Perfect Weather To Be Out In The Garden!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
With Skip Richard's.

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Shoes the crazy.

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Sign the Sudan and.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well, good morning, good morning, welcome to all you gardeners,
all you would be gardeners, and everybody that got up
just to hear what kind of crazy musical play next.
You are listening to the guard Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and guess what we're gonna do today. We're
gonna talk about gardening. Give you some tips, talk about
things that are pertinent to the season, things that you

(00:59):
need to get down now if you're going to get
them done. It's always important that our timing is right.
For example, it's kind of been urging you for a
while that if you're going to use a pre emergent herbicide,
this is the time to get it down. Otherwise the
majority of those weeds will have germinated, and not much since.
Using a pre emergent after the weeds have already germinated.

(01:22):
It was like we ended a baseball once the catcher
is already holding it in his myth, a little too
late to hit the thing. I put a thing on Facebook,
our Guardline Facebook and Guardline with skip Instagram page this
week talking about the difference between pre emergent and post
emergent herbicides. And I think if you if you go
out and take a look at that, if you have

(01:42):
any questions about it, it's just a real brief little
video explaining what the difference is. And because people get confused,
I get calls from time to time, and I can
tell just by the question being asked that people aren't
understanding what each one does and how you use it,
and so you might check that out. Speaking of Preyer's
night frost barricade, this is the time to get that down,

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get it done, don't delay anymore. You can use it
in other times, but you know, the the sooner you
do it, the more weeds you're gonna you're gonna stop.
That's kind of the way to look at it. Barricade
goes down at the label rate, always follow the label.
You water it in with a half inch of water.
It goes into the soil surface, and when a weed
tries to sprout, it sets it down. It does not

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let it get its roots down and get established, and
the little weed dies before you even see it. You're
gonna find barricade. It places like Plants for All Seasons
high Way to forty nine. You'll find it at Bearing's
Hardware on Bisonette and the one on Westtheimer and M
and D out there in Rosenberg. We're gonna go straight
to the phones this morning and welcome Bruce for memorial.

(02:48):
I can get Bruce up here on the screen. Here
we go. Hey Bruce, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
How are you doing?

Speaker 7 (02:59):
I got it quick?

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Question?

Speaker 8 (03:00):
Good?

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I can barely hear you. Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (03:03):
Is this better?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah? That's better.

Speaker 8 (03:07):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (03:08):
I've got mature trees in my backyard and the roots
are underneath and everywhere in my front I can use
a weed and feed. But what do I need to
do for cool season broadleaf weeds right now? Where I've
got tree roots underneath everywhere?

Speaker 4 (03:23):
So I don't want to spot putting. Did you say
you do or don't want to spot treat?

Speaker 9 (03:30):
No?

Speaker 7 (03:31):
I think I need to spot treat.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Okay, Yeah, that's fine. You just mix get There are a
lot of products out there that are for post emergent
broad leaf weed control, and uh, just you know, you
grab one of those, follow the label very carefully and
just just spray enough to get the leave weed leaves wet.
That's all you got to do. You don't have to
have it dripping off and drenching the soil or anything

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like that. And it will not hurt the trees if
you do that now. I would like to do it
early in the morning, because once the wind picks up,
if your spray, especially if you put too much pressure
on that spray, you know, you pump it up too much,
it creates a miss that drifts, and that missed if
it drifts onto flowers or shrubs or anything else. I mean,
it's gonna affect them. So early in the morning, not

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too much spray pressure, just enough to have it spurting
out some bigger droplets, and just enough to wet the leaves,
and you won't hurt your trees.

Speaker 7 (04:25):
Okay, fantastic, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Skip. All right, but hurry up on it, because a
lot of our weeds are going to seed now, and
the sooner you do it, the better off you are.

Speaker 7 (04:37):
Alrighty, I've already put barricue far effectively. I won't get anymore.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
All right, there you go. Well, good luck with that, Bruce,
and congratulations on being the early bird this Saturday. Morning
on the co all right, all right, you take care. Uh, yeah,
that that is that is true. You know, pesticides, whether
they're organic or synthetic, each pesticide has unintended consequences that

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it potentially could have. Now, I know everyone is aware
that what people would call chemical basically what they mean
by that when they say that is synthetic products, that
those are a danger. It could be a danger. And
that's true. But there are some synthetics that are actually
not that toxic. They are very low in their toxicity levels.

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And you know, organics, generally speaking, those organics that are
still around that haven't left the market are low in
their toxicity levels for the most part. And so, but
what do I mean when I say any pesticide can
cause damage? Well, I'll use an extreme example insecticidal soap.
That's an organic. We give our bodies baths and soap.

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So I mean, how safe can something be, you know,
if you're literally bathing in it? And yet if you
are a lady beatle larva or a lace wing larva,
or if you are an aphed that already has a
growing wasp inside that's developing, and you spray, you're gonna
kill all those things, and those are all beneficials that
would have been removed by one of the safest sprays

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that exists out there in nature. So my point being
is just use nothing indiscriminately, follow the label on everything,
and use things when they're needed, in the rate that
they're needed, in the way that they're needed. That is important.
Keeping that kind of thing in mind, I think you'll
be it'll serve you well. Okay, So anyway that hopefully

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that makes a little bit of sense for you. I
hear a lot of mis understandings about how some of
these things work, and I just want people to avoid,
you know, even being considering misusing a product. Ingenetic Gardens
and Richmond is an awe some garden center. It is
a destination garden center. It's on FM three point fifty

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nine on the Katie Folshier side of Richmond, and if
any of you have not been out there, you need
to go. And boy, do we ever have a great
weekend for getting out to garden centers or in getting
out in the yard as well. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot
com is the website right now. They are loaded in color,
every kind of warm season color. When we consider planting
is out there. They have a great section of succulents.

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They have beautiful blooming trees and shrubs. It is just gorgeous.
Red buds, Oh my gosh, you have so many kinds
of red buds. And they also, by the way, they
have one called flamethrower that has beautiful colored foliage. They
have one called the Texas red bud. You need to
check that out. That's a variety that's native here in
Texas and it's very drought tolerant and hardy and heat tolerant.

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I got to take a break. I'll be right back,
all right, a little bit of happy music this morning.
Why don't we just jump right on the phones first
thing this segment and go out to Tomball. I want
to talk to Mel. Hello, Mel, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Hey, good morning to you. Yeah, I like I like
the music.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
The first time I've been using well the first time
I've been using bo Night, we'd be the Ultra. I've
never used the product before. And I was reading and
there are two things that kind of got to you
a little bit. It says not to use it during
green up, when the grass, when the you know, the
artists starting to green up and also yeah, uh not

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to use it on Florida Tam Saint Augustine. What is
it that all about?

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Do you have Flora town or not? Do you know?

Speaker 5 (08:45):
I don't know how to tell. I mean, I just
called it Saint august I don't know what the difference is.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
Well, I would say you ninety eight percent chance you
don't have Flora town. Floor tawn is a very rough
rain growing Saint Augustine. It's not as dense and well,
it's not as soft and whatnot as a lot of
new varieties. The runners can be a little purplish colored.
And I don't think you have that. That particular type

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of Saint Augustine was actually released by Florida and Texas
A and M. That's why it has Flora Tam as
its name.

Speaker 10 (09:21):
Back.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
I don't know when, but a lot decades decades ago,
and it is susceptible to you know, Saint Augustine can
be affected by broadleaf weed control products, especially when the
temperatures get up in the nineties, but Flora tam is
a little more so. The thing about green up that
is on a lot of products that are broadly weed

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control during the transition time when the grass is waking
up and getting going. It can it can be adversely
affected by products that you are going to kill, the
broad leaf weeds like that. So you just need to
be careful with it. You know, if you if you
do it early on, you know when if you look

(10:05):
at my schedule early when the weeds are before they set,
seeds and stuff. Early on, it's not such a problem.
But then we enter this spring green up season where
you need to be a little more careful with it.
And it's not like it's going to kill the lawn.
It's just it's a stress thing to the lawn that
you would rather avoid.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
I was going to spot treat everything yet would have help.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
That is the Yeah, that's the advantage of spot treating
is you're just you're just hitting the weeds. And if
you if your whole yard is solid weeds, spot treating
means treating the whole yard. But if you just have
weeds here and there, spot treating is a nice way
to go in and you just put a little squirt
on each weed. And yeah, if you get a little
bit on some Saint Augustine, even during the worst time,

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it's going to cause some stress, but it's not like
you've applied it to the whole yard. But now temperatures
are still.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Okay, okay, yeah, that's what it said, not to use
it like when the temperature gets up in it upper
eighties and nineties obviously.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Okay, yes, that's true of almost all the broadly.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
All right, so be fairly safe for me to put
it on.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Fairly safe, yes, just follow the label, do it according
to the label, and you're okay, you're all right. If again,
here's the cycle of the weeds. The cool season weeds,
they came out in the spring. We had a great
time when it was cool and early on late winter
early spring where we could you know, I say early

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spring early spring is February and a lot of my
listening area here, but where we could get out there
and we could do those treatments and it's most effective
to the weed and least damaging to the turf kind
of thing. Then the weeds get seeds all over them,
and even if you kill them, they've already developed their seeds,
and so you didn't gain a whole lot, you know.
So we go into that season and then summer comes

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when it gets hot, and that that is a more
stressful time for the grass to be sprayed. The broad
leaf most broad leaves.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Not all all right, thank.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
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we're gonna talk to Ralph. Get Ralph up here on
the line.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
I skip, good morning.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
Here we go.

Speaker 11 (14:16):
Good morning, Yes, sir, how can we have a question, Yes, sir,
can you explain.

Speaker 12 (14:22):
The difference on your schedule between the nitrofoss brown Patch
and the Nitrofoss Eagle when you would use one over
the other.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Well, brown Patch is primarily a product that is going
to control or that is gonna be the best one
to use for that particular disease. Not all diseases are
equally well controlled by all the products that are out there,
and so that's why we make those kinds of distinctions.

(14:57):
It's kind of like, you know, if you have the
doctor and and you know you have a certain problem,
they're not going to just recommend the same antibiotic or
whatever for all problems. And that's kind of how that works.
That that's why they have the brown Patch out there.
You can use Eagle you know for brown Patch, Uh,
it's not as effective compared to their product that's called

(15:20):
brown Patch. Does that make sense?

Speaker 13 (15:23):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (15:24):
I guess it.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Do you know, do you know the disease that do
you know the disease that you're going after? Because we're
kind of getting out of brown patch season now.

Speaker 12 (15:34):
Well it is brown patch. So I took one to
make sure.

Speaker 14 (15:40):
I got to write one.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, if you're gonna if you're gonna treat for the
brown patch, that would be the one that you would
want to use. Uh, that would be the better one
for that. If you're going after like take all a
root rot, then probably the Eagle tour fundicide would be
the better one. All right, sir, Well, thanks Ralph. I
appreciate your call.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Thank you, all.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
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you're using a liquid, every drop that goes out on
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compounds and nature has all the things, all the different
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It's all there on the web and they're easy to
find here in the Houston area. Let's head out to Sugarland.
Now we're going to talk to Larry this morning. Good morning,

(17:54):
Good morning, Larry.

Speaker 10 (17:56):
I am looking for you. You have advertised a new
I have a tree stabilizer. I just planted a tree
yesterday and I can't find whatever the new and everything
is the old teaposts.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
All right, Well, so you're talking about the three sixty
tree stabilizer. It's a plastic arm that you can make
it a little longer shorter, and it has soft rubber
straps on each end, and so on one end you
can attach it to a post or they have an
insert that goes that's for teposts. It's a little kind

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of a little triangular slot thing like a tepost is,
and it holds really tight, firm to a t post.
The other end goes around your tree allows it to
move a little bit, which is important. Movement creates strength,
whether it's in the muscles in our arms or in
the trunk of a tree. It's an principle of nature.
So the three sixty a lot of different places. Jorges

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Hidden Gardens and Siena Maltz are both on it. Down south,
they're pretty close to your area. They have them there.
You might want to call Southwest Fertilizer and see if
they're carrying them. Now, I think they might. I haven't
haven't checked in there, but I know you're down in
the sugar Land area, so I think probably the closest
that I'm aware of to you would be probably ceeing

(19:18):
a multa where he said in gardens they're done in
out and cis done.

Speaker 10 (19:21):
Yeah, is close.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
I use them.

Speaker 10 (19:24):
Second thing is when I was putting this plant in
this tree, it's a thirty gallon. I didn't dig, but
I don't think I dug it quite deep enough. And
a thing is very heavy. I've got about two inches
probably above the soil level. Is that okay? Or do

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I need to lower it down?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
That's okay. Now that's okay. So it's better than being
below the soil level so that you don't need to
redig it replanet and everything. That's okay. You know you can.
We we like to see the top most route about
at the soil level. So if it's about ad or
just slightly below, that's that's like ideal. But if it's
a little higher, the tree is going to be fine.

(20:08):
You bring up a little soil around it a little bit,
create a little bit of a mound there. But I
think based on what you're saying, I think you're good
to go.

Speaker 10 (20:16):
Okay, very good, Thank you all ranks.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
All right, Larry, appreciate that. Thank you very much for
your call. It's here. Oh I wanted to talk about
Nature's Way Resources. They got their big shindig event coming up.
That's their Spring Garden Festival, and that's on March twenty second,
and so it's next weekend. It is from eight to
two and it's their Spring Garden Festival, which means there's

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going to be all kinds of things.

Speaker 10 (20:45):
You know.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Of course there's plant sales. It costs nothing to get in,
but they'll be talks on various topics for plants, they'll
be vendors and food and drink and lots of activities
for the kiddos. That's at Nature's Way Resources which is
on Sherbrooks Circle, Conroe, Texas. Ted up there or go
to Nature's Way Resources dot com and find out more.
I'll be right back. You can well, good gardening morning

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on garden Line. Welcome back. Good to have you with us.
You'd like to give me a call this morning? Seven
one three, two, one two fifty eight seventy four are
just ketrh That makes it even simpler. Ace Hardware stores
are all through our area, and that makes it so
convenient because you know, wherever you live, you can just

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run over at Ace Hardware Store and get the things
you need. What are the things you need, well, whether
it's standard hardware type things like paint and lighting and
all kinds of things you would expect from a hardware store,
could be that. But if you're a gardener, if you
have a lawn, if you have a house plant, they've
got the fertilizers, they've got the products to control insects

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and diseases and pests, you know that sort of thing,
and certainly the things to shut down weeds that we
keep talking about here on Guardline. You can go to
acehardw Texas dot com that write that down Ace Hardware
Texas dot com. If you do that, you're going to
see the ACE Hardware stores that are part of our
Houston area group that are real close to you here

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where you live. And you just there's so many good
stores out there. I mean I could sit here and
just go on and on, but I was out not
too long ago at Hamilton Hardware out on Highway sixth North.
There's a Cyprus Ace Hardware Jones Road. There's the Patco
Hardware and Lumber on Willis Street down in Port Levaca.
There's the one on Calhoun Plaza and Port Lavaca and

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Ospose Ace up in the Woodlands. There are just some
examples of the many Ace hardware stores that are here
in our region. And you know when you go there,
Ace is a place, so you're going to find the
things that you need and people to help you with
the questions that you have. Let's head out to Katie
now and we're going to talk to Alexander. Hey Alexander, welcome,
Hang on just one second, welcome to garden Line. We'll

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get somebody else picking you up there, because when I
try to pick it up it doesn't seem to work.
There we go, Hey Alexander, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Good morning.

Speaker 15 (23:09):
I have three citrus tree. I have one red orange,
a blood orange. I have a Lima Mayer and regular life.
I have this ut for three years already and uh
they already two severe cold weather and okay then I'm

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just taking care of them now. Okay, besides even the
trees healthier, what else can you tell me to to
to make them to be more fertile?

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Okay? Uh? So for for citrus, when it comes to
setting fruit, uh, as they get a little older, like two, three,
four or five years, as they do that, they're they're
better able to carry a good fruit. Load when they're
very they'll abort a lot of the flowers. And we
even encourage people to pull the fruit off when they're
very young, because the tree needs to put its energy

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into growing rather than trying to put a few fruit
on a little tiny tree. And so as you fertilize,
as it gets good sunlight, as you keep the water consistent,
as you keep the weeds away and mulch it well
so that tree can thrive, you're going to get the
best growth. And the best growth then is going to
lead to the best production. And so that's kind of

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citrus success in a little nutshell.

Speaker 15 (24:35):
Okay, at one point you said to build organic dirt
around it.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Is that something that you recommend. I think what I
been talking about was building a berm. A berm is
like a little dam that's in a circle. Like you
put a four foot inch high doughnut or four inch
high doughnut in about a four foot circle around the tree.
And that way, when a tree is young, you know,

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all the roots are still in that little cylinder that
came out of the pot. And then it over the
weeks and months after you plant it, it's beginning to
put roots out. But with the berm. You can fill
the berm up with a couple of two or three
inches of water and it's soaked straight down where the
roots are and that that's a nice way to get
a good soaking on. That's what the berm's for.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Oh okay, well that's easy enough. I just got to
be patient, I guess.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Yeah. Patience is hard when you when your mouth is
watering over that blood orange you're about to take.

Speaker 13 (25:33):
Right, Oh yeah, I just can't wait.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
But take care of them.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
There you go. All right, Hey, thank you, Alexander, appreciate
your call. All right, take care. Yeah, I understand that
impatience myself. You know, the the what is the like

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if you were a citrus orchardist, I would say, do
not pick a fruit until at least age four or
three or four maybe because you want to get that
tree big, because you're trying to commercially produce as much
as you can. So a handful of fruit that you're
going to go through and pick up a few little
fruit that's not worth it. Get that tree big, and

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the bigger the tree is, the more fruit you can
hang on it. The way I like to put it
is with any fruit tree, the faster you get a
big tree, you can hang more ornaments on it, and
ornaments are fruit, okay, and so that's that. Then there's
the homeowner that plants a little citrus and they're just
dying to eat one. Okay, well you're two. If you
want one to grow, so you have a taste, go

(26:45):
ahead and do that. You know, it's fun. I mean
it is taking away a little bit from the growth
of the tree. It's not the ideal, but hey, we
got to balance some things, right. You're not in it,
you know, to make money off the citrus tree. So
so we'll head the belt a little bit. It is
spring and it is time to get out there and
be doing things in the lawn. For example, Bruce's Brew

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from Nelson Plant Food is an outstanding product that gives
you a quick green up. But a unique thing about
Bruce's Brew is it also gives an extended release over time.
So you get the fast growth, but then you get
a little bit extra that's going on and on over
time to feed your turf plants. Bruce's Brew is a

(27:29):
perfect blend, perfect ratio for our soils, for our climate,
and for the southern turf that we grow here. Like
Saint Augustine and Bermuda and Zosia. It's an excellent blend.
It's got a high carbon nitrogen sources that are going
to feed your soul microbes. And you know, whenever you
have healthy soil, you're gonna have healthy grass. Healthy grass
means it's more resistant to some of the problems that

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would attack it. And Bruce's Brew works very very well.
Bruceus Brew is part of the turf starline from Nelson
Plant Foodage. You to give that a good hard look.
I have tried it myself. It is an excellent product.
It works, simple as that. What more can we ask
than it works. A while ago, we were talking about
the three sixty tree stabilizer and you know, visiting about

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where to get them and stuff, and one of the
places is Ciena Maltz c in a. Maltz is south
of Houston. For those of you who aren't familiar with it,
it kind of really serves the whole region down there
in kind of near Highway six and two eighty eight
that area. Sienna is on FM five twenty one F
five twenty one. You go to the website cnamlts dot com.

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It is a wonderful one stop shop for all things soil.
So when you think about you buy the best plant
in the world, you can't wait to get it home.
I don't care if it's a citrus tree or a flower,
or a vegetable plant or a rosebush or whatever. First
thing is fixed the soil Senna has everything for doing it.
It's got the compost, got the bed mixes, it's got
the fertilized You know, you hear me talk about as

(29:01):
am I you hear me talk about Medina and nitroposs
and Nelson both the turf Star line and the bags
the little Nelson jars as well taught microlife products as well.
Are there everything you need to make your soul the
best it can which is the first and critical not
to be skipp steup in success with plants Cnimals cn

(29:22):
Molts dot com. Go check them out. They will deliver
within twenty miles for a small fee and or you
can just go pick it up yourself. Either way, well,
it's time for me to take a little break. When
we come back, Lisa and Splendora, you will be our
first up all writing. Welcome back to your guarden line. Good
to have you back. When you're looking for a product

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that is a natural based product that is high in nitrogen.
Usually that doesn't kind of go together. Nature doesn't generally
do that. But Sweet Green is a product that's got
eleven percent nitrogen. Is based on a molasses based so
it's per probing a lot of carbon down into the soil,
which gets those good bacteria microbes all happy. They loved

(30:07):
that and they take off. They take that sweet green
apart and turn it into plant food is basically what
they're doing, or they're turning it into the nitrogen that
the plants need to boost growth. So it's good for lawns.
Sweet Green is available, it's from nitropos fertilizers, and it's
available in a lot of different areas. You're going to
find it in a chanted forest. I was talking about

(30:29):
chanted Forest the other day. They've got that down there.
They're going to have it at Ace Hardware up and
Sinko Ranch as well as the Auspaws Ace up in
the woodlands. The sweet Green product is one that you
put down smells wonderful. By the way you put it down,
you watered in in your long urn green. That's kind
of how that works. It's a good one to use
and this is a good time of the year to

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be doing it. We're going to go now out to
Splendora and talk to Lisa. Hello, Lisa, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (30:56):
Well, good morning, good morning, thank you for having me on.
I was just thinking about what you said about the berm,
about you know, a donut around the base of the tree,
and how many people I think that they're doing a donut,
but they're not. They're doing volcano mulching and it ends
up killing their tree.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, volcano is not a good deal. That's piling John, Yeah,
it's piling junk up against the trunk. Yeah, that's true.
That the berm is just around two damn.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (31:28):
I think they they mix that up. Maybe when they
see it in landscaping from their vehicle, it looks like,
you know, they've done it all the way around the
tree and if they, if they do, it ends up
killing the tree. So just a difference between the.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, I appreciate that, Lisa, Thank you. I appreciate I
appreciate the call. Yeah, with the with the uh, if
you think about it, a volcanoes sheds water away because
it's a cone up against the trunk. Bad, bad, bad,
It sheds water away from the one spot where you
might need water, where that little cylinder went into the ground,
the cylinder of roots, right, And so now you're going
to make a cone and have the water not go

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in where you need water. Berms do the opposite. They
hole water in, they soak it down. You don't have
to overdo the berms, you don't. You know, you don't
have to put five inches of water in them before
crying out loud. Don't do that but a little bit.
Have you ever tried watering and the water runs off?
Or maybe how about this. You're out there with your
thumb on the end of a hose, which I know

(32:28):
is a good way to get thinking done, but it's
not a great good way to get water soaked deep
in the ground. But you squirt water and it's running
off and stuff, and you move on. And then you
go back later and you dig down and the soil
is what about a half inch deep? You know, it
started running off before you even really got going on it.
The good thing about out of burm is there's nowhere
for the water to go. It has to soak down.
Even if it takes a walt it's going to soak

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down and that works really well. RCW Nurseries is a
garden center where you're going to find right now everything
that you need for your spring gardening. And I do
I do mean everything.

Speaker 10 (33:03):
You know.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
I can't talk about all that they have, but I
just want to tell you. For example, you should see
the sun patients. Sun patients are like impatience, but they've
been developed for the sun in our hot, humid climate
down here in the Greater Houston area. Sun patients, so
don't think of shade impatients. Think of impatients that can
take direct sun. Even we'll put up for some shade too.

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But they're beautiful. The colors are just neon. And then,
oh my goodness, it's worth driving to RCW just to
see their boogainvillias. They are stunning, by the way. The
roses really starting to bloom there too. You get a
real good look at what your rose gonna look like
before you buy it. But that boogain villa, they have
them in trees where you got a little trunk and

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then the boogamvillia top that right now is just solid color.
They've got them hanging baskets. I mean, you know, we
love booga villas here. In this area because they are
so dead gum gorgeous. Well, go see the boogom is
at RCW. And then while you're there, you're going to
see every other kind of color plant, vegetable, shrubs, trees,
you name it. That's RCW. By the way, the rosarians

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will be there today. That is Rosegrowers for those of
you who wonder, Rosarians are at RCW today from twelve
to three pm. They're going to rcw's got some refreshments
and giveaways, but the rosarians are going to be there
answering rose questions and helping you have success. So if
you're thinking about planning a rose, make it out there.
You get refreshments, they're going to be giveaways. They got

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some of the best selection of roses you're gonna find anywhere.
And then they got experts right there on hand that'll
answer your questions. You can just ask them a million
questions about how do you prune this, how do you
plant this? RCW RCW nurseres dot com. That's the website,
RCW Nursries dot com. They're at Tomball Parkway and Belt
Wait eight right there corner at Tomball Parkway which is
two forty nine and belt wait eight makes it real

(34:55):
easy to get to them. I always love going in there.
They do an excellent, excellent job.

Speaker 8 (35:04):
Boy.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
This week I got out and started cleaning up some beds. Now,
don't tell anybody, it's just hearing me listening right now anyway,
But don't tell anybody I had weeds in some of
my beds. Yes I did. And I won't describe the
weeds because I don't want you to quit listening to
garden Line because if you knew how many weeds were
you remember, I always say, wherever sunlight HiT's the soil

(35:24):
nature plints of weed. Well, I'm gallivanting around doing everything
horticultural that I do, and not at home taking care
of my plants. And they also say the cobblers kids
go barefoot, and that is true. The guy who makes
the shoes doesn't even have shoes for his own kids. Well, anyway,
I got out and cleaned it out. And what did
I do? First? I put a mulch down on the ground.

(35:46):
I had some shredded, some old shredded leaves from mowing
the lawn. I had some shredded lawn clippings from all
that old growth coming out of there. And it just
covered it up. And now when the weeds try to resprout,
which you know, the many you weed the bed, you
walk away, get some water on it. Next thing you know,
it's back into looking like a chia pet again. Well,

(36:06):
I took care of that at my house this week
and I'm continuing to work on that. I've got some
other beds that I'm building too. We cleaned out one
of our raised bed that raised beds. It has vegetables
and things that were about to put some tomatoes and
a yellow fence behind it. It's a raised bed has
a little cattle panel fence right behind it, and I'm

(36:27):
going to plant a vining type of tomato that is
called sun gold. There's some lot of good vining tomatoes.
I have to like one called sun gold, and so
I've got some plants of it and we're going to
stick them to the ground there and then as they grow,
it's not gonna be in a tomato cage or on
a steak. We're just gonna weave those tomato shoots as
they get about a foot and a half long, just

(36:48):
kind of push them through that cattle panel fence and
kind of push them through this way and back the
other way and it'll just make this giant wall of
tomato foliage. And one side is the morning sun, the
other is the afternoon sun, and it will do well.
I've done this before. It really really works. If you're
dealing with pests. I don't know whether you have had

(37:11):
any signs of termites, but don't mess around because when
you get termites in the house, that's a big deal.
You know, cockroaches will scare the family, Termites will affect
the value of your home, and you don't want to
mess around with that. Pest Brothers is a regional pest
control company that takes care of it, and they do
it in a way that is effective and that is safe.

(37:32):
That they are very focused on doing a job that works,
that lasts, They do long term results. They know how
to do that, but how to do it the safest
possible manner. Whether it's termites or cockroaches or things outside
like fireman's and mosquitoes and wild varmits, they can they
can deal with all of it. Here's the website, the
Pest Bros b r o s dot com. The pestbros

(37:56):
dot com work call them two eight one two oh
six forty six seventy. I don't care if you live
out in Baytown or all the way across the other side,
you know, going out to Katie, if you live way
up in the Woodlands or down to Texas City. They
cover these areas and when you call them ask about
their mosquito control system. It's an outdoor baited bucket that

(38:17):
has two very safe and extremely effective ways of controlling mosquitos.
This isn't just a spray where you're blasting it on
your shrubs and everything and killing mosquitos that way. This
is a very targeted thing. The mosquitoes come to it,
they lay eggs in it, The eggs never make it.
It's designed for that. Then the mosquitoes fly away and
they've got on them substances that will be in the

(38:41):
water where they land. And this is safe. I mean,
you know, beneficials can drink the water, your pets can drink.
It's not a poison like that. It is. In fact,
one of the product two things that they carry with
them is a fungus that attacks the mosquito body. Now
is that cool? A mosquito with like a a fungus

(39:01):
that's killing it. It's kind of like we spray BT
for caterpillars. You know, super safe kills the caterpillars doesn't
hurt ladybugs and other things. That's how this works. Pest Bros.
Thepestbros dot Com. Ask them about that. I think it's
awfully cool. I didn't even know it existed. Of this year.
They were visiting with them. They were telling me about
the how this stuff works and everything, and I'm just like, okay,

(39:23):
I'm all in. I love that, absolutely love it. Well,
just as far as tips and things, when we come back,
I want to talk a little bit about some success
with planting, a few tips on how to have success
with the things that you're planting. And if you have
some questions your calls, like what to plant or how

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to take care of this, you can give me a
call seven one three two one two k t RH
or if you like the numbers, fifty eight seventy four.
I am going to let's let's do this. Let's just
focus on the topics that you were most interested in
and we'll go from there. But I do have some
more that gosh, I got so much I want to
talk about today. Anyway, we will eventually get to that.

(40:08):
Today I will be at j and our Ace in
Porter from twelve noon to two pm. J and our
Ace Inporter twelve noon to two pm. And we are
giving away a lot of really cool stuff. I hope,
I hope that you will come up and join me there.
I've got several products from Microlife, their humans plus their

(40:31):
Ultimate that I was talking about earlier, the one with
a quick greenup, the liquid AF I've got their soil
and plant energy. I've got their humates plus liquid. And
then from Nitrophis, I've got the superter Fertilizer nineteen four
ten and the sweet Green that I was just telling
you about, the eleven zero four. We're gonna give some
bags of those away and some bottles and the bottles,
so maybe you win one of those. Come on out

(40:52):
and see me. I'm gonna have some Texas Gardener magazines
on hand to give out as well. We love to
give things away, so come on out. It's a chance
to talk eye to eye. I love to meet the
people that listen to gardening to Garden Line, and so
twelve to two. I don't know what else to say.
I hope you can make it. J and r Ace

(41:14):
Importer twelve to two, easy, easy to get to.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Well.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
The music means I have to quit talking. Besides, they
need to get me another cup of coffee. You can
be there half asleep, one eye open, half listening. I
have to be somewhat coherent, just somewhat though. I want
to set that bar too hot. We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Welcome to Katie r.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
H Garden Line with Scamp Richard.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
It's just watch as sid sun.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
Hey, good morning, good Saturday morning, and folks today and tomorrow.
The weather is awesome, it's absolutely awesome. Great days to
get out to do a little bit here and there
in the yard. Maybe go visit some garden centers. Get
you the supplies you need, you know, feed stores, wherever
you get your supplies. We've got lots of things to do.

(42:45):
This is the big middle of the spring launch, the
spring launch. That that means we just about have decided
that it's not going to frost anymore. You know, nature
can throw you a curve all the time. But I
mean we're at a point now where people that wear
a belt and suspenders are willing to take the risk
going ahead and planting. If that doesn't make sense, I'll

(43:06):
explain later. Anyway, you get the idea now's the time
to get out and enjoy it, enjoy this weather. And
oh my gosh, there is so much going on out there.
Our garden centers are bursting at the seams. They really are.
I mean, the color that is out is outstanding. And
when you get good quality plants, and that's what you're

(43:27):
going to get when you go to a good independent
garden center, you know you're going to have success with
those because they sell stuff that belongs here, stuff that
wants to grow here, you know. And there the trucks
are backed up. I always think about Moss Nursery sometimes.
I think it almost looks like a train coming through there,
you know, with all the cars, because they have the
trucks backed up, bringing load after load after load. And

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Moss is down on Toddville Road in Seabrook. For those
of you who haven't been down there, it's a nursery.
It's been around for seventy years, family operated, seventy year nursery.
Eight acres are wandering around. So if you're thinking about
planning in azalea, you should see the options that they have.
Lots of different kinds of azaleas loaded up down there.
If you're looking for vegetables. If you're looking for herbs,

(44:14):
oh gosh, their herb selection is outstanding. But even let
me just take tomatoes for example. So how about this.
I'm not going to name the ones you probably heard of,
but how about this. Do you need a black krim
a box car Willie? Do you need a Cherokee you
probably heard of that one. Do you need an indigo
apple or an indigo blueberries? Do you need JD Oh,

(44:35):
JD Special? They have that JD's Special Seatex. That's one
from up at Conroe Greenhouses North in Conrad's that's where
the tomato came from. They have it at Moss Nursery
down in Seabrook. They've got piglet Willie's French black tomato.
I don't even know what that is. I've never seen.
My point is that everything you would want that you're going, hey,

(44:56):
where can I get a big boy? They've got him,
of course, And then the ones like oh I got
a try this, and you got to try some new
things because every year we have new cool things to try.
And you can just guarantee this that Moss is always
going to have the surprises that you just didn't know
where they're every time you turn a corner you see
something that you didn't know that you could get, And yes,

(45:16):
they have it there at Moss Nursery. So how about succulents.
Oh gosh, they have a selection. Go in there when
you go by the way. I mean this, honestly, really
mean this. It is worth going to Moss just to
see the house plant greenhouse that they have, where they
have succulents, where they have foliage color, where they have
hanging baskets, where they have string of you name it,

(45:37):
fill in the blank. You know there's strings of everything.
Now they've got them there. You want a staghorn fern?
How about a stag horn fern that's about the size
of a Volkswagen, I mean a bug, huge, beautiful staghorn ferns,
ferns hanging down there. Everything you need. Moss Nursery two
eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two

(45:58):
eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. I
know I went on and on about that, but it is.
It really is an impressive place, and what a wonderful
day to go down for a stroll down there. It
is time to start fertilizing those lawns. You know, we're
kind of right in between now when we were doing
just the early greenups and when we will start doing

(46:21):
the long term feeds. And so if you want to
put something down to feed that lawn for months to come,
nitrophos Superturf is a good product for that. It is
a nineteen four to ten fertilizer. And you go, well,
nineteen that's too much nitrogen. No, it's not. And here's why.
Number one, you're gonna put it down at about five

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pounds per thousand square feet. In other words, you're putting
it at a rate where you're only putting a pound
of nitrogen per thousand out there. Follow the light, but
it'll tell you that. But secondly, you're fertilizing now, and
that nineteen doesn't just get all dumped in the soil
at once. It's going to gradually over months release for
up to sixteen weeks. That is a big deal. And
by spreading out like that, you slow down the growth rate,

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which means you slow down the mowing. Nitrofoss Superturf it works.
You can get it at Plantation Ace Hardware out there
in Richmond, Rosenberg. You can find it at Langham Creek
Ace Hardware that's on five point twenty nine.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
You can have a corner of Copperfield up there in Cyprus.
You can find it at RCW Nursay. I'm just talking
about RCW a minute ago on tomball Park went about
way eight.

Speaker 6 (47:26):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
It's it's widely available and it works. That's the bottom line.
It's a silver bag, by the way, that's how we
remember the silver bag. If you'd like to give me
a call the phone number here on guarden Line. My
phone number is seven to one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two
k t r H. I think for those of you

(47:49):
who like the numbers, you just write it down. Because
Sam Both every time is starting to kind of wear
on me a little bit. I'm just gonna say, kid
your age, I think till I forget how that goes.

Speaker 17 (48:01):
Well.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
You're listening to Guardline and we're talking about all kinds
of things that are important that you need to know
to have success. And one thing that I would like
to suggest you do is plant some containers that you
haven't planted before, Like maybe you had two containers. How
about getting a really big container, a big, beautiful container.
It is an investment. They don't give those away, but

(48:25):
you get a quality one and it lasts for years.
Some of the cheap terracotta, and I mean cheap meaning
not just an expensive but worthless, it breaks and it
has all kinds of problems. Quality terracotta is going to
last you a lot longer. I love the glaze containers myself.
But the bigger the container, the more soil it holes,
the more soilt holes, the more it is able to

(48:46):
go longer without having to be watered. And hot weather
will be here eventually. When you do that, grab you
some jungle land, jungle land flour and vegetable planting soil.
Put it in that because it drains well and it
holds moisture same time, good oxygen for the roots, consistent
moisture for the roots. Four different sources of age, composted bark,

(49:07):
microise of fungire in there too. It's everything you need.
Jungle land from nitrofoss. A lot of places you're gonna
find products from nitrofoss, like Lake Hardware and Angleton down
on Alasco. Lake Hardware and Clute too on Dixie Drive
is going to have that and Fisher's Hardware, the one
down in Baytown on Alexander. All places that you're gonna

(49:27):
find jungle and other nitrofoss quality nitrofoss products. The trice
of containers this year. They're beautiful. You can move them around.
They're versatile. If you need a little sun, a little shade,
you just put it there. I love containers. That's the
tip of the morning. Time for me to take a break.
We'll be right back. Oh, got a little Darius Rucker the.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
Way.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
I like that. F Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good
to have you with us. We got a lot to
talk about this morning, including your calls. If you would
like to give me a call, the number is seven
one three two one two K T R H. And
I think we're just gonna run straight out to the
calls right now and talk to Sally in Spring Branch. Hello, Sally,
Welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 14 (50:14):
Good morning with I have I'm ashamed to say I
have multiple weeds in my yard. And I have multiple
weeds plus salss in my bed thorough beds. I had
intentions to tend to the weeds in Saint Augustine, UH
and the exists and the bed but the yard guy

(50:37):
cut my grass yesterday, so it's hard to see where
the weeds are. Can I apply celsius or to the
whole Saint Augustine yard without hurting the Saint Augustine?

Speaker 4 (50:53):
And uh, what about.

Speaker 14 (50:56):
My flower beds? Can I spray something in the flower
beds to kill the weeds that won't hurt my forty
year old box woods?

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Not If you get it on the box woods, it'll
hurt them. Now the yard, because they mowed the yard,
they cut off all the leaf the leaves of the
weeds that you would want to put the spray on.
So spraying isn't going to be as effective right now.
At this point the cool season, weeds are already blooming,

(51:30):
starting to set seeds, and they're going to be going downhill.
So having done that mowing, I don't know that you're
going to get a lot of benefit from spraying a
weed control product. You could. You could do that if
you choose to, But if it were my yard, I
think at this point, having just been mowed now there's
nothing to spray it on. I would just move on

(51:51):
to focusing on growing a good dense grass and mowing regularly,
and those are going to be dying out pretty quick,
and if they hadn't been moded, I'd say, we'll go
ahead and do it. Spray on the leaves and I
know they'll come back, but it'll take a little while
for them too, and so we're kind of hitting that
zone where it's kind of gray. It's not black and
white by the time they get new new leaves on
the weeds. So that's how I would do it. In

(52:12):
the flower bed, there's not a you're primarily looking at
broad leaf weeds with those sprays, and those sprays are
gonna kill broad leaf plants. So whether it's flowers or
box woods or roses or petunias, you know it's gonna
hurt them, so you have to be very very careful.
I would say, you know, you don't want to hear

(52:34):
the words hand pulling, but that is an option, or
hiring somebody to handpull or getting a hoe that where
you can stand up and just kind of scrape them
out and kind of rake them out of there and
then get all the seeds and stuff that you can out.
You can also throw a mulch on top of them.
If the weeds are tall, you can't throw a mulch
on top of them. But if they're small, you can
smother them with mulch, and so that that would be

(52:57):
an option. The only other thing I can think of, Sally,
would be to use a spray like a vinegar, and
a vinegar is it just burns the weeds. Basically, there's
some other organic sprays that just burn the weeds. And
if you spray that, they would turn brown. They it
would kill them, not the seeds, but it would kill them.
But you would just be real careful not to get

(53:19):
it on your plants. Now, if you got some on
box wood, those leaves might you know, turn tand and
be burned. But it's not like it's going to translocate
down and kill the whole plant.

Speaker 14 (53:31):
I've heard you talk about Celsius. Would that Could I
use something like that?

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Well, it's a broad leaf weed control killer, and I yeah,
so you could. But if you get it on your
good plants you can it'll damage them, and I don't
you know, I need to look at a label again,
but I don't think Celsius has a label for flower beds.
I don't think it's labeled for use in flower beds.

Speaker 14 (53:55):
Oh, I see, I see, So it's not something I
can spread over the whole yard to kill whatever it
is there. I hate to use weed and feed.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
But well, okay, so what we're doing is we're switching
between flower beds and yard. Celsius in the yard and
the grass is okay, Celsius in the flower bed I
don't think is labeled for that.

Speaker 14 (54:18):
Okay, okay. I do have a flower bed that has
nothing in it. It's just dirt and weeds and old
boxwood stumps, and so I was planning on waking that
up and putting down some molt and growing what do

(54:40):
you call that? Wandering jew I'm so tired of.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Okay, Well, if you want to get rid of everything,
you can spray and get rid of everything, or just
you know, just if you're doing the whole bed, you know,
hoeing out a whole section. Isn't that that difficult anyway?
But I just get all the debris out of there.
But once you create bear soil, you need to do
something right away, go ahead and plant and then mulch
it thick. So otherwise you're just gonna get more weed

(55:09):
seeds up. I tell you, Karen, I've got some or Sally,
excuse me, I've got some folks waiting in line here,
so I'm have to run, but good luck with getting
that under control. Thank you, thank you very much. I
appreciate that Houston Powder Coders is a company hearing me
talk about. It's the biggest powder coder in the region.

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They are the ones that can turn your outdoor metal
into something beautiful. You know, maybe you have one of those,
you know, the you know the chairs that are tubular
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aluminum patio furniture, they can do it. And here's the deal.
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It's okay, turn it over to Houston Powder Coders. They're
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really really well. Let's see here. We're going to go
now to Mark in Mott Bellevue. Hello, Mark, Welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
Well, thank you skip.

Speaker 18 (56:47):
Hey, I've got a question about my Zoysia grass. I
completely ripped my St. Augustine last year and put in
all Zeisa grass Empire Zoisha and uh it.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Getting really really good.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
It's doing good now.

Speaker 18 (57:04):
I made it had an early morning a week ago,
and the guy that actually did the majority of the
work for me told me that it would be good
to because I always bag.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
He said, be.

Speaker 18 (57:15):
Good when to be every now and then to go
ahead and let it seed a little bit and then
let that instead of bagging, let it just mult it
back in. Keep it low, though, but let mult it
back in, and that would help make it thicker.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
Is that true. Did you say let its seed a
little bit? Is that what you said?

Speaker 17 (57:36):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's seeding, or it's it.

Speaker 18 (57:39):
Always a little bit, it'll it'll pop up seeds stops
or I think that's what it look like seats any one.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
Yeah, yeah, some of the older Zoysias tended to do that.
I there's no benefit to letting your grass plants produce seeds.
The grass Loysia grass will fill in and it doesn't
need the seeds. Now, returning clip things. If you mow
regularly and you have big giant clippings, returning clippings returns
nutrients back to your lawn and organic matter back to

(58:08):
your lawn. That's a good thing to do. Yes, I
would do that, but not not for the seed.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
Okay, all right, well thank you.

Speaker 18 (58:15):
I followed followed your uh putting barricade on and everything,
and I have no weeds in my lawn this spring.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
So that's fantastic. Well good, there you go and follow
the one the other schedule that's on lawn care, that's
mow water fertilized schedule, and get that soysa as dense
as you can, and you'll continue to choke out the
vast majority of your weeds. So thanks a lot. Appreciate,
appreciate the call. Mark, thank you very much on that.
How many how many of you have been to Buchanan's Nursery?

(58:43):
How many have never been to Buchanons before? There are
Cannon natd Plants is in the Heights. They're on Eleventh
Street and if you haven't been, you need to go.
And here's why it is just a cool place it
Buchanans specializes in natives. Now they have things lots and
lots and lots of non natives. But if you're looking
for native plants, you're not going to find a bigger

(59:04):
selection in the entire region. That is what they specialize in.
And they can help you with whatever kind of gardening
you want to do. Maybe you want to attract butterflies,
maybe you want to attract hummingbirds. And let's say you
can walk in there and go, okay, I want native plants.
I want native plants that attract hummingbirds. What are they?
They'll tell you you can walk in and go. You

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know what, I want to create a rain garden. They
have a whole list of plants that they carry that
are perfect for those areas to stay a little soggy
wet between rains. That's what they specialize in is helping
customers find the right kinds of plants. Again, they're on
Eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanans Plants. Excuse me, Buchanansplants

(59:46):
dot com. Buchanansplants dot Com. Let's go now to West
Houston and we're going to talk to Karen. Hello, Karen,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (59:54):
Good morning.

Speaker 16 (59:55):
I have a question about tomato plants.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Do you cut off the early flowers?

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
No, you don't need to do that. You don't need
to do that on tomatoes. A lot of times sometimes
tomatoes will abort and you won't get seat set where
you had flowers here and there, but you don't have
to remove them like you would on a young citrus
tree for example. Okay, well, thank you so much. That's it.

(01:00:25):
We'll have fun. Remember to keep those things well watered
and try to keep an even moisture. When tomatoes are
young and the moisture fluctuates in the soil from dry
to wet and dry, you end up with blossom and rot,
especially on your early fruits. And so the more you
can keep an even moisture the more you can kind
of minimize that problem.

Speaker 11 (01:00:45):
Okay, right, will do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
Alright. Now, you know, on garden Line, we don't charge
for advice, but we do ask for half of the
produce you get as a result of the advice. So
just bring half your tomatoes to me and we'll call
it am. Uh. There you go. All right, well, there
you are. Let's uh, let's go out to Periland. Now

(01:01:11):
we're gonna talk to Jake. Hey, Jake, welcome to garden Line. Hey,
good morning, appreciate you taking a call.

Speaker 20 (01:01:17):
Yeah, I got some questions out the contrees, so I planted, Uh,
I'm planned four pa contries kind of late in the
year last year, around September, and I man, I've watered
them a lot.

Speaker 21 (01:01:30):
I made my little donut like you talked about her
this morning around the trees to hold the water. And yeah,
I warned those things pretty regularly. And the leaves dropped
off pretty fast on those things. And here we are,
you know, March, and there's buds all over the branches.

Speaker 22 (01:01:47):
And I've done and I don't know if this is
a good rule of thumb or not, but I've don't
what I call the fingernail test ro I've gone up
to the end of some of those branches and scratched
the bark, and if it still looks green up underneath there,
then it's still a live type thing.

Speaker 23 (01:02:01):
Yeah, I'm wondering should I be concerned at this time
of year that, you know, the tree hasn't started leaving yet,
and if it's if it is something I need to
be concerned of, is there anything I could do to
feed them to help them out?

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
No, no, no concern and nothing to do about it.
Pecans are very conservative plants. They you know, if you
want to know when the danger of frost is probably passed,
watch a pecan tree, because they're not going to come
out early. They're smart. They've lived here in Texas for
a while, they know what they're doing. And so a
little slow pushing out in the spring, especially for a

(01:02:36):
young plant. And you know, a new plant like that
is going to be a little slow to push out too,
because it's got to develop some roots. Keep the soil
evenly moist, not soggy wet, and you should be good
to go. All right, Jake, appreciate it, Thank you much, Yes, sir,
thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:02:51):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
Now I don't have to wait a long time for
you to bring me half the pecans, but I am patient.
Thanks a lot. There you go, Uh. Southwest Fertilizer is
the place to go for anything you need. They're on
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the products are quality, and the selection is like you
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It's Southwest Fertilizer because Bob carries everything.

Speaker 10 (01:03:22):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
Lovely place to go corner of bus Nut and Renwick.
Find what you need. I'll be right back, folks. All right,
a little bit of wham for your Saturday morning. If
you are wanting to get a quick result from a
lawn fertilizer, I mean make your long term green quick.

(01:03:44):
This is Nitrophoss Imperial fifteen, five to ten. This is
the red bag, red orange, red orange bag. Nitro Fosh
products work. They're design based on turf research across the
South here in Texas too, across the South. By design
the ratios and the things that are what our lawns need,
that what your Southern turf crushes need. I'm talking about

(01:04:05):
and Zoeze I'm talking about Saint Augustine permuta grass nae fass.
Imperial is an excellent product and it's available also if
you if you're still doing the post emergent weed. They've
got the blue light blue bag, not purple, the one
for the post emergent weed, but the blue, okay, the blue,
and it will kill the weeds that are there. If
you wet the weeds, put the product down. It sticks

(01:04:26):
to the weeds and it goes down and works. Are
the standard red orange you can't say red words, red
orange bag nitetrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten. You put
it down, you watered in. The nutrients dissolved, they go
to the soil, the roots pick them up. I mean,
within a day or two, the vast majority of those
nutrients are going to have been picked up by the grassroots.
It's fast that it happens. The results happen fast, and

(01:04:49):
then just get ready for your summer fertilization with the
slower release, longer term fertilizer. You're going to find Imperial
that places like D and D Feed and Tombaal the
one in Sagemont On Beamer and the M and D
and clear Lake on Bay Area Boulevard, all places you're
gonna find quality night frost products like the red orange

(01:05:11):
bag Imperial fifteen five ten. Let's run out to Dickinson
now and we're going to talk to Tom. Hey, Tom,
welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:05:21):
I just have a quick question.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Am I too late to relocate a fig tree that
I don't care for the spotts and I want to
move it on the other side of the yard.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
You know, figs are so darn tough and they root
so easy. I would say you could do it. You know,
the best time to move any woody plant, shrub or
tree or whatever is the mid to late fall or
winter time. Either one of those is fine. Figs are
a little coal tender, so I don't like to move
them at that time, so I typically will move them,

(01:05:51):
you know, as we get toward the end of winter
in the spring. Is not a black and white line, though,
I would say, go ahead and do it, but do
it as soon as possible, get it watered in really well,
make sure it's set, it the same depth, and I
think it'll be just fine for you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
Perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Thank you, you bet Tom Well that was fast and easy.
Thanks a lot, take care, appreciate that a lot. So
the other morning I was I just heard this cacophony
of bird songs outside the window. And there's an app
that listen. Even if you're not a bird person, you

(01:06:27):
got to get this app. It is so cool. It's
called it's free too, Hey can you beat that? And
it's called Merlin, like Merlin, the magician Merlin, And it's
from Cornell University, which is like one of the premiere
ornithology that's a fancy word for studying birds universities in
the country, and they created the Merlin app. It's free.

(01:06:48):
You download it, not per sale. It's free and it
has so much information. But for example, if you take
a picture of a bird, Merlin can look at that
picture and tell you what kind of bird it is.
Now not if it's eight miles away on a high
line it looks like a black dot there in the distance.
But if they see the bird, it can tell you.
But it can also listen. And so I literally opened

(01:07:10):
my back door, I stepped out, and I pushed the
little listen button and as the birds sang, you could
see this little I don't know how to describe it.
But it's going by, and whenever the bird chirps, you
see a little bump in it, kind of like a
little heartbeat monitor kind of thing. But anyway, it listened,
and all of a sudden, robin red robin popped up,
and then a grackle was singing and it popped up,

(01:07:33):
and then I can't remember all the different birds, but
they're like five or six birds. I actually took a
screenshot and send it to my wife and go. It
is like a cophony of noise out in our backyard
and it hurt all the different birds you can hear.
Isn't that cool? Well, I'm warning you birding backyard birding
is addictive. And I'm not talking about the folks that
walk around with on hikes through the woods with binoculars.

(01:07:56):
That's also fun and addictive. I'm not into that. I
am into having a in my backyard though. And wild
Birds Unlimited is the place. There's no It's like, what's second,
there's not a second. Wildbird's Unlimited is the place to go.
There's six stores here. There's one in clear Lake on Eldorado,
there's one in Cypress on Barker Cypress. There's one kind

(01:08:18):
of in the south part of Houston on Bell Boulevard,
and one out in the west part of Houston Memorial.
There's one in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. There's one in
Pairland on East Broadway. These are all places where you
get quality advice. That may be one of the most
important things at all is people that know what they're
talking about and can direct you right. But where you

(01:08:39):
get quality seed for the birds that is seasonal. Right now,
at Wildbirds Unlimited, they have a proprietary nesting super Blend.
It's got the protein the birds need. By the way
nesting this is when our birds are doing a lot
of nesting. They need calcium also, not just for the
bon bird skeleton development, but also for the shell you know,

(01:09:02):
they got to form the shells to lay the eggs. Right,
Nesting super Blend, that's the one you need. While you're there,
consider getting one of their nest boxes. They've got quality
nest boxes. Consider some of their feeders, like the eliminator
feeder that is my favorite feeder right now. Squirrels can't
get in it. Then there's a hopper feeder that's the

(01:09:22):
latest feeder I put up, the Eco Tough Hopper feeder.
You can see the seeds in the side through the
clear glass doors. The thing I like about the Wallbirds
Unlimited hopper feeder is that the roof's a little larger,
so when it rains. It rained the other day here
and my birds e didn't get wet because the little
extended roof there works really well. Wild Birds Unlimited go

(01:09:42):
to WBU dot com forward slash Houston, WBU dot Com
forward slash Houston and you can find the Wallbird stores.

Speaker 6 (01:09:51):
That are near you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
Simple as that. All right, let's head out to Magnolia
and talk to Tim. Hey, Tim, Welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
Thanks Skip.

Speaker 24 (01:10:03):
I've got a I just sent emailed you some pictures
of a hedge. We've had this house for about twenty
years and that hedge was about fifteen feet tall when
we got it, probably ten foot wide. And it's always
been green and never a problem, just grows on its
own and looks good.

Speaker 10 (01:10:25):
And then about the last five.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Weeks I've noticed the leaves just are.

Speaker 24 (01:10:30):
Turning brown and more leaves brown, and more leaves brown,
and there's still green leaves, you know it patches, but
it's more now, more brown leaves and it is green.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Okay, I'm trying to get your pictures open here, Tim,
hang on just a second. I'm sorry it's taking me
just a minute. Okay, I see what's going on. Yeah, boy,
that something's wrong in the root. And I can't tell
you what is wrong in the roots, but something is wrong.
It could be root damage. In the picture, I see

(01:11:08):
no sign of anything being done around it, so it's
probably not root damage. Let me keep looking at at
the photos that you've got here. Why that It could
be a canker on a stem too, That would be preventing.
There's a flow of water nutrients from the ground to
the top, you know that, and if anything blocks that flow,

(01:11:30):
damage to the roots, cankers in the stem, any kind
of physical injury or whatever it'll cause that. I don't
see signs that anything was sprayed on it, and so
I don't believe that's it. So I would follow those
stems that have lots of leaves that are all turning brown.
I'd follow them back and look for sunken spots in
the stem and prune them down below that and try

(01:11:51):
to get some fresh new growth out of it. It's
also the possibility that you had a root rot come
in there. Are several root rots that can affect the plants,
and in that case, in that setting, in situation, there's
probably not a good solution. There are drenches of fungicides
that can help prevent root rot, but in a situation

(01:12:12):
like you've got with the plant that far gone, I
don't think you're gonna save it, So I would say
prune it and just kind of keep an eye on
it is probably the best you're going to do. This
is one of those cases where there's not a good
magic bullet.

Speaker 24 (01:12:25):
Okay, all right, thanks Jip, I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
Now, Yes, sir, Now if you see that all of
this is coming out of one spot in the ground,
then I would go ahead and dig that plant up
and look at the roots and look for white cottony
covering around the roots, or look for a lott of
decay and rot. So it's like the roots are in
worse shape than the top is. That's a sign of

(01:12:49):
a root rot, and if it's going to progress, then
a drench of fungicide may be in order to shut
that progression down.

Speaker 25 (01:12:56):
Okay, okay, all right, because thanks for the ah, all right,
thanks go ahead, thank it has what you bet?

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
All right, Thank you, Jim appreciate that. Hey, I got
to run, folks. I'll be right back, all right, man,
A little bit of Meghan trainer this morning. Hey, we're
gonna go out to San Leon and talk to Ted. Ted,
welcome to the garden line.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:13:24):
Uh. I did not put the wheat the uh imperial.
I'll just put the imperial out, just.

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
The straight uh.

Speaker 8 (01:13:34):
Not the weed feed and uh, because I couldn't find
the only one I could find had actrozine. And but anyways,
so now I got post emergent weeds.

Speaker 18 (01:13:45):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:13:46):
And I noticed that morning on the weed weed beat
her ultra uh that said do not use it during
the transition from dormant Uh. On the Saint Augustine are
we are we.

Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
Spring green up time?

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
We're kind of in it right now, and it's not
the best I mean, it's not going to wipe your
lawn out, but it's not the best time to do it.
This is one I've been talking about killing these weeds
for over a month now because coming out next year,
coming out of winter, catch them really early before before
they really begin to grow and bloom and set seed,

(01:14:24):
and your grass is also asleep at that time. And
that's that's better. I say, it's asleep. It's you know,
because of the temperatures, is not growing, and so you know,
can you use them now?

Speaker 8 (01:14:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:14:37):
Is it a good idea? Probably not? Probably not. Once
it greens up a little bit, you can use them.
But by then, all these cool season weeds they'll be
dying anyway, and the seeds are going to have already formed.
No one wants to hear hand pulling it. But I've
got a few weeds spots.

Speaker 8 (01:14:54):
I've got something that doesn't seem to want to die off.
And I think you and I discussed at once it
might be some sort of ass sir, and it's they're
all slender. It's evil.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
Well, send me a cloak. Pull one up, Yeah, pull
one up, Set it on a on a white sheet
of paper, take a good picture and email it to
me and I'll take a look at it and we'll
find a specific answer for that specific weed.

Speaker 8 (01:15:19):
Okay, Yeah, that's evil and it's spreading. Okay, thank you,
I'll do that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Okay, Well, let me let me see it so we
can shut it down at the best time with the
right product. Appreciate you, call ted, Thanks a lot for that.
You know our it rains, it gets dry here and
our soils are clay and they shrink and they swell.
That's just what happens. They move. I mean it breaks
water lines downtown, it shoves sidewalks up in the air.
I mean it's bad, and it hurts foundations and fixed

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you've got to crack in the brick, you got to
crack in the sheet rock. Those are all signs something
is moving and you need to have him come look

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As you get to you're right there at Plants for
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exit Luetta, cross over it and it's right there on
the right hand side, Plants for all seasons. It's one
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quality plants that want to grow here. These folks have

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That is so important to get. That is very important
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got there that are just one of our favorite things
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I don't drop one of them. They they know how
to put the right kind of plants and the right
kind of products in your hands. Plants for All Seasons
dot com that's the website. Go check them out. Someone
asked me the other day, what is this sweet green
stuff you guys talk about? And is it really true

(01:18:44):
that it smells good. And yes, it smells good. I
don't know many fertilizers that smell good. You know, some
of them smell more in others someone smell less. Sweet
green is just sweet. It's made out of molasses. And
imagine this. You put some molasses in your car, open
up the containers. Not that i'd recommend that, drive around,
and all of a sudden, in the car you just
have this nice, sweet, pleasant smell. That's Sweet Green. Now

(01:19:05):
it's eleven percent nitrogen, higher nitrogen than almost any product
you're gonna find that's in an organic form. Uh, And
it dissolves into the soil. All that carbon you know,
sugars are basically carbon chains. All that carbon goes into
the soil. The microbes just get like rocket fuel for them.
They take off, they do their work, and it works.
You're gonna find plant products from nitrofoss like sweet Green.

(01:19:29):
You're gonna find them and brought them up at plants
and things. You're gonna find them at Lake Hardware include
and Lake Hardborre and Angleton and Stanton shopping Center which
is down in Alvin on North Taylor. Not hard to
find nit frost products around the Greater Houston area. You
ought to give that sweet green to try. I've I've
just got me a bag recently, and I'm about to

(01:19:51):
put it out on a spot in my yard. Once
I get that that, I've got a lot of bunch
of extra grass left in one area that haven't mowed
down yet. I want to get that top growth kind
out of the way, so when I'm put it down,
it moves on down to the soil of faster and easier.
But anyway it works. Let's go out to Port Arthur
now and we're going to talk to Alan. Let's see here.
Get off morning, Alan. I'm doing good. How can we

(01:20:15):
help well?

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
My high biscus.

Speaker 26 (01:20:18):
I've never really had good luck with them, so I
decide about four more this year.

Speaker 10 (01:20:23):
Three of them are great, okay, one of them all
over the buds.

Speaker 26 (01:20:26):
One of them has this it's like black just covered
if I okay, and almost I'm colored black when I
smear that. Some black bras to do it like ads.

Speaker 4 (01:20:43):
Okay. So a biscus is can be attacked by things
like mealy bugs, by scale there, meadie bugs, scale, aphid's wifies,
all those kinds of insects secrete a sugary water out
the back end of the insect and it gets on plants,
and then city mold grows on the plant. So when
I see city mold, I start looking around for the

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insect that is the originator of the problem. And you're
going to find one of those on there. You might
want to try putting a product that is systemic to
move up in the plant, and that way anything that's
sucking juices from that plant will be affected by that product.
So no matter which of those I just mentioned, no

(01:21:26):
matter which of those it is, that systemic coming up
in the plant will control them. And I would get
that done soon because it takes a while to move
up in the plant and begin to shut the insect down.
And that that's good. It's not a spray you put
on the plant so a ladybug can crawl across the
leaf and it won't affect the ladybug. You put it

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on the soil and it goes up the roots. And
the ingredient is a medocloakrid. And I know that's a
lot of word, but it's I am id o. If
you just write down I do in mid dough. That's
no other ingredient begins with a midough. So just look
for a meadow, you know, go to your Ace hardware stores,

(01:22:10):
go to you know, places like that are going to
carry products with a metaclop them out there in Port Arthur.

Speaker 5 (01:22:17):
Okay, all right, all right, thank.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
You sir, appreciate, appreciate your call. Good luck getting that
under control. When I think of a wide variety of
quality soils for all the whole Houston area, I think
of airloom soils, heirloom soils. They're out there in Porter
that's where they deliver from, or that's where you can
go get it by bulk if you want to go
that route. But they're in garden centers and feed stores

(01:22:43):
and Ace hardware store. They're in a lot of different
places around town. And they have veggie mixes, they have
leaf male composts, they have products for roast soils, they
have things for plants, they have everything. Heirloomssoils dot Com.
Go to Airloomsoils dot com, hairlandsols dot Com. Look at
all the lists that they have, find out how to

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get it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
And do it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
It is spring. Do you know I have some more
soil bed next? In fact, I actually I am going
to pick up some of that kind of soil. I've
got a bed that is needing to be revamped. I
there's no plants in it, pulled everything out of it,
revamping it, getting it built up so it drains well,
getting that organic matter, getting quality product like that airline
product in there. Plant my plants in it, and then

(01:23:28):
step back, and everybody thinks I got a green tongue.
I don't. I just know my plants wanted. We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Richter's.

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
Just watch him as all.

Speaker 4 (01:24:13):
Right, folks, time for another hour a garden line. Appreciate
you tuning in and listening today. By the way, tell
your family and friends about guarden Line. We have folks
that listen, not just in the scenario, but if you
got family listens to other parts of the country, they're
welcome to too. It's just you know, if they're in
Minnesota and I say time to plant citrus, well you

(01:24:35):
might not won't do that, but at least we have
some fun here, right. If you want to give me
a call seven one three two one two k t
r H. Seven one three two one two k t
r H. That's the number. Give us call, we'll talk
about the things that are most of interest to you.
It is the big middle of spring, and this is
the time when your garden is uh, let's say, when

(01:24:58):
you're when you make or break the garden that you're
going to have. What I mean by that is the
things you do to prepare the soil, the things that
you do when you choose plants, the things that you
do when you care for your plants early on are
all very very important. You know, you put a brand
new plant in the ground and it's got a confined
root system, So how are you going to water it

(01:25:19):
properly so those roots get water? I don't care if
the soil around it's wet. What about that cilind do
or roots that went in the ground. Are you going
to overwater it and drowned it and roots can't get
oxygen and roots start to die or root rots start
to come in. Those are all the early care things,
and this is an important time because as you get
a plant planted and get a quick good root system developed,

(01:25:41):
it's going to withstand the summer better than a plant
that isn't prepared like that. And those are just some tips,
some ideas to keep in mind. But it is an
important time of the year. It's the time of the
year when again I'll say make or break in terms
of getting the stage set for success. That's what we
want to do. One of the first steps. And in

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addition to the you know I always talk about brown
stuff before green stuff, Well that's true. You do want
to take care of the soil. Is to get plants
that want to be here. And if you go down
to Enchanted Forest, which is down in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
they have one of the best selections I've seen anywhere
plants that want to be here. The folks that Enchanted

(01:26:25):
Forest know what grows here and that they sell what
grows here. They have experts, they have advice, they know
how to direct you in the right way. Like right now,
they are loaded up on quality vegetables and herbs and flowers.
Do you need flowers for shade or sun? They got both,
of course, and they just always make sure and have

(01:26:47):
the kind of plants that are going to have success.
So in fact, the later today, well I actually started
at ten am, ten am, right when on my show's over,
they're going to have a program with one of the
fort Bend County Master Gardeners on Texas Superstars Texas Superstars
or plants that were selected and tested across Texas by

(01:27:10):
the Texas A and M University Extension Service and Research too,
by the way, and selected as Texas Superstars, meaning we've
tried these in Dallas and San Antonio and Houston and
all over the place. They do well here and so
we're giving them that designation. When you see a superstar,
you know it's going to go grow here. And do
they have Superstars in Chenn and Forest, Yes, they do,

(01:27:31):
Absolutely they do. And you can go down today and
enjoy a talk on that when you get out there
and do your shopping. So all the you downs out there,
you really just swing by there. It is a great
place to find all kinds of plants and all kinds
of advice and even cool things like bling for the garden,
you know, the stuff you put out in the garden,
like a little ceramic mushroom, all that kind of thing.

(01:27:53):
Of course, they got a ton of that ton of
that there. I love going in to intend forests because
good quality service, friendly people and everything you're gonna need
if you if you want to plant anything from citrus
to groundcovers, to vegetables, herbs, you name it. They're gonna
have the best. They're one of the best that you

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need that's gonna work here. Where are they located. They're
on FM twenty seven fifty nine. If you're heading from
Richmond to Sugarland, it's off to the right FM twenty
seven fifty nine. Enchanted for us. Now that the website
is enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com, let's run out

(01:28:35):
to Port Arthur and we're going to talk to Alan. Hello, Alan,
Welcome to guarden Line. But I just started to talk
to you, Alan.

Speaker 11 (01:28:43):
Yes you did about okay.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
Yeah, but I meant to ask about my lemon tree
I decided to buy this year. It was full of leaves,
full of blooms.

Speaker 26 (01:28:50):
Now something eating the lease is knocking on my blooms
off and I do see a lot of spider web.
Sound curious that the same product for the well it
will it work?

Speaker 5 (01:29:02):
Not high mode?

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
Or you don't need this button a medico But no,
don't do that on your lemon. You don't need that.
So I need to see a sample or a picture
rather of it. But if you will, if you will
take a close look. When you say eating off check
it is it truly something chomping away the leaves or

(01:29:24):
the leaves kind of curling up and shriveling and losing
their color and stuff. There are different insects, Okay, Well,
I wouldn't worry a lot about things eating if you
can't see them. There are. There's actually some beautiful swallowtail
butterflies that feed on centrus leaves. The larva do, so
it could be that, but probably not at this stage anyway,

(01:29:47):
I would I would just make sure and give them, yeah,
just give them good care for right now. The aborting
fruit is not unusual for a young tree to do
that quite a bit, and it's really too young to
be bearing a lot of fruit anyway, So at this
stage I wouldn't worry about it. If that tree gets
older and settles in, you're not going to have that
much of a problem with it. But anyway, that's what
i'd recommend. If you don't send me a picture, I'll

(01:30:10):
take a look at If you see anything or close
up of the leaves that really where I can kind
of really distinguish what's going on, I'll be happy to
take a look at it. But my gut feeling on
this one is you probably don't need to worry about
it other than the citrus leaf minor. I'll be able
to see that if I see a picture of it,
and if I see that, I can apply with what
you need to do.

Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
Can you educate me a word to send that picture.

Speaker 4 (01:30:34):
Yeah, I'm going to put you on hold and my producer,
Jonathan is going to pick up the call and he'll
give you an email. Thank you a lot. I appreciate
that very much. Barricade by Nitrefoss is the pre emergent
you hear me talk about here on guarden Line. What
did pre emergence do well? Number one? Go to my
Facebook page, a garden Line Facebook page or garden Line

(01:30:56):
with skip Instagram page. I just did a video on
at everstream pre emergence and post emergence. Basically, you put
on barricade, you water it in with a half inch
of water. It goes into the soil. The weeds can't sprout,
they can't get established. That's how it works. You're gonna
find barricade at the Pasadena Fishers Hardware on Sophomore. You're
gonna find it at Fishers and Laporte on Broadway and

(01:31:16):
Fishers in mont Bellevue on FM thirty one eighty. Many
places carry nitroposs products like barricade. Don't delay. If you're
gonna do it, now is the time to get it done.
Take a break. I'll be right back any journey to write.
Don't stop believing for gardening. You don't have a brown thumb.

(01:31:42):
There's no such thing. You may have killed ever plant
you ever planted in your life. Don't stop believing you
can do this. That's why we're here on guard Line
to hope you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape
and success and fun of all things fun in the process.
That's what we want to do. Gardening should be fun. Hey.
The folks at Nature's Way Resources know how to create

(01:32:06):
the perfect foundation for plants. That's what Nature's Way means.
It's the Nature's way of building soil and of setting
the key the foundation to success. Now you can go there.
You can get all the different products they have, from
leaf mo compost to rose soil, both of which, by
the way, we're born. There at Nature's Way, that's where
they began. You can get a wide variety of products

(01:32:26):
that they have and they will set you up for success.
A good time to go visit them. By the way,
March twenty second, Saturday, March twenty second, from eight am
to two pm, they're going to have their spring Fling,
and the spring Fling is going to have not of course,
the plant sales are there. It didn't cost anything to
get in either. By the way, there'll be talks, several
talks on plant related things. They'll have vendors and food

(01:32:47):
and drink. It's just a good time. And by the way,
while i'm Nature's Way is Nature's Way resourceer dot com
is a website. They're on Sherbrooks Circle up towards Conrod, Texas,
off forty five. But while I'm talking about that, they
have extended spring hours and that is Monday through Saturday
eight to five, and the closed on Sunday Monday through
Saturday eight to five. So you got a wide time

(01:33:09):
there where you can get by there and get the
foundation that you need so important brown stuff before green stuff,
and Nature's Way knows how to help you do that.
Let's set out to Spring, Texas. Now we're going to
talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:33:24):
Oh good morning, how are you.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
I'm well? Thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:33:30):
Good good good good.

Speaker 9 (01:33:31):
I have a quick two questions. One is I have
wild strawberry in my backyard and I have a little fountain.
And it was on a little fountain for two years
and I thought, oh, well, that's not a big deal.
I let it grow because it was pretty. Now it
is taking over the backyard. I have done everything I've done.
Whed and feed was the first, and it seemed to
like it. It is healthier than my grass is and

(01:33:52):
it's taken over a twenty by square foot area and
I okay, other than literally just try to cut it out,
do you have any ideas?

Speaker 4 (01:34:03):
Yeah, that is a weed that we do have a
lot around here, but it's not one that you commonly
see on a lot of labels for herbicides. You can
use a product that there's a product called Celsius that
I like to recommend when the weather warms up, and

(01:34:23):
I'd suggest you hold on a little bit and as
we get past this transition of green things greening up,
maybe let's say definitely late April for sure, go ahead
and try the Celsius on that. I have not tried
Celsius on wild strawberry, but it works on a lot
of warm seasoned broad leaf weeds. It's pretty effective on that.

(01:34:46):
Products that contain what it is often called trimec which
means three different ingredients will usually work. But I would
use it as a spray as opposed to a granular
for that wild strawberry, and you can do that. It's
just those products used at a time when our grass
is trying to just take off and wake up and

(01:35:07):
take off. It's a difficult time for them, so you're
kind of caught. If you treated it a little earlier,
I would say use a trimactype product or just wait
and probably use a celsius as things warm up just
a little bit more and we get grass kind of
on its feet and running rather than being in the
transition period.

Speaker 9 (01:35:27):
Okay, great, my other question already. I have a lime
tree that's about five years old.

Speaker 4 (01:35:35):
I've done everything.

Speaker 9 (01:35:36):
That's on your website to do. It has a mildew.
I mean, it's getting great limes, but it has a mildew.
It had the white flies and I sprayed for it
and they're all gone, but the mildew, while it seems
to be dead, I don't even know however else to
say that, but it's still on the leaves. To the
point that it bothers me because I'm so allergic to it.

(01:35:59):
Any idea of how to get the residue off the leaves.

Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
Is this black stuff you're talking about? Yeah, yes, okay,
all right, So that's just city mold growing on sugary water.
And you can take a stream of you can spray
it with a little bit of a soapy solution. Don't
do it during the hot blazing midday shining down sun,

(01:36:25):
but I got out there in the morning. Spray it
with soapy material, a very light, low dose, like an
insects sidle soap or something. Wait just a little bit,
and then blast it off with a sprayer on the
end of your hose. Basically, you're trying to get kind
of a dried, sticky, sugary substance off the leaves. And
that's what the mold is growing on. The mold itself

(01:36:48):
is not a disease of the plant. It's just growing
on that sugary stuff that the insects produced. Okay, it
sounds great, Thank you so much. Yes, just be careful
not to overdo the soapy water, don't make it too strong,
don't leave it on too long. You just need it.
Just needs a minute to kind of soak some of
that sticky sugar loose then and you ought to be

(01:37:10):
able to blast it off pretty good. Give it a
shot and see if that works for you. Thanks a lot,
I appreciate your call. Pat, you bet you take care. Hey,
have you been to Growers Outlet and Willis? This is
the place I began talking about not too long ago.
I've been very, very impressed with it. Growers Outlet is
easy to get to. It's on Highway seventy five, just

(01:37:32):
south of Wells, just a few minutes away from Interstate
forty five. So all of you up in that region,
you know, from like Conroe, all the way across to Willis,
up to New Waverley down to Conro in the woodlands.
This is a garden center you need to go see.
They carry fertilizers like from Microlife from Medina. They carry
fertilizers from nitrofoss as well, and they have a good selection.

(01:37:54):
Their plant selection is outstanding. When you go to Growers Outlet,
what you're going to find is pretty much any kinds
of plants you're looking for. You know, they're always getting
shipments and new things. They just got some turf in
the other day out there, they've got gorgeous hanging baskets,
some beautiful petunia hanging baskets, some calibracoa, just lots of
different things. Milkweed, they have some milk weed that they've

(01:38:16):
gotten in. And when it comes to trees and shrubs
and succulents, you name it, they've got it. And they
really have some gorgeous baskets. You need to go check
them out. And as the weather warms up, they're going
to be getting more and more of things like these
beautiful giant macho ferns and other things in that. You
need to see. Growers Outlet in Willis that is on
Highway seventy five, just south the wellis easy to get to.

(01:38:40):
And by the way, if you go to the website
Growers Outlet in Willis dot com, they post not only
what's available, but also the pricing on it. Most nurseries
don't do that, but you can go, like right now,
you can go to Growers Outland Willis dot com look
at different kinds of products and they'll tell you what
they have. You know, here's the vegetables we have, here's

(01:39:00):
the price on them, and things. They update the vegetables.
I know every Wednesday, I believe is when they do that.
Let's het out now to spring and talk to Trey. Hey, Trey,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 27 (01:39:12):
Thanks you, good morning. Just planted a gardenia on my patio,
trying to get some morning sun and evening sun as
well because my house faces south. I'm noticing the soil
is not as acidic as i'd like. So how do
I apply the soil acid of fire?

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
It's a container, yeah, oh, in a container? Yeah, So
I would use acid loving plant food first of all,
and whenever you fertilize your stuff that's for blueberries and
commas and azalias and acid loving plants, that would be
one thing. There are some things that will acidify this
soil and a container. You need to be real careful

(01:39:55):
because you can kind of overdo stuff. You got this
confined root system and you I want to be a
little bit careful with that. But I think I would
use the acid loving fertilizers and then I would get
a product. Are you seeing yellowing on you on your
guardina on one leaf?

Speaker 10 (01:40:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:40:13):
I have a starting to turn yellow towards the very
perimeter of the plant.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
Okay, Well, iron colorosis shows up on the newest growth.
The older growth may look okay, but the new growth
looks yellow. If it's vice versa, that's not iron chlorosis.
If the new growth is green, you don't need to
add iron. But if it does turn yellow, then get
you an iron keylate, a keylated form of iron, and

(01:40:39):
that's easy to find in garden centers, the hardware stores
other places. Just say I need a keylated form of iron,
and that you put it on the soil and follow
the label and the plant is able to take it
up and the soil doesn't tie it up so much.

Speaker 27 (01:40:56):
All right, Okay, we'll do thank you, all.

Speaker 4 (01:41:01):
Right, thanks, good luck with that. Appreciate I love Guardina's.
That's an awesome plant. I love the smell. The fragrance
is just unbelievable. If you're planning plants. One thing that
I talk about all the time here on Guardline is
medina has to grow six twelve six plant food, has
to grow six twelve six plant food. It's got a
lot of phosphorus in it. When you're planning a plant,

(01:41:24):
get your watering can mix up. The medina has to
grow six twelve six, drench the root system when you
plant it, drench it. You want phosphorus down there. It's
important for root development. Go ahead and do that a
week later, do it again, a week after that, do
it again. And what you're going to do is you're
going to give that plant the fastest boost, good strong

(01:41:45):
root development headstart that you can give it. And that
is important to do that. Like other Medina products, and
there are a million I'm out there, Medina has to
grow six twelve six. Plant food is available in a
lot of different places. It's not difficult at all defined
and it works. And so just that, remember three times,
about a week apart. It could be a week, could

(01:42:05):
be two weeks, but I usually did about a week
to ten days apart three times. When you plan. Anything
could be a rose bush, could be a tomato plant,
doesn't matter. Medina hash to grows six twelve six. We're
going to go now to the woodlands and talk to Bill. Hey, Bill,
welcome to gardenline.

Speaker 1 (01:42:25):
I don't think I'm Bill going to have Bill Montgomery.

Speaker 4 (01:42:30):
Jason and Montgomery. All right, we'll talk to Jason and Montgomery.
How can we help Jason warning, I've got about find.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
Acres of yard grass that won't grow I have sod
at Saint Augustine multiple times it dies off. So I'm
going a new approach this year. And I've spread probably
one hundred and fifty pounds of common bermuda from Hancock
Seed yesterday. And I got told by Hancock Seed for
fertilization to make sure to do a slow release seed

(01:43:03):
safe fertilizer. What would you.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Recommend a slow relief seed safe. Well, Number one, you
can you can put some fertilizer in the ground before.
That's fine, But when a seed sprouts, it's not fertilizer
that it's needing. It's using stored energy and it gets
it down in the ground, it gets growing. Once the
seed has been up for a couple of weeks, maybe roughly,

(01:43:26):
you could do a light dose a fertilizer at that
time and water it in and then you can do
a little bit later. Again that you're not going to
hurt it by putting a light dose of fertilizer out
there on it, but just just let that seed get
established first and then and then add your fertilizer.

Speaker 1 (01:43:45):
Okay, to hold off for a couple of weeks and
that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:48):
That's assuming that I was going to say that's assuming
that you don't do the pre plant. There's nothing wrong
with putting some fertilizer in the ground before you plant,
especially if a soil test is indicated certain nutrients are needed.
But in general you could do that, or just once
you plant the seed, let them, let them, you know,
get their feet un drum and get growing good before

(01:44:11):
you start to fertilize. I don't mean two weeks after
putting seed out. I mean two weeks after the seedlings
are up and growing.

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
Okay, yep, so I erated in and put seed down yesterday.
And then which fertilizer would you use when the time
is right. I've been using nitrofaults.

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
I would use something. Yeah, you could use the orange,
the orange and red bag. Okay, I got to go
to a break right quick here, but the orange and
red Imperial is the one I would use for that.
Thanks a lot. I appreciate your call, sir. We'll be
right back, Debbian Northwest Houston. You'll be first up, alrighty everywhere?

(01:44:48):
All right, Yeah, we're good. We're good on guardline. Thanks
for listening, and those of you here are calling, thanks
for calling. So it's good to visit with people to know, uh,
you know the questions you have and the ways that
we can help. Gardening isn't rocket science. You do not
have a brown thumb. Repeat after me say, I do
not have a brown thumb. I have an uninformed thumb.

(01:45:10):
And we're getting that thumb informed this morning, and amazingly enough,
just like anything. You know, if you were gonna raise
a rabbit, Okay, if you're going to raise a rabbit,
how do you have success with that? Well? What does
a rabbit need? You know, they need to have water,
they need have a quality food, They need to be
in a place out of the blazing hot sun, right
a little shade over them. You see what I'm saying

(01:45:31):
that when you understand what an organism, including a plant, needs,
you can provide that so they can have success. That's
why they're penguins in the Houston Zoo because they know
what a penguin needs and they give a penguin that.
When you're growing plants, you give a plant what it wants,
and your everybody thinks you have a green thumb, but
all you're doing is you're giving plants what they want.

(01:45:53):
And that's what we try to help you do around here.
Let's head straight out to Jersey Village and we're going
to talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie, welcome to garden.

Speaker 28 (01:46:01):
Thank you, good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:46:02):
I have a question.

Speaker 4 (01:46:04):
Good morning.

Speaker 17 (01:46:04):
I have.

Speaker 28 (01:46:06):
Dollar weed, have a fairly large lawn dollar weed, and
it's small duberr resign or strawberry sign throughout ther I
was wondering what product I could use.

Speaker 11 (01:46:16):
Get rid of it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:20):
Uh, strawberry mining and dollar weed. Both of those are
controlled by broad leaf post emergent weed killers, and they're
a bunch of them. B Night has THEIRS, Fertilum has THEIRS,
Monterey has THEIRS. I mean, high Yield has there it.
You know, the brands are out there, but it's a
broad leaf post emergent. Now, when we use those during

(01:46:41):
the transition period, it's a little harder on plants, and
we would rather not use most of that kind of thing.
So I think at this point that maybe put a
note on your calendar next year a little bit earlier,
go ahead and apply that those products, or wait past
the transition. Let's get into oh, I don't know, let's
say the end of April something like that, and then

(01:47:02):
go ahead and apply a quality product. If it's warmed
up a lot you may shift over to something called celsius,
but otherwise something that is just basically sold as a
broad leaf we'd killer. Some of them are called trimax,
some of them are called other things. But the bottom
line is just mix it in water, apply it sprayed

(01:47:23):
onto the weeds, and just enough to wet the weeds.
Don't drench them, just just wet the leaves.

Speaker 28 (01:47:30):
Okay, So next year, maybe I'm going to give January
or February. Start this after after.

Speaker 4 (01:47:36):
Well probably no, more like yeah, more like mid February,
something like that. Mid to late February, be okay. That's
fine with where you live. Mid to late February, even
late February be okay. The other thing to remember is
you want to purchase a surf factant. Sometimes they're called
spreader stickers, but surffactant, and put it in the mix

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because that dollar is a really shiny leaf. Weed and
spray drops just roll right off right.

Speaker 28 (01:48:05):
Okay, great, okay, thank you so much, and good luck
for your program because it's fabulous.

Speaker 4 (01:48:10):
Thank you all right, boybye, well, thanks thanks for the
kind words. You take care. Yes, alrighty, there you go
up in Tomball, west of town. There is a feed
store called D and D Feed. Do you hear me
talk about them all the time? D and Feed has
been around a good while now. I think nineteen eighty
nine is when they first opened up. They expanded recently.

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It's just a great store. You walk in there and
you're gonna find a lot of products. Every time I
walk in, I walk all through the products and look
at what they have, and inevitably each time I go, oh,
I didn't know they had that here. That's hard to find.
I'm surprised they haven't. The D and D does. They've
got the brands a fertilizer that you're looking for, like nitrofoss,

(01:48:53):
like Microlife, like Nilsen turf store. They got products from Medina.
They have the Nilson plant food jar, you know, the
containers of the fertilizers, the specialty fertilizers. They have bags
of product from Heirloom Soil. You see what I'm saying.
There's a lot. And we were just talking about Broadly
we Control. They got Probbly ten options for Broadly we Control.

Speaker 1 (01:49:14):
In there.

Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
They had quality dog foods, high end lines, stuff like Origin, Diamond,
Victor Starpro. They carry those kinds of things. And when
you hit mosquito season. The dunks that we talk about
putting out, they're going to have those. If you got
pests and rodents, you needed control around the property, They've
got products for that. It's on twenty nine to twenty
three miles west of two forty nine, So you're in

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the middle of Tumbo, you're on two forty nine, or
you're at two forty nine. You just head out twenty
nine twenty to the west for three miles or on
the left hand side, and the Dover family will get
you when you go in the door there. They and
their their folks that work there are friendly and helpful
and knowledgeable, and that's really important. I was like going

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out to D and DP. We were discussing different kinds
of plant food products, and I'm saying D and D
carried some of the jars and things. What I'm talking
about is Nelson plant Food sells well. They have the
turf Star line, which it basically bags a sort of
lawn fertilizer, many different kinds, all of them work, they're
all unique in their own way. But they have the

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nutra Star line too. A nutri Star is a line
of fertilizers for specific kinds of plants. There's a nutra
Star for vegetable gardens. It's got five different sources of nitrogen,
so you get some fast release, you get some medium release,
you get some late release, and it just kind of
gradually feeds your vegetable garden and it works well. It
comes in litw clear plastic jars of the screw top lid.

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They are placed it on town by the way where
you can refill the jars. You just take your old
plastic jar in and for a much more economical price,
you just refill the jar and you don't put plastic
out in the environment. Vegetable garden is a good one.
Another example, and there are a bunch of these, and
I have time talking about all of them, but like
the zella and acid loving plants, that would be another

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good example. You know. I was just talking a little
bit ago about someone that was wanting to acidify maybe
had a little bit of iron chlorosis coming on the plant,
and we were saying, use an acid loving plant. Nutri
Star for acid or for azalea, really and all acid
loving plants is a good one. It gets that pH
right so they don't get so chlorotic. So what do

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you use it on well. Blueberries, camellias, azaleas, guardenas, holly's, hydrangeas.
Those are all examples. Do you have a dogwood that
would be good? Magnolia's do well. Even colladiums do well
with that particular product. Again four in this case, different
acidifying sources and a slow released nitrogen. So for two

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or three months, that thing's going to be feeding. It's
got a lot of cottonseed meal. Its got iron sources
in it to supply those micronutrients that you need from
Nelson that's nutristar azalia and acid loving plants. It's a
good product, good product, quality product. You should have it
on the shelf, you know. And if you go in
my garage, I've got a lot of different kinds of

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things that are there on the shelf waiting to go
when I need them. You know, what do you what
do you need for this plant for this situation? Grab
it off the shelf. Have you a supply ready to go?
At least that makes sense to me. I don't know
about that. If you want to give us a call
seven one three two one two ktr H seven one
three two one two k t R h indoors I

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was taking care of some indoor plants. I've got some
various kinds of of uh, well, we have pathos, but
then we have some of the other offshoots kinds of things.
They look sort of like pathos. I got the same
shape of leaves and bining. I have a number of those,
and I was untangling some of the branches on. I'm saying,
you know, I need to RePOP this thing. I need

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to get it. I need to get it in a
new container and pot it up. And what I want
to use when I do that is jungle land water
saving soil. That's her nitrofoss jungle land water saving. This
is the indoor one. They have an outdoor one called
flour and vegetable. This is the indoor one. Jungle land
water saving potting soil. Here's why I forget to water sometimes.

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And with jungle land water saving, you got the crystals
in it that hold extra water and it makes it
a little bit more forgiving. So if I forget an
extra day or two, the plant's going to be okay
there because it's got that source of water that it
can use, and the mix makes it more forgiving. I'll
say jungle land products like nitrofoss products are widely available

(01:53:34):
in a lot of places. You know, places like Plants
for all seasons, Ace Hardware City and Memorial Drive would
just be examples of those kinds of places where you're
going to find jungle Land types of products, bunch of
all seasons and Luetta and I know carries a lot
of nitrofoss types of products. Well, let's see here we're
hitting up against another break boy, this this hour speeding

(01:53:55):
up on me. I'll be right back with your call.
Seven one three two one two ktr H. All right,
we're back. Welcome to Guardline folks. By the way, the
Houston livestocks are still going. We got one more horticulture
contest today. I'll be out there for it the third.

(01:54:15):
Not today, I'm sorry, tomorrow. Excuse me for all of
you that are entering the contest. Don't panic, it's tomorrow.
It's tomorrow. I'll be out there for that. We're doing
the Dining Duets. That is a contest where youth come
out and they get a whole bag of flowers and
things and they can create a beautiful design on the spot.

(01:54:36):
Right they extend in the concourse there of the center
and watch them actually build it. You know, they'll say, well,
this is going to be for such and such situation,
and so they can reach in there and grab what
they want to use and design it however they want.
And when you've got a whole bunch of kids, and
I mean dozens of them that are doing that, it
is really cool to watch. It's kind of fun. So

(01:54:56):
if you get a chance tomorrow, uh, the Houston Livestock
Show on Rodeo just second floor up there, kind of
in the middle of the second floor concourse, so Reliant Center.

Speaker 8 (01:55:09):
Is that what you call it.

Speaker 4 (01:55:10):
Yeah, anyway, we'll be out there and we'll be doing
the contest there. I hope you can come out if
you want to get a chance just to see it.
It's kind of cool watching and these kids are amazing.
Trust me, if I did it, I would not win.
I promise you I would not win. Let's see, We're
going to head out now to bel Air and talk
to Catherine. Hey, Catherine, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:55:32):
Hi Ski, how are you? Thanks for taking my call?

Speaker 5 (01:55:36):
Yes, ma'am, so I kind of have a follow up
question to.

Speaker 6 (01:55:40):
Your last caller. I also have a lot of dollar weeds,
clover wild strawberry vines in my San Augustine lawns and
in my jasmine borders, and I'm going to use my
broadly post emergent or beside. But is this going to
also kill the San Augustine grass? And if I get
it on my ace and jasmine, is it going to

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kill that?

Speaker 4 (01:56:04):
Well, it won't do the Asian jasmine any good. That's
a broad leaf plant. So I would try to avoid
getting it on the Asian jasmine Saint Augustine in the transition.
Some of those products, there are many different ingredients that
they mix up. Some products have two or three or
four different ingredients in them, and so you know, it's
hard to speak for all of them. But in general,

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when the grass is waking up and getting going, we
like to kind of hold off on most of that
stuff at that time. If you're doing spot treatments, it's
not as bad of a deal. You know, you got
a weed here, weed there, a little patch of three
foot wide patch of weeds there, go ahead and do
that and get that taken care of. But otherwise you
can also wait and do it a little bit later.
It's just as we go further in once we get

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past about sometime in April it starts to warm up
enough to where Yeah, now we're a little worried about
it being too warm when the days are up in
the nineties. Some of those products can be a little
damaging to the grass. So we got a little balancing
act there.

Speaker 6 (01:57:00):
Okay, okay, that makes sense. And now we did all
of the pre emergent herb beside, like we followed the
schedule that we we seem to have this problem every year.
Should we be doing the pre emergent more often? Should
we like do it more than it does on the schedule.
Is there's some way to prevent this from happening.

Speaker 4 (01:57:21):
Yeah, So the weeds you see, now, if they came
from seed, you would have been doing the pre emergent
in October last October. But there are weeds that are perennials,
so like a dollar weed and Virginia button weed, and
those are not going to be stopped by the pre
emergent because they come the same weed plant is living

(01:57:44):
through the winter and next season and the next season
so on. So those you have to do a post
emergent on to control them.

Speaker 6 (01:57:52):
Okay, okay, if you if.

Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
You want to, Yeah, dollar dollar weed is would just
get a post emergent. Make sure you get a surfactant
that's added to the mix to help it stick to
the slippery leaves of something like dollar weed.

Speaker 29 (01:58:11):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:58:11):
And for the surfact and the product, can you use
dish soap or you have to buy I need to
go to the garden store and buy something.

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
Well, people in home gardens will do that as a
home a homemade surfactant, but it is not the way
you want to go on a spray. Okay, get a
quality product that's not going to get all SuDS up
on you and stuff, and that's made for that. Uh.
There's a lot of kinds of soap. They're all different
links of fatty acid chains and they all behave a

(01:58:41):
little differently. Some of them kill plants when you spray
them on them, others don't. They kill insects, and so
you know it. I'd rather not do the home remedy, certainly,
not saying just do that over the air, because there's
a lot of applications where that would be a problem.
Just by asur fact that they're not that expensive and
they work.

Speaker 5 (01:59:00):
Okay, okay, perfect, I will do this.

Speaker 6 (01:59:02):
Okay, great, thanks so much, skip.

Speaker 4 (01:59:03):
All right, Thanks appreciate that, Catherine. I've been talking about
fertilizer all morning, and I always forget, well I don't always.
Sometimes I forget to mention the difference between the macronutrients.
The three big numbers nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, those are the
three numbers on all the stuff you'd call fertilizer. Well,
there's other nutrients, so technically they also are a fertilizer,

(01:59:26):
but it's trace minerals, and azimite is the product we
talk about that is trace mineral. It's loaded with them.
It's mind out of the soil. Trace minerals aren't needed
in quantities like regular fertilizers are, but they are essential.
So what you're doing when you put asmite down is
you're not making the lawn turn green real fast and

(01:59:47):
start growing. You're putting in the soil bank account that
three hundred and sixty five days out of the year,
when a root needs a little bit of zinc or
a little bit of boron or a little you know,
a trace mineral, it's there for it to take it up.
That's how azmite works. Follow the label forty four point
bag covers six to twelve thousand square feet ten pounds

(02:00:08):
for a thousand square feet in a vegetable garden. Asamite
is easy to find and if you want more information
go to Azamite az Omite Texas dot com. RCW Nurseries,
I want to I mentioned this earlier. Im going to
remind you again today at from twelve to three, from
twelve noon to three at RCW. Some rosarians. Those are

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people that know about roses. They're going to be at RCW.
And by the way, RCW has tons of roses. They're
going to be there from twelve to three helping you
with your rose questions. So what a great deal. You
go out there, you pick a rose you like. And
by the way, they're starting to load up on balloons.
They look very good right now at RCW. Grab some refreshments.

(02:00:51):
They'll have some giveaways too, and then just pick a
rosarian's brain. They've got a lot of information. How do
I plant this, how do I priend this? What would
be a good as a climber? What would be you know?
You see what I'm saying. Pick their brain, go home
with what you want. RCW nurseres dot com. That's the
garden center, by the way, that's where Tumbo Parkway and
belt Way eight come together, and while you're in there,

(02:01:12):
you're gonna find a lot more stuff that you really
can't live without. They have lots of good I can't
even begin to say all the things. It is a
great time to visit RCW and with the rosarians there today,
this is your chance, and it's a good day to
plant a rose. In fact, I actually my daughter planted
a bunch. She was showing me the other day a

(02:01:33):
good while back. And I'm about to go out and
plan for you myself.

Speaker 8 (02:01:36):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (02:01:38):
Let's head out to West Houston and we're going to
talk to Dell. Hello Dell, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (02:01:43):
Thank you, Skip. How are you this morning?

Speaker 4 (02:01:47):
Busy busy? I'm well, thankay. I have just a couple
of questions for you.

Speaker 9 (02:01:51):
I can't find vegetable potting soil, and I have two
tomatoes that I would like to put I'm going to
put in pods.

Speaker 4 (02:02:00):
Do I use to plant them with? Well, you ought
to be able to find roughly what part of West
Houstern are we talking about here? Can you kind of
give me a rough idea park memorial? You got some
Ace hardware stores. Some of the hardcase hardware stores are
carrying that heirloom. You can't find it at your local one. Okay, Well,

(02:02:24):
then let's see Buchanans Nursery up in the Heights. I
know that's not right across the street from you, but
they're going to have it some good products there. If
you go down to Southwest Fertilizer Bisonett and Renwick, Bob
carries some heirloom vegetable mix and other soils there. That's
probably what I would do first. You know, you just

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need a small amount some bags.

Speaker 14 (02:02:47):
Is that it?

Speaker 17 (02:02:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 29 (02:02:50):
Could I use my I have the Miracle Grow vegetable
and orb, but it's in the type when you're putting
them in the soil.

Speaker 4 (02:02:58):
Could I use that?

Speaker 24 (02:03:02):
Well?

Speaker 4 (02:03:03):
The I have not looked close at that fertilizer at
the particle size. The thing about fertilizers that are made
for beds tend to be chunkier, more wood chunks and
things like that, and so they drain very well. But
when you get it. Yeah, I'm saying though that the

(02:03:24):
fertilizers for containers for potting soil is different. So when
you buy a soil that's made for beds, it's probably
not going to be the best idea, especially as the
containers get smaller. So that's why I was recommending heirlooms
veggie and herb mix. But if you got something open
the bag, take a look at it.

Speaker 10 (02:03:42):
Is that.

Speaker 4 (02:03:43):
If it's real chunky, big old pieces of wood and stuff,
I wouldn't use that for a container. If it is not.
If it's potting soil and you already got it on hand,
go ahead and use it. Okay, Well, I thank the
question for you.

Speaker 9 (02:03:58):
My granddaughter of she has a huge pine tree in
the front yard and it gets lots of sun, and
I would like to plant a boogain villa around it.

Speaker 7 (02:04:07):
Will that work?

Speaker 4 (02:04:12):
A boogain villa and son will work. If it's got
good son, a boogain villa will work. Hey, I got
to run. The music's already playing. Well, good luck with that.
I hope you enjoy that boog and villa. By the way, No,
it's not how close to the tree is. It's how
much sun does it get. That's what's important.

Speaker 22 (02:04:30):
Okay, okay, thank you, Okay, I.

Speaker 4 (02:04:33):
Gotta go bye bye, all right, folks, I got to
run here for the top of that hour when faster
than any hour today has gone, we will be back.
Hang around if you want to call and be first up.
Seven one three two one two k t r L.

Speaker 1 (02:04:52):
Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.

Speaker 15 (02:04:56):
It's all right.

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 3 (02:05:11):
So many.

Speaker 4 (02:05:17):
All right, let's jump right in here. We're going to
kick this hour off. We've got a lot to talk
about in one hour to do it. That's just how
it goes.

Speaker 12 (02:05:27):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:05:27):
If you look at my schedule at gardening with Skip
dot com Gardening with Skip, that's me dot com, you
will see a long care schedule and a lawn pest
disease and we'd management schedule. They're free, they're full color,
they're easy there January through December. They're everything you need
to know and what you need to do and when
to apply it and what to apply. It's kind of
the whole nine yard there. It makes it really easy.

(02:05:48):
You will see that once we get into the warming weather,
our grass is growing, we're mowing. That's when we start
to look at the fertilizers that are going to give
us many months of feeding of the lawn. That's not
the early quick greenups. It's the things that slow down
and gradually release over time. That's what you want during

(02:06:08):
the warm season. Nitrofus Superturf is that kind of fertilizer.
It is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer. It's here's
the easiest way. It's in a silver bag. Silver bag.
Nitro Fuss Superturf sixteen weeks of feeding, slow gradual release,
so you're not mowing like crazy because you overdid the
nitrogen at one point in time. You know, it's gradually
feeding that nitrogen out to your plants. Your plants be

(02:06:31):
in your lawn. Night five Superturf is available at places
like Oh Enchanted Forest in Chenny Gardens, Plantation, Ace Hardware
and M and D Rosenbergy. That's all down in the
Richmond Rosenberg area. You're going to find it at M
and D and Cyprus and Katie Ace Hardware. Too easy
to find and it works. It works. That is the
silver bag. And by the way, if you are going

(02:06:51):
to be out and about today, I'm going to be
at J and r Ace in Porter. J and r
Ace in Porter. We've been talking about this all week.
I will be given away some some really nice quality
products that I think you would be interested in seeing
and knowing. About such as the superter fertilizer from Nitrofoss,
the Sweet Green also from Nitrovoss, and then a number

(02:07:12):
of different microlife products as well. All at the Ace
Hardware and Porter, come on out and see me. I'll
be there from twelve to two, twelve noon to two,
So all of you up there anywhere in the Northwest region,
here's a good chance to come out and we can visit.
I'll answer your gardening questions. I'd be happy to do
that too. By the way, if you're looking to really

(02:07:34):
create the most beautiful landscape you can have, I would
go to a professional company that knows what they're doing.
And to me, it's an easy, no brainer. It's Peerscapes
pierscapes dot com. That's the website, piercescapes dot com. Don't
believe me. Go online, look at the pictures, Look at
what they do. Look at what they do for landscape lighting.

(02:07:55):
Look at what they do for hard scapes, you know,
pathways and patios and things unbelievable work. Look at what
they do to fix drainage problems. That's sagy area where
things don't want to grow because say's too wet, too
long when it rains a lot. These are professionals, from
the designers down to the people that are doing the
irrigation work, the backflow, the pesticide certifications, licenses, everything they need,

(02:08:19):
they've got it. Peerscapes is professional and they know what
they're doing. Two eight one three seven fifty sixty two
eight one three seven oh five zero six zero, or
just go to the website pierscapes dot com. Let's head
to northwest Houston and we're gonna visit with Shelley.

Speaker 19 (02:08:38):
Now, Hello Shelley, Hi, Skip, Thank you so much for
taking my call. So my question is I love hibiscus
and I'd like to pot some on my balcony patio.
But my patio face is north and I know hibiscus
loves sun.

Speaker 8 (02:08:56):
Okay, what would they?

Speaker 4 (02:08:58):
Okay, So, well, is there if there if there's a
tree over it? Is there a tree over it? Is
it just your house overhang? Or what do you?

Speaker 12 (02:09:10):
What do you?

Speaker 19 (02:09:10):
What is taking in an apartment? It's an apartment. There's
no tree. It's just that my balcony face is north.

Speaker 4 (02:09:19):
Got you?

Speaker 8 (02:09:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:09:21):
They do to do their best. They need full sun.
Now in an open air balcony on the north side,
you should get some sun there, unless there's like stories
above you and the building is so tall that it's
it's blocking.

Speaker 19 (02:09:34):
Is it that way or is it are you at
the top, Yeah, there's nothing blocking. I mean it gets
the sunlight, but not direct.

Speaker 4 (02:09:46):
Yeah. Well, since you love hibiscus, i'd give them a try.
I think I think they're going to do Okay, they're
not going to perform like they would in full sun,
but you it would be worth giving them a try
on that. There's nothing you can do to make more
light for them.

Speaker 10 (02:10:01):
Go ahead, okay, And.

Speaker 19 (02:10:06):
What would you recommend for potting soil and fertilizer for them?

Speaker 4 (02:10:13):
Well, I would use a hibiscus type fertilizer. The folks
that at Nelson's have a high quality hibiscus type fertilizer.
It's part of their nutri Star line. Comes in little jars,
clear jars with a screw lid. I would use that
for a potting soil. I think the jungle Land from
Nitroposs would be a good one. There there are you know,
just it's kind of like wherever you shop there may

(02:10:35):
be this or that product available or not available, but
not fast. Jungle Land is a good one. The folks
at Airloom make one called the Works The Works Potting Soil.
It's also excellent. I use some of it myself just
the other day.

Speaker 19 (02:10:50):
Wonderful. Oh well, thank you so much. I'm going to
go get my high business.

Speaker 4 (02:10:54):
Now there you go. All right, Well, good luck with it.
Let me know how it does. If not, we may
have to shift to something you know that puts up
with a little lesson direct son. But i'd like to
I'd like to think it's gonna do okay for you.

Speaker 8 (02:11:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 19 (02:11:08):
See, I'll call you back. I'll call you back once
I get them in the soil and out there. Okay,
thank you so much for getting there.

Speaker 4 (02:11:14):
You go. Yeah, bete bye byye uh. One of my
favorite garden centers to go visit is Arbigate up in Tombole.
And I've been visiting Arburgate for a long time. I
mean even before before I moved to Houston a long
while back, that I would go to Arbigate. Arbrogate is
it's an everything center. You're gonna find fruit trees, You're

(02:11:36):
gonna find vegetables, You're gonna find color, You're gonna find
house punts. You canna find roses. You're gonna have everything.
The main reason that I would say you have to
go there is number one, the plants and bling that
goes in the garden. It is stunning, from pots to
decorative things, to all of that. You name it, it

(02:11:58):
is beautiful. They're at the Arborgate. Number two, the advice
you get. These are professionals that know what they do,
and they are such good customer service folks. You go
in there and you go, you know, I got this area,
and they'll walk along with you and say, well, come
over here, let me show you this plant, or you
could put it with this plant. These two will go
good together. You get that kind of help that is

(02:12:21):
really important. I could call it professional hope, but that
sounds like something I need, not garden centers service. Joking aside,
Arborgate is a wonderful place. When you go in there,
remember brown stuff before green stuff. Before you go home
with your plants, make sure in your car you've got
the organic food Complete. That's a fertilizer that's organic with calcium,

(02:12:43):
the Organic soil complete, and the organic compost complete. Those
last two also have expanded shale, which is very important
in our heavy clay soils here in the Houston aario.
You take those three bags and some quality plants from Arburgate,
and you've set yourself up for success. That's going to work.
I got to take a little break here. I'll be
right back, don't you know. All right, let's get back here,

(02:13:10):
garden line. Glad you're listening. By the way, thanks for
being a listener. We do appreciate that. It just makes
to show more fun. We get to talk to more people.
And I guarantee you this. You may be one of
the shy folks that listens but doesn't call. I know
you're there. I know most of here that way. Well,
don't be afraid give us a call. Somebody else has
the question you have, and I hope you've listened long

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enough to know I don't bite, So give me a call.
Let's talk about the things to help you have success.
That's what it's all about. We were talking about our earlier,
you know, fast releasing kind of things. Have a conversation
with the guy about night Fuss Imperial. That's the bag
that's kind of an orange red color. It's a fifteen
to five to ten, so when you put it down,
you watered in, it dissolves. The nutrients are there in

(02:13:53):
the soil and the roots are taking it up. And
I mean within two or three days you've already got
that night fuss in the plant, in the grass that
are growing. It'll give you a fast boost. It works.
It's designed with the right ratio. It's designed for our
soils and designed for our southern turf grasses like Bermuda
grass and Zoysia grass and of course Saint Augustine. Now,
where on Earth do you find night frost products? The

(02:14:16):
answer is easy, it's everywhere. You're going to find them
at D and D Feed and Tomball. You're going to
find them at Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin on North Taylor.
You're going to find them in Fisher's Hardware down in
Baytown on Alexander. You're going to find them at Court
Hardware and Stafford on South Maine. Just examples of the
many places you can find nitro FoST products. We're going

(02:14:36):
to head out now to the phones and go to
Katie and talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to Gardenliner.

Speaker 11 (02:14:43):
Good good morning, Skip. How are you today?

Speaker 4 (02:14:47):
I'm well, Thank you.

Speaker 10 (02:14:49):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (02:14:49):
I have a question about.

Speaker 11 (02:14:51):
Lawn air ration and top dressing. I know the house
I mean, I bought it about four years ago. I
haven't air raided, and I'm sure never got a rated.
So I'm looking to do aerration this year. When should
I start that?

Speaker 5 (02:15:05):
Here in the spring?

Speaker 11 (02:15:06):
Is that when I should start aerration?

Speaker 4 (02:15:10):
You know, if if you're not in a rush or anything,
I would probably let this grass go ahead and get
started and growing good. And when it's really actively growing quickly,
go ahead and do your aerration at that time. And
now you can errate a lot of times of the year.
It's not like you have to do it at a
certain time. It's just I like to give my grass
a chance to get rolling good, get some vigor in

(02:15:32):
it and growth in it, and then do the aeration
at about that point. But if you do it later,
that's just fine, there's no problem with that. Or if
you want to do it.

Speaker 11 (02:15:39):
Earlier, you can do that, Okay, I'll wait till later,
till after it's gotten a good start.

Speaker 6 (02:15:45):
And also I think you to use I think.

Speaker 11 (02:15:47):
I'll be dressing, and of course I've read you should
use a compost top dressing. Where do you find a
fine compost that's suitable for top dressing?

Speaker 1 (02:15:57):
On a law?

Speaker 11 (02:15:57):
And I see a lot of organic composts, but they
they looked a little right, more like a small moultz
than something I would put on a lawn.

Speaker 4 (02:16:07):
Yeah. One of the closest places for bulk for you
would be down at Siena Mulch, which is as you
go down well down Highway six basically for you and
Katie go down past sugar Land and that way. Siana's
down that direction.

Speaker 11 (02:16:23):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:16:24):
They sell bulk. They don't deliver as far away as
you are located, but you certainly can go get it,
or you can there are companies you can call that
will deliver it from you know, farther away.

Speaker 11 (02:16:35):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:16:36):
Both Nature's Way and heirloom soils will deliver at some distances.
You just need to get enough quantity to be worth
the delivery costs.

Speaker 11 (02:16:46):
Right right, Okay, Okay, And then I just spread that out.
And also I've got an area where it seems every
every year I get round patch in this one area,
and top dressing help eliminate that recurring brown patch.

Speaker 1 (02:17:07):
Not a lot.

Speaker 4 (02:17:08):
You could have some benefit from the microbes and stuff
that are up there around the rhizome, but I primarily
if you're getting it in the same spot every year.
That spot must be a little wet. That is one
thing that promotes it. If you if it's a spot
that gets fertilized a little more, you're gonna see worse
the brown patch in there, especially when you put a
late season fertilization on prior to brown patject currying. But

(02:17:30):
typically it's a moisture and temperature related thing.

Speaker 11 (02:17:34):
Yeah, I'll look at it and see and I can
reshape it a little bit, so little dra better than.

Speaker 4 (02:17:41):
That way, you're not you're not on a treadmill where
you're having to spray every year. You know, you'd rather
not have to do that.

Speaker 11 (02:17:48):
Exactly, exactly, I'm ready to stop praying.

Speaker 27 (02:17:52):
All right, Well, thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:17:53):
There you go, Thanks David, you bet. I appreciate the call.
Take care h hard restores or every where. That's the
bottom line. Second line. ACE is a place there you go. Now,
you know, to be more specific, if you will go
to Acehardware dot com. Excuse me, Ace Hardware Texas. We
live at Texas. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. You can

(02:18:16):
find the ACE stores near you. There's a whole bunch
of them here in our local Houston area group. Places
like JN R, Ace Hardware up and Porter, All Star
ACE in spring A, League City. ACE in League City.
There is All Seasons ACE up on Interstate forty four
North up in Willis. I was up there the other
day not too long ago. And then of course down

(02:18:38):
in Wharton, Wharton Feed and ACE on North Richmond Road.
There's a lot of ACE. Just go to ACE Hardware
Texas dot com. You're gonna find your fertilizers there for
your spring fertilizing, for your summer fertilizing. You're going to
find the products to control weeds, diseases, and insect pests.
And we've been talking about that. That is the number
one topic on guarden Line is turf, and the types
of questions are typically how do I stop this? How

(02:19:01):
to get rid of that? How to make that grow?
Those kind of things. ACE has the products for all
of those things there at ACE Hardware. Many many good
ACE Hardware stores. Again, ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. Let's
head to Spring. Now we're going to talk to Patty. Hello, Patty,
Welcome to garden Line. Do we have a Petty? All right?

(02:19:26):
I'm gonna put Patty on hold and I'll come back
and check on you in a bit there, Petty. Anyway, listen,
the Leak City Feed Store is down in Leak City.
You hear me talk about it before, but it is.
It is one of those old time feed stores. Now,
I grew up with that kind of feed store.

Speaker 5 (02:19:43):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:19:43):
You go in and it just has that wonderful, musty,
musky kind of feedstore aroma that I just love it.
It's just it's the old time store that carries your
bags out for you. It's the old time store. It's
got kind of whatever you need. You know, do you
need to control paths or weeds or disease, You need
a fertilizer. By the way, League City carries nitrofoss, they

(02:20:04):
carry as Mike, they carry Microlife, they carry heirloom soils,
they carry Nelson plant food. So it's all there. They're
on Highway three, a few blocks south of ninety six,
a few blocks south of ninety six on Highway three.
This is a third generation of Thunderberg's now running League
City Feed They're open Monday through Saturday nine to six,
so if you need to you can swing by after work.

(02:20:25):
Makes it real convenient, and they're close on Sunday. Here's
the phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve,
League City feed a few blocks south of the Highway
ninety six on Highway three in League City. Let's go
back out here and see if we have a Patty. Hello, Patty,
welcome to garden line.

Speaker 29 (02:20:44):
Good morning. I just got a bunch of little boxwood,
actually twenty four of them, and it says boxwood winter green.
Can you give me some tips on plant them? I've
got twenty four of them to plant.

Speaker 4 (02:20:58):
Yes, well, okay, Well, look at the tag at how
wide they get, and plan them about. If you want
fast cover, you can put them fifty percent that wide.
If you want a little bit a little longer to
get them together eighty percent. Your plants go further when
you plant them a little further. Of course, apart, you

(02:21:19):
want to plant them at the same depth they were
growing in the container. Okay, So look at where they're
growing in the container and plant them that deep. Then finally,
and this is important, you want to cut the roots
that are going around the outside. Okay that I use
a box cutter knife, one of those little one inch
blades that pushes out you know what I'm talking about, Uh,

(02:21:42):
slice vertically down through the through the root ball vertically
in about three or four places going around the roots cylinder,
and that those cut roots will then regenerate several fresh
new roots each and it'll establish faster and better. Dig
the hole only as deep as the roots clin under.
Don't dig a deep hole and then fill it in

(02:22:02):
with soil because it's going to end up settling. Those
are the important things. And finally finished with a good
mulch I would use medina has to grow six twelve
six to water them in. That has a lot of
phosphors to help that root development early on, do it
again about every seven to ten days twice more.

Speaker 12 (02:22:21):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:22:21):
And that's kind of the fastest answer on how to
plant those.

Speaker 29 (02:22:26):
And I don't need to do it wider than the pot,
just to dig it basically the same size as the
pot that it's.

Speaker 4 (02:22:34):
In a little wider than the pot, a little.

Speaker 29 (02:22:42):
While a little wider, yeah, okay, And don't.

Speaker 4 (02:22:45):
Put compost in the hole, just yeah, just use the
soil that you dug out of the hole to refill
the hole.

Speaker 29 (02:22:53):
Oh okay, because I was good bags, Okay, thank you
so much.

Speaker 4 (02:22:59):
Now that that amounts to just putting it in a
bigger container, you don't need to do that, it's gonna
have to live in the soil and the site. So
that's it. Hey, Patty, thanks a lot. I appreciate your
question a lot. I hope that is helpful and get
you off on a good start if you are looking
to provide a longer term fertilization, if you're ready to

(02:23:22):
go ahead and get a jump start on the summer
fertilization season, nitrofas superturf, the silver bag is the one
you need to look for. It's the nineteen four ten.
It's different than the Imperial, which is an immediate release.
Superturf's going to give you about four months of release
of nutrients. So typically I'll say, after you mowed the

(02:23:42):
lawn once or twice, go ahead and put the super
turf down. That's a good time to start. However you
want to go about it. Summer is for Superturf, and
it's the silver bag from Nitrofoss, and you're gonna find
it a lot of places. RCW Nursery carries Nitrofoss products.
You're going to find that. Hiden and feed up on
student or airline carries nitro Foss products. All sposees up

(02:24:03):
in the Woodlands carries nightro foss products, as do d
and de Feed up there in a tomball easy to find.
Download my schedule at at Gardening with skip dot com.
Super Turf is on there and it tells you exactly
when to use those kinds of fertilizers. Makes it really
easy for you.

Speaker 5 (02:24:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:24:22):
If you'd like to give me a call, the number
is seven to one three two one two KTRH seven
one three two one two k Trh'll be happy to
visit with you about the questions that you might have
about successful gardening.

Speaker 17 (02:24:37):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:24:37):
Have you ever been out to Nelson's Water Gardens? That
is your West Houston Garden Center. Nelson's Water Garden is
out there and Katie Uh, and it is just a
fun place to visit. It's one of those places where
I say, take some friends with you because it's going
to be a blast. I think that they ought to
allow you to bring lawn chairs and charge you to

(02:24:59):
sit and listen to the water because it's that therapeutic,
but they don't. It's free to sit and listen to
the water. They have the big disappearing fountains that they
invented Nilsen Nursery and Water gardens. They've got beautiful cascading waterfalls,
they've got the pools, they've got the water garden plants,

(02:25:19):
they've got the fish they go in, you know, the
things like the koi and the shabunkin and others that
you put in there. They're also pretty. They've got everything.
But they are a nursery, and so when you go
out there, you're going to find what you would expect
from a nursery. By the way, they're open their spring
hours or Monday through Saturday nine to six, so again
swing by after work if you want to, and then

(02:25:40):
Sunday's eleven to four pm. And they've gotten a lot
of wonderful selections. They do have some turf on hand.
They've got some great vegetables, beautiful flowers like abiscus and zendias,
and all kinds of bedding plants. So get out there
and check them out. I'm very, very impressed every time
I go. I just tell you this, you're going to

(02:26:01):
get addicted to water gardening. You are because it is
cheaper than therapy and it's better than therapy. So get
a fountain to put in the back yard. They can
do it, or they can help you do it too,
by the way, either way you want to go out
at Nilson Water Gardens, you just head out to Katie
go north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just
a little hop skipping or jump up the street there
on the right hand side. How am I doing? Do

(02:26:24):
I need?

Speaker 10 (02:26:25):
Nope?

Speaker 4 (02:26:25):
Out of time to take another call. When I come back,
Norma in the Heights, you'll be first. We're going to
take a break. All right, folks, we're back. We are
rolling toward the end of the show here. We got
about thirty minutes left. It's got a lot of callers
and a lot to talk about, so let's just jump
right in. We're going to go to the Heights and
talk to Norma. Hello, Norma, welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 13 (02:26:47):
Hi.

Speaker 26 (02:26:47):
How are you.

Speaker 4 (02:26:50):
I'm doing well?

Speaker 11 (02:26:51):
Thank you good so.

Speaker 13 (02:26:55):
Answered this question. But I'm going to ask you anyway.
I just purchased a wheed and feed that's a twenty
nine zero ten. I don't know if it's what I need,
but I have more weed in my yard than I
do Saint Augustine, and I'm trying to preserve the Sant
Augustine that I have and help it to grow.

Speaker 28 (02:27:14):
And is that the right product.

Speaker 4 (02:27:19):
Well, I don't know if it's a right product, but
it might work. I don't do you know if it
prevents weeds or kills existing weeds.

Speaker 13 (02:27:29):
It looks to me like on the label that it
kills existing weeds.

Speaker 17 (02:27:32):
It's dollar weed and clover.

Speaker 4 (02:27:35):
Okay, yeah, that's existing. So what you have to do
is you need to wet the foliage. You need to
apply the product to the wet foliage so it sticks
to the leaves, give it a couple of days, and
then water it in. That's the best shot. Now you
may find that you're going to have to retreat later
because I don't know the product. They don't all work
equally well, But that is what you do with the

(02:27:55):
product that you've already purchased, that you've got.

Speaker 13 (02:27:58):
Okay, now, liquid, it's actually granules.

Speaker 4 (02:28:04):
Right, That's why we're wetting the leaves and then spreading
it like a fertilizer. And the wet leaves cause those
granules to stick to them and that helps it absorb
into the wheat leaves. So wet it just enough to
wet the leaves, immediately put out the dry granular fertilizer
and product, and then wait a couple of days and
then water it in.

Speaker 13 (02:28:26):
Oh okay, wait a couple of kays. Okay, okay, So
we'll just to try and give it works.

Speaker 8 (02:28:32):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:28:32):
Good luck. And if that later on, if you still
got weeds, call the show, get my email from the producer,
send me some pictures, and then follow that up with
a call and we'll we'll take it more specifically to
go after the weeds you still have that may have survived. Okay, Oh,
thank you, Norma. Appreciate that, very appreciate that very much.
Jungle Land is the product that Nelson's acts two products.

(02:28:56):
Nelson's Nitroposs produces that basically is for indoor or outdoor plants.
Because there's two products. There's the indoor jungle land water
saving potting soil. That's the one I'm talking about putting
as I'm bumming up some plants at my house that
I'm using. The outdoor is called flour vegetable potting salt
jungle land flower vegetable potting soil that works. And what

(02:29:20):
it takes to make a good quality soil, among other things,
is you want it to hold some water, but not
too much. You want it to drain well. Also, so
it fills up with water and then the excess strains away.
That's important. That's jungle in. You're going to find it
in many different places. The Fissuer's Hardware in Pasadena, the
one in Laport, the one in mont Bellevue, the one

(02:29:40):
down in Baytown. They all carry nitrofoss products. And so
just go where you find your night foss and look
for some jungle land. It's a good quality mix for
indoors and then for outdoors. And then there's another great
one for the indoors that has the water saving crystals
in it. Let's head out now to Montgomery and we're
going to up to Terry. Hello, Terry, good.

Speaker 6 (02:30:02):
Morning, Thank you for taking my call. My question today
is regarding a couple of crape myrtles that I transplanted
two winters ago, and this last year they did survive
the transplant, and I think that they they're pretty well
established now. However, Okay, each each crpe myrtle has three

(02:30:26):
trunks on it, and each trunk is around five inches around,
and each crape myrtle is between thirteen and fifteen feet
and they're they're kind of spindly. When at the place
I transplanted them from in my yard. They never got
a lot of sunlight. They were shrouded, and I think

(02:30:48):
what happened is they just grew really tall to try
and get some light. But my question today is should
I cut them so they're a little bit shorter to
promote growth.

Speaker 4 (02:31:08):
Cutting them is if needed, is okay, But I would
probably almost take them to the ground and get fresh
new growth coming up so you don't have those little
stumps that have all the sprouts coming out like when
people miss pronum around town.

Speaker 6 (02:31:19):
Yes, I have stuff little stumps.

Speaker 4 (02:31:23):
Yeah, So cutting them to the ground, then you get
to pick one, two, three, four or five. I many
trunks you want out of the reef sprouts to come out.
But here's the thing that's not going to help. If
the problem is not enough sun. Grape myrtles need some
direct sun exposure six hours would be best, but if
it less in order to grow and bloom, well, so

(02:31:46):
even cutting them back, fertilizing them, watering, none of that
is going to fix a lack of light. So if
doing some limb pruning of the trees would help, or
whatever you can do to get them sunlight, that's what
you need to do.

Speaker 6 (02:31:59):
Yeah, they get about six hours a light where they're
at now, but it comes and goes throughout the day.

Speaker 7 (02:32:08):
But you okay, I'm going.

Speaker 6 (02:32:09):
To cut them way back.

Speaker 4 (02:32:13):
Yeah, that's what I would do. And I would get
you some get some of the Nelson's crape myrtle or
it's a flowering plant, flowering tree kind of food. You
can even use our color star for this, but I
put it around them, follow the label watered in and
and continue to feed them to support new growth development
on them.

Speaker 10 (02:32:31):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:32:31):
And and then make sure that you keep the weeds
and things away, keep the weedier and lawnmarw away, give
it a good mulch to kind of prevent weeds from
coming in and competing. And that'll give them the best
chance for them to do what they can do. All right, Okay,
just all right.

Speaker 6 (02:32:50):
If you want me to cut them like three feet
uh like three feet tall or no, you.

Speaker 4 (02:32:57):
Know, I can't. I can't. I can't. So I don't
know if they need to be cut. But I tell
you what. If you are on Facebook or Instagram, find
the garden line. It's on Instagram, it's garden Line with skip.
On Facebook, it's a garden Line Facebook page. And I
just did a video a couple of days ago on

(02:33:18):
the difference between heading and thinning cuts. Go look at
that video and it'll tell you exactly how to not
misprune that crape myrtle because of the different type of cut.
If it's bad, if you got a mess, you can
cut them to the ground and start over. If you
don't have a mess, you don't need to cut them
to the ground. But go look at that video. Okay,
I'm sorry, I I've got to run run out of time.

(02:33:42):
You bet, thank you appreciate that very much. Let's see
Tom and Katie and Bow and sugar Land. I don't
have enough time to give you on the call. If
you'll hang around, you will be the first two. I
promise we'll get you to you two guys the next
segment when we come back. Don't forget that. I'm going
to be today at J and R Ace from twelve
to two, So all of you up Highway fifty nine

(02:34:04):
anywhere in that region, come on and see me at
J and our Ace. I'm gonna be giving away Microlife,
you mates, plus Microlife Ultimate some of the liquids that
not Microlife has. I got three different liquids. I'm giving away.
We got some sweet Green from Nitrofoss Sweet Green or
super Turf, the silver bag of it. Just got through
talking about a minute ago from Nelson's. Those are all

(02:34:25):
giveaways for people that show up, and we'll take a
number draw and see if you win it. I'll have
some Texas Gardener magazines to give away. And then why
am I there to answer your gardening questions? Bring me
some samples and plastic bags. Come in with pictures on
your phone. Go out and take some pictures today, things
you're wondering about. Make sure they're in good sharp focus.
Bring them to me. We'll take it from there. Hope

(02:34:46):
to see you there twelve to two, Jay and our
ace in porter will be right back. Alrighty, we're all
gonna be all right. Listen, gardening's not rocket science. If
you kill a plant, that's okay. The best horticulturest in
the eastern half of the United States said to be
a good horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants.
So there you go. You got permission. You can kill

(02:35:08):
a plant, you can replace it. You can plant something
and it doesn't do well. That's why we got rototillers.
Just pull it up, rototill it, fix it, put it
back in, you're back in. It's one of the a
few areas in life where you can mess things up
royally and it's okay. You get away with it. You
just start over and it's all all right. All right,
that's enough philosophy for today. Let's go to Tom in Katie, Texas.

(02:35:32):
Hey Tom, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (02:35:37):
Ahi. How you doing.

Speaker 17 (02:35:38):
Thank you theing my call here? Yes, sir, Yes, I'm
out here. I'm house sitters. I'm house sitting for myself.
So if you hear a wives and dogs marking, it's
it's because I'm out here. But I've got a question
about it. A little bit old school. Back when it
was cool, we got waterbed and I still got it.

(02:36:00):
And occasionally, you know, the you'll pop a mattress or something,
and I remember the first time it happened, and probably
every time we've popped a water bed, it's got a
preservative in there to keep the I guess the mattress flat.

Speaker 4 (02:36:17):
Or what have you, well, from mold hag or something.

Speaker 17 (02:36:20):
Okay, I dumped it in the backyard. Yeah, yes, And
I got to thinking about two times ago that that
there's about a ten foot by ten foot spot out
there by my back bedroom window where I've dumped that
water and nothing grows. I've got to toil in, not
a lot of it, few bags. I just wonder if

(02:36:43):
that's everywhere else is I've got good Saint Augustine grass.

Speaker 4 (02:36:49):
It's it's a good thing you called down because I
happen to know. I happen to know the answers. If
you dump water from a nineteen seventies waterbed and you
hurt your lawn, you need to get one of those
little air balls and hangs in the air with some lights,
and you need to play disco music all night and
that long will start growing again. I'm kidding, sorry about that.

Speaker 5 (02:37:09):
I was.

Speaker 4 (02:37:09):
I was testing your humor there. Seriously, seriously, those kind
of chemicals they don't I don't think your waterbed did it.
Who knows why I would? You know, I'd loosen up
the soil, get some you know, make some holes in it.
You can use a spading for it. If it's a
little area. You don't have to bring in a whole,
you know, like core aerator, but just take a spade
and far go straight in. Don't spade the soil just

(02:37:31):
make holes, kind of wiggle it and open it up,
put some compost top dressing on it. You get some fertilizer,
water properly. But I think maybe we have some compaction
that's going on there. If there was anything chemical, it
will break down and the grass will come back. But
I think mainly what we need to do is loosen
up that soil, get some comfine textured composts down in it,

(02:37:54):
and start taking care of it. I think that's going
to do it. Why don't you give that a shot,
And if you have any other questions, send me some
pictures and call back after you've tried that, and we
can try like plan b IF. But I think that's
gonna work.

Speaker 17 (02:38:07):
Okay, maybe I can tell ma my platform shoes with
my platform shoes.

Speaker 10 (02:38:13):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:38:13):
Oh I forgot that. Yeah, oh man, but they didn't
have they didn't have heels. They had big fat heels
on them. That wouldn't work. Okay, thanks for having fun
with me, man. I appreciate that Warren's seven Garden out
in Kingwood, Texas. Oh my goodness, that place and Kingwood
Garden Center too, that you know they're both out there
in Kingwood. Awesome awesome garden centers. They are loaded with

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lots of color. I was looking at some of the
roses they got in the other day. They are gorgeous,
beautiful vegetable supplies everything you need. You know, when it
comes out to things that you put in the garden
that are not plants, like an archway or a beautiful
ornate metal that goes against a wall for a trellis,
for example, they've got that must madness is still going on.

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That means you buy five bags of the maltz that
they saw. It is a earlom sauce mulch, and you
get the six bag free. So it's time to mulch.
Go ahead and buy the extra bags. This is a
chance to get a good deal on them. Go ahead
and buy them in stock up. You always will need
mulch for replenishing beautiful potteries out there. It didn't matter

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what it is. When you go, you jows can hit
the ground because I'm telling you. The gorgeous garden center
Warren Southern Gardens is the one on North Park Drive
the one on Stone Hollows called Kingwood Garden Center. Both
are open seven days a week. Both have everything you need.
Everything you need seriously go out and oh and expert
advice critical for a good garden center to have people

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that know what they're talking about, and they do out there.
Go talk to Michael and the rest of the crew
and they can help you. They are very knowledgeable and helpful.
Let's go out now to sugar Land and we're going
to talk to Bow. Hello, Bo, Welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 12 (02:39:57):
Good morning Skip. I have raised bed vegetable gardens in
my backyard and I want to know the proper way
to grow garlic.

Speaker 4 (02:40:10):
Okay. Garlic typically is something we plant in the fall,
we grow through the winter time. You plant the clothes
in the fall, grow through the wintertime, and then in
spring is when it bulbs. It forms the clusters, the
cloves of clusters of clothes at the base of the bulb.
You want to you know, there's different kinds of garlic,

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not all do well.

Speaker 7 (02:40:32):
Here.

Speaker 4 (02:40:32):
You go to a you know, a good garden center
like where you'd head out to in channing gardens and
channing forests down that direction. They're going to know which
ones that you need and they're going to have them
and then fertilize them. The key is to keep them
growing vigorously. I had some in my garden this year
that the cold damage. I didn't get them covered, and

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I noticed I got more cold than I expected to get.
So I guess, be ready when we get a good
hard freeze to cover them up a little bit, give
them a little bit of protection. But mine, we're just
not in a state where they took it, and so
they're looking kind of puny right now. But that's the
cycle for success with garlic.

Speaker 12 (02:41:11):
So I did plant last October the twenty second, and
that's a good time, Yeah, I thought so. But then
I have I had a patch of them growing next
to some green onions, and I think those died before
the freeze, before our snowfall in January.

Speaker 5 (02:41:33):
Really, but then and I did not. I don't know
what happened to them.

Speaker 12 (02:41:36):
They just shriveled up and died. And then there's a
bigger patch further today in my garden bed.

Speaker 4 (02:41:43):
Go ahead, Did they look good and then they looked
then they died? Or did they never look good and
then they died?

Speaker 12 (02:41:50):
No, they were They were growing at green stalks and
they only got to maybe what about this five or
six inches. Then further down on my bed I have
a bigger patch and they're doing much better. But several
of them have shriveled up and died inside of that
patch that.

Speaker 4 (02:42:08):
I have going, don't I don't know what to tail around. Okay, yeah,
I don't know what to tail on that boat. Here's
what I would do. If one is starting to shrivel,
I would pull it up and I would look or
the roots rotting, but the bulb is okay, is the
bulb rotting? Uh? You know what I'm saying. I try

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to determine where what's starting wrong as they start to
go down, and if you have either way, it's either
drainage poor drainage, or it could be some sort of
a root ride in there. We generally don't have to
worry about treating garlic with fungicides or anything like that.
So maybe making the drainage a little better, adding a

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little more compassed into the soil, making the raised bed
you know, so it drains. Those are just some shoot
from the hip ideas.

Speaker 12 (02:42:58):
Got you well, My beds are over or twelve inches
tall above the ground, and it's very loose soil. The
raid the garden mixed from enchanted is the primary. Of course,
whatever composts I've got ammended with. But so the ones
I have pulled up, when the base looks it's just
a white it's not even starting to form the cluster

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of garlic yet. It's just it almost looks like a
green onion bob, you know, just white and a couple
of inches long, with the roots on the bottom of that.

Speaker 5 (02:43:34):
So, I don't know, have you ever heard of you have.

Speaker 12 (02:43:37):
To put them in the refrigerator before you plant them,
like for ten weeks to get them winter rised or
make them act like it's winter.

Speaker 4 (02:43:46):
I've never heard that. No, I've never heard that. Let
me give you a tip. Let me try. Let me
suggest with this, because I think I don't have the
crystal ball to go back and look at what happened there.
If you go to Aggie Horticulture website, it's ok to
search for Aggie Horticulture. There's a vegetable section on the
front page. You see vegetables. You click on that and

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there's a publication just on garlic. It tells you how
to prep for it, how to plant it, what to do,
how to care for it. Read that through and see
if you see anything in there. It might be a
clue to what's going on other than that, I just
I just don't know what to tell you something is wrong.
If it's not soggy soil, then I don't I don't know.

Speaker 12 (02:44:29):
Okay, well I will check it out and thanks giving
me the direction.

Speaker 4 (02:44:34):
All right, Hopefully we'll solve this because I don't have
garlic to be proud of myself either this year. But
I know what happened to mine. All my multiplying onions.
They're all happy. The garlic is shriveling up, so we're
gonna have to get Thanks.

Speaker 12 (02:44:48):
You sweet onions. Okay, thanks?

Speaker 4 (02:44:52):
Are the ten fifteen's looking good?

Speaker 12 (02:44:54):
Oh yeah, they're looking hardy? Okay, I did not car them,
did cover.

Speaker 4 (02:45:00):
Them, so got you all right? Thanks, thanks a lot.
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today took off like a rocket. We had a good time. Hey,
jnr Ace hardware imported from twelve to two today. Come
on out and see me. Look forward to it.