:12):
hear this premium double shredded hardwood multch that's been composted,
that has been screened down to a one point five
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earthy smell. They got it bagged up in two cubic
foot bags, clear plastic, non branded, just simple two cubic

(59:32):
foot bags, and they got a b looza of it.
I'm telling you it is that plenty, But you got
to get out there and get it. If you buy
one bag to ten bags, it's two dollars and twenty
five cents a bag. Yeah you heard that right, But
you on it. Make it better you get ten bags
or more two dollars a bag. You can buy a

(59:53):
palette of it. Sixty bags. That's about four point four
cubic yards roughly two dollars a bag if you get
ten bags or more. All that all the ground up
locations have it, So whichever one you go to now
again it only goes to July thirty first, and so
stock up now get that. You can stockpile that stuff

(01:00:15):
up and be ready to go. If you don't know
how much you need, go to the ground up dot
Com dground up dot com. They have a calculator on
the website and you can figure out exactly how many
qbcyards you need to cover whatever size area you have.
And remember that a palette or sixty bags is about
four point four qbityard. So just think of it this way.

(01:00:36):
I don't want to confuse you, but about fourteen bags
per qubicyard, about fourteen bags of this particular bagged product
per qbicyard. So there you go. Dground up dot Com
is the website two eight one nine to seven oh
zero zero zero three, and again whatever the locations West Park,

(01:00:56):
wind Fern and Brentmore, they've got this all going on.
I'm never this is an incredible sale. Here's your opportunity.
You heard it here first let's go now out to
Lake Jackson and talked to Mike this morning. Hey, Mike,
welcome to garden Skip.

Speaker 10 (01:01:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
I've got I grafted a pecan tree about six years
ago and it's about twenty tall. And last year I
got a cluster of three pecans off of it, and
you know, one of those tree was real good, one
was kind of medium, and the other one but really
quite filled out. So I was expecting more pecans this year,

(01:01:40):
but this tree started leaping out about three weeks or
so later than the native pecan trees in our neighborhood
and in my yard, and I didn't know if the manythinger.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Necessarily So, first of all, congratulations on successfully grafting a tree.
That that's great. The pe con When you yeah, how
long ago did you say you grafted it? How many years?

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
About six maybe seven? It's about twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Yeah, I think it. It should be. It should be
building up to better crops for you as you go.
Pecans need decent vigor. So if they're growing in the
yard where grass is competing in things, just make sure
they're getting inadequate fertilizing and watering. Especially you know, here
we go with the almost one hundred degree temperatures and stuff.

(01:02:42):
If it doesn't rain for a couple of weeks, you know,
give it some water, give it a good soaking, not
a squirt, just a really good deep soaking. It'd be
better to only water it once ever, two weeks or
three weeks with a good soaking. Right then to squirt
it a little bit every other day, and it should
settle in a good sunlight, adequate water, and your tree
it should set a better crop as you go forward.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Quick question.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
I've got another native tree that I grafted and only
one draft took on it, and it put out leaves.
But the leaves are really yellow, licking, and I don't
know if to be better to pizch those off and
let it mature a little more, or just see what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
The leaves are all of them are yellow looking, or
is it the older ones.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Well, it's it's just a sprig, you know that I
grafted it on, you know, this earlier this year, and
it put out, you know, one little sprig of leaves
and you know, they just look okay, kind of peuty
and yellow. And I wasn't sure about it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
I don't know if I don't I don't have to
see a picture of that, Mike. I can't quite picture
you know exactly what you're seeing that it doesn't sound
quite right. If you want, I'll put you on hold
and uh, you can send me a picture of it.
I'll look and give you my two cents worth on it.
But otherwise I would just again, not too much water

(01:04:08):
if you if the root system, pecans are not made
to grow in a swamp, and so if you if
you give it some watering, make it a soaking and frequently.
But if it's stings soggy wet, that could cause some
yellowing and puniness and lack of lack of good, good
vigor in the appearance of the plant. So that be

(01:04:30):
a possibility. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Yeah, I'm a true navy pecan, sure, man, I've got
a crop on them like, yeah, I've never seen before.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
And okay, two to.

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
Your other ones.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Well, you know, you know, you know the thing that
we say you got to talk to your plants. And
talking doesn't just mean nice. So what you do is
you get a chainsaw and you walk out to that
tree and you you fire it up, and you walk
toward the tree and you stop and turn off this
on and say, if you don't produce pecans next year,
I'm going to come back with that song. I'm going

(01:05:05):
to finish the job, and it will there'll be pecans
falling hitting the ground before you get back in the house.
All right, good luck, good luck, all right, take care.
Appreciate you, appreciate you call very much. That's good to
Sarah now and clear like, Hey Sarah, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 13 (01:05:22):
Good morning Skip.

Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
I know this is a strange question, but we like
to sit in our.

Speaker 13 (01:05:28):
Yard and watch, you know, watch all the bugs and
the geckos and the butterflies and birds and all the stuff.
And we've noticed that we don't have green geckos anymore.
They're brown striped, and they look like the ones that
are in Florida, smaller, and all of a sudden, it
seems like they've watched a whole new batch. And we

(01:05:48):
don't have any mosquitoes. When have I ever lived in
Houston and I don't have any mosquitoes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
I don't think echos unless unless geckos learn how to
jump ten feet high. I don't think they're clean out
your mosquito problem. But I don't know why that is,
you know, that the fact that you have a means
there's something for them to eat, and they're finding bugs

(01:06:14):
and caterpillars and other things they can chomp on.

Speaker 8 (01:06:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
And so I don't know that that would be one
for a wildlife kind of specialist on it, but I
wouldn't consider it necessarily a bad problem. You know, having
livings around means they're finding things.

Speaker 11 (01:06:31):
At all.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Yes, okay, all right, now you're talking about geckos, not
a nol's right, is an annoyed All right? Well, Annoley's
the kind that are kind of slick and have a uh.
They're typically green or brown, but they have a smoother
skin and their little throat comes out, sticks out and

(01:06:53):
has kind of a pinkish what do you call it?
Turkey wa on the throat?

Speaker 15 (01:06:57):
Yeah, uh.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
And then the geckos are little more of a flattened out,
grayish brown sort of thing. You're you're having a horticulturist
talk about herpetology and I don't know anything about it.
So I'm gonna quit that.

Speaker 17 (01:07:11):
I just.

Speaker 15 (01:07:13):
Talk like that pest guy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
No, now you am, I going to get your phone,
lay on the ground and film you a little honey,
I shrunk the Kid's Jurassic Park version. Now that might
be fun. Thanks Sarah, take care appreciate it. Oh my gosh. Hey,

(01:07:39):
for those of you up in the Tombol area, that
whole region up there, really have you been out to
dand Feed. It's on the west side of Timboy. You
go out twenty nine, twenty twenty nine to the west,
head out to dand Feed. It's on the left hand
side as you get out there. Dandy Feed is a
full service speedstor. I mean we we're talking about all

(01:08:01):
the stuff that you might want. They got. Of course,
it's a feed store. They got feed for all the
livestock and everything, but some really high quality pet foods
as well. They've got a nice lon and garden department.
You know, you go out to D and D and
you're looking for something to kill maybe weeds or diseases,
or insects, managing those kinds of things, dealing with fire

(01:08:21):
ants for crying out loud, They've got it all. You know,
you need your mosquito dunks when you're out there. You
need something to control flies, fly baits, fly fly traps,
all kinds of stuff like that. And when it comes
to fertilizers, if you hear me talk about them, it's
probably their D and D feed products from nitrofoss and
Nelson's products from microlife products like azomite for example, that

(01:08:46):
are there. They carry all the brands that you're going
to be looking for when it comes to making sure
that you are keeping your place looking as good as
it can be. Check out their lawn and garden department.
You're gonna like it. You are going to like it.
I'm always amazed at what they have there. Uh and
seasonally they are going to carry the stuff you need.
You know, here, we're gonna the last thing you're thinking

(01:09:08):
about right now is a freeze, right but freezes will come.
When they do, you're going to go out to D
and D Feed and find your freeze miser those little
things you screw on the end of a fawcet that
makes it so easy to deal with. What do you
do with your fossets? It's going to freeze. Go to
D and D they'll tell you they've got it there.
D and D feed again west of Tumbull. Head out

(01:09:30):
west of Tumbull. Now, if you want to reach out
to them, you absolutely can go to the website D
D feed dot com d d feed dot com if
you want to give them a call to eight one
three five one seventy one forty four. We're going to
go now out to Alvin and talk to Doc this morning.
Hey Doc, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Nay, good morning, Skip. Glad to talk to you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
Appreciate you taking my call. I've got about two months ago,
I purchased several live oaks, probably five or six in
about two and a half gallon potted plants.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
They're, you know, like five to six feet tall.

Speaker 6 (01:10:08):
Life kind of got away, and I had them sitting
on the concrete out in front of my garage, and
I was watering them until I could plant them. And
I think sitting on the concrete probably didn't do them
any favors. But before I and we were watering them
on a regular basis, that went out of town for
a week, came back and the leaves returning brown. I
went ahead and planted them in the ground and the

(01:10:32):
locations I wanted on the property. But I don't know
if they're dead. I pulled took my thumbnail and worked
on the bark a little bit.

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
And their bark is still green.

Speaker 6 (01:10:44):
And anyway, I'm trying to see if there's should I
use the roots stimulator or anything like that to try
to keep them alive.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
Yeah, So what I would do is I would a
couple of things. They probably not dead, they could be
if it went long enough. Yeah, it could kill the plant,
but the tree's first response is to throw those leaves
off and try to survive. Yeah, and so if you
got some green under the bark, that's a good sign.
It's just wait it maybe that you get a sprout
from the bottom. Maybe some of the branch above is dead,

(01:11:18):
but you get a sprout down below, and you can
pick one trunk and be back in business. That way,
I would get you a product called Mito Grow m
I t O g r O W. Mito Grow is
an excellent product. It contains roots stimulating ingredients hormones like

(01:11:38):
plants naturally will make, but it gives them a boost
to increase your root system. It's got microbes that work
with the roots to help make them more resilient. And
typically we would like to use Mito grow. You know
when you planted them when they were still maybe you
planted them they were still good. You get some Mita
grow down there and get those roots going on that
and then the resilience goes way up on them. We're

(01:12:00):
looking at after the fact now, but I still think
microgrow can bring it back. In fact the bag, the
bag says it's not dead yet on the bag and
the micro is going to be the first step. And
I'll give them a good soaking in it. You only
need to do it once. I don't see a need
to do it again. I mean you could. It's not
gonna hurt anything. It's not a fertilizer. It's not going

(01:12:20):
to burn the roots or anything like that. It's just
something that's got the microbe, the microbes, both the bacteria
that help with the plant as well as some fungi
that actually help with the plants resilience down in it.
I would do that. I wouldn't worry about fertilizing them
right now because it's not a lack of nutrients that
they need. But about six weeks after they do begin

(01:12:42):
to grow, then you might want to work a fertilizer
down into the soil. And I would probably go with
there's a product that the folks that Nelson have that
is called Genesis. Genesis like the first book of the bottle,
and you work that into the soil. If all the

(01:13:02):
labels working in the soil around them watered in really
good into that soil, and it is not going to burn,
but it will provide a number of things that the
plants need. And really, you know, we have a lot
of good fertilizers I talk about here. Just the thing
you want to do is go very slow on them
and gradual. And that's why I like Genesisho. Microlife's another

(01:13:22):
good one that has a good slow release to it
that you could use on something like that. I talk
about a lot of products, and I have a lot
of products that are good out there that we talk
about here, and so you're not going to go wrong
with any of those. But that would be my suggestion.
Just remember it right now. It doesn't need nutrients right now.

(01:13:43):
It needs life and a way to defend itself against
the stresses. That's the number one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Okay, just a follow on question on that.

Speaker 6 (01:13:51):
So I've got I can just water with a water
hose because I've got these placed around ten acres. How
much water should I be you try? You know, I
know when we're getting rain, which we have been lately, I.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
Wasn't too worried about it, but.

Speaker 6 (01:14:07):
A few gallons a week every other day, or how
much water should I be putting.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
On any you know what? That's that's the challenge. It
This sounds like I'm evading your question, but it's really
the correct answer. And that is enough to keep the
soil continually moist, not stopping soggy wet, just moist, okay.
And so depending on whether you're sand or clay, that's

(01:14:32):
going to vary. Depending on whether it's one hundred degrees
or eighty degrees, that's gonna vary. But just dig down
with your hands, feel so all about two or three
inches deep, and it should be moist. And you're probably
because the plant's not using water right now, because it
I mean leaves to use water, it's not going to
take a lot. Once you get it moist, it should
stay moist for them a few days. But just keep

(01:14:55):
it adequately moist in that area where the root ball
was it came out of the pots as well. Is
the area about six inches a foot out from the
rootball in all directions.

Speaker 10 (01:15:05):
Gotcha?

Speaker 8 (01:15:06):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Well I have a good one.

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
All right, let's keep me post it. I'd like to
see how if we can bring those things back, very
very good. Uh yeah, I might have grow. It's not
dead yet. I love that. I love that slogan. The
folks at Nelson Water Gardens. It's it's one of my
favorite places to go because you get the sound of
water when you go out there. It's not a Katie

(01:15:30):
go out to Katie. There's a road called Katie Fort
Ben Road. If you're driving from Houston to Katie, you
turn right and go upstreet a little bit and it's
right there. Nelson Water Gardens, of course, has anything you're
looking for in the way of water gardens and you
need you need, whether it's a disappearing fountain or a
full fledged waterfall they build in your backyard, you need

(01:15:51):
to go by there and get that. Nelson Water Gardens
is a full service nursery though. They got the plants,
the vegetables, the herbs, all of the different kinds of plants,
you know, roses and fruit trees and so on. Right now.
They you know, they are just loaded. They got a
number of sails on some certain types of fountains that
you can do. They've got their two hundred and fifty

(01:16:15):
year sail on all red, white and blue pottery. If
it's red, white, or blue twenty five percent off their pottery.
That's kind of cool. But whatever you do, head out
there and enjoy it. Take the kids and take the
family and enjoy. Enjoy that they have their ding dang
selle going on. Those are things that are a little
bit dinged or danged up a little bit, or something's

(01:16:36):
a little off with them, but they're still perfectly good.
It's a great sale. People look forward to it every year.
Started July third, by the way, uh and you got
to be you got to be present. You see the pricing,
you see the availability. This isn't just a specific kind
of plant they're selling. It's just some ding danged up
things that I'm telling you, it's a it's a really
good deal. I gotta go to a break here, but

(01:16:57):
I'll be right back when we come back. Greg and Pinehurst,
you're going to be our first up. We are here
to help you have success. That's the bottom line. We
want you to have success. If you want to look
for something to turn your lawns look a little less
green than you'd like it to be, well, or maybe
a lot less green. Sweet green from the folks at
night Foss works super super well. It's eleven percent nitrogen

(01:17:20):
that releases down into the soil as microbes get a
hold of those particles, and your lawn turns green and
it works. It looks good. I've seen results from it,
and it is a good one. It is going to
be what we would think of as an immediate release fertilizer,
not totally immediate release like salt based because microbes have
to get involved and be part of the process. But

(01:17:41):
it's not a super slow release. But it's a good
one to get quick results. So you can do it
in small doses over time. You know, I have on
my schedule. If you go to gardening with Skip dot
com my lawn care schedule, I'll tell you different times
to fertilize and products that I would recommend as being
excellent products, and you can do that. You can also
take some thing like sweet Green and do very light
noses periodically through the year through the growing season and

(01:18:05):
that works really well. Also, now where do you get
sweet green another night Fosh products. We'll go to a
place like RCW Nursery, Tomball Park Me. They crrate some
night Fosh products there, as does a hardware city on
Memorial Drive and D and defeat. I just mentioned them
a minute ago up in Tomball. You're going to find
it there for sure. FM twenty nine. There you go.

(01:18:28):
Let's head out to Pinehurst now and we're going to
visit with Greg this morning. Hey Greg, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 18 (01:18:33):
Hey, hey Skid, good morning. Actually, just put down some
sweet grain. I bought a d D feed last week.

Speaker 8 (01:18:39):
Hey, I just bought a new I just bought a.

Speaker 18 (01:18:42):
New house, got in Hoasted actually, and it has a
pool and around a pool decking, and it's got some
fairly high end tile and in that file there are
a bunch of weeds popping up in between the tiles.
So I don't know how to treat that safely and effectively,
especially having young kids and a dog.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Yeah, yeah, uh so. Part of it depends on the
kind of weeds you have. If they're just annual weeds,
I mean, you know, you can spray them with any
kind of a burned down product then it You know
that people use vinegar for things like that. I don't
know the effects of that, by the way. On that,
I don't know the kind of towel you have, so
I want to be careful there about using them Otherwise

(01:19:28):
you would want to use a translocated herbicide that will
move down in the weed. If you go to my
website Gardening with Skip dot com and you go to
plant problems section, there's a publication and it says it's herbicides,
you know, for various types of weeds, and depending on

(01:19:49):
the weeds you have. And now I'm looking there and
I'm not seeing it. There should be yeah, yeah, herbicides
various types of weeds. If the weeds are grassy weeds,
there's a couple of products. You can use a couple
of ingredients, and I list all the products to go
look for for those ingredients that will translocate down and
kill grass. If it's broad leaf weeds, not just grasp

(01:20:13):
but grasses and broad leaves, there are also two ingredients
and the products that you would find if you want
to avoid getting them all over the tiles and things.
Also on my website is a publication that is Skips
weed Wiper, and it shows you how to build a
little gadget. And the way it works, Greg is it's

(01:20:35):
real simple. It's not like you're gonna be in the
construction business building this thing. It's just attaching sponges to
a grabber tool basically, and you can walk along. You
just put a little bit on the sponges and you
walk along and everywhere a weed is sticking up, you
just squeeze it and wipe that product on it. Then
you didn't spray it on the tiles, you didn't get

(01:20:55):
it drifting into the pool or anything like that, and
it'll translocate down. So weed is dead, you can just
grab it and pull it out of the way, the
dead weed, and you're good to go. So that would
be the safest approach that I can think of.

Speaker 18 (01:21:10):
Okay, makes sense. I'm on your website. I see the
herbicide that, yeah, the first one you reference. I can't okay,
the homemade see.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
Yeah, homemade weed wiper that and you may not want
to mess with building that, but it is soo I
literally I'll take you fifteen minutes to put.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
So well.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
I made it. I made it up myself. Yeah, but
you got to get the right kind of weed wiper
because it some kind don't have that where you can
put a bolt through them like that. But anyway, bottom right,
you'll use that. Like if you've got poison ivy coming
up underneath the rose bush, you know you can use
the weed wiper to go in there and kill the
poison ivy without killing your rose bush. So anyway, I

(01:21:54):
think you'll find it helpful.

Speaker 10 (01:21:55):
Good luck with that, Okay, very good, Thank.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
You, Thank you sir. All right, there you go. We
put that stuff on the website. Folks, go check it out.
Gardening with Skip dot Com. It's there for you make
your life easier. Wild Birds Unlimited. What a fun place
to go into. I always love going in, you know.

(01:22:18):
I find myself going in I'm needing some more bird seed,
for example, and then I start talking to them and
one thing leads to another. These folks are so knowledgeable
right now, by the way, speaking of bird seed, they've
got their feather Pro specialty blend. It's called feather Pro
Super Blend. Feather Pro Super Blend at wild Birds Unlimited.

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What does that mean feather Pro Well, it means that
birds kind of their nesting season is kind of wind down,
but the molting season comes on us and birds lose
their feathers. Do you know that they molt and then
they get new feathers. And what does it take to
build a feather Well, it takes essential proteins and fats,
especially in the right kinds of neutris and they design

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them just that way. Now you can buy it in
loose in the bag. You know, you just buy loose
seed in the bag. If you want to use the cylinders.
Those are really cool, the compressed cylinders. They kind of
remind me of those those candles you know that are cylindrical. Uh,
there's the regular cylinder. Or if you've got squirrels that
like to ruin the bird seed and steal your bird

(01:23:22):
seed and you're ines in this in the in the birds,
you can do the hot pepper cylinder that kind of
like I wouldn't chew on that. My mouth couldn't take
that either. But Burdened by the Birds works really well.
Feather Pro super bleund A, wild Birds Unlimited. You know,
you've got six stores here. You go to WBU dot com,
Forward Slash Houston, WBU dot Com Forward Slash Houston find

(01:23:46):
your local wildbird store. There's one in clear Lake on
El Dorado, one in Cypress on Barker Cypress in Houston,
and on the west side you got bel Air Boulevard
on the southwest side. On the west side, you've got
Memorial Drive Store in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive and in
Pairland on East Broadway Street. Just go to WBU dot
com forward slized Houston and then get out there and

(01:24:10):
enjoy your store. In fact, today it'd be a great
day to go out to wild Bird's Unlimited. You know what,
it's air conditioned inside. There you go, that's what you need.
You're listening to Garden Line and we're here to help
you have success. If you would like to give me
a call, here is the number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two

(01:24:32):
one two fifty eight seventy four. I want to know
how many of you show hands. How many of you
been to Southwest Fertilizer. Yeah, that's what I thought a
lot of people, but not everybody. Well you need to
you go. Well I don't live in Southwest Houston. You
still need to go. This is a place that has
everything you could possibly need for success with your garden.

(01:24:53):
Do you want quality tools? They got a ninety foot
long wall of tools that are quality. Hear talk about
that kneeling bench. They've got those there. You need your
mower blade sharpened or your small engine repair done, they
got that in the back. Do you want seeds by
the packet, they got them. Do you want seeds by
the bulk, very economical way, take a little scoop and
scoop out the city. They got those as well. Any

(01:25:15):
kinds of tools and supplies and hoses and sprinklers, and
then every fertilizer you can imagine. I've never seen as
many kinds of fertilizer in one store as as wilberd
As Wilbert's them as Southwest Fertilizer has now also Bob.
He's got staff that is friendly. They help you, they
know what they're talking about. You can bring them pictures

(01:25:37):
or samples. Put a little weed in a plastic bag
and bring it in for ID. They'll walk you over
to the products that control weeds, pests, and diseases. If
you're an organic gardener, this store has the biggest organic
supply of any place in town. Southwest Fertilizer corner of
Bissinet and Renwick in Southwest Houston. You just need to

(01:25:58):
go by there and check it out. It's cool, you'll
like it. I was visiting with Beverly over at Arburgate
the other day and it just reminded me, you know,
Arburgate is that garden center up there in Tomball on
the west side of town out twenty nine to twenty,
and it is a showplace. You need to get out

(01:26:20):
there and check them out. Their color right now is stunning, beautiful,
beautiful color. All kinds of plants, and yes, you can
plant in summer. Just take care of the planet. They'll
tell you how. When you walk into Arburgate, they greet you,
they listen to your questions, they help you select the plants,
they walk you over to them. They help you have success.
And you come back in later and you got a question,

(01:26:43):
you ask them. They help you solve the problem. They
tell you how to do it. They know what they're
talking about. This is a garden center. You definitely need
to go buy and see. The arbor Gate out west
of tombul on twenty nine to twenty. You just turn
down a little street called Trishel Road so you can
park in the back. It's the safest all weather access
that you're going to find at the arbor Gate. What

(01:27:04):
do you want to talk about? That is what we're
about here, is what do you want to talk about?
I got my topics, happy to visit with you about.
In fact, I may be getting back to one that
I started at the beginning of the show today and
we just kind of got busy and sidetracked. But if
you'd like to give me a call seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. Remember you can
send me photos to talk about on the air. I

(01:27:27):
can't do the email answers and things. I just physically,
time wise, I'm not able to do that. But if
you want to send a photo, make sure it's in
good sharp focus. Take one from a distance of the
plant or the problem, and then take one or two
or three up close, depending on what you can check
your photos before you send them. Make sure they're in
sharp focus. Fuzzy photos give you fuzzy answers, and we

(01:27:50):
don't want fuzzy answers. We want a good sharp answer.

Speaker 6 (01:27:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
And I'll work on that end of it. If you
will send me a sharp photo, uh. And you can
call the show, talk to my producer and say, hey,
I need that email to send skip a photo and
then just remember to follow it up with a phone call.
Here Reguard Line will help you that way we get
to the bottom of it. Some things like oh, what's
a good tomato plant that's easy to answer without a photo.
But some things like well, there's the spot on this plant,

(01:28:17):
and I don't know what the plant is, and I
don't know how to describe the spot that needs a photo.
So let's see if we can help you in that way.
We're happy, more than happy to do just that. I
mentioned earlier Microlife fertilizers a couple times today, and Microlife
has so many excellent products that are available out there
on the market. You can find Microlife fertilizers all over

(01:28:38):
the place, an organic fertilizer that provides exactly the things
that you need.

Speaker 11 (01:28:44):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Normally, when we say fertilizers, we're talking about things with nutrients, right, Well,
when I say Microlife fertilizer, I'm including things that are
not just nutrients, like micro grow bioinoculate. Bioinoculan is loaded
with outstanding beneficial microbes that help plants to survive. All right,

(01:29:07):
So if you were to for example, they have things
like beneficial fungi, beneficial bacteria. In fact, there's over seventy
two different species and strains included in here, and many
of these you know, for example, I'm going to nerd
out just a minute, but bear with me, I won't
go too far. They have Bacilli subtless. Bacillis subtless is

(01:29:29):
a particular disease fighting strain of Basillis bacteria. There's Bacillis.
This one is my favorite one to say, Amelo Likophacians.
That's in there, four different strains of Basillis amelo ecopacians.
Do you know what this basilis can do? Not only
does it protect the roots from root rots, but it

(01:29:50):
talks to the roots and causes the plant to develop
resistance in the above ground parts of the plant. Is
that amazing? I just picked out two? How many do
I say there were?

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
Here?

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
There's seventy two different species and strains of those species
total in this product. Micro Grow bioinoculant in a maroon
bag makes my heart saying bioinoculant micro grow. You can
get it in the bag, you can get it in
the jars. The bottom line is, just get it. It's
what nature already is doing out there. Why not make

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sure your soil is chocked full of these things and
around your plant roots or these good guys that are
out there to help you. All right, Well, let's see here,
we just had the phone's light up. Let's see how
far we can go here. We're starting, Katie, and we're
going to go talk to Hank this morning. Hey, Hank,
good morning, Welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
Good morning, sir. I have a neighbor that's got this
planner planet. It's three is three by six, nice planner
and it's morning. It smells ran sid underneath it. She's
having a party. This obviously something in the soil leaching through.
I looked on the internet. They get use hiding oxide

(01:31:02):
or throwing to neutralize the odor for a party.

Speaker 7 (01:31:06):
What do you suggest, Well, you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
Can't put that in the planter, but you could put
it underneath it on the container. If it smells that bad,
it has stayed too wet for too long. When organic
matter decomposes and it has moisture and oxygen, it smells wonderful.
It's that earthy smell that we like. When it is
no oxygen, you get a nasty swamp gas rancid. That

(01:31:32):
is horrible, and that's what's happened. But this is really
bad for the plant roots too, So uh, I don't
know if you're if if it's a planter that can
be moved, I might just move it out of the
area for now, have your get together and then because
you can't fix the smell that fast, uh if in
longer term though, you're gonna want to probably fluff that

(01:31:53):
soil up, let it dry out a little bit, and
that smell should go away.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Yeah, but it says probably five or six pounds, and
that's probably no way to move it. Okay, yeaherneath it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Yeah, well that'll take care of the smell that's coming
out off the surface of the of the patio or
whatever underneath there. You could you could do that. It's
just basically bleach area down there. There are some sprays
and this is outside my expertise, Hank, but just real quick,
there's some sprays, one called zap sit and there's some

(01:32:31):
other that are kind of enzyme sprays that affect odor.
People spraym on the carpet when the pets pea on
the carpet or worse than that on the carpet.

Speaker 8 (01:32:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
And you might look for something like that for a
quick fix underneath it. But as far as the soil
itself inside there, it's just soggy, wet and you got
nasty bacteria making bad odors.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Just let it dry out.

Speaker 3 (01:32:55):
Let it dry out. Yeah, but it's not going to
dry out too fast. But yeah, if you can let
it dry out a little bit, that up.

Speaker 4 (01:33:01):
Okay, but you said clorox would work.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Well the yeah, underneath not don't drench it in the soil.
You can hurt your plants with that, especially too strongly. Yeah,
underneath it, yeah you could. You could just just remember
it's bleached, so whatever is under there. I don't I
can't see your patio and stuff. But just be careful
because anything bleach would hurt. You don't want to you

(01:33:27):
don't want to get it on, but that to do
a quick if you strong enough. Not strong enough to
do that what you're trying to do?

Speaker 8 (01:33:40):
Okay, so do you don't?

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
You straight just water it down.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
Ten percent. Mix it one part bleach, nine parts water.
Try that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:52):
Thank you, Thank you so much for your health.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
Yes, sir, all right? Do you take care? Alrighty, let's
see we are gonna Yeah, that's my best shot. Sometimes
I'm getting stretched outside my horticultural expertise here today, folks,
So take some if it's oside horticulture, take it with
a great ne of salt, folks, at nature's way. That
is where so many of our great products were born.

(01:34:16):
Nature's Way is on off Interstate forty five up toward Tombo.
It's to the east side of forty five, right where
fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia. You just go
the other way across railroad tracks and you're there at
Nature's Way. Nature's Way is where you're going to find
quality products. You're going to find things that are going
to cause your plants to thrive, and you're also going

(01:34:38):
to find plants. Their nursery is outstanding, beautiful, beautiful plants
in the garden center there. You need to get out
there and see it. You need to pick up the
products that they have, whether it's fungal based compost, whether
it's rose soil, whether it is any kind of thing
that is going to enhance that plant's root system. By

(01:34:58):
the way, if you've never grown a by Bohinia, they
have the white Bohinia out there. I got some beautiful
plants in stock, very unique leaves and gorgeous blooms. An
excellent plant out there at Nature's Way Resources Nature's Way
resources dot Com. Go check them out. I gotta go

(01:35:20):
to a break. When we come back. Jim and Katie,
you'll be our first up. Good to have you with us.
We're here to answer your gardening questions. Listen, if you
have not had your trees looked at, you need to
get it done. You need to call Martin spoon Woort
Affordable Tree seven one three six nine nine two six
six three. We are in the summer storm season. Of course,
it's storm season all twelve months of the year, so

(01:35:42):
it seems like sometimes here in the Greater Houston area.
But Martin, he knows what he's doing. He's experienced, he's local,
has been doing this a long time right here in
the Greater Houston area. He is insured. And you, by
the way, don't let somebody who just stuck a sign
in the ground at a street corner saying hey tree
service call. Don't go with that. Go with somebody knows

(01:36:02):
what they're doing. Your trees are valuable. A lot of
damage can be done by someone that doesn't know what
they're doing to your trees. Martin knows what he's doing.
It's as simple as that. Affordable Tree Service seven to
one three six nine nine two six sixty three. When
you call, you're gonna hit one of three. People's gonna
answer Martin, his wife, Joe, or Martin's mom. If is

(01:36:23):
not one of those, hang up, you call the wrong number.
Seven to one three six nine nine two six sixty three.
You can go to Afftree Service dot com find out
more about it. But you got to get somebody that
knows what they're doing, that knows Houston's trees. It's local
and again insured. You know, some of these folks out
there just because they own a chainsaw and a pickup,

(01:36:45):
you know they should put on the side of the
truck two jerks on a chainsaw tree service that if
they're not insured and something goes south, you're in trouble.
And so make sure your folks are insured. And Martin
definitely is. Plus he has the experience and the local knowledge.
Seven one three six nine nine two six six three
Affordable Tree Service. All right, let's head out to the phones. Here,

(01:37:10):
we're gonna go talk to Shame. I believe here. No,
I'm sorry I had called the wrong one. Jim was
waiting a little longer. Hey, Jim and Katie, how can
we help today?

Speaker 17 (01:37:23):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. I've got an interesting
plant situation in my backyard. So I've got a bunch
of the same plants in my yarn. But the plants
that are next to my four fox flowers are thriving
like they're on steroids. So what what is it about

(01:37:43):
the four o' flox flower that's helping those plants? Maybe,
like my Mexican virtunias are a foot and a half
taller in one section. Then I've got a bogabilia that's
out of control while my other two Vogan billions are
barely limping along.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Yeah, are your four o'clocks? How much sun are your
four o'clocks in?

Speaker 17 (01:38:06):
Yeah, the four o'clocks that are right next to my
Mexican petunias, I are I think they're.

Speaker 19 (01:38:12):
Causing my Mexican.

Speaker 17 (01:38:13):
Petunia to be a lot stronger and healthier. And I'm
not sure what it is about the four o'clock.

Speaker 10 (01:38:22):
I hear that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
I'm just telling you the four o'clocks. What what what
is the sun exposure? You're getting all day sun? Three
hours of sun? What what is the sun exposure where
they're doing so well?

Speaker 8 (01:38:35):
You know that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
They're in the shade.

Speaker 17 (01:38:37):
So I've got one set of Mexican stuniors that are
getting about eight.

Speaker 6 (01:38:41):
Hours of sun and the set that is next to
the set that's next to the.

Speaker 17 (01:38:47):
Mexican putunia is the four o'clock. They're only getting about six.
They're in they're shaded by a couple of different trees,
which is.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
Weird because yeah, both of both of those spots are
enough sun though for those plants to thrive. I think
what you got here, Jim, is there's a term we
talk about it in research called correlation and causation. Just
because two things happen together doesn't mean one caused the

(01:39:14):
other kind of thing. And so that throws this off
sometimes because, like you say, you're observing over by the
four o'clocks, these things are obviously doing better. That doesn't
mean the four o'clocks are causing it. Four o'clocks are
not a lagoon. They don't put nitrogen in the soil.
I'm not aware of any root association benefit that four
o'clocks provide other plants. I think it's just it just happens.

(01:39:37):
It happens to be, and it may be the amount
of sun, it may be the type of soil. It
may be them on a moisture they have who knows,
but I don't. I can't associate that I'll do some
research on it and look into it. But I've been
doing this a long time and I've never heard of
four o'clocks themselves having that kind of beneficial effect on

(01:39:57):
the plant.

Speaker 17 (01:39:58):
Yes, it's a strange coincident because it's two different plans.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
Yeah, so I could I.

Speaker 7 (01:40:05):
Get you to do this?

Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:40:07):
Yeah, yeah, let me. I'm gonna put you on hold,
tell my get an email from my producer and send
me photos of what you're seeing and let me take
a look at it. That'll be my reminder to look
into it, because I'm open minded enough to always say, well,
you know, maybe there's something I don't know, so I'll
look into it. But that that's all I can tell
you at this point. But thank you, sir. I do

(01:40:29):
I do appreciate your call. We're going to run now
to Shane. Hello, Shane, this is Guardline. Welcome and how
can we help? All right, let's do this. We're gonna
put Shane on hold if you will check on that
when you get a chance there justin hang on, Shane.

(01:40:50):
We're going to get back to you on this.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
You know, Martin spoon More Affordable Tree is the only
place that I would recommend going. I was telling you
about them a minute ago. Uh, you just need to
give Martin a call. It's seven one three six nine
nine two six six years down around the nod. The
other day and I looked at a tree and it
looked like a giant hat racks, like the Jolly Green
Giants hat rack. That tree will never be the same

(01:41:18):
because someone came in there and they go, oh, we
got to make your trees storm worthy. We got to
prune all these branches on and do all that, and
they ruined it. They just fly ruined the tree. It
kills me to see that kind of stuff done. And
that's why it's so important. Don't let anybody doesn't know
what they're doing. Uh, have a shot at your trees.
Let's go. I'm gonna hang on, see if we can
get Shaine back on. We're gonna go to Montgomery and

(01:41:40):
talk to Justin. Hey, Justin, welcome to garden line. Do
we have Justin? All right?

Speaker 8 (01:41:54):
Here we go?

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Uh, well, Justin, my producer, we are not able to
pick up either of these calls. Justin, can you see
if you can fix this for me? All right? I
don't just see if you can fix that Shane and Justin.

(01:42:17):
We're trying to pick you up. But when we check
when we pull up, you may be able to hear us.
We can't hear you, so we' we'll move on. Maybe
we can get that fixed. This is the day for
gremlins in the system here, right. You hear me talk
about fix my slab, And yeah, I understand what it's

(01:42:40):
like when you hear you might need a repair on something,
and it's just really discouraging, you know, because it's like, man,
that's gonna be expensive. I don't want to have to
do that. Don't think that way when it comes to
your foundation just yet. What you need to do is
if you've got cracks in the sheet rock or in
the bricks on the outside, and you think, yeah, my

(01:43:01):
foundation is probably cracking here sticky doors. That's another sign.
By the way, don't don't lose heart just yet. Call
fix my slab. Talk to Tie. This is an honest fellow.
He shows up when he says he's gonna show up,
he will assess it. And I've talked to Tie about
foundation issues before, where he said, you know, yeah, all

(01:43:21):
foundations have cracks. It's just part of being concrete, right,
And there's gonna be some That doesn't mean it's a
problem cracked necessarily. You can wait, you can watch, you
can see. I mean there's movement and then there's movement
that's got to be fixed right now. And give him
a call. Two eight one two five five forty nine
forty nine. Two eight one two five five forty nine

(01:43:43):
forty nine. Give him a call, or go to the
website fixmslab dot com. He's been doing this for twenty
three years. He will show up when he says he's
gonna be there. He'll fix it right if it needs fixing.
He'll charge you a fair price if it needs fixing,
and he'll tell you if it doesn't, and he'll advise
you on ways to protect. In fact, I'm gonna get
tie in here next month. We're gonna come in here

(01:44:05):
and we're gonna pick his brain on foundation issues. Is
it true that tree roots lift up foundations and crack
them or not? And we're gonna talk about all that
kind of stuff. The main thing is, give me a call.
You gotta crack. You got something moving, You got cracks
in the walls, the sheet rocks, the brick two eight
one two five five forty ninety nine. Give them a call.

(01:44:26):
We're gonna work on these phones and hopefully get sane
and justin back here. Music means I don't even have
time to try right now, but we'll you guys, hang around,
we'll figure it out. Take a little break, you grab
some coffee. I'm gonna do the same thing, and we
will be right back with you here on garden Line.
Remember the website I keep telling you about gardeningwi skip

(01:44:46):
dot com. That's where these publications are, the lawn care schedule,
the lawn pest, weed and disease management schedule. Some real
cool videos have done a number of videos recently that
we put up there that I think will be helpful
for you. I generally keep those really short so they're
fast and easy. Hopefully we got things worked out in

(01:45:14):
the system here. Uh let's see here, let's do this.
Let's head out to talk to Shane here in Houston. Shane,
are you there? Can you hear me?

Speaker 12 (01:45:27):
Yes, I'm I'm here.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Very good, all right, we can finally get to talk
to you. Yeah, how can we help?

Speaker 19 (01:45:35):
Yes, good morning? I have two uh ma, sure, I
have two mature and healthy bird of paradise that are
very stubborn when it comes to I was wondering if
you can help me, uh infer our urge and to produce.

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
Yeah. So, uh the how long have they been in
the ground?

Speaker 19 (01:46:03):
Well, one is in the grounds there and that's about
four years an The other one is you know, twenty
two inches hot and that's half buried in the ground.
And reason for that is when with all of our
freeze we try to save one of them, we bring
it in. Okay, but there there are nothing less than

(01:46:24):
five or six or seven years old, and they get
at least eight hours of unlike depending up on the season.

Speaker 3 (01:46:32):
Good. Well, that's that's good sunlight they actually do a
little better. I've seen it with a little bit of
a break of shade from the heat of the day.
But that's not why they're not blooming. But uh, what
what I would suggest, first of all, describe to me
the plant appearance is it. Does it look healthy? Do

(01:46:53):
you notice any discolor of leaves or any lack of
vigor or what, No, sir.

Speaker 19 (01:46:59):
It's they're very healthy looking plants. And I also want
to add, like we're not going to say this, that
I have been using a product on it occasionally called
bloom booster, which we use for our bloome area typically.

Speaker 1 (01:47:13):
But okay, that's nothing for it.

Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
Okay, but no, they're healthy plants, very healthy, and we've
trod them out.

Speaker 19 (01:47:24):
I'm taken out all the dead stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
And okay, and when you uh that, when you've used
the bloom booster, it's just kind of been occasional here
and there on them.

Speaker 19 (01:47:41):
Yes, not consistently because I forgot.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
Okay, that's fine, that's fine. So any kind of a
complete plant food right now is helpful in small doses
over time. Do it, do it, don't put too much
on it once, but give it a little little bit
and feed it and a month later, feed it again
a little better, and the bloom booster is going to

(01:48:04):
have the higher phosphorus in it, kind of like Nelson
plant food has one called plume aria. That that's that way,
it's got extra extra boost you know, of the middle
number the phosphorus. And that's important, but only up to
a certain point, you know, depending on what's in your
soil or in that container. For the one in the container,
you may already have enough phosphorus or you may not

(01:48:26):
have enough. But that's a good it's a good place
to start. Those things can be a lot perspicuity. They
they want well, they want good drainage, they want good sunlight.
As I said, I've noticed the ones that are not
all sun all day look still look really good. And
uh they want adequate moisture but not too wet. And

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so that sounds like you're kind of giving your plants
what they want, and they're just not giving you what
you want. And that's the blooms from them. I don't know,
other than proper fertilizing, proper wadding. Yeah, other than proper fertilizing,
proper watering, and adequate sunlight, I don't know why your
plants aren't aren't blooming. Maybe just avoid too much nitrogen

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the first number, which the bloom booster should not have
too much nitrogen.

Speaker 4 (01:49:16):
Uh and uh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
It just sounds like you're doing the right the right
kind of thing. They they do benefit though from a
gradual release, and I don't know in that bloom booster,
maybe it's a more of an immediate release. Maybe it'd
be good to go if something that's gonna give you
a little bit more of a gradual release. Are divided
into smaller applications and you create a slow release by
taking a fast release and just giving it little doses

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over time.

Speaker 19 (01:49:43):
Okay, thank you. I think you said the magic word though,
that they're for sinking.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
Uh, And well that's true, and it's one of these
it's one of these plants that what I what I
hate jokingly say is plants can't read. If they read,
they knew, they would know that if you give them sunlight,
a good hyphosphorus fertilizer, inadequate water, they should bloom. And
apparently they don't know that. But that just stick with them.

(01:50:11):
And see, I'm gonna look into this a little bit further.
I've had this question from time to time, and I
just see if we can come up with some other
thing that'll that'll settle them down. But that's that's the
best thing I can do for you at this at
this point.

Speaker 19 (01:50:25):
Very good. Thank you for your input.

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
Today's skip.

Speaker 8 (01:50:27):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
All right, Well, stay tuned. If I come up with
anything else, I'll definitely talk about that. All right, let's
see here, Yeah, we got time. We're going to go
now to Montgomery and talk to Justin. Justin, I think
we got the gremlins fixed. How can we help today.

Speaker 8 (01:50:44):
Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I sent some
photos in. I've got ten Eagleston hollies that are in
my backyard all the way at the rear fence line. Yes,
they get full sun. We planted them, well, a company
planted them last call it like April ish, so they've
been on the ground a little over a year. And

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I was looking at some old photos of them, and
they look better when we planted them. Now they kind
of look sad, and you know, the leaves aren't as
green as they used to be, and they look kind
of just beare wondering if you had any suggestions. I'm
looking at them. They have they have quite a few
berries on them, and some of the berries are like
I would say, kind of weighing down some of those

(01:51:25):
top branches. But for the most part they have grown
taller and I don't see like any sign of them dying,
but maybe maybe it's a slow death.

Speaker 3 (01:51:36):
Yeah, well, I've got your I've got your photos. First
thing I noticed is they look like they were planted
a little too deep, or maybe they're just mulched too deep. Uh.
When when a plant, when a tree goes unto the
ground at the base, the trunk flares out, and yours
are going into the ground, kind of like a telephone
pole where it goes straight into the ground. But the
trunk doesn't flare out at the base. So maybe it's

(01:51:59):
just a matter of pulling the mulch back from away
the base. But when you plant a plant too deep,
it's not good, and it doesn't They just don't do
well tree in nature. If you go out in the
woods and look at trees, they got this huge trunk
flare at the bottom. It's like the roots are above
ground the top most right we're talking about out in
the yard. I'm talking about right at the base of
the tree. The roots are above the ground, you know.

(01:52:22):
So check that and see if that can be adjusted
in any way. If they're staying too wet, if that's
a clay soil especially, but when they stay soggy wet,
hollies hate that. And these eagle stats are just they're
not there that way as well, So check for extra moisture.
There's a yellowing occurring. And as I look and zoom

(01:52:44):
in on your photos, it doesn't look like iron chlorosis,
but it could be. It could be a lack of
some other nutrient as well, I would get you a
plant food for acid loving plants. I might go ahead
and do a kelated iron application. Keylated Keylate is c

(01:53:05):
h E L A T E cheat like it's you
would say chi late, but it's pronounced key put a
kelated iron according to the label. All around them the hotthorns.
I believe that is around the base of them. It
looks like, uh, they they're not showing any chlorosis, so
it may The kelated iron is just an extra just

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in case we're putting out. And then a good fertilizer
get you. I would get Microlife makes a product that's
in a red bag and it's for acid loving plants.
It's a Microlife six two four bag for acid loving plants.
You can buy it in seven pound jars or in bags.
I would use that around them, and you're not going
to burn with it, and I would use it periodically

(01:53:50):
and see if we can boost some growth on them.
But remember that the fertilizer and the keylated iron, none
of that's gonna work. If the problem is soggy soil
or planet too deep. It doesn't Okay, it doesn't fix
soggy soil or plant it too deep. So I would
hit all of those possible causes. Check them out, see
if you can alleviate them. And we ought to be

(01:54:11):
able to get those back in shape again. Yeah, that's
that's my best assessment from your photos.

Speaker 8 (01:54:19):
That's very helpful, Skip, I appreciate that. Just maybe speaking
more questions on these, Do I need to be trimming
these at all?

Speaker 4 (01:54:26):
Or no?

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
I'm sorry right now, don't just leave them. No, don't
do it now. There's no benefit to it, you know,
if we get them healthy and growing. You know, I
noticed one of them has a double trunk right down
near the foot off the ground or so it's two trunks,
and that's not a great arrangement because as it gets bigger,
it's going to be a weak spot. So you could

(01:54:49):
pring that out in the winter into win at the
end of winter. But right now, we got these things healthy,
so let's hold off on any tuning for now.

Speaker 8 (01:54:57):
Okay, Okay, that's great, that's okay, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:55:01):
If you get better, send me a picture, bye bye,
all right, we got to take a break. We'll be
right back. Give me a call. Seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. I mentioned earlier that
plants can't read, and that is one of the frustrating things.
You know, I've I spent decades studying about plants, reading

(01:55:25):
research and going I went through school. I got my
master's in horticulture so on that that was helpful, But
most of what I learned came after that, and that
is touching plants, growing plants, helping people with plants, learning
about plants, and inevitably, still we run into these problems
where plants got everything it's supposed to have, it's supposed
to be happy, and it's not. You know, they say

(01:55:47):
plants are like people. You know, anybody like that. Okay,
I'm just saying we're not going to go there, though.
Don't worry. Don't look at the person right next to you.
Don't do that, Mike, don't go there anyway. Sometimes they
got the water they want, they got the sower they want,
they got the light they want, they got everything, and
it's just not cooperating. And sometimes all of a sudden

(01:56:10):
they'll just decide, yeah, I'm gonna be happy now, and
they'll be happy. And so got to scratch your head,
but we stay on it. I want I want to
understand this. I'm not happy with I don't know. I'm
not happy with I don't know. But I also am
not going to say I know if I don't know,
and I don't know some of these things. Uh So
there we go. That's kind of how it works. If

(01:56:32):
you got a gardening question seven one three, two, one, two, five, eight,
seven four, be happy to visit with you on that
Enchanted Forest Wonderful garden Center. You probably have heard me
talk about them many times before. Outstanding place to go
to find plants, to find success.

Speaker 14 (01:56:51):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:56:51):
Enchanted for Us is having their excuse me, their summertime
series going on now. And you've heard me talk about
these before. But these are called Hot Nights and Cool Herbs.
For this, I say these are this coming Saturday. Is
one is Hot Nights Cool Herbs. That's Saturday, the twenty fifth.

(01:57:14):
At next Saturday starts at five o'clock in the evening
and it goes until eight o'clock. And you know it's
blazing hot. Now we know that, but it would be
nice to get out at the end of the day
when the sun is kind of giving you a little
bit of a break and enjoy learning about herbs and
air and mills from the folks out an Enchanted Forest,

(01:57:35):
which intended Forest, by the way, is in the Richmond
Rosenberg area, south of the Richmond Rosenberg area, just south
of Great Wood, about three miles and this program is
going to be some fun ways to grow and use herbs.
They're going to have some complementary herb infused cocktail available
for those of you adults that are there shopping. Carrie

(01:57:58):
Snowballs is going to be there. That's that's that's worth
the price of admission right there out at the folks
that Enchanted Forest. I don't know if you've been there before,
but if you haven't, you do, you do definitely need
to go. I always love going to visit the place.
Uh say, if you want to get a call and
check on any of these kinds of programs. Two eight

(01:58:18):
one nine three seven forty nine ninety four two eight
one nine seven forty nine ninety four. Speaking of happy
and hot weather, check out their succulent and cactus collection.
They've got a whole new shipment that's arrived and it
is awesome. They've got their tomatoes in the first of

(01:58:39):
their fall tomatoes and they grow these themselves. You know,
the best varieties too, ones that you can depend on,
like Celebrity. By the way, if you've got Nema toads
in your garden and you need to grow a tomato, Celebrity,
that's the one you want. If you got nematodes. It's
good without nematodes, but it is nematode resistant, and very
few tomatoes or Nema toad resistance. Of course, they got

(01:59:00):
many others. Bush Champion is an outstanding one. Juliet, which
is like a double sized grape tomato, is excellent roma
for those of you who want to make paste and
sun gold. Oh that's a wonderful tomato. They got a
lot of others. I'm just mentioning a few, but they're
in and so if you want to do fall tomatoes,
you got to get them in now, get them in.

(01:59:22):
Don't delay because that tomato has to grow. I know
it's too hot to set fruit. That's okay. You just
want it to grow. You water and fertilize it. You
get it to grow and when weather breaks, here come
the tomatoes. So head on out to Enchanted Forest on
FM twenty seven fifty nine, just a few miles out
the Great Wood. They're in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Go

(01:59:44):
to the website gented Forest Richmond TX dot com Enchanted
Forest Richmond, TX dot com. If your lawn is lacking
vigor you have not fertilized it in a while, well
maybe it's time to get you some superturf. The silver
bag from Nitrophos Superturf is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer.

(02:00:06):
That first number and that a lot of nitrogen skip,
Yes it is, but don't worry about that. And here's why.
It's gonna release gradually over time. That's the beauty of
a slow release fertilizer. You put it down, you get
the nutrients down in the soil, and it begins to
feed your plants like they take up nutrients day by

(02:00:27):
day over time. You know, if someone brought you the
next three months of food that you need to eat
and they put it all on the table, Yeah, that
wouldn't go well, right, No, you need you need food
every day. Plants take up nutrients every day. The beauty
of a slow release is just that. And the silver
bag from Nitropos Superturf is an outstanding product. You're gonna

(02:00:48):
find it at Fishers hardwarares. The ones and pasadenons Outhmore
and La pour It on Broadway and Mont Bellevue on
FM thirty one eighty, and then the fissures down on
Alexander in Baytown as well, plants and things up in
Brenham Highway thirty six South and Brenham plants and things.

(02:01:08):
They carry nitofoss products up there as well. Stuff works, man,
it works. So when I talk about soil a lot
of times, I say this thing that makes sense to me,
I hope it makes sense to you. And that's brown
stuff before green stuff. That's as simple as I can
put it. You know, if someone says, give me one

(02:01:31):
plant tip. I want to grow a tomato, I want
to grow a rose, I want to grow a lawn,
what is the one tip you can give me brown
stuff before green stuff. Before you put a plant in
the ground, you get the soil right. What is getting
the soil right means it means organic matter. You know,
you go to a place like Sienamlts. I say a

(02:01:51):
place like Cianamalts. There really is no place like Cianimalts
except Cianimals down south of Houston. They have all of
the products that you're going to need to make the
best soil you can and that includes composts, that includes
bed mixes, you know, like a veggie and her mix,
and you just want to go in and just grow
right then, it's like you buy the soil, you put
it in a container, you put it in a raised bed,

(02:02:13):
you grow the stuff that you need. They carry the
stuff from heirloom soils. They carry the stuff from the
ground up. For example. They have some products, not not
everything that both places carry, but they have some products
from those places. And they also have the mulches that
you need on top of the soil they have and
for those of you that are wanting to do hardescapes
and dry creek beds and for drainage and all that

(02:02:36):
other stuff, they've got it at Cinamlse. Now Ciinamulch is
the kind of place where you're going to be treated right.
And I would recommend you just go by there and
pick up your stuff. They'll deliver within about twenty miles
or so out from you for a delivery fee. But
you need to go by there. You need to see
the containers that they have, the cool pottery. The shroomis indoor.

(02:02:59):
Those are little deck things you put out in the
soil They've got a lot of cool stuff in the
store there. They've got quality tools from an M. Leonard
right there in the store, and the fertilizers, every fertilizer
you hear me talk about, from Nelson plant food to
microlife to nitrofoss products. Quality products from Medina they carry

(02:03:23):
there as well, the good products that they have from
Medina as well. And anazemiite is there also. In other words,
the brown stuff before the green stuff. You go to Sanamalta,
you get the products. You make your soil right you
put a plant in, that plant is going to thrive
because everything it needs, from organic matter to microbial activity

(02:03:44):
being enhanced, to the nutrient content that it needs is
in the soil. And it makes you look good. People
say you have a green thumb, You just say no.
I just have Cianimalti's phone number. I know where they're located.
FM two excuse me five if I'm five twenty one
down south of the Greater Houston area. There's the secret

(02:04:07):
of success. I've set it yet again. Round stuff before
green stuff. So earlier I was talking about watering and
if I get a chance here, we're gonna take a
little break in a little bit, but I want to
talk a little bit about success with watering for containers
and for plants in the ground. For plants in the ground,

(02:04:28):
I talked about lawns, and I know lawns or plants
in the ground, but I'm talking about things like herb gardens,
vegetable gardens, flower beds, and whatnot. And we're going to
come back and talk about that a little bit. I
want to take a moment though, just to mention again
my schedules, and they're both lawn schedules, are on my website,

(02:04:48):
Gardening with skip dot com. If you go to the
lawn care schedule, you can print it out. It's multiple
colors and you may look at it and go, that's
a lot of words and a lot of colors. Well,
follow the color down like fertilizers. Follow the color down.
It gives you the products, tells you when to use them,
and has tips all in there. Just take it a
step at a time. Right now, we're in mid July,

(02:05:11):
there's a lot of things to do. Then when you
look at the lawn Pass weedon Disease schedule, you get
the same help month by month from January to December.
We'll be right back. Hey, you know your ACE Hardware
store is raring and ready to go with whatever you need.
I was just checking out the store. I go to
the closest one to me. You can go to ACE

(02:05:31):
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the tools, you know, from something to flip the burgers
to a thousand different things that you can't live with
that When you got a barbecue pit, I know because
I have one. I got an Ace Hardware store Pilly

(02:05:55):
Grill that I love, absolutely love. They have the best
brands there, and then the things like the pellets that
migrill that goes in them. That's where you get them
right there. If you want seasonings, you got to see
the seasoning crack section. So I had no idea there
are so many seasonings in the world. Oh my gosh,
there are. You go to your local ICEE hardware store.
You're gonna do some fix ups and things around the

(02:06:17):
Maybe your deck needs some new stain put down on it,
or you need pain or anything else. You know, a
hardware store has that, and Ace is the ultimate when
it comes to hardware. It's also the place where you're
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(02:06:42):
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That's how you find my East hardware stores. ACE Hardware

(02:07:02):
Texas dot com. Let's go now to Row Sharon and
we're going to visit with Brenda this morning. Hey Brenda,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (02:07:09):
Hey, thanks for the visit.

Speaker 20 (02:07:11):
I would have made cookies if I know you coming.

Speaker 1 (02:07:14):
Look Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (02:07:16):
Well hey we can hang we can hang up and
you can call back when the cookies are ready.

Speaker 20 (02:07:22):
I don't know if you want to come down this
far south. I'm a few miles south of Cimmult. As
a matter of fact, you were just talking about.

Speaker 3 (02:07:30):
Well, there you go. How can I help you today?

Speaker 20 (02:07:32):
Benda I've got a big bush my mom left me,
and it's not doing real will. It's putting off a
lot of pigs. But the leaves are brown, and it's
it's spinned out a whole lot, and I don't know
if it's too late to feed it.

Speaker 3 (02:07:54):
No, it's not too late. I wouldn't feed your fig
past about the beginning of August, but you could go
ahead and do it now. The reason I say that is,
you know, figs are a little coal tender. We get
a good hard cold in here, and you can freeze
the fig back, and so I don't like to push
them with fall fertilization. I like to stop it by
the time I get about the beginning of August, and

(02:08:14):
they'll be fine with that. But if you want to
go ahead and give them a little bit now, that's
just fine. You can use a lawn fertilizer. You know
the products I talk about putting on your lawn, All
of those could be used on a fig tree. Just
do it in moderation. Does yours have a bunch of
trunks or does it just have a single trunk coming
up by the ground.

Speaker 20 (02:08:34):
It's got it's got several little trunks coming out of
the ground and lots of branches, and I was wondering
should I pune it?

Speaker 3 (02:08:42):
Also, not now, But when you get to the end
of winter time, then prune out all the little twiggy.
I say, twiggy, even a small fig shoot is not
a twig. It's as big as your finger. But prune
out the small stuff. But after winter is over, then
you know exactly what was or was not winter killed.

(02:09:04):
And so I'd rather prune then. Just like I said,
don't fertilize in the fall. You don't want to prune
in the late summer or fall either, because that stimulates fresh,
succulent new growth and that's not going to be as
cold hearty as the rest of the tree anyway, So
hold off on that. It'll be fine. I don't know
what the leaves look like as they went from green
to dead, but there are a couple of possibilities there.

(02:09:29):
There's a disease called fig rust that attacks the foliage
and causes a splotchy yellow brown kind of coloring to
develop as they go from green to dead, yellow and
brown and fall off. There's not really a good fungicide
that is labeled for use on figs for that, so
we just kind of tolerate it. Try to avoid wetting

(02:09:51):
the foliage. If you're sprinkling water on it, don't do that.
Just wet water the ground. And that's about what's in
your control for that. But generally figs do pretty good
here without a lot of sprying.

Speaker 10 (02:10:05):
Got it.

Speaker 8 (02:10:06):
Thank you, you're awesome.

Speaker 10 (02:10:07):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:08):
Thanks all right, thanks for the call. You take care.
Say hi to the folks at seeing them anse next
time you're up the street. All right, you take care. Thanks,
bye bye. Let's see where are we here? Okay too,
Let's go to Sean out in Katie. Hello, Sean, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 1 (02:10:28):
Hey, good morning Skip. I had a quick question.

Speaker 14 (02:10:31):
So I fell off the wagon instead of following schedule
in early spring, putting a slow release. So last week
I just put down D Barri Kae, the release by
nitro Foss and as am I. My question is do
I do the second round, which was supposed to be

(02:10:53):
in July, or do I.

Speaker 1 (02:10:55):
Just follow the schedule from now.

Speaker 6 (02:10:57):
And then just do the fall for neither whar.

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
Yeah, Sean, let me get a clarification. You said barricade,
that's a pre emergent herbicide. Did you do that? Did
you do like a silver bag from night fiss?

Speaker 10 (02:11:14):
I did all of them.

Speaker 1 (02:11:15):
I did silver bag, I did silver bag, I did
a barricade, and I also did as.

Speaker 6 (02:11:19):
A mic on ten Honust.

Speaker 3 (02:11:22):
Okay, so you don't need to do anything else until
we get to October, and that's when you would put
on a fall fertilizer. Okay. So if you're if you're
using UH, if you're using night to foster products, now
the fall fertilizer UH is what you're going to want

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to put in for the the cool season, entering the
cool season. And it's called fall Special and it's a
brown bag. Yes, yes, fast fall Special, and you're gonna
do You're going to do that in October, okay, uh
and then now and then you've done all you need
to do. But in October you will probably well you

(02:12:05):
will want to do that barricade again to prevent cool
season weeds. Right now, the weeds that the barricade you
just put down are preventing or warm season weeds. But
when we get October, we're going to do it again
for cool season weeds.

Speaker 1 (02:12:20):
Okay, Okay, thank you, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:25):
You bet all right. Take care, Thanks for the call. Happy,
Happy to clarify, get all that squared away. Night Fish.
You know they make another product that would be for
those of you who did some fertilizing earlier and maybe
you you know you don't want to do a long
term right now, you just need a little boost to
get you to keep you going. How about sweet Green

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from Natra Foss. It is eleven percent nitrogen. Microbes get
a hold of it, so they begin to release it
pretty quickly and it feeds the grass, keeps it going.
You could do a regular sweet green application, or you
could do a light one and then do another light
one a little about a month later, and that would
carry you as well, all the way up into that
fall fertilization that we'll be doing in October. So those

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that's another option, and being a night Foss products, you're
gonna you're gonna find it at Lake Hardware and Angleton
on North Belasco. You're gonna find it at Lake Hardware
and Clute on Dixie Drive as well. I Stanton Shopping
in Alvin there on North Taylor, another quality night Foss product.

(02:13:30):
Let's take a break. Guess what we're about to wind
up the show? For the weekend here, uh for for Saturday.
Excuse me, sorry, false alarm for Saturday.

Speaker 10 (02:13:38):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:13:39):
We got about ten minutes to show left when we
come back from break. So if you got a question,
now'd be a good time to call seven to one
three two two five eight seven four. Welcome back. Good
to have you with us. Hey, the folks at pest
Bros Know how to deal with the creepy crawleys that
you're dealing with. Creepy crawleys. What's that? Well, that's termites.
For example, when they get into the wood of your house.

(02:14:00):
We're talking some dollars of damage there. You need to
prevent it. Pest Bros. Knows how to do it. They've
got I've had two different systems in my yard just
trying them out. The trench system around it's a ten
year treatment, works super super well. And then the bait stations. Yeah,
there's actually bait stations, little cylinders they put in the

(02:14:20):
ground around your house. It draws the termite that might
show up around the area to those They feed on
it and they spread it's kind of like fireing bait.
They spread it through the colony and it works super
super well. Pest Bros. Does that. What do creepy crawleys
include fire ants? They can do with those. And mosquitoes.
Oh my gosh, those are creepy crawleys with wings. We

(02:14:42):
don't need that. Pest Bro's got the buckets. Pest Bros.
Has that herbal oil spray. You can call them up
mask them. Now what's that bucket things skips talking about?
Or what's that herbal oil for mosquitos. I'm telling you,
I was so impressed with the results of the herbal oil.
You know, I thought, well, maybe it'll last couple of week,
so I mean it for me, it is just me.

(02:15:03):
A month later, I still wasn't dealing with mosquitous I
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eight one two six forty six seventy or go to
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the pest Bros br bros. As in brothers. Okay, why
don't we just say that brothers there you go. Let's
head out to Galveston now and talk to James this morning. Hey, James,

(02:15:45):
what's up?

Speaker 10 (02:15:46):
Skip.

Speaker 12 (02:15:47):
I bought some cutting, some comfrete cuttings from two different sellers.

Speaker 10 (02:15:52):
I put it.

Speaker 12 (02:15:53):
I bought the big cloth pods and I put black
cowsole in and neither one of them has come up.
It's been about two weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:16:09):
Huh. Well, I don't know. I mean a lot of
things could have gone wrong there. There could have been
bad cuttings. Uh, you're talking about root cuttings basically are
basic like divisions. Yeah, yeah, uh, you know it's I no,

(02:16:31):
it's not. Actually a matter of fact, I would I
would recommend uh that we got a lot of good
products out there from various vendors here. You're located down
pretty far south there in the Galveston direction, and I
believe that you've got some heirloom soil potting mixes like

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a veggie and herb mix is probably what I would
use from the folks that heirloom soil that I believe
they sell down in your area. I know that the
folks over at the ground up make an excellent product
that is marketed down through the area. You'd have to
go to the website for those two places to see
where to buy their products in your area. The ground

(02:17:12):
up and airlombselves both would be good. Probably trying to
plant something this time of year, I'd put it in
a pot, and I'd put it in the shade, and
I would let it stay cool and moist and get
up and get going. And then once it's going, gradually
moving into more a little more sun for it to
have a chance, you might real carefully try lifting it

(02:17:36):
up to see if it seems to be alive or
is producing any growth or not, or just give it
a little more time and wait. But it just gets
so blazing hot in the heat in the direct sun
in those in those bags that that it could it
could have just cooked, or it could have been a
bad cutting to begin with.

Speaker 12 (02:17:55):
Okay, Skip, I appreciate it. I put it on the
backside of my barn, so it's just get the sun
half a day. And yes, so you probably think it
might be a soil If it don't come up, it's
a soil issue.

Speaker 3 (02:18:13):
Probably either the quality of what you purchased or how
it was handled in the process of being transported and
planted and whatnot. But it soil. You always want to
have a good soil when you're doing things. I think
it's more likely that the fact that it didn't even
come up than something It probably wasn't the soil that

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did that. If the soil wasn't that great, it would
have been coming up and struggling and not performing well
for you. So that's that's my best shot at it. James,
I'm kind of, you know, shooting from the dark here,
not not being around when it was purchased and planted
and everything else. But I would do that, and you
can buy you can buy comfreys as transplants down in

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your area. I don't know, you know, if you if
you're going to drive up north, I think up to
Seabrook Moss Nursery is going to have Comfrey plants. They should,
but i'd call before making the drive down closer to
your Jimbo's Nurseries down there, real close to you, and
you might try them.

Speaker 12 (02:19:15):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (02:19:19):
Yeah, the column first, because this isn't the time of
year when they probably get a lot of requests for that,
so make sure they have it on stock.

Speaker 1 (02:19:26):
Okay, okay, thanks all right, James.

Speaker 3 (02:19:29):
I got to run. Yes, sir, you take care, Thank
you very much. Let's go now to Liberty and talk
to Mark. Hey Lark, welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 4 (02:19:38):
Yes, sir, how are you?

Speaker 3 (02:19:41):
I'm doing well? How can we help today?

Speaker 11 (02:19:44):
Oh? Well, Michael is I just purchased a do property
uh been neglected for probably about five or six years.
I used to have a wonderful lom and I've got
a little bit of everything going on broad leave all right, Mark, I've.

Speaker 3 (02:20:02):
Got yeah, okay, I got about a minute until the
music starts playing. How can I help you best in
that time?

Speaker 11 (02:20:11):
So, I'm just looking for some kind of product that
would be good for this type of year or this
time of year to put all the loan that's been
adlected for that law.

Speaker 3 (02:20:21):
Yeah, I would get you a product. Do you prefer
organic or synthetic or do you care?

Speaker 11 (02:20:28):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:20:29):
Either one would be fine. Whatever's gonna work the best, Okay,
all right.

Speaker 3 (02:20:34):
So you're being over there in Liberty, you're gonna be
able to find access on nine five has a product
called sweet Green, and I would put that down first
and just check it out, see how it's going. It's
gonna gradually release. It's an a salt bation. I can
burn your lawn with it. Follow the label very carefully
watered in really good and you ought to get a
boost out of your lawn if you can do a

(02:20:55):
soil test and do it before you fertilize and send
it in. On my website Gardening with Skip dot com
there is instructions on how to do a soil test.
That is the best thing you can do because then
going forward you know exactly how to fertilize in the
absence of a soil test. Follow my schedule which is
also on my website Gardening with Skip dot com. Because

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your next fertilization is going to be in the fall
in October, and so I would recommend that you do
that the number one thing in the summertime with it,
we're going into almost one hundred degrees here for a
week or more. Then I would just say a good
soaking once a week with water is the best thing
you can do for that lawn. That sweet green that

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I recommended to you will give it the boost of
nitrogen which should turn it green and get some vigor.
As long as you have good soil moisture.

Speaker 10 (02:21:52):
Well, we'll give that a shot and I will check
us with I. Thank you so much for your help, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:21:58):
You bet, and just to call back at any time
and check out those schedules. We'll walk you through this.
We'll get that long back in shape. I appreciate your
call very much, sir. All right, folks, there you have it. Well,
we'll be back tomorrow morning. I'll be here, bright eyed

(02:22:18):
and bushy tailed, six o'clock in the morning. Hope to
see you then. If you've got to sleep in, we'll
be around until ten. There you go, Hey, have a
wonderful day. Be careful out there in the sun. We're
sunscreen work in the early morning.