Skip Endeavors to Persevere!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alrighty folk, we have been chasing gremlins out of the
machinery around here, and I'm actually back with you live here.
We just had a little bit of a best up
there on for a little bit to keep the show running.
But welcome to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are going to see if we can make
this work today. On a second way of going about

(00:22):
doing radio, I want to welcome you back to the show.
And we're dealing with a lot of rain right now
throughout the area. I know you guys, hopefully you've gotten
some decent amounts of rain. Had a number of calls.
Someone was asking about, well, when it rained so much,
I just fertilized, what do I do? And they had
used a slow release fertilizer specifically, it was Micropos the

(00:47):
super turf and a super turf. By the way, for
those of you who heard Garden Line before, you've probably
heard me talk about it many times. But it's a
slow release fertilizer, maybe like sixteen weeks of fertilizing, but
it's it's not just like a salt granule that dissolves
away like you know, if you put sugar or table salt,
and you can get it wet, it just all dissolves away.

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So it can wash away. These slow release fertilizers like
Night five superturf, they have different mechanisms that they release there.
In this case, nitrogen is a primary ingredient into your lawn.
So if it gets real row wet, it's not going
to all dissolveay, it's going to hang on there. There's
some things that take my crobiolactivity to make them release.

(01:28):
There are some things that just take time to make
them relays, and certainly temperature plays a role. And so
my answer to them was, no, don't worry about it.
You put your super turf down. You're fine. You get
a little rain, and we'd rather not have four inches
of rain on a new fertilization, but you're still okay.
There's still going to be something unless I mean physically
you just literally sheet erosion across the top of the

(01:52):
surface washed everything off of the property. But that's not
going to be the case. And so you're good to go.
And if any of you have done the super turf
and you got all this gully washer, well you're all right,
just hang on. We're good. Return those clippings as you
mow through this summer, and it'll carry all the way
up until we do our fall fertilization. And if you

(02:12):
go online to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com,
you're going to find the schedule on there and it
tells you exactly what to do and when, and our
fall fertilization start in late September early October and you'll
be good to go. So just a little information there
to kind of catch up to speed. If you'd like
to give me a call seven one three two one

(02:34):
two k t r H. I think we're going to
be able to do this. We're certainly going to give
it our best shot here seven one three two one
two KTRH. I was out at Nelson Nursery and Water
Gardens recently and I'm telling you that place is amazing.
It just really is. It's a destination garden center. Those

(02:54):
of you live out in Kati, you probably already know
about it. I mean, he's right there in your backyard.
But since Nursing Water Garden has been for a long
time a leader when it comes to the water garden industry,
so they know they invented things like the disappearing fountain
that now is used everywhere, very very popular. But they

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also their garden center is outstanding. If you're looking for
tropical hibiscus, and if you're looking for the hardy hibiscus also,
I recommend you check them out. They've got some beautiful
dinner plate size hibiscus bloom's going on right now. By
the way. The hardy hibiscus is a perennial. A tropical
is wonderful plant, but if it freezes, it's going to

(03:37):
kill it, if it's any significant freeze at all. But
the perennial one dies to the ground and comes back
the next year just as a bush, just with tons
of buds on it. Each bloom lasts a day, but
then that tomorrow there's a new bloom to replace it,
and it's really really nice. I think it is a
pretty cool deal. Anyway, they've got those there at Nelson

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Water Gardens. And when we say nursery and watergardens, we're
talking about not just like a big giant waterfall pond,
which they can do, but we're also talking about little
tabletop features. You know, you some something you said on
the table. It's got a little circulating water and it's
very decoratives that could be used in kind of any

(04:20):
outdoor setting. Water is so calming and so just soothing.
I guess to hear the sound of it. We had
somebody in our backyard and I've got two water features recently,
and they said, oh I love the sound of waters. Yes,
me too. It's therapy. You can get it there. Nelson
Nursery and Water Gardens one of a kind fish fountains, plants, pots,

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and then a wonderful selection of plants. They are on
Katie four Ben Road, just north of Katie Freeway. Nelson
Watergardens dot com, Nelsonwatergardens dot com. I'm going to take
a little break here and we'll be right back with
your call. Seven one three ktr H. All right, welcome

(05:03):
back to Guardline. Good he you with us. We are
dancing our way through the grumblings of the airways this morning.
We've got a couple of little glitchers we're dealing with,
but here we go. The show must go on, so
here we are live. Welcome back. I'm your host, Skip Ricker,
and if you'd like to give me a call seven
one three two one two KT right seven one three

(05:25):
two one two KTRH and that'll get your own the
air with me. All right. Well, lots of things to
visit about this morning, including your call, so we look
forward to that. League City Feed done in League City, Texas,
is the hometown feed store for all the folks that
are living down throughout that region. Really, I mean we're

(05:46):
talking about places like Elkamin Orial and Clare Lake City
and Santa Fe and Dickinson, San Leon. You get the
idea of Baycliff Webster. They carry the fertilizers you hear
me talk about here on Guardline, nitrofoss A's and Microlife.
They carry airly soil as they carry nail, some plants,
and you're going to find the products that you need
to have a beautiful landscape. Maybe there's bugs in your

(06:08):
landscape and you and having to get rid of them,
or diseases or weeds. They've got you covered on all
of those things, as well as some really nice premium
pep food available to so old time feedstore. Funderberg's been
running this for over forty years now, a third generation
that they carry their bags out for you. It's that
kind of service that you would expect. League City Feed

(06:28):
is on Highway three a few blocks south of ninety
six in League City two eight one, three three two,
sixteen twelve. If you are swinging by after work, they're
still up until six o'clock ninety through Saturday from nine
to six, closed on Sunday. League City. Feed your hometown
feed store, that whole region down there. You are listening

(06:50):
to garden Line. I'm your host, skip Rick here, and
we're talking about the things hopefully that are of interest
to you, things that are timely and whatnot. Right now,
I'm seeing a lot of great spot out in people's yards. Again.
Gray leaf spot loves mild temperatures. It likes warmth, but
you know, not one hundred degrees warmth. But you're you're

(07:10):
sitting there in the auber eighties and nineties and get
a lot of moisture, gray leaf spot takes off and
it is a problem. Definitely is a problem. A product
called Eagle Turf fungicide from Nitrofoss will control diseases of
the turf like gray leaf spot. It contains Michael dute il,
which is systemic, so that means you put eagle turf down,

(07:32):
it's a granule, it's taken up by the roots, it's
in the plant and It's kind of like, you know,
if you're getting sick or something, they give you an
antibiotic shot and that's in your system and it's fighting
the problem the disease in you. That's how this Eagle
turf funderside works and it's very effective. You're going to
find it places nitrofoss is sold. You know, you go

(07:52):
to place like D and D feed up in Tomball,
you'll find night Foss products M and D on Beamer
and Clare like both area that Stanton shopping Center in
albn on North Taylor another place you'll find nitrofoss products. Alrighty,
we're gonna go now out to the phones here. Let's
see how this works. Yes, yes, okay, okay, good.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Technical difficulties may be gone.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, where're you trying to chase them out?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'm starting to do more composting. One of the things
that I should not include, if any in.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
That compost, as far as rhymes and peels and feelings
and stuff like that that I'm going to mix in
with my soul and uh and and some of the
chips of broken up.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Moult and stuff that I put in my bed.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, good question. Well, anything that was once alive can
be decomposed back again. I mean that that's just how
the cycle of nature works. There are things we avoid
because either they don't compost well or they bring environments.
So you wouldn't want to put scraps of meat out there.
You wouldn't want to dump a bunch of cooking oil

(09:11):
out in the compost pile. That's just not going to
break down very fast at all. Fat and oils and
things like that. You know a lot of people prefer
not to put them manures and things, maybe dog droppings
and whatnot, things from the cat litter box in there
for more of a healthy reason just in general. But
other than that, most things are going to are going

(09:33):
to decompose. Some things are slow, like wood chips are
slower than grass cloppings, for example. So when you grind
stuff up smaller, including fallen tree leaves, or if you
chop up limbs and things, it just speeds up the
process a lot. But did that answer your question or
did you have some specific examples of ideas or that

(09:54):
you want to know about that composting.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
So that's pretty good. Now what I'm going to do
is I'm starting.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
It in one of those raised bad galvanized things, so
that I've got it contained and I can turn it
and jump in and go. I have to worry.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
About, you know, like a space. How much moisture should
I add if it is not a rainy time.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
So what you want is you would like to be
able to squeeze the compost and not have water dripping
out of it or streams and material So now initially
when you wet it, water's dripped through, but you want
to keep it moist but not soggy sopping wet, because
then you lose oxygen access to those materials and it

(10:47):
can start to stink on you. So try to maintain moisture.
A lot of people will have a cover over it
so rain doesn't get on it, because rain will wash
out nutrients and things. It's like you said, the hose
over water in it, and so I would just unless
it's real loose and drains very well, I would try

(11:08):
to exclude the rainfall out of it. Doesn't mean you
have to, it's just it's just a little better. You know,
if you get four inches of rain, that's not something
you want on the compost pile.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Okay, I got you. Now, how do I how can
I use that to get it maybe in some of
the Saint Augustine areas that I want to kind of
nurture a little more, and just with my micro life prouduts.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
How do you put? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
How much sprinkling of that cannot do? Is it even
worth it?

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah? You generally do about a third inch deep. When
we're at compost top dressing. It can go a little deeper,
but you're not gonna make enough compost to go much deeper.
At one time. I have a screen. It's half inch
hardware cloth. I created a square two by four frame
that sits right on top of my wheelbarrow, and I

(12:06):
just shovel it into the screen, shake it around a
little bit, and the small particles fall in the wheelbarrow,
and then the rest I tossed back in the compost pile.
And that way I get a nice, finely screened material
that I can put on the lawn without it looking
like a bunch of leaves lay on top of the
lawn out there. You wanted to kind of disappear down
into the turn. Okay, okay, run, Thank you, yes, sir,

(12:31):
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We're going to take a little break here in just
one second. When we come back, John and Galveston and

(14:41):
Lynn Fobank County you'll be our first two callers. Up
cuts of music about to start. I just want to
remind you that my schedules are online. If you are
looking for lawn fertilization, do the lawn care schedule. It's
called the what I call it is the mow water
for fertilize, air rate and add micronutrients schedule, because that's

(15:04):
what's on it. It's everything you do to make that
lawn healthy, to make it grow. Now. The other schedule,
also free download from my website, Gardening with skip dot
com is the pest disease and weed management schedule that
one has insects and diseases and preventing weeds that would

(15:26):
be pre emergent, and cultural practices and prevent weeds and
killing existing weeds that would be a post emergent. On
all of these, there's organic and synthetic options and product
examples that fit each of those specific timeframes, going through
January through December in your lawn. Well, I am not
hearing the music, so I'm going to quit talking here.

(15:48):
I believe it's time for us to hit the top
of the hour news. All right, welcome back. Guess what
the grumlins are gone? They're probably regrouping somewhere and about

(16:10):
to make another attack, but we're ready for him this time.
Good heavy back on guard line. It's been an interesting
day so far. It's gonna be better, though. I can
promise you that Nature's way resources, Nature's way resources. You
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it's low and it's not drained well, and the clay
is heavy, and it gets soggy, and the et cetera,
et cetera, nutrients aren't right. It's gonna struggle and it's
hard to fix it. Once you got a bush growing there, right,
I mean, you can't just rototel up your rose bush.

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By the way, they still have plenty of the fungal
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Nature's Way Resources. Gotta check them out. We're gonna head
out now to Galveston and talk to John. Hello John,

(17:57):
and welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yes, sir, how are you this morning? Well, thank you
now that you've got things fixed. Hey, I have just
a brief question. So I grow some pumeria on my
porch and there are some little black.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
Anti looking bugs eating the eating the bloom, eating the
blooms before they can grow. I've taken pictures happy to
send them to you. I've been hitting them with them oil.
They that that doesn't seem to be working. They doesn't
even stop them. I can then flow them down. Now

(18:39):
I use with them oil. I use like a quarter ounce,
a fluid ounce to thirty two ounces. Is that strong enough?

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, I have to read, I guess, yeah, i'd have
to read the label on your name all. But just
follow the label. But I don't think names names what
you want?

Speaker 7 (18:58):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Do you say eating the blooms? I mean, are they
being chewed away like a caterpillar or a grasshopper or
a beetle would eat away. Or are they Are they
just being malformed?

Speaker 6 (19:10):
They're not. They don't well I've been watching them. They
don't seem to be forming. And I'm just assuming these
little black, little black bugs are eating them. They're eating
they're eating into the stem. I can see that, you know,
the green stem.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, yeah, you better send me some pictures on that one.
So there are some there are some more potent and
more broad spectrum insecticides out there, and I think in
this situation it may be a case where you use one.
I generally don't just jump to those kinds of things,

(19:44):
but a product that's labeled for plumeria. You know, each
plant's a little different. Some plants are sensitive to certain
products compared to others. So I'm not going to just
give you a o go do this particular one. But
a good synthetic perrethroi type product, uh, you know, it's
gonna it's gonna kill all kinds of insects and you

(20:06):
get it on there, it's gonna last. There's one called
by Fenthren that you used, but read the label. It's
got to be it's got to be label for use
on plumeria, and you don't and if you're not sure,
test it on a leaf, uh, you know, and just
kind of give it a couple of days and watch
it and see see what it's doing, because you don't
want to damage with that either. But there are a

(20:26):
number of products out there that can do that. There's
some systemic products that can go up in the plant
and also work. But I think you're gonna the name
oil then Neme oil is good for smothering spider mites
and aphids and immature scale and things like that.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
There are name there are name products that if you
have things feeding on the plant, they're better. They contain
not neam oil but as a direct and a z
A begins with a z A as a direct And
if that's the ingredient in the name, you may have
better results with that name.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
But it sounds like you, but spell spell that chemical
one more time, A Z A.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
A Z A d I R A c H t
I n as dear rack ten and you'll find it.
I go to your local ice hardware store down there. Uh,
you know, garden centers and uh feed stores and places
like that have it.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
So just give me your email.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
Uh uh you know I'll call back.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna put your Yeah, I'm gonna
put you on hold hang on so I can get
on with the next thing here. Uh, but just don't
go away and send me some pictures of those bugs
up close and make sure they're in good sharp focus
and let me see the dam h tap close and
I may change my tune on that after seeing them.

Speaker 9 (21:46):
Thanks, John, appreciate that very much.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
You are listening to Guardline and uh, I am your
host skip rictor if you'd like to give me a
call seven one three two one two k t r
H seven one three two one two atrh Medina. Bendina
has got you covered when it comes to all kinds
of things plants. You know, we're just talking about plumerias.
Medina has a product called has to Grow six twelve six,

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and plumaria lovers love it because it's got a high
phosphorus middle number. Now I talk about it all the time.
You know you're transplanting anything, drenching that soil with hast
grow six to twelve six plant food is a good
idea for helping that plant get established because of that
high phosphorus and getting it in the root system. But plumerias,
it's just a good ongoing product. Now talking about plumerias,

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we've got the Plumerius Society of America. That's that's high pollutin.
They are having their show and sale today today it's
no excuse me, I'm wrong. Not today, It's June twenty first.

Speaker 9 (22:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Skip next Saturday, nine am to one pm June twenty first,
nine to one at the clear Lake Bay Area Community
Center on Seabrook Road, NASA Road one and excuse me,
NASA Road one in Seabrook, Texas. You don't want to
miss this. There's going to be hosted by the Plumeria Society.
It's got lots of local plumeria growers. You're going to

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be able to see plumerias, learn about plumerias, purchase plumerios. Listen,
this is a when you get into a plant like plumerias,
I mean, it's like you've been in a whole nother world.
They are beautiful, they're wonderful. By the way, those of
you who don't know what a plumeria is sometimes called fragipany.
And they also are the flower that you get off

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the plane in Hawaii and they put that necklace of
flowers around your neck. At least they used to. Well
that's a plumeria flower that they're using. Plumerius Society of
America Show and Sale next Saturday, June twenty first, nine
to one, clear Lake Bay Area Community Center, NASA Road one, Seabrook, Texas.
You don't want to miss that one. Out Lynn, Sorry,

(23:55):
we haven't gotten to you this segment. We're going to
take a quick break. You'll be first up when we
come back. All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to
your guardline. Glad you're with us today. I was outside yesterday.
In fact, a couple of days ago checking out my
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Speaker 9 (24:23):
They work.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
I won't go into detail on how they work. Call
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to run now out to Fort ben County and finally

(25:31):
make car Long promised a call to Lynn. Hey Lynn,
Sorry you've had to wait so long. We've been kind
of trying to catch up this morning.

Speaker 10 (25:41):
That's okay, Skip, thank you. Can you hear me?

Speaker 9 (25:43):
Okay, I can loud and clear?

Speaker 10 (25:46):
Okay, great, good morning. Yes, Skip, I've been playing detective.
We're out here behind the brass of spin State Park,
so I know you know how large these trees are
off the contreees yees, it's beautiful anyway. Our pecan trees
are getting eaten the leaves. It's not the webworm. I
don't see any caterpillars. I mean I've gone out at

(26:10):
like three in the morning thinking something's coming out overnight.
I've seen one or two small little beetles, but they're
eating all the leaves and they're leaving the vein of
the leaf and I am seeing no activity. I don't
know what's eating.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Our pecan trees.

Speaker 10 (26:27):
They're not hitting the oaks, the water oaks, any of
the oaks. They're focusing on the pecans.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
These are big pecans. And what percentage of the canopy
would you say has.

Speaker 10 (26:38):
Been eating all I would say at least of the canopy.
I would say at least half to three quarter. And
it's starting at the canopy at the very top, and
then they come down. There's nothing on the trunk, there's
nothing around the ground. I'm just I just don't know
what's eating the leaves. I mean, I can't think it out.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
It's going to be a caterpillar in this case, and
it could be something like walnut caterpillar there. You know,
you mentioned pecan webworms, but you don't see the webs,
but there's walnut caterpillars, and there are other things they
can eat foliage, but typically that when you see that
skeletonizing or the eating away of everything but the veins,
that's going to be a caterpillar. Now, paper wasps are

(27:23):
up there capturing them and helping cut down on them,
but obviously they're not keeping up. So if you have
a spray and you use a product called BT B
as in boy teas in tom. It lasts about a day,
so you're gonna have to do bt more than once,
probably about oh maybe five days apart, do it a

(27:46):
second time, maybe even a third. The older the caterpillars get,
the less effective BT is. So if you're seeing everything
but the main vein and the main side veins, you
may be getting a little late for beat T to
be effective. There's another organic product called spin No said,

(28:07):
spin like spin the letter O and the word sad,
spin o sad and it soaks into the tissues. It's
a little more effective. But anytime you're seeing this kind
of thing in the future, the sooner you catch it,
the more options you have, and the more effective they are.
So I would probably.

Speaker 10 (28:27):
Why I'm sorry, Why am I not seeing the caterpillars though.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
I have no idea? I have no idea.

Speaker 11 (28:35):
I mean, are they microscopic in size they start or yeah,
they start off smaller than a little piece of spaghetti
in terms of the of the width of the caterpillar,
a little tiny things quarter inch long, and then they
get depending on which species it is, it may be
over an inch long.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's up there feeding. Eventually, what you should see underneath
them is caterpillar droppings. So if you had a table,
if you had a white sheet you spread out on
the ground, you should see a lot of little black
black specs of things on that sheet right right. Yep.

Speaker 9 (29:09):
But this isn't being done by a varmint.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's it's an insect, and a ninety five percent chance
it's a caterpillar. Maybe higher will the trees?

Speaker 10 (29:20):
Will the trees leaf out again.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yes, they will, They have plenty of energy leaf out again. Yep.

Speaker 10 (29:27):
Okay, great, okay, skip. Thank you very much and you.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Have a good day, you two. Lenn, thanks for the call.
Appreciate that. Appreciate that very much. You know, I talking
about these different critters and products and things you need
to use this or that or the other.

Speaker 9 (29:43):
Don somebody want to go.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Mentioned by pnthren and some other things, and now I
just talked about Spinosa and BT. You say, where do
you go when you're going to get all those things?
You know she's done there for ben County. You got
Ace hardware stores you can go to. You got garden
centers you go to. I mean, there's a lot of
places to get them. When you're trying to find something
that is very difficult to find, I can tell you

(30:07):
where you're going to find it, and that is Southwest Fertilizer.
Bob specializes in carrying things that other people just don't have. Now.
He has all the standard stuff right, the basic stuff
you can buy anyway, he's got that too. But things
that are more specialty he definitely carries him. The way
I like to put it is if Southwest doesn't have it,

(30:28):
you don't need it. It's because everything that I would
suggest to you as maybe some obscure herbicide or some
specific kind of insecticide, you just need this certain thing
or you need to die so that when you're spraying
some of your woody weeds with a herbicide, you can
see where you've sprayed. You need a surfactant that makes
our products we spray on things for insects, pest diseases, weeds,

(30:52):
all that. It makes them stick to the leaves. That's
a surfactor. Bob's got all of that. Do you need
a sprayer? Do you need a tool of any kind?
It's at Southwest Fertilizer, corner of Businet and Runwick. Corner
of Businet and Runwick Southwest Houston. Website is Southwest Fertilizer
dot com phone number seven one three six sixty six

(31:13):
one seven four four now celebrating their seventieth year Southwest Fertilizer.
And you don't last as a business seventy years unless
you are doing a lot of things right. And anybody
that's been there can attest to the fact that everything
you need is at Southwest Fertilizer, simple as that. Our

(31:33):
phone number seven one three two one two k t
r H seven one three two one two k t
r H. Plants for all seasons up on Highway two
forty nine, two forty nine, right where Luetta comes in.
So you exit like you're going to get on Lueta,
but you crossover Luetta. Just continue going north. If you're
heading north, going north on two forty nine, just a

(31:54):
couple of blocks and it's right there on the right
hand side. If you're a green thumb, you probably already
know about the place. If you take pride in your
lawn and your garden, you need to visit plants for
all seasons. Now, if you're a brown thumb, we won't
get into that to know such thing as brown thumb.
But if you think you have a brown thumb, you
want to turn it grain. You need to visit Plants
for All Seasons. This is a family owned and operated

(32:15):
garden center, been around since nineteen seventy three, and they
really are true lawn and garden experts. You can take
them a picture, you can take them a sample. Maybe
you just are walking in and you don't know what
you want. Just say, look, I have this area and
fill in the blank. Maybe it's shady, maybe it's sunny,
Maybe it's poorly drained, maybe it's well drained. What would

(32:36):
go there? I want to do a hanging basket, I
want to do a container, and I want to be pretty,
and I want a bunch of different plants. I don't
know which ones go together. Well, all of those kind
of questions they're going to help you with at Plants
for All Seasons, Plants for All Seasons dot com two eight, one, three, seven, six,
sixteen forty six. Go check them out. Well in my

(32:59):
guard and lawn, First of all, they are being neglected
right now, all this rain and me doing some traveling,
I've got to get out there. You know, I always
tay to return the grass clippings because clippings are nature's
own slow release fertilizer. When you return your clippings, you
end up with a recycling of the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,

(33:23):
and every other nutrient that's there. When you hold a
clipping in your hand and look at it, it's got
zinc in it, it has molebdenum in it, it has
got boron in it. You never thought about that, right,
You don't go finding a fertilizer bag with boron on it,
but plants have to have boron. Well. When you return
the clippings, you're just recycling those back into your lawn.
So return your clippings. The other day, I was talking

(33:45):
to somebody on email answering or question helping them with
something that they'd called in about. And anyway, I was
just saying that when it rains too much, you can't
always return the clippings. Right now, my grass in front
is I have four different kinds of grasses in the yard,
but one type is so tall that my little mower

(34:07):
is not going to recycle it very well. But I
gather them in the bagger and I use them as
mulch in the gardens. And so when it rains and
you can't mow, and now it's too big to do
the little recycling without it looking like a hayfield. To
gather them, but don't throw them away. Use them. They're
good for molts, they're good for composting. You can mix
them directly into the soil with a rototeller if you want.

(34:30):
Clippings are excellent for that. The other time that you
don't return clippings, in my opinion, is if you've got
a bunch of weeds that have gone to seed. So
you're looking at in your lawn. It's been weedy, and
now you've waited too long, and now the weeds are
blooming and setting seeds, and I wouldn't return those seeds
of weeds to my lawn. I would bag them up,

(34:52):
get them off the property. You're not going to get
them all by any means, but at least you get
some of them. So two times I don't bag is
when it's rains and I've gotten tall. I couldn't mow it.
It's gotten too tall. Second time, if there's weeds and
weed seeds out there, I don't. I don't bag those either.
I mean I do bag those. Excuse me? All right, Well,
there you go, that ought to make it simple. Hey,

(35:16):
RCW Nurseries. RCW Nursery's corner of where Tambo Parkway comes
into belt Wag eight. It is a garden center that
is going to have everything you're looking for. You know,
if you're looking for trees, and by the way, you
still can plant trees now if you get out there
and get it done. They have the best selection of
things that want to grow here. That's what they do.
Right now. They got their Father's Day sale. It'll go

(35:38):
all the way until June thirtieth. Okay, Father's Day state
sales started yesterday, goes all the way to June thirtieth.
Twenty five percent off crape myrtle trees, fifteen percent off selectroses,
twenty five percent off crpemrles, fifteen off selectros You need
to go check out what they have. And oh my gosh,
look at the tropical hibiscus. They got those Cajun serioushibiscus.

(36:00):
They are gorgeous. They are gorgeous and they're at rc
W Nurseries. So go check them out again. Where Beltway
eight and Tomball Parkway come together, real easy access. Just
go by there, and especially with this Father's Day so
you don't want to miss that. And that'd be a
great time to get a crape myrtle, or still to
add a rose to the landscape. We'll be right back.

Speaker 9 (36:23):
Has this been one.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
I'll spare you the grossest part of the tale, but
let's just say about the lefter four o'clock this morning,
when I was trying to walk out into the living room,
have a cup of coffee and get ready to do
this show today, we are babyshitting.

Speaker 9 (36:40):
My daughter's dog.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
My daughter's dog apparently has diarrhea, and so that was
what greeted me first thing this morning, and then the gremlins.
But you know what, we won. We got past it.
Life will go on. But Mama said there'll be days
like this. I don't know if that was planned, but
certainly it is true.

Speaker 9 (37:02):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Nelson plant Food has an outstanding fertilizer for your lawns
that I want to tell you about, and that is
called Slow and Easy. Slow and Easy. It is both
of those very well. For example, slow it releases nutrients
over four months plus. I mean you put it out
and that nitrogen, which is the high level in the product,

(37:24):
but you only get a little bit of nitrogen at
a time, week by week by week by week, all
the way up until it's time to fertilize for fall.
That is Slow and Easy by Nelson. It's got a
acidifying agent in it that helps increase nutrient availability by
dropping those the pH down just a little bit. And
it's not going to take a pH seven and turn

(37:45):
it into a pH six with one application. But as
you use slow and Easy, you are slowly pushing that
pH down just a little bit and that helps. When
you see iron chlorosis in your yard, it's because the
phosphorus is high and the pH is high typically or
one or both, and we're slow and Easy you're helping
to avoid that problem. Is from Nelson, by the way,

(38:06):
Nelson Plant Food. Those those products are available all over
town and they really really do work. It's an excellent
product for slow release for the summertime. You're listening to
Guardline phone number here if you'd like to give me
a call seven one three two one two kt r
H seven one three two one two kat r H.

(38:28):
I'm just laughing thinking about today so far. It's got
to get better.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
And it will. It already is.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Someone was asking me this past week about aeration aeration
and compost stop dressing, and uh, they were just kind
of asking questions about like does this work? And then
why does it work? And you know why you talk
about it all the time. Well, when you erate the soil,
you bring oxygen down into the root system. We say,
you breathe life down into the soil to the roots. Okay, Uh,

(39:00):
And soil is compacted, roots can't get oxygen and roots
don't grow. When roots cannot get oxygen, they can't go
very deep at all. And in a heavy clay soil,
it it's just a massive air blocking mass of clay
that doesn't allow oxygen down in the soil. You do
aeration and you deepen that access of oxygen to the

(39:23):
roots down in the soil. Then you do compost stop dressing.
Some of that falls down in those holes, some of
it sits up on the top around the runners and decomposes.
It feeds the soil, it blocks a little bit of sunlight,
and it stimulates a biological activity of the soil. Why
am I telling you all that, It's because I think
compost stop dressing following following an aerration of your soil

(39:45):
is one of the best single things you can do
to take care of your lawn to make it look good.
If it's thin, if it just doesn't want to grow
and you're watering and you're fertilizing, but it's just not
going try compost stop dressing followed by aeration now year
round Houston. These folks are specialists when it comes to
corporation and compost stop dressing. You can do this stuff yourself.

(40:07):
It's very cumbersome. It's a mess. You got to rent
the equipment to Air eight and you got to clean
it up and get it back. You got the piles
of compost dumped on the driveway, you're shoveling around. I mean,
it can be done, but I'm saying it's a lot
of work. Are somebody that is a professional that knows
what they're doing year round Houston dot com. They service
the area inside the Beltway, So think about Beltway eight
around town. Inside that beltway, year around Houston dot com

(40:31):
that's your go to place. They use quality composts. It's
been well screened, it doesn't smell, It settles down in
the lawn just like you want it to. Year round
Houston dot com. Here's a phone number. You want to
write it down, so you can give them a call
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(40:55):
You're listening to guardenline phone number right now seven to
one three two one two kt A. I say phone
number right now. That's a phone or a period. If
you want to give me a call right now, you
can actually get on. We got an open boarder right now,
so this would be a good time. No waiting in line.
Seven one three two one two kat. I say that,
and then ten people all call thinking they're going, yeah,
well get together. You decide who's gonna call next, and

(41:18):
that way nobody has to wait. That works well. So anyway,
I was out in the yard taking care of some things.
I'm gonna be putting a little bed in around some trees.
I've got some trees. I'm just gotten tired of mowing
around them. And then I don't like to use a
weed eater against the trunk because it it starts to
eat away at the bark if you do it over
and over again.

Speaker 7 (41:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
And these are cypress trees, and cypress the way the
roots come out, there's all these little nooks and crannies.

Speaker 9 (41:46):
It's like a.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
It's like the coastline of Norway with all the fiords,
you know, and so you can't get a weed eater
in that between the bulging out parts of the base
of the tree. Uh to get those those little sprigs
of grass out. So I'm gonna just go clean that out.
Pull small bed, very small bed, just big enough to
keep the lawnmore and weeded aur away. And I'm gonna
put a viine on those trees that like shade. Then

(42:09):
I'll train it and it'll go around the trunks. And
I have a little bit of a viine on the trunks,
which I think is attractive. But anyway, that's the next
project out around those trees out in front, once I
finally get past this wet and we get a little
bit of mowing done to catch up on it.

Speaker 7 (42:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
The other day I was getting some soil ready for planting,
and uh, you know, when you're building the soil, you
want to number one my suggestion would be number one,
get a soil test done. You can go to my
website gardening with Skip dot com and there's a publication
on soil testing and it tells you how to take

(42:46):
a soil test, how to submit it and everything. It's
real simple, real easy. But what it does is it
tells you where you're starting from. Now. I talk all
the time about fertilizers, and I say this is a
good lawn fertilizer, because it is. But everybody's yard can
be a little different. And so let's just say you
had super hyphosphorus and super low potassium in your neighbor

(43:08):
next door to you had the opposite super low phosphors
super high potassium. Well, the best fertilizer wouldn't be the
same for both of you, then, would it. Do you
fertilize according to what your soul needs in a pinch?
With lawns, we go with a three one two or
four one two ratio or sometimes just nitrogen, and that
takes care of most lawn situations. But soil testing is

(43:32):
the best way to know for sure, and you know
exactly where you start, then you can fertilize accordingly. That's
the best way to do it. I use an analogy
and it basically goes like this. It's someone calls you
and they go, Hey, I'm baking a cake and I'm
halfway into getting everything in the mixer. Do I need
to add more? Salt or sugar or do I have

(43:53):
enough flour in there? And how could they answer that question?
How could you answer that kind of question? Well, you
can't because you don't know. If you know the recipe,
you still don't know what's in there already. You need
to add what's not in there, right, And so that's
kind of how it is with our lawnes. What is low?
What is needed in a pinch four one two three
one two ratios or just nitrogen is a good way

(44:15):
to go. But to really nail it down and to
get all the situation right, whether it's a rosebush and azela,
a vegetable gardener, a lawn, start with the soil test.
Best way to go, need, defeat and tumble. It's got
you covered on all these fertilizers too. They carry night
frost products, they carry Microlife products, They carry Nelson plant

(44:35):
food products like the turf Star for example. They carry
Medina products. They carry heirloom soils by the bag there.
They also have plants seasonally coming through. When you go inside,
you're gonna find some high quality dog food. You know,
brands like Origin see Diamond, they have Victor, I believe
they have Star Pro two for example, if you are

(44:56):
dealing with rats and mice outside, they've got the kind
of production you hear me talk about mosquito dunks. Got
to get rid of those mosquitos right well, they carry
mosquito dunks right there other mosquito control products as well,
right there at D and D Feed. They are three
miles west of two forty nine on FM twenty nine
twenty and Tombol. So if you're heading up to Tomball,
you turn left, go out two forty nine to the

(45:19):
west three miles and it'll be on the left two
eight one three five to one seventy one forty four.
D and D Feed two eight one three five one
seventy one forty four. I'm going to take a little
break here. When we come back, Paula in northwest Houston,
you'll be our first up. All right, welcome back to
Garden Line. Glad to have you with us today. Listen
to Moss Nursery in Seabrook. You need to go back today.

(45:43):
This afternoon would be a good time to head down
there and check them out. You are going to find
you've never been to a garden center like Moss. If
you've never been to Moss I'm telling you it is
not just your average garden center. This place is unique.
We're talking about eight acres with gorgeous plants. We're talking
about every kind of shrub, every kind of tree, every

(46:05):
kind of fruit tree, every kind of vegetable and herb
and flour and tropical. We're talking about things to go
with those, like beautiful pottery and beautiful little small fountain
structures that you can put outside to enjoy that sound
of water. We're talking about house plants, tropical plants, and others, succulents.

(46:26):
The selection at Moss is just amazing. They stay loaded
with good stuff and stuff that you're not going to
find other place. You know, like bone's eye plants, for example.
If you're looking for some beautiful types of ginger, Jim
Moss has got an excellent selection of that. While you're there,
by the way, check out the quirky t shirts that
he has designed. There is one called the eyeball plant.

(46:48):
I think I've talked about that before, but that very unusual.
I mean, this is like, well, I think this would
be good landscape graffiti art in South Austin. Probably I
would fit really well with that. Real cool. I get
the biggest kickout. I'm Jim's quite a character and a
cool artist too, and the designs that he's come up with.

(47:09):
This isn't just another garden center. It's a seventy year
old family operated business that has everything you need. They're
on Toddville Road in Seabrook, Texas, Toddville Road. You can
go to the website Maas Nursery dot com, maa s
Nursery dot com and you can call them on the phone.
Two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight

(47:30):
two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight.
They just got blood lilies in. If you've never seen
a blood lily, imagine a stalk coming out of the
ground and exploding into a coral colored firework. You know
how fireworks go up in the air and they just
pop and then all these things go out and they'd
almost look like a dandelion seat head. That's what blood
lilies look like, six inches across, beautiful, coral colored. That's

(47:54):
unusual plant. And they've got them at Moss Nursery, of
course they do. That's how mos is go to Northwest
Houston now and we are going to talk to Paula
this morning. Hey, Paula, welcome to garden Line. Thank you.

Speaker 12 (48:08):
I took some cuttings from a lantana and we saw
on our daily walk along the Bayou, and I was
reading in the Lazy Gardener article that be careful that
you don't get an invasive type of lantana. It grows
along values. I will say, we only saw this this
lantana in just two places. So but anyway, it made

(48:33):
me worry that maybe what I took cuttings of might
be an in based experience EPIRIT series.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
How can I tell, well, if it's grenwild on to
buy you, there's a good chance that it was because
you got out there somehow. Lantana flowers, uh the some
of the more well, there's native lantannah's and there's also
some non native types that are like sterile. So when
the blooms are done, you don't have that little black
berry of plump, dark driplets like it looks just like

(49:05):
a BlackBerry to me. Uh, the kind that set seeds.
And when you had that kind, then those seeds can
get out there and the burge can you know, spread
them to but you're going to end up with an
invasive type as a result of that.

Speaker 9 (49:18):
So sterill varieties of that.

Speaker 12 (49:19):
And that's what this has. But this has asked because
I've been dead hitting it.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
Okay, yeah, well that is.

Speaker 9 (49:26):
I got to get rid of them.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Now. Now, some types of la if it's just that
one plant or a variety, they won't set seed, and
then you plan another one near them, and now they're
crossing and you're you're getting more seeds set do you
just have to kind of watch for that. But in general,
if you see little blackberries in a lantenna, that's one
that's gonna potentially have some undesirable spread to it.

Speaker 12 (49:49):
Great, Okay, I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (49:53):
Thank.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
You for the call. Appreciate that a lot. Wild Birds
Unlimited is it's the only place that I go for
birding supplies. And here's why. Wild Birds Unlimited as top
quality feeders, top quality bird houses, and top quality bird
seed and many many, many other things that you're going

(50:15):
to want for your outdoor landscape birding enjoyment. So, for example,
they're seeds, they have the blends that contain just the
types of seed birds want to eat. Cheap bird seed
is filled with I call them the little red bebes.
They birds don't like those. They don't like that milo
in there, and they kick them out on the ground.

(50:38):
They'd rather and I'd eat them. So you bought this
big sack of feed and you got about half or
less in some cases of actual things birds want to eat.
With wild Birds Unlimited, you get things birds want to
eat only in those seeds. That's how they do that.
They also have no mess blends, so you take something
like a black ole sunflower or a regular sunflower. Birds

(50:59):
like those, but then they crack them open, they drop
the shells on the ground, So I got a little
bit of a mass down there. If you want to
avoid that, you can get one of the no Mess
blends that they have at wild Birds Unlimited. Wild Birds
Unlimited six stores in the Greater Houston area Kingwood on
Kingwood Drive, clear Lake on El Dorado Boulevard, Pearland on
East Broadway in West Houston, on Memorial in Southwest Houston,

(51:24):
in bel Air, and then in Cypress on Barker Cypress.
Now's the season for wild Birds Unlimited nesting Superblend. Make
sure and get that seed. It is very high quality
and it helps birds during this nesting season. Our phone
number if you'd like to give me a call seven
one three two one two k t R eight seven

(51:47):
one three two one two k t r H. I'll
be glad to visit with you about the things that
are of interest to you. I was an email talking
with someone from Houston Powder Coders the other day. I'm
gonna have them on as a special guest. I want
them to explain to you this process, and I try
to do it, you know, here on Guarden Line, but

(52:08):
I think that you will find it a really interesting
and fascinating. We oftentimes have metal furniture that has gotten
old and it's starting to kind of fall apart. It's resting,
the bolts are resting. The little plastic caps that you
know go on the end of tubular furniture so water
doesn't run up in there. They get worn out. You

(52:31):
also see things like the sling fabric and vinyl straps
on furniture falling apart. Well. While you know, whenever you're
out in your landscape and you're looking at these kinds
of things, just know that can be fixed. It can
be made new again. You don't have to put it
in the road and throw it away. Call Houston Powder Coders.

(52:51):
Here's the number two eight one six seven, six thirty
eight eighty eight. You want something even easier, take a
picture of your furniture. Email it to them at sales
at Houston Coders. There's no powder in the In the
email address sales at houstoncoders dot com. They'll give you
a quick quote. They'll come pick it up though. When

(53:11):
it's done, they'll bring it back to you if you're
in the Houston area. Sales at houstoncoders dot com, or
just do this go to the website Houston powdercoders dot com,
Houston powder Cooders dot com. Cast iron furniture, wrought iron, aluminum,
patio furniture, a metal of any kind outdoors needs to
get powder coating. It is beautiful, over one hundred different

(53:32):
colors you can choose from. I think that is pretty
cool stuff for sure. Uh well, we are hitting up
on another little break here for the top of the
hour news. It looks like the gremlins are gone. We
are just doing regular garden line, and boy am I
ever happy. Oh, by the way, you know I told
you the waking up this morning to my daughter's dog

(53:54):
that I don't know what it ate, but there was
some diarrhea.

Speaker 9 (53:56):
Involved in this deal.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Let me just give you a little till This is
a word for the wis a dog with diarrhea and
a robot vacuum set to come on in the night
while you're sleeping is not a good combination. I'm gonna
spare you the grossness, but I probably already didn't spare.

Speaker 13 (54:17):
You the.

Speaker 9 (54:20):
Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
When the show's over today, Boy, do I ever have
some interesting things to tackle? All right, there you go.
Do you feel sorry for me yet? We're glad to
have you. Hey, I'm having a good time on guard Line.
I hope you are too. We're gonna come back and
if you'd like to be one of the first ones up,
you can give me a call right now, or give
my producer a call seven one three two one two

(54:41):
K t R H will get you on the boards
and you'll be first up. S All right, folks, welcome
back to Guardline.

Speaker 9 (54:55):
Good to have you with us. We're getting some.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Empathetic emails about my dog situation. You know what, I
just thought, I need somebody. I need to get oops
steam cleaning over here here. Those commercials all the time,
I think I have a challenge for them, So we'll see.

Speaker 9 (55:14):
That would be a good solution.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
All right, I'm equick talking about that today, or at least
I'm gonna try.

Speaker 9 (55:19):
I you know, no promises.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Let's go out to Brenham, Texas and talk to Jay
this morning. Hey, Jay, welcome to garden Line. Hey, yup,
how are you?

Speaker 9 (55:30):
It is so good to hear your voice, my friend.
What's up?

Speaker 14 (55:35):
Oh? I'm telling you try and get out and garden
a little bit early and.

Speaker 15 (55:39):
Beat the heat.

Speaker 9 (55:40):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Well, you know, when I first moved to Houston, I
remember one morning going to work and I walked in
my car and I sat down in the car and
I started to feel sweat forming my brow. And it
was the first thing in the morning. It's like, what, oh, well,
this isn't for webs, but we can do it for

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those of you who are listening in. I've got Jay
White from Texas Gardener Magazine, the publisher and editor of
Texas Gardener Magazine here on the phone. We're gonna have
Jay hang around with us for an hour just to
talk about all kinds of things gardening. I don't know, Jay,
I may twist your arm to hang longer than that
if we need to hear. But it's good to talk
to you, my friend, tell us a little bit about

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about the magazine.

Speaker 14 (56:29):
Well, yep, we are. I'll tell you one thing.

Speaker 8 (56:32):
The July August issue just came out.

Speaker 14 (56:36):
In fact, you.

Speaker 8 (56:37):
Should if you're a subscriber, it should have been showing
up in your mailbox.

Speaker 14 (56:41):
Fine, now it's going out for our retail.

Speaker 8 (56:43):
Partners this week and the digital magazine has been published.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
And you know, our July.

Speaker 14 (56:50):
August issue is one of my favorite issues. We call
it the Water issue every year, and because the.

Speaker 8 (56:57):
Reason we do that is because you know, Texas is
not getting a lot more.

Speaker 15 (57:01):
People and get any more water.

Speaker 16 (57:05):
And yeah, every year, Sally and I dedicate this Tola
August issue to you know, water reuse, water capture, landscaping
plans that use.

Speaker 8 (57:17):
Less water, native plants, low water plants. So anyway, lots
lots of good information if if you're at all concerned about.

Speaker 14 (57:29):
Our water, the amount of water that we have left
in our great stay.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Well, and we should be attended to that because it
is the future we're going to have to deal with it.

Speaker 9 (57:39):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 13 (57:40):
Well.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Uh, for those of you who aren't aren't familiar with
the Texas Gardener, that is a magazine written as they
as they say, uh, buy Texas Gardeners for Texas Gardeners,
and a lot of the people that write for it,
I know, uh, and they are excellent gardeners. They're not
just someone who sits in a cubicle somewhere turning out

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turning out articles right to night. There are people that
got dirt under their fingernails as they type on the keyboard,
and it really shows. Jay. I think you've done a
great job pulling together a good group, and the articles
are always pertinent. And something else I'll just say about
it is that it's a hands on magazine too. You know,
it's kind of like some of these books you throw

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in your coffee table and they're pretty look at all
these colors and stuff, but it's not like something you're
going to grow at your house or doesn't tell you
how to grow it. Texas Gardener is a hands on
how to have success magazines. I'm just gonna say that,
and I'll let you comment on that if you wish
going forward.

Speaker 8 (58:43):
I do appreciate that step, and I mean, truly, I
think that's kind of what's kept us around for forty
four years.

Speaker 14 (58:50):
Who can you believe that I mean, and one more
issue can be starting a fifth year. And I think
the reason people.

Speaker 8 (58:57):
Still subscribe and always, like you said, they count on us,
you know, to give them I call it actionable information
that they can use right now. And I mean a
good example of that is just so many of our
articles when you read it, you know. So we've got
one that's going to come out in September October about
different ornamental grasses.

Speaker 14 (59:18):
That you can use in your landscapes.

Speaker 8 (59:20):
But we don't just you know, like you say, put
pretty pictures of grass and the article, I mean, we
talk about.

Speaker 14 (59:29):
The varieties that do well in the different parts of Texas.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
We talk about, you know, the maintenance that must be
done on these grasses, and so, like you say, truly,
while the articles are pertinent and timely and all of that,
they are really directed at the people that, like say,
are getting dirt under their fingernails and they want to
know what the plant and how to prone it and

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things like that. And so I think that's why people
have stuck with us, is because that's what the magazine
gives them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Yeah, well we are we are fortunate in Texas to
have Texas Gardener, because those aren't you know, other states
don't typically. I mean, there may be some plant society
up in the Northwest or something that has a magazine
for that region, but in general, you know, there's not
a Oklahoma gardener or Louisiana gardener, New Mexico gardener that

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we're fortunate to have that here.

Speaker 14 (01:00:27):
I agree, And we're fortunate to have a bunch of
people in.

Speaker 8 (01:00:31):
Texas that's still onto garden and still have to read
about it.

Speaker 9 (01:00:35):
That's right, So we do well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
I'm as I'm visiting with you, I'm also wanting to
continue to tell folks that are out there about some
of our great sponsors that we have here on garden Line.
You know in Tanned Gardens is one of those folks
that they're down there on the Katie Fullshire side of
Richmond on FM three point fifty nine. So if you're
in Richmond Rosenberg, you just head north like you go
into Katie direction and it's on three. Go to the

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website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
They are an outstanding place. I always say when I
pull up in the parking lot and get out of
the car and turn around, look my.

Speaker 9 (01:01:12):
Jaw drops because you look left to right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
As far as I can see, there is fun, cool
plant stuff, the unmatched selection of plants and shrubs and trees.
The folks are knowledgeable, they're enthusiastic.

Speaker 9 (01:01:26):
And I tell you the.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Work that they do on creating beautiful hanging baskets. Maria,
one of their staff members there, just creates unbelievably beautiful
hanging baskets and things. And it's an inspiration to go
see that and to go check it out. And I
hope you will. I wish you would. Enchanted Gardens in Richmond.
I can tell you this. You're gonna find everything that

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you need to know, including the advice in order to
have success. All right, if you want to have success,
just go there and you talk to the folks that
know what they're talking about. Out Jay, I'm gonna have
to go to a break here in just a second.
We're going to hold you over. If you've got time,
Can you hang on with us a little longer?

Speaker 12 (01:02:08):
Oh you bet?

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that. We'll take
a little break here. I want to remind you if
you go to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com,
you'll find the lawn care schedule and the lawn pest,
weed and disease management schedule. I've also put some new
articles up there that I think that you will find interesting.
We'll be right back, oil boy. Is it ever time
to soak up some sun? I didn't know there was

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the sun anymore after these last few days that we've
been through here. You know, we all want to have
beautiful landscapes, and they're the do it yourselfirst to get
out there and do every part of it themselves. And
then there are the folks that are not afraid to
hire a professional to come in that knows what they're doing.
You know, I'm a garden I'm a plant person, I'm
a plant collector. So what happens when your plant collector

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is your landscape looks like a bomb went off in
a garden center and everything rooted where it landed. And
then there are people who know how to design. Peer
Scapes knows how to design. They can create absolute stunning beauty.
And if you don't believe me, just go to their
website peerscapes dot com, piercescapes dot com. Check it out.

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Is unbelievable. The work they do. They do irrigation work.
They do drainage work. Mina needed that this week, right.
They can take those soggy wetspots that don't want to
grow things and turn them into a really nice, well
drained spot. They do landscape lighting. They do again landscape design.
Piercescapes dot com. Pierscapes dot com two eight, one, three,

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seven oh fifty sixty. Need to go check those out.
They have professionals that have all the certifications. These are
folks that are experienced. Some of their employees have been well,
most of them have been ten years or more with
the company, some even like twenty six years now. They
know what they're doing. Go see the website. You'll see
what they do and you'll see why I'm telling you

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Peerscapes is a place you need to call. We're going
to go back to the phones now and we're going
to go back to Jay. We're talking to Jay White
from Texas Gardner Magazine and Jay is hanging out with
us today. I've asked him to to kind of spend
some time with us. We got a lot of different
things to talk about, and Jay, you were talking about
the digital magazine. I think that's really cool that we

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have the digital option on it as well as the
print option. People can can do it both ways. But
your your articles and stuff. I did one for you
in there called bring in the Beneficials, and I was
just kind of clicking through it. It's been a while
since I wrote it, but seeing it in the magazine,
I like, I like the pictures of the bugs.

Speaker 9 (01:04:41):
That's kind of.

Speaker 15 (01:04:43):
This is a very cool This is a very cool article.

Speaker 8 (01:04:45):
And I did want to point out, you know, you
said you're looking at it in the digital right now.
We have a summer cell on our digitals every summer
we run this until August thirty first or the digital
magazines thirty three percent all and so very very good
deal if people want to go and get it. And
what's awesome about it is, like you said, you're online

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right now looking at it. Yeah, and once you have
that digital magazine, you can see Texas Gardener anywhere you're at,
on your phone, your tablet at home. So I'm even
though I print a print magazine, I probably work in
and look at the digital version of it more than
I do the print.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
There you do, well, that's good, and you know we
say it's it's written by Texas gardeners for Texas gardeners.
But there are so many A lot of the sponsors
a garden line are sponsors of Texas Gardener magazine. You know,
you're going to find things like Medina products, Nature's Way
of products are in there, Azamite another product that you're

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going to find as a sponsor there. Of I was
just earlier talking you know about some garden centers and things,
and there's so many good sponsors that you guys have.
It's exciting to look up and see no I know them.

Speaker 17 (01:06:04):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (01:06:05):
Yeah, before we went to the break, you talked about
in Chanted Gardens and they.

Speaker 15 (01:06:09):
May I agree with you. That is an incredible place
to go.

Speaker 8 (01:06:12):
And you know in Cannon Gardens, they're one of fifty
one independent retail nurseries that you can go and pick
up Texas Gardner at okay everything.

Speaker 15 (01:06:23):
Yeah, they sell everything we have. And so anyway, it's
very like say, it's very.

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
It makes me.

Speaker 8 (01:06:30):
Proud to know that the same people that are advertising
with you are also you know, trusting us and advertising
with us.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Well, they're good companies are they know how to speak
to our local gardeners, that's for sure. Yeah. Microlife Fertilizers
Arbigate Garden Center. We're just talking about beneficials. I'll pull
in a shameless plug. It's I just ran across the
full page ad in Texas Gardener ob Palooza that's coming
up Saturday, August second, from eight am to four pm.

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They're gonna have Joe Lample. If you never heard Joe,
it goes by the name Joe Gardner. He's going to
be the headliner there. I'm gonna speak there, but I'm
gonna speak on beneficial insects too. So after looking at
the article in Texas Gardener, come by and hear me talk.
If you want a register, by the way, for it,
it's OBA online dot org. So it's o hb A

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online dot org. By the way, OBA is organic Horticulture
Benefits Alliance. But anyway, meanwhile, back at at Texas Gardener magazine,
what's happening in your garden right now?

Speaker 9 (01:07:29):
You going they need tomatoes?

Speaker 15 (01:07:31):
Oh skip?

Speaker 8 (01:07:33):
You know, I tell you the Lord's funny is we
pray for rain. We pray for rain, and and then.

Speaker 15 (01:07:39):
He gives it to us. And I have had such
a great tomato year this year. I don't know about you,
but I don't even have that many plants.

Speaker 8 (01:07:48):
I have eight tomato plants in my garden, which some
might think sabune.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
I don't.

Speaker 15 (01:07:53):
I don't think it's that many. But we're bringing him
so many tomatoes right now. I mean, how about your
tomato patch? Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Well, we were doing a lot of cherries this year,
and it's just a matter of the way our gardens
were transitioning. But I've got sun gold going in my garden.

Speaker 9 (01:08:10):
And oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Gosh, my wife has a little cherry and I can't
remember the name. I need to find the name of it,
but it is long trusses of just tons of little
cherry tomatoes. It's doing really well. The mockingbirds and I
have a love hate relationship. I love listening to them sing.
I hate what they do to my tomatoes. And so
we're discussing that right now.

Speaker 8 (01:08:36):
Just I don't know if you follow my social or not,
but if you don't, you should. But we put a
little post out in May. My six year old grandson
was here and we'd bought a bunch of red Christmas
ornaments at an estate cell back in January. And you know,
the old timers say that if you hang red Christmas

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ornaments on your tomato bushes before or the tomatoes ripen,
that the making birds will packet them, decide and red round.

Speaker 15 (01:09:05):
Things in your garden aren't edible, and they'll they'll move on.

Speaker 8 (01:09:09):
And so I got my six year old grandson to
make a post about that, and it was very cute,
and I mean he broke the internet skip he got
almost three hundred thousand views on Facebook. And really, anyway,
I think why he got it is I think that.

Speaker 15 (01:09:26):
That post hit a chord. I mean, like I said,
making birds crows.

Speaker 8 (01:09:31):
You know, birds really can be a problem in the
tomato garden and if something as simple as hanging Christmas
linements on it can help, I think I think that
got people interested.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Well, I'm be curious to hear how you think that works,
because I have heard that for years and I've never
gone and really searched, you know, to see if there's
some solid evidence based, research based support for it. But
I have heard people talk about it a lot and
it sounds like but that doesn't necessarily mean it works.

Speaker 15 (01:10:02):
So yeah, no, no, no, there's a lot of there's
a lot of that.

Speaker 8 (01:10:05):
Old time gardening wisdom that I'll just call wives tales.

Speaker 9 (01:10:11):
And yeah, there you go.

Speaker 15 (01:10:12):
But I will tell you this.

Speaker 8 (01:10:14):
We went and checked the tomatoes this week. He was
here again this week and there was no bird damage
on them yet. They weren't completely ripe yet, but this
is something that we hadn't anticipated. There was bunny damage
on the tomatoes.

Speaker 15 (01:10:32):
Toward the bottom.

Speaker 9 (01:10:33):
So on the free sometimes you can't.

Speaker 8 (01:10:35):
Sometimes you can't win between the birds and the bugs
and the bunnies.

Speaker 15 (01:10:40):
I mean, oh my god, I'm going to get your
your tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Oh my gosh, that's crazy, that's crazy. What earlier I
was talking about Arbrogate Gardens enter Jay. I know that
they're a spongeor of yours as well. Don't you just
love going there? I mean, you walk into Arbrogating and
it feels like you've just gone into a wonderland.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
I always tell people allow yourself some time because by
the time you wander through the gardens and look at
all the garden bling and go into the gift shops
and everything else, it is so inspiring. Beverly and m
kennan and the whole team there, they greet you, they
meet you, they you know, it's it's a garden center.
One thing I like about Arbrogated it's not the kind

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of place you walk in and they go. You say, well,
do you have as such and such and they go, yeah,
it's over there and they point and then they get
on with their business. No, they go, yes, follow me,
and they walk you over to it, and they tell
you how to grow it, and they tell you know,
it's just so full service. For those of you who
are listening who don't know, it's a mile and a
half west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty,

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just outside of Tumbull. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:11:42):
And the other thing I always tell people skip you know,
when we talk, I have these little pithy sayings that
I like to throw out my talks, and one of
them is that if you're going to be a great gardener,
you're going to need to make friends with your local nursery.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:12:01):
I just I'm such a big support of local nurses because,
like you said, Beverly and her staff, if you go
in there and ask them what plant will do great
for this area, like said, she's going to show it
to you.

Speaker 15 (01:12:12):
She's going to tell you how to care for it.

Speaker 8 (01:12:14):
When to water it, when to fertilize it. And while
I don't have anything against big box stores. You're just
not going to find trained plant people who are there
to help you.

Speaker 15 (01:12:25):
I mean, I love local nurseries.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Yeah, yeah, well that is that is absolutely so true.
I'm a I'm a broken record when it comes to soil.

Speaker 9 (01:12:38):
That is.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
That is my Uh you know, don't invite me to
your party because I'll bore all the guests until they'll
give up and go home. But my mantra is brown
stuff before green stuff, meaning get the soil right before
you put those wonderful plants in the ground. Yeah, we
want adapted plants and good plants, plants that grow here.
But if you pop up, PLoP up, have a Peter

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Piper picked a peck phrase here. If you PLoP a
poor plant into an unprepared plot, it doesn't have a
chance of surviving and thriving and giving you what you
want out of it flowers or fruit. But when you
prepare the soil, it works. And one place I always
send people. You got to get these folks on your
sponsorship CIENAMLTS Cenamultch is down south of Houston in Santa Texas,

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and it is a.

Speaker 9 (01:13:24):
Go to shop.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
And I mean they have it all and they have
the quality of all of it. I mean we're talking
about soil blends or rose soil. They carry heirloom soils
products like the Veggian Herb mix. They carry fertilizers from
Microlife and Nelson's and Medina and nitrofoss and azamite. So
when you walk out of Airlin or walk out of airl,
when you walk out of Cienamals, you pretty much have

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everything you need to create a foundation for plant success.
The plants live in the root system. They need water,
they need oxygen, they need nutrients. Cienamult has got all
of that kind of thing. They got the organic matter
to loosen up the soil, and the expanded shale to
loosen up the soil, and the nutrients to get that
bank account right. C animals dot com is a website.

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Just go check it out animals dot com that it's
a really good one. But anyway, yeah, and Jay, I
know you're this way too. Maybe when we come back
we can talk a little bit about soil preparation. I'm
coming up here on another break here in just a
little bit, but I think I think you probably would
have a few thoughts on preparing the soil as well.
I want to pick your brain too on some of

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the the you were telling me that had some or
somewhere the wood pellets, water holding a new I want
you to tell me a little bit about that. I've
not tried those yet, but I'd like to hear more
about that one become very good? All right? All right,
Well you're listening to garden Line. I'm here with Jay White,
the producer, editor, owner, Grand Pooba. Do you have any

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other titles? Jay of Texas Gardener magazine. He and his
wife Sally have have really continued to take that magazine
that's been around a long time forward and if you
haven't tried it yet, you need to check it out.
We'll be right back. All right, Welcome back, folks. I'm
good to have you with us. We are visiting this
morning with Jay White from Texas Gardener magazine. Jay is

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the owner, producer, chief, bottle washer and all the above
and more. He and his he and his wife Sally
are doing such an outstanding job on that magazine.

Speaker 9 (01:15:31):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
I read it, and I can tell you this. The
people that write for Texas Gardener, they know what they're doing.
They are gardeners and that's why they say by Texas
Gardeners for Texas Gardeners, and I'm unabashedly making a plug
for the magazine Jay because this is you know, this
is just it's just outstanding, and it's so much good information.

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I talk to people all the time that save all
their back issues, you know, and they've got they got
a library full of these things because they know they
can go back and read a really good article, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:16:03):
So Jip, I don't want to sound like a constant
commercial for the magazine, but we hear that too. Tons
of people have all these back issues, and we just
like to remind people that our entire magazine has been
index since nineteen eighty one. So if you've got a
stack of those magazines and you want to go through
them and find everything we've ever written about.

Speaker 15 (01:16:21):
Tomatoes, you know, you can find an.

Speaker 8 (01:16:23):
Index on our website that will help find everything we you,
I mean, you can search.

Speaker 15 (01:16:29):
By writer, topic, whatever. So I think that's pretty cool.

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
I don't know very many magazines that have kept up
with an index since their inception.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Well, and when you get the digital edition, you can
go back over the last few years and all the
magazines are just right there. So if you want to
go back and literally read the magazine on the screen.
You've got it right there.

Speaker 8 (01:16:50):
Well, that's a good point is that the digital magazine's
got an eleven year archive, and like say, it's totally searchable,
so you don't even need the index. You can just
go to the archive on the digital magazine and typing
tomatoes and everything will pop right up for you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Well, there you go. Uh, the folks listening, you've been
dealing with all this rain, and you know, whenever you
get rained, the fire at mounts pop up out of
the ground, folks, And no, you know what I'm talking about.
And you see these mounds, you got to go after them.
And you know, baits are a great way to go.
Baits are kind of the foundation for fire ant control.

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But what if you got a party coming up and
you got to knock a mound out? Right now? What
if you want to do an individual mound treatment and
shut some things down?

Speaker 9 (01:17:37):
Folks at night?

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
Foss have a product called fire ant Killer. Fire Ant
Killer works very well, very very fast too. By the
way you put it down, you follow the label, how
do you water it down and everything, and it knocks
that mound out. So when the families are coming over
and little kids are gonna be running through the yard.
You know, you don't want them being covered with fire
ants and night fiss fire ant killer works. You're gonna

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night foss products at places like Fisher's Hardware done in
Baytown as well as the ones in Pasadena, Laport, in
Mott Bellevue. You're gonna find it at plants and things
up in Brunham. They carry night FoST products up there
as well. I wanted to get you to talk a
little bit about these wood wool pellets like pellets. Tell

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me a little bit about what you have. You played
around with those a little.

Speaker 15 (01:18:23):
Bit, so we're trying them this year's skip.

Speaker 8 (01:18:26):
So every year, Sally and I grew a ton of
things in pots, and and you know as well as
I do that if you're going to grow in pots
here in the summer, you got to challenge, you know.

Speaker 15 (01:18:37):
It's it's that constant battle between overwatering them and underwatering them.

Speaker 8 (01:18:42):
And and so I'm always looking for some kind of
soil amendment, you know that we can that we can
put in there and help and and you know a
lot of you know, people will use pearlit and things
like that, but I like to look for things that
are gonna you know, break down and kind of add.

Speaker 15 (01:19:00):
To the soil.

Speaker 8 (01:19:01):
Last year I found a producer up in the Texas
Panhandle who was making a core replacement out of the
trash from cottonseed genin our melon, and I thought that
was cool, and that turned out to be a good product.
And then this year I found my daughter lives up
in Washington State on Orches Island, and one of her

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friends is a flour farmer and a sheep and wool
producer and they have started taking when they share their sheep.
I thought this was interesting that all of that wool
that's around the back end of a sheep is contaminated
with feces and urine and it cannot be used in

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the fiber making, you know, part of from the sheep harvest.

Speaker 15 (01:19:52):
And so in the past they've just let this waste.
It's been thrown away.

Speaker 8 (01:19:57):
And she the late the lady that owns it, had
done some research and found out that that wool that
contaminated wool that can't be used for fiber is nine
percent nitrogen and that it will completely break down over
a twelve to eighteen month period and you're sold, you know,

(01:20:18):
depending on heat and moisture. And so she had a
pelletizer and so she started running this through her pellet
machine and she has made the soil amendment that I've
done some experiments. So I've planted some bincas and I've
planted them in pots with the sheep pellets and without

(01:20:40):
the sheep pellets. And it's just going to be interesting
to see Number one, you know, how the plants. Do
you know, does the additional nutrition, you know, make them bloom.

Speaker 15 (01:20:51):
More, be more bright?

Speaker 8 (01:20:53):
And do I have to water slightly less with this
with this with these sheep pellets mixed. So I'm kind
of excited about this is to me as one of
the fun things of gardening is trying new things, and
that's true, and this is kind of the new thing
I'm trying this year.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Well that's cool. Yeah, And that's a good point too.
And for folks listening there, we run across so much
information online and sometimes on the air that it's just
not right.

Speaker 9 (01:21:23):
It's just not correct.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
And you see a lot of things and it may
be well meaning or maybe it's based on truth, but
it's stretched to the point where it's not true. Anymore.
But again it may be that you know somebody's well meaning.
But let's say your aunt Joan last year had had
stink bugs in her tomatoes. So this year she went
out there and she put Christmas lights around the tomato

(01:21:47):
and left them on all night and didn't have stink
bugs this year. Well, that doesn't mean the Christmas lights
kept the stink bugs off, you know what I'm saying.
I mean, we say correlation does not equal causation. And
so folks like your subject. You know you're out there,
you've got some with some without your treating them the same.
You don't got a dog in this fight. You so
want to know if it's going to work or not.
That's the kind of information that then we take forward

(01:22:08):
and we maybe go into more formal research with but
we actually get to answers that work with people. And
I think that's that is an important point. I know
you you got your horticulture degree at A and M
as well, and so you understood it was it was
hammered into us that the importance of research based information,

(01:22:28):
not just hearsay, but right, I think that's cool, that
sounds interesting. I'd like to hear about how that turns out.

Speaker 8 (01:22:35):
Yeah, I'm I'm kind of curious to see, I mean
and like to say, I'm a very small sample.

Speaker 15 (01:22:42):
Size, so yeah, yeah, but to me, it's fun.

Speaker 8 (01:22:47):
And the other thing that I like about it, you know,
is that there's very little environmental impact from it. You know,
there's that big debate, you know, should you use peat
moss and your soul, should you use core Pete? You know,
Pete has created so slow is it truly a renewable resource?
And sheep they produced this tarnished waffle twice a year,

(01:23:14):
so yeah, it's definitely renewable.

Speaker 15 (01:23:17):
Usable thing. So it'll be interesting to see how it
goes there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
You go. I want to tell the folks about Jorges
Hidden Gardens. Hoorges Hidden Gardens is down in Alvin, Texas. Actually,
if you're in Alvin, head down six towards Santa Fe.
It's it's in between the two down south the Highway six.
It's on Elizabeth Street. The address is Elizabeth Street, Alvin, Texas.
Jorge has got those three sixty tree stabilizers that I

(01:23:42):
talk about all the time as being such a good tool.
He's got those. He's got his own special blend a
fertilizer put together by the folks at Nelson that he
has down there.

Speaker 9 (01:23:51):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
He's got halopenia plants and one gallon Container's perfect for
Father's Day. You know, you can get your dad something
saying make that hot sauce or whatever. Go to Hoores
Hidden Gardens, Horaz Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street. You're gonna
find everything else. Lots of great trees and shrubs and whatnot.
Hoores got some excellent crape myrtles right now. He always
has fruit trees like citrus, things like blueberries too. By

(01:24:14):
the way, Jores Hidden Gardens seven one three, six three
two fifty two ninety. We're gonna take a little quick
break here to do some newsday and we'll be right back.
So you guys hang around if you'd like to give
a call. By the way, the lines are open. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy two. Come

(01:24:35):
up with a question and play stump the chumps with
me and Jay.

Speaker 9 (01:24:38):
We come back.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
All right, Welcome back, folks, Welcome back to the garden line.

Speaker 9 (01:24:45):
Good to have you with us.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
I was talking about Jorges Hidden Gardens.

Speaker 9 (01:24:48):
While ago.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
They just got a new shipment of beautiful three gallon
citruses in I mean, they have a wide variety. Two
do you want a lemon? Do you want a key lime,
Persian lime, naval orange, Valencia orange. They've satsumas too, which
for those of you listening kind of in the northern
part of our area, you know, you go north from here,
it gets a little cold for a lot of kinds
of citrus. Satsuma is one of the hardiest citrus that

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we have access to, and Horace got it down there
at Rayes Hidden Gardens in Alvin. With all this rain,
we got to deal with mosquitos. And there is a
product called mosquito dunks. It's also a version of it
called mosquito granules. What does that mean? A mosquito dunk
is a little donut, kind of like the size of
those little white, powdery little Debbies donuts, you know, but

(01:25:33):
it's compressed and it contains a bacterium that is disease
of mosquitos and also, by the way, a disease of
the fungus knots that you see in pots. So anyway,
the disease is not a poison, it's a disease. It
doesn't hurt Lady beetles. It doesn't hurt the bird, doesn't

(01:25:54):
hurt the family cat. It is just a mosquita disease.
You throw it in stagnant water. They float for about
a month and cover about a ten by ten area.
Each dunk does and if a mosquito lands are and
lays it's eggs, which it will, then the larvae are
killed before they can grow up. And I just think

(01:26:14):
that's the best thing that can happen to a mosquito,
aside from being put place between two bricks that you're
bringing together very rapidly and suddenly mosquita dunks will shut
them down. In any stagnant areas you have. It could
be a bird bath, It could be an area that
just doesn't rain well. You got standing water on the ground.
It could be an o hollow tree that's gathering water

(01:26:35):
in rainfalls. It could be that sagging rain gutter at
the gem got fixed. Shet Mosquita dunks work. They're available
everywhere these hardware stores, nurseries, feed stores. They're easy to
find and they work. You just need to have them
on hand because you will need them. Welcome to Southeast Texas,
where it often rains and when it rains, it pours
where with Jay White today, the producer of Texas Guarded,

(01:26:58):
publisher of Texas guard in your magazine. Uh, and Jay,
welcome back. Good to have you back with us.

Speaker 14 (01:27:05):
Well, thanks, Jeff, I'm so go ahead. Uh, it's so
nice for you to have me on. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:27:11):
It's always fun visiting with you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
You know, we've I consider as good friends to get
to enjoy each other's company a lot. We cross paths
a lot. And Jay is out speaking a lot too.
By the way, you ought to kind of keep up
with him there. Follow him on social media Texas Gardner Magazine,
Instagram and uh, Facebook, I believe too. I generally see
you on Instagram.

Speaker 14 (01:27:33):
Yeah, I'm on I'm on both the.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
So.

Speaker 8 (01:27:37):
But like I say, we do put out our print,
our speaking schedule every month and so you know in
the area, I'll stop by and and visit.

Speaker 15 (01:27:47):
You know, we love we love to talk part.

Speaker 9 (01:27:50):
So that is that is that is excellent. That is excellent.

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
You know one of your one of our sponsors that
we share is micro Life Fertilizers. Micro Life been around
for over thirty five years now. In fact, the sixty
four of the Green Bag is are number one selling
organic fertilizer here in hisston.

Speaker 9 (01:28:08):
I've used it, and.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
I got to tell you it's that you know, it's
sold as a lawn fertilizer and that's what everyboy thinks
about it as. But I use Microlife in my vegetable gardens.
I can use flower bed. I've even put it in
containers too, mix it into the soil and the container
and plant or even after you plant it.

Speaker 9 (01:28:24):
It works well.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
That's the six two four three one two ratio is
perfect for a lot of kinds of plants. And you
know in every bag of Microlife, you got billions and
billions of beneficial microbes that really help your plants, helps
them be stronger, helps them improve. It improves the soil
as you use it. If you were going to do
the green bag on your lawn, and by the way,
now's a good time you do that more than once

(01:28:47):
during the summertime. It's going to gradually break down. Microbes
are going to turn those nutrients into something plants can
take up but also put down. The humanates plus the
purple bag that is concentrated compost bag, and anytime we
add humus to the soil, all we're doing is speeding
up what nature is already doing and has been doing
for eons, and that is decomposing away organic matter to

(01:29:11):
its final state to make the soil better. If you
want to know more about microlife, just go to microlife
Fertilizer dot com. There's a list of all the products
up there. There's a lot of good information up there
as well. Jay, how about I turn you loose a
little bit to talk about some of the summer planting.
What are your plans and do you have any tips
for folks that are that are now still wanting to

(01:29:34):
keep gardening even though it's going to be getting pretty
hot here?

Speaker 14 (01:29:38):
Oh yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 8 (01:29:39):
And you know our editorial in this issue we talk
about that there are plants even though it's hot. You
know that we can still a plant and get established.
But it's just like anything else. If you're going to
try to establish something now, you're just going to have
to make sure that you give them, you know, the
moisture that.

Speaker 14 (01:29:57):
They're going to need and the nutrition that that they're
going to need.

Speaker 15 (01:30:01):
And that's just the way it is.

Speaker 18 (01:30:04):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:30:04):
I say, I just planted those dncas that we were
talking about and I just planted those dinkas at the
first of Gin.

Speaker 9 (01:30:11):
Now, you know, this has.

Speaker 8 (01:30:12):
Been a bit of an unusual year because we've actually
had eighty degree temperatures in June and tons of rain.

Speaker 15 (01:30:20):
But you know that's not normally the case.

Speaker 14 (01:30:23):
And so there are lots of great things that you
can plant.

Speaker 15 (01:30:27):
I was talking to a buddy in.

Speaker 8 (01:30:28):
Line one time about he ran big landscaping crews in the.

Speaker 14 (01:30:32):
Dallas area and you did commercial landscapes, And.

Speaker 15 (01:30:35):
I said, Morgan, I said, what do you rely on,
you know, to.

Speaker 8 (01:30:39):
Make sure that your landscapes look great all summer?

Speaker 14 (01:30:43):
And he said, let me tell you.

Speaker 8 (01:30:44):
He said, you know, these commercial clients, they want their
stuff to look good, but they also don't want to
spend a ton of money maintaining it. And he said
that he had built an entire landscaping routine around three plants,
and it was purple fountain grass, yellow antenna, and then
green or the dark purple sweep Tata bond and so

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and all of those plants.

Speaker 14 (01:31:10):
You know, they're available in your nurseries right now.

Speaker 8 (01:31:13):
You can still plant them, you know, as long as
you're gonna you know, make sure that you give them
enough moisture and all you can establish.

Speaker 15 (01:31:20):
But you know, there really are plants like.

Speaker 14 (01:31:22):
That that that we can use.

Speaker 1 (01:31:24):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:31:24):
As you know Greg Grint, he's a friend of ours.
He introduced that's a great one.

Speaker 8 (01:31:30):
Yeah, so yellow yellow, I says, I don't know if
that's the proper pronunciation, but there are so many of
these great you know, blooming perennials and everything we can now.

Speaker 15 (01:31:44):
But there's also great animals so well.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
That that's true. And you're garbling a little bit. I
don't know of something if you're in a bad cellara
or something, but just a little bit starting to garble
a little. By the way, your friend did he happen
to go to L s U. Because I'm getting suspicious
with those colored choices he keeps making.

Speaker 15 (01:32:05):
You know, I've never thought of it, but he is.

Speaker 9 (01:32:12):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:13):
Well, you know, there are a lot of good purple
and yellow and orange, you know, kinds of colors that
do well in the hot, in the Texas heat. I
could name a bunch of them. So anyway, I just
I couldn't resist. I had to throw that. Throw that
in there right now. Let me maybe I just want
to make a comment, Uh, those of you listening. You
know how it is when summer storms come through and

(01:32:35):
just wreck havoc on our trees. Last year in Houston,
two big storms knocked out power in some areas for
two weeks at a time. Well, you can avoid that
by taking care of your trees, by training them right
and taking care of them. Affordable Tree Service does that.
They've been doing this for over forty years now in
the Houston area. They know what they're doing. Martin Spoonmore's company,
Affordable Tree, is a family business. What you need to

(01:32:57):
do is call him at seven one three, six nine
nine two six sixty three. When you do, you're probably
gonna talk to Martin's mom. I told you it's a
family business. Tell her you heard about us them on
guarden Line. Garden Line customers are their priority seven to
one three six nine nine two six sixty three. They
will do anything that needs to be done to have
success with your trees, from planting to proper training, to pruning,

(01:33:22):
to deep root feeding to pest and disease control. If
you've got an old stump that needs ground, they can
do that. If you're going to do anything around a
tree an existing tree, such as trenching or putting down
a sidewalk or driveway or anything building a building over
part of the root zone. Call them first, they do consulting,
they come out pre construction. Care is critical. Once you've

(01:33:45):
done the damage, it's hard to undo what you did.
And so call Affordable Tree ahead of time. Seven to
one three six nine nine two six sixty three. Jay
in a minute, we're going to start hearing music, but
we'll keep talking till I have to cut in. But
we were talking about summer planting and things. You know,

(01:34:05):
summer exacerbates a lot of the issues that we're dealing with.
And I found, for example, summer plants are just on
the verge of stress, and we can keep them out
of it with proper, proper watering. But you know, like
me in April, I can work all day and forget
to drink water. In summertime, I go about two hours
of sweating and I'm not drinking water. I'm in a problem.

(01:34:26):
Our plants are the same way. They can We have
a lot of great plants. It can take our heat,
no problem. They can take the heat like our Saint
Augustine grass, but they got to have moisture to do it,
but not too much so kind of touching going on it.
But maybe when we come back we can talk a
little bit about what are some of our favorite plants.

Speaker 9 (01:34:44):
I see.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Now we've got a caller, Lisa from Seabrook. Lisa, you're
going to be our first collar up when we come
back from break here. We'll still have Jay on if
we can twist his arm to hang around a little
bit longer.

Speaker 7 (01:34:55):
Thank you, Jay, Frank you skip.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
All right, folks, we're back. We're going to jump right
back into it. We've been playing some ketchup today as
we've as we started off with the gremlins in the
system that now thankfully have left us alone for a
little bit. I'm gonna run out right quick to the
phones here. We're going to go to Seabrook and talk
to Lisa this morning. Lisa, welcome to Garden Line. Good

(01:35:28):
to have you with us. How can we help thank you?

Speaker 19 (01:35:30):
Good morning. We have an area with limestone gravel in
our garden. We would like to put some race bed.
My question is deep it like the metal form that
you can shape and put there in the Should we
remove the gravel underneath the bed.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Or leave it? You don't have to remove it, but
just know that it's not going to help drainage. But
you can you can put the bed right on top
of it. You have the you're talking about the corrugated
metal type beds assembly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you can
just do that right on top of it if you like.
If you want to remove it and use it somewhere else,
that's fine too. There's not a right or wrong on

(01:36:10):
this one. Just know that it's not going to help
drain it.

Speaker 19 (01:36:14):
All right, Thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:36:16):
You bet, Lisa, Thank you very much, appreciate your call.
You take care.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
We are Let's see, we're gonna go now back to Jay.
And we got Jay White with us this morning from
Texas Gardener Magazine.

Speaker 9 (01:36:30):
Jay, welcome back.

Speaker 14 (01:36:32):
Thanks yep.

Speaker 1 (01:36:34):
To make sure you're still with us. Jay. I don't
know if you if you've ever done the compost top
dressing and aeration. I've got a company called B and
B Turf Pros. It's kind of down south and west
of Houston. It's they basically cover from Sugarland in Missouri
City all the way over to forty five to League

(01:36:56):
City and Dickinson. But these guys, they you know, I
was on Cnmulchi while ago. They only use top quality
products like from cnmo's top quality leap Mo compost and
products I recommend on guardline. But they come out and
you should see the work they do. You can go
to the website it's bb no End bb turfros dot
com and see the work that they do. But it is,

(01:37:17):
it is really amazing. And someone sent me a picture
the other day of a lawn that had been air
rated and compost top dressed, and I mean it looked
like I thought I was. It was augusta national golf
tournament about to go on. I mean it was gorgeous.
Just the amount of difference that makes. I don't know

(01:37:38):
if you've ever tried that before or not, but uh,
it's it's pretty dramatic.

Speaker 14 (01:37:44):
Yeah, it is dramatic.

Speaker 8 (01:37:45):
And I mean anytime that you can get more organic
matter into that soil, you know, not only are you
going to make soil more living and.

Speaker 14 (01:37:52):
Healthy, but it also helps conserve water.

Speaker 15 (01:37:56):
So that's true.

Speaker 14 (01:37:58):
Good reason to put it out there.

Speaker 15 (01:37:59):
Gat is going to look great, but.

Speaker 8 (01:38:01):
That soil is also going to be a little bit
better at retaining moisture.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
That's right. You get that oxygen in the soil, the
root system gets more extensive. The bank account of water
is bigger, and because more roots can reach more soil
and it does. Oh, by the way, I better give
the phone number because somebody's gonna call me and ask
for the phone. Seven one three two three four fifty
five ninety eight. That's baby Turfero. Seven one three two
three four fifty five ninety eight. So I've got an

(01:38:27):
area where I go through my gate all the time
and it's too small to you know, hire somebody to
come in and do aeration. Uh So I just have
a little plug thing you step on and it pops
holes out of the ground. And uh, I did that
to this area that just looked horrible. It's a zoisy.
I actually soysa is pretty tough. But I did that
to it. I sprinkle a little compost over it, and

(01:38:48):
like in two weeks it was like filled in. I
was so impressed with that. That kind of made me realize,
you know what this really works. So there's a reason
golf courses air eate all the time. So anyway, yeah,
I'm sidetracking here.

Speaker 8 (01:39:03):
Well, I will tell you I've air rated with one
of those little plug devices that you're talking about too. Yeah,
and that's a lot of work.

Speaker 9 (01:39:14):
Skip, Well, if you're gonna do the whole yard.

Speaker 15 (01:39:17):
Yeah, if you're going to do the whole.

Speaker 8 (01:39:18):
Yard, to go to loves or home depot and they
generally sell rent those airs and.

Speaker 9 (01:39:25):
Yeah there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
Well, well, and that's a lot of work too, because
then you get the compost and delivered and dumped on
the driveway, and.

Speaker 9 (01:39:33):
Yeah, it is a lot of work.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
For that's why we we got I've had several great
sponsors that do that in various parts of the of
the area. But you know, you could also just, uh,
if you've got kids and they misbehave, maybe that that
would be kind of a win win there for you.
When I was a kid, if I misbehaved, I had
to pull weeds out in the garden. It's a wonder
I ever became a horticulturist. But but I'll just say this,

(01:39:57):
we had the most weed free garden in town. And
I'll let you figure out why that might have been.

Speaker 8 (01:40:03):
But let me tell you if I was talking to
a lady recently and this kind of cracked me out,
is that she told me the same story is that
whenever they were in trouble, the grandma would make them
go out and work in the garden or.

Speaker 14 (01:40:16):
Harvest and garden or whatever.

Speaker 8 (01:40:18):
But she said her grandmother was really particular about her plants,
and if you picked the like peppers too hard, you
know how you can get some of the sem and
the foliage with them. Yes, yeah, yeah, Then the grandma
would get mad and say that they weren't taking good
enough care of her pepper plants and make them leave.

Speaker 14 (01:40:38):
And so she said, what I learned.

Speaker 8 (01:40:41):
Was I learned to be the roughest harvester in town.
So every time Grandma would send me to the garden,
she said, I didn't have to stay out there but
about ten minutes, and then she'd run me off.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
You know, that gives me an idea if I didn't
wash the dishes really good at the house and left
food on them. I'm anyway, my wife's not listening to
the All right, enough of all that. Hey, let's talk
a little bit more, if we could about the uh
summer planting kinds of things. I have a few vegetables

(01:41:12):
that I really like to grow in the summertime, you know,
the UH. I did not know that years ago. I
didn't know that you could eat sweet potato vine the
foldage sweet potatoes tender ends of shoots. But that was
an eye opener for me. But I know sweet potatoes
take the heat, and of course okra takes the heat. Boy,
do I ever have an okra obsession? I mean it's sad.

(01:41:35):
There's Betty Ford Clinic's building a wing for for me
just in my okra obsession to try to help me
out a little bit up there. But do you have
any favorite vegetable that you like to grow in the summertime?

Speaker 14 (01:41:51):
Well, I did love the sweet potatoes.

Speaker 8 (01:41:54):
Just you know, FYI, my sweep potatoes are doing really
well right now, and I've heard about eating the leaves
and the ends of them, but I haven't tried it yet.

Speaker 15 (01:42:05):
My oap is on.

Speaker 14 (01:42:07):
And then let me tell you I recently back around
the first of June.

Speaker 8 (01:42:10):
You know, you can still plant a bunch of key curvets,
and so I planted six little spots of watermelon out
in the field that we have, Okay, and you know
they're up now and they're they're doing well.

Speaker 14 (01:42:24):
But you know, now it's also a good time to
plant pumpkins and winter squash.

Speaker 9 (01:42:28):
So there you got lots.

Speaker 14 (01:42:31):
Of vegetables that you can be planting.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
Now those are good tips and those are available too.
When you guys at Texas Gardener have a little gardening
almanac publication you put out. They can be purchased and
it tells people what to do through the season, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:42:46):
Oh yeah, so now that's we call it our our
planning guide in calendar and it's got one hundred and
eighty you know, day by day tips on what you
can be doing in the garden.

Speaker 15 (01:42:57):
So if you're never sure, you know.

Speaker 14 (01:43:00):
It's a great and great little reference.

Speaker 17 (01:43:02):
But the other thing that it does kind of marketed
as a garden journal, and you know this is well
I do you know, as gardeners sometimes we do so
much that you know, the short term memory in the
brain gets.

Speaker 15 (01:43:14):
Filled and then at some point dumps and so you know.

Speaker 8 (01:43:18):
Next year we get ready to order tomato seed or
whatever and we're like, and what was that tomato that
we had?

Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
So good?

Speaker 8 (01:43:24):
And and so that planning guide, you know, not only
does it have.

Speaker 14 (01:43:30):
Tips, it gives you a place to record everything that
you make. And I really do think that's a good
gardening tip, you know, I mean.

Speaker 15 (01:43:37):
That is good garden tips. Is fertilized. This this not this,
but you know it's also good.

Speaker 17 (01:43:44):
I did a jot down notes and remember what worked
for you, what didn't work, when did the pest?

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
That is a that is a great, great point and
you can get that at Texas gardener dot com.

Speaker 9 (01:43:54):
We're going to take a break here off folks.

Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
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It's excellent I'll be right back, all right, welcome back.
Good to have you with us today on garden line.
If you had not been doing Enchanted for us to
check them out, you really need to go. It is
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heading up to a sugar Land direction, it's off to
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the website. This is the thing you need to write down,
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(01:45:24):
it's just limitless. I mean, beautiful hanging baskets, gorgeous hanging
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place to shop. Great folks there that will help you
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especially when you look at things like pollinator plants. If
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and we're going to talk to Mark this morning.

Speaker 9 (01:46:35):
Hey, Mark, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 20 (01:46:38):
Good morning, mister rick Or. I have a question regarding
my knockout roses. I have about two hundred plants in
my garden that I've had for probably eight years now,
and this year I have about half my plants have
a different type of thorn that I'm normally seeing normally.
I see you know, just the regular thorn thorns, but

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now I have thorns that are a quarter of the
size and there's just hundreds of them on the uh oh,
and is that something I need to be worried about?

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
Or yeah, A very a very bad thing, A permanently
killing thing. It's it's called rose rosette. Okay, rose rosette.
And there is no cure for it. And if you
have other roses that don't have it, they soon will.
A little mite spreads it and so you you're not

(01:47:31):
going to like this. But here's what you gotta do.
You got to pull those plants out. I will I
will take a giant trash bag and put it over
the plant and pull the draw string at the bottom
around the plant so that when you dig it up,
you don't shake all the mites and things loose into
the air, because they literally will float through the air

(01:47:51):
to get to the next rowse. I'm going to give
you a website, and I don't I don't have time
to fully elaborate, but the website goes way beyond what
I could tell you on the air. Roseosette dot org
rose or O S E T T E rosette R
O S E t t E dot org. It'll tell
you all about it. The bottom line is you got

(01:48:11):
to get them out of there, the sooner the better. Uh.
And because there isn't a cure for it. But yes,
that that is the something. You'll see pictures and you'll
you'll be able to confirm that that's what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:48:20):
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Speaker 20 (01:48:23):
I sincerely appreciate the information you know, Yes, sir, my
frustration is I have over two hundred plants, so it'll
be a it'll be a long time taking those outs.

Speaker 9 (01:48:32):
Well, but I really.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
Read the web, read the website, and maybe that some
haven't been affected yet, but you really got to watch them.
But once you've got a typhoid mary in the in
the group there, uh, it does spread and there may
be some that already have it that aren't showing symptoms yet.
So well, thank you, thank you very much for that call.
I appreciate it. If you're dealing with any kind of

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to Donna. Hey, Donna, Welcome to Guardenline.

Speaker 13 (01:49:55):
Hikki. I would question about my tomato plants. I send
some pictures, but they're from my husband's phone. His name
is Fabian, and we just send them. And every year
this seems to happen that the tomatoes grow up real
big and nice, and then the leaves start turning yellow

(01:50:17):
and then they start well, first book, they get these
dark spots on them and then they start turning yellow.
And I don't know if there's so nutrient that they
need that they're not getting or what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:50:30):
What's going on is fungal diseases, and you may have
a little bacterial diseases too, as I look at the pictures,
But the oldest leaves are the ones that have been
around the long and they're the ones that the fungus
could have developed the furthest along. So that's why you
typically see these on the lower parts of the plant,
or the older leaves, before you see them on the

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newer leaves, which they will get to. I would pick
off all of the old leaves that are starting to
yellow in spot. That's going to be a lot of them,
and then I would spray. There are a number of
different products you can use, a copper based sprays. There
are some fungicides as well that can be used. The
bottom line is you just you just need to shut it.
Shut it down. With rainfall and things like we've been having,

(01:51:14):
it only gets worse. So uh, that's the quick. I'm
being the bear of bad news a lot today. But anyway,
that is the that is the situation, right.

Speaker 13 (01:51:25):
And if they've got tomatoes on them, now, is that
gonna mean that I can't eat those tomatoes if I
spray these leaves?

Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
No, ma'am. You use a product labeled for diseases on tomatoes,
follow the label on how soon you can pick after
you spray, and you'll be fine. The main thing is,
in order to protect them, you need to get the
old foliage off first, because that's again just full of
spores for the disease. And then spray the remaining foliage
very well the plants and be ready to repeat it again.

(01:51:54):
Follow the label and you'll be you'll be good, good
to go.

Speaker 13 (01:51:59):
Okay, all right, well, thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (01:52:03):
You bet, you bet.

Speaker 1 (01:52:04):
And by the way, you've got Ace hardware stores out
there in your area that will carry the products you
need for this. All right, okay, all right, thank you,
thank you, bye.

Speaker 9 (01:52:14):
You bet, thank you, appreciate appreciate the call very much.

Speaker 1 (01:52:18):
Donna. Spring Creek Feed Centers up on FM twenty nine
seventy eight. It's just minutes away from Grand Park. It's
northeast of Tombaugh. They have a full line of all
these fertilizers I talk about for your lawn, like turf
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(01:52:40):
they've got you covered. You walk in there and you're
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They do special order and they have a delivery service
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(01:53:01):
Parkway and Highway to forty nine. We're going to go
back now to Jay. Jay, thanks for hanging around. Has
had a little business to take care of there. Good
to have you back on guarden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:53:13):
Thanks Skip for.

Speaker 9 (01:53:15):
Those of you who just tuned in.

Speaker 1 (01:53:17):
Jay is the publisher of Texas Gardener magazine. He and
his wife Sally, have taken over the magazine a number
of years ago, and it just keeps getting.

Speaker 9 (01:53:27):
Better and better and better. I love the job you
guys do.

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
If you want to learn more about Texas Gardener, go
to Texas Gardener dot org right Texas excuse me, texasgardener
dot com. There we go and you can find out
how to subscribe, also how to be a digital subscriber,
which I would highly recommend.

Speaker 9 (01:53:48):
But anyway, Jay, we.

Speaker 1 (01:53:49):
Were talking about some summer things and maybe you have
some other ideas on things. Other we talk about sweet
potatoes and whatnot. What are some of the plants that
you like to grow in the summer because they've proven
dependable for you.

Speaker 8 (01:54:03):
Well, you know, people are sometimes surprised by this, but
if you want to have fall tomatoes, and we're at
that point where you can be thinking about starting your
fall tomato plants, you know I would start them inside
and get them growing, but you know, are now is
not too too early to do that.

Speaker 15 (01:54:24):
Another thing that always.

Speaker 8 (01:54:25):
Does really good in the vegetable garden this time of
the year, and even kind of as it heats up,
is eggplant.

Speaker 15 (01:54:32):
I'm a big, big fan of eggplant.

Speaker 8 (01:54:34):
I eat a lot of it, and so it's a
little late to plant eggplant. But you know, once the
eggplant when it gets super hot and it kind of
starts looking raggy and all.

Speaker 15 (01:54:46):
I think one of your tips.

Speaker 8 (01:54:47):
That you put in the activity checklist of this issue is,
say you've got four or five eggplants out there, once
they get kind of tired of producing and raggedy, you
can cut that down to the ground basically, and it'll
start succering back up and it's going to produce a
new eggplant that's going to produce.

Speaker 15 (01:55:07):
Better, tastier eggplant for you. So I think I think
that's a cool thing to do. You don't always have
to just replant.

Speaker 1 (01:55:15):
To good points. Yeah, that is well said. And in fact,
I was talking to my wife the other day. We
have some pepper plants and they're doing okay, they're producing,
but uh, you know, when it gets to summer, they
kind of dwindle a little bit. But if you can
keep those plants going when fall comes, we're going to

(01:55:36):
be eating hallopenias at Christmas. I'm telling you, they really
produce and produce, and if we don't have an early fraezer,
you protect them. It is amazing the yield you'll get.
And that's true of your eggplants too, is your point now?

Speaker 15 (01:55:48):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, it's and I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:55:51):
You know, I don't know about your experience, but my
experience is my pepper plants have always done pretty good
in the spring and the summer garden. Then they that
super hot time and then kick back down in the fall.

Speaker 15 (01:56:05):
They just are incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:56:06):
There you go.

Speaker 15 (01:56:08):
I don't see how they could be any better. Skip,
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
Hey, I'm against an absolute heartbreak. We'll be right back, Jay,
I'm sorry to have to cut in. All right, Welcome back, folks,
Glad to have you with us. You are listening to
Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here
to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape,
and don't forget this part, more fun in the process.
That's what it's all about, enjoying ourselves out there in

(01:56:34):
the garden. Hey, those of you in Kingwood, you know
you got two wonderful garden centers. I don't know how
you did it, but congratulations. Warren Southern Gardens on North Park,
Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow. Both of them open
seven days a week now, the summer hours Monday through
Saturday nine to four, Sunday ten to four. They start
that whole area if you're in Kingwood, humbold A, task

(01:56:55):
a seat, a Porter, Valley Ranch, New Caney, that whole region.
This is your hometown garden centers, folks, and they carry
the products I talk about on Garden Line, like Microlife
products and nitrofoss products, and Nelson turf Star products and
heirloom soils and the Nelson plant food and Microlife in
the jars. By the way, they have the Nelson and
Microlife jar filling stations. So when you empty a jar,

(01:57:19):
you take your old jar back, pull the handle down
just like you're buying peanuts at HB, and fill your
jar back up with that product. It's an economical way
to do it, and it also avoids putting that plastic
into the landscape. Right now, there is a twenty five
percent off Father's Day sale on wind chimes and fountains,

(01:57:39):
and they have gorgeous quality wind chimes, not the kind
that make you kind of WinCE when you hear, the
kind that are tuned and so beautiful. They carry those
there at Warren Southern Gardens. Twenty five percent off wind
chimes and fountains. That's a great idea for a gift
for Dad. We're going to go now out to West
u and talk to Charlie Ratcrook. Hey, Charlie, welcome to

(01:58:01):
garden line.

Speaker 7 (01:58:03):
Hi.

Speaker 18 (01:58:04):
I'm calling about a I think it's called sen severia plant. Yes,
that'd be called mother in law's tongue, and the the
other name on it after sin Savaria was s a
y you r I okay. Anyway, it's got drooping leaves there.

(01:58:26):
They're supposed to be more less straight up and down.
I think that these come up a ways and then
they can bend over and droop at the planet.

Speaker 9 (01:58:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:58:38):
So, so something's wrong in the soil. Something's wrong in
the soil. If it stays soggy, wet and can't get
oxygen in the roots, you can kill roots and then
you get the symptoms of a lack of water, which
is wilting, which on a sense of aia is equal
to drooping. Instead of a rigid, upright leaf, you end
up with the one that's kind of bending over a
little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:58:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
And it also could be due to out although it's
hard to make a sense of area dry enough to
make it will, but it can be done. So something's
wrong in the roots, Charlie. I can't tell you which
of the extremes it is. It could also be physical
damage to the roots, but that's what's going on now.
One other possibility is if it's in a lot of shade,

(01:59:20):
a lot of they're just really poor lighting. They don't
get enough light and they get kind of lanky and
therefore a little bit leany droopy. So that would be
a third possibility on your sense of area that it.
You know, it's just spending too much time and not
quite enough light.

Speaker 9 (01:59:37):
So it's gonna be one of those three.

Speaker 18 (01:59:40):
Okay, it was indoors and didn't get too much light.

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
I thought that might be it.

Speaker 18 (01:59:44):
I moved it to outdoors, and maybe it's only been
a couple of weeks. Maybe it hasn't had time to
work up yet.

Speaker 1 (01:59:51):
Right, and it's that was a leaf that was formed
that was skinny, lanky, leaning, whatever, And it's not going
to just straighten out. But new leaves that come up
now that it's in more light, they should they should
be more normal for you.

Speaker 18 (02:00:02):
Okay, Okay, so just give us some time to put
out some newly out and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (02:00:09):
Okay, Yeah, you can do that, and occasionally I'll cut
them back a little bit when I've got leaves that
are just like leaning out and now I hit them
with my leg when I walk by or something. You
can cut those leaves off and it'll put it'll put
new growth up out of it, so it's an easy
plant to grow. I always say on guarden line that
if you can't grow sen savaria, I can't help you,
because it's easier than a silk plant to keep it

(02:00:31):
looking good. Uh seriously joking aside, it is a It
is a good tough plant, and I think yours will
be just fine if you give it those things we
just talked about. Appreciate you calling in though, Charlie. Thanks,
thanks a lot, and good luck with that. You take
care and get back out here. We're talking to Jay
White from Texas Gardener magazine.

Speaker 9 (02:00:52):
Jay, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 1 (02:00:56):
I just thought of something while we were in break
and I've been meaning to ask you the whole time.
Tell us about Texas Gardener as a Father's Day gift.
We've got a lot of dad's out there that would
love a magazine like that. Maybe someone could order both
the online and the digital because you offer him as
a combo too, don't you. So you have something to
touch with your fingers and you got something to look

(02:01:16):
at on the screen for a reference.

Speaker 8 (02:01:18):
Yeah, that is right, that's a that's really a great
idea because the thing about a digital is you can
buy it and have it instantly available. But like you
didn't mention, we've got all kinds of combos. So when
you get out there, be sure to check it out.
It'll save you some money, you know, one year print,
one your print plus planning guide, one year plant plus
a digital magazine. And like say, if you just want

(02:01:41):
the digital magazine right now, it can't go wrong. It's
it's I think thirteen dollars, so thirteen fifty.

Speaker 9 (02:01:46):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:01:49):
Well, I was just thinking, uh, you know, we're getting
kind of close to Father's Day here to try to,
you know, pull the plug on something. They could go
to some of your local garden our local garden centers,
pick up a copy and give dad the copy, but
then let him know he's got a digital and right
then and there he could go online, but he's at
least he has a print magazine in his hand. It
would be kind of the gifting item to make it

(02:02:13):
more than Oh, by the way, there's a website you
can go to.

Speaker 8 (02:02:15):
Now, Yeah, that is that is exactly right, that I
need to hire you for marketing.

Speaker 1 (02:02:21):
Skip. Well I'm cheap, but I'm not good, so I
don't know how that works out. But all right, well,
seriously that it is a great gift. And you know,
I've written for Texas Gardener for a long time and
I'm telling you I really believe in it, folks over
the years, from the days when Sam Cotton or state

(02:02:43):
vegetable specialist wrote for it, even modern times. Now it
is just a go to magazine. I mean, you can
do better homes and gardens and Southern Gardening and all that.
Those are all great. They're either written by people from
a state somewhere far away or whatever. But there's nothing
like Texas Gardener when it comes to I want to

(02:03:04):
be a gardener, I want to have success.

Speaker 9 (02:03:06):
How do I do it?

Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
Now? That applies to where I live? And that really
is it. So there I'm marketing for you again. But
I honestly mean that. Honest to God, I've mean that.

Speaker 8 (02:03:19):
But I will tell you I mean that's why Texas
Gardner was started. The gentleman Chris Corby that started it
in eighty one. He couldn't find good, reliable information that
was Texas specific. And you know, I'd say, we're forty
four years old. We are still at the gardening magazine
for Texas Gardeners by Texas Gardeners.

Speaker 1 (02:03:37):
So there you go, there you go. Well, I'm going
to take a little break here, but if you can
hang around for our last segment, I promised to let
you go before ten o'clock. I would sure sure appreciate that. Jay,
We will come back, come right back. The Ace Hardware
stores are all through our area. And I'm telling you,
if you hadn't been in an Ace Hardware store in

(02:03:58):
the last ten years, yeah, been in an Ace Hardware store.
They're all over my garden line. Ace Hardware Store group.
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this includes stores in places like All Star, Ace and
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(02:04:21):
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(02:04:43):
or some other brand. They've got them all there and
they got you covered. It's a great place for gifts.
I got a barbecue pit for a Father's Day. I
think I was told that it was also for my
next birthday and the next two Christmases. But anyway, at
Ace Hardware store, pits by Rectec and by Big Green

(02:05:04):
Egg and Traeger and all the other Weber and all
those brands. You gotta go to A's Hardware. All right,
I'm gonna take a break. We'll be right back with
one more segment of Jay today on the show. Stay
tuned all little happy.

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(02:07:48):
a little beforehand, but the show started off with gremlins.
I couldn't even be on the air. They had to
play a previous show until we managed with the engineers
to get me back on the air, and they started
at four thirty this morning, Jay, I walked out and
my daughter's dog, who's visiting, had had diarrhea all night

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those robot vacuums, had done a great job like it
was told to vacuum our floors. It was a mess.

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So anyway, that is what that is what I've been
dealing with.

Speaker 15 (02:08:30):
Oh, I can't I just can't even imagine.

Speaker 1 (02:08:35):
Yes, yes, wow, yes, I won't go into the other
gross parts of it, but let's just say this, when
the show's over today, the work begins. I need to
call Oops Steam Cleaning, one of the sponsors KTRH, and
just say go in there and deal with it and don't.

Speaker 9 (02:08:54):
Come out until it's safe for me to go in.

Speaker 1 (02:08:59):
Anyway, Wow, I appreciate you having having you today on
any other thoughts that we weren't able to get to today,
as far as gardening or gardening advisor tips or things
you're interested in or maybe trying out right now.

Speaker 9 (02:09:13):
I'll give you some time here just to.

Speaker 8 (02:09:14):
Talk, but I will when that you talked to that
last caller, you did say something that somehow I think
it gets Overlook. You know, we're in the business of
given tips helping people garden better. But I think the
main thing to remember is that gardening is fine, Gardening
should be fun, and you just never know what you're

(02:09:36):
going to see when you're out in the garden. I mean,
yesterday I was out in the garden pushing a wheelbar
a pass and I looked down and there was a
turtle from the lake that's down from our property in
our backyards.

Speaker 15 (02:09:51):
She had dug a hole up against an old.

Speaker 8 (02:09:53):
Dead plum tree stump that we had, and she was
laying her eggs.

Speaker 15 (02:09:58):
And you know, if I didn't garden.

Speaker 8 (02:10:01):
Yesterday, if I hadn't been out there pulling weeds and
walking through my brushball, I would have missed that. And
I mean, that's just one of the things that I think.
You know, we all know that gardening is good for you.
It's good for your muscles and all of that, but
I don't know, it's just it's good for my heart.

Speaker 15 (02:10:20):
When I get to see nature and all of that.

Speaker 1 (02:10:24):
Well, we were made to garden. I really believe that.
I don't know of any story called the cubicle of Eden.
We're supposed to be outside, man, I mean, and this
is it. There is a stack of research a mile high. Literally,
that is all the metal benefits, all the physical benefits.

(02:10:45):
And when I say mental, I includes psychological include health
include you know, your your muscle tone, and your wellness,
and just your happiness, a peace of mind. It's incredible
what it does for gard. Yesterday, you're talking about seeing
the turtle. That's cool. I'd like to do that. See that.
One day yesterday I was looking at a plant and
there was a little parasitoid wasp crawling around on the

(02:11:06):
leaf and there were some aphids on the leave, and
I was watching him crawl around, and I knew what
was going on there. I say him, it was her,
because she was about to go out and lay eggs
in those aphids, and we were going to get to
see an entomological version of the movie Alien unfold right
before our lives.

Speaker 8 (02:11:22):
Our eyes there and that incredible, I mean, truly is
it is incredible.

Speaker 15 (02:11:29):
I mean, I'll never forget. I don't know how much
time we have.

Speaker 8 (02:11:32):
But you remember when we had snow mcgeddon a couple
of years ago, Yes, when snow mcged broke the day
after it selling and I are on the back porch
drinking coffee, and we had full grown red wasp flying
around our back porch and I thought, how on earth
we just had temperatures at five degrees for several nights? Yes,

(02:11:54):
and how did these full grown red washs survive? And
I just think it's amazing that through millennia they've come
up with survival mechanisms that will let them, you know,
let them survive. It's just that's so amazing. No matter
how much that yeah, I'm still amazed.

Speaker 1 (02:12:16):
Yeah. I have two happy places that I talk about
all the time. One of them is talking to gardeners.
I love talking to gardeners. Number two is sitting out
in my garden watching the interactions that are out there
in nature. And you're talking about red wasp. You know,
most people you say the word red wasp and they're
like they cringe and want to run out the door
because you know they sting and hurt. But you know,

(02:12:37):
the number one food of red wasps is caterpillars. And
if you've got a webworm nest this fall, late summer fall,
you get some webworms in your trees, just take a
long pole and break it up and come back in
fifteen minutes, and I'll bet you you're going to see
wasps going in and hauling those caterpillars out to take
them back to your nest. They're working for you, so

(02:12:57):
leave them alone. They'll leave you alone and enjoy the
work that they do.

Speaker 15 (02:13:03):
Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 8 (02:13:04):
And on the wash, I did a post this week
walks from one of the main pollinators of southern peas,
So if you're going right, purple holls, black eyes, crowded peas,
I read this article about them that said the nectar
that they produce is just particularly attractive to paper.

Speaker 15 (02:13:24):
Washed and so I did a post on it. And
of course everybody's like, oh, stay away, stay away. But
I've grown peas for years and I've never been stung.
I mean, when I'm out there, they.

Speaker 8 (02:13:35):
Seem like they're more interested in getting that nectar than
they are and stinging me.

Speaker 15 (02:13:39):
They just kind of move away.

Speaker 1 (02:13:41):
So that's a good point. Yeah, I've got family members
that are entomophobic big time, but I've been out working
among flowers. And I mean if you grab a honey
bee in your hand and start to squeeze it, well
you might pick a fight.

Speaker 9 (02:13:55):
But basically they don't want to mess with you, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:13:58):
And now you mess with their babies, and you got
a whole nother problem on your hand. Right. I don't
know if you can hear this music or not, but
it means we're gonna have to shut up here in
just a few seconds. Here, Jay, it's been so good
having you on. Thank you for agreeing to come on
garden Line today. Skip.

Speaker 15 (02:14:14):
Thanks for giving me the opportunity. You know how much
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:14:18):
Well, sure tell our folks one more time how they
can get a hold of Texas Gardener magazine for a
gift for dad or for themselves.

Speaker 8 (02:14:26):
Just head over to www Dot Texas Gardener dot com
and we'll have something out there that I guarantee the
gardener in your life will like.

Speaker 1 (02:14:35):
That's right, And after you read the magazine you can
use it for mulch and they'll keep the weeds done
in the garden too.

Speaker 15 (02:14:41):
There you go,