Make Sure You Prepare For the Cold

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skin Richard's.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Rim.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just watch him as well.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Good morning, they give things to see crazy. How's it going, gardeners.
Congratulations on all you early birds this morning. It takes
about two cups of coffee to get me here. I
don't know about you, but it's good to be here.
We're looking forward to talking about all kinds of things

(00:39):
related to gardening and your gardens, the things that attack
your gardens, how to deal with those, ideas for planting gardens,
new plants, maybe that you haven't tried before. I'd like
to talk about a few new things today. When I
say new, I mean new to you or new to me.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, garden plants have been around a long time,
and uh sometimes it takes us a while to discover them,
or our plant breeders are always working on improving things.

Speaker 6 (01:10):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
When I was growing up, we had a row of
shrubs in front of the house. And at the time,
you know, I wasn't into horticulture necessarily, uh not not
ornamental horticulture at least, uh, and I didn't really think
much about them. And years later happened to go back
to the town and dry you know draw by the house.

(01:31):
The shrubs were like over the eaves of the house.
They were huge, and there were shrubs now I know.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
There was a red tipotinia on one corner. It wanted
to be a tree, but it was sold as a
shrub and people kept trying to keep them in shrubs.
There was a dandino, which is uh, you know, the
original one got quite tall and had a little bit
of a tendency to move out of its area. It spread,

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it kind of became a problem for some folks. And
then there was an Abelia grande flora. I've lost the Abelia,
and it also got huge and it just it basically
is like the house was hidden behind these giant shrubs.
You couldn't see out the windows anymore. And so what
do you do well when that happens, You cut the
shrubs way way back, and it is a severe thing.

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I mean, it looks like you're trying to kill them.
And then they come right back again. And then you
manage the size as they come back, So you take
them down way lower than you want because you're they're
going to re sprout and grow and you're going to
shear them back. Let's say they put on a foot
of growth, and you shear them back, and then they
put on another foot and you shear them back. And
each time you do that, you're making them back into

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a shrub, but you're keeping it as a smaller shrub.
But through the years we have many other shrubs that
are very proportionally adapt suitable to that kind of planting.
There are shrubs that don't get over at the bottom
of that window you're wanting to look at out. There
are shrubs that you know, for example, the glossy abelias.

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We have different sizes and colors of foliage and things,
and those, certainly for a long time now we've had
nandinas that are different, different sizes, and again the foliage
color that they develop not as invasive of a plant,
and some of the new ones that they developed, and
that's true, a lot of different kinds of plants, that
sort of thing. So what am I droning on about

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this far, Well, it's just to say that over time,
plant breeders continue to bring us better things. They bring
us things that don't necessarily aren't so prone to diseases,
and as a result of that we can plant and
not worry so much. And so what happens when you plant.
Let's say you're a liver in a house where the

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landscape is almost thirty years old. Well, I guarantee you
that there's a lot of revamping that could be done.
Maybe you don't want to, and that's your business. You
can cut them back, like I said, and then just
you know, start to rebuild them from the plants you
have with pruning. But you can also get out and
do some revamping and don't feel like a landscape is permanent.
Landscapes are not necessarily permanent. I would look at a

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landscape like you look at a room inside your house.
You may have a room and you look at and
you go, you know what, I want to get rid
of those curtains, and I want to put in some blinds,
some beautiful blinds. Or I want to get rid of
those blinds and I want to put in some curtains,
or I want to change the color of the walls.
Let's paint. Let's paint in here and let's do that.

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Or let's knock out a wall, or let's you know
all the different things. Let's put some wainscoat in around
the side. Those are all ways of taking a room
that was just fine, but it kind of gotten older,
you tired looking at it that way and revamping it,
And we can do the same thing with our landscape.
That's what I'm trying to say. So think about that,
and as you get ready to plant, don't just assume

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that that thing you always purchased and planted is the
thing that should planted now, because there's probably some better
ways to go. And probably the prime example of that
would be like the knockout rose. Knockout is everywhere. I
know people feel like, well, that's overplanted. Well yeah, okay, probably,
but it is a great shrub. It's a beautiful disease

(05:20):
resistant shrub, incredibly diseased resistant rose. And you plant it
and you share it, and you got a beautiful shrub.
But it just also happens to give you some really
pretty blooms. And so there you go, there's a new
plant that may be exactly what you need. Well, there's others.
I just use that as an example because everybody knows
where knockout is because they're everywhere. But that was really

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a game changer, you know, for the way of roses
in landscapes or concerned. So I don't know, maybe think
about that I think that it's significant, never know, and
then I go out. I went out a couple of
years ago and I looked at my yard and this
got Okay. I got a yard. It's fine. But with
what I do, I like to try new plants. Because
I'm talking to you guys, and someone calls me and says, hey,

(06:05):
what's a good grass to grow? Well, I can tell
you four of them that are in my yard right
now what I think about each one, because I've grown them.
Now you may be thinking, oh my gosh, that must
look horrible. No, not the way I arranged it. That's
a whole nother story. But anyway, I always trying new things.
There's always better things coming out along the line. And
don't be afraid to change your landscape. I've used this

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analogy before, But landscapes are like etch of sketches. You
remember etch a sketch. Some of year old enough to
remember etch a sketch. Your little thing had two knobs,
and you drew on it, and one went up and
down the other one sideways, and you could create pictures
on it. But inevitably your brain would tell your fingers
the wrong thing, and you'd go left. When you should
have gone right or up when you should have gone

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left or something, and then you got this mess. You
just messed up your picture. What do you do? You
hold up the etch of sketch and you shake it
upside down and you lay it back down and start over.
That's what we can do with our landscapes in our gardens.
Simple as that, all right, as simple as that. We
have rodotillers. We can revamp any bed we want to revamp.

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And I encourage you to think about your landscape that way.
It makes it more fun. You can try some new things.
You see some neighbor planting some things you really like,
well plant them at your house. You can do that.
We're in I was talking to people yesterday. By the way,
thanks to the folks at wild Bird's Unlimited in Kingwood
for having me out. I enjoyed visiting with you folks
that came out and talking to somebody about the three

(07:33):
step here asking questions about Nitropas is Texas three step.
It's the fall special win riser, the Barricade weed preventter,
and the Eagle turf fungicide disease preventter, and all three
of them need to go down now, All three of
them are put down. You put them all on the
same day. Just make three trips across the yard with
each one and when you're done, watered in with a

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half inch of water and you're ready to go. Now
you can find nitro FAS's Texas three Step. Let's see
it said heating and feed. I know that heaten Feed
in Houston, plans for all seasons on Luetta and Fisher
Hardware and Pasadena are all places where you can get
the night to fast. Texas three Step. Let's take a
little break here and we'll be right back with a
call from Jerry. All Right, good morning, welcome back to

(08:20):
guard Line. Glad to have you with us this morning. Hey,
if you haven't been in an Ace Hardware store recently,
you really ought to go. These are amazing. I remember
when I was growing up there were some Ace Hardware
stores around. It was good. It was a hardware store,
you know. But now Ace Hardware is like, WHOA, Yeah,

(08:41):
it's a hardware store, but guys should go in. And
I'm just like, this is a store where I do
gift shopping. It's really nice. This is a store where
I can get quality equipment, you know, hand tools, quality brands,
power tools, battery powered tools, battery powered mowers, you know,
barbecue pits that are top of the line. Stop and

(09:01):
this is not your father's hardware store. I guarantee it
has everything you need in the way of hardware, but
so much more. You can go to Acehardware Texas dot com.
Acehardware Texas dot com. Go there and find the store
near you. It's a simple map where you can find
your local ACE Hardware store. Places like Spring ACE on
Spring Cypress or Northeast up on Crossby ACE on FM

(09:23):
twenty one hundred. In on the east side, there's Deer
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Uvaldi Road. There's Langham Creek ACE on five twenty nine
and Cypress Plantation ACE on Mason in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
And for those of you way out there in Victoria,
Victoria ACE on Navarro Street just a few of the
many Ace Hardware stores that are there. It is time

(09:45):
for the holiday decorating and ACE has got you covered
for that as well. Let's go out to the phones
now and we're going to visit with Jerry this morning.
Hello Jerry, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
Hey, good morning, Skip, and thank you so much for
lifting my spirit this morning. When you mentioned about painting
in the garden, I'll talk to my sister in law
and Colorado Austen and she's like, well, what are you
up to. I said, I'm painting in my garden and
I watercolor myself, and I haven't find the time to

(10:16):
do it inside, so because I have a hard time
sitting still, and most gardeners have a hard time sitting still, right.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
So.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
It was just h listen, you know the spirit for
you to analogize that as painting in the garden, because
that's what I do.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
I paint in the garden.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
And my neighbor.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
My neighbor tells me, she's like, I think I'm a
landscaper and you're a gardener.

Speaker 9 (10:41):
So I guess there's a difference.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
And I try to notice her her work, and she
truly is a landscaper and I'm more of a gardener.
One hundred different plants in the garden, right.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
That's a fun thing about that's your garden. Thank you, Terry.

Speaker 10 (10:59):
Your show is.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Awesome and your gentle spirit is beautiful.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Well that's very kind of you. Thank you for calling
in and for saying all that appreciate that. Yeah, you know, folks,
it is your garden and you can do what you want.
Some people want a wild scape. They don't want to
mess with it. Maybe they mess with it a little bit,
but when they're done, it still looks wild. They just
put in a plant they really want that's wild in
their wildscape, you know. So it's it's developed. Other people

(11:26):
want it just perfectly manicured and not a weed everything.
You know, the shrubs are trimmed at right angles. You
can do whatever you want your garden and enjoy it.
And we do paint. We paint with flowers too. You
look out and you see all the beautiful flowers out there,
the colors, and you know, again, it's what do you

(11:46):
want to do. I can give you tips. I can
tell you all the rules of gardening. I can tell
you all the esthetic things that people say to do,
what colors go together, and how to use a color
wheel to pick analogous colors and all those kinds of things.
And that's fine. It does create a beautiful setting to
to kind of follow those principles. But it's your place

(12:07):
and you don't have to. I'll tell you things like
if you if you're going to view it from a distance.
Large swaths of color are are more pleasing.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
If you take a whole bunch of different colors and
put them in a little plant or buy you you
can appreciate each color. But you move that mass of
different colors far away and it becomes a pixelated not
so attractive. It becomes it's like a you know, if
you look at the old color newsprint with a magnahine glass,

(12:38):
you see all the little pixelations, right, and it's not
so interesting. Uh, But you put it together and you
put it in a distance, and it creates a different looks.
I don't know, just some just some things to think about.
But yeah, it is your place. Have fun, enjoy it,
whatever you want to do, whatever you want to grow.
I say this, I've said this before, but there are
lands people that lends ape that know how to design,

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and then there are those of us who are plant collectors.
And plant collectors our gardens look like a bomb went
off in a garden center and everything rooted where it
was where it fell back to the ground because and
that's okay, it's our garden. I'm not a good designer.
I'm just not. I can appreciate good design, sure can.

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But I just like plants period, and so yeah, I
try to make it halfway esthetic. But anyway, just some
thoughts on that, all right. Wild Birds Unlimited is where
I was yesterday out in Kingwood. Now, you know, we
have six wild Birds Unlimited stores here in the Greater
Houston area, and that kind of makes it easy because
I don't care where you live. There is a store

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that you can get to not too far away from you,
who knows, maybe very very close to you. There's one
in clear Lake, there's one in Cyprus. There's one in
Houston on bel Air, and another one in Houston on
the west side, a Memorial Drive out in Kingwood, where
I was yesterday in Kingwood Drive is a wild Bird
Unlimited store. And there's another one number six in pair
Land on East Broadway. Wild Birds Unlimited stores have Winter

(14:07):
super Blend back in stock now. They have many different
types of bird seed. We were looking at all the seed.
Every time I go into one, I just ask a
million questions because they have all these different seed blends
and things. They have blends that are called nm as
in no Mess. I could also say wild Birds Unlimited

(14:27):
seed blends or NM as in no MI low those
little red bebes. That's not what an m stems for
a wild Bird's Unlimited Store, but it's what it does
when I look at them. Because cheap bird seed has
all those red bebes, and birds kick them out. They
don't want to eat them unless they're starving to Wildbirds.
Unlimited seed blends have things birds want to eat. And
if you don't even want a mess, like birds love sunflowers,

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if you don't want the little shelled sunflower holes around,
get one of their no Mess blends. And every pound
you buy is a pound that goes into a bird's tummy.
That's the way to look at it. And it just
makes good sense. And people love. People that shop at
wild Birds Unlimited stores love those things. Now, whenever you
go in there, make sure Enjoying Savings Club make sure

(15:13):
and to ask them about how to find good information
online for bird care, and they can give you a
lot of good information. There's a great app called Merlin
from Cornell University. You got to check that out. I
mean you can. I was just you know, talking to Jerry.
I heard a bird. I think I heard a bird
in the background. You could turn on the recorder on

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Merlin and it would listen and it would tell you
what kind of bird that was in the background. Is
that cool? I mean, because you know, sometimes most of
the time when I hear a bird, I don't see
the birds like you know, they're in the tree somewhere there.
It's a fun, fun hobby and wild Birds Unlimited is
the place to go to find the best of the
best to make your hobby even more enjoyable. And also

(15:57):
we're entering that holiday season. I'm just saying great, great
gift ideas at Wildbirds Unlimited, that is for sure. Uh,
you are listening to Guardline. I don't think I've given
out the phone number today, our phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Someone was

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asking me about Nelson Plant Food carbo load yesterday when
we were out there at the Wildbird's Unlimited store in
Kingwood and we were discussing it. It's the purple bag,
by the way, from the folks from Nelson. By the way,
did you know Nelson Plant Food is a family owned
Texas brand. The Nelson family has been in Katie area
since the late eighteen hundreds, and this is fertilizer that's

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made here locally in the Greater Houston area. Nelson's carbo
Load is a fall fertilizer. It's got the right nutrient
ratio for fall and it also has a preventative weed
control product in it. If you put it, you put
the fertilizer down, you watered in and it water's in
the weed control of a well, and any weed seeds
that try to germinate, it's gonn knock them out. So

(17:03):
it's kind of a two punch in one bag that
is Carbolode from the folks that Nelson's easy to find
all over the place, as Nelson products are, but one
that if you're going to do it, you need to
do it because with each day that passes, you could
have more weed seeds already germinating, and as it gets colder,
our grass plants just don't take up the nutrients at

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the rate and efficiency that they do. If you put
it down and get it done, now, get it done now.
Excuse me. I was talking to some folks at Chanty
Gardens the other day. I'm going to be going out
there in January. We were just discussing some things, the
topics and stuff like that. But I just love going

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out to that place. Every time I go, I see
plants that I didn't know that they carried. You know,
that's a not so common plant. Now they carry everything common,
you know, everything like that you would want to be
planning now, the fall flowers, the winter flowers, the fall vegetables,
fall herbs and so on, you know. And they've been
going strong on pumpkins for a long time. As we

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enter this harvest season and it's just gonna switch, you know,
you'll see the change over to Christmas things. The gift
shops are awesome out there, but I just like wandering
through the plants and you know, if you got a question,
ask somebody that works there. This is a mom and
pop garden center. This is a garden center where the
people know what they're talking about. And that is so important.

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That's why I love our independent garden centers. And in
Chenni Gardens on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond on
FM three fifty nine is exactly just that. Go to
their website in chented Gardens Richmond dot com in Chennigardens
Richmond dot com. By the way, they carry the fertilizers
you hear me talk about on garden Line, and they
carry both Nature's Way and heirloom soil soil products to there,

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so you have that brown stuff before green stuff foundation
for success at Enchanted Gardens. Today, they're open from ten
am to four pm. Be a nice day for an outing,
I think, how about you. I'm gonna be. I'm done
for the season and doing the appearances, and I enjoy

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doing those a lot. I'm also going to enjoy not
traveling all over the place for just a little bit here,
because you know, it's been a long, nice fall season,
so that's good. Finally I'll get back and take care
of my yard. I was visiting by chat with Chris Weisinger,

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the guy, the bulb guy from a Southern bub company,
and I told him that I said, you know, there's
a saying that cobblers kids go barefoot, and that's true.
What that means is the guy who makes shoes I
he don't have time to make shoes for his kids
because he's busy making and selling shoes. And my garden
sometimes reflects the saying the cobblers kids go barefoot. So

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I need to get back to the garden and do
all the things I want to do because I've been
running around too much, so that's going to get to happen. Finally,
my plants are happy to see me again. I know
we're going to take a little break here in just
a second. If you do have a phone call that
you would like to make a question you'd like to
ask seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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If you have a photo that you would like to
send before the call, that would be very helpful. You
can call my producer and get an email address to
send the photo and then follow it up with a
phone call and we'll be glad to help you and
resolve that. All righty, well, you take care, We'll be
right back. Don't go away and where all right? Folks,

(20:47):
welcome back to guarden Line. Good you have a have
a good time with us this morning. All right, I'm
not going to do it like I did yesterday. I
couldn't get the right words out of my mouth yesterday.
You're not going to do that today. Good to have
you with us. We are talking gardening. So what do
you want to talk about? You tell me it's seven

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one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I
can talk about plenty of things. I think I could
probably talk for ten hours on gardening and never shut
my mouth. I love it so much, and I want
to I want that to be infectious. I want you
to enjoy gardening even more. I'd like you get some
good ideas. Have you ever been to a garden center
and you just see something that like, I want to

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go home and do that. Maybe it's a combination planter
or something, or maybe they I don't know, they did something,
they tried something different, Or there's a new plant that
you've never grown before and you're thinking, oh, I'd like
to grow that at home. That's why we shop at
independent garden centers, because they're going to carry stuff that
you can grow here, and they're going to carry stuff

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that they'll tell you how to grow it here. Right.
A cactus and an azalea doesn't need the same care, right, Okay,
so you need knows what they're talking about. And I
get so frustrated, and I still do this and I shouldn't,
but well I shouldn't because it frustrates me. But I'll
go into a big box store or something, I need
a hammer or whatever, whatever, it's out there, and I

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always have to ask people in the garden center question,
you know, it's like, oh, what is this you know?
Or do you how do how do you grow this?
Or sometimes in front of the aisle of pesticides, you know,
I'll ask a question like, well, what's what's the best
approach to killing fire ants? And I can just tell
for the minute I asked the question, they have no
clue and they're just making it up as they go.

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Really seriously, Uh it just go to a place that's
about gardening, that's that's run by gardeners, that's staffed with gardeners,
people that know what they're talking about, and it's just
so much better and you'll be so much happier, you
really will. And I would contend that you get the

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most bang for your buck because number one, you're not
gonna find a plant that dies because you do how
to take care of it. They don't know how to
take care of it. And it doesn't even need to
be planted here. And I could talk for an hour
on specific examples of plants I see for sale in
the Greater Houston area, not at our independent garden centers,
but elsewhere that should not be sold here and planted here.

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But anyway, and then you have good advice, you know,
if you have a question, bring them a little picture
and show them and say, hey, look at this area.
It's kind of whatever. What would be a good idea here?
And they'll give you some ideas because they know what
they're talking about. All right, that's my soapbox. But that's
my story and I'm sticking to it because it's true.

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They're not just running their runout. They take care, they
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for the website bb Turfpros dot com or column seven one, three, two, three,
four fifty five ninety eight. Let's go now to Southwest
Houston and we're going to talk to Faye this morning. Well,
welcome to Yarrdline.

Speaker 11 (25:00):
Fae, good morning. I have a question about Amarilli's bulbs.
I have two that I need to plant, and I
want to know when is the time to do that.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Oh, you can do it now if you want. It's
a fine time for planning all kinds of bulbs. The
fall is a great time for it. There's no problem
with going ahead and getting them in the ground.

Speaker 11 (25:27):
All right, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
All right, Well enjoy those. Those are gorgeous bulbs. I
love them. All right, there you go. The folks at
Microlife always are coming up with new products and new
information that helps you garden successfully. And now you'd say

(25:53):
there's nothing new unto the sun. Well, that that's true,
and nature has known how to grow things for a
long time, right, And so my microlife basically takes Nature's
lead and making their products and in developing things that
help you have success. So like for right now, we're
giving our lones of fall fertilization and we want to

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make sure and give them a good nutrient package going
into fall so they're stronger coming out in the spring.
But Microlife takes their brown Patch product, which is a fertilizer,
not a fungicide, but they put sixty three different microbes
that benefit plants in it. Did you know there's lots
and lots and lots of microbes that don't cause disease,

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they help prevent disease, or they stimulate plant growth in
various ways. And that's what Microlife brown Patch is all about.
And then there are many other products from Microlife, liquids
and granules. It's all the same thing. It's in the
same thing means quality product, good nutrition and loaded with
microbes that are going to benefit your plants. That's on

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That's the website Microlife Fertilizer dot com. Right now for
your lawn, the one you need to look for is
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do they say, even a even a blindhog finds an acre?
Never know? And then let that sink in just for

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a little bit. Yeah, I believe that I could walk
into a store almost with my eyes closed and find
Microlife brown patch because it's brown. I guess I couldn't
close them all the way. Pretty easy to do a
store like Southwest Fertilizer, for example. Now, you know, one
of these days I'm going to try to think of
a product that Okay, there's no way they carry this there, uh,

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and maybe call Bob up and say, hey, do you
got any such and such just to see. But I
know what the entry is going to be is and that, yeah,
we got that. We've had that for years. Southwest Fertilizer
carries everything that you need. They really do, and boy
are they knowledgeable about it. You know, I was talking
about independent garden centers and you go in there and

(28:05):
you get good answers because they know what they're talking about.
Same with Southwest Fertilizer. You know, whether you talk to
Bob himself, you know, it doesn't matter who you talk to.
You there. They know their stuff and they'll point you
at the right product. They'll tell you how to use it.
You can bring a weed you know that you pulled
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they'll hope you do that. Now, maybe it's not just
about killing things. Maybe it's about growing things. So you
need various fertilizers, organic or synthetic. You need granule, you
need liquid, you need other kind of plant stimulators that
we have. They've got all of that at Southwest Fertilizer.
You can also go in the back there's a small
engine repair shop or you can get those sort of

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things taken care of. They have seeds they're ready to
go for your cool season seed planting, and they even
have a bin of bulk seeds where you take a
little scoop the most economical way to buy seeds, take
a little scoop and put them in a little envelope
they have there, and you can buy your seats that
way too, if you want to do it. Just main
things you need to go over there. It's on the
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They had a tweet speaking of birds, welcome back to
the garden line. Good to have you with us. Plants
for all seasons is one of those independent garden centers
like I've been talking about. It is a place where
you go. It's places been around since nineteen seventy three.

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The Flowerty family founded it, and I guess two forty
nine Tomboll Parkway is probably a goat trail back in
those days because Houston has just grown up and moved out,
as you all know, year decade after decade after decade.
But seriously, the place has been around a long time.
Started as a little Christmas tree sales lot. There. That's

(34:47):
true if you go back in the history and when
you go into Plants for All seasons. First of all,
the gift shop, well it's the store inside, but they
have some wonderful things that are great gifts, good tools,
and all kinds of stuff you'll like. There's a huge
wall of seed and you just need to wander up
and down that wall and look at all the different

(35:07):
kinds of seeds as you can plant really really cool stuff.
It changes in there. You know when it's time to
plant bulbs, like now you're going to see bulbs for
sale in there, and the other times there'll be different
things when it's time plant potatoes and onions and whatnot.
They always they're always staying stocked up and it's a
fun place to visit. When you go in, you're gonna
find people that have expertise, that know what they're talking about.

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They can answer your questions. They're gonna they're gonna treat
you right, they're gonna be friendly, and you are going
to have a good time shopping. It just is a
wonderful place follows for planting. And I was in I
was in plant fall season. The other day I was
looking at their shrubs and they just have a great
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are just pretty to look at, now's a good time
to get them. And they've got them there. All you

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got to do is swing by and take a look,
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I want a shade tree, or I want a beautiful
blooming tree one of the blooms in the spring, or
something of the blooms in the summer. There's actually some
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the one that you're looking for. Maybe you want to
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bathing in a speedo is a good idea, Well, maybe
you don't like that idea and you need some shrubs
to block an insight lea view. I don't know. Bottom
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sixteen forty six. I am working on developing a new
bed area beside my house. I put in a walkway,
a flat stone walkway, and I've got this area now
that used to be a yard and it's against a

(37:16):
brick wall and it happens to be a western wall.
And yesterday, late in the day, I mean it was
like dark. I walked outside and around the corner behind
the privacy fence from the front. We have our recycle
and trash cans there and I went to open up
that trash can and I just felt heat on my face.

(37:39):
I'm serious, and I just realized it's like this wall
is radiating heat because the sun has been shining on
it and the senator had gone down and I we
sat and touched the wall. It's like, wow, that is
really warm. Where does that he go? Well, it radiates out,
but it radiates in too, and you get to pay
for air conditioning. To fight that heat coming into your house.

(38:03):
To keep a cool in the house, you can plant
plants on the wall like that. There are vines that
attach right to the wall. That's one option. There's the
option also of putting in a panel that the vines
can climb on. I'm fond of galvanized fence paneling because

(38:24):
of livestock fence paneling because it lasts forever and it's
super strong. But you could use a lattice, you know,
maybe a seedar or treated wood lattice, so it lasts
a little longer. Just know that all those kinds of
things do eventually fall apart. But get a wall of
vines and put it in front of a shrub like that.

(38:46):
Shrub a wall like that, and all that radiant heat
is not there on your wall now. But what's on
your wall is a pretty vine, maybe a vine that blooms,
maybe a vine that has fragrance. So my back fence,
I've got Confederate star jasmine, the also called star jusemine,

(39:07):
Confederate jusement or star jusemin. And it's an evergreen, so
it's all green it is. I actually moved my panel
my fence panel up high on a post and put
kind of cut them in. I have a fence panel
and a half height on It's what I'm trying to say,
because the way our houses are oriented, I've got a
neighbor yard back there that you just kind of can

(39:28):
see into and vice versa, and so I'll put the
vine a little bit higher just to block a view there.
But it has nice fragrant white flowers. That's a great
idea for me. I like fragrance. I've been planning fragrant
plants for over a year now, just beefing up the fragrance.
I just was checking out the other day. I have
a Brougmancia, which is an angel's trumpet, long trumpets that

(39:49):
hang down and in the evening they release a nice
fragrance and it's right by my patio, so when I
sit outside, I can enjoy that fragrance of it. Anyway,
that's I'm just giving you some ideas, telling you some
things I'm doing, uh and have done. And so the
next project for me is going to be dealing with
this hot brick wall and fixing that. It's boring to

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look at, and I know I can create something beautiful there.
That's what we're about to do. So there you go
lots of ideas and you go into a good garden
center and they can point you in the right direction.
Like that you're listening to Garden Line. Our phone number
is seven to one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two five eight

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seven four. We will be glad to visit with you
about the kinds of questions that you might have. I
want you to get with your county Agrolife Extension office
and ask them for a planting guide for fall vegetables.
What if they recommend, They may point you to the
AGI Horticulture website. They may have printed copies. Most of

(40:51):
them have printed copies. Here in the greater Houston area,
you have horticulture agents. I used to be one for
thirty five years with Agrolife Extension. Worked in a number
of counties. Started off in Conroe in Montgomery County where
Michael Potter is now. I went over to Travis County
in Austin and worked there for a number of years.
Came back to Houston and worked at the Extension office

(41:14):
in Houston, and then went to College Station and worked
back at the mothership back to the mothership, went back
there and finished out my career up there. But you
have these guys and girls and at these offices that
are very, very knowledgeable about all things, whether it's Galveston County,

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Brazoria County, Fort ben County, Montgomery County, way out in
Orange County. Here in Harris County that we have a
number of different horticulture agents. But even when there's not
a horticulture agent in the county, you have an agriculture
agent that works and covers the horticulture area. And so
go in and get a planning guide and find out

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when do you plant vegetables and plan them and get going.
Get you a container. If you don't have room for
a garden, get a container. If you do have a
little bit of room, maybe a raised bed, one of
those metal sided raised beds, or whatever appeals to you,
gets you a garden started. It is so simple, so
easy to do, way easier than the old days when

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we had to, you know, use a rototiller to bang
our teeth loose on the ground trying to trying to
break up that hard compacted soil. There's a lot easier
to do now. So anyway, take advantage of your Agrolife
Extension officers. One that serves all two hundred and fifty
four counties in Texas, so and on this part of
the state, there's one in every county. There you go,

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all right, let's take a break. We'll be back in
just a moment with your calls.

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Hey, welcome back, Welcome back, gardeners. I'm glad to have
you with us. It's always good to get to visit
with gardeners. That that is one of my happy places.
It really is. I enjoyed being out at Kingwood wild
Bird's unlimited in Kingwood visiting with folks yesterday. I just
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are good people, they just are. And you know, I've
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Uh and it just you just meet the nicest people.
It's I just think it's great. It's an amazing, amazing group.
And so I get to talk to you this morning.
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their Texas three step, and I keep telling you this
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it done. And it's not a black and white line
like you can do it today, but you can't do
it tomorrow. But every day you wait, the three things
that the Texas three step does become less effective. And
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from Nitrofos, it is it gets colder and colder in
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already up and there'll be more that germinate later. You go.
You know they haven't all germinated now, But every day
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wait until you already have circles, no product makes them
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Bearings Hard Run West Timer carries night Foss products, and
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carry night Foss products as well. We're going to go
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number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four,
and we're going to visit with Lloyd in Pennington. Hey Lloyd,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (45:44):
Good, good morning.

Speaker 17 (45:45):
How are you this morning?

Speaker 4 (45:47):
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. What you know?

Speaker 18 (45:51):
Hi skipped the other day. I was looking at a
little video and nice shows that when you plant your
your your potatoes, you need to put them in a
solution of mustard ground mustard and then roll them.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
In wood ash.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
I've already I've always put.

Speaker 18 (46:09):
Mine in wood ash.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
Can you tell me.

Speaker 18 (46:11):
What the benefits of the mustard water would would give it?

Speaker 4 (46:18):
No, I couldn't. It's gonna be kind of minimal. You know.
People love these kind of home remedy types. Of approaches
and things. It's it could be a little bit of
a decay reducer. You know, you cut your potatoes and
and they hopefully heel over before they get in the ground.
Start to write it may be related to that, but

(46:40):
it isn't a plant stimulant at all, and so that
would be the only thing I can see. Now there
is a I don't Sometimes you know, people hear one
thing and then they stretch it into something that it's
not Like, for example, there's a certain amount of truth
in it, but they take it so far that it's

(47:01):
not true anymore. But mustard greens mixed into the soil
will biofumigate the soil and help with nematodes and certain
soil borne diseases. But that's not what you're describing. But
I'm just saying it may have been related to this fact.

(47:23):
That is a fact, and that is if you grow
crop a mustard really thick and lots of mustard, and
then you just chop it up, mow over it and
chop it up and immediately turn it into the soil
that same day, turn it under the soil and even
you know, kind of press down on the soil a
little bit that chopped up mustard releases gases that kill

(47:44):
nematodes and kill certain diseases in the soil. But smearing
some mustard on a cut potato, I don't know about that.

Speaker 18 (47:55):
I've got about an eye grip of mustard grain. But
they said, you don't cut the potato, leave it whole.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Okay, you leave it in the mustard.

Speaker 18 (48:06):
Solution for fifteen minutes. Then you immediately roll it in
wood ash, which I always do that, I keep ash
you out of the powerplace.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
I put it in air.

Speaker 18 (48:17):
Plus I put down a sixty, you know for this.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
But okay, I can't.

Speaker 18 (48:25):
Understand what the mustard solution would do.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Yeah, let me let me look into that. That's a
new one. There's always new things like that coming along
off the top of my head. An uncut potato, I
don't know. I don't know. I'll look into it, and
if I find out anything, I'll talk about on the air.
But I've not heard about that, And I'm a little bit,
all right, skeptical, I because I've seen so many things

(48:52):
like that come and go that yeah, all right, yes,
but I appreciate that call. Yes, all right, thank you, sir.
Appreciate that yeah, that's unusual. There's a lot of strange
things like that, you know. I mean, over the years,
Oh my gosh, so many things putting beer on your lawn,

(49:14):
spray beer on your lawn, and it does this or
that and whatnot. I think that I can see making
a case for taking beer out on the lawn so
you can drink it as you mow. But I'm not
gonna my lawn does not get beer sprayed all over it. Anyway,
There's always you know, and the weirder it is the

(49:34):
more people like really get into it, you know you
oh my gosh, don't get me started on social media,
but you know, you stick a cutting and a banana
and it'll make it root and all this kind of
It's just I'm not even gonna go there. But anyway,
there's a lot of that kind of stuff going on.
Who knows, maybe there's something to this mustard thing. I'm
always open minded. I'll take a look. I'm doubtful, but

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be back with your calls at seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. All right, welcome back,

(51:52):
Good to have you with us this morning. Thanks for
listening to the garden Line. You got a gardening question,
you can call line seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Happy to visit with you about that.
You hear me talk about horages hidden gardens done in
the Alvin area. Actually, if you're kind of on Highway

(52:13):
six in Alvin and you head towards Santa Fe, it's
off to the right, it's on Elizabeth Street. Okay, that's
it's an Alven address anyway. They're open today from eight
to four. They're open Tuesday through Friday, close Monday, open
Tuesday through Friday, ninety three yesterday and today, Saturday and
Sunday eight to four. And you go out on a

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weekend and their kids will probably be out there greeting
you when you get out of your car. It's a
family operation. Horay and his wife and kids. It's a
family deal out there at Hoorges Hidden Gardens. Now when
you go out to Horace, you're going to find a
lot of things. They always have fruit on hand seasonally
especially we're fixing to come up here into the wintertime

(52:54):
where a lot of people are planning fruit and they
will just have a whole shipment late winter and spring
of different kinds of fruit that you might be interested in,
Fruit that is adapted to that area, that the amount
of chilling hours when that's important, and things like that.
He also has wonderful selection of trees and shrubs, so

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many beautiful trees and shrubs, lots of different kinds, and
you're just gonna have a good time. Is a wonderful, friendly,
enthusiastic fellow. He has got I was out there recently
taking a look at everything, and he was showing me
his Chinese fringe trees. That's spring bloomer, one of my

(53:35):
favorite spring bloomers that there is out there, and you
know they're beautiful. They just look good and it's a
good one. He'll come out and plant them for you too.
That's part of the deal goes on. You can have
him come out and plant them. And he also, oh,
this is another thing. He also carries the Peggy Martin

(53:56):
roses and other plants that you're gonna want, like annuals, perennials,
things like that at where he said in gardens. Now
when you go there, when you get a tree, you
need to pick up one of the three sixty tree stabilizers.
You hear me talk about those all the time. Orge
carries them out there, by the way. He also carries
some Nelson fertilizer products and he has his own proprietary blend,

(54:18):
a fertilizer that Nelson makes for him. It's a Orge
special blend and you can pick that up there too. Now,
the three sixty tree stabilizer is that product that you
attached to a post. I like to use a metal
tea post. You can do any kind of post you want,
but it's easy to drive in a tea post about
foot and a half away from the tree and the

(54:39):
tree stabilizer. You can make it longer or shorter, and
the other end has a nice soft rubber strap to
grab onto the tree trunk. You want to set that
loose so it can move a little bit. If you
hold a tree perfectly still, it will not develop the
trunk strength. Then it will if you allow it to
move a little in the wind. That's a principle of nature.

(55:00):
There's even a fancy name for it. But movement and
stretching and bending and things creates strength in plants, and
so the tree stabilizer will allow that movement if you
don't strip it too tight. And it works really well.
And J carries those out there, so you should definitely
check that out now if you're in another area, you know,

(55:22):
maybe you're I don't know, you know, much farther to
the north or wherever you can get this three sixty
tree stabilizer and other spots. I know they carry them
up at RCW nurseries. I've seen them down at sea
in a mulch. I have seen them at Buchanans native plants,

(55:42):
and I believe the Arborgate also has the three sixty
tree stabilizers there. Don't plant a tree without it. And
if you just planted a tree, then get a three
sixty tree stabilizer and attach it, because these things they're important.
They help that tree with its initial rooting, and you
don't need to leave them on long, and they avoid

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that thing of well I hate, you know, cutting wire
and putting steaks in the ground and then stretching that
wire up to the tree and finding a piece of
garden hose to put through the wire so it doesn't
cut into the tree, and then tripping over the wire
and trying to mow around. Don't go through all that.
Just get you a three sixty tree stabilizer that works
really really well. Now, if you've got a bigger tree
that you're planting, you can do two of the stabilizers.

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You know, let's say one's kind of coming in east
west and the other one's coming into the tree north south,
and that way anyway the wind blows. Even a bigger tree,
there is even more stability provided by a second one
put on there. But the main thing is just make
sure and do that and secure that tree. When you're
out our say hi for me. I'd love to get

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out there when I can. And it's been a little while,
but I was out there not too long ago, just
the other day. So let's see here our phone number
seven to one three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
The folks at airlom Soils have so many quality products

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out there on the market and they're available by the
bag all over town. You can also go out to
porter and pick up bulk product from the folks at
airlom Soils, or you can have them deliver it to you.
They can deliver it bulk and just dump it on
the driveway or wherever you want it. They can also
deliver supersacks, which is a cubic yard sack that they

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just set on the driveway. I've done that myself before.
It's real neat and easy to just shovel it right
out of the sack and then you're done. It makes
it simple. Some of my favorite products come from the
folks at airlom so I love the Rosen Bloomers Blend,
I love the Veggie and herb mix, and I use
the works potting soil. My wife likes succulent. She likes

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the cactus and succulent soil mix. And so you know,
what do you need? You don't put in fruit and
berries and centrus. They got a mix for that. Do
you just need some expandage or some expanded shell with
composts or leaf moll compost. These are all things that
are sold by the bag and by the bull too,
by the folks at Heirloom Sauce. Here's what you do.

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You go to the website and learn more heirloomsoils dot com.
You can see all the products there. You can find
out how to get it. You get all the details
at heirloomsoils dot com. We're going to go now to
Lake Conroe and talk to guitar Dave. Hey, guitar Dave,
how are you doing today?

Speaker 8 (58:28):
Hey? Potatoes and potatos?

Speaker 5 (58:30):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (58:30):
On the potatoes, we always will talk to coat them
in half, you know, and cut them toward the eye
and put the eye up, and then my dad would
plow it out and then we then you go plow
them up when they were done, and we put them
in the potato crib or the corn crab or whatever
you want.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
To call it.

Speaker 8 (58:46):
But uh, yeah, that's the way we were talking there. Now,
my buddy he got here's my big question. He gave
me this giant one of these acorns. He gave me
about four or five of them. But they're acorns and
they're like as big as all. Yeah, so what kind
of you what kind do you think that is? And

(59:07):
you can im going to have started in a planet
like a big giant pot deal and then plant it
in the ground or what do you think?

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Yeah? Here, here's what you do. It's called a First
of all, it's called a burroak. Burroke. It's a it's
a type of white oak.

Speaker 18 (59:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
And it doesn't grow fast, but it grows strong and
lives a long, long, long time, and so it's a
good tree. You just want to push it along though
for Eliza as it grows. As far as starting them.
Acorns are like a lot of seeds from the temperate
climate we live in. Uh. They they're used to going
through a wet winter period before they sprout. And so

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you can put them in a container, put it outside
and just let it go through winter, keep it moist,
and it will then sprout having gone through that cold period.
Some people will take them and they'll put them in
the refrigerator uh and a moist sand or moist peat
moss or something like that, uh and leave them for

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a couple of months and then pull them out and
plant them. You can recreate that winter period that way.
You just want to check them in the refrigerator because
a lot of times they'll sprout while they're in the refrigerator,
so uh, just check on them. But either way you
go the coal wat period and they're they're not hard
to grow at all. Just have to watch for squirrels
because they'll come in and whatever kind of acorns are planting,

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they'll dig them up. So you have a little hardware
cloth or.

Speaker 8 (01:00:31):
Something well on the top of the squirrels around here,
and my dog balk them off. You know the other
thing Okay, oh yeah, the ace hardware. Yeah over here
in downtown Willis. And when you walk in there, people
are waiting on your hand and foot, and you know
when they got wind chimes. I do not even want
the wife to go in there because she'll breakfast.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
You know, I should. I should warm people when I
talk about ace. I'm telling you, uh, you know, I'm
I walk in and I go Okay, where do I
find Kinder Scott jewelry in here or something? Because it's
that kind of it's that kind of place. Word do
the wise. Thanks for that one.

Speaker 8 (01:01:11):
Sure a saw blade a saw blade or you need
these or that, they'll take.

Speaker 19 (01:01:15):
You back to it.

Speaker 8 (01:01:16):
And you know, it's like you know, and I'm not.
They're like family and you know, and I've known them
for a long long time because I grew up between
Houston and New Wavery and and you know, I think
my mom used to go there. So anyway, yeah, well, hey,
I appreciate the advice, and so you know he yeah,

(01:01:36):
own that refrigerator deal. I got a small refrigerator to
keep my worms in and everything out of the garage,
so I may start it out there.

Speaker 5 (01:01:46):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
There you go, that's not a bad idea. Well actually
it needs to be about forty degrees or a little
cooler if you can, so I don't know how cool
worms are kept. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I was up
at All Seasons it.

Speaker 8 (01:01:59):
Will free okay, Well yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Alrighty well all seasons Ason Willis. I was up there
not too long ago for an appearance. I love that store.
It's a good one. Well, hey, Dave, thanks a lot,
appreciate that call.

Speaker 8 (01:02:15):
On the corner. Yeah, okay, yep, okay, yeah, you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
Bet, bye bye. That's good. Uh yeah. I've been talking
about fall fertilizer for fall fertilization and the importance of
getting it done. We also need to remember that when
you buy fertilizers, typically there's three numbers on the bag.
That's nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, always in that order, and
it's the numbers are the percent of each of those.

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So whatever the number is, that's the percent of that nutrient.
But there's trace minerals that are important, and trace minerals
come in various you know, mixes sometimes, but oftentimes we
just need to put the trace minerals on themselves. And
azemite is that kind of product. It's mined out of
the ground in Utah, so I guess you could say

(01:03:04):
it's natural. You know, it comes it's mined directly out
of the ground, and it is a product that gives
you every trace mineral that you're going to need for
your plants and more. You put about forty four pounds
bag over six to twelve thousand square feet long, so
it goes a long long way. Also, in a vegetable garden,
which I would recommend to use it there too, because

(01:03:26):
we're eating the produce and we want it to be
nutritionally dense. That would be about ten pounds per thousand
square feet. And a vegetable garden. You find as mite
all over the place, you know, most of the places
I talk about here, Carrie as might and you can
do it anytime of the year you want. You can
do it when you fertilize with the regular fertilizers, or
you could just do it in the middle of winter,

(01:03:48):
in the middle of summer. Whenever you're gonna put it down,
is an okay time to put that down, all right.
We're going to be coming up on a break here,
so I'm gonna take a break, and George and Jorgey
you're gonna be our first up when we come back,
so I can make sure and give you plenty of
time if you would like to call in the meantime.
Seven one three, two one two five eight seven four. Hey,

(01:04:12):
welcome back to the guard Line.

Speaker 9 (01:04:15):
In the best you can well, David, I.

Speaker 4 (01:04:18):
Got talking about Ace hardware stores, and I'd never I'd
never thought about warning people that don't don't don't don't
take your spouse into ACE Hardware because there's so much
the love in there. That's funny, That is funny, but
it is true. And I'm telling you this all the time.

(01:04:39):
It is not your father's hardware store. I mean everything
you need for hardware, yes, yes, yes, everything dad's hardware
store had or Grandpa's hardware store is at ACE Hardware.
But oh my gosh, so so much more cool stuff.
When you go to ato Ace Hardware, make sure and
sign up for the ASH Rewards program. I belong to it.
Back years ago when I live in the Cypress area,

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I went to the Jones Road ACE right there and
that's where I joined. ACE Hardware Store is the closest
one to me at that time. Now there's Ace Hardware
stores all over the place. If you go to Ace
Hardware Texas dot com, acehart don't forget Texas, Ace Hardware
Texas dot com. You can find the Ace Hardware stores
near you and they're great ones. They're all over the place.

(01:05:23):
You go up to Magnolia, there's All Star Ace there.
There's also an All Star Ace in Spring on Rayford Road,
the K and M in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, that's
another one. I think another place that a lot of
people have probably hadn't even thought about it is the
Ace Hardware Katie Hardware on Pinoak Drive or Pinnock Road,
excuse me, an old town Katie. Then down in Fulsher

(01:05:44):
there's Fulshure Race on three fifty nine. If you go
over to Port Lavaca on Calhoun Plaza, you got an
Ace Hardware store there. I was down at the one
in Wharton Wharton Feed and Ace on North Richmond Road.
That's a great one. I loved going to that one
out there, and the one I was talking about before,
or you know the Cypress Ace on Jones Road, Northwest
Champions Ace on Spring Cypress, And I was also up

(01:06:07):
at recently at Brenna Mace on North North Austin Parkway.
All great Ace hardware stores. Just love going to them,
and my wife loves to go to him too. Every
time we do appearance up there, she's gonna wander around
the Ace Hardware store, and as happened at Brenna Mace,
get toward the end of my appearance and she informs
me of all the wonderful things she's found that we

(01:06:27):
need to now go buy that's how it works. So
I should have been the one to warn you about
that instead of Geuitar day if having to do it. Anyway,
it's fun. Love those stores. We're going to go out
to George and Jersey Village. Now, hey, George, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:06:43):
Thank you, Skip. I rually like your show and just
a kudos Rady Sideware the one that I go to
on Jones Road. As a usual for me for a
guy that works at the shore to come up and
ask me if I need help, you know, before I
go ask him looking for them, it's really it's nice.
So anyhow, my question for you's got to do my
wife is hummingbirds? Am I wasting my time? But putting

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the food out for hummingbirds?

Speaker 11 (01:07:07):
Is?

Speaker 15 (01:07:08):
Are they all done visiting my yard? And if you can,
if you can give me an answer, I'll bring you.
You know, I know you want to share, so eat them,
but I'll bring some by your house. You can roast
them and cook them.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
So bring some what some hummingbirds? Okay, that's funny, that's
fun You just you just horrified thousands of people there, George,
So uh yeah, that threw me off. Now what were
we talking what was your question? What was the question?

Speaker 15 (01:07:41):
They are they still Oh yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
Most of them have gone that they've moved on in
their migration. But we have a type called rufous hummingbirds
that that hang around here sometimes in the winter time.
And so the folks at Wildbird's Unlimited will suggest you
leave a fe her out uh in over the cool season.
Uh and do and do do that for you may

(01:08:06):
get some rufous hummingbirds coming in. I was talking to
somebody at the Wallbird's Unlimited store in Kingwood yesterday, uh
and uh we were I was talking about that, and
I said, you need to get some of the Wildbirds
Unlimited nectar defender. It's a little tiny bottle and you
just put a tiny capfull in to your hummingbird water
and it makes it last longer. It doesn't go bad

(01:08:27):
like sugar water would out and in the cool season
it lasts a very long time. So that makes it,
you know, because it's it's winter and you're not thinking
about the hummingbird feeder every day, and so that nectar
defenders a good way to do that. Leave it out
for the rufous species.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
You, but thanks for the call and the horrifying mental image.
I appreciate that. A good day, bye bye, Oh my gosh,
I have to my brain is going in ten directions
of with that hummingbird comment, and I'm gonna do you.
My gift to you is I'm not going to say

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anything that's result of that. Boy, that's funny. Hey, Kingwood
Garden Center, I don't I haven't talked to you about this,
but they're doing a thing now and it's called the
Collector's Corner and they have rare, really cool plants there.
There's one that is a monster at Dubia and it

(01:09:30):
grows on a post, but the leaves just flatten. It's
a silvery pattern leaf that just flattens against the post
or the wall that it grows on. So they call
it a shingle plant because it's it's kind of like
little shingles, you know, on the post. Really cool cool plant.
Lots of other things that they carry, some of the philodendrons,

(01:09:52):
the color markings on them. If you're a houseplant collector,
you got to see these because each one is uniquely different.
There's a hoya called compactive ragata that is a typical
just twisted up hoya, but this one is with variegated leaves.
And then they got one of the most beautiful hoyas
I've ever seen. It is. It's called Lisa. It's Hoya

(01:10:14):
Australias Lisa, soft cream green foliage with pink variegation every
leaf on it is a little different and unique, really beautiful. Okay,
I'm gonna give you one more. Saracena uh. That is
a type of picture plant, and you can grow it
indoors in your house. It likes bright light or even
full sun. It wants to be in lots of light,

(01:10:35):
so make sure and do that. Use you know, rain water,
distilled water, just keep the sol moist. What I'll do
is I'll set mine in a little tray of water
so there's always a little standing water in the bottom
to wick up into the mix. But picture plants, you know,
they insects come to those and they fall in and
they dissolve inside that picture structure on the plant, and

(01:10:58):
they the nutrients from it are absorbed by the plant. Now,
your kids are gonna think that's way cool. You may
need to get them a venus fly trap too. At
the same time. This is all at Kingwood Garden Center.
Now aid in Kingwood. You've got Kingwood Garden Center. You
got Warren Southern Gardens. Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow,
Warrens Is on North Park, both open seven days a week.
Once you go over to Kingwood Garden Center today and
I tell them, you know that I was hearing about

(01:11:20):
all these collector's corner plants on guarden Line. You know,
show me these, let them, let them show you this
it is. It is a really nice, cool selection of
very unusual things that you're just not going to find
in a lot of places. There. You go as simple
as that, you're listening to garden Line the phone number
seven one three two one two five eight seven four

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seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Our trees are the most single valuable plant on our
whole landscape. And you know, if you look, if you
were to look at what is the most valuable plant
you got in this landscape, it is going to be
that shade tree. Uh. It takes a long time to
grow a big shade tree, yours to do it, but

(01:12:03):
when you get them, they are just they change the
environment outside. The shade in the summer here is wonderful
maybe it's shading the west side of your house. I
was talking about those bricks on my house. It gets
so hot on the west side. A nice shade tree
right there, if I had room for one, would be
a great way to save on my electrical bills. And

(01:12:23):
then there's blooming trees that are so beautiful added to
our landscape. If you've not had your trees looked at
the last couple of years, you really need to. And
Martin spoon Wore an affordable tree is a guy I
would tell you to call. You can reach Martin at
seven one three six nine nine two six six three
seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three.

(01:12:45):
I would call him right away because he's filling his schedule. Uh,
he's going to be doing all the dormancies in pruning.
You need to get that done. By the way, with
every tree he trims, you get a free deep root
feeding on that tree, which is kind of cool. Add
on there. If you want to know more about all
the services he offers, you can go to his website.

(01:13:05):
It's a fftree Service dot com. If anybody is gonna
do anything around a tree in the way of construction
or you know, trenching or putting on a sidewalk or something.
Call Martin first, have him come out with that pre
construction care or consultation that he can do for you.
I'm telling that tree is too valuable to take chances on.

(01:13:29):
Make sure you get a professional out there. Take a
look at that tree before you start messing around over
the root system. All right, seven one three, six nine
two six sixty three Affordable Tree Service. Let's go to
a break right now. We'll come back with our last
segment of the hour. Sound Hey, welcome back to garden Line.

(01:13:52):
You know what I got time for one quick call?
Somebody is out there, I'll I'll talk among yourselves and
decide who's going to do it. I do have time
for one quick call if before we go into our
top of the hour here coming up. You know, I've
talked about a number of different things this morning, and
one thing that I'm gonna talk about now because I
don't want to forget it. But out in the Fort

(01:14:13):
Bend area Fort Bend County, a Sugarland area, there is
a thing that the Exchange Club of Sugarland does, and
it's twenty twenty five American Flags two thousand and twenty
five American flags for the year we're in. This is
honoring the Fort ben heroes and the veterans. It is
happening today, it is happening tomorrow, Monday, and it's happening

(01:14:36):
on Tuesday. And it's a one acre field out there.
It's the imagine all these flags lined up, two thousand
and twenty five flags just flying in a solemn formation
right there on that single acre on the University of
Houston sugar Line campus near the Brass River. So basically,

(01:14:58):
each of the three three by five US flags represents
an individual, So each flag has its story. We're talking
about fallen servicemen and women. We're talking about first responders, educators, coaches, clergy,
family members, co workers, personal heroes in our lives, your life,
my life. The official title sponsor is KK and S

(01:15:21):
Scott West Now. Proceeds from this benefit a lot of
different charities that the Exchange Club of Sugarland supports each year.
So there's a really cool event the site of twenty
twenty five flags out there in this acre field. I
think kids need to see it. I think grandkids need
to see it. Neighbors, friends. At six thirty pm today,

(01:15:44):
the ninth, six thirty pm. They're going to honor the
first responders. On November tenth tomorrow that will honor own
hometown and personal heroes. And November eleventh, which is Tuesday,
will honor the veterans. So basically it'll be lit up
at night. You can see it from Interstate thirty five

(01:16:05):
or US fifty nine. The Field of honors open to
the public today, tomorrow and Tuesday, which Veteranesday. If you
want more information here here's what you can do. Just
called seven one three eight two four sixty one twenty
six seven one three, eight, two four sixty one twenty six. Again,

(01:16:27):
that's on the University of Houston sugar Line Campus on
University Boulevard down there in sugar Land. If you want
to purchase a flag, by the way, support this visit.
Here's a website ECSL, which is what short for Exchange
Club of Sugarland ECSL dot org. I always love going

(01:16:49):
to Buchanan's Plants because it's just a fun place to visit.
It is the products that they have. You know, if
you're looking for natives, look no further. Buchanan's Native Plants
absolutely outstanding selection like none other in the region when
it comes to quality native plants. I do want you
to write something down on your calendar, and that is

(01:17:11):
December sixth, which is Saturday. They're gonna have their holiday
open house. And this is a big deal. I mean
you bring the whole family. The whole event is free.
You can pick out your Christmas tree, you can shop
for winter color. There's gonna be live music, there's gonna
be crafts for the kids. Santa will be there, There'll
be drinks and plenty more. This free event at Buchanans

(01:17:32):
Native Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Go to
their website Buchanansplants dot com, sign up for their newsletter,
stay up the date, and then get out there and
check out this wonderful garden center on eleventh Street in
the Heights and make sure and show up for that
holiday open house. That is a special thing. We're going
to run now out to Parland and talk to Craig. Hey, Craig,

(01:17:56):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:17:58):
Good morning, Randy. Thanks for taking him a call, you know,
listening to your show, yes and hearing about mister Ferguson.
I spent a little while, you know, going reading some
of the articles that were written about him and some
of the videos that he had. There's a very interesting,
inspiring story of how he came to have his business
and all the obstacles he had to achieve and overcome.
But one of the things I learned from listening to

(01:18:20):
his videos was that he was a proponent of green sands.
And you know, we've been using organic. We've been using
organic fertilized in our yard over twenty years and everything
looks great. And I've gotten to the point where I
know what I need to add as far as supplements
and amendments. But I was wondering if you had any
any opinion on versus an asonmite versus green sand, because

(01:18:42):
I was reading a little bit about the pros and
cons of each and there's a there's some controversy maybe
as and mite might have some letter arsenic in it
versus you know, not being president green sand. The rate
of release is different. What is your opinion on those
two products?

Speaker 4 (01:18:59):
Well, not a level of any of that that I
would be concerned about at all. I'd have to look,
but last time I checked on that that wasn't an issue.
As is gonna have a lot of different nutrients and
you know, it's like seventy I believe different minerals that
are in it. Green sand does have other things, it's
primarily we were putting it down for the potassium that's
in it. Both are great products, you know, both work

(01:19:21):
so they but they each have their own, you know,
special angle that they would work on. All right, okay,
thanks very much. All right, appreciate that call, Craig. You
take care. Let's go to Philip now in the heights
if I can find the right button. Hey, there we go, Philip,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:19:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 19 (01:19:42):
Actually, I have a question about a comment about hummingbirds
that was.

Speaker 17 (01:19:48):
Made earlier, and I'm okay comment.

Speaker 19 (01:19:51):
Could you repeat that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
Yes, most of the hummingbirds have gone on, they've migrated
through our area, but we do have some roof hummingbirds
and hang out here sometimes in the winter. So you know,
if you got a hummingbird feeder, you might want to
leave it out, put some of the nectar defender from
wild birds unlimited in it so you don't have to
worry about changing out the water every week or anything.
It'll last a lot much longer time with that. But

(01:20:15):
you may get lucky and have a rufous hummingbird show
up because there are some still around that hang out here.

Speaker 19 (01:20:22):
Okay, well, maybe I'll miss asked my question. But something
was said about hummingbirds that you sat said was kind
of amusing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
Oh, the guy was just he was just making a
crack about I don't want to repeat him here, but
about hummingbirds. You know, he would send me some hummingbirds
as a food thang or something. I don't know that
was what it was. He was just playing around. All right, Well, Philip,

(01:21:00):
appreciate your call very much. You take care. All right, Tina,
I couldn't quite get to you this this segment. If
you want to hang around, you'll be first up. All right,
we're back. Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Appreciate you

(01:21:23):
tuning in this morning. You'd like to participate, you can
call me seven one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Let's see here, we're going to go straight
out to the phones and we're going to talk to
Tina in Pasadena. Hello, Tina, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Hello, Hello, good morning.

Speaker 20 (01:21:43):
I wanted to ask you up.

Speaker 21 (01:21:45):
Is it too late to do your three step regiments.

Speaker 4 (01:21:49):
No, it's not. Uh, it's not a black and white
line like you know, you you have to stop here.
It's not gonna work any more kind of thing. It's
a matter of the earlier you do it, the more
benefit you get out of it. There are still weeds
that have not germinated, so the barricade should still be applied.
There are areas that may get brown patched circles that
haven't yet, so the eagle turf fungicide can still be

(01:22:10):
applied and should, and then the fall special winter riser.
The grass is still taking up nutrients, so it's time
to put it down too. It's just that each year,
the earlier we do those things, the more benefit we
get from each of the ones, right, And so that
that's kind of the concept. But no, it's not too late, Tina.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
Okay, because I have one weed it looks like it
has like a bead on it, and it's very aggressive.
I mean, it's abrasive.

Speaker 6 (01:22:35):
It just like really goes everywhere.

Speaker 17 (01:22:36):
Do you know what kind of weed?

Speaker 18 (01:22:37):
That is?

Speaker 4 (01:22:39):
Probably Virginia button weed if it yeah, And it weaves
through the grass and it has little white flowers that
look like a little x A little cross and in
the grass those beads. Virginia button weeds difficult to control,
and the barricade is not going to control it now
because it's a pre barricade is a pre emergence. It's

(01:23:00):
to stop the seeds that come up that are cool
season weeds like clover and chickweed and hadn't bet and
all those the Virginia button weed you're gonna have to
take a different approach to and if it is possible
to pull some of it out, or as much as
you can out now, kind of carefully pull it out.
All those little beads on there which contain seeds, you

(01:23:22):
will remove those and make next year's tasks a little
bit easier. I know that's tedious to pull it out,
but it's not going to eradicate the button weed, but
it will cut down on the receding of it. And
then next year, when you start to see the button
weed growing again, you can spray it with a post
emergent herbicide to kill the button weed that's starting. At

(01:23:46):
this stage. Spraying it is not going to be effective
at all.

Speaker 17 (01:23:50):
Oh okay, because that was just that.

Speaker 19 (01:23:51):
One drives me crazy, and I want to ask.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
One more quick question. I do have a lantana, and
I heard you mentioned something about I'm really going to
butcher this name.

Speaker 6 (01:24:01):
But it's I'm.

Speaker 19 (01:24:03):
It's I AM I.

Speaker 17 (01:24:04):
D O c l O p R I D and
I probably spelt it wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
But the leaves curl up. They're not flat, they like
curl up.

Speaker 4 (01:24:19):
A pest is causing the leaves to curl up.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
No, I don't know if it's a pest or not.
All I know is the leaves are curling up. It
looks like like I had one.

Speaker 19 (01:24:29):
Lantanda that did that and I just like trimmed it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
Back really low and it came back and the leaves
are really pretty and flat and it looks good. But
the older one, the leaves are still they curl up.

Speaker 17 (01:24:41):
They look like it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Like if I haven't watered it and it's dying and
it's curled up. But I water it frequently, I mean
not frequently, but you know, I really try to be
attention to it. I can't get it to look right right.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
Well, you know, my best shot is it may be
a past that's feeding on the leaves as they're forming
and causing the malformation to occur. Certainly, lack of water
is an issue, but you've taken care of making sure
that's not the problem. If you wanted to send me

(01:25:14):
a picture of the leaves up close in good sharp focus,
let me see the take a picture of the kind
of more than one plant from a little bit of
a distance so I can kind of compare, and then
up close, let me see this symptom. I'll be glad
to respond to that. I'm going to put you on hold, Tina,
and my producer will give you an email if you
choose to send that picture. But thank you. Appreciate your

(01:25:37):
call this so much. You bet bye bye, alrighty yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:25:43):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:25:43):
In the nitrofoss products, where do you get them? Well,
the night Fass you'll find Arbigate carries night Foss products,
Fisher's Hardware and Report Stanton shopping Center. Don Alvin another
place where you can find night fass products like this
Texas three step that we've been talking about a lot today.
I was driving back from Kingwood out at Wibird's Unlimited

(01:26:06):
in Kingwood yesterday and was just thinking about a conversation
I had with Randall from Pestbros. And I'd called him
a while back. We were talking you know what is
the what's happening right now? You know what what's going
on we ought to be talking about regarding pests. And
because you know he's got his finger on the pulse

(01:26:27):
of that, I mean, he knows exactly. He's professional at
at managing those things. He can tell you what's making
the phone ring. And he was telling me it's the
it's the varmints right now, you know that. I mean,
it's always a good time to control cockroaches in the
house and other things that pest control can do. And
pest Bros Is an expert at it. But he goes, ah,
it's the rats, it's it's mice. It's even a raccoons

(01:26:49):
and squirrels getting up in the attic or something. You know,
it's a it's an issue, and they'll come out. They'll
take a look at your house. I'll find the areas
where they'll get in. They've got eyes for that, they
know how to find them. And they'll show you a
little pipe coming out of the house and say, right there,
rats can get in. And you're looking this, there's only
any room around that pipe. How can they can? They

(01:27:09):
can squeeze in places you wouldn't know. Pest pros can
come out and they can shut those things down so
they can't get in, and if they are in, they
can help control, you know, get control and get them
out of there. But the bottom line is you just
can need to get m a call at two eight
one two oh six forty six seventy two eight one
two o six four six seven zero. Don't wait until

(01:27:31):
you hear things go bump in the night, as they
say up in the attic. Uh, take care of those
things soon. That is definitely a good idea. You can
go to their website dpestbros dot com, dpest b r
os dot com and find out more about all the
services they do. Think one of the things I like
most about them, other than they're just nice folks and
enjoyable to work with, is they know how to treat

(01:27:54):
effectively and they know how to do so in the
safest possible manner. That way, you get the long term
results you want and you do it without the worries
or concerns about a past side treatment. Let's see here,
let's go out to Diana in northwest Houston. Hey Diana,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 22 (01:28:15):
Hi, good morning. Yes, I just moved up to the
Montgomery County near fourteen eighty eight, and I'm looking for
a good gardening center up in this area.

Speaker 20 (01:28:28):
Is there by chance one? And I have been hunting
for the barricane. I can't find any of the good
box stores, so to speak, you know, Hungos.

Speaker 4 (01:28:39):
Okay, now you said you moved up Montgomery County near
what now say that again? Please?

Speaker 20 (01:28:46):
Oh twenty eight, fourteen eighty eight, not to kind of
between Magnolia and Conrad or the.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
Woodless Okay, Yeah, Well, first of all, nature's a resource
is up there. And while they're you know, primarily there
for the mulches and soil products and things, they do
have a nursery on the site. They're right where fourteen
eighty eight comes into the freeway forty five, just cross

(01:29:16):
over forty five and they're they're right there, so you
ought to give them a look. They've got some things
up there. Let's see here, you're not too far away.
Let me just think about this a little bit. You're
kind of in a little spot there. It's a little
bit of a drive for you know, you to come
across to Tomball area, but not too much of a drive.

(01:29:37):
Come down and in Tomball you've got the Arborgate right there,
and that is one of the best nurseries you've got
in the whole region. Right there, it's a good one
to go to. Trying to think of some others. That's
that's what comes to mind. Initially, I'm probably leaving somebody
out that I'm not is not coming to mind.

Speaker 17 (01:29:55):
But anyway, that.

Speaker 20 (01:30:01):
All right, thank you so much, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
You bet, thank you, thank you for the call. Yeah,
good garden centers, north, south, east, west, and central here
in the Houston area. We've got good garden centers. And
that's a cool thing. Let's take a little break. I'll
be right back.

Speaker 7 (01:30:18):
There.

Speaker 23 (01:30:18):
You go.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
Oh yeah, that's gonna be a good day too. Hey,
do you hear that weather? It's gonna chill out here.
I love chilling out I do. I even though I
grew up in Texas, spent my whole life here except
for three years I wandered I'm Missouri for three years.
But anyway, Uh, I like cold weather. I know some

(01:30:45):
of you are going get out here. I hate cool weather.
That's fine. I'm tired of being hot. And when I
know we have air conditioning, but when it's hot, you're hot.
I mean, you get up in the morning. Sounds like
a Jerry Reid song. You get up in the morning
and you walk to the car and you break a
sweat on your way to the car. It's like ridiculous.
So I know how to put on warm clothes, and

(01:31:05):
we do have heaters, and so yeah, I can do that.
I'm excited to see a little bit of cool. It's
not gonna be cold. I mean maybe Texas cold, but
not cold cold forty degrees and stuff. But boy, what
a nice what a nice change that is? All righty, Well,
if you have a question and you would like to
give me a call seven to one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one

(01:31:27):
two five eight seven four Down at Enchanted Forest, there's
a program coming up next Saturday that you need to
know about. It's called Native Bees Protecting our most precious
pollinators with aarn Mills and they're going to take a
deep dive down into native bee biology, learn all the
ways that they're special, how they're different, you know from
their honeybee cousins, and native bees are just really cool.

(01:31:51):
And the slave's an expert, and I'm telling you you
will have a fascinating journey into the really complex and
wonderful world of bees. So many good navy bees out there,
and you need to know what they are, know how
to take care of them, know what they do. Just
appreciate the work that they do. By the way, while
you're out there at intended for us, you got to
check out their cyclemen.

Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:32:12):
I know they have all the cool season colors, you know,
dianthus and pansies and biolas and all that stuff. They
got all of it out there and intended for us.
The cycleman's though gorgeous colors. You know you think a cycleman,
Well there's red, there's kind of pinkish, and there's white.
Then no, no, no, they have a purple lavender. They
have variations on the different hues and colors. Really really

(01:32:35):
beautiful collection. And cyclemen. Is that flower I keep telling
you we need to plant more of It's the underplanted
cool seasoned flower because they're beautiful. They put their flowers
right up on top so you can see them. They
do well in a very bright shade. I mean, you know,
you got some shade around the house where normally flowers
wouldn't do well, You can put cyclemen there and they

(01:32:55):
do well. Remember when you're watering a cycleman, whether it's
in a potter in the ground, put the water down
on the ground, don't so soppy wet soak up the
crown of the plant and the leaves and stuff on top.
If you do over water in there, you're gonna get
some root, rots and things. And you can avoid that
by just watering the soil keeping them adequately moist. But
such gorgeous, gorgeous plants. And they've got them there at

(01:33:20):
the Chandi Forest out there in Richmond, by the way. Also,
all the pumpkins are fifty percent off, and they've had
all kinds of Gordon pumpkins and everything out there. You
need to pick some of those up because you know,
pumpkins aren't just for Halloween, there for Thanksgiving as well,
and so grab some of those on a really good
deal on some of the pumpkins out at Chendi Forest.
Now where are they located, Well, they're kind of in

(01:33:42):
between Richmond, Rosenberg and sugar Land, but a little bit south.
I've Interstate forty five. They're on twenty seven fifty nine
FM twenty seven to fifty nine. Let's make it easy
for you. Just do this go to Enchanted Forest Richmond,
TX dot com. That's the website Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t
X dot com. They're open to day from ten am

(01:34:03):
to four pm. That's a great idea. Get out this
afternoon and check them out. I always like visiting garden centers,
and I've said this before on Guardline, but one day
I would like to do a garden center tour here
in the greater Houston area, you know, And I don't
know quite how to do the logistics of it because

(01:34:23):
we have so many good garden centers and it just
takes a while. You know, we'll just take it across
Houston a day and a half, sometimes two days, depending
on traffic. So how do you arrange a tour to
go through a day and have time at garden centers
and see stuff. Maybe we'll figure that out one day,
because you guys need to get out and check out
garden centers all over the place. Each one is unique

(01:34:45):
in its own way, each kind of specializes in certain things.
But they all they're all good, they're all worth visiting,
and they all have our independent garden centers. They all
have folks working there that will greet you and that
no to answer your questions and help you have success.
That's what they're all about. They want you to have success.
All right. I talk about Medina products quite a bit

(01:35:09):
here on Garden Line. Medina has been around a very
long time. Do you know Medina was a Garden Line
sponsor back in the Dewey Compton days. Okay, that's going
back in time. Some of you remember old Do on
the radio and all the Garden Line folks that have
been since him, including Randy Lemon, who was what over

(01:35:32):
twenty five years here on garden Line. And Medina is
just a good company. You know. They have that original
Medinas All Activator, so popular, Medinas All Activator. They brought
it in the chuck full of trace elements and things
like side of Kinda, which is a natural growth hormone
that comes from seaweed extract. By the way, I was

(01:35:54):
reading research the other day on seaweed and oh my gosh,
the stuff that the things seaweed can do amazing. Anyway,
Medina also sells, by the way, just a seaweed product
if you would like to do that. But I talk
about in the fall, the has to grow six twelve
six plant food that high middle number, the phosphorus. Just

(01:36:14):
drench it down in the root zone when you're planting
plants and get them off to a really good start.
I like to do it at planting. I like to
do it a week later. I like to do it
a week after that. Three drenchings with Medina has to
grow six twelve six and a watering can and get
that plant, as I like to say, let it hit
the ground running. It's a good idea. But those are
just a few of the many great products from Medina.

(01:36:37):
Theres the Benina plus and Bedina has to grow six
twelve six, and of course the Medina soil activator, and
many manymore easy to find sold all over town. Lots
of people carry Medina because lots of people ask for
Medina because it's been around a long time and it
has quite the following out there in the gardening world.

(01:36:59):
You're listening to guard Line phone number here seven to
one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give
us a call in my uh uh in my herb
area we have some herbs. Actually say my herb area.
It's my wife's s herber area. But I don't think
she's listening right now. So I'm gonna tell you it's

(01:37:21):
my herb area.

Speaker 7 (01:37:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
The uh we've got aregano and more, two kinds of oregano,
several types of time in there.

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

Speaker 4 (01:37:31):
There's some lavender, which I don't know if you call
that an herb or not, but it's in an herb
garden that we have, uh. And I have chives, the
garlic and the onion chives and a lot of other
things that are growing in there. And fall is the
best time to plant herbs. It just is the perennial alerbs,
not basal, but it can sit likes hot weather, but
all the perennial erbs. You get a little herb plant now,
put it in the ground and those roots are going

(01:37:52):
to be developing on through the cool season and when
spring comes, you're gonna have a really good head start.
And there's so many cool herbs. And herbs make flowers,
herbs make groundcovers, herbs make trailing plants. We have ours
in a raised veggo bed and the oregano is spilling
all the way to the ground as the time also
is coming over the sides. Not quite as rimpant as

(01:38:15):
the oregano you put in some Mexican marigold, which is
a substitute for terragon and cooking, and in the fall
you get these beautiful clusters of yellow flowers salvia pineapple sage.
Pineapple sage has tubular red flowers and kind of a

(01:38:38):
sort of a yellowish green color of leaf. Maybe that's
sounding too yellow when I say it that way, but
it's not a dark green leaf. But the leaves smell
like pineapples, and hummingbirds love those red blooms. So you
can use herbs as a groundcover around other plants, the
trailing types. You can use herbs as a flower in
the garden. There's a lot of ways to use our

(01:39:00):
If you want to make the formal herb garden, you know,
the geometrically designed, you know, corner four corner herb garden
kind of thing. You can do that that's beautiful, it's interesting.
Or you can just use them where you want to
use them. I think I've said this before, but when
I lived in Cyprus, I had always planted a row
of tomatoes and I'd put a regano on one end,

(01:39:23):
and then I would put basil on the other end,
and that was my pesto sauce row. I could make
tomato sauces. I could make you know, pestos from the
basil and things, and it was all just in one row.
Kind of cool. I think it was attractive. So just
some ideas for you there you're thinking about it. I
was out at League City Feed visiting with Wes Thunderberg.

(01:39:47):
You know, the Funderbergs have run that place. Gosh, I
think we're on the third generation now. Thunderberg's West and
his sister Madison, And it's still the same place it's
been for years. It's that great old time feed store
feel you go in there. I love feed stores. I
love the just the fragrance of the feed. I it's
just an earthy I like it. I love it. While

(01:40:10):
I was sitting out in my car before going in,
I'm watching guys that work there carrying sacks of feed
out to the car. That old time service that you
get at a place like League City Feed and that
whole region down there around League City. By the way,
the store is located on Highway three, just a few
blocks of Highway ninety six. They're in League City, but
all the communities around there, this is your hometown. Feed store,

(01:40:32):
and you're going to find there a lot of products
for the garden. You're gonna find the pesticides, herbicide, sponge sides,
of course, but you're also going to find nitrofoss products,
azimite products, microlife products, airloom soils products, Nelson plant food products.
They carry them all there at League City Feed. They're
open Monday through Saturday, nine to six and closed on Sundays,

(01:40:54):
but nine to six allows you to swing by after work,
which is a good idea, all right. And they also
have some real high end pet lines. I was looking
at some of the dog foods, really quality stuff. Let's
take a little break. We'll be right back. All right,
we're back. Welcome back to guarden Line, finishing up the

(01:41:15):
second half of this eight o'clock hour this morning. If
you have a gardening question, now would be a good
time to call. We are let's see here. Yeah, that's it.
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
I got an open board. So seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Seeing a Maultch is

(01:41:35):
the one stop shop for all of you that are
living down there south of Houston or anywhere in that region.
Really You can go to their website cenamltz dot com
and find out everything you need to know, their phone numbers,
addresses and all of that. They are on FM five
twenty one. Uh. They sell molts by the book. They
sell it by the supersac. You can come there and
get it. They'll put it in your truck or trailer

(01:41:57):
for you. You can have them deliver it within about
twenty miles of the cnimal store. They will deliver for
a fee. And if you are looking for maybe creating
a garden, they have everything you need, the mixes that
go in it. You know, they have the veggie nerve
mix from Airloom soils for example. They carry Vego beds,
which you know are modular beds you put together in

(01:42:21):
various shapes that you want and just go to c Animals.
Go to the site there on FM five twenty one.
Take a look. They've got ve vego beds out there
on the on their property that are planted, so you
kind of get a good idea for it. And around
that area too, you can sell a cool metal yard
art that they carry and other things. But I'll tell
you this, when you go there, you're gonna be treated right,
You're gonna have an enthusiastic, really friendly group of folks

(01:42:43):
that meet you, and you're gonna find everything you need
to take care of your soil and create the foundation
for success. Everybody gets excited about Oh, I'm gonna buy
this flower and plant it at home, and they pop,
PLoP that poor plant down in an unprepared plot. Start
with cinemas, get the soil right, brown stuff before green stuff.

(01:43:03):
The plants hit the ground running, and you have way
more success. And that includes the nutrients. So why you're
at Siena. Pick up your microlife, you're Medina, you're Nitroposs,
you're Nelson Products. Pick up the heirloom soils. Pick up
the asimite too, by the way, that's also available there
at Heirloom Heirloom. At Cienemulch they carry heirloom as well.

(01:43:26):
All right, there you go, Senemulch dot Com. Let's head
out to Magnolia now and we're going to visit with
Ron this morning. If I can find the right button,
hang on, Ron, we're coming here. There we go, Hey, Ron,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:43:42):
Good good morning, good morning. My question is I've let
my isaias get way out of hand as far as height,
and I'm getting old and hard to get up that
as I'm wanting to trim them back, I just don't
know if I trim him to severely, if it's going
to harm them.

Speaker 4 (01:44:04):
Yeah. Well, most most shrubs are fine with a trimming back,
and they reach sprout and come out. You know, for
some reason they're in un healthy condition or whatever. That
could be different, but you can trim them back. I
would wait until we get past all the freezes and
let's get into spring, late winter, maybe I should say,

(01:44:24):
and then do the trimming at that time, just because
with some warming weather that we can have here in
the winter, you don't want them to start growing and
then get frozen, that tender succulent growth get frozen. So
I would wait toward the end of the dormant season
and do the printing as you want. They're going to
look really ugly for a while because it's gonna be
all sticks, but you should see some new growth come in.

(01:44:45):
Most most of the shrubs are gonna be fine. It's
sprouting back.

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
Up like that, right.

Speaker 9 (01:44:53):
Well, I expected them to look pretty bad. They're currently
about six and a half feet tall, and I'm wanting
to turn them back to say around three and a
half to four, and I know it's gonna be ug.

Speaker 5 (01:45:09):
A year or two.

Speaker 4 (01:45:11):
Okay, it'll come back. You can provide a little bit
of nutrient for them when you do that, use an
acid loving plant food something for acid loving plants. Uh,
and they'll they'll do just fine. Uh. Just remember to
trim them back a little lower than you want them
to be because when they re sprout and grow and
get about a foot of growth on them, you're gonna

(01:45:33):
cut off the tips of that growth so they branch
some more and brand some more. And that way they
don't just go straight up to the sky and you're
right back where you were, but you you kind of
create a denser, lower shrub as they begin to re sprout.

Speaker 9 (01:45:47):
Okay, well, I'm sure, thank you for the advice. We
really enjoy your program.

Speaker 4 (01:45:51):
All right, Thank you, Ron, appreciate appreciate your call very much.
One time I had a guy called this is when
I was a horticle agent with Agrolife Extension. I called
the office and he was in charge of taking care
of the property around this business. And I can't remember
what it was, but it doesn't matter. And there were

(01:46:11):
a bunch of shrubs and they were sage sages snizo
Texas sage, a silver leaf bush that you see around
and they'd grown too big and they were they were ugly,
and he won't to know what could he do. And
I told him, I said, you get out there and
you cut him off at about a foot high and
they'll reach sprout. And there was this silence, and I

(01:46:33):
was thinking, did I did it? Call drop or whatever?
And I said everything okay, and he goes, yeah, there
are a lot of ladies that work here, and I'm
kind of afraid to do that because they come up
to the building and he's cut everything off a foot
above and it's just stick sticking up. I think he
feared for his life. Anyway, I talked him off the ledge,

(01:46:57):
but you go, let me put it this way. This
is what I told him. You got the Uvaldi Texas
and you'll see brush everywhere, including Soniso. It's native there,
and ranchers bring brushogs in and cut everything off at
the ground and that does not get rid of it.
It comes right back up out of the ground. Say,
if you can run a brushog over a plant, you

(01:47:18):
can prn it back. It's okay, and it's going to
be back so anyway, fun story. Let's go now to
talk to Billy this morning. Hey Billy, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 5 (01:47:32):
Thank you always enjoy your show. I have got two
white oaks.

Speaker 23 (01:47:37):
In the.

Speaker 5 (01:47:39):
Backyard up here at Rayburn Country, and they're twenty feet apart.
They're large trees. The bark looks exactly the same, the
leaves look exactly the same, but the acorns are very different.
The white oaks, I think have larger acorns, but some
one tree has long acorns and the other one has

(01:48:03):
quite round acorns. And I was just wondering what the
difference might be.

Speaker 4 (01:48:11):
Well, it could be a different species, you know what.
Different oaks can look somewhat similar in the foliage. I
don't if there's a significant difference in the shape of
the acorns, I don't. I don't think it's the same species.
I think you're looking at different ones. But you can.
You can take a look at those oaks, and you

(01:48:32):
can take a picture of them actually with your camera
and using a little app called Google Lens l e
n s Google Lens, you can put that picture in
Google Lens and it will probably tell you fairly accurately
which oak it is, or at least get you in
the ballpark, and you can try that with both of

(01:48:54):
them and see what it says. But we have oaks.
Another way we tell the difference between oaks is how
far that cup, the little hat or cap on top
of the oak acorn, how far it comes down over
the oak. There's one called overcup oak where the app
or the cap almost completely encircles the acorn, and they're
just a little bit of acron sticking out at the bottom.

(01:49:14):
That's just an example, but there are many other kinds
of white oaks, and being larger, I think you're right
on one quick way just to make sure they are
white oaks. The leaves on white oaks tend to have
rounded tips, and the leaves on red oaks tend to
have more pointed tips. So you know, you hold your
hand out, all your fingers in all directions, the rounded
tips on your fingers, that's a white oak. Look where

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if it's all point at each of the tip would
be more of a red oak.

Speaker 5 (01:49:41):
Probably right, Well, these are rounded tips. They've got lots
of fingers, but they're rounded.

Speaker 4 (01:49:50):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:49:50):
I appreciated Google lens.

Speaker 4 (01:49:52):
Huh yeah, Google lens is good for all kinds of things.
You know, there's apps that are plant apps. I found
them to be eh okay, but Google lens is pretty
good if it's a bug, if it's a plant, you
just have to make sure that the picture shows what
you're wanting. So like if you look at a wall
of foliage in the forest and you take a picture

(01:50:12):
of it, Google lens doesn't know which of those plants
you're wanting to identify. So pick a leaf grown on
a surface where you can get a good close look.
It's always better if you if you have things like
flowers or things. But give it a try. It's fairly accurate,
So something to try. Hey are you are you listening?
Uh huh, go.

Speaker 5 (01:50:32):
Ahead, Uh yeah, I went to my phone. I'm listening
on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 4 (01:50:40):
Oh you're you're listening on the radio station or on
a computer or something.

Speaker 5 (01:50:46):
On iHeart and in my truck.

Speaker 4 (01:50:50):
Oh okay, good, it's good. Just way out there. I
don't know that I've had a caller from jasper At.
It's not one that I recall, but I'm glad you listen. Thanks, hope,
hope we were helpful with that. Yes, sir, Hey, if
you if you want, if you can lay those acrons
on a dark surface and take a picture of them,

(01:51:11):
you know, put several from one tree or several from
the other and lay it down and email me that picture.
I'll give a shot at trying to tell what they are. Uh.
And if you can lay a leaf or two on
the table, if you want to do that, I'll give
it a shot. I'm not I'm not an oak expert
where I can just look at any acron and tell
you what it is. But I'll give a shot. And

(01:51:31):
what I'm gonna do, Billy, is I'm gonna put you
on the hold here. My producer will pick it up
and give you an email, and then you just choose
whether you want to I want to take me up
on that or not.

Speaker 5 (01:51:40):
Okay, okay, alrighty, thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
All right, you bet you take care. Let's see here,
time for me to take a little quick break before
our last segment. We'll be right back. All right, We're
back O. Thanks you for joining us today. If you've

(01:52:05):
got a question, you'd like to give me a call
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
at the Arborgate. Coming up, this public service announcement here
on Saturday, November fifteenth, that's next Saturday. Mark your calendars
at ten am. Angela Chandler from the Garden Academy. You
heard Angela as a guest on Guardenline this summer. Very knowledgeable.

(01:52:27):
She's going to talk about temperate fruit trees during the
first three years. What that means is the success that
you want to have, whether you're growing peaches or plums,
or pears or apples or even mulberries. Uh, it's all
about getting them well established and taking care of them
through those first three years. Because typically about the third year,
and especially the fourth year, you're starting to get some

(01:52:48):
production on most of these things. So you're gonna give
them the attention that they need. So how do you
do that? You know, Arburgate carries fruit trees twelve months
out of the year, but the best time to plan
them is in the fall. That's the easiest time. In
winter and late winter and spring is fine too. But
how do you get them off to a good start?
How do you get him off to a good start?

(01:53:09):
Go and learn about this. This is a free class.
I'm pretty sure it is. Yeah, I'm ninety nine percent
sure it is. Anyway, we'll see, but talk to him
at Arburgate and find out about signing up for that.
Sometimes they like to know who's coming, so they'll give
you the details about it. But Angela is very knowledgeable.
She's done a lot of fruit growing herself. And before

(01:53:29):
you plant a fruit tree, why not go to this
free class temperate fruit trees the first three years out
at the arbor Gate. Okay. Also when you're out at
the arbor Gate, you're going to find all kinds of fruit.
You're going to find all the color for cool season
that you want. I mean, there's so many types of color. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
They just got through having Chris Weisinger out there from

(01:53:51):
Southern Bulb Company. They are stocked up with bulbs from
Southern Bulb Company right now. These are bulbs that were found, selected, chosen,
reproduced from old homesteads across the South. The bulbs that
long after people are gone, the bulbs are still doing
fine just by themselves. Now, if a bulb like that,

(01:54:12):
any of us can grow right, And that's what they are.
And they're at Arborgate from the Southern Bulb Company. So
get by there because these people know about it. They
show up and they load up on the bulb, so
don't delay. It's the best season to get them planted,
and you can find them there to Arburgate. Now, Arbrogate,
for those of you who just moved here or have
been living under a rock, is a mile and a
half west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty

(01:54:36):
and Tomball a mile and a half west twenty. There you go.
Let's head out on the phones here, we're going to
talk to Ken and Tom Ball. Hey, Ken, welcome the
garden line.

Speaker 16 (01:54:47):
Hello's kid. Hey, I was I want to ask you
about some live volks that I've got. So they have
done really, really well.

Speaker 23 (01:54:59):
And they're growing over the house now and out into
my pasture.

Speaker 16 (01:55:04):
But I was wondering what's the best time of year two.

Speaker 23 (01:55:08):
To cut him back.

Speaker 4 (01:55:11):
I would wait and do it in midwinter. Our late
winter is just fine. If you have oak wilt anywhere
in the area, do it in the coldest, coldest time.
But not a lot of oak wilt in our area.
It exists here here and there. But we don't worry
about our pruning as much here like you would have
to in Central Texas or printing. Timing is very critical,

(01:55:34):
but midwinter, late winter is fine, okay, all right?

Speaker 23 (01:55:39):
And then all right, also it's it's hanging over the house,
so I'm wanting to cut it back properly. So I'd
like to get at arborous to take a look. And
would any be the best ones to advise how to
cut it back because I mean might have to stake
off entire limbs.

Speaker 4 (01:55:59):
Yeah, you definite, we need somebody to advise. Advise your
proper pruning is very important. You prune a tree improperly
and you've got problems, I would call Martin Spoonmoort Affordable
Tree Service. Uh do you need a phone number for
the right you want to write that name in case
you decided to.

Speaker 23 (01:56:14):
Give them Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:56:18):
Okay, yeah, go ahead, Ready it is seven one three
six nine nine two six six three seven one three
six nine two six six three.

Speaker 2 (01:56:31):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:56:32):
And he knows what he's doing, and get on schedule.
He can come out and take care of that for you,
all right, Ken, all right, Well, thank you appreciate your
call very much. Uh We're about to have to hit
the top of the hour here where we are going
to run out of time, so I just want to, uh,

(01:56:55):
thank you for listening. To guardline. We've got another hour
in us uh and usually this is the hour or
the phone start to ring. We got Denise and Katie
out there on the line. Denise, you'll be first when
we come back. Just not enough time before break here
to you know, give you the time. You're called desserts.
So there you go. If you have not made plans

(01:57:17):
for your cool season garden with vegetable garden, you can
still plant it. And there are so many ways to
do this. I'm going to be given a talk on
vegetable gardening and containers and and raised beds in January
out at enchanted gardens, and it just it's so easy

(01:57:39):
to garden now, you know. It used to be you
had to mark out a section of the yard, kill
all the grass and run a road, till over at
eight hundred times and mixed stuff in try to create
a garden.

Speaker 18 (01:57:48):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:57:48):
Now you just just get a container or just drop
a bed on top of the ground, fill up with
good stuff and get to town. We've got this fot
we got for a winter garden. Get healthy food and.

Speaker 23 (01:58:02):
Not a sor.

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
S.

Speaker 4 (01:58:17):
All right, let's do this. We got our last hour
of the weekend, last hour of garden line kicks off
right now. If you've got a question, you want to
give me a call seven one, threefty eight seventy four.
Folks at Microlife have so many great products, granular and
liquid both. I talk about various ones all the time.

(01:58:37):
I wanted to talk about some that don't talk about
a lot, and that is the Microlife Ocean Harvest. That
is a fish space product four to two three fish
based liquid, excellent for fertilizing plants. You can use as
a folio feed too if you like. I find just
drenching it over the root system really gives a good
boost if you are looking to give a five sprus

(01:59:00):
boost to plants, like maybe you know you're going to
water in some plants and get that root system off
to a good start well. Microlife Maximum Blooms works well
for that. Anything that's going to be producing blooms is
going to need some extra phosphorus to do that as
well as forming roots and Microlife Maximum Bloom. By the way,
it's a pink label gallons and quartz works well. Microlife

(01:59:23):
Humates plus purple label. That's a great one for providing
the final decomposition process results into the soil like Humates
basically are compost to compost and are compost in a bottle.
Excuse me, a fully compost to compost in a bottle.
So if you start with leaves, you make compost out

(01:59:43):
of them, you start with compost, you make humus out
of them. Humates plus those important organic acids that are
formed in nature and very hopeful for plants. And then
there's liquid AF, which is a bioinoculate kind of a
purplish mari une color to I say maroon. I like
that color, maroon or burgundy color. To the label microgrown

(02:00:05):
liquid AF bioinocula to give your soil a boost of
good microbes. That's what that's all about. Let's go out
to Katie now and we're going to visit with Denise
this morning. Hello Denise, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 24 (02:00:21):
Thank you, good morning. I was listening to you yesterday
and you mentioned three nitrofoss products that you can put
on your lawn right now and then water it in.
But can you go over that again?

Speaker 4 (02:00:39):
I will, I will. So the first one is the
fall is the fall fertilizer from nitrofoss. I don't know
if you're wanting to write these down or what. The
second one is barricade, which is a weed prevent and
the third one is Eagle it's a turf fungicide. And

(02:00:59):
all through you need to be put down and then
watered in with about a half inch of water because
all three are soil active. The fertilizer and the fungicide
go up into the plant through the roots, and the
barricade ties up at the soil surface. So any we'd
seed that trust to germinate up there is not able
to get roots down and form a plant.

Speaker 24 (02:01:22):
Okay, great, And do you know a place in the
KD area that would carry that?

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
A lot of places carry your Ace hardware stores out there,
and Katie are going to have you know, yeah, all
the Ace hardware stores out there are going to carry
night Foss products. And how you've got several of them,
by the way. On that on that fertilizer, the specific
name of it is Fall Special Winter Riser, but it's

(02:01:51):
any place it's carrying. Night Fass knows which one to
points you to in the fall.

Speaker 24 (02:01:56):
Okay, excellent, all right, Well, thank you for being on
the show. I'm really enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (02:02:03):
Well good good, Just to kind of point you a
little more specifically in the direction out there, You've got
the single ranch on South Mason Road that's a Katie Hardware,
uh store, and then Katie Hardware on Pin Oak and
Old Town Katie is another one that's out.

Speaker 24 (02:02:21):
There close to that one.

Speaker 4 (02:02:24):
Yeah, I'm close to the great store.

Speaker 24 (02:02:27):
Okay, all right, all right, great, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (02:02:31):
You bad appreciate your call. Take care yep, there you go.
All right. Hey, Nature's way resources, Uh, Nature's way is
where a lot of things were born, a lot of
soil things were born. We talk about roso, we talk
about leath, more compos for example, those both A Nature's

(02:02:52):
way is the one that put them on the map.
And it doesn't matter what kind of product you're going after.
Nature's way resource is going to have the best blends
of organic material to provide that microbial boost, to provide
that soil improving characteristic. You know, clay can be just
a hard, dense clay. You make a little bowl out

(02:03:14):
of it and it'll hold water. Or with a lot
of organic matter, the right stuff in the right way
in the soil, it creates a structure that that clay
becomes very loose instead of being hard as concrete. When
it's dry, you squeeze it in your hand and it
crumbles apart because you've used Nature's Way products to help
improve that soil over time. That's what it's all about.
Nature's Way Resources dot Com. They're up there on the

(02:03:37):
way to Conro About where fourteen eighty eight comes in
from the west. You turn east across the railroad tracks
and the other way and you're going to get to
Cerbuk Circle, which is where Nature's Way is now. I
can't talk about Nature's Way without again making some comments
this morning about John's passing. John Ferguson, founder of Nature's

(02:03:58):
Way Resources, passed away on a Tber thirty. First, I
don't know anybody as enthusiastic of a learner and a
teacher of soil as John Ferguson. I mean he he slept,
he lived soil, He loved so He was reading scientific

(02:04:18):
journals all the time, learning more and more about so
what microbes did, and all the different things going on
with nutrients and whatnot. Always like visiting with John. He's
a wealth of information. And let me tell you something,
You didn't even ask him to talk about soil. He
would come up in a conversation because he built his
career on that. He John loved to help people. John

(02:04:43):
believed in people, he really did, and he was just
all around a good human being. But when it came
to creating products that were quality, when it came to
teaching about soil dedicated to organics, John he epitomized all
of that. He loved people. He really cherished the environment

(02:05:05):
and the ways that on this earth we make ourselves
more healthy and life just gets better. His son, Ian Ferguson,
is continuing Nature's way resources. Ian's been doing a great
job out there. He's got the great team around him,
all of folks out there, Leo and many many others

(02:05:25):
that are just doing a super standard of holding John's
high standard and making sure the products continue just like
they always have been. Certainly, miss John a huge loss
for the gardening industry and those of you who are going,
I don't even know John, I didn't know John. Well,
let me tell you this. You have benefited from John
Ferguson's work in many, many ways, whether you go to

(02:05:48):
garden centers and our products, whether you hear talks from
people that are talking about growing plants and stuff, his
influence will continue on for a very very long time.
And our hearts go out to Ian and all the
family in this loss, of tragic loss, and we just
asked for peace for all of you members of the family.

(02:06:12):
Let's take a little break with that. I'll be right back.

Speaker 18 (02:06:17):
All right.

Speaker 4 (02:06:18):
Here we go back in the saddle again here in
guarden Line, doing our last hour of the day of
the weekend. As a matter of fact, looking forward to
you and visiting with you on the phone. Got a
couple of calls about to go to here. Neilson Nursery
and Water Gardens out in Katie. It's just a great place.

(02:06:38):
I love going out there every time I go. First
of all, I get stuck on the inside in the store.
Their interior plant list is extensive and beautiful. Oh my gosh.
You know, I used to really be into African violets,
and I had to be gotten away from a long time.
And then I went back to Nelson's and looked in

(02:06:58):
Oh my gosh, beautiful little African violence. What a great
gift for somebody too, Or maybe teaching a kid how
to grow a plant and get them a little light
in African violets, teach them how to propagate those. What
a good idea. Okay, when you're at Nelson's, check out
the herbs. When you're at Nelson's, check out the flowers.
By the way, they were already getting in the holiday

(02:07:19):
cactus out there at Nelson Garden Center, things like what
was it at Norfolk olum Pine Though we always have
those in our house. We got one they've had for years.
The thing is about six feet tall. Now love those things.
When you go there, you're going to find refill stations
for your Nelson plant food products and for your micro
life products. And of course color color color beautiful fall color.

(02:07:43):
At Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens out there in Katie
on Katie for Ben Road, just a little bit north
of the Katie Freeway. Go to the website Nelsonwatergardens dot com.
You can find out all that you want to know there.
The main thing is get out there and go and
take someone with you. This is a destination nursery plan
on sitting down, enjoying the sound of water and just

(02:08:03):
enjoying your shopping. Let's go now to Jay in Sharpstown.
Hey Jay, Welcome to garden Line. Hello sir, hi, how
can we help today?

Speaker 15 (02:08:17):
It's Joe, not Jays.

Speaker 5 (02:08:18):
Joe.

Speaker 4 (02:08:19):
Oh Joe. Okay, all right, Joe.

Speaker 15 (02:08:23):
I'd like to know where I can might be able
to purchase and have planted a million's pronounced summered.

Speaker 4 (02:08:28):
Red oak, a red oak h Schumart Schumart. Yeah, Schumart
is a standard type of red oak. It's a good
red oak if you've got decent soil.

Speaker 23 (02:08:44):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:08:45):
If it's if your soil is a little poorly drained
or whatnot. There is another one that is really close
to being the same as shue Mart, but it's called Nuttall. Okay,
all right, we'll lead to Schumart or Nuttall. I would
plant either one then, and that soil I would. I
would Let's say you're in Sharpstown, you can probably they

(02:09:08):
probably have something like that up at Buchanan's Native Plants
and the Heights. I would also expect for sure RCW
Nurseries where Beltway eight and tom All Parkway come together
is going to have those. Uh. And you know, then
you've got the other garden centers that are southwest of you,
the the enchanteds out in Richmond area, and then Jorges

(02:09:30):
Hidden Gardens down in Alvin direction are all going to
probably carry a shoe mart or not tall oak for you.

Speaker 15 (02:09:37):
They were also a plant them also delivering plants.

Speaker 4 (02:09:42):
Let's see, I'm I know RCW does, and I know
that I know that Jorge does. The other two you
would just have to call. I haven't had that conversation
with those garden centers, and so they may well do it.
I'm just I can't tay for sure that they do it. Okay,
all right, those.

Speaker 8 (02:10:03):
Red oams that kind of grow up like a pair
of shape, well.

Speaker 4 (02:10:09):
Young young oaks often have kind of an egg shape
to them as they're starting off, but then they spread
out and as they get older they make a large
spreading tree. They're not They're not more upright than they
are spreading. As they age, they spread out.

Speaker 7 (02:10:28):
Okay, how can you be sure you're get in that
specie when you buy one?

Speaker 4 (02:10:33):
Yeah, that's a good question. Buy it from somebody that
knows what they're doing, not not from sale like arc WI.
They grow. ARCYW grows their own trees up in Plantersville,
and so they know exactly what they're doing, and they
they can You can go there. You may find there's
another oak they have that you like even more. I

(02:10:55):
was out there just the other day looking at some
of the oaks that they had on on the property.
But but they can. They'll get you fixed up if
you want to, if you want to give the call.
I know they carry Nuttall and I bet they carry
schu Mard too. I would I would expect that they do.

Speaker 8 (02:11:10):
Thank you, Thank you for information, sir.

Speaker 4 (02:11:14):
All right, appreciate you. Cal you bet we're trying to
keep up with all the places to get all the plants.
That is a moving target. But I do my best
so that I can point you in the right direction
if possible. Uh. Peerscapes is our standard landscaper here we
talk about here on Guardline because of the work that

(02:11:34):
they do, the quality work that they do. I mean
they their folks have all the certifications, their designers or
professional designers. Uh. And no matter what you want to
enhance your landscape, it's Peerscapes that's going to give it
to you. You for example, what about your landscape do
you want to change? You know, do you you got

(02:11:55):
a poor, poorly drained area. You know, we always talk
about the importance of drainage. They can come out and
then fix that. They'll put a subsurface drain in and
they will take care of it for you. It is
your landscape kind of a dark, kind of scary area,
you know. Earlier I was talking about having so many
shrubs that are overgrown at the house where I grew
up in many many years ago. Well, that's a place

(02:12:16):
for people to hide when you come home, and you
don't want that. Have Peerscapes come out, put quality lighting
in and also put in some shrubs or smaller for
those areas. They can do that. Do you want a hardescape,
you know, a beautiful patio or a walkway or some
of the rock raised beds, you know, so that your
landscape in all flat, but you've got some up and

(02:12:38):
down in it, some contour relief and stuff. They can
do all of that kind of stuff. And if you
go to the website Peerscapes dot com you can see
their work. If you follow them on Facebook or just
go to the Facebook page Pierscapes, you will see the
work that they do and you'll be very very impressed.
Here's a number you need to write down to give
them a call. Two eight one three seven oh fifty

(02:13:00):
sixty two eight one three seven zero five zero six zero.
I've been talking so much here, Jonathan, Mine need Did
I miss a break? Or Am I good to go?

Speaker 15 (02:13:13):
Up?

Speaker 4 (02:13:13):
Until the half hour?

Speaker 17 (02:13:14):
Here?

Speaker 4 (02:13:15):
Where are we? Okay? All right? Well, I'm gonna keep talking.
How about that. We'll just keep talking and hopefully I
didn't miss one.

Speaker 9 (02:13:27):
Uh. I.

Speaker 4 (02:13:28):
In my front area, I've got two different kinds of
Saint Augustine grass, one on each side of the driveway.
And it's interesting seeing the different species of grass. I
have zuis in the back and two zuyisi's in the back,
two Saint Augustine's in the front, seeing how they grow
and how they go into winter and the and just
it's there's a difference out there. And plant breeders are

(02:13:51):
really working on a lot of stuff. The TEXA A
and M Turf Breeding Program has been working on drought
tolerance a lot, uh And They've got a a grass
out to called cobalt that is a very deep rooted,
very drop tolerant grass. And I'm telling you, if I
told you how many times I watered my cobalt this summer,
you wouldn't believe me. Now, a lot of it's in

(02:14:11):
the shade, and of course in sun you got to
water a little more than in the shade. But I'm
telling you this is a very good grass.

Speaker 7 (02:14:17):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:14:17):
Every Plants are like people, all right, brace yourselves for this.
Plants are like people. They got their positive traits and
they're not so positive traits. Right, don't look over at
your spouse and kind of start laughing. You don't want that. Besides,
it's uncomfortable to sleep on a couch. Anyway. Plants are

(02:14:38):
like people. They're good and they're bad traits, and that's okay.
It's all a mix, and you know, it's what do
you want. And sometimes disease resistance is present in a turf,
sometimes not there. We really don't have chinchbug resistance anymore.
We used to have Flora tam that had resistance, but
that's kind of broken down over the years, so we

(02:14:59):
don't have really a good chinchbug resistance. Saint Augustine. There's
some resistance a little bit on some of them. But anyway,
but then there's also the growth habits. You know, how
fast do they grow, how often do you have to mow,
how drought resistant are they? And so on, And as
you go about putting in a new law and ask

(02:15:19):
those questions. Let's get you in the right turf for you.
Saint Augustine is everywhere, and it has its pros. Its
pros are that it is a soft easy to walk on.
It is a grass that if you don't mow it
as often as you should, it's still okay. It bounces

(02:15:39):
back and after a mowing it still looks good. Bermuda
grass is great for wear and tear, for football fields
and for golf courses and things like that. Bermuda grass
needs to be more regularly to look its best, but
when it is it looks great. Now it's a thinner leaf.
So we'd show up a little bit better in Bermudas

(02:16:00):
in my opinion, than they do in Saint Augustine.

Speaker 7 (02:16:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:16:03):
And Bermuda grass gets siggers. Growing up. I've gotten rolling
the lawn and playing around with the dog and stuff,
and I know what a tigger is. It is an
itchy thing. And Saint Augustine you just don't see that much,
but Bermudia do. And then there's Zoysia. Zoysia is one
of my favorite grass. In fact, I may be leaning
a little more towards zoysia than anything these days. Zoysia

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has decent drought tolerance in it it's got decent shade tolerance,
not as much as Saint Augustine, but but but good
shade tolerance. The fine textured types of Soisia do exhibit
that uh it is. It is a very tough grass,
meaning mowing it you need a good sharp more blade.
But it can look really good. You can mow it tall,

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it looks good. You can mow it down short and
it looks really good. There's soysias that are very very
low to the ground. Anyway you want to go about it,
you can pick the right one. You pick the right variety.
You prepare the spot right. Randy used to say kill, kill, till,
and phil which means get rid of the weeds that
are there or whatever is there, the grass that's there,
mix up the soil, till it up, loosen it up,

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and spread it out, fill it in and before you
lay your side. You do all that, and you do
it at the right time of the year and you
can have success. So if you're thinking about putting it
in a lawn next year, we probably ought to talk.
We ought to look at some of the options that
you've got, because it's not just Saint Augustine or Saint
Augustine Bermuda and Zoysia. It's it's varieties of those two.

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All right. So I'm gonna stop there. We need a
little half hour break here and I'll be right back
for the last half hour of garden Line with your
questions as well. Stay tuned. That made me give you.

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You know, I just wish that you could figure out
how to bring a lot of energy to your music.
You know, let's just say, I need to listen to
it Houston for a start garden Line every in the morning.
That would wake me up. Love her music, really do.
Dandy Feed and tombaal three miles West, two forty nine

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on twenty nine to twenty been around a good while now.
I think they started D and D back in nineteen
eighty nine, and it's a great store. It just is.
I love going in there. I'll tell you this. If
you're looking for products that are kind of hard to
find you may control pass weeds, diseases, things like that.
D and D's got an excellent supply of that. They
also carry a good line of the fertilizers and soil

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type stuff that you need. For example, night FoST fertilizers,
fertilizers from Nelson plant food, fertilizers from Microlife fertilizers from Medina.
They've got all of that there. They also have heirloom
soils a number of different types of heirloom soils that
they carry outside as well. Now, if you got pets,
really high end dog line dog food lines, the kind

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that you know, like the Origin Diamond, Victor Starpro kinds
of things. Of course, there are feeds for they carry
all the livestock feeds and everything you need like that.

Speaker 7 (02:19:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:19:05):
And when it comes to pests and roads things like that, well,
you know they're trying to get in the house right now.
They can carry carry products as well to control those
kinds of pests. Also three miles west of two forty
nine on twenty nine to twenty D and D feed
two eight one three five, one seven one four four
two eight one three five one seven one four four.

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They also also put some plants out front too, uh
seasonally as that changes. So stop by there. It's real
easy in, easy out, and you're going to get friendly service.
I know when you go inside there. I thought I
had calls on the lot. I guess somebody dropped. Well,
all right, we'll just keep going here. I plan on

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making a couple of changes into in my interior scape.
And you know, a plants house plant, we call them houseplants.
There's no plant native to the house, but their houseplants
because they put up with lower light. That's the main
reason why we would call some houseplant. But I have
had a number of plants that I've been taken care of,
and I just I'm just getting tired of taking care

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of them. You know, they're not very exciting to meet.
They're green, that's nice, that's good, it's fine. I've enjoyed
them for years, but I'm looking to do some different things.
I like houseplants with color in the foliage, and so
Aglionema also called Chinese evergreen, is one that I like.
There are the morantas the prayer plant because the leaves
hold up. There are several different related plants to that

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as well that have some nice color in the foliage.
I like those. We're going to do that, and I've
kind of gotten interested in Howarthia Aworthia is like. It
looks like a little miniature aloe plant or a little
miniature a gavi plant. They are really cool and they're nice.
They they're a succulent, but they can put up with

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a little less light. Now you don't. I'm not seeing there,
you know, very low light indoor plant. But if you
can give them a bright area indoors, they can do that.
And a lot of succulents have to have trouble with that.
So I'm starting to play around with the Warthias a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:21:07):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:21:07):
I find that over the years, my plant, my favorite
plants change and I go through phases right like right
now out in the vegetable garden, I'm in an Okra
phase that's been going on for ten years. But anyway,
that is something that fascinates me. And after I've grown
a plant for years and learned everything I can about it,
you know, something else will come along. I'll get interested

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in something else like that. But I would suggest for you,
we're going to the cooler season, why not beef up
your houseplants. There's a lot of good indoor lighting that
you can purchase. Now it's not all just you know,
looks like a shop light kind of thing. There's indoor
lighting that's very attractive, but it has the wavelengths that
plants like. There's even little gadgets to sit on a

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table and there's a little light that comes up above
the plants and shine straight down on them. So you
could do that on a little end table if you
wanted to. And I think it's cool. And when you
add plants to the house, it just makes it a
nicer setting there. We were made to be in a garden, honestly,

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with no joking, all joking aside. Note I'm totally serious.
We're made to be in a garden. That is why
there was a garden of Eden. That is, there was
not a cubicle of Eden. There's not a sterile, chrome
and glass walled box that people were supposed to be in.
And the more we put plants around us, and in

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research holds us hold this up. The more we put
plants around us, it just changes the environment. It calms.
I've talked about this several times before, but a lot
of research out there on the benefits of plants. Why
not make your house a warmer, more inviting, more comfortable
place to be with some indoor plants. Our great invented

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garden centers have plenty to choose from out there. You
just got to go check them out. The folks that
know somel food have a product called Genesis Transplant Mix,
and I was telling people about it out there at
the Wildbird's Unlimited store in Kingwood yesterday. But Genesis is
designed to go into the soil that you're about to

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plant into. So maybe you're bumping a plant from one
container to a bigger container, Well you need more soil
to fill in around it. You mix Genesis into that.
Maybe you're planting a rose bush. You mix Genesis into
the soil that's going to go into the planting hole
with the rose and it does its work. It's got
mike riza and bacteria and fungi that enhance the soil

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microbiome and the stuff works. I've used it myself. I've
been very impressed with it. Neutrastar Genesis Transplant Mix comes
in little jars from the folks at Nelson's, available all
over town, and you just need to try it. It's
good stuff. Let's go now to Cheryl out in a
Tascasda this morning. Hey Cheryl, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (02:23:58):
Hi Skip, I have two questions for you.

Speaker 21 (02:24:01):
One is about my Laura Pellam bushes in the back
in the back by the fence and when the my
landscaper cut back as they were overgrown. There's hardly any
leaves about two feet from the ground. And besides putting
mass is play to put like Microlife acid of Fire

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or anything to help the plants grow.

Speaker 4 (02:24:30):
Yeah, I would use I would use that product from Microlife. Microlife,
you know, has a lot of a lot of great
products that are out there.

Speaker 23 (02:24:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:24:39):
There is a granular and it's in a it's in
a kind of a brick red colored bag, and it's
called Microlife Acid of Fire six two four, And that
is a good one to use on Laura Pedlum. Laura
Pedlam likes a little ones setic side. If it gets
too high, pH it starts to get yellow in the
new leaves, and so cidifier is a great product for that.

Speaker 21 (02:25:02):
Okay, great, and it's not too a I have I
have it's a container of micro Life acidifier and it's
in a red there's a red lake malata.

Speaker 17 (02:25:11):
It's tellable. I can use that, okay, and you can
do it now.

Speaker 4 (02:25:17):
Okay, you can do it now, but especially in the
you can, but especially in the early spring. I would
get it down. I would scratch it into the soil
a little bit or into the malt a little bit
around them. Uh, and then water in really good and
don't be afraid to use that several times next year
as they're putting on their new growth and response to
your pruning.

Speaker 17 (02:25:37):
Oh great.

Speaker 21 (02:25:37):
And a question about a spreading malt and I I
you mentioned a while back about leaving the leaves in
the in the soil, but in the front. I have
a live oak tree and there are the leaves are
very hard and a lot of acorns, so shout the
landscapers remove that before they putting mulch on.

Speaker 4 (02:26:03):
I would just throw the I just throw the mulch
over the top of it. Those leaves covered with soil.
They're going to break down because they do that in nature. Eventually,
they're just slower to break down in that form.

Speaker 3 (02:26:13):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:26:14):
The acorns. Joys going to have acorns making little trees
and the minute they come up. They're easy to pull
up when they first sprout. But it's hard to get
all the acorns out of there. Some people tried and
get the number reduced quite a bit, you know, vacuuming
them up. Essentially, it's kind of hard to rake an acorn.
But yeah, it's up to you either way, is fine.
I just leave mine. I don't worry about.

Speaker 17 (02:26:35):
It, okay, Thanks, Jip, have a good afternoon. Aye.

Speaker 4 (02:26:40):
All right, thank you appreciate the call. Thanks very much.
RCW Nursery we were talking about them while ago. A
great place to get trees. You know, they grow their
own up in Plantersville, and you're going to find some
really really quality grown stock. And if you need them
planted for you, they'll come out and do that. And
if it's a tree of any size, you do need
to have the planet and I kill you trying to

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lift a tree of any size at all. R Cwkre's
trees from fifteen gallons, although up to two hundred gallons.
They have ornamental trees, flowering trees like the Chinese fringe
tree ilex so much in the spring, all the way
up to big beautiful shade trees. It's easy, easy to do.
You just show up there and talk to them about
the trees they have and then schedule them to come out.

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They're located on Highway two forty nine at belt Way eight.
Two forty nine at belt Way eight. Easy in, easy
out while you're in there. I was in there just
the other day. Lots of shrubs, beautiful shrubs. They still
have roses. They still have some really good deals going
on on a number of different plants. You just need
to go by there and get them. Our CW Nurseries

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dot com corner of Beltway eight and Tamaol Parkway Highway
two forty nine. Let's take a little break. We'll come
back with our last few minutes here of guard Line
this morning. All right, welcome back to garden Line. And hey,
we've been having fun today. I've enjoyed it. Thanks for
tuning in. But I'm not closing showdown. I'm just saying

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thanks for tuning in. Good to have you with it.
I hope you've had a good time one of these days.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and I'm
not sure if it's a good idea or not, but
I've thought about taking song requests on garden Line. Not
no promises, right, no promises, but if there's something kind
of thing that I haven't played before and you're interested,
maybe well we'll try that sometimes. I know it's not

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a but we do like to play with music here.
All right, Well, we are down to our last segment.
I got time for another call. If somebody would like
to give me a call. You're welcome to do that.
You just have to talk among yourselves and decide who's
going to do it. Uh seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four. You got a burning question.
They can't wait till next Saturday. Let's let's talk about it.

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Southwest fertilizer is that place I talk about all the time,
or what do I say about Southwest all the time?
If they don't have it, you don't need it. It's
because it's true. And here's the thing. There are a
lot of products out there. Some of them work, some
of them don't work. Some of them work in very
specific situations only, but they work. Then uh, and then

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there's you know, you just have that variety. And when
you go into Southwest, you're not gonna get a bunch
of stuff that doesn't work. You're gonna find things that
will provide whatever you need from that product. Maybe it
is insect control or spider might control. Maybe it's fungal
diseases or bacterial diseases, or specifically something like root rots

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for example, is another issue. Maybe what you're looking for
is a boost of energy for plants or some of
the other There are hormones that affect plant growth. There
are other kind of biological additives that can be beneficial
with plants. Bob's got them all at Southwest Fertilizer. The
ones that work, he does. And then when it comes

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to tools, they have them there. You get your prunters
from Bob. Get a Felco or a Corona brand, those
are excellent. Get that kneeling bench City sells. It's the
one I have, and I love that thing. I'm telling you,
anybody north of forty years old, you go out in
garden and you wake up the next morning sore, and
then the second day is worse. You know, you're in

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the prenatal position and you can't get out of bed
and walk. You're almost curled up like a pillbug. The
kneeling bench will change your life. You sit on it,
turn it one way and you sit on it, and
then you flip it upside down and you kneel on
it and the legs become things for your hands help
you get up and down. Huge, huge, huge event that

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those things are great, and there's a lot of them
out there on the market. Bob's got him though at
Southwest Fertilizer. Yeah, you hear me talk about the weed
wiper tool that I like so much. It's the one
I kind of invented. At least, it used to be
weed wipers around all over the place, and now you
don't see them for sale, but the homemade one that
I created. If you want to build it, by the way,

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go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com find
Skips weed wiper and you'll see how to build it.
It's really easy to build. Bob's got the grabber tool,
and you need the kind of suction cups. Bob's got that,
and then from there I gave you the instructions. But basically,
it's a kitchen sponge and a couple of canning jar
lids and then a couple of little bolts and washers

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that I tell you exactly which one to get from
the hardware store. And you make it and you put
the herbicide on the sponge, and then instead of blasting
herbicide everywhere in the environment or getting it on your
desirable plants, with that wiper tool, you can just go
right in underneath the for example, go underneath the rosebush
and there's some poison ivy under there, and you can

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just wipe it right on that leaf real easy, works
good anyway. Bob's got all that stuff there, ninety foot
wall of quality garden tools. Southwest Fertilizer. I'm just telling
you it. You need to go into that place because
there are a few things that maybe you call because
they are so obscure, you know, Call Bob, make sure

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they're there. Call Aaron, he's there, right, Bob's right him.
Man's right there, and make sure they got him. But
I'm just telling you that they got them. They carry
the stuff you want. And I say this all the
time because when I start talking about pesticides, organic gardeners
are thinking, Okay, I don't want synthetic chemical pesticide and stuff.
Go to Southwest Fertilizer. There's not a bigger organic gardening

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selection anywhere. Then you find a Southwest Fertilizer. So it's
for everybody. It's for everybody. And they also sell some
plants up front too, seasonally like right now, cool seasoned
vegetables and herbs, and Bob's got some of those out
front as well, and of course some of the soil blends.
I don't talk about that enough, but they do carry
product from Nature's Way and product from heirloom soils as well.

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Out there. All right, well, I don't know what else
to say about it, but it's a great, a great opportunity.
So what are you gonna do this week? Out in
the garden? There are a lot of timely activities. If
you have not put down something to stop weeds, and
you've got a lawn that's thin where weed seeds are
going to come through, you need to do two things. First,

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you need to sit down and put Channa on your
heart and promise next year you're going to mow, water
and fertilize like you're supposed to be done, and you
are going to grow such a thick lawn that weed
seeds can't get a shot of sunlight and they're not
going to make it. Second thing is put down for now,
a barricade watered into the soil surface to stop all
the weed seeds from germinating. But remember, our long term

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goals in gardening is not just to treat everything with
some pesticide product. It's to grow healthy plants, and we
do that by building the soil. We do that by
picking plants that don't get sick. We do that by
making our lawns dense and not over watering them, not
watering them too freequently, not over fertilizing them, but giving
them a good dose of what they need. Those are

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all tips. So what are you going to do this
week in your lawn? It's if you don't have brown circles,
then you generally do better. Get down some eagle turfunes.
I'd shut that down for it. Get started whatever you're
gonna do, take care of your place. And tell me
what are you gonna do new this fall? What are
you gonna try new? How about some of the house plants.

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I'm talking about some real cool stuff. How about some
creative decorations? All right? Do you have time? All right,
here's a real quick tip. When I'm gonna have people over,
I like to take a large basket and put plants
in it, in their containers, and then fill in or
around them with some moss, Spanish moss or whatever whatever

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you wanna look at. And when you look at it,
it looks like they're growing in the basket, but they're not.
And then you can take them out when people aren't there,
take them out outside, water them, take care of them,
give them good sunlight, and then bring them back in
for things you can have an instant, gorgeous table arrangement.
It could be a long, skinny thing that you design
however you want to do it. But it's just a

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tip for holiday decorations. So all right, there's one for you.
I hope you enjoy this week. Appreciate you being a listener.
By the way of a garden Line, I it's good
to have you around. I just want to mention we
will be back next week. We're here ever Saturday and Sunday.

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For those of you who are new to garden Line,
I didn't talk about my website much today, so I'm
going to say it again, Gardening with Skip dot com.
My schedules are on there. The lawn care schedule tells
you about mow, water, fertilize, putting the micronutrients out, doing aeration,
and then the other schedule is what goes wrong in
the lawn. It talks about weeds and diseases and insects.

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It gives you organic and synthetic options and the products
when they're typically needed and which ones to apply. Makes
it real easy. If you're fighting nuts edge, there's a
nuts Edge publication that's helpful. If you're fighting take on
root rot there's one for that. There's one on freezing
and protecting your plants and freezes. Go check out gardening

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the skip dot com