Roots vs Concrete: The Trees Wage War On The Sidewalk

Skip Richter takes your calls all morning long!

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
The crazy trim.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just watch him.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
As many things to see boys, not a.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Sign j.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Smon.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hey, good morning, Good morning gardeners. I know you've been
out there probably for the last hour working in the yard,
but glad you came in listen to garden line.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know, we gardeners were dedicated. Maybe not that dedicated,
but we are dedicated. Although if it were the heat
of summer, it wouldn't be a bad idea to be
working in the yard at five in the morning. That's
about as cools that's going to get for the day. Fortunately,
fall is that we're at the doorstep of fall. It's
just right around the corner, and so we're looking forward
to that. It is time to be doing lots of

(01:12):
stuff out there in the garden. We'll be talking about
that today. We will also be taking your calls. If
you would like to ask a question here on guard line,
well it's easy to do. Just give me a call
seven one three two one two kt r H or
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
We look forward to visiting with you and helping you

(01:34):
to have success. I want to remind you first thing
up this morning that I'm going to be at Bearings
Hardware on Biscinet today from twelve thirty to two thirty.
Twelve thirty, two thirty Bearings Hardware on Biscinet. I'm going
to be given away uh drawings every probably about every

(01:54):
twenty minutes, if not a little more often. We've got
two sets of the Nitre five Texas three step, so
each of those is three different things. It's the Fall
Special Winterizer. Now that's a that's a fertilizer that is
designed for the fall application. And what we do in
fall is we lower the nitrogen a little bit and

(02:15):
we bring up the phosphorus a little bit, and that is
Night Phosphaal Special. It's an eight twelve sixteen fertilizer. Got
that I said phosphorus, potassium too. Especially the potassium is
especially important for winter hardiness and to increase next spring's
initial growth. Your lawn comes out of winter with the

(02:35):
energy for new growth coming out of winter comes from
the fertilizer you put down in the fall. It's the
stored carbohydrates that are in the plant that start the
initial growth before the roots take over and begin to
bring in the nutrients of spring, so very important. Number
two nitrophos barricade that heads off all those winter weeds,
the cool season weeds, the ones you don't really even

(02:57):
notice until spring they sprout. Now, think of our blue
bonnets along the roadside. Blue bonnets are sprouting in the
fall October November. That you're seeing blue bonnets sprouting in
the vault, well you're not seeing them. They are. They
sit there's little plants all winter. I mean, have you
ever drivened down the highways in January and February and said, oh,
look at the blue bonnet plants. Now, you don't even

(03:18):
see them. And then they take off as spring comes,
they take off, They grow like crazy, they bloom, they
set seed and start it all over again. That's what
your weeds and your lawn are doing. Nitrofoss barricade shuts
them down before they even get sprouted in the fall.
That's number two. Number three Eagle turf fungicide. I'll be
giving away two bags of each of these. The Fall

(03:39):
special Winner Riser, the barricade, and the Eagle Turf fungicide.
It goes down, you watered in, it's actually taken up
by the roots, and it makes that plant. It protects
that plant against the brown patch now called large patch
that invades our launch. This is those big bronze circles
you see in the fall. You got to get this

(04:01):
down before them because it moves in the plant and
it protects it. If you wait until you got big
circles everywhere, you can completely kill it. If you could
completely kill a fungus, you would still have brown circles
until spring when the grass regrows reg greens in those circles.
So you do it ahead of time. Now, if you've
already got some circles, yes, you can still put it down.

(04:24):
It'll stop additional circles from coming. But when I get
it ahead of the whole thing, and that's how it
is on my schedule. If you look at my gardening schedules,
my lawn care schedules rather on the website gardening with
Skip dot com, you'll see exactly when to put all
these on. And the bottom line is, if I can
just make it easy for you, it's October. That's the
prime time you can do some of this. In September

(04:45):
if you want to get a head start, you can
even you know, there's even weeds that are sprouting in November,
so you get a little benefit from it. Then when
I get it down ahead of time, get the max
benefit from them. I'm going to be given away two
bags of each of those fall special Barricade Eagle Turf
fungdes side today at Bearings that We've also got a bag.

(05:05):
Let's see. No, I'm going to be giving away some
Texas Gardener magazines. For those of you who haven't subscribed
to Texas Gardener, come by. I'll give you a free
magazine you need to take a look at. It's the
best magazine for anybody gardening in Texas period. It's in
the coffee table magazine where you just look at pretty
pictures from England or something. This is a hands on
how to garden here magazine. I'll be giving you a

(05:27):
free copies of those Microlife brown Patch has donated a bag,
We'll be given some of that away as well. There's
a lot of other promotional items that will be given away.
So bottom line is stop by Bearings today and love
to meet you. By the way. If you have questions,
I think I'm gonna have somebody bringing by a symbol today.

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We've been chatting on email. If you have lawn issues
and you don't know what they are. Maybe it's a weed,
Pull it up, put it in a bag. Pull them up.
If you got more than one, put them in a
bag by we'll identify them and we'll talk about what
to do about them. If you have lawn dead areas
and you don't know what's causing it, you can take

(06:08):
a sample and bring that to me as well. Now,
in order to do that, it is very important that
you listen to these instructions. I cannot do autopsies. So
if you bring me a dead piece of grass, all
I'm gonna do is pronounce it dead. That's all I
can do. I can't do autopsies. I can do diagnosis.
What is a diagnosis? That means you bring me a

(06:29):
sick patient and I look at it and determine why
it's sick. So go to the zone between healthy and dead.
Healthy grass done anything wrong with it. Dead grass is
too late in the zone between sid grass. Take your
sample there, get a little four by four inch plug,
get some roots with it, Slip it right into a
ziplot bag. It's probably not gonna have chinchbugs on it

(06:52):
right now, but it could have signs of some side webworms.
I have had one or two of those come up
this year, and so put it into the buck, bring
it to me, We'll take a look at it, we'll
diagnose it. Don't charge for that, and that is the best.
You know. It's one thing to ask questions on garden line.
It's another to send me pictures and ask the call
in with questions. Best yet is just bring a sample by.

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Let's take a look at it. So we'll be doing
that having a good time. I hope you will be
able to stop by again. Bearings on Bestinet from twelve
thirty to three thirty. Compliments of Nitroposs hosting us out
there today. If you I was just actually in my studio,

(07:35):
there's a mosquito this morning, It's like, what the heck? Anyway,
Mosquitoes are part of life here in this part of
the state. And what you got to do is get
you some mosquito dunks and always have one hand because
wherever they're stagnant water water mosquitoes are going to breed
and all you just throw a dunk in there. If
it's a big old pond, you know kind of thing,

(07:56):
a dunk will cover ten by ten area of what
soggy at standing water, soil, mosquito breeding heaven. You can
take a dunk and take a little hammer and break
it and put the little crumbles from it up. And oh,
let's say a gutter that's sagging and holding water, in
a hollow of a tree that holds water. I put
some underneath, like the catch basins under my my plant pots,

(08:21):
and it works. It's a disease of mosquitoes only. Mosquitoes
doesn't hurt the dog, the cat, the birds, doesn't hurt
fish in your ponds or anything. Mosquito dunks are available everywhere.
Ace hardware stores, speed stores, independent garden centers. Easy to
find them. You just need to have them on hand
because we are still in skeeter season and you don't
want to be a skeeter breeder. Let's take a little

(08:42):
break here. We'll be right back with your closet seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. All right,
welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us.
Elton John, how many you remember that song? It's good,
It's good to be back. We got a lot of
things to talk about today. In fact, we're going to
start off right now, heading out to the phones and

(09:02):
visiting with Rich in Spring. Hello Rich, welcome regarden, Good
morning Skip.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
I sent you some pictures you acknowledge receiving them regarding
roots from a forty year old live oak that are
running under my sidewalk and raising it causing a trip hazard.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yes, yeah, no, kidd I saw those and beautiful sidewalk
by the way. I really like the way they built that.
So here's the deal with the roots once they're under there,
lifting it up like that, there's only a couple things

(09:42):
that can be done. You can cut a root which
is going to prevent it from growing in diameter under
the sidewalk. After that, and you know, lifting it more,
but it doesn't make it go back down again. Their
companies like fix Myslab dot I don't know if you've
heard me talk about them before, but they can float

(10:04):
driveways and sidewalks. They have a way that they put
a material underneath it and inject it under high pressure.
Think of it as that expanding foam that it's not that,
but think of that like you would put it under
there and it would just sort of lift the sidewalk
and the foam goes everywhere and kind of creates a
nice level spot. They know how to do it. But
when they do that, what that means is they're going

(10:26):
to have to be bringing all these different pieces up
to a level, and you know that that comes at
a cost. And that's the only way I can think
of dealing with it. And it's not you know again,
because you're going to bring the lowest spots up to
equal to the highest spot. So a lot of things
are going to get floated up to do that. And

(10:47):
they may even look at it and tell you, you know,
we can't do that. But let me give you a
number if you if at the end of this you
decide to give them a call for fixed my slab,
it's it's two eight one, two five five of forty nine. Now,
as far as other options, but you know, other options,

(11:08):
I don't know, other than finding a way to actually
carefully lift that section and go underneath there and cut
and excavate the roots out so that it can be
laid back down again. That's no easy task. I've never
tried that myself.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
That would be if somebody wanted to go that route.
Skip is cutting more than one major root of year
hazardous to the tree?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, it is. Every route you take off is a
setback for the tree. And you know a tree that size,
it's got a lot of roots, and so you take
off one here or there, it's it's not going to
kill the tree. But if you have to do it,
this coming fall season is the time to do it

(11:56):
because the demands are as low as they're going to
be and the tree has the most time possible to
regrow roots to make up for what it lost before
next summer's heat hits, So time wise, this would be
the time to try to do that. The only other
thing would be to have a certified arborist come out
and take a look at it and make some decisions,

(12:19):
you know, say well here's what I think you should
do or whatever. Uh and and they'll be on site
and they know what they're talking about, and we can
do that. You can. Martin Spudmore from Affordable Tree can
come out and do that. He can do that kind
of consultation. I can just tell you, you know what,
you got to lift it sidewalk. You gotta lifted sidewalk.
So something's going to have to be done to fix
up because I can see how guests would trip over

(12:42):
that coming in yep.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
I appreciate your help. I'll probably give both guys a
call Martin and fix my slab and see what the
two geniuses come up with.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
There you go. Martin's number is seven to one three
six nine nine two six six three.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
All right, well, good luck, appreciate it, luck, thanks that one.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
You bet, thank you appreciate the call. Excuse me, Uh,
it's allergy season. In case you don't know, I know
right away. I can tell you when the ragweed first
starts to hit ever fall. Hate that stuff, but fortunately
we have allergy meds that help us survive and do

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you're ready to go, and they are again second or
none at what they do. I was in the yard

(15:33):
this week taking care of some things, and I was
taking care of some of the plants that I haven't
haven't used the Microlife brown Patch yet, but I was
using a couple of their liquid products. I love the
Ocean Harvest blue label that's a four to two three fertilizer.
I love the Biomatrix Orange label liquid seven to one three.

(15:54):
I'll use it as a foliage spr folio or spray.
I'll use it as a just a quick green up
of a spot or even just a plant. Go in there.
And I had some plants that are kind of struggling.
We'll just give them a boost, and that's what we
did with the liquid. I mix it in watering cans
just because it's easy to drench it right over the
root system. That way, you can apply it through a

(16:14):
hose end if you want to go that route. But
the main thing is just take advantage of these Microlife
products and go ahead and get you the brown patch
that is their fall fertilizer, the brown patch Microlife brown patch.
You know, when you read that name, you think, oh,
this is a fungicide. No it's not. It's loaded with
microbes that help fight fungus because we have good microbes

(16:36):
that help us fight bad microbes. That's just how nature is.
But it is a nutrient source that is plenty of
that third number potassium to help your long go into
winter strong and at the same time give you a
barrier there to work against the issues that come with
brown patch, and it's from Microlife. I'm going to be

(16:58):
given away a bag of Microlife brown patch today when
I'm at Baring's Hardware, So go bye. Maybe you'll win that.
We'll be giving things away every twenty minutes. I'll be
there from twelve thirty to two thirty. I hope you
can stop in. We look forward to meeting you and
maybe you'll get lucky and win that bag of micro
Life brown patch. So I'm talking about being out in

(17:20):
the yard and another thing that I was working on
this week is my irrigation system is not very efficient.
We inherited it, and I have been I didn't want
to have to just go in and absolutely, you know,
from scratch, just change everything. That's a major process. So

(17:41):
I've been trying to improve on it. You know, you're
not supposed to put a pop up spray head on
the same line as rots are, you know, more efficient
watering systems like that. You don't mix heads when you
go around a sprinkler zone within one zone, and so
I've been replacing pop ups with proper types of sprinkler

(18:05):
heads that are more efficient here and there, and it's
getting pretty close to it. I still have one spot
where just due to the angles and nature of the spot,
it's really hard to water, and so I've been working
on that, having a supplement with a little hose in.
But it just reminds me that, you know, properly designed
systems are very important. And I would say there is

(18:27):
let me see, this is a big statement, but I
would say there is no perfect irrigation system out there.
There's always some inefficiencies. You know, if you were to
set little rain gages all over your yard every five
feet and turn on your irrigation system, for thirty minutes
and then go measure the water in each rain gage.
They're going to be varied, and some of them will

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be shockingly different. I've done that in parts of my system,
or when I was looking into this, and I had
parts that would catch an inch of water whereas other
parts only had a quarter inch with the same irrigation cycle.
That ain't good because what do you do? You water
enough to where the driest spot in the yard gets
green and healthy, so that means I'm wasting water everywhere else,

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or I'm coming along and doing a little supplement with
a hose in well, I have an automatic system if
you're having to drag a hose around to patch up
the inefficiencies of it. But anyway, keep in mind when
you get a system design, you need to get one
designed well, and you need to do those kinds of checks.
It's not an irrigation audit. That's a higher level check,

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but just evaluate the system's efficiency in terms of uniformity.
And you can do that with rain gauges. You can
do that with straight sided cans, like a coffee can,
the old time coffee. Can they even make those anymore?
A bean pentobean? Can you know it's straight sided, cat food,

(19:54):
chuna fish, all of those are rain gauges. Okay, straight
sided is important because you don't get accurate measure if
it's not straight sighted. Put those all over the place.
Turn your system, run it for enough time to really
catch a measurable amount of water, to evaluate and see
how uniform it is. And that ought to tell you something.
That's something you can do now. And even though we're

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at the end of the season, we're not done irrigating yet,
so it wouldn't be a bad idea to get out
and do that. All right, we are coming up here
on a break, so I'm going to be right back
with your call. Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back to the garden line. What
do you want to talk about? Well, here's the number
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(20:37):
Let's hope you have success and more fun with your gardening.
Arbrogate's a good place to do that. By the way, Oh,
I want to tell you they have got all kinds
of good classes going on this fall. Next Saturday, Okay,
next Saturday, September twenty seventh, at ten am, Angela Chandler
is going to be given a talk on fall gardening.
You probably heard answer as a guest, this summer fall

(21:01):
is Houston's absolutely more most productive gardening season, high quality
of vegetables and all kinds of things, less pest problems,
and plus the more fun to be out there in
the fall than it was this summer. Right, Well, she's
going to give you a workshop and all the information
you need to get your garden up to shape. That
includes strawberries stew by the way, that's part of a

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fall gardening here on the Upper Golf Coast. So what
you do first fall, you ride it on your calendar Saturday,
September twenty seventh, ten am. Second, you call the arbor
gate two eight one three five one eighty eight fifty
one and reserve your spot. You got to reserve it,
and you got to prepay it. It's ten bucks, that's all.
That's not much at all for what you're going to get,

(21:43):
but only only forty seats, so they want to make
sure every seat has a person in it, so that
therefore you pre register and prepay and at ten dollars
per person. All right, there, you go at the arbor
gate while you're at at the arbor Gate. Take advantage
of all of the wonderful fall shopping they've got. I
was out there the other day and it's just outstanding,

(22:05):
outstanding plants, just so many good Do you want color?
Do you want vegetables? Do you want herbs? Well, it's
a season for all of that, and the Arborgate has
got you covered. When you go, you're treated right. They
take you around, they show you stuff. They don't just
point you in the way. They answer your questions because
they want you to have success to that's how they
do things at the arbor Gate. Make sure and pick

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up their one two three completely easy system, which is
an organic food for anything that has roots, which would
be a plant right, Organic soil complete which is a
soil with expanded shale, Organic compost complete, which is a
compost with expanded shale. And those last two the soil
complete and the compost complete. They will deliver if you

(22:49):
want a bulk of it. You know I need eight
hundred bags, Well let's just deliver a bulk out your
place and they can do that at the arbor Gate.
You're listening to Garden Line. If you'd like to give
me a call seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. We will answer your questions and make

(23:10):
sure you can enjoy what you're doing out there in
the garden. Gardening is supposed to be fun. There's no
fun when you've got spots in your yard that are dying.
It's no fun when your fruit trees aren't producing, or
when your vegetables or getting some kind of leaf disease
on them or whatever. Let's avoid it and let's fix it.
We can do both here if you give me a call.

(23:32):
Cienamaltch is the go to place south and just a
little of the west of Houston for anything you need
to create the perfect foundation for success with your plants.
It's all about getting the soil right, and Cienamals has
everything to get the soil right. If you need to
build up your soil to improve drainage, get one of
their quality bed mixes and you can create a really

(23:56):
nice growing environment for those roots. Whether it's composts or
whether it's a blend like rose soil or veggiean herb
mix which by the way, they carry the veggie and
herb mix from heirloom soils and other things, or whether
it's a fertilizer from Nelson part of the turf Star
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(24:18):
nitrofoss products, microlife products. They carry all of that at CIENAMLCH.
So if you're out there in Meridian or Pomona or Alvin,
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(24:39):
you need to know. And while you're out there, check
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I've seen it. And their vego beds which are all
set up. They sell those by the way. They're all
set up where you can kind of see what they
look like. I think you'll love them when you do.
I enjoy getting out and doing things the garden. It's

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always it's always nice to be able to just just
have the I don't know, fresh air and the opportunity
to be able to get out and change things. You know,
Gardening is such a rewarding hobby because you can go
in and have a mess and you work at maybe
it's a weedy garden bed, and you just get in
there and you clean it all out and put fresh

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mulch on, and oh my gosh, it looks good. They're
not many areas of life where you can just have
that instant gratification. It looks good and you feel good
about the job you did, and that's how gardening. That's
how gardening is. If you haven't been out to Enchented Gardens,
you need to go there too. That is, oh my gosh,
down in the Richmond Rosenberg area. It's actually on the
Katie Folsch side of Richmond Rosenberg. Intended Gardens is one

(25:45):
of those destination garden centers. I talked to people, and
I'm there frequently. You know, where are you from? And
I'm surprised that often how far people come to get
to Chenna Gardens because they love to shop there. They
know the kinds of quality and the fact that when
you go to Enchanted you're going to get stuff that
other people just don't have. They just don't right now,

(26:07):
They've got some brugmancias, you know, the angels trumpets, the
beautiful angels trumpets. Oh my gosh, they look good and
they've got them there seed racks. It's time for fall planting.
Make sure and get your fall vegetables in. And of
course here we are Halloween and falls coming. So they've
got pumpkins, regular pumpkins, talavera pumpkins, little decorations in the garden,

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like little mushrooms and the little ghosts that you stick
down in the garden. It's just a great place. Enchanted
Gardens is on the Katie Fullshier side of Richmond on
three fifty nine FM three fifty nine. Here's the website,
Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com.

(26:51):
I was up talking to in at Nature's Way Resources
the other day. That's on Intertate forty five north. You
go like you're going to but about where fourteen eighty
eight comes in from the left hand side, if your
going north from Magnoia, you turn right crossed over the
railroad tracks and that's where Nature's Way is. They got

(27:12):
a two acre nursery. Did you know that all kinds
of fruit trees and natives and houseplants and vegetables one
of the largest selections. The natives you're gonna find really nice.
And then they have the blends that have been famous
for a long time and where a lot of things
were born, like Leapmore compost and roads soil. They have
so many options, from mulches to garden blends to you

(27:34):
name it. You buy it by the bag. They're sold
by the bag around the Houston area too, and also
by the bulk. You go pick it up, they bring
it to you. However you want to do it. Nature's
Way Resources dot Com and make sure and come out
and see me. I'm going to be out there by
the Way on October the eleventh. October the eleventh, from

(27:55):
twelfth to two. I'll be out there for their big shindig. Well,
let's take a little break here and we'll be back
with our last segment of the hour. All right, we're
back boats. Welcome back to the garden line. Hey, if you
are doing any kind of all planting, and of course
you are if all is the best planting season of
the year, you need to get some Nutrostar Genesis transplant

(28:16):
mix from Nelson. Anytime you are moving plants from one
soil to another, soil. In other words, it may be
a tomato plant you grew. It's not amata time right now,
but a tomato plant you grew that you're bumping up
to a bigger pot. It may be a rosebush you're
putting out in the soil in a bed. It may
be a container that you are moving to a larger container.

(28:40):
It needs a little more room the plant. All of
those Genesis transplant mix. It's got Micarizon bacteria, another fungi
that really helped that soil microbiome which makes roots happy.
It's designed for transplanting and you mix it in the soil.
It's not going to burn your plant roots. It doesn't
have that salt factor that will cause a burn of

(29:00):
plant roots like some synthetics would. Well, simply mix it
into the transplant hole, fill it with soil. You're good
to go. Water it in good. Then later you're going
to top dress with Nutristar, color Star, nature Star one
of you other Nelson products in ongoing feeding. But for
that initial establishment of the plant, so it hits the
ground running Nelson fertilizers, Nutristar Genesis transplant mix available by

(29:26):
the jar. You're gonna find it all over town. We're
going to go now to Kingwood and visit with Pamela
this morning. Hey, Pamela, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 8 (29:34):
Hey, well, thank you and thanks for taking the call.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
I've been meeaning to call you.

Speaker 8 (29:41):
Have you seen the stuff on reels and by the way,
I'm seeing you on reels with the yellow flowers recently.
About the stuff you put on the pea gravel and
it kind of snentts it in place, but yet the water.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Goes through it.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yes, yes, well do you think of that? They've been well,
products like that have been around since gosh, I think
the nineteen seventies and the first time I saw them.
They they work a lot of them. Some of them
will break down in time, and they don't you know,
they're not they're not light concrete. But they keep getting

(30:21):
better as they come up with new ones. But yeah,
it creates a porous service. And there's a lot of
different ways to go about that. As far as where
the current status of that industry is in terms of
what I recommend them or not, I would have to
look into the particular product, you know, to see. But yeah,
that's what they're there for. It allows infiltration rather than runoff.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
Yeah, I don't have a problem. Takes me five minutes,
maybe six times a year to blow my backyard. I
have no grass. I've got rid of the grass because
in the City of Houston water bills through the years,
I have a quarter acre, I have seven hundred and
fifty square feet of grass. Uh and of course the

(31:07):
nitrobox products that grass is so healthy and uh I
only use one thousand gallons a month of water to
keep a quarter acre lush and green. Yeah, so it's
you know, it's kind of thing. And then drip heads.
When you talked about your sprinkler system and you've talked
about changing out to drip heads. Now I get air

(31:31):
conditioning water, you know, the condensation stuff.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
From the air conditioner.

Speaker 9 (31:36):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (31:36):
Plus I also, oh, you know, when it rains, I
might get five six, seven hundred gallons of water.

Speaker 10 (31:44):
Can a pump?

Speaker 8 (31:46):
Could you I have a little you know pump. It
has a twenty five little foot long hose.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Could I change that to drip? You can change it
to drip. It's gonna it's gonna choir. I can't explain
it on the radio, just we just don't have time
to fully do it. But you're gonna need a filter
for sure, because when you have surface waters, algae and
stuff will be around, and and you need to and
any kind of little debris that washed off where you

(32:14):
collected the rainwater, he needs to settle. You need to
have a filter. You need to make sure the pressure
is appropriate for the kind of drip you're using. So
there has to be a pressure regulator so that it
creates the right amount of pressure. But that that's it
in a nutshell, Pamela. But I'm gonna have to I'm
not gonna be able to fully answer you there, but

(32:36):
I'm gonna have to read. But that that is, that
is how you go about it, and it can be done.
There's some good instruction and stuff on doing that. But
that's a good idea. Nothing better than rainwater, that's for sure.

Speaker 11 (32:49):
Great.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Okay, thank you, all.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Right, You take care. If you are planting this fall,
and I hope you are, there is not a better seat.
In fact, if you're going to plant a tree or shrub,
a woody vine, even perennials, fall is the best planting time.
So I hope you're doing some planting now for your trees.
If you want to stabilize those trees, you don't need

(33:16):
to create three wires going to the ground to trip
over and then find piece of garden hose to put
over the wires so it doesn't cut into the plant
and all that kind of stuff. You just need a
three sixty tree stabilizer. You attach it to You can
attach it to any kind of post. I generally will
use the iron t posts because they're easy to drive in,
and then later if you need to take a match,

(33:36):
you can and you attach it to stabilizer. It has
a soft strap that attaches to the tree that allows
some movement, very important for developing trunk strength. That's one
of the reasons I like this things so much. They're versatile,
they save time and money. You're not tripping over wires,
especially when you're trying to go mow and stuff you're
dealing with all that. You're going to find them at

(33:58):
plants for all seasons, if Buchanans and arbor gate and
seeing them alts down in Alvin at Jorges Hidden Gardens
at RCW Nursery. Those is just some of the places
where you can get you a good tree stabilizer. Three
sixty tree stabilizer. You need to get one if you're
going to plant a tree and they last a long time,
so you just hang them up on the shelf in

(34:18):
the garage when you're done. Next time you need one,
you're ready to go. That is true. Fall is a
good time to be redoing your landscape. And I know
there's a lot of do it yourselfers out there, and
you can get out there and do it yourself. Do
the design, do the planting, do the picking of plants
and everything. But if you really want a professional job,

(34:40):
you need to call Pierscapes prescapes dot com. That's the website,
piercescapes dot com. Go look at what they do. Unbelievable work.
They it is landscape lighting, it is hardescapes, beautiful patios
and hardescapes. They do irrigation work. I was talking earlier
about with that irrigation system that just is horribly inefficient

(35:03):
and there're spots that are staying dry and dying and
even though you're running the system. Talk to Pairscapes. They
can fix all that. They also do quarterly maintenance. And
maybe you don't want to design the whole new landscape.
Well maybe you've got a good bed and or landscape
in general, and you would just like them to come
out and quarterly make sure things are right, change out

(35:24):
the color when they're needed, to put new mulch down,
pull up any weeds, make sure the irrigation's working, do
everything you need to spruce it up and keep that
bed at its tip top shape that Pierscapes can do.
They specialize and making landscapes beautiful. They're a preferred landscaper
here on garden Im. They've been around since nineteen eighty eight.

(35:46):
Piercescapes dot Com. Here's the phone number two eight one
three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven
oh five zero six zero. We're about to go to
little right here. I just want to remind you today
I will be at Bearings Hardware on Bescinet along with
Nitrofoss folks here. I'm a guest of Nightcross coming in

(36:09):
and I'll be there from two thirty or twelve thirty
to two thirty. Let's say that again, twelve thirty to
two thirty at Bearings Hardware, the one on Bisinete. There's
a couple of them, so make sure you go to
the right one one on Bisinet and you just stop
buy and we will be giving away the nitrofoss Texas
three step two bags of each, the Barricade, the Eagle

(36:32):
Turf fungicide, and the Fall Special lawn fertilizer for Fall.
The folks at Microlife have thrown a bag in there
as well as the brown Patch. I'm going to be
giving away Texas Gardener magazines. I'll have my schedules on hand,
and if you want to bring any plants in for diagnosis,
I'm going to bring a little hot lamp and I'll
set them underneath it. I'll make them confess what they

(36:54):
are and what they're doing in your art. I'll do
that with a butt them two. That's a special Seriously, though,
you can bring me samples in a bag. We'll take
a look at them. Just pull up those weeds and
bring them in if you want them identified and need
to tell you what to do about them. If you've
got pictures, that is also very very very helpful. If
you do a turf sample, make sure it is sick turf,

(37:17):
not healthy turf, not dead turf. I can't do autopsies.
I only do diagnosis sick turf. The zone between healthy
and debt four by four inch blug Get me some
roots and put it in a ziplock bag. Kill a
couple of those samples. We'll take a look at that part.
Baron chug on besting that tlug thirty two thirty to day.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skin Rick Trs.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Just watch him as a sign s.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line.
What kinds of questions do you have today? How can
we help? How do we help you have a bountiful garden,
a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. That's
what we're all about here. Hey, give me a call
seven one three two one two five eight seven four

(38:47):
seven one three two fifty eight seventy four. We'll be
happy to help you. RCW Nurseries has got some really
cool stuff going on right now. I don't know if
you been listening to me talking about them these last
couple three or four weeks here, but really really good
sales that I got. I don't know how they do it,

(39:09):
but the fall tree sale fifteen percent off all trees,
and it's the best time to plant trees, whether it's
a fifteen gallon tree, you know, on up. I mean,
they have all kinds of sizes you know, something like
fifteen gallon. I might try to plant myself all, but
I'm not a two hundred gallon. I'm not gonna put
my car practice kids through college, but they'll come plant
them for you. They grow their own, most of their

(39:32):
own trees. They grown themselves up in Plantersville. But it's
just outstanding. And it's not just not just trees that
are on sale in September. Their September sale covers a
lot of things. Cajun hibiscus fifteen percent off. I just
picked a beautiful blue Cajun hibiscus. I know hibiscus isn't
blow right, Yes it is. If it's a Cajun hibiscus.

(39:53):
It has all kinds of color options fifteen percent off, Crpe,
myrtles and citrus thirty percent off, select roses thirty percent off.
And then they've got some really cool arbors, metal arbors
kind of you know, you like if you're going to
walk into your garden and you want a little metal
structure going over the top. They've got those Trelliss signage

(40:14):
metal signage, hilarious signs thirty percent off all at arbor Gate.
Really cool stuff in decorating for fall, for Halloween and
just fall decorations in generally you want color for the fall.
They've got you covered there. It's just a place to
go and it's easy to get to. It's where Bellie
eight comes into Tumbail Parkway, RCW nurseries dot Com. Check

(40:38):
them out and get by there by the way. Don't
let this get by because you're not going to find
a better deal on these plants than this, And right
now is the perfect time to be getting them read
getting the plants so you're ready to go getting them
in the ground for the best planting season of the year.
We're going to go out to Richmond now and talk
to Marcie. Hey, Marci, welcome to.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Gard Hi, thank you, good morning.

Speaker 12 (41:05):
I were calling about some croaton plants that I have.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
They're in pots.

Speaker 12 (41:09):
They're in thirteen inch pots.

Speaker 10 (41:12):
And they've been in there like eight years.

Speaker 12 (41:14):
I know that's horrible, but they've been in there about
eight years and I want to put them in new
pots replant them.

Speaker 7 (41:21):
But how how much bigger can I go?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Well the pot? Yeah, generally we say move them up
a plant a pot size each time. You know, you
wouldn't to exaggerate, you wouldn't take a little one gallon
pot and put it in a twenty five gallon pot.
You know there's all that extra space, and just move
them up a little bit. Obviously you've been taking care
of them if they're eight years old in a thirteen

(41:50):
inch pot, so if you just moved up another pot
size or so, that would that would be fine, And
then later you can do that again.

Speaker 12 (41:58):
Okay, when I move them, should I cut up the
roots a little bit or just be real careful.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
You can do some root trimming on them. Generally, like
if it were a tree, we would cut those circling
outer roots because they end up growing and strangling the
tree trunk. This isn't happening with your little crotons. So
it's more just if they're super root bounding, doing some
root cutting in there will help them get new roots

(42:28):
formed and out into the fresh shoil you put in.
Grab you some Nelson Genesis fertilizer comes in little jars,
and mix that into the soil that you are planting them,
into the new soil that's going in for this larger
pot Nelson Genesis, and you will see really good results
from that.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Okay, I'll write that down. Hopefully they have it in Channon.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
They probably in Chann it has everything.

Speaker 12 (42:55):
Yeah, okay, Nelson's Genesis.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Okay, thanks, yep.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
You bet, thank you appreciate your appreciate your call. Have
fun doing those curtains. I uh, I did. I think
I told you this before, But I did that with
some tomato plants I grew one year. You know, I
was gonna do my own transplants in the spring, and
I grew some small ones and then I moved them
from a little four inch pot into a bigger pot
because I always start mine earlier than they need to

(43:20):
go out, so that I can bump them up and
get bigger plants with bombs and fruit on them. I
put them in stead of that Nelson Genesis soil and
is like boom they took off. In fact, I purposely
didn't put some in that mix of soil, and you
couldn't believe the difference between the ones I'd added the
Nelson Genesis too and those that I hadn't. And Southwest Fertilizer,

(43:43):
you know, as a place where you're going to get
things like Nelson Genesis, but Southwest carries everything. If I
talk about it on Guardline, it's at Southwest because They
have everything, everything that you need. If they don't have it,
you don't need it. That's the way I like to
put it. Because they have it, they have it. Corner
Businet and Runwick, Southwest Houston. Whether you're looking for quality tools,

(44:05):
well you got a ninety foot long wall of tools
to choose from. Quality tools. If you're looking for fertilizers,
everyone you can imagine. If you're an organic gardener, you
will not find a bigger organic selection anywhere. Then it's
Southwest Fertilizer. If you're looking for seeds, you get to
choose between seed packets. They got plenty of those. And
then they have the you know the old time seed drawers,

(44:28):
you know where you go to the maybe you went
to an old seed store or something. You pulled a
drawer open and it's full of loose seeds and you
took a little scoop. That's very economical way to buy seeds.
But they have those as well, but of course they do.
It's Southwest Fertilizer, Corner Businet and Runwick seven one three
six six six one seven four four. We're going to
go now to Kingwood and talk to Bill this morning.

(44:50):
Hey Bill, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Learning.

Speaker 13 (44:56):
We're having a plague of fungus or something. It's attacking
boxwoods all over Kingwoods. I see them dying everywhere, and
particularly in my yard. But I've looked this up and
it seems like that there is not a systemic fungicide
that I can buy that will take care of these

(45:16):
take care of the problem. And then of course once
you replant boxwoods, now you're really you're doomed again. So
it seems like to me that if somebody were offering
resistant boxwoods or could develop a systemic fungicide to take
care of the problems, they would be in the They
would be coining money right and the left.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
Do you have any suggestions, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
No, there's not. A boxwood blight is one of the
newer boxwood problems that's come along, and it just causes
entire sections of the plant to start to turn ten
brown and die. There's no treatment for that. They are
trying to come up with resistantes. But then there's also
nematodes attack box woods. There's also some vascular fungal wilts

(46:07):
that plug up the plumbing through the root system. They'd
kill box woods. It's just a problematic plant, and so
if someone were going in and going to do a
whole row of shrubs, I would suggest something other than boxwood,
because when they start dying out and you're having to
replace them and stuff, it's a it's a pain.

Speaker 13 (46:24):
Yeah, you have any ultimately suggestions that are similar, you
know that would.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, Dwarf compactopons are similar. Uh, they're a native species
here and so they do well here. And that one
it's somewhat similar. U. There are some other hollies that
are somewhat dwarf depending on the species and stuff you get.
So there there's an option for those as well, But

(46:53):
those would be two that I would probably suggest, especially
the former. Hey, ull, I'm gonna have to run, but
good good luck. We got The bottom line is I
can't tell you how to kill how to stop that
that problem other than just putting a different species in.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
Okay, okay, Well, thank you for your help. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Yes, sir, thank you for the call. Time for us
to go to a quick break here. I'll be right back. Hey,
welcome back to the guardline with us. We're ready to
roll here. You want to grab that telephone seven one
three two one two five eight seven and four would
be glad to visit with you. Folks at Medina have
got a product that I talk about all the time

(47:35):
called has to Grow six twelve six. Plant food Has
to Grow six twelve six is a high phosphorus plant
food that is excellent for getting your plant's roots system
the nutrient it needs primarily phosphorus being a very important
one for root development, uh and also bloom development other things.
But six twelve six I mix it in water myself,

(47:58):
and when I'm doing a transplant, I'll typically use that
watered in really good. In fact, I'll set the plant
in the whole water the root ball in really good
and then fill in some soil and water it again
to help it get off to a good start. The
goal when you're planning a plant, it's got to go
from that cylinder of soil in the container to getting
a root system established so it can really thrive. Whether

(48:20):
you want blooms or fruit or whatever you're growing it for,
you need to get it established quickly, and that's the
way to do it. Has to Grow six twelve six
for Medina works really really well. Helps build up the
biological activity of the soil and just you know it's
not just for transplanting. You can use it for all
kinds of things taking care of the plants, but especially
in the transplanting. This is a mix that is very

(48:44):
helpful for that. And it's easy to find. Medina products
are sold all over town, no problem finding them, whether
it's a feed store of ace hardware stores. You know
our independent garden centers, they all know about Medina products.
Set out to Bellevue right now, and we're going to
talk to Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, how can we help today?

Speaker 3 (49:03):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (49:03):
Skip, I had sent you a picture of some weed
that was in a rock garden and it seems like
I spray them every two weeds and kill them, but
they come out somewhere else. But before I had those
rocks put down, I had a weed barrier and had
them put a wheed barrier down, but it.

Speaker 5 (49:22):
Seems like they keep coming up. I was wanting to
know if there was anything.

Speaker 14 (49:25):
I could spray on the rocks to eliminate them from
coming up and still flowing them down.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Okay, well, the weed barriers don't work for what you're describing.
I'm not a big barrier fan. But what's happened is
sieeds land on top of the weed barrier and then
they sprout and still get weeds. But anyway, that is
a weed called spurge. If you break a little vine
of it off, you see a little drop of white,

(49:53):
milky sap coming out. Spurge is difficult to control. You
can put down a pre emerged herbicide to prevent the
spurge from sprouting. That's one option is to put down
the pre emergent and then any spurred seeds won't sprout.
Those little plants in your picture probably have one hundred

(50:14):
thousand seeds on them. I mean, it produces a lot
of seed, and so you've got to start with the
pre emergent option. If you had a thick layer of
mulch over them, they couldn't sprout them through it. But
in that situation of the rock garden thing that it's
not practical or aesthetically pleasing to put mulch chips over

(50:36):
the top of it. So pre emergent is your product,
and you want water it in according to the label,
and that's the way to go about it. And spurge
plants come out of one spot. They have a tappert
and so if you can grab that whole lot of
bines and find the base. Then you can just pull
them right out. They do pull out, of course, that

(50:57):
takes time, but if you will take the time to
do that, you're removing a lot of seeds. And the
sooner you do it, the better, because otherwise a lot
of seeds will have already been cast back into those rocks.

Speaker 14 (51:11):
Okay, Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (51:13):
I do pull them out from time to time, but
it seems like they come up in different places so
that pre emerge and may help.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Yeah, that's gonna be the way to go, Yeah, for sure.
And you know you can use barricade. Barricade will work
on grasses and broadleaf weeds if you if you have
trouble getting a response from it, you can call me
back and we can look at other options. But I'd
start with the barricade because it's going to cover both
grasses and broad leaves for you.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Okay, appreciate your help, all right.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
You bet, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. A good day,
all right, you bet you as well. Warren Southern Gardens
which is down there in where Kingwood as is Kingwood
Garden Center. That one was easy, right, It's in the
name ones is on North Park Drive. Kingwood Garden Center
is on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of them are open
seven days a week. When you go there, you're going

(52:08):
to find all things you're looking for to have success
in your gardens. For example, right now they've got they're
loaded up on Nelson Turf Star carbo Load. That's a
fall fertilizer. It's got a pre emerging in it. Carbo
Load is designed for the fall scene. That's got that
higher potassium number with some nitrogen, some phosphorus as well,

(52:29):
and it works for a well. It's from the folks
at Nelson by the way, when you're out there or
when you go online to their website, sign up for
the newsletter. They the September newsletter is out and it
just it's good. It gives you a lot of good
information from lawn care tips to your gardening to do lists,

(52:50):
to the vegetables. By the way, they are loaded up
on color on vegetables, on herbs polish for herb planting,
wonderful selection of shrubs and trees. They can tell you
what in the newsletter, what pests and diseases to be
watching out for. It's real simple to sign up for
and it's worth it. You really get some good information.
Go check them out. We're in Southern Gardens on North

(53:12):
Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow, both open
seven days a week out there in Kingwood, Texas. Let's
go to North Houston now and talk to Robert. Hey, Robert,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (53:23):
Good, good morning, scoop.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Did you ever know a county agent named tom Lloyd
roy I?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Tom Leroy and I go way back. When I first
came back to Texas. Tom Leroy was the agent in
Montgomery County and he went to Harris County and I
took Montgomery County and then I, let's see, then I
went to She's We're like, oh, I went to Austin
to Travis County and he came to Montgomery County and

(53:52):
then I from Travis County went to Harris County. So
we like we spent our careers cleaning up each other's messes.

Speaker 16 (54:00):
Okay, Well, I took a class under him at at
Mercer ARBOREATAM and at that class he had that white
boaster board and a black magic marker and was talking anyway.
At that class, Tommy Royce said that when you got
this gumbo clay. When the rainfall comes, ninety nine percent
of that rainfall winds up as run off. So I
live in North Houston. I got that gun bow clay,

(54:22):
and I got so tired of this flood and I
didn't know what to do. I mean, it's just it
is whether the situation is so bad to get a
building permit over here? Now you got to build your
house on still, that's how bad the runoff situation, the
flooding problem is so anyway, I got so fed up
with it, so I went over to Arborgate and I
got a whole bunch of that expanded shell, I mean
a whole bunch of it. And I put that expanded

(54:44):
shell down yard, and I took a punch and a
punched hoes in the yard and filled the holes up
for the expanded shell. Well anyway, treating the yard like
I treated it. I don't have that flooding problem like
I used to have. I mean, it used to flood
every time three inch rain four in is rate in
take a tropical STOREM make this place flood well. I

(55:06):
put in French drains, and the French drains, I know
how to make a French drain. I run them out
of the drainings dish. But what happens is the drainings
dish getting so flooded that, you know, the water won't
run down the drainings dish. So we want to put
some Spanish shell and the drainings dish. But the city
of Houston comes in those big scoops and scoops and
drainers dise that. So I'll be throwing good money after.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Bad, you know.

Speaker 16 (55:29):
But anyway, I just thought i'd relay that information because
I think if everybody treated their yacht like I treated mine,
we might be able to do something. You know, if
you could just increase the infiltration rate from what you
know to run off being ninety nine percent to seventy
five percent, maybe we could do something about this flooding problem.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Yeah, yeah, and Robert, and the bottom line is our
Houston black clay without any organic matter in it, without
roots and all that, just the clay. It takes water
and at about an eighth of an inch an hour,
just the solid clay, and that's too slow for any
kind of rain to absorb it. Well, the expanded shale doesn't.

(56:08):
What it fixes is as you said, water infiltration. Water
can move down in the soil easier. It brings oxygen
in the soil, which helps the plant roots. Some of
the challenges of clay, some of them expanded shale fixes.
But if you put it in a drainage ditch, it's
not going to help anything. It's like having gravel in
the bottom of an aquarium, because there's a bottom to

(56:29):
the aquarium. The gravel didn't do anything to help with drainage, right,
But the shale is a wonderful product for helping improve
clay soils in longer term than even compost will improve
clay soils. So the shale is you're right, it's a
good thing to do there. The drainage, they just they
need to clear it out, and it needs to drain

(56:50):
because the only way to get red of water is
for it to go off somewhere else lower, to drain away,
or to some degree to go down in your soil.
But there's only so much that's going to go down
into your soil. You know, if it rains six inches,
the shale is not going to fix that, right because
it can't. You can't get that much water to go

(57:12):
away by going down. You's got to go off the surface,
and so raised beds are important though. I would definitely
get a good raised bed mix, and it could include
expanded shale two. And that is the way we get
our roots up out of water, even when it's not
draining away, well, it will on those race beds. Hey, Robert,
thank you for that. Thank you for that call. Glad

(57:33):
you've had good luck with it. You take care. Yeah,
that's something we do have to deal with here. Or sure,
Hey asmit, great product, asmite. I talk about it all
the time. It's micronutrients. It's essential trace minerals that you
got to have. You put it down, follow my schedule
at gardening Withskip dot com. There's micronutrients supplements like azemite

(57:54):
on there. You're going to do this one or two
times a year. You can find azamite everywhere. Go to
Azamite Texas dot com find out where to get it,
or I can just tell you this, it's everywhere, excellent
product for micronutrient feeding. We'll be right back all right, folks,
welcome back. Good to have you with us here on
garden Line. All you gotta do is give me a

(58:15):
call if you got a question that we could help
you with. Seven one three two one two, five, eight
seven four. I should I should clarify that if you
have a gardening question that we can help you with.
I can't give you stock tips or marriage advice, but
I can tell you what to do about gardening, all right.
Seven one three two one two, five eight seven four.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
ACE Hardware stores are all over the Greater Houston area,
the listening area. And then I say greater, I mean
greater all the way out to you know, Rockport and
all the way over to Orange and on and on. Uh.
We've got a group of ACE Hardware supporters here on
guarden Line that I just I don't have any hesitation

(58:58):
at all. Send you it a one because they're gonna
have what you need. And that would be the ACE
Hardware Texas group. ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. Don't forget
the word Texas. ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Do you
need a quality barbecue pit? They got them all. It
is unbelievable what they have and all the accouterments to

(59:18):
go with your barbecue pit. Air filters for the house.
You know you're supposed to change those every month. Paint
and deck preservation. That's not easy for me to say.
Propane for your barbecue, gardening supplies, tools, fertilizers, pest weed
and disease control, you name it. If you want things

(59:39):
to be beautiful outside or inside. Really, Ace Hardware Store
is a place to go. ACE has quality tools for
the do it yourselfers on your list, quality brands, UH
and I you know, they just they know how to
make it easy if you want. If you know what
you want, you can go online and then just swing
by and pick it up at the store. The hundred

(01:00:00):
ready for you. You want to sign up for the ASH
Rewards program because you get discounts and special offers only
for ASH Rewards customers. I'm an ASH Rewards member. I
have been for a long long time, from when I
lived in Cypress, Texas, and we went to the ACE
up on Jones Road. At that time, that was our
closest Ace hardworre store. It's a great store too, by

(01:00:22):
the way, So where does some other Ace hardware stores? Well,
how about Uvaldi As on New Valdi Road on the
east side of Houston. Or go southwest and you're going
to find Plantation ACE on Mason Road in Richmond, Rosenburg,
where I said Rockport. How about Rockport Ace on State
Highway thirty five North in Rockport. How about Champions Ace

(01:00:42):
on Spring Cypress Up in Spring. I don't want to
leave anybody out, so let's go northeast. How about Crosby
ACE on FM twenty one hundred, or down south and
east on League City Ace on League City Parkway or
on the west side Langham Creek Ace at five twenty
nine in cypress ingor Cricus in West Houston. Those are
just a few for your local ACE Hardware store. Go

(01:01:04):
to ACE Hardware Texas dot com and be ready. It's
time for fall. It's time to stock up on all
those things we need for a fall, and you're going
to be talking about them all the time. Plants for
all seasons on where Timball Parkway and Luetta come together. Basically,
that's a place that first of all, you probably already

(01:01:25):
know about it. Everybody in the region knows about plants
for all seasons. But if you happen you need to
go check them out. Their seed rack is outstanding. I
mean I always have to stop and purview the whole
seed rack. And it's fall, it's time to get seeds
and plant them and whatnot. It is time to get
your fall herbs in and they've got you covered on
fall herbs as well. If you are looking to plant

(01:01:47):
milk weeds, for example, that they do get a number
of different quality milkweeds in so that you can support
your monarch butterflies. Don't matter what you're looking for, or
even if what you're looking for is just quality advice
and help diagnosing a problem. Put something in a bag,
take it to them, let them identify it, take a picture,

(01:02:08):
bring it to them, let them help you solve it.
Plants for all seasons. Where Luetta comes into Tomball Parkway
two eight one six seven six sixteen forty six two
eight one sixty seven six sixteen forty six, they you're there.
You're going to find, for example, here just one of

(01:02:29):
a thousand examples. Are you going to find the Nitropos
Texas three step program that you keep hearing me talk about.
Nitrofos Texas three step is the Fall Winter Special or
Fall Special Winter Riser. It's an eight twelve sixteen fertilizer
high potassium for winter hardiness and to help set the
plan up for good vigorous initial growth in the spring.

(01:02:50):
Step two, head off the weeds with a bag of
Nitrofoss barricade. It's a pre emergent weed control. You put
it down before the weeds come up, and it'll help
both with broad leaf and grassy weeds. As I was
telling someone, well a goo a caller that'll be sprouting
this fall and this winter season. Then there's number three
of the three step Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide. The roots

(01:03:14):
of the grass takes it up. And when brown patch
tries to come in and make those ugly big brown circles,
Nitroposs Eagle turfungicide shuts down. The Nitroposs Texas three step
program keep you alng looking good this fall and winter
and in spring it'll come out back a lot stronger.
And hey, how would you like a free sample of

(01:03:35):
night or to win a free bag of Nitrofas Texas
three Step I'm gonna give be giving away six bags,
three of each of the three steps at Bearings Hardware
Ambiscin at two Day. I'll be there from twelve thirty
to two thirty be answering your gardening questions, looking at
your gardening samples, diagnosing whatever, bring pictures on your phone.

(01:03:58):
We can we can talk about whatever you need to
do to make you long and landscape garden better. And
you sign up in every twenty minutes, we're going to
be given away the three different parts of the Nitrofoss
three step program, one at a time, every twenty minutes.
Now that's twelve thirty to two thirty. I hope you
can be there. By the way, night Fross is bringing

(01:04:20):
this is really cool. They are bringing an antique vehicle
that you gotta you really got to see it. It is,
it is, It is really super cool. It is a
nineteen twenty one Ford Model A. They're going to hal
They're hauling it over to Bearings Hardware, nineteen twenty one

(01:04:41):
Ford Model A. You got to check this beauty out.
It is. It is really cool. Get your picture taken
with it. How about that? Let's see. Oh and if
you're looking for night Fross products in your area, well
they're all over the place. You go to Lake Hardware
and Clute Fisher's Hardware in Baytown. If you're in Brenham,
Plants and Things carries Nitrovos products. Of course, the Bearing

(01:05:02):
Hardware and Bissonette, where I'm going to be today carries
the Nitrofoss products. Our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four give me call. Let's
talk about the things that are interesting interest of interest
to you.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Someone sent me a picture of some okra earlier today
that was getting a little overgrown, which Okra can do
really quickly. And every time I see Okra, I think
about League City Feed. Now, why would League City, why
would Okrah make me think about League CITV Because that place,
forty years ago, Grandpa Thunderberg built it in what was

(01:05:42):
an Okra patch, a big old oak ra bid a
feed store there, and so anything that starts in an
ochre patch, you know, has to be good, and it is.
It's an old time feed store. They carry the bags
out for you. It's it's you know, it's what you
would expect. And all of you down in that region,
you know, elkam Into Realite, League City, clar Lake City,
Webster Aycliff, San Leone, Lamark, Dickinson, Santa Fe, all those communities.

(01:06:04):
This is your hometown feed store, League City feed. It
is on Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway
ninety six in League City, Highway three, a few blocks
south of ninety six in League City. They carry nitroposs
and microlife and heirloom soils products and asamite and Nelson

(01:06:24):
plant food. They stay stocked up on all the things
you need to control pest, weeds and diseases. They're at
League City Feed. They're open Monday through Saturday from nine
to six. Closed on Sunday, So Monday through Saturday, swing
by after work. They're open till six two eight one
three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three
two one six one two. We're going to take a

(01:06:47):
little break here and come back with your calls when
we come back at seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Two.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Good to be back with you here on Guarden. Hey,
thanks for listening. I appreciate that. I know we've got
a lot of folks out there but listen and are
too shy to call. And that's fine. But I'm telling
you this, don't worry about it. Don't worry about that.
The way I like to put it here is there's
no such thing as stupid answers, or just our stupid
questions are just stupid answers. So the pressure's on me.

(01:07:20):
Let's look at it that way. Okay. If it's a
question you have, well it's a question somebody else has too,
and that's legit. Alrighty, Well, there you go seven one three, two,
one two, five eight seven four. Nelson Nursery and Water
Gardens is out there in Katie. If you go out
to Katie on Ien Turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road,

(01:07:44):
it will take you right to it. I mean it's
just up the street on the right hand side. And
I love going to that place because, first of all,
they have everything you're going to need. When it comes
to plants, they've got all kinds of plants, lovely selection
of all kinds of things, colorful flowers, beautiful herbs, really
nice vegetable transplants that will get you through the fall season,

(01:08:06):
cool season color. You know, you need some dianthus or
snap dragons or whatnot, They've got you covered on those
as well. And when it comes to things like let's say,
fruit trees, citrus and other kinds of trees, pear trees,
any kind of they carry all of that. And certainly
they carry the water plants as well, like the lilies,

(01:08:27):
lily pads. They have a wonderful selection. You need to
go out there and look at their tropical lily pad.
I won't see that Amazon lily pad. It is amazing,
biggest thing you'll ever see. I guarantee you that at
Nelson Water Gardens, the beautiful sound of water is something
you need to take home with you. Whether it's a
disappearing fountain or having them come out and set up

(01:08:47):
a beautiful waterfall. They can do it all there. Now
they're looking again on Katie Fort Ben Road. Here's a
phone number you need this eight two eight one three
nine one forty seven sixty nine. Nelson Watergardens dot com.
Nelson Watergardens dot com. Let's go now out to Paul
in Missouri City. Hey Paul, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
Yeah, good morning Skip. I've got a question regarding some
crepe myrtle. A couple of weeks ago, I found some
black looking soot stuff on the trunk and on the leaves.
So I went over to Southwest Fertilizer and showed him
a sample of the leaf, and he advised that I

(01:09:31):
that I used this bio advanced three and one in
sick disease and might control And he said, gay once
a week for three weeks. So today I'll give it
to third application. But okay, it doesn't. Well, first of all,
it doesn't look like a lot of stuff is coming

(01:09:52):
out of the can because it helps up to the
garden hose and I spray it on. But assuming, assuming
that this third application knocks out whatever is on there,
how do I remove the black looking soot stuff from
the trunk of the tree.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Not really easy to do you. Well, it's a city
mold growing on a sugary water. So think of a
kind of a you know how if you were to
let sugar water dry down, it would end up being
just real sticky, thick stuff. That's basically what you're looking
at with with the city mold. So spraying it with

(01:10:35):
a soapy water, using a very soft brush on the
trunks to sometimes is required to get that, to get
that off of there. But that that's going to be
that basically is what it would require if you wanted
to try to try to get rid of it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
Yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
You know in terms of in terms of the old stuff.
Now the BioAdvance, what that's going to do is that
the reason they recommended that is they're trying to kill
whatever's causing the sout. It could be aphids, it could
be scale, it could be meally bugs. There's other things
that can cause it. But they're trying, they're trying to
get rid of that by those insects, and therefore no
more sugar water and therefore no more sout.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Yes, I understand. Okay, well I'll give it a try.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Yeah, and and let me see. I'm let me pull
this up. I was checking that label. It's on eight
hundred thousand. Uh yeah, I'm meda clop The first ingredient
on that label is a systemic insecticide and so, uh,
you can even put that down on the soil and
it'll be taken in and kill the things sucking the
juices out of the of the plant. So that's what

(01:11:47):
that's what that's for. It's got it's got some of
the stuff in it too. Well, good luck with that.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
I product.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
You do for now. Yeah, let's let's watch and see
what it does. It may be if you're not getting
results from that, then you may need to go back
and get something that's strict straight called dinotephern or a
metoclopri to drench onto the roots system. But it's getting

(01:12:17):
late to be doing that if you wait more than
another month or so, because the leaves are coming off
those trees and they're not going to be taking up
much from the roots, so that would be something to
do in the spring. Okay, all right, Mike, good luck,
thank you or Paul Gosh I keep calling Paul good

(01:12:38):
luck and thank you. Thank you for the call. Appreciate
that Heirloom Soils makes quality products. They do, and they're
sold all over town. I mean it kind of hard
to find a place that doesn't have Airloom soils by
the bag all over town. But you can also buy
bob bulk. You can go up to porter and pick
it up yourself. At Orange Rock and Maltz that's where

(01:12:59):
they make the heirloom soils. You can all right, Actually
that's where they both sell them. Out of there. You
can pick it up or you can have them deliver it.
They do supersacks, you know, if you if you go
pick it up, one supersack is all you need to buy,
but if it's being delivered, you need to have them
delivered three. They have a minimum and because it's expensive

(01:13:22):
to all that stuff around, they also have lethal composts.
They have the veggie and herb Max. They've got a
rose and other Bloomers blends that is outstanding. Do this,
Go to Heirloomsoils dot com and look at all the
products they carry and then go find them locally or
call them up. Head up there and pick them up yourself,
or call them and have them do a delivery. Let's

(01:13:44):
go now to sugar Land and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (01:13:49):
Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
I just had a question.

Speaker 10 (01:13:53):
I know I've heard you talk about root rots in
the past, take all root rots, and the chemical is
I think a zoxystrobin that needs to It's one of
the chemicals possibly in certain products you recommend it. Yeah,
but you've also said You've also said that at some
point in time you may need to just go ahead
and replace the SAD in that area. And I don't

(01:14:16):
have a big area maybe three feet by four feet.
But I'm just wondering in terms of timing, what you
think is a good time to replace the sod. Is
it October, November, December? What's the if you have an opinion?

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Well, from where we are in the season now, with
each month, the root growth on the grass is going
to be slower to where when we get into winter
it's almost no root growth, and so you want sod
to root in really well. So it's best if you're
going to replace it, to do it today, and then
second best is tomorrow, and third best is the next day.

(01:14:49):
In other words, get it down watered in, because we
got another month and a half or so of good
root growth, maybe two months, especially like where you live,
you may go a little past two months. But let's
get it down and get those things rooted in if
you're going to replace it. And then if you look
at my schedule, the azoxystroban or or whatever you're doing
for take all root rod is on the schedule for fall,

(01:15:12):
we do an October and a November application. I would
go ahead and do at least one of those, even
on the new new side that you have just to
protect it, because this is a season when take all
is infecting the grass actively, and so I would even
with the new side, I would I would do that,
so planum plan them asap uh and then in October,

(01:15:36):
go ahead and give it a dose of the azoxystroban
or a propaconazole or whatever you're using for the take
all they're all on my schedule.

Speaker 10 (01:15:45):
Okay, great, I'm glad, I asked.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Yeah, good. It always everything, isn't it? Yep?

Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
That was I was.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
I worked in Travis Canty, Austin for a number of
years as horticulturist and extend administrator over there, and I
remember I was in a meeting with a bunch of
folks from Austin and I made a statement and we
were talking about planning for stuff, and my point was
trying to be you know, hey, we got to act
now so that when the problem arises, you're ready. And

(01:16:19):
I said, you got to throw the rope where the
cafe ain't at yet. And I thought that police was
going to fall out of their chairs. They had never
heard that before. It got redneck boy over there anyway.
But what does that mean? That means, well, if you're
roping a calf running around a pen, you know, you
don't throw the rope where the calf is. You throw
it where it's going to be right there, you go.

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That is true with horticulture as well. There aren't any
cool season leads sprouting right now, pretty quick. We better
get that stuff out of there, because when they do
start sprouting, you want the product to be in place, right,
It's true of so many things in horticulture. Got to
throw the rope with the cafe at Yeah, I don't know,
but you're on that way. You go get you another

(01:17:04):
cup of coffees, because that's what I'm about to do.
You're listening to the Guardline, don't forget today. I'm gonna
be at Bearings Hardware on this and that, not the
other one, the one on this andette. I'll be there
from twelve thirty to two thirty, and I'm gonna be
given away the nine to fist three step to be
given away two bags of each, two bags of the

(01:17:25):
fund just equal turf funge aside, two bags of barricade,
two bags of fun special.

Speaker 17 (01:17:29):
I think the books of Microlife are throwing in a
bag of the brown patch. We're gonna be given the
more testas Gardener magazines. There's a lot of very cool stuff.
I'll have my schedules on hand, so bring me some samples.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Let's talk.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skin Rick.

Speaker 5 (01:17:52):
Trim.

Speaker 4 (01:17:54):
Just watch as.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
S all right, folks, we're back way back. Welcome back
to guard Line. What do you want to talk about today?

(01:18:31):
I've got some topics in mind. But you know, shows
a call in show for you to get to answer
your questions to help solve any problems you have, or
maybe just get some ideas and inspiration. We can certainly
do that as well. Tell you if you want, if
you want inspiration, you need to go to the arbor Gate.
That that place has incredible inspiration. I like to just

(01:18:55):
go and wander around because every time you turn the corner,
go down another aisle, you got really cool stuff, cool
stuff that's seasonable stuff. You know, I love salvia's. Boy,
did they ever have a selection of salvia's there at
the arbor Gate. Lots of good, good options. There's not
a better time to plant for a new herbs and fall.

(01:19:16):
And you will not believe. Go go check out their
little herb area. It is huge. It is loaded with
every kind of herb you could want. They got you
covered there. If you're wanting to plant roses this fall,
they have a whole house full of roses, a whole
rose area that just is loaded up with quality roses
that do well here. You know they they sell bulbs

(01:19:38):
from the Southern Bulb Company. In fact, they grow them
for Southern Bulb company now out there at Arburgate, and
it awesome. Selection fall is for herbs, I mean for bulbs.
It is an excellent time to plant bulbs. And arbor
Gate always has a stock and they're going to have things.

Speaker 9 (01:19:56):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
You go in there and you say, I don't want
a one shot wonder. I don't want something my plant
like a two loop and it blooms and then it
dies and that's it. It's called one schout wonder. I
want something that naturalizes. They they'll get They've got you covered.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
You pay.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
You pay for them once and you enjoy blooming dividends
for years and years and years going forth from that.
Arbrogate is the place, and they have the expertise to
help you. You can bring them samples, you can bring
them plants, you can bring them pictures, you can ask
them questions. They'll walk walk you around. They'll take time
to make sure you have success. That's why people love

(01:20:31):
it so like that, and the fact that it's just
a gorgeous fun place to be and the staff is
friendly and helpful. The Arborgate all right, Tom Ball, Texas,
turn to the West, go out twenty nine to twenty.
It's just outside of town on the left hand side,
make sure and turn down Trischel Road. It's either before
or after Arburgate. It's a loop that goes around behind them.

(01:20:52):
So if you miss Trischel on the way to Arbrogate.
When you pass Arburgate, look for Trischel, you're going to
turn left and you're going to swing around the back
and parking that wonderful new parking lot in the back.
Very safe, easy access right in to the Arborgate. But
the main thing is just go in fact, today be
a great day to get out there. Check it out.

(01:21:13):
You are listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to help you have success. My desire
is for you to enjoy gardening and to not feel
like I can't do it, or I have a brown thumb,
or I tried that and I spent all this money
and then the plants died and stuff. Let's avoid that.
Give me a call first. Someone made this statement glad

(01:21:35):
they asked ahead of time on the last segment, and boy,
is that ever true. It breaks my heart for someone
to call and be like, yeah, I just bought eight
hundred blue spruce trees and some Forcythia and for some
I don't know what else. And I just stuck them
out here and planted them and they're not looking good.

(01:21:58):
What do I do? Well, send them back to Colorado.
That would be step one, because that's where they belong,
not here. But anyway, you get the idea, we want
you to have success. How do we do that? Hey,
it is still kind of warm outside, but it is
definitely time to call Martin Spoonmore from Affordable Tree and
get set up to have him come out and do

(01:22:19):
any tree pruning that's needed. Now. Martin will come out,
he'll look over your trees. He knows what he's doing,
and he'll say, well, this is what we need to do,
or you know, this is what the trees need. If
you haven't had anybody look at your trees in two years,
you're overdue. Call Martin to come out and take a
look at them to assess them. Dormant pruning season is

(01:22:40):
the best time of the year, and it's coming up.
And Martin is already booking in November. I don't think
he has November finished yet, but he is booking into November.
So seven one, three, six, nine nine two six sixty
three don't delay, does good work and people hire him
and he fills up seven to one three two six

(01:23:02):
six' three with every tree that you Have martin. Prune
he will do a free deep root feeding on that.
Tree so that's a good. Deal this is a specially
good time to do. That seven one three six nine
nine two six six. THREE i was talking to somebody
earlier that had some root issues with a tree and

(01:23:22):
they were, running CAN i cut this root or? Whatever
martin does consultations to have him come on. Out, uh
he can do you a. Bid he can tell you
exactly what's going. On if you are gonna build a
house where there's a nice tree right beside, it please
Call martin first to come out and do the advising

(01:23:43):
on pre construction care very. Important once damage is, done
roots are, severed slabs have been poured over the root
system and all that kind of. Stuff trenches of the
put in around the. Tree it's very hard to save
that tree ahead of. Time there's a lot you can,
do And martin knows how to do. It affordable tree
service seven to one three six nine nine two six

(01:24:06):
six 'y Three call and get on his fall dormant
season pruning. Schedule, NOW i was taking care of some
issues THAT i have in one of my flower. Beds
i've got a bed that popped up with nematodes and
it's a raised, bed AND i know where they came.

(01:24:28):
From they came from some sandy soul mix THAT i
put into those. Beds AND i know better than you
know doing, that BUT i did. It and now we've
got nematodes in. There so what AM i going to?

Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
Do?

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
WELL i got a couple of. OPTIONS i can manage
them and keep them at a manageable level by doing
things like growing trap crops that trap the nematodes in the.
Roots they can't reproduce and they. Die that doesn't eradicate.
Them you will not eradicate. Them that would be things like,
miragyls certain kinds of mirrors during the warm season and

(01:25:01):
cereal rye and the cool. Season that's the grain type
of rye in like wheat and oats and rye the grain,
type not rye grass like you overseed your lawn. With
those are trap. Crops, uh there are other THINGS i
can do to try to. Help and then there's the
option THAT i don't want to think, about but it
really is the ONE i probably ought to do because
there's a, raised boxed in. Bed excavating all the soil

(01:25:24):
out of, it get rid of it and just put
in fresh. Soil and that's an option, too not WHAT
i want to, do but WHAT i probably need to.
Do let's take a little break, here we'll come back
to your calls. Again the number, seven, one, three fifty,
eight seventy. Four all, right put through a. Back welcome
back to the garden. Line good to have you with,

(01:25:46):
Us good to have you with us this. Morning we're
going to jump right out, here head to. Cypress you
talk To john this. Morning Hey, John welcome to garden.

Speaker 5 (01:25:57):
Line, hey, goodness thank, You good. Morning. Hey i've got
a fifteen by fifty strip on the side of my
driveway That i've plowed up And i've Been i've been
treating with roundup to get rid of all the weeds
BECAUSE i want to plant Probably bermuda grass or either
a complete or either complete rock. Garden first question is the.

(01:26:21):
Rock IF i did all, rock will that change anything
as far as drainage.

Speaker 9 (01:26:29):
Or the?

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Yard CAN i do all rock or SHOULD i do
park grass?

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Well and?

Speaker 12 (01:26:37):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
Whatever, yeah whatever you want to look at esthetically is
the bottom line on. That SO i would, say you,
know you, could you could do the rock if that's
what you if that's what you, like if that's what.

Speaker 5 (01:26:52):
You want to, see, Well i'm probably thinking. About WHAT
i want to do is probably. BERMUDOGRAPHS i love bermudagrass
because it can withstand heat and it's. SOFT i like,
it AND i don't have a spring for, system So
i've been fitting it with round up AND i just
actually sprayed again this last three days. Ago how long

(01:27:13):
DO i need to wait before?

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
Planting as long as we have warm weather like we're
having right, now round up should move into the. Plants
within a week you'll start to see the. Symptoms but
by then it's already down in there and it's going
to do its. Work so i'd give it. It i'd
give it a week before messing with. Anything. Uh and
then as far as waiting before, planting you can spray

(01:27:38):
one day and a couple of days later Plant it's
not like it's sitting on the soil and it's going
to jump up and kill your. Plants it ties up the, soil.

Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
AND i was, GOOD i was going to go ahead
and sod, it so is there a type of mood
THAT i should be looking.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
For there's a number of good ones out. THERE a
celebration is a good culture bar Of. Bermuda depending on
the turf company you go, with they're going to have
their own special ones that they.

Speaker 5 (01:28:04):
Like.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
Uh four nineteen was used for. Years it's on a
lot of football fields and golf, courses fairways and stuff like.
That it's an it's an older, one but celebration is
a good. ONE i WOULD i would look for that one, Probably.

Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
Okay and is there all? RIGHT i have a recommendation award.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
To get si that you're going to find them all over.
TOWN i. Know let's, See King ranch has a number
of stores around. Town there's one Called Murph turf where
you can heard side From Urf. Turf trying to think
of some others that come to mind right, now but

(01:28:44):
those those are a couple of them that are in
good various.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
Place isn't a good time to plant side and? Skip?

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
Uh it, is but don't delay the. Side the warmer it,
is the better it's going to. Establish so if you
were to wait Until, november it's just not going to
establish as fast at that time because of the day
length and the temperatures and. Whatnot but you can put it.
In just remember when you put bermuda, in you got.
Bermuda then in other, words if you've got a flower,

(01:29:15):
bed it'll get into the flower beds and it you,
know it has a habit of crawling. Out but if
it's if it's bordered in a, way you can maintain.
It you not can find it pretty your lawn if
you mow it very often and make it nice and.
Tight that's why golf courses look so.

Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
Good. Sure and as far as overseeding with, rye when
would be a good time to plant the other part
of my?

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
YARD i would wait and not do it this. Year
in the bermuda anything that's, NEW i wouldn't do. It
and if you want to oversee the other let's see
you were In. CYPRUS i would do it in Early,
november probably maybe Late. October and just remember, this when you,
overseed you're planting weeds in your. Lawn and AND i

(01:30:00):
say it that way because the rye grass is a
competitor just like weeds. Are and when spring comes and
the grass is trying to wake up and, grow that's
when the rye grass is. Growing its fastest and so
it's competing for water in sunlight and it stresses your.
Grass but as it dies out and the grass comes,
on the grass will. Recover but it is A it

(01:30:23):
is like planting weeds in your, lawn and it's not
SOMETHING i generally, recommend ALTHOUGH i know the reasons people do.

Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
It, WELL i don't have a good, Right, Johnny i've got,
yeah no.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Problem i'm gonna have to, run. Sir you, bet thanks a. Lot,
appreciate appreciate you call very. Much, Hey Southwest fertilizer is
the place you go for anything you. Need If bob
doesn't have, it To, southwest it's not something you need
because he carries everything that you. Need, also they've got
small engine repair in the back. There you can they
can do. Work they can do you sharpening the blades

(01:30:56):
and other issues and motorwork and. Whatnot he does carry
a number of different kinds of various landscaping. Equipment you,
know you need a weed, eater you need, edgers thing,
mowers things like. That they've got those At Southwest. Fertilizer
they carry some unusual things like the garden kneeling seat
THAT i like so. Much those are very handy And

(01:31:17):
bob's got. Them you have heard me talk about my weed.
Wiper that's a homemade tool that helps you control weeds
where you don't want to hurt other plants with. Sprays,
Well bob has got exactly what you need. There he
can take you a build, it and he's got the
actual grabb or tool you used to start. With it's
just typical Of Southwest fertilizer to have it all because they.

(01:31:39):
Do corner Of bisonett And, Renwick Southwest fertilizer Dot. Com
let's go now To jimmy And. Conroe, Hello, jimmy welcome
to Garden. Line, oh good, morning great, Program thank.

Speaker 5 (01:31:54):
YOU i was In pennsylvania in a vision up there
AND i love.

Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
It cutting of a.

Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
Pone it's spilled peo in what you. Know it calls
for full sun AND i was looking to puddle it
up yourself with.

Speaker 2 (01:32:13):
The side of the.

Speaker 6 (01:32:15):
House but that sign in the, EVENING i, MEAN i
don't turned.

Speaker 10 (01:32:20):
It it would just cook.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
It, Yeah, jimmy pons, Ponies we're we are too far
south for them to do. Well. Uh two years, ago
a colleague of mine up in the extension office In, Tyler,
Texas Keith hansen did a study of looking for what
are the most southernmost adaptable. PONIES i think he ran

(01:32:43):
into a few that were. Okay but you know the
bottom line is is just too blazing hot for too,
long and our winters aren't nice and hard and cold
like like they are In pennsylvania Or missouri or other
places where ponies. Are you can give it to give
it the best. Shot, yeah they stayed, full BUT i
would give it morning sign and at least midday to

(01:33:03):
afternoon shade to give it its best. Shot makes up
a good amount of compost into a, bed and then
keep the peone adequately, moist not. Soggy make sure it's
in a raised bed so the excess drains. Away but
what we're trying to do is we're trying to make
an eskimo happy to be In ecuador on the you

(01:33:27):
know What i'm. Saying we're trying To we're trying to
make it. Happy so the morning, sign only moist soil
well built up with compost in a raised. Bed that'll
give you the best. Shot good luck with, It keep me,
posted tell me how it, Happens send me a. Picture
if you get a good boome on it all, right.

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
Sir, sure we'll well appreciate your great.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
Thank. YOU i appreciate, that appreciate that very. MUCH i,
DO i really. Do folks At Nelson fertilizer have a
product Called Nutri Star Vegetable. Garden Nutri Star Vegetable garden
is outstanding as a product to. Feed really you could
use it nerves as well to feed your. Plants it's
got a number of different sources of nitrogen five as

(01:34:13):
a matter of, fact for a nice even release of,
nutrients whether you're growing in a raised, bed garden, bed a,
container or in garden beds down the. Ground Nutra Star
Vegetable garden one of the Many Nutri star products From.
Nelson The Nutri star, line by the, way is specific to.
Plants there's A Nutri star from flute. Areas there's A

(01:34:33):
Nutri star you, know FOR crp. Myrtles there's A Nutri
star for any kind of plant that you would want
to grow boogain villias for. Example but The Nutri Star Vegetable,
garden if you can have a little vegetable, garden you
need some of this stuff by the folks At Nelson Plant,
food and you can Get nelson plant food at a
lot of different. Places most, retailers garden, centers feed, stores

(01:34:55):
and whatnot are going to Carry nelson's as part of
their product line because it is a quality. Product let's
go out To Texas city now and talk To. Allen, Hey,
allen welcome to Garden.

Speaker 18 (01:35:07):
Line thank, you good morning to. YOU i set three
pictures over to, you AND i believe there are pictures
of vencas full OF i BELIEVE milli bugs what it looks.
LIKE i don't know, what, okay WHAT i, did BUT
i Noticed i'm. Starting it was minor about six seven weeks.

(01:35:29):
Ago SO i bought THE i believe of the, product
and it struck with the aid the CHEMICAL i think
it was systemic, stuff poured.

Speaker 5 (01:35:37):
It in the ground all around.

Speaker 18 (01:35:38):
IT a few weeks LATER i came and did the same.
Thing And i've been out of town for two weeks
AND i come back AND i find all of my,
vencas all my high bustuits are just from the ground
up covered in. Them so of COURSE i got. MAD
i pulled everything out of the ground through the garbage and.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
So, well, yeah SO i don't know the. Product based
on your, DESCRIPTION i think you're talking about. Assephate it's
a systemic. INSECTICIETY i don't. KNOW i would think it
would work on mealie, bugs BUT i don't know, that
and i'd have to check to be. SURE i do

(01:36:18):
know that products with a middle cloprid, work but you
got to get them down ahead of, time because these,
things it takes a while to get them up in the,
plant and then the insects that are sucking juices out
pick up that chemical and it kills. Them so doing
it a little bit ahead of, time just watching at
the first sign of mealy bugs doing. That just keep

(01:36:40):
in mind that memi bugs have their own natural. Enemies
they don't always do their job in keeping mellie bugs in,
line as you've. Seen. Uh and when you get something
like a venka just with the growth of, it you,
know a little shrubby things sprawling out low on the,
ground it they can hide all up in, there and
it's really hard to get any kind of a spray

(01:37:00):
like an oil or soap or something to, them, uh
like as it would be on a taller plant like
a hibiscus, uh which gets mealy. Bugs you you can
spray those a little bit better than you can something down,
Low SO i Think i'd go with the. SYSTEMIC i
just switch to a different.

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
One, okay what you, said LIKE i say about the wrong,
ONE i.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
Believe so, yeah Well i'm gonna, Yeah i'm gonna give.
You i'm going to give you two, words And i'm
gonna only spell the first part because that's all you
need to. KNOW a mid o cloprid and IT'S i
AM i D o and the other ONE i, Got, yeah,

(01:37:41):
OKAY i am ideo A. Midoh the other one is
dino tepheron and just think of dinosaur D i n O.

Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
O all, right thank either of.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Those you don't need both either. One all, right, sir
thanks a, lot appreciate your. CALL i gotta take a break.
Here WHEN i come, Back, James allen and d you'll
be first. Up all, right folks were By welcome back
to Guard. Line good, ahead and with us with cord
to visiting with. You we're going to start off this
hour With james in spring break a spring break spring.

(01:38:14):
Branch welcome to garden Should, okay we'll work with.

Speaker 5 (01:38:21):
THAT i sent you an email with a photo of a, weed, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
That is called. Doveweed dove, weed those low purplish flowers
and things dove like the bird dove. Weed there's there's
another weed called dove weed, too by the, way which
is a problem with common, names but that's from a lawn.
Standpoint this is the one called dove, weed and ith

(01:38:51):
it loves warm. Temperatures it sprouts way after most of
our spring weeds. Do so when you put down like
your barricade In february for your spring weeds in the lawn,
dovewed the barricade has already dwindled down by the time
dove weed sprouts months, later and so basically you're won

(01:39:12):
the probably by the time we hit about i'd say
probably Late. April sometime in Late. April you would need
to do another application of a pre emergent to stop,
it and there's a number of different ones that'll. Work
but the doveweed is sprouting from, seed so you water

(01:39:33):
the pre emerging in and prevent it from sprouting now
once it's. Up if you catch it, early there are
some post. Emergents celsius is supposed to be pretty good against,
it but by the time you're at the stage you're at,
now it's already got seeds and it's flowering and. Stuff
and it's very hard to control at this. Stage and

(01:39:55):
so you can rake, up, slash pull up as much
as you can to get it out of. There it's
not going to make it go, away but right now
you're just trying to stop it for making eight hundred
bazillion more seeds before winter.

Speaker 9 (01:40:07):
Comes, yes, yes you've you've. Skipped you've talked about green
thumbs and brown. THUMBS i have sore thumbs from pulling
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Up, yeah they're green from the weed stains on. Them,
Huh WELL i get, it it, is, YEAH i get.

Speaker 5 (01:40:33):
It, WELL i just know.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
This, yeah a pre emergent is going to be your
friend next, year and they're pulling it, now LIKE i,
said is not to get rid of. It it's just
to get it what you can out of there and
the seeds out of there before it produces. More but
next Next, april let's you See February. March, YEAH i

(01:40:55):
would say Late april would be a time to get
down your pre emergent to carry you into summer for
the dove.

Speaker 5 (01:41:02):
Weeed, okay, WELL i sure appreciate, it, right Thank it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
Neither escapes when you know what to look. For, now
it neither escapes when you see. It that's when you
would then jump on it With celsius at that point in.
Time all, right good, luck AND i don't envy. YOU
i know that is no fun at. All all, right thank, You.
JAMES i appreciate That nitrophas has Their texas three. Step

(01:41:30):
we talk about it all the time now on guardline for,
fall because it's The fall series From nitropos that helps
you have a gorgeous lawn in the spring or in the,
fall in the winter coming out into spring a stronger.
Lawn so the three steps are The Fall, Special Winter
riser fertilizer eight twelve sixteen, fertilizer second step, barricade the

(01:41:53):
weed prevent we put it down before those cool season we'd.
Sprout and third Step Eagle tour fungicide From. Nitrofoss that
is the disease prevent that we put. Down so you
want to get those all down before the problems. Arise of,
course The Fall special you go to my, schedule you'll
see when to, fertilize and fall you'll see when to

(01:42:13):
do pre, emergent and fall you'll see when to. Apply you,
know the fungicides in, fall they're all right there to
help you on look good and come back in the. Spring,
hey if you'd like an opportunity to win a free
bag of Those i'm going to be giving away two
bags of each of those three From nitrofoss At Bearings hardware.

(01:42:34):
Today every twenty minutes we're going to draw for one
of the. Bags i'll be there With dan From. Nitrofas
by the, way he's bringing the real cool. Car it's
a nineteen twenty one fully Restored MODEL. A it's. Cool
i've seen it as. Awesome you to get your picture
made with, it you'd be Like bonnie And collide or
something a little early For bonnie And, CLYDE i, guess

(01:42:55):
but you get the. Idea it'll be At. Bearings you
got to go check this beauty out and sign up
when you get, there you, know sign, up put your
name in the, pot and we're going to be drawn
every twenty minutes for those three different products From nitrofoss as.
Well all, right let's. See oh and if you're looking
for places to get your Nitro foss, products and she
had it for us In richmond Carries, Nitrofoss, Langham Creek

(01:43:19):
Ace hardware And cyprus kind of on the back end
Of Copperfield Neighborhood Court hardware down In stafford another place
that you can get nitrofoss. Products let's go now TO
d And. Montgomery, HELLO, D welcome to Garden.

Speaker 5 (01:43:36):
Line, hi good, Morning thank.

Speaker 19 (01:43:38):
You my question IS i have my first crape myrtle
and it's now put out those seeds which seem to
be really.

Speaker 7 (01:43:46):
Waiting down the.

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Branches DO i need to trim that at this point
or just let it? Go? Oh, okay you can have you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
Can do, yeah you can do. EITHER. D and if
you run a, prunum just prune them back behind the seed.
Pot you don't have to go any further back than
that that the seed pods they can drop seeds which
then become crape myrtle weeds in your in your place
in the during the. Summertime we prune them out right

(01:44:14):
after they bloom to encourage more, bloom before the plant
puts all the energy into developing. Seeds we immediately when
the blooms are done take it. Out to do, that
you're not going to have that benefit this late in the,
season and most people don't want to do that pedious
work of trying to prune out every crape myrtle seed.
Head so if you don't do, it that's. Okay you

(01:44:37):
got a lot of people not doing. It but if
you want, to you can do that to get the most,
benefit though you need to do it before they fully
develop the seeds to redirect that.

Speaker 5 (01:44:47):
Out, okay, Okay and then when do you fertilize those.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Myrtles kind of through the, season depending on how your
crape is doing a lot of crapes are doing fine
without a lot of extra. Fertilize if you need to
get a little boost to get some, vigor, YEAH i
would do. IT i would do it early in the
spring as that plan is coming out and get you
can do another fertilization on it probably two months. Later

(01:45:15):
a little bit more down Than Nelson fertilizers has a
crepe myrtle specifically as part of their Nutri star, line
and you could you could use that if it's growing
in a. Lawn the fertilizer you're putting down for your
lawn is probably going to be sufficient for the creat myrtle.

Speaker 5 (01:45:33):
Too oh, okay good to, no, okay, well thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
Okay all, RIGHT d thanks a, lot appreciate appreciate your.
Question uh native. Plants where do you get native? Plants,
well no place has as many As Buchanans native. Plants
they're in The. Heights they're in The Heights Buchanans Native.
Plants but don't let that name fool. You, well they
do have the best selection of natives, anywhere outstanding. Selection

(01:46:00):
they have a lot. More in, fact natives are a
small part of all The buchanans carries At Buchanan's. Plants
check out their Website buchanansplants dot, com sign up for the.
Newsletter because there's lots of stuff going on all the
time At Buchanan's Native. PLANTS i love that. PLACE i
always enjoy. Going Their Fall festival is coming up On,

(01:46:20):
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Music it's a free. EVENT i mean there would be
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There right. Now they got some good specials going. On
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and the four inch, veggies one dollar off for the

(01:46:42):
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There today'd be a good day to swing By. Buchanans
let's take a little. Break we'll be back with your
calls at seven one three two point two fifty eight seventy.

(01:47:05):
Four and you never know what kind of crazy if
you come on the. PLAYMOS i heard uh writers in the.
Sky that's here they singing that. SOUND i heard them
in concert about a week could. Go they are. Awesome
good entertainer's been around since. Dirt i'm telling this guy's
been singing a long, time keeping the old singing cowboys. Alive,
HEY d and De feed And. Tomball that's the place

(01:47:27):
you need to go if you live out west To.
TOMBULL d AND d is about three miles west on
two forty, nine uh and west Of. Highway excuse, me
it's west of two forty nine on twenty nine to.
Twenty let me try all that. Again you're In tombull
from two forty, nine you head out twenty nine to
twenty to the west three. Miles it's on the. Left
there you. GO d AND D feed two eight one

(01:47:49):
three five one seventy one forty. Four they carry the
products that you need, success things like nitrofoss things Like
microlife And Nelson, Turf Star line fertilizer, products heirloom, Soils
nelson plant. Food see What i'm talking. About they've got
it all. There when it comes to pest disease and weed,

(01:48:10):
control you're going to find things you don't find just
in most. Places they really keep an excellent supply. There
The dover family has been doing this since nineteen eighty.
NINE d AND D feed is easy to get, in
easy to get, out and a, good, friendly helpful. Service
while you're, there pick up a quality brand of pet
food for your, pet like From origin Or diamond Or

(01:48:31):
victor Or Star. PRO d AND D feed three miles
west of Tambol on twenty, nine twenty two eight one
three five one seventy one forty. Four that's. It there you.
GO i was talking earlier About microlife and it's going
to be time to do the fall fertilization From. Microlife
they call their fall fertilizer brown. Pats it's in a brown.

(01:48:53):
Bag not easy to. Find, well that's. It and if
you want to come by today When i'm at A
Bear hardware on this and that we're going to be
given away a bag Of microlife brown patch along with
our other promotional things were given. Away brown patch is
the right ratio of nutrients for. Fall it's got that

(01:49:13):
extra boost of potassium in relation to the. Nitrogen that's
called a fall. Fertilizer that's what we're looking for. Nights
microlife products that contain the microbial activity also help anytime
you put beneficial microbes on a plant, surface whether it's
a root or, whatever they help compete and in some

(01:49:35):
cases even fight against disease. Problems and that's why they
call it the microlife brown. Patch loaded with beneficial microbes
in addition to those nutrients that are very very important
to have a strong grass plant to go into fall
so that it comes out in spring early and. Strong
that is how grass. Grows spring. Growth initial spring growth

(01:49:59):
is based on what the plant stores in the. Fall
that's my fall. Fertilization it may well be the most
important fertilization that we do of our lawns in the.
Year microlife brown patch from the folks at. Microlife there we.
Go you, know SOMETIMES i think IF i say eight
hundred thousand words on a Particular saturday Or, Sunday i'm

(01:50:20):
bound to trip over a few or at least that's my.
Excuse there we. Go, hey if you've been A Horaeshidden
gardens down In, alvin all of These South houston need
to go. There in, fact you can go from wherever you.
Want But Jorges Hidden gardens is down On Elizabeth. Street
so if you're in let's say you're In alvin and

(01:50:41):
you're gonna head Down highway six Towards Santa. Fe it's
off to the, right in Between alvin And Santa. Fe
off to the right On Elizabeth. Street now where he
carries that three sixty tree STABILIZER i was talking about.
Earlier or he's got a lot of, things a beautiful variegated,
bookavillias he's got, citrus oh my, gosh all kinds of,
cetera even very unusual types. There horey's always got good

(01:51:06):
selection of. Fruit he's got really nice peach trees right,
now and fall is a great time to plant peach.
Trees you can get them in the, ground you, know
as those trees go. Dormant there's very little. Stress they
have time to get the roots established so that they
will do. Well carries a wide variety of other. Things you,
know have you ever thought about planting marigoles for? Fall

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they do good all the way up to the first,
frost and that's going to be a. While at least
we hope it is. Right it'd be weird if it.
Wouldn't marigoles just glow in the fall because spider mites
can't attack. Them in the, fall those spider mat populations drop.
Down hory's got snap. Dragons if you want to have beauty,
there what are you looking? For fruit, trees ornamental, trees annual,

(01:51:51):
flowers perennial. Flowers if you're looking for some beautiful, shrubs
you're not going to do better than What hory. Carries
where he's hidden gardens seven one, three sixty, three two
fifty two Ninety go to one seven Seven Elizabeth street In, Alvin.
Texas that's what you need to. Know he's hidden. GARDENS

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i LOVE i love going by. There hoorray is a
fun guy, too by the. Way he's Open tuesday Through
friday from nine to three And saturday And sunday eight to.
Four all, right we're going to go now to Clear
lake and talk To mario this. Morning, Hey, mario welcome to.
Gardens thank.

Speaker 5 (01:52:32):
You how are you today?

Speaker 3 (01:52:35):
Doing?

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
God, okay?

Speaker 7 (01:52:38):
Great hey, Listen i've got a real problem with my.
Roses they're they're withering and shriveling, up and it's starting
to affect the other plants around around the. ROSES i
have a By tech tree of bush and it's starting
to show wagering and. Uh and some of the leaves

(01:53:01):
are actually turning.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
Black, okay the vitex turning. Black, interesting, Well. Mario the
diseases typically they are, exceptions but typically they don't spread
from one plant to, another just like your cat can
get distemper or your dog gets DISTEMPER i can't remember which.

(01:53:23):
One but you don't get distemper because they're sick around,
you because you're a different. Species and there are examples
where a disease can affect more than one, plant and
that would be in the case of a root. Rot
so if you had a particular root, rot it could
affect your, roses and it could affect your vitex. Also
but in, general we're not thinking disease in general when

(01:53:45):
we see, this we're thinking cultural or. Water so if
the irrigation system wasn't working properly or wasn't mean run
and they got a little on the dry, side, well
that could affect several things that are in the same
bed that are. Unrelated probably your best, Bet, mario is
going to be to send me some pictures of show
me the whole thing from a, distance show me some

(01:54:07):
close ups of the symptoms that you're. Seeing you, know
where the leaves turn on all brown at, once does
one whole shoot die back and the other one next
to it hasn't died? Yet do you see leaves that
are half green with brown on the edges and? Tips
those kind of symptoms will help me try to work
my way through. It but other than just suggesting a
possible soul moisture, problem whether not enough or excessive, Moisture

(01:54:33):
i'm gonna have to see a picture to gony For.

Speaker 5 (01:54:37):
Okay i'll be happy to do, that and thanks for your.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
Help, Yeah i'm going to put you on hold right
now And nicholas will pick up and he will give
you my email address so you can send me some
pictures if you get him to me. Soon an hour
left and Maybe i'll be a blancher. Today all, right, okay,
great thanks you take care there you. Go all, right

(01:55:00):
well we've run this hour. Out i've enjoying. MYSELF i
hope you are. Too you got some questions you want
to talk, about give me a call AND i, meantime
make sure that you have got the, gas the car gassed,
up and you're ready to go To Barings hardware two,
day twelve thirty to two. Thirty i'll be doing the

(01:55:20):
nitropass giveaway every twenty. Minutes. Night fross is going to
have their really cool nineteen twenty One Ford MODEL a
that they're going to bring out To bearings. Today you've
got to see this. Beauty it is really. Nice so
just the other, DAY i love that. CAR i always
think About bonnie And, clyde ALTHOUGH i, admitted well ago.
DON'T i don't Think bonnie And clyde were running loose

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in the nineteen twenty, one but maybe they. Were i'm
not a historian nor bank. CROBBER i just cannot horticultural.
Crimes you, know you got to kill a lot of
plants to be a good. Horticulturist so there's your permission
to kill a, Plant no shame in. That that's how we.
Learned all, right grab you some, copy let's get. Back

(01:56:05):
we got another hour to do.

Speaker 1 (01:56:06):
Her welcome To katie. R. H Garden line With Skip.

Speaker 2 (01:56:17):
Rictor it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:56:25):
Trip just watch him as we may to septasyas.

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
Again not, Sorry hey, folks welcome back to Garden. Line
GOOD devi you with? Us what are we going to
talk about this? Morning you tell? Me can we called
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Speaker 9 (01:57:04):
That.

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WELL i was talking to someone earlier this week about
turf and turf, care and there was how do you
always how do you create a beautiful? Lawn you, know
a lawn that is just just, Gorgeous and it's. Simple it's, mowwater.
Fertilized and that's why my, schedule the basic lawn care
part of my schedule is, mowing, watering and. Fertilizing that's

(01:57:28):
what we do and that's how we end up having.
Success simple as. That, uh if you are looking for
someone that can come out and take a lawn that
has been struggling and turn it, around just make it
really look. Good BnB Turf. Pros they are specialists in that.
Now the website IS Bb turfpros dot. Com no, end

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JUST bb Turf pros dot. Com seven one three two
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prices start around five hundred dollars for them to come
out and do a core aeration of the whole lawn
area and then follow it with a compost top. Dressing
and depending on how far you have to, travel and
you know how big of a yard it, is how

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much bulk product they got to bring out there and.
Everything it varies like. That But i'm telling you when
you do a quality, erration a core aeration with the
kind of EQUIPMENT bb, has it does a professional. Job
and then a quality leaf mole. Compost they only use
quality products THAT i talk about here on Guard. Line
so for, Example Ciena malts is where they get their

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quality That BnB. Does with what they, do they make
a personal connection with. You they want to make sure you're.
Satisfied talk to them about all their services that they
can do to have a, beautiful gorgeous, lawn including, compost
top dressing and the quality core aeration job that they can.

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Do they serve the air from Sugar land In Missouri
city all the way across to the, east Down Interstate
interstate not quite that big, Yet highway Six Pairland, Friends
Wood League, City, dickenson all the way over to forty five.
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Eight we're going to go now To conrad and talk
To bill this. Morning, Hey, bill welcome To Guarden line.

Speaker 15 (01:59:24):
High. Skip, hey somewhere along the, LINE i bought a
bag of fungus, side but it's not on your, list
AND i wanted to know is now that it's called
MICROFOSS pcnb TEN g ground patch.

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
Control that's actually about the best thing you can put
on brown. Patch it is very effective pcmb pcmb is
a is a fungicide that is very effective against brown. Patch,
so but you like any funge aside for brown, patch
you want to do it before you see the. Circles
so once we get into you, know Early, OCTOBER i

(01:59:59):
would go ahead and get it. Down if we were
to have like a cold front come in and we
get some cool drop in the temperatures and the rain
and everything like. THAT i would do it after, that
even if that were in next week or, something you,
KNOW i would go ahead and do it because that
is going to bring the round patch. On but, yeah that'll.
Work good, stuff all.

Speaker 15 (02:00:20):
Right how about one more product THAT i for Funguside.
RELIANT i also have, that And i'm not quite sure
exactly when to use.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
That do you know the it's a is this a
funge a? Side you?

Speaker 15 (02:00:36):
Said, well the product description was kind of a a.
Combo it's a fungus. Side it works as a, fungicide
but is also healthy for the. Roots they, say, oh
but this is really good for the. ROOTS i think that's.
Right that was what sold me on buying. It so
the active ingredient is a potassium potassium salts of phosphorus.

Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
Acid, okay that's a fund de. Side, yeah but protesting
themselves a phosphorus are are they're effective on on fung
aside in terms of a fungicide and? Whatnot? Uh you,
know as far as looking at the looking at the,
label seeing the concentration of, It i'm not familiar With reliance,

(02:01:25):
specifically BUT i do, KNOW i do know that product
of that. Ingredient and, yes it's a lot of, fungicide
and it is systemic within the. Plant it's used on
a lot of different kinds of plants from fruit. Plants
do you name, it but if you follow if it
says lawns on the, label make sure it says lawns
on the label before you use it on lawn and

(02:01:47):
then follow the. Label, okay, great, great thank, you all, right,
sir you, bet thanks a. Lot appreciate that. Call appreciate
that call very. Much hang on here IF i find
the right but and so keep going. Here enchanted forest
gardens that are down in The Richmond rosenberg area, awesome awesome.
Place they are loaded for fall right. NOW i mean

(02:02:09):
their stock is. Excellent you need to get out. There
you need to check it. OUT i love going. THERE
i love shopping, there and just the whole, setting from
the big beautiful trees just to the way that they've
set up the whole. Plate it is just. Nice right.
Now they are. Overlooked when you walk, in you think
It's halloween. TODAY i mean pumpkins and all the different

(02:02:30):
kinds of gourds and, things you, know The talavera pumpkins,
too all kinds Of halloween designs and decorations and. Whatnot,
Today andy Chad ester is going to be out there
From she's From Medina Medina. Products good. Friend andy's gonna
be out there at ten am and she's gonna be
talking about vegetable. Gardening so if you want to learn
about vegetable, gardening you need to.

Speaker 5 (02:02:51):
Go you're.

Speaker 2 (02:02:52):
Out if you're out in that area Of Enchanted, forest
you need to go See. Andy. Uh the location IS
fm twenty seven fifty. Nine so if you're heading out
Of Richmond rosenberg up toward Sugar, land it's off to
the right ON fm twenty seven fifty. Nine write down
this address for the for their. Website really good, website

(02:03:14):
really good, information and you can find out about all
the upcoming. Programs it Is Enchanted, Forest RICHMOND tx dot.
Com Enchanted, Forest, RICHMOND tx dot. Com AND i go
now To george And Jersey. Village Hey, george welcome to Garden.

Speaker 7 (02:03:33):
Line thank, you, skip good, morning AND i have an
unusual question for. You i've been saving the big chunks
of the logs when they cut down my oak tree
to burn in the fireplace at. Wintertime And i've also
been saving scraps of other things that are, dead like
blueberry and BlackBerry and bogan b is stuff to use as.

(02:03:54):
Kinley and it occurred to, me is some of that
stuff poison? Us WHEN i burn up of the smoke
is going to kill?

Speaker 9 (02:03:59):
Me you?

Speaker 5 (02:04:01):
Know, no not THAT i know.

Speaker 2 (02:04:04):
Of i've never heard of. Anything NOW i would if
a piece of wood had some poison ivy stem connected
to the. Side, absolutely that's really bad to breathe that.
In BUT i don't just HOW i don't know of
any any landscape plants that that's the case.

Speaker 5 (02:04:21):
For, okay all, Right, oh, thanks thanks very.

Speaker 2 (02:04:24):
Much, well have. Fun, yeah they appreciate, that appreciate the
call very. Much bye, bye let's take a break. Here
i'll be right. Back folks with your callside and welcome.
Back welcome back to The. Guardline good to have you with. Us,
listen it is still hummingbird, season and if you haven't

(02:04:45):
purchased a quality hummingbird, feeder you need to head the
Walld Birds unlimited because they have some good. ONES i
like the hype perch hummingbird. Feeder think of it as
a flat, disc so as the hummingbirds, said all the
way around. It you can kind of see them. All
they're not hiding behind the feeder like some of the
other types of. FEEDERS i like that. One i've got.

(02:05:06):
It it's easy to, clean easy to. Use anytime you
get a hummingbird feeder and you're gonna feed, hummingbirds you
got to get Wild Birds Unlimited Nectar. Extender what it
will do is it will carry that sugary water further
in hot weather before it goes. Bad you, know regular

(02:05:27):
sugar water three days later and it's starting to get
phoonky on. You, well this stuff seven, days ten, days
it's still. Good with the Wild Birds Unlimited Nectar. Defender
you just need to grab a little bottle of. IT
a little capful is. All it takes in about a
cup of, WATER i. BELIEVE i believe a capful for
cuff anyway it says on the label of. It BUT
i use it all the time BECAUSE i just can't

(02:05:49):
get out.

Speaker 10 (02:05:50):
THERE i.

Speaker 2 (02:05:50):
FORGET i don't get back out there to change out
the water and give them fresh new water and stuff like.
That so sugary substances that's what they.

Speaker 14 (02:05:57):
Love.

Speaker 2 (02:05:58):
Now there are Six wildbirds on limited stores in The
Greater houston. Area there's one On kingwood And Kingwood, drive
one in Pair land On East. Broadway if you're in Clear,
lake go To El Dorado boulevard for Your Wildbirds unlimited
store In houston on Bel air In houston On Memorial,
drive and then up In cypress On Barker. Cypress all
places that you Find Wildbirds unlimited. Stores they always have

(02:06:22):
a wide variety of bird seed that birds want to,
eat not kick on the ground like cheap bird. Seeds
a little red bebes and cheap bird. Seed birds don't
care for. That that's like that have to be starving
to eat that. Stuff, Well Wildbirds unlimited blends our stuff
birds do want to eat and you get more bang
for your buck that. Way all, RIGHTY i was listening

(02:06:45):
to some birds just yesterday that were out, singing AND
i like to think they're serenading. Me they probably are
just talking to each, other but, hey we're going to
go with the. First cianamalts is your go to stop
for all of you down south and little to the
west Of. Houston they cover about a twenty mile area

(02:07:05):
in their deliveries and you can drive from anywhere to
get to. Them they are ON fm five twenty one
Near highway six and two eighty. Eight go to the
Website sienna multch dot. Com you can go out there
and you can buy stuff by the. Bags you can
buy stuff by the, bulk have them put it on
your trailer or your truck if you want to do,
that or you can call them and have them. Deliver

(02:07:26):
they charge a small fee for. Delivery but for example
supersacks neat and. Clean they do have those at. Cienamultch,
now whatever material you, want they can put it in
a one qbyard supersack and they can either put it
on your vehicle when you show, up or they can deliver.
It you got to get three different supersacks for delivery
because that's that's a that's a processed, Delivery so not just,

(02:07:48):
one but. Three they got beautiful metal yard art and
vego beds their store if you haven't been out. There
they got those shroomis which are like little ceramic mushrooms
that are, colorful real pretty leather. Good it's soap, scandals,
lotions harvest baskets that are real nice kind of with
a screen bottom where you you, know you fet your
potatoes in them that you just grew and you squirt

(02:08:08):
them off and bring them in the house that. Way
it's really, cool real nice. Stuff it's a one stop
shop for. Homeowners you just show up out there and
whatever you need to create the perfect soil for. Success
they've got you, covered including fertilizers like products From azamite
and From nelson's and From nitrophoss and From medina and

(02:08:29):
From Microlife Sienna. Maltz by the, way they're Open monday
Through friday seven thirty to, Five saturday seven thirty to.
Two that would be today to closed On. Sunday cienamulch dot.
Com let's see. Here AM i due for a? Break
DID i skip a? BREAK i ask my. PRODUCER i

(02:08:50):
cannot remember IF i took a break at the right
time or. Not all, right SO i think they're telling
Me i'm. Good they SAID i can talk until eleven
forty five, day so we here we. GO i wouldn't
have time to make it to Two bearings hardware IF
i did, That i've told you about the. Night IF
i speaking Of, Bearings nitrovus three, Step Nitrofuss texas three,

(02:09:13):
step you probably dance the two, step but this is your.
Lawn you need the three. Step that is the fall
special winteriser eighteen twelve six fertilizer designed for fall. Use
very important to have your lawn strong going into winter
and coming out of. Winter Night fross. Barricade all those
weeds that you were dealing with last, spring the chickweed

(02:09:34):
and the hen, bed and the annual, bluegrass and the
carpet weed and the cleavers and all clovers and all
that kind of. Stuff Night foss barricade applied according to
my schedule in the fall will prevent them from ever becoming.
Plants that's the easiest way to deal with. Them, Finally
eagle turf funge. Aside the roots take it up and

(02:09:57):
when brown patch tries to, infect if you have put
it down ahead of, time they will not let the
brown patch have access to your. Lawn that's The Nitrofoss
texas three. Step Now i'm going to be At Bearings
hardware today On bisonet from twelve thirty to two thirty
and will be given away six bags of that three step.

(02:10:20):
Program so two bags of The eagle fund to, side
two bags of the, fertilizer two bags of the. Barricade
every twenty minutes we're going to. Draw you stand a
good chance of, winning SO i hope you show up
and do. That they're also providing the folks In microlife
for putting a bag of their brown patch into the.
Mix i'm going to be giving Away Texas gardener. Magazines

(02:10:41):
if you haven't, subscribed you need to come by get a.
Magazine take a look at. IT i think you'll agree with.
Me it's the very best, magazine hands, down for anybody
gardening In, texas for the how to's written By texas
gardeners For texas. Gardeners i'll also be providing my. SKILL
i have plenty of those on, hand and there'll be

(02:11:02):
some other things are given. Away now we just talking
about Night FoST, products and you're going to find them
in places like Ospas ace up in The. WOODLANDS rcw
carries Night foss products at two forty nine AND Belaa
heat And feed In houston carries Night foss, products plants
for all seasons In luetta carries Night foss products And
Fisher's Hardware done In pasadena some of the, many, many

(02:11:24):
many places that carry Night foss products here in The
Greater houston. Area it's kind of, easy easy to. FIND
i seldom go into a place that doesn't carry their
products and the products. Work of. Course, YEAH i mentioned
all Those Ace hardware. Stores you, Know ace is Our

(02:11:45):
Houston Ace, group shouldn't Say Houston Greater Houston. Area Our
Ace Hardware texas. Group they are all over this. Region
and if you go To Ace Hardware, texas you can
find Your Ace hardware store nearest to. YOU i say
find your find your stores near. Street there's a number
Of Ace hardware stores all over the. Place you go

(02:12:06):
up to To PORTER j And r's And porter ON
fm thirteen, fourteen great. Store they carry all kinds of
night frost products and their TYPICAL. Ace they're going to
have everything you. Need League City ace On League City,
Parkway Patco ace On West willis And Alvin Bay Cliff
ace down south Of Kena kema On Grand. Avenue you

(02:12:29):
head West Cinco RANCH ace On South Mason road And
Katie Katie hardware On pinoak that's in Old Town katie
and Then Fullsher race and three point fifty nine down
In Fullsher Bay CITY ace on Seventh. Street VICTORIA ace
down In, Victoria texas On. Navarro While i'm down south West,
Port La voca has AN Ace hardware store On Calhoun,

(02:12:51):
plaza and then of course There's Brunham Ace. Hardware i'm
gonna be later this. Fall, yeah you don't want to miss.
That i'm gonna be out those folks out there And
brunham On october the twenty. Fifth i'm gonna be coming
out to YOUR Ace hardware. Store there great. Stores now
what do you get At? Ace everything you. Need things
to have a beautiful lawn and landscape and, garden things

(02:13:14):
to decorate the, indoors tools for quality, work even those you,
know battery operated tools and bowers and. Things everything you
can imagine a hardware store would. CARRY ace, has but
so much more. STUFF i promise you walk into AN Ace,
hardware you're gonna go. UGH i didn't know as carry,
that and they do lots of cool. STUFF i mean

(02:13:36):
it when you can make your, indoor your, home indoors
of your home beautiful FROM Ace hardware as.

Speaker 5 (02:13:41):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:13:44):
Well you're listening To Garden line the phone number seven
one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy. Four give
me a. Call we'll talk about the things that are
of interest to. You by the, way if all is
a good, time to plant fruit. Trees it is a great.
Time so is winter a good time to plant fruit.

(02:14:06):
Trees if you're going to plant a fruit tree this,
year do some. Investigating if you go to The Aggie horticulture,
website just to a search For Aggie. Horticulture it's a
great horticulture. Site when you get the front, page you
can go to sections on vegetables and. Gardening you can
go to a section on, fruit click on the fruit

(02:14:26):
and nut, section and there is a publication when you go.
There in, Fact i'm going to pull that up here
and just SAY i just want to talk to you
about what all is. There but there's a publication on
every kind of fruit that you possibly would want to grow, here,
right every kind of. Fruit, so for, example WHEN i

(02:14:48):
go to that fruit and nut, section these are free, apples, avocados, blackberries, blueberries, figs, olives, peaches,
pears improved, pecans, pecans per, simons plums and other stone, fruit, pomegranates, strawberries, bananas, citrus, jujubies,

(02:15:10):
Mangoes mayhaw's, muscadine, grapes but, pias, well nut i everything
you can. Imagine, oh and also on lemons or limes
or low quad or mandarins or. Pineapples it's a great.
Site you got to go see. It it tells you
how to plant, Them it tells you good, Varieties it
tells you how to fertilize, them it tells you how to.

(02:15:31):
Perunum these are free agi. Horticulture, now when you do,
this you need to make sure whether or not you
need two varieties to cross pollinate each. Other some things
like peaches they don't need a second variety for cross.
Pollinating other things like apples. Do and then there's, many
many other, examples of course of all of. That, secondly

(02:15:53):
if it's a deciduous, fruit you need to find out
how many hours of chilling it has and how much
you need in your. Area so around, here you, know
you get up A huntsville, direction you're probably looking at
six hundred fifty maybe or so maybe seven hundred hours
of chilling up that. Direction you go down to the

(02:16:16):
coast and you're looking at two hundred hours at, chilling
and there's everything in. Between and so the bottom line
is you want to pick a variety that is for your.
Area so not all apples will grow in all of
our zone. Here some of them are better adapted to
further north some further. South same with. Peaches if you
pick a variety that has too high of a chilling,

(02:16:38):
requirement it never comes out in, spring or if it,
does it sputters and you never get. Anything if you
pick one that has too low of a chilling Requirement
sunday In, january it says, wooho spring is, Here i'm,
done and the next frost takes out your crop that.
Year it's very important to pick the right amount of chilling.
Hours let's take a little break here for the. News
when we come back west In League city And tom

(02:17:00):
and Sugar, land you are going to be our first
two up as we head out to break. Here just
one more, reminder Albe At Bearings hardware On bessinette from
twelve thirty to two thirty. Today bring me, samples bring
me your, Questions let's meet and let's get you registered
for some really cool free. Giveaways we'll be right.

Speaker 5 (02:17:21):
Back here we go.

Speaker 2 (02:17:28):
Way are back on the guard, line looking forward to
visiting with you with a lot of other kinds of
questions you might have related to. Gardening if you are
noticing around your house that you've got some cracks in
the sheet. Rock perhaps you are noticing that our door is,
sticking or you see cracks, Outside, well that's a good

(02:17:50):
sign that something's. Moving and, boy do things move here
in our. Soils we have a lot of what we
say shrink swell. Potential so let's get wet. This, well
they get, dry they, shrink and that movement rex havoc
on our, foundations on our, sideways, sidewalks, driveways you name.
It there's one place to, call and that's fix my

(02:18:13):
slab foundation. Repair Ty stricklan's been doing this for twenty
five years, now since twenty. Ten he knows what he's
doing and he can come in and assess and if
no work is, needed he'll tell. You so we need
to watch. This there's a little movement Because ty told
me one. Time he says all foundations are gonna have
eight crack in them at some. Point that's just part

(02:18:34):
of the. Deal so the presence of a little tiny
hairline crack does not mean everything you got to build
a new. House, no it just means we need to watch.
This but at some point you do need to do
something because of the damage it can. Cause and they
know how to go in there and do the proper.
Job they show up when they say they're going to show,
up they fix it, right and they charge you a fair.
Price that's how things work At Foundation repair with fix

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My lab call him two eight one two, fine or
just go visit them online fixmyslab dot. Com let's head
up The league city, now IF i can get my,
mouse there we. Go we're going to talk To wes this. Morning, Hey,
wes welcome to Garden.

Speaker 3 (02:19:14):
Line glad to be. HERE i have two.

Speaker 20 (02:19:20):
Questions, ONE i have a six six hundred foot long
crush concrete driveway and it used to be ten foot.
Wide now it's about five foot wide because of grass
and weeds are taking, over and it's loned with trees
like oak, trees and it's, Like i'm kind of hesitant
on using a.

Speaker 2 (02:19:42):
Killer or grass killer or whatever goes with the.

Speaker 20 (02:19:44):
Trees is there anything ELSE i can?

Speaker 2 (02:19:46):
Use if you, apply if you've got both broad leaf and,
grassyweeds then you're going to need to use something that
contains either glyca. Sate are just went blank on the other.
One it's all My if you go on my Website
gardening With skip dot, com there is a publication up

(02:20:11):
there called herbicides to use On skip's weed, wiper and
that will tell you for each kind of weeds you're going,
after the products that you need to. Use and for
the weeds are broad leaf n that are the grassy
types of. Weeds you need a general purpose and that
would be something like. Glyphosate and the ONE i couldn't

(02:20:33):
think of all ago is glue fascinate g l u
F O s glue. Fascinate either of those will kill
grasses and broad. Leaves you don't drench them like where
you're running spray water down into the. Ground you just
spray the. Surface just the light sprow you. Get just
get a little bit on the, weeds that's all and
it will not hurt your. Trees and it works if

(02:20:58):
you're just dealing with. Grass there's a couple of other,
options but if you've got grass and broad, leaves you
need to use one of those.

Speaker 5 (02:21:03):
Two, okay?

Speaker 20 (02:21:06):
Agree and the second question is. Okra i've never had a.
GARDEN i started one this year and the okra plant
is over ten foot high or, tall and it's producing
a lot of. Okra But i'm finding, Out, Yeah i've
had an allergic reaction in my eye and the rash

(02:21:30):
all over my. Arms is, This, Norman have you ever
heard of that?

Speaker 2 (02:21:34):
Before, WELL i don't know how it got in your,
eye but okra is an itchy, thing and we pick
okra with long sleeved shirts because it will make you.
Itch and that that is just there's, little, tiny stiff
hair like structures that poke your, arms and our skin

(02:21:55):
reacts to. That it's not like poison, ivy but it
does make you itch and it'll away when you you,
know you soap up and wash and stuff and it'll
eventually kind of calm. Down but, yeah definitely long.

Speaker 5 (02:22:08):
Sleeves, Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:22:10):
I've never you never heard of it causing an eye?

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
Irritation, okay, no But i'm SURE i. Would somehow it
got to your, Eye, yeah IF i got You i've
never had that. Happen AND i grew a lot of
okra and have for a long. Time but SOMEHOW i
got in your. EYE i don't know, how but, yeah that's.
It all, Right, well good, luck all, right bet take.

(02:22:34):
Care and by the, way you, know for those Products
i'm talking, About League City feeds probably going to happen
just down the road from you, there, perfect all, Right
i'll look aside of which side Of interstate forty. Five
are you on the east or the west?

Speaker 20 (02:22:49):
Side, well, actually, yeah you Said League. City i'm actually
In Santa, Fe.

Speaker 2 (02:22:56):
Texas oh, okay, okay yeah, yeah wait for. Time, okay,
good all. Right we got some Good Ace hardware stores
too down there by the. Way you just go To
Ace Hardware texas dot com you find. One they carry
those kind of products as. Well but, THANKS i do
appreciate your. Call all, right let's, uh let's see. Here
where are? We, uh let's go to talk To tom In. Sugarland, Now, Hey,

(02:23:19):
tom welcome to garden.

Speaker 5 (02:23:20):
Line, hey, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:23:30):
How CAN i?

Speaker 5 (02:23:31):
Help i've GOT.

Speaker 7 (02:23:38):
I stopped this?

Speaker 3 (02:23:38):
There?

Speaker 15 (02:23:39):
Hello are you?

Speaker 9 (02:23:41):
There?

Speaker 2 (02:23:41):
YEAH i got? You go, ahead, yeah go, ahead you're.

Speaker 14 (02:23:44):
On all.

Speaker 11 (02:23:44):
RIGHT i got WHAT i was trying to shave my
radio up, ANYWAY i got WHAT i believe is a
steward the contry and it's, okay dropping leaves, viciously and
it seems premature to, me And i'm wondering if you
have any input on that or what might be causing,
it or is it really.

Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
Premature as the leaves are falling, off can you describe
them to? Me or they yellow with rectangular brown splotches
or are they turning brown on the tree and falling
off from?

Speaker 11 (02:24:16):
There what are you seeing, there laying on the ground
with yellow and brown?

Speaker 2 (02:24:24):
Spots, okay that's Probably, okay that's a fungal. Disease that's
a fungal disease of the, leaves and pecans are susceptible
to a number of different fungal, diseases and that that's
kind of what you're seeing. There, uh you, know we're

(02:24:44):
a little. Early we don't want them to do it.
Now we'd rather they start doing that at the end Of.
October and the reason is they're filling the pecan kernels right,
now and so if you lose the, leaves you lose carbohydrate,
production and you can't make a pecan without. Carbohydrates so
to the degree you get early leaf, drop you're going
to have pecans that haven't filled the shells. Properly so

(02:25:06):
that would be the. Concern at this stage in the.
Game there's not much you can. Do, certainly dry conditions
can cause a pecan to go into an early. FALL
i don't think that's what's. HAPPENING i think it's a.
Disease and so what you're going to need to consider
next year is go to your local County extension office
and In Fort Ben county and get a pecan ask

(02:25:30):
them about getting A paecan spray, schedule and if you
are able to get a sprayer to spray the, tree
if it's not too, big you can begin to protect
those tree leaves earlier in the season so that they
don't do, this and therefore you get a better. Crop
if you don't care about the crop or what you can't,
spray then you just kind of live with.

Speaker 15 (02:25:51):
It, well it's a very large.

Speaker 2 (02:25:54):
Tree, yeah SO i, think, YEAH i, UNDERSTAND i. Understand all, Right,
well all, right that's that's about the best you can.
Do you're gonna get some crop out of, it, hopefully
but that's just part of the vicissitudes of weather and.
Nature but, anyway thank you sir for your. CALL i

(02:26:18):
appreciate that very. Much i'm gonna have to run to
a break, here folks will be right. Back all we
are back there gardening. Questions it looks like we got
a full board of things. There we need to let
some of those folks know ON i probably not gonna
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thepestbros dot. Com let's go now To magnolia and talk To. Mike, Hey,
mike welcome To.

Speaker 5 (02:27:33):
Guardline thank you very much for taking the.

Speaker 19 (02:27:36):
Call, hey quick follow up comment and question about the
gentleman that talked about his uh crush concrete driveway that
now used to be ten feet now it's five. Feet
So i've got the similar. Issue What i've been doing
is scorching that with with like you, know with a
pro paine, tank and uh, yeah we'd, scorcher and you

(02:28:00):
know THAT i was going to do the, pesticides But
i've got, Pets i've got farm, animals and THEN i
also have well. Water SO i just wanted to get
your thoughts on using that, method you, know opposed to
use in the chemicals or you, know maybe you just
think the chemicals would be fine in the situation as.

Speaker 2 (02:28:17):
Well, well you, know either one's. Fine the the scorching
it with a propane torch kind of thing that works,
fine especially with annual. Weeds you fry the top the weeds.
Dead let's say it was bermuda grass coming in. There
well you would fry the, top but it would come
back out. Again you fry the top. Again so using

(02:28:38):
a systemic product to go down in the grass and
kill it is probably less time, spent you, know and
money probably as well on that. Area but either way
you could do. It just just remember the scorching fries
the top kind of like sprand with vinegar that is
a good kills lots of, things but not a perennial

(02:28:59):
because and translocate down into the.

Speaker 19 (02:29:01):
Roots, so but the products on your website that you
mentioned earlier that would be safe for my situation as.

Speaker 2 (02:29:09):
Well, yeah, well safe as a relative. TERM i just
want to be clear about. That you can misuse on
an organic, product like vinegar is not. Safe you splash
it in your eyes and so. On it's very very
dangerous in that, Sense but when used as, DIRECTED i
wouldn't worry about the safety on the, products but on

(02:29:34):
the website it's. MORE i put that up there just
so that when people have a particular kind of, problem
like maybe they have poison ivy or wild blackberries or
pepperbine or something like, that hackberry, Seedlings well there's an
ingredient that works on all those and Then i'll list
all the products out that contain that. Ingredient if it's
if he had said it was just grasses as opposed

(02:29:55):
to broad, leaves then there's two different ingredients with a
list of products underneath each one that just kills grasses
and doesn't kill. Broadway so if you if the grass
was in your, petunias you could spray it with those,
products and who wouldn't kill the petunias and so on
down the. Line that's what that page is. About.

Speaker 5 (02:30:13):
Perfect, well go check it, out thank you very.

Speaker 2 (02:30:15):
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(02:31:46):
to Pair land and talk To craig today for our
final call of the. Day Hey, craig welcome to Garden.

Speaker 5 (02:31:51):
Line good, MORNING. Skip nice to take him the. Call
two quick. Questions THE firs is on milk.

Speaker 2 (02:31:57):
Weed milk weed.

Speaker 5 (02:31:58):
Plants we have about half a in anur yard and they're,
great but they're susceptible to spider, mites so several times
a season we have to cut them back and scaletonize.
Them we read that there are several species that are
highly resistant to spider, mites AND i wanted to know
if you knew is that? True are there native milkweed

(02:32:18):
species out there that we can plant that would be
more more resistant to the spider? Mites you, KNOW i.

Speaker 2 (02:32:26):
CAN'T i can't tell you.

Speaker 5 (02:32:27):
THAT i.

Speaker 2 (02:32:28):
Don't i've not heard about spider man resistant milk, Weeds
but let me tell, you spider mites are not a
problem on. This what kind of milk weed do you?
Have is it the, tall skinny upright stalks or is
it a, short squatty orange flowering on or what they?

Speaker 5 (02:32:42):
Have it's the tall it's the, tall skinny upright, stalks
and the flowers are red.

Speaker 2 (02:32:47):
Orange that's, yeah that's tropical Milk weed's got the orange
and yellow flowers on. It, Yes but that one's easy
because it's up it's not down low to the. Ground
if you get a strong spray water and blast upward
from underneath the, plant it will dislove spider. Mites and
if you do that once every probably two, weeks even

(02:33:09):
ten days two, weeks just just blast upward from. Underneath
that's HOW i can trust spider miights on my angels,
trumpets which also gets spider. Miights. Uh they got the
big old giant. Leaves i'll put my hand on top
of the leaf SO i can blast the bottom side of,
it but they'll lock them all off. There and when
you get spidermights, wet they get all kinds of fungal
diseases on their bodies that really scrum.

Speaker 5 (02:33:30):
Up so just is. Enough we ALSO i thought, that,
oh go, AHEAD.

Speaker 2 (02:33:41):
I was gonna, say it's got to be a, strong
stiff spray to blast them, off not just a little
miss landing on. Them go ahead with Your.

Speaker 5 (02:33:48):
Oh we read that the tropical, loquise it was recommended
sometimes to like cut them back once or twice or
so a, season because that's what we do when we see.
THEM i see assassin on them and other types of.
Insects but the spider might just become so. Numerous we
just remove all the leaves and we cut, this you,
know we cut the stem so that there's just vertical

(02:34:09):
and we did a last weekend and there's already new
leaves on. It but you, know it's a lot of
work to do either that or spray. Them but spraying
with the water efficient.

Speaker 2 (02:34:20):
Well with the tropical milk, weed because milk weed can
carry a pathogen on it that attacks butterflies and causes
them to have malfarm wings or other issues that prevent
them from doing what the hibernation they need to. Do
with that, one it lasts year to, year where native
milk weeds tend to go away completely and then come

(02:34:42):
back in the. Spring that one we cut it down
to the ground when we have our first frost in
the fall and get all that out of there and
then when the fresh new growth comes, out it's not
as much of an. Issue but as far as, dealing you,
know with the spider, MITES i you, know you could
take it as step up and use insecticital soap as a,

(02:35:03):
spray not a blast out of a garden, gun but
instead just a pump up spray of insect sitle, soap
or use a little hand spray. Bottle and if you
spray the bottoms of the leaves and you give the
spider MIT's a little bath and, soap it will kill.
Them and so that's an.

Speaker 5 (02:35:19):
Old box that on that one, arm because we had
the monarch butterflies in our yard all year, round you,
know and they typically lay eggs at least three or four,
times so we try not to use.

Speaker 2 (02:35:32):
That if it's a very got you got you, well
if it's if it's an egg hatching out into a
young young caterpillar soap, pill it will. Okay but that's
WHY i, Like i'll tell you the water is just
a real simple. Thing it's fast AND i would just do.

Speaker 5 (02:35:49):
That, okay thank you very.

Speaker 2 (02:35:53):
Much that's WHAT i. USE i don't like the spray,
stuff so that's WHAT I, Hey, craig thanks for the, call.
FOLKS i gotta. Go guess Where i'm. Going hope you'll be.
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every twenty. Minutes i'll give away one a funge a,

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