Prepare For Spring, Treat for Winter

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Just watch him as were so many peace to see.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Alrighty, let's do this this morning. Boy do we have
a lot to talk about today. And we're going to
talk about weather off and on throughout the day because
we got some interesting things on the way. For that, well,
we'll cover that. But we're in spring. We are officially
in spring. I know the weather is not cooperating. It's

(00:45):
throwing a little fit this week. But that's okay, that's
all right. It is spring. You know, if you are
looking at your lawn and your garden and trying to
make decisions, is it time to do this? Is it
time to do that? Well, I can tell you that
us we got a hard freeze coming and so we
don't want to run out there with something that's very tender.

(01:06):
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't go get it. And
I'll talk about this through the through the course of
the show. Uh. For example, tomatoes, I'm picking up tomatoes
today as a matter of fact. Now it's going to
get too gold to plant a tomato. But if you
don't get them now, the best ones, the ones you
really want. Other people know about those, they're going to
go pick them up themselves. And I can't tell you

(01:28):
how many times I've gone to get a tomato plant
in past years and it was picked over. You know,
they're still good tomatoes, but the ones I wanted weren't there.
So what I do is I buy the little tomato plants.
Now take them home, water, you know, put a little
dilute fertilizer on them, bump them up into a larger pot,
put some of that uh Nelson's genesis in the in

(01:50):
the soil, and just keep them growing. Put them outside
as much you can't. If it's cool outside, that's okay.
Tomatoes have to get used to cool nights. If it's cold,
bring them in, and so you get a head start.
You got the plant you want, And that's what I'm
talking about. Don't let the freeze throw you off of
your gardening game. Don't do that. For example, last week
we had eighty degrees and I would just I'm still

(02:14):
about ready to crawl around the lawn a little bit
and look for sprouts of crabgrass and other things starting
to germinate, because I'm telling you those things fifty five
degrees soil temperature and crabgrass starts germinating. So you need
to get ahead of them with your barricade. Barricade is
a nitroposs product. If you've been struggling with weeds that
are just difficult for you to manage in your lawn

(02:36):
every year, here they come the cool season weeds of
warm season weeds. Right now, warm season weeds are ready
to germinate, so head them off at the pass, put
down barricade watered in. You need about a third half
inch of water or something like that just to get
it down in the sole surface. Any pre emergent has
to be put down into the sole surface with a
little bit of an irrigation. A ten pound bag of

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barricade'll cover five thousand square feet, so it goes a
long way, gets rid of broadly feeds, gets rid of
grassy weeds. In fact, I say gets rid of them.
You never even see them. And now if you wait
until after they're up, our options for controlling them are fewer.
And in fact, as it starts to get hot, they
become even fewer. So why not prevent them in the

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first place, and barricade will do all that weeding for you.
And you're going to find barricade at places like D
and D Feed and Tomball. You're going to find it
at Plants and Things out in Brenham, K and m
A's Hardware and Kingwood Carries Barricade, many many places, widely
widely available through all of our ace stores. As a
matter of fact, let's turn out to the phones here.
We're going to go to Spring and talk to Frank

(03:41):
this morning. Hey Frank, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Hey Skip, good morning. Quick question. I planned June first.
It'll be five years. Ten mixed myrtles in the back
and seven have done really well. Three you know they're
not doing as well. I was out there last week
and I never noticed they have like almost a lime
green color. It's it's not. I thought it'd be a powder,
but it's not. You know, coming from the main trunk

(04:05):
all the way out to the end of the branch,
is there, what is that I do fertilize? It did
more last year the blue bag three times. I don't
know if that's too much fertilized or what.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
No, that's not. Sometimes you see a lichen. Sometimes an
algae can grow on the on the outer bark. Neither
one is a disease. It's just out there, you know,
on the outer dead periphery of the branch, so I
wouldn't worry about the green as far as you know.
Wax myrtles, they're they're native and they're very tolerant of

(04:38):
our conditions here. If they're not growing, I would I
would probably look at are they getting dependable moisture and
are they are you fertilizing them? And if you're not,
maybe kick that up a notch to try to spur
some growth.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Now.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Fertilizing today is not going to make them grow this
week because it's it's cold weather, but it's always a
good I idea in small doses to get out there
and keep your shrubs moving with some fertilizers.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, well good, nothing wrong then, all right, I appreciate it,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Not really, And and wax myrtle takes wet conditions pretty well,
so you know, normally with the shrub, i'd say, yeah,
maybe it's a little soggy wet there and the roots
can't get oxygen or something, but.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Pretty yeah, I know, I fertilize them. I water them
to make sure those especially those three. The other you know,
the other seven are doing fine now their established really well,
it's just these three, so hopefully this year they and
they shed, right, they do shid during the winter, all
of them.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Correct, Well, no, they're no, they're in They're kind of evergreen.
But it just depends on the on the weather. You know,
we get a good hard cold snap and you can
you can lose some foliage. But they should they should
retain foliage.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, they do. Every year they all shed especially completely, No,
not completely, just you know, maybe a third of the
leaves every year. I noticed it. I just thought that
there was normal.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Okay, how long have they been in Frank.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
It'll be five It'll be five years June first.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, they ought to be establishing. I'll tell you what
one option be to send me a picture, let me
take a look at the site, see what they're doing,
show me a distant shot, and then get a close
up of the like the green stuff you're talking about
or whatever. I'll take it. I'll be happy to take
a look at it. But other than that, I think
we pretty well have covered it. I'm gonna put you
on hold, and if you want to hang around and

(06:29):
get an email, you're free to do that. Yeah, that
is the case. I'll tell you. Boy D and De
Feed store up in Tomball. They are loaded with everything
you need, including chicks. Right now they have started their
annual chick arrival and it just comes in waves. So

(06:50):
you just need to go check them out, going, go
check out their website and you know, go do whatever
you need to do to keep up. They have a
whole page just on schedule of when they're getting chicks
in and they have a bazillion different kinds of chicks
that are coming in. So if you're into chickens, I
promise you this, they've got at least a dozen chickens

(07:12):
you never even heard of coming in there. They are.
It is amazing how they're set up for that. Of course,
they have everything you need for that, you know, the feed,
the waterers, the coming up here. We got some gold weathers.
They got the little heat lamps that you that they
gather under when you hang them down around where they
are h d and de feet it's three miles west
of two forty nine and Tom Ball. Of course, when

(07:33):
you're there, grab you your nitrofoss, your microlife, your turf star,
your medina, your heirloom soils, your Nelson plant food, and
on and on and on everything you need to have
success in your lawn d and d feed is going
to have it two eight, one, three, five, one seventy
one forty four. We're going to take a little break
and I'll be back with Tony from Kingwood. Alrighty, welcome

(07:58):
back to the garden Line. Let's keep going here. We've
got a lot of things to cover today. I do
want to remind you that we got some coal weather
coming this weekend. I'm going to go into some details
about the kind of coal we're having and the kind
of things you would want to do about that. So
stay tuned, hang around, we'll be we'll be right back. Well,

(08:20):
we'll we'll be right back. We will talk about some
of the things that are going on that you need
you need to be aware of and know about. Out
in Katie, Texas is a really special garden center for
all of you on the west side of the Great
Houston area out there. This is your hometown, hometown garden
center and it's Nelson Water Gardens. Nelson is right off

(08:41):
I ten, So if you're heading out you know I
ten towards San Antonio direction, Nelson's you get to Katie,
you just turn right on Katie Fort Ben Road and
it's just across the tracks just a little bit right
there on the right hand side. They are always loaded
with everything you need now Nelson water Gardens and nursery
or nurse in. Watergardens is a combination place where you

(09:03):
can a get all the plants you're looking for and
the products you need to have success with those plants.
Remember brown stuff before green stuff. Don't go home without
plants without going home without products. And it is also
the place where you can create a water garden that
is unbelievable. The sound of water in the backyard is
one of the most cathartic things. Water and bird songs

(09:24):
are just their therapy. It is nice. They've got the
fish for the water gardens. They have the plants for
the water gardens. They have the containers, the disappearing fountains
that you know, the water goes over the top of
the container and sort of just disappears into the ground
and then it's being pumped back up through again. They
invented that system. By the way, it's unbelievable. Nelsonwatergardens dot com.

(09:48):
Nelson Watergardens dot Com. You need to go out there
and check it out. We're going to go now to
the phones and head out to Kingwood to talk to Tony. Hey, Tony,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Hey doing today? Well, say, here's the thing. I got
a lemon and a lime tree and about a thirty
five forty gallon and those landscape or black containers. They're
probably about three years old now. Well, anyways, they're blooming crazy.
I took them in during the last snow and I'm
going to probably take them in again. My question is
to you, is fertilizing them. I don't want to go

(10:21):
out and buy a big, huge bag of fertilizer. I
just want enough to make sure I can fertilize them properly.
What suggestions do you have that you know, maybe they
have a small container of it or something, just to
put it in there. Like I said, they're only thirty
five forty gallon containers, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Would look for Nelson Plant Food has a line called
nutral Star, and in the nutri Star there is a
little jar fertilizer. It's a clear jar with a screw
top lead. It's called cetrus Fruit and Avocado. So any
basically any fruit that you're growing it would be a
good choice for that kind of a gradual feed over time.

(11:03):
About every three months. You just sprinkle it around in
the container. You know, in a container you're just gonna
be measuring it out by the teaspoon. Get around a
tree or shrubbing the ground, and you can putting it
out a lot more. But neutral star citrus fruit and
avocado probably did one of your best choices. And it's
available pretty widespread through the area. I think you may
find it out at Jerry's Hardware stores out there. You

(11:25):
may find it out at Warren Southern Gardens, you know,
places like that.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Right, that's what I was looking at, something like that. Now,
the other question I got, I want to raise them
up again. You know, after a couple of years they
have sunken down with the dirt maybe a quarter what's
a good time to basically lift them out, put some
more soil underneath them and continue. But what's the good time?
Because I've lost so many trees and over the past

(11:51):
freeze in the last ten twelve years, I'm tired of it.
That's why I'm bringing them in the garage now again.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, that's a good idea, just to you know, strap
them to a dolly and say your back, so I
would say, you know, as we get ready to. We're
kind of looking around, going, hey, I don't think there's
can be any more freezes here we get into you know,
in your area you're up in the king would probably
sometime and maybe mid March or something like that. You

(12:17):
just lay the pot over, slide the tree out, don't
grab the trunk and try to lift it out of
the pot, take a look at the roots, cut any
roots that are going in a circle, and then put
some fresh dirt in the bottom and reset it. Water
it in real good.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
How did you see to do that? Again? I missed
that part about not grabbing the trunk, So I usually
grab the bottom of the tree and try to you know,
work it out and then bring it upwards.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, you can do that. Then you're you know, you
kind of got your knees or feet trying to hold
the pot down while you lift the tree up. And
I've strained my back that way. And plus some plants
and this is probably not your citrus, but some plants
it just you can get. You can break some things
trying to pull them by the trunk up out of
the ground when they're when they're connected to that pot

(13:03):
real tight. So I'll lay the pot down kind of
bump it with my hands, roll it over, bump it
a little bit, and then that tree will slide right
out to the side. There's no need to lift it
at that point.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Correct that everything in the past. Yeah, I just didn't
hear you that part where you I put them on
its side and kind of hit the size and roll
and it comes out easy.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
And when you when you put that new soil, fresh
soil in there to kind of lift it up. Uh,
mix in some of why you're getting Nelson's. They've also
got something called Genesis and it's a it's a it's
made for transplanting. So you mix it into the potting
soil that you put in there. You can sprinkle a
little more on the top and that that works really

(13:41):
really well too, and then just continue as you're as
it's growing and you're feeding. You can use the citrus
fruit and avocao. The Genesis is more of an organic
type product that isn't going to burn roots or anything.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Great.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
All right, Well, thank you sir very much for the information.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
You bet, thanks for the call, man. I appreciate that
a lot I mentioning earlier ACE hardware stores. ACE is
set up for whatever you need to do. I mean,
right now, I have got the barbecue fever. I've been
looking at some Tragger grills and I'm kind of getting
interested in this Tragger pellet grills. I have a Weber Girl,

(14:19):
and Ace has Weber Aces, Tragger. Ace has every main
brand that you can think of, including things like the
Big Green Egg and here comes Spring. If you've got
some propane tanks and you need to get those exchanged
or topped off, however you do it, talk to your
local ACE store. That's where I'd start with that. If
you're going to be doing some outdoor spring cleaning and renovation,

(14:41):
maybe your deck could use some receiling or replacing us
some boards and things. You need to take care of
that wood so that it does last, and ACE has
everything you need for that. While you're in there, grab
some air filters. You buy three, you get one free,
and you're supposed to be putting them in every month,
you know, So go ahead and get your little stock
supply ready to go. At ACE Hardware, and there's a

(15:04):
lot of great Ace hardware is around, you know. We've
got the K and m Ace up in a Tascas Seda.
We got Bay City Ace Hardware, Donad Wharton, there's Wharton
Feed and Ace. I was out there giving to talk
a while back. Hamilton Hardware off Highway six near Bear Creek.
All just examples of the many, many ACE hardware stores
in our area. Let's go now to Texas City and

(15:25):
we're going to talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Hey, good morning, Skip. How you doing.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm good.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Hey, got a quick question. We have our lemon tree
and it had suffered a little bit from the breeze.
It did really well, but it seemed to drop ninety
percent of its leaves. Well, it's got great new leads
coming in, I mean everywhere, But it seems like every
time we get new leads coming down on this thing,
it's either eat up by some sort of bugs or
catagillars or something like that. I was just wondering what

(15:56):
would be a good way to protect all these new
leads I have coming in, the new leaves.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, number one, keep them out of the weather. You're
about to beginting here this week. Excuse me, you want
to keep them out of that weather? You uh, you know,
the leaves ought to hold up. Okay, as long as
you have moist soil, but not soggy conditions. So these
are in containers, right, No, sir.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
It's in the ground, you know, in text the city.
And I don't think we're gonna get you know, maybe
in the mid low forties, So I'm not too concerned
about that. It's just seems like they're always eat up
by bugs every spring, okay, especially.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, Well, just watch and see what you're seeing. It's
either going to be caterpillars or beetles if it's literally
eating the leaf. Now, there's things that you inside the
leaf called leaf miners that cause the leaves to shrivel
up and curl. But if you're seeing leaves literally chomped
something ate them and ran away, then that's a caterpillar

(17:04):
or a beetle that's doing that. And they're products that
are very low toxicity that you can use to control those.
As far as the fruit drop, anytime citrus gets stressed,
it will do that. They tend to drop fruit anyway
when they set a heavy load because they know they
can't carry all those to maturity, so they'll drop. They'll
abort some of the little ones, and sometimes it's a

(17:25):
pretty significant loss of fruit. But that's just the tree
balancing itself out. If you add drought to that, or
if you add any other stress to that, then you're
going to even have a greater fruit drop. So alleviating
stress is the main thing in your power. Love, all right,

(17:46):
all right, all right, sir, thank you very much. I
appreciate your call. Our phone number they got to give
it out today. Seven one three two one two kt
r H seven one three two one two kt listen
Warren seven Gardens, Kingwood Garden Center right now, they've got
a Valentine's Day special going on for those of you

(18:08):
out there in the Kingwood area. Warren's, by the way,
is on North Park. Kingwood Garden Center is on Stone
Hollow again. Both open seven days a week. If you
buy a flower pot and four little items, you get
twenty percent off the entire order, and that that's any
size pottery and any four items that you put together.
Just talk to them about their Valentine's Day special. This

(18:30):
would be a great time to put together a combo container,
you know, one of the a little bit larger pots
where you plant a group of different kinds of flowers
that really are attractive together. And warrants can tell you
how to do that. They're experts at creating combination planters,
so you can they can get you set up on
everything that you need. They just got two container loads

(18:53):
of pottery, so both of the stores are really stocked
up out there. They got some really nice statuary. Whatever
is of interest to you, saints, animals, golfers. I mean,
there is statuary for everybody. And of course they're loaded
up on their microlife. Something that I think is really
of interest is their pro trade landscaping tools. And now these

(19:17):
have a lifetime warranty and they have a huge selection
of them. So if you're tired of buying tools they
just break or fall apart and don't last. They're not quality.
Go out to Warrens or King say I want to
see your pro trade landscaping tools, and you will see
some really nice stuff. They serve that whole area out there.
So I keep saying Kingwood. But if you're an humble

(19:37):
of Taska, set of Porter Valley Ranch, New Caney, any
of those areas out there, this is it. Now you're
gonna find out there. You're going to find everything you
hear me talk about, like microlife and Nitrofoss and Nelson
turf Star and Heirloom soils and Nelson plant foods in
the jars like we were talking about earlier. Everything like
that is going to be out there, so they'll get
you set up. Warren Southern Gardens on North Park Drive,

(20:00):
Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow open seven days a week.
And by the way, with these garden centers, you need
to when you're not at once to say I want
to get on your mailing list. And they have a
little mailing list. They have a little kind of a
newsletter thing that goes out that is very very helpful
and it keeps you up the date. You find out
about sales that are coming up, you find out about

(20:20):
new arrivals, so really important to do that. Let's head
out to Cyprus now and we're going to talk to Terry. Hello, Terry,
good Morning's scared of How are you this morning? I'm well, sir,
How can we help?

Speaker 6 (20:36):
Well? Was Donald planting my new potatoes this morning? And
I want to bottom journey. I buy pretty good sized
potatoes that have pretty decent sprouts on them, and I
cut them in half and let them be dry out
for a couple of three days, and then I plan
them some bonemeo, okay, want of potatoes this time? They

(20:59):
pretty well picked over, and they're small, maybe golf ball
size to twice that size, and the sprouts were not
very well established. Right, so I'm concerned that you lock
it on about cut them in half to get a
sprout on them.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
And I'm pretty good.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
I'm concerned that what when I plant those, either they're
going to be real delayed and coming up, or they're
just not going to produce.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Gotcha, what's your feeling on that? All right, well, Terry,
I've got thirty seconds to break. If we need to
hold you over, we can do that. What Okay, there's
a process called chitting c H I T T I
n G chitting potatoes, and you put them on the
counter and you let them kind of start to sprout.
In those warmer conditions, they'll start pushing the sprout out
and you can kind of watch them and see and

(21:52):
plant the best ones that you have. Those immature buds
that haven't developed as much. Yeah, that's going to at
least be a delay in them coming up, and it's
time to get them going. Hey, I got to run,
but hang on if you want, and we'll continue this discussion.
Folks will be right back and.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Alrighty, we're back.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
We're going to head back out to Cyprus and continue
our conversation with Terry this morning. All right, Terry, So
we're talking potatoes and we got some that have undeveloped
buds that you're a little concerned about, and for good reason,
where do we go from here?

Speaker 6 (22:33):
Well, I think since it's not a big purchase, I
only plan about fifty plants, I may just go ahead
and try and find some bigger potatoes. And I don't
have much patience, but I do have one other questions.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
You've got time?

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Is it too late to put out pre emergent herveside
to control weeds?

Speaker 2 (22:57):
No, it's prime time. Go ahead and get it done though,
And it's primetime.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
I have a bag of nitro tross fifteen to five
ten with weed killer we control.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
You should should I just bypass.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
The barricade or and put that out? Or would you?

Speaker 8 (23:23):
So?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Here here's the here's the thing on this, Terry. The
weeds that you see now are cool season weeds and
they're about to go to seed, so you would want
to use something that kills them after the fact that
they're up it's called a post emergent on those before
they sentence you to five more years of pulling weeds

(23:43):
out there. Now, the weeds that are going to be
here all summer, they're sprouting as we get especially early
into early March, and you want to have the pre emergent.
The barricade type product would be for that. Now, Nitrophoss
sells fertilizers that have both a post emergent and then
they have a different product that has a pre emergent.

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The post emergent is going to have the trimec in it,
so you wouldn't want to use fertilizer twice. So if
you're gonna, you know, you can do a post emergent
with your fertilizer to if you have broad leaf cool
season weeds and that would work, or you could just

(24:26):
use a pre emergent, or you could do both. But
if you're gonna, if you're gonna fertilize, just fertilize once.
So put out like the fifteen to five to ten
with the trimac for example, if you're if you love
those night Foss products and they do work very well,
and then use the barricade as their pre emergent and
then that way you've covered the weeds that are cool

(24:46):
season that you see now, and you're shutting them down
for they go to seed, and then you're preventing the
warm season weeds that are going to be sprouting very
soon from coming up. Okay, got you. Hey, I appreciate
you guy.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
You're a big help.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
All right.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Thanks, appreciate your Kyle to take care alrighty our phone
number seven one three two one two kt r H
seven to one three two one two kt RH. We'll
be happy to help you with whatever kinds of questions
that you might have. There's a lot a lot of
good things out there that we can be doing right now.

(25:23):
I tell you you know, as I'm looking forward in
this week, we're going to have that cool weather and
I'm actually going to be getting together some seeds and
doing some seeds starting indoors, because I don't want to
go outside when it's you know, for below freezing and stuff.
I mean, I could survive it, but i'd stay inside
and get some of that done. Also, house plants, it's
a good time to be taking care of those. But

(25:44):
for me, it's going to be mainly seeds starting. I've
got some seeds that are a little bit later. I
hadn't gotten around to planning them, and we'll be doing
that in the house as well. Now you've heard me
talk about tree hugger sprinklers before, and if you have
a tree that even when you've planted in the last
five years or so, TreeHugger sprinklers are so I love

(26:06):
this design. It's a little hinged sprinkler. Think of you
open your put your thumbs together, and then make like
a pac Man c shape with your hands, And that's
just how it works. It just hinges right there where
your thumbs come together, and it makes a circle around
the tree. So when you look up to a garden hose,

(26:27):
then you turn the hose on just enough to water
the roots system that you want a water. So maybe
you planted a tree this fall or this winter, maybe
you're planting one this spring or even summer, especially in summer,
you need a tree hugger. Hey, you just turn it
on a little bit and you water enough to soak
that root ball. After it's been in the ground for
a year, or as it's going through its first year,

(26:48):
you're gonna wet a larger area. You just turn on
the water a little higher, I mean, and these things
come in through sizes seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen
inch and they last. Rosarians love them because you know,
you put them on a new rosebus and hey, February
Valentine's I'm just saying it works really, really well. If
I had a tree, even one that had been in
the ground for ten or fifteen or more years, and

(27:10):
we go this summer into a long hot dry spell,
you don't have to turn on your water all the
time to water your trees. You can put that tree
hugger under there and do a rescue treatment and water
the area beneath the branch spread and that's a rescue
treatment for your trees. So it helps a very expensive
component of your landscape to survive. So you're not buying

(27:32):
a new tree or to grow faster, so you're not
going you know, I bought this tree. I want a
beautiful shade tree, and it's just sitting there, Well, was
sitting there because it's struggling for water and survive. It
may live, but it's not thriving. With tree hugger, they
can and you can get tree huggers at D and
D feed up in Tumble you can get them at
League City feed down in League City, Enchanted Gardens and

(27:56):
Chanted Forests both carry those out there r CW Nurseries
as the tree Hugger sprinkler, as does Warren Southern Gardens
and Kingwood Gardens out in Kingwood Arbor gate Way up
and tom Ball there and Nelson, I say Nelson water
Garden and Katie they have not there as well. Spring
Creek feed up toward Magnolia direction. It's easy to find
them Southwest Fertilizers, Sinkle ranch Ace, Katie A's k and

(28:20):
m a s and a task Asda task aseda A's
and fulshiare ace. Just lots of places. So in other words,
you're going to find one, but you need to get
it when you're not using it. Just hang it up
on the garage. It'll be there for you. But I'll
tell you this, if you have trees or shrubs, and
especially if you've got young ones that you're gonna plan

(28:41):
or haven't been planning very long, tree hugger is a
way to save your money on that investment and get
more out of it as well. I think that's a
really cool design. If you can't tell I love those things,
I think they think they work really really well. Did
you know Microlife fertilizer is they're sixty four. That is

(29:04):
the summer lawn fertilizer that we use when we start
I say summer, we start it in spring. It's the
number one selling organic fertilizer here in the Houston market
and it's been around. Microlife products been around for over
thirty five years. I was a little new to the party.
I think it was about ten years ago that I
began to use Microlife products myself. They're natural. They don't

(29:25):
burn like a salt based could if you overdo as
salt based fertilizer, Microlife is not going to burn. It's
safe to use turf grass azalias. By the way. They
have a fertilizer for azilias, for flowers, For vegetables, yes,
they have fertilizers for those trees, shrubs, roses and things
you can use in containers. I like their liquids. One
of my favorite liquids for foliage plants is the Biomatrix.

(29:49):
It's an orange label and it is an extra boost
of nitrogen in the Biomatrix works really really well. Now
you're going to find you're going to find Microlife forertilizers
all over the place. If you want, you can go
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and see where all they're sold.
But I can just tell you this Ace Hardware Store,
Speed Store, Southwest Fertilizer, Our garden centers, mom and pop

(30:13):
garden centers all over town and more carry the Microlife.
Time for me to take a break and we'll be
right back with our last segment of this hour. But
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Say there you go, All right, welcome back to the garden line.
Good to have you with us. Hey, if you'd like
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(34:11):
two k t r H. Have you been to buchanans
Plants lately? If you haven't, you need to go check
it out. Buchanans is well, first of all, it's just
a fun place to go. Whenever I go into Buchanans,
I just I find myself, let's just say, spending some
time there, because you walk around and you see stuff.

(34:32):
Then you got to look into u's like what is
that plant? I haven't seen that plant before. You know,
they specialize in natives, but they have everything, not just natives,
but you know, I'm constantly seeing a plant like, well
that's a new one. You know, if you're into house plants, tropicals,
indoor tropicals and things, they got stuff you've never seen, like,

(34:53):
for example, the Philodendron Colombia or the monstera esqualeto. Yeah,
I hope I said that right, the amid drums, silver
and more. See ye're going what are those? We'll go
buy Buchanans and find out. Their house plant greenhouse is
huge and it's great. They got plenty of seeds on
hand there. The gift shops are awesome, and when it

(35:13):
comes to your gardens, they've got all the vegetables and
flowers and herbs and fruit, trees and shrubs and just
on and on and on down the line. If you
like to do companion planting, you know where you put
different kinds of plants together. Go check them out. They've
got wonderful herbs and many other plants that either have

(35:34):
that fragrance that helps with the companion relationship they have
with other plants, or maybe they help bring in beneficial insects.
And so when there's a bug on your plant, you've
already got the good guys that are flying around or
crawling around there to help you out. Right now. They're
four inch winter veggies or two bucks four inch winter

(35:54):
annuals or a dollar and some really really nice other
events that are going on up there today. Gay Hannon's
gonna be up there doing a propagation class from ten
to eleven, and so another reason to swing by there
Buchanan's Native Plants. So the minute I quit talking here,
Gay starts talking at Buchanan's Native Plants. If you've never

(36:17):
heard her before, you got to because she's a hoot
and she knows a lot. She can get you off
on the right track. While you're at Buchanan's website, go
ahead and sign up for the newsletter. It is awesome.
There's so much good educational material they're on eleventh Street
in the Heights. And here's the website Buchanansplants dot com.

(36:37):
Buchanans Plants dot com. I was visiting with some folks
at a garden club on what day was that, That
was Wednesday of this week, and we were talking about
different things. One of the things that came up. Oh,
actually I was talking with some folks at Ace hardware

(36:57):
stores too. We were talking about compost top dressing and
air rating and just you know, kind of getting some
questions that are related to, Okay, what is it, why
do you do it, how does it work well? Compost
top dressing and air rating, I think should go hand
in hand. Now you can just do one or the other.
That's fine, you can do that, But when you air rate,

(37:19):
you go the machine. If it's a quality machine, like
the folks at BnB turf Pros have that kind of machinery.
It pops a plug out of the ground and drops
it on the surface. So if you have thatch that
soil that then melts away that you've dropped on this
or they've dropped on the surface, helps break that thatch
down a lot faster. That's the best way you can

(37:40):
break down thatches. Aerating. If your soils are compacted, it
gets oxygen down in the root system and you end
up with a more robust root system and member brown
stuff before green stuff. You make the roots happy, the
plant's going to be happy, and if the plant's happy,
you're going to be happy, because in the case of
a lawn, you just have a more beautiful lawn. Golf

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all the way up over to Pearland. That's the area
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two three four five five nine eight. Let's go now
out to Kingwood again. We're going to talk to Woody
this time. Hey Woody, Hey Skip.

Speaker 17 (39:16):
I called about a week ago and you had recommended
a Nelson planting food product called Weedenator, and I found
it at a place called Site one Landscape Supply in Humble.
So I didn't know if your listeners wanted to, uh
to to get that product, and that's where I found it.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, I had. I'd reached out and talked to Nelson,
and that stuff's available at a lot of different areas.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
The spring has sprung on us and then the trucks
are running and and uh so you know, if you'd
been to a place and didn't find something, uh, talk
to them and go back a week later, and they
probably have it because they've been they've been getting that
stuff out everywhere. But thanks for letting know. Yeah, Weedenators
are great. A great product because it works in such
unique ways. I think that's kind of cool. So did

(40:05):
you get it down already?

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Are you?

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Are you?

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Is that still on the two do list?

Speaker 17 (40:10):
I was gonna wait on until next weekend after the freeze,
so I was going to try.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
That, okay, all right, Well that's perfectly okay to do that,
that's for sure.

Speaker 17 (40:21):
Well, we appreciate your show, and I hope you have
a blessed day.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
All right, thank you, appreciate the call. You take care. Yeah,
the Nelson that's been a popular product this year. I've
gotten I don't know, lots of emails and phone calls
too about folks looking for Nelson products, and they are
widely available.

Speaker 18 (40:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
The the The other day, I was at a training
and ran into Andy. Andy's from Medina. Medina is a
product company that's been around since forever. They they first
started sponsoring Guardenline before it was garden Line, when Dewey
Compton had the show, and they've been sponsored. I think
I'm probably the fifth host or so to speak, for

(41:07):
a Medina. Their products work, that's why they're still around.
That's why people like their products. You know, if it
didn't work, people wouldn't use it. Medina has one call
has to grow six twelve six, and we're in spring
planting season. Then if you're going to get a woody
ornamental on the ground, like a tree or a shrub
or a woody vine, if you're putting a fruit tree in,

(41:28):
if you're putting a rosebush in, if you're putting a
bedding plants, flowers or herbs or tomatoes, whatever, Medina has
to grow six twelve six is excellent for watering plants in.
Now that doesn't mean that that's all it does. People
use it as a folier feed. They use it as
an ongoing feed for plants. But especially when you're putting

(41:49):
that plant in, you want that root system to have
everything it needs so the plant hits the ground running.
And that's what medina does. Okay you The six twelve
six has got high phosp is very important for good
root growth, to have plenty of phosphors there in the soil.
It also has seaweed extracts. It's got humate humic acid

(42:10):
that improves soil structure and it helps improve nutrient uptake.
It's got Medina soil activators stimulate biological activity. This is
a concoction. Medina has to grow six twelve six plant food.
It's got you covered on all your basis. So when
you plant a plant, get some Medina has to grow
six to six, Put it in a watering can, mix

(42:32):
it according to the label concentration, and drench that root system.
Then a week later, do it again, a week later,
do it a third time. And by doing that, you'll
give your plant the best chance of as I like
to say, hit the ground running, give it the best
start that it can get. And you're gonna find Medina
products all over the place. You're gonna find them in
these hardware stores. You're can find the Southwest Fertilizer. You

(42:53):
can find them garden centers, our great independent garden centers
have those. It feeds stores, Oh my gosh, beads stores
carry Medina products. It's easy to find them. But the
main thing is get out there and find them and
get them on your shelfs. So whenever you need that,
you just reach up there and you got it. Because
you're planting year round, You're you're taking care of your
plants year round, and you always want to have a

(43:15):
supply of things on hand to help you have success. Well, gosh,
this hour went kind of quick, as they usually do.
We're gonna take a little break here in a minute,
and I will be back with your calls. If you'd
like to call during the break, that's a good way
to get right up toward the front of the line.

(43:36):
And that's seven one three two one two kt RH
seven one three two one two KTRH. Will be glad
to visit with you about the things that are of
interest to you. And if you're some of the folks
that have been emailing me this week with pictures and things,
let's go ahead and knock those out too. We've got
some interesting pictures that have come in. Be glad to

(43:56):
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Alright, you all right, let's do this show. Let's talk gardening.
We got a lot of gardening to talk right now,
and we're gonna jump right in and do that.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Have you.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
I was telling you about the watering device that I
think is so cool for your trees because it helps
that tree get its root systems established. I think you're
probably remembering me talking about that. I think those are important,

(46:15):
and because it's like an investment. It's an investment in
the money that you've spent. It's cultree over sprinkler. There's
another device though, it's called a three sixty tree stabilizer,
and this is the same concept in terms of get
one and take care of that new tree that you
have instead of having to go out there and hammer

(46:36):
tea posts in the ground three different directions. Get wires,
get the little sections of hose or whatever, so the
wire didn't cut into the tree, and you know, you
create something now that you can trip over and it's
just a pain in the neck. Why not just get
a tree stabilizer. And here's why you should hammer tea
post in the ground or put any kind of post.

(46:57):
It doesn't have to be a tee. But they have
a gadget that holds the teapot. It's about a two
foot long arm that reaches out and the other side
has a soft strap to hold onto your tree. Now,
if you one is often enough to do that. But
if you have a little bit larger tree and you
know there's going to be more force of the wind
on the leaves as the wind blows, you can do

(47:18):
one from one angle and one from another, meaning like
one's north south, one's east west, and that way you
kind of hold it no matter which way the wind blows.
These things last, and that soft strap allows the tree
to move just a little bit, which is important. Movement
helps create strength, strengthen the roots that are at the
top that are bracing that trunk, strengthen the trunk itself,

(47:40):
especially if it's a young tree that has a very
very thin trunk. And three sixty tree stabilizers last forever.
I mean you put them in your garage. They you know,
anytime you plant a tree or an aghbor plant tree.
It's a great little device and it works. You're gonna
find them at RCW, You're gonna find them at a
jorgez Hidden Garden down South, Cnmulch down South and West,

(48:03):
Buchanus Native Plants in the Heights, Arburgate and Tomball Plants
for all seasons on at Luetta in two forty nine.
There's a lot of places where you can find a
three sixty tree stabilizer. And I would highly recommend you know,
you're spending some money on that tree or large shrub
that you're putting in, and why not take care of
it and help it as the best chance of being

(48:25):
anchored and establish a good, strong root system, and then
you won't need the device anymore, you know, once it's established.
But in the meantime, it does a lot to protect
that investment. And again, as I was saying earlier, to
help your tree to have better growth early on, because
you know, when you buy a tree, what's the first question,

(48:45):
how soon can I hang a hammock in it? Right?
We don't want to wait twenty years to be able
to enjoy the shade of that tree. Tree sixty tree stabilizer,
you ought to check into it. We're going to go
out to Houston now and talk to Sherry. Hello, Sherry
up in the garden line.

Speaker 20 (49:02):
All right, thanks for taking my call. I have raised
beds with pansies and other flowers, and the pansies look
like somebody took a pair of scissors and just cut them.
It's only the pansies, not the other flowers. So do
you know what that could be and what I need
to do to treat that.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
So you're seeing a pansy pedal that looks like scissors
cut through that pedal, is what you're talking about?

Speaker 20 (49:30):
Well, it's at the stem like it. It seems like
they just cut the flower off.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Oh, cut cut the whole so strange. Well, there are
insects with chewing parts that are capable of that, beetles
and caterpillars at this time of the year. You know,
it could be either one. I'm just trying to think
about it. But you see the flower lay in there, wilted, right,

(49:57):
It's just it's not gone.

Speaker 20 (50:00):
Don't see the flower? Weird That's why it's so weird.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (50:04):
I mean I've seen I've seen what what snails do,
and but I've never and I've looked to see if
there's any caterpillars or things like that, and I don't
see anything.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Yeah, okay, Well, if the flowers missing, then it wasn't
a beatle or a caterpillar. I thought it was just
cut off. So if the flowers missing, then we start
to think, is there any way you might have deer
in the area.

Speaker 20 (50:29):
No, no, no, no, no. I live in a gated
community and it's off fence.

Speaker 21 (50:36):
In this in the city.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Okay, all right, well that would be a possible. I'm
trying to think of what else would want to nip
a flower off of a of a pansy. I can't
think of it. I can't think of another critter that
eats eats flowers like that off the top of my head.

Speaker 22 (50:55):
Strange.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Okay, yeah, it is very strange. Huh that is that
is strange. I don't know today. Yeah, well yeah, and
I just don't know what would eat. I've never had
someone describe this problem before, so anyway, that that is
a stumper. I I can tell you things you might do,

(51:19):
I don't know. I hate to send you out to
buy and do things when we don't know for sure
what's causing it. But there's a little motion activated sprinkler
that when something comes around your plants, it comes on
and like a little machine gun, strafes some with water
for about eight seconds and then goes off. That would
keep that would startle a lot of things that might
be coming up doing that possibility. I don't think it's

(51:43):
a I don't think it's an insect if the flower
is truly gone, not just cut off.

Speaker 22 (51:48):
Okay, that's strange.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Okay, yeah, it's got to be something time. All right. Well,
now now you got me wondering, maybe you need to
get you one of those wild game cameras like hunters
use around a deer feeder and then you can watch
the video. All right, Cherry, sorry I couldn't help you
all that.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
That's all right, all right, bye bye. That is very interesting. Well,
Nature's Way resources up there toward Tomball on Interstate forty five,
off Interstate forty five, right where fourteen eighty eight comes in.
They are the grandfather of quality soils in this area.

(52:31):
That's where rose soil was born. That is where the
leaf mole, compost was born, and other things we talk about.
You can go in there and you can buy a
soil blend for fruit trees, you can buy so blend
for vegetables or roses, you can just buy compost. You
can buy a wide variety of mulches quality mulches that
they make, and Nature's Way. All you have to do

(52:52):
is go buy there and check them out, see what
you got. You can have them deliver it. Some places
around town do their products by the bag too, so
that's another good idea if you want to go that
route for it. Uh. And also you can just go
out with your truck and get the products yourself right
there at the store. So however you want to go

(53:14):
about it, The bottom line is just go go about it.
Here's the website, Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Go check
it out. They got a big festival coming up you
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phone number, the address and everything, Nature's Way Resources dot Com.
I'm gonna go away for a bit and I'll be
right back. Hey.

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We got things to talk about. The first thing I
want to talk about is in Channy Gardens down on
the Katie Bullsher side of Richmond. Hear me out here,
hear this. I'm going to be there today from twelve
to one thirty, and i hope you'll come out. I'm
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in favor of making gardening less work? I'll tell you
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I heard some amen's out there. I'll help you make
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(58:07):
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want it to be beautiful, and we want to have
fun doing it. And we're going to talk about all
those things. We'll have a lot of fun in the
process too. So if you know a lazy gardener, throw
them in the car and bring them. We'll make their day.
I'll cut down on their work. If you know somebody
who is just enthusiastic, will come on out, bring them
to I'll be there from twelve noon to one thirty today.

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Now you may look and see, well it may be
starting to missed a little bit. That's okay. We're under
a tent. There's no charge for this. Just come on
out and we're going to have a good dry time
out at Enchanted Gardens. And when you're out there you
will find plenty of things to pick up. They are
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(58:52):
in Chenny gardens is load. They always stay stocked up
on all kinds of things. If you haven't gotten your
tomatoes yet, grab them today because I know it's gonna
get a call. But take them home, start taking care
of them. Bump them up to a bigger container if
you want. But you got your selection at its best
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(59:14):
them in a container you can move in if you want.
You move outside when they get a little sunshine. Come
on out to in Chanty Gardens. I'm looking forward to
seeing you out there. I hope you can make it again.
It's on FM three fifty nine. FM three fifty nine
Enchanted Gardens on the Katie Folscher side of Richmond. Let's
head out now to League City and talk to Bill.

(59:36):
Hey Bill, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 32 (59:39):
Hey, good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking the call. I
have a pair of raised beds four feet by twenty
five feet that are surrounded by pavers. I was turning
some composts into the garden last weekend and I noted
that it was covered with these one third to half
inch spiral shell and I did a little Google search

(01:00:01):
and it said these are white garden snails. The question,
I have two questions for you. The first of those
is what's the best way of controlling white garden scales.
They were kind of all over where I had the
p's planet, and I understand that they're particularly attracted to legos.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Well, there are a couple of products. There are several
products on the market for killing snails and slugs. The
ones I like best are the iron based baits. There's
one called slug O. I think there's also a slug
O plus that has, in addition to the iron, some

(01:00:38):
other kind of an insects side. That'll even a kill
other kinds of little insects. But what happens is these
snails come up and the bait looks good to them,
and they eat it, and that excess amount of iron
gives them a terminal case of constipation. So I'll just
let you process that for a me. What a way
to go. But that's how slugo baits and other iron

(01:00:59):
fate baits work. But because it's just iron, you know,
it's not like people that are more concerned about synthetic
pesticides and things are especially fond of these. And they work,
but you got to put them out in a good
fresh quantity because you want the little critters to eat
them and to get enough for it to be lethal.
And so you need fresh bait and you need to

(01:01:22):
put it out periodically.

Speaker 32 (01:01:24):
Okay, I had read that diatamacious earth is another option.

Speaker 18 (01:01:31):
What's your thought about D.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
I don't think it's practical technically. Well, D is basically
like broken glass. So if you imagine if you had
to walk barefoot through broken glass, that would that would
cut you up and everything, and that's how it works,
you know, with the slugs and snails and whatnot. But
what happens is you get a few drops of rain

(01:01:54):
or irrigation and it just sort of washes it around
and it's not as effective. If you had a good dry,
dusty environment, that would be fine. But I think the
bait there's nothing wrong with doing de. I just don't
think you're going to be fully happy unless you do
it periodically to just try to keep fresh dee out there.

Speaker 32 (01:02:15):
Yeah, that was gonna be my question, because if you
put it on the soil, then it's just going to
wash into the soil. And if I put it on
favors outside, then it doesn't necessarily work.

Speaker 24 (01:02:24):
On the snails.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, lego. The only other thing is,
unfortunately those tails, those snails are too small. They're tiny,
yes they are, and so you can't you can't make
s cargo out of them. I guess you could, but
you'd starve to death. All right, I probably will, thank you,
all right, take care? All right, there you go. There,

(01:02:51):
you got it. We love our feed source here on
Garden Line and League City Feed done in League City,
Texas is a great one. It's been around for forty years.
Forty it's just that third generation of Thunderbergs that are
running League City Feed. Grandpa built it over forty years
ago in an Ochre patch, which I think is extra
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(01:03:12):
not a good thing. Right, So now you go down there.
It's on Highway three, just a few blocks of south
of Highway ninety six in League City and all those communities.
You know, if you live in San Leon, if you
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all through that area, Santa Fe, this is your hometown
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(01:03:34):
Monday through Saturday, closed on Sunday. So if you're it's
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(01:03:55):
and they're open till six, so you can do that.
League City Feed two eight one eight three two sixteen
twelve two eight one three three two one six one two.
The weather I mentioned I was going to talk more
about the weather, and I'm gonna do that right now.
We are getting a really hard cold snap here midweek

(01:04:18):
and depending on where you live. The last time I checked,
and this is me looking at a weather app, so
I'm definitely not a meteorologist. In fact, I have trouble
saying the word. But when I look at it, it
looks like Galveston's gonna be down around twenty five. Uh.
And then excuse me, I'm sorry, yeah, twenty five. Yeah,
that's right. And then you get up and you start

(01:04:40):
to get on the north side of Houston just a
little bit. Uh in Tomball areas is twenty and then
you know, it just kind of varies as you go
north and south through there. Those of you that are
up in college station, up in Conroe, Huntsville, Uh, some
of those areas are going to be hitting the high
teens with the cold. And it's gonna be cold several days,
especially further north where it goes above freezing. But you know,

(01:05:05):
one morning it drops I think it's Tuesday morning, maybe
drops below anyway, this temperature comes up and then it
drops way below and temperature comes up and it drops
below freezing again. So you got several days there they're
very cold. Now here's the concern I have. Our plants
last week got the message from the weather that spring

(01:05:26):
is on the way. Eighty degrees quite a bit of
eighty degrees. Now you probably don't see buds now shooting
out two inch shoots, but the dormancy started to break
down in our plants because of that warm weather. So
what would be an adequately dormant plant and very cold
hearty whatever the species is as cold hearty as it's

(01:05:49):
going to be as we get warm weather, it's like
they start to wake up. And when they start to
wake up and those juices start to flow, a good,
hard cold spell will do way more damage than it
would have had the plant been fully dormant. So I'm
not driving all over town checking every plant and interviewing
them and so on. This is a generalization I'm making,

(01:06:11):
but I'm just saying that I would be a little
more cautious about this cold for two reasons. Number one,
it's very cold. Number two, it's coming after some warm
weather as we move into what is spring as far
south as we live down here. And also because of
the number of days that it's going to be cold.

(01:06:32):
So you know, it's one thing, a typical freeze here
in our area. You know, about four am, it drops
below freezing a little bit, and then by the time
you know the sun comes starts to come up, we're
already back above freezing. And so it's a very short
duration of freezing conditions when you get that cold, and
then you drop down below it, I think the chances

(01:06:56):
of damage are greater. Now that is me giving you
my best estimation based on plant principles. Okay, hopefully I'll
be very wrong about that, but if you're going to
cover plants, I would make sure you do get them covered.
You hold whatever heat of the soil is in around

(01:07:16):
the plant. So what happens on a cold night. Soil
radiates heat up because the soil is much warmer than
the air. And if you put a cover over the
plant and drape it to the ground and seal it
around the ground with rocks or stones or sticks or whatever,
depending on how much wind you have, you may have
to do a lot to hold that cover down. Then

(01:07:36):
that warm air is trapped underneath there. It still gets
cold under there, but not as cold, and you can
make a lot of difference. If you have a plant
that is very prone to cold damage, like citrus, most citrus,
then definitely going to need some heat underneath there. And
that's where we use the floodlight with the little aluminum

(01:07:58):
fixtures clamb on fixtures. Point them down, don't point them
at the plant. Point them down, not at the plant,
and say that again, uh, because they get so hot
that they can do damage themselves to the tissues of
the plant. But have that heat rise up, so you
shoot it at the ground, it warms up and the
heat will rise up underneath there. And that makes a
lot of difference if you've created dead air space. So

(01:08:21):
the bigger the plant, the more dead air space, the
more heat you're going to have to have. And I
can't tell you, you know, as one hundred and fifty white
bulb enough that got me through with a hibiscus, a
tropical hibiscus, they got meat through the last breeze we had.
One hundred and fifty white bulb did, but it was
in a protected spot on the south side of the house,
and I you know, it wasn't as bad. You get

(01:08:43):
out there and you get a big old let's say,
a satsuma orange or a myrlemon or a centrus orange
tree of some sort. Now you've got a bigger area
of air to keep warm, and it's going to take
more heat to do that. So there's not a formula
for saying how many bulbs do you need or when
do you need to use a heat lamp, as opposed
to just one hundred and fifty wive floodlight. The thing

(01:09:03):
to remember though, is incandescent bulbs, not LED. Not LED
LED does not produce the heat that we need. If
you want more information, go to my website Gardening with
Skip find the publication on protecting plants against frosts and freezes.
It is very informative and very helpful. But that's at

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Alrighty, welcome back to garden Line. Great to have you
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Speaker 36 (01:17:16):
Hey, Jason, Hello, I've got a question skip about these
little uh opposite of ladybugs.

Speaker 8 (01:17:24):
Are kind of orange and they get everywhere.

Speaker 22 (01:17:28):
Are they good for the garden or how do we
get rid of if they're not?

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
Okay? Well, without seeing a picture of it, I can't
be sure, but I can tell you there's If they're orange,
they are probably a lady beetle. There's many different types
of lady beetles that have different markings and even different
a little bit different size. The only other thing that
comes to mind is a Colorado potato beetle, which love potatoes,

(01:17:55):
but they're much bigger than a lady beetle. So I'm
going to say about ninety percent sure you're talking about
a lady beetle right now. They like to hibernate and
typically they find their way into some protected spot to
hibernate in the cool season. But you're seeing them outside.

Speaker 40 (01:18:12):
Right well that they're like get in the shed and
they just thousands of them, and yeah about the spring summer,
they're just laying everywhere.

Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
So yes, I do believe they hibernate.

Speaker 21 (01:18:23):
And they're about the size of.

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Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Two, Okay, that it's probably a species called the Harmonia
lady beetle. It's got the lady beetle markings on its back,
but in between its back and its head, if you
look at that little section it's called the thorax, between
the head and the back, you'll see big white splotches
and maybe they're in the shape of a capital M.

(01:18:48):
That's the harmonia. Now, it doesn't really matter which one
it is. That's just one that is very vigorous. It's
a great predator in our gardens. But some people even
talk about that they will they will bite you, and
that can happen. They have they have little pinching mouth parts,
biting mouthparts. So it's they're capable of that, but they're

(01:19:09):
not out to get you. Where we run into problems
with them is when they invade people's homes by the Brazilians.
That that's a little bit of a mess. Yes, sir,
I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend controlling Yeah, I wouldn't recommend
controlling them.

Speaker 21 (01:19:28):
Okay, well, all righty, thank you for the answer my question.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
All right, sir, thank you appreciate the call very much.
That is for sure. Jorges Hidden Gardens is down there
in Alvin, Texas. It's just outside of Alvin. In fact,
the address is Alvin. It's seventeen seven twenty one Elizabeth Street,
and he is. It just keeps growing down there. I mean,

(01:19:55):
he's got a good supply of all kinds of plants.
He's gonna always have good fruit tree selection. He's going
to have roses, you know, like Peggy Martin's some beautiful
roses hanging baskets, you know, herbs and vegetables and other things.
Right now, he has an excellent supply of citrus. So
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(01:20:15):
of orange, a grapefruit, a mere lemon, even a variegated
lemon variety. He's got that down there, along with all
those great veggies that need to be going in your garden.
That's at Orges Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street and Alvin.
It's easy to find, it's easy to get in and out,
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you get there. So go by, say hi to Jorge
while you're there. By the way, you heard me talking
about the three sixty tree stabilizer. I believe he carries those.
You can even grab one while you're there at Jorges.
Let me go now to Cove, Texas, and we're going
to talk to Rufus.

Speaker 9 (01:20:52):
Hey, Rufus, I'm question my technique.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
If I killed this that it grows on the side
of our tree limbs and stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
It's a great thing.

Speaker 24 (01:21:04):
It's a real greeny green.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
I thought I killed that stuff, but apparently it could resistant.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
That is a that is some it's called lichen l
A c H E N and it's not a disease
of the plant, but it's often associated with declining plants.
So people think, well, it's killing my limb, but actually
the limb is declining and the canopy of the tree
is opening up, you know, less folded shading at those branches,
and you just get more like and growth there there

(01:21:35):
is There are a couple of copper based products out
there that will suppress the liking. It'll just keep coming
back because it's kind of like mold and mildew. When
the conditions are right, they're going to show up. You know,
algae on a brick. If you keep that brick wet,
it's going to grow algae on it.

Speaker 24 (01:21:53):
I mean the other day I walked by there and
I went that thing is limey, darky green in places,
and is like it's growing up killed this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Yeah, no, it grows back, Yeah, it grows back. Just
know that it's not a diseasier plant. That's the good news.
It's not a diseasier plant.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
Well, which is the one that they've been spraying for
to keep from sucking life out of trees. Other than mill.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
Pope there, mistletoe's the only thing that sucks the life
out of the tree. Ball moss, Spanish moss, and lichens.
They are not they are not living off of the
sap of the tree. Because you'll see lichens on fence
posts and rocks.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Okay, so okay.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Alright, all right, good luck with it. But they absolutely are.
I love them. I love watching them eat. Aphan's thanks, Rufus.
Appreciate your call very much. That is for sure. As
a mite is a mineral supplement that I talk about
all the time, because your soil needs trace minerals and

(01:22:58):
adequate supplies to support plant growth, whether that plant is
a lawn grass or that plant is a tomato plant.
If it's a plant, it needs trace minerals. And asamite
comes in bags where you spread it out, it doesn't
take much. It's a trace mineral. This isn't something you're
dumping a ton of it on there. You're putting a
little bit out. But the fact that you only need

(01:23:18):
a little bit does not mean it is not every
bit as important as the three one to two ratio
fertilizers that you're putting out there in your lawn. You know,
you hear me talk about fertilizers for the lawn, and
that's the big numbers. Typically well, asamite is a trace
mineral fertilizer for the lawn. It can be done anytime
of the year. Forty four pound bag covers six to
twelve thousand square feet. If you want more information, go

(01:23:41):
to asmite Texas dot com. Now you're going to find
asmite all over the Greater Houston area. Feed stores, places
like Ace Hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer, home and garden nurseries,
the independent garden centers. In other words, the folks that
are in the business here and know what they're talking about,
they're going to carry azemite. If you are looking for it,

(01:24:04):
it's not going to be hard to find. You can
go to azamite Texas dot com for more information. When
do you put it out? Where? You can put it
out when you do your spring fertilizing, or you can
put it out any month of the year that you want.
It doesn't have to be at a particular time. It's
not timed like our spring fertilizations are. If you go
to my schedule, you'll see the trace mental supplements have
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All right, let's do this make some man. I want
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fifty nine north of Richmond, south of Katy. That's it
and Jenny Gardens. I'll be talking about tips for making
gardening less kind of get more from your garden with
less sweat and ibuprofen. Hey, everybody, nor what the forties says? Yay,
I'll hope you have your more productive, easier time at
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on and see me twelve noon to one thirty. And
while you're out there, you can grab your tomatoes. I
know you're not gonna put them in the ground right away,
but get them while they have the best selection. And
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and gives and gives every year, year after year. So
there you go. You heard it here. First, if you
look at my gardening schedule, you will notice that there
is an optional early fertilization. It's called the early green
up fertilization. If you want to get your lawn showing
a prettier green color sooner than putting down that early

(01:30:00):
release Early green up Applicational work and nitrofos Imperial fifteen
five to ten is an excellent product product for that.
You know that that ratio fertilizer was designed at Texas
A and M. Still the same formula that's been sold
for now about half a century by Nitrofoss. It is

(01:30:20):
because it works. It's in a red orange bag. So okay,
hear me this make it easy. Look at the colors
of the bag. Nitrofos Imperial fifteen five to ten red
orange bag. It's tried and true for our soils, for
our climate, for our turf species that we have here.
It is very helpful and it comes in veri in
types with different kinds of weed control also in it,

(01:30:43):
so you have an option there as to how you
go about it. But you're going to find Nitrofoss Imperial
types of products at Bearings Hardware, both the one on
Bissonette and the one in West Teimer m and d
Out in Rosenberg has it. Ace Hardware City and Memorial
has it. You're going to find it appliants for all seasons.
I was just talking at them a minute ago. Highway
two forty nine Nitrofoss Imperial and by the way, also

(01:31:05):
the Nitrofoss barricade for preventing weeds before they even get started.
Don't delay. It's time to get that done. Don't delay.
All right, We're gonna go out to the phones now
and head to pair Land and talk to Sharon. Hey, Sharon,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 23 (01:31:21):
Hey Skip, thanks for taking my call. I am calling
because the day of the rain I put down the barricade,
and as it turns out, we received about four inches
of rain. So I'm wanting to know if the barricade
was just washed away, and we need to reply.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
Barricade is one of the best pre emergents for sticking
to the soil. You know, there's some others out there,
dethiopeas and other ingredients and sold in dimension and stuff.
That stuff will pick up and wash away more readily
than barricade will. Barricade is made to stick to the
soil because if it doesn't stick up at the top,
it's not going to control the wheat seeds that are
sprouting up there. So it's designed to stick to the soil.

(01:32:06):
I think you're going to be okay, and I would
hate for you to go back and do another barricading,
because when you start doubling up on on pesticide issue ingredients,
you can run into some problems. So let's let's I'm
gonna I'm gonna flip the coin and say, I'm pretty
sure you're fine on the barricade. I would rather it

(01:32:26):
hadn't rained four inches on it, but uh, I don't
think I would. I would redo it at this point.

Speaker 23 (01:32:33):
Okay, Okay, So I can just spot sweet maybe with
the Captain Jackson areas where the weeds get.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
Right, if you see some weeds that pop up, you
can do that. I just don't think you're going to
have to, but i'd be curious to hear from you
how that works. If you've got a good application of
barricade out, I'd like to hear how that goes. So anyway,
that's my best shot on that one.

Speaker 7 (01:32:57):
Sharon, Okay, Luckily, I ate it.

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best things you can do for your lawn. We're going
to now go to Larry and sugar Land. Hey Larry,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 22 (01:34:16):
I took your advice a while back concerning a large premia.
It stands about seven feet tall. I'll pull it out
of the ground and hung it upside down in the garage.
It's got a large rootball to it, and I've never
had a area this size before. Okay, a month or
so from now, when I get ready to plant it,

(01:34:36):
do I plant it with that rootball still on it?
Or do I cut it home?

Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
Or what do I do?

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
You can, you can. You can put those roots back
in the ground. Some of them are going to be
driving dead on the outside, but it should be fine.
It's gonna even if you plant dead roots where the
new roots are going to come out of, it'll still
come out and root just fine.

Speaker 22 (01:34:57):
Okay, is there a temperature I'm looking for for our planet?

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
They like warm weather? Yeah, they like warm weather. And uh,
we probably have some listeners from the Plumbaria Society. If
one of our Plumerius Society leaders would like to call in,
I would love to visit with them about that too.
But it's not a matter of, you know, is it
going to get cold damage, It's a matter of is
it even going to want to be in that temperature?

(01:35:22):
You know, So you're down in the forties, Plumaria is
not very happy out there in the garden. So I
would let it warm up really good before putting it out.

Speaker 22 (01:35:32):
Okay, yeah, no, no, Rush, Well, I appreciate.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
It, Thank you very much, all right, Larry, Thanks Thanks
for the call. I appreciate that a lot as well.
When you're looking for a quality soil blend, Heirloom Soils
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You need veggie and herb mix, maybe you're putting in
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I did my best to make it to you and
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Speaker 9 (01:37:20):
Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Scamp Richard.

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Trim. Just watch him as many tea sets.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
All right, folks, let's get going here. We got plenty
to talk about. I want to jump right back in.
Don't forget those of you who are just tuned in,
especially I'm going to be in Chenna Gardens today from
twelve noon to one thirty. Twelve noon to one thirty,
I'll be talking about tips for making gardening less work. Boy,
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(01:38:07):
your garden with less sweat and ibuprofen that's the way
I like to put it. I'm gonna help you make
your gardening easier, make it more productive, and more fun.
That's what we're all about here. We want gardening to
be fun. Enchanted Gardens is out there on the Katie
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(01:38:30):
it's easy to get to. While you're there, you are
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plants and things that they have. By the way, we'll
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don't worry about that. We're gonna be hind and dry
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(01:38:52):
this is your chance. I can guarantee you go home
at least something in your hands from the folks at
Medina while we're there, So come on and see me.
For those of you who are looking at doing some
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many great Ace hardware stores that are out there. We're
going to head now out to Katie and talk to Sydney. Well,
Hello Sydney, Congratulations on your patients, and welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 44 (01:40:28):
You can tell I really needed to you, all right,
your help. There was a wonderful arborist, Martin spoon Moore
was Afford Little Tree, and he was on Randy's show
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now he seems to have evaporated, and so I need
your help. Who would be a trustworthy ardorist tree service
to care and my tree?

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Oh boy, I can't just pull a name out of
the air on that. When you call, leave a little
message there for him. I'll tell you what hang on?
Would you? Can I put you on hold and you
tell my producer give me some information your your contact

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information or email is fine, and and let me see
if I can help you with this. Okay, all right?
Thank you? You bet so, Jonathan. We'll pick it up
here in just a second and I'll get you the
information that you're going to need there. Thank you. Let's
go out to Montgomery now and talk to Marie.

Speaker 45 (01:41:45):
Hello Marie, Well, Skip, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 23 (01:41:50):
Skip.

Speaker 8 (01:41:50):
I have a question.

Speaker 45 (01:41:52):
I'm trying to decide whether to go ahead and apply
the barricade today and let the rain water it in,
and then later follow up with the nitro false weed
and feed with Trimac fifteen five ten the teal colored.

Speaker 46 (01:42:08):
Bag, or.

Speaker 45 (01:42:11):
Switch instead to the Imperial fifteen five to ten. In
other words, would I be overdoing it? Got weeds?

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
Let's okay?

Speaker 8 (01:42:18):
Body else?

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
Well, the barricade and the nitroposs fifteen five to ten
with trimac are going after two different kinds of weed situations.
The trimac is going after the weeds that are right
now in your lawn. The barricade is stopping and preventing
the weeds that will come up later, and you'll see
them later. So I would do the barricade now we're

(01:42:41):
going to get some rain. And from what I'm seeing,
it's not a gully washer. You might check the weather
in your area make sure, but in most of the
areas I was looking at yesterday, it looked like it's
not just a gully washer, and it'd be perfect for
getting that barricade washed in. I think I would wait
until you could do the trimac and the fertilizer now

(01:43:03):
if you would like, that's the early green up. But
we can do early greenups all the way into March too,
So I might hold off a little bit. Let's get
through the cold, let it warm up, and let those
weeds get a little more active in terms of they
like the weather. And then wet the weeds and put
the trimac fifteen five to ten with trimac from nitrofoss

(01:43:23):
put it on them and the wet the wet wheat. Yeah,
the wet weeds is it sticks to them and you
need it to the trimec to stick to them. And
so I would do it then. I think you're going
to get a little bit better results if you did
it now, it would be just fine. You still are
going to get results. I just I would do the

(01:43:44):
barricade now, get it watered in, let's get through the
rain we're about to have and it's not going to
be bad, and then do that fifteen five ten with trimec.

Speaker 8 (01:43:53):
Awesome.

Speaker 45 (01:43:54):
I will follow your recommendations and do the trimach in March.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
Then all right, much, Well, you bet. And when I
say March, I mean early March. You know, in fact,
you could do it, you know, later in last week
of February or something too. There's no you know, there's
no having to wait too long. It's just either way
you want to go about it perfect. Thank you, Mary.

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All right, folks, welcome back to your garden line up.
Good to have you with us. We are here to
answer your gardening questions at seven one three two one
two k t R eight seven one three two one
two k t r H. Now, if you've listened to
me on guardenline much, you know that I have in

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the last few years become a bird enthusiast a back yard.
But I'm not the guy with the safari hat in
the shorts, you know, walking around binoculars all over creation
in the woods. Although that's fun, I hear, I want
them in my backyard, and boy does it change your backyard.
The music of birds, just the color of birds, the
antics of birds. I love watching them in the backyard.

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And you get your quality feeder. You get quality feed
and you will have birds. If you build it, they
will come. And Wildbird's Unlimited is the place you go
to build it. Essentially, they have a wide variety of feeders,
A wide variety of bird houses. And by the way,
it's time to get the purple Martin houses out there.
The scouts are going, hey, where's my house? Get it

(01:50:41):
out there, or they're gonna find somebolace else to live.
Get them in your backyard. And wildbirds has quality products
on that quality feed. One of the cool things that
they have is called bark butter. So think about a
spreadable suet, so sort of like peanut butter, but not
peanut butter. All right. Bark butter can be smeared on trees.
You can smear it on your you know, if your

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husband's knapping out in the yard, you can just smear
it on him. The birds will come. One hundred and
fifty different species of birds have been documented on bark butter.
They also have bark butter bits with your little bite
sized nuggets. You can put those in a feeder. You
can mix them in with the seed that you have.
They also have bugs and bits, which is bark butter
bits with dried mealworms. Right now, the birds in your

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yard are hearing this as you listen to this, and
they're they're slobbering. I don't know if a bird can slabber,
but if they can bark butter bits with dried meal worms.
That's less like bird crack. It's high in calcium. It
supports egg development. And they are nesting. Now, by the way,
did I say it already? You got to get the
nests out there. You got to get the bird houses
out there where they can build their nests in them.

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Very important. Of course, they have lots of other things.
They have the winter Blend and I'm still feeding that
because it's packed with energy and fats. My birds like it.
And while you're there, check out the card confetti. That's
a whole new thing. I don't have time to tell
you about that right now, but I have talked about
it before and it's really really good for bringing in
cardinals and other birds as well. It's got just a

(01:52:12):
dozen different kinds of things in it. Cardinal tube feeder
is a special feeder that is really good for this.
You can put cardinal confetti in any kind of feeder.
But they also have a good evening cardinal feeder, which
I think is really attractive too. All at Wildbirds WBU
dot com, forward slash Houston. There's six of them here

(01:52:32):
in town. WBU dot com forward slash Houston. The main
thing is just do it and then get ready to
make a cup of coffee early in the morning. Go
out and sit on your patio and just enjoy. I'm
going to head out to Houston. Now we're going to
talk to Helen. Hey, Helen, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 48 (01:52:54):
Hiks, skip this came.

Speaker 18 (01:52:57):
You came through quicker than.

Speaker 48 (01:52:58):
The guy telling me you would. So I have Okay,
I have a picture of a Japanese maple and I
wanted to send it to you and see if it okay. No,
it looks like it needs some help. Some of the
leaves are browning and some have fallen off.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Okay, Well, in the Japanese maple is a deciduous plant,
so it's normal for the leaves to fall off in
the in the winter season. When you're saying browning, are
they browning starting at those little points the tips of
the leaves? Yes, Okay, that it could be that your

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tree is just, you know, experiencing what they do when
it when it comes into cold weather in the wintertime.
But tip die back on a Japanese maple is sometimes
not always, but sometimes related to a little bit of
dry soil conditions or to burn from excessive salt based fertilizer,

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or just the stresses of summer where you know, it
gets hot and it's hard to keep up, and sometimes
you'll see that little tip burn on Japanese maples, and
it just means the bottom line is something's wrong in
the plumbing. The plumbing can't keep up with the water
flow on hot days, or there's not enough water for

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the roots to take up to be able to keep up,
or or something along those lines. A little bit of
it is. Okay, you don't want all the leaves to
fry though, that's for sure.

Speaker 48 (01:54:33):
Okay. I just sent the picture of it, so I
hope you get that. This Japanese maple. I got it
at Cornelia's and it was it's just a beautiful tree.

Speaker 6 (01:54:46):
I just love them.

Speaker 48 (01:54:47):
But I wanted to put it in a pot, so
that's what we did. And does that have any effect
on it? Would it be happier?

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
Okay? I got you, I got your photo. I got
your photo. So first of all, that is a lot
of tree for that size pot. I think I would
if you could move it up to twice that wide
of a pot, it will be happier. You can grow
it for a while in there, but you're gonna have
to water it very very frequently when the weather warms

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up and the new growth comes out. I don't think
that's dead. I think it'll be back, but time will
tell on that. But what that kind of leaf drop
in the periphery and hanging on to some leaves in
the interior. That's kind of that in and of itself,
does not look like you have a problem yet on
that plant. But the pot is really small, and the

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only water that tree can get is that little bit
of water in that small pot, And so I think
you need to bump it up to I double the
size if you could. Okay, okay, well we can do it.

Speaker 24 (01:55:54):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
I appreciate your looking at it, you bet Helen. And
remember Japanese maple and our hot climate. If you can
give it some morning sun and afternoon shade, it'll be
very happy. Or a very bright dapple shade for a
part of the day is good. But just don't don't
let it be in too much sun.

Speaker 21 (01:56:14):
Okay, it's it's as soon as our patio.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
So alrighty, so all right nearby? So it does it
all right, Helen? Well, thank you alrighty, you take care. Yeah,
Japanese maples are so pretty and we're just kind of
south in their rain. They will grow here, you can.

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I've seen some gorgeous Japanese maples in a Greater Houston area.
But the number one thing that goes wrong is poor drainage,
soggy roots, or or droughty conditions or especially just the hot,
blazing sun. And not all varieties of Japanese maple are
equally suited. Some do better than others. That's why I

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tell you go to your independent garden centers where they
know what they're talking about, uh and visit with them
about Japanese maple and they can put the right one
in your hands if you would like. I like to
be able to do that. All righty, Well, let's see
our phone numbers seven one three two one two kt
r H seven one three two one two k t

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rh oh. I had a question that came in earlier.
Oh gosh, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to find it
and come back to it. I wanted to give an
update on the answer there. Uh RCW Nurseries is right there.
We're Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway two forty nine come
together RCW is they get it? Got it? Nursery meaning

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number one? They probably have it. But if they don't,
they probably can get it. Just ask them. They do
ordering and stuff right now. They got fifteen percent off
there Azalea's and a nice variety of different colors and
patterns and whatnot. Ozabias are a great plant for the
Houston area. You give them a nice, bright, shady area
and they're very, very happy. But the big elephant in

(01:58:06):
the room at RCW is there roses. You know, every
year they get in this rose list that is like
pages and pages long. And I don't know what kind
of ROAs do you want? Do you want the typical red? Oh,
they got a lot of that. Do you want one
that looks like the peppermint candy with red and white
stripes and the petals? Do you like coral? Do you

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like orange? Do you like yellow? Do you like pink?
Do you like a lavender? Do you like a hot
hot pink with a purple am? I making a point here?
You name it. They've got it. But remember they order
their roses. They get them in. They have every rose
on earth practically, And if you delay, then your fellow

(01:58:49):
garden shoppers are going to come in and they're going
to buy them. So sooner orrive than later. Get those roses,
time to plant them anyway, get those things in the ground.
Go buy RCW if you just go to their website. Okay,
go to the website and the website is rc Wnurseries
dot com. There you can find their store hours, you
can find the phone number for there, you can get

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all the kinds of stuff that you are interested in.
In fact, if you if you go there, they even
have a page on the roses and follow them on Facebook.
They just recently posted to Facebook their roselist and so
you can do a little shopping before you even actually
arrive over at RCW. That is the case. Let's head

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out to Katie. Now we're going to talk to Scott. Hey, Scott,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (01:59:38):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 18 (01:59:38):
Quick question for you. You know how in the master
planning communities, all of the yards are built to kind
of have a point between the two of them where
the drainage all occurs out to the street, so it
stays very very wet. You know, you drive it during
a rainstorm, you can just always see between every house
that nice line of water if somebody wanted to, like
if I wanted to plant ahead, you're shrubbery kind of

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boundary between the yards and that very wet area. Is
there anything that would work there?

Speaker 2 (02:00:07):
That's a good question. I would think that southern rox
myrtle would do okay as long as it wasn't totally
submerged for long, long periods of time. But those grow
native out in our area, and we get a lot
of rain in our area, and we have clay soils
in our area. Yopon may do pretty good in that
spot too. I'm trying to think what one if you've

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got a lot of room. Button bush loves to live
on a river bed bank. Button bush is a native,
but it gets pretty large. It has these little blooms
that look like starburst. You know that tower in Dallas
that looks like a dandelion seedhead. You know what backing about,
that's what a button bush bloom looks like. It looks

(02:00:50):
like that that tower up there. But it gets big,
so it may be too big for what you're trying
to accomplish right there. But those will be a few.
But go to a you know, go to a good
quality garden center and see what they carry. I guarantee
you a Nelson Water Gardens and nursery adding Katie where
you are that they're going to have some really good

(02:01:10):
options for UH swamp tolerant plants.

Speaker 18 (02:01:16):
And is there is there anything you could do under it,
like you know, I dig down deeper and put in
some small pebbles to allow you know, a lower blow
of water or something of that. Making right, It.

Speaker 2 (02:01:27):
Doesn't help to put gravelly stuff down in a trench
because think of an aquarium, aquarium's whole water. Gravel in
the bottom accomplishes nothing in an aquarium. But you can
put a pipe down in a trench with gravel around it,
and the water seeps into the pipe and it's like
a backward septic system and then it has to slope
off to the curb a lower area where it can

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drain away. So depending on the rules where you live there,
that's called a French drain, and you can do you
could do a French drain like that.

Speaker 6 (02:02:00):
That way.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
All right, folks, welcome back to guard Line. We are
glad to have you with us and talking all kinds
of things. Gardening. I mentioned talking to my a minute ago.
Spring green up time is here. If you want to
do the early spring green up, you can do that now,
and that is on my schedule. That is an optional.

(02:02:22):
It's like you have to do that. Our primary summer
fertilization starts in April here in our area, but a
lot of folks like to get a little early green up,
and Nitrophos has an awesome product for that. It's Nitroposs Imperial.

Speaker 3 (02:02:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:02:36):
Imperial comes in a red orange bag, kind of reddish
orange bag. It's a fifteen to five ten fertilizer. It
takes about seven pounds per thousand square feet to do
what you need to do at this time of the year.
It's going to release those nutrients quickly. That's what helps
get you the quick spring greenup. It doesn't make your
grass take off growing instantly, but it does develop green

(02:02:59):
collar and then the temperature worms just a little bit.
You're going to see a significant growth response because of it.
As a product's been around a long time. That kind
of ratio of nutrient was researched about Texas and m
years ago. It's long since been known as what you
need when you're going to fertilize lawns in our area.

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The grasses we grow here are the soils we have here.
Now you're going to find it. An enchanted forest out
in Richmond Rosenberg at Ace Hardware, Sinkle Ranch, allspas Ace
and the Woodlands has it. Or you can go up
to Arborgate a garden center in Tumble and find it
there as well. That is nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five ten.
And while you're there, just go ahead and grab you

(02:03:40):
some nitrofross barricade, which is the pre emergent that prevents
the warm season weeds from ever showing up. You put
it down, you water it in with a half inch
of water, and you never see the weeds. That's how
it works. Excuse me, no a scratchy throat today, So

(02:04:01):
I don't need that. Not when you're in the radio.
I'm going to talk for four hours. But anyway, hey,
in chenned Forest Garden Center is down in Richmond Rosenberg.
And if you are in let's say you're in Richmond Rosenberg,
you're heading towards sugar Land. Enchanted forest is the garden
center that it is off to the right, Okay, off
to the right, if you're going up Highway fifty nine

(02:04:23):
in that direction. Now, I love going to that place.
There is always something going on. There, always something going
on at Enchanted Forest, and the selection that they have
is just amazing. It is time to be getting your
vegetable gardens in at least by the plants. Get those

(02:04:44):
plants so that when you do want to get out
there and plant them, you're ready to go. That's important.
You want to be able to have the selection that's best,
and now's the time you get the selection that's best.
So while you're out there, they have some really cool

(02:05:04):
plants for indoor plants. There's some great gifts and things
that are excellent for Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day? What was
I about to say? There for Valentine's Day? And they
also have a beautiful selection of other kinds of gifts
that you're going to love and people on your list
are going to love them too. Now they've got a

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crate gardening for kids. Krate gardening for kids. It's like
using a crate, like the old milk crate kind of things,
and you can grow in that. You get some burlap liner,
put some good growing mix in there, and you can
do it. Just go by there and ask about that, Okay,
ask about the crate gardening and how kids can learn

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to do that. It's kind of fun. Their selection of
tomatoes and everything else is just unbelievable, it really is.
It's just outstanding, outstanding, as well as hanging baskets, Oh
my gosh, so beautiful. But it's that way all the
time you go out there. It's that way all the
time at Enchanted Forest out in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
So give them, give them a call, check them out.

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It is on FM twenty seven fifty nine outside of
Richmond Rosenberg Highway or FM twenty seven fifty nine. You
are listening to garden Line and the phone number here
is seven one three two one two Ktright seven one
three two one two kt r H. Scott had called

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earlier and I was talking about some drainage issues, you know,
between the two houses at wet Spot, and I mentioned
that Peerscapes was a company that could do that. And
because Peerscapes is a company that can't do anything, I mean,
I mean it stuff. If you want your landscape to
be prettier, if you want your plants to do better,
if you need to do any kinds of stuff to
the landscape, so that can happen Pierscapes can do it.

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They do designs, so they can design a beautiful bit
a beautiful landscape. They can do the whole nine yards
if you want. They can do irrigation repairs and making
sure that it is properly functioning, which you're gonna need
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online to their website piercescapes dot com, piercescapes dot com
look at pictures of the landscape lighting that they do.
But they also do drainage. So that area like I
was talking about, you know between the houses, both houses
slope down, it's always wet right there. What can we
do well, talk to them about it and they can.

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They can also put in that French drain that we
were talking about, which basically is an underground pipe that
the excess water leaks into and drains off to a
lower spot. Makes it easy. Here's the number two eight
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seven oh fifty sixty or piercescapes dot com listening to

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garden line If you'd like to give me a call
and ask a gardening question. We are happy to do that.
In fact, I'm I love it best when we get
to talk about the things you were interested in. I
certainly have plenty of things I'm interested in. So that's
what I'm gonna do right this moment. Remember, it's gonna
get cold this week. Is going to get very cold
this week. For those of you down in Galveston area,

(02:08:22):
the last time I checked, twenty five. For those of
you up in a Tomball area, probably twenty. And as
you go north to Conroe and what College Station, Huntsville,
going further and further north up, it just gets colder
and colder to where you're done in the teens. It's

(02:08:42):
going to be a cold that followed an eighty degree week.
We had a number of days where it was in
the eighties. And our plants that are dormant, when they
have that kind of weather, they go, hey, let's quit
being dormant, let's get ready to do some growing. And
as they move out of dormance, they're more susceptible to cold.
So a plant that could have taken cold three weeks

(02:09:05):
ago takes less cold now. And I don't know how
to quantify it as to how much less I can't
give you a temperature, even if you gave me the
plant exactly the temperature and stuff. But just know this
that you need to be extra careful in protecting those
plants this week. If it's a plant that comes up
like a perennial out of the ground, protect the base.

(02:09:26):
If it's a citrus tree, mound some soil, yes, you're
gonna hear me say this, a volcano mound it up
around the base of the trunk. So if it gets
killed back, at least you'll have some of the graft
union that can reach sprout and put you back in
a tree or a bush real quick. You need to
cover plants and seal the air so you create dead

(02:09:46):
air space. So I'm covered that goes all the way
over the plant. It's all in my publication on my website.
I'm protecting plants against frosts and freezes and then some
source of heat underneath that's pointing down towards the soil
that and rises up and makes a big difference if
you have prevented air movement underneath that cover. If you

(02:10:08):
want to put a support over the cover, all you
got to do is I like to use bent pieces
of PVC pipe just you know, make a little igloo
by having PVC going over north south and another in
east west and so on. However you want to go
about it, doesn't matter how you go about it. The
key is create some dead airspace, put some heat underneath it,

(02:10:29):
and get your plants through what we're about to go
through this week. All right, time for me to take
a break. I'll be right back with your calls in
just a moment. All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back
to garden Line. Glad you're with us. By the way,
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folks there to do it. Qualitytx dot com is the website.
Go check it out qualitytx dot com. Don't delay. Power
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know you're getting a quality service, you're getting quality products
and therefore a quality life, and don't delay. Go ahead
and call them up start that process. It is a process.
This family owned company can be reached also at seven
one three quality seven one three quality.

Speaker 3 (02:13:41):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:13:44):
You know another thing is just as an aside. Everybody
I've talked to Equality Home, everybody that I've talked to,
I can just tell they love working there. It is
a pleasure. It's a great place to work. It's a
pleasure to work there. But that says something too about
how they do business. You're listening to garden Line our
phone number seven one three two one two k t

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r H seven one three two one two k t
r H gives caull we'll talk about the things that
are most of interest to you.

Speaker 3 (02:14:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:14:16):
I had a question come in.

Speaker 3 (02:14:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:14:18):
Let's see, this was from Cindy, and it was earlier
and we we had we weren't able to do the
call on the air, so I'm just going to talk
about it right now. Cindy sent me a couple of
citrus leaves, and the leaves are turned upside down, and
on the bottom of the leaves are lots of little
white specks that look kind of fluffy, flaky, and then

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there's a lot of little black city spots in there.
What that is is scale, Cindy. Uh. And if you've
got cetrus and you turn the leaves over and you
see stuff stuck to the bottom of the leaves. Now,
sometimes aphits can be feeding on a plant. You know,
there's certainly mealy bugs that can feed on plants, and
white flies that'll be under the leaves. But scale was
one of the most common ones on centrus. The simplest,

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least toxic way to control scale is with a dormant
oil spray or a summer oil spray. You mix it
according to the label. Don't spray it on a hot
sunny day. But now'd be a fine time to do it.
As we come out of spring or out of winter
into spring, that's a very susceptible time for scale because
the weather's warming, their respiration is increasing. But you got

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to coat the leaves with the scale spray with the oil.
That means the undersides, especially of the leaves, need to
be one hundred percent sprayed with oil. Because any scale
that you don't cover with oil, it doesn't kill. It's
a smothering thing. And so just do your sprays like
that and thatt of work. There are also systemics in

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scale that are sucking juices out of the plant. When
you put a systemic in the soil, it goes up
in the plant and the scale or the insects that
are doing that kind of feeding, they get that poison
in them and it kills them that way. So that's
another op. I like the oil options my first shot.
You can use any kind of an oil. It could
be neam oil, it could be summer oil, it could
be a dorm and oil that's mixed according to the label.

Speaker 8 (02:16:09):
Rate.

Speaker 2 (02:16:09):
Be very careful when you use oil. But Cindy that
that is what you got and that is what you
can do about it. One of my favorite garden centers
to go visit is Moss Nursery down in Seabrook. They
are on Toddville Road down in Seabrook, and all of
you down south and east of town they probably been
to Moss one hundred times. But it is not just

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another garden center. This place is eight acres. For seventy years,
this has been a family owned garden center for everything
you need on landscapes, gardens, your indoor homescapes. Their houseplant
greenhouse is incredible. Recently they got in a bunch of
shipments of small cactus and succulents as well. They got

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lots of hanging baskets and right now the place is
just loaded with trays of vegetables and herbs and flowers
and everything you can imagine.

Speaker 7 (02:17:03):
And when you're in there in the you know, in
the main.

Speaker 2 (02:17:05):
Barn where they do the check out and everything, you're
going to see some of Jim's whimsical t shirt art.
The eyeball plant that's something he created and it is
really cool. If you get one of those, no one
else you know who's going to have one. They're really special.
They have all kinds of cool merchandise in there. They
also had a good load of Japanese maples. We were
talking earlier about you need to get good Japanese maples

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that are going to do well here and treat them right.
You go into Moss Nursery and they're going to sell
you one that will do well here, and they're going
to tell you how to grow it. I've been in
there visiting with employees, and you know, it's like master gardeners,
people that have gardened forever that are the employees. They
know what they're doing because it's a fun place to work.
Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas website, Maas nursery dot com.

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The phone number two eight one four seven four twenty
four eighty eight. Alrighty our phone number seven one three
two one two kt r H if you would like
to give me a call seven one three two one
two kt r H. Now I spend every garden Line

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show trying to convince you to take care of your
soil and to fix the soil before you put the
plants in the way I put it is brown stuff
before green stuff. The one stop shop for bronz stuff
for all of you down south of Houston is cn Maltch.
Cinmultch is near the Highway six and two eighty eight area.
It's on FM five twenty one FM five twenty one.

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Just do this, just write down the website cnmulch dot com,
cnmulch dot com. It's a one stop shop. They've got
your special soil blends like for example, they've got the
Erlam Soils, Veggie Nerve Mix, and many many other options. Uh,
they've got the mulches that you need. If you just
want to buy compost, you can get just compost from them.
They deliver bulk within about twenty miles for a small fee.

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Or you can just go by there and pick it up.
But when you're in there, what else do you need
for the brown stuff? You need fertilizer like microlife, azemite, Nelson,
turf star, nitrofoss. They in Medina, they've got that. And
so when you walk out of sea Inamaltz, or when
you have them delivered, or when you go pick it
up or whatever, you have everything you need to set

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the foundation for success with the plants you're going to grow.
Don't PLoP an unprepared plant, a pooral plant, and an
unprepared plot. Fix the soil, plant the plant then and
everyone will think you have a green thumb, because remember,
a green thumb is just an informed thumb. You're not

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born with a green or brown thumb. Your thumb is
either knows how to take care of plants and what
plants want, or it doesn't. You inform that thumb and
suddenly everything grows. And I'm informing your thumb right now
that soil first, soil first, drainage, nutrient content, good oxygen,
good internal drainage, cenemulch does all that. That's the tip

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of the day. I don't know what else to say
about it. That is the case. Hey, guess where I'm
going to be after the show today at twelve noon,
Not right after the show, but at twelve noon, I'm
going to be at Enchanted Gardens down in the Richmond
Rosenberg area on the Katie Fullscher side of Richmond. They're
out on FM three point fifty nine, So if you're
coming from a distance, come on out. I've been in

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Channed Gardens before. Talk to people that are from Austin, Texas.
They heard about it and they drove all the way over.
It's that kind of garden center. I want to be
talking about tips for making gardening less work, giving away
some pre samples from the folks at Medina, and answering
your gardening questions.

Speaker 9 (02:20:48):
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skimp Richt's.

Speaker 1 (02:21:00):
Just watch him as a world.

Speaker 21 (02:21:17):
A s.

Speaker 2 (02:21:19):
All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line.
Let's talk about the things that are most of interest
to you. What kind of questions do you have? How
do we help you have a bountiful garden and a
beautiful landscape. That is what we're trying to do here.
One way is to put you in touch with the
kind of products that are going to help you achieve

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just that. You know, for example, Nelson Plant Foods turf
Star Weedenator. Turf Star Weedenator is a really unique products,
not your typical wheed and feed.

Speaker 6 (02:21:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:21:51):
They have a turf growth regulator in there. If you're
grass rather than growing up vertically and your momo mo
in it, it slows that and promotes the side growth
where you're getting good fill, but you're not mown as much.
That is how that regular works.

Speaker 3 (02:22:09):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:22:09):
It has a post emergent herbicide. So you've got to
get the weeds wet and the grass turnal sprinkler just
enough to wet the leaves and then put the weed
inator out. It sticks to the leaves, It sticks to
the leaves and soaks into those tissues and after a
couple of days you're watered into the soil where it
will continue to do what it does. Then it's going
to start releasing these nutrients. You're going to get certain

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kinds of nitrogen early on to stimulate stimulate a little
bit of the early growth, but also the weed growth
because you want that weeds to be very happy and
growing that way. When they take up the nutrient or
the herbicide, it does even better. Then as the soul
warms up, a different kind of nitrogen comes out, and
then finally there's a very slow released type of nitrogen

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that will release even later down the line, so it
lasts up the six months. Turfstar Weedenator is like a
one shot stop, a one shot I can't even say
the words. You do it one time. It gives you
a lot of benefits for a period of time, and
it's one of the great products in the turf Star
line from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. Again, widely available

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throughout the greater Houston area. I'm just talking to him earlier,
and boy, they've been shipping that stuff out and it's
showing up in a lot of our places. So you'll
to be able to find it. We're going to go
to Houston now and talk to Jed. Hey, Jed, welcome
to Garden Line.

Speaker 46 (02:23:30):
Hey you boy.

Speaker 21 (02:23:33):
See, I've got buddy of mine brought back date from
Saudi Arabia and I ate him and they were also
the tasty, so I decided to plan a few of them.
I've got a handful of bait Paul now, but I'm
afraid they're going to die and the occasional freeze. Is
there anything I can do to try to promote success
with these trees?

Speaker 2 (02:23:56):
Well, are they in containers or they're growing in the ground.

Speaker 21 (02:24:01):
Yeah, right now, they're still growing a container. So when
it gets cold like and bring them in. But probably
by next year they're going to outgrow their five yellow buckets.

Speaker 2 (02:24:09):
I've got them in okay, yeah, just uh just bring them,
bring them in when it's cold. Once they're in the ground,
date palm is not very cold hearty. And with you
you're somewhere in the Houston area, so you're going to
have occasional winters where you're gonna need to protect the
top bud on top of the trunk of the date palm.

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That's the part most susceptible to cold damage.

Speaker 21 (02:24:37):
Oh okay, just wrap that up in a sheet or
something and best again and hope for the bed.

Speaker 2 (02:24:42):
Yeah, well yeah, and just do a little searching online.
But but you're protecting the trunk, but especially that top bud,
that's the living bud that all the new growth has
to come out of. It's it's right on top of
the trunk. Uh, And so you know, see how far
you can you can get along of them there. You know,
it's a long process to go from seeds to a

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productive fruiting plant, so I know you're doing it for fun,
but it just do the best you can to keep
them going through those really hard coal spells. All right, sir.

Speaker 21 (02:25:19):
I'm three years in already, and I know it's gonna
be a long road, so I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:25:23):
Okay, all right, sir, you take care. Thanks for Carl.
It's a lot of fun to try out new things
and stuff, isn't it. Spring Creek Feed is a feed
store up there in the Tambol area toward Magnolia. So
it's on It's on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just
minutes away from Grand Parkway and Highway two forty nine

(02:25:44):
up again Magnolia direction. All right, So they're going to
have when you go in there, they're gonna have those
products you hear me talk about. I'm talking about nitrophos
I'm talking about microlife, I'm talking about turf sto. They
carry all that. They have, things to control weeds, things
to control diseases, to control insects. Real friendly folks there too,
very courteous, very friendly. It will be a pleasure for

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you to do that now if you are, if you
are wanting to have backyard chickens, they are starting to
get their chick deliveries in. So they got some last Thursday,
next Thursday, February twenty. If they're going to get in
white leghorns and wyandotts, some orpington's, some olive eggar. Isn't

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that a weird name? Olive egg and some speaking of
weird name, black ostralorp I don't even know what that is,
and I used to raise chicken. Anyway, They're going to
get a lot of different ones in. They have the supplies.
They've got the feeders, the waterers, the heaters, everything you
need to have success at Spring Creek feed Now they
do delivery. They will special order some products. And if

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you're senior, citizen, military, or a four h f FA
or excuse me, four h or ffa youth raising livestock,
they are special discounts for all those groups there as well.
Let's head out now to We're going to go to
bel Air and talk to Michelle. Hey, Michelle, welcome to

(02:27:13):
garden Line.

Speaker 49 (02:27:13):
Hey, Skip, good morning. This question concerns the soil leftover
when you use fire ant bait. I love Bengal. But
it's not organic and I had fire ants in my
vegetable garden.

Speaker 18 (02:27:26):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (02:27:27):
And how long ago did you put that out?

Speaker 49 (02:27:30):
I put it out a couple of weeks ago, and
should have called you at the time because I can't
really see which soil has those white particles in them.
But in general, what do we do with the contaminated soil?

Speaker 2 (02:27:45):
Well, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, you know, just assume that
it like you got to get rid of the soil
or whatnot. It is, there is a synthetic pyrethroide in that,
and it is somewhat persistent, but it is not made
to be taken up by the plants. It's not a
systemic Now, if you were going to grow lettuce on it,

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where the dirt splashing on the leaves and things, well okay,
I could see a concern there. But in general, it
doesn't last forever, and in time it breaks down. It
depends on the soil temperatures and moisture levels and sunlight
exposure and other things as to how long it would last.
But if it's just other kinds of plants and things,
I wouldn't worry about growing them there.

Speaker 49 (02:28:28):
At all Thank you sir.

Speaker 2 (02:28:31):
All right, you take care nice for the call. Bye.

Speaker 5 (02:28:36):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:28:36):
Yeah, that you know, with chemicals and those sort of things,
it is good to ask because there are bazillion kinds
with a bazillion variations and how long they last, and
a bazillion other factors like does a plant even take
it up or not? So that's good question. We're gonna
take a break here. I'll be right back, Bruce. You'll
be our first step. It does a blast from the past.

(02:29:00):
All right, welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us. Listen.
I want to tell you about a place that I
haven't talked about before here on Guardline, and that is
Growers Outlet up there in Willis. The Growers Outlet is
a it's on Highway seventy five. Highway seventy five and Willis,
you know, just off to the to the east of
forty five, just minutes away from forty five. Services all

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the Lake Conroe area, all those communities out there from
you know, Bentwater, a prisound so on. It services the
woodlands too, by the way, not too far drive for
you up in Willis, Texas. They carry fertilizers like micro
life and nitrofoss and medina products for example, good selection
of vegetables, bedding plants, lots and lots of perennials. By

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the way, you need to go to their website. The
website is very, very helpful. It is Growers Outlet in Willis.
That's the website Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. You'll
find there a list of their plants, like if you
want a fragrant plant, you click on plants, click on fragrant.
You get a whole list of them. If you're looking

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for ornamental grasses or things that attract birds and bees
and butterflies or whatever, they got you covered. They also
have a really good selection by the way of local honey.
It's very impressed, oppressive in the little kind of a
gift shop area that they have inside. When you go there,
you're going to find that you can both purchase things there,
you can purchase them online for picking up as well veggies.

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Every Wednesday evening they update the veggie list, so it
is an ongoing up to date list. Take some gorgeous
huge hanging baskets. Last time I was up there, I
was very impressed with the little greenhouse areas they do
their own grown in products like geraniums of urbinas and
certain other kind of plants right there in the own
greenhouse they grown right there. And again that gift shop,

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you got to go see it now. If you go
to Growers Outlet in Wellist dot com, that's the website.
They are on Highway seventy five, just a few minutes
from forty five up in the Willis area. Or you
can follow them on social media. They've got a nice
little Instagram presence and they have a nice little Facebook
presence for Growers Outlet. Go check them out and you'll
see what I'm talking about. Good selection, excellent. We're going

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to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Bruce. Hey, Bruce,
Welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 24 (02:31:25):
Hi Skip, enjoying the show.

Speaker 46 (02:31:28):
I've got some newly planted asparagus plants. I put one
each in a five gallon bucket and they've been planted
just about two weeks. I've already got shoots coming up.
Do I need to protect them from the freeze or
they go be okay?

Speaker 2 (02:31:48):
You know, let's see you are in Southwest Houston, You're
probably okay. But since their young plants, if you want
to put a little sheet or anything over them, just
to kind of hole a little of a warmth. And
how tall are the shoots that are on them?

Speaker 46 (02:32:05):
One of them is about six inches tall, the other
ones are about an inch.

Speaker 2 (02:32:09):
Inch and a half. Yeah, they'd be really easy just
to throw something over that plant. How many plants do
you have?

Speaker 8 (02:32:16):
Four?

Speaker 2 (02:32:17):
Do you have a number of plants or just a few?

Speaker 46 (02:32:21):
I have four plants. I put one each in the
five gallon in a five gallon container.

Speaker 2 (02:32:28):
Yeah, okay, Well, with where you're located, you're kind of
on the line. I think probably you're looking at about
twenty three degrees for the coldest this week. And I'm
not a weather predictor. I'm just reading what's on the apps,
and so that's getting a little colder than i'd like.
I'd throw a little co okay, all right, right, smart enough,

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but didn't do the work.

Speaker 46 (02:32:50):
But it didn't have to.

Speaker 2 (02:32:52):
Yeah, well, sorry, okay, all right, you take care now, Bruce.
The real lo On Garden line is my advice is free.
But I do ask you to bring me half of
the produce that occurs because I gave you good advice.
So just bring half the asparagus to the station and
we'll call it even okay, Hey, I'm okay with that.

Speaker 46 (02:33:10):
I hear that it's gonna take two three years.

Speaker 21 (02:33:11):
But as long as you're yes.

Speaker 2 (02:33:14):
I'll start to death. Well, then if I were you
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fi five forty nine forty nine. You're listening to Gardenline.
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here. We are here.
I'm here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That's how

(02:35:08):
I like to put it. And speaking of that today
after the show at twelve noon, not right after the show,
but from twelve noon to one point thirty, I'm going
to be an enchanted Gardens in Richmond Rosenberg area, just
north of Richmond Rosenberg toward Katie Katie fullsher Side on
FM three fifty nine. I'm going to be giving a
talk on tips for making gardening less work. So I'm

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trying to help you have a garden that's easier to
take care of, that's more productive, and that's more fun.
My subtitle for tips for making gardening less work is
how to get more from your gardens with less sweat
and less ibuprofen. So that's what we're going to do.
We have some fun in the process too. Hey, bring
me samples, put them in a plastic bag. Do you

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have a bug, do you have a weed? Maybe you
have a picture on your phone. We'll take a look
at it. Well. You know, as they say that doctors in,
I'm not a doctor, but I'm in. I'll be there answering, diagnosing,
identifying whatever you want. So I'll be giving the talk
for a while and then I'm gonna stick around and
answer gardening questions. Bring an empty vehicle because they have

(02:36:15):
plenty that you need to load up on out there
at Enchanted Gardens just north of Richmond Rosenberg on FM
three fifty nine, again twelve to one. Come on out there.
I love going out and meeting gardeners. That's one of
my favorite things to do is visiting with gardeners. I
guess I'm doing I'm in the right role here, right,

(02:36:36):
answering questions on the air. I've been doing this for
thirty five years as a professional horticulturist and answering questions
for people that you know, we're trying to have success.
I want you to have success. It is not rocket science.
But can I tell you something. If you're a rocket
scientist and you know all about it, it's not rocket

(02:36:57):
science for you either, because you know about it. For
those of us that aren't educated in rocket science, well yeah,
it's rocket science, right. But gardening is the same way
you learn about it, you get better, you try things,
you kill plants. Listen, I'm giving you permission to kill plants.
The important part of becoming a better horticulturist is killing plants.

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A guy named J. C. Ralston one of the best
horticultures in the Southeastern United States in the past decades.
He said that to be a good gardener, you have
to kill a lot of plants. Well, it's okay to
do that, but you learn every time you do it,
and hopefully we can help you avoid even killing some
of the plants. So that's why we're here, all right.

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I hope that makes sense. If you want to have success,
you just need to learn what you're doing. The other
thing you need is to be able to find the
products that are going to work. You don't want to
go ten different places trying to find some particular product
that I talked about on guard Line or that you're
heard about. Just go to Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizers on
the corner of Bisnett and Renwick, and I tell you this,

(02:38:01):
there is no place in this region that has as
much options as Southwest Fertilizer. Do you need to buy fertilizer?
I think they have somewhere between eighteen and two hundred
thousand bazillion fertilizers as Southwest Fertilizer. Everything I talk about
here on Guardline, they've got it everything. You'll never hear

(02:38:22):
a product name come out of my mouth. For herbicides
killing weeds, either preventing or killing existing weeds, for insecticides
killing insects, or for fungicides fighting diseases, or for bacteria
sides fighting bacteria. You'll never hear a name come out
of my mouth that Bob doesn't have it Southwest Fertilizer,
because he has it all the way I like to
put it. If he didn't have it, you don't need it.

(02:38:42):
And that's really true. Now they're celebrating their seventieth year
down there on the corner of Bisnett and Runwick in
Southwest Houston. Here's the phone number seven to one three
six sixty six seventeen forty four. Go buy there and
check it out. It is printing season. Go look at
their Fellco, their Corona and the other quality brands that

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they carry. They have a ninety foot wall of gardening tools.
If you want to build a weed wiper like you
see on my website gardening with Skip dot com, a
homemade weed wiper, Bob carries what you need to build
it with. He carries a grabber tool that's the right
kind to build the weedwiper. He carries the kneeling seat,
the garden kneeling seat, and that is so helpful when

(02:39:24):
you're getting up and down and up and down working
in the garden all day. Go by and see him
corner Bissonette and Renwick. He carries things like Microlife fertilizer,
for example. Now Microlife saying saying he carries Microlife fertilizer
is like you know, saying a car dealer carries automobiles.
Which automobiles, what kinds Well, in the case of Bob,

(02:39:47):
it's all the above. Do you need Microlife sixty four,
the green bag, the one we use in the spring
to fertilize our lawns. Do you Microlife Humates Plus. They've
got that very good, very good for your well. You
make the soil right, you make the plants happy, and
that's true with turf. Microlife Humates Plus will do that.

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Do you need a liquid product? They have a wide
range of liquid products, including the Ocean Harvest, which is
a blue label. It's a four two three fish based
fertilizer that really works. They have the Biomatrix that's the
orange label. By the way, these coming gallons and in quartz.
Biomatrix orange label is high. It's a seven to one

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to three, so it's higher in nitrogen. So all your
foliage house plants, you need to use it for that,
any kind of foliage plant especially. It works well with
you want to give your tomato plants a boost as
they get growing. Biomatrix that'll do that too, Just another
one of the awesome products from the folks at Microlife.

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I was visiting with one of the guys at Microlife
just this past week. We were there both doing some
training for some folks and just talking about the products
they have and what they've come out with. And it's
always good. It's always good to see so many helpful
options for people that are trying to have success with
what they do. Well, you are listening to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're going to take
a little break here in just a bit. If you
would like to get on the board and be one
of the first ones up when we come back, Well,
now's a good time to doll seven to one three
two one two kt rh seven to one three two
one two kt r H. I'm going to take a

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break here in just one second, and I hope that
you will come out and see me today at Enchanted Gardens.
I don't care where you live in town. You need
to see Enchanted Gardens. It is a very nice nursery,
a very nice nursery. You will be very surprised. Bring
some friends with you. We're going to have fun. I
promise you that. And even if it starts to miss

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a little bit, they've got it all set up in
a tent, so you're gonna be high and dry and
we're gonna have a good time. So don't worry about
any of that. I'm asking the weather to hold off anyway.
But come on out and see me at Enchanted Gardens
from twelve to one. All right, time for me to go.
I'll be right back. All right, folks, we're back. We

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are gonna jump straight out to the phones here and
let's see. We're going to talk to Joanne. Joanne. Welcome
to garden Line. Hey, Joanne, you there? All right, I'm
gonna put Joanne on hold. I will come right back,

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but we're gonna move on and talk to Sandy. Hey,
Sandy Southwest. Here's welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 49 (02:42:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:42:53):
I have a question about potting soils.

Speaker 36 (02:42:58):
I've always for my raised bids, I've used the two
parts of roast soil the one part of compost.

Speaker 2 (02:43:05):
Do I do the same when I'm going to use
pots or do I do something different? Well, you could
in a very large pot used like a roast soil
compost blend. You could also use a veedgy nerve mix
blend if you want to do in a large pot.
Even though it says vegetables and herbs, you can do
it for flo It works well for flowers too. Or
you could if your pot wasn't very large, you could

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just go with more of a potting mix, you know,
like you would use for indoor plants and things. That's
another option. It's just when you get a real large pot,
some of the potting mixes can be a little bit
dense and over time not have the best internal drainage.
And when they're in a pot outdoors it's very large.

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Either way though, you're going to be okay either way
you want.

Speaker 18 (02:43:51):
To go about it.

Speaker 2 (02:43:53):
Okay, The goal is just not yeah, the goal, just
real quick is sandy, is not to have a real
chunky mix in a smaller pot where the water just
runs through it and you don't have a good root
zone of moisture contact with soul moisture. So that's why
we go with the little finer textured as we get

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in smaller pots. Okay, Okay, thank you, thank you, ma'am.
Appreciate the call for sure. I'll tell you what if
you want to see some unbelievably beautiful plants. In terms,
I'm talking about everything from you know, comellas and azalias
and down to a cool season, color plants, warm seats,

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color plants, vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, fruit trees, berries and grapes.
Extensive selection. You're going to find all that at Arburgate.
Arborgate Garden Center. That's a garden center up there in
Tombaal it's out on twenty nine to twenty, just west
of Tombol. They always have a good selection. And right
now by the way go to Arburgate. There's a lot

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of people love to go to Arburgate. You need to
go around the back, go down Trischel Road. It goes,
it leaves twenty nine to twenty, swings around behind Arburgate
and comes back into twenty nine to twenty. So whether
you're coming or going, you missed it or you haven't
gotten there yet. Either way, you're going to come to
a Trishel Road. Just take it around to the back.
That parking lot is all weather and it is gorgeous,

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really really beautiful. I mean that it's one of the
kinds that I'm going into details here, but it's a
kind that has that internal drainage so it can rain rain, rain,
and the water just goes right through it. I think
that's pretty cool. Well, when you walk in check out
the roses. Check out the roses. They have a rosehouse
dedicated to Gay Hammond, one of our outstanding ros specialists

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here in the Houston area. And they are loaded up.
And if you need to do Valentine shopping, you got
it there. Or go into the plant Indoor Planthouse and
look at some of the gorgeous plants. It would make
an outstanding gift as well. The gift shops at Arburgate
are always worth writing home about. While you're there, pick

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up their one two three completely easy system that's a
soil for anything with roots that is a compost and
the soil and the compost itself they contain a expanded shale.
I just went blank a minute. Just think of think
a kitty litter that's been dried to a very very

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hot temperature, so it's swollen up and it has all
these pitted holes in it, like LoVa rock on a
barbecue pt but little tiny particles. Well, that holds that
clay soil open for a long time and it is
the best single way I know to give you a
long term benefit to a clay soil. And mixing it
with compost is also good. That gives you additional benefits

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to it. But they have that at Arbrogate. They also
have an organic fertilizer for anything with roots, and so
go by there pick those three bags up. Remember brown
stuff before green stuff. So go home with those three
bags when you go home with the plain from one
of the favorite garden centers to go visit in the
whole Greater Houston area at the Arbor Gate. All right,

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we are going to head now up to Conroe and
talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to garden Line. Good morning.

Speaker 28 (02:47:14):
I'm getting ready to put out some fertilizer, the fifteen
five to ten fertilizer, and I'm thinking also about ariating,
having you are ariated and putting composts down that I
did that last year and it really helped the grass.
Is there any reason I should not do those two together,

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the fertilizer. If you m the composting, you could.

Speaker 2 (02:47:41):
There's not a reason why you shouldn't. But if I
were you, I would do the fifteen five to ten
is a quick greenup from nitrofiss and I would do that.
Anytime at the end of February, even into March is
great for doing the early greenup, especially as you know,
as we go each week of the month, hopefully it's
getting a little warmer and the grass is a little

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more willing to get up and get moving for that
early green up. The fifteen to five to ten would
I would let that grass start to grow and then
go ahead and do your compost top dressing and aeration.
There's no reason you can't do it. But I would
let the grass get growing a little bit and then
follow that up with that compost. The aerration and compost

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top dressing, and that those through two different things. There
is nutrients in the compost, but you're you're doing those
two the aeration and top dressing. You're doing that to
get oxygen down in the soil, to get organic matter
down in the soil, to stimulate biological activity and just
get that grassroots system really healthy.

Speaker 28 (02:48:42):
Okay, so that that should wait a little bit longer.
I should wait a little bit longer on that until
things really start to grow.

Speaker 2 (02:48:51):
I would, well, I would, because you're going to go
ahead and do that that fertilization earlier on with that
fifteen five to ten green release and get that going.
If you needed to get them both done in March,
you could. But if you wait a little bit and
you're starting to mow the lawn, that is prime time,

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you know, forgetting the aerration done to and you're not
going to miss a boat by waiting on that. You
can do that anytime you want through this season. Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it, all right, you bet, thank you. I appreciate
your call. Alrighty, well, here's another break. So looks like
we got our we got our fill of phone calls

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for the last segment coming up, and that would be
Jim and Susan and Cody. You will be the first
three and probably the only three up when we come
back after the break. Look forward to talking to you. Alrighty,
we're back. All right, we're in our last shot of
the day here, folks. We're gonna knock it out. Well,

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before we went to break, while ago, we were talking
about Nitrophoss's Imperial fifteen five to ten, the Orange Red Bag,
and you know we're entering that season where we do
the early greenup. If you want to do an early greenup,
that's a perfect product for doing it. But right now
is this window where we need to get the barricade down.
If you're going to prevent weeds in your lawn, you

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put on the barricade, You water it in with a
half inch of water, and when they try to sprout,
the barricade is sitting up there like a barricade over
the soil surface that prevents the weeds from ever establishing.
You don't even see the weats because it takes care
of them. Now, a ten pound bag is going to
cover about five thousand square feet. It controls both broad
leaf and grassy weeds. And I was doing someone earlier.

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It sticks to the soul very well, better than some
other pre emergence. By the way, so if we do
get a little bit of a gully washer rain, it's
probably going to hang on a lot better than some
of the others would and still be around afterwards. Now,
you always want to follow the label. Do not if
the label says a teaspoon on an insecticide, fungicide, herbicide,
whatever side is. Then if the label says a teaspoon,

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don't put a tablespoon. You can cause damage with products
that you overapply or misapply. There's a reason the label
has a number. That number is what works with the
greatest degree of safety in using any particular product. That's
why they have labels on them. So do that. Now,
where do you get barricade, Well, I'll give you the

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quick answer. It's everywhere. A little bit longer answer. You're
going to find barricade at ingented gardens, which I'm going
to be at today from twelve to one. Come on down,
you get your barricade there. You can find it at
Hide and Feed on I forty five North. And then
there's a number of Fishers Hardware's. There's one in Pasadena,
one in Laporte, one in my Bellevue. There's a Fisher's Hardware,

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and Baytown. They all carry barricade as well. And I'm
just giving you examples of a few of the mini
mini stores that carry nine to FOSS products. Well, let's
see here. We are going to go and talk to
Jim in Santa Fe. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 24 (02:51:57):
Yes, I have a question down fertilizer. Last week the
fifty five ten the grass is starting to green out,
and then I see we're going.

Speaker 3 (02:52:05):
To have a light freeze coming, and I also put.

Speaker 24 (02:52:08):
Down the pre emergent. Do I need to We got
the rain after I put the fertilizer down, and the
grass is starting to green up and grow. It needs
to be mowed, but I'm going to wait until after
the freeze to mow. Okay, And do do I need
to water the grass to kind of protect it the

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new grass from the upcoming freeze coming up?

Speaker 2 (02:52:33):
Not to protect it from the freeze. But if there
has not been rain or irrigation put on the ground
on the grass since you put the barricade or the
pre emerging out, then you do need to water it in.
Go ahead and get that done. Or if you want
to wait and see if rain's going to take care
of it, you can do that either way, but don't
mow until you've watered in the pre emergent.

Speaker 24 (02:52:57):
Yeah, and it rained after I put it down for
like a day and a half, so we got a
nice light brain.

Speaker 2 (02:53:02):
Oh so okay, all right?

Speaker 24 (02:53:04):
So also I redid my beads because we have a
new house.

Speaker 3 (02:53:09):
I didn't like what the builder put in.

Speaker 24 (02:53:12):
I haven't put mulch down yet now I'm going to
have to cover the plants for the breeze coming out.
Do I need to get the munch down to help
insulate the keep the dirt around the plants warm.

Speaker 2 (02:53:26):
Yeah, yeah, especially something that's a little bit marginally hardy,
you know where you don't want it to kill it
out right, killing a perennial to the ground. That's just
part of the natural cycle. But you don't want to
lose that crown the base of the plant. So mulch
over the base of plants will give you that protection
during cold and then pull it back away. You don't

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want a big ol'd pollo mouf smother in the base
of the plant. But for a wade during the cold,
it provides a little bit extra insulation. Not all plants
need it, but uh, it's not a bad idea.

Speaker 24 (02:53:59):
Now, is it going to be cold enough where I
have to cover some of my new flowers that put
down and new flowering plants?

Speaker 2 (02:54:07):
Uh, you were in safe What are you going to
get about twenty three? I believe in Santa Fang something
like that. Check your weather. If it's going to get
down in the mid twenties, I would cover And I'm
pretty sure it is where you.

Speaker 24 (02:54:21):
Are, Yeah, because I think it's supposed to be in
the twenties Thursday morning or Wednesday morning.

Speaker 1 (02:54:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:54:31):
So so here's the thing. You know, we could gamble
and I could give you my best guess is if
it's going to kill him or not. But I would
rather go conservative and say, you know what, I think
you need to cover and that way you don't lose
all those valuable plants and time and effort. You put in.

Speaker 24 (02:54:49):
Some type of covering that you put on there the greens.

Speaker 2 (02:54:52):
All right, let me you can buy it or anything
anything to kind of hold some of the rising heat up.
It could be a bed sheet, it could be a
frost cloth if you have something to support it above
the plants. I mean, you can cover it with a tarp.
That's all you got on hand, but just just to
hold that heat in. I've got a short time and
some more collars waiting, so I'm gonna run, Jim. But

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good luck protecting those things and getting it under control.
Let's run out to Patterson now and talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, hey, Skip,
good morning.

Speaker 50 (02:55:25):
I have a question now that all my annuals have
frozen down and we pulled all the dead stuff out.
I've got axalis like crazy, and I try to be organic,
but I know I can't dig these things up, so
they just keep laughing at me. So what what do
you recommend? Do I do the tricle peer or what
would I use on those?

Speaker 2 (02:55:44):
Where is the oxalis grunt?

Speaker 45 (02:55:47):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:55:48):
What desirable is growing? Okay? So do you have flowers
in the beds around the oxalis?

Speaker 11 (02:55:54):
Not?

Speaker 3 (02:55:54):
Not yet?

Speaker 2 (02:55:56):
Okay? Well, are we talking about the oxalis that the
little three leaf clover leaves are about the size of
a man's thumbnail, or are we talking about an oxalis
that has leaves the size of a golf ball or
something like that.

Speaker 7 (02:56:12):
I don't have.

Speaker 50 (02:56:13):
I kind of have some different sizes. I don't have
any as big as a golf ball, but I do
definitely have some that make Usually the bigger leaf ones
make the pink flowers and the other ones don't. But
I didn't know they just were immature and hadn't gotten.

Speaker 2 (02:56:24):
To that point yet. Now, those bigger leaf ones, if
you got a little tuber underground and you got to
get something to translocate down there, So your options for
oxalis that are going to have a little bulb underground,
I said, tuber bulb is to dig it up or
to put something like you mentioned trimeac on it to
go down in the plant. There's the little yellow flowering

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oxalis with the small leaves. If you can even put
a leaf in your mouth chew on. It's got a
lemony flavor. That kind is coming primarily from seed, and
so you want a mulch on the surface, but pre
emergent would be another option for that. If you go
to my website gardening with skip dot Com, I have
a device called a homemade weed wiper, and look at it.

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It's really easy to build. And then you like, let's
say you were going to use trimec, you wouldn't have
to spray it all over your beds. You put it
on the sponges on the weed wiper and dab it
right on the weed. Go look at it. I've got
a publication that says here's the herbicide you use on
the wiper, and I like that because we're not putting
so much of that chemical out in the environment. We're

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targeting it, right.

Speaker 50 (02:57:32):
I was just going to dab it on individually.

Speaker 2 (02:57:36):
There you go, all right, sounds like you're in business. Sorry,
I gave you work.

Speaker 50 (02:57:41):
It's okay. I wanted to put a plug in for
Nelson's Watergarden Nursery and Katie, they're awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:57:46):
They are awesome. Thanks for that. I agree. I love
going by there all right, Cody in Spring, you are
our last caller of the day. Looks like I got
a little over a minute. Let's see if we can
help you. Hey, skip that great show. Thank you.

Speaker 34 (02:58:00):
Is there anything on the Virginia button weed that won't
kill on Saint Augustine grass?

Speaker 2 (02:58:06):
Yes, pray. There are a number of products that will
make it unhappy. The one that does the best job
of outright killing it is called celsius, like the temperature
fahrenheit and celsius. Celsius comes in a little pack that
makes one gallon of mix. But you mix it up
and you don't have to drench it. You just barely

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spray it. But right now Virginia button weed is not
actively growing. It's not really happy right now. Wait until
it warms up enough. Do we see some new growth
coming on it? Spray it then, and you may have
to repeat it about six weeks later. Spray it again,
But that is probably as a single ingredient. One shot
stop that would Celsius is what I would probably use

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on it. Okay, but don't spray it now. I appreciate right,
all right, you take care, appreciate the call. Wow. Well
that was another show that seem to go fast. Don't
I say that every show? Because they say time flies
when you're having fun, and I'm having fun. I hope
you are. Actually Kermit the frog sets time says time's

(02:59:10):
fun when you're having flies. But that's a whole other thing. Sorry,
I had kids. I'm a dad. It's a dad joke.
I specialize on them. When the kids were young, I
could rule the room. About age ten, I started getting
rolling eyes. And now they don't even react at all.
You've experienced that probably. Hey, guess what I'm gonna do.

(02:59:31):
I'm gonna grab me a bite to eat. I'm heading
down to Enchanted Gardens. I'll be there from twelve noon
to one thirty talking about tips for making gardening less work.
We're gonna have fun. We are gonna have fun. If
it decides to miss the little no problem. We're in
a big, old covered tent. It's nice, the temperatures gonna
be great. Come on out, bring me samples of plants

(02:59:51):
in bags, samples of bugs and weeds and other things.
We'll identify them, we'll diagnose them, we'll figure out what
to do. Bring me pictures on your phone. Hey, here's
a spot, what will grow there? And I'll just tell you.
And they will have it in Chenny Gardens because they
have everything again. They are on FM three point fifty
nine north of Richmond, south of Kady, Chenny Gardens, twelve

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noon to one thirty. I hope you come out. Love
to see you, love to meet you.