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Good morning, congratulations tow you early birds this morning. Good
to have you with us here on Garden Line. We're
looking forward to visiting with you about the kinds of
gardening questions you might be interested in visiting about. I
can I can tell you this right now, boy. Everybody's

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brains and minds and hearts are on getting the garden
in good shape. But getting that lawn and good shape.
Yesterday I was out at Sienamultch and thanks to the
folks at malt for having us out yesterday. It was
a good time. We were out there with a lot
of different folks from different groups and it was I
don't know, it's kind of an opportunity is to visit

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with some of our sponsors were sitting over there across
from us. There are next to us. Actually there's a
microlife was there and folks from Medina were also there.
That was nice to getting to kind of reconnect with
some of the folks that are sponsors of our show.
Visit with them about their products and things. Had a

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lot of people that came by. That was especially nice. Also,
Heirloom Soils was out there, got to visit with Louis.
So thanks to everybody that came out. But I can
tell you this based on the question. It's like malan, malan, malon.
That is the big thing that people are interested in.
And within that category weeds. Weeds. Weeds are the ones

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that I was hearing the most of it. That's because
all those school season weeds have now burst into their
top growth of the whole their whole cool season period,
setting their seeds. They've been blooming and setting seeds and
they're flinging them everywhere, and those weeds look huge, and
it's like the blue bonnet. You know, bluebonnets sprouted last
fall on the roadsides, but you didn't see them. They

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were there in November and December, January, we didn't see them.
And all of a sudden, as the weather warms up
in the days get a little bit longer, here comes
a lot of growth and blooms. Of course we enjoy
those now, but right after the blooms, they're going to
be popping those seed pods. They literally do pop and
flinging them everywhere, and then next year we get more

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blue bonnets. The same thing happens in your lawn with
chickweed and clover, and let's see what else carpet weed.
Another one that we deal with is cleavers. That's one
that feels like belcrow sticks to you. It's also called
the crow weed. So at this point in the season,
I would highly recommend you consider just pulling them up

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by hand as much as you can. Even if they
break off. They are annual weeds. They're not going to
have time to re sprout and grow and set seeds
and all that. Just get them out of there for now,
and be careful to doing it. Have a bucket, put
them in there with all those hundreds and hundreds of
weed seeds that are on them, because otherwise, even if

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you sprayed it and killed it, which it's harder to
do at this stage, but even if you did, you're
gonna be leaving the seeds behind. Those seats are not
going to be killed because they've already formed in some
cases now those that haven't. Of course, you could prevent that,
but anyway, that seems to be a concern of a
lot of people. And I know everybody varies in their

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tolerance to weeds. So you may be the kind of
person that if there's one weed anywhere on your property,
it's like a neon sign at midnight. I mean, it
just shows up and it bugsy, can't stand it. And
then on the other spectrum, there are people that just
go moh them, they're green. It all looks green. Just
mow the weed, don't worry about it. Okay, Well, you're
probably somewhere in between those two. But that's your yard,

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as we like to say, I use that term a
lot of visiting with family members. Well I think this,
but that's your yard, meaning I can't tell you what
to do. But you know what I've noticed about family members,
they can tell you what to do. Doesn't mean you
have to listen, but they can tail with some of
your gone. Boy, I hear that. Jungle and is a

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product that Nitrofos provides all over this area, and it
basically it is simply a very good container mix. So
whether you have a houseplant inside, if you do grab
their jungle l and water saving potting soil. If you
have an outdoor container, you're doing jungle and flour and
vegetable potting soil. Make sure your containers have drainage holes

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so extra water can get out, because jungle land will
drain well and it will hold on to some moisture,
so you're not watering it twice a day every day.
It's just a good product. You're going to find it
places like Bearings Hardware on Bissinet, Bearings Hardware on Westtheimer,
Enchanted Forest, Chanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area
on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Places you can find

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that jungle in if you're interested in visiting this morning
about any question you might have. Now it's a good
time to call. It's always quiet first thing Sunday morning
before it picks up a little bit. So seven one
three two one two k t RH seven to one
three two one two k t r h GI me call. Well,
we'll talk about the things like that I was telling

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you about Enchanted for us. I always like to go
out there because it's different every time I go. I mean,
it's the same place, the same you know, quality plans,
the same layout and whatnot, but the product line is
always evolving through the year. You know, you've got your standards.
That would be something like, for example, the trees and

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shrubs and whatnot that are always there, but the color
changes as we go through the seasons, and they're always
on top of things. Are right now, there's just lots
of beautiful, beautiful summer color, for example, kalladiums. Kalladiums like
warm weather, and we're getting to the warm weather. And
if you want to brighten up a shady area, kaladiums

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are a great way to do it. They are. In fact,
here's just a principle of kind of landscaping that you
might think about. There's no rules out there, but here's one.
When you go into shady areas, it's harder to see
dark colors, So something like a purple, a deep purple
in a shade area, it's going to kind of just

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disappear into the darkness. But white jumps out like runway lights.
It just really shows up. So if you're going to
go with a pink, lighter pinks show up better than
darker reds and pinks, And in dark areas, you can
really draw the eye into there with that light colored materials,
and kaladiums are a great one. Of course, they got

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them out there. They've got a lot of I think, Oh,
they have an excellent supply of Chinese French tree. And
if you've never seen a Chinese fringe, go too Enchanted Forest.
There's one bloom and now it looks awesome. I love that.
It's my favorite spring blooming tree. And of course they
got a lot of this, They got a lot of everything.
The desert roses are in a little succulent called Lithops

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that I think is really cool. Looks like came from
another planet to me. And there are always a place
to get plants for your butterfly, attracting both the larval
food sources and the adult food sources. By the way,
they are on FM twenty seven fifty nine the website
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X dot com. Do yourseff a

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favor to day and run out there and check that
place out. I'll be right back. Remember when there were
groups of four or five people that sang together and
permonized way back, Hey, welcome to Gardener. We're easing the

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into the music this morning. I know you know, if
I were to play something loud and obnoxious might cause
you to spill your cup of coffee. We're not going
to do that to you this morning. I was mentioning
earlier the fact that everybody has questions about their yard
right now, and weeds are the probably the number one
topic that I'm hearing overall. I mentioned that the cool

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season weeds are going to seed, and so you got
to get them out of there with the seeds if
you can. I understand if you can, if you've got
a whole yard full of weeds and you can't pull them,
but just remember, every time you pull a weed up,
that's one weed, but you're probably pulling up one hundred seed.
And so you know that's the decision to make. There's
a way to do it, or harsh somebody to do it.
As far as the weeds for summer, they are beginning

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to sprout as well they have been, and barricade is
a product you put down that stops them from sprouting. Now,
Barricade doesn't kill the weeds that you see in your
yard right now, the ones that are big and blooming
and everything else. It prevents the ones that haven't come
up yet. And so that's happening for our summer weeds.
So things like cribgrass and grasspur and all the summer
weeds we deal with Barricade's a product that we would

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suggest you put down ahead of those weeds germinating in
order to shut them down. Now, ten pound bags going
to cover about five thousand square feet, so it goes
a long way. And whether the weeds are broadly for grassy,
it's got a very broad spectrum of weed control. So
the vast majority of weeds you could possibly have in
your yard that are coming from seed, barricade's going to

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be effective against those weeds. Now, you got to get
it down. You gotta water it in. It takes about
a half inch of water, maybe a third of it.
It's just enough to get it to the soil surface
and moved into the soil. And you're going to find
barricade at places like Plantation, Ace Hardware out on FM
three fifty nine down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Court

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Hardware on South Maine in the Stafford area, and M
and D Cypress up there on Luetta. These places carry
nitroposs products which are available all over the place, easy,
easy to find. Yesterday it was done at Siena Mulch
and we had a good time with everybody that came

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out there. Thank you for that and your questions gave
me a lot of products. The three sixty tree stabilizer
is a very popular one. That was for sure, and
some other products from different sponsors and things, but people
had a good time ave it had to be that
did come down and give the secret password brown stuff
before green stuff, so that way that guaranteed you a

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three sixty tree stabilizer when you showed up for that one.
So I'm looking at this week and trying to figure out,
you know, what do I want to do out in
the garden, because you know, when you're when you're a gardener,
or we just enjoyed taking care of your lawn whatever,
there's always things you can do. I mean, there's never
like nothing to do out there, either replenishing molts or

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mowing or edging, or getting the flower beds soils prepared
for planting, pulling old things out, putting new things in
and by the way, landscapes. Landscapes are not made to
be permanent. They just aren't. I mean, it would be
nice if they were, but the truth is they evolved
and they grew up. I was looking at a picture

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of the house I grew up in years ago, and
the shrubs were over the eaves I mean they had
been little, nice shrubs, but now they were just taking
over the front of the house. It's trying to pull
those out and put new ones in, or cut them
way back and let them come back. But by the
time a shrub hits that stage, there's probably a better
shrub you could purchase to put in in that spot.

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So don't be afraid to change out your landscape. In
some ways, I guess it's kind of like painting the
inside of your house, or changing the curtains, or rearranging
or ripple, you know, redoing some furniture. There's always different layouts.
Of course, the out in the landscape, it becomes a
thing of plants just grow and they just kind of
overgrow their area and things. So choose dwarf plants when

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you can to keep them more manageable. But don't be
afraid to change things out. It could be that you
bought them and it just isn't doing well. That's okay,
change it out. It could be the use to get
tired of it. You don't want to look at that anymore.
Maybe you want a new flower bed. Maybe there's two
trees you're tired of mowing in circles. Around and you're
going to make a nice oval flowerbed to go around
each one, or whatever shape you want it to be.

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Always be looking at ways to change things out. It
keeps it interesting, It makes it more beautiful, and it's okay.
Don't feel like when you plant things it just always
has to stay like that. It doesn't. And if you're
fighting against shrubs, trying to keep them from encroaching on
the sidewalks and all that kind of thing, maybe it's
time to consider replacing those and coming up with something

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kind of different. Just a thought, just something to be considering. Anyway.
So I was thinking about my week and I realized
we moved into this house a few years ago, and
I just haven't done much going forward in the landscape
as much as I've done going backwards. What I mean
is there are a lot of plants that were either unsightly,

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or they were located in an area where I just
didn't want them, or they were not performing very well,
and so we would pull those out. It doesn't bother
me to kill a plant, and so got them out
of there and someone relocating that's another thing we do.
And then getting the flower beds they're already I've gotten

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the soil in them, right, I've gotten good and mulching
on them. And you would say, well, why do you
mulch when you don't even have plants in because of weeds?
You know, you go out there and you clean up
a bed and you get it all looking nice, and
you walk away and leave that soil bear, and two
weeks later the weeds are everwhere, and it's very discouraging.
So when you get the soil right, cover it with

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a good thick layer of malt, and then just pull
the mulch back when you want a plant. That's why
I think the way you ought to do it. I'm
going to be planning some more orchard trees this week.
Get those going. Every time I see it like a
fruit tree, maybe it's a satsuma orange or a peach
or whatever the free tree is, I think, you know, oh,
I would love to grow that. I'm going to plant that.

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And then you plant it and you sit there looking
at this little stick in the ground or however big
it is, and it's like, okay, I got to wait
for fruit now. So in order to be able to
enjoy fruit, the time to plant that fruit tree is today.
In fact, there's an old thing that the best time
to plant a tree is forty years ago. That's a
landscape tree. The second best time is today. And that

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goes true with fruit trees, not forty years ago. But
the best time to plant a fruit tree is about
four years ago, and the second best time is today.
So why don't you get out there. Our garden centers
have a lot of beautiful, beautiful fruit trees of all types.
Just to remember, fruit needs sunlight. That is the number
one thing that goes wrong when I over the years

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of almost forty years now i'm doing this. The thing
I see, the mistake I see made most is lack
of sunlight. If there were a second one, it would
be probably a tie just in terms of the amount
of times I see the problem, and that is either
lack of good drainage or lack of a pollinator variety

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for fruit that needs a pollinator. Not all does, some do.
But you plant one apple tree, for example, they need pollinators.
You plant one apple tree and it immediately becomes a
member of the lonely Hearts club. It's got to have
another variety there for pollination. So something to keep in mind.

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Southwest fertilizer, I talk about all the time, because I
know of no place anywhere, and I mean that, I
mean anywhere around this whole region that has the selection
that they do at Southwest Fertilizer. If they don't have it,
you don't need it. It's as simple as that. Every
fertilizer I talk about on guarden line, every product on

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my schedules is a Southwest fertilizer, and then some many
many more. So are you looking for things from Azamite,
things from Nature's Way resources, heirloom soils, Medina products, microlife,
Nilsen's turf Star, nitrofost, just on and on down the line.
They're all there. And if you have a very unusual

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weed that's difficult to control with most products, they're going
to have something at Southwest Fertilizer that will will get
control of it. Quality products, they have expert advice. Of course,
you get that old fashioned service. They've been around since
nineteen fifty five. This is our seventieth anniversary year now
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website seven to one

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three six sixty six one seven four to four. If
you want to give them a call, and if you
just want to drive out there, that suggest you do that.
I enjoy walking through there and just seeing all the
tools and products that they have. Corner of Businet and Renwick.
Corner of Businet and Renwick, Southwest Fertilizer. Of course, in
Southwest Houston, people drive a long way to go there too.

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I you know, it's their selection is so good that
someone may come from the other side of town because
as they know, when they get there it's going to
be a one stop shop. They're going to get what
they want. That makes sense to me too. I was
talking yesterday with someone about they were looking for a

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little rose fertilizer. They had one rose bush and they
were looking for a fertilizer for it, and I was saying, well,
why don't you just get Nelson's Nutra Star rose food
and because it's perfect for that. Now, there are a
lot of different products on the market for a lot
of different kinds of plants. One thing I like about

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Nilsen Plant Foods, fertilizer, jars Is, and that's the nutri
Star line that I'm talking about, is that there is
a Nutra Star for pretty much everything you'd want to grow.
So it may be that you want to grow camellias.
I'm excused. Yeah, so you would want an acid loving plant.
Maybe you are interested in going plume arias. There's a

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nutral star plumeria. Maybe it's let's see boogin vellas. There's
a neutral star for booga and villas, and then for
fruit trees, and then for vegetables, and then on and
on down the line. There is a neutrastar product for
every plant you want to grow. And sometimes it may be,
you know an acid loving plant. Well maybe it doesn't
save a Genia sweet spire, or say you know some

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particular acid loving plant on the label, but it's for
that too. And so when you go in and get
a jar of Nelson plant food, the vegetable garden outstanding one.
Talked to someone yesterday about their vegetable garden one. Five
different sources of nitrogen that evenly release out over a
period of time, the azalea and acid loving plants. It
doesn't matter which one you get, it's going to be

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a quality fertilizer. And there's about a dozen places around
town now where you can take that old jar when
it's empty back in and refill it. That makes a
lot of sense. Yeah, Nelson plant food, quality foods. Just
use some myself the other day. All right here, Well,
I don't quite have enough time to run to a call,

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but we are going to be. Let's see when I
come back. I tell you we'll go to Angela and
Katie and Ryan and Cleveland. You'll hang on. You'll be
our first two up when we come back. I want
to let you know that next Saturday, April fifth, from
twelve thirty to two thirty, I'm going to be at
Warren's Southern Gardens out in Kingwood. Warrens Southern Gardens out

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in Kingwood, and I hope you'll come out and see me.
We're going to be doing some giveaways there. And you
hear me talk about Warrens all the time. It's our
standing place, and come on out and see me. I
want you to look at that place, see the kinds
of color and plants and pots and everything that they have.
We'll be doing a lot of diagnosis and identification. So
maybe your neighbor has a flower and you will know

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what it is so you can get some well, take
a picture of it and bring it to me, or
take samples of things in your yard. All those weeds
we're worried about. Right now, bring me some samples in
a bag. We'll look at those. I would say the
doctor's in, but I don't have my doctorate. I guess
I could say I'm not a doctor. I just play
one on the radio. I don't know if that works

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or not, but anyway, i'd be glad to diagnose and
help you find solutions to those problems out at Warren's
next Saturday, right after lunch. All right, time for me
to take a break. We'll come back with your calls
in just a moment. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to
the guard Line. Good to have you with us. We're
going to run out to the phones now and head

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to Katie and talk to Angela this morning. Hello Angela,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (21:33):
Hi, good morning Skip. A couple of years ago, we
adopted a couple healers and LUSK and PD confiscated and
I guess they were from the streets or something. I
don't know, but my point was that is they eat everything,
so I have to be careful what I put down.

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But last year, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones,
we were just infested with just crazy. And I used
to go to an old time country that and he's like,
put borax down and you know, in a carpet, walk
on it for a week, vacuum.

Speaker 9 (22:10):
To thatp You're good.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
So for years every March, I pre treat the house,
do a couple of things in the yard, and everything's good.
But my problem was, I think my husband keeps talking
about diazinon. Isn't that poisonous to the dogs?

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, you're well, you're not gonna You're not gonna find
that now, So okay, yeah, okay, I'm not a I
am not a veterinarian or anything like.

Speaker 8 (22:38):
That, but no, I just anything in the yard.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Right. Well, what what I do for my own dogs
is we use the product that goes on the dog.
There's one that you put on the dogs on their haunches,
you know, above the shoulders there that that goes in.
And there's another one that you actually like for heartworms
and fleas and things. There's pills that you give them periodically,

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and we use that and that alone is pretty good.
But if you have to treat the yard when you're outside,
I just hate using basically nuke in the whole place
with a pest side, even on organic pests. I just
don't generally like to do that. But there are some
products that work indoors. I used to spray the growth

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regulators like pre corps, and you could put those and
what happens is if the fleas drop off a dog
or lay eggs or whatever, and then they try to
develop the larva, they never grow up, and so it's
not like a poison to kill the flea. It's more
of a shuts them down at whatever life stage and
they never go any further. And that works pretty good too,

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But I talk to your vet on that one. I
think that would probably work better. There are some general
insecticides that you can put all through the yard that
people use and they get down in the thatch and
control the fleas that are out there. But I tell
you that that stuff you you, the pills you give
to the dog, that is the single best thing we've had.

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That's me.

Speaker 10 (24:08):
I use a too.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
I use av X too on the dogs.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
But the yard is the issue.

Speaker 8 (24:16):
I've got, you know, neighbors with dogs, and I don't
know what they do to control with. But about a
month ago I bought this diameass gifts, Did I say
it right? And a couple of weeks ago, I went
to Cornelia's nursery and bought the complete insect killer and
sprayed in the yard. And no, I guess it's about

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a month ago because that's when I used the vans
on them too, and it seemed to give them the control.
When I bathed one of them yesterday, the blood from
her rear end area that came off from our getting
eaten with fleas, I just I'm like, Okay, I gotta
do something. I also read fear if I put cear

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chips in my landscaping ground trees, would that do anything?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Essentially? No, it's a little cedar repels some insects, but
then it ages out there and it's not working anymore.
So I tell you I would. I would call a
good pest control operator and consider having them come out
and do something. I know pest bros, the one that
I talk about all here here on guard Line. They
have stuff they can put in the yard that will last.

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It puts it downe in the grass and it will last.
You can talk to them about your concern jo I
got a dog. I don't want anything. You know, it's
going to be hurting them and things. But the pest Bros.
Is a group that will come out to Katie. They
go out that far west and they can they can
take care of this for.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
You, all right, So we'll give them a call.

Speaker 11 (25:47):
Yeah, get your brain.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
I'm just beside myself, so.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Right right, Well, let me give you a phone number
just in case you decide to go ahead and call them.
It's A two eight one two oh six forty six
seventy two eight one six forty six. Okay, thanks a lot.
Good luck with getting that under control. That is that
is no fun, I know.

Speaker 11 (26:09):
All right, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Bad Well, all I'm talking about the pest Bros. They
do all kinds of things. They do Turmite controls that
last for all, Like they have an option that lasts
for ten years for control protecting your house from termites.
That is a long time and it works, and it's
put in a place where you know, it's not like
they nuke the whole yard. It's it's putting a little

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trench around the house and it just protects the things
going through this soil trying to get into your house
like that, Like the termites. They I always always talking
about their mosquito bucket system. That's very new very innovative
and very low talks, very effective compared to you know,
constantly fogging all the time trying to keep them out.
You can go to their website. It's the pest bros

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dot com the pest b r os dot com for
all that kind of pest control. And they do cover
from Katie all the way across the Bay Town, from
up in the Woodlands, all the way down Texas City area.
So pretty much you hear about boys just about there,
they're covering your area. We're gonna go now out to
Cleveland and talk to Ryan. Hey, Ryan, Hello, sir, how

(27:17):
are you well? Thank you good? I have a question.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
I was pruning all my fruit trees and I missed
an apple tree.

Speaker 12 (27:26):
Is it too late to prune a red delicious?

Speaker 5 (27:30):
Have some water spirit that are going kind of vertical
brushes vertical limbs I missed.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
You can prune, Yeah, you can prune any all through
the season if you want. It's best to prune at
the end of winter. But if you got a water
sprout that is gonna be a huge pruning wound if
you wait until the end of the year to prune it.
So go ahead and prune them now. Uh, and just yeah,
that's the thing. Got to keep the light coming into

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your tree because light helps the plants set fruit buds
and blossoms. And yeah, that's it.

Speaker 12 (28:02):
Okay, doty to put anything on the scar at this
time with.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
No not at all. Just make a good cut, don't
leave a stub, it'll just die. No need to treat
the wound at all.

Speaker 12 (28:13):
Okay, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, thanks, Ryan, appreciate your call very much. If you've
been out talking about Katie there have you've been out
to Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is an outstanding place.
I was just looking at some of the new arrivals.
I always try to keep up with what are these places,
what are they carrying? What they have and stuff? And well,

(28:37):
they got a lot of new things that have come
in up there, all kinds of beautiful color herbs and
vegetables and flowers and shrubs, and the water lilies are
in now. So if you got a little water pond,
if you're thinking about getting a water feature in your landscape,
you need go check them out. Nelson water Gardens and
Nursery or Nursery and water Gardens actually is the way

(28:58):
we say it to eight one three, nine to one
forty seven sixty nine two eight one three nine one
four seven sixty nine. They got their Easter egg hunt
coming up on Saturday, April nineteenth. I know that's way
out there, but I think you ought to prepare for that.
Kiddos can come out from nine to ten and enjoy themselves.
They have a real nice little thing for the kids
out there for the Easter hunt and then the sip

(29:19):
and stroll, which is always fun out there Saturday, April
twenty fifth from five to seven, so it's a late day.
You get out. They have some refreshment there for you.
You can walk around, enjoy the sound of water, and
just have a good time. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens.
You gotta walk through the store to get into the nursery,
and that's a good thing because their house plants are gorgeous.

(29:43):
It's some of them beautiful, just gorgeous house plants that
they have there, very very nice. And I like that too.
Remember we garden inside our house as well. We're gonna
head Oh nope, I gotta break dad. Gum it, Matt.
We almost made it to you. We're gonna get to you.
First thing, when we come right back from a break here,

(30:05):
I just want to remind you that next Saturday I
will be at Warren Southern Gardens. That is April fifth,
from twelve thirty to two thirty, just after lunch, Warren
Southern Gardens in Kingwood. All right, time for a break.
I'll be right back. All right, we're back. Welcome back

(30:26):
to garden Line. Hey, if you'd like to give us
a call seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. We're gonna head out now to Cypress. First
thing this segment and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (30:38):
Good morning, Skip, morning Skip. I need your help to identify,
excuse me, the insect that is on my sweet sunset
banana pepper plant. There, okay, on the on the top
of the plant, you can see brown, oh not splotches

(31:05):
or whatever.

Speaker 14 (31:07):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (31:07):
And then there are a little white teeny teeny looks
like almost.

Speaker 15 (31:12):
Like when you get a scalp problem.

Speaker 13 (31:18):
It's white.

Speaker 16 (31:19):
And when I okay, when I rub my finger on it, uh,
it feels like a gauze and it'll go away. What
do you think that kind of insect is?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Well, if you want that most accurate answer. I'm gonna
need to see a picture of the splotches and the white,
but I think you're talking about cast skins of aphids
for the white, the little white flex that look like
dander or something that that sounds like cast skins of aphids,

(31:51):
which aphids shed their skin just like a snake does. Uh,
And so that means you may still have aphids, or
maybe benefit insects have cleaned them up and they just
skins left behind. But turn the leaves over, look for
a little on a pepper. Look for little things that
are either kind of a greenish color or yellowish green color,

(32:13):
or maybe even darker color than that. If you see that,
just blast them off with water, or you can spray
them with insecticidal soap. But either way that that generally
keeps them in control. Okay, the splotches I need to see.
There are a number o the splotches tan or black
or do they have yellow rings around them or can

(32:36):
you describe it to me? And also the size of
the splotches.

Speaker 13 (32:40):
They're about two to three inches long and about an
inch wide. Brown on top of the leaf.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Two to three inches long splotches.

Speaker 15 (32:52):
Yes, boy, but you think it's an aphit of some sort.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Well not the splotches, the little white cast skins, but
two to three inches long is huge, as big as
your thumb, bigger than your thumb. Uh yeah, I need
I need to see that. Uh you know, grab a leaf,
take a picture. I'm gonna put you on hold. If
you want to do this, my producer will give you

(33:26):
an email send it to me, and if I get
it in time today, I'll do it for the end.
I'll talk about it for the end of the show.

Speaker 15 (33:32):
Okay, it's dark outside.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, that's okay, that's okay. Well, you know you do
have a flash.

Speaker 16 (33:45):
I do, but I won't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
That's the true I know. Yeah, well you know, even
even at that, I would when you do go out
later when slight and pick up pick a leaf, bring
it inside or show me. They just take a picture
of the planet and then take a picture of splotch.
Make sure it's in good sharp focus.

Speaker 13 (34:02):
All righty, thank you, Skip, you have a wonderful day
and remain safe.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Okay, I'll do that, and I'm putting you on hole
right now for Jonathan to pick up. You know that
reminds me I've been getting emails or people send me
their pictures, and I appreciate that because you know, if
you're describing something to me and I'm picturing it in
my mind, there's a good chance what you're seeing and
what I'm picturing are not the same thing. That just

(34:29):
is the way things work. So when you take a
picture that's in sharp focus and send it to me,
I can look at it and then you follow up
with a call. I'm not able to answer emails in general,
just because there's way too many to be able to.
It's all out of whatever do. But I will be
happy to send it to me. I'll hold on to them.

(34:51):
Then when you call, we can talk about it. But anyway,
I want to make a couple of points. Number one,
sharp focus. Get If you send me a fuzzy picture,
I will give you a fuzzy answer. You want a good,
accurate answer, right. Sharp focus is so important and sometimes
our cameras get fooled. You know, you hold a leaf
up and you take a picture of it, and it
focuses on the landscape behind the leaf you're holding up

(35:14):
instead of the leaf you're holding up. So check your pictures,
make sure they're in sharp focus, because I don't want
to waste your time on having to go out and
take another picture and stuff so we can get to
the bottom of it. The other thing is if you
will attach them to the email rather than embed them
in the email. So the attached ones, I click on

(35:35):
the attachment and that picture opens up and I can
zoom in, I can move around. It's easy. The embedded ones.
If it's a big picture, I can open that email
up as big as my whole computer screen, and I'm
still scrolling around trying to find, you know, get the
big picture, and to go to the trouble of trying
to save it then and open it. I just I'm
not able to do that in the time when we're

(35:56):
going on the show here. So anyway attach rather than embed.
Embedding is just like pasting it into the text. Don't
do that. Don't do that. Okay, hopefully that will help.
Visiting with Luis from Heirloom Soils yesterday out there at
Siena Mulch and we're talking about some of the products

(36:17):
and things that they had. They donated a couple of
products is giveaways there. I appreciate them doing that. Someone
asked me about their veggie and herb mix, and they
were saying, no, well, is this just for vegetables. No, no,
it's not. It's a good plant bedding. What I'm gonna
trying to say, I guess betting plant or garden bed situation.

(36:39):
It's a good mix period, and I've even used it
in larger containers. I think it works well for that.
But the veggie nerb mix, yes, if you have a
flower bed, get some of that. It'll do good. They'll
grow well in that. You know, it's primarily focused on
vegetable and herb gardens. But that's a very very sotle mix.

(37:00):
So they also have a leaf mol compost available and
you can get it. Let's say you were going to
do some compost out nursing yourself. It's a little work
to do that, but you can. Or you just wanted
a high quality compost put in the soil, get their
leaf mold compost. Heirloom Soils will sell you the product
in several different ways, making it so convenient for you.

(37:22):
So number one, a lot of places you go carry
the bags of heirloom soil. So that's one way right there.
You can drive out to Porter, Texas where the warrens,
rock and mulches, and that's where the heirloom soil products are,
and you can pick them up bulk, maybe have them
dump it in your pickup or on a trailer, or
you can call them and say, hey, deliver me a

(37:43):
bulk put on the driveway and we're going to haul
it around use it everywhere we need it. Or this
is even better, a one cubic yard super sack. It
holds a whole cubic yard of you fill in the blank.
It could be leaf mold compost, it could be veggie
and herb mix. It could be you know, things like
hardwood malt or pine bark malt or I mean they
sell a lot of things by the supersack. And now

(38:06):
you need three sacks minimum for a delivery because to
just bring one sack and go across the timbuck, I
just the expense of getting it there is too high.
So one keep guard supersacks available that way as well.
And so many different products from them. We could spend
probably half a show just going into all the different products,

(38:27):
listing the products that they have and talking about them,
just a little bit about each one. Anyway, airloomsoils dot
Com go to Airloomsoils dot com. They got a good
calculator there on the website, makes it easy for you
to know exactly how much that you need. And you
can read about each of these products, from their potting
soils for containers, to the bed mixes and many many

(38:48):
other things that they offer. It's good stuff. They don't
they don't sell you junk. When you buy a product
from them, it's going to be a quality product. And
I know that because I've used them. I've used them myself.
That's I love their products that they produce. You're listening
to Guardline. Our phone number is seven one three two

(39:09):
one two kt r H seven one three two one
two kt r H. You can give us a call.
We can talk about the things that you are most
interested in. As someone was asking me for a product,
what was a good natural product that I can use
to FOLLI er feed my plants and uh or what

(39:29):
is a product that you know I can drench into
the soil to feed my plants and things. And we're
we're discussing some of the microlife liquids. There's a lot
of good microlife liquid products out there on the market
available to you. One of them is Ocean Harvest. Ocean
Harvest has a blue label, comes in a quart, comes
in a gallon. It's a four to two three fertilizer.
It's fish based, uh and that is a high quality

(39:51):
organic product because it's not going to burn your plants,
and it does have a good nutrient content. And you
can drench it on the soil, you can sprayed on
the foliage. It works good both ways. Ocean Harvest blue label.
Now you can also get their seaweed product. That's another
good one. It's a green label. There's a lot of
products from Microlife. You go to Microlifefertilizer dot com find

(40:13):
out about them. This is one of the most wide
spread brands in the Greater Houston area and way way
beyond that too, by the way, and every time I've
tried one, and I've tried a lot of them, they
work well. I can't believe the first hour is over.
That went fast, all right, Well, we need to kick

(40:34):
it into gear for the second hour. We'll be right
back for that. Just another reminder if you're up northwest,
or actually if you're anywhere and haven't been to Warren
Southern Gardens, come on out on next Saturday, that's April fifth,
from twelve thirty to two thirty, So grab a sandwich.
You can need it there in front of me. If
you want, show up at twelve thirty. We're gonna help

(40:55):
you with your plant questions. Have a lot of time
to eye to eye, talk and visit, and we'll be
doing some fun, cool giveaways as well.

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Hey, good morning. Welcome to everyone joining us for this
hour a garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and
we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. That's the
important part at the end. You know, gardening is not
supposed to be labor. It's not supposed to be what.
I have a brown thumb. I can't grow anything I

(42:08):
want you. I would like to have your attention for
just a minute. I know you're doing something important there,
but just just for a second. You don't have a
brown thumb. You don't have a brown thumb. People say
that some people have a green thumb and therefore everything
they do in the garden it just works. And someone
has a brown thumb and everything they do they just
kill the plant and it doesn't work. You don't have

(42:30):
a brown thumb. Now you may have an uninformed thumb.
Because people like Granny that could just grow anything in
her garden, Well, Granny was just giving plants what they wanted.
That's the bottom line. She was giving plants what they wanted.
So when you provide a plant the things that it wants,
you have got that green thumb looking garden and you

(42:53):
can do that. That's why we're here on garden Line
to inform your thumb. So bring your thumb to the
radio with you and we will talk to your thumb
along with you. And it's as simple as that. Plants
like light, plants like drainage. Plants need water, plants need nutrients.
It needs to be a plant that wants to grow here.
It needs to be the season for that plant. There
are a lot of things like that, but it's not

(43:13):
your thumb that's the problem. But if you want to
think that way, well, bring your thumb to garden Line.
We'll talk to it and we'll get it informed, and
you will see results. It's as simple as that. So
just a little encouragement there from garden Line to you.
All right, folks, if you'd like to give me a
call seven one three two one two kt r H
seven one three two one two k t RH just

(43:36):
give me a call. We'll talk about the things that
are interest to you. If you will see some really
cool stuff, some cool plants and things. I always like
going by Plants for all seasons. Plants for all seasons
is the garden center right there on Tomball Parkway FM
two forty nine. If you're heading up toward Tomball exit Luetta,
across over Luetta and it's right there, right on two

(43:58):
forty nine, easy, easy to find. Plants for all seasons
is the kind of place that is going to have
the plants that grow here, that do well here, because listen,
the floweries have been around it. That's at that location
since nineteen seventy three, are just real close to right there.
Nineteen seventy three. That's a long time ago. Do the math.
I mean that garden center and that family has been

(44:22):
gardening in this area and helping gardeners in this area.
So when you go in for advice. You bring them
a picture, you bring them a plant sample. You just
go in and say, hey, I want to create a
beautiful container on the outside of the patio there, but
I don't know how to do it. Well. They'll take
you around, they'll help you find select some plants that
are appealing to you, tell you how to combine them.

(44:42):
They have some great containers. I've got a couple of
great containers I got there, and plants for All Seasons
that just are outstanding, and so it's as simple as that.
You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons
dot com, or you can give them a call two
eight one three seven six one six four six. Check
out the new indoor store that they have there where

(45:03):
they have all kinds of quality tools and seeds and
a lot of other fun stuff, including products to help
solve problems that you may run across in your landscape.
Right there, Plants for All Seasons. I am going to
be this coming week. I've got some containers that I
need to finish. We planted a combo container last week

(45:26):
with some beautiful cascading those petunias, the supertunias. If you
haven't ever had supertunias. You need to check them out.
They're popular. They're widely available now. But they have smaller flowers,
but more and I mean those things will bloom so
much you can't hardly see a leaf. It's just wall
to wall color on the plant. I don't know how

(45:47):
he gets un light and survived, but they do. They
sure do supertunias. Anyway, our dogs decided that that soil
needed to be explored, and so there's a hole in
them and I put the well back in. I was
gone yesterday down it's the animals got back at the
end of the day, looked at the container and there's
holes bigger, and so I'm gonna have to have a

(46:07):
word with my Golden Retrievers, Ellie and Tax. They are
gardening dogs. And I don't know if you know this,
but dogs. You go to the AKC American Kennel Club
and you see dogs by groups. You know, there's hunting dogs,
there's sporting dogs. You know all the different kinds of

(46:28):
groups of dogs that they have. Well, Golden Retrievers are
supposed to be a hunting type dog and that they
go out and they retrieve, you know, you shoot a
duck and they go get the duck and bring it
back or whatever. Anyway, that's their name, Golden Retriever. My
goldens don't know that they know they're retrievers, but they
think they're plant retrievers. When Ellie was a little puppy,

(46:50):
I went out and planted some four inch pots of
echination in a back bed, and Ellie was there with me.
She hangs out with me all the time. And I
went inside drink water, came back out a little bit later,
and she's sitting there at the back door with a
four inch pot of echination that she had brought back
to me. She had retrieved it. So I need to

(47:12):
call AKC and I'm going to suggest that within the
dog groups that they have a gardening dog group a
Golden Retriever. Now, I also need to find a good
pet trainer. And I don't want them to teach them
not to dig in my garden. I want to teach
them how to dig up weeds and bring weeds back,
how to discern between the two. Wouldn't that be good?

(47:33):
If that works out, I will have puppies for sale
for two thousand dollars apiece before too long, And I'll
let you know here on garden line. I love those dogs,
I don't love what they do in my garden, that's
for sure. Ellie the Golden Retriever. All right, I have
a picture. I need to put this on Facebook. I
have a picture. I was out gathering leaves in the

(47:55):
final leaf harvest of the year. By the way, I
probably know this, but the final leaf harvest of the
year is uh, the when the live oaks shed all
their leaves and come off and everybody's putting their leaves
out to the curb. They're so nice they do that
for me, and I go buy and pick the leaves up,
bring them home, use them in my gardens. I have

(48:17):
lots of places for leavest me maybe talk about sometimes
the different ways you use leaves in a garden. But
they're in the car with me, looking out the door,
having a good time. They're excited about me bringing home
leaves because while I think those leaves are going to
be put in my garden, they think those leaves are
going to be scattered to Kingdom come when they play
in them. I have a feeling they may be more

(48:37):
right than I am about what actually ends up happening
to those leaves in the garden. Well, all right, enough
about my dogs, but they are I think some of
you can probably relate to some of the issues of
having dogs. They're in the garden. Let's take a little break.
I'll be back with your calls in just a moment.
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All right, folks, welcome back to the Garden Line. Glad
you're with us today. I got plenty of things we
can talk about regarding our gardens and success. If you
would like to give me a call seven to one
three two one two kt R eight seven one three
two one two kt R eight. Now, Nitrovos has a
fast release product called Imperial. We've talked about it before.

(52:22):
It's the red bag. The red bag when you put
it down and it gets wet from rain or irrigation,
it dissolves away. It goes into the soil, I mean,
and immediately in first few days you're getting a whole
lot of take up already going on into your grass plants.
By the night Foss Imperial now fifteen five to ten
is the three one two ratio that was developed at

(52:44):
Langra universities across the South by doing turf research and
looking at what what does grass take up? You know,
let's take grass plants, take ampart and look at what
they take up, and then let's fertilize accordingly. And that
that's why we have that three one two ratio today
and four one to also by the way, so it's
the same formula even though it was created many years ago.

(53:06):
It's the same formula and the same old red orange
bag and it still works. Of course, that hasn't changed
at all. It's a long established, tried and true product
night Foss Imperial. So if you want to give a
quick boost to your plans or your lawn and you
would like to see a quick green up and results.
Do that now if you've used night Foss Imperial, wait

(53:26):
about six weeks after that before you start your summer
slower release. And I'll talk about some of those products
a little bit later. But night Foss Imperial is available
at places like M and D and Cyprus on Luetta Road,
the M and D down in Rosenberg on Avenue I
Auspawls Ace up in the Woodlands, just three examples of
places that carry nitro foss products. I was talking with

(53:50):
some of the folks yesterday at c Animals and they
were saying, well, I did I did my Imperial about
three weeks ago or something I believe it was, and
I said, well, give it another three weeks. Let's you
know it's gonna last. I mean, even though it's immediately available,
it's not like next week you got to do it again. No,
it'll last. And so wait a little bit, but then
move into the slow releases. That's important. You're going to

(54:14):
find night Fuss and products available at most of your
ACE Hardware stores. Really, you know, Ace Hardware Texas carries everything.
I mean they do. In fact, if you use that
website Ace Hardware Texas. You'll find the stores that are
part of our local Houston group here Ace Hardwaretexas dot
com and you'll get the map, find the ones near you,

(54:37):
and when you go there, you're going to get the
products you're looking for for your lawn and garden. You know,
I'm talking about fertilizers and talking about pest and weed
and disease control. We're talking about tools for your garden
as well. You know, we all need quality tools to
take care of the things. And then there is the
other things that are offered to make your outdoor living

(54:58):
so wonderful. The barbecue pits and the strings of lights
and all the different stuff that you have in your
outdoor settings where you just want to go and enjoy
the move. Had some family over and yesterday evening we
were outside enjoying just that wonderful ambiance and setting of

(55:19):
the back patio with family and that sort of makes
expands your home into outdoor living areas.

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I mean, you have those there, but Ace Hardware is
one that can get you all set up for all
the things you need for that. And you're going to
find Ace Hardware stores like J and RA, Ace up
in Porter, Bay City. Ace down on Seventh Street in
Bay City, Lake Conroy Ace Hardware they're on Highway one
oh five West, and Single Ranch Ace Hardware down on
Mason Road in Katie, Texas. There's a few examples of

(55:49):
the many Ace Hardware stores that we have. Let's go
ahead and head out. Now, we're going to do a
little phone call in and head out to talk to Ricky. Hey, Ricky,
welcome to garden Line.

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Good morning.

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I'm having a problem with the best I can figure out.
It's called spur. Grass is covered with it, but your
art is covered with it and I can't figure out
how to get rid of it.

Speaker 12 (56:20):
Ricky.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Does it look like a grass or does it have
kind of frilly little leaves like parsley or something like that.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
Yes, like parsley or something. And it sticks too, all right,
like a little sticker in the kids feet.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Yeah. Yeah, I hate that. You're going to need to
right away get a post emergent broad leaf weed control.
And I know the leaves aren't broad but it is.
It is technically a broad leaf plant. It's it's not
a grass badly, So get something that you spray on
the weeds to kill them. Post emergent, and there are

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you know, there's a lot of brands out there, and
so you go to a good A good what what
part of the Houston area.

Speaker 9 (57:03):
Are you in?

Speaker 3 (57:03):
What what region it's in?

Speaker 6 (57:05):
Hemps hemp stay.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
It oh out in Hempstead. Okay, well just go go
to one of your garden centers, ace hardware stores, whatever
you can get to out there. Uh, and uh find
a product for post emergent. Broad Leaf we control, bon
Eye makes one called weed Beater.

Speaker 22 (57:24):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
There is one from Fertilo called weed free Zone. There's
a bunch of them, high yields, got them and all
the different brands that are on them are on the
shelves or your garden centers and feed stores and things.
They're going to have them out there. But Broadleaf post emergent.
Mix it according to the label and go out and
spot spray it and do it soon so you shut
it down before it produces a lot of stickers. You

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want to you want to do it as early as
you can.

Speaker 6 (57:49):
Uh, Okay, don't come in a grainule about two or
three acres out of eat that.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Holy yeah, well on that one. I think what we
need to probably be doing this is not like a
right now thing because you already have a plants, but
putting out a pre emergent, pre emergent product before that
thing even germinates, and that that would be something that

(58:20):
you would begin to be doing in the fall of
next year. So but for right now, for right now, yeah,
you just you just need to I mean you can.
You can put a fertilizer that has a post emergent
in it, But with those little leaves in there, I
think I don't think your your control effectiveness is going

(58:40):
to be as good as it would be if you
if you spray liquid on them. Plus now you would
also be buying fertilizer for two acres so or high
very much you, So, yeah, I would, I would do
the spray. Do you have a little tractor with a
boom on the back or anything like that.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
No, but I believe I got a little track, believe
I carena sprayer.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
Yeah, okay, that's probably the thing I would do.

Speaker 6 (59:04):
Then for it.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Good luck, good luck, we got it. We need to
be able to turn those kids barefoot this summer, so
good luck getting in control of it. You Pat, you
take care, appreciate your call. Arburgate Garden Center up in
Tumbull is one of those premier places that you just

(59:28):
need to go. You know, if I have family come
to town or something, it's like, Okay, hop in the car,
we're gonna go someplace fun. And even the kids enjoy
it because, you know, the landscape, bling and stuff they've
got out there all over the place. I mean, you
walk through the Arborgate, the gift shops are amazing, and
yes there's more than one. And of course the plants.

(59:48):
When you go to the Arborgate, you're getting the most
outstanding options of plants that you're gonna find any place.

Speaker 23 (59:55):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
They carry fruit trees year round for example, not just
seasonally out there, herbs, vegetables, beautiful blooming plants, you know,
camellias and roses and all the other shrubs and trees
that blue. They've got those. If you're looking for things
for shade, if you're looking for tropicals, gorgeous house plants

(01:00:16):
as well. Arbigate is the place to go. While you're there,
you want to pick up their one two three completely
easy system. It's a food that feeds anything with roots.
It also has calcium too, by the way, it's an
organic food. And then a soil and a compost that
works on all your applications. The soil and the compost
both contain expanded shale, which really is important in our

(01:00:39):
clay soils here in the Greater Houston area. Very very easy,
completely organic, completely easy. And they can deliver that soil
and compost to you in bulk too, by the way,
So I mean if you want you don't want to
buy eight hundred bags, you know, talk to them about
the bulk delivery. They can bring it right out to you.
And that's through the whole region here. They deliver pretty

(01:00:59):
far with those products as well. Arburgate is on twenty
nine to twenty west of Tomball. You'll see it on
the left hand side. Look for Treshel Road before or
after Arborgate and it's a loop that goes around behind
Arburgate and go in that backway so you can use
that new parking lot. Very safe, very easy access. It's

(01:01:20):
gonna go out here now to Cypress and talk to Melanie. Hey, Melanie,
welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:01:27):
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 8 (01:01:29):
I got two questions for you.

Speaker 24 (01:01:30):
The one is I'm going to plant a tomato and
it's in a pot that I had a tomato in
last year. Should I remove the dirt, put new dirt
in there, or just refresh it with some composts.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Just refresh it with some fresh potting mix or veggie
and herb mix or something like that. And no, you
don't need to remove the old. The only time you
would remove the old is if you had a root
disease that killed the old one, or if you had nematodes.
When you pull the old plant up, you saw those
bumps on the roots. Then I would get all that
soil out and even kind of sterilize that pot to

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kill everything before putting fresh soil in. But ninety nine
point nine percent of the time you don't need to
replace it.

Speaker 23 (01:02:11):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:02:12):
Now.

Speaker 24 (01:02:12):
My other big, big problem is we bought a little
house up in Atlanto.

Speaker 23 (01:02:18):
That is like a desert up there.

Speaker 24 (01:02:19):
They don't get much rain, and this lot nobody's lived
there for a long time.

Speaker 23 (01:02:24):
It is full of stickers.

Speaker 24 (01:02:27):
I put out pre emergent last fall.

Speaker 23 (01:02:29):
What can I do now when I'm going to go
back up there? And about a week or two, should
I use more pre emergent?

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Yes, as soon as possible. And when you say stickers,
there's typically out there you're going to have a lot
of grass burrs in that area. But there are several
plants that have stickers, and so you know, it depends
on the specific plant and as the timing. But if
you look at my schedule, we're putting out a warm
season pre emergence start here in February up there, it

(01:03:02):
would probably be about early to mid march. You would
want to get that out right, and so we're we're
bumping the end here. You need to get it out quick.
But and it needs to be wet. How big of
a property is that? Can you irrigate it?

Speaker 13 (01:03:18):
Well?

Speaker 24 (01:03:20):
Okay, it doesn't have an irrigation system, but I've got
a guy ok there, and I've already left a couple
of bags of the pre emergent and ask them to
get it out. I was trying to get him to
time it with some rain.

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
But yeah, to do it for me.

Speaker 11 (01:03:35):
But that will help to go ahead and do it.

Speaker 25 (01:03:37):
Again, right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
If you did it last fall, yes, but don't don't
do it twice. You know, within like a month or
a week or you know something. He needs to if
you put it okay, good, well get it out soon
and hopefully that'll shut it down. And then just pray
for rain.

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
And and if there's still stickers there.

Speaker 24 (01:04:02):
I remember hearing Randy one time talk about maybe taking
a toast sack bur lap sap and sack or something
and running it through the yard to pick that yeup.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Which yes, uh, And I was talking to somebody at
CNIMAL yesterday about that idea. They were saying they had
grasspers everywhere U And that is for grasspers, not for
the little burweed that I was just talking to Ricky about,
but for grassbers. You can do that. You get a
little you know, bur lap basically what toasacs are, and uh,

(01:04:36):
just drag it around. You just kind of had to
figure out how to rig it up, but you just
drag it around over there. And I mean those grassbers
really stick to it. And that's not going to get
everyone out, but they've got a lot of them out.
And the more and the more you fertilize and water,
the worse the graspper, I mean, the less grassper problems
you have. They like a very drowdy, sandy, poor soil,

(01:05:00):
and as you get to water and the fertilizing and things,
they don't thrive in that, like your lawn will thrive
in that so just a few tips there. I think
you're on the right track though, Melanie.

Speaker 24 (01:05:12):
All right, we'll try and see what happens, all right,
and good for that for that drought area. What which
grass that nobody up there Harvey has any grass in
their yard?

Speaker 9 (01:05:26):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Well, yeah, and it you're going to be an infrequent visitor,
is that right out there?

Speaker 19 (01:05:33):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
I am, okay, you know, bermuda grass is about as
tough as you're going to get when you look at
droughts and issues like that, and you can do the bermuda.
It looks best when you water and when you mow
it a lot, but it's a survivor. The Saint Augustine
needs water in order to survive and do well. So hey,
the only thing you've heard me say that when I
give advice, people have to bring me half their produce.

(01:05:55):
In this case, I just need some barbecue from Cooper's.
If you'll bring that back, I will call it even. Hey,
thanks for the called, Melodie, I got to run. I
could save you five.

Speaker 13 (01:06:13):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey,
if you would like to ask a gardening question seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four while
Ago I was talking about my night Fiss Imperial, and
I said that, you know, after about six weeks after
you've done that, you would want to put on a
slower release. And that product from night Fross is called
Nitrofos super Turf. Now it's easy to spot. It's a

(01:06:38):
silver bag. The only thing I know that's in a
silver bag. And the garden centers and the Ace Hardware
stores and the you know, feed stores and all the
places you go for these things.

Speaker 11 (01:06:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Silver Superturf is a nineteen four ten nineteen four ten,
those are the three numbers on the bag. But it
releases slowly, so that nineteen percent nitrogen is going to
be released out over about of sixteen weeks or four months.
So it gives you a long, gradual feed, which is
exactly what you want for good healthy grass. It's not

(01:07:09):
all top growth momo mo momo. It also helps develop roots.
When you overfertilize, you create problems in the summertime. Super
Turf's designed to fertilize gradually for you. Now you're going
to find superturf at places like the Ace Hardware and
Sinkle Ranch and also Katie. Ace Hardware too. By the way,
on Penoak, you're going to find it at Ace Hardware

(01:07:30):
CITYO Memorial Drive as well. Lots of places carry Night
to Foss products. Let's head out now to Houston and
talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 23 (01:07:40):
Good morning, Good morning. I've decided to have the aeration
and top dressing done for my yard this year. I
have a number of areas where the grass has really
died back, and I have open patches everything from two
inches to six inches to a foot in some areas,
and I'm wondering if it would be better before the

(01:08:02):
top dressing is done to lay some sand into those
open areas to help to facilitate the grass running. Is
that something that I would want to do? Or just
let the top dressing do that for me.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Well, if the areas are low or kind of need
filling in, or you know you got roots you're trying
to bring the soil up so the roots don't stick
out and things like that, then then that bringing in
soil or sand is advisable. There's nothing wrong with putting
some sand in there. If you can find a loamy
top soil, that's that's even better. But if you whatever,

(01:08:40):
if you need, if you need to fill in and stuff,
I would go ahead and do that before you do
the top dressing.

Speaker 13 (01:08:46):
And so is it?

Speaker 6 (01:08:47):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Is your soil a clay? Did you say I missed that?

Speaker 23 (01:08:51):
If you did, Jim, well, I'm in West Houston. So
my base issue is I have three large oak trees
and we don't get rain anymore. So that's my biggest
issue is the ground has just become dry and compacted,
even though we put water on it on a regular basis,
and so we're just struggling with getting the Saint Augustine

(01:09:13):
to stand up in the in the drought conditions.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Yeah, I understand that. Well, the sand is not gonna
help that because you know, water run drive through sand
doesn't last. That's why tops so will probably be better
for you if you're looking to do that. When you
say when you say west or you inside the beltway
or inside belt Way eight, I mean we're.

Speaker 23 (01:09:34):
Actually uh it ten and six is the is the
closest intersection for us. So we're between ok yeah and eight?

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Yeah, okay, got got it? Good? All right?

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
BB turf Pros is a great uh top dress and
aeration company they do a lot of different services like that.
I don't know if you have someone in mind already.
If you do, that's fine. If you do, not, provide
you a phone number for them.

Speaker 23 (01:10:00):
If you're worries, we have actually we're using one of
your one of your records. Okay, okay, good from the
online so yeah, okay, sounds good. Yep, well good Lune,
thanks much.

Speaker 6 (01:10:12):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Yeah, Jim, thanks a lot. And we'll pray for rain
this year because we get that. Grasp on that. That's
an important thing, all right, you take care? Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
For those of you up in Willis, Growers Outlet is
a place you need to go see if you haven't
been there, and I bet a lot of you have
it and you need to. And when I say in Willis,
I actually mean also in Conroe, in New Waverley and
Lake Conroe, all the region up there, even the woodlands
driving up. It's worth the trip up to Growers Outlet.
The website is the thing you need to write down

(01:10:47):
because that's where everything you're going to want to know is,
and that is Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. That's
easy to remember. What's the website for Growers Outlet in Willis. Yes,
that's kindly who's on first Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Now,
when you go on the website, you're going to see
all the plants, say carry, and they list what's in stock,

(01:11:07):
and they list the price of them as well, which
is not normally done by garden centers, but they do that.
They've got veggies and bedding plants and perennials and beautiful
firm baskets and beautify hanging baskets of things like verbina
or petunias and those kinds of things. Of course, they
have fruit and they've got a their complete garden center.

(01:11:28):
You can even get your microlife and night Foss and
Medina products there as well. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com.
Go check it out. Let's go to West Houston. Now
we're going to talk to Steve Hey. Steve, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:11:45):
Yester.

Speaker 11 (01:11:46):
Hello, how are you this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
I'm well, thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:11:50):
I have a question that I was listed when you
were talking to the lady about pre emergence. I think
she was somewhere north of here that I'm talking about
here in Houston. I've put out Barry Kay last fall okay,
and I also did as night and but I it

(01:12:13):
is growing, and I've seen a lot of clover, and
I wonder and have I missed us about putting some
more pre emerging out now?

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
You're late, but it's all there's still plenty more weed
germination that can occur. In fact, when you do it
early on time in February, we recommend you do it
maybe again sixty days later because that extends that protection
on end of the summer because we have weeds germinating
all through but a lot of a lot of the

(01:12:47):
spring weeds have been germinating now for a while. Just
looking here, you're in west East, so the yeah, you've
been had weeds germinating on it in March here. But
I've go ahead and get it down water. It makes
you watered in because it doesn't start working until you
water it in.

Speaker 11 (01:13:05):
Okay, it's maybe late, but it won't hurt anything. Doing
something is better than that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Yeah, that's that's the case. Something is better than I.

Speaker 11 (01:13:17):
Found that a sack of bawnine weed beater. Should I
should I use that at this time?

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
That is a I need to look at the label
on that one. That's I think it's called weed beater
complete when it's in the sick. Is that correct?

Speaker 12 (01:13:35):
I think so?

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Yes, Okay, I need to look at the label on it.
The weed beaters are generally a post emergent product, but
on the complete I bet that's not the case. But
I need you know, I can't pull it up right
this minute. But if it's a pre emergent, now still
the time you can get it down. If it's a
post emergent, you gotta wet the leaves so it sticks

(01:13:57):
to the leaves. But again, I can't allow vibrate on
that until I take a look at the label on
that particular one. There's several weed beaters out there on
the market, and if.

Speaker 11 (01:14:07):
It says complete, it is a free emergent. Is that correct?
Just this wee beater plus it's a post emergent.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Well, hang on just a second, let me look at that.
I'm sorry, what particular kinds of weeds are you? Are
you dealing with in your line?

Speaker 11 (01:14:28):
Mainly clover? Of course, I've still got that horse herb,
but that's a different story. We talked about that.

Speaker 12 (01:14:36):
Some months ago.

Speaker 11 (01:14:39):
Mainly it's clover and with the little pink flowers.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Okay, well, hang on just a second. I just pulled
up pulled up the label here right and take a
look at it. Uh So if entra zone that is
going to help a little bit with these types of things. Yeah.
The pro diamine, that's a pre emergent. Yeah, that's primarily
a pre emergent. Uh that you're doing on those So

(01:15:06):
you get you you get it on the ground watered in.
But uh, I mean to go on, I'm gonna I'm
gonna have to I'm gonna have to run there telling
me it's we're about to break for a commercial. Steve.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
If you I'm gonna put you on hold. If you
want to hang on, we can continue this when we
come back. Be right back folks.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Today.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Alrighty, welcome back guardline. Good heavy with us this morning.
We're gonna go back out to Steve. Hey, Steve, let's
continue that question line of questioning. Where where were we?

Speaker 11 (01:15:49):
One last question on the pre emergent. Uh, I think
what you said, do not put out the barricade and
the bow lead, that would be correct, correct, And the
last question for you, I have a rose bed and
I was I did not put any preer berge. And

(01:16:10):
that's ray It hurt the roses.

Speaker 10 (01:16:12):
I weeded it and then put rose compost, and then
pine bark malchs and then I weeded and there's still
I mean, what is there anything else I can do?

Speaker 6 (01:16:28):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
The most important thing you do in your rose bed
is pine bark, malt or any any kind of malts,
no matter what kind of malt, but malt.

Speaker 6 (01:16:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
That's going to prevent the weed seeds from getting started.
And occasionally you stir the mult up a little bit,
put some fresh on top to keep it blocking all
the sunlight. Now, if you've got weeds that are perennials,
like a bermuda grass comes crawling in there, well, then
you're gonna have to treat those weeds. But the most
important thing in a rose bed is not try to

(01:16:57):
use a pre emergent on it inside a bed, but
to use your mult as your primary control.

Speaker 9 (01:17:03):
Great, thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:17:04):
And you say iron bark is the preferred because.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
I have some I no, I don't. I don't have
a preferred on it. Pine bark is fine. It's attractive.
People like the look of that so that you can
use it for that reason. But a mulch is a
mulch when you know whether it's shredded hardwood or double
ground black mult or whatever. It's all you really want. Well,

(01:17:27):
the first thing you want out of a mulch is
for it to block the sunlight and stop weed seeds.
Of course, you want it to hold moisture. You want
it to moderate soil temperatures and so on. But yeah,
any good mult you like the look of is a
good mulch to use.

Speaker 11 (01:17:42):
Thank you very much for your time.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
Thank you ansty thanks a lot. You take care appreciate
the call seven one three two one two k t
r H. You want to give us a call? Uh
sweet green from nitrofoss. I was telling someone yesterday down
seeing a mulch and we were done, my sweet green
and they were putting it out and on one of
the things they said, is it smells so good? And
yes it does. It's a molasses based product. Organic gardeners

(01:18:08):
have known long time molasses stimulates microbial activity in the soil.
It does. It's a carbon chain, it's a sugar kind
of thing, and that by stimulating the microbes, you are
going to improve the zone around the roots in that way.
In addition to the fact that you're getting eleven percent
nitrogen in the product to put down. Now you just

(01:18:29):
watered in, it dissolves, way goes down in the soil
and it does its work. Sweet Green from night Foss
is available a variety of places, plants for all seasons.
On two forty nine, you know, right there add Luetta.
Right at Luetta in two forty nine you go out
to RCW Nursery. They carry night to FoST products, DND
feed and tomol. There you go, there's another one that

(01:18:51):
carries night Foss products like the Sweet Green, so easy
to find in the Greater Houston area. That smells good.
I jokingly say, you put it in the back of
your car, you're going to want to make another trip
around Loop six ten just because it smells so good. Well,
I don't think that there's anything on earth that can
make me want to make another trip around or even

(01:19:14):
one trip around Loop six ten, But I guess it's
better than driving through the gallery maybe. Anyway, that's that's
a fact. Someone was asking me about the top dressing
and they're up. They're kind of up north and west
of the Houston in the Houston area, and green Pro

(01:19:34):
is the place that I send people for their green
Pro is a expert in providing compost top dressing and
also a core aeration of the soil. They know how
to do that. They've got the equipment that does it
right now. You can run equipment. You can have them
dump the lead more compost or whatever in your yards.

(01:19:55):
Have somebody do it. But it's a lot of work.
You got to clean up the equipment and get it
back to go get it in the first place. It's
a mess, but it's easy when you just call green Pro,
they come in, they do the work. They know how
to do that. When you do compost top dressing and corroation,
you're feeding the soil biology. It really helps our clay
soils to do that, to alleviate compaction, to improve the

(01:20:18):
soil's internal drainage, to help it capture more water when
it does rain and soak in because it water tends
to run right off the top of a clay. If
your lawn is recovering from things like take all or
brown patch or gingerbugs or drought or whatever, correation in
compost top dressing is good.

Speaker 23 (01:20:36):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
If you got a thatch problem because you just overfertilized,
maybe when you put compost top dressing down and then
you core aerate. Core A rate means I don't push
a hole in the soil open. I pop a plug
of soil out and drop it on the surface. I
always say it looks like a little mini dog convention
happened out there, but that soil melts away into the

(01:20:58):
thatch and it helps speed decomposition at that. There you go. Okay,
a lot of technical details. Bottom line is do it
it works. They do about a forty five mile area
from Magnolia so Spring, Cyprus or Woodlands Conroe, Willis Magnolia
over to Montgomery and you know, down down to it ten.
So basically it's the Interstate forty five, Interstate ten Northwest quadrant.

(01:21:20):
Greenprotexas dot com, greenpro Texas dot com. If you want
to give them a call eight three to two, three
five one zero zero three to two. Let's head out
now to Clute, Clute, and we're going to talk to Trevor. Hey, Trevor,
welcome to regardline.

Speaker 26 (01:21:38):
Wanting, sir, I got a question about some plants. I'm
gonna have them come and put in my yard. I'm
gonna have Moon Valley come and plant Golden Goddess bamboo. Okay,
and I'd like to know how much should I water?
They told me I should water them three times a week,
But how much are we talking about?

Speaker 13 (01:21:58):
Do I know?

Speaker 12 (01:21:58):
Like when the soil is saturated soggy?

Speaker 6 (01:22:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:22:02):
Yeah, you know when you say water so many times
a week. It kind of depends on how much water
you put down and what you're wanting to do with bamboo.
Bamboo is grass. So imagine if you plugged some Saint
Augustine out in your line and you're trying to get
it to get its root system out and down. You're
trying to get it to deal with the heat and

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the drought and all kinds of things. You water pretty
frequently initially to help it get established, and then you
ought to be able to back off and not water
as often. Your goal with that bamboo, though, is to
get it as healthy as you can, because I don't
know if they told you this, but the first year
bamboo basically just sits there. The second year it begins

(01:22:45):
to grow pretty good, and then the third year you're
really in business with the bamboo having the vigor. So
treat it like grass. That means keep the soil moderately moist.
So if you water three times a week. You're probably
only going to put about a maybe a half inch
or so of water down when you water, and that'll
be enough. You can, you can. It just depends on

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the temperature, you know. And like the last month we've had,
you wouldn't water three times a week, and when you
get into July, you know you're gonna need to water more.
But as we go month by month, it's getting more
of a root system, and you ought to be able
to get by with twice a week and then eventually
once a week. It's fine. Fertilize it like you would
have grass, because it is a grass and your goal

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is to get it healthy and growing. So that that
would be my advice on that one.

Speaker 9 (01:23:34):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
Yeah, so I guess on enjoy.

Speaker 9 (01:23:38):
I guess I owe you some bamboo shoots.

Speaker 23 (01:23:39):
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Yeah, well fishing poles. People don't make bamboo fishing poles anymore.
So if you can just clean it up and get
me give me a couple of I need to do
some deep sea fishing for marling. So I hope you
got a real big strong bamboo plant.

Speaker 12 (01:23:55):
All right, sounds good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
I don't know where that came from, Maankes a lot, Trevor,
Oh boy, you're listening to Guardline. Our phone number here
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I will do just both of them. I want to
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right after lunch, i'llbeit Warrens Southern Gardens in Kingwood. All
of you in that region, I hope you'll come by.
I love I love to meet the people that listen

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to the Garden Line and also you know here on
the on the radio. I've been just a few minutes
with you because I got to move on to another
call or other things. But when we do these appearances,
it's a time to sit eye to eye and talk
and also take pictures. We down at Cinamulch the other
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Speaker 12 (01:26:12):
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Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
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All right, folks, let's do this again. Welcome back to
the garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here
to help you have a bountiful garden of beautiful landscape,
and I like to say more fun in the process,
because I think that is a very important part of gardening.
Gardening is a wonderful, relaxing opportunity to be out in nature.

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Well you know, the research palls up a mild high
on all the benefits of being out in nature to
our minds and certainly the exercise for our bodies, the
fresh air and all of that. So you shouldn't have
to go out there or be afraid to go out
in the garden for what you might see. Meaning, ugh,
I think I killed another plant. We can help you
with that. We can help you with that, but don't
be afraid. I'm officially giving you permission to kill plants. Okay,

(01:27:37):
now what does that mean? That just means don't sweat it.
Sometimes things don't work. Planes die. One of the best
horticultures in the country. Guy named jac Ralston North Carolina.
He said, to be a good horticulturist, you got to
kill a lot of plants. And that's true. That's how
we learn. We learn from our mistakes and the mistakes
of others. But the case of a garden, it either

(01:27:58):
involves a very ugly desi or a plant dying. When
we talk about the mistakes of others. I have a
talk I do called seem like a good idea at
the time. It's a presentation I do for groups and stuff,
and basically it's just a bunch of pictures of things
that someone created or did, and at the time it
made sense. And then you see kind of that it

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thirty eight eighty eight. Let's set up to college station.
Now we're going to talk to Andy. Hey, Andy, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:31:19):
Hey, thanks, skip appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:22):
We bought this house last summer and then I had
called and asked you a couple of questions on them,
on killing weeds and different stuff, and you'd ask me
if there was straight Saint Augustine or if it was
Saint Augustine and Bermuda or this or that, and it
was actually Saint Augustine, Bermuda and a lot of wheats.

Speaker 12 (01:31:40):
So I got a lot of wheats.

Speaker 5 (01:31:41):
Okay, what I want to do, I think, and it
needs pressure to level the whole thing off. Anyway, This
Saint Augustine isn't really great. So what I was thinking
of doing is seating Bermuda all through it, okay, including
dirt out. I didn't know if there's what's the exact

(01:32:03):
process to do, and if there's a like a brand
or strain of Bermuda that would be best out here
or to work with Saint Augustine.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
Well, that's good. Both of those are legit grasses and
they each have their pros and cons, so just to
you know, just to go quick on them. Basically, the
Saint Augustine is going to be more shade tolerant than
the Bermuda. Uh, and it's a it's a soft grass
that you know, run around barefoot and rolling around the
grass and stuff. It's a nice grass for that. The

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Bermuda grass is more resilient to drought and wear and
tear if you do a lot of it. That's why
you don't see Saint Augustine football fields. You see Bermuda
football fields. But the Bermuda also though, you get chiggers
in it and you go rolling around in the grass
and uh, you know, it's kind of itchy. And so

(01:32:57):
that that is one thing I'm not fond of Bermuda
for the other thing is Bermuda grass. In order to
look its best, you got to mow it frequently. And
it's a great turf grass. Nothing's wrong with the turf grass,
I mean in terms of just being outstanding, but you
need to mow it regularly. That's why golf courses look
so good in football fields and things. They are mowing

(01:33:18):
those things very very frequently, so you can go either way.
That and zoys is another good grass. You ought to
consider that one as well. It's an outstanding grass. If
you go you're up there in College Station, the Aggie
Turf has a website. It's Aggie Turf dot t a
m U dot ed u Aggie Turf dot t a

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m U dot ed u dot. At the bottom left,
it'll be the turf varieties and or turf types and
they'll be saying it'll list them all. If you click
on Bermuda, it'll give you a long list of bermuda
seed varieties. Bermuda is one of the grasses we can
plant from seed. It's not easy to do because you're
dealing with a little tiny seedlings there and you get
a gully washer rain all the seeds off to one spot,

(01:34:02):
but you can do it. And all the varieties that
they would recommend are listed there. You can go shopping
for one of those. And being in the area you're in,
you go up to producer's co op. They're going to
have some grass seeds up there probably for you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
Quick question, do I do the dirt first and then
the seed or the soil or the seed and then
the soil.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
You got different approaches. One would be to get out
there and spray and kill all the weeds and kill
all the Saint Augustine, and you're going to kill some
of the bermuda with it anyway, because when you seed,
your bermuda is going to be a different bermuda than
what's growing in your lawn right now, and so there
may be a little difference in rate of growth or

(01:34:45):
coloring or something. So it might be good just to
get rid of everything and then start over with your seed.

Speaker 5 (01:34:51):
Oh okay, okay, So I do fit the dirt down
first to level it off, and then.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
Yes, yes, get the dirt and all that first, and
then plant your seeds. Go ahead and get that done
pretty soon. Bermuda is going to be really interested in
growing in April, so start that work, uh, that soil work,
so that you can be ready to go. Hey, I'm
up against the heartbreak. But thanks for calling. Call back
Andy anytime you like. Appreciate that.

Speaker 12 (01:35:14):
Thanks, Get five folks.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
M all right, we're going to run. I'll be right back. Folks. Alrighty,
welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with
us today. The phone number you will need this if
you would like to call seven one three two one
two k t r H seven one three two and
two k t r H. Just you know, talking about

(01:35:39):
the weeds and things, but weeds and lawns. Weeds and lawns,
that's a topic of the day. But if that's what
you want to know about, then Carl, we'll talk about that.
That's good. Just a reminder that our warm season weeds
have been germinating now for a couple of several weeks.

Speaker 11 (01:35:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
And depending on where you live. I realize we've got
people listening in Galveston and Huntsville and Louisiana on down
to Corpus, so you know, all those areas are a
little different on the timing. But bottom line is you
got warm seasoned weeds in all those areas. Germany right now.
You got to get the barricade down if you're gonna
prevent them. If you're going to prevent them, okay, you

(01:36:15):
put it down, you water it in. It forms a barricade.
The weed tries to sprout, the weed seed, can't you
never see the weed. It's working invisibly.

Speaker 13 (01:36:23):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
The alternative after the weed sprout is to come back
with a post emergent and try to kill them, but
that brings a whole bunch of other issues, like damaging
other desirable plants, or it gets hot and you're damaging
your grass with some of those products. So it's easiest
just to prevent them in the first place, and barricade
does that. Now you're gonna find barricade and other nitrofost

(01:36:44):
products it places like Fisher Shardbrow in Southomore down in Pasadena,
or the Fisher Shardburn La Port and Broadway are the one.
There's three of them down there. Actually there's another one.
Let me just tell you about a four melt. Bellevue
has a fishures on FM thirty one eighty and Baytown
has one. See it's on twelve hundred Alexander down there
in the Baytown area. Many places to get night foster

(01:37:06):
products here in the Greater Houston area. If you are
into native plants, or if you want to be, you know,
like you've heard about natives, you'd like to try some
different native plants, You're not going to find a better
place than Buchanans native plants. They're specialists in that. Now,
don't think that that's all they have. They have got

(01:37:27):
every kind of plant you can imagine that you find
it in any garden center. I mean, they have a
wide variety, and they have things that you don't find
anywhere else. They are extremely good at bringing in things
that work, that are new and that are cool. And
part of the new cool are those natives that we
just haven't had on the market before, and Buchanans gets

(01:37:48):
them and they bring them in. And they have natives
for shade, they have natives for sunny areas. They certainly do.
If you want natives that attract butterflies or that attract hummingbirds.
If you're looking for natives that are fly powering vines
or flowering tree. Do you see what I'm saying, they
have them there. If you're in the Houston area and
you want a native that is from Houston that he

(01:38:09):
grows right there at your agree there before we lived there, right,
and they've got that. If you want just a general
Texas natives from outside the Houston area. But they do
real well here. They have those. Have I made my
point Eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanansplants dot Com. Go
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newsletter and good information on there, but most of all,
just get out there and enjoy a trip out to
Bugannon's plants. It's a wonderful place. We're going to go
down now to Angleton and we're going to talk to
Bonnie next. Hey, Bonnie, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:38:46):
Good morning, sir. How are you this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
I'm doing well, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:38:51):
I have a.

Speaker 25 (01:38:52):
Mimosa tree and it's a small ones. It's probably half
to three quarters of an inch in diameter, and last
year it got really long and whispy, and I cut
it back about a third in early March, and now

(01:39:13):
it is sprouting from the very top and the very bottom.
And I was wondering which one I should leave, or
I should leave both of them.

Speaker 11 (01:39:23):
The bottom one actually looks like a little tree. The
top one is just like, you know, little branches coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
Yeah, well, esthetically, what do you want it to look like?
If the one that's already there looks good to you,
then leave it and cut the ones at the bottom off.
If not, you can cut that trunk off at the
bottom and you'll have a multi stemmed trunk coming out
from the base. After that mimosa is a lanky plant.

(01:39:52):
It just naturally grows that way. People often will take
them and they'll they may even use like a tree
stabilizer three sixty tree stableized are to hold them in
place so that trunk goes upright, uh and then begins
to branch out up at the top. But there's not
a right way to trim those they it's just the

(01:40:12):
growth habit of the plant and what you aesthetically want
to look at, what your goal is for it?

Speaker 11 (01:40:18):
All right, well, I thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (01:40:20):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
Yeah, So if you leave that trunk, you can straighten
it up, put a three sixty stabilizer on it, get
it pointed the way you want, and then just let
those branches up there grow and it'll form a head
or a top to the plant. And that's that's certainly
an option. But thank you binding for the call that
those are plants, that old Southern plant been around a
long time, and it has its you know, they have

(01:40:44):
their detractors. But it is a beautiful blooming plant, that's
for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:40:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 25 (01:40:49):
Okay, So if this was your mimosa, what would you do, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:40:53):
Well, if I could see it, I could tell you that,
but I from what I'm hearing from you. Unless that
existing trunk is just really not good, I would try
straightening it up and going with the trunk you already
have because you got a head start there. But again
I need to see it to be sure.

Speaker 9 (01:41:14):
But thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
Thank you very much for the call. Appreciate it. Call
back you anytime you're listening to garden Line our phone
number seven one three two one two kat rh give
me a call. We'll talk about the things that are
of interest to you. Hey, it's time. If you love
doing your gardening stuff organically, then you definitely If you
don't already know about it, you need to know about

(01:41:36):
Microlife the green bag six two four Microlife six two
four of the green bag that is the lawn fertilizer,
number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston. It doesn't burn
your lawn, doesn't burn other plants. And by the way,
I use it for things other than the one, because
it's good for a lot of different things. You can
use it on. Put it on Azelia's although Microlife has

(01:41:56):
an acid loving plant food as well, flowers, back digetable.
I've use it in vegetable gardens all number of times,
tree shrubs, roses containers. I mean, it's not going to burn.
It's a good fertilizer that works. It contains billions of
beneficial microbes. And you know, you can buy it by
the jug or you can buy it by the bag.
I usually buy it by the bag. You know, bulk

(01:42:17):
is always more economical. But either way, it's a good
product and it's widely available. Now, when you do that,
consider also getting their concentrated compost in the bag. It's
a Humus type price in a purple bag. Okay, hum
mates plus. So consider that one hu mats plus that
is not put on to make your grass all green

(01:42:38):
and grow fast. It's put on to improve soil and
it's got some nutrient in it, but it's put on
to improve your soil quality and texture because that's what
humus does, the final decomposition. So when you take composts
and you let it break down further and further, you're
heading toward Humus and hum mats plus concentrated composts in
the bag. So green bag plus purple bag. Think of

(01:43:00):
it that way for microlife easy to find all over town.
You're listening to the guardline. We're here to help you
have success. In your gardens. If you'd like to give
us a call, I'll be happy to visit with you
about the things that might be of interest to you.
I was checking out in Chanted Gardens. That that is
the garden center that is on the Katie Folscher side

(01:43:24):
of Richmond. So if you're in Richmond and you're heading
up toward Katie Folscher, the actual road there on is
an intersection there, it's FM three point fifty nine. Had
to stop and think there for a second. I would
suggest you first just go to the website and that
way you see where they are, you find information out,

(01:43:45):
phone numbers, whatever you need. Let's see the website is
the name of the garden center, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
In Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com mitteran since nineteen ninety five.
And I'm telling you the folks there, they're enthusiastic, they're helpful,
and no matter what you need, it's there. And if

(01:44:05):
you want to do some creating on your own, they
can help you with that. Like maybe I'm one of
their nice metal wire hanging baskets that's cocoa core lined
that you fill up and you plant all kinds of things.
It could be one that hangs in the shade of
shade leving plants. It could be something that's in the
sun with blooming, trailing plants coming out of it. I mean,

(01:44:26):
the possibilities are endless. And they know about the brown
stuff before green stuff because they carry microlife and nitrofoss
and Nelson plant food and Medina soil products. You know,
you hear me talk about Nature's Way and heirloom soil.
They carry products from both of those. They're at intended
gardens in Richmond. They're open Monday through Saturday eight to
five today ten am to four pm. So when I

(01:44:48):
quit talking on garden line, they open the doors. They're
at intended gardens, not because I quit talking on guardenline,
but that just happens to fall to the same time.
I'll promise you this, if you go with friends, family,
take them out there. It is a wonderful place to visit.
It's really nice, really nice place. Let's uh, let's head
out to Conroe now, and we're going to talk to Dan.

Speaker 12 (01:45:11):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
Dan, Hi, I.

Speaker 7 (01:45:14):
Met you at your willis Ace Hardware several weeks ago,
and oh good, yeah, purchase. I purchased barricade and I
put barricade on my Saint Augustine lawn and then I
followed it up with the the red uh fimus I
believes fertilized.

Speaker 12 (01:45:34):
Anyway, Yes, I have a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:45:36):
I still have a lot of clover coming up in
my yard and I'm wanting I was hearing you say
you could spray it with something. Is there something I
can spray that with? Now go back and try to
get rid.

Speaker 12 (01:45:47):
Of the clothes.

Speaker 3 (01:45:48):
Yes, uh, yes, so what what what if it is clover?
There are other plants that look like clover. There's oxalas,
and there's medic and there's others. So I if it's
coming up now, it's probably not clover. Clover is a
cool season weed, and the cool season weeds are flowering
and dying. That's what they're going to be doing the

(01:46:09):
next month.

Speaker 11 (01:46:10):
So on some of this.

Speaker 3 (01:46:14):
Ah, Okay, that sounds like an oxalis to me. You
need a post emergent you post emergent broad leaf weed
control product. Okay. So you're there in the you know,
the conro area. You got some places that you can
go that you know are going to be kind of
what you're looking for. But I would I would suggest

(01:46:36):
that you get a spray in this case, and mix
it in water and put that spray out and make
sure you get it on the plants. It always helps
to also purchase a surfactant. A surfactant is basically an
additive to the spray that makes it stick to slick
leaves and not roll off, so you get better results

(01:46:56):
because of that. Okay, now you are not too far
away from.

Speaker 12 (01:47:03):
Gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
I just I just drew a blank my head Growers outlet.
That's what I was trying to say. Yeah, yeah, thank you,
thanks for helping me through this. Yeah. Yeah, they're going
to have you know, there's product like Bow Night has
one called weed Beater Ultra that I would suggest, Furlong's

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Weed Free Zone, there's one from high Yield, there's one
from Monoey. All these manufacturers have some version of a
broad leaf post emergent weed control. But get it done now.
The sooner you apply it, the better. Mix it according
to the label. Don't make it too strong, follow the label,
and do it soon. If it's gonna rain, when you're

(01:47:45):
gonna spray within the next let's say six hours, I
would wait to spray until after the rain.

Speaker 7 (01:47:51):
Okay, give me the night considered.

Speaker 11 (01:47:55):
Give me.

Speaker 12 (01:47:59):
Up.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
I'll tell you what. You know, what I'm at a
I'm at a heartbreak. Hang on, Dan, I'm gonna have
to answer that on the other side. Pots all right,
take off your shoes. This is sock hop times. There
we go. Well, little Bill Haley in the comments going there. Hey,

(01:48:20):
welcome back to Gardline. Good to have you with us.
We're going to go back to Conro now and continue
our conversation with Diane. So, Diane, you were asking about
broadly options, and I'm just giving you a few here,
you know, because there's there's a lot of them out there,
but weed beater ultra uh or there are several weed
beater products, but the spray is not the granule for
what for what you're needing to do. Don't do the

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complete bag of granules.

Speaker 11 (01:48:45):
Do do ultra questions?

Speaker 7 (01:48:47):
Or I bought I bought a I bought a multi
purpose sprayer. Can I just put it in that and
use a multi proper sprayer for that?

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
What do you mean by multipurpose sprayer?

Speaker 7 (01:49:00):
Well, it's a big plastic holds a gallon.

Speaker 6 (01:49:02):
It's a plastic bottle.

Speaker 12 (01:49:05):
With a pump on it.

Speaker 7 (01:49:07):
I oh, and I've never done this before, and I
bought the sprayer when I met.

Speaker 13 (01:49:13):
You that day.

Speaker 7 (01:49:14):
The man that was there for the fertilizer, he had
told me I could get the strong vinegar to kill
the weeds in a garden area that I'm not.

Speaker 11 (01:49:21):
Going to and I want to keep this all good.

Speaker 7 (01:49:24):
Well, I bought this sprayer and when I opened it
up and I read the directions inside, it says, don't
use vinegar in it.

Speaker 23 (01:49:31):
What kind of sprayer can I use vinegar in?

Speaker 3 (01:49:37):
Oh boy?

Speaker 13 (01:49:37):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
Basically, something with plastic parts is not going to be
as affected. The problem with vinegar being an acid, it
can it has a corrosive effect on it can have
a corrosive effect on some metals and stuff. So yeah,
that people do vinegar and sprayers, but then they just
wash them out real good. But meaning put some fresh

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water in there and run it through, and run it through,
and run it through. Make sure you completely rents out
those lines. A couple of times with it and you'll
be all right. So back back to the back to
the product. First of all, that sprayer you got to
stoop down to spray the ground, right.

Speaker 12 (01:50:16):
Well, I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (01:50:17):
It's got a long handle on it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:20):
Oh, okay, okay, I was picturing the wrong kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (01:50:25):
I mean, I don't I think.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
Okay, well, there are sprayers with plastic parts, and that
may be. That may be a better way to go
on it. But anyway, beside that, bone eyed weed beater
is what you're looking for. Weed beater ultra is one
of the weed beaters. Ultra is fine, except as it
heats up, it can damage your grass. So spray early

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in the morning and get it done in the next
couple of weeks before the weather starts getting too hot.

Speaker 7 (01:50:56):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
Then fertiloon weed free zone, furloan treesons another one. But listen,
you go back in your ACE hardware store there and
and just tell them you need a broad leaf post
emergent WEEKI or they're gonna have several options for you.
And some of them may say something like trimech on
the label. That's another description of a group of three

(01:51:17):
ingredients specifically, but many. I need to make a fact
sheet on this because it may it would make it
so much easier for folks to follow. But I'll see
if I can get that done. But he anyway, good, look,
I just hit.

Speaker 7 (01:51:31):
Those spots where I'm seeing the spray is directly on
those wes Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:51:36):
On those weads directly. You don't need to drench them.
Just when you dampen the leaf, that's it. If you
spray more and it drips off your waist and spray
all right. Thank you, Dan Lost, I'm sorry I cut
you off there before you I came back on that.

Speaker 25 (01:51:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:51:54):
Ace Hardware stores are good, you know she was talking
about the one up there in the Willis area. There's
a lot of at Ace harder Sturch. If you go
to Acehardware Texas dot com, Acehardware Texas dot com. You
can find the stores in our local Houston group that
we talked about here on guard Line. And yes, there
is the one up there in aceh If you are
done in League City, there is a League City Ace

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Hardware if you're over in Victoria. First of all, thanks
for listening to guard Line. You got the one on
Navora Street there all seasons. ACE Hardware is the one
that we were just talking about with Diane up in
the Willis area, and then out in Kingwood we got
Ka and m Ace Hardware, Don and Wharton, Wharton Feed
and Ace Hardware. And I'm just listening to you. There's

(01:52:37):
dozens of them, dozens of them, So go check out
ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Any kind of product you
hear me talking about needen, I would first start with
your East Hardware store locally. You're probably gonna find it there.
You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to help you have success in your garden.
That's what we're looking for. And when it comes to summertime,

(01:53:01):
our lawns really wake up and start to grow when
it gets hot. Saint Augustine doesn't care about our heat.
It does care about lack of moisture in the soil.
And to the degree that nutrients are lacking, growth will
be lacking. So what do you do Well, you don't
overfertilize with nitrogen because it's already wanting to grow, but
you give it nitrogen because it supports growth. The reason

(01:53:23):
alon is green is because of nitrogen and magnesium primarily,
and the reason that a lawn is growing is because
of nitrogen. So Nitropos has created a product called Nitropos Superturf.
It's the Silver Bag Silver Bag now it's a nineteen
four ten fertilizer that's four one two ratio, which is

(01:53:43):
excellent for turf. By releasing the nitrogen slowly, super turf
gradually feeds your lawn over four months. And if it
released it fast, you would mow more because you've overdone
the nitrogen right. But it doesn't do that. It takes
the It takes the thinking and doing work and does

(01:54:05):
it for you. You put on super turf now and
you enjoy it for four months, a beautiful law and
don't have to worry about it again. Really, you know,
I mean you can. Some people are putting it on
this month, some next month, and they're going to carry
them all the way really into the when it's time
to do fall fertilization. But anyway, superterf from night Foss
available places like M and D Beamer Uh, it's in

(01:54:27):
a Sagemont area. If you go to the Colar Lake area.
You got the M and D on Bay Area Boulevard
done and Alvin Stanton shopping Center on North Taylor. Well,
these are all places where you can find nitro foss products.
Let me see give you the number again if you'd
like to call. We've where are we now? Well, we
got a little over an hour left here on guardline

(01:54:48):
this morning.

Speaker 19 (01:54:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
The phone number is seven one three two one two
k t r H. Seven one three two one two
k t r H.

Speaker 12 (01:54:56):
Gim me call.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
Let's talk about the things that you're interested in now
if you're down south and east. In fact, you don't
even have to be down there. Moss Nursery is a
place you need to go. I don't care where you live.
You're listening. Maybe you've done in Victoria. Drive up here.
I know it's a drive, but this is called horticultural tourism.
We got a lot of great nurseries here you need

(01:55:16):
to come see. But Moss Nursery is done in Seabrook
and it is so unique. Eight acres on eight acres,
and just you wander and every time you turn a corner,
you know there's First of all, there's pottery.

Speaker 11 (01:55:31):
Ever.

Speaker 3 (01:55:32):
They have the biggest pottery selection i've seen. It's not
just another garden center. This is a seventy year old
family operated garden center that is everything you need for
your landscape, your garden and your interior homescape too. You
know we're talking about house plans. Go check out the
house Plant Greenhouse. It is awesome and Before you walk

(01:55:52):
into it, you have to walk past these giant staghorn ferns,
and you know, staghorn ferns are really cool, and you
buy little ones from them to get started. Are you
can buy these monsters that are hanging by chains from
the trees that are just stunning. But that's how they
do things there. They have bones eye plants that they
get in Over there, they have you know, little starters,

(01:56:14):
probably fifty to one hundred different kinds of bones eye
baby plants, and it's a great way to get started
in a cool hobby like that. Do you want blooming
trees like Chinese fringe? Are the deciduous magnolias that just
bloomed recently? Red buds? They've got those. Whatever you're looking for,
and if you're looking for color for your landscape beds,

(01:56:35):
everything from melyssam to zenias A to z it's all
there at Moss Nursery on todd Brook Toddville Road in
c Brook, Texas. Moss Nursery dot com. It's spelled m
aa s Nursery dot com. Time for me to take
a quick break. When we come back, Bridget and Don
you'll be our first two up. Texas all right, every done,

(01:57:02):
and then I gotta throw a little bit of yoldling music.
And I'm not gonna subject you to too much here,
but don Walser, how many of you saw the movie
Secondhand Lions. This is the theme song from that movie.
If you haven't seen that movie, you need to see it.
It's pretty cool. That's right, and he gets to yodling
here on us. So where we're gonna move on? Listen.

(01:57:22):
Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown garden center for
those of you up in the Magnolia area on FM
twenty nine seventy eight. This is near Grand Parkway Highway
to forty nine, kind of north and a little west
of Tomball itself. They have a wide range of fertilizers
that I talk about, from Nelson turf Stars to Microlife
to nitrofoss. They carry products from pretty much all the

(01:57:45):
manufacturers you hear me suggesting people use for the things
they're looking for right now. They've got half whiskey barrels
and whole whiskey barrel planners. They're really cool. From the
Jack Daniels whiskey barrel planners. That's kind of cool. You'll
find some plants there as well. They carry those and
again all the products you need with friendly service in

(01:58:05):
Magnolia on FM twenty nine to seventy eight Spring Creek
Feed Center. They have special options that can also allow you,
for example, maybe they don't have something you need to
special order, talk to them about that. They'll work with
you on that. They do a really really good job
of that. They carry products. You know, I was talking
to somebody about Medina the other day. Medina products. There's

(01:58:27):
so many of them. I spin Hole show just talking
about Medina. But the has to grow six twelve six.
I was telling them you need to get that because
you mix it in water, you drench it onto the
plants when you plant them. Now you can use it
as a foldier feed. But this is planning spring planting season,
so I'm focusing on it in this way. Has to
grow six twelve six plant food hiphosphorus. You drench it

(01:58:48):
on the plant to help that root system as it
begins to go and take off. Do it a week later,
do it a week after that, like three times a
week or two apart, and that will give your plant
the best chance to hit the ground run. And again
it's from Medina, widely available, easy to find at most
of the police places that you hear me talk about

(01:59:10):
sponsoring this show, garden center, speed stores, that kind of thing,
Ace hardware stores. You're going to find Medina products. Let's
head out to Spring and we're going to talk to Bridget. Hey,
bridget Welcome to Gardline.

Speaker 27 (01:59:20):
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 12 (01:59:22):
I have a quick question.

Speaker 27 (01:59:24):
My son asked me why his Saint Augustine was making
these tufts of extra long blades when he's cutting it.
It's all the same time he's using nitrofoss schedule, he's
using the barricade.

Speaker 23 (01:59:36):
It's not weeds.

Speaker 27 (01:59:39):
I don't think it's a sprinkler issue. It's just he's
got these tufts of extra long Saint Augustine going on
any thoughts on that, And it's not the whole grass.

Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
It's just yeah that when you say it is in
using the word tuffs, that's kind of curious. I'm not
sure I've seen what you're talking about. Uh, if he
could take a picture up close, maybe one of the yard,
kind of from a little bit of a distance showing
the tufts and then up close showing them, showing that
grass that's in the touts, it may be another kind

(02:00:07):
of grass run in there. There are some grasses that
look a lot like Saint Augustine, the weeds that grow
in Saint Augustine, So that bridget. That's the only way
I can give you a good answer on.

Speaker 27 (02:00:17):
It, because I'll get down there and look a little closer.

Speaker 3 (02:00:20):
Then yeah, let me put you let me well, I'm
going to put you on hold, and if you want,
you can you can get an email from a producer
and then send me a photo and I'll be happy
to tackle that. Okay, okay, thank you, all right, thank you,
thank you very much. Appreciate you waiting. Uh yeah, that's
very unusual.

Speaker 23 (02:00:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:00:39):
The tree hugger sprinkler or something I talk about all
the time, and listen, I wish they would call it
the plant hugger sprinkler because it's good for trees, but
it's good for shrubs, it's good for roses, it's good
for that with steria vine that you planted the woody,
with steria vine you plant in the ark. It goes
around a plant and you decide how much of an

(02:00:59):
air you want to water. You turn it on a
little bit in little weather, a little area like seven
inches across or fifteen inches across. You turn it on
more and you can water a tree. It's been in
a ground five years and it's big, and you're rescuing
it from summer one hundred degrees with no rain for
four weeks or whatever. Tree huggers are very useful. Hang
them in the garage. You're gonna want them, You're gonna

(02:01:20):
use them over and over again. You can go to
tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com.
They absolutely it's just one of the coolest new products
we've seen.

Speaker 5 (02:01:32):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:01:32):
If you're an independent nursery or garden center, hardware store,
feedstore and you want to stock the products, contact the
good people at tree Hugger Sprinklers and they'll help you
get set up to do that because these are things
people are gonna want. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot Com right now.
You can find them at Southwest Fertilizers, Sinkle Ranch ase
kDas K and m A S and A Tascasita fulshere

(02:01:52):
Ace and Channing Forest and Gardens done in in the
Richmond Rosenberg area, Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's out there
in Kingwood rcw Arborgate Nelson water Garden and nursery and
Katie d and D Feeding tom All. I mean, I'm
getting tired reading all these places. League City Feed and
then I just talked about Spring Creek Feed Center. They
have them there too. We're going to go back to

(02:02:13):
the phones now and talk to Don in Sugarland. Hey Don,
good morning.

Speaker 28 (02:02:18):
Skip.

Speaker 13 (02:02:18):
Uh.

Speaker 28 (02:02:19):
I'm in a part of Fort Bean County that has
the citrus counker disease and a couple of years ago
they took out one of my grapefruit trees, which.

Speaker 9 (02:02:28):
Are happy about.

Speaker 28 (02:02:29):
But anyway, they said there's no cure for that stuff
and the only thing they recommend was copper based panja
sides springing about once a week for I guess until eternity.
Uh is there any update on that or is there
anything you run?

Speaker 6 (02:02:44):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
No, there's not.

Speaker 12 (02:02:47):
It's just kill.

Speaker 3 (02:02:50):
It is well. Uh, you know, they just think of
it as you got a crowd of people and then
you got someone that's uh you know, coffin I E
bowl or whatever going through the crowd.

Speaker 6 (02:03:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:03:06):
It's it's gonna infact a lot of people. And that's
why theyre that's why they do kill the trees and
and they need to be killed because it it if
the more of a stronghold it sets up, the more
people can't grow centrius there in that area, and so
getting it out is the only way. There's a little
insect that spreads. There's citrus canker and then there's citrus greening,
and both of them are reasons why you can't buy

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citrus in Montgomery and Fort Bend and Harris and several
other counties in this area and carry them outside the
county because they are trying to quarantine it and shut
it down.

Speaker 28 (02:03:40):
Will the copper base on just saw it do anytime.

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
It was the canker that one disease it will help
suppress because copper is a is uh is an effective
product against bacteria and against u some fungi as well too,
by the way, but it's not gonna cure that. It's
not going to cure the plant. I would have to

(02:04:04):
go look on citrus greening on the schedule, you got it.
I don't think copper is a good long term solution
at all. And here's why. The more you spray copper,
at some point you're putting too much copper around that plant.
And there that is an issue that's you just don't
want to get into but I would have to the

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stems stems as well and the branches. There is a
I think the website is citrus greening dot com. Did
they tell you about that website any chance?

Speaker 9 (02:04:36):
Was the counter at one point?

Speaker 3 (02:04:40):
I'm sorry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I keep switching between
the two because they're both here and they're both an
equal and equal problem. There is information on citrus canker
on the Texas Department of Agriculture website. University of Florida

(02:05:01):
Extension has a really good publication on citrus canker, and
I would I would go to one of those two
sources for more information on how to how to deal
with it. I don't think, all right, sir, they told
us there was any cure for it, so yeah, whether no,
there's not a curing it, And the sooner you get

(02:05:21):
rid of a plant that has it, the better chance
you have of being able to have citrus in the future.

Speaker 28 (02:05:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, I appreciate that.

Speaker 12 (02:05:28):
I want to get your tight time, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:05:30):
So sorry to be the bearer of bad news. That's
a bad one, that's for sure. Okay, Well, you're listening
to Guardline and we Unfortunately, we have some issues we
have to deal with here like that that citrus canker
and citrus greening are just they ruin your day, that's
for sure. As you're in Houston down and kind of
southwest area, I know was a hotspot for a while.

(02:05:52):
Bridge would come in through there and all the way
down into Fort ben County. There's some hotspots and it's
a shame. It's a shame, but it is what it is. Unfortunately. Well,
let's see Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center out
in the Kingwood area are both open seven days a week,
so you can go by today. Warren's is on North Park,
Kingwood is on Stone Hollow. I'm going to be at

(02:06:12):
Warren Southern Gardens next Saturday from twelve thirty to two thirty,
so grab you some lunch or bring a sandwich and
eat in front of me. We'll talk. Well, first of all,
you're going to enjoy shop in the garden center. They
just have an outstanding selection of all kinds of things.
I mean really really nice selection, whether it's flowers or fruit,

(02:06:34):
or vegetables or you name it. Beautiful containers. I help
you with the continent designing a container planting too. It's
just they're both great garden centers to go to. I
love the gift shop there at a Kingwood Garden Center.
It's really outstanding. And they have a great plant selection too. Again.
Warren Southern Gardens on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on

(02:06:54):
Stone Hollow serving that whole area, Kingwood Humble, A Taska Seed,
a Porter Valley Ranch, cany. All you folks have some
outstanding garden centers, and you're gonna find the stuff, the
brown stuff before green stuff, Microlife, Nitrofoss, turf Star, Hairloom soils,
Nelson plant Food, see what I'm talking about. They even
have the Microlife and Nelson plant Food filling stations. So

(02:07:18):
you buy Microlife or Nelson and a jar. When the
jar's empty, just go over to Warren's and Kigwood and
you just pull a little handle and refill your jar.
It's economical and you don't throw away plastic. All right, Well,
that our's in the books, which means we got one
more hour of garden line today. If you would like
to call ahead and get on the boards with it, Oh,

(02:07:40):
well you can be the first step seven one three
two one two KTRH. I'm gonna go grab some coffee.
I'm coming a little bit incoherent here so to see
if I can clean things up with another cup of coffee.
I hope you haven't a good Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
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Speaker 3 (02:08:48):
Stop all right, folks, thanks for joining us here on
Guardline this morning. We've got an hour left, so here
we go. You got plenty to talk about. Some people
be calling in on various topics we got that are
very timely and pertinent right now. Number is seven one
three two on two ktr H seven one three two
and two k tige Asmyte is a product that is

(02:09:11):
mined in Utah and contains trace minerals. And there seems
to be confusion when I talk to folks about what's
a trade. What does trace mineral mean? Does that mean?

Speaker 23 (02:09:21):
You know?

Speaker 12 (02:09:21):
What does it mean?

Speaker 3 (02:09:22):
And well, what it means is that you need a
little bit of it. But it's essential. So just because
you need a little, it's still essential. So so how
does that work? Okay, well, let's let's do this. Let's
take boron for example. Now, how many times have you
seen a fertilizer that says with boron on it it
doesn't it doesn't. You don't see that. And so what

(02:09:44):
happens is if you could go to your yard and
take every molecule of boron out of the ground, grass
couldn't grow, roses, couldn't grow vegetables. I mean, you can't
grow plants without boron. And that's one of many. You know,
there's like twenty roughly twenty different elements that plants need
in order to survive. Now they don't need a lot

(02:10:04):
of them, but they need them. They're essential. And that's azamite.
That's what we're talking about. That's why we put it down.
We put other regular fertilizers down because they have nitrogen
makes the grass grow right and makes it green and go.
But that grass in order to grow in the bank
account of your soil, you have to have the trace
minerals also called micronutrients that support that growth. You can

(02:10:27):
go to Azamite Texas dot com Azomite Texas dot Com
find out more information about it. But I'll tell you
this just when you hear me talk about retailers, garden center,
speed stores, nurseries, Southwest Fertilizers, Ace Hardware stores, those places,
you're probably going to find asmite wherever you go. I mean,
it's really widespread here in this area. Does well. Nitrophos is.

(02:10:52):
Super turf is the fertilizer that is for summertime, and
you in summertime begins. We'll just say that now if
you've used the fast green up, wait six weeks after
that to put down your super turf. If you haven't
used the fast green up, put the super turf down now.
You can do it now if you want. It's going
to give you four weeks or four months of feeding

(02:11:16):
and it releases gradually. And you can walk into a store,
look across the store and see the super Turf bags
because they're all silver. It so easy. Only thing like that,
it's really easy to find them. Went out, where do
you get it? Well, go down to Ace Hardware or
Lake hard excuse me, in Clute on Dixie Drive. You
go to Branham to Fisher's Hardware, plants and things excuse me.

(02:11:39):
Fishers in Baytown, plants and things in Brenham. There we go,
crossing them up. Just examples of the many places that
carry Knight to Foster products here in the greater Houston area.
All right, here, we're going to go now to Donna
in Beaumont. Hello, Donna, Welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 23 (02:11:58):
Hi, Skip, I just wanted to call and let your
listeners know that hummingbirds are here.

Speaker 6 (02:12:03):
I was outside yesterday and I saw one on my azalea.

Speaker 11 (02:12:07):
Plants, and oh my gosh.

Speaker 23 (02:12:09):
I thought I didn't realize they would be here so early.

Speaker 3 (02:12:14):
Yeah, well that's that. No, they do come early sometimes.
If a few people told me they've seen them over
the wintertime, one hanging around that didn't just decide to
hang out that. I appreciate you letting me know that
it's time to get your hummingbird feeders.

Speaker 11 (02:12:28):
I guess right, yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (02:12:30):
I guess so. I was very surprised when I saw it.
I had never seen one on the azaleas before, but
there it was.

Speaker 3 (02:12:38):
Yeah. Well that's good. That's good. Well, thanks for letting
me know that. I appreciate that. Okay, good good report
you got. Thank you you as well. Yeah, So that
means that it's time to head over to Wallbirds and
get that feeder that I keep talking about for hummingbirds.
It's my favorite hummingbird feeder. It is, and it it's

(02:13:00):
just why do I like it? Well, you know hummingbird feeders,
there's a lot of them out there on the market.
You put your gater and the humming birds come. This
is called the high perch hummingbird feeder. The top covers
red and it's leakproof and proof. It's got a little
ant moat so ants can't get in there to the nectar.
But it's flat and so you can see the birds better.

(02:13:22):
You know, with a hummingbird feeder, they go around the
other side and you don't see them. But this one
it's better viewing and it works easy. It's a nice,
little beautiful feeder. But they have them at wild Birds Unlimited.
Wild Birds Unlimited is the place really to get anything
you need for birds, including advice. Those folks know what

(02:13:44):
they're talking about. You can get the wild Birds Unlimited
eliminator feeder. That's a tall one. My favorite feeder I
have for birds eat and because it keeps the squirrels
out and it really works. Trust me. Trust me, you
should hear the way the birds talk when the language
they use are the birds the squirrels they can't get

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(02:14:47):
to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 9 (02:14:51):
Good for you.

Speaker 13 (02:14:52):
Skip.

Speaker 1 (02:14:53):
I have a I'm trying to raise a bunch of
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Speaker 23 (02:15:04):
Trying to raise it a whole bunch of different Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:15:08):
So the problem, however, it is, is that in the
raised bed that I've got all the Callapenia plants in there,
at night whenever I don't I'm not out there with
my head light, there's a butt, there's a worm or something,
and I find what it is that is eating the
leaves off of the baby Callafenia pepper plants or actually, okay,

(02:15:30):
I'm betting the stems in there, and so it's at
night and I don't know what's going on. I was
wondering if you had.

Speaker 3 (02:15:36):
A pigeons, well, cutting the stems sounds like a caterpillar
that we'll get down at the bottom and play Paul
Bunion with your plants and just cut them off like
it did with a saw or something. Uh, that's a possibility.
The eating the leaves could be a beetle or a caterpillar.
There's nocturnal versions of both. I would suggest spring plants

(02:16:00):
with spin. No said, now, that's an ingredient comes in
many brand names. But it's s P I N like spin,
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(02:16:21):
shut it down. But you need to get that done
pretty quick where they do too much damage, because those
young plants, as you know, can't support that much damage
without really being set back.

Speaker 12 (02:16:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:16:32):
I've read the book on Mexico pepper and they say
that peer get damaged when they're young, they will hardly
recover completely.

Speaker 3 (02:16:42):
Okay, yep, that's right. Well, good luck with that out
there in Kingwood. Just bring me half your peppers if
this works, that's all I ask. Thanks Bill. All right,
We're going to go now to Paarland and talk to Jim.
Hey Jim, welcome to Guardland.

Speaker 6 (02:17:00):
Good morning, Skip. I have a problem with my grass
since you had took an email with a couple of pictures.

Speaker 9 (02:17:06):
I had some more, but I.

Speaker 3 (02:17:08):
See it.

Speaker 6 (02:17:09):
It would only let me send two pictures.

Speaker 3 (02:17:11):
That's okay, I see all I need to see good photos.
That is Zoysio grass, right, yes, sir, uh huh. I
think you have take all root rot in it. From
the photos it looks exactly like take all root Rot.
If you go online to garden skip, Yeah, go to
gardening with Skip dot com. I talk about take all

(02:17:31):
and when to deal with it and what to use.
It's all on there. Uh and you're right now. I
would probably get some Spagnum Pete moss bales. They are
like three cubic foot compacted square bail plastic wrapped things.
You put one bail out per thousand square feet and

(02:17:52):
it only is going to cover at about a third
of an inch deep and watered in. That'll help for now.
If you spray a product that's an iron supple and
a zinc supplement on it, and there's some on the market.
Fertilom has one that will help the grass now too,
I tell it, Bill, Jim. I want to spend a
little more time with you on this, and I have
to go to break. Just hang on. I'll pick you
right back up when we come back.

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A band sound beating brand. Alrighty, we're back on the
garden line here. I am gonna run straight back out
to Jim. We were in the middle of an important
topic that I think a lot of you are going
to want to know about. So, Jim, we were discussing
the take on. What I'm ninety nine percent sure is
take all root Rot in your zoysio grass and on

(02:21:44):
my schedule, which for everybody else listening is at gardening
with Skip dot com. It's a free download Take All
root Rot. We have two treatment times, primarily that we're
focusing on it. One of them, perhaps the most important one,
is in I October and then a repeat treatment in November.
Going into the cool season. We can still make a treatment.

(02:22:06):
Now it's not as effective, but you got to do something.
So what I had suggested for Jim is get some
spagnum peat moss, break it up, put it in a wheelbarrow.
You make little piles around the yard and then turn
a I use a soil rake and turn it upside
down where the times are pointing upward, and it's like
you're playing shuffleboard. You know, you're scooting it back and

(02:22:28):
forth and spreading it out as thin as you can.
It's about a third of an inch, so three cubic
three point eight cubic foot bail. That's three point eight
cubic feet covers about a thousand square feet and then
watered in. That's for now. Spraying the foliage with a
product that is going to contain micro nutrients. And Fertilom

(02:22:48):
has one in a gray bottle. Ferdlum does and I
can't remember the name of it, but it's going to
contain iron and zinc and it's from Fertilom, So that
would you can find that the disease kills roots, so
by doing the folier spray, you'll notice yellowing when take
All is attacking a lawn, and it's because the roots
can't get the plants can't get ironed because the roots

(02:23:10):
are being killed. So it's kind of like you're using
an IV to go around you know, when you can't
feed the patient food, you're using the IV to get
around it. And that is another step in it. The
other thing that I wanted to mention is when you spray,
if you look on the schedule, there are several products
on there. The best ingredient is a zoxy stroban and

(02:23:32):
it's on my schedule. And I think, Jim, you said
you had the schedule.

Speaker 6 (02:23:36):
Right, Yes, sir, I'm looking at it.

Speaker 3 (02:23:40):
Okay, good. A zoxy Stroban's the first one listed. There
used to be some other forms of azoxystrobin. The only
one I'm aware of on the market right now is
in a product and I'm going to give you the
name of it. It's one single product, so you don't
have options to my knowledge, and it's Scot's disease. These

(02:24:00):
ex Scot's disease e X capital E capital X, and
I would do that now and watered in because that
that disease product can go in the grass through the
roots as well. Now it's better to use it before
the problem is as extensive as it is becoming your

(02:24:22):
lawn because there's not a lot of roots there to
take it up. But you go ahead and use it now.
In the meantime, do extra care, you know, normally I
say water once or twice a week. Just realize that
grass and them it's roots. So when it gets hot
and the sun is shining, it's gonna be more drowdy
than a grass that does have roots would be. So

(02:24:45):
even though the soils a little on the dry side,
it's struggling. And so keep it moist adequately moist, and
then the peat moss, the using the micro nutrient products
spray that you do. You're gonna have to do the
spray for that uh and then then in fall, be
ready to do it again in October and again in November,

(02:25:07):
and you can turn it around. You may see some
continued decline just because this disease has moved pretty aggressively
into your lawn.

Speaker 6 (02:25:18):
Yes, sir, I've got some areas on behind forum. I'm
looking worse in still good shape. Is there anything I
need to do to keep it from getting into that area?

Speaker 3 (02:25:29):
I would I would do the disease X on that,
and I think you should be good there. Disease. It's
because diseases in general implants are much easier to prevent
than to cure, and so don't wait until it looks
real bad when you know, just go ahead and do it.
Be sure. Okay, okay, hey, thanks for calling it that

(02:25:50):
when I got your email. That's an important one. And
I know a lot of people have take on don't
even know they have it. So thanks, you appreciate the call.
All right, We're gonna go now to Paarland and talk
to Howard. Hey, Howard, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 6 (02:26:05):
Hey, Skip, thank you for taking my call. I sank
you in some pictures this morning, some broccoli that was growing. Yes,
I've never grown broccoli, so I'm not sure when to
harvest it or how to harvest it. And I put
up ten across the head of the broccoli or the
point of reference.

Speaker 3 (02:26:22):
I got your pictures, and here's the thing on the broccoli.
You can eat broccoli at any point, you know, once
you see the little quarter size heads pop up, you
could eat that if you want it. We generally let
it get as big as it's going to get. But
when you see those buds really swelling and the broccoli
heads starting to loosen a little bit, you need to
get it picked because it's going to be blooming soon.

(02:26:44):
So anytime along the way, I generally let them reach
whatever full size is going to be. And that varies
with varieties and whatnot, but you just harvest them at
that time and that that's your best bet. Now, you
also had an amarillis flower in your pictures. That's the
red trump like blooms. Those are amarillas, and they're a
great one to play.

Speaker 6 (02:27:05):
I salvage that. I found it kind of growing, like
in a pile of leaves and six and I salvaged
it and planted it, and it's been doing quite well.
I've had it now for several years.

Speaker 3 (02:27:16):
It's a it's a good one. It's a good, dependable bulb.

Speaker 6 (02:27:20):
And then the other question was, I have I planted
a couple of avocado pits. Now one of them is
growing into a nice tree. There's another tree right next
to it in the same pot, and I'm not really
sure what kind of tree it is. And those are
the ones I send you that they have small leaves.
They're just coming out now.

Speaker 3 (02:27:38):
Yeah, it's kind of hard for me to tell on that.
In some ways looks like a young pekan tree coming
up in the pot, which squirrels will do that. They'll
put a pecan seed in our a kernel or nut
in the ground. It kind of looks like that, but
we needed to get bigger for me to be able
to identify it for sure.

Speaker 6 (02:27:58):
All right, I'll wait look at a little figure, all right,
Skip one question. After I harvest the brocoli, do I
uproot the plants or are they going to continue growing
additional stocks?

Speaker 3 (02:28:10):
You will get some smaller site shots coming off of it,
so just be patient. We're getting a little late in
the season, but I think you'll still get another harvest
of much much smaller little florents florretts. Okay, I thank you,
you bet. I appreciate that very much. Anti ros and Porium.
It's a go to place for all kinds of plants.
I know it says roses, and they are roses, but

(02:28:31):
there's so much more. You go there and you find
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and houseplants for example. They've got a lot of fresh
new arrivals coming in. They have their two new exclusively
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and Cupid's Sweetheart. You just need to go out there

(02:28:52):
and see them. Some good events coming up, by the way,
definitely want to know about these. The buy one, get
one rose sale is this weekend, which means it ends today.
You buy one rose, you get the next rows thirty
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it excludes the in person mystery roses, but any any

(02:29:13):
of the roses that are in two gallon there thirty
percent off the second one when you buy the first April, second,
and ninth, or the Children's in the Gardens workshops coming up.
Tickets are now live on the website. They start at
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(02:29:37):
at their events Antique Rowsimporium dot com. There's a lot
of good events coming up. Is a Rose and Herb
conference on April twenty six. You got to get registered
for it. Now you just need to go get your tickets,
get registered and all of that, because this is the
place you don't want to miss and there's not a
better time than March and April's see Antique Rose and Porum.
I mean, on the drive out there, the blue bonnets

(02:29:58):
are singing to you. Is gorgeous out there on the
hillsides and he grows up for him. You need to
go check them out. We're going to go talk to
Bill now in Spring, Texas. Hey, Bill, Welcome to garden.

Speaker 12 (02:30:11):
Line the Morning Ship.

Speaker 30 (02:30:14):
I have a question about dogwood trees. Want to plant one,
but I don't know if the varieties that are available.
I'm planning on going to RCW Nursery and Buchanans.

Speaker 3 (02:30:29):
Yeah, those will both have them. Well, I think they don't,
haven't checked lately, but what they have is going to
be a variety that grows here. The white dogwoods, I've noticed,
seem to perform better than the pink ones. Now that's
not I mean I see pink dogwoods around and they're
surviving just fine. But I think the white ones are

(02:30:49):
a little better. If you if you know a wooded
area that has dogwoods, in it. And this is just
kind of a little side comment. Getting some soil right
around the base of a dogwood digner the underneath the leaves,
and just get a little bit of soil and put
that in the planting hole where you're planting. And there
are some things in the soil that are fungi that

(02:31:11):
are beneficial for dogwoods, and it helps with establishment. You
don't have to have that to plant a dogwood, but
I've just noticed that that seems to help a little bit.
So get a good one watered in well. If it's
got circling roots, if you can kind of unwind them,
that's good. If not, you need to cut them. But
get them in a spot where they get morning sun

(02:31:32):
and they get some afternoon shade. That's how they grow
along the roadsides. And then also make sure the soil
has lots of compost, the organic matter in it and
good drainage. Make them think they're living in a forest
by doing that to the soil. All right, thank you, skip, yes, sir,
thank you. I appreciate your call very much. Jungle land

(02:31:55):
is the product from nitrofoss that is for containers. There's
two jungle lands. There's the indoor with water saving crystals.
I've talked about that before. The jungle n outdoor is
called flour and vegetable potting soil. You put it in
a container that has good drain coatrols in it, and
it will drain away the excess water while holding enough
to keep the plant going and not having to water

(02:32:18):
so much. Because it does hold water well, I bet
it drains the access. That's kind of the combo there
we're looking for. You're gonna find nitrofoss products at places
like a Allspas Ace in the Woodlands. You're gonna find
an ACE hardware, Cidium Memorial. You go to d and
Defeed and Tumble, they carry nitrofoss products. And the MD

(02:32:39):
Beamer on Sagemont another good place to find nitrofoss products.
I'm gonna have to take a little break here for
the news when I come back. Krista and Richmond, thanks
for being patient. If you can be a little more patient,
you'll be my first up when we come back from
our break. All right, folks, welcome back to Gardenline. Get

(02:33:10):
ahead with us. We got a bunch of calls to
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(02:33:34):
but it also drags that release out a little bit
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(02:33:55):
got the ratios of nutrients that help grass do its best,
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(02:34:20):
back to the phones now and we're going to go
talk to Rick in Montgomery. Is that correct?

Speaker 9 (02:34:28):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (02:34:30):
Hey, Rick, are you in Montgomery. Yes, sir, all right,
how can we help?

Speaker 28 (02:34:37):
My wife and I recently purchased an arbqueena olive tree
from the Montgomery.

Speaker 12 (02:34:43):
Gardeners what they have every year.

Speaker 13 (02:34:47):
And we're we've been gardners for our whole life, but
we've never really dealt with an.

Speaker 12 (02:34:51):
Queen an olive tree.

Speaker 3 (02:34:53):
And I was wondering, I sure planet should be planted
in the ground.

Speaker 6 (02:34:59):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:35:00):
Two keys you do plant in the ground. Two keystock
to growing your Arbiquinia olive is good drainage and good sunlight.
So start with that. Find find a spot with good sunlight.
And then if the drainage is at all in question,
you need to build up a really good, significant raised
mound because those roots need not to sit in soggy

(02:35:22):
so that's important. Get it in the ground, and once
it's been in the ground for about six weeks, start
to fertilize it. I would use a lawn fertilizer, not
something with weed controlled in it, just fertilizer, and I
would use that at a rate of about a cup
per inch of trunk diameter. Again starting about six weeks
after you've planted the olive, and the more you keep

(02:35:45):
grass away, the faster it's going to grow. The more
you molt the soil around it and keep you know,
keep the weed eater and lawn more away from damaging
the bark and the grass from competing, the better your growth.

Speaker 13 (02:35:56):
Is going to be.

Speaker 3 (02:35:57):
When we get to this fall, olive are marginally hardy
in our area, and a newly planted plant is always
a little less hardy than a well established one. So
this next winter, as we get into temperatures that are
going to drop down in the mid twenties, you definitely
need to have a good cover over that to get

(02:36:18):
get it, give it a few two or three years
to get well established and and it'll be a little
bit hardier that way.

Speaker 12 (02:36:26):
Okay, okay, excellent, all righty.

Speaker 3 (02:36:31):
One more question.

Speaker 12 (02:36:33):
Curry leaf tree. We just I rooted a curry leaf.

Speaker 16 (02:36:38):
Plant, and from my understanding is those should not be
planted in the ground here in Texas.

Speaker 3 (02:36:48):
I'm trying to curry leaf plant. Do you do you
have you know the name for that curry leaf It's
it's like, yeah, it's like a little kind of a
tropical tree with a whole bunch of leaves along the petioles.
Is I think that's the one that you're referring to. Yeah, yeah,

(02:37:10):
they'll actually make a little bush and stuff. They're not
really cold hearty. They'll go to zone nine. But you
know you're I would say it's a little bit of
a risk for you on that. So people, you can
grow them in a container.

Speaker 12 (02:37:26):
You can do that.

Speaker 3 (02:37:27):
There's not a problem with growing them in a large container.
Container limits the size. But if you've got a good
large container, you know that's that's enough of a curry
plant to get what you want out of it. If
you put it in the ground, just know that we're
going to get some winners in here that are gonna
are going to do some significant damage to it. Yeah

(02:37:47):
they could. They could. But anytime you have a plant
like that, by the way, and this is true of
olives too, et ceteras, when we're going to have a
really cold spell and you don't feel like you can
protect it adequately, you can mound about a foot high
mound of soil around the trunk and get through that winter,
and if it kills it back, it kills it back

(02:38:07):
to that mound, and then when you pull the soil
back away, you'll get reef sprouting and you haven't lost
the plane. You just lost the top growth on it.
But I'm gonna have to run. Yeah, I got to
run to another call. But good luck with that. Yeah,
that one. I don't think I've ever had a call
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(02:39:33):
and talk to Henry. Hey, Henry, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (02:39:36):
Hey, it's good talking to you again. I just a
real quick question.

Speaker 31 (02:39:40):
I had some trees removed, maybe over ten years ago,
and then they grind, you know, they grind it all
the way to the ground, et cetera. And every once
in a while I got to go out there and
I got to keep putting soil on there because it's
kind of had got holes in there. And someone told me,
I need to put sane in there first, then put
the soil on top.

Speaker 12 (02:39:59):
That way, say it will create like a base. Is
that true?

Speaker 15 (02:40:04):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:40:05):
No, just put good soil. Put the soil that's in
your kind of soil that's in your yard. If you can,
but a good top soil on there. I usually tell people,
and they're having you know, some people are listening to
this that maybe are having a tree ground. Get all
the wood chips you can out of it, because those
woodships will decompose away and the soil will sink and
you're never going to get all the wood chips out.

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So when you re put the soil in, after you've
ground and got out all, you can make it a
picture's mound. Raise it up a little bit because it
will sink down and then it'll be more level. But
in your case, maybe most of the sinking's been done, Henry,
I don't know. You have a feel for that, and
so you may not have to pile it up too high.
But yeah, just just make a mound over those areas.

Speaker 31 (02:40:49):
Yeah, I think that's what the problem is because I
have been I've been doing it for the last five years,
keep adding soil.

Speaker 12 (02:40:56):
So when I get the soil, I'm gonna go ahead
and make it like a picture mount. Se you what happens.

Speaker 3 (02:41:01):
Yeah, I think that's I think that's what I would
do on it.

Speaker 12 (02:41:05):
All right, good luck, thank you, all.

Speaker 3 (02:41:08):
Right, take care out there in Beytow. You bet looks
like we got off the line just in time. Somebody
rang the doorbell. They're probably coming to bring him some
soil to make that picture's mout. I bet that's what's
going on. You're listening to garden Line our phone number
seven one three two one two kt R h give
me a call. I got some time for well, maybe

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not one in this hour, but you'll be first up
when we go the next hour. Have you ever been
down to Jorges Hidden Gardens. They're down in Alvin. Actually,
if you are actually in the main part of Alvin,
you're gonna get on Highway six and go south towards
Santa Fe a little bit, and I would say about
halfway Santa Fe, off to the right, you will come

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to Jorges Hidden Gardens. It's set off the road a
little bit there, so just it's on Elizabeth Street. Elizabeth
Street is the one that we're talking about.

Speaker 13 (02:42:00):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:42:00):
When you go down there, you're going to find a
lot of quality plants. Right now, they've got some nice
blueberries that I mean, they're excellent, very very nice blueberries.
And you hear me talk about my favorite spring flowering tree,
which is Chinese fringe tree. They've got them. Horay has
got Horay has a lot of different kinds of trees
and all kinds of sizes. Some of them you're going

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to hire him to come out and plant and he'll
do that too. By the way. At Jorgez Hidden Gardens
again on Elizabeth Street, South of Highway six. Now while
you're there, you can get the three sixty tree stabilizer.
You know what I think about those, They are absolutely
important to any kind of a new planting. They allow
that tree to move a little bit and it's just

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good to use them. I'll just leave it at that.
But he carries those at Horagez Hidden Gardens. While you're there,
check out the flowers, beautiful vinkas or Madagascar periwinkles and
their beautiful roses. Got a lot of the Peggy Martin,
for example, That is an outstanding rose that he carries
there and even has them on little trellises. But there's

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way more than just one kind of rose there. He
also has peaches, a lot of the varieties of peaches
that are lower chill that need to be planted down
south in that area. He carries those and so that's
that is a great place to go for your fruit
trees as well. So you just need to get out there.
Jorges Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street kind of in between

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Alvin and Santa Fe area, just south of Highway six.
Go check him out.

Speaker 12 (02:43:32):
All right.

Speaker 3 (02:43:32):
Time for me to take a quick break and we'll
be right back for our last segment of the day,
oh Man, summer is coming time for some drift away music.

(02:43:53):
Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us. Listen.
We've been talking off and on today about compost, top
dress and core aeration. And if you live south and west,
I had to get a map in my head here
south and west to Houston, like from sugar Land and
Missouri City on the west end, all the way down
across to Pearland and Manville and then includes all the

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Racola and Iowa Colony. BMB Turf Bros. Is a company
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you right there, they're getting it from Siena. You're talking

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four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three
four five five nine eight. Let's set up to Conroe.
Now we're going to talk to Bill in Conroe. Hey Bill,
Welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 9 (02:45:34):
Hey Skip, I got a follow up question on take
all root rot. You went through three steps. I had
it really bad and I just last week replaced the SOD.
So my question is, can you do any of the
three steps the beete, moss, iron zinc at war shargest place.

Speaker 3 (02:45:51):
I would not, Now I would not. Here's the thing
about take all. Take all is an opportunist a disease.
So when you have a healthy eat grass, it's not
like take all just shows up and kills it. But
when the grass gets weak, take all is kind of ubiquitous,
is out there in nature, but the grass gets weak
and then it moves in, and as it moves in,

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it takes away what the grass needs to recover, and
that's a root system. So it's like it's like a
snowball going downhill when take all starts moving in. But
I use a human example of you know, if you
exercise and eat, write, and get a lot of sleep,
and then the person right next to you doesn't do
any of the above, and you both go to a
party where someone may have a cold, you're less likely

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to come home sick than maybe they would be. And
I don't know how good of a medical analogy that is,
but the point is, keep your grass healthy and take
it all is not a problem. Let your grass gets
stressed from drought or disease or using a broad leaf
herbicide in hot weather, and take all will be there.

Speaker 9 (02:46:55):
When do I start fertilizing a new side?

Speaker 6 (02:46:58):
He well, I no, yeah, at.

Speaker 3 (02:47:02):
Least a month. I Actually I put a long in
last year and I didn't fertilize it all year because
I got too busy. I should have needed it, but
I just didn't get to it. But I at least
a month. First of all, it's got to get a
root system down in there, and it takes a while
to fully get a good deep root system, several weeks,
and then you can do a little fertilizing on it.

(02:47:24):
I'll say a month after you put it in. That's
the kind I mean. And there's no row rush.

Speaker 9 (02:47:29):
This could have been an even for what numbers do
I use in the fertilizer for this?

Speaker 3 (02:47:34):
A ratio of three one, two, three times as much
nitrogen the first number as the middle lower. Okay, Now,
do you have a brand that you prefer that you've
used in the past? I like, Okay, well I would
get nitrofoss Silver Bags, super Turf. By the time you

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are going to start fertilizing this, it's definitely time for that.
And it feeds it gradually, so you're not going to
get a flush of growth, but it'll help that lawn
get really dense if you give it adequate water.

Speaker 11 (02:48:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:48:07):
That sounds great. Okay, very good, thanks a lot, all right, you.

Speaker 3 (02:48:12):
Bet, Bill, And remember that regular mowing is one of
the most important things to having a beautiful lawn, So
is that new lawn is getting rooted in and stuff.
The more often you mow, the better it's going to look.
All right, thank you.

Speaker 9 (02:48:27):
Prophylactic on the fumus funder side. I have read that
on the internet several places.

Speaker 3 (02:48:36):
Not now, Not now. The first fungus that you're going
to be dealing with is a gray leaf spot when
we get into a little warmer weather and too much nitrogen,
too much water, and too much shade. All three of
those pushed the grass toward great leaf spot infection. So

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do what you can to avoid those three, uh, and
you'll be okay, okay, all right, right, thank you. Got
any other questions or called, send me a picture and
follow up with a phone call, and we'll walk you
through this year in your lawn. Happy to do very much.

(02:49:17):
All right, you take care. That's good. Speaking of lawn things,
and I could have mentioned this, he said he'd liked
Nitropos products. But Sweet Green is another one that's an
eleven percent nitrogen product from Nitrofos that is a sugary
based that dissolves away and it really supercharges the microbes
in the soil. They love molasses type things. Even that

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is an excellent product. You can put it down. It's
not like a salt base that would be immediately released,
but pretty quick that gets in the soil and microbes
do their work on it and start the process of
getting the actual nutrient. The grass takes up available sweet
green from nitrofos. To find sweet green and other night
fosh products, places like RCW Nursery plans for all seasons

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on Luetta. You go out to ACE Hardware on single Rants.
That's the one on on Mason Road Langham Creek, which
is on five twenty nine Langham Creek Ace on the
air edge of Copperfield, which by the way, they redid
their store this past year and looks really good inside.
And then go down to Stafford Courth hard round South Maine.
It's going to carry night to frost products as well,

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makes it easy to find them widely available here in
this area. Well, what am I looking at here? I've
got probably not enough time for another call, so we're
going to close down the calls here on garden Line
and I'll just go out with a few comments. First
of all, I hope you have a good time in
the in the garden this week. Enjoy yourself. Find something

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you've never grown before and grow it. Try something you've
never tried before in the garden. I guarantee you this.
If you're listening to my voice, you need one more
at least container of beautiful color plants to set this
spring just ablaze with color and summer too. By the way,
containers are versatile, fast and easy, and we don't use

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enough of them. And you can group containers together. Some
people think, well, you know a container, put one container there.
Well you can do that, but you get three different
containers of different heights with different kinds of plants growing
in them, and it makes just this giant arrangement of
beauty that can be on a patio, it can be
on a porch. I saw one once going into a

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front door where it was real shady, real dark, and
then overhang there and they had used the chartruse colored
sweet potato mine coming out of it. They had impatience
around it because they can put up with the shade.
They had a shade loving taller plant in there. It's gorgeous,
so don't let any area go ugly, and you can

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put a beautiful container in it. There's the end of
the day tip for you. We get out and go
visit our garden centers. They are loaded right now, excellent time.
And if you're going to plan a woody ornamental and
that includes a rose, get it done now. It has
the best chance of establishing well and surviving when you
don't plan it when it's so darn hot, So get

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it done now, give it some time to get roots
in the ground. We want you to have success. Hey,
gardening is fun, have a good time. We'll be back
next weekend. Remember Gardeningwithskip dot com.