Preventing Dogs From Urinating In Your Garden

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 6 (00:46):
Hey, good morning, good morning gardeners. Will you join me
in celebrating today. We got a week that is kind
of top out of around ninety degrees most days. We're
going to call out a win in August in Southeast Texas.
For sure, that is a good thing we like. I'll

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take that every day.

Speaker 7 (01:10):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:10):
I'm looking forward to when the highs are in the
seventies or maybe low eighties. We'll call that a win
number two in the low eighties. Because fall is coming.
Fall is gonna get here. That is just a fact.
It is absolutely and we just have to get ready
for it. And I'll be talking about some of that today.
We'll be doing that and taking your calls. This is

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a call in show, So I'd like to put it
this way. What are we going to talk about today? Well,
you tell me, give me a call seven one three
two one two k t RH or fifty eight seventy
four seven one three two one two five eight seven four,
and we'll talk about the things that are interest to you.
Remember that the fastest time to get in on Garden

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Line is the first thing in the morning. It's kind
of quiet. As we get toward the end of the show,
things tend to get busy, and I like for everybody
to get a chance to ask their questions. I always
hated at the end of the show when I got
like four or five people and I've got about four
or five minutes, and we're not going to make it
so anyway, just word other wise, if you got a
question earlier, it's better generally then later turn as far
as being able to get through, we can talk about

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the things that you're interested in. Speaking of kind of
public service announcements. Here where at the time of the
year where if you go out in your lawn you're
going to be dealing with a number of things. First
of all, fiance fire ants are a regular feature of
our central or Southeast Texas landscapes, and you know, dealing

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with them, there's a lot of different approaches to it.
I mean, there's baits, which is a good long term
plan for fiance, but what do you do when you
got you know, individual mounds and things where you can
treat the individual mounds as well. We have got chinchbugs.
This is chinch bug season. Now you may not have
them in your lawn. Just because it's chinchbugs doesn't mean
you have them. But this this is when you would

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expect them. Sod webworms are another one that if they're
going to show up in their periodic invasions that they
have in our area, this is the time when we
see those. Actually, from June all the way through September,
we can be dealing with chinchbugs and sod webworms, and
then there's grubs. We're kind of at the end of
our grub treatment period. But if you go to my

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schedule Skip Richter's Lawn Pests, Disease and Weed Management Schedule.
That's a long title, but it covers all that. The
fast way that I describe my schedules is there's the
how to take care of your lawn, how to have
a beautiful lawn, and then there's the how to deal
with everything that goes wrong schedule, And that's what we're
talking about here, pests, diseases, and weeds. On that schedule,

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you'll see exactly that we are doing our later treatment
for grubs. If you have a grub problem, you got
to make sure you have a grub problem. Just having
a grub that you see when you dig in the
dirt doesn't mean you have a grub problem. So it's
got to be enough. The entomologists tell me that it's
about five to seven grubs per square foot. That's a lot, okay,

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So just take a piece of typing paper or print paper,
you know, eight and a half by load and paper
and laid down on the ground, and you need to
have about five grubs in that size piece of paper
in order to warrant a grub treatment. All right, So anyway,
when you do it's on the schedule what to do.

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But I tell you something that just works. Period when
you're dealing with pests. Maybe you got pets and you've
got fleas and ticks and they're hauling them in and
out of the house because that's what they do. Flease
living the thatch outside as they're developing, and then they
hop on a dog. So bug out, Max, that's the answer, night,
fuss bug out Max. If you put it down according

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to label, watered in according to label, it comes off
the granules and into that thatch area where it can
deal with all kinds of critters. In fact, I think
they estimate a let's see, one hundred and thirty different
insects that it can kill within forty eight hours. It
works pretty quick. Night fast bug out Max is available
a lot of places you go to hiding and feed

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up on Stupent Airline, you'll find it. Go to one
of the many Fishers Hardware's. You know, there's one down
in Pasadena on Southmore, Laporte on Broadway, Mount Bellevue on
FM three one eight zero, and Danni Baytown there's a
Fisher's Hardware on Alexander. All those are places to carry
night to fass products. I also want to point out

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the fact that we are kind of in an in
between when it comes to turf diseases. It's hot enough now.
One of the benefits of the heat is we don't
see quite as much gray leaf spot. But the more
you water, the more you create a problem for it.
But we're coming up in the fall where we're dealing
with the large patch or brown patch and we're dealing

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with take all root rot season, and boy, has this
been a take all root right year. Oh my god, gosh,
so many samples. I've seen, so many yards. I've seen
so many calls and emails and things with photos. It's
just lots and lots of it. I didn't mean you
have it. Well, let me let me put let me
back up on that. It doesn't mean you have a

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take all root rot problem. Almost everyone has the organism
for take all root rock present in it. It's just
ubiquitous out there in our lawns. Saint Augustine is the
most affected by it, but it can attack Celesia and
it can attack Bermuda grass too. They call it different
things on different species. On Saint Augustine, that's where we

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generally refer to it as take all root rot. But
it's out there long gets weak, it attacks, and when
it attacks, there are a number of things you can do.
And I was emailing back and forth with someone this
week on the different things they did, and they threw
everything but the kitchen sink at it, and we're successful
knocking it down. But if you go online to gardening

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with Skip dot com. That's my website gardening with skip
dot com. You will find a fast, quick one pager
on take All and you will find a two pager
that's more in depth on take All. I would recommend
you read the more in depth one because it just
gives you more information. And there are fungicides that we

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use for it. They're on my schedule. But we also
can do things like pet treatments on the lawn. We
can do micronutrient treatments to help the grass while it's
turning yellow and struggling with the disease. And there are
other things that we do, certainly cultural practices like keep
keeping it out of stress is probably the biggest, most

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important thing to avoid take all. Remember it's in your
lawn probably nine chances out of ten, probably more than
nine chances out of ten it's in your lawn. But
when the grass starts dying, it's because the grass got
stressed and take All got the upper hand. That's how
that disease works. A lot of times we think of
diseases as well, that disease flew in and attacked my lawn,

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and we don't think about the fact that they're already there, okay,
right now in your lawn or the spores for brown patch,
but you don't see it. You don't see brown circles
in the lawn right now that you will this fall. Maybe, Well,
where did it come from? It was already there, conditions
became right, and the disease took off. That's how it

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is with most diseases. Most diseases are that way, all right,
So we have to do our part in making sure
conditions aren't right to the degree that it's in our power.
Let's set out to the phones. We're going to go
to Fullshore right now and talk to Glenn. Hey, Glenn,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
Thank you, good morning. So my question is I've been
thinking about the last year or so of building a
greenhouse in the back. I'm off the brass, it's river,
so I have everything you can imagine out there as
far as bugs and cutter ants and possole so as
far as a greenhouse. Are there some to do, then

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some to don't on what I should be looking for,
and then my ground is I'm trying to figure out
the best way to do the ground. I have wonderful soil.
Do I do like a claw? What's the lead barrier
with rocks? Or And then raise the heads inside of that,
and what is your suggestion overall sounds good?

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Are you wanting to grow in the ground or in
containers in the greenhouse?

Speaker 8 (09:32):
Well, like I said, the ground is really rich, so
I would like to do that. But if I need
to bring in dirt from the other side of the
yard and bring it in, I'm just trying to eat
more than what's the pesty?

Speaker 6 (09:47):
Sounds good, Glenn, We're going to do this. I'm past
a break time, but I'm We're going to go to
quick break and come back and I'll have more time
to be able to spend on answering your question. So
just hang on. We will be right back with you. Alrighty,
welcome back to Guardline folks. Good to have you with us.
We are in a conversation right now with Glenn about greenhouses,

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and so we're going to jump right back into that.
If I can find the right button, there we go.
Hey Glenn, welcome back. So about your greenhouses? Yeah, some people,
most people, you know, the greenhouse is where they shove
a bunch of plants in the wintertime and then pull
them back out. You can grow in the soil in
a greenhouse. You're gonna definitely want. Do you have a

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size preference as to how wide or long you're you're
wanting to have this greenhouse?

Speaker 8 (10:40):
Probably twenty by thirty.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Oh huge, Okay, good night. Okay.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
I was fifty and my wife is like, that's too big,
so I have to shrink it.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
Okay. So so if you build one that size, that's
a that's a very big greenhouse. You're going to need
some way to provide a little extra heat in there. Now,
if you don't have heat, you know, you can get
through most of our winter situations here, but when we
get a good hard freeze, it's gonna damage it inside

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the greenhouse. But so with that kind of thing, then
you're gonna want let's say you do twenty as a whip,
You're you're gonna want to have a couple of pathways
through there. One that way you can you can divide
your area up. Let's say twenty times three is seven
twenty one, about about six foot on the left hand side,

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six foot on the right hand side, and six foot
in the middle. You know what I'm saying in terms
of growing space, and you would just have a good
solid all weather pathway. The one way to go is
to have the little walking stepping stones, you know, those
little concrete squares sitting on the ground. You could do that.
You could put in a couple of borders with a

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rot resistant wood and then have something other and in
the middle and those walkways. But make it easy for
yourself and make it where you can change it around
if you change your mind. That's what I would recommend.
Don't pour concrete or anything. So you're gonna be able
to get to the crops that you're growing. You'll need
some sort of a trellis system if you're going to

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have some binding crops. You know, if you could keep
it warm enough, you could grow tomatoes in there, or
cucumbers or something like that. But anyway, I would have
a section of it where you could put some houseplants
and other things. Maybe you have some hibiscus or maybe
something else that's kind of tropical, like a citrus in

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a container that you could move in there. For protection.
Believe it or not, the most important thing for us
in greenhouses here is the heat relief. If it is
if it is seventy degrees outside and the sun is
baking down, it is going to get really hot in
that greenhouse. Just like your car does when the sunshines

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through the window winch. You so be ready to have
a vent fan two where you can get that excess
heat out.

Speaker 8 (13:06):
Those eaters beneficial or are they more hazardous you're like the.

Speaker 9 (13:12):
Ones you sit under.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
Well, yeah, yeah they can they can be beneficial. I
wouldn't do that top down one, but but something down lower.
There's there's stuff you can screw on to the top
of a propane bottle. Just know that with some kinds
of flowering and fruiting plants that the the gas that

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they give off can cause them to abort flowers or
fruit or something like that. So you want to kind
of keep that minimal. You'd rather not use that more
than you have to, but that that is an option
that you can have other options with a greenhouse that big,
you know, heat lamps are not going to cut it.
But maybe around a group of plants that you need

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to be a little warmer, a heat pointing down towards
the ground that the heat is rising up around them.
You've kind of got them grouped together. That might get
you through a cold night where the rest of the
greenhouse can be allowed to get a little colder. You
know what I'm saying, so it's kind of up to
what do you want to grow in your strategy and everything.
But I'm telling you the ventilation is important because you

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may find yourself keeping the door open more than you're
running the heater over the course of a winter, especially
down there in full sure.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
And then one other question, if I just go directly
into the dirt, is that any benefit as far as
I mean, I guess the insects and the bus can
still get through the soil, then I'm pretty much useless
at that point, is that rre Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:45):
You know, in general, unless you take great links to
have insects screening around the sides, some people will open
the sides up, raise the sides up to allow air
to blow through when we're having the warmer temperatures, and
you got to have a bug screening if you want
to keep out things like the reps and whatnot that
will come in when they get their chance. In general,

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not too bad and you can do it. You can
treat farm inside there just like you do outside if
you need to. Just I would encourage you to maybe
not buy a bite off more than you can chew
on it. You can always if you're doing hoops. A
hoop house, you know, you can do like X number
of hoops down and stop there, and then if you

(15:29):
decide later to add on, you can make it a
longer greenhouse. But the longer you make it, the harder
it is to get that air through without a giant
fan the size of a car moving the air out
of there. You got, you got a pretty good size
on a good a good quality greenhouse place. We'll be
able to guide you, advise you, direct you those kind

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of things. I don't know if you have a place, Okay,
well you don't have a place you're thinking about in
your green there's small hobby greenhouses. A lot of different
companies make those that you can have, and then you
can get larger. There's a there's a company called Greenhouse Superstore.
It's out it's a mail order uh, and they just

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have everything in the world you would use in a greenhouse,
including greenhouse materials and fans and thermostats and everything else
that you might use. So that that's a place I
would check. I'm not necessarily recommending them. I bought things
from them, not greenhouses themselves, but that that's.

Speaker 8 (16:29):
A pretty good store.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
And then there's some yeah, you bet, well, Hey, take care.
I appreciate your call. Thank you, thank you, you bet.

Speaker 10 (16:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
The greenhouse is an important decision, and gunson a good
thing there asking questions ahead of time because we definitely
want to I want to get it right.

Speaker 11 (16:50):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
And there are you know some people. Uh well, let's
let me just put it this way. You can spend
a lot of money on a greenhouse that looks like
a Gothic church. I mean it's just the design, the beauty,
the steel and glass and everything you can imagine. Yeah
that you can do that, and good for you. If
you don't do that, I think it's great. And then

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there's other people that are trying to get by and
just get something over the plants. I had made a
greenhouse before out of gray PVC pipe that was made
in big arches and secured the boards on the ground
and stretched plastic over the top and gotten by and it.
You know, that's fine. I mean, you know, the hoa

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ing will want you to put that in the front yard.
I promise you that. But uh, the the uh, the
options are out there, but just think about what you want.
And I would suggest starting small. I don't invest too
much money in one until you really know kind of
what you're what you really need. You know, it is
with the garage, they're never big enough for our junk,

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right the greenhouses the same way, you'll you will get
a green house, and I promise you will not have
enough room in it, just because that's how it goes.
But that's also okay because the bigger it gets, the
more equipment you're using for heating and cooling, and the
more expensive it is. And you may just say, you

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know what, if I can just have a place to
put that citrus tree and a few hibiscuits and I
don't know, boog and villeas some other things you want
to stick in there, that's good. Or you may want
to do like Glenn and grow in the soil in
your greenhouse and have a year round garden. You can
sure do that. A lot of good information out there,
So I probably ought to put some links on my

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on my website for some of this information that would
be helpful. Well, you're listening to garden Line. The phone
number is seven one three two one two k t
RH seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
I was out checking my mosquito buckets the other day.
I always check them periodically to see if there's some
wrigglers in them. The little mosquito larvae regularly, and there were,

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which makes me happy because those rig'lars will never grow up.
Those are the buckets that are provided and serviced by Pestbros.
That you give them a call at two eight one,
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set them up, and then they come back each month
to check them. They attract mosquitos in the mosquitos lay
eggs and the larva don't hatch. Now as far as

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that is concerned, Uh, you know they're We've had callers
to store of talking about, well, you put grass in
a bucket and put a mosquito dunk in there and
it keeps them from doing that. Yes it does. You
can do that that way. But what the pestpros buckets
have is a little screen with some powdery substances that
cling to the mosquitos when they land on it to

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lay eggs. And that mosquito now is going to die
within a week. And it's a slow it's a fungus.
That's why it takes a week for it to work.
But it will kill that mosquito. The homemade buckets don't
kill the mosquitoes that land in them. The mosquitoes fly off,
but the babies never grow up, and so yeah, that's
a help. But I'm just telling you the advantages of

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these buckets that pestpro puts out. Also, when that mosquito
with that stuff on its feet goes somewhere else, maybe
they land in a in a rain gutter on your
house that's sagging, that's holding a little bit of water
enough to raise mosquitos. Well, that mosquito takes some substance
there and that ceases to be a good breeding spot.

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They it affects that breeding spot as well, which is
very very helpful. Now, pest Pros does other things they do.
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up time for me to take a break. Here. We
are going to be back with your calls in just
a moment at seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. All right, welcome back to garden Line, folks.
Good to have you with us. All you gotta do
if you want to ask a question is call seven
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be happy to help in any way we can hope
you have success. You know, gardening is not rocket science.
I don't. I'm told rocket science isn't rocket science either,

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once you know how to do the math and physics andy,
But anyway, the uh, simply learning to see things from
a plant's point of view. That's pretty much the best way.
And I stole that from from a guy who's said
at one time, but it's it's well stated. Learning how
to see things from a plant's point of view, that's
what it's all about. Once you begin to understand that

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you can provide plants the things they want and they're
going to thrive. That's how gardening works. And so we
want you to have success. I like to say, we
want you to have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape,
and that's what we're about here on garden Line. If
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old fashioned feed store that knows how to provide service

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and carries everything you need. D and D feed and tomboile,
you're not going to do better than that. That is
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nineteen eighty nine, I believe. So it's been around a
long time, but it just keeps growing. It was about
a year ago they added on to it and it
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Star Line, Medina products as well. They got plenty in
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They're going to have high end lines of dog food.

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They do have high end lines of dog food Origin,
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Have a beautiful maybe you've got a mini estate, maybe
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few weeks ago, I had Houston Powder CODs here on

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the phone. We did a little interview with them, and
it's because the whole idea of powder coating is kind of,
I don't know, it's foreign to people. You know, everybody
knows what it means to paint something. But powder coating
is basically applying a powder coat through an electrostatic charge
that floats in the air over to the metal and

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sticks to the metal. It's a very unique little process.
And then they described it to us and how when
they bake that thing down, I mean, it gives you
it's like making your furniture new. Truly, It's like probably
better than a factory coating, especially the way furniture metal
furniture gets made these days. But if you've got some
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barbecue pit, they're kind of getting rusty and you would
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the ability. They come and pick it up, they bring
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on guarden line well seven one three two one two
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Now you're starting to look like fall around Buchanans. You
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Commilleas are an evergreen flowering shrub. They do very well

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in not so bright spots. You know, you've got a
semi shady area, very bright shade. They've got plenty.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
You know.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
We've got the ponicas that are typically more of a
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that tend to be a little more of a single flower.
Some bloom in the December time, some bloom after the
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got them there at Buchanans. And then crotons. Crotons look
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a crouton the leaves that are orange and coral and
green and yellow and it's all there in one plant. Beautiful,
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Tracy at Buchanan's Native Plants on eleven Street in the
Heights and it starts at ten am. When I quit
talking on Garden Line, Sarah starts talking at Buchanan's Native
Plants ten to eleven. It's a free class. You got

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to stop by there and check it out. And while
you've got your calendar out in front of you next
Saturday starting Texas Native Plants, and it'll be on Saturday
the thirtieth again from ten to eleven. Again it's free
at Buchanan's Native Plants, so go check them out. Let's see,
we're getting close to a little break here, so I'll

(28:56):
tell you what. I'm going to go ahead and run
to break and we will be back in just a
moment with your calls. Uh seven to one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four already, welcome back, folks.
Good to have you with us. You are listening to
Garden Line and we're here to help you have success.
That is what it's all about. Anyway we can assist,

(29:19):
we're happy to do that. Give me a call. Seven
one three two one two kt RH seven to one
three two one two k t RH. I was out
at Ciena Maltz this past week visiting with folks out there,
and I always love going That is the friendliest, most
helpful place you're going to find. I mean it just is.
Those of you have been there, you know what I'm
talking about. I love going there checking out the products

(29:42):
that they have, things that are going on. Do you
know Ciena Mulch now is carrying the Vego garden beds.
You can go there. When you drive up, they're right
there at the front gate. You'll see them. They're set up,
they're growing. They look beautiful and if you've never seen
what one looks like, go buy the animals and check
it out. They've got that. They're also bringing in a
lot of different kinds of cool yard art, some of
the metal yard art with the figures and things of

(30:04):
very tall, large figures and stuff you can put in
your garden. The's a lot of small little ones. You
can stick some little things in the ground to decorate
around it, just make it fun. When I'm talking about
the whimsy of the garden, they've got that at Cienamlts.
And I know you're going to Cianna Malts because they
are the place to get everything you need to make
sure your garden is a success from the ground up,

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because that is where success starts. Brown stuff before green stuff,
and Ciena Malts is your one stop shop for brown stuff. Foreshore.
We're talking about things like composts and bed mixes, like
a veggie RB mix from Herlom soils for example, rosesoil mulches,
Oh my gosh, They have so many good mulch options there.

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You can go pick it up there. You can have
them delivered if if you're within about twenty miles of Cienamalts.
By the way, would you write down their website Sienna
Multch dot com, cienamultch dot com. Check it out. You'll
find out the phone number, you'll find out where they are,
and it's just it's just a place you need to go.
And when you get by there, check out that cool stuff.

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By the way, the shop inside to the store has
a lot of really cool things. They have those little
pothead planters, the potheads, which is basically it looks like
a little human being with the head being open on
the top and you plant your plants in there gets
you a nice little trailing string and it looks like
the little plant has or the little pot has hair
coming out at the top of its truly cool. They

(31:29):
have a lot of fun there. They got great products,
great supplies of everything you need. I was there, in fact,
I need to post this to garden and I made
a multi angels in the ground. I just when I
get around compost and multi get so excited. I want
to go roam around on it anyway, I'll put that.
I'll put that on our Facebook page. It's a lot
of fun. Snimols dot com near Highway six and two

(31:50):
eighty eight on FM five point twenty one south of
the Houston area. They cover all of that area, places
like Rose Sharon and First Colony and pair Land and
Sun Creek Estates and Iowa Colonies, Siena Plantation of course,
Lake Olympia, Pomona, all of those communities there. You're in
the backyard of Sienamulch and you need to swing by

(32:12):
there and check it out. Make sure and check out
that cool landscape art when you drive into you're listening
to Garden Line and we're here to help you have success.
And I one of the important things in order to
have success is to make sure and plant the plants
that want to do well here. I was visiting with

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some folks from Enchanting Forest a while back, and they
there's always something new going on there. By the way,
if you are interested in bringing in the butterflies, monarchs
and go fritillaries and all the other kinds. They carry
the plants that the butterfly babies need to grow up. So,
for example, milk weed they got milkweed back in stock.

(32:55):
Now they got common milkweed, the tuberosa, the swamp milk
meat weed, the the world milkweed. And if you plant it,
they will come. You will find the caterpillars on there
chomping it up to turn into a beautiful butterfly, in
the case of milkweed, a monarch butterfly. And just stop
by there and check it out. They also have just
gotten in, I'm told, a shipment of fall veggies now,

(33:18):
things like cauliflower and cabbage and broccoli, and Brussels sprouts,
the green onions, the collared greens, and everything else. They've
got them there. Their selection is outstanding for veggies and herbs.
And by the way, if you've never grown artichokes, we
live in a mild enough climate that maybe with a
little cover during a really hard phraeze, we can grow

(33:38):
artichokes through the winter here and have a really I
think that they're very attractive as a plant, kind of
a silvery green color. But you can grow artichokes here,
but you've got to plant them now and then if
we do have a really hard call snap throw cover
over them. Otherwise they do pretty well going through the
winter here in our area. And where are you going
to find that? You can find it at hinted for us.

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It is on FM twenty seven fifty nine down in Richmond, Texas.
You need to get by there. They have plenty of
supplies too, all the fertilizers and products you need to
maintain order and beauty around your landscape. I like that.
I like that. Oh, Sprint Creek feed another public service announcement.

(34:23):
They're having an incredible end of summer sale. Spring Creek
is in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just
a few minutes away from Grand Parkway and Highway to
forty nine. But it's on twenty nine seventy eight, kind
of northeast of tom Ball direction. Well, they carry the
fertilizers and everything else you want right now with this sale.
My gosh, they are selling all kinds of things, you know,

(34:45):
the slogger shoes, garden shoes, rain boots for men and women.
Their wind chimes are on sale. And if you've been
in there, you know what I mean when I say
they have a bunch of household things too. Beautiful candle
tyler candle products, all kinds of indoor decorative items, wooden
planners for outdoors, a potting bench. They have Jack Daniels

(35:06):
whiskey barrels also on sale twenty percent off metal yard
artwork as well. By the way, the Jack Daniels whiskey barrels,
I've already asked that they've been emptied. I was so
disappointed on her. I thought, man, this'll be anyway. They've
got you covered there. And if you are looking to
have backyard chickens, when you start looking at the different

(35:28):
things you need to keep the chickens healthy, to feed
the chickens, take care of them, raise little baby chicksen.
They've got all the supplies there at Spring Creek Feed
in Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy eight. All right, and
backyard chickens are a thing. We used to live in
a little piece of property where we were able to
raise chickens, and boy did we ever have fun with those.

(35:50):
I think I pretty much have had every breed of
chicken that there is. My wife would always bring home
some other little What is a naked neck? Do you
know that there's a turkey or a chicken called a
naked neck? I don't know, but there is, and it's
what you would think somebody pulled all the feathers off
their neck. But that's just how they are. Kind of weird, right,

(36:12):
kind of weird. Oh gosh, well, you are listening to
Guardenline and uh, we're about to take another break here
for the top of the hour news. If you'd like
to give me a call seven to one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 12 (36:31):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (36:32):
Green Pro. The folks at green Pro they're experts and
providing top quality compost top dressing and fertilizy to keep
your lawn healthy. They also do coreration, now cororation. They've
got special equipment. This is not cheap stuff. This is
a very expensive quality equipment, not the little junkie rent

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from the rental store.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
And it pops the plugs out of the ground, drops
them on the surface and that opened. It's like breathing
life back into the soil. It helps feed that. When
you put the compost top dressing down, it's going to
help feed the soil biology. That's what microb's like. They
break down organic matter, and compost top dressing is organic matter.
Green Pro uses a very fine textured one that settles

(37:16):
down in there and the soil very well, and your
lawn it's just going to rejuvenate it, especially when you've
got a claysoil with compaction and things like that. Core
aeration and compost top dressing together increase your rooting zone,
your rooting depth, the water absorbing ability of your soil.

(37:37):
It just works. If you're dealing with chinchbugs, brown patch, takeoff, patch, drought, stress, compaction,
foot traffic, all of those things. You need to call
green Pro and get on the schedule for them to
come by and do this for you. They work about
a forty five mile radius for Magnolia area, so up
in Spring and Cyprus and the Woodlands and Conroe and

(37:58):
willis Over and magnet Olla, Montgomery and down to Katie
and West Houston, Central Houston area. That basically the northwest
quadrant of the Greater Houston area. Greenprotexas dot com. Greenpro
Texas dot com. That's the website. Here's the phone number.
Write this down if you're in the northwest quadrant of

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the Greater Houston area. Eight three two three five one
zero zero three two eight three two three five to
one zero zero three two. I'm gonna take a little
break here, go outside, check a couple of things. I've
got some work I movie doing here later today, getting
my irrigation systems kind of taken up a notch, which

(38:41):
is in courting for sure this time of the year. Uh,
go grab a cup of coffee. We'll see you back
here after the top of the hour news. In the meantime,
don't forget to check out my website, Gardening with Skip
dot com. That's where you're gonna find all these publications
that are free to download to help you have success
with your garden. I was talking about take All Root

(39:04):
Right earlier that publication publications, two of them, Take all
Root Roight for there on the website. Talked in a bit.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
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Speaker 12 (39:57):
Sun Beamon of three starting.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
All right, folks, let's do this. We got another hour
to do here. I forgot several hours more to do here.
We got a question in gardening World, Well, how about
the seven, one, three, fifty eight, seventy four. Give me
a call. We'll talk about the things that you are
interested in how do we help you have success that

(40:33):
that is the goal. Here on guarden line, I mentioned
I was in doing some irrigation work today. My my
drip system needs a little bit of work. Some of
my emitters are clogged. I'm putting some new lines in.
Drip irrigation is such an efficient way to go about watering.

Speaker 7 (40:51):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (40:52):
You know, it's not fool proof. Every system has its
need for maintenance and things like that. But I love
drip systems. Anytime I can get a garden bed under drip,
it's a good time, a good happy thing. You get
a lot of drip systems you can do do it yourself, installs,
a little hose end timers and all guns and stuff
like that, or you can go all out, go all

(41:13):
out and have a professional come in and do the
do the design, do the creation for you, and it
just makes it easy. I love containers. I love containers,
but especially in the summertime, you got to water them
frequently because it's hot and that little confined root system
in the pot it needs it needs to be continually

(41:36):
cut moist. Now if it's a large pot, one reason
I recommend high quality potting soils and a large container
for our vegetable and flour and herb gardens that are
in containers here in the Greater Houston area is because
they they home on moisture. There's more of a bank
account there for the roots which gota water and regularly

(41:57):
and inevitably. I get busy, go on a trip, I'm
gone for a couple of days, or I just don't
think about it, and next thing you know, I'm out there.
I was out yesterday. I've got a little lime tree
and it was I looked at It's like, what is
wrong with that tree? And it was kind of like
sort of shriveling, curling up leaves and stuff because it's
die in the thirst. I got out some water and

(42:18):
watered the thing. What I'm gonna do now is put
that thing on an automatic drip where I don't have
to water it all the time, and then I don't
have the disappointment. Because here's the deal. When when your
plants go into drought stress and then you water them
and they put back up, you think you dodged a bullet,
but many times you didn't. If you've got little fruit,
like on a citrus, it's going to abort that fruit

(42:41):
when it goes into stress. If you have a tomato
plant that is blooming and wilting and everything, and all
of a sudden you water it and it perks back up.
You probably lost a set of tomatoes there that from
the stress. They didn't set or they aborted or whatever happened.
So we want to avoid that stress. And you're probably

(43:02):
better than I am about remembered the water all the time.
But in case you're not, or even if you think
you are, you'll get you a drip system on a
timer so it does it for you. Then you can
have more containers. Yay, I love containers. Hey, let's run
out to Sweeney, Texas. We're going to talk to Ricky
this morning here on garden Line. Hey, Ricky, welcome to

(43:23):
the show.

Speaker 7 (43:26):
Good morning.

Speaker 13 (43:27):
I got a question about quints fruit trees.

Speaker 14 (43:34):
As far as growing them down here.

Speaker 6 (43:38):
You can grow quints here. Off the top of my head,
I cannot think of a variety names that I would recommend,
But if you go to a good quality garden center
knows what they're talking about, they should be able to
order you some. They're not something you usually just see
in the garden center everywhere. Quince. It's because quins is

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a different kind of fruit. Have you had quins before?

Speaker 11 (44:04):
What? No?

Speaker 13 (44:04):
But I was a del passo and solved there and
it just kind of parked by interests. I like planting
things a little different from what I've had before, and
uh yeah, I've read up at them and I just
hadn't seen anything whether they would grow here.

Speaker 7 (44:24):
Or not.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
In the greater Houston area. They will, I'd have yeah, Ricky,
I'd have to check on the chill hour requirement on quins.
It's been a good while since I've studied or been
around quins. They are a fruit that generally is used
to make into some sort of preserves. They're just not
the kind of thing like a peach you just want
to eat right out of your hand. Necessary, but they

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are an old time fruit tree. My only hesitation is
how far south in the chilling hours will they go?
And that's something that I or you would just have
to check out, like do a little search for quints
fruit and then chilling hours. If you did that search,
it would tell you as well.

Speaker 8 (45:09):
Okay, I appreciate it, you bet.

Speaker 6 (45:12):
You bet, Thanks for that call. Good question. First time
I've ever had a quints question on garden line. Is
that amazing. Hey, have you been to Plants for All Seasons?
First of all, have you been to their website Plants
for All Seasons dot com. They've redone it and it
is really nice, I very impressive. Lots lots of good

(45:32):
information on there. You know, the folks at Plants for
All Seasons, they they're experts. They been around since nineteen
seventy three, but they've been gardening since even before that.
And Plants for All Seasons carries the products and the
plants that you need for here. So for example, you're wondering,
you know what kind of this or that would grow, well, here,

(45:54):
we'll go buy Plants for All Seasons and if it does,
they'll have it and they'll have the knowledge to help
guide you in the process. And that is very very important.
You need a garden center that has the expertise, that
knows what you're talking about. I love independent garden centers,
you know, they carry stuff that ought to be sold here,

(46:14):
unlike a bunch of big box stores where I could
spend a whole show talking about the what the heck
is going on in this store? Why do they have
this plant? Because it won't grow here? Not at Plants
for all seasons. No, they understand brown stuff before green stuff.
You drive up and their soils everywhere. I mean, you
know the peat moss you want to do my little

(46:35):
peat moss thing for take all root rot. Once you
get my publication off print it out offline and go
by there and buy a bail of peat moss and
it'll tell you. The publication tells you how to use it.
That's just an example of what I'm talking about. Do
you need color for summer? Do you want fall veggies?
They're stocked up, they're ready to go. They got tomatoes
right now, and other things as well. At Plants for

(46:55):
all seasons. And when you stop in, when you ask
them questions, you're going to get answers that are accurate.
That is, as they say, worth the price of admission.
You need someone who can advise you when things go
wrong or how to keep them from going wrong. That's
Blinds for All Seasons, full service retail garden center Plants

(47:16):
for all Seasons dot com two eight, one, three, seven, six,
sixteen forty six. Let's go over to Copperfield now and
talk to Ken this morning. Hey Ken, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (47:27):
Hey, well, thank you very much. Quick question I'm researching
on online and I'm not giving the answers I was
expecting to get. And that has to do with a
can find area, decorative area of rock that is beginning
to have bermuda strands come into it. And I thought
that when in that area, I would just be able

(47:47):
to spray something like a brush and stunt killer, something
very strong to kill that off. But a what I'm
finding you is, at least when I research that is,
even brush and stump killer won't kill bermuda. So I'm
looking for a solution, Okay.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
On my website is a publication and it's entitled Herbicides
for Skip'sweed Wiper. That's it gardening with Skip dot Com.
On that publication it tells you by type of weed
what to use. So if it's a grassyweed, there's two
public two products there. I would recommend one that I'm

(48:23):
going to just give you the first few words of
the actual chemical name. It's f l u a Z.
It's actually flu azepholk. It may be sold as a
grass killer, something that tells you in the name of
it that it's a grass killer. It may be sold
as something called fuselaide. That's a brand name of F
l U A Z. And there's more letters to it,

(48:45):
but it's all on that publication. That only kills grass.
So if you accidentally got some on your petunia timate
or whatever, it's not gonna kill them. It's a grass killer,
and so I like to use that. Then then they're
the general killers like Glyphasate, which used to be called
round Up and now it's you. There are other brands
of Life Essay, but they kill everything. They kill grass

(49:06):
and broad leaf and everything, so you can accidentally do
more damage with that, all right, sir.

Speaker 15 (49:13):
Sorry, So this is an area that I could just
with with that spray the round Up replacements, but it
may be called down. I can just spray that entire
area over the rocks.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
And yes, it will be in the and the flu
as the folk. The the product that's on my website
that also will kill the same way. It just won't
have the It won't accidentally kill broad leaves too, like
the Life Usay will. All right, sir, yeah, every choice
will well then, probably, Okay, thank you appreciate that call. Hey,

(49:50):
I gotta run, guys, we'll be right back with your calls.
All right, Welcome back, to guard Line. Good to have
you with us this morning. Hey, if you are looking
for something to hold your lawn over in terms of
nutrition from now until our fall fertilization, sweet green from

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the folks at Night Foss will do just that. Sweet
Green is eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer that is immediately released.
It is a natural product and when you put it
down watered in, it dissolves the way, goes into the
soil and perks that grass up really nicely. You will
see a very quick response from it. If your lawn
is struggling in any way, I would recommend give it

(50:34):
a shot of sweet green right now, and the next
thing you'll be doing will be the fall fertilization in October,
where we put down a different ratio of fertilizer nutrients
in order to get that plant ready for winter and
to come out stronger in spring. For now, though, rather
than going with a super slow release, because we're really
getting close to fault in terms of that, I would

(50:56):
do a sweet green and watered in really well. Now
you're going to find nitrofoss products like sweet greenin it
in Chenny gardens and I'm in Richmond Rosenberg area you're
going to find them at Bearing Hardware, both the one
on Bissonette and the one on Westheimer, as well as
the M and D up there in or down there
up there? Which direction is Rosenberg? Guess it depends on
where you're standing. M and D Rosenberg on Avenue. I

(51:19):
we're going to go now to Texas City and visit
with Allen this morning. Come Alan, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (51:26):
Good morning, Skip. How are you good? I have well,
I have a maybe a little touchy subject here. I'll
followed the fertile vesuescale. I got a nice grass and
nice flower garden and everything else in my front yard.
But I have every neighbor who has dogs, who walks,

(51:46):
and they want to use my flower bed. I got
so far to be my confrontation at first and put
signs out and be respectful, don't poop and pie in
by yard. But they laugh at they think it's a joke,
and they still do it. And it's tot of further
than that too. Is your maybe at them plan to

(52:07):
keep dogs out? Or you know what is it? Is
there something at them playing I help that? Or do
I just gotta go be more forceful about it?

Speaker 6 (52:19):
You know, you can try that, good luck with it.
I don't know. I I'm gonna go careful here because
I don't mean, I don't mean because we're talking about
dogs peeing. I mean it's because so I've had my
own pets that would not stay out of a flower bed.
And you can get a little electrical wire, put it

(52:40):
down low, and if they go in there, it'll pop them,
and I gonna hurt them. It pops them, and they
know better than going in that area. And I keep
them out of my areas that way. Once you teach them.
Once they are not stupid. It's not like the dogs
gonna get shocked for it, just sometimes, you know. And
I've got some dogs that are hard headed and they
won't quite digging and area. But that will stop.

Speaker 11 (53:01):
Now.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
The only other thing would be stuff that's more trouble
for digging in a bed. You can put on a
little kind of a wire mesh on the surface, like
chicken wire or something, lay it down, pin it down, yes,
and you know they're not going to have to dig
in that. Uh. But I think for this it's going
to take either communicating with the people going by in
a way that actually they'll respond to positively or doing

(53:22):
something that'll keep the dog from wanting to go in there.

Speaker 16 (53:25):
Yeah, trying one verse one turn into very confrontation on it.
It's just you know, and it's like, yeah, please keep
them out and bore they go berserk And I'm a
pet owner too. It doesn't do that. What gets do
they go? And then they when they you know how
dogs are, those are scratching and digging And that's the
part that's bothering me. You know, you know, do you

(53:47):
understand I don't care, you.

Speaker 6 (53:49):
Know, I understand. We we can't. We can't solve that
problem nor human nature. I can't imagine that somebody wouldn't
respond well to you and like, oh my dog gets
a potty in your yard and you can't complain. But
that's it is what it is. But Alan, that's that's
all I know. There are some things you can put
out there they don't like the smell of, like cats

(54:10):
and things. Got a few mothballs around and their little
sensitive noses hate that and they're not gonna go sniffing
around in it. I've never tried that for dogs in
this situation. Uh, there's probably some products online or in
a garden center. You can buy. But yeah, that's all
I got on this one. Sorry, sorry, you have that situation.

Speaker 16 (54:29):
Oh, that's that's okay. I'm just, you know, trying to
be property.

Speaker 7 (54:33):
You know.

Speaker 6 (54:35):
Well, yeah, you take care, you bet, Thank you. I
appreciate that a lot. Southwest Fertilizer corner of Businett and
Renwick is the place you need to go for anything
you need. You know, it's talk a while to go
about sweet Green. Of course they got sweet Green there.
If I if you ever hear a fertilizer or a
pesticide or a funge aside, or an herbicide name come
out of my mouth, or a tool brand come out

(54:57):
of my mouth, You're going to find it a Southwest
for because they carry everything. They carry everything that works.
And if they don't have it, you don't need it.
That's as simple as that corner of bus Nutt and Renwick.
You're going to get friendly service. I promise you that
you're going to get quality products. I guarantee you that,
and you're going to get a selection like none other
in the whole Greater Houston area, this whole region. Southwest

(55:19):
Fertilizer dot Com corner bus Nutt and Renwick seven month
three six sixty six, one seven four four. Let's go
to Montgomery now and we're going to talk to Marie. Hello, Marie,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (55:32):
Good morning, Skip, Skip. I'm running low on my Bonnie
Turbo spreader sticker, and I can no longer find that.
Do you have a recommendation for a spreader sticker or
a surfactant wedding agent?

Speaker 6 (55:52):
Wherever you go and shop, you ought to be able
to use those terms spreader sticker or surffactant, and that
they ought to know and take you to the product.
I I'm I'm surprised that you've had that problem, because
those things are generally pretty available. Uh.

Speaker 17 (56:15):
Specifically, I was looking specifically for the Bonnit Turbo. I
think at one time it might have been recommended by
render Lemon, but I could be wrong.

Speaker 15 (56:25):
So are all probably.

Speaker 17 (56:28):
Are all spreader stickers basically the same quality?

Speaker 6 (56:35):
Well, yeah, a spreader sticker is going to work. A
non ionic surf factant is another name for him, non
ionic surfactant. That's another thing we look for. There's an
ACE hardware store called Lake Conroe Ace out there on
Highway one oh five. I don't know if you've tried
that one or not. You bet they don't not have
it there. Have you tried Have you tried A and

(56:56):
A plants out one oh five on the edge of Montgomery.

Speaker 17 (57:00):
Yes, but I was looking specifically for the bonn eyed turbo.

Speaker 6 (57:05):
So oh, it doesn't have to be it. Yeah, it
doesn't have to be bone eyed turbo. Okay, I have
there are other ones on the market. So if it's
a spreader sticker and it's label for that and it
says something about non ion exer factant, that that's gonna
do it.

Speaker 17 (57:20):
Okay, perfect, Okay, well, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
Yeah, yeah, you got You've got thanks for they call
appreciate that. That's good. You know, spreader stickers. You're going,
what is that? What is surfactant? Well, surfactant they say
makes water wetter. I don't know if that makes sense
to you not, but basically, think about a waxy leaf
and you spray water on it could just be tapwater.
Spray it on there, and it balls up and it

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rolls off the leaf right because it's a slick, waxy surface.
A spreader sticker, those little round globular drops now sitting
on the leaf of whatever you've sprayed. They flatten out
and it covers more area and it sticks to that
slick surface, and that's important. You're going to try to

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get rid of nutsedge, you need a product that either
has a spreader sticker in it or that you add
one too, because that's a slick surface. There's many other situations.
The devil shoestring vine that comes up with thorns up
out of the ground. That's another one. With slick leaves,
you gotta have a spreader sticker and they just help.
They help almost any product to not only stay on

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the leaf but absorb in better. And so that's important.
I don't talk about those a lot here on Guardline now.
Probably ought to talk about them a little bit more,
just to remind you. I'm kind of assuming everybody knows that,
but that that is important to do fix my slab
foundation repair two eight one two five five forty ninety nine.

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That's the company you need to call if you see
cracks in the sheet rock, cracks in the brick on
the outside of your house. If you got a door
that's sticking, maybe you've got a door that sometimes it
sticks and sometimes it doesn't. That's because your foundation is
moving and it's changing. Things inside the house. Now, does
that mean that you need to have a whole foundation

(59:09):
repair job done? Not necessarily, but call fix my Slab
go to the website fix myslab dot com or call
two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine. Tys.
Strickland's been doing this for a very long time. He
knows what he's doing. He's honest, and he will give
you a fair price. By the way. Who show up
on time also, which is very important. And I'll fix

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it right, fix my slab foundation repair. Don't be an
ostrich and'll stick your head in the sand. Find out
what the situation is. He'll tell you if it doesn't
need fixing right now, we just want to watch it,
or if something can be done. He's good at that.
We'll be right back. Alrighty, we're back. We are setting
on go here. Give me a call seven one three

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two one two fifty eight to seventy four. Be happy
to visit with you about the questions you might have
guarding gardening. Ace hardware stores I was talking about a
while ago when we're visiting with Marie Montgomery. Ace hardware
stores are all over our region here, and my local
ACE Hardware group for a garden line. You can find

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them by going to Ace Hardware Texas. Don't forget the
word Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. You're
going to find those stores. Oh, by the way, I
needed to tell you this. Speaking of Ace Hardware stores,
the Ace Hardware up on Spring Cypress Road and Spring,
Texas is having their grand reopening. Just reve empithy ready

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to go again. Ten percent off everything in the store
and fifteen percent off still products, still power equipment, high
quality equipment. There Ace Hardware on Spring Cypress Road in Spring, Texas.
They got promotions, they got demos and giveaways and raffles
and food and vendors and every other reason you would
need or want to go there. You can give a
call at a two eight one two five to one

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zero zero or zero one zero zero. You know with
Ace Hardware you're gonna find everything you need to have
a beautiful lawn, a beautiful landscape, whether it's fertilizers or
products control paths and diseases. You're gonna find everything to
make that outdoor area a place you want to hang out.
For me, that means a barbecue pet, it means a

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string of lights for that evening ambiance. It means nice
sitting areas and ACE Hardware's got you covered on all
of that kind of thing. There's a number of stores
around the area north, south, east, and west. For example,
you go out to West Houston Hardware City or Memorial Drive,
go down southwest Hey to Rockport or those of you
in Rockport are going, wait, it's not way here, it's here. Well,

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State Highway ninety five North. They've got an ACE Hardware store
right there. Go up to Lake Conra I was talking
about the Lake Connor Race on one oh five West. Yes,
and go up to Lata. What let's go northeast J
and R's in Porter on FM thirteen fourteen, or southeast
Lake City, League City like Leake City aas. I was

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there just the other day, Leake City ACE on West
League City Parkway. There's just a few, but you're going
to find more at ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. I
love going into a stores. I do never know, never
know what you're going to find in there. Lots of
cool stuff. Nelson Watergarden and Nelson Nursery and Watergarden actually

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is out there in Katie west of Houston. So if
you were looking for your hometown destination garden center not
just for watergardens, but a nursery for all kinds of
things that you need. That's Nelson Nursery and Watergarden out
in Katie. You head out to Katie Fort Ben Road,
you turn north, it's just up the street a little

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bit on the right hand side. Two generations of Nelson's
with local experience. These folks know what they're talking about.
They're there to help you. You can find inspiration, you need, suggestions,
you need ideas. You want to do it yourself or
do you want to hire them to help you. They've
got the experts you can trust at Nelson Nursery and Watergarden.

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One of a kind, fish and fountains and plants and pots.
You just won't believe the sound of water in your landscape.
It changes so much. I know because I put in
two water features in mine. You just sit there and
it's just like therapy, you know. It's like people put
the sal machine on to go to sleep at night.

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There's way better than that. And you get to enjoy
it during the day, the evening, the morning, the nighttime.
Whenever you want. Nelson Nursery and Watergarden they're getting in
a shipment of new houseplants into the store. And I'm
telling you, they have some of those beautiful house plants
I've ever seen at Nelson Nursher and Watergardens. And then
you go outside and oh gosh, well, we could go

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on and on. Nelson Nursher and Water Gardens in Katie
Katie Fort Ben Road, just north. Here's a website Nelsonwatergardens
dot com. Simple as that, Nelson Watergardens. You need to
check them out. Trust me on this one. Take a
friend with you when you go too, because they will
enjoy it. This will be a fun outing for you guys.
Bring the kids too. I just can't see. I just

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can't quit talking about.

Speaker 18 (01:04:11):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
Bring the kids and ask the folks in there if
they could get some fish food, and they'll give them
a little bit, a little handful of fish food that
they can go out and feed the koi in the back.
These giant koi come up out of the water and
open their giant round mouths and the kids can set
food down in them. Trust me, your little kiddos love that,

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and so will you. It's an experience. I'm telling you,
it is an experience. Well, our phone number here on
guarden Line seven one three two one two k t
r H seven to one three two one two k
t r H. Let us help you have success. Uh oh,
about the lawns, we were dealing with so many lawn issues.

(01:04:56):
You take all. Root Rot's been the big one this year,
but there are other things. We're in chinchbug season. Some
people are having chinchbug problems as well around the area.
And then there's compaction and all the other issues. B
and B turf Pros down south and southwest of Houston.
They're the ones you need to talk to. It's a

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family owned company. They provide honest work. They provide quality work.
They can do aeration and fertilization and compost, top dressing.
They do all of that. They only use top quality
products that I recommend on Gardenline. For example, they're compost
from Ciena Maltz. See what I mean, top quality quality

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screen compost. It goes on top their aeration. They got
the expensive equipment that they bring out and they do
true core aeration, popping plugs out of the ground, not
just pressing holes in the soil, popping plugs out of
the ground, dropping them on the top. You're dealing with that.
This is a great way to start to melt that
decompose that thatch away because those plugs that are on

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top of the ground, they melt away in rain, and
that soil helps decompose those thatched materials are runners that
are so hard to decompose. Well. They can do. This
price to start around five hundred, depending on the yard
size and how far they have to go, because this
is a nice expensive quality equipment. But I won't tell
you something. This is a lot cheaper than replacing your lawn.

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And so if you've got some sprigs of grass, you
can bring that thing back with a compost hop, dressing,
correation and proper care of course, watering and fertilizing and whatnot.
BB Turfpros dot com in the website there's no end.
BB Turfpros dot com seven one three, two, three, four
fifty five ninety eight. Give them a call. You will

(01:06:42):
be glad you did. Always love seeing their work by
the way they work from sugar Land and Missouri City
all the way down Highway six. You know, we're talking
about Siena, Arcola, Manvel, Alvin and then up in Pearland
and Friendswood, and over as far east there's League City
and Dickinson area. They service that whole region down south
of Sam Houston Parkway there south of Houston, and they

(01:07:06):
do their work right. Let's see, we're gonna run now
out to Champions Forest and visit with Mark. Hey, Mark,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (01:07:16):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 19 (01:07:16):
I have a quick question for you regarding pruning in
my poondree. I normally prune in late fall or early winter,
but after this last storm, I have four branches that
are hanging low. They're actually almost touching the ground. These branches,
they're smaller, they're about three inches in diameter, okay, but

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they're touching, and I was wondering if it would be
okay if I go aheadn't take those out?

Speaker 6 (01:07:43):
Yeah, you can. Fall is a moderately fast time for
wound healing. Spring is the best, but fall is second best.
And so if you make those cuts now, they will
he'll start to heal pretty well as we get into
the cooler fall weather season. So you can make those

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cuts now and that'll be just fine. If you were
doing a lot of pruning, I would say let's wait
until toward the end of winter and get it done.
Then because spring is such an outstanding time for quick healing.
But now is now is fine if you need to
make a few for sure.

Speaker 19 (01:08:21):
Appreciate your up.

Speaker 16 (01:08:22):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:08:24):
All right, you take care. Appreciate the call.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:26):
That was fast and easy. You bet all right, take care.
You're listening to garden Line, and it's time for me
to take a break. We'll be back with your call.
Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey,
welcome back to guard Line. Glad to have you with
us today. How can we help give us a call?

(01:08:49):
Give me a call seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Let's let's do this. We're going
to run straight out to the phones here to sugar
Land and visit with Patty this morning. Hello Patty, welcome
to Guardenline.

Speaker 20 (01:09:02):
Good morning, Skip. Thank you for taking my car. I
probably sent you too much information in the pictures.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
Oh uh oh the Centris pictures. Yeah, now you.

Speaker 20 (01:09:19):
Yeah, the Meyer lemons. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:09:22):
How long have you had that?

Speaker 20 (01:09:23):
I think I sent you like four.

Speaker 7 (01:09:27):
Uh huh.

Speaker 6 (01:09:28):
How long have you had that plan?

Speaker 20 (01:09:30):
Well, this is about its third year, and this is
the first year that early A couple of months ago,
it was blooming all over. The bees were all over it,
and it was looking very healthy. And then it put
out a ton of lemons and they're quite large. But
they stayed green for about a month, which I read

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that that's kind of normal. But now they're like half yellow,
half green, and I keep seeing the lead. Some of
the leaves are yellow, and some of the branches that
we're putting out new growth look like there's no leaves
on them. There looks like something bit them or something.

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I don't know. I haven't seen any insects on it. Yeah,
so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or
if it just takes a while to change to yellow. No,
but I didn't want to turn yellow.

Speaker 11 (01:10:28):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
I'm caught in between two diagnoses here, Okay, looking at
all your pictures. Uh, the less concerning diagnosis would be
a magnesium deficiency, and that's that's very possible that that
is what it is. A lot of the symptoms look
like that. If you will get a fertilizer that has

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magnesium in it, or if you want a quicker check,
you can take some EPs and salt, put a tablespoon
into a gallon of water, shake it up really good,
to dissolve it and drench that soil with that one
tablespoon with ups and salt and a gallon of water. Okay,
and then watch the lead.

Speaker 20 (01:11:15):
I purchased some citrus and enchanted, you know, special for citrus,
but I only put it on like maybe a week ago,
you know.

Speaker 6 (01:11:27):
Yes, So off the top of my head, I don't
know if that has I don't know if that has
a lot of magnesium in it or not. So I'm
just saying this, do the EPs and check it, and
within a couple of weeks, see if you see improvement. Okay.
If you don't, then my second concern, which is a
much greater one, comes into play, and that is a

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disease called citrus greening. There are some aspects of your
photos that could be citrus greening, and that is one
that is very serious. We're in a quarantined area in
several of the counties here around the Greater Houston area,
and so you don't want to mess with that one.
That is one where you have to destroy the plant.

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You can contact the Texas Department of Agriculture and get
more information from them. You could also contact the State
Plant disease diagnostic clinic to get a specific diagnosis from
them before you go destroying a plant. But I don't
want to get you alarmed at that, but I'm just
saying the two possibilities. One is, yeah, that's no problem,

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just fertilize it with the right stuff and it perks
back up. The other one is it'll never go away,
and it will it will infect other trees in the
area as an insect carries the disease from an infected
tree to a healthy tree, and that's why we're in
a quarantine for that here. So just you know, without

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panicking on it, just know that first try that that
a magnesium. You should know in a couple of weeks
on it. There are aspects of your pictures that could
go either way, and I'm not real it's not really
clear from the photos to me which of those two
you have.

Speaker 16 (01:13:09):
I just want to, yeah, to be ready.

Speaker 20 (01:13:10):
Do you think I mean do lemons typically turn green
first and then turn yellow? But just it takes a while.

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, lemon fruits start off green. They start
off green. That's natural.

Speaker 20 (01:13:25):
Okay, let's check that.

Speaker 6 (01:13:30):
Yeah, keep me posted on it. I would like to
know how this turns out, because it's always good to
be aware of that. But if you could also get
you just a complete fertilizer that has magnesium and all
the other stuff in a liquid form and do it.
But I just want to make sure they get a
in addition to other nutrients, a good dose of magnesium,
because I think that may be what we're looking at.

Speaker 20 (01:13:51):
All right, Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
All right, thank you, appreciate that. Appreciate that call. We
got to citrus diseases here, folks, that are very serious.
They're significant. Now we don't mess with them. One is
citrus screening. The other is centric that's a canker of citrus,
and we're in quarantines for those. Much of this area,
you know, you're talking about Montgomery County, Harris County, Fort

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ben County, Brazoria County, these counties are all part of
the deal. Now, I mean it goes beyond just those,
but those are just some of them. And that's why
you can't bring citrus in to these areas without it
being certified. You definitely can't move it out of these
areas either. You want to be especially not moving it

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out of these areas. All right, So that's it. So
you can't go into a county where citrus screening or
citrus canker has been around and buy a plant and
take it home to then Antonio or College Station or
Huntsville or wherever you're taking your plant. You can't take
it out of this county because this is a Syrius.
These are serious issues. I want to be careful with them.

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Nelson plant food is actually not one thing. It's it's
many things. They have their Turf Star line right now.
In the Turf Star line, Bruce's Brew is the lawn
fertilizer for this time of the year. To use it,
you can use it anytime of the year. I don't
want in for that, but right now Bruce's Brew gives
you an immediate release and some slow release too. And

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so in this zone between the summer slow release season
and then the fall application of fall fertilizer, you need
something that is going to help you right now and
not you know, necessarily lasts for ten months or something.
I mean, not that I need to do last ten months,
but you get the IDEA. Bruss Brew is a good
choice for that. Also, they have the Nutri Star line.
A Nutri Star has plant foods for all kinds of

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specific plants. There's one for roses, one for vegetables, one
for plumerias, one for palms and ornamental grasses, one for bougainvillias.
The boogainvillia one, by the way, is excellent for a
number of different plants, not just boog and millia, but
if you've got a crossbine, or a Virginia creeper, or
a manda via, a wisteria, a passion flower, trumpet, vines, honeysuckles,
morning glories, jasmines. The Boogoville from Nutra Star from Nelson

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is an excellent product for all of those things. It
really really does work. You're gonna find Nelson products and
garden centers and feed stores, in Ace hardware stores. You're
gonna find them in the Southwest Fertilizer. Of course they
have everything there corner Businet and run Rick. But Nelson
products work. They do what they're supposed to do. We

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are coming up here on a top of the hour break. Well,
these first two hours went fast. They always do. You know.
They say time flies when you're having fun. Tormit the
frog says time is fun when you're having flies. Sorry,
haven't gotten to use my dad jokes in a while

(01:16:50):
since kids grew up. If you can't make a kid's
eyes roll and then moan and let dad, you're just
not doing it right. We're gonna take a break, get
you some coffee. We'll be right back.

Speaker 16 (01:17:28):
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Speaker 6 (01:18:25):
All right, folks, we're back. We got some gardening to
talk here. Let's do it. How about that that sound good?

Speaker 7 (01:18:36):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:18:36):
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It works if you are looking maybe you're going to
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to run now out to Houston and talk to Doug
this morning. Hello Doug, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (01:20:31):
Hey, Hi, Skip, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 7 (01:20:36):
Group.

Speaker 14 (01:20:36):
We talked a couple of weeks ago. On two two
weeks ago, I raped up five well maybe back My
call is on the take all root rot follow up.
Two weeks ago, I raped up five our rags of
thatch and applied the nitrofoss Eagle funge you signed. And
then a week ago I put down a layer of

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pete moss application I wouldn't get aself a soil tester,
and I've got took three readings at that pH of
five point four, six point zero and seven point one,
and as you can imagine, the five point four sat
Augustine area look the worst, and I'm wondering, and I'm

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starting to see signs of improvement already, and I'm wondering
if there's anything else I should be doing today or
tomorrow to help kind of bring Augustine back to life.

Speaker 6 (01:21:29):
That's good. Actually, those those phs aren't bad. The five
point four is a little low, but I wouldn't be
bringing in anything high pH now because take all thrives
on that. So as you're trying to lower, as you're
trying to raise the pH from five point four, you know,
let's get through this takeof thing before you you would
start to try to do that. And I would also

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suggest maybe you do a full fledged soil test at
a lab to make sure that that five point four
is accurate. Some of the little gadgets and things that
are sold for testing are not that accurate, and I'd
hate to change pH based on just what they say.
So and you understand that is that the improvement you're
seeing is probably from the peat moss. Within a week

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or two you see a greening effect from that. The
only other thing you haven't mentioned, have you been looking
at my stuff online? Because a lot of things you
mentioned are in my publication. Okay, good. The other thing
would be to find, yeah, a micro nutrient source, especially
iron and manganese MN manganese. Those are when the grass

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loses roots, it can't take up. Iron is taken up
at the tip of the root, and so as you
start to lose roots, you start to see yellowing of
the grass. And in research I've seen iron and manganese
supplemented seem to help not cure the disease, but keep
the patient alive. It's like being in the hospital. You

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can't you can't eat, they give you an IV, you
can't breathe. They you know, they put an oxygen masks
in your face. These are just helping that patient get
what it can't get well otherwise. And that's how it
is with these micros supplements. And so I would try
those periodically, just as a folier and leave them on
for a little bit and then you water them in

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a little bit. When you don't have roots, you can't
take it up. So we do the best we can
to help it a little bit, and then when we
get to fall, by the time we're in late September
early October, we're doing treatments but when take all root
right tends to do, it's infecting the most. There's nothing
wrong with doing a treatment. Now. I can't tell you

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that a treatment with a zoxistrobin now would be super helpful,
but it may help a little bit, and so you
may want to go ahead and try that. Now that's
a different product, the azoxystrobin, And if you've got my publication,
it says the product that carries it and stuff, so
I would consider that. And it also lists something called purpleconazole.

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That's another funge aside that has shown to be effective
in research, and it's available in many brands. And you
already have seen that. I'm just saying it because there
are other people listening that also.

Speaker 14 (01:24:13):
And then all these items that you've talked about are
available at Setlist.

Speaker 6 (01:24:16):
Fertilizer yes, and then some yeah, if you go to Southwest,
I was going to have all of that kind of stuff.
And I think I listed a few micronutrients supplements. There's
a lot of them out there. Some of them are
harder to find, and so I just try to stick
with a few that are available in the garden center shelves, retail,
garden Center world all over town and that's why those

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are on there. That's micronutrients. Micronutrients. So it's not that
it's some special thing. You just have to have this
certain one.

Speaker 14 (01:24:46):
Okay, I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:24:48):
I'll keep it coasted, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:24:50):
Well, you bet and do that. And if you took
any pictures beforehand. As we go forward in this and
you see anything improvements and things, if you you could
take pictures from the same angle, I'd appreciate that. I've
got some other folks doing that and it's very helpful
for me. Uh, And then I can use that in
teaching other people about Look, if you do this, this

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is the result you get when things work or if
they don't work. Just let me know. You can email
me and keep me up to date as you as
you wish. But thank you, Doug. I appreciate your call.

Speaker 7 (01:25:21):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 16 (01:25:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:25:23):
Yeah, all right, you take care. Good to hear people
trying things and starting to turn the corner on these
types of things. In order to have success. We got
to go to a quick break here. When I come
back from break, we'll be going to Arthur in Southeast
Houston and Richard out in Dayton. If you know how
to jitterbug. This would be a good time. Let's move

(01:25:45):
the coffee table. All right, there we go a welcome
back to garden Line. Good to have you with us
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It used to be one in my neighborhood when I
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every other day, just helping that tree get established. And
I can find a better deal than this RCW Nurseries.
That's the garden Center where Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight
come together. All righty, We're going to go now out
to the phones and talk to Arthur in Southeast Houston. Hey, Arthur,
welcome to the garden Line.

Speaker 22 (01:27:33):
Yes, sir, thank you for taking my call. I don't
know if you can help me, but I'm calling to
find out a million years ago, I had an irrigation
system put in from a foundation, a drip system, and
do us.

Speaker 16 (01:27:50):
Put it in?

Speaker 7 (01:27:51):
They also at level.

Speaker 22 (01:27:52):
Of the foundation and everything, and they put that in
to stabilize everything. Well, fast forward at thirty plus years
and all of the feed lines are fine, but I'm
having the dickens trying to find a company to the
control portion of it that controls all the water and
everything that is just disintegrating. I've got leaks everywhere, and

(01:28:13):
I just that needs to be replaced, and I can't
find anyone to do that. And I didn't know if
you had any recommendations or suggestions.

Speaker 6 (01:28:24):
Oh boy, then in your area, what here's what I
would do. I would talk to a good garden center,
uh and see who they recommend for that your specific region.
You know, you got Moss Nursery over there in Seabrook.
You got Jorges Hidden Gardens if you haven't, If you
you may try giving Jorge a call and see he

(01:28:46):
either does it or he knows. I think his number
is seven to one three six three two fifty two
ninety seven one three six three two fifty two ninety
He'll be able to help you at least point you
in the right direction. That was be my suggestion, you
know for me. Yeahs hey, he's down, yes, yes, sir, yes, five.

(01:29:16):
He's an Alvin. He's done in Alvin and but but
he he works in the landscaping world and stuff, and
he knows people down in that area. I would I
would talk to him. I don't have an irrigation supplier
down that far south and east. We got some folks
that are in other parts that might drive down in there,
but uh, it's you know, I'd rather find somebody kind
of close to you there, because that's that's quite a

(01:29:38):
hall for for someone coming from a great distance.

Speaker 16 (01:29:42):
Okay, thank you so much, right you bet.

Speaker 6 (01:29:46):
Thank you. Appreciate your call very much. Appreciate that very much. Listen,
if you've got issues with mosquitoes, mosquito dunks is what
you need. You can get them anywhere. I mean they
got them at garden centers and feed stores and ace
hardware stores all over the place. Mosquito dunks a little
small based donut floats on water covers one hundred square feet.

(01:30:06):
Does thirty days of mosquito disease wonderfulness, Yep. Won't hurt
the birds that drink out of the water, won't hurt
your pets that drink out of the water. It's a
disease and mosquitoes. It works well. They're available everywhere, and
you just need to have them on hand because you
will need them anytime you get a little rain. You
got some stagnant standing water, think break a dunk up,

(01:30:27):
put it, Put a little chips of it underneath your
flower pots in those catch basins where water stands in mosquitos.
Breed mosquito dunks. You need that. Let's see, We're gonna
go now to Dayton and talk to Richard. Hello, Richard,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:30:40):
Hey, thank you, good morning. Hey. I have a I
have a week problem.

Speaker 23 (01:30:45):
I sprayed everything I think of killing the weeds of
my flower beds, you know, like coming up in the
driveway and stuff like that. I bought that three sixty
five stuff. If you wipe out, it's almost like they
like it. They're being rebellious.

Speaker 6 (01:31:04):
Okay, do you know any idea specifically what kind of
weeds you might be dealing with?

Speaker 7 (01:31:10):
Well, some of them look like a little big keenan.
We're looking h flower top weed.

Speaker 6 (01:31:17):
Okay, well, let me ask you. You've got good flowers,
good desirable plants in and among the weeds. Is that correct?

Speaker 23 (01:31:26):
Well, let's spread out and now we've got them in
flower pots.

Speaker 7 (01:31:28):
Sitting in the four beer because I had put when.

Speaker 23 (01:31:32):
I first put it, put the fire bear down, I
had built a house and I used some of that
house wrap, laid it down and put the dirt and
the rocks.

Speaker 7 (01:31:40):
Over that, you know, so I'm trying to keep them down.

Speaker 6 (01:31:42):
But yeah, well, Richard, Richard, what I would recommend is,
it's a couple of options. The products that are going
to kill those weeds are going to kill any desirable
plants in and among the weeds. So if you're only
a good answer and flower pots, then pull the pots
out and spray away, you're okay. But if you got

(01:32:04):
good plants like a rosebush in that soil or something else,
then you're going to need to somehow get the product
on the weed without getting it on the good plant.
I have on my website instructions for building a little
weed wiper that could be helpful for that. You might
look at that. The other alternative is to just chop
everything off with a hoe and get you a good

(01:32:26):
thick layer of mulch over the top of everything to
smother any seeds. And if you you know, knowing the
weeds are important because if your weeds were grassy, weeds
like bermuda grass invading. Well, then I would say use
a grass only killer and it won't hurt your flowers
and it'll just kill the bermuda grass. But sounds like
you got a mix of all kinds of things, so

(01:32:47):
it's kind of hard to give a one size fits
all answer.

Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
Yeah, my daughter, you know, she has fire beds. Of
course she has pops in her firebirds, but she is.

Speaker 23 (01:32:57):
Heavy, heavy molt and I'm thinking that that munch might
be kind of smother them things out as well.

Speaker 7 (01:33:03):
Am I correct on that.

Speaker 6 (01:33:05):
Yeah, mulch, as long as it blocks the light completely,
it will do that. I like to use a finer
textured mulch because it's you know, big chunks. The light
can kind of bounce around through the surface of the
mult But if a finer texture mulch, it gives you
better coverage in terms of blocking.

Speaker 7 (01:33:21):
The little more. I would do that.

Speaker 6 (01:33:22):
But first, yeah, yeah, but get rid of all the
weeds first, just chop them all out. Some of them
are going to pop back through the mulch, but at
least you got a head start then, and then you
can use my weed wiper on the ones that pop out. Richard,
I got a whole lot of calls in line here,
so I'm gonna have to run. Good luck with that,
I do. I do wish you well on getting ahead
of that particular problem. Nature's Way Resources up there in Conroe,

(01:33:48):
almost to Conro, Actually it's up Interstate forty five where
fourteen eighty eight comes in. That is a place where
so many of our good quality soil products were born.
They at Nature's Way created roasaw, they created leaf more composts,
They created so many things that are successful and they
still are. You can go to the website Nature's Way

(01:34:10):
Resources nature's Way Resources dot com. Go there, check out
their products. You can go pick them up. You can
buy them by the bag and garden centers all over
the place. Also, you can have them deliver it. If
you want to get a bulk of it delivered, you
can do that. Don't forget that. I'm gonna be at
Nature's Way for their Fall Garden Festival on October the eleventh.

(01:34:30):
I'll tell you more about that as we get closer,
but just mark that on your calendar. October the eleventh.
When I get through with Garden Line, I'm heading straight
up that way and hope to meet you there at
Nature's Way resources. In the meantime, it's time to get
ready for fall planting in Nature's Way, no matter what
you're gonna plant, they've got the right product for creating

(01:34:51):
that perfect foundation, the brown stuff that goes in before
the green stuff. Give them a call. We are gonna
let's see here. We're gonna now go to pass the
dina and talk to Frida. Hello Frida, Welcome to garden Line.
How can I help?

Speaker 9 (01:35:06):
Well, I hope, I'm hope, I'm hoping that I'm asking
you the last question. On my root Rock, I bought
an Ortho sprayer from Amazon and and now realize that
it is intended for Ortho products. Suddenly it has a
dial with marketing and ounces and tablespoons, et cetera, and

(01:35:27):
an off setting. I called Ortho who told me that
most of their products use a three ounce setting. Can
I use that setting or should I use the off setting?

Speaker 6 (01:35:42):
What are you applying?

Speaker 9 (01:35:44):
Uh, the fertilom cheer Lady's iron?

Speaker 6 (01:35:49):
Oh Rock? Okay, yeah, I see now, which I follow
what you're talking about. Boy, that's a tough one. Those
those hose in sprayers and calibrating them can be a
little bit of a challenge. You got a couple of options.
One is you it's going to be a little complicated,
but you could put x ounces of water in that

(01:36:10):
thing and then turn on the water and spray until
the what's in the container is gone, and then you
know how long it takes to get that amount of
liquid out the end of the hose. So it's not
so important how much water goes through, it's how much
product mixes into the water and goes out. So when

(01:36:32):
you're using that fertile loan, it'll give you a rate.
It'll say you need to use so much of this
per gallon or so much per thousand square feet, or
it'll have rates like that, and then you can just
kind of do the math and do it. Other than that,
that's the best shot I can can give you on it.
You know, you can do pump up sprayers, but there
it's harder to put it out that way. I like

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that hose in Okay, calibrate it.

Speaker 9 (01:36:57):
I think quite value on there, and you tell me.

Speaker 16 (01:36:59):
That okay.

Speaker 6 (01:37:03):
Water, Okay, here here's it. So let's say you put
six six ounces of water in it and then you
turn it on and you just spray water with water
out there and let it run until it empties that
amount that the six ounces you put in. That tells
you how long it takes to put six ounces out, Okay,

(01:37:26):
and so then if you know it's going to take
a certain amount of time, then you put the put
your burloin product in there and go through spraying for
that amount of time. That's how long it's going to
take to put it out. And it just it's a
way of getting a close estimate. And I've got like
ten seconds and the music starts, I gotta go. But

(01:37:48):
that's the best I can give you. Why don't you
do this? Go ahead and email me and I'll try
to walk you through it in a little bit better
way with the email. And thank you again for the call.
Free to folks. I'll be right back when we come back.
Vernon Needville your first stop. Yes it do it do indeed, Hey,
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and now to Needville and talk to Vernon this morning.
Hey Vernon, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (01:39:35):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (01:39:36):
Hey.

Speaker 24 (01:39:36):
I sent you some pictures back in July of some
peach trees. I don't know if you've got them. I've
sent you new pictures today.

Speaker 6 (01:39:42):
Dead.

Speaker 11 (01:39:43):
Yeah, I just want to I just wanted.

Speaker 6 (01:39:45):
To show you.

Speaker 7 (01:39:46):
You told me.

Speaker 24 (01:39:47):
You told me to fertilize with some law and fertilizer
and then water. So when we're not getting rain for
once once a week, I put a small sprinkler out
there for about an hour and a half and I
just wanted to see the success.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
And wow, wait, can I get my wife on the
phone here just one second, Just one second, I get
to get here to hear this. That's funny. Hey Vernon,
thanks for those pictures. I appreciate that. I appreciate that
very much.

Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
Also, the little mesh bag.

Speaker 24 (01:40:19):
I've got four fig trees and those little mesh bags.

Speaker 16 (01:40:22):
I bought some bottle on.

Speaker 24 (01:40:23):
Amazon, and every time they start writing and I put
them on there and I haven't liked them to bugs
or birds yet, but I do lose them to my
son in law and grandkids.

Speaker 6 (01:40:33):
You know, they don't you need a steel mesh bag
with a lock on it. For those people, for the
two leg environments, the two leg enviarnments. You got to
take extra steps. Hey, Vernon, thanks for the call. Appreciate
that very much. You take care. That's good. Hey. Micro
Life fertilizers, there are so many options. Granular liquid you

(01:40:53):
name it. Just the other day I was using their
liquid AF when I was planning a plan. I was
wanting to stimulate provide some of the kinds of good
beneficial microbes that fight disease, and liquid AF does just that.
Micro Grow Bioinoculant is another one. Micro Grow Biinoculant has

(01:41:16):
sixty three different beneficial organism strains in it. It's a
granular you can put it out on anything at any time.
The stuff works. Microlife products are available in garden centers
and feed stores. Southwest Fertilizer of course has them, and
ACE hardware stores. You can find it very easy to
find Microlife products all over the Greater Houston area. The

(01:41:39):
six two four green bag lawn fertilizers are number one
selling organic fertilizer in Houston and right now if you
want to carry yourself from now until the fall fertilization
when we'll use their brown Patch fertilizer from Microlife sixty
two four. Apply it now in your lawn. It will
give it a late season boost. It'll keep it going.
And then by the time we get to my October

(01:42:01):
schedule application of the brown patch fertilizer from micro Microlife,
it'll be ready to go. And while you're at it,
throw on some of their humates plus a granular that
over time, as you use these products, they build the soil.
They make it better, they make it better aer rated,
they make it better for root growth, and they make
it better for microbial growth. It works. That's why they

(01:42:24):
call it micro Life. We're going to go now to
I believe, Damon, Texas and talk to Tim. Tim. Where
are you located.

Speaker 10 (01:42:35):
I'm out everybody the Bradsben State Park.

Speaker 6 (01:42:38):
Oh okay, good, how can we help question?

Speaker 10 (01:42:42):
I got a beautiful, big live oak in my backyard.
It's about forty eight to fifty two inch trunk on it.

Speaker 7 (01:42:50):
Lightning hit it too.

Speaker 10 (01:42:53):
It's got a big old streak road bark off food
off of all the way down to the ground from
the other trees here. In about two years a tree
is no longer there.

Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
It's be it lightning strikes. Yeah, there's not after that.
You know, Basically what happened is an incredibly high voltage
went through instantly, vaporized all the water in that bark
and trunk area and turned it into steam instantly and
blew off the bark. And so that's just physical damage

(01:43:26):
right there. And so a lot of time, if it
was a pine tree, I would say, you know, take
it down today is not gonna make it an oak tree.
It just depends on the extent of the strike and
the tree's health and everything like that. It may or
may not come back. My only suggestion, Tim would be
just to have Martin spoon Moore come out and take

(01:43:48):
a look at it, affordable tree, and they you know,
they've seen bazillion lightning strikes in their time, and they
can give it the best assessment of it, and he
kind of you know, feeding or particular care that may
may be helpful for it. They'll they'll tell you that
with a lightning strike like you described, I can't predict it,

(01:44:09):
you know, based on a phone call. And but.

Speaker 10 (01:44:15):
Yeah, most of them are you know, two years are
pretty much did I got. I'm full of trees out here,
but this is one of my favorite ones.

Speaker 6 (01:44:22):
You know, so, yeah, sure, sure, I understand. I do understand.
Well do you need it? Do you need a number?
Do you need a number for him?

Speaker 11 (01:44:34):
Or not?

Speaker 6 (01:44:35):
Okay, all right, you take care. It's an affordable tree service.

Speaker 10 (01:44:41):
I got you.

Speaker 6 (01:44:41):
Take care, alrighty. Let's see where are we here? Oh
my gosh, I'm flying.

Speaker 7 (01:44:48):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (01:44:48):
Have you been to the arbor Gate lately? You know
that one of my favorite places in the world to go.
It just is because it's fun. You know, we are
so fortunate here in the Greater he scenario to have
a nursery like the Arborgate. It's a destination garden center
and people do drive from all over creation to get
here for that because they've discovered it. You know, they

(01:45:12):
recognize just how amazing that place is. It doesn't matter
what kind of plants you're looking for vegetables and herbs.
If you're looking for the new desert rose, one of
the hottest new succulents on the market right now, they've
got those of course right there. If you are looking
for things that are color for summer or for fall,
if you're looking for bulbs, if you're looking for houseplants

(01:45:33):
and tropical types of foliage, it's the place to go
the arbor Gate and Tombul they're on twenty nine to
twenty west of town. When you're there, you need to
make sure and stop in and get the two three
different products that they have. One of them is a
fertilizer for anything with roots. It is an organic fertilizer

(01:45:55):
that works. Secondly, a soil that's a blend of quality
soil and expanded shale and in our heavy clay soils
that is so important. That's a perfect combo. And then
finally the compost from Arburgate which has expanded shale in
it as well. Those last two, the soil complete and

(01:46:17):
the compost complete can be sent anywhere you are in
a bulk delivery. You just have to call Arburgate and
have them do that and they'll be happy to do that.
They also have blueberries in by the way, and fall
is a perfect time to be blueberry planting. In fact,
you can plan them right now. Just keep them watered
as you get them established at the Arborgate arburgate dot

(01:46:38):
com that is the website. Go there, check them out,
see what they have. You will love it, and make
sure and sign up for the newsletter. Their newsletter is
outstanding and you do want to have that in your inbox.
All right, I'm gonna take a little quick break. We'll
be back for our last segment of the hour. Alrighty, hey,

(01:46:59):
welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us,
Good to have you with us. Listen, if you live
down south of Houston, I want to tell you about
your local feed store down there. This is Highway three,
just a few blocks south of the Highway ninety six
in League City. It's called League City Feed. Been around
for over forty years now, and it is that old
time feed store that you enjoy. I love going to

(01:47:22):
feed stores, the old traditional feed stores. They carry the
bags out for you. They got everything you need in there.
They're friendly. It's like your family. You walk in to visit,
you know, have a cup of coffee or whatever. I
mean that kind of setting. I remember doing that since
I was a little kid. I love it. So, League City,
Santa Fe, Claire, Lake City, Webster bakeleff lamarg oh Communa, Reale,

(01:47:43):
San Leon, Dickinson, all those communities. This is your hometown store,
League City Feed in League City. Again, it's on Highway three,
a few blocks south of ninety six. You're gonna find
all the fertilizers I talk about on garden Line. There.
You're going to find the products to control pests, to
control diseases, to prevent weeds or control existing weeds. They're

(01:48:03):
all there. Of course. They have feed they got pet
food that's high quality. They got horse supplies, they got
some products for your backyard chickens, you know, feeds, feeders, waters, bedding,
everything but the chickens. And they also sell local honey,
a nice, nice quality local honey that they carry there again.
League City Feed two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.

(01:48:25):
By the way, they're open Monday through Saturday nine to six,
closed on Sunday. So Monday through Saturday, you get through
after work, swing by there. They'll still be open while
you're on your way home. Let's go to Cyprus, Texas,
and we're going to talk to Jason. Now. Hey, Jason,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (01:48:41):
Paz skip.

Speaker 7 (01:48:42):
How you doing?

Speaker 25 (01:48:43):
First time caller, A long time list said, hey, thanks,
question for you. So I am having issues with grubs
now started about three weeks ago, started seeing a small,
you know, bround spots all over my yard. I got

(01:49:06):
basically Saint Augustine. Well, on Thursday, or actually about two
weeks ago, I put down some grub killer, starting to
see if more spots come up. So I actually went
in and cut my lawn a small section and pulled
out a few grubs continue about a five by five

(01:49:28):
square foot section.

Speaker 16 (01:49:29):
That is what I ended up cutting out. I pulled
out like thirty or forty grubs.

Speaker 6 (01:49:35):
Okay, okay, so you have any that's kind of on
the line there. Yeah, I don't know what grub killer
you used. This late in the season. The grubs are
moving down, have moved down pretty deep in the soil,
and a lot of the products that will kill insects
up the surface won't get down to them. There's one product,
it's called BioAdvance twenty four hour grub killer plus Ioadvent

(01:50:00):
for our grub color plus. That one will go down
in the ground. If you look at my schedule, it's
on my schedule. And if you do it, do it quick,
because by the time we get to September, we don't
need to be worrying about grub treatments anymore. But if
you feel like you got a population, use that one.
Follow the label and watered in really good and it'll
get down there. Those grubs are going to be several

(01:50:21):
inches down below the surface also, and so that's why
it's hard to reach them with most things. That'd be
my best advice for you, Jason.

Speaker 25 (01:50:29):
All right, yeah, and the ones I pulled out were
sitting right underneath the root system, so yeah, okay, all.

Speaker 6 (01:50:37):
Right, well all right, it'll work on those too, but
you may get other products working if they are that's shallow.
That's awfully shallow for grubs to be at this point
in the season. But anyway, that would be my suggestion.
I do appreciate thanks a lot. I appreciate that call.
I was talking earlier about Jorges Hidden Gardens down in Alvin, Texas.

(01:50:57):
It's on Elizabeth Street and Alvin, Texas. So all of
you down in places like Santa Fe Hillcrest, Alvin, Algoa,
let's see where oh Alta Loma and Arcadia as well.
This is your hometown garden center down there, and you
need to go check them out. Jees always got a
good selection of fruit trees. He's got shrubs and trees,

(01:51:18):
specializes in some really nice trees, beautiful trees. And then seasonally,
do you need color plants. Do you need vegetables? Do
you need herbs? Orges? Got you covered? He carries that
three sixty tree stabilizer, and you need to not buy
a tree without getting one of those to help stabilize
that tree in the proper way that allows it to
move and develop good trunk strength. He also carries a

(01:51:40):
special line of Hoorges fertilizer made by the folks at
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three two fifty two ninety Hoorges Hidden Gardens. I was
enjoying birds out of my place this last week. I

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love I've become a bird person. I used to not be.
I used to think to be a bird person you
had to wear a safari hat and khaki shorts and
walk around with binoculars. Well, you can do all that,
that's fine, that's not me. But I sit out there
and just watch and listen birds, the colors, the antics,

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watching them at the feeder, and most importantly, listening to
their songs. I love it. I love it. You will too.
And if you want birds to be happy and come
to your place, get your quality feed from wild Birds Unlimited.
They have a number of feeds. They have the Nesting
super Blend that we were using in spring and even
into summer. Nesting super Blend, super quality product. They've got

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the Cardinal Confetti. That's another one came out fair Day recently,
but that many many other blends. You know, you may
want to bring in, chickadees er, you may want to
bring in. I don't know what attracts you. You know,
the little nut they call them net thatch or whatever.
I can't even name all the birds yet, but cardinals

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and everything else. They got the feed for it. You
walk into a wild bird store and they know more
about birds than I do. In fact, I would say
this your wild Bird's Unlimited store, owner, manager, staff, they
know more about birds and birds do. They do, test them,
they'll prove it to you. There's a store in Kingwood
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on El Dorado Boulevard in pair Land, on East Broadway
in Houston on Mabela Air. And there's another one on
Memorial Drive. To them in Houston. Up in Cypress, I'm
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The hummingbirds already arriving we've been seeing them here. They
have the high perch hummingbird feeder. It's my favorite feeder.

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I got several hummingbird feeders over the years. High perch
hummingbird feeder from Wildbirds Unlimited is the one that I
think you'll want to get because you can see them
all the way around if they can't hide on the
other side of the speeder. And then get you a
quality blend of the nectar that you know you put
in the feeder, or they'll tell you recipe where you
make it with your own sugar. But you got to

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get their nectar defender. It's a little tiny bottle. You
put just a little bit in the nectar and it
keeps it from going bad. Doesn't hurt the birds or anything.
It's just fine, but it keeps it from going bad
because in our heat, how long do you think it
takes sugar water to go bad. You need to refill
those feeders regularly so you don't have nasty stuff out
there for those hummingbirds. But the nectar defender will carry

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it out for seven to ten days. It'll be all
right even in the heat. All right. Wild Birds Unlimited
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for certainly for the Christmas and holidays and things. We're
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They carry the little gadget that you use to make
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spreaders that you carry along for your fireant bait. And
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they've got some excellent baits and mound treatments and whatnot.
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Mutton Redwick. Well the one another hour, I got one
left to me today, or at least it's how long
they'll let me talk here on KTRH. We'll go all
the way to ten o'clock. I hope you will hang

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around to give me a call. Here's a phone number
if you want to be first out and come back
out of break seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. All right, folks, get you some coffee.
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:57:09):
Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard.

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
Trip.

Speaker 4 (01:57:21):
You just watch him as many Peace to supers.

Speaker 6 (01:57:36):
I'm back.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
I'm not sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:57:42):
Let's do this s Welcome back to the guard Line, folks.
Good to have you with us? Hey, do you have
a gardening question? Well, I happen to have some open lines.
How about that?

Speaker 11 (01:57:57):
Then?

Speaker 6 (01:57:57):
Pretty busy day, but one of got them all cleared out.
I gotta do is give me a call. Seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four All right here, Well,
let's see I was I was actually went outside to

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check on something here, came back in. Uh. I wanted
to talk a little bit about this takeof route right
that we've been discussing today, and then I've talked about
quite a bit.

Speaker 10 (01:58:29):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:58:29):
This is the disease unlike most of our lawn diseases
in that it kills the grass brown patch, large patch,
makes big circles, but the runners stay green, so they
just send out new leaves. When the spring warms things up.
Here comes and those circles go away because the grass
didn't die, just lost its leaves. Gray leaf spot, great

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spots all over the grass causes the blades to shrivel up,
and it looks horrible. It doesn't kill the grass. Take
our root rod kills the roots, and it's named well
take all root rod. That's how it works. That's what
it does, and that's why we want to avoid stress
to the lawn. When you compact the soil, when you

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don't water adequately, it goes under drought stress when you
mis use broad leaf herbicides in the heat of summer.
Remember how always I'm talking about those broad leaf products.
They weren't good in spring and fall. They don't hurt
the grass when it's cooler, but you get above ninety
you start to see stress on the grass and take
all has its opportunity. Maybe the issue is compaction, maybe

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it's a lack of water, Maybe it's some of the
things that I mentioned. Any kind of thing that stresses
the grass opens the door for it and then we
deal with the disease. But a lot of times people
think that disease control is about spraying and killing the disease.
And that is a part or it can be a
part of it. But the number one thing you do

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for disease control is don't get the plant sick. If
you have a rose bush and you don't want to
see powdery, mildew and black spots so bad, then don't
sprinkle water them every day with the spray head. Don't
plant your roses so close together that you can't get
good air circulation. Don't choose a rose that is so

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prone to it that it's very likely to get sick.
And there's a huge difference. I mean, knockout roses. Everybody
knows those. They are everywhere, probably overplanted about this point
because everybody's got one. There's still a good rose, but
it doesn't it is very resistant to those diseases. Okay,
it's the patient. You got to keep the patient strong

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and it'll stay healthy. That's the bottom line. Avoid those stresses.
All right. Let's head out now to Richmond, Texas, and
we're going to talk to Paula this morning. Hello Paula,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
Hi, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 6 (02:01:03):
You bet.

Speaker 3 (02:01:06):
Okay, So how can I help what I have? I
have a Texas stage shrub that I planted about four
years ago and it's more than doubled in size, at
least five feet pall, maybe a little more. This year
this summer it started developing some white fuzzy stuff and

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then some black fuzzy stuff and kind of took over
the top one third, i'd say, of the whole shrub.
I've tried spraying, you know, pose forceful that kind of thing.
And then I tried kneem oil and it has not
affected the planet at all. And I wondered if I

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should cut back that whole one third top of the
shrub to get rid of it.

Speaker 6 (02:01:58):
Well, that won't get rid of it. I mean, it'll
get rid of what's there right there, But I don't
it's not probably a good long term solution. What I
would like to see, I can give you my best
shot on the air here just with a phone call
me not seeing it, or you could send me some pictures.
Let me take a look at them and make sure

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I know what we're dealing with there, that would be
that would be probably the best bet. But I'm ninety
percent sure what you're seeing is meae bugs. There are
white flies can also attack Texas stage, but it's the
white is one of those. The black that you're seeing

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is city mold growing on the sugary substances that white
flies and meaibugs give out. All right, so that is
my best shot. I'm about ninety percent sure I'm right
on this one, but a photo I could be one
hundred percent for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
Okay, Well, just since I have you on the line,
what would you do.

Speaker 6 (02:03:05):
Well, if it is bugs, yeah, it's indeed mealy bugs,
then I would suggest that you put a systemic into
the soil to go up in the plant, and anything
sucking juices out of your plant gets killed because the
plumbing has the substance that you drenched on the soil
in it. You just want to not have blooms and

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bees at the time you're doing that, and so that
that's the only negative is bees can be They're not
killed out right by that, but they can be affected
and disoriented in things from it. But that would be
the simplest you could. You know, horticultural oils are also effective,
but with mealy bugs you just can't get really one

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hundred percent control or anything close to that with horticultural oils. Plus,
if you have a silvery Texas sage, it affects that
nice silver color and it gets kind of a muddy
green color when you oil spray it would I would
probably go the systemic route. There are a number of
products out there that'll do that. If you go to
a good quality garden center. You're out there in Richmond.

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If you were to head up to let's say, enchanted
gardens just north of Richmond Rosenberg. They're going to have
a product that's systemic that you could use there. You've
got some ACE stores like Plantation Ace there in the
Richmond area. They're going to also have a systemic insecticide

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that you could use. So you got a number of options.
You live in a great place for good advice and
good products.

Speaker 3 (02:04:38):
Yeah, I'm familiar with Enchanted for sure. I'd like to
maybe go there because they Okay, there you go, Okay,
thank you, all right.

Speaker 6 (02:04:51):
Paula, thank you, appreciate the call. You take care. Let's
go now to Blake and Spring. Hey, Blake, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:05:00):
Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 16 (02:05:01):
Good morning.

Speaker 26 (02:05:02):
I'm I live in a neighborhood and have Bermuda lawns
on you know, very compacted, dense soil. It's not very
level and I was wanting to top dress it. Wondering
whether I should top dress it with like a screened
vaults or sand, And what's the best time of year
to do that.

Speaker 6 (02:05:24):
You can do either one. On golf course greens and
places like that, they use sand as a top dressing
just because they're trying to level it out. That's the
main goal. You don't want a golf course about golf
ball bouncing along trying to go across the green. You
want it perfectly nice and smooth. Uh. Top dressing with
compost is a great way to do lawns of any type,
and you just kind of sprinkle it out about typically

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a third of an inch is enough to put down
a fine quality. Now, if you're if you're Bermuda, were
a very tight golf course green type compost or excuse me,
tight texture and height, you wouldn't get compost top dressing
down through it. Sandal filter down in there, but compost
top dressing won't. If it's a typical you know, like

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a sports field Bermuda, golf course, fair way Bermuda. Then
the compost top dressing with a fine textured compost, who
would be just fine?

Speaker 26 (02:06:17):
Heay recommendation on the north side on where I should
source it.

Speaker 6 (02:06:22):
You are in a spring, I would probably with where
you're located. I would talk to the folks at Nature's
Way Resources. They are just up forty five and they
would be close by. You can go get it yourself
you want, if you have a truck or trailer, or
you can have them deliver a bulk down there to
you if you want to go that route.

Speaker 16 (02:06:43):
Awesome, thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (02:06:45):
All right, So in their website, by the way is
Nature's Way Resources dot com. You can just go there
and get the phone numbers in the location and talk
to them. Okay, I APPRECIANK, you appreciate it. Thanks, yes, sir,
you take care you bet. I was talking the other
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seven oh fifty six T two eight one three seven
h five zero six zero. Time for me to take
a quick break and we'll be back and head out
to Fullsher to talk to Christy and to Toumball to
talk to John. All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back
to guard Line. Good to have you with us. Hey,

(02:08:19):
have you been doing Chandy Gardens? I was just talking
about them a minute ago with somebody. They were saying
how much they liked going out there, and it is
a great source for all kinds of things. If you
are looking to just have an amazing landscape, a beautiful garden,
a bountiful garden, well you need to swing by in
Chanty Gardens Adam Richmond Rosenberg. They're on the Katie Fullscher

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side of town. You head up to FM three fifty
nine that's where they're located. And here's the website. Great website,
Very important that you visit it, sign up for things,
find out about what's going on. They always have good
programs coming up and going on out at Enchanted Gardens.
You know, for example, if you're looking for plants to

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bring in hummingbirds or butterflies, or birds in general, or
beneficial insects, bees and other things. This is the place
that they stay stocked. They stay stocked up and ready
to go. You're gonna find beautiful yard art there. You're
gonna find products to build your soil. They understand the
brown stuff before green stuff concept. That enchanted gardens in

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Richmond unmatched selection, knowledgeable folks. It is so nice to
be able to go to a garden center and have
people walk out and when you ask them a question,
they give you an accurate, concise answer. It's nice to
go someplace and have people not just go yeah, over there,
there's probably some of those on the other side. I

(02:09:46):
don't know if they're still there or not. They walk
you over there, they take you to it, they help you.
You know, you may see a beautiful container and you go,
I'd like to build one of those, and they'll they'll
help you find the container, tay how to put together,
get to the right plants that you need, and you
can take it home and do it yourself, or you
can buy one that they've already built. Maria does amazing
work there. Amazing work just so nice to be able

(02:10:09):
to visit a spot like that. Take your friends with
you when you go to enchanted gardens out in the
Richmond Rosenberg area. We're going to have now out to
Fullscher and talk to Christy. Christy. Hello, Christy, how are you?

Speaker 27 (02:10:24):
I'm wonderful, Thank you, thank you for taking my call.
I have a question I have. I have three bald
cypress trees planted in a cluster, and there are six
seven years old. Now they're quite tall. They started as sticks,
but they're quite tall now. Two of the three are
doing very very well and they're lush and green, but

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one is sort of a lime green turning yellow. I
have had an arbor's come out and look at it.
He had never seen that before, didn't have a clue
what it was, and just suggested that we trim it
up in Fibruary. So what are your thoughts on that.

Speaker 6 (02:11:04):
That's a good question. There is genetic variation in these cypress.
Most of the cypress are going to be seed planted,
so just like children and a family, there are no
two exactly alike, and it could be a natural thing
that that's happening. It's just a genetic difference. I would

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get to the base of the tree and gets you
a strong blast of water from a gun. You're gonna
make a mess when you do this, but blast the
water away and go down if you can get down
about four inches or so, and look to see if
any root or any other thing is strangling the trunk.
Sometimes a nursery tag will slip down and get covered

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up by soil so the sun doesn't break down the plastic,
and it just as the trunk gets bigger, it literally
just like an anaconda wrapped around it, you know, strangles
it to death. When that starts happening, it affects the
flow of water and nutrients up and down, and the
carbohydrates up and down through this trunk, and you'll start

(02:12:07):
to see weird things like you're describing as a possibility.
So I would check for that. It's a little bit
of a long shot, but that's one where if you
catch it now and you cut that thing loose, whether
it's wire or if it's a wrapping roots, you're going
to have to cut the root, and it won't be
easy to do, but you can. You can cut it
and try to get it out of there and save

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that tree. If it's not something strangling the base, then
I think we're looking at a genetic difference because they're
all growing in the same soil.

Speaker 14 (02:12:36):
Right, correct, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:12:40):
That's that's probably the case. That that's my best shot
at it, you know, just hearing the question and not
being there to see and dig and everything else.

Speaker 27 (02:12:50):
Okay, wonderful, Well, I appreciate you're health.

Speaker 17 (02:12:53):
You wonderful morning.

Speaker 6 (02:12:54):
Thank you, sir, you too, Christy, thanks a lot. Appreciate
that call very much. Affordable Tree Service, you know we're
talking about them earlier. I was suggesting that someone have
them come out and take a look. It was Tim
and that live oak and the lightning strike. Martin Spoonmore's company,
Affordable Tree Service. They've been doing this for a very

(02:13:15):
long time, in the business for over fifty four years now,
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talk to family, somebody, maybe Martin's mom and maybe somebody
else entering the phone. But seven one three six nine
nine two six sixty three, that's who you call. You

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can go to the website, it's a fftree Service dot com.
There you're going to find out about the different services
that they offer. You know, things like pruning and deep
root feeding and pest and disease control and stump grinding,
and one of the most important things they offer is
consultation and pre construction care. If you're going to build

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anything around a tree, do not let anybody trench or
cut or do anything bring in any equipment until Martin's
company has come out there and they've given you advice,
they've done the things necessary to protect that tree and
avoid the damage. It is so hard to recover from
after the fact. Affordable Tree Service seven one three sixty

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you need to call them today and get on the schedule.
Get them out there asap, because they can do a
lot to take a tree and make it more resilient
when those storm winds blast through. Don't take a chance

(02:14:39):
on losing or ruining a tree, or God forbid, destroying
property or threatening human beings walking around that tree. Martin
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Seven one three, six nine nine two six sixty three.
We're going to go now to Tombault and talk to John. Hey, John,
welcome to garden Line morning.

Speaker 11 (02:15:00):
Skip.

Speaker 6 (02:15:01):
I have a yes, a question.

Speaker 11 (02:15:04):
I need the perfect answer here, Skip. How do you prevent.

Speaker 6 (02:15:07):
The perfect answer? Okay, I'll do my best.

Speaker 11 (02:15:11):
How to prevent yellowing on bermuda? When the dog goes
number one on it?

Speaker 6 (02:15:18):
Oh my gosh, I've got that. Told you, I've got
two golden I've got two golden retrievers, and they go
where they want to go. That's just the way it is.
If you were there in the moment, you could take
your water hose out there and spray that area down
and wash all that salty mess off, the urea and
everything off there. Uh, you could avoid it that way.

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Usually by the time we see it, the damage has
been done and it's just going to have to kind
of recover. You said, bermuda. Is that the grass? You said, yep, yes, Yeah,
Well fortunately bermuda is so dead gum resilient. It's probably
the best one to have of that. But uh, anyway, uh, yeah,
I don't I don't know a solution. You might talk

(02:16:01):
to your vet. Someone told me one time there may
be something you can put in I don't know. As
I'm saying this, I have no level of confidence to
put in their food or something like that. But that
may have been for a different a different kind of issue. Well,
actually there is one issue that I don't even want

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to talk about on the air, but sometimes when they
go to the bathroom, they like to revisit that spot
if you haven't been eating them enough, if you know
what I'm saying. And there's things you can put in
the food to help cut down on stuff like that.
But I don't know, I've got the problem. It's just
the dog. Other than fencing them off that area or
walking them out, I've got a side area where i'd
rather they go because it's a mulched orchard area. Sometimes

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I'll walk them out there, straight out the door and
they'll do their business there. But those aren't great answers.

Speaker 11 (02:16:51):
That's not the perfect answer, skit, But I appreciate it.
I knew where you were going, so thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (02:16:57):
Yeah, well, the perfect answer is, uh, move, get rid
of the dog, destroy your lawn, and put gravel everywhere.
Those aren't good answers either, are they. Thanks a lot.
I understand your pain. Thanks a lot, John, appreciate that call. Yeah,

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that is an issue for sure. Hey, Ciena Maltz down
south of town. That Cienamulch is the place cienamltch dot com.
Everything you need to create the perfect soil, from fertilizers
to composts to soil blends, do you name it. They've
got you covered at Ciena Maltch. Go to the website,
find out where they are, find out the phone number
Sienna Multch dot com. Main thing is just do it.

(02:17:43):
Fall planting season is almost here. You gotta go there
to create the foundation you want. Hey, welcome to Guardline folks.
Good to have you with us. You got a question
we can help with. There's a phone number I got
thirty months left today say three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven to one three two one two

(02:18:06):
fifty eight seventy four. Give us a call. We will
be happy to help you have success in whatever you
are trying to do. I uh have been like I said,
I'm gonna be working on irrigation stuff that I've got
going on today. I also need to replenish my mulch
and I need I need to mention that to you.

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You know, sometimes we think well, I'm ultural good in
the spring and so ought to be good to go.
But if you're starting to see weeds coming up, that
means sunlight is hitting the soil. That's how it works.
Wherever sunlight hits a soil, nature plants a weed. So
keeping that mulch dense helps.

Speaker 11 (02:18:45):
Now.

Speaker 6 (02:18:45):
I like chunky mulches. I just think that looks good, uh,
But I also like finer textured ones. And when you're
dealing with an issue where you got it mulched, but
you're getting some weeds in, it's probably because those big
old chunks of malts, you know, they kind of hold
each other, they separate each other, and the sunlight can
shine between them and hit the soil. And that's why.

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So if you're using a fine textured mulch, not so thick.
If you're using a coarser textured malt, you may need
three or four inches on top to fully block the soil.
But the main thing is keep it out there because
it's so much easier. And let me tell you another
thing mulching does over time, It builds the soil. Think

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about a forest, a forest floor. You go out in
a forest floor and you dig down and it is
just like potting soil right there. I mean's wonderful stuff.
Where did that come from? That came from mults? Because
leaves fell on the ground and decomposed, and a log
fell over and fell apart and rotted and melted away
into the soil. And then more leaves are falling down

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and nature is building soil from the top down by
decomposing mult on the surface. So if you have old malts,
don't take it. I've had this call so many times.
Should I rake out the olmutch to put in multch,
to put in fresh maults? No, nature doesn't do that.
Who rakes the forest? Drop the new mulch on top
of the old? Then you got that. If you like
the pretty look of new maltch, then you got that.

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But that old stuff is down there at the surface decomposing,
turning into organic matter, making microbes really happy and making
your plants happy. So don't pull out old mulch, put
on top of the new maltch and let it decompose away.
And I need to get out and do I've got
a bed where that I'm starting to see a weed
or two here and there. It's like, okay, I know

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what's going on time for me to put some fresh
new multch out there. Let's now head out to Brazoria
County and we're going to talk to Gordon this morning.
Hello Garden, Gordon, welcome to garden.

Speaker 8 (02:20:46):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 7 (02:20:47):
How you doing this morning?

Speaker 6 (02:20:49):
I'm good, sir. How can we help today?

Speaker 8 (02:20:52):
Okay?

Speaker 28 (02:20:53):
What it is?

Speaker 11 (02:20:53):
I got a weird question for you.

Speaker 28 (02:20:54):
At my parents' house, they had to fit My dad
had a fist in you already had his little flower
bed and gordons and stuff in there. And he was
late in his late nineties and he passed away and everything.
And I got the house and from where the garden was,
there was old pecan tree that was about eighty foot away.
Where the pecan tree died.

Speaker 8 (02:21:12):
Well, you know, nothing's been.

Speaker 28 (02:21:13):
Done to the propert or anything for years, But all
of a sudden, I've got pecan trees that have come
up in his gorden. They're about four foot tall. And
my question is are they worth saving? Were they if
I transplant them?

Speaker 16 (02:21:25):
Were they uh you know.

Speaker 11 (02:21:27):
Grow and produce produce pecans.

Speaker 16 (02:21:29):
Or they had to be grafted?

Speaker 6 (02:21:32):
No, they'll produce pecans for your kids and your grandkids.

Speaker 1 (02:21:36):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (02:21:36):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 6 (02:21:37):
There basically, a seedling, a seedling pecan is the and
this is the thing thing most people don't know. It's
true of oaks and pecans and other trees. When they
when they sprout from an acorner, a pecan, or whatever
kind of tree it is, they're in a juvenile state.
They are incapable of blooming, setting fruit and so on
the same strew of the peach peach seed. Uh. But uh,

(02:22:00):
as they grow over time, at some point on the tree,
it turns into mature wood and now, like a human being,
it is capable of reproducing at a certain age. Right,
and until that hits you cannot get pecans from it.
And for the pecan, depending on the soil and the
growing season and the genetics of the seed and everything,

(02:22:21):
it's going to happen probably twelve fifteen years down the line.
It can vary from that, it can vary, but it's
going to take a while before it hits that stall. Yeah,
then it can begin to be now the other go ahead.

Speaker 15 (02:22:36):
Oh wait, no, I'm listening to your.

Speaker 6 (02:22:39):
Well, I I was just going to say that. The
next question is is it a pecan you want? Because
a good quality pecan that you choose for this area
is going to have a lot of disease resistance as
opposed to being very susceptible. Susceptible pecans have to be
grown in West Texas where it doesn't rain very much
and the diseases aren't so bad, and so you don't

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know that your seedling is going to be a good one.
You don't know that the pecan nut size and the
kernel fill ability is some pecans they don't fill the
kernels very well, and you know you have the shriveled
half kernel inside the shell. And there are a lot
of things. It takes decades of breeding and selection to
come up with what they would release as here's a

(02:23:21):
good pecan for this area, and so your chances of
getting it from a seed aren't real high. Okay, if
you want to do it, Okay, that's where all the
native pecans along the rivers of Texas have come from.
But if you I want a pecan, I want nuts soon,
and I want them to be top quality and diseases
Listen't you need to go out and buy a variety

(02:23:41):
for that?

Speaker 8 (02:23:43):
Okay you answered the question.

Speaker 28 (02:23:45):
I mean, I know I won't be around for sea,
but like you said, for the grandkids and stuff one
day or somebody, and I thought it'd be neat to
have one for another one. But there's no sense in
a wasting time not getting a good quality of one.

Speaker 7 (02:23:57):
So you answered my question.

Speaker 6 (02:23:58):
No, well man, But I will tell you this. If
you plant a pecan seed, you can get some great
barbecue wood. You can get a spot for the gards
to put the greenhouse or the treehouse. You can get
a good spot for a rope swing. They'll grow fast
and they'll be happy. But if you want the nuts,
then i'd go the other route. Hey, thanks Gordon, appreciate
that car. You bet take care. That is the case

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important to know. People love to plant seeds from things
you know they love to. For example, eat a peach
and then go plant that peach seed. That's cool. Or
maybe they eat an avocado and they're going to plant
that avocado seed. Now I could take it species by
species as to why you wouldn't do that, but I
understand why people want to do it, And who knows,

(02:24:45):
maybe you get lucky and whatever it turns out to be,
you can give it your name, or name it after
your daughter, or whatever you want to do. And now
you've got the Maryanne peach that you developed at your house.
It may not be you know, our kids all perfect,
but it may not be the perfect peach. But anyway

(02:25:07):
you can do that. But I'm telling you there's a
reason there for sailing garden centers. Hey, if you want
success with your plants, you need to know about Medina products.
There are a lot of Medina products out there. They're good.
You can go to the old Medina Soil Activator, been
so popular for so many years. Still good one, still
good one to use. You can take it up a

(02:25:29):
step to Medina Plus. Medina Plus is Medinasol Activator plus
forty different trace elements, natural growth hormones, also from seaweed
extract and on and on, vitamins and all kinds of
things that they have in there. Medinasoil Activator will improve
the situation. It's gonna make the microbes very happy. It's

(02:25:49):
going to improve blooming and leaf growth because it's going
to improve the soil and improve the condition that the
roots are thriving in and plants live in their roots.
Medinavators just want of many products. They've got the humate
humic acid. It's like concentrated compost in a bottle improves
moisture retention, it enhances the nutrient release, and the soil

(02:26:11):
provides some micro and macronutrients as well. And basically, again
it's just doing what nature does, but in a faster way.
The liquid humate humic acid, and then there's has to
grow six twelve six. I've been using that. Use im
just the other day on some plants. A six twelve
six plant food called has to grow. It's got Medina

(02:26:32):
soil activator and humic acid in it as well as
seaweed actract. See what I'm talking about. Medina products. They
work and you can find them anywhere. Feed stores, garden centers,
ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer, go around town. You're gonna
find Medina without any problems. Let's go out now to
Shepherd and let's see here. I tell you what, Mike,
I'm gonna hold. I don't have enough time to take

(02:26:53):
your call this moment. We will go to a quick
break and we'll come back and take your call. All right,
we're back, folks. We're gonna jump right in it.

Speaker 2 (02:27:02):
Here.

Speaker 6 (02:27:02):
We're running out a show and we got a couple
of calls to get to. So here we go we're
gonna hit the ground running. By the way, first, I
wanted to tell you that the Ace Hardware store up
on Spring Cypress Road is having their grand reopening today,
So it's ten percent off everything, uh and fifteen percent
off steal products. By the way, the grand reopening started
yesterday and it'll still be going tomorrow August twenty two

(02:27:25):
through twenty four. Ace Hardware, Spring Cypress Road, Spring Texas promotions, demos, giveaways, rifles,
food vendors. It's gonna be fun. You need to get
out there and enjoy it and take advantage of that
fifteen percent off still products. Especially, man, that is a
really good deal. You know what, Ace, You're gonna find
everything you need for barbecuing. They got the pips, they
got the propane, they got everything you need to go

(02:27:46):
with it to make sure your barbecue is successful. And
they carry the name brands to high quality brands of
Pellet grills and the big Green Egg grills and the
Weber grills and all the other things that you need
when you do barbeque. They got the supplies that you
need everything to have beauty in your lawn and garden
and landscape. For example, I've been telling people that now

(02:28:08):
is a good time to put out sweet green. That's
a Nitrofoss product. Well, ACE Hardware stores carry Nitrovos products,
and sweet green is a natural product. You put it down,
it smells wonderful, by the way. That that's why it
has its name. It's a molasses base too. You put
it down and watered it down, and you'd be surprised
how fast that loan will green up and look good,

(02:28:29):
and it will carry you all the way until it's
time to put our fall fertilizations on in October. So
sweet Green from Nitrofos available at many ACE Hardware stores,
for example. They're all over the place. You can go
to ACE Hardware Texas dot com and find the ones
closest to you. We're going to go now to Shepherd,
Texas if I can find the button and talk to Mike.

(02:28:52):
Hey Mike, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 29 (02:28:54):
HEYK I'm glad y'all doing pretty good today. I've got
a question about mail tree that I've got. It's about
twenty five plus years old, and I've been off the
home suntil for a few years and just got back
a season ago. I made May house this year. But
I've got a bunch of gray looking limbs. How far
should I put this back and win?

Speaker 6 (02:29:15):
I would wait until winter the mayhaws. You could do
some printing now, Mike, But we're so late that after
you prune, they're going to try to regrow and they're
not going to have time to set blooms and buds
until next year, next year, and so it's just getting
too late. If you can get your printing done by

(02:29:37):
by the first of August at the latest, to be
better to do it, and by July, that would be
better as you're looking at next year, but the prime
printing time should be in the winter for you. Just
print it back and get your printing done. You're gonna
have a limited season. If you wanted to wait, you know,
and let it have its little fruit crop and then
prune it, you could do that, but I think it's

(02:29:58):
better just to get that thing in shape. But those
are your time.

Speaker 16 (02:30:01):
How much in the winter, Yeah, how much water do
they like?

Speaker 6 (02:30:07):
They like a lot, But it's not that they need
a lot of water at one time. It's that they
need to not be dry. Mayhouse can grow in a
swamp just about, and so they're very toll.

Speaker 16 (02:30:18):
That's good because you're not going to.

Speaker 11 (02:30:22):
Mother mother.

Speaker 29 (02:30:22):
And I planted him in there in the low spot
that where water runs whenever it does rain.

Speaker 6 (02:30:28):
You'll have a very happy They do cross pollinate. You
need some other mayhaws around when you do that, and
if if you can, you can get some other type.
You can even buy varieties. There's one called big Red
out there in the market. They're not a super easy
to find tree in the nursery trade, but they're available, especially.

Speaker 16 (02:30:46):
When you squirrels off of it.

Speaker 29 (02:30:48):
Because I had one hit the ground this year that
I've seen and it was just and had pull of
may house.

Speaker 6 (02:30:55):
I can't tell you how I would do it. I
can't tell you how I would do it on the air,
but I can tell you that I have this dumpling
squirrel dumpling recipe. If you want to borrow it.

Speaker 29 (02:31:04):
There's leave you my numb And I got a grapevine
outfact I put I put in the ground season before
last and it seems to be growing okay. But when
can I expect fruit on it? And what kind of
fertilizer would you recommend?

Speaker 6 (02:31:19):
So it's been in the ground two years, by the
third year you may get a little bit of grapes,
depending on how happy it is, how much sunlight it's getting,
the growing conditions. I would fertilize it with a fertilizer
for fruit trees and vines and bushes. There's a number
of good blends out there. I don't know what out
in Shepherd, Texas. You know it's for sale way out

(02:31:39):
that far in a pinch. If you don't know, just
put a little lawn, put a little lown fertilizer on it.
Do it a little at a time. Gradually it would
be wonderful for it. But you could spray out on
the foliage as well too. But fish and Motion isn't
a super high nutrient. It's got a lot of good
things in it, but it's not high in nitrogen, phosphorus,

(02:32:00):
potassium in those things. If you want that, well, actually
it is. It is pretty good. No, I'm sorry, I
was thinking seaweed. Sorry, Mike, I was.

Speaker 16 (02:32:08):
That's what I said.

Speaker 6 (02:32:09):
Is not right. Fish and motion does have nitrogen and
phosphors and potassium in and yes, you could use that.
You can use manures, you can use if you have
microlife sold up in your area. That's an excellent product
to use.

Speaker 16 (02:32:22):
Around what December January would be good to prune.

Speaker 29 (02:32:24):
Prune the mayhow and uh and.

Speaker 6 (02:32:27):
Uh, I would wait till. I'd wait till January. Yeah,
I would wait till January. May haul.

Speaker 16 (02:32:35):
About four foot tall.

Speaker 7 (02:32:36):
How much water do they like? The great?

Speaker 6 (02:32:39):
Okay, I might have to give you a quick answer
because I got someone waiting and I'm a mourst out
of time.

Speaker 7 (02:32:43):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:32:44):
Just enough to keep the soil moderately moist, water as needed,
no rain, full sun draining. How well the soil drains.
You just reach down about four or five inches and
the soil, feel the soil. If it's not, if it's
not moist to the touch, it's time to water. Thanks
my good luck with that. I appreciate it. We're going
to run now to Barbara and conro. Hey, Barbara, welcome

(02:33:04):
to the garden line.

Speaker 17 (02:33:05):
How can we skip.

Speaker 13 (02:33:07):
Back?

Speaker 16 (02:33:08):
In July?

Speaker 18 (02:33:08):
We good morning, We went and had our backyard dug up,
and we put nature's away compost, chilled it all in
the ground, and waited.

Speaker 30 (02:33:19):
About three weeks. That's how they told us till the
so it would take effect and work its miracles. Then
about three weeks ago we laid saw down and it's
We've laid it down and rowed it and all that,
and it was and it's been beautiful, but these rains
have started turning it brown.

Speaker 6 (02:33:42):
Okay, you're probably dealing with either either a type of
a fungus called rhizoctonia, which is not going to kill
the grass, it will brown the leaves, or you may
have some gray leaf spot, which when we're planting grass,
we water water water to keep it wet. We should,
but that also makes diseases very happy. So I would

(02:34:03):
I would back off. It's been it's been three weeks
now since you laid it, so it's time to back
off the water.

Speaker 30 (02:34:10):
Well, back off the water because of the rain.

Speaker 6 (02:34:15):
Yeah, well, back back off the water now, and let's
hold off on it. I would get a fungicide treatment.
If you go to my schedule online at gardening with
Skip dot com, you'll find out which fungicides I recommend
on there. Any of the ones out of my list
there will do just fine for it. I would go
ahead and treat it now, and i'd treat it again
at the beginning of October. Uh, and I think it's

(02:34:37):
going to be Okay. I'm sorry, Barbara, I just absolutely
have run out of time here, but I hope that helps.
And if you have any questions, send me in call
my producer, get it. I'm gonna put you on hold.
He'll give you an email. Send me some pictures of
it up close. I'll be glad to take a look.
Maybe I'll see something that I'm not picturing in my
mind's eye right now. So i'd go ahead and send

(02:34:58):
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Won't you do the same. Let's start gardening again. It's
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