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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Shoes crazy trip.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Just watch him as well. So many go things to supposing.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
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Speaker 5 (00:47):
Good morning, start, Good morning, and welcome to garden Line.
We are glad you are listening today. Hey, I'm Skip Rictor,
I'm your host, and what we're here for is to
help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
and more fun in the process. And we try to
do that. As I like to say, we put we
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turn brown thumbs green. There's no such thing as a
brown thumb anyway, there's just uninformed thumbs. And so get
your thumb. Can if I get both of them, pull
up to the radio and let's talk about it. Let's
talk about things going on in your lawn, things in
your trees, vegetable gardens, whatever kinds of questions you want
to ask. We would be happy to visit about all
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of that. I am sending out the I don't know
if it's the last call, but you better hurry up.
Call for taking care of your lawn, for fall. There's
three issues we deal with in the lawns and the fall.
Number one is getting the nutrients down that they need,
and that would be lots of potassium, a little bit
of nitrogen especially, and making sure that they have the
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nutrients to produce the carbohydrates that make cold heartiness and
come out stronger in the spring. You know, the fall
application of fertilizer is the most one of the year
because with the nutrient blend in our fall fertilization some
people call them winter risers. Do that if you want.
With the nutrient blend in those the grass plant is
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capturing sunlight, making sugars carbohydrates which create cold heartiness. And
then in the spring, the new growth is based on
what's already in the plant, not what the roots take up.
First thing in the spring, after it warms up a bit,
the roots start doing their thing. But early in the spring,
it's what you put on in the fall that's driving
grass growth. Okay, I think I've explained that a lot,
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but you get the idea. Fall is important for fertilizer.
Nitrophos has a three step program. You know, you do
the two step on the dance floor, you do three
step on the lawns. Well. Three steps are nitrofoss fall
special winteriser, that's the fertilizer. Second step is to deal
with those winter weeds that are germinating now, chickweed, hindbit,
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clover all the things that you see in the spring
that are growing big. Those are winter weeds that sprouted
in the fall. Think of blue bonnets our state flower. Okay,
blue bonnets are sprouting now and they sit there's little
bitty plants all year. You don't even notice blue bonnets
in the winter, do you, But then in spring they
take off growing, they bloom, they set seeds, and there
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we are. Well, winter weeds are the same way, and
if you don't prevent them now, you have to deal
with them in the spring when they're big and sometimes
in some cases if you wait long enough, too difficult
to control. Barricade does that. Third step is eagle turf fungicide.
Large patch of brown patches, big circles in the lawn
you see around the neighborhood, that is brown patch, and
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eagle turf fungicide prevents it. So here's what you do.
You put on fall special winter riser, you put on barricade,
You put on eagle turf fungicide. You put on one
half inch of water, just irrigate, set something out there,
tell you how long to run it to catch a
half inch of water that washes them all into the soil.
And that's where they do their work. You're going to
find the night three step and other night foss products
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at Enchantet Forest down in Richmond, Ace Hardware City, on
Memorial Drive, up in Montgomery at Gym's Hardware, and in
alvin Stanton Shopping Center, just a few of many places
that carry those products. You were listening to guard Line,
if you'd like to give me a call, it would
help if I gave you a number, and that is
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
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seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Uh.
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Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights is one of those
destination garden centers that when family comes to town, you
just say, hey, hop in the car, you gotta see
this place and they will love it. I don't care
what they're interested in. If they like fruit, even tropical
types of fruit, they have them there at Buchanan's Planet.
They love native plants. Oh my gosh, there's no place
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in the Greater Houston area that has as many as
wide a variety of native plants as Buchanan's Native Plants does.
Do they like houseplants? Maybe there's a add I'm not
getting in the yard messing around, but I like houseplants.
They will have houseplants you've never seen before, ones that
it's like, oh my gosh, that's gorgeous. I got to
have one of those succulents and foliage houseplants and other things.
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Plants for shade, plants for sun, annual plants, perennial plants,
plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds and everything. Is there
a Buchanan's Native Plants. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights.
You need to go to their website though, it's Buchanansplants
dot Com. When you get there, what you're going to
find is a really really nice arrangement of all kinds
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of educational materials. You can sign up for their newsletter,
which you need to do. It's very important to do that.
Lots of good information, but just look at the resources,
videos and information sheets and lists of plants for various things.
It is loaded. It's very, very valuable to do. But
then you've got to get by there. When you get there,
you're going to find a full line of the products
you hear me talk about here on Guardenline like microlife
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in Nature's Way in airloom soils and landscapers, pride and
nitroposs and know, some plant food and on and on
down the line. And buchanis naeded plants on Eleventh Street
there in the Heights until it's fun going in there
to see what the latest thing that they have is.
They put on some good shindigs too. That's another reason
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to get to sign up for the newsletters. See you
can see things coming up. There's some holiday stuff coming
up that you will definitely want to participate in and
take the kids. There's always fun stuff to do for
kids when they're having those kind of shindigs there. Well,
what's going on in your landscape? What about your gardens?
Have you planted anything for fall? In the way of vegetables.
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Now is probably the best easiest garden season of the year.
I really mean that it's fall. Is we finally got
that cool weather. When I say cool, you know it's
not hot out there and it's pleasant to be outside
and to be getting work done. Things like that. So
when you're out in the garden, now's the time to
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get those vegetables planted. We can be planting broccoli and
cabbage and cauliflower and call robbie and kale and collards,
and that's a lot of sounding vegetables. They're called coal crops.
By the way. They're also called cruciferous vegetables, and they're
also called good for you. There are cancer fighting ingredients
in these vegetables. Those are I call them the blue
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leaf vegetables, as if they needed another name for that
group of vegetables. But you know what I'm talking about,
the kind of bluish green leaves. Those are all great
and healthy for you, and they grow like crazy through
the winter. Here in the Greater Houston area. We just
have nice mile winters, so it makes it really easy
to get you know, to get good success with those.
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It's also time to start planning lettuce, carrots, another thing
can go in now. We can plant beets and Swiss
charred and turnips and radishes and all kinds of crops.
Easiest garden season the year, most fun. All right, Well,
I'm gonna take a little break. I'd like to give
me a call seven one three two one two KTRH.
I'll be right back. Alrighty, we're back back on guard
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Line this morning. First of all, congratulations, you were up
at a good hour of the morning. You are awake
or at least half awake. A cup of coffee, you'll
at least get one eye open. Look over at your neighbors.
Are the lights on over there? If they're not, put
on your pajamas or house coat, go over there, bang
on the door and tell them that they're missing garden line.
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They will really appreciate that. Maybe not this morning, they
will eventually will when they start listening. Hey, we're having
some fun here on guard Line. I hope you'll give
us a call and we can talk about the things
that interest you. Our phone number seven one three two
one two KTRH seven one three two and two k
t r H. If you have been looking at your
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landscape thinking, you know, it's okay, but there's just something missing,
all right, it just doesn't pop. You know, I could
drive down the street and never notice my house or
maybe in the backyard. You know you're out there and
you're thinking the weather we're having, this would be great
to be out here in the evenings and enjoying it.
And what could I do out here to just create
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that setting that makes me have another room to my
house and that's the outdoor room. Well. Pierscapes is a
company that, first of all, Pierscapes can make your lawn
look unbelievable. Number one, they do something called compost top dressing,
and they do core aeration no compost top dressing. First
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of all, you do the correation, You punch little holes
in the soil, pop the little soal plugs out on
the surface. Then you do a compost top dressing and
it falls down in a lot of those holes and
among the grass blades and runners and things, and it
just enhances the lawn. It fixes compaction, fixes compaction. It
helps the lawn grass to thrive by bringing oxygen in
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the soil, getting that organic matter and nutrient down in
the soil volume the sole profile, and it just helps
the lawn to do well. If your lan's been struggling,
compost top dressing following a corporation is an excellent way
to achieve really really good results. I would say what
you're doing is you're creating culturally, You're creating a setting
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for the roots where they can thrive. And when roots thrive,
your grass is going to thrive. Now, Puerscapes they can
do a number of different things on your lawn. They
Puerscapes is the kind of company. Excuse me, my brain
is goingside me here, I'm talking about Greenpro when I'm
talking about the aeration. In fact, I want to tell
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you about both of them. The Greenpro for the aeration,
they do about a forty five mile radius of Magnolia, Texas.
So the northwest quadront of Houston is where they do
their work. And I've seen their work and it's outstanding.
Right now, they got a really good deal on and
so if you purchase the compost top dressing service, prices
start at five seventy five plus tax. They will do
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the aeration for free. So they give in, they do
the aeration and you buy the compost top dressing. Now
there's a two yard minimum on that order. You can't
just say I want one yard a compost and that's
all I'm putting out. You need two yard minimum and
the price is start at five seventy five. Here's the
website greenpro dot net. Greenpro dot net. If you go
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to that website you can find out more information or
you can give them a call. Two eight one three
five one forty seven thirty three two eight one three
forty seven thirty three. Now that takes care of your lawn.
That deals with getting that lawn that's been hammered by
chinchbugs or take all root rod or foot traffic or
heat and drought and other things like that, and it
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brings it back in to looking its best. As for
your landscape overall, that is where peer scapes comes in.
Puerscapes can do anything you need to make your outdoor
area a place where you want to live. So for example,
maybe you want beautiful curve apeal and you need some
beautiful beds designed. They do design there. They don't just
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plant plants, they do design as well. Maybe your irrigation
system isn't right. As a result, things aren't getting watered
in certain areas and plants are struggling. They do irrigation
work as well. Let's go to the backyard for a minute.
Maybe you've got an area that doesn't drain well and
nothing wants to grow there because it's soggy, wet, and
most plants don't like a swamp they can do subsurface
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drainage for you. Do you want landscape lighting, Oh my gosh,
that turns that beautiful outdoor area in the evenings into
something really special. And they can do landscape lighting. Do
you want hardscapes like pathways for example, or a patio
for example. Do you see what I'm saying? They do
it all. They do it all. Go to their website
purescapes dot com and look at the kind of work
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they do and you'll get some ideas. You know, you
may not want exactly what you see in a picture
that they did for somebody else, but it's like, Ooh,
I like way that arbor you fill in the blank,
or I love the way that they laid out that
little waterfall and rock area back there, and I can
just I can just hear the sound of moving water
right now. That's Peerscapes pierscapes dot com two eight one
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three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven
oh fifty sixty. Those two services, separate companies, different services.
All in all, When you put that together, you have
got wall to wall really really gorgeous, impressive show place
and a place you're gonna want to go outside and
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hang out in I'm going to go out the phones
now again the number seven one three two one two
k t R H and we're going to go to
Spring and talk to Phil. Hello, Phil, Welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Good morning. I had a question about fertilizing Saint Augustine
oaks and.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Create myrtles.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So I'm using the green fertilong I mean Microlife green
bag and fertilized in.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
March in July.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
So okay, would my Saint Augustine benefit by refertilizing at
this point.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Well, the green bag would be okay. The Microlife has
something called brown patch that where the nitrogen is a
slight bit lower and the potassium is a slight bit higher,
and that is more of a fall fertilizer to go
that route, and because our goal isn't to put a
lot of nitrogen on, but it's to have some and
then to have a little more potassium. So you could
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hold that green bag and use it in the spring.
I mean, if you want to go ahead and use
it now, there's not it's not going to mess anything
up at all. It's good fertilizer. But I would buy
a bag of the brown patch and use it now
and then hold off and use that green in the spring.
If all things up, I think we lost phil there. Phil.
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If you want a call back, we can continue that discussion.
Somehow we lost it there. Yeah, this is the time.
This is the time to get those nutrients down.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
One reason why while ago I was about to say
last call and say, well it was not the last call,
but it's getting there. Why is it? Why would I
say this is, you know, getting last call for fall fertilizing. Well,
the fall fertilizing has to be taken up by the
grass plant. And I'll just go to an extreme here
and say, you know, if you wait till the beginning
of December to put on a fall fertilizer, well you're
grasss cooling off enough. The grass is slowed down. It's
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not actively you know, just growing taking up nutrients or
anything like that. The sooner you get those down, the
more benefits you get out of them. Now, the nutrients
will be there and they cycled in the soil and whatnot.
But it's better not to delay, better to get right
on it and get that done. That's why I have schedules.
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Have you have you seen mine? If you go to
my website Gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening with Skip
dot Com. On there, you're going to find a lot
of things. In fact, we are in the we're about
to redo the whole website. It's going to look very different.
But when we do that, we're adding a lot of
content to it. We're having to reorganize so it lays
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out better. But right now you're going to excuse me.
You go up there and you're going to find my schedules.
A lawn care schedule is the big I have two schedules,
the lawn care schedule and the pest disease and weed schedule.
So here's the way I separate the two. Lawn care
is how to grow a pretty lawn, mo water, fertilize, air, a, mineralize,
those kinds of things. The other one is everything that
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goes wrong with your lawn, pest, diseases and weeds. Okay,
so that I print them up front and back so
that way you can just kind of pin them to
the refrigerator and you or hang them in the garage
if you want. You got them all out there. It's
real easy to see. But it tells you exactly January
through December what to do each month in your lawn,
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and then the products that I would recommend that will
achieve that. So like when to chinch, but when do
we treat for chinch When would they typically occur? Look
at the schedule, it's right there on the insect bar.
Going across the calendar page from January to December, you
can find right where chinchbugs are. And then you go
to the bottom and it's what kills stitchbugs. Well, here
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are some options, and I give organic options, I give
synthetic options for fertilizing, for pest control, disease, and we
control and so on. So it makes it really easy.
All right, we're going to run back here. I think
we got Phil back. Hey, Phil, welcome back to garden Line.
Where did we leave that discussion?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, my question was would it be beneficial to fertilize
now or to do nothing now with the lawn.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
It would be beneficial to do a moderate amount of
a fall fertilizer right now. Don't deliver any further. The
sooner you get it on, the more you get out
of it. Okay, So that I would say, yes, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Heard you say before that it would tend to store
up carbohydrates for coming up in the in the spring.
Is did I misunderstand that?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
No, that's correct. And here's what happens. When the grass
takes up potassium, especially with nitrogen, which it takes those
two up together. They get in the grass plant. And
then when the sun shines on the leaves, which is
why I say do it now rather than when it's cold,
the grass makes carbohydrates, which are sugars, and that creates
winter heartiness and it's also stored energy for spring. So
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that's why we want to get it down. Get some
sunlight on the grass with that fertilizer, and get those
carbohydrates built so that it is a stronger plant going
into winter.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Okay, that sounds good for my brain. Yeah great, all right.
I had to question about fertilizing trees.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I've got to.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Oh oaks and crate myrtles and a nail. So is
there any benefit to fertilizing those trees?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Now? I would not bother Now there's nothing wrong with
doing it, but they are shutting down and they're not
going to be actively taking up a lot of nutrient
to try to grow. I would wait towards the end
of winter. Do your fertilization maybe early spring. Uh. That way,
the roots are waking up, becoming more active and getting
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busy taking things up, and you get more bang for
your buck.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Okay, all right, that sounds good if you don't have
I have time to ask one more unrelated question.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Yeah, real quick, uh huh.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
That is when I mixed up spray. So I got
it from spot Treating for nut grass, and I use
the stage yender bone eye product products like that. If
I mix those up and I keep them, I don't
let them get hot like in the garage or anything
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like that. How long will those last? How long will
I be wease that bottle? Because of spot treat and
I might mix up a court.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yeah, I got it, so I don't don't try to
store them once you mix them up. Depending on the
pH of the water you mix them in, Uh, they
could break down in eight hours, or they could break
down in twenty four hours, or they may last a
little longer. Depends on the ingredient and the and the
pH of the water. So it's just in general best
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to use them hopefully soon after you make them, definitely
within the day you make them.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Okay, really okay, all right, well all right, thank you.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
I do use a lot.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Thank you, yeah, well.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Thank you for the question. You bet, good luck with that.
All right, well, I believe I got to take a
little break here. It's time for another one and I
will be right back at seven one three two one
two kat rih all right, good morning, well Doobie brothers
to kick us off here. If you're listening to guard Line,
I'm your host, Skip Ricker, and we are here to
help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and
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fun in the process. Gardening should be fun. And you
don't fail at gardening. Listen to me repeat after me,
I don't fail at gardening, and you go, yeah, you
haven't see my garden. Yeah, but I'm saying you only
fail when you quit. Gardening is a learning process. I
still learn every day. Every time I go out there
and put my hands in the dirt and start doing something,
I learn, and I've become a better gardener and you
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can too. It really is. Listen, It's not like our
life depends on it. You know, we're not a farmer
feet in the world here where if our crop fails
people are in trouble. We're having fun in the garden.
And if a plant dies, you put another plant in
one of the best horticultures in the country from over
on the East Coast. One time said to be a
good horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants.
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That's true. Give yourself permission to kill a few plants. Really,
I'm serious. I mean, we don't want to. But you
know what I'm saying. You get out there and you
try things, and you learn and you see things, and hey,
there's nothing wrong with it not working. I mean, do
you think painters when they paint, don't ever mess up
and have to throw it away and paint a new thing,
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or they've learned how to paint over what they painted
and make it right so it turns out really cool.
We do that in our gardens. Our gardens. Think of
it this way. How many of you remember etches sketches?
Do you remember those as little things where you have
two knobs, one makes it go left and right, one
makes it go up and down, and you try to
draw stuff in your two hands. In your brain don't
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communicate well, so right, when you thought you were going left,
you ended up going right. Now you've messed up your
picture you were drawing. Well, what do you do. You
turn the edge of sketch upside down and you shake it,
and all of a sudden, when you flip it back over,
it's a blank slate and you get to start again.
That's called a rototiller or a spading fork. You don't
like your vegetable, row, dig it up, replant. We got
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more seeds and plants and things. It's all part of
the process. This isn't getting it perfect. This is having
fun and learning. And no two years are alike, believe me.
I mean, think about sod webworms than are lawn. Some
years soid webworms just are everywhere and they're horrible. Other
years it's like web worms they're not here. That's the
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vicissitudes of nature. There you go. That's an early or
early morning mouthful. Vicissitudes of nature. Sense sounds like you
know what I'm talking about. Anyway, the chance in the
gardening of having fun is high today. So I would
recommend this afternoon you plan on getting out there, go
visit a garden center, pick up some supplies and things
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that you need, and let's keep going. Let's have fun gardening.
The most important step of gardening is to fix the soil. Now,
I know, there's other very important steps, picking a spot
that's well drained or not picking a spot that gets
sunlight er doesn't. All of those things are important, but
so many people do it backwards. They go shopping and
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they come home with a plant that it was just
gorgeous they had to have, and then they walk around
looking for where am I going to put this? And
they PLoP, They PLoP the poor plant down in an
unprepared plot. As Peter Piper picks a peck of pickle
peppers who almost made it through, and that just isn't
going to survive in unprepared soil, or it survives, but
it just looks horrible. Fix the soil first, brown stuff
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before green stuff. That's how it works. CNA Maultch is
the place to get your brown stuff. They're down south
of Houston. They are on FM five twenty one near
Highway six and two eighty eight. You can go to
their website cnmultch dot com. That's the best way to
find information about them. Where they are, when they're open,
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all that they're closed today, by the way, closed on Sundays,
but Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven
thirty to two When you go into cienamultch they have
premium hardwood multch in bulk. They also have in bulk
Landscaper's Pride, black vulvet or rose sooil, the organic compost.
You know, they have everything. I mean they got sand
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and gravel and stone on pallets and they deliver within
about twenty miles for a fee. But you're going to
find the fertilizers. I talk about their microlife Asamite and
Nelson turf Star. You're gonna find nitrofoss and medina and
Nelson plant food. You're gonna find Landscaper's Pride products, heirloom
soil products like their Vigian herb compost. When you go
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into Ciena Malts, you are going to go home with
what you need to set the foundation for success. Whether
it's a vegetable garden or a landscape bed or a
lawn or whatever you're doing. Ciena Moltz sets you up
for success. Cienamlts dot com start there. I know it's
exciting to buy plants and seeds, and buy plants and seeds,
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but brown stuff before green stuff, and that's how you
get to success. You're listening to garden Line my number
seven one three two one two kt r H seven
one three two one two k t r H down
at Enchanted Forest, which is in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
In fact, if you're in Richmond Rosenberg and you're heading
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up church Sland is off to the right on FM
twenty seven fifty nine Enchented Forest. They've got their amarillis
bulbs in look really good cyclomen and all the fall
color plants, you know, pansies and violas and all the
different things we plant in the cool season, including the
gorgeous cyclemen. Just hot hot colors. Love it, the red
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and the pink, and the coral colors of sycrament, the
white cyclement. They're just they stop traffic. They've got herbs
in stock. There's an herb for everybody there. I mean,
they have an awesome supply of herbs in a channel forest.
And then the trees, you know falls for planting trees.
The best time to plant a tree is right now,
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because if you plant it this month, it has all
of the rest of November and December and January and
February and March and April, and then in May it
starts to heat up. That's like six months and that
there's nothing that gives a tree a better starts then
fall planting. So do you want some hollies? They've got
many varieties, as a matter of fact. They they got
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red maple, Chinese fringe tree, my favorite spring blooming tree.
They got red buds, of course. And then go inside
in the shop. It's starting to look a lot like
Christmas in there. They they're a metal artwork from round
Top has arrived. It's just it's a fun place to
go and to shop and you're going to find their
expertise and you're going to find the plants that you
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need to have success at in Chanted Forest Dunna Richmond Rosenberg.
You go FM twenty seven fifty nine and you will
get right there. If you've never been there before, you
really need to go this afternoon because it is a
fun place. I like the word enchanted in that name.
It is an enchanting place. You're listening to garden. I
we get some calls coming in here if you'd like
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to call seven one three two one two kt r
H seven one three two one two kt r H
nels Plant Food has a variety of quality products. First
of all, thank thanks Dean and the Nelson team for
donating so many products. Yesterday, we had a great time
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out in Kingwood, Texas at the wild Birds Unlimited store.
They're off Kingwood Drive behind Torchy Stacos. Thanks for everybody
that came out. That was a lot of fun and
you got it was worth your time, wouldn't it. I mean,
even if the answers were kind of wonky, that would
be me. By the way home, you went home with
some really cool products from Nelson's. We gave away some
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of their color Stars. One of four or five different
products I gave way yesterday. Color Star is one of
their most universal blends, a Nelson plant food. If you're
going to put in pansies and Viola's or any kind
of cool season color, you need to get a hold
of some color Star. It's available in the little plastic
screw top jars. It's got five different sources of nitrogen
in it. And listen, professional landscapers have been using color
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Star for a long time, Nelson says, Folks they ship
it out of state. There's a lot of people out
of state that have learned it works, and they just
keep ordering it and using it about every three to
four months during the growing season. Sprinkle a little color
Star in your flower beds and you're going to see
really really cool results. I'd love to use that, but yeah,
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we did. Boy, we gave away color Star. We gave
away some of the Genesis transplant mix. We had veg
their vegetable mix, the rose mix. I mean, we were
a lot of people went home happy. I know that
that is for sure. Well, it's time for me to
take a little break again. David and Tomball you will
be first up when we come right back for the
rest of you. Seven two one two kt rh All right,
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we're back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you
with us. We are going to head straight out to
the phones and talk to David in Tomball. Hello, David,
welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Hey.
Speaker 10 (29:53):
First of all, I'm a I'm a truck driver, and
if I if I wound up having a drive on
Saturdays or Sundays, all is appreciate you keeping me company
while I drive. And I always seem to learn something,
so I appreciate that I've got.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
There.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Oh yeah, I've got two pear trees and both of
them are kind of tall and narrow to the point
that I can't reach the fruit. And I was talking
to the lady out the arbor gate and she was
telling me that I could cut them things off at
my knee level, and that just seemed kind of drastic,
and I just want to confirm that I want to
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kind of reform these trees to where I can tame
them and eventually just have a good round tree and
also be able to reach the fruit. How much can
you prune off? And when should.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
I do it? We can pronoun as much you want,
I mean, as long as you're above the graph line,
but you need to prune them lower than you want
initially because they're going to grow. And then as they grow,
you're going to the branch and grow a little more
on branch again and grow a little more branch. You
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see what I'm saying. So so start your branching down.
You know, I would say maybe waist high. It could
go lower than that if you want to go to
knee high. But here's the deal with pairs. When you
prone them, they they grow straight up again. Straight up,
I mean all the shoots go straight to the sky.
They don't spread out normally like other trees will do.
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So what you have to do is you get those shoots,
you pick one and say, okay, this is going to
be a branch, let's say going up to the north
of the direction or the east or south or west.
And then you you either use a spacer between the
trunk and the branch, or you use a steak and
a cord to pull that branch out to about a
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forty five degree angle. A spacer think about something stronger,
stronger than a yard stick, but like a yard stick
with a V notch in each end. You see what
I'm saying, and you just squeeze it in there and
you put it right where it pushes that branch to
about a forty five If you go any further than that,
you're just gonna get a lot of upright shoots coming
off the branch too. But you can. You you select
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those shoots that have grown from your pruning, and then
you you you spread them out, and if you leave
them there for you know, a season, they'll stay in
that spot pretty well. You don't have to leave steaks
and cords on five years or anything. They're gonna stop.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
I've got I've got two trees. They're all grown straight up,
and I can't by the time the fruit falls off the.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Tree, it's it's already almost rotten. Yeah, I know, I know,
I understand, But you got to spread them out, uh,
and it just pairs is they're much better to spread
out physically than they are to try to prune and
make them go out like we can do with most
other trees.
Speaker 10 (32:52):
So once again, once again, I learned something once once again.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
All right, Well, if you go to the Aggi Horticulture website,
there's a fruit section and there's a pair publication and
when you look at it, it kind of shows you
some of this what I'm talking about. But you go
up to like the Pacific Northwest where most pairs are
grown commercially, and you'll see lots of trees that are
spaced and spread and they basically make the tree grow
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in a beautiful form and they end up with more
production that's within reach.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
All right, be safe on the roads man. Good to
talk to you. Well dad, well dd all right, take care. Yeah,
that's an interesting thing about pairs. Ace hardware stores are
all over forty something stores in the Greater Houston area,
and you know what happens when you walk into an ACE,
you find everything you need. That's why their motto is
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ACE is the place right well. ACE is a place
for lawn fertilizer. If I talk about a fertilizer on
garden line, it's at ACE Hardware Store. ACE is a
place for your fire at which now is the season.
Get it done, get it done, for it gets cold.
Burns are still out active and you can get that
bait in their tummies and shut things down. So spring
is a much much better time out in the yard.
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ACE is a place for landscape lighting. It's a place
for decorating indoors and outdoors. It is a place for
getting the fertilizers that you need to make your long grow,
to make your vegetable garden grow, to support growth in
your trees and shrubs and color beds and other things.
ACE is a place and if you have anything you
need to control, from weeds to these diseases to insects,
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ACE is a place for that as well. Go to
ACE Hardware dot com. Acehardware dot Com. There's a store
locator and you get this real col map with lots
of red dots, and you're going to see some red
dots not far from you that are the local ACE stores.
We're going to go now to Friendswood, Texas and talk
to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to guard Line. Look, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I have a question for you.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
I have a couple of oak trees in the front yard,
but one is about eighty two inches in circumference four
foot off the ground, and I have a driveway along
one side about eleven feet away from the trunk, and
then ninety degrees to that a sidewalk going up to
the house that's again about eleven feet away from the trunk.
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I want to put a root barrier in there. I
didn't know if I had enough room with eleven feet
if I went out next to the concrete to put
the barrier.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Well you can. It's a lot of root cutting and
it's going to be very hard on that tree. If
I were you, I would call Affordable Tree, talk to
Martin spoon Moore, have him come out and talk to
him about what canon can't be done. With him there
on site, he's actually looking at the tree, looking at
the setting and stuff, and he can advise you on
what may or may not be feasible. But you definitely
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don't want to take a risk of doing major damage
to that tree, and it sounds like with a eleven
feet from a tree that size, that's getting pretty close.
But having Martin on site would be the best way
to make the best decision on it.
Speaker 11 (36:10):
He'd be able to answer questions too about stability of
the tree and a hurricane after that if we decide
to go that path.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's what he does. He does
consults and I mean, of course he does the work,
but I'm always trying to get people to call him
before they do damage to things, you know, like you're
putting in a trench or putting in a sidewalk or something.
After you do all the damage and it's hard to
you know, it's hard to avoid the results on the tree.
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But if you talk to him ahead of time, he
can guide you on how to do that best. You
may give you a phone number, would that be helpful, Yes, sir, okay,
it's a seven one three, six nine nine two six
sixty three seven one three six ninety nine twenty six
sixty three tree. Either Martin or his wife Joe will
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answer the phone and so that way you know you're
talking to the owners when you do it. But yeah,
get on his schedule, though, he stays busy. This is
burning season, and you know, well he does good work,
so he stays busy. Okay, thank you very much. All right,
thank you, appreciate you bet, thank you for that call
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very much. I talk about brown stuff and the importance
of it. If you go up toward conroad direction, up
Interstate forty five, you go right by Nature's Way. It's
right there where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left.
You turn right across the railroad tracks and Sherbrock Circle
is right across the tracks. That's where Nature's Way is.
They are still having their Fungal Friday sales every Friday,
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twenty percent off their fungal compost. They are still having
this sale on plants. They have a wide variety of
native plants and non natives, and the plants that they
have are on a great, great discount and it's everything.
But I think their full sun sun loving perennials or
something like that. It's the only kind of plant they
don't have on sale right now. But you can pick
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up a really good deal on really good plants. Take
your trailer out there, your truck. They can load your bulk,
or you can just bring home bags last time I
was out there, I was hauling home a bunch of bags,
and they've got quality stuff. You know that Nature's Ways
where a lot of the best for soil products were born.
You know we talk about rose soil, well, rose oil
was born at Nature's Way. Leaf molcompos was born at
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Nature's Way. They've been making quality products for a very
very long time. They know how to do it. They
don't rushed up through. They do it right and get
it right so that your plants perform right. That is
the goal member brown stuff before green stuff. Nature's Way
products are also sold by the bag and you can
find them in various garden centers and other places. Just
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go to their website, check them out, find out more
about them Nature's Way Resources. You will be setting the
stage for success, a foundation for so access with the
kind of products they carry, and some beautiful mulches too.
I've got two different kinds of their mulches that I've
used in my landscape over time here and just they
perform well, they perform well. That's what nature does right.
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Nature multius the soil. Nature always knows that if you
leave the soil bear a weed will be planted wherever
sunlight hits the soil, you're going to have a weed.
So it's just some good quality mulches soil products that
reminds you I got to bed in the back. I'm
gonna have to be adding some mix. And I was
visiting with Ian the other day out of nature's way
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about that, well, folks, I hear the music that means
we are about done here. Hey, I want to remind
you something two thousand United States flags honoring Fort Ben
heroes and veterans. Is that it's a something called the
Exchange Club is going on out there this yesterday, today,
and tomorrow. I'm gonna tell you a little bit more
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about that as we come back. But this is a
really cool event that you may want to be interested
in going to check out.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
It's just watch him as many.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Good things to sup by.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Not a sound.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
Gas.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Well, good Sunday morning on what is going to be
a great day to be out and about. I hope
this afternoon you're planning on maybe going out and visiting
some garden centers, picking up some of the supplies, some
of the plants, stopping in at your ace hardware store.
Southwest Fertilizers open today. Got plenty of good things for
you out there. Uh. None of our feed stores. We
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love our feed stores here on guard you know, Sprint
Creek Feed is up there in the Tamboul area. It's
just kind of north and east of Tamba. I would
say Magnolia area on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That
kind of give you an idea. You'll know it when
you drive by. Gosh, you drive by its cool looking,
big old feed store and you walk inside and it's
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like you think, Okay, wait a minute, Am I in
a feed store? Am I in a boutique or whatever?
It is beautiful inside, just really really beautiful inside. Good
friendly staff. I mean they're friendly and courteous. They just
make sure you find exactly what you want. And if
they don't have something, they can order it. They will
special order products for you. If you happen to be
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in four h or FFA raising animals, or if you're
in the military or senior citizen. There's discounts for all
three of those groups. They're at Spring Creek Feed. You're
going to find the fertilizers I talk about on Garden Line,
like the turf Star line, from Nelson, Microlifeline, nitrofoss line.
They're all available there. Plus the things you need to
deal with the things that are messing with your plants
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like insects and diseases and weeds and stuff. They've got
you covered on all of that. And then of course
it's a great feed store. So if you need any
kind of feed from your pets to your your livestock,
spring Creek feed they're on in Magnolion FM twenty nine
seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to
forty nine. I keep trying to get people to consider
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fall as the time to get almost all your planting
done if possible. I mean, we can plant twelve months
out of the year here in this area, we really can. Now.
Summer is a challenge. It's touch and go. You know,
you're having to give it a little bit of water
every day without overwater and and stuff. I mean, you
can plant in the summer. But the easiest time, the
time that makes it the less work is possible for you. Also,
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think about this when you buy a trubb or a
shrub or a tree. Those are not cheap plants. I
mean they cost some money. Right. They're valuable in the landscape, though,
But why would you risk an investment. Why wouldn't you
plant it at the easiest time of the year to
get it done where your chance of success is the highest.
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That's fall planting. And right now at RCW Nursery, they've
got some really good sales on shrubs. For example, they
have a wide variety of different shrubs. I was looking
at some I was out there not too long ago,
looking at some of the Laura pedulums, the Chinese witch hazel.
They have the pretty burgundy leaves and the just hot
pink shaggy ballooms. They got beautiful nandinas out there, and
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holly's of all types. You know, they grow their own
trees up in Plantersville, And so when you buy a
tree at RCW, you know you're getting two things. Number One,
you're getting a tree that's a species that wants to
grow here. They don't grow and sell stuff that you
shouldn't plant because it's too iffy. They grow good stuff.
And secondly, they grow it right. And if you don't
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add a third to it, if you them to come planet,
they plant it right. You knowed buy a small tree
tak it on the planet yourself, or if it's pretty
big and you don't want to put your chiropractors kids
through college, then just have them come out and put
it in the ground right so that you are off
to a good start for success. Gosh, it's a long
time ago when we had Randy. We had a memorial
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for Randy out of Brookwood and Arcbu donated. It was
a nuttall oak, which is a great oak. Anybody that's
got an area that's a little bit not drained really
as well as we like our areas to generally be
nutthall can grow in that. It doesn't have to have
a swamp, but it can grow in that. And they
planted one out there at Brookwood for Randy Lemon, former
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host here on Garden Line for so many years. And
I just, you know, looking, I was looking at that
oak and I was just thinking, man, they know how
to grow a tree. It was gorgeous, really well done. Anyway.
RCW Nurseries dot com. That's their website. They're located on
Tomboi Park, which is two forty nine right where it
comes into Beltwegh eight. Whether it's shrubs or trees or
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roses or vegetables or herbs, or flowers or you name it.
They've got it all there at RCW Nurseries. Swing by
their easy, easy, convenient for everybody. You're listening to garden Line,
I'm Skip Richter, your host, and our phone number here
is seven one three two one two kt r H.
Seven to one three two one two kt r H.
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I am about to go prepare a bed. I'll get
it done this week because I got to get the
planting done. You know, I what does the phrase do
as I say, not as I do? Sometimes I don't
do as I say myself, but it's not on purpose.
It's just I get busy, and you know, I buy plants,
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I bring them home. They're sitting in pots, and then
I'm having to remember to water them every day, keeping
them alive because I haven't gotten around to getting the
bed ready first. And so now that's what I'm doing.
But I'm not gonna put them in the ground until
the bed's ready. And in part of that, doing the
bed right is mixing in a quality, quality fertilizer product.
And I tell you I use a lot of different
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microlife products for a lot of different things. You know,
there's the green bag. That's the summer lawn fertilizer bag. Now,
don't tell anybody, but you can use that on anything
you're growing pretty much. I mean, it really is. It's
we think of it as a lawn fertilizer, but if
you want to, if you want to use someone your
house plants for crying out loud, you could do that.
It's a good fertilizer. But I'll mix stuff like that
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into the soil ahead of time, get it going, and
once it gets moist, the microbes go to work on it,
and there they go. They're getting going right now. Microlife's
brown Patch, that's the name of the fertilizer. Sounds like
it ought to be a fung site. It's not. Microlife
produces fertilizers loaded with microbes, and Microlife brown Patch is
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the one you'd want to apply this time of year
in order to have the best lawn you can have. Now,
I'm going to be working some of that and also
probably some of the of the greenback. I've got some
of that as well on hand that I didn't use
up on the lawn yet, and so I'm just going
to put some in the soil. Mix it in real
good and well then I'll put that plan in with
Microlife fertilizers. They're not salt based. They're organic fertilizers, and
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so when you put them down, you're not going to
burn the roots. Normally I say don't put fertilizer around
the plant roots because you can burn them. Well, in
this case, don't worry about it. It'll work. You can
do it. And I'm getting that bed ready and that's
what I'm going to do, and then when I'm done,
I'm going to water it in with some of their
liquid products. They have one called liquid AF that is
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loaded with beneficial microbes that help stimulate and protect the
plant roots themselves from Microlife Fertilizer Microlifefertilizer dot com. You
can go there and find out where to buy it.
I pretty much tell you this. If it's a garden center,
if it's a feed sore, if it's an Ace hardware store,
Southwist Fertilight, all those places are going to have micro
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Life fertilizers. It's time for me take a quick break.
When we come back, Dwayne from Houston, you'll be our
first stop. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back. We're back with Garden
Line Looking forward to your calls and hoping you have
a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. That is what we
like to try to do down here. I'm going to
head straight out to the phones now and we're going
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to talk to Dwayne in Houston. Hello, Dwayne.
Speaker 12 (48:29):
Warnings Hip. How about moving a You're like to move
a like a twelve or thirteen foot creat myrtle without
trying to keep it alive. Any problems doing that now?
Speaker 5 (48:43):
Okay, uh no, you can do it. Now's the best
time to do it. As a matter of fact, the
leads are coming off, and maybe get a little bit
of cooler weather on on it. When you dig it,
if you can get wider rather than deeper, there's no
need to dig two feet deep to dig that thing up.
Just go down about I don't know, probably ten twelve
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inches will be enough and go wider. If you can
dig it up, move it to its new location. If
if there is any pruning you need to do, go
ahead and do it prior to the digging and moving.
It just makes it a lot easier to move. Generally,
we like to take a little bit off the top
when we're moving because we're losing so much of the
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root system. You're gonna no matter how much hard you try,
you're gonna end up losing about ninety five percent of
the roots on that plant. But doing it now gives
it all winter to start growing new roots, so it'll
in the spring, it'll it'll pout for a good long time.
In fact, through spring and summer. It's going to be decide.
You're going to wonder if it's deciding whether to grow
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or die. But it'll it'll make it if you keep
the swim waste all around where those roots are that
you put in the ground after you move it.
Speaker 12 (49:57):
Okay, what about like the suckers, you know they'll split up,
you know, just just pull them apart.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
Well, yeah, well you just just cut them off as
close as possible to where they attach at the base
of each suckers a whole bunch of little buds. And
if you cut it off and leave a one inch stub,
you're gonna have a whole bunch of new suckers that
come right back out of that same spot. So cutting
it as close as you can. There's even a product
called sucker stopper. It's a natural plant hormone that prevents
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sucker shoots. From growing and you can spray that on
it after you make the pruning cut to help also
kind of keep that down.
Speaker 12 (50:40):
Okay, thanks very much.
Speaker 5 (50:43):
You bet the last last thought, and this is just
kind of an extra thought. But there's nothing wrong with
cutting them way back, like even like to the ground
and letting all new shoots coming up that you remove
all but two or three or four or how many
shot trunks you want and retraining those into you can
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do that and that would be okay. That there's still
a good root system that's going to go with it,
that will will help support that new growth. So if
you don't like the sometimes crap myrtles, you know, the
trunks are all straight coming up and they're right together,
and you know you wish you could have gone back
in time and kind of created a more beautiful structure
out of it. Well, that is one way to do it,
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is just start back at the ground and the suckers
you choose become the new trunk. Good.
Speaker 12 (51:32):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (51:34):
All right, man, thanks appreciate the call. That's a drastic
move to cut back like that, but you know it
can be done. Was it two decembers ago? Two December?
I think it's two decembers ago. We had an early
early hard freeze, and I know up in the like
the College Station Areya, a little further north, they got colder,
and uh, the cray myrtles were not ready for winter.
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They're a hearty, I mean, crave merdles grow back more.
The good great myrtle varieties are bred up in Beltsville, Maryland,
just north of DC. And how can we freeze crape
myrtles in Texas? Well, we did because they were still growing.
They were not hardened off and ready. It dropped down
around fifteen seventeen degrees and it just killed them back
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to the ground, a bunch of them, and all these
suckers came out. So I just told people, get out there,
cut everything off. All those dead trunks are not going
to come back to life. Cut them off at the ground.
Pick you three or four suckers, make your trunks out
of those, and then as they come up, cut them
off at some point where they'll branch. And where was one,
now you got two. And then each of those, after
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a foot or so of growth, cut them again and
branch them. And people are rebuilding beautiful crape myrtle trees
that way, you can do that. So whether a freeze
kills them back or whether you cut them back. When
you got a crape marl and you just don't like
the looks of it, don't be afraid to do that.
It can be done. Now. Of course, it's a major
surgery and it's going to set. They're going to be
shocked for a while. But I'm telling you, sometimes that's
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that's the best thing to do to end up with
a beautiful, beautiful, great myrtle. In Chenni Gardens down in
Richmond Rosenberg is one of those destination garden centers that
people love to go to. I was out there, it's
a good while back. I was out there talking to
some folks and they're from Austin, Texas, and they so,
what are you doing over here? We came to in
Chenna Gardens. You mean you drove all the way over
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here to go to in Chenne. Yes, we did. We
love this place, and I'm telling you it's just another
example of the fact that we got great places here
in Houston. We need maybe the Mayor of Houston needs
to start a Horticultural Tourism Committee or something like that.
We get people from all over the country to drive
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here to see our garden centers and everything. Well, anyway, seriously,
in Chenni Gardens is that kind of destination. They're on
the Katie Folscher side of Richmond on three fifty nine,
three fifty nine, right where three fifty nine there's a
f I'm seven twenty three and three point fifty nine
right there. That's where inded intended Gardens is. So Katie
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follsher side. Go to the website and learn more there.
It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Venterants in nineteen ninety five. A very helpful team, as
enthusiastic as they come. You can take in photos and samples.
If you really want to get some expert advice, they
can provide that for you. And in addition to about
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as wide a variety of plants as you can imagine,
they've got a lot of cool stuff for the garden,
like fountains and chimes and whimsical garden art. They are
experts at creating beautiful multiplant combination planters, whether it's hanging
baskets or containers on the ground, they know how to
build it. You can buy one from them or you
can talk to them and say, hey, you know, I
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want to create something like that, and they'll go, well,
get this plan over here, get that one over there,
and get that one there, put this one in the middle.
Let these drape over the sides, and they'll help you
be a do it your out for if you want
to go about it that way. Now. They carry all
the fertilizers you hear me talk about, like my Medina
and microlife and Nelson and nitrofoss. They've got soils from
Nature's way and heirlooms and landscapers pride. I mean, there's
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the brown stuff. Don't go home from in Chane Gardens
without getting some of that good soil material and good
fertilizer to set the stage for your plants to be successful.
They're open today, by the way, from ten to four
and Monday through Saturday from eight to five. FM three
fifty nine Katie fullsher Cider, Richmond and Channa Gardens. Are
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you one of the people that just kind of goes
and visits nurseries because it's like a happy place. You know,
some people would go to a botanical garden to walk
through and just see the beautiful scenes and enjoy the
plants and things. A lot of folks do that with
garden centers. And we've got the garden centers that are
for that. We got a lot of garden centers that
aren't for that. You know, they kind of industrial sitting
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on top of concrete kind of things. But we've got
some beautiful mom and pop independent garden centers. And that's
where you get good advice. That's where you get plants
that belong here, not plants that were ordered by a
chain that sells plants all over the country. And so
as a result, Okay, I'm just going to gribe here
for just a minute. I'll leave the guilty unnamed. But
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you know who they are that I walked into a
store and they sell everything from hammers to plants, and
I was looking at red raspberries, black cap raspberries that
you can even grow in Missouri. I mean, they want
to be further north than that. I've seen plants just
on and on grapes that will not grow here. Grapes
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you've heard of like Concord. You know, Concord is where
Welch's grape juice and Mogan David wine that's produced by
Conquered grapes go to New York. That's where conquered grapes go,
not Houston, Texas. But they're for sale in Houston, Texas
because garden centers don't know what they're doing. Those kind
mom and pops, it's different. Mom and Pops are from here.
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They garden here, They know what to sell here. So
I'm just telling you it is well worth the price
of admission. As they say, to go to a place
and knows what they're talking about. And you know what
else will happen when you do that. I know I'm
in a soapbox, but bear with me. What else will
happen is you'll go in there and you get advice
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that knows what they're talking about. I've been in places
that sell plants and hammers, talk to people work in
the garden center, and the first question I asked, the
first words out of their mouth, I knew they didn't
have a clue what they were talking about, And I said, oh,
how long you been working here? A week? I was
a hairdresser before that actual story or I've been here
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two weeks. I was managing the jewelry counter before they
moved me to the garden cent Okay, come on, man, really,
am I making my point? I mean, yes, I'm partial
to our mom and pop garden centers. But there's a
reason for that. You know, you go into a place
like well, take Arbrogate for example, up in Tomball. There's
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another great example there. You go into Arburgate and the
people that work there, they're friendly and they know what
they're talking about. They advise very good. The Number one,
they got plants that ought to be sold here and
grown here. Number two, they can tell you how to
do it. If you go down to Arburgate and you
were to say, you know what, I have a such
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and such, I didn't buy it here, but it's struggling,
they're going to stop and help you. They're going to
help you have success with it. And then they're going
to tell you the product that you might need or
the plant that you might need, or how to go
about planning it. That is important. And Arbigate and Tomball
is one of those places people come to from all
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over the place and you ought to go. I don't
care where you live. If you hear my voice show
to go buy Arbrogate and check it out. Arbrogate dot
com the website and you can find out a lot
more about them. They're west at Tombul, And when you
go in there, you're gonna find, First of all, remember
how I say brown stuff for greens I have at Arborgate.
You're gonna get the organic food complete. You're gonna get
the organic soil complete, and the organic compost complete, three bags,
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three products that are foresetting the stage the foundation for
plant success. And then you're going to get the plants
that you want. Do you want herbs? Awesome, awesome selection?
Do you want color? Go by there right now and
look at it. Look at it. It's Wildsville. I'm telling you,
it's beautiful out there. And then talk to some of
the folks that work there. No, it's fun.
Speaker 13 (59:38):
You know.
Speaker 5 (59:39):
People go there just to have fun and then come
home with good stuff. By the way, they're loaded up
for Christmas in the gift shops too. You have to
see that. Thanksgiving and Christmas. By the way, arborgate dot
Com just a few miles west of actually a mile
and a half west of two forty nine on Highway
twenty nine to twenty outside of Tumbule. All right, gonna
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quit bragging about our home garden centers. I'm going to
go right out to Alvin, Texas. We're gonna talk to Joy. Hey, Joey,
welcome to garden line.
Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 14 (01:00:11):
I have a orange true that is twelve foot tall,
and it basically died back real bad, and it's come
back up from its graft and now it's all the
way up to the top and it's full of oranges,
but it's from the grafted part. And I don't know
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what it was grafted too, and I'm afraid to eat them.
Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Particular thing, how bigger?
Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
How big are these oranges?
Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
About two inches.
Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
Two inches? Was it a satsuma?
Speaker 10 (01:00:49):
I believe it was?
Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Okay, well, uh, the pretty few you grab one, okay? Well, uh,
there's there's two different rootstocks primarily that oranges are grafted
to here. Both of them are very thorny. One of
them has real crooked, bent growth. It's like almost a
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zig zaggy, twisty growth that's very thorny. If this is
a big old orange leaf sized leaves as opposed to
smaller leaves and sets of two or three, then you
probably do have your orange that made it above the
graph line. If it's loaded with lots of thorns and
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the fruit typically the fruit on those others is going
to be maybe golf ball at the biggest then you
probably have the graft union. But that's kind of the
way to tell thorniness. Cut into a fruit. If it's
solid seeds and a small golf ball or smaller sized fruit,
then that's the rootstock. Would it be edible, No, the
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rootstocks are not edible. You you either dig them up
and get you a new tree, or if someone knows
how to graft, they can graft it back to whatever
kind of orange.
Speaker 15 (01:02:07):
But yeah, definitely covered and thorns.
Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
Okay, you got the rootstock. Then I hate to be
the bear of bad news, but save yourself time, money
and get you some oranges to eat soon by planting
a new tree. That's the better thing to do at
that point. Thank you, Okay, you bet joy, Thanks for
the call. Appreciate that very much. Good questions. By the way, Hey,
I'm gonna take a break. I'll be right back. When
we come back, we will go to Rich and Joe first.
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Welcome back to Guardenline, folks. Glad to have you with
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Landscaper Sprides got you covered on all that. They got
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when you have a quality product like healthy soil compost,
your plants roots systems are going to thrive. And if
the roots are happy in thriving, the plants are happy,
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and you're happy because you're getting flowers and fruit and
whatever you're looking for from those plants. That happens when
the soil is right. Mushroom compost another product from Landscapers Pride.
That particular stuff is very rich. I've used mushroom compost
for decades in gardens and it just really adds a
nutrient boost. It's a high quality stuff. It comes from
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growing mushrooms. You know, it's a substrate they grow mushrooms
on and when they're done doing a crop of mushrooms.
They move it on out and get rid of it
and it is turned into a quality product for the
soil by landscapers Pride. Landscaperspride dot com is the website
Landscaperspride dot com. Go there, find the store locator, find
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out more details about these products and follow them on
their social media links. Landscaper's Pride and you can really
grow something together. I'm going to head now over to
let's see Rich in Spring. Hello Rich, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8 (01:04:19):
Good morning Skip. Thank you for taking my call. I
help in addition to my yard, I help four neighbors
with their lawns, treating them fertilizing, doing everything according to
the schedule. And what I did about forty days ago,
I hit all the lawns with propa connaissol as a
trying to get to jump and prevent you brown patch.
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But a couple of the yards it's cropping up. I
have microbute to nail in my toolbox, but it's also
the same group three fund side as the propa connaisole.
Would you recommend using something else or applying it, Well, it's.
Speaker 5 (01:05:02):
A matter of time, you know, to use one after
the other. As not a problem. But I wouldn't year
after year just alternate between the same group of fungicides.
So that's where we shift out from time to time.
But the Michael Buttenhill and propaconnas all both are very
effective against the brown patch.
Speaker 8 (01:05:25):
Okay, I thank you for your help, and I'll take
that direction. Appreciate it, thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
Yeah, just something to think about. You know, you can
always rotate out, so I would start to build a
kind of a longer term plan, if you will, so
that if you're taking care of everybody's yard year after year,
you could switch out and do some different things from
time to time, just to avoid that. You know what
you were what you were describing there, Okay, a z
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oxystrobin would be a good thing to switch out to
avoid staying in that the group of ungicides you're dealing
with it, they're called demethylation inhibitors, and that's a whole
group of fungicides and they all are great fungicides. But
switch out and do a struggler and like a oxystroban.
Speaker 8 (01:06:14):
Okay, well, I have some of that also in the toolbox,
so I'll apply to Yeah, appreciated, skip, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
You bet, yes, sir, thanks for the call. Sound like
Rick know what he's doing. We're going to go now
to Joe in the med Center. Hey Joe, welcome to
garden Line.
Speaker 16 (01:06:31):
Thank you skip.
Speaker 17 (01:06:33):
Wondering, Uh, I'm having a problem in my yard with
what I thought was brown patch or maybe take all
root rots. And I've been pounded down nitrofoss CNB I
think it is. And I've been driving before, yeah, and
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I'm hand sprinkling it. I'm wearing gloves because I know
you know, but.
Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
It's been going on for.
Speaker 17 (01:07:03):
Like a month now, and poor Aaron over Southwest Fertilizer.
I keep querrying and bringing them pictures and samples. And
yesterday I happened to have also.
Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
A bag of.
Speaker 17 (01:07:18):
Golly, what was it, bug out max or something like that,
and I sprinkled hand sprinkled that in this area. It's
a pretty good size area, oh, ten feet by ten feet.
And when I went to water it in with my
garden host before I did the sprinklers, because I put
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it in kind of heavy and I wanted to blast
the clumps of stuff I put down into the soil
and then turn on my sprinklers and water it in.
And when I was doing that I noticed a bunch
of grasshoppers came out and I'd not been able to
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rat keep the problem. And I'm wondering if I was
treating for brown patch and grasshoppers are what's chewing up
my lawn or whatever, and do they eat the grass
or not?
Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Well, I mean, grasshoppers can't eat grass. But I wouldn't
worry about them. They're not a problem right now. They're
about to be toasted anyway. I'm surprised there's still a bunch,
as you said, around, But don't worry about that. Don't
worry about treating them now, not needed, not worth it.
Just just focus on the lawn like you're like, you're
doing okay, Well it's been all right.
Speaker 17 (01:08:37):
I've treated it three or four times, like once a
week for a month now.
Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
For brown patch. Yeah for the brown patch, yeah, okay,
brown Well switch out of the PCMB then that's a
while ago. I was just talking about classes of fundersides.
That's that's its own class of funderside, and it's a
good product. But I think you probably were going to
have better, better results, you know, with like a Miclo
Buttant hill that if you're not getting the results with PCMB. Okay,
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that's Eagle Turf Fund aside. Eagle Turf Fund aside from me. Yeah,
I got that yet in there. Okay, they got all right,
Well I would switch to that. Here's the thing too,
Remember that you may look at your lawn and go,
I better put this out, but it's already got infection
going on. It just hadn't created the big circles that
you see yet. That takes just a little bit of
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time to do that, and and so you put it
out and then the circle still appeared, and it's like,
well it didn't work. Well, you know you you actually
it had already started before you put that down. And
so sometimes sometimes that can be a factor too. These
are all good products, but it is important to alternate.
So since you got the Micael Buttan nil uh the
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Eagle turf funder side, then let's just switch to that one.
I think you'll be okay. Just don't keep putting on
more and more and more stuff, because that's not that's
not good. There's a reason there's on the label. And
so so if you put the Microbutanhill out, I'd let
it set the until spring. If you need to do
it again. Okay, all righty a, thank you, thank you.
(01:10:12):
I appreciate that. Thank you very much for that call.
I have to run to a break. I'll be right back.
Welcome back, folks, Good to have you back here with us. Yeah,
we just talked about Aaron over at Southwest Fertilizer, visiting
with visiting with Greg. You know, Southwest Fertilizer err is
just an example of the kind of folks that are
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there at Southwest Brother's Bob and Aaron, the whole team. Really,
they know what they're talking about and they're not going
to steer you wrong. And they've got everything everything you
would need to apply, whether it's a fertilizer, whether you're
controlling insects or diseases or weeds. Is it a garden
tool that you need, you know, maybe a fertilizer spreader,
a little hand crank spreader, a walk behind spreader, hose, rake,
(01:10:56):
shovels up my weed wiper. I'm just showing a neighbor
yesterday my weed wiper that I built, and the instructions
are online on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com.
It works, it works, it works, and Bob's got the
little grabber tool that you use to make it with.
He's got those, of course he does. Southwest has everything.
If they don't have it, you don't need it. They've
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been on the corner of Bisinett and Runwick for a long,
long time back. This store goes back to nineteen fifty five.
So they are an institution here in the Houston area
and for good reason. You can go to the website
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. You can call them up seven
to one three six six six, seventeen forty four. But
whatever you do, go buy there, check out their products,
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and go home with something that works, something that you
know will work, that's for sure. He was also conversation
we're just having. He was discussing the Eagle turf fungicide.
We kept using the term mic chlo buttanil. That's the
ingredient in it. It's an ingredient that works well on
brown patch and Eagle Turf fungicide is part of the
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nitrofoss three step program. The three steps are the Eagle
tour fungicide for diseases like brown patch, and then secondly
the barricade, which is a pre emergent weed control product.
It forms a barricade over the soil surface and when
a weed seed tries to sprout and grow through and
establish a can't it kills it. Third step is the
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for all special fertilizer from Nitrofoss, perfect fertilizer designed for
our soils, designed for the kinds of turf species we
grow here. High and Potassium's got a good nitrogen content
to go with that potassium to create a strong grass
plant that can go through whatever kind of coal weather
we have here and also come out strong in the spring.
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And you're going to find Nitrovoss products at places like
d and de Feed and Tomball. You're going to find
them at the Arbigate, You're going to find them at
Shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff. You're going to
find them at Bearings Hardware, both the one on Bissinet
and the one on Westheimer. All spas ace up in
the Woodland Night Lake hardbur and Angleton and Lake Jackson
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r c W Nursery. I mean I could just go
on and on. Night five is widely available and the
stuff works, that's for sure. Let's go to Greg in
northwest Houston. Now, Hey, Greg, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18 (01:13:16):
Yes, Hi, can you hear me?
Speaker 13 (01:13:17):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:13:18):
Yes, sir, all.
Speaker 18 (01:13:20):
Right, thank you, say, well, this is sort of a
follow up call, but situation it's involved involving brown patch.
And then also a question about how to remediate the
fact that I guess the fung aside that I applied,
as I understand it kills off good, good organisms as
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well as the bad organism. So to start on the thing.
Back in September, on the twenty first, I applied the
first round of the one eagle I guess it was yes,
and I had already started seeing some patch appearing in
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my backyard. And then after I applied, say within a
week or two, I could see the grass starting to
fill in to those areas, and I thought, okay, we're
doing well. And then I got busy with life, and
by the third week after that original application, I could
see brown patch spreading again. So I applied Eagle again
on October twelfth, and I had the same basic thing. Well, okay,
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the same sort of thing happened. I got busy with life,
and by the third week I was I was seeing
the brown patch come back again. So I had reapplied
on November first, and on November first, I went ahead
and put down the micro Life brown patch treatment to
get the fertilizer full fertilizer down and get the organisms,
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the good organisms in that brown patch formulation down on
the yard. And that's where I'm at. But okay, so
I'm one week away from the third application, and I
don't know. I'm assuming, you know, based on the instructions
on the bag, which said every two weeks, I may
have to keep applying that product every two weeks for
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a while. But I'm wondering when this is going to end.
Speaker 5 (01:15:11):
Do you have any idea it should last longer than that.
I would If you've done it twice, I think you
ought to be good on it. Right now. The things
that predisposal to brown patch attack are lots of water,
frequent watering rain or irrigation, and excessive nitrogen. If the
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grass is really in a lush state, it's going to
be hit harder with the brown patch. Sometimes the applications,
as I was saying earlier, may have been after the
infection had begun, so you don't always see the results
you had hoped to see. But if you've done it twice,
I think you're good on that. I would just watch
the cultural things like water and fertilizing and hold it
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with what you put on right now, and I think
that that is the best thing that you can do
for it. You may need to shift. I don't know
of a resistant strain of brown patch in our area
or anything, but you know, if you're not seeing results
with any kind of product, it's never a problem to
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shift to something else and see if you get a
better result with that. But for right now, that should
be enough. That should be enough.
Speaker 18 (01:16:20):
Well, I'm just thinking, okay, so again I'm a week away.
I'm thinking two weeks, three weeks, say, by third week,
if I start seeing the brown patch coming in again,
should I go ahead and reapply third weeks?
Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
Third week since the last application?
Speaker 18 (01:16:36):
Well, right now, I'm a week away from the third
application of Eagle.
Speaker 5 (01:16:42):
Well half far apart where they were so first of
November and then you did it.
Speaker 18 (01:16:50):
Well, I'm sorry, okay, we're going too fast on the third.
The first time I applied it was September twenty first,
than October twelfth, then November.
Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
First, Oh, I see, okay, So each.
Speaker 18 (01:17:02):
Time I can see the grass starting to grow back in.
Speaker 5 (01:17:07):
Yeah, and you've you've done it three times already and
you want to do a fourth is that it well.
Speaker 18 (01:17:13):
Uh, I'm wondering. I mean, at this point, I'm a
week away from the third application, but next week it'll
be two weeks, which would be I guess on the
on the what two weeks?
Speaker 13 (01:17:26):
You know?
Speaker 18 (01:17:26):
So I'm just wondering if if I keep if I
keep going without applying more of the product, am I
going to wind up having brown pash coming back in again?
Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
Does You shouldn't have to You shouldn't have to apply
that many times to get through a season on this.
If you want to try it once more, i'd wait
a little longer at least before you try it again.
But uh, I can't quite picture what you're seeing out there. Uh,
something doesn't sound quite right. But I can't put my
finger on what's exactly what's going on there. I would
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say wait at least until a little bit later in
November if you're going to apply it again, And if
it were mine, I think I just wait and watch period.
But that's a lot of applications, and you you should
have covered things. It should it goes in systemically into
the plant, and you should get about three weeks out
of it.
Speaker 18 (01:18:18):
Even if you look at the instructions on the back
of the bag. They say apply every two weeks for
for brown patch.
Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
Yeah, well you can to get ahead of it and
stay ahead of it. But man, you've you've been applying
it like pretty often. So if you want to go
ahead and give it one more, give it one more.
But it's not it's not a black and white line
on this. And I've got to run. I'm I'm late
for a break here, but there's not a black and
white line on it. Just just give it another one
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if you like. And then I think I might. I
might if you're still having brown patch problems, I might
shift and try a different set of chemistries on it,
just just as a make sure. Okay, I'm sorry, but
I've got to run. Greg. I hope that is helpful
for you. You're listening to the garden line. We're gonna
take a little break at the top of the hour here.
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I will be back if you would like to be
first up when we come back, give us a call.
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I'm going to go out to the phones now. We're
going to go to West University and we're going to
talk to Charlie. Hello Charlie, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 9 (01:21:57):
Thank you, good morning. Question two questions. One about moms.
We had some mums in the last or three months
or so, and they bloomed real nice, and then maybe
two or three weeks ago, the blooms faded.
Speaker 7 (01:22:15):
And turned brown, and I'm not sure what to do
with it now. I have re read that you might
have a second crop of mums if you trim the plant.
Speaker 6 (01:22:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
Well, not at this point in the season. The buds
that we enjoy in the fall were set in late summer,
and so whatever buds it had, it had. If they
ever get dry, and they get dry fast, those moms
use a lot of water in a pot. If you don't,
you let a day or two go by without water,
and I mean they brown out on you. But you
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can trim, show them back and put them in the
ground and try to keep them going that way. If
you continue to take care of them through the year,
you can have moms next year. They they're much lankier
bushes than what you buy. So the reason those you
bought are so nice and tight and mounded is because
they they've sheared them and shared them and sheared them
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all the way up until about midsummer and then let
them grow for the fall, for the fall show. So
in the landscape you have to do the same thing,
uh to maintain a compact form. But you can do that.
But as far as this fall the bloom, the blooms
are done. If they're if the ballooms they had are gone,
they're done.
Speaker 7 (01:23:31):
Okay, Now you're assuming I should leave them in the
pot or take them out of the pot and dol
I trim them.
Speaker 5 (01:23:37):
Now, well, it's up to you. I mean, I you know,
all things being equal, would be better go ahead and
get them in the ground and let them get start
getting established, uh for next year. Uh, if you want
to leave them in the pot and just we have
a saucer under ours, a real deep saucer, like two
inches deep, and we just fill that with water and
whenever there's no water in the saucer, we fill it
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up again and it wicks right up into the pot.
And that's the best way to water a mom. If
you pour water over the top, you end up with
some rots and decays, and it's just harder to water
them well that way. So we use the bottom watering thing.
And you may if you don't leave in a pot
for a while, you can do that, do the bottom watering.
But either way, just keep them moist, get them in
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the ground, and then next year as they start to
grow periodically kind of shear them back a little bit.
Speaker 9 (01:24:26):
Okay, well, I'd like to put them back in the
pot in the nice visible location again so I don't
have a place to see them in the ground.
Speaker 7 (01:24:36):
Okay, I got you.
Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
Then then you got a challenge in your hands. It
can be done, but to go you know, all the
way from March to October, not letting it go dry
is a challenge. And you're definitely are gonna need a big,
big deep saucer underneath there that'll hold some water. And
then you just have to always be watching it and
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make sure doesn't lack for water. Give it some fertilizers,
you go through the season. Okay, it can be done.
Speaker 7 (01:25:06):
It keeps the moist all water.
Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
Well moderately moist. Yeah they're not using much water when
it gets cold. But yeah, when we first got our mom,
I mean I was filling that saucer like at least
once a day, keeping it adequately hydrated. Yeah not now, okay, sir,
thank you good luck with it. Appreciate your call very much. Yeah,
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moms are very very popular for good reason. They're gorgeous plants.
They're beautiful. Speaking of gorgeous plants, plans for all seasons.
Has gotten in their holiday cactus, and oh my gosh,
they are so beautiful, you know, the colors that kind
of a coral orange, red to pink to hot pink,
you name it. They've got all kinds in there, and
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they look good. They look really good. When you take
those things home. You want to keep them adequately MOI,
and give them give them as much light as you can,
you know, I know we want to display them indoors
for decorating and things. Just keep them out where they
get good light. Keep the temperatures as moderate as you can,
no extremes, and they just look I've got I probably
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have like seven holiday cactus now because each year I
get one. And then they're easy to take care of.
I mean, if you forget the water a little bit,
they're okay. Don't overwater them all the time, but I
mean they're easy to take care of. Mine just keep surviving.
And so here, I don't know, I don't want to
do all these things. Maybe put a whole bed of
them in or something. But seriously, plants for all season
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has them. They look good and oh my gosh, the adeniums,
the desert rows that they have is they're gorgeous. I
can describe it. But you just got to go by
and see them, you know, some of them. Some of
those plants have like a variegations in the flowers themselves,
so you kind of get a multi It's just very interesting.
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They're beautiful plants. They're easy to grow. Just don't know
over water them. They're succulent. But they're there, and while
you're there, you're gonna be able to pick up all
the fertilizers. I'll talk about it on guard line. They're
gonna they've got their roses, they've got shrubs, trees, annual
color containers, just you name it. They've got it. Plants
for all seasons. There on the corner uh well, just
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just north of Luetta on uh where two forty nine
are on the side of two forty nine on the
Feeder road. So if you're if you're exiting for Luetta,
you just want to go north on the Feeder Road
and they're just a block up the street there and
when you go in, you're going to find expertise. Like
I was bragging on about our garden centers here locally,
you're gonna find exactly that, very helpful people plants that
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want to grow here. That's Plants for all Seasons, Plants
for All Seasons dot com. If you would like to
give me a call, feel free to do so at
seven one three two one two kt r H. I'm
gonna take a break. I'll be right back. Welcome back,
garden line folks. Here we go. We are back in
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the satelle again on discussing things to help you have
success with plants. I hey, one way to have success
in your lawn is to take care of the three
big issues that happened this time of the year. That's
fall fertilizing. That is weed prevention, and that is disease management.
And as far as fall fertilizing, nitroposs back to all
three of them. Nitrofoss has got you set up with
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what they call the three step, the Texas three Step program.
You do the two step on the dance floor and
the three step across your lawn. Here's what you do.
You put out fall Special for Winter Riser that is
designed with a mix of nutrients. That's ideal to help
that grass plant go into the fall season producing the
carbohydrates necessary for cold heartiness and early spring growth. Second,
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you bet on the barricade, which is their pre emergent
by nitroposs. You put on barricade, it prevents weed seeds
from germinating. And then the nitropos Eagle turf funge side
is a systemic protectant and curative fungicide. It goes into
the grass plant roots and it provides that plant what's
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necessary to fight off that brown patch when it occurs.
One two three fall special barricade EGO turf fungicide. After
you put them down, you put them all down the
same day. Water them in with a half inch of water.
Get them into the soil, because that's where everything happens.
That's where the roots take up the fertilizer. That's where
the roots take up the fungicide and the soil surface.
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That barricade ties up right there, so when a weed
seed tries to sprout through it, it says, uh uh,
not going to happen. You can find this at D
and D feed up in Tomball. You can find it
hiding and feed on Stuben or Airline, Ace Hardware out
there in Sinco Ranch or Gym's Hardware up in Montgomery
as well, nitrofoss Texas three Step all three products available
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in those places. And also you know, just in general,
you know I talk about ACE Hardware stores a lot,
Ace Hardware is going to have everything you need. This
three step program by Nitropos. You go to an ACE
Hardware shore, you're going to find it. Ace Hardware carries
a wide variety of things. If I mentioned a fertilizer
on garden line, They're going to have it there at
ACE Hardware. If I talk about well you need this
herbicide or this sponge side or this insecticide, They're going
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to have them at ACE Hardware store. They carry organic,
they carry synthetic. They carry the things necessary for you
to have a beautiful, beautiful landscape and a very bountiful
garden as well. That turning that outdoor area into a
place you just enjoy gathering, turning your landscape into a
place you're happy to drive up to or to go
out in the back in the evenings and sit and
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enjoy Ace Hardware. Forty stores in the Greater Houston area
actually more than forty. Now go to Acehardware dot com
and find the store locator, put in your zip code,
and you see this cool map that's like, oh my,
there's a bunch of Ace Hardware stores that I can
drive to from right here. In fact, one may even
be across the street. There's so many of them in
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the Greater Houston area. Ace Hardware. We're going to go
now out out to Laporte and talk to Stephen Well. Hello, Steven,
welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19 (01:31:06):
Hey, good morning. How are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 5 (01:31:09):
I'm good, sir. How can I help? Hey?
Speaker 19 (01:31:11):
I wonder what's what's the best kind of succulent to
plant for this time of year?
Speaker 20 (01:31:19):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:31:20):
Well, there's a lot of immune plant this time here.
What are you looking for? Something to plant in the
ground as a ground color like a container?
Speaker 19 (01:31:27):
Yeah, downcover would be nice. Just you know, something big
and colorful and uh, something that will go good with
this this type of weather this year.
Speaker 5 (01:31:39):
Yeah, you know, the succulents in general, they tend to
not be as colorful. There are some that bloom. A
stone crop is one that blooms that's used as a
groundcover a lot. Uh, there are some that have a
kind of a it's kind of a silvery color to
the foliage one. And a ghost plant is an example
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of a succulent that has that kind of color that's
interesting in the folio. And then there are plants that
are annuals that are succulent you know personally, and don't
plant that now we're way out of that season. But
I'm just saying there's a wide variety of options in containers.
There's oh gosh, the desert rose. It's absolutely gorgeous. It's
beautiful for containers, but it can't take freezes. Put in
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a container, so we can bring it in when we plant.
But you just have a lot of good options. Go
into a good quality garden center. I know you're with
where you're located out there, not too terribly far away
from Moss Nursery out in Seabrook. Have you ever been
to Moss?
Speaker 19 (01:32:38):
Yeah, yeah, I've been in there.
Speaker 20 (01:32:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 19 (01:32:39):
Yeah, they built that out of their house right there.
Speaker 5 (01:32:43):
Yeah. It is many many, many, many many years ago.
They have excellent selection. They've got they got succulents in
mixed basket container and containers. So yeah, like you get
a bunch of different succulents all together that you just
grow together like that, and they've got some really good options.
I'd go by there and talk to him and just see, hey,
what do you guys got in You know, that would
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be good and hearty for this time of year because
there are a lot of out there. Just make sure
with succulents they got good drainage. That's that's a muss.
Speaker 19 (01:33:12):
How many how many freezes are we supposed to get
this winter? Doesn't seem like we're going to get much
winter at all.
Speaker 21 (01:33:17):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
And I had a crystal ball and I broke it,
and now I have no idea. No I wish, I
wish I could predict that, but who knows. And you
guys are down far enough south where you know, you
just don't you don't have the same amount of freeze
issues that they would up in the northern part of
our listening area here on ktr H.
Speaker 19 (01:33:38):
But uh yeah, okays, yeah, I'll swing by Moss and
check out what they have, and I recommend everybody. I've
been in there many times.
Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
Oh yeah, Oh, I love that place. I love that place.
We we've got some of their strings from the house
plant greenhouse, string of Pearls, string of dolphin, the string
of they got strings of everything in there too. Yeah,
that's not a hearty one you put outside, but it
sure is a fun one to grow. So anyway, well
thanks or even call than you bet appreciate that very much.
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Take care if those got in the Kingwood area. I
was just out there yesterday, by the way, thanks you,
thank you to wild Birds out in Kingwood Drive in
Kingwood for having me out yesterday. We had a really
good time. And I was talking to some people and
they were looking for some things in a garden center
and said, look, Warren Southern Gardens is right down the
street on North Park or Kingwood Garden Center over on
Stone Hollow at the Kingwood Garden Center. They're having a
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heck of a clearance in their gift shop, clearing out
for new inventory. And right now this week thirty percent off.
Next week will be forty. But let me tell you something,
if you wait till next week, the stuff you really
wanted to go in there and get maybe gone by then,
because you can't beat this deal. And they have their
gift shop has everything just try to imagine it, and
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it's in there, you know, select pottery and break slits,
candles and light fixtures, and hats and glassware, floor mats, vases,
kitchen stands, drink where, jewelry. It's an amazing place. Kingwic
Garden Setter's Gift Shop thirty percent off right now now
at Warrens Southern Gardens, they are still offering their little
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special deal on all kinds of things. Their emmerless bubbs,
by the way, are in stock there and you need
those for forcing make a good gift for you giving
to people that you go visit, maybe for Thanksgiving or
something like that. They are loaded up with cool season color,
like you know, pansies and violas and things. Still have
beautiful moms out there whatever you do though. And fall veggies.
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I keep trying to talk you into having a fall
vegetable garden, even if it's in a container. Warrens is
loaded with good fall veggies. If you are there or
if you go online, or if you call them, either
way you go about it, just say I want to
sign up for your newsletter, and you need to do
that because they have special coupons and they have special
offers like their monthly lawn care coupon that they have
during the season. You need to sign up for it
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so you can be up to date on what's coming
in and the special deals that they have, real easy
to do Warrens Southern Gardens out there in Kingwood, Texas.
Let's add up to Willis now and we're going to
talk to Mike. Hey, Mike Hara things and Willis.
Speaker 22 (01:36:20):
Oh it's a little bit wet right now. It's too bad,
but I want to complain about that. Yeah, no, I
needed the rain. You know, an orchard I've got I'm
planning on doing some early prunin on some fruit trees.
I've got a lot of fruit trees. I'm only one person,
so is that a problem. And then we put about
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fifteen citrus trees in a greenhouse because I lost about
twenty of them in the ground.
Speaker 5 (01:36:47):
And you know, can you when can you pick the citrus?
Speaker 22 (01:36:53):
You know we got mandarin oranges, to oranges to grapefruits, yeah,
you know, to be completely yellow, solid yellow or I
don't know. I've been experimenting with and but I y
you figure out what's your take on them?
Speaker 5 (01:37:09):
Sure? All right? Well, first of all, pruning, I would
wait until mid to late winter to prune your fruit
trees in general. And that is because if you print
them too early and we have warm weather, they try
to re sprout and then they get really hurt by
a cold freeze, so hold off until mid to late
winter to pune them. As far as citrus, citrus, you know,
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when we buy oranges, they're fully orange, But when you're
growing an orange, it doesn't have to be fully orange
to be ripe. In fact, you wait long enough and
it gets a little on the mealey side, So don't
expect it to be fully orange. Each one is a
little different. There's satsumas, there's oranges, and of course a
lot of other kinds of citrus, and you just kind
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of have the sample one. But I would say if
you get an orange it's got about fifty percent orange,
I might try it and taste it, and that way
you get used to the species and varieties you're growing
and what they should look like.
Speaker 22 (01:38:04):
Yeah, because we you know, I do have like mandarins,
the satsumas. You know, one one is turning real orange
right now, and the rest of the lemons and stuff
like that are still kind of green.
Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
That you can't wear that fruit early then and let
it ripen up.
Speaker 22 (01:38:25):
You know, the lemons and limes and green they won't rip.
Speaker 5 (01:38:27):
They won't ripen. Yeah, citrus won't ripen off the tree
that when you pick them, that's ripe as they're going
to be. Yeah, yeah, but this is this you know,
November is a big time season for satsumas and and
a lot of things.
Speaker 16 (01:38:41):
So just.
Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
You know, just test one out and then that way
you'll know. I mean I can sit there and try
to describe the color and stuff, but I just know
that they don't need to be fully orange, and you
should pick them when they're about half orange and see
what that's like. Maybe pick one a little bit later,
and then you'll know exactly for your issues and cultivars
what to do.
Speaker 22 (01:39:03):
How about really fruiting on muscanine grapes and blueberries and blackberries.
Speaker 5 (01:39:10):
Uh, I would wait until the end of winter for those,
do you want them? Or mid mid Actually midwinter is
fine on those. If you wait a little too long,
some of those will just drip and drip and drip.
When you pune a grape, it's like you cut cut
open a faucet or something. It's just dripping.
Speaker 22 (01:39:30):
Yeah, that's my problem.
Speaker 5 (01:39:32):
Just one person. Okay, all right, Mike, thank you sir,
Good luck with all that. Have fun with it. All
we ask is that you bring us half the produce
when you when you grow it. Asmite is the micronutrient
supplement you've heard me talk about on Guardenline. As M
Texas dot com is their website. Whenever you're fertilizing, just
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when you're done with running across the yard with a fertilizer,
run across it with asmite. I recommend about once a
year if you want to get a soul test done,
then you exactly with a saw test. You know exactly
every kind of fertilizing you need to do, from standard
fertilizers the three numbers on the bag to azemite, which
is all the trace minerals of trace elements that are
also essential, needed in small quantities, but essential ASMI Texas
(01:40:15):
dot com. That's a website where you can learn more.
And you're gonna find azamite all over the place here
in the greater Houston area. All right, I'm gonna take
a break the phone number seven one three two one
two k t RH. We'll be right back. Welcome back
to Guardline, folks. Good to have you with us. Hey,
if you live down in the League City area and
by League City area, I Mean Bay, Cliff and Dickinson,
San Leone, Webster, clear Lake, el coming to reality. You
(01:40:37):
know what I'm talking about, Santa Fe Lamark, Well, your
hometown feed store is League City Feed. League City Feed
is right there in League City. Just it's on Highway three,
a few a few blocks south of Highway ninety six.
Been around for forty years and it's the old time
feed store, A level time this. You go in there,
it just has I don't know, that ambiance of an
(01:40:57):
old time feature. I even like the fragrance and you
walk into an old time feed store just that I
don't know. I grew up going to feed stores and
I love those things. Well, when you go into League
City Feed, you're gonna find the fertilizers you need to
have success with your lawn. You hear me talk about
nitroposs and you hear me talk about azemide and nail
some plant food in microlife for example. They're going to
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have those there. They have products to control pests and
weeds and diseases. They also have some really premium premium
pet foods too as well. So stop in there. Sometimes
they're open money through Saturday nine to six are close today,
but money through Saturday nine to six, So after work
you can even swing by on the way home and
grab you some stuff there at League City Feed. Here's
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their phone number. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.
Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. League City
Feed just a few blocks south of ninety six on
Highway three. They're in League City. Let's see, we're gonna
go now to We're going to go to carry in Buffalo. Hey, Carrie,
(01:42:02):
how are things way up north in Buffalo?
Speaker 16 (01:42:05):
Cloudy and nasty?
Speaker 14 (01:42:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
Well, we'll take it. It was hot, dry and miserable before,
so we're gonna go with cloudy and nasty for a while.
Speaker 16 (01:42:14):
That is true. I wish we'd had as much rain
as y'all did. Okay, all right, My question is I've
got great myrtle barx scale? Is can I drench the
Do the drench right now or should I wait till spring?
Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
It's better to do it in the spring because the
plant are actively taking it up. You have better results
in the spring.
Speaker 16 (01:42:38):
That's what I was thinking. But I just wanted to
make sure.
Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
Yeah, if you want to get do you have a
bunch of great myrtles or just a few?
Speaker 13 (01:42:46):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (01:42:47):
Five.
Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
Okay, all right, well there are waste a monitor for
when the scale are active and crawling around. When the
new babies hatch out is typically March or April, as
you should start seeing that. If you can find those
busy out there crawling around, that's the best time of
all to even use. The sprays of oil on the
trunk will help at that stage. Otherwise it's kind of
hard to control those scale with oil.
Speaker 9 (01:43:14):
Like neamur.
Speaker 5 (01:43:16):
Like well, you could do knem oil or just a
horticultural oil, or in the Dorman season, dormant oil was
put out, but a horticultural oil also called a summer oil.
But it works when they got the little babies that
aren't protected crawling around the old mama scales, the white
things you see there, those are hard to kill with
the oil for a great myrtle bark scale. Okay, just
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giving you another option, all right, all right, well I
appreciate it, all right, all right, Well you have fun,
and I promise I will I will not tell the
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce that you said the place was
nasty and cloudy and all that. Okay, that's gonna be
our secret. Oh god, whatever you said, carry have fun,
(01:44:00):
take care bye bye.
Speaker 16 (01:44:03):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (01:44:04):
Oh gosh, you never know on guard line, and you
never know what's going to come out of my mouth either.
If you've been to the Antique Rose Imporium out there
in Independence, Texas, just a little drive outside of town,
it is such a cool place. Antiq Rosenperium has been
a destination for gardeners and families really since nineteen eighty three.
I almost went to work there when I was still
(01:44:25):
just in graduate school in college. I talked to a
previous owner there and was thinking about that back in
nineteen eighty three. So it's been around a long time
and it's a great place they've got they're always releasing
new roses. In fact, this Friday and not this Friday,
ever Friday in the past few weeks off all, they
were releasing a new rose side variety that hadn't carried before.
(01:44:46):
They got one called Xena XI NNA. It's an antique.
It's an American rose or an antique rose Emporium exclusive.
I'm having trouble getting my words lined up here. They
bred it, they got patents pending on it, and they
are releasing new varieties periodically out there. It's kind of
a cool place. You know, when you go, it's like
you've entered another place in time. It's a good outing.
(01:45:10):
It'd be a great thing to do, you know, on
an afternoon, just head out there, take some friends with you,
maybe a picnic lunch, or grab a restaurant out that way.
It's just a fun place to visit. Load it up
with native plants, other kinds of plants for seasonal but
of course roses, roses and more roses. Now, if you
purchase something there, tell them I sent you and they'll
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give you a ten percent discount at checkout. You got
to tell them SKIP sent me. Or if you're going
to order online, do you know you can order your
roses online from them. Enter coupon code and the coupon
code puts skip twenty twenty four and you'll get that
same discount. Go to the website and check it out.
That's the best way to see just how cool this
place is. Antique Roseemporium dot com. Well let's see here.
(01:46:01):
Don't have time to grab another call here, so when
we come back, we will be talking to Steve and
to John as well. Listen, if you haven't used Medina
has to grow, you need to get some right now,
and you need to keep it on hand. Medina has
to grow plant food. There's a has to grow lawn
that's great for the growing season. Medina has to grow
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plant food. Is a six twelve six that is perfect
for transplanting or for folio feeding, if you want to
go that route. But I would say when you put
any plant in the ground, I don't care if it's
a little tomato plant or a broccoli plant, or if
it's an herb, or if it's a flower, if it's
a shrub, or if it's a tree. Mix up. The
medina has to grow six twelve six because you always
got it on the garden shelf there. Drench it with
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a watering can right in around that plant. I would
do it again about a week later, maybe again a
third time a week later, and it helps that plant
get established. And that's very important because first of all, congratulations,
you're smart. You're planning in the fall, that's when you
should plant, and you're adding the medina to it. Medina
has to grow six twelve six. You're gonna have success.
All right, I'm going to take a break. I'll be
(01:47:06):
right back, folks. All right, folks, here we go our
last segment of the hour this morning. We got one
more hour in ahead of us, So stay tuned. If
you are planting a tree this fall, and if you
plan on planting a tree, plant it this fall. Now now, now, now,
now is the best time to plant a tree. And
I've said it before, Elsey, that one more time because
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I know people, you know, I broke my heart when
I first found out that people do not get up
every day to turn the radio on at six am
and listen NonStop all the way to ten am. Every
time line is on. People. You know, they wander in
and out, who knows when. So maybe you didn't hear
me say this, but fall is the best time because
when you plant a tree right now, you've got November, December, January, February,
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March and a six months of really reasonable weather where
the roots will grow. Even when our roots grow some
not as fast, but they grow before summer hits. It's
the best time and the best way to do it
is to put a three sixty tree stabilizer on that tree.
It's a little bar. It hooks up to a post
that I like to use a tea post because they're
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easy to drive into the ground. It has attachment that
hooks to the tea post, or you can hook it
to a regular post. It's I don't know, about a
foot and a half two feet long. You put it
right out from the tree. Then you don't have these
wires to trip over. You don't have you know, all
the other you know, like what do they do? You
take a wire, put a piece of a garden hose
(01:48:38):
over it so it didn't cut into the tree, and
all that. You don't have to do any of that stuff.
You just took it up the end that attaches the
tree as a soft rubber strap, and you loosely attach
it that way the tree can move, because there's a
principle in nature that when things are stressed and moved,
they get stronger. You go to the gym every day.
Let's do this. Here's a fun experiment. I know you
(01:48:59):
won't do it, but you know what I'm talking about.
You go to the gym every day, and I just
want you to get barbells, and I just want you
to work one of your arms. Do curls with one
of your arms every day, every day, every day, getting stronger, strong,
and then compare your left arm to your right arm.
What's gonna be the difference. Yeah, the one that works
out stronger, it's bigger, it's it's healthier. Right, Well, that's
what happens to tree trunks when they're bent and stressed
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by the wind. If you hold something perfectly still, it
doesn't go through that bending and stressing the roots in
the ground. When the tree leans and moves, they're stressed
and they get stronger and thicker and better. And so
you want to let trees move a little bit, you know,
not three feet, but you just want to give it
some room to move. And the three sixty tree stabilizer
(01:49:43):
does that. And you can get these things. They got
them hoorheshad and Gardens and Albin Southwest Fertilizer, corner businest
and Renwick Ciena Molt's done in Siena south of town.
And then as you go up central and north there's
Buchanans and there's RCW nursery plant for all seasons and
arbrogate all plays. As you can get the three sixty
tree stabilizer. Don't plant a tree without it. They last
(01:50:05):
a long time. When you're done using them on your tree,
just hang them up in the garage because you're gonna
want it again, or maybe your neighbor's gonna plant treating
a loan of yours three sixty tree stabilizer. All right,
let's head out now to Lake Jackson, Texas, and we're
going to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, Welcome to garden Line.
Good morning, Skip. I love your show, so thank you.
Speaker 23 (01:50:27):
I sent you you, sir, I sent you an email
just to better go. I've got three pictures of my
front yard. Yes, I'm battling a recurrent problem there. I
had to replace much of most of that yard last
year with the draft and you know, and what have you.
Speaker 4 (01:50:47):
And so now I've got this recurrent you know, funk.
Speaker 23 (01:50:51):
I think it's a fungal infection that I'm battling, and
it just seems to be getting ahead of me here.
So first, I guess, can you identify from the photos
what I'm dealing with?
Speaker 5 (01:51:05):
Yes, that is called large patch. We have always called
it brown patch. That's the name most people know better.
But a large patch of brown patch, and the nitroposs
eagle turf fungicide helps prevent that. Now you've already got
quite a bit of it, do there. So it's not
the fungicide's not going to make brown become green. You know,
(01:51:26):
when the weather warms up, grass will grow back. That
is not killing your grass. It's just rotting the leaves
off of the runner and then they'll grow back when
it warms up a bit. But if you're put the
eagle out now and protect the other areas that haven't
gotten it yet, that would be a good idea.
Speaker 23 (01:51:42):
Yes, I've been putting the eagle down about every three
weeks or so, and I think it's just got gotten
ahead of me.
Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
So I put a round of it down yesterday and okay,
I watered it in a bit, and so.
Speaker 23 (01:51:59):
Yeah, what I've done in the past is I'll just
take a rake and I'll go through and I'll rikee
and try to rake up some of those the brown
blades of the grass and get it out there.
Speaker 4 (01:52:09):
I don't know if that does any if that helps
or not.
Speaker 5 (01:52:13):
It doesn't really help. But what it also does is
it opens up more soil to sunlight, and that's not
a good thing. That's why Nitropos has their product called
barricade that we put on in the fall. You might
want to if you haven't done barricade, you may want
to do an application of that because you water it
in like you did that egal Tor fungicide. You watered
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in the and it gets in the soil surface. So
those areas where brown patches killed all the grass blades,
in time as they shrivel up, there's gonna be sunlight
and you're gonna start getting weeds into those areas. So
the barricade would be a way to prevent that from happening.
This all.
Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
I put some barricade down about two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (01:52:59):
Oh good, you're good, ye, don't reapply it, all right?
Speaker 23 (01:53:04):
Is it too late to lay down new side at
this point? Or should I wait until the next spring.
There's some areas of the yard that are yep.
Speaker 5 (01:53:13):
Yeah, yeah, I'd wait until next spring for sure. Don't
don't mess with that. Now, you're you're good for now.
Just okay, to continue to do the kinds of care
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:53:25):
Okay, all right, well, very good, skip, Thank you sir.
Speaker 5 (01:53:30):
You bet, you bet, Thank you very much. I appreciate
the call, all right. Our phone number is seven one
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we try to recommend the companies that I know do that.
When I when you hear me talk about stuff, it's
because I've used it. And there's some situations where, uh,
you know, I haven't, like for example, I haven't had
foundation work done before, but I have contacted the folks
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they've worked with and consulted with them, and I see
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it comes to products like fertilizers and pest control, disease control,
I've tried those things. I do those things, soil blends
and things, and that way I know when I'm recommending
something to you. See to me, there's there's two ways
that I can feel comfortable telling you about a product.
(01:54:35):
One is I use it and I know it works.
Number Two, as I see research on a product or
you know, an ingredient or something you know like Eagle
turf fungicide that is Michael Buttenel and that is a
systemic fungicide that works very well. I know that works.
I've seen the research on it. So I don't have
a question recommending things like that. We try to we
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try to weed through those. I just the other day
turned down a sponsor because that don't believe in the product.
I just don't, and so we're not going to do that,
and we try to stay with things that I've had
success with or that research has proven, and that is
my goal, at least is the best of my ability
to do that. We're gonna go now up to Tomball
and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13 (01:55:18):
Good morning, Skiff. I have a silly question for you,
but I'm gonna ask it anyway. All Right, I'm I've
talked to you before about this. I've got Bermuda and
sant augustine, So I'm taking out the sant augustine. So
there's a lot of bear spots, right, will sin So
(01:55:39):
do I put some good quality so all in there? Then?
Leaf compost? Or should I just go with the leaf compost?
Speaker 5 (01:55:50):
You could mix some leaf compost in if you're able
to mix it into the sole surface. I would go
ahead and do that. That would be fine. Or Heirloom
Soil has a product called Premium lawn Mix. It is
made with sand compost and bed mix, and it's really
good for prepping for sad laying. I believe it's seventy
(01:56:11):
four dollars for a supersack, which is a cubic yard,
and they'll you can go drive out there with a
truck or trailer and haven't put it in it, or
you can have them deliver it to you. But that's
the product I would use if you're going to be
planting a lawn is the premium lawn mix from Airloom Soils.
Speaker 13 (01:56:27):
Perfect. Okay, I'll do that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (01:56:30):
Yeah you met, Yeah, and up there in tom Oil
you're not that far away, so that's good. Well, good
luck getting that established. You know, spring is the best time.
That's when grassroots are growing. March, especially in April especially
the grass is waking up, and so you want to
have everything ready to go by then.
Speaker 13 (01:56:46):
For sure, what about Rover's tail on the phone? What
about nuts said, just kick it from but right now,
I probably like everybody else.
Speaker 5 (01:56:55):
Yeah, a product called sedge hammer or a product called
sedge Ender. But I hear the music. I'm about to
have to shut up here. If you go to gardening
with Skip dot com, that's my website. There's a publication
on nuts edge, and I really urge you to read
it before you get going after it because it will
help you understand how you go about controlling it. It's
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a unique weed and it's not just like, oh, spray
it and you killed it and you're done. Not said
is different. But the products, the products are on there,
and the information you need to have success is on there,
whether it's in a lawn of flower, better vegetaboard wherever
you got nutsedge? Okay gardening with Skip dot com. Thank you, yes, sir,
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thank you appreciate your call very much. Yeah, heirloom soils
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Before I went to break, I was talking with a
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dollars for a supersack that's a cubicyard. You can drive
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or trailer for you, or they will drive over and
deliver it for a delivery fee. I'll drop it off
in your area. Uh, it's I believe with delivery. They
have a three sack minimum. Okay, So it's it's expensive
to deliver bulk stuff around town with all the rules
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and regulations and costs and things like that. It costs
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It's ridiculous for that. But anyway, with this deal you
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They just look good. You can buy that stuff by
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They just have a lot good products. All right, So
let's see here. Where are we now? We're gonna go
to Deborah in Pleasantville. Hello, Deborah, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6 (02:01:11):
Hello, let's gip.
Speaker 7 (02:01:12):
Good morning.
Speaker 15 (02:01:13):
I got you an email yesterday about a fuzzy caterpillar
and today about translucent mushrooms. Are those good or bad
for the garden? I heard mushrooms can be a good thing.
Speaker 20 (02:01:25):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (02:01:29):
Yesrooms are, yes, I do. I looked at them. Those
mushrooms are decomposer fungi. It's the fruiting body of decomposer
down in the soil in the thatch or in the
dirt in the compost and the mult whatever. They they're
breaking that down, turning it back into soil, and so
whenever we get a little cool, cooler weather, a little
(02:01:50):
break from the temperature, a little rainfall, those mushrooms pop up.
It's a real common thing in the fall to see
a lot of million different kinds of mushrooms. But it
can happen anytime a year or two. But uh yeah,
no problem. It's just nature doing the thing it needs
to do so we can have a bountiful, beautiful place. Now,
the caterpillars, I'm trying to remember that. I don't see
(02:02:12):
that I did see. Is this the caterpillars that had
the little black and white hairs that were sticking.
Speaker 7 (02:02:17):
Out in the red eyes or something on him.
Speaker 5 (02:02:21):
That is a that's a tussock moth. Don't touch that thing.
Their little hairs are very irritating to the skin, very
burning to the skin. Uh and and so be careful
with those. But that's a toussy Uh. Well, that's okay. No,
I ain't gonna hurt anything. It's part in nature. It's okay.
(02:02:42):
Just Actually, there's a bunch of different kinds of tussic moth.
If I remember right, Deborah, it was yesterday I looked
at it. I think it's one called Shout's tussock moth
that you sent me. I'm not seeing the picture right now,
but I did look it up to see which one,
because a lot of them have black, have long black
and white hairs, and yours was almost all white. And
(02:03:02):
so if you want to get entomologically nerdy about it,
it's called Shout's toss of moth. Okay, you can tell
your friends that they'll be very impressed.
Speaker 9 (02:03:14):
And you know that.
Speaker 5 (02:03:16):
Well, I like that nerdy stuff.
Speaker 15 (02:03:18):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (02:03:20):
Yeah, all right, all right, thank you much. I appreciate
your call. All right, I'm counting on it. Man. It
hurt my feelings if you weren't. Thank you. We're going
to go to Magnolia now and talk to Cindy. Hey, Cindy,
welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24 (02:03:34):
You get Morrin Skip.
Speaker 12 (02:03:35):
How are you this morning?
Speaker 5 (02:03:37):
Well, I'm doing super well, Cindy. How can I help today?
Speaker 25 (02:03:41):
I am calling about my rosebushes. I had some shorter
issues during the summer and they were really neglected. I've
got some of them that have dead stalks on them,
and I know I probably should cut that back, but
I cut the dan out. But I'm questioning coming back
some areas because I know that cause fresh growth, and
(02:04:03):
I don't know if it's too late in the season.
So I want to ask you what to do with them,
and ask about fertilizing.
Speaker 20 (02:04:09):
What do I need to do for the winner?
Speaker 5 (02:04:12):
Yeah, good question. I would wait. Roses are pretty darn hardy.
I mean, you see roses trying to put on growth
in February, sometimes in December. It just depends on the
weather we're having. I would wait and not stimulate them
with pruning just yet. If you could get by until
about February to do that pruning Valentine's daytime, that would
be a good time to do it. It's not black
(02:04:32):
and white night and day. You know, you cannot touch
them until then. But if they were mine, I would
just put up with it and then get in there,
trim out all the twiggy stuff, cut them back however
you want after that, and I think they'll be fine.
I would start fertilizing as the growth begins in the spring,
and then periodically just give them a little boost to
(02:04:52):
keep good figure. Yeah, I would, because right now they
need to be settling in, not trying to grow. Pruning
and fertilizing, you know, those are things that stimulate growth,
and so we don't we don't come down.
Speaker 25 (02:05:07):
Wonder yeah, yeah, okay, wonderful. Well, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 24 (02:05:11):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (02:05:12):
Thank you well.
Speaker 5 (02:05:14):
Thank you for the call. Cindy. Good luck with those roses.
I hope that goes well for you. Well, I'm up
against a break here, so Curtis sat in Friendswood and
Orlando done or up in Spring Branch. You'll be our
first two app when we come back from break. I
just want to remind you listening to Guardline. We're here
ever Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am.
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Tell your friends, tell your neighbors. We got listeners all
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Speaker 24 (02:05:57):
There we go.
Speaker 5 (02:06:00):
That's what we're talking about this morning. Welcome back to
Guarden Line. Good to have you with us, Very good
to have you with us. We're having a good time here.
I'm having a good I hope you are. You know,
gardening is a blast, and the more you learn about gardening,
the better you get at it, and the more fascinating
fascinating it is. Just talking of it Diver a while ago.
You know, about the fungi that she has out there,
(02:06:22):
some of the nerdy stuff about the insects. That's kind
of cool stuff. I really really enjoy learning about all
kinds of things like that because it just every time
it's a reminder that the world we live in is
absolutely miraculous. It is amazing the things that are going on.
We start learning about a bacteria in the soil that
(02:06:44):
gets up against the plant root and tells that plant
root to grow different up on top can make it
more disease resistant. That is amazing stuff. When you look
at two plants that are connecting root to root and
one plant gets chewed on by an insect and a
signal goes to the next plant saying, hey, you need
to grow your tissues different to make it harder for
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this insect to eat you. That is amazing stuff. That's
the world we live in. We're just beginning to learn
about it. Just a miraculous beauty of creation that we
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Speaker 8 (02:07:39):
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Microlife bag contains a lot of central nutrients and billions
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It's not just the salt that dissolves in water in
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It's just easy to find and the stuff works. Let's
head out now to Friends with and we're going to
talk to Curtis. Hey, Curtis, Welcome to garden Line. Good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 20 (02:08:41):
I have a question about a big tree. Alrighty, it's
an orock big tree. It produces abundantly.
Speaker 13 (02:08:56):
This year it.
Speaker 20 (02:09:01):
Started giving out figs, oh, I would say, and March
they started to grow, and by August they had given
me all the things that I thought it was going
to give me, and then.
Speaker 7 (02:09:20):
It grew.
Speaker 9 (02:09:22):
Uh.
Speaker 20 (02:09:22):
It's covered with figs, but the hard as the rock,
and once a week or so one of them will
ripen up. But it's going to get cold here soon,
I know. So what what do you do with a
fig tree at this stage?
Speaker 5 (02:09:42):
Well, you just nothing, You just uh, you know, as
it cools off, the leaves are coming off, and it's
going to go into dormancy. So you don't want to
print it now. You don't want to fertilize it right now. Uh,
it's gonna it's just gonna go into dormancy, and sometimes
you get the end of the season and we don't
get those last figs finished. But it's a it's a
really good, it's excellent fig. Rourke was bred in l.
(02:10:05):
S u and lois In. In fact, part of the
parentage of it is Celeste, which is an A and
M bread fig. So you've got a fig there that
has a lot of genetics for being in southeast Texas,
if you know what I'm saying, And that's why it's
performing so well for you.
Speaker 20 (02:10:21):
Well, I remember typically over the last years the leaves
would turn yellow and fall off, but the leaves were
all still nice and green and it's covered with figs.
Speaker 5 (02:10:35):
Yeah, well it'll that'll stop here in a minute when
we get a little bit of cold weather in sad
But yeah, it's a it's a good fig. Just you know,
take what you got. And some figs just produce one
crop a year. Others are able to produce a couple
of times a year, and as long as we don't
freeze them to the ground, you're going to get sometimes
(02:10:55):
probably two crops on that O'Rourke.
Speaker 13 (02:10:59):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (02:11:00):
Good luck with it. So all we ask on guardline.
You know the rule on guardline. I don't charge for
my advice, but I do ask that you bring half
the produce and drop it off at the radio station.
We'll call it even, all right, I like figs. Hey
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go to Spring Branch. Now we're going to talk to Orlando.
Hello Orlando, good morning, Scipe. Thank you so much for
taking my call.
Speaker 21 (02:12:57):
I wish I had some good crops to bring you, guys,
but unfortunately I just have bad news.
Speaker 5 (02:13:03):
That's okay.
Speaker 21 (02:13:05):
I have these two beautiful pine trees that I think
they're being in the ground for longer than my house
has been build. My house was being in the mid seventies,
and unfortunately, after that recious storm and after that the herocine,
one of the trees was suffering and now it's just
completely brown. So I was told that they might be
(02:13:28):
pine beetles in it. And my question is one is
brown and I think it needs to be turning down,
But the other one is green.
Speaker 5 (02:13:38):
It's completely healthy and beautiful. What can I do to
protect that tree from the pine beetles? Well, first of all,
when you look at the trunk, Orlando, do you see
globs of sap up and down the trunk? Yes? Okay?
And are they yeah? Yeah? And little little balls, little
(02:14:01):
globs of it. Are they mostly from about eight or
ten feet down? Or they go up higher on the trunk,
they go up high? Okay? Do you see any sawdust
that's fallen out of the holes that is now sticky,
you know, catching in the bark as it falls down? Yes? Okay.
(02:14:21):
And we're talking about the dead tree or the or
the brown tree or the green tree now you.
Speaker 21 (02:14:25):
Know they we're talking about the bron the brown tree
on the.
Speaker 5 (02:14:29):
Yep. Okay, Well you could, I would call UH, I
would call Affordable Tree Care and talk to Martin spoon
Moore and see see what he thinks on it. And
he may be able to come out and take a look.
It may be worth trying to spray. If you got
that done. He could tell you when and how and
what it would cost and everything. Uh, the one that's
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brown is gone and it needs to come out, and
so you need to talk to him soon because pine
bark starts to slip off pretty quick after the tree dies.
And now you got to treat the very dangerous climb
because of that loose bark. And so I wouldn't delay.
At least call him, get some advice, see if he
can come out well. And Martin, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 21 (02:15:09):
Martin was here right after the hurricane and he did
some truth from the oak trees in the back and
he told me those trees healthy. Because I asked him,
do you need to do anything to the pine trees
and he says no, we don't typically do anything or
any shape into the pine to the pine trees.
Speaker 5 (02:15:26):
They're they're fine.
Speaker 21 (02:15:28):
But you know, like about a month ago is when
my neighbor across text me to say, hey, well trees dead.
Speaker 5 (02:15:36):
Yeah. So so here's what happens, Uh, Orlando, the the
the tree goo see some stress like it could be drought,
it could be other things. I've seen trees get hit
by both the lightning and within like two weeks they
have pineberk beetles all over them, and it's like the
tree is weak. It gives off a smell that the
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bugs smell, and they come to it, and when they
get in it, I mean, it's like you just slided
off with a chainsaw. I mean they cut off all
the flow from top to bottom, and so that that
tree turns brown really fast. And so you may not
have had it three weeks or a month ago, and
then all of a sudden, now it's like, well, why eat,
what's going on here? That's what happened to that tree.
(02:16:18):
But just if you've hired him to come out, just
call him back and just say, look, one of those
two trees says turn brown. I see all the pinebert
beetles spots on it. Talk to skip on garden line,
and I just need to know is there something you
need to spray on the other one or what would
you recommend? And just see he'll shoot straight with you. Yeah, yeah, okay,
I'll do that. I will call him and come over here.
(02:16:40):
Thank you so much. Keep appreciate what you do for us.
All right, man, Yeah, you bet take care. I talk
to you later. All right, let's see here, we are
gonna go I got a little bit of time. I'm
gonna go to Doris in Austin County. Hey, Dars, I
got a little over him.
Speaker 21 (02:17:00):
Here.
Speaker 5 (02:17:00):
Let's see if we can help you.
Speaker 9 (02:17:02):
Quick.
Speaker 20 (02:17:03):
Take a question.
Speaker 24 (02:17:04):
I'm going to plant cabbage and I need to know
how to keep the cabbage worms out of them.
Speaker 5 (02:17:11):
Okay, you got two options. One you could spray them
periodically with an organic spray called BT be as in
boy teas in tom That is a disease of caterpillar
and you spray it on the cabbage. And when a
cabbage worm or I mean a cabbage looper or worm
starts to chew on it, it gets that BT and
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it makes the worm sick and it kills it. So
you would just periodically need to spray with that. And
if you see little white moths that are fluttering kind
of tanned of white moths fluttering around out there, that's
the mama and she's laying eggs to give you caterpillars.
So that would be the thing. The other thing you
could do is if you take some netting. It could
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be there's a thing called garden netting that looks like
the screen on your house, except it's smaller and softer
to soft as a bed sheet, but it's a little
checkerboard squares so tiny the bugs can't get through it.
Or you can use something called row cover fabric that
is the same thing as the liner and a baby diaper,
very fine, very lightweight. If you were ever a seamstress
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and sewed, it's kind of like stabilizer, but a lot softer.
And it's also a screen that you put over the plant.
So you just drape it over the plant loosely, let
it grow up underneath there, and it keeps those bugs
from even able to get to the plant to lay eggs,
and you don't have to spray it all that way.
Speaker 24 (02:18:32):
Okay, how oftome do I spray you said periodically before?
Speaker 5 (02:18:37):
Yeah, probably, Well, I might wait until the first caterpillar
show up. That spray does only last couple of days
in the environment, and so like, if you sprayed today
and a caterpillar showed up on Thursday or Wednesday of
next week, that spray wouldn't be controlling anything. So I'd
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wait to see them and then I would get on
about once a week spray schedule. About once a week.
You know, a few holes here and there is not
the end of the world. You just don't want them
turning into the Swiss cheese.
Speaker 24 (02:19:09):
Right, Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (02:19:12):
You have a good day, you too, And I remember,
if you get any cabbage out of this deal, I
do know how to make star crap, So feel free
to drop half of it off at the station and
we'll call it even. Thank you.
Speaker 24 (02:19:25):
Okay, when I get all this cabbage, I'll call and
get your accress.
Speaker 5 (02:19:29):
I'm messing with you. Thank you, Doris. I appreciate that.
All Right, I gotta go to break here. I'll be
right back. Stay tuned, all right, welcome back. All I
need is a little R E S E C D.
Glad you're listening to Gardline today. Good to have you
with us. You've heard me you talk about Star Hope before,
(02:19:50):
because I believe in Star of Hope. I've been a
supporter of Star Hope for a while. I've seen the
work they do. I've talked to people that have been
through the Star Hope program. I've heard their stories. They
change lives. Star of Hope change lives with Christ centered assistance,
whether it is providing a meal. Do you know that
for two dollars and eighty five cents you can feed
a person, a homeless man, a woman, or individuals of
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a family for two dollars and eighty five cents. They
do more than six thousand meals a week. They're at
Star of Hope. So how many meals can you provide?
You want a way to put your compassion into action
in a way that changes lives. I'm not talking about
a handout or as they say, three hots and a
cot meaning three meals and a place to sleep at night.
They do that, of course, but they do more. They
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change lives. I mean, imagine, let me tell you this,
the face of homelessness is different than you think. You know,
we see people on tree corners and things like that,
driving around town. You see that. But the face of
homeless is much more complex than that. And there are
a lot of people who, for no reason of their own,
no fault of their own, have fallen on hard times.
(02:20:56):
And you know, it doesn't take much before you don't
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don't have a job, and all of a sudden, now
how do you crawl out from under that? And they
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mom or dad is learning and developing their trades. They
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help you get on your feet and change your life,
and that changes your children's life, and that changes our
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I'm telling you it makes a difference. Put your compassion
into action by joining me and giving to Star Hope.
All you have to do is go to the website.
It's sohmission dot org. Sohmission dot org. Check it out,
(02:21:44):
learn more about it. You'd be very impressed by the way.
They have opportunities for volunteering too. If you even want
to get more involved, they could sure use that too.
We're going to go now and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy,
welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 26 (02:21:59):
Good morning. You should have an email that I sink. Yes,
you should have an email.
Speaker 8 (02:22:06):
But.
Speaker 25 (02:22:08):
I do, I do?
Speaker 13 (02:22:09):
I do.
Speaker 5 (02:22:10):
That's a Texas Red Bud that you've got. Did you
know that's called the Texas Red Bud?
Speaker 26 (02:22:16):
No, And I looked it up. It's a red bud,
and I went, what in the world? I thought it
was something else.
Speaker 5 (02:22:21):
Yeah, it's a red bud. But there's a there's at
least three different kinds of red buds you see around
here Mexican redbud. You almost never see Eastern red buddies everywhere.
It's wild in the woods.
Speaker 10 (02:22:34):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:22:34):
And the Texas redbud has those shiny leaves that don't
have the extended tip like eastern redbud does. But it's
a good tough redbud. What your tree is doing is
it's the end of the year. Those leaves are old,
they're fixing to come off, and it's almost like all
the way they kind of hold back diseases and things,
it sort of goes away and you get all these
spots and sections and things. Don't worry about it. Those
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leaves are coming off. It's okay. That tree is plenty
of leaf surface area and it's gonna be just fine.
You don't even need the spray and it and it
stays that small.
Speaker 26 (02:23:08):
I've had it when we was about the house about
on the lake about four years ago, and it just
doesn't grow anymore.
Speaker 20 (02:23:13):
Is that seven?
Speaker 5 (02:23:16):
Oh? I don't know. All I can see is close
ups to the leaves. How big is the plant.
Speaker 26 (02:23:21):
It's it's like a little tree and it's about six
foot tonne.
Speaker 5 (02:23:27):
Okay, I'll get bigger than that. It'll get bigger than that. Yeah, okay,
it some time.
Speaker 26 (02:23:33):
Okay, Hey, quick note, I told you a few weeks
act about my watermelons, whether they were ripe or not.
After I got off the phone with you, I walked
out to my garden and raccoons had gotten nine of
my eleven watermelons. Oh my god, I devastated. It was
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it was I seven because it one more day and
I'm gonna call Skip called you walked up here and
nine big beautiful one. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (02:24:04):
You know, I think I think I think varmits hear
you talk into the house. One time I had a
corn patch and I checked it and it's like, oh man,
this corn needs to be picked. I'm gonna pick this
in the morning. I think some raccoons across the fence
heard me and they got in there and they stripped
the patch.
Speaker 26 (02:24:23):
That Adam Carty, I know I heard your story before
and I thought of you. Guy said, he's one person
that will feel my pain because I feel your.
Speaker 5 (02:24:34):
Feel Nancy wors Flint wors Flint, I'm.
Speaker 26 (02:24:40):
Lake Palastin outside of time.
Speaker 5 (02:24:43):
Oh okay, all right, well thanks for listening up there.
Tell your friends to listen to garden Line. Good to
have you with us today. Thank you for the call.
All Right, folks, always interesting, you know, living in Texas
my whole life except for three years. And uh, I
feel like I pretty much know every place, have been
through it at one time or another. And I still
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run into place maybe I used to know but forgot.
You know that happens, you know what I'm talking about.
But anyway, it's always interesting finding new places. Haven't been
to there before. All right. I was at Wildbirds Unlimited
in Kingwood yesterday, had a great time. Appreciate John and
the team out there having us out. We really enjoyed
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visiting with people and it really had a good time.
Walbird's Unlimited is such a great store. You know, there
are Wildbirds Unlimited stores all over the place. You can
go to the website. Here's the web address. Go to
a WBU dot com forward slash Houston and what that's
going to give you is it's going to give you
a website that has all six stores where you can
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find them here in the Greater Houston area. You can
find the one in Kingwood, or you can find the one. Yeah,
there's Cyprus, they're clear Lake. They're all over west side
of Houston Memorial. Ay, there's Wildbirds unlimiteds all over and
you can find the one near you and when you
go by there, you're gonna find quality feed. I just
picked up some Wallbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend that is
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a Cadillac feed. It has got It's packed with fats
and proteins and things like that to help birds because
you know, we're in a cool season here where the
days are getting shorter. It's we're on the doorstep of it,
and they don't have as much time to get out
there and find feed. And my feeders have been kind
of quiet lately. In fact, I was talking to Johan
at Wilbirds about that and he said, yea, ask kind
(02:26:28):
of normal into summer early fall. But they're coming back
and we know they will. Do you need to have
the feed ready to go for them to bring them
to your house. Another way to bring birds your house
is to have water. Always have water out I've got
a little fountain out there. I've got a giant dog
bowl type thing that I just keep filled with water
all the time. Birds need water every day of the year,
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especially in summer. But do you know every day of
the middle of winter they got to have a drink
of water that day. Right, you got water, you'll have birds.
And if you go to Wildbirds, you'll have even more
birds because they have quality products there, especially those super
high quality feeds. Okay, I've got to take you break,
Tiffany and Cypress. You will be our first up when
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we come back. Oh man, well, Chuck Berry by us
up here on a Sunday morning. We're going to head
straight out to the phones to Cypress Texas and talk
to Tiffany. Hey, Tiffany, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12 (02:27:24):
Good morning, love.
Speaker 27 (02:27:25):
Your show is always and we so enjoy wild Birds
Unlimited our Cypress location. They're so nice and helpful, so
I'm glad you promote them, but I apologize it's been
a while. I know they're just the kindest people. It's
so much fun to.
Speaker 7 (02:27:39):
Go in there.
Speaker 27 (02:27:40):
I had sent you an email of my wax leaf Lagustrians,
and we had our house built about five and a
half years ago, and they've been so hearty. But recently
the leaves have started turning like really yellow, a brilliant
yellow with like brown spots on them, and they I
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just want to make sure that I control whatever's going
on before it hurts them since they've been around a while.
Speaker 5 (02:28:11):
All right, well I'm going to be the bearer of
bad news. Okay, But here's what it is. That is
a disease called sarcospara leaf spot. It's a fungal spot
and wax leaf lagustrum is plagued by it. Every time
the leaves get wet, it splashes the spores around and
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you get more spots. So when it rains or when
you have an irrigation spray that hits them, and it
is very hard to get rid of. Now you can.
You can try to fight it. That's one option, and
that would mean raking up all the fallen leaves, picking
off the leaves that have spots on them, or even
pruning those things back. They're a little large and loose
(02:28:53):
shrubs right now. Anyway, you could do some pruning back
or remove it. And then you have to spray every
time it rains. Every time it's rains, you go right
out after the rain and you spray with a fungicide
and that way the spores that would be germinating, you
get that fungus fungicide in the plant to try to
help prevent it. That's a lot of spraying for what
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would be the foreseeable future. The alternative, and I said,
I had bad news. But the alternative, if they're mine,
had pull them up and get rid of them. I
don't like that plant. It always looks like this. Once
the disease finds it and gets in, you just are
constantly dealing with this. So I would rather pull them up,
put a plant in that I don't have to take
care of all the time, and those you can't. Yeah,
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okay about those. Imagine those leaves as being sick people
in a room. So you got a green leaf and
all these sick people coughing around the room, what are
your chances of coming out of it not sick? Right?
That's how this is. That's why it gets so bad.
Speaker 27 (02:29:57):
Right, absolutely. Yes, I've worked with kids for twenty eight years,
so that's a that's a great analogy.
Speaker 24 (02:30:01):
I'm thinking about that.
Speaker 27 (02:30:02):
Right in the classroom in my therapy sessions.
Speaker 5 (02:30:06):
Yes, that's someone told me once that said, kid kids.
Kids are like petri dishes.
Speaker 27 (02:30:12):
You know you just oh, absolutely, they are bless their hearts,
and not all of them wash their hands or cover
properly their their nose and mouth.
Speaker 5 (02:30:19):
Imagine that imagine that a good thing. You and.
Speaker 28 (02:30:26):
Well, that's that's good advice because you know, it's just
these are just the plants that the builder put in,
and unfortunately they don't always put the most lush, you know,
high quality stuff.
Speaker 26 (02:30:37):
But what do you them in?
Speaker 27 (02:30:40):
Because they're big, they're like there, there's a few of
them lined up. I'm thinking, oh, at least four, at
least four or five. So if we pull those up,
what do you recommend me put there?
Speaker 5 (02:30:53):
You know, I don't. I only see one photo that
kind of shows me the setting. You don't want something
gigs so big you can't see in and out the windows,
so I would go with something smaller. You've got some
it looks like an in Hawthorne down there in front.
Maybe something with some color behind it, Like there are
some dwarf Laura pedlums that are only going to get
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about four feet high, but you can prune them and
keep them lower and they have a burgundy foliage that
would be pretty. They would grow in that amount of
light there. You could you know, you could put It's
just a lot of different plants that could go in
a spot like that, But I might consider a very
dwarf Laura Pedlim. It's called Chinese witch hazel, purple, burgundy,
foliage and beautiful little shaggy pink spring blooms. Just get
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the shortest one you can find. Because Chinese lation you
can get twenty feet tall eventually. So you want to
get one that says it's going to get about four
feet and then you work to keep it, keep it
more compact than that.
Speaker 24 (02:31:49):
That would be an option, okay, And I'm.
Speaker 5 (02:31:53):
Trying to break up that sea of green. You know,
you don't want just green shrub, green shrub, green drub.
Then you lose you don't see them all, you know,
But there are some other tall ones. Where are you located,
you're oh Europe in Cyprus. Go up to go up
to arbrogate nursery or plants fill seasons. They're gonna have
a lot of good shrubs and just tell them you
talk to me on the air, and here's what you got.
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You got some green Indian hawthorne, and you'd like a
shorter shrub with some color form behind them, and they'll
they'll put put several options in your hands.
Speaker 16 (02:32:23):
Perfect.
Speaker 27 (02:32:24):
That sounds wonderful. Well, thank you so much, Skip and
have a great week and I'll listen to you next weekend.
Speaker 5 (02:32:30):
Thank you, ma'am. Glad you're listening. Appreciate it. You take care, Tiffany,
take care.
Speaker 13 (02:32:35):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:32:35):
Nelson Plant Food is a purveyor of some of the
best fertilizers for our area that you're going to find.
You know, they've got the turf Star line for your
lawn where right now. Carbol Load is the turf Star
product for the lawn for fall. It produces or it's
made of a good concentration of potassium with some nitrogen
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that creates winter heartiness. That's what it's called carbol It
produces your plant produces carbohydrates that makes it heartier and
come out in the spring better. That's the turf Star line.
The nutri Star line lots of quality fertilizers that are nutristar.
They've got a tree and shrub that is worth having
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and all through the season color Star.
Speaker 11 (02:33:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:33:20):
Nelson don't need a bunch of products. For our appearance
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their rose fertilizer, they've got mary fertilizers. They've got the
color Star, which is kind of the standard for the line.
Color Star is. I guess it's been around for about
forty years now, and people even outside of Texas land
(02:33:43):
professional landscapers purchase it and have it chipped in because
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Anytime you're putting a plant from one pot to another
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We're not gonna be able to take any more calls
at this point in the show, but I just wanted
to make a couple of comments before we go forward.
I want to remind you that there our ceremonies going
on yesterday, today, and tomorrow as part of the two
thousand United States Flag program. It's called Honoring Heroes in
Fort ben County. So what you do is, this is
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the University of Houston Sugarland campus. It's on University Drive
in Sugarland, and you can purchase a flag to be
put out there. But we're talking about like two thousand flags.
It is so beautiful when this is done, really worth seeing.
It just gives you a chance to feel and a
hope at the same time seeing that sea of two
(02:35:38):
thousand flags dedicated to the honor and the memory of
those we love. You know, Monday tomorrow, Veterans Day, Monday,
Tomorrow's Veterans Day. The memories that can be seen by
our children, our grandchildren, our neighbors and our friends. Something
that goes on all the time they're done. It's called
Honoring Heroes in Fort ben County, part of the Exchange
Club of Sugarland, Texas, that annual field of honor. You
(02:36:02):
should go see it if you want more information, if
you'd like to give a give someone a call to
find out more about it. Just as seven one three
eight two four sixty one twenty six seven one three
eight two four sixty one twenty six. A good thing
to do with the kids. Take them out tomorrow to
see that pen. That would be really really good. It
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always helps you know, each uh, each generation has to
kind of learn experience for themselves the sacrifice, the value
of what was given so that we get to enjoy
the things we enjoy in our country. Certainly grateful for that. Well,
you've been listening to Guardline. We're here ever Saturday and
every Sunday. I want to remind you that you can
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