Preping the Lawn for Winter

Skip answers calls about aloe care, lawn prep, fungus, weed, and pest prevention, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, good morning, good morning on a great day for gardening.
Appreciate you joining me on the garden Line this morning.
This is a calling show, so this time I'm just
gonna give you the number right up front. I usually
think of it somewhere half way through the first second,
but seven one three two one two k t r H.

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Seven one three two one two k t r GENI
side to write that mot a sticker, put it on
your phone on the back side. You know where a
little pop out button is, uh refrigerator. You can tattoo
it on your forearm, but I don't. I don't think
we got anybody that dedicated to going in the garden line.
But you're welcome to seven one three two one two
k t r H. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And

(00:48):
why am I here? Well, I'm here because I want
you to have more fun gardening, and I want you
to guard your gardens to be more bountiful, and I
want them to be more beautiful. I feel like you
know that's what you want too, so let's figure out
how to make that happen. Guarding is not rocket science,
you know. One thing about biology, about plant science, about
horticulture is everything is responding to certain things going on

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around it. For example, a plant gets sunlight on the leaves,
carbohydrates hydrates start to get made, and that plant gets
healthy and grows and blooms and fruits and does all
the things you wanted to do. Good moisture in the
soil allows the nutrients to move into the roots so
the plant can grow and make blooms and fruit and
growth and beauty and everything you want. You see what

(01:34):
I'm saying. It's simple stuff. It's like how much sunlight
does a plant want? How consistent does the moisture need
to be? Does it really require good drainage and insures?
Almost always yes, not always, but usually yes. You know,
what are the nutrients and the pH that the plant likes,
And as we get plants those things they respond in

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the way they're programmed to do, and we end up
enjoying that beautiful landscape. You know, everyone, I've heard many
times people say, my grandma, she could stick a pencil
in the ground and it would grow a pine tree,
you know, stuff like that. Well, grandma was good at gardening.
Ba's just because Grandma knew what to do. She doesn't
have a green thumb. There are no green thumbs. And
as a result, you just got to figure out how

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to inform your thumb. Because when you inform your thumb,
it makes your excuse me, when you inform your thumb,
it makes it greener. That is as simple as it gets,
just as if it's ABC's right. And that's what we're
going to work on today. We're going to help you
have success by giving you some good information to get
you off to a good start. You've heard me talk

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to Southwest Houston this morning, first thing and talk to Alicia. Hello, Alicia,
welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
You doing okay, Skiff?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I am doing really really well. You know, I used
to not be a morning person, and I just kind
of get excited about getting up in morning to do this.
So I'm doing great. Thank you for asking.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Well, I have a cat with a big fat mouth
when she's hungry.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Uh huh, Okay.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
My question is I bought it to made a plane
at southwest on this and it, I know, it was
late in the season, grew kind of tall, and it
blew a couple of times, and then I noticed the
leaves were curling up and turning a little brown, and said,
what's going on? So I noticed that there was some
kind of looks like a spider web over the lea.

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So I said, oh, the of a book, but I
didn't know what. So I pulled off most of the
leaves that looked like they were dried up and infective, like
the side sprut leaves, and I sprayed it within sicknessidals.
So it came webbing, came back and start curling up again.
So I did any gain, And now it really didn't

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look good. So what should I have done?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
What is that? I think you're seeing spider mites. You know,
a spider could make a web on your tomato, but
that would just be to catch bugs. But spider mites
form a webbing. And you see that some of what
you're describing. Get a white sheet of paper, like typing paper,
and put it underneath a leaf that's losing some color

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and whatnot, and take your thumb forefinger just thump that
leaf really hard and look at the paper and if
you see little tiny specks kind of reddish brown that
are moving around real slow, that's spider mites. And if
that's the case at this point in the season, I
don't think i'd do anything. You know, we're getting close
enough to when we could have a frost that I

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don't think there's a lot of recovery growth, setting fruit
and ripening fruit that can happen between now and then.
So I would take a strong blast of water with
the hose and on the end of a gun, on
the end of a garden hose, and I would just
blast those things, especially pointing upward. If you find the
spider mites next year, we can talk about other things

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to do if that starts to show up.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, the insect thats up didn't really do any do
a thing.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, if you catch them early with it, it does
before they make all that webbing, which kind of keeps
the soap mist off of them.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
You know.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
I put it in a pot where I could pull
it in and take care of it for the winter
and of meat. Okay, but it's not going to It's
on its way out right now. But thank you for
the information. I'm giving enough.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Thanks, But check for those mites like I described with
the piece of paper right now, because that way, at
least you know what you're looking for next year. You know,
you recognize the symptom and you know what they look like,
so you can do that same check next year if
things start to look a little off. Hey, I appreciate
you call Alicia. Thanks for calling.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Blast day.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Bye bye, you bet, take care, bye bye. All right,
time for me to take a little break. I'll be
right back, folks. All right, we're back, folks, back here
on Guardline. Thanks for listening in. I appreciate that. I
hope you've got you a cup of coffee and at
least one I open. We've got gardening to talk about today.
First of all, I had a great time yesterday out

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at Katie A's store on Pinoak, and I think everybody
that came out we had a lot of different questions,
and which is I just enjoy that because every question
is because somebody is trying to be a better gardener.
They're trying to have success, trying to fix a problem.
They're trying to you see what I'm saying, And it's
just fun. Helping people, and we did a lot of

(08:07):
that out there. Thanks for the folks at night Fross
for donating. We have a lot of bags of nitro
Fross fertilizers out too. That was fun. By the way,
the night Frost right now. You know, the thing I'm
talking about, the nitroposs question or tip of the season
really is their three step program because there's three things
that are happening in our lawns. Number One, your lawn

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is taking up nutrients to try to help itself get
stronger going into winter. Number Two, the weeds that sprout
that become big problems in the spring. They're sprouting now
and you need to stop that. Don't let them do that.
Wherever sunlight hits a soil, nature plants of weeds. So
if your lawn is thin, if your lawn has been struggling,

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it just you know, isn't super super dense, you're gonna
have weeds pop up. That's how that works. Third third
step is the eagle to our fund to side. Third
thing happening in lawns is that brown now called large
patch or take all root rud also are infecting lawns
at this time of the year. So if you are
gonna take care of those three things you need the

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three step programs. So that's the Fall Special Winter Riser fertilizer.
It's a brown bag that is for this time of year.
It's the fertilizer you put on in the fall to
help the plant get into winter stronger, come out of
winter stronger. Number two barricade for barricade herbicide. You put
it down and it prevents weed seeds from sprouting and establishing.

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It doesn't kill an existing weed, but clover, handbit, chickweed,
carpet weed, cleavers, just on and on, all those cool
season weeds. They're going to be a mess in the spring.
You'll be calling guarden line. They'll be you know, big
knee high weeds in my lawn. And where do they
come from? Well, they started now, They started right now,

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and you can prevent that with barricade. Third is eagle
third fungry side. You put it down. It goes in
the a grass plant and when a disease tries to attack,
it's there to protect it. Okay, Three steps Fall Special
wind Riser, Nitrofist, Barricade, Eagle turf fungicide. Just get all three.
Put them all down on the same day. Just put
down one, come back, put down the next one, come back,

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load up, put down the third one. Then water everything
in with a half inch of water, about a half
inch of irrigation, and that'll move them all down to
the soil. None of those three do you any good
until you get them down into the soil with water.
I want to make that point again. None of those
three are going to help you. They all work, but
they're not going to help you until you water them

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in with a half inch of water. When they get
in the soil, that's where they do everything they do,
even the fungicide. It's taken up by the roots and
the plant gets it internally so that it can fight
off disease. All right, I hope that's clear. But thanks
again to Katie A. S Hardware for having us out.
We had a really good time. You were listening to
garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three

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two one two kt r H seven one three two
one two kt RH. You know, falls the time to plant,
and you need to be getting your beds ready if
they're not already ready, so you can get this planting done.
But it's also a good time to get ready for spring.
You know, we get into winter and early spring and
maybe we've got a whole bunch of rain and stuff,

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and you can't work the soil when it's sop and wet.
So why not get it ready now for even your
spring garden beds that you're building, that you're planning on
putting in vegetables, flowers, herbs, whatever. Landscaper's prides got you covered.
They have healthy soil composts. It's made from one hundred
percent locally sourced materials. They've got the mushroom compost. It's
made from really cool stuff. It's clean local mushroom substrate. Okay,

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so here, here's how this works. They grow mushrooms in
this super rich substrate of decomposing organic matter, and mushrooms
like that and plants like that too. When they're done
growing the mushrooms, they don't grow another crop in it.
They just move it out and they get some fresh
stuff to start over again. Well, that stuff they moved
out is like black gold. I wish I could show
you a picture I took in Conrod, Texas of a

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vacant builders lot that was the bulldozers had scraped anything
close to soil off of it. And it was a flat,
hard mess, which is great for putting a building on,
but not a garden in We took mushroom compost who
spread it out there. We took a tractor disk and
just disked it in like you're plowing a field. Because
this is a big lot. We're putting in a test garden.

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And when we threw a rye grass seat on it,
it rained. And when it came up it was night
and I mean one foot away on one side there's
like yellow spinly rye grass barely growing a foot away
in the mushroom compost mixed soil. The rye grass is
emerald green, you know, like foot and a half high.
Flopping over to it was just night and day. That's

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how mushroom compost is and landscaper sprid mushroom compost first,
just really, first of all, is this super quality stuff?
So go to Landscaperspride dot com. Find the lot of
details there, find the store locator. I told you about
two products, there's like two dozen plus products, and find
their social media links and follow them. It's easy to
find landscapers Pride around town. Again, Landscaperspride dot com. Won't

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you grow something this afternoon, I'm gonna get outside. I've
got a few things to kind of catch up on.
Just I've got several projects that I'm getting ready for.
And I noticed that I'm on this long term effort
to shut down nutsedge everywhere on our property. And it

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is not a one and done thing like a lot
of weeds can be, but non nut sets. And if
you want more, if you have a nutsedge issue and
you want to find out how to control it, go
to my website gardening with Skip dot com. That's me
gardening with Skip dot com and look for the nuts
edge information. Read the one about an in depth look,
because I'll help you understand it. Anyway. I've got nutsedge

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that I treated according to my schedule information up there,
I treated it probably three weeks ago and it is
now really yellowing and starting to go downhill, so very
slow process when you use the good stuff. But in
that same bed, there's some green spouts coming up. Those
are nuts that didn't show their face when I did

(14:16):
my last treatment, and now they are. Guess what's going
to happen to those? I'm going to use my weed wiper,
which if you want to build you one. Go to
my website. It's free. It's on there, and I use
my weed wiper, put the good products on it and
wipe them right on the nuts edge. I mean it
takes it probably takes me maybe a cup of mixed
up herbicide for nuts edge when I do this, because

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I'm going all over with the weed wiper. I'm not
spraying gallons of this stuff all around. So anyway, it
works really well, and I'll hit it again and it
will never knock on wood short of me getting ill,
it will never have a chance to get more than
about five leaves on it before I hit it again,
and I will win. I already am winning. I've taken
a huge infestation in some areas. They are down to

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just you know here, here's one sprout tries to come up,
and there's one over there that tries to come up.
And so this isn't going to be long before it's over.
Can't wait. Having fun doing it too. By the way,
let's go to Alvin and talk to Dandy this morning.
Hey Danny, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Good morning, Schip. I was given some alavera and I
need help. I need you to educate me on the
ways to go about it. And also what will be
the difference between the alavera that I've heard and then
the aloe barbet insance barberat distance? Is that a different one?

(15:40):
It's one of them from Australia, is one of them
from here? That's one thing, And then another thing is
what type of soil to use it? And will it
be all right to use it down here so close
to the coast where the ground stay damp.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
You can aliver. Yeah, Alabert doesn't want to be in
a doesn't want to be in a soggy swamp, but
a little bit of water is actually needed. But around
here you almost never have to water unless it's in
a real small contation exactly.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
But we have flooding down here, and if we have
flooding it might be uh seur ford or even half
a week or so when we have a hurricane that
it would be underwater. So that means I'm thinking I
need to I need to elevate it on a high,
high piece that won't flood. If I'm right on that,
I mean that's.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Gonna hurt you do, And yeah, well the thing you
got to get it up, that's right, You're right right.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
I was given the right I was given these pots,
about a half a dozen that had one big one
and the little ones in there, and.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
The uh uh.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Senior citizens that had them, you know, retired. Uh. There
were so many ants and there's so many fire that
they just let it set there. And they didn't want
they didn't want to have the ants the fire ants
spread out into the yard, so they gave it to me.
So I have enough problem busting the pots and getting
the Alberta that looked good. But I don't know a

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few things.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
About Okay, well, Danny, let me I'll give you the
Let me just give you all that alibero growing. Pretty
much any soil over grown, a clay soil, it'll grown
a sandy soil. I mean, it's pretty forgiving. You want
to if you're in a pot, you want to give
it a really good soil, maybe a succulent type mix.
It's a little bit gritty, a little bit better drained.
If it's in the ground, just plant and what you got.

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It's very tough. It's very easy. I mean you can
pull one up, throw it in your truck, drive around
for a week or two, and bring it out and
stick it in the ground. It'll grow. I mean, those
things are very tough, but you want to give it
a little good care early on just to kind of
help get it going, because your goal is to get
it moving fast. And yes, Alivera and aliburbadns a different
barbadensis are different species. Okay, so, but most of what

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people have around here, you know, especially when you're trying
to grow it for the benefits in the leaf, the
good stuff that for burns and that people even take
it ally. Uh, that's Alabera is the one you want
to plant for that. But it's not hard to grow.
Good sun, good son, good drainage and occasional watering. That's it.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Okay, Okay, Well I want to know also where I'm digging.
It is in sandy soil, the black sandy soil, and
there is the grub worms and the little worm that's
in there. How can I keep those worms in there
without the What we have is a big plague right now? Okay,
the little crazy ants, the little crazy ants.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Go down there, and none of those none of those
pests are going to none those pests are going to
bother it. I'm gonna have to run here. I'm up
against a heartbreak. But the crazy ants won't bother it.
Grub worms won't bother alibara. You're good to go. I
would I would never think it. I just put in
the ground and enjoy it. It's it's.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's pretty easy to do that. Yeah, pretty easy to do.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, thank you Danny so much. I appreciate that, you
appreciate the call. In Channing Forest is just a cool place.
You know, every time you go there, you find a
place that's just got the kinds of plants, the kinds
of blaying. I mean, if you're into butterfly gardening, or
attracting hummingbirds or growing vegetables or herbs or whatever, you

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just want beauty. Right now, they got a really really
good selection of Chinese fringe trees and red buds and
Mexican plums and walter bub vernum and rough leaved dog
with all of those bloom Some of those are native too.
In Channing Forest is located on FM twenty seven fifty nine,
So if you're in Richmond Rosenberg area heading towards sugar Land,

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it's off to the right twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest.
You're going to find everything you're looking for there, including
and especially right now, some really beautiful winter color and
some awesome fall vegetable and winter vegetable gardening. I'll be
right welcome back to guarden Line. We're looking forward to
visiting with you and your questions. All you got to

(20:07):
do is call seven to one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two ktrh.
That perhaps is the easiest way to say it. I
talk about self as fertilizer all the time because you
can find stuff at Southwest Fertilizer. Yesterday I was out
in Katie, Texas, and uh, I'm visiting with a lot
of different folks, but someone had perked was looking to

(20:31):
build a weed wiper, the one I have on my website,
and they had just come from there and with some
different products and things, and it was like, okay, wait,
you should have grabbed the tool there. They've got the
bob has the tools there for building the weed wiper.
It's it's act shout. It is is a graber tool
with section cups on it, little bolts that hold the

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section cups on. So I mean, if you are not
to do it yourself or at all, you can make this.
It is so easy. You know, any of you who
grew up with tinker toys. If you could do that,
you can make your own weed wiper. Just go go
to my website see how to do it, and then
run by Southwest. While you're there, you're going to find herbicides,
in secticides, fungicides. If you're an organic gardener and you're

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thinking those are chemicals, well, I would say this Southwest
Fertilizer has the biggest selection of organic products of anybody
around now. They have everything synthetic, organic, whatever kind of
gardening you want to do, they know how to do it,
they do. And so you just go in there. You
bring them your questions, you bring them your samples, you
bring them a picture, You say, what is this? Can

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you identify it? What do I do about it? How
do I deal with it? They'll help you do that.
And while you're in there, we're coming up on pruning season.
They got a ninety foot wall of tools with lots
of different kinds of saws and prunters, and I'm talking
about quality brands, not the kind you buy. And next
thing you know that you're throwing them in the trash
because they're all messed up and they're not working, and
because they're cheap, you need to buy something this way.

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Cheap is expensive. When you're buying a tool, you should
buy a good tool. That means buy the most expensive
tool you can find. It just means you buy quality
and it lasts forever. Isn't that height It is with
a lot of different things. You buy a quality product
and you take care of it, and it in the
long run, you have saved a lot of money that
you would have wasted on cheap products. Plus, when it
comes to printing tools, those issues with our hands, you know,

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carpal tunnel and all the ill tennis elbow or all
the different things that happens to our joints, that is
reduced when you have a good quality tool. It's much
much easier to do that. All right, Southwist Fertilizers where
you can get all that stuff done. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com.
Here's a phone number seven one three six six six
seventeen forty four sixty six six one seven four four

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corner of Business and Renwick been around since nineteen fifty five,
and there is a really good reason for that. Have
you noticed that your doors are sticking where they used
to not stick before? Maybe they did for a while.
This summer and then now they're not again, or something
like that. That's a sign of movement in the foundation.
You'll see it in the form of cracks in the

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sheet rock inside. You'll see it in the form of
cracks in the brick on the outside, sidewalks heaving, driveways
that are cracked and heaving. That's all because our soil moves.
And when you have that kind of issue, you don't
need to put your head in the sind. You need
to deal with it. And the way I would strongly
recommend you deal with it is fix my slab, foundation,
repair tie, and fix my slab. He knows what he's doing.

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He's been doing this twenty three years, honest fellow. And
I like his goals, and that is it's not just
a goal, it's what he does. And that is he
shows up on time, he prices it fairly, and he
fixes it right. I don't care what plumbing, electrical, what
kind of work you need done, when't you just like
someone who shows up on time, gives you a fair

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price and fixes it right, and have Tie look at
it early on. He may tell you. He may well
tell you, well, this isn't enough movement to worry about
at this point, or here's some things that he's not
going to just like sudden dig up the neighborhood and
say at the do all this stuff if you don't
need to do it, tell them you're a Guardenline listener.
You get a free estimate from Fix my Slab Foundation Repair.

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Fixmyslab dot com is the website that's easier to remember.
Fix myslab dot com. Here's a phone number two eight
one two fi five forty nine, forty nine two eight
one two fi five four nine four nine. You are
listening to garden Line and I let me give you
a phone number again here seven one three two one

(24:32):
two ktr h seven one three two one two ktr h.
So it's kind of quiet first thing in the morning,
and then toward the end of the show it gets
crazy hectic, and so I always try to get people, Hey,
why don't a few of you who would call in
at the last minute switch your call in the morning
and we can just smooth things out and have time
to talk about a lot of different things. I've got

(24:54):
a couple of shrubs that I'm going to shrug slash
tree that I'm putting in the ground, and I just
need to actually be home long enough to get it done.
I'll be hopefully getting it done really early this week.
But one of them is almond verbina. I love almond verbina.
It is a very large shrub and it kind of

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gangly and stuff. You can share it in trim it
just to kind of keep it in bounds. But it
produces these spikes of yellow flowers that are just they're
kind of like a bottle brush maybe, you know, kind
of a long, skinny thing with white flowers up and
down it. But the fragrance is unbelievable. And one of
the aspects of gardening that I don't think we probably

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talk about enough is fragrance. You know, we know that
we need textures from fine texture to bold textures. We
want colors, we want maybe to attract birds or butterflies
or bees. You see what I'm saying. There's a lot
of aspects of gardening, but fragrance is a huge one.
And almond verbina, I mean that is like horticultural crack.

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It is it is. I love that say. It's like gardenias.
If you ever smelled Guardena's almond burbina, is that kind
of quality or a fall? What is the butterfly, white
butterfly ginger. The fragrance of that, oh, those are so good,
and plants offer us a lot of different fragrance. But anyway,
I'm gonna put an Alma barbana in and I'm locating
it to the south and west of our outdoor patio.

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And the reason is that's kind of the predominant breeze
direction that comes through, and so I want that plant
to be what upwind from me. So when the when
the breeze comes through that plant, I get to enjoy
it sitting there on the patio. Just a couple of ideas,
thoughts and strategies. Hey, if you're doing any planning this fall,

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you need to get some micro grow liquid af That
is a maroon looking bottle. One gallon jug of it
will go a long long way. It contains eight different
quality beneficial microbes. When I say quality microps, what I'm
talking about is microbes that are out there working for you,
doing a good job. These are things that fight disease
that are in this. You can use it as a drench.

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I would say, you know, do it when you're planning plants.
Get those things down there on the roots. He things
live in the soil. They're natural in the soil. You
can also if you're doing a lawn, well you could
put the micro Grow liquid af on a hozin spreader,
but I would use the micro Grow bioinoculant on the lawn.
Comes in again. I'm a room bag or a jar
as a granule that works really really well. Microlife Fertilizer

(27:28):
dot com. That's where you find out more about it.
Where do you get it? Well, just pretty much everywhere
you hear you're talking about places on Guardline, the vast
majority of them carry Microlife products. Time for a break
here and when I come back, I'll be here with
your calls, and that would include Catherine and Pat and Ted.
Good to have you with us this morning on a
lovely Sunday morning. This afternoons can be a good day

(27:51):
to get out and about get some things done. That's
my plans. At least. Let's head to Spring, Texas and
talk to Catherine and Hello Catherine, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Thank you. I have a coastal bermuda grass that's wandered
into a flower bed that's been neglected for several years. Okay,
products to use to rid that coastal Bermuda grass.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
There are two products. If you want the easy way,
just go to my website Gardening with Skip and look
for something that's called herbicides for Skip's weed wiper. Forget
the fact about the weed wiper, just that you're going
there because it's got a list of herbicides according to
plants that they kill. And so if you have a grass,

(28:43):
you just go on the list of grass and go
across and there'll be three products. Two of them are
grass only killers and one kills everything that you spray on.
You don't want the one that kills everything you want
the two One of them begins with the letters seth
like the boy's name, s et h. Another one begins
with the letters f l U A Z flu as

(29:06):
seth and flu as. Those are the two ingredients. But
if you look at my list that I put online,
you can see the names of the products that contain
seut or that contain flus. And again those are just
the start of the name. It's a long, long.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
Word and the products will indicate how long you have
to wait to plant.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Right away, no, no problem, these are grass only. The
two I'm telling you to use are grass only killers.
So I mean, if you have a rose bush with
bermuda grass crawling up through the center of it, you
can spray and it won't hurt the rose bush.

Speaker 8 (29:43):
Great, Thank you appreciate your help.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
You Bet, Thank you, Catherine, thank you very much. Appreciate
that call. Let's see here. Let's we're going to go
up to Baytown now and talk to Pat. Hey, Pat,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Thank good morning, Skip, Thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
I have been.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Listening for the past several several weeks. You talk about
a nursery that has eighteen pansies on sale for twenty
five dollars, but I continue to miss the name of
the nursery. And I believe today's the last day Warren.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's Warren's Southern Gardens in Kingwood. Warren's Southern Gardens.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
And have you ever been there? No, you've been there, Pat. Okay, Well,
let me just give you one more quick tip. Then
it is on Stone Hollow Drive. That makes it easier.
Excuse me, I'm a north Park Drive. North Park Drive
is where Warrens is?

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (30:44):
All right?

Speaker 4 (30:45):
And do they also have the mushroom soil?

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Uh? I think they carry Landscaper's Pride products out there,
but I'm not positive of that. You would just need
to check it out and see if they had that.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Okay, well, great, thank.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
You, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Okay, go to landscapers,
go to landscapers Pride dot Pride dot com and see
if Warren's carrious that out there. That's the best way
to find out.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Lauren's on North Park Landscapers. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
You bet? All right, good luck, good luck? All right,
you bet all right. We're gonna go to San Leon
now and talk to Ted.

Speaker 9 (31:29):
Good morning, Hello, hey, good morning.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (31:34):
I got my Texas three step down Friday morning, and
then I got a three inches of rain Friday and
Saturday combined. If you see any problem with.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
All that, well, some of the fertilizer may have may
have moved a little further than you want it to
down in the soil and stuff. The barricade will tie
up fine in the soil, that's not a problem. And
the amitic clo bridge kind of in between. I don't
think I would redo them though. I think I think
I would leave it as is. I think it'll be okay. Okay,

(32:05):
I got to start doubling up.

Speaker 9 (32:08):
Yeah, the on the on the Eagle Turf at the
front of the bag said it covered five thousand square feet.
I've got like three thousand here, and uh the setting
it called for on it just said generally Scott's broadcast

(32:31):
it called for a five My gosh, that Eagle turf
went fast through that, I think, and no way that
it would have done five thousand square feet.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, you know, on it was. I don't know that.
There's a lot of different spreaders, a lot of different settings,
and it's so confusing for folks. We try to make
it as simple as we can. But I would if
I were you, I would probably talk to the folks
at nine to five and they can guide you a
little bit better on different different things and settings for
each of their products. Because the particle size on Barricade

(33:04):
and the Fall Special and the Eagle Turf, those are
different particle size.

Speaker 9 (33:08):
So you yeah, that Eagle turf is tiny, tiny, tiny tiny,
and uh yeah, yeah, I think I would have had
to have it on like one or so to get
five thousand coverage, And Okay, I.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Get it, I get it. I would I would probably
put that out with a little hand turn spreader because.

Speaker 9 (33:29):
Well I tried that dude.

Speaker 10 (33:31):
Man it came out really fast too.

Speaker 9 (33:34):
Okay, all right, yeah, but I mean it can I
can you overdo that stuff the thunderside?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Well, I mean you you know you can, but I
mean it's it's just important to do it at the
right rate that they say if you if you waste
money and time and in some products you end up
with you know, you overdoing it, you have issues. But
I think the Eagle chip is not going to be
a huge issue. Just uh that's that's pretty much what
i'd recommend to you. But glad you're using them, and

(34:03):
make sure you, like I said, you got them water
down with plenty of water.

Speaker 9 (34:06):
So, uh, you know, do you know if do you
know if they sell the Medina Plus in like five
gallon burrows or not?

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Oh boy, we'd have to ask the folks at Medina.
They do large quantities of a lot of their products
because the farmers, especially out there west of San Antonio
where they're located, and really farmers all around that do
use their products. So they do have large commercial sizes,
specifically that size on that product. I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, Well I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thanks much, all right, Tied, thanks so appreciate that call
a lot.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
You know, Heirloom Soils has got this deal going on now.
It's the one qbicyard supersack. Now a one qbicyard supersack
from Heirloom Soils. Okay, you can get leaf mold compost
or the veggie and herb compost. Those are both souper
high quality products. You neither one of them for one
twenty nine and you get to keep the sack for

(35:08):
that whole the one yard bag one twenty nine. Keep
the site. It's very very handy. Now you can go
get it. They'll set the sack in your truck you know,
or your trailer whatever you have, or you can have
them delivered it. And now there is a delivery fee
if you have them delivered, and there's I think a
three sack minimum if they're going to drive across ten
buck to somewhere to deliver it. But you just go

(35:28):
to rockinmultz dot com slash delivery. I'm gonna say that again,
Rock the letter n multch dot com slash delivery. They
have a new product called Premium lawn Mix. I was
talking to somebody yesterday when I was at Ace Hardware
store out there in Katie, Katie Ace or Katie Hardware.

(35:49):
The premium lawn mix from airloom soils. It's made with
Mason sand. It's got some composts and some bed mix
in it. It's very good for prep preparing for sad planting.
A lot of people brought me pictures they're going to
be replacing, and you spread some premium lawn mix out.
It's only seventy four dollars for a one qb yard
sack of that. But they have a lot of things
available by sack, including that lawn mix, the cedar malts,

(36:12):
the hardwood mault, pine bark, a real cool, cool thing
called black Star gravel. It's gorgeous and rainbow gravel too,
all from heirloom soils. And you take advantage of that.
Well here music plan because that means they need to
be quiet about time to stop. Hey, guess where I'm
going to be next Saturday. This is the final appearance

(36:32):
I'll do this season. Sometime next spring for I'll be
doing appearances again. I'm going to go out to Wadbirds
Unlimited in Kingwood, Long Birds Unlimited in Kingwood now. It's
located where Kingwood Drive and Westlake Houston Parkway come together.
There's a big old HB right there on the corner.

(36:53):
For those of you out in that area, wild Birds Unlimited,
Kingwood on the corner of Kingwood Drive and West Lake
Houston Parkway, just right next to that big old h
B that they've got out there. Come out and see me.
We're gonna have lots of giveaways again as we always do. Uh,
and I'll be there to answer your gardening questions.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scamp Rick.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Heard all right, folks, we are back. We are back,
and we got plenty of gardening talk to do today.
If you'd like to give me a call. Seven one
three two one two kt RH seven one three two
one two kat r H. If you have been out
to Nelson Water Gardens, you need to go check it out.
If you've never been there, you gotta go. I mean,

(37:41):
you got to see this place. It is awesome. Nelson
Nursery and Water Gardens in Katie, Texas. You head out
to Katie, you turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road
and it's just a little ways down the road there
on the right hand side and when you walk in,
first of all, you're gonna walk through the store itself.
As you go in house playing, it's a beautiful collection

(38:02):
of gorgeous house plants. I mean it is not just
plain old green in there. They have some of the
most beautiful house plants I've ever seen. Love that love
that place quality plants. You walk back through the back
out the back door into the garden center and you
see plants everywhere. They have every kind of thing that's
seasonal for whatever season we're in right now. You're going

(38:23):
to find good fall color planting. Of course, you're going
to find shrubs and trees and perennials and all sorts
of things. Go a little bit further back and you're
going to be into where the water gardens are, and
that's where you see beautiful, disappearing fountains with sound that
is so calming. I mean it is like it is
therapy really to hear running water. And they've been doing

(38:45):
that for a long time. You know, they're nationally famous
on water water gardening. Do you need plants for water gardens?
Do you need fish for water gardens? Do you want
to build a water garden yourself? Do you want to
have them do it. You can choose however you want it.
But the main thing is take a friend, go out
there and see this destination garden center, and take some
time so you can just sit and take it all

(39:05):
in and enjoy it. And I'll bet you you feel
just like I do. Every time I go out there.
It's like, Okay, I need I need another water feature.
This is this is creating a corner of eden in
my backyard that I just got to have. And that's
how it is out there. Nelson Watergardens and Katie there.
Nelsonwatergardens dot com is the website. If you'd like to
go check it out, and I hope you will. I

(39:27):
talk about it a lot, but it is an outstanding
place and definitely a destination to go visit. You are
listening to guarden Line the phone number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four if you have
not fertilized or done a preventative week control on your
lawn and you would like to and you'd like to

(39:49):
just get it done in one step. Turf Star by
Nelson Carboload. Turf Star carbo Load produced by Nelson Fertilizer.
Nelson plant food is the one you you're going to
want to do for that because it provides you with
a perfect blend of nutrients forefall getting your lawn. The
reason they call it carbo load is because the whole

(40:09):
goal of fall fertilizing is to help that plant produce carbohydrates,
and that takes some nutrition, and it especially takes some
potassium with the little nitrogen to build the best. Think
of it as ana freeze carbohydrate or ana freeze and
a plant. So they help it be more cold hardy
like your grass. They also strengthen it so when it

(40:30):
comes out in the spring, it's using stored energy. It's
not using what the roots are taking out first thing
in the spring. And so your fall fertilization makes your
spring growth better and it just comes out early and strong.
It really does well. Now the carboload also contains a
pre emergent herbicide, so when you put it down, you
need to water it in. And also so you need

(40:52):
to do it now. Close season weeds, we got some rain,
we got some cool web. They're going to be germinating,
and so get that down now. About half inch of
water on it, get it in the ground to get
the nutrient in, get the pre merging in, and avoid
those problems. It's so much easier to avoid a weed
problem than it is to try to kill the weeds
once they're up and growing. We're going to go to

(41:12):
Clear Lake and talk to Allen this morning. Hello Ellen,
welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 11 (41:17):
Hello. I sent you an email just a few minutes ago,
and to talk about some dwarf upond hedge that I
have in front of the house.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yes, uh huh.

Speaker 11 (41:29):
He was planted when the house was built about thirty
years ago, and it's grown up way too tall.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
I'd like to actually cut it in.

Speaker 11 (41:37):
About half, but don't want it to die obviously, so
can I achieve a half height? Currently it's about five
feet tall in some spots, and you can.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, your pine is a tough old plant, but it
will look horrible for a while. But what you're going
to want to do is I would say I'd probably
wait until maybe late January to do this, even early February.
Cut it. Do your cutting. Then it's going to try
to regrow, and if we happen some warm days now,
I don't want it to start succulent. Growth when we

(42:12):
could have some cold weather ahead here, So I would
cut it back then make it a little lower than
you want it to be, because that way, as it
regrows from the cutting it back, you can sheare it
and end up with the hedge the height you want. Okay,
so a little shorter than you want it to be.
Just realize that you opin like all these other shrubs,

(42:33):
they want to grow top heavy, and that's what yours
has been trying to do there. You know, the over
the years, the top is trying to push outward and
they're trying to keep it more narrow. So just think
of the wall instead of vertical, think of it as
a little bit more leaning in toward the top, you
see what I'm saying, Wider at the base, a little
narrower at the top, and that way light can get

(42:56):
to all areas because where it's encroaching on the sidewalk,
you got to make a lot of extra space in
there for people to walk through without you know, hitting
a gauntlet right there.

Speaker 11 (43:07):
Yep, that's for sure. Okay. Then the other question is
the other pictures. So right behind the hedge used to
have another row of different type of bushes. I can't remember,
but right now it's just weeds. I weed whack them,
and I'd like to put something hardy ground cover of
some sort in there.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Just to okay, just have that there. You have me suggestion. Well,
so the yopon is going to be so tall that
you don't see anything behind it, so you know, I'm
kind of wondering if maybe moving those yopons back toward
the wall and then putting something in front of them,

(43:48):
keeping the yopons well below the window level, but putting
something in front of them that you can see might
be a better strategy. That's your call. But you can
plant any kind of a groundcover back in there. You've
got some monkey grass already growing in that area that
could be moved around and gradually filled in. It's a
very slow to spread, but it could gradually fill in.

(44:09):
You could do something like Aztec grass as a white
light lighter colored version of that. But yeah, you can.
You do whatever you want back there. It's just not
going to be visible because it's behind theoponhedge.

Speaker 11 (44:20):
And and replanting or moving those yopons back towards them all,
what do you think it's a good success rate?

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Chances it's good if you Yeah, if you get it done. Now,
if you go back behind there, mix up that soil,
mix some compost into it, get it all ready to go,
and then cut those yopons back. I would probably cut
them back to like a foot foot and a half
maybe and move them back there, replant them water mineral good,
get some root stimulator and all that on them, and

(44:50):
they're they're going to sit there, but they'll be making
roots all through the winter so when spring growth starts,
they'll be ready to go. So that's that's not it's
a drastic move. But you know, we're starting with what
we're starting with, so you got to do the best
with what you got. All right, sir, Good luck with that.
Appreciate your call very much. I got to run to

(45:11):
a break here. But when I come back, we're going
to talk to Susan and we're going to talk to Kay. Hey,
welcome back to the guarden Line. Glad you're with us today. Listen,
we had some storms this year that I just wonder
there's a single tree left in Houston the way those
things came through and just did incredible amounts of damage
to some of you know what I'm talking about because

(45:32):
it happened in your yard. Affordable Tree Service is who
I look to when it comes to dependable tree care
for you here in the Houston area. That comes from experience.
You know, Martin Spoon Moore has gosh, Martin's been doing
this for a very long time, and he he knows

(45:53):
Houston trees. He knows taking care of trees, and he
can do any kind of things you need done. I
mean it certainly pruning and this is printing season. And
by the way, if you need somebody to come out
and look at your trees, I'd highly recommend you call
Martin now because he has he needs to book you
into the schedule to come and do that. Tell him
you're a guardenine listener, so you move up in the schedule.

(46:14):
And when you when you give him a call, make
sure that you either talk to him or his wife, Joe.
Those are the only two people to answer the phone.
The owners answer the phone there. It's seven one three
six nine twenty six sixty three. If someone else answers,
you've called the wrong place. Hang up. Seven one three
six nine nine two six six three. We got this

(46:36):
window now when it's the best time of the year.
To get printing done, give Martin a call and get
that done while you're out it. If you're going to
do any changes around the tree, if you need maybe
to put in a driveway, or you want to put
in a trench to do something, or you need to
install irrigation systems around and talk to Martin first because
he can guide you on how to avoid damage to

(46:56):
those trees. You know, don't wait until someone's come by
and already done the damage to figure out what to
do about it. We have very few options, but before
you do damage, you can do a lot to avoid
it or minimize it. That's important. And don't hire somebody
just because they have to pick up a chains on
a business card to stick in your door. Hi're somebody
that knows what they're doing. Because when someone damages the tree,

(47:18):
but because they think they know what they're doing, but
they don't, it's forever. It is very hard to fully
rebuild and re establish a strong framework when bad pruning
has been done to your tree. Call Martin Affordable Tree
seven three, six nine twenty six sixty three. We're going
to go now to Susan and Wharton. Hello Susan, Welcome

(47:39):
to Garden.

Speaker 12 (47:40):
Line, Good morning, Skip, How are you doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (47:44):
I'm well, thank you.

Speaker 12 (47:46):
I have a yellow bill esperanza. It's grown in a
pot that is in a holder. So this plant is
probably I think the pot is probably about twelve sixteen
inches around somewhere around else that's a big pot. The esperanza,

(48:09):
the total height of it is probably eighteen foot tall.
Most of the growth is around i'd say about fourteen foot,
but we have one that's like one stalk of it
that's about four foot taller than the rest of it.

(48:31):
It's blooming, it's just perfect. But what my question is
is I want to trim that tall one out. Can
I trim that and cut it about I'm not sure
where I should cut it, if I should cut it
where the height of the rest of the plant is
or lower ass and I transplant it.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, so jusan, yes, she can wait until the end
of winter, cut it back at however you want, and
then transplant it at that time. Esperanza can take being
cut to the ground pretty much, just a few inches
above the ground. Because if you go further north, if
you get up to Austin, Texas College Station Hunts phillip In,
there these things often die of the ground and then

(49:16):
they come back after the winter freeze, so you can
essentially use pruners to do the same thing. So if
you got an esperanza that you don't like the look
of it, the shape of it, cut it back and
let fresh new growth come out. You will have beautiful blooms.
And unless you're just trying to create some sort of
a tree form of it, don't, however, you want to
prune it is fine, But I would cut it back,

(49:36):
I would dig it up. I'd move it at the
end of winter probably, let's say early February would be
a good time to get that move done. Even late
January would be okay to put it in the ground,
in the ground, yes, okay, all right, Kenn, thank you man,
appreciate it. I'm sorry I hung up there, Susan, I

(50:01):
thought we were done. Let's go to David in Spring. Hello, David,
welcome to garden line. Wanting step. I have a couple
of questions there.

Speaker 13 (50:11):
I have an area of grass at Saint Augustine, That's
what my holy yard is. But I have a small
area near my neighbor that has Bermuda grass, and like
he getting infected in this small area with bermuda. So
I've dug it all up, spraying with round up three times,

(50:32):
got it, and I want to I want to know
how long before I can replant grass before the round
up there's this dissipated.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Or if you spray it, you want to give it
about a week for glyphosate products to move down fully
through the plant. By the way, the modern round up
in garden centers is not glyphys it anymore. So this
is frustrating the old glyphis. Okay, So if it's glyphys

(50:59):
give it about a week to move down the plant
and then you can do whatever you want and plant
whatever you want. It doesn't it's not kind of ok
all right.

Speaker 13 (51:06):
Second question, have you heard of pro vista grass?

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yes, yes, yes I have. Would that be a.

Speaker 13 (51:15):
Good solution to planning that?

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Then that way I could spray it with fate it
would future, Yeah, it would get okay right now? You know,
I get calls all the time, David on people that
I got bermuda in Saint Augustine. I want to kill
the bermuda, And it's like, you know, there's there's not
a retail garden center way of killing bermuda in Saint Augustine.
But that if you're starting a new lawn, that would

(51:40):
be an option. Yes, that that would work, would work. Try.
It's a beautiful low growing grass too. It's a very
beautiful low growing grass. It's a it's slow. I I
what I see on pro Vista is you may mow
it about one third as much as you do most
other grasses, most of the Saint Augustine's. It's it just

(52:02):
has a slower vertical growth rate. All right, Well that's
not a bad thing. I think they say half, but
but from what I'm seeing, I think it's more like
almost a third. Okay, okay, all right, sounds good. Thank
you for your help, you bet, Thanks sir. I appreciate
your call. We go to Pairland now and talk to Kay.
Hey k, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 8 (52:19):
Good morning, Thank you kicking my call.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
Skip.

Speaker 10 (52:22):
Yes, I have.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Myrtles.

Speaker 14 (52:26):
Can crite myrtle be propagated from a cutting?

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Yes, it's yes. You want to You want to take
a good loose media with sand and maybe some potting
soil in it. But something that drains a lot of
prolite is also helpful. It does best if you dip
the cuttings make about a six inch cutting, take the
roots off the bottom half, dip that into a rooting

(52:57):
hormone and then put it down into to the mix
and make sure you've got a clear cover over it
to hold in moisture. Put it in as bright as
spot as you can, but not direct son and it'll
take a while, but cutting that'll work. It's best if
you use a cutting cave. That is what we call
semi hardwood. It's not the succulent new growth and it's

(53:20):
not the old wood. It's kind of in between. It's
where the green starts browning, and that's the best place
to take a cutting for crape.

Speaker 14 (53:29):
Gotcha, Okay, I have an all right, And I was
listening to the Esperanza question that Susan had and I
have some instead have gotten above the eaves of the house,
and when dryl came through the wind from that, they're

(53:50):
kind of leaning toward Jones is a little bit now,
and I just I wanted to cut them back, but
I thought I need to waite probably till January February.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Will that, yeah, because they're going to try to regrow.

Speaker 14 (54:05):
They've gotten kind of leggy and tall and skinny, and
they're blooming beautifully, but I want them to bush out
a little more. We'll back help to cut them back
maybe three four feet.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
Tall.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
I would cut them further. I mean I cut mine
back almost to the ground because that way all the
fresh new growth comes out. It all looks good. It
brings the size in down, it makes them more bushy,
and they bloom well and there it's fine. And I
would do it at the end of winter, yes, And
don't do it now because we're you know, we have
some warm weather and they'll try to reach sprout and
that sprout it's not going to make it through freezes. Yeah,

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I knew that was all right.

Speaker 8 (54:42):
So thank you so very much, have a blessed weekend.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Bye bye you too. Thank you for the call. I
appreciate that. You know, h hardware stores are all over
the Greater Houston area. I was just at one Katie
Katie Hardware out there on Peno Groved yesterday and had
a great time. I appreciate all you who came out
when you go into ace and you know, I just
being at Katy As reminded me of this again. I mean,
you walk down the aisles and every fertilizer you hear

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me talk about on Guarden Line is there. I was
talking to people. We were walking back into the area
where you would find something to control weeds or insects
or diseases or things, and it's just they're stocked up.
They have what you need. Of course, ACE has everything
that you need. That's why they say ACE is a
place because it's got everything you need to have a
beautiful lawn, like the things that fertilize, the fertilizers for fall,

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the things that prevent weeds in the fall, like barricade.
It's got the things that prevent disease, like eagle turfundicide
for example. They're there at ACE. But it's also the
place for whatever kind of seasonal decorating you're doing inside
and outside. It's the place to create those outside environments
that you have. And if if you're looking to have
a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape, then just

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head to ACE. There's forty ACE Hardware stores. ACE hardware
dot Com is the website. Go there, find the store locator,
and you get this cool map with dots everywhere because
there's a everywhere in the Greater Houston area. We're gonna
go now to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hey Doris,
welcome back to Gardline.

Speaker 8 (56:10):
Hi, how are you today?

Speaker 2 (56:12):
I'm doing great? How can I.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Help brown Patch?

Speaker 8 (56:18):
I put out that eagle, But like I said before,
before you know it, you don't have any more on
this rather right that you can use.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Well, first of all, you need to change the rate
of application on on the on the dials. But I
use the hand spreader just because it's a very fine
texture and it's you're putting it out at a very
low rate. But anyway, as far as a folier, there
are there probably are some projects. I don't know that

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there's any labeled for long application that are liquids for
spraying for for around back. There may be, but the
ingredient that's in that eager I would just have to
go work. I'm not aware of one.

Speaker 8 (57:11):
Well, can I put this? Put it out again?

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I need you to turn that radio off in the background, please.

Speaker 8 (57:19):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Yeah, well, putting it out again meaning you didn't get
it to cover the whole area or or what what
are you saying when you say put it out?

Speaker 8 (57:30):
I didn't get it to cover the whole area? And
do I go over what I did?

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Yeah? No, don't go over what you did, go over
what you didn't. Uh and and that would be fine. Okay,
just make sure and water down after you after you
apply it.

Speaker 8 (57:46):
All right, okay, all right, thank you. Just a circle
or does it.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Kind of like it's? It could be, It could be
it's It could be very circular. It can be a
little more erratic depending on where the infection hits and
how it hits. If it starts in one spot, it's
kind of like a fire burning out in all directions,
so it makes a circle. Sometimes you get a kind
of a hodgepodge of it in there and it's not
not quite so circular. Hey, I got to run to

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a break, But thank you, Doris. Appreciate that call and
wish you well with that yard Holden. When we come back,
you'll be our first up.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
Light.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Welcome back, good Davy, back with us here on Garden Line.
We're here to help you. My goal is to help
you have a beautiful garden. To help you have a bountiful,
bountiful garden as well beautiful landscape, and have fun in
the process. Don't forget that, listen, gardening should be fun.
If you're frustrated with gardening, let's fix that. Can you
call a garden line seven one three two one two

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k t RH and we will get right on it.
Because gardening should be fun, we should really be enjoying ourselves,
and it can be. Channa Gardens is out there in Richmond.
It's on the Katie full Sure side of Richmond. So
if you're done in Richmond, you just head up FM
seven twenty three right where three fifty nine and seven

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twenty three come together. Those are fms. Remember when that
was all pastures, Now it's now it's subdivisions and more
and more. Well, that's where you find in Chenna Gardens
and it is a sprawled out, beautiful wonderland of plants.
It is a destination garden center. It really is as
truly unbelievable. They've got a team that's about as enthusiastic

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as they come. You can go in there. You can
take them pictures of plants, you can take them samples
of weeds or plants or things in a little plastic bag,
and they'll they'll give you expert advice. They know what
they're doing. This independent garden center has been around in
nineteen ninety five. And when you go in too in
Chenny Gardens. First of all, take a friend because this

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is a fun outing. This isn't like just going into
some shopping center kind of place. You are enjoying a
widespread variety of plants, and of fountains and chimes and
garden ard and herbs, vegetables, antique roses. You know, we're
everything like that. When you go there, you're gonna find
the fertilizers you hear me talk about, like microlife and

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nitrofoss and Nelson and Medina. You're gonna find soils you
hear me talk about, like Nature's Way and heirloom and
landscaper's pride. They are open today from ten to four,
Sunday from ten to four. And Enchanted Gardens they are
on FM three point fifty nine right where it comes
in there to seven twenty three on the Katie fullsher
Side of Richmond. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website,

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and Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're gonna head out
there to Crosby, Texas now and talk to Holden. Hey, Holden,
welcome to garden Line. Hey, how are you today? I'm
doing good, sir. What's up? Virginia Button waed I got
a yard full of it. M M, Well, yeah, you

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got two options. You can call a real and moved
that's probably the easiest, or you can fight it ino
spray in the thing. Virginia button weed loves wet conditions,
so now backing off on your lawn watering will not
kill Virginia button weed. It just it just holds it
back a little bit, you know, and when it gets
wet and soggy, Virginia button weed grows crazy. It just

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takes off. So if you can back off on the
water a little bit where it's in your control, do that.
But as far as sprays are concerned, there are a
number of products out there. Probably the most effective is
something called I just went blank. Celsius, like the temperature.
Celsius comes in little packets. Is not cheap, but it works.
A packet makes a gallon of spray and you just

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spot treat your Virginia button weed with that celsius. I
would do it now as soon as possible, because those
weeds are fixing to shut down here as we're going
into winter and then coming out next spring. When you
see growth on the Virginia button weed, spray again with Celsius,
and if you look on the labels, you're going to
probably apply it twice. You know, you may apply it

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and then six weeks later apply it again. But those
those work pretty good on it. There's some other things
that work good on it that if the weather gets warmer,
they're hard on your Saint Augustine. So above eighty five
degrees or so, I back off on the other things.
That's why I like Celsius, because you can even do

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that when it's in the low nineties.

Speaker 10 (01:02:29):
Okay, well, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
I'm gonna give it a try out then, Celsius, Celsius. Yeah,
give that one a try. Spot treat with it. And
by the way, too, holden, if you can pull some
up now, it's not going to get rid of virgin
and button, but it gets rid of a little seeds.
You know, all along that vine are those bumps where
they're full of seeds. And so one alternative to spray

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in now would be to just pull up all that
you can to get as much seed out of there
as you can, and then next spring when it comes back,
which you will, you will just spot treat them. So
either way you go about it, it's up to you.

Speaker 10 (01:03:08):
Okay man, thanks right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Sir, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that, appreciate the call.
Nature's Way Resources is the birthplace of some of the
best soil related and molts type products that you'll find
in the Greater Houston area. It's where rose Oil had
its origination. That's Nature's Way Research, John Ferguson and son

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Ian running the place that it just continues the same
kind of quality mixes. You know, leave more composts, that's
another one that started there. They also have something called
fungal compost, which is good for over top dressing your
lawn as well, if you'd like to use that. And
the thing about that is ever Friday is Fungal Friday
and you can get fungal compost, which is a quality

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compost twenty percent off on Friday's Ever Friday. Nature's Way
Resources is if you go north on forty five right
where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five from the left,
you turn right, cross over the railroad tracks and that's
where Nature's Way is. You can give them a call,
you can go to the website. You know, however you
want to go about reaching out to them. Reach out

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to them because when you go out there, you can
load up bags, you can load up bulk, you can
have them deliver it if you would like them to
deliver it. They can deliver it for you as well.
And you will find their bags in many of our
Garden Center's feed stores, the ACE Hardware type places. Nature's
Way Resources is quality stuff that will help your plants succeed.

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Like I say on guarden Line, brown stuff before green stuff.
Well this is the brown stuff. Fact. This is I
would call it black gold. They have some great mulches
too out there. Used a couple of their different multch
products and been very very very pleased with how they
perform in my flower beds. If you haven't fertilized this fall,

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remember the fall fertilization is the most important. And there's
three things that can happen in the fall. One of
them is fall fertilization that should happen every fall. It's
the if you were to pick one time of the
year when it's most important to fertilize, it's the fall
fertilization because it prepares a plant for winter hardiness and
it comes out in the spring stronger. Very important for

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those grass plants in your lawn now second step are
the weeds that are germinating, so barricade by nitrophoss step
two of what they call the Texas three step. You
do the two step on the dense floor. You do
the three step in your lawn. The three steps second
step barricade stops weeds from being able to establish. It
forms a barricade over the soil. They can't get through.

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They die. Second nitrophised eagle turf fungicide that prevents the
brown patch, the large patch from happening in your lawn.
And there's also it works some on the takeof root
right too. But you got to get all these down
ahead of time, early, earlier in the process. So now's
the time. We just we got some some rain. It
came through some the areas, and I'm telling you we're
going to get some cool season wee germination. When that

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soul tempt said about seventy degrees. And you don't delay
on this stuff. Put all three down, water, all three in,
and you're good to go for fall from nitrofoss. You're
gonna find nitrofoss products at D and D Feed and
Tomball Plantation, Ace Hardware, Donna Richmond and Hiding and Feed
on Stubner Airline. Well, I believe I've got to take
a little break here and I'll be right back and Anthony,

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you will be our first stuff. Welcome back to Guardline, folks.
Good to have you with us. Plants for All Seasons
is a garden center. It's been around for a long
time and since nineteen seventy three. They're right there if
you're on Tomball Parkway, right where Luetta comes in there,
just north of that, just right there on the on
the feeder road off of Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine.

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Those of you who've been around there know and I
mean everybody in the area knows it. Since they've been
around since nineteen seventy three, it's become a very famous
and beloved place. I mean people or they go in
there all the time because they know when they go
in there, they're going to get expert advice whether you're
trying to diagnose something, identify something, find a plant that
fits that space, to create a container of multiple plants

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that will look good when you get home and plant it.
They're all that in fact that you can just buy
them already put together there at Plants for All Seasons, Well,
their section of the fertilizers and soil products for getting
the brown stuff right is exceptional. The wide variety organic synthetic.
You get to make your choice. And remember when you
go into Plants for All Seasons and you buy one

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of the wonderful plants that they have, and boy are
they ever loaded up on seasonal color right now looks good.
Grab one of their containers. I've got a beautiful container
I got there that is just always a showstopper in
the landscape. And grab some of the fertilizer and the
soil based products so that you can have success create
that foundation. Plants for All Seasons dot com is a website.

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Here's a phone number two eighty one three seven six
sixteen forty six. I'm going to head now out to
Westbury and talk to Anthony. Hey, Anthony, welcome to garden Line.
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 15 (01:08:08):
I know you made some few comments about al of
air plants. But my situation is I've got two five
gamon containers or pots, and they've grown pups after pups,
and they're just pushing each other out. I want to
transplant them and com out give them away.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
What's a good soil for me to use?

Speaker 15 (01:08:28):
To do that, to tenderly bring them back and not
damage them.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
I would use something that drains very very well. You
can use a kind of a gritty soil like a
cactus and succulent soil blend that heirloom soils has it
comes in little bags. You could use that. You can
take a potting soil and just add a lot of
gritty material to it, you know, some little fine textured
expanded shale, or you could put some sand and large

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particles of pearl light the white stuff in potting soil.
I add a little extra that just to loosen it up,
get a little bit better drainage in there. But either way,
it's a it's a forgiving plan as long as you
have good drain holes and it doesn't stand in water.

Speaker 15 (01:09:09):
So yeah, yes, I understand about the forgiving part. These
poor guys are just pushing each other.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Out of the pot. Okay, yeah, we'll do. I know
the Society, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants.
When Alivera calls them and complains about the way you're
taking care of it, they just laugh and say, get
a grap you're alovera Come on, is this a prank call.
You can't kill an olivera if you try a real hard.
I tried hard this summer. I hate to tell you this,

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but I had one that I can't remember how long
it took the water, and it was in too small
of a container and it started getting that kind of weird.
I don't know. Gray Brown looked to the green and
I say, I guess I better water my olive ara again.
It's definitely it's definitely not a diva. It's not a diva.
Its back great. Thanks Familiar Health. Yeah, thank you for

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the call. I appreciate that very much. Anthony asmite is
a micro nutrie supplement, and remember what are micros. Micros
are essential nutrients. You cannot grow a plant without twenty
plus nutrients. Most of those are micronutrients, the majority are
and you take one of those out and if you

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don't have any of it, the plant can't grow, it
cannot live. It's amazing. It's essential, but it doesn't need much.
It just needs a little bit as m it goes
a long way. You can put it out once a year.
I'll get you a soil test sometime and look at
what you have in your soil and what's needed. That's
the best way to fertilize with any kind of fertilizer
asmide or standard types of nitrogen, phosphorus potassium fertilizers. That's

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the way to know for sure. But I can tell
you this most people about it. Once a year, put
azmide out, sprinkle it down, and those crust minerals that
are mined out of the ground get into your soil
and they provide that bank account. So if your plant
needs a little bit of manganese, or if your plant
needs a little bit of you fail in the blank,
you're going to find the micro nutrients are in the

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soil bank account. They're ready to go. That's how that works.
K Scott to Montgomery. Here, we're going to talk to Joe. Hey, Joe,
welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 16 (01:11:12):
Hey, good morning, Skip.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Are you I'm good sir? What's up? Good?

Speaker 16 (01:11:16):
I had a question I planned recently about a month ago.
My wife and I planned some bermuda sod out by
our barn or workshop because we had at Saint Augustine
for a long time and it just would burn up
from the drought and so forth. So we planted it
used a nice sandy soil from a neighbor that had
built a pool, brought dirt down, leveled it out best

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we could put the Bermuda sode down.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
Looks great.

Speaker 16 (01:11:41):
The only question I really had was, you know, when
we butted up the squares of sod, now we want
to come back and kind of sell in those cracks
of the gaps.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
You know, it's okay, help me.

Speaker 16 (01:11:53):
Kind of buying together. And I wanted to find out.
So they used the same dirt that I had some mults.
What's the what's the good recommendation?

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Yeah, use the dirt that's in the site. That's better.
You know, you put something different in there, and now
you're gonna have these lines all through your grass where
it's green or not as green or whatever. So just
just keep it consistently there, okay, go ahead, go ahead, No, no,
just say I'm sorry, we're ore timing. Do you have

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a radio on around you? There?

Speaker 9 (01:12:24):
No radio?

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Okay, we got a little bit delay. So I'm always
me and listeners are always talking over each other trying
to avoid that. I would Bermuda is tough. It's gonna
fill in, it's gonna look good, it's gonna do well.
So just anything to get the soil level up even
in there it was is good.

Speaker 16 (01:12:44):
Okay, we have the same dirt. What's uh, what's a
good time since this new side to start fertilizer.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Uh? Well, I wouldn't do any fertilizing until next spring. Now,
how long ago did you put this on.

Speaker 16 (01:13:01):
It's just about a month ago.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Okay. It came with enough nutrient to carry you at
least a month, if not more. And growth is about
on bermuda. It gets cold, bermuda shuts down, and so
I think in this case, let's just hold off on it.
It does not need to be pushed to grow right now.
It just needs to settle in, get the roots done,

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and it's got the nutrients it needs. It'll carry it
to spring. So get my schedule at gardeningwiskip dot com
my lawn care schedule. It's free online and uh and
follow that starting in the spring. All right, very good,
appreciate your LP. Have a good day. All right, Thank
you very much. You take care. Bye bye, Joe. Well

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you are listening to Guardline. We're here to answer your
gardening questions. You can give me a call. It's seven
one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I
wanted to take just a moment talk a little bit
about that. I get questions a lot where people don't

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don't understand about numbers on fertilizer bags and numbers on
a bag. When you see it's almost always three numbers,
and that's nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium expressed as a percentage. So
if you you know, if you have a fertilizer and
it's got three numbers on the bag, the first number
is the percent nitrogen, the second numbers the percent phosphors,

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the third numbers percent potassium, and those are ratios. And
you hear me recommend fertilizers and everyone I recommend, I
believe in I use it works, but know this that
everybody's lawn can be different. You may have phosphors through
the roof and your neighbor not have any. That's almost impossible,
but it could happen. Same thing with potassium or magnesium

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or other things. And so I encourage people to do
soil testing because that helps you know exactly what you
need to add. You know, if you're baking a let's
say you're baking a cake right now, and you're mixing
stuff up in the bowl, and you call me and say,
although I'm not a chef for sure, but you call me, hey,
skip making a pound cake? Do I need to add

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more salt, sugar, or flour or what here on this
baking powder or whatever? And I, well, I don't even
know what's in the cake yet, So tell me the recipe,
tell me what's in the bowl, then I know what
need to add. Right. That's what a soil test does.
It tells you what's in the bowl. So if you
got a recipe and you know what's already in there,
then you know what you need to add if things
are needed. And as a general guide my schedules, the

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things I put out there, the products I put out
there are gonna work for years and years and years.
You'll be fine. But if you really want to tweak things,
just occasionally do a sall test and check because you
never know something could be way low or way high,
and it's easy to fix that. It's very easy to
fix that. All right. I hope that helps you little well.
I hear music going. That means we're heading up at
the top of an hour break. If you would like

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to give us a call, get on the boards. You
can be first up, come back seven one three two
one two k t RH Hey, I am looking forward
to heading out to wild Birds Unlimited out there in
Kingwood next Saturday. This is my final appearance for a year.
Folks Next Saturday and Wildbird's Unlimited is located at the

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corner of West Lake Houston Parkway and Kingwood Drive, next
to the h B or UH. Here's a description up
from my own heart across from Torchy's Tacos, Oh Gosh.
I'll be there from twelve to two. Twelve to two,
so eleven thirty. Stop at Torchy's fuel up, walk across

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the parking lot. Bring me your plants, bring me your pictures.
Let's solve problems and make your garden beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Welcome to KTRH garden Line with Skip Richter.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Welcome back on a lovely Sunday morning. You are listening
to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We
here to help you out a bountiful garden, a beautiful
landscape and fun in the process. More fun in the process.
Buchanna's Native Plants in the Heights is the place for
you fell in the blank. You know it's his native

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in the name. And there is no place that has
the selection of natives and expertise that you'll find at
Buchana's Native Plants. If you if you go in and say,
I want something that's just native here the greater Houston area.
I want something that's native to this region. I mean,
they can fix you up either way. I want something
that it's native and attracts butterflies or hummingbirds. I want
something that's native and grows in the shade. I want something.

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You see what I'm saying. They've got it all there
and they know what they're talking about. But there's also
a place for house plants. Their houseplant greenhouse is huge
and it's beautiful and if you like succulents, you're gonna
get real happy there. And all the stuff they have
their gift shops are loaded up and beautiful just for
the holidays. You know, ready to go. But I'll tell
you something else. They have fruit trees. Do you know
that they You can get blueberries, you can get citrus,

(01:17:54):
you can get all kinds of different even some tropical
types of fruit. They're at Buchanan's Native Plant So now
you need to go to the website, which is Buchanan's
Plants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com. Sign up for
the newsletter. It's loaded with information. Go to the resources link,
look at the articles, look at the growing guides, look

(01:18:15):
at the how to videos. It's it's really a wealth
of information and it's a fun place to shop too,
very fun place to shop. So go by there, have
some fun. Get out. This afternoon me a good time
to get out to Buchanan's Native Plants. If you would
like to give us a call, the phone number you
would need to use this seven one three two one
two k t r H. Seven one three two one

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two k t r H. That is it, and we
will get you up here. It's one of those lulls
in the phone calls here, so I always like kind
of tell you that, because here's the deal. When you know,
when you call in and you're having to wait, nobody
likes to do that, and I try to keep that
to a minimum as we do it here. But there

(01:18:58):
are certain times it's just quiet, and typically the end
of the day on Sunday morning, here comes all the
calls and I'm trying to get everybody in. So anyway,
just kind of giving you an update. That's a score
that Nelson's Plant Foods has a wide variety of products.
They've got the turf Star line that's everything you need
for your lawn. They've got the nutri Star line, which

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is specific types of fertilizers. You know, they're nutri Star
products for example for trees and shrubs. They got nutra
Star type products for different groups of plants. But I
want to talk a little about color Star. Color Star
has been well known for a long long time. This
nineteen thirteen six fertilizer comes in plastic canisters. I suppose
you can buy by the bag too, well, you can

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buy by the way, but most people get a little
caster of it and whenever they're doing a flower bed,
they follow the label, sprinkle it out there and then
plant their plants. Mix it in the soil. Plant their
plants about every three to four months, just do some
more color Star on that area. It will cause blooming
to happen because it gives the plants the things they
need to grow and thrive and bloom. Professional landscapers have

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been using color Star for a long time. You know,
it's created like forty years ago. About forty years ago.
Homeowners have known it for a long time. Got five
different kinds of nitrogen in it, five different sources of nitrogen.
That's really good to have a blend like that. And
then they've got organic bone meal in there. They've got
blood meal in there. That's part of the nutrient mix
to feed the soil and to feed your plants. Color

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Star from Nelson's find it in a lot of places.
Look for little canisters. Some places around town even have
refills where you know how you go into the grocery
store and you own some more peanuts, You pull the
handle and get a bag full of peanuts. You can
do that with Neilson Plant Food some of their products
at a number of places around town too, which saves
on plastic and which also is more economical. You're not

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buying a new plastic jar full of stop. So just
a tip for the whys and those looking to save
a bucker two in the process. You're not going to
go wrong with color Star. It's an excellent, excellent product.
The phone number is seven to one to three two
one two k t r H. If you would like
to give us a call. Uh are you someone who

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you drive up to your house and you look at
the landscape and you go, you know, okay, that's that's okay,
that's nice. But there's something missing. You know, there's I
don't I don't see the eye catching thing where you
know you can't drive by without noticing this gorgeous flower
bed or this beautiful flowering tree in the front, or
you know what I'm saying, or maybe the way you've

(01:21:27):
laid it out. Okay, let me can we talk.

Speaker 10 (01:21:31):
Mh.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
I'm just going to be real candid with you here.
Just take a moment here and listen. Listen to this.
When you are a plant collector like I am, and
you're not a design expert, your garden tends to look
like a bomb went off in a garden center and
everything rooted where it landed. Do you know what I'm

(01:21:54):
talking about? Yeah, okay, don't waste your hand. People are watching,
uh and when that happened. You know, you have beautiful
plants and you go shopping and say, oh, I gotta
have this plant, and you bring it home where I'm
gonna oh, there's a little place there and squeeze it in,
and you're not looking at seasons like what blooms. When
you may have all your yard on the left side
bloom in the spring, on the right side bloom in

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the summer or fall. You're not considering design and aesthetics
and colors and all that. If you're that kind of person,
you should call Pierce Scapes. You can be the one
who says, I want to use these kinds of plants
in my yard. I love these plants. Or just tell
them I want something's very drop resilient, I want something
blooms in fall or whatever. They'll do it. You go
to Pierscapes dot com, Piercescapes dot com or call them

(01:22:37):
two eight one three seven fifty sixty. And when you
have professional help in designing a landscape, it can be gorgeous. Now,
if you want to go on being a plant collector,
that's fine, go for it. But I'm just saying, you know,
especially out front for that curb appeal, curve appeal, get
some help and getting the design in. I know, and

(01:23:00):
I'm telling you listen, I am a plant collector. I
do that kind of thing. I can't say how many
times I've come home I've got a plant, right I
got two plants right now. They're in pots sitting in
my house, and I'm trying to figure out what in
the heck am I gonna do with I love these plants.
I want these plants. They came home because I love
them and want them, not because I know where I'm

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gonna put them.

Speaker 9 (01:23:21):
Yet.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
We'll we'll get back to you on that one later on.
Oh man, Hey, thanks for listening to the garden Line. Listen,
I'm gonna take a little break here if you would
like to call and be first up when I'm gonna
make that second up. I got somebody coming in being
first up when we come back from break. Seven to
one three two one two kt r H. Seven to
one three two one two k t r H. Don't

(01:23:44):
forget my last appearance of the year. Have you been
listening this morning? You can probably finish this for me.
Kingwood wild Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive. It's in the
intersection there of West Lake, Houston and Kingwood. Right, there's
a big old h be there. Well. Wild Birds is
behind the torches Tacos. So when you're on Kingwood Drive

(01:24:05):
and you see torches tacos, if it's before twelve o'clock,
go ahead and neat. If it's after twelve o'clock, come
see me. We'll go eat afterwards. I'll be there from
twelve to two. Bring me samples. I'd love to help
you with the plants that you're struggling with, or the
ideas that you're looking for, or the bugs that you
need help with identifying. Let's do that. I'll be there

(01:24:25):
all right, folks, time take a break when we come back. Christine,
you're first up. All right, welcome back, Welcome back to
garden Line, Ajar. We're all smallest violin. You've heard that
phrase I mentioned before, that's what the song drive. All right, guys,
we're going to head straight out to the phones here
and we're gonna go to Christine and Magnolia. Hey Christine,

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welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 17 (01:24:49):
Good morning, now are you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
I'm good? I'm good. How can we help today?

Speaker 17 (01:24:56):
Before we go too farther, I'm driving, so hopefully I
won't lose you. But I'm looking for unplugged blue salvia
by proven Winners. I read an article about it in
the paper, and we have some good success with salvia,
like a lot of people, and so I want to
put them in a pot. And I'm wondering if I
can plant them. Now, where can I find them? And

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can I plant it?

Speaker 7 (01:25:17):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
Well, I don't keep up with every single species and variety,
but I'll tell you this. You're closest place I would
go right now is Arburgate. They're in tom Ball, okay,
and I'm carry a lot of They have a lot
of proven winters plant and just call them if you
you know, I would go because whether they have it
or not, I love to go to Arbigate. I'll find
something else I'll want to. They've got a lot a

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lot of proven winters plants, and they have a really
good collection of salvia's too, you know, rocking the blues.
And they're just a whole bunch of new varieties of
Salvia's that they carry. So check them out. They're they're
likely to have it. They don't, I'll bet they can
get it. And so they're real good about when they
can get stuff in bringing it in a future shipment,

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you know. So just see that's where.

Speaker 17 (01:26:03):
I'd start, okay. And then do you think I can
plant it now?

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
Oh? Yes, yes, perennials. Now is great. They have all
winter to settle in real good and when next summer comes,
you'll be glad you fall planted.

Speaker 17 (01:26:18):
Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
All right, Christine, Thanks for the for the call. I
appreciate that. I you know I talk about the importance
of getting your fall lawn care things done as ap. Well,
I'm going to say it one more time. It is
important when you play baseball. Do you start swinging when
the ball gets over the plate, when it's trot in

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front of you, or do you start swinging after it
comes out of the picture's hand. You make your judgment
and start the swing right. Well, of course you start
the second. When you're going to do fall long care.
Do you wait until you see weeds to put on barricade? No,
you put it on ahead of time. Do you wait
until you see brown patch circles to put on egal
turf funder side? No, you put it on ahead of time.
It's taken up by the roots to fight the disease

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when it shows up. Do you wait until it's so
cold the grass is barely taking up stuff from the
roots anymore to put down fall special No? You do
it now. Get them all done now, one, two, three, easy, easy.
That's the Texas three step from nitroposs. You can do
them all on the same day. Just don't put them
on the same hopper. Just go out there and fertilize,
go out there and put the barricade, go out there
and put the funsize. Whichever of those products you you

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can do all three, Or if you typically don't have
brown patch problems, well maybe you don't need the eagle turf.
If you're not over water and overfertilizing and you haven't
had that problem, if your lawn is good and dense,
maybe you don't need the barricade. I'm just saying. I'm
not saying you have to put out everything all the time.
I'm just saying, those are the three things that are
happening now that you need to take care of, and

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if they've been a problem, you definitely need to do it.
But certainly all lawns that fall special winter riser to
get it ready for winter very important. We're going to
go back now to the phones to northwest Houston and
talk to Barbara.

Speaker 13 (01:27:57):
Hello, Barbara, NY good morning or afternoon, it's still morning.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
We can talk till the cows come home. Thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:28:08):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
But do you pay attention to what I'm saying, Barbara,
That's a question. I know people listen, but I wonder
if anybody is paying attention.

Speaker 14 (01:28:20):
Mine is just very well that's because I listened to you,
so I have anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Who's okay, all right, I go for it. All right.

Speaker 14 (01:28:32):
It's dropping the leaves, the churning collar and it's dropping
leaves like mad. And I just think that it never
does it this early, and my little I know it's
a peach tree, but it's got purple leaves.

Speaker 8 (01:28:44):
It never gets any peach.

Speaker 14 (01:28:45):
I think it's a decorative thing, but it's still doing
the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Yeah, this has been a very dry and unseasonably warm fall,
and things are happening earlier. It was a month ago
I had crape. I don't overwater my landscape and I
kind of leave it to take care of itself on
what comes to water, except for things like lawns. But
my peach tree and my peach tree, my crpe myrtles

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were dropping leaves weeks ago. They were starting to do
They get a little thirsty, and you know, just because
they're a little thirsty doesn't mean you have to water
them right away. But I think on those you're going
to be okay. It is it is most likely ninety
percent sure. This is nothing to worry about. This is
just give them a good soaking, you know, whenever they're dry,

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and this fall snuck up on us. It just wasn't
blazing hot like summer was, but it was hot and
it was dry. It was a long time and we've
we're seeing a lot of what you're describing. So I
think you can worry about this one.

Speaker 14 (01:29:44):
Okay, Well, thank you so much, and have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Bye bye, all right, you too, Thank you very much.
I appreciate that. Yeah, anybody who is married or has
kids know that there is a difference between listening and
paying attention. Anybody who's a school teacher knows there's an
efferge between listening and paying attention. Oh gosh, somebody at

(01:30:10):
the other day posted something. It was something along the
lines of my wife said, are you even paying attention
to me? And I thought, what a strange way to
begin a conversation. Maybe that's too painful to be funny,
but I think it's hilarious. We're going to go to
the west side and talk to Carl. Now, Hey, Carl,
welcome to garden Line. Thank you sir.

Speaker 18 (01:30:31):
Now, please have the spreader setting for the eagle fund
a side.

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
Oh boy, it depends on the spreader, and that is
very fine textured stuff. If I were you, it's always
better to I don't have a number for you. Am
my head on that. And it depends on the spreader,
but it's going to be a very cranked down small
opening that you're going to use because that's a very
fine textured product. Okay, I would use a handspreader, the

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low kind you go through the yard and you're turning
it and walking, cause you can set those to put
out a small rate, and I would go north and
south across the yard, and then I would look at
how much I used go east and west across the yard,
and the more you kind of do that crisscross and
you under apply. You can always come back and apply more.
But what I've had two calls today, people that started

(01:31:20):
off thinking they were on the right setting. They got
less than halfway through the yard and they were out,
and so obviously they weren't putting it out the right rate.
So I would go that route. I do that with
fertilizer and other things too. You can always come back
and make another pass across them to get the rest
of it out. But when you run out, that's a problem.
Perfect well, great show, Thank you sir, right and don't

(01:31:42):
forget to water that eagle inkral when you get done
with it, because the roots are going to take it up.
And you got to get that done real soon, because
I'm already seeing bron patch in area of yards. Thanks sir.
All right, Well, I guess people. I talk to people
all the time, and they say things like I can't

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grow anything. I have trouble growing that. I tried that
and I killed it, or I did this or did that,
or what's the secret to? And then they fill in
a plant plant And you know, there are a lot
of things plants need. Plants need sunlight, plants need water,
plants need good drainage. But I would say the one primary,
single most important thing is good soil so the plant

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can thrive in it. And how do we do that?
I call soil brown stuff? And what is brown stuff?
Brown stuff is the soil particles that you have on
your site, send, silk, clay, whatever you have on your site.
So brown stuff is the organic matter that's in the soil.
We call that compost when we're adding it. But nature
creates organic matter in a process, a very slow version

(01:32:49):
of composting, if you will. And the brown stuff is
the nutrients, the nitrogen, phosphor's, potassium, and twenty plus other
nutrients it plants need. Starting with the brown stuff means
you start with the foundation for success. It's like building
a house. Would you go out there on the you know,
the beach and start laying two by fours on the
ground to build your beach home. No, you wouldn't. That.

(01:33:09):
That's a horrible foundation. It would never make it well.
We do that when we plant without preparing the soil.
Go to Cienamultch. If you're south of town. Ciena Maltch
is just in your neighborhood. It's near near oh I
guess you could say Highway six and two eighty eight
somewhere in that region near Sienna. It's on FM five
twenty one, five twenty one. Here's the website. Just write
this down. Cienamultch dot com, cinamlts dot com. They've got

(01:33:32):
bagged soil products, they have bulk soil products, and they
have fertilizers and they have them on all the brands
that I recommend on guard line. I cannot recommend this
place enough. So we're talking about things like landscaper's pride.
We're talking about things like the products from heirlooms soils,
for example, we're talking about things like Microlife or Nelson's

(01:33:55):
fertilizers or Nitrophoss fertilizers or Medina fertilizers. We're talking you
about some best control stuff they have. But when you
go to Siena or you call them up and have
them to deliver it. By the way, they're closed today,
but they're open Monay through Friday seven thirty to five,
and they are open on Saturdays from seven thirty to two.
They'll deliver within about twenty miles for a delivery fee,

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or you can just go get it however you want
to go about it. The main thing is just do it.
You're its fall planting season. Don't stick a ground in
the plant in the soil that's not prepared. Don't stick
a plant in the ground that's not prepared. I though
another way you can put it, if you like Peter
Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers, is don't PLoP

(01:34:37):
a plant in another prepared plot. Don't do it. You
spent money on that plant. You can envision the flowers
or the fruit or the vegetables or whatever it's going
to have. Realize that dream. By starting with the soil,
brown stuff before green stuff, and sanamlch is a great
place to do that. We're going to go now to
Michael in Galveston. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden Line. Well,

(01:35:01):
good morning. Hey.

Speaker 19 (01:35:02):
A friend of mine gave me a whole bunch of
packets of blue bonnets, and it dawned on me. I
have never seen blue bonnets in potted in pots? Can
they be grown in pots? I've never even seen them
sold in pots?

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Yes, you can do that. They they're not real big
plants at that stage. You just gently get them out
and put them in the soil and they can do
that transplanting if you don't disturb the roots a lot.
But you can get ahead start that way with blue
bonnets and pots. What if I just wanted to grow
them in the pot to full size? Well, they come
in like typically, are you talking about like them? Usually

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they're sold in a little four inch pot?

Speaker 8 (01:35:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Are you seeing them seeds? Okay? You can. You just
need a real big pot for blue bonnets to do well.
They don't. Don't give them too small of a container.
But you can go grow blue bonnets and containers from seed.
Yes you can.

Speaker 19 (01:36:00):
I could say I've just I've never seen it before.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
It's not going to try it. Oh yeah, yeah, it
can be done. You know a lot of people don't
do it because blue bonnets they don't look like much
until we get to spring and then they look real
great and then they die after that setting seats. But
it absolutely can be done. All right, thanks for the call,
Good luck with that. Thank you, bye bye, take care bye.

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Alrighty here, well, I am looking at another break coming
up here. If you would like to give us a call,
We've got to open lines right now. Seven one three
two one two k t r H. Seven one three
two one two k t r H. I'll be right back.
I feel that be right now. Let's let's talk. What
do you want to talk about? Seven one three two
one two k t RH. You're listening to Garden Line.

(01:36:44):
I'm your host, skip Rictor, and we're here to help
you have a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful garden,
a more beautiful landscape, and have more fun in the process.
That's what we want to see happen. Give a call,
we can make that happen, or he'll make that happen.
And you know, gardening is fun and learning is forever.
Do you know this gardening keep I'll tell you this,

(01:37:05):
gardening keeps you young. And one reason is because it
is a forever, hopeful, optimistic process. Now, I know you
get discouraged and things. I understand that, but really, when
you buy a seed, take a look at a handful
of seeds, it is just dead detritus in your hand.
But when you can look at a seed and see
a tomato, you're starting to get it. You're starting to

(01:37:27):
get it. And gardening is hope. When I purchase a
pack of seat, when I purchase a plan at the
garden center, somebody just calling about salvia is a while
ago and we're talking about going bout Arburgat and getting
that salvia. I'll walk into arbagate and I'll see the salve.
I I mean, maybe have a fluid blooms on. It
doesn't need to That's what people like to pick out.
And once the balloom's on them, I pick that up.

(01:37:48):
I already can see it in the landscape grown. It's
full size with hummingbirds coming in to get the nectar.
You know, I mean I can see like that and
you can too. I know you can do this. You
do it every time you buy a peach tree and
you can taste peaches. I mean you just stop, closize
a minute, think about what a peach tastes like. See,
you can do that. And gardening is a hopeful, hopeful process.

(01:38:11):
And we are optimists as gardeners. We believe in the future.
You know, to plant, they say, to plant a tree
is to believe in the future. They also say the
best time to plant a tree is forty years ago.
The second best time is today. And they also say,
I'm full of quotes today. They also say that a
society is great when old men plant trees under whose

(01:38:32):
shade they will never set. That is good thinking. I
like that. The point is gardening is an eye to
the future. It's an eye to hope. And it keeps
you young. It keeps you It keeps your body young
by moving around, and actually it keeps your mind young.
It does. And I'm telling you it's therapy. Gardening is
therapy and it really does work. So I keep talking

(01:38:54):
about that because I believe in it and I want
you to believe in it too. I mean, it is
it is absolutely so true. So anyway, so what is
all that about. Well, I'll tell you what that's about.
That means get out there and try it. That means learn.
Listen to guard line all the time, set your clocks,
say hey, wake up, guard lines coming on. I don't
know some are going to do that, but I think

(01:39:14):
you should. I used to say in the morning. First
thing that if you look over next door and the
lights are off, go bang on the door. Tell your
neighbors they're missing garden line. They will thank you so
much for that. Maybe not right away, but they will
come to appreciate it. They sure will. We want to
learn more, we want to have fun. So I like
these appearances like the one I'm going to make it

(01:39:35):
Wilbirds Unlimited out in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, right behind
Torchies next Saturday, Next Saturday, from twelve noon to two pm.
It's okay if you want to go eat at Tarchi's
just get over there about twelve noon because I don't
want to sit overhead warbirds watching you eat at tarchis
they You're going to make me hungry. So come on out,

(01:39:55):
bring me some samples, let's get a picture made, and
let's get you whatever kinds of questions you have. Let's
get a mention. I'm have some giveaways out there too.
I always do. Let me do these things, So come
on out. Look forward to seeing you. All right, We're
going to head up to Type Cypress, Texas and talk
to Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to garden.

Speaker 10 (01:40:14):
Line more and skip. Just listen to you.

Speaker 18 (01:40:17):
Sounds like you got a shortage of callers this morning,
so I thought i'd call in with a little comment
of trick I came up with to save some of
my plants from the Indian summer. I got a wild
here and bought some turnips in September. When I was
buying seedlings, they didn't have what I wanted, and I said, well,
I never grew turnups, I'll try those. But once I

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got them growing, and it stayed so hot so long,
I could.

Speaker 10 (01:40:44):
See every day the leaves would just wilt in.

Speaker 18 (01:40:47):
The middle of the afternoon. Then they'd start breaking off,
you know, the vein down the center. After they wilt,
it would just break. So I came up with a
little trick. Didn't cost me a thing. I thought I
might pass it on. I had three old card tables
stored in the garage, and so I.

Speaker 10 (01:41:05):
Just pulled the legs down and at.

Speaker 18 (01:41:06):
About eleven o'clock in the morning, I would set that
card table up over the turnt plant and then keep
the sun off in between like eleven and four, and
that kept those leaves from wilting and breaking off.

Speaker 10 (01:41:20):
So I thought, I just passed it on.

Speaker 18 (01:41:24):
A cool trick. I was just dreamed up.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
Yeah, there you go. Well, I mean I've seen so
many different ways of shading plants over the years, from
an old license plate stuck halfway in the ground at
an angle above a tomato a transplant, to you name it,
and that I have not heard that one yet. So
it's just people that live here, that live here that
might have an opinion about me hauling a card table

(01:41:49):
out to the garden. But we'll see.

Speaker 18 (01:41:51):
Well where I am, it's it's kind of a anachronism.
It's an old neighborhood that was moved in here in
the nineteen eighties, and it's sort of like a little
island of country in the city. So nobody, you know,
everybody's got like I mean, we're half an acre to
two acres and you pretty much do whatever you want.

Speaker 10 (01:42:12):
So anyway, I thought, I I just pass on that
little trick.

Speaker 18 (01:42:17):
So have a great day.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
Yeah, Tom. Thanks, thank you appreciate that call. Thanks very much.
It's always interesting to find the things that people come
up with. You know, a day doesn't go by that
I don't learn something in gardening, even if it's maybe
not something I'm going to use, but at least learning something.
Or I like talking to gardeners because listen to people
that are out there gardening and trying things. Some times
we get really creative and we can come up with

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some really cool, fun ideas. That's part of the fun
of gardening. That is part of the fun of gardening.
To do that. I talking about shades and things over plants,
and one of the things I will often do is
is just stretch a piece of shade fabric. You can
buy shade fabric pretty inexpensively, little sections, maybe it's a
little tart that's a shade tar or something. Cut it

(01:43:01):
up and figure a way to just string it up
over plants at an angle, you know, find that place
where from especially after lunch and up to about four
o'clock or so, when it's about the hottest time of
the day, you can protect plants. Uh, And it works,
it works really well. All right, Well, you are listening
to Guarden Line, and I'm about to take a little
break here we come back. We got one more second segment, folks,

(01:43:24):
so hang around if you'd like to give me a call.
Seven to one three two one two kt RH. That's
seven one three two one two k t r H
and I will be right back. All right, folks, it
is time to kick off this last hour, last hour,
last segment of the show, and we're going to jump

(01:43:45):
right to the phones and get going here. We're going
to head to Cyprus and let's see no excuse me,
we're going to head to Uh. We're gonna head out
and talk to Jay. Hey, Jay, welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:43:58):
Hello, Skip, Hey Jay, Yeah, he yes, Skip. I have
a garden over here, and I've planted some broccoli. They
were came up, beautiful plants. All of a sudden, I've
got these small caterpillars that are attacking the leaves of
the broncotic plants. And I've had a problem with.

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
Go ahead, oh, go ahead and finish.

Speaker 7 (01:44:30):
Yeah, I had a problem with webworms in some of
the trees around the garden. And I'm just wondering if
it's kind of the same stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
Now it's a different one. Have you looked at these
caterpillars closely?

Speaker 10 (01:44:47):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Are they kind of a yeah? Are they kind of
a light green color? Or are they? Do they have
black and white stripes across their back?

Speaker 7 (01:45:00):
I think I have two kinds that I see. I
have some that are it's they're very small and almost
kind of a white color. I mean it's not a
dark color. But then I have the dark ones like
you just described. I do have some of those.

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
Well, if it's on broccoli, you have two good options
that are low tox. One of them is BT BAZ
and boy teas in tom those sprays. When caterpillars eat
leaves that have been sprayed with BT, they get sick.
It's a disease of caterpillars. It only affects them. Doesn't
affect grasshoppers and beetles and other things that eat leaves,
just caterpillars. But BT lasts about a day or two

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in the environment, and you have to respray it. If
you're on broccoli, you know how water balls up and
runs off the leaves of the cold crops like broccoli.
You're going to need to put a little bit of
soap in the spray to make it stick a little bit.
It's called a surfactant. You can buy surfactant where you
buy pesticides like BT or you can you know, put
a couple of drops the dish soap in there, but

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it's better to buy a surfactor to do it. But
that'll make it stick because you need it to stick
because you when the caterpillar feeds, you want them to
eat it. And I if you can spray upward from
under the planet's better because those young, young caterpillars usually
start under the leaves when they're real small, and then
they eventually are eating the whole leaf, top and bottom.
But the other object is spin spin no said s

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p I N O S A D. There's several brands
of spin no SID and that also kills caterpillars naturally.

Speaker 7 (01:46:38):
Uh so I saw exactly what you were saying. I sprayed,
but it didn't stick. So I need to add this affect.

Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
To it, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. On the on on
broad cauliflower kill.

Speaker 7 (01:46:51):
Yeah, yeah, so I have a question the ones that
that the leaves have been eaten on will will they
eventually form the broccoli buds.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
It's a percentage game, Jay, like if you lost ninety
percent of the leaves, they're not going to have the
energy to really produce a good broccoli head. If you
just lost maybe thirty percent, you'll still get a good
broccoli head. So you know it's a percentage game in there.

Speaker 7 (01:47:20):
Okay, all right, well, hey Thanty very much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:25):
Yep, you bet appreciate that. Thanks for the call. Oh
let's head back to the phones and we're going to
talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 20 (01:47:36):
Hi trip.

Speaker 21 (01:47:37):
Excuse me, skip, I'm sorry, good to talk to you.
I really enjoy your show every week. I have a question.
I bought it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
Oh my gosh, I lost Mary. Mary, call back. We
will get you worked in here. If you can call quick,
call back quickly, we'll get you back in I think
I pushed a wrong button there. That's impersonal, that's for sure.
Well let me just while we're waiting, see we got
another call just about out of time. Looks like Mary's

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calling back. I do want to remind you that this
week is what I'm calling final call on getting those
things done in your lawn. Now, Yegg, you can do
them next week and do them the week after that,
but the sooner you do it the better. So don't
put the lawn care things off, all the things we've
been talking about this morning, don't put that off another day.
Go ahead and get it done this week. If you're

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going to do fall planting, we are in prime season
for getting that done. Get it done, whether it's shrubs
or trees, which you absolutely can't find a better time
than fall, and then winter is right next to it
in terms of good time to plant. Get it done.
Let's get it done. You're gonna get the advantages of it.
I know that things get I get busy. You know,

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I've got plants at pots and outside waiting for me
to get off the radio for crying out loud and
come plant them. But make it a priority this week
to get those things planted. If you want to put
in perennials like salvias and ornamental grasses, and perennial herbs
like a regano and rosemary and whatnot, get those in now.
You will be so far ahead when it comes to
next spring. And when the heat arrives, those plants you

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planted now will take on the summer much much better.
They just have a better system.

Speaker 10 (01:49:20):
At that point.

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
We're going to go back to Mary now, Mary, Sorry,
I actually I think hung up on you by pushing
the wrong but oh that's okay, not a problem. I
thought it was my fault. I'm upside right now.

Speaker 21 (01:49:33):
The reason I'm calling is because i bought a house
in Ramsas Pass and I'm not used to that type
of sand soil over there. So I just I just
know just from experience that I probably need to compost
quite a bit. Is there anything else I can do
to supplement the soil? There is a lot of Saint

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Augustine grass, but there are also a lot of the
birds or whatever you call those little stickers out there,
so graspers, yes, and I'm trying to eliminate those as
much as I can. I'm very fortunate that I have
well water that I can use, and I can water
often without having a large cost.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
All right, let's do this quick. What you're going to
do is the grasspers you need to put down barricade,
and I would do it in that area. I would
do it in early February. I'd put out the barricade
I've watered in and it will stop the grasspurs. You're
going to want to repeat that barricade about sixty days later,
put it down again and watered in because graspers will

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keep germinating in the summer and the barricade doesn't last forever.
So that's the answer to that. As far as those soils,
organic matter, organic matter, organic matter, find bed mixes, find
compost decomposed, you know, mulches that have been rotted down
and ground down into a good quality product. Anytime you
can improve the soil is a good idea. And just
remember and sand, you water more often, but you don't

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have the water as much because water goes down through
a sand much faster than it will through a clay.
And as far as fertilizing, you want to fertilize in
small doses or use a slow release product because also
nutrients wash out of a sand more readily. So it's
it's kind of a smaller doses along the way to
keep them wet and to keep them fed. Okay, I

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appreciate that.

Speaker 21 (01:51:19):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
You have a great thank you. Yeah, I think thanks
to the call. I have a good time down there
at the beach. We're gonna go to Crosby now for
our final call of the day. Gerald, Let's see how
we can help.

Speaker 20 (01:51:31):
Yeah, I bought a bag of this pre emerging stuff.
And is it okay to put it down now or
is it too late to put it down?

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
It's not too late, but don't delay another day. Get
it out there. With the rain that came through some
of the area, we're gonna have weed seeds germinating. And
you got to you want to apply it and immediately
water it in, because it doesn't do anything until you
wash it into the soil with about a half inch.

Speaker 20 (01:51:56):
Of water, Okay, And then and I also put some fertilize.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
Down with it. Absolutely, put both the ball fertilizer and
the pre emergent down, uh, and then water them in
really well. And and that will set you up for
for success with that.

Speaker 10 (01:52:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
That's a good idea, all right?

Speaker 20 (01:52:14):
Okay, Well that's what I needed to know. I figured
I could put it down with all this rain we're
getting and so.

Speaker 2 (01:52:20):
Yeah, you know, And and it wasn't it a good
idea to get some rain. We have had a heck
of a dry fall that we sure could have used
some rain on. So we're all glad to have. By
the way, you're out there in Crosby, you know you've
got Crosby as hardware down there on Main Street, and
they're going to carry these fertilizers and barricades and things
like that, those products right there. So just a tip

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if you if you are looking for one.

Speaker 20 (01:52:47):
Yeah, well they had it, but I also try to
get that Celsie's from them. They didn't have, so that's that's.

Speaker 2 (01:52:55):
Harder to Yeah, that's harder to find. And if what
are the weeds you're going after with celsius, that Virginia
button weed, well as a as a backup for that
Celsi sadn't the only thing. They'll kill it. But if
you have a bone eighted weed beater ultra if they can,

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if they have that, I would use that furt loan.
I'm trying to remember the Ferd loan. It's got both
have a product called Carfentra zone in them and that's
pretty good on the Virginia button weed. So I wouldn't
you know, cross the country looking for Celsius. Just bone
eight weed beater Ultra or Carpentra Zone, but don't use

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them when the temperatures above mid eighties and they'll work.

Speaker 9 (01:53:42):
Okakay, all right, thanks sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
Appreciate you bet appreciate the call. Hey, you've been listening
to the Garden Line. You need to tell your friends
about this. We are here every Saturday, every Sunday from
six to ten. I don't care where they live. We
got people live out of state that listen to their
show more than Mary. Let's do that. I had one
final call. My last appearance of the year, last one

(01:54:05):
for this year, is going to be at Wabird's Unlimited
in Kingwood, Texas. Come on out there and see me
next Saturday. Next Saturday, the ninth of November, from twelve
noon to two. I'm gonna have giveaways, We're gonna answer
your gardening questions, and you're gonna learn a lot about
birds while we're out there too. It is a fun store,
a fun place. It's Kingwood Drive, west Lake Houston Parkway,

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next to HGB and behind torchiese Hako make plants put
on your counter. Come on out. Look forward to meeting you.