Plant Protection Palooza

Skip Richter takes your questions all morning long!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 6 (00:49):
Hey, good morning morning gardeners. Oh isn't this weather nice?
Well after I don't even know how many months of
really hot weather we've been dealing with and not so
hot but still uncomfortable, it is refreshing to go outside
and get some nice cool air, that is for sure. Hey,

(01:13):
welcome to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and
we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and
a beautiful landscape and more fun as you do that
in the process. So if you'd like to ask a
gardening question this morning, feel free to give me a call.
Here's a number seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Well today I'm going to be at

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RCW Nurseries. That's the garden center right there. We're Beltway
eight and Tumball Parkway hi Way two forty nine.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
Come together.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
We'll be there just doing what we do, and that's
answering gardening questions, looking at samples, taking a look at photos,
and helping you to create a more beautiful place and
have more success. If you've got some weeds in the
yard in a baggy, bring them by and we will
take a look at them, identify them and help you
find a good solution to those weeds. There are a

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number of weeds that are germinating now. It's the cool season,
got a little break from the weather, got a little
bit of a rainfall in most areas coming through and
as a result, the weeds are up and sprouting on
their way to disappointing us. That's what they like to do.
That is why night Vas is put Oh. By the way, also,
not just the weeds, but also the bron pat circles.

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Are you seeing some of those popping up? I share
am and it's the time for it, you know. It's
the perfect storm here in the fall when we deal
with these sort of things. And Niche Faus is put
together that three step just for that particular situation, that
perfect storm of the fall. Number one, it is time
to put down the nutrients. Your lawn goes into winter stronger,

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is more hearty in the cold, and comes out stronger
in the spring when you fall fertilized, most important fertilization
of the year, nice of us Fall special Winderriser eight
twelve sixteen. That's the numbers on the bag. Just remember
fall special win Riser by nitrofoss super high a level
air of potassium to give it exactly what it needs
along with a little bit of nitrogen to make a

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good strong plant. Secondly, the barricade the weeds I just
talked about are sprouting, Get it down now, watered in
now so that it prevents any future weeds from sprouting
in your yard. Nitrofrous barricade. And the third steps nitrofos
eagle ur fungicide. That's a systemic fungicide. It also has
to be watered in because the roots take it up
and make your grass plant resistant to those old brown

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circles that are about to pop up everywhere, if they
aren't already starting in your neighborhood. It is urgent if
you're going to do it, to do it now. This
is the time to get it done. The longer you wait,
the more escape of the issues you're trying to prevent.
There will be weeds will be coming up, brown circles
will be appearing, especially if you have a lawn that's

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been prone to that. The preventative is the way to
go on that kind of thing. Now, you can find
night Foss products that places like Lake Hardware and Clute
go down to Baytown, Fisher's Hardware carries them, or up
in Brunham Plants and Things carries night Foss products up
there as well. The main thing is, don't delay, get
that done, Get that done. This well, see not, it's

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kind of afternoon. It's from twelve to two that I'll
be at RCW Nurseries and we're going to be giving
away some night Foss products today at RCW, So come
on by. Maybe you win one. I'd love to have you.
Of course, they're always going to have their regular you know,
little shindig that they throw their at RCW when we
come out and do our appearances. They got some snacks,

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they got some drinks there available. It's just always as
a good time to do it, and you're gonna find
a lot of cool stuff there. It's a great nursery,
by the way, very very nice. They grow their own
shrubs and trees, not every single one they sell, but
a lot of them they grow up there in the
Plantersville area at Williamson Tree Farm, so you know you're

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getting something that was chosen for this area. They don't
plant things and sell things here that don't grow here,
and you know you're getting something's grown right when you
go out to our cwn. Boy, I'll tell you, Fall
is the time I was talking. I've had two or
three conversations these past couple of weeks with people in
the nursery industry, and we just have been discussing the

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fact that, you know, everybody's a gardener in spring. Everybody
wants to plant in spring, good, go for it. But
fall is the best time to get things established. It's
the best time. And yet it is somewhat of a
heart sell people. You know, they don't have the bug
and fall the plant, but you should. It's the best
time to plant trees and shrubs and other woody ornamental

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plants because they get their roots established and they're ready
to go next summer when the tough time's hit. That plant,
any plant and in its first year, is going to
have a quite limited root system. Those roots begin to
expand outward after you plant, but it's a slow process.

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The sooner you get them planted, the more resilient they're
going to be. This next summer, you won't be looking
at a dead plant because it missed the watering or
something like that, and now you're trying to get out
there and replace it. You get them planted in the fall,
you have it's an insurance policy to reduce the stress
is therefore reduce plant loss on hot weather. Secondly, for

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perennials and things, same kind of thing, but you're going
to have a better, stronger plant. You plant a perennial. Now,
let's say it's a salvia, Let's say it's a perennial herb.
Whatever the perennial is, you plan it. Now, take the
same plant and plant one right beside it next spring,
and by summer you won't be able to the one

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that is planted and fall is going to be a
more robust plant. Even if you buy a bigger plant
in the spring, eyes up that fall planted plant by
summer next next summer, it will have caught up on
the larger plant. They cost more money to put in.
So fall plant, fall plant, fall plant. Please do that.
Get your soul ready, get the plants in. Do yourself

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that favor. Do yourself that favor. Just break loose of
the common mindset among people in general and start thinking
like a real gardener who understands the seasons and the
importance of fall gardening. You will do yourself a lot
of favors if you do that, all right, That that
is just the way it is. When now that it's rained,

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our soils have expanded back out again. I had some
cracks starting to form in some parts of my yard,
and it's because it gets dry, shrinks out, and gets wet,
it swells back up again. And that movement is the
issue that you see sidewalks heaving, and driveways cracking and tilting,
and homeland home foundations also or wreck just have a

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hard time with that. That's why you see cracks in
the sheet rock inside. That's why you see cracks in
the brick on the outside. Maybe you don't notice the cracks,
but you just you open a door and it's kind
of sticking. And then I need to fix that, and
you don't get around to it, and later on it's
not sticking anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
What did that?

Speaker 6 (08:21):
What did that is movement of the slab. And if
you give Ty Stricklin a call, he's fixed my slab,
foundation repairitisement. Doing this for a long long time. He's
a native Howstonian, fifth generation here in Texas. He knows
the Houston area. So it's been like twenty five years.
I think he's been in the business now somewhere somewhere
around then. But he knows his stuff and he's a

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straight shooter. If he tells he's showing up, he shows
up on time. If he gives your price, it gonna
be a fair price. And if he fixes it is
going to be fixed right, and that is really really important.
You can get a hold of him at two eight
one two fi five forty nine forty nine. You can
also go to fix my slab dot com, Fix myslab

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dot com two eight one two five five forty nine
forty nine. Have him take a look at it. You'll
catch things early. He'll give you an honest assessment it.
You know, he told me one time, because you know,
in time all foundations are gonna crack to some degree,
it's just the way it is. But it's being able
to understand how to assess properly does this need repair

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work or not? And that's where that's where he comes in,
and that that gives you the assurance that you're not
just getting sold a job because you know you called
him out. So he's gonna find something that's not how
that works at all. So give him a call two
eight one two five forty nine forty nine. Have him
take a look. Let's take a little break here. When

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we come back, we're going to go talk to Robert
in North Houston.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to guarden Line. Good ahead
with us.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
You got a gardening question, you can reach me at
seven to one three two one, two fifty eight seventy four.
Let's he out and out of North Euston and we're
gonna visit with Robert this morning. Hey, Robert, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 8 (10:11):
Good morning, Hey Skiff, I got a question. I'm looking
for a planet. It's called Condelia.

Speaker 9 (10:17):
Look Kara, righty, bok Kara.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
I think the common name is Brazil and Brazil would
a Brazil? But anyway, could you kind of send me
in some direction where I might be able to find
this plant.

Speaker 7 (10:32):
Oh, the native.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Takesas plant, Yeah, I would. I would start with Buchannan's
Native Plants. I think, Yeah, they're probably going to be
the most likely to be able to help you on that.
And you can you can go to uh, you can
go to Buchanan'splants dot com. That's our website and the email.

(10:57):
They're on Levin Street up in the Heights. I don't
haven't seen it there, but that doesn't mean anything. I
mean it, you know, I just haven't gone there looking
for it either. So uh but yeah, it's a what
what made you choose that plan? I'm kind of curious
because this first person's ever called me.

Speaker 9 (11:16):
Well, I've got a book.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
It's called Texas Native Plants, uh, and I'm just looking
at it through it and I said, well, you know,
it's interested in me, so I won't. I want to
check it out if I can get it. It takes
a native plant, and native plants I like those because
I'm a lazy Gordoner. You know, I don't want to spray,
you know.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, there you go. Well that's good.
Just make sure and give it a well drained spot.
You know, don't put it in a low spot over here,
because it were you see it more out west of here,
uh and even down into Mexico, that particular plant. But
and so yeah, we can grow it. Just make sure
and good drainage. That's very important.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
All right.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Well, that's what I would do if you don't find
it there. If you don't find it there, I would go.
There is a something called the Native Native Plant Society
here in Texas, and you can look them up. It's
nps O T and Native Plant Society of Texas dot org.
And you might be able to reach out somewhere there
and get another list. You may have to go a

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little further out to find it than just here in
the Houston area, but I tribute Cannon's first. They're likely
to have it. Okay, okay, okay, thanks ro thank you
so much. I appreciate you.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Okay, thank you you bet bye bye.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Take care. That's interesting. You know, never ceases to surprise me.
I've been doing this for gosh well actually about forty
years now, just professional horticulture in general. H and there's
just always a new one that's I've never been asked
about the candaria before. So that's cool. But there's so

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many plants, so many plants a little time. That's kind
of the fun thing about gardening is we always get
to try something new in gardening, and it keeps keeps
things fresh, keeps things fun. By the way, this is
is kind of an aside. Don't think of your landscape
as a stagnant thing. You know, like if you if
you build a house and you live in a house
for twenty or thirty or more years, at some point

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there it's going to be like, yeah, let's change the
pink color, you know, or let's let's expand that wall out,
or let's do this or that, let's redo the kitchen,
you know, the flooring, I don't know what. And our
landscapes are the same way. And you know, the plants,
especially when you go backwards in time, there was a
time when we had very few dwarf or compact types

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of plants. The house I grew up in, oh my
gosh it, you know, it had ninas and had red
tip pleatinia, and it had what else did it have?
Oh gosh, I can't think of the other shrub that
was out front. But anyway, those things grow over the
top the roof edge, I mean the eves of the roof.
And now all of those plants have better options that

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are more compact. Maybe you switch species a little on
some of them, but more compact. And it's time to
redo landscapes so too. And what if you want a
different look an area that used to be shady becomes
sunny or vice versa because the tree dies or blows
over in a storm. And always think of your landscape
as a work in progress. And that is a good

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thing because you get out, you get to change, you
get to try something new. I was going to compare
it to clothes. You know, you you you know't wear
the same closed year after year after year. You know
that styles change and stuff. And then I kind of
was humored by remembering that. One time my youngest daughter,

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I don't know she put this on social media. I
believe this where it was, but she said, when I
see old pictures of mom and dad from long ago,
I think she looks great in that dress. And then
I also think he still wears that shirt.

Speaker 7 (15:07):
Ouch. But it's true, it's true. I'm trying.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
I'm trying. You change your wardrobe, man, change your wardrobe
in your landscape. It's time to get out there and
try some new plants. Anyway, that's that's part of the
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We're going to be talking about some different things regarding
cold weather coming not tomorrow, thank goodness, but it will
get here pretty soon and getting our plants ready for
that today. That is one of the things that I
want to spend a little bit of time on and

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I know once we get a cold front coming, everybody's
mind goes to that. Listen, I have been okay, true
confessions here. I have been the person who the cold
front is already hit town. It's blasting, and tonight the
weather's dropping down, cold, cold, cold, and I'm out there
trying to find plastic in heaters and pipe tape and

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you know, insulation and all that kind of stuff. Don't
be that. I don't everyone do that. That is miserable
trying to put that up. The wind's blowing and you
know you're you're trying to keep your pipes from freezing.
It's time to get that stuff done ahead of time.
We're going to talk about some of the things we
do for our plants ahead of time this morning on
guard Line. So stay tuned right now. I'm gonna take
a little bit of a break and I will be

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right back with your calls at seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Alrighty, welcome back. Good to have you with us this morning.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
Welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help
you have success and enjoy yourself from the process of
doing that. You can give me a call seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you
got a question, we'd be happy to help you with it.
I want to remind you I'm going to be at R.
C W Nursery, which is right where Tombo Parkway comes
into Beltweg eight. I'll be there today from twelve to two.

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We're going to be giving away some nitrofoss products today.
While we're out there, I'll also have some Texas Gardener
magazines on hand. If you've never seen Texas Gardener come out,
I'll put a free magazine in your hand. I want
you to see that that is an outstanding magazine. I
actually write for it myself, and I the way they
put it in at the magazine is written by Texas

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gardeners for Texas gardeners, and that is true. I know
a number of the writers personally, and they are people
that are experienced. They know what they're doing. It's, you know,
I call it the hands and the dirt kind of thing.
These are people that aren't just writing something for your
coffee table to look at there. They're people who garden,
telling you how to have success. That's Texas gardeners come out.

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I'll put a magazine in your hand. Long as supplies
last well again twelve to two RCW nurseries. When we
talk about fall planning, we have to also talk about
soil preparation. It is very important to get the soil
right before you plan. It's like building a house in
the sense of you need a good foundation. You know,

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you go out in the field and they have a
bunch of tuba fours in the ground, start hammering away.
That house is not going to have a foundation. It's
not going to last and you're not going to have
garden success if you do not create a soil that
those plants will thrive in that is foundational and heirloom
soils carries the products that you need to make that happen.

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Maybe you have a very very heavy clay and you
would like some expanded shale to mix in a long
term solution to an expanded or to a heavy clay
or a shale compost blend. Those are two products they carry.
You're going to do a vegetable garden, you want a
veggie an herb garden mix. Perhaps they've got that there
as well. You have acidic loving plants, acid loving soil plants.

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They've got products for every kind of situation, roses and
other bloomers. They have a blend for that. Their products
are available by the bag all over town. I see
them all the time when I go into places, you know,
like feed stores and garden centers and ace hardware stores
and you know the Southwest Fertilizer for example. They've got
the airlom seals there. But you can also buy in bulk.

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You can go get them in porter if you won't
take your truck and trailer out and save the delivery fees,
or you can have them deliver them to your house.
They can do it either way. Airloomsoils dot com. Airloomsoils
dot com. Go check them out, look at the products.
I've used a number of their different products, and every
time I have good success. That is just how it's
worked out, because it is a quality product for airroom soils.

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For sure. I was discussing success or dealing with coal
weather coming up in our plants. It is important. I've
been saying this off and on for a while now.
But if you have a plant that is somewhat cold tender,
don't push it into late season growth. And I have
a number of plants I've been telling people about sometime

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in August, hey quit fertilizing those plants, because when you
push them into late season growth that first freeze, the
parts that are succulent, that are growing, they're not going
to be cold hardy, not as cold hearty as the
rest of the plant could be. And so you need
to back off of that a little bit. Don't push them.
The same is true, you know, even with watering. Watering
stimulates growth and stuff just enough for them to get by.

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But you know, just go easy on these things. We're
about to have. At some point here in this listening area,
you're going to get that first freeze of the year.
First frost to be here first, and then the first
freeze of the year, and you want, you want your
plants to be ready to go for that.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
Now.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
I've put a publication on my website. My website is
Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip all right,
if you go there, you will find a publication on
protecting plants against frosts and freezes. It talks about all
the principles of frost and freezes, different kinds of frost,
and freezes. How do you go about protecting what works,

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what doesn't work? How do you do it? And it
is like nine pages. I wrote it with a Texas
A and M horticulture specialist years ago, and it's available. Therefore,
you just go to my website. You can find it
right there and check it out. But do it ahead
of time, because you know you may be thinking, Okay,
I need to go get some of that or some
of this, and and yeah, I've got some new citrus

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trees that I put in this past year, and I'm
building the big PVC boxes around them to put a
cover on for the cold weather that will arrive sometime,
it will arrive. Getting my heat supply products and good
cords for safety, you know, to run the lines. It's all.

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Get it done now, Get it done now, very import
some of the most important things you need. Or a
cover to create a dead air space. That's first, dead
air space, not wind blowing through, not you know, just
a thin fabric that the wind can blow through. But
a cover to create dead airspace, and then some source
of heat to go underneath it. And please read the

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publication I put together, because there's a lot of wrong
ways to add heat underneath the cover. There's some dangerous
ways to add heat under a cover. You got dry grass,
you got electrical connections that aren't secured. In fact, in
the publication that I'm telling you to go check out,
there's a picture of a plant that caught on fire
underneath the cover. And you don't want that to happen.

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But that doesn't have to happen. There's ways to do
that safely, and so that's what you're going to want
to do. Anyway. Lots of good information on there. I
would recommend you check it out. The folks that know
some plant food have put together an outstanding product called
carbo load. Carbo load. Why carbo load, Well, it's because
in the fall are grass plant plants. Your lawn is

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just basically a little grass garden. Your lawn plants are
taking sunlight with the nutrients that the plant takes up,
mostly potassium and a little bit of a nitrogen with
it to create carbohydrates, which are like anaphreeze and the
plant that's what it amounts to. Carbohydrates are like anafreeze.

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When you put that carboload down, you create a good,
strong plant going into winter. Also, carbon load has a
pre emergent harbicide. So when you watered in, the nutrients
go into the roots and the pre emergent harbicide goes
into the soil surface and it ties up there where
it prevents wheat seed germination. Two steps, one activity carbo load,

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you fertilize, and you prevent the weeds with one step
from the folks at Nelson. Again, it's a purple bag
from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. I recently was down
at Moss Nursery checking out some of the stuff they
got going on down there. I always love to go
to Moss. Moss is one of those garden centers that's
just it's just a blast to go to the uh.

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One of the one of the things I like about
Moss is the way that you can just wander through it.
You know, it's a yes, it's a garden center, but
really Moss is a combination of a botanical garden with
a museum that is filled with plants and pots and
all kinds of good things that are for sale right
down there. And I enjoy wandering through it. I take

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my time. There's always something that's surprising. Their house plant
selection is just amazing. And it's constantly evolving, just constantly evolving.
So go check out Moss Nursery. They are in Seabrook,
Texas on Toddville Road. Moss Nursery dot com two eight
one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. They got

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a nice new selection of cool season color you know,
like snap dragons and things. They're all set up, although
they still have the fall decorations that you've been looking for.

Speaker 9 (29:02):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (29:03):
And I don't know. You're just gonna find good folks
that know what they're talking about. They can really help you.
They are experts at that.

Speaker 10 (29:09):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
They got plenty of bulbs in stock as well, Moss Nursery.
And again we're going into the cool season where a
lot of gardening comes indoors and you can find things
that you don't have. You don't have and you're saying, no,
I got every house planning of the sun. Okay, do
you have a schists, Matto glottis, you know the Wilicky eye,

(29:31):
they've got those. What's that? Go to Moss Nursery find
out it is really cool, really really cool. We're gonna
take a little break, we'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
To well.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Welcome by it. Happened to welcome back Gardenline. Good heavy
with us this morning on a great Saturday morning.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
Hey, by the way, you when you're out and about today,
well let's just do this. Would you at twelve o'clock
twelve to two come on out and see me at
RCW Nurseries. If you're going to be out and about,
we just to add that to you to the day.
I would love to have you come out, bring me
some samples. If you be on something identified. If you
just won't talk about stuff, we can do that too.

(30:15):
I'd like you to see RCW. First of all, a
lot of you have not been there yet, and you
need to. You need to check it out. It's where
Tombo Park, wind Boat Way it comes together. But let's see,
it's one of my last two spot stops. It's fall
that I'm going to be making out there. For those
of you are curious, the very final ones. Way out
there in Kingwood. I say, way out there, you and
Kingwood are going. No, it's right here, that's right. It

(30:37):
is wild Bird's unlimited in Kingwood. I'll be out there
a week from today. So, but for the greater Houston area,
right here in this around this central part RCW Nurseries Today.
That's my last stop of the season at the inside
the Houston area. Come on out and see me, bring

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me some samples and we will we will have a
good time. I wanted to tell you about D and
D Feed and Supply. I was out there just the
other day visiting with the folks there. We're always talking
about stuff, you know, like what are the products that
I see as ones that we're going to be talking
about on garden line because they, you know, they folks
will ask for those, and so what are some of

(31:19):
the ones that I see on the horizon we need
to be using or we're talking about right now. And
I always like going into D and D. Their selection
is unbelievable, you know. I if there's a product that's
hard to find, they probably got it, and if they
don't have it, they probably can get it for you.
But they also carry all the fertilizers that we talk about,
you know, Nitroposs, Microlife, Nelson, Medina products, and then the soils.

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They have a pretty wide selection of airloom sools by
the bag. They're at D and D Feed and Supply
now they're on the west side of Tambol actually west
of Tumbull three miles west on twenty nine to twenty,
so it's really easy to get right out there to
them and back two eight one three five one seventy
one forty four two eight one three five one seventy
one forty five for real high end lines of dog

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food too, by the way, quality food for your pet,
and then everything else that you're going to be needing.
I know we got cold weather coming pretty soon, and
they do carry a little thing called a freeze meser
that works really good at protecting your faucets and things.
Just go out to D and D Feed and say,
I want that little thing you put on the faucets.
It doesn't freeze. I'm telling you about them now, and

(32:22):
you're going, yeah, but there's no freeze for it. When
it's forecast, people are going to clean them out. They're
gonna be gone. So get yours now in D and
D Feed, and Tom mall tell them Skip talked about
this little freeze thing you put on a faucet. We'll
go there and get one. They work, believe me. All right,
there you go. Ciena Mulch is one of those one

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stop shops for everything foundation you know earlier I was
talking about Sylvie and the foundation for our gardens and
plant success. And when you go to Siena, you come
home with everything that you would need to get that
soul ready. Of course, that includes composted organic materials, you know,
bed mixes. They do carry by the way, heirloom soils,
Vegie nerb mix, Cinamultch is down southe Houston. If you

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want to find out more about it, go to Sienna
Multz dot com, cienamultch dot com. There you can find
out everything, phone numbers, where it's located, hours of operation,
all of that kind of thing. They are open today
from seven thirty to two and close tomorrow. But during
the week seven thirty to five pm. You can have
them deliver within about twenty miles for a delivery fee.

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They will do bulk delivery. They can do the supersacks delivery.
If you do a three supersacked minimum. Can't just built
one supersack and haul it all. Not economical to hal
haller it around and deliver just one. But they will
deliver a minimum of three, and you will need three
if you're doing any kind of a landscaping work. And

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they also carry vego beds for you to see, as
well as some really cool things that make good gifts
too inside the store. So when you go there, make
sure and step in or take a look at what
all they have and look at the setup of beds
and landscape bling that they have outside as well. Now
I said they carry everything for the foundation. They carry

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fertilizers for microlife and medina and nitroposs and nelson and
asamite also they carry those.

Speaker 7 (34:19):
So if you're in.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Meridian or Pomona or Alvin, maybe you're in Quell Valley
or Lake Olympia of Riverstone or Manville, this is just
in your backyard. See animalch get your ground right so
that your plants will thrive. And you can do that
with the animals. They make it easy. So I've got

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some things on my to do list, you know, I
think I've told you this more, but I like to
cross Okra varieties and develop new varieties and things. That's
something going on in my garden all the time in
the summer anyway, And I've got to get out there
and do some selections, my final selection. Get those seeds
they're already dry out there on the pods, and got

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my tags and everything on them, get those ready to
go so I can pull those out. I'm getting a
late start on my cool season garden. But you know,
okras kind of taking over the whole place. So that's
okay what I like to do. Time for me to
get out the broccoln cabbage, cauliflower called robbie collars, kale,
Brussels sprouts. I'll probably still plan a little bit of
beets out there. And it's time to get carrots in.

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It's time to get some spinach in and lettuce. And
I would encourage you this year try some greens you've
never grown before. Okay, so everybody in Texas knows what
lettuce is, and it's in our gardens, and we know
it's spinach is it's in our gardens. But what about
all the other greens? Baby kale greens are a nice twist.

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How about a regula kind of has a nutty sometimes
a little peppery flavor to it. In salads, there's something
called ridicio that's got a bitter taste to it that
is actually a nice twist to add a zip to
a salad. Sorel has a lemony flavor to it. You've
ever grown soorrel before? You ought to. It's a good plant.
It grows well here. It's another good choice that we have.

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There's plantain. There's something called corn salad. I don't know
why they call it that, but it doesn't look anything
like corn. Just a little very succulent, little round, roundish eared,
roundish eared, roundish leaved plant. That is a good sold
plant I grow sometimes I grow buckhorn plantain, kind of
off and on. So there's a lot of different things

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that you can put in the garden for flavor during
this cool season. I would encourage you to get out
and do some of that yourself. If you haven't been
out to in Chenny Gardens lately, you need to go
check them out. They have got such an outstanding selection
of cool season color right now, just lots of things,
you know, from mums to the snap dragons and all

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the things you think of is cool season color. They
also have the fall bloomers. Now would be a good
time to go introduce yourself. So I want you to
show me the things that bloom in the fall, because
think about this, look at your landscape. How does your
landscape look in the spring? Well, good everything blooms in spring.
I mean it's like that's the season of flowers. But
then there's summer, which is more challenging, and then there's fall.

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People forget about fall. They have things like Greg'smithsflower and
others for the fall. They also have those bulbs for
forcing and bulbs for planting out in your garden. So
the indoor amarillis that you can force indoors and then
move it outdoors planet in the garden and it will return.
Most of them were returned for you a year after year.
It's kind of cool. Enchanted Gardens is on the Katiefollshier

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side of Richmond, on the Katie Fusher side of Richmond,
and Chandit Gardens Richmond dot com and Chanted Gardens Richmond
dot com. They're on three fifty nine i FM three
fifty nine. It's an unforgettable place, great service and by
the way, yes, they carry all of the things I
recommend forgetting that soil right, like microlife and nitrofoss and

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Nelson plant food and Medina soil and molt products from
Nature's Way and heirloom soils. You're gonna find they're at
Enchanted Gardens on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. Enchanted
Gardens Richmond dot com. We're coming up on our top
of the ear break. Just a reminder that I'm going
to be at our CW nursery. Stay come on out

(38:17):
and see me. We're gonna be giving away some nitrofoss products.
I'll have some Texas Gardener magazines on hand. I'll have
my schedules on hand. If you'd like a copy of those,
I'll be bringing those with me. Anything you need identified diagnosed.
Let's see what can we do. How can we help
you have success?

Speaker 7 (38:36):
We can.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
We can certainly give you the correct answers to what's
going on in the garden and give you ideas for
how to take a certain spot and make it more beautiful.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
So bring me a picture, jan O.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
I've got a spot over here, just a kind of blaw.
You don't even notice that when you drive up or
drive by. How can we how can we draw the
eye over to that area and merely make it something beautiful.
It's fall, it's time to plant. Let's get that done. Who,
by the way, we don't grow enough ornamental grasses. We don't,
and they have a typically most of them kind of

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do their best. We'll call it blooming. The little bloom
slash seed heads or a grass in the fall that
will be a great time to plant.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
Some had grass scantal some.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Of the Muley's the natives so much more.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Welcome to Katie r h garden line with skin rickards.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
They taste seats sid side.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
All right, we're back. Let's do this, hey gardeners, let's
talk gardening this morning. What kind of questions do you have, Well,
give me a call. We'll be happy to visit with
you about those. If you've got any kind of metal
furniture outside, I want you to go check out a
website and that is Houston powder Cooders dot com Houston

(40:30):
powder Cooders dot com. Or go to the Facebook page
or Facebook page Houston powder Cooders dot com. Check out
the kind of work they do. They will take if
you got old aluminum furniture, or maybe you have things
that are like cash iron or wrought iron, even decorative
things outside, even things like portrailings or maybe a little
gas lamppost. Some people still have those out in front.

(40:53):
How about a barbecue pit that's a little in the
not so pretty side. After ages of being out in
the in the l elements, go to Houston Powder Coders. Yes,
by the way, their coatings can take barbecue temperature. They
absolutely can. They have over one hundred colors in stock,
been around since twenty seventeen up on the north side
of Houston. But it doesn't matter where they are, because

(41:13):
they're going to come get it from your house wherever
you're living. If you're hearing my voice right now, they
probably can come get it at your house. I've known
them to go as far as the way is like
San Antonio direction, even so give them a call. Here's
the number two eight one six seven six thirty eight
eighty eight. You can email them a picture of your
stuff and they'll email you back a quote on what

(41:35):
it would take. They'll come get it, they'll fix it,
they'll bring it back, they get rid of the rest.
They put on brand new hardware to make it all
fresh and pretty, and I mean it's like new, literally
like new, beautiful, beautiful work. Houston powder Cooders dot com.
It's gotten out of Spring, Texas and we're going to
visit with Trey this morning. Hey Trey, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (41:56):
Hey get good morning. I tried my hand at a
patio gardena last year in a big pot. I'm hoping
to get some fragrance on the back patio. I don't
know if I got over watered by my sitter when
I was out of town, but I want to try again,
So I want to get your recommendation on wind and

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maybe how to do it successfully.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
Yeah, I mean, you can do those anytime you want.
They're going to be blooming. They're not going to be
blooming of course in the winter time, so if you
want to wait until spring to put one out, you could.
If it's going in a container, it kind of doesn't matter.
If it's going in the ground, I would definitely get
it fall planted. You could also fall plant the container,
but either way, get you a good quality mix to

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go in that, maybe like a rose soil or even
just a real good quality blend. Get it as big
of a container as as practical for you to do.
And that's because when summer comes and it's blazing hot,
the entire water of availability and nutrient availability for that

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plant or in that container. So a little container means
not a lot of water, so you're gonna be watered
a couple times a day. Maybe if it were a
big plant and a small container, and you'd like to
go the other direction with it, so that that would
be it getting good sunlight. They like good sunlight, and
then water them with a fertilizer that has acid loving

(43:24):
plant food in it, or fertilize them with that and
then watered in.

Speaker 11 (43:30):
Okay, can they take some evening sun.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
Skip They can, you know, if they got adequate moisture.
It's just when you start getting in a container, it
can They drain very well, which is good, but it
can it can get a little on the dry side.
And so as long as you know, ideally you'd rather
give it a little break from the worst of the
day sun. But they can take it. Just kind of

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watch your plant and see you may have to get
a little dolly out there and wheel it over to
a different spot if if it's looking unhappy. But if
you can keep it moist I think it can do it.

Speaker 8 (44:08):
Good. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (44:10):
All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate that tray. You
take care. If you've got a call and you'd like
to ask a question. Seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four, that is the number you need
to call. Hey, I'm going to be at RCW Nurseries
today from twelve to two, twelve noon to two, and

(44:30):
I hope you'll come on out. They I always enjoy
going number one, the great folks, great folks. There, good
selection of plants, quality plants, things that things that you
would want to put in your landscape. And what we're
going to be doing there today is I'm going to
be answering gardening questions. We're going to be giving away
some nitro FoST products, and I hope you're going to

(44:54):
be wandering around and taking a look. You know, it's
the perfect time to get those shrubs and trees and
vines in. I got some vines from them, oh about
a year ago, the Confederate jasmine, the star jasmine. Trey
was just talking about fragrant, you know, liking a fragrant
plant around. That's exactly why I planted my star jasmine
from marshyw. They just a wonderful fragrance when they bloom

(45:18):
during the growing season. Many other plants they'll fit that bills.

Speaker 12 (45:22):
I know.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
I've seen the guardenias out there as well too, But
lots of good plants and get you one to take
them home today. Because it is time to get these
things planted. Best time of the year to do that.
While you're there, you're gonna be able to pick up
your fertilizers that you're looking for. They're the ones we
talk about here on guard Line. And you'll also find
why you're there that they just have a great selection

(45:44):
of landscape bling you know, the metal signs and the
art yard art kind of things and whatnot. It's kind
of cool, kind of fun. It makes it makes it fun.
So come on out and see me. We're gonna have
some snacks, so we're gonna have some drinks there, and
I'll be giving away some Texas Gardener magazines for those
of you who don't subscribe yet, because you need to.

(46:05):
I'll have my schedules on hand as well. And you
can just peruse the folks property. There are Texas excuse
me RCW RCW nurseries. Look at the shrubs and look
at the trees that they have. By the way, if
it's a larger one and you know you can't pick
it up and take it home, they can come plant
it for you. That is a service that they you know,

(46:26):
of course cost some I come out and plant a plant,
but they know how to do it right, and if
you let them do it, you're not putting your car
prectors kids through college because you try to pick up
something too heavy, because it doesn't take very big of
a pot for it to be too heavy for us
to be lifting ourselves. RCW Nurseries corner of Tomball Parkway

(46:48):
and belt Way eight. I'll be there from twelve to
two today and I hope you will come out and
see me there. RCW is one of the places it
carries night Foss products. You're looking for this Texas three
step for example. The three steps are the three things
that you need to get done asap. Every day you

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delay is a day that you will miss the opportunity
to get some of the best effects of these three products.
What are the three It's a fertilizer, it's a weed preventer,
it's a disease preventer. One, two, three, Texas three step.
The fertilizer is Nitrofoss's Fall special designed for fall applications.

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The weed preventer is Nitrofus's barricade. I talk about those
all the time. You find these on my schedule. The
barricade put down and watered in prevents weeds, and then
that the disease prevention is nitrofoss eagle turf fungicide, which
is taken up by your lawn to help protect it
against infection from brown patch. All three of these need

(47:49):
to be watered in. So what I would do Someone
asked me the other day, well, can I put them
all on at the same time? And the answer is
the same as I always give. It's yes, yes. Don't
put them all in the same hopper, because particle size
is different and you're not going to get even distribution.
Get that fertilizer, put it all over the lawn, come back,
get the barricade, change the setting, put it all over

(48:12):
the lawn, come back, get the eagle turf fungicide, change
the setting to what it needs, put it.

Speaker 7 (48:16):
Out and come back.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
And then then water the whole nine yards in at
one half inch of water. To move it down in
the soil could be a third of minutes. That's probably enough.
Third of a minute, but get them done in the soil.
Now where do you get them all? Kinds of places,
Like I said, RCW on the Beltway carries it. You're
going to find them at aspase ace and woodlands. You're
going to find them at Court Hardware and Stafford as well.

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Let's take a little break here, we'll be back if
you'd like to give me a call. Seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Hey, welcome back garden Line Pogus today with us today.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
You know, fall is a great time to be doing landscaping. Uh,
it is just the best season in the world or
plant and plane getting things done now that we've got
a little break from the weather. The hot weather makes
it kind of pleasant to be outside getting things done. Listen,
if you are looking to get a really nice landscape

(49:12):
renovation done, or if you're looking to maybe do something
from the ground up, you know, like brand new house.
We call that a zero scape. When you start off
there's nothing out there until somebody comes up and plants it.
You need to have the folks at Piercecapes come up
and do that. They are our preferred landscaper here on
Guardline and they do outstanding work. If you will go

(49:33):
to their website you can see and get inspiration for
the kind of work.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
That they do.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
That website is Pierceescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com two
eight one three seven fifty sixty. Whether it's landscape lighting,
whether it's improving the drainage, whether it's redoing a section,
maybe a bed or an area. Maybe it's the whole
thing for the ground up. They can do it all
at Pierce Scapes. They also do quarterly maintenance, which is

(49:59):
a very good thing to have them come in and
do once a quarter. They come in, they replenish the molts,
they get any weeds out, they make sure their irrigation's working,
and as agreed on with you, they may do color
color changes, you know, like right now, pretty quick here
we're taking all the warm season color out in our
flower beds and we're putting glue season color in. That

(50:20):
is an example of a color change that I'm talking about.
Quality folks. All the licensing and the really distinguished landscape, irrigation, drainage, backflow,
pesticide certifications and licenses, they've got it all. They're professionals
at Peerscapes peerscapes dot com two eight one three seven
fifty sixty. Let's go now to sugar Land and we're

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going to visit with Carol this morning. Hey, Carol, welcome
to garden Mine.

Speaker 13 (50:46):
Good morning.

Speaker 14 (50:48):
I have when I walks through my grass, I have
little white bugs that swarm out of the grass. They
are not moths. But I went ahead and I treated
with bug out about three weeks ago and they're still there.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Okay, white bugs. Can you describe them to me a
little bit more? What you're seeing, what they look like.
If they're not.

Speaker 14 (51:09):
Mos, they're tinier, they're like a gnat.

Speaker 6 (51:16):
Okay, that is not a lawn pest. The only real
lawn pests we deal with here are grubs and side webworms,
which should be going away now that you shouldn't be
having those right now. They're certainly not for long if
they are. And chinchbugs are three of the more common

(51:39):
things that you might see. But what you're describing isn't
a lawn pest. There are a lot of different things
out there in nature, and I would ignore them. If
you would like to get some and take a picture
of them and send them to me, I'd be happy
to take a look and to give you a second
opinion on that. But that would be up to you.

(52:00):
Just have to capture some. If they're too elusive to
get them a hoole still for a picture. Capture some,
put them in a little plastic bag or something, stick
them in the freezer for about thirty minutes, and then
bring them out, and then you can take a picture
of them.

Speaker 14 (52:14):
Should I go ahead and try again with the bug outs?

Speaker 6 (52:19):
Well, I mean you could try again. I don't know
that they need to be killed.

Speaker 12 (52:24):
You know.

Speaker 6 (52:24):
There's most insects are not passed. Most of them are
either of no plus or minus to our landscape goals
or their beneficial insects. And those bugs I think are
probably in the first category of they're neither good nor bad.
But if I looked at them in a picture, I
could I could try k Thanks so much, you bet,

(52:49):
Thank you, Carol, appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (52:52):
Bye bye.

Speaker 10 (52:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:54):
We have a lot of critters out there, you know
there and and sometimes you just get an outbreak of
something like WHOA, what's going on here? And it may
not mean anything, you know, we have we have a
number of things that can occur in our landscapes that
are just not They're not gonna in this case, like
with the lawn, They're not gonna make your lawn. They're

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not gonna eat your lawn, kill your lawn, or make
it look ugly or anything like that. But it's always
we're sending a picture. Remember here on guarden Line, you
can call the producer, you can get an email. You
can send me a picture and then follow up with
a call. I'm not able to type out all the
answers to all the questions and things, but if you
send me a picture and then call, we can we
can discuss it and I'll have that picture in front

(53:35):
of me. That that's very very helpful. By the way,
you can also show up at RCW Nurseries today with
your bug and a bag and we'll be happy to
take a look at those. Come on out. We're given
away some nightro Fast products. Well ago, I forgot to
tell you RCW is going to be given away a
citrus also a shade tree, and then got some other

(53:57):
little cool things that they're going to be given away
there as well. So, uh, there's another reason to show
up maybe when one of those. The phone number here
if you'd like to give me a call is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four.

Speaker 12 (54:16):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens out there in Katie, Texas
outstanding gardens center. I always love going to visit the
folks out at Nelson's.

Speaker 7 (54:26):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (54:26):
You know, they're known for the water gardens. I mean,
they absolutely are national leaders when it comes to quality
water gardens. And that would be everything from a full fledged,
you know, beautiful a waterfall in the backyard, just something
as simple as a circulating pot, a recirculating container where

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we call that disappearing fountain. You know the water goes
up at the top, rolls over the side and goes
down and then recirculates back up.

Speaker 15 (54:54):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
They can come out and do those for you. They
can tell you how to do them and sell you
the parts if you want to go that route. Remember
that at Nelson they have the refilling stations for Microlife
and Nelson Plant food products. So you take you by
a jar of those products, you use it up, you
bring your jar back and just refill it for a

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very economical charge, and you don't go away. The plastics
makes good sense. We need to be doing more products
like that in our lives. They got a nice selection
of herbs out there if you'd like to create a
beautiful herb container. If you're looking for cool season color.
Nothing is as bright and beautiful as cyclemen. And they

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have nice selection of cyclemen as well, really cool Go
check them out at Nelson Nursery and Watergardens. Here's the
website Nelsonwatergardens dot com. They're not in Katiefort Ben Road
just north of the Katie they're on Katiefort Ben Road
rather right north of the Katie Freeway, just head north
across the railroad tracks. I in my old landscape have

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been doing a little bit of replenishing of mulch, and
that'd be a good thing for you to do right now.
By the way, replenishing mulch periodically helps maintain that block
of sunlight from reaching the soil surface. And you want
to maintain that because when sunlight hits the soil, nature
will plant a weed. Nature does not like bare soil

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areas it fills. Whether they say nature abhors a vacuum,
it's going to put something there, and that's something you
will call it a weed when nature plants it out there.
So replenish the mulch. Remember this, and this question I
get periodically and it always kind of surprises me. But
people will ask, well, when I put out fresh mulch,

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do I get the old multch out of there? And no,
absolutely not put the fresh mulch on top. The old
bult is becoming good soil amendment by the time it
hits that stage. And think about what nature does. Do
you see, You know, deer and bears out in the forest,
raking up the leaves each year so the new leaves
can fall on the ground. No, the new leaves fall

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on the old leaves, and it just gets richer and
richer and richer as time goes by. I've got a picture.
I had an art astromia picture of that one that
was pretty funny. It looks like a far side cartoon.
But anyway, that is what you do. Replenish the maults
always good. Good to do it going into winter, before
the winter weeds are germinating, or if they've even started germinating,

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you cover them with a layer of about three or
four inches of mulch and you'll block the sunlight out
and they'll die. You don't have to pull them up.
And then in the summertime when it gets hot, you
want that mulch too to help moderate the soil temperatures.
Then as well, Southwest Fertilizer outstanding place to find whatever
you need. Corner of Bissinett and Runwick in Southwest Houston,

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right where it's been since nineteen fifty five. Southwest Fertilizer's
been around. Actually, I think the store moved once. I
need to ask Bob by that. I think you told
me one time a store. But Southwest Fertilizer as a
business been around since nineteen fifty five. So seventieth anniversary
this year. Do you believe that a business run seventy years?
That means you're taking care of your customers. That means

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that you're giving them quality products. When they go in,
they're getting expert advice because they want to come back
to you instead of trying to save a nickel by
going to some big box or something where they're not
going to get the right product or the right advice
in most cases. Just because Southwest Fertilizer is family run operation,

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Bob Patterson and his wife there along with the team
at Southwest Fertilizer, they know how to give you good
advice and they know how to treat you with that
old fashioned service that you come to expect. And I'm
telling you this, nobody can beat their selection. I don't
care what it is. If it's fertilizers, if it's things,
to control pests and weeds, things to control disease. If

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you're an organic gardener, you want only organic products. You're
not going to find a bigger selection than Bob has
a southwest fertilizer corner of Bessinet and Runwick seven to
one three six sixty six one seven four four seven
one three six sixty six one seven four to four.
Someone was asking me about doing uh aeration and fertilizing

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and stuff on the law and say, well, who can
do that? Well, down south of the Houston area, B
and B turf Pros does it. They go from sugar
Land all the way across down you know, down Highway six,
so communities like uh Manville and Alvin and Sienna and
then Acrop, Pearland and Friends with a little of the
north all the way to forty five and beyond League
City and Dickinson. They do core aeration, they do compost,

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stop dressing, they do fertilization. They make your lon look good.
They only use top quality materials like the lethal composts
from the folks at Ciena Moltch. They're all about customer satisfaction,
quality products, quality work. Because they want to make a
positive relationship with you for an ongoing benefit to your landscape. Uh,

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fre aeriration, well not free oration. They used to do
a thing with the cost of the two are actually
about five hundred bucks as you start out, But that's
a lot cheaper than replacing lawn areas. And I'm telling you,
I know of nothing that can give you a lawn
the boost and the new energy breathing life in the
soil like a good core aeration followed by a compost

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top dressing. And BB turf pros dot com is the
website BB turf pros dot com seven one three two
three four fifty five ninety eight. We'll be right back,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Who could tell me the name of the band.

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
And what else they signed it? That's the that's the
challenge listeners on gardens. When I was a kid, there
was a serial called Super Sugar. Is that still around?
Super Sugar Crisp? I don't, I don't know. I don't
buy cereals, I don't know. Anyway, on the back they

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would press records into the back of the cardboard cereal box,
well forty five size records and you can take them
and put them in a record player. Yeah, we used
to have records and that was one of the songs.
Super Sugar Crisp was the cereal and that was sugar Sugar.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Bye.

Speaker 6 (01:01:26):
You tell me. All right, let's go out to spring
and we're going to talk to Jerry this morning. Hey, Jery,
welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:01:34):
Hi, thanks for taking my call. I surely enjoy your show.
We've been in our house. I have I have a
lot of root problems from big trees, and I have
been dutifully following Randy's and now your your schedules. I

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just put downe. I use microlife, microlife and barricade anyway.
I have cororated for and top dress, but I keep
losing grass because these roots are so big. And now

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when I try to aerate the proms just kind of
bounce off of some of these big roots. It doesn't
seem like I'm getting much done that way.

Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
And so.

Speaker 15 (01:02:31):
At this point it just seems like my front yard
is in kind of a decline. And give me suggestions.

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
Yeah, there's like a double or triple whammy that goes
on in a lawn as the trees get older and bigger.
One of them is a lack of light, a lack
of sunlight, and sunlight is energy. So when you turn
the light down to half bright with some shade, that
means you have the energy or less that the plant
has to grow to support growth. And then the other

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issue with the roots is that, yeah, they're in the
way of air rating, but also the soil just pretty
much is full of wood and you know, so instead
of having all this soil for plans to root in,
the available soil is decreasing because you've got these big
old roots that are just almost side by side everywhere.
It makes it very difficult for the grass to grow

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and establish. The air rate have to be done very carefully,
carefully by hand, with a little spading for it, kind
of working it in. But even at that it is
very tedious. I've tried that, and it's very tedious and
frustrating to try to do. So I think the decision
to be made is this Saint you said, Saint Augustine
or did you mention the type?

Speaker 15 (01:03:47):
I didn't say, but it is St.

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Augustine, Okay, So that's the most shade tolerant. And so
if it's not growing well, there comes a time where
you just decide to go different than a lawn.

Speaker 15 (01:04:02):
There.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
You know, there are things that grow in more shade
like a riope and monkey grass and some of the
winding groundcovers and things that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:10):
Do well inside.

Speaker 15 (01:04:13):
Yeah, I say, I do get my trees cleaned out
every year, mainly for hurricanes. Uh, you know, keep the
canopy cleared.

Speaker 8 (01:04:24):
Out so so.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Brightening it does help.

Speaker 15 (01:04:29):
Uh huh, So I actually do think that I'm trying
to keep the sun in there. But uh, as far
as would it, like you said, you really nailed it
when you said it's uh, it's gotten to woody and
underground that there's just.

Speaker 7 (01:04:48):
So would Yeah, it's just a combination.

Speaker 15 (01:04:54):
Yeah, would it be at all possible? I'm sure it
costs a lot of money. Just bring a whole bunch
of of top soil to build it up and then
have it sodded or something, or that be a fool's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Errand well.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
It may help a little bit for a little while.
You don't want to put too much top soil around
because it tree roots are, believe it or not, they
can be smothered. They grow where they can get oxygen
to the surface, and if you were to put four
or five inches of soil in it would it would
seriously stress those trees bad. So maybe an inch or

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two or at a time, you know, putting some in
and bringing it up a little more. Maybe you could
go two inches, depending on how big of an area
you're going with. I would just I would. I can't
see your yard, so I can't really like say we'll
do this here, do that there. But you know, some
some other things other than grass I think are going
to be the longer term option. But a little bit

(01:05:56):
of top soil and then resotting is fine. It's just
the grass is not going to the energy to maintain good,
strong growth. So it's gonna it's gonna be okay for
a little bit. As you do that pruning to get
more light in. I don't know how much more light
it's getting, but that's another factor, you know, is it
ten percent more, is it forty percent more?

Speaker 8 (01:06:13):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
You know whatever, that that's the trade off. And you've
kind of hit that stage where now you have a nice, big,
beautiful trees, but trees and moons don't like each other.

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:06:25):
Sure. And one last thing, as a cautionary tale for
your other listeners, I think some of this is kind
of self imposed because in the earlier days I used
to water more frequently but more shallow. And I think
I've heard that that causes the roots to come up
for the water. And so now I watered twice a week,

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but real deeply, and I think I've been doing that
all these years that I may not have quite the
same problem.

Speaker 6 (01:06:55):
Well, and you know, you can train a grassroots system
and it's not like for years you did that and
now it's just you're stuck with it. I mean, I
would not even water once a week ought to be
enough in shade, for sure. I have shady areas that
I water about every two or three weeks, so you

(01:07:16):
could even go further than that. But anyway, bottom line is,
I think we've already kind of covered the key points.
You just yes, you can do some of those things
are going to help a little for a little while.
Or you can make decide to just kind of rethink
that area as maybe a portion of it you put

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into a groundcover or some beautiful shade loving shrubs or
something along those lines. Okay, but I wish you well,
you're you're kind of at a crossroads or Jerry, thanks
for the call. Appreciate that A lot folks at Microlife
have a product for fall and it's called brown patch,
and it's in a brown bag. Doesn't that make it
easy to remember? Brown bag brown patch? Microlife it's a

(01:07:58):
fertilizer for fall the extra boost of sixty three different
species of beneficial microbes, all of which do something good
for the plant. Some of them help fix nitrogen in
the soil, some of them produce growth compounds that stimulate
the plant. Some of them fight fungi for example. There's

(01:08:19):
just a lot of different microbes that help the plants
and sixty three different species and Microlife brown patch the
brown pag It's time to get it down. I've been
trying to get you to put that down for a
month now, and it is definitely time to get that
down on your lawn so you can enjoy the best success.
And it will help your soil in many ways as

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it slowly decomposes away and releases those nutrients through microbial
activity in the soil. One of many great products from
the folks at Microlife all Right Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
If you want to learn more about it, like where
to get it and what other good products that they have.
They got a great line of liquid products too. By
the way, that you need to check out at Microlife

(01:09:03):
Fertilizer dot com. You're listening to Gardenline the phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
give me a call. Let's talk about the things that
are of interest to you. The folks of Buchanans Buchanan's
Native Plants on eleven Street and the Heights. Boy do

(01:09:25):
they ever have an excellent selection of cool season color
right now. It's beautiful. But they got a couple of
events going on. You know, Buchanans is always a place
you go to get the widest selection of natives anywhere
that you're going to find. That's just how it is.
They're Buchanans. They've got this the products for your soil,
and I was talking about Microlife have a full line

(01:09:46):
of all the Microlife products are night Foss, Nelson's heirloom soils,
just really quality things. But they got a couple events
coming up that I'm going to give you a little
bit of a head start on these. But first of all,
there's the Harvest Floral Workshop that's November twenty fifth, That's
a Tuesday. But I'm telling you ahead of time so
you can schedule it, so you can sign up, so

(01:10:07):
you can get your tickets. It does require tickets because
here's what's going to happen there. You are going to
learn the fundamentals of floral design by creating a seasonal
flower arrangement. It's an hour long class. You get all
the fresh flowers, the materials, the instructional time by someone
that knows how to do this, and they provide it

(01:10:27):
and you just show up with your creativity and your
love for flowers. And I don't care what your skill
level is. If you're a professional or if you're just
a beginner, take part in this Harvest Floral Workshop Tuesday,
November twenty fifth, from twelve to one, right over the
noon hour toapt by Ponderosa Looms by the way. And
then on December sixth is the Holiday open House. And

(01:10:50):
this you do need to put on your calendar. It
is a free event. They have every year the Holiday
open House to as you're in the new season. We
have live music, they have kids crafts and will be
there from from ten am to three pm. During that day,
there's a food track and a lot more going on
at Buchanans Native Plants at eleventh Street in the Heights.

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Now it's a free event. The Holiday open House is
a free event. The Harvest Floral Workshop. You have to
purchase your tickets. Which where can you get those? The
website Buchanansplants dot com, buchanans Plants dot com. Just go
over to the events tab and check them out there.
Let's take a little break and we'll be right back
with your calls.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Good to
have you with us.

Speaker 6 (01:11:36):
Looking forward to visiting with you about the things that
interest regarding gardening. Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. That's the number where you can reach me.
Can you have a gardening question? Folks at Wall Birds
unlimited always or carrying the products for whatever season, for
whatever birds that you need. Quality products. You know they're

(01:11:59):
they're wild birds, unlimited bird feed for example, not filled
with the cheap red bebes that birds kick out on
the ground like cheap bird feeds are. In fact, i've
seen those well over fifty percent red bebes, and they're
not really bebes. That's what I call them, because they
might as well be as far as benefit of the birds.

(01:12:20):
They don't want most birds in all like those at all. Anyway,
you're not getting a good deal. I don't care which
paid for the bird seed if you're getting a bunch
of those red bbes in it. My low basically is
what it is with wild Birds Unlimited seeds. You're looking
at blends of what birds want to eat, and you
can say, you know, I want to attract this kind

(01:12:40):
of bird or I want to track that kind of bird,
and the experts at your local Wildbirds Unlimited store they
can point you to the bird seed that's going to
give the best results for you. Right now, we're recommending
wild Birds Unlimited Winter super Blend. It's back. We do
that in the cool season because the days are shorter.
Birds don't have as much time to get out there

(01:13:02):
and do their feeding. Less daylight hours for them to
hunt down all their food. Plus it's kind of a
hard time to find things to eat out there, and
so the Winter superblund is designed. It has high fat,
high protein gets those birds through the winter season just great.
If you haven't cleaned out your bird feeders recently, do
that now, get them down, clean them out, get all

(01:13:22):
if there's any chances are if they've been there. While
there may be some moldy bird seed down in there,
clean all that out. That's not good for the birds either.
And we're going to be getting a lot more birds
coming through here. The warblers, the kinglets, I think, or
will be showing up soon if haven't already. And go
talk to your wild Bird's Unlimited store and say, hey,
what brings them in? You know, like you see a

(01:13:44):
bird like the ruby crown kinglet for example, maybe that
peaks your fancy. Well, they'll say, well, get some suet,
get some bark butter bits, get some meal words, get
some sunflower chips. They love those things. That's what I'm
talking about. These folks know what they're talking about. It
wild Birds Unlimited, quality seed, quality feeders, quality bird housing,

(01:14:06):
and most importantly, accurate quality information with friendly service. Wild
Birds Unlimited. Go to find the store near year. They're
six up here in the Houston area. WBU dot com
forward slash Houston. That's all you need to know. We're
going to go out to Spring now and talk to
Rich this morning. Hello, Rich, welcome, regardline.

Speaker 9 (01:14:26):
Good morning. Skip question regarding the difference in what I
should be using between nitrofoss total brown patch control which
has PCNB as the active ingredient, and EGLE which has michelobutanyl.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
They're both excellent products. Actually for brown patch. The PCNB
is probably the best product that you can find anywhere
for brown patch. The micro buttant NILL is going to
do a good job because it's moving systemically into the
plant at controlling some other diseases too, like take all
root rot. It provides some suppression of the take all

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root rot as well, or if you're using it at
a time when you know, great leaf spot and other
things are out there. So each has its own pluses,
but I the PCNB is great for brown patch specifically.

Speaker 9 (01:15:20):
Great. Appreciate that. I'll go buy a bag and put
it down.

Speaker 6 (01:15:23):
Thanksgiving, all right, you take care, Thanks Rich, appreciate your call.
Good question, by the way, A good question. I was
visiting with Jorge down and jorgees hid and gardens Ory
and his wife were out and about there. We stopped
in to visit with him, and I tell you just

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I always like to take it to the place to
see what he has lately. And I was looking at
his uh, what's my favorite spring blooming flower? For those
of you listening to guard Line, or tree. It's not trees, uh,
it is Chinese fringe tree billows friend igrant white blooms
in a tree that doesn't get so big. So you
got the typical size lot that we have these days,

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or maybe you've got a big lot and it's just
got some other things on it. Chinese French trees are great.
Oryes got those. He's got a lot of things there.
You know, you go down to Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas.
That's the address. It's actually you're in Alvin, heading towards
Santa Fe direction.

Speaker 12 (01:16:22):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:16:23):
That's that's where you're going to run into Jorgees Hidden
Gardens on Elizabeth Street. Here's a phone number seven one
three six three to fifty two ninety.

Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
I was looking.

Speaker 6 (01:16:32):
He had some really beautiful holly bushes too, some really
excellent hollies if you're looking to create a nice screen.
Seven to one three six three to fifty two ninety Now.
He's open Tuesday through Friday ninety three, and Saturday and
Sunday from eight am to four pm Saturday, so today
and tomorrow eight am to four pm. Now on the weekends,

(01:16:53):
the kids help out. The family is it's a family
operation out there. They may even show up and greet
you and you get out of your car. So just
come on out Orges Hidden Gardens and look at the
products that he has quality. We looked at a lot
of different kinds of fruit that he had while we
were there.

Speaker 16 (01:17:10):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:17:10):
And he has his own.

Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
Special prioritized I would say, line of fertilizers that the
folks that know some pint food to put together for him,
or a special blend, and you need to check that out.
That is also excellent. He also carries a three sixty
tree stabilizer, So you put a new tree in the ground,
you need one of these to hold on to it
and it'll it'll allow that tree just enough movement to

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create a strong trunk, but at the same time prevent
it from moving too much until it gets a good
root system established. Orges Hidden Gardens seven one three, six,
three two fifty two ninety simple as that. Well, you're
listening to Garden Line and oh my gosh, where did
this hour go? Holy cow, I just took the top

(01:17:56):
of the hour break a minute ago. Well, I guess
they say time flies when you're having and we are
here on Garden Line. We look forward to hearing from
you if you'd like to give me a call and
be first up. But when we come to the next
hour that's just around the corner, just put that phone
on hold. Well, we'll be right back with you seven
to one to three two one two, five eight seven

(01:18:17):
four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
I'm gonna be at RCW Nurseries today noon to two,
twelve to two RCW. They're gonna have some snacks, they're
gonna have some drinks there for you. They're gonna be
giving away a citrus tree. They're gonna be giving away
a shade tree. We're going to be giving away some
nitrophoss products. I know the folks at RCW have some

(01:18:40):
extra goodies that they're going to be providing. I'm going
to be bringing some Texas Gardener magazines. I'd love to
put one of those in your hands and let you
take a look at this great magazine, which, by the way,
I cannot think of a better Christmas gift for the
gardeners on your list than a Texas Gardener magazine. I
mean a subscription. You can do the print subscription or

(01:19:00):
you can do like print and online. I use the
online a lot, because you can go back and look
at just even though you subscribe today, you can go
when you subscribe, you can go backwards and look at
Texas Gardner magazines going back years prior to this, and
it's like you just get access to the whole nine yard.
That's really cool. Anyway, I'll be giving away some of those,

(01:19:24):
So come on out and see me as the long
as supplies last. Bring me your samples, bring me your questions,
bring me pictures and things we can diagnose or identify
or maybe help suggest something beautiful for your long and
for your landscape. All right, in the meantime, I need
to reload a cup of coffee here so I can
continue to make reasonable amount of sense, keeping my brain

(01:19:48):
firing on all cylinders.

Speaker 10 (01:19:52):
So many.

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
They're not a sun.

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
Sun between.

Speaker 7 (01:20:15):
Starting in.

Speaker 6 (01:20:23):
All right, gardeners, welcome back to guarden Line. Hey, we
got a good day for gardening today, Oh an outstanding day.
It's going to be beautiful. The weather is perfect, perfect perfect,
can't meet it temperatures, good sunshine. Home man, oh man,
I can't wait to get out to r C w
UH and meet some of you folks that come out.

(01:20:43):
I always like to meet people that listen to garden
Line and gives us an eye to eye time. The
way I like to put it is, and this is
just a fact.

Speaker 7 (01:20:51):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:20:51):
Here on the radio you can hear me talk and
maybe I can answer a question or two on the air,
but when we do the personal appearances, it's an eye
to eye time, or we can discuss the questions that
you have, look at samples, kind of back and forth,
you know, like a personal consultation right there, and it
just makes for a much better interaction. So I hope
you'll come on out to RCW Nurseries today twelve noon

(01:21:14):
to two pm. Twelve to two pm. They're gonna have
some snacks, they're gonna have some drinks on hand. They're
gonna be given away a shade tree and a citrus
as well as well as some other cool little bling.
I'm gonna have Texas Gardener magazines out there as as
far as they last. The folks that come out, I
want to put one in your hands so you can
take a look at that great publication. You need to

(01:21:35):
subscribe to it. And if you've got any gardeners in
Texas anywhere in Texas, family and friends, that's the perfect
Christmas gift for a gardener, right there, both get them
the print and the online version. That way, you can
look at it either way. The online's good because it's
that resource of back issues. All right. Well, if you've

(01:21:57):
got a gardening question, here is the number seven to
one to three, two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
The folks at Medina have so many good products. You know,
I always think about which one do I want to
talk about. Usually in the fall, I'm talking a lot
about the hastro Goro six twelve six, that high phosphorus fertilizer,
because we're planting things. Whether you're putting in a put

(01:22:20):
a like not a petunia this time, but a perhaps
a viola or a penzy or a lissam or some
other cool season you watered in with that. If you're
putting in a rosebus, you watered it. You make putting
in a tree, you're watering it in with the Medina
hashtrogros six twelve six. But there's a lot of good
Medina products. I like Medina plus a lot, and you know,

(01:22:42):
Medina starts off. They got this Medina soil activator there's
just an excellent product. Years and years it's been around
in gardeners love it, they swear by it. Now they've
taken the Medina cel activator and what they did is
they added to it over forty different trace elements. A
side of kina, which by the way, is a naw
vital growth hormone that comes from the seaweed extract that's

(01:23:04):
in Medina plus. It's got many magnesium and iron and
zinc and some other things like you know, you probably go, well,
what's that for? Para aminobenzoic acid, and riboflavor and diamond
and biotin and nicotinic acid and all kinds of other things.
They're all part of the complex of things that plants
are enhanced by. That plants need, that plants grow, that

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causes them to grow, causes them to produced to set blooms,
to produce blooms, to make better growth, to help ease
the stress of transplanting Medina plus. Get you some Medina plus,
because I can tell you this, whether you're using it
as a folier feed, whether you're drenching it over a
root system, however you're going to use it is good

(01:23:47):
for the plants. And they will respond and you will
see good results. Another one of the good products that's
available from the folks at Medina. Diena has been around
with garden Line since gosh almost I know back in
the nineteen fifties they were sponsoring Doe Compton. So, I
mean you remember old Doo, do you Compton? Well, let's see,

(01:24:11):
I wanted to visit with you about a couple of
things before we get into calls here in this next segment.
One of the things is herbs and fall. There is
not a better time to plant herbs than the fall. Now,
there are a very few exceptions, like basil. For example,
if you just walk out to a basil plant and
say fifty degrees, it starts getting really unhappy. It just

(01:24:35):
doesn't even want to hear about fifty degree weather. But
all these other herbs, you know, time and oregano, just
love to be planted in the fall. For example, if
you're looking at chives, if you're looking at lemon balm,
if you're looking at just I could just go on
and on pineapple. Say that's another that's an herb I

(01:24:55):
really like because it has red tubular flowers in late
summer and fall and the leaves smell like pineapples. Hummingbirds
love those flowers too. By the way, fall is a
time of plant herbs. You don't have to have a
formal herb garden, although you could if you want one.
But I would just tuck them in here and there.
I've got herbs that are groundcovers and other plant bes,

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and the herbs are the groundcover over the top of
the surface. I think that's a great way to grow them.
You kind of get two for one, you know, instead
of I got this little square foot space, so I
get a plant in it, plus I also get an
herb groundcover in it. That sounds like a good deal.

Speaker 15 (01:25:29):
It is.

Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
That's a good thing to do in the fall season.
Also in this fall season, you want to make sure
that your lawns are strong going into the winter, and
that requires good nutrients and the soil. That's why on
my schedule, if you go to gardening with Skip dot
com and look at the lawn care schedule, you'll see
the nutrient options for putting down in the fall. Both

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organic and synthetic options are there on the schedule. And
it's a very important fertilization. I can't stress enough just
how important it is to get the fall fertilization in.
It's the most important of the year. A turf specialist,
a researcher in turf told me that one time, and
I thought, how can fall be the most important. We're

(01:26:14):
about to go into winter, so what's the fertilizer going
to do? Why not Summer wouldn't that be the most important?
Or spring? Well, they're all important, but in fall you
were preparing that plant for winter heartiness and for early
spring growth. And the fall fertilization helps establish a good,
strong plant. And the sooner you do it the better
because with each day, with each drop in temperature, with

(01:26:36):
each shortening of day length that goes day to day,
you're getting less and less of the benefit that potentially
you could have by fertilizing according to my schedule in
the fall season. So Gwen, do that, get that done.
It's important. The folks at Arborgate have such an outstanding
selection of plants. I love going there just to wander

(01:26:59):
through and see what they have, you know, visit with
the folks there a little bit, such a good team, too, friendly, knowledgeable.
This is this is personal service when you go to Arburgate.
I've said this before. But it's not like you go, well,
I'm looking for such and such plant and they point
and go, Okay, it's over there in the back, over it,
right over there. No, they take you to it. They

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walk you to it. And if you've got other questions
like what will go with this plant, how do you
have success, how do you pune this plant? Whatever your
questions are, they know what they're talking about. And it
is enjoyable to visit with the folks the team at Arborgate.
But it is also just fun to go through there
and see all the plants and all the blank all
the landscape blane that they carry. Now on Tuesday, November fourth,

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that's next Tuesday at ten am. You don't want to
miss this. Chris Weisinger from the Southern Bulb Company. I
had Chris on Guardenline one time as a special guest.
Chris Weisinger is going to be talking on using per
ennial flower bulbs in the garden and the ain't nobody
that knows it better than Chris. He started Southern Bulb

(01:28:06):
Company here in Texas for Southern bulbs. You know there's
bulbs that grow elsewhere that are one shot wonders for
us you know, like a tulpero hyacinth or something. But
he sells bulbs that are quality, and he has stocked
Arborgate up. I mean more than just showing up with
his expertise. The shelves are stocked with a wide selection

(01:28:30):
of the best bulbs available for naturalizing in your landscape.
And listen, naturalizing is important. You buy the bulb once
and you get blooming dividends year after year after year
after year for no work on your part to speak of.
Now he's going to be talking on next Tuesday, November
four at the ten am. It costs ten dollars to attend.

(01:28:52):
Gosh that I don't know how they do it that cheap,
But he done ten dollars. But you got a call
to reserve a spot, because there's only forty spots a call,
and you gotta pay if you want a spot. Two eight, one,
three five one eighty eight fifty one. Don't miss Chris Weisinger.
He is a wealth of knowledge. He is a great speaker.
And while you're there, he's gonna have all the bulbs there.

(01:29:14):
He's restocked Arborgate with him and there you go. I
need it, Okay, I've done all I Can you gotta
take my word for it. It's gonna be good to
go be part of it. All right, let's take a
little break here. I've talked into my break a little bit.
We'll be right back.

Speaker 9 (01:29:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
There you are, Hey, welcome back to the garden line.

Speaker 9 (01:29:38):
Good to have you with us.

Speaker 6 (01:29:43):
Good to have you with us today.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
If you got a.

Speaker 6 (01:29:46):
Gardening question, it's as simple as giving us a call
at seven one three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 15 (01:29:57):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
The folks at Microlife have such an excellent selection of
different products. I've been talking about the Microlife brown patch,
the brown bag. If I have one three fertilizer for fall,
I want to talk a little bit about some of
the liquids. They have super Seaweed Microlife super Seaweed. It
is a green label. It's available in gallons and quartz

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as well. And they have Microlife Ocean Harvests that's a
four to two three a blue label bag. Those two
are make a great combination together just because of the
nutrient content and the content of other compounds, especially in
that seaweed too. Those are excellent indoors. I use the
Microlife Biomatrix the orange label seven one three Microlife Biomatrix

(01:30:40):
seven to one three the orange label. There are other
good products, the Humanates plus the af bioanoculant that's a
good one, the Microlife molasses product, the Microlife Soil and
Plant Energy, the Microlife Maximum Bloom. That's a high phosphorus fertilizer,
which also means it's good for roots too, even though

(01:31:01):
it has blooms on there. That hyphosphorus is good for
root development. So with transplanting in things that would be
part of it. And sometimes I'll make a concoction, you know,
I'll use a little bit of this one with a
little bit of that one because I want the benefits
of both of them. For this situation I'm using all right,
that's Microlife microlifefertilisure dot com. Check out some of the
liquid products. Have them on hand because you're gonna need them.

(01:31:22):
You'll be inside taking care of your house plants this winter,
starting transplants and things like that. You're going to want
some of these liquid products from Microlife on hand because
they work. The folks at pest Bros. I was visiting
with Rendel the other day and I think I said
this last weekend, maybe, but I was asking, you know,

(01:31:43):
so what's happening right now, you know, or is it
like season to be concerned about termites or what? And
he was in, Really, the big deal right now is
folks getting all shook up about varmints getting in the house.
You know, rats and other things, squirrels in the attic.
They can come to your house, they can do an
assessment of it. They walk around, they look, they can

(01:32:04):
tell and things say, hey, look right here, you've got
an open spot where a pipe is going into the wall,
and a rat can fit through there. And it'll surprise
you what little tiny area they need to get through
and to get in, or a mouse for example. And
they can close those off for you. They can they
can pest proof if you will your houses, but you
need to give them a call, have them come out

(01:32:26):
and do that. Two eight one two o six forty
six seventy two eight one two o six four six
seven zero. Sometimes the things that go bump in the
night or varmints in the attic, and so we want
to avoid that at all costs. Also, here comes Thanksgiving,
here comes the Christmas holiday season. We need to make
sure that Grandma doesn't get alarmed by cockroach running across

(01:32:48):
her foot when she's visiting. They can come out, they
can do treatments to shut things down, whether it's you know,
issues like silverfish or pantry pests or whatever you got.
They know how to treat with the effective way, with
the least concern about toxicities and issues, so you get

(01:33:09):
the results you want that lasts, by the way, without
all the worries. Call them for a quote two eight
one two six forty six seventy two eight one two
zero six four six seven zero, or go to the
website the pest Bros b r o sdpestbros dot com.
You're listening to guardline. The phone number here is seven

(01:33:31):
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. I
was just looking at the weather during break and oh
my gosh, I mean this is what they call it,
timber of commerce weather. Uh like almost no chance of
rain whatsoever, like twenty five percent or whatever. Uh temperatures today.

(01:33:54):
We're gonna when I'm at our RCW, it's gonna be
it's gonna be a great, great nice day because the
temperature is going to be seventy three, seventy four and
seventy five or seventy five is a high today? Can
you believe that? Oh man, what a day to get out.
Come on, happen to see me at RCW twelve to two.
By the way, for those of you who haven't been

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listening this morning, twelve to two, glad to visit with
you and help you in whatever way we can. Uh
if you you know, prunting season is coming, but now
would be a good time to get your prunters sharpened.
You can do it yourself. You can go online and
learn how to do it. Some of the quality prunter
brands even provide information online on how to sharpen them.

(01:34:37):
Or you can take it to someone you know. You
got local folks in the area that do sharpening and whatnot.
And get those printers ready to go. Make sure they're
oiled up and ready to go. A quality set of
printers is going to last you essentially forever.

Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
They just do.

Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
Many of the quality brands you know have got the
kind of steal to kind of build, the kind of
design that last. Some of them have removable plays aid,
so want a blade has been sharpened eight hundred thousand
times and gets worn down. You just pop a new
blade on it and you're ready to go. Don't buy
cheap prunters. Don't buy cheap tools period. I wish I

(01:35:12):
had all the money back for over the years when
I bought something that was lower quality because I felt
like it was a good deal, and then you end
up throwing it away and spending the money that it
takes to get a quality one and ended up saving
your myself money in the long run. That's another good
gift too. By the way, the holiday season coming up,
quality set of prunters, So just to tip there, just

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something to be thinking about. We're looking out for you.
We're looking out for you, trying to help you to
have success in your holiday shopping. By the way, it's
okay also to drop hens. You know, maybe there's something
that you would like out there. Hey, have you been
doing channel forest recently? Really really cool supplies of all

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kinds of things. They got them in the house plan area.
They have a plant called a pisha. If you've never
grown an a pisha before, they've got the flame violet,
a pichia. Think of something in the African violet family.
But very different. We're growing them primarily for the beautiful leaves.
Now they do bloom. Apieceis do bloom. One of my

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daughters was into a pisia and she raised a pieces
for a while. They just they have a almost have
vining habit, but like a strawberry plant. They put out
daughter plants, you know what I mean like that and
a piece is a really cool plant. Anyway, they got
those enchanted forest. They also have beautiful color selections all

(01:36:38):
of the things that give you color for fall, and
that would include things like snap dragons and alyssam and
pansies and violas and whatnot. Their house plant selection is,
as I said, great, the great bulb selection. If you
want amarillas forcing amarillis, you need to get them done,
get them now because that is a wonderful plant and
a lot of times it can go outside. Now if

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you want to see something really cool. On November first,
which is wet day today, right right at ten am,
they're going to have Clint there from Snakes and More,
and he's going to be talking about Native Texas snakes.
This guy is he's an expert on it. He's gonna
be there. It's free talking and go ahead and see it.
Take your kids. Some of them will think that's really cool,

(01:37:21):
really cool, and chend it for us Richmond, t X.
That's it. And while you're there, leave room in the
car because you're going to want to go home with herbs.
I was talking earlier about this is a time of
plant perennial herbs. You've got an excellent, excellent selection. We're
going to go out now to the phones.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Here.

Speaker 6 (01:37:38):
Who am I talking to today? And where are you
calling from.

Speaker 7 (01:37:43):
Us to day?

Speaker 10 (01:37:43):
From Dickinson?

Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
Hey Dave, how can we help.

Speaker 7 (01:37:49):
Skip?

Speaker 10 (01:37:50):
So I know we've talked in the past about, for instance,
oak tree and standing away from the soil around an
oak tree whenever you're building a new home and like
all the way out to the canopy of the tree
so perfectly. Yes, recently bought yep, I've recently bought this
wooded lot with some giant pine trees on it. There

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anywhere from sixty to ninety foot tall. So during construction
on my house, how do I need How far out
away from the trunk of those trees do I need
to keep the construction folks away?

Speaker 6 (01:38:28):
So the real answer is as far as possible. But
if you can get to the branch spread. That would
be kind of the standard. We say, if you can
get that far, that's good and safe. Now there's not
a magical line right there at the edge of the
branch spread, but the idea is with each foot you
get away from the trunk, the amount of roots that

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are going to be damaged drops considerably, and so just
getting it as far away as you can, directing traffic,
especially vehicular traffic, away from that area as much as
possible because that's sole compaction and damage from that. Any
trenching you need to do. Again, the further away from

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the tree you get, the less percentage of roots will
be completely severed in the trenching process. And if you
had to do two trenches, do them both on the
same side of the tree. So once you've cut roots,
going out further for another trench isn't going to cut
anything because you've already cut the roots that are out there.
So trying to keep the trenches like that, that's a help.

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If you end up losing you for whatever reason, have
to lose roots because of one thing or another. When
we get into next summer, making sure you do supplemental
irrigation because that tree is going to be going into
the heat with less of a root system than it
went into winter with, so that would be another tip.

(01:39:55):
I'm about ten sure or fifteen seconds from a break here.
If you want to hang on, we can continue the discussion.
I just have to go go to a hard break here, Dave,
But hang on or thank you for your call. Either way, folks,
we got to take a break. I'll be at RCW
Nurseries today from twelve to two. Don't forget that. We'll
be right back after a quick break.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
Here we go. All right, folks, welcome back. Good to
have you on Guarden Line. What are we going to
talk about today?

Speaker 6 (01:40:26):
You tell me seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
One three.

Speaker 6 (01:40:37):
That that cracks me up? One week? All right, let's
see what were we visiting about. I had something on
my brain before we went to break there. Oh I
know what it was.

Speaker 9 (01:40:47):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:40:48):
House plants are something we don't talk about a lot
on Guarden Line, but I really encourage you to consider
your indoor scape like you consider the outdoor scape. Now,
there are houseplants in general like light, and our houses
in general are not very bright. And so what we

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need is we need to increase the light where we
can or find houseplants that fit that area. It's very
difficult to increase the light without knocking out a wall
and putting in a wall full of windows. But there
are houseplants that can take a very low light environment.
ZZ plant is one that puts it likes more light,
but it can take quite a bit of low light conditions.

(01:41:30):
The one called mother in law's tongue or send saveria
the proper name for it, can take a little bit
lower light as well as very bright conditions. Both of those,
if you forget to water them, they're going to be okay.
In fact, I like to say it this way. If
you can't grow a San sabaria mother in law's tongue,
I can't help you because I mean it's pretty much
just a silk plant. You just put it out there

(01:41:52):
and look at it, and it's going to be happy.
So that would be a good one. I like Chinese
evergreens called agli onema. Now it likes light and it
does its best in more light, but it can take
a medium amount of light as opposed to a bright light.
It does really well. Then we do have other plants
the closet plant. The name kind of clues you off there.

(01:42:13):
That's one that can grow and less light. Does that
mean it wants to be in a closet low light, No,
it wants more, but it can grow in less light
and do just well. So what are you looking for
in your home to create beauty? It could be a tall,
upright plant in a corner. It could be plants that
are on a table. One thing that I like to do,

(01:42:33):
and this is just a tip here is I'll combined
plants into a container that they are not planted into.
Here's what I mean. So you go and get you
several different kinds of housepunds, some smaller ones, some taller ones,
some vining ones, well like that, and you get you
a large It could be a basket or it could

(01:42:54):
be you know, if you're into rustic, you could get
one of those oval galvanized smalls. You know that galvanize
you know I'm talking about. They're oval like a racetrack,
and you put your plants in it, in the pots
they're in, and then fill in around it with moss.
And there's different ways to do this. Some people, you know,
put styrofoam pellets. Peanuts, you know, the packing material in

(01:43:19):
the bottom, and then they set their plants in among them,
but the moss makes it look like it's all growing
together and it's not. And then you can take them out,
you can water them, you can put them in more light,
you can get them good and healthy and everything. And
then when you have a gathering you're having people over,
just put them together and it's gorgeous. It'll be a
conversation piece. But that's a technique. It's called cheating, but

(01:43:41):
it's okay to cheat like that. It's your plants. You
could do what you want with them. So there's just
another idea. And then, of course we're in a holiday season.
We're gonna have all kinds of holiday plants that people
are putting out for decorations and whatnot. But why not
add to your houseplant collection because as we get cooler
here and there's some days where it's not much fun

(01:44:01):
to be outside, you have something to do inside. So
just a tip, just a thought, all right, Leake City Feed.
I was just there the other day visiting with Wes,
and you know, the store has been around for a
long time, over forty years now, and Leak City Feed
is that old time hardware store where you get the

(01:44:24):
old time service. And I just like the feel of
an old time hardware store, and that's what it is.
I was going through looking at all their products just
this last week. I cannot believe how many different products
they carry, you know, all kinds of things to control pests,
weeds and diseases, all kinds of fertilizers, you know, nitrofuss
for azamite, microlife products from Nelson plant, food, soils from

(01:44:50):
heirloom soil. They have several, like five or six mem
or no, at least six different kinds of heirloom soil
bagged products there at Leake City Feed. Now they're on
Highway three, just a few blocks south of the Highway
ninety six in League City. But all of you people
in that region, this is your hometown feed store, and
I would suggest you go over there and check it
out and see why I like it. When I was

(01:45:11):
getting in my car to drive off, here comes a
guy out the door with a bag of feed, followed
by a customer, or following a customer out to their car.
They carry out for you. It's at old time service.
League City Feed two eight one three three two sixteen twelve,
and they're open Monday through Saturday from nine to six.
That would include today Monday through Saturday, nine to six,

(01:45:32):
closed on Sunday. League City Feed. Whatever you need for
success in your lawn and garden when it comes to pest,
weed and disease control and fertilizers, you're going to find there,
along with some really nice, upper high quality if you will,
pet foods. Also some really high end lines at League

(01:45:53):
City Feed. Our phone number if you'd like to give
me a call seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Did I mention when I start at
League City Feed because they carry asmite too, Asian mites
all over the place. I mean, gosh. I go into
feed stores and hardware stores, you know, ace hardware stores.

(01:46:14):
I go into our garden centers that you hear me
talk about here on Garden Line and more, and you're
going to find asamite and all of them. It's a
product that is mined in Utah. It's micro nutrients, also
called trace minerals. Why micro Why trace? Because they are
essential but only needed in tiny amounts. That's what makes

(01:46:35):
it a trace mineral like the three numbers on a
fertilizer bag, or nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium always in
that order. We need a lot of those, but trace
minerals are equally important. They're essential, but we only need
a tiny amount. That's what asmite provides. You put it out.
A forty four pound bag of asmide'll cover six to
twelve thousand square feet a lot. I like to use

(01:46:57):
it in vegetable gardens too. Ten pound bag covers one
thousand square If you a vegetable garden area, A little
bit goes a long way because you just need a
little bit of it, but it is essential. And when
you put it in the bank account of the soil,
those plant roots which you're making withdraws from the nutrient
bank account every day, they're essential for plant growth. They're
making every day, they're making withdrawals from the nutriment bank

(01:47:20):
account and the soil. By putting the asmte down, you
know you've got all the micros you need right there.
Azemite Texas dot com. That's a website, azemite Texas dot com.
Find out. But when you go out there, you're gonna
be you've already fertilized. Maybe you are already fertilized. Well
gets some az of mind. You can do azemite any
day of the year. It's not like nitrogen fertilizations that

(01:47:42):
we do, where we have certain times you have to
do them. Go look at my schedule, Go look at
my lawn care guide. I primarily have them being applied
during the growing season, but you can put it down
anytime you want. You put it on December January if
you want to. It's not going to volatilize away like
nitrogen well or wash ay like these do. Anyway, I've

(01:48:03):
said enough, but as might works. That's the bottom line.
That's all you need to know. Visitying with Sherrit plants
for all seasons. Just the other day stopped in I
was going through taking pictures. Oh my gosh, the color
is so beautiful. There so many color options, and of
course their herbs and other things. They have a lot
of wonderful trees and shrubs. And I'm telling you don't

(01:48:25):
wait until spring when you get the fever. Decide what
trees and shrubs you want and get them in the
ground now. And now's the best time to plant them.
And they are loaded up with them there at Plants
for all seasons, all the ones you want, the best varieties,
the best species that you're gonna have. You can go
to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com and
check them out there. You can give them a call
to eight one three, seven six sixteen forty six. Look

(01:48:48):
inside the shop now it is it just keeps getting
better in there. Their tools, selection of quality tools is outstanding.
Their selection of seeds is a whole wall solid with
seedside the shop there and quality expert advice and the
products you need to manage whatever is after your garden.
All their plants for all seasons. And where are they located.

(01:49:11):
They're located just north of Lueta on Tomball Parkway Highway
two forty nine. Let's take a little break and we'll
be back in just a moment.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
Hey, welcome back to Garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:49:27):
Good to have you with us.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Hey, if you haven't been to Southwest Fertilized, you need
to get over there.

Speaker 6 (01:49:33):
You need to see this place. You hear me talk
about it all the time. I tell you that nobody
carries the product line that they carry. They just don't
they stay up to date. Whatever comes that new Bob's
going to have it in there. And it's the way
I like to put it is, if they don't have it,
you don't need it. And what I mean by that
is they have everything you need, you know, and there

(01:49:55):
may be some snake oil somewhere that they don't carry
because it doesn't work right, But everything that works they're
going to have, and they're going to have a selection
of options of it. Again, I don't know why I'm
talking about gifts today, but I guess we're getting close
to entering that season. But if you've got a gardener
in your list, how about a high quality printing tool,

(01:50:17):
a brand like Folcore Corona, the kind of stuff that
really lasts. How about that kneeling seat that I keep
talking about. They've got those there. Bob Carry's is there
as well. If you are an organic gardener, again, the
largest organic selection in the Greater Houston area period, that's it.
So for your fertilizers, from night to foss from Nelsen's,
from Microlife from Medina for example, the azemite product I

(01:50:42):
was talking about earlier, they got it all at Southwest Fertilizer. Also,
they're knowledgeable. You go in there, they're going to be friendly.
They're going to treat you right. They're going to give
you the products availability that is exactly what you're looking for.
And then if you bring them a sample or a
bag of you know, some weed you want identify it
or leaf disease or bug or something, they're gonna be

(01:51:05):
able to do that, and they're going to point you
at the right product. If it needs a product to
control it, they're gonna be able to point you in
the right direction. They're in their seventieth year right now.
Southwest Fertilizer, corner of Bisinett and Renwick seven to one
three six six six one seven four four seven to
one three six six six one seven four to four.
You are listening to garden Line and our goal here

(01:51:27):
is for you to have success and for you to
have fun, for gardening to be an enjoyable thing.

Speaker 10 (01:51:32):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:51:32):
But that is, you know, that's what it's supposed to
be all about. It always makes me sad, and it's
a I look at it as a personal challenge. When
someone tells me, yeah, I got a brown thumb. Yeah,
everything I plant dies. I can't grow anything. I'm not
a gardener. I wish I could. My mom can my
grandma can, but my dad can. But that makes me

(01:51:54):
sad because listen, you do not have a brown thumb.

Speaker 7 (01:51:57):
I need I need you to.

Speaker 6 (01:51:58):
I know you're busy doing something, but just stop a
minute and hear this. You do not have a brown thumb.
You have an uninformed thumb. If you'll bring your thumb
to the radio, we will talk to your thumb and
we will inform it, and all of a sudden, you
will think you have a green thumb because you're simply
learning to see things from a plant's point of view.

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You're simply learning to take care of plants in a
way that provides them what they want. It's as simple
as that. There are no green thumbs. There are simply
people giving plants what they want. That's what makes a
thumb look green. And that's what we do here on
guard Line. And gardening should be fun.

Speaker 11 (01:52:38):
What do you like.

Speaker 6 (01:52:39):
We have a lot of kinds of gardeners. We've got
the lawn rangers, the weekend warriors. You know their thing is,
I want a green lawn that's perfect, that's flat, that's
evenly trimmed. There's not one weed in the entire lawn.
That is my bride and joy. That's what I want.
Good for you go for it, make you want. Then

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we've got the people that are plant collectors. They want
one of everything. If they don't have a plant, they
have to have it. If they go into a garden
center and they see a plant they don't have, they
got to have it. Where are you gonna put it
when you get home? It doesn't matter. I want this plant.
And then you get home and you walk around looking
at what you can't do, where you can't put it?
All right, I wouldn't advise that approach, although I follow that.

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Sometimes when I see a plant, I think I have
to have But that's okay, you can have fun. There
are people that are all into indoor plants and gardening.
I mean, there are people that do nothing but orchids.
That is their extent of their gardening is collecting orchids
and taking care of orchids. Oh my gosh, what a
fun hobby. There are people that are in the road.
We have plant societies, and we've got the Rose Society,

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and we got the Plumeria Society, and on and on
down the line. Every plant just about has its own
society that's out there, except for a ball moss. And
I'm going to be the founder of the ball Maas
Society someday because that poor plant gets no respect anyway.
I digress. Have fun out there in the garden. That
is really really important. Enjoy what you're doing, and when

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you have success, you will have more fun when you
grow something to eat that you really love. Like, let's
just you know, tomato is like the poster plan of
all the vegetable garden in terms of beloved people love tomatoes.
That's the number one vegetable. Well, when you grow a lush,
vine ripe tomato and you bring it inside, you're going

(01:54:29):
to have a blast. First of all, you get the
thumb your nose and laugh at all the mockingbirds that
weren't able to find that tomato. And then you're going
to go inside and enjoy it. In the cool season.
Some of the healthiest food you can grow all year
long are our cool season vegetables. Outstanding, outstanding, but easy
to grow. It's not hot outside. Anybody be a gardener

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in the cool season. It's not that hard of you. Well,
have fun, enjoy it. And I could go on and on.
I could talk about herb gardening, I could talk about
your little fruit orchard. Do you have a fruit or true?
Do you want one? I can talk about containers for
the patio. I could talk about blocking views, the screening plants.
I could talk about designing a landscape that appeals to you.

(01:55:11):
Some people want it to be perfect and square and
right angles, and you know, Louis the fourteenth the state
looking place. That's good. It's your place.

Speaker 12 (01:55:21):
You go for it.

Speaker 6 (01:55:22):
Some people want it wild. They want a cottage garden,
a cottage gard You know what a cottage garden is.
It's an excuse for a mess with plants. I know
some of you just got offended. I'm just saying I
have no problem with cottage gardens. But it's just it's
a random thing. You know, you want things to It's
a planted garden that looks more like nature planted it

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than like we lined it all up in rows and stuff.
That's okay, you can do that. That's just fine. It's
your garden. Seen you in the hoa as well. I
like to put it. But what do you want to grow?
What do you want to enjoy?

Speaker 12 (01:55:57):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:55:58):
Do you want your garden to be a place to live?
You can you can have structures like arbors and whatnot
to enjoy being out there. But just get out there
and enjoy it and do it. That's the main thing.
There's a spotting gardening for everybody. Everybody. Now, if you
want to have success, you got to start with the soil.
In Nature's Way resources is where good soil in the

(01:56:20):
hoastnaria was born. Actually it was born in nature, but
you know what I'm talking about. Nature's Way is where
we first found some of the great products developed there,
like roast soil, like leaf milk, compost. Nature's Way is
where you go and you find the products for the
kind of plants you want to grow. You have acid
loving plants like blueberries and azaleas and camellias and guardenias hydraga.

(01:56:43):
Even go to Nature's Way and talk to them, says,
so what I want to grow. They'll put the right
soil on their list right in front of you, say
that's what you need. Right there. They have a two
acre nursery with all kinds of fruit, trees, native treat
native plants, even houseplants and vegetables. One of the large
selections and natives in our area. You'll find that at
Nature's Way you can find it by the bag. You

(01:57:04):
can get it by the bulk. You can buy it
from there, go pick it up. You can if you
don't want to pay delivery, pick it up there, or
you can have it delivered to your house, or you
can find it by the bag in many operations. They
even have a couple of locations around Houston now that
are carrying their leaf mold composts by the bulk. So hey,
it's not hard to do. You know, you're getting a

(01:57:25):
good quality product from Nature's Way Nature's Way Resources dot Com.
That's the website, Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Go there,
you find the phone number, you find the location, You
find out all about the many quality products that they
have at Nature's Way Resources. All right, when you're there,
say hello to Ian and also to Leo and the

(01:57:47):
whole team there at Nature's Way Resources. They'll get you
set up, all right. Music means time to quit talking
because we're going to go to a little break here.
Don't forget to be at RCW. Will you come out today?
RCW nurseres from twelve to two twelve noon to two.
RCW nursries either answering your gardening questions. Let's see the

(01:58:12):
folks at RCW are given away a citrus, They're given
away a shade tree and some other things. They've got
some other things in mind there. I'll be also there.
We're giving away some nitroposs products from the folks at
Nitrofoss today. You've got to be present to win, so
show up out there twelve to two. Bring me samples, pictures,

(01:58:33):
things you want to talk about, we'll visit about them.
I always have a good time out at RCW. I
love that place. Corner of Tambo Parkway and BELTWAYA Tombo Parkway,
Hiway two forty nine and belt Way eight right there.
Easy to get in, easy to get out.

Speaker 1 (01:58:49):
Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Skimp Richard.

Speaker 16 (01:58:53):
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Speaker 10 (01:58:58):
Yes on.

Speaker 4 (01:59:02):
Just watch him as they give things there.

Speaker 17 (01:59:18):
Not a sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
S morning, gardeners. How were you?

Speaker 6 (01:59:32):
I'd be outside right now. You can take guard Line
with you, you know that. All you got to do
is get the iHeartMedia app. There's some other apps that
probably do it too, but I use the iHeart Media app.
Go to find guard Line and you can listen live
and the past shows on your phone or on your
computer if you want to go that route. Either way,
you can also listen to k t r H online

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on your computer. I find that with my mobility going
around doing this, that and the other, it helps me
just to put my phone in my pocket, turn it on,
turn on speakerphone, and or use headphones, whichever way you
want it. But anyway, get out there and get your
gardening done at the same time that you were enjoying
yourself listening to garden Line. You can call me in

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during during that time too. One of these days I'll
get I'm gonna get a picture from somebody who's out
in their garden that they saw something and they want
to know what's that weed, or what's that plant, or
what's wrong with this or whatever, and I will actually
be live from their garden that day. I guess when
they call in. Anyway, you get the idea. Hey, Affordable

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We're going to go out to the phones now and
talk to Donna in Walnut Bend. Hello, Donna, welcome to

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garden Line.

Speaker 18 (02:02:22):
Good morning. If i'd having had a treat. I had
a tree taken down and they're grinding the stump, and
a lot of the ships or sawdust or whatever is
is going in the old flower bed, which I hope
to fix up, but some of it's going out into
the grass. Do I need to amend the grass or

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help the grass in any way?

Speaker 6 (02:02:44):
After that, well, try to rake out all that you can,
because you don't need to be covering it up with
chips and soil and all that. So get as much
out as you can and then don't worry about the rest.
Just do your normal fertilization that you would normally through
the year.

Speaker 18 (02:03:03):
Okay, all right, and then just one more thing that
for the immense amounts in the flower bed or in it.
When I say flower bed, it's a very large flower
bed that the tree was in. I brought in a
couple of yards of soil, good, good soil. Do I

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just mix that. They're going to take out as much
of the sawdust as possible, but it's I can see
if the machine is chipping it, it's mixing it with
the soil that's already there. So I just put the
other soil in, dig it in, and let it just, yeah,
be composed or whatever.

Speaker 7 (02:03:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:03:44):
I would say for one hundred square feet of flower bed,
you know, ten by ten or tuba or whatever, just
for about ever one hundred square feet, put a cup
or two of high nitrogen fertilizer and mix it in
as well as you're doing that, And what that'll do
is that'll boost the decomposition of those wood chips, so

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by the time you plant, it's not something you're going
to need to worry about the wood chips being in
the soil.

Speaker 18 (02:04:12):
Okay, Awes, right, listen, thank you so much for your help.

Speaker 6 (02:04:15):
All right, Dona, thank you appreciate that. Appreciate that call
very much.

Speaker 7 (02:04:19):
You bet.

Speaker 6 (02:04:20):
Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center, both of them
are out there in Kingwood, Texas. Warrens is on North Park,
Kingwood is on Stone Hollow, excellent places to go. And
boy do they ever have a good selection right now.
Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. They stay up
to date on whatever the season is, whatever kind of

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new plants are on the market, whatever you might want
to bring in. They really know their stuff. And so,
for example, right now, it's cool season, color season, and
it's also a season to be stocking up on house plants,
and boy do they have some beautiful, beautiful, colorful house
plants available, even one ghost plant. Ask them to show
you the ghost plants. Those are. They're called that because

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they're kind of a silvery white color. I mentioned earlier,
the Chinese French Street great spring blooming tree, medium sized tree.
They've got those on hand there at Warren's Southern Gardens.
Of course they do. They have everything that you would
need when it comes to fertilizers, when it comes to
soil products, you know, quality products like you would find
from heirloom soils. You're gonna have a good selection there.

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They've got the Nelson products, They've got the Microlife products.
They also have the dispensers for refilling your jars from
Nelson plant food and from Microlife. Both of those so
another reason to go out to Warren Southern Gardens and
Kingwo Garden Center. Both of them are open seven days

(02:05:45):
a week. Just got to get out there and enjoy
them great places. All right, let's see here. We are
going to go now to Galveston and talk to Jackie
this morning. Hey Jackie, welcome to garden.

Speaker 18 (02:06:00):
Hi, good morning, how are you.

Speaker 12 (02:06:02):
I've got.

Speaker 16 (02:06:05):
Hi, Good morning.

Speaker 13 (02:06:07):
I've got some plumrius seeds that I just brought back
from floor from my grandmother's plumary tree, and I need
to know the best way to start planting or seedlings.

Speaker 17 (02:06:16):
Like what do you recommend for like fertilizer to.

Speaker 12 (02:06:18):
Get them going?

Speaker 6 (02:06:21):
Well, there are plant foods called Plumeria plant food they're
they're specifically designed for that. The folks at Nelson have
one of those. It's it's called Plumeria. It's a blend.
It comes in little jars. You just want to go easy.
A little seedling doesn't need much in the way of nutrition.

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You're just gradually feeding it as you go, all right,
and so if you if you just give it a
little bit as it starts to grow a little bit more,
just be careful. You don't want to overdo it.

Speaker 12 (02:06:53):
Okay, okay, And as far as soil, would you recommend.

Speaker 6 (02:06:57):
As far as something that drains very well, a very
well draining mix, not anything that's mucky and soggy and
all that. You're going to use a small pot to
get them started. You're going to press those seeds into
the soil surface. If you will leave part of the
seed has a little wing on it, a little like

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sticking out like a little wing. And if you'll leave
leaving part of that seed wing sticking out above the soil,
that way you're not planting them too deep. Keep them
in a warm spot. A warm being about room temperature
during the day would be just fine inside and at
night it can be a little cooler than that. And
then you want to miss it regularly to keep it

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just slightly moist. But again, don't make it too soggy,
because that's not good for them. And then you know,
just it's mainly phosphorus. The higher phosphorus number is typical
for a plumeria fertilizer, So some people will just use
a soluble.

Speaker 2 (02:07:56):
Fertilizer for that.

Speaker 17 (02:08:00):
Okay, great, well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:08:02):
For example.

Speaker 6 (02:08:03):
Let me let me let me make a specific suggestion
for that fertilizer. Micro Life has a product called Maximum Blooms.
It's a hot pink color label. It's in a court
jar of liquid and it's a high phosphorus fertilizer and
it would be a good one to dilute down to
water your plymarious seedlings with Microlife Maximum Ballooms. Okay, the pink,

(02:08:29):
so much liquid and pink. All right, Jackie, thanks a lot,
appreciate that. All right, let's go to a little break
here and we'll be right back.

Speaker 9 (02:08:37):
You can thank me later.

Speaker 6 (02:08:43):
All right, all right, I heard somebody your uncle out there.

Speaker 2 (02:08:51):
Welcome back. We like surprise you ever know.

Speaker 6 (02:08:54):
And then with something you didn't see coming there, we
go welcome back to the guardenline. Hey, we are having
a blast today, and if you have a gardening question,
now would be a good time. We're in our last
hour today and so if you got a question, I
got an open board, so feel free to give me
a call. We'll see if we can help you. Don't forget.
I'm gonna be at RCW Nurseries to day now. RCW

(02:09:15):
is on the northwest side of the Houston area. It's
where Tumball Parkway and but Way eight come together. I'll
be there from noon to two noon to two two
hours there answering your gardening questions. We're gonna give away
a citrus, We're gonna give away a shade tree. We're
gonna give away a lot of other little things that
RCW is putting together, including some nitrophos fertilizers. There at

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RCW today. I'll have some copies of Texas Gardener, I'll
have copies of my schedule. I just want you to
come by and let's put some stuff in your hands
so that you can go home and have success. That's
what we're looking for. If you've got samples, put them
on a plastic bag and bring them with you. We
will take a look. If you got some lawn weed
that you need, identify it or something, let's take a

(02:09:57):
look at it, because I like to do that specifically
according to the weed itself. Now you see products all
the time and he just says, you know this kills weeds.
You know, well, no one product kills all weeds, just
like no one human medicine cures all diseases. Right, you
have to match the medicine with the problem you're trying

(02:10:20):
to prevent. And in the case of like weed control,
the timing and the type of product a pre emergent
versus a post emergent, a cool season weed versus a
warm season weed, applying it to fit the specific weed itself.
We got some weeds that are hard to kill, and
you can't just choose anything to get them under control.
There's others most weeds. Cultural practices go a long way

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to suppressing them. Getting a good healthy lawn. So let's
take a look at the specific ones you have, and
let's make sure and give you that personal constantation one
on one to help you have success. That's what we're
all about out there. And thanks to the folks at
RCW for bringing me out today because I always love
to go out there. It's a great place to shop,
a good good folks enthusiastic and also some really really

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nice plants, plants that belong in your yard. The folks
at Nelson Plant Food have put together just such a
nice selection of products of all types. But one of
the lines that they have is called Nutristar nutri Star.
So that's not the lawn foods, that's the turf Star line,

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the Nutristars specific plants. While Ago I told somebody get
some Nelson Plumeria food because that is a nutri Star product.
But right now I want to tell you about the
rose food, Nutral Star Rose food from the folks at Nelson.
Nutral Star Rose is an outstanding product for roses.

Speaker 9 (02:11:49):
It has.

Speaker 6 (02:11:50):
It's a really unique blend. It's got four different kinds
of nitrogen in it to encourage a vigorous root system,
to make sure that the leaf growth is good, that
the bloom production is good. It's just excellent for that.
Now you can use it for roses that you go
out and plant in the soil outside, or maybe you
have a raised planting bed, you can use it in there,

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or even in a container. You can use a nutri
Star rose from Nelson in a container. And I don't
care what kind of roads you got. Is it a
climbing rose, it is a shrub rose. Is it one
that you know down low like a groundcover or maybe
one of the miniature roses. I don't care. If it's
a antique rose, a modern rose. You know, everybody's got
a knockout. It seems like these years it was great

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for that too. Maybe even a vining or a climbing
that call them climbing rose. Like Lady Banks for example,
or many other types of climbing rows. It works on
all of them. It's a good product for roses, designed
for roses. It's got a good combination of all the
nutrients that you might have in order for you to

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have success. That's what it's all about. Nutri star rows
for the oaks at Nelson, You're going to find it
a lot of places around the Greater Houston area. Super
super product got hyphosphorus to fuel that flower production. Uh,
and even has a wide range of nutrients beyond the
Big three in order to provide success with your roses.

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All right, let's heat out to Alvin now and we
are going to visit with Chris this morning. Hey, Chris,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (02:13:24):
Hey, hey, good morning.

Speaker 8 (02:13:26):
Hey.

Speaker 17 (02:13:27):
I've got a con tree that about a year ago
I had to cut down to move in make room
to move in our new house. And I there was
tears shed because I had planted that tree as a
sapling and it was producing pecans. It is about eight
inch diameter truck at the very bottom I cut it
off flush with the grade. Uh it looks like a

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coon tree bush now and uh, well, well this thing
I'm pretty sure it was a gratu tree. Will this listening?
Can I leave it alone and just let it be
like combush or is it just going to be a bush?

Speaker 11 (02:14:02):
I mean, what should I do with it?

Speaker 6 (02:14:04):
No, it'll be a It'll eventually be a multi stemmed
rootstock tree. It won't be the variety that you planted
if you cut it down that load. I usually these things. Yeah,
oh pony, that's a good one. Well, I mean you
can get you another one and put it in at
some other place if you want. But what I would
do in order to not fight this battle too long

(02:14:25):
is in uh, the shoots that have come up, if
you will cut them off and dab the cut surface
with the product called in containing triclop here t r
I c l O p y R. If you'll go
Chris to my website garden Gardening with Skip dot com
and look at my list of herbicides for different kinds

(02:14:48):
of plants. You'll see from dash or leads, trees, wood
eat things, Triclo peer and it'll list a whole bunch
of Triclo peer containing products for you to choose from.
It makes it really easy, but you got to make
the cut and immediately dab it on. I use a
little foam brush, like you know, the paint brushes that
are made of foam on a little wooden stick, to

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dab it on that on that cut surface, and it'll
translocate down and it'll kill it. Otherwise you're going to
be fighting suckers and it's just a mass.

Speaker 8 (02:15:17):
Okay.

Speaker 17 (02:15:17):
Well, I mean I've cut down trees over a property
many times, and I would just cut them down and
I draw holes in them and just pour salt down
into the holes. It took a while to kill them.
But uh, yeah, that okay.

Speaker 10 (02:15:32):
I was I was.

Speaker 17 (02:15:33):
I was hoping that, well, maybe I'll have a pecan bush.
You know, I can be a lot easier to harvest
the pecans. But yeah, if it's gone back to the rootstock,
and I mean I prefer natives. They're smaller, but they
taste really good.

Speaker 6 (02:15:48):
Yeah that's fine, But just remember that those those shoots
that looked like a bush now are each going to
become you know, ten inch trunks in time, and you're
gonna have something that spits apart at the base because
it's not strong. The tree you removed, you're basically going
to end up getting it back, and so that's going
to be a problem with the house right there.

Speaker 17 (02:16:08):
Okay, so just planting a tree then that's what we'll do.

Speaker 8 (02:16:13):
All right.

Speaker 17 (02:16:13):
Hey, I appreciate it. Appreciate the information.

Speaker 9 (02:16:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:16:18):
Well, and taking of the time, take advantage of the
time we're in right now, because this is a great
time to get get a new one planted and get
you a head start since you're having to start over, all.

Speaker 17 (02:16:29):
Right, Chris, Okay, all right, thanks sure, everyod day.

Speaker 6 (02:16:32):
Thank you you too. Take care our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Listen,
if you're going to plant a tree like a pecan
or a fruit tree, oh gosh, I hope you're planning
a fruit tree this fall, or a shade tree, you
need to get a three sixty tree stabilizer. Three sixty

(02:16:53):
tree stabilizer is a new invention, new being you know
in the last ten years or five years actually uh it.
It is an excellent product for holding onto that new tree,
to hold it stable, but allowing a little bit of movement,
which is important for developing trunk strength. You can just
stick a post in the ground. I think the easiest
thing is to drive a tea post in the ground,
attach it to the tea post, and that's only going

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to be you know, like a foot and a half
away from the tree. And you don't have these wires
he's sticking down to tripover and mow around and everything.
And again that soft cradle that it has on the
three sixty tree stabilizer with the adjustable strap allows you
to set it right so it can move a little bit,
not too much, just a little bit. Now where do

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you get them? Well, you can find them at Plants
for All Seasons on Tombol Parkway. You can find them
at Buchanan's Plants downtown in the Heights, not downtown North
Central in the Heights. You can find them at Arbigate
up in Tombol. Go down to Sea in a Moltz
you'll find them there. RCW Nurseries where Albeat to Day
carries them there as well as does Jorges Hidden Gardens

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down in Alvin, Texas. The main thing is if you're
going to plant a tree, you need to get a
three sixty tree stabilizer. It is the neatest, cleanest, most
efficient effective way to stake a new tree to help
it establish. Well, that's how that works, all right, So
I hope you hope you will give that a shot.

Speaker 9 (02:18:22):
I like those.

Speaker 6 (02:18:23):
And by the way, I am going to be at
RCW Nurseries today. I'll be there from twelve to two.
We're gonna give away a citrus tree. We're gonna give
away a shade tree. They got some other things to
give away. As always, they're going to provide snacks and drinks,
so we just have an enjoyable time out there. I'll
have some Texas Gardeners on hand. You need to get
one of those. Take a look at it and subscribe.

(02:18:43):
Oh gosh, the perfect gift too. Maybe it's on your
hint list. You give your hint list to other people like, ooh,
I'd love to have this, well, Texas Gardener's a good
move that I have copies of my schedule on hand.
To just come on out and see me. RCW Nurseries
Tamba Parkway and Beltway from twelfth to two today. While
you're there, you can pick up products from nitrofoss and

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Microlife and Nilsen turf Star. They carry those lines there.
Check out the trees and shrubs, have them come out
and plant one for you. They carry good varieties there.
Works really really well when you plant the right plant
the right way, and RCW takes care of both of
those boxes. Check both boxes right plant put in in

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the right way for you to have success. Remember the
best time to plant a tree was forty years ago.
The next best time is today. So go out to
RCW and grab you one this weekend. Look forward to
seeing you out there. Let's take a little break. We'll
be right back for the last half of this hour.
Do you bet you had to let it play until
we said sleep at the wheel?

Speaker 9 (02:19:49):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (02:19:50):
Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us
this morning. Hey, the folks at Ciena Maltz are delivering
supersacks now they have been for a little while now.
Supersac is a cubic yard of whatever material you want,
and it's a three sack minimum for delivery, but qbicyard
goes pretty fast when you're building a bed or mulching

(02:20:12):
a bed or doing something like that. The supersacks are
available to be delivered down in that immediate area around Cienamltch.
You can go to the website Sienna Multch dot com
Sienna Multch dot com and.

Speaker 7 (02:20:26):
Check that out.

Speaker 6 (02:20:27):
While you're there, make sure you pick up the fertilizers
you need to build the nutrient content of your soil.
You know, you're gonna make a bed, You're gonna chock
it full of nutrients, and you're gonna plant your plants
and they're gonna take off like rockets because you make
the plant roots happy and you make the plants happy,
and that makes me happy and you happy, right as gardeners,
all right, Microlife products, Medina products, Nitrofos products, Nilsen products,

(02:20:51):
Heirloom soils, Azeomite. So all you folks down there in
that area, Cinamaal south of Houston, a Lake, Olympia, Alvinmanville,
Quell Valley, Everstone, Pomona, Meridian, all that region. This is
your hometown one stop shop for gardening success. Sienna Mulch
dot com FM five twenty one FM five twenty one

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Cienamultch dot com. Give them a call. We're going to
go now out here to the phones. Welcome to garden Line.
Who am I speaking to and where are you calling from?

Speaker 8 (02:21:28):
Hi?

Speaker 12 (02:21:29):
Stip, This is Kevin in North Houston.

Speaker 6 (02:21:32):
Hey Kevin, Welcome to garden line, how can we help.

Speaker 12 (02:21:35):
Hey, yeah, skip goosegrass. It's been bothering me for years,
ever since we had that bad drought about fifteen years ago.
I see goosegrass coming up all over the state of
Texas and it's really seemed to have been bad, and
I haven't been able to kill it.

Speaker 6 (02:21:50):
Well, it's not easy to kill goosegrass is a little
bit of a booger for folks. There are a couple
of approaches, of course. One of them is digging them up,
and you know, when the soil is moist, you can
you can get a sole knife underneath them or something
like that, one of those little weed poppers to get
them up out of the ground. That works pretty good.

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Pre Emergent herbicides are recommended for preventing the goosegrass seeds
from coming up. So getting your pre emergent, like a
barricade type product down to prevent them from getting established.
That that is important. But barricade will prevent goosegrass seeds
from coming back up. How extensive is this infestation in

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your lawn?

Speaker 12 (02:22:37):
Well, it's you know, it's several patches. But the problem is,
I've got like almost three quarters of an acre I
live in Champions four. So I have a big yard,
So that's the issue. Yeah, I've seen pulling them up
or digging them up, but you know, not very practical
when you've got three quarters of an acre.

Speaker 6 (02:22:54):
No, No, that's that's a little bit of a challenge.
I certainly understand that. So I guess from a post
emergence standpoint, Uh, you're pretty much gonna have to dab
something on that will kill the goose grass, but probably
will kill your lawn grass as well. You know, like

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if you were to use a product like glyphosate, for example,
on it, it's going to kill whatever you put it on.
So your you're dabbing is going to need to be
very specifically targeted to try to minimize contact with the
desirable lawn. But that that would be available as a possibility. Uh,
there are let's see, there's a there's a self ventrizone

(02:23:38):
product that I'm trying to remember the name. Ah, the
name is escaping me right now? On the goose grass anyway?
For you said Saint Augustine, right, yes?

Speaker 7 (02:23:50):
Correct? Is that is that correct?

Speaker 8 (02:23:53):
All right? Yes?

Speaker 6 (02:24:00):
Okay, for the most part, it's Saint Augustine. Yeah, you're saying, okay, for.

Speaker 12 (02:24:07):
The most part the routes that my yard is. It's
kind of a mixture.

Speaker 6 (02:24:13):
You know.

Speaker 12 (02:24:13):
These these droughts have just messed the grass up bad
this last several years.

Speaker 6 (02:24:17):
So yeah, Uh, most of the product options I can
think of for goose grass are going to be more commercial.

Speaker 9 (02:24:29):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:24:31):
So yeah, I don't I don't want to send you
out with something that's more a commercial for it because
you're not gonna be able to get ahold of it.
You can hire somebody to come in and do some yeah,
and that's going to be kind of the only optionally option.

(02:24:51):
There's a there's a tank mix with something called Recognition
that you don't find in in garden center shelves. Uh,
and and something called piece of laid too, but you
gotta follow the instructions very carefully. A professional will come in.
That's probably the most effective option, uh that you would
you would have for the goosegrass in Saint Augustine.

Speaker 10 (02:25:10):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:25:11):
For kind of intermedia, boy, they're they're just not a
good one that's available just right over the counter. So
you're you're doing you're gabbing.

Speaker 12 (02:25:20):
Something on it, right, and the stuff they sold me
hasn't worked, So.

Speaker 2 (02:25:26):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 6 (02:25:27):
But you know, if you if you hire somebody to
come in that has access to other things, they can
do the treatment, but they got to know what they're doing.
That's that's the important portant. But I would start with
the I would start with the pre emergence. I think
that the barricade, which is per diamine, would be just
fine for that. Just follow the label, don't over don't

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overdo it, don't underdo it. Follow the label very carefully.
With that, I think you're gonna you're gonna have better
success that one.

Speaker 9 (02:25:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (02:25:56):
I appreciate you. I wanted to want to buy you.
I knew it was, so thank you.

Speaker 6 (02:26:02):
Yeah, that's it's it's one of the few tough ones
that we have out there. All right, man, thanks Lott,
I appreciate your call. All right, let's see we just dropped.
Judy disappeared, all right, So I guess we're back to
an open board right here. If you would like to
give me a call seven to one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We got twenty minutes left
in garden line today, so give me a call. Happy

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to visit with you about the things that interest you.
Remember this is I'll say the last call. Uh, not
that it has to end this week, but every day
you wait is the day you're missing out on the
opportunity to manage the fall issues in the lawn. Night
of Fuss Texas. Three step, three steps, three products, all
designed to deal with what you need to be doing

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in the fall. First the fertilizer, the fall special. Second
the barricade, the weed prevention. I was just suggesting to
Kevin for the goosegrass, get the barricade out now, not
now for bar but now for the cool season weeds.
But barricade again in the spring, for the warm season
like goose gris. And then for the disease. Take a

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brown patch or large patch, the big circles that are
brown that happen in the cool season. Here to your
Saint Augustine lawn Eagle Turf Fungicide. It's a product for that.
All three work, all three from nitrofoss one two three.
I would suggest put all three on the same day,
one at a time. Do this one, do the next one,
do the next one, and then water it in with

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about third of an inch of water. Move it all
down in the soil, because that's where it needs to
be for the plants could be a half inch of
water even, but get it down in the root zone
where it can do the work that all three of
them do, fertilizing the grass, preventing the weeds, and making
that turf more ready to take on a potential attack

(02:27:50):
from brown patch. That eagle turf fungicide gets in the
plumbing of the grass plant and that's where it fights
the brown patch infection. Sooner to the better Bearing's hard
room us and that carries nitrofoss intended forest, and Richmond
carries nitrofoss Langham Creek Case hardware, and Cyprus carries night
Foss products as well. Alrighty, let's see we're going to

(02:28:13):
go to now Judy and Spring Brands. Hey, Judy, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (02:28:18):
Hey, thanks Skip. I have two questions for you. One,
is this the time of year to plant shrubs?

Speaker 6 (02:28:26):
Perfect time of year, not a better time than now?

Speaker 11 (02:28:30):
Wonderful?

Speaker 13 (02:28:31):
And what about this behea grass that's popping up everywhere?
How do you get rid of it or how do
you prevent it from coming back?

Speaker 6 (02:28:41):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (02:28:41):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (02:28:42):
What kind of lawn do you have?

Speaker 13 (02:28:45):
Saint Augustine?

Speaker 6 (02:28:47):
Okay, there is a product that you can use that
will kill behea, but it has to be used very carefully. Okay.
It is called Manor M R. And there's another brand
called M S M. Like Mary Susan Mary M S

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M turkey. They're the same same ingredient. You got to
put it down, following the label carefully because if you
overdo it or do it right before a good rain,
it can damage tree and shrub roots. So you're going
to be very careful. But it will kill. It will
kill behea grass without killing your Saint Augustine. But you know,
whether it's a medicine you get from a pharmacy or

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whether it's a herbicide for your lawn, you got to
read the instructions and you got to follow it. You know,
tilandall is a good thing, but a bottleful would not
be good, right, So we got to always use things
that at the rate that's recommended.

Speaker 13 (02:29:47):
Okay, does will it come back in the spring?

Speaker 16 (02:29:52):
Die in the winter and come back.

Speaker 6 (02:29:53):
In the spring, No, not if you kill it, If
you officially kill it, it won't. You may have to
wait until spring when it greens up though, to do
that treatment. Because it's entering a period where it's not
actively growing, and weeds need to be actively growing for
products to control them. Okay, I'm gonna have to run.

(02:30:15):
Good luck, good luck getting that under control.

Speaker 7 (02:30:18):
You bet?

Speaker 6 (02:30:19):
All right, let's see here, let's go. I gotta take
a break. Michael in Galveston, and Michael and Alvin, you
two will be the first up. If we don't, in fact,
you'll be the last two callers of the day. So
you guys just hang on. I'll be right back, all right,
Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have

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you with us today on guard Line. How can we
help you have success? Well, let's find out. We're going
to go out to the phones right now to Galveston,
Texas and talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (02:30:56):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 8 (02:30:57):
Hey.

Speaker 16 (02:30:57):
It's been a while, but I have actually grown plumaria
from seed, and so I had a little tip for
the person that called in before. What I would do
is take a thick paper towel and I would just
you know, wet it spread, you know, sprinkle the seeds
on it, and just kind of keep it moist on
the kitchen counter. And then after it rooted, I would,

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you know, with my finger, take some of the soil
and just kind of, you know, sprinkle it over the roots.
And when it got you know, solid enough for me
to take the roots, I just take a pencil into
the pot so that I was going to put it in,
and I would just dip the end of the pencil
in there, put the root in, and just cover it up.
And I've done pretty well growing pumaria from seed in

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that manner.

Speaker 6 (02:31:42):
Okay, do you have trouble starting them if you just
put them in a seed mix?

Speaker 16 (02:31:48):
When I first tried, I had, But if I said,
it's been a while and I couldn't tell which ones
were coming up because I would just sprinkle them on
on the soil. But this way I could see exactly
what was what, and I could space where I would
put them into pots and just wait for the roots
to get big enough and strong enough for me to

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move them over with tweezers.

Speaker 6 (02:32:11):
Okay, all right, well thanks for that. Yeah, did you
have a question with that or just that tip?

Speaker 12 (02:32:16):
Nope, just just a little tip to be successful.

Speaker 6 (02:32:21):
Okay, all right, thanks a lot, Michael, appreciate, appreciate your call.
You take care. Let's go down to another Michael and Alvin,
Texas Hello, Michael, Welcome to the garden line.

Speaker 13 (02:32:33):
Right are you there?

Speaker 2 (02:32:39):
Michael?

Speaker 6 (02:32:45):
Do what I'm I'm gonna put Michael on hold. Get
my producer to get a hold of him when we're
ready to go. Let me know, all right, ACE Hardware stores.
ACE Hardware stores all over the Greater Houston area, and
I mean great or Houston area. You know, all the
way from Orange, Texas across to Port Arthur or not
Port Arthur, excuse me, Port Lavaca and Rockport and Victorian

(02:33:07):
places like that. Speaking of Orange, Texas, there is a
store way out east in Orange Is called Childs Building
Supply on North sixteenth Street. You can go down to
southwest all the way to Wharton find Wharton Feed and
Ace on North Richmond Road. That's a really nice one.
I was at myself a good while back for an appearance.

(02:33:29):
Brenha Mace on North Austin Parkway, Hamilton on Highway six
in Bear Creek area, Fullshire Ace on FM three point
fifty nine in Fullshire, Baycliffe a south of Kema on
Grand Avenue. Let's do a few more. How about Deer
Park ACE on Center Street out east or u Valdy
Ace on New Veldie Road. In Houston. Patco Ace on
West Willis up in Alvin. For those of you out

(02:33:53):
west Cinco Ranch on South Mason Road, there's Katie Hardware
on Pinoak Road. There's let's see the hardware on Memorial
Drive in Houston. Just a few of the many ACE
hardwares you're going to find at ACE Hardware Texas dot com.
Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. Go there, find out what
you need right now. They got a lot of good
stuff in the way of home safety, from fire extinguishers

(02:34:16):
to fire alarms. You don't want to forget those. Remember
by the way to keep batteries that are good and strong,
and your firearm doesn't do any good if the batteries
worn out. Make sure and do that. And they do
have the batteries of course at ACE Hardware store as well.
And while you're there, grab a hold of those products
for your lawn and your garden that I keep talking

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about here on garden Line all the time. Ace Hardware
Texas dot Com. That's how you find your local ACE
Hardware store. We're going to go back to Alvin, Texas
now and visit with Michael this morning. Hey, Michael, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (02:34:51):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:34:57):
Michaely.

Speaker 6 (02:34:57):
There all right, Nicholas, if you can get him on
in the next minute, we'll take the call. But just
please find out and tell me in my ear when
he's ready. We'll go about it that way. Hey, we are,
We're okay, I see what's going on. Hey on, let

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me try him one more time then before we go. Hey,
Michael warm Almer, shot you there?

Speaker 7 (02:35:27):
All right?

Speaker 6 (02:35:28):
All right, there we go. Well, I was discussing last week.
I believe it was that we really there's not a
better time to plan a fall garden because we're about
to enter the cool season, and here we have such
mild winners. You can grow a winner in our area,
and why not try that? Why not try some things?

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If you call your county Agrolfe Extension office or go buy,
they're going to have schedules that tell you when to
plant what. A lot of our garden centers will provide
those kinds of schedules for you as well. When do
you plant cool greens for the cool season? Like various
kinds of lettuce. By the way, just a tip, growing

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leaf types of lettuce and bib types of lettuce are
more successful here than head lettuce. I know people are
used to buying iceberg lettuce heads and the store. Perhaps
bib and leaf types are much better and you make
a little solid easy out of those. It's time to
plant onions, buy seaeds. If you can find sets out

(02:36:32):
in the garden centers around you can do those as well.
It's a great time to plant any of the blue
leaf vegetables. That would be broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, coolabbie, brussels sprouts, collars.
What am I forgetting? Oh, mustard, that's not a blue
leaf vegetable, but mustards can go in right now. The

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root crops like carrots and radishes and turnips and even beets.
Beets you're gonna have to protect from a freeze, but
we'll go in right now too. A cool season in general,
great time to garden, easy time to garden. If you
don't have a garden, you can get a container I mean,
for crying out loud, A five gallon bucket with hoole
drills in the drilled in the bottom, filled with a

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good quality growing mix is a vegetable garden if you
want it to be so enjoy get out there and
get the kids involved with it too. You know, kids
are more likely to eat stuff when they grow it themselves,
so I hope you do that. How about cool season colored?
Do you know we have flowers that you can eat.
You can eat colendular blooms. That's a cool season flower.
You can eat pansy and viola blooms. That's a cool

(02:37:37):
season flower. Nash Starsiam is typically grown in the mild,
cool weather times of the year. It's another edible flower
that you can grow. Gardening can be fun, So try
some new things. All right, I gotta go the music's plan,
but I'm going to jump in a gard here. We're
heading over to RCW Nursery. I hope you'll come out

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to see me. I'll be there at twelve o'clock noon.
I'll be there until two o'clock. We're going to be
giving away a lot of good things, including a citrus tree,
a shade tree, some other little cool items. I'll be
providing you with my schedules with some Texas Gardener magazines
take a look at. You need to subscribe to that.
And also Nitroposs is providing some giveaway products that will

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be there as well. I hope you come out and
see us twelve noon to two RCW nurseries, right where
Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway come together.