Skip Gives Gardening and Dating Advice

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Katie r. H.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Garden Line with Skip Richter's Hill.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
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Speaker 5 (00:47):
Like gas became you date.

Speaker 6 (00:50):
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Sunday had its rim.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good mornings, Good morning, Welcome to Garden Line. That's what
we're gonna do today. We're gonna talk about gardenings and
all kinds of other things related to gardening as well.

Speaker 7 (01:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
And that part of that deal is you you know,
I have things I like to talk about, things that
I know are timely from the kind of questions I'm
getting and what I'm seeing them out yard. But you
guys help set the stage for the show. Really, I mean,
what what are you interested in? Are we gonna talk
about tomatoes today? We're gonna talk about lawns, talk about trees.
Those are the big three that make the phone ring
around here. Trees, turf, and tomatoes, the three t's. We'll

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have a lot of other kinds of questions though as well.
All you gotta do if you're interested in asking a
question is you can reach out to me. Seven one
three two one two kt r H seven one three
two one two kt r H. I was driving through
some neighborhoods the other day. I have a habit of
not liking to take and take the oh, I don't know,

(02:01):
beaten path or whatever. You know, if I'm going across town,
if I'm in a hurry, yeah I get on a
freeway or whatever. But wherever I can, I like to
kind of cut through a neighborhood, just see what's going on,
see a lot of houses, a lot of plants, a
lot of ideas, and I enjoy doing that. I was
looking at a landscape that was just gorgeous as I
was driving by. I caught my eye from the side
and I looked at it, just stopped and looked at it.

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And when I first saw it, I thought this. I
kind of thought, well, what is it about that landscape
that makes it so attractive? And it was the layout.
It was the layout and the design and where they
had put plants and things. It just overall topped a
bottom looked good. And I don't know if you've ever
felt this way, but sometimes we buy things, we bring

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them home, we plant them. There are babies, there are plants,
get them in the ground, and you know, we enjoy them.
They look good and everything, but we always feel like, yeah,
you know, I just don't quite know how to do this.
And I've had people ask me before you how do
you know where to put a plant? Of course the
answers of it needs sunlight, it needs drainage and all
that that applies. But esthetically, where do you put a plant?

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That is one of the things that I so appreciate
about Peerscapes is they they know go to their website,
go to pierscapes dot com, look at what they do.
That's the bottom line, and when you look at it,
it's like, Okay, I see that, I get it, and
there is something to landscape design. Now listen, it's your yard.
You can do whatever you want, you planet where you want.

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Like I like, I often say, it's between you and
the hoa as to where you put things and how
you do it. But if you want to have that
nice curb appeal, if you want your house value to increase,
if you want someday you're going to maybe sell it
or you know, move on to some other house, you
want it to be as valuable as it can be

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and as attractive as it can be, not just to
get more money for the house, but to have it
move faster when it hits the market and that kind
of eye catching appeal. That's what they do so well.
And I you know, I'm a plant person. I know plants,
But when it comes to design, yeah, not so much.
I mean, you could go and get me, I don't know, Rembrandts,

(04:11):
canvases and painting and paints and brushes and everything. Set
them in front of me, and I'll promise you it
ain't gonna look like it's gonna look like two monkeys
fell in paint and started wrestling on a piece of paper.
I mean, that's my painting style. You got to get
somebody knows what they're doing and in order to have
that show place kind of look. And this is what

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they do, Chris. They do other things. They do landscape irrigation,
they do, drainage areas, They do hard escapes. They do
landscape lighting, lots of other things, but Pierce Capes isn't.
They're professionals and they know how to do it right.
You can give them a call to eight one three
seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five
zero six zero, but mainly go to that website piercescapes

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dot com. You'll get some ideas there, just like I
do when I'm driving around town looking at cool landscapes.
I won't take I almost steal that. Not the landscape,
I almost steel the idea. I won't take it home,
and I'm going to try some of that in my yard.
That's how I enjoyed you. I don't know if you're
a peruser of landscapes or not. Pet anyway, it's a

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fun thing to do. You learn a lot too.

Speaker 8 (05:20):
Well.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I was just looking at some of the weather coming
up here. I got some scattered storms and stuff today.
So far, it's pretty quiet out there in the Gulf,
but that ain't the last. We're in a hurricane season
and we will have storms coming through, and hopefully it
won't be like last year where we had a couple
of storms that just shattered trees, knocked them all over

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the place and put out power and everything like that.
But it always reminds me that you got to keep
your trees well pruned. And of course you've heard me
say before. Affordable Tree Service, that's the one we talk
about here all the time on guard Line. Martin Spoonmore's company.
If you want to learn more about them, what they
can to do some of the services, you can go
to a fftree Service dot com a f F Tree

(06:05):
Service dot com. You know you'll find out that they
do deeper feeding, pests, disease control, stump grinding. Pre construction
care so important. Maybe you don't. Maybe you you know,
haven't even put in a landscape yet, and you're building
a house. You got trees and you love those trees
on the property. Don't start letting them put down trenches

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and foundations and sidewalks and things until you have Martin
come out and have them advise you on what to
do before the construction before the damage occurs, because you
can it does a lot of damage to a tree
to build a house around it. A lot of things
are part of that process that you can avoid if

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you call them ahead of time. Martin spoon More's Company
Affordable Tree Service. Here's the number seven one three six
nine nine two six six three. But right now the
number one thing you need get on the schedule because
hurricane season is here. And are your trees ready? You know,
a top heavy tree, a weak limb, you've got fences,

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you've got your house, God forbid, there's your neighbor's house,
and so on. A lot of damage can be done
by a tree that was improperly pruned over time and
is now structurally weak. So just it's an ongoing thing
to keep your trees as healthy and strong as you can.
And that's that's what affordable tree service is all about.

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Seven one three six nine nine two six six three.
Uh I uh am gonna be planting in my garden today.
I've got a few things I'm putting out in the
vegetable garden. I've been kind of focusing on my landscape
a lot lately, and so the vegetable garden has kind
of been ignored. But one thing I did that I'm

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glad I did, and I learned to do this a
long time ago, is whenever you pull out a crop,
you know you let's say you grew spin and lettuce
and carrots, or something in a bed this past cool season,
and it time to get all that harvested out for
warm season planting. In between the time I pull the
crop out and I plant the new thing, I always

(08:13):
mulch the soil surface well. And right now I'm taking
grass clippings from my yard, and I don't put them thick,
because they get all gooey if you put them real thick.
But fresh grass clippings a couple of inches deep is
just fine. And they just sit out there and they
dry and they cover the soil surface. And I do
that with leaves, I do that with other things. When
it's time to plant. What I'm gonna do is I'm

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gonna go out there and there are very few weeds
in those beds. Had I not mulch ahead of time,
it would have been a chia pet of weeds out there.
And so what I'll do is I'll pull that mulch
back and either set in the transplants or plant the
row seeds or whatever I'm going to do. But it
makes it so much easier because listen, when there's fire

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ants around, which they are when it's one hundred degrees,
which it will be in the summer, you don't want
to be out there pulling weeds so you can put
in a garden. You want to get that stuff done
ahead of time. And it's really easy to do if
you just keep the soil surface moltt. Wherever sunlight hits
the soil, nature plants a weed. That's true in your lawns,

(09:17):
and that's true in your gardens as well. All right,
just keep that in mind. Keep it malts. Make it
easier on yourself. Don't make it so hard to try
to try to keep everything nice and clean. I'm going
to take a little break here. We'll be back in
a moment if you'd like to be will it first
up today? Seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, folks,

(09:39):
welcome back, Welcome back to the garden. Iine, Hey, you
got a question, give me a call seven one three
two one two KTRH. Be happy to help with that.
I posted something to Facebook just a few days ago.
My daughter sent me a picture of a little fiddlely
figed shed. She showed it to me one time. I
was over there, and he's like, man, that thing looked bad.
It was like it was closer to yellow than it

(10:01):
was to green, literally, and it wasn't doing good, and
I thought, oh gosh, I've been overwatered. Its roots are
rotting and it's a goner. Anyway, it wasn't apparently, I
guess it wasn't a root rot But I gave her
a little sample of Medina products. There's a lot of
Medina products out there, but the six twelve six it's
the Medina has to grow plant food six twelve six.

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And the little sample bottle makes two gallons. And so
she mixed up one and watered it in with it,
and it's back in May. I believe she did this,
and then she mixed it up again and watered it
again with it. A little bit later and a lot
of about a month is when she sent me the
picture this of it again. She had the before and after,
and it was dramatic, dramatic if there was a new

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growth coming ont the top of it. Now it is happy,
but that doesn't surprise me. Medina products, there are a
lot of different products. They've got their their humate. It
is just well, it's called humade humic acid. Basically, it's
what it is, and it just wonders for soil in
terms of helping with the soil structure inside humus is

(11:07):
part of what nature does to improve soil's physical properties.
There's a lot of benefits for microbial activity, for nutrient
exchange and other things in human at umic acid. It's
a liquid you can use that. You can use that
at any time you want to use it on anything,
you want to use it. It works well. They also
have a product I like a lot called Medina Plus.

Speaker 9 (11:28):
Now.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Medina Plus is the old Medina soil activator that a
lot of gardeners have loved for a lot of time.
Plus over forty different trace elements including also some plant hormones,
natural growth hormones. It's got seaweed extract in it, and
it just does. It just does. Wonders for giving your
plants a boost. You need to give them a try.

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You're going to find Adena products everywhere. Feed stores, the
garden centers we talk about here on garden Line, ace
hardware stores, all kinds of places. We can find that
whole line, whole line of Medina products. At work. Anyway,
I thought that before and after picture was kind of cool,
so I just since you are sent it out there
on our Facebook page. If you don't follow garden Line Facebook,

(12:10):
you ought to. We post stuff all the time up there.
And if you also, if you want to follow a
garden line with Skip, it's called Garden Line with Skip
the that's an Instagram account that we put some things
up on as well. Facebook's a little more active for me,
but anyway, we do both. Let's see, I was talking

(12:34):
about planting in the vegetable garden. That is something that
I definitely need to need to get out and do.
My garden has sat fallow for too long, and you know,
he said, well, what does that mean too long? Well,
I've been busy. I just covered in doing other things.

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Like I said, I've been taking care of my landscape.
I've got some lawn issues that I've been having to
deal with, and I don't know. One of my zoisias
is having a little bit of a struggle. I know
it's in a low shade environment. It's got little bit
of some disease looking patches in it, and I'm having
to get to the bottom of that and figure out
what's going on with that, what's the cause of it.

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Part of the problem with my lawns is the fact
that I've got two Golden retrievers weigh about one hundred
pounds each. And those monsters, let's just say, when they
go out there and start running, when they turn a corner,
it pushes up a hill with their paws the size
of a mole hill, because you know, they just trump
the heck out of the thing. And then they like
to kill the grass by going to the bathroom in

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certain spots. So anyway, you probably have dealt with that
kind of thing. We can we can't have dogs in
lawns coexist, and that's kind of what I'm working on
in that. Well, tell you what, let's go out to
the phones here. I'm going to head to Spring now
and we're going to talk to Bonnie this morning. Well, hello, Bonnie,
welcome to garden Line High Skip.

Speaker 7 (13:59):
I have a tropical high discus I got in December,
and this it would get almost to bloom stage. The
buds would start showing color and then they just drop off.
One actually did fully bloom. And when it dropped off,

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I looked underneath and there was a little hole in
one of the petals. So when I pulled the pedals back,
there's a little green caterpillar inside and there were some
eggs that I threw it away. And now I'm seeing
little black spots and some of the butts. Also some

(14:40):
of the leafs. Once in a while there's a leaf
that is yellow and just falls off. So what's going on.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, you know, there are different things going on there.
First of all, you did find the actual insect in
the case of burring in, and they do some caterpillars
that will attack them. That's that's just kind of part
of the deal. The black spots could be a little
tiny bacterial spot infections, or if they're bigger, it could
even a city mold. When you have insects that sect

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the juices out of the plant, they produce a sugary
water that causes a city mold to grow. But those
are a little bit larger city looking patches as opposed
to a little, tiny, small black spot. You can use
an insecticide. You could use an insecticide on them to
control things like that caterpillar and and other things that

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might show up. And that might be good. I know
that that. You know, the climatic conditions that things are
going through from fluctuations and so moisture content and whatnot
can also cause issues with the getting them to go
from the bud to the blooms successfully without dropping dropping
those off. So watch out for fertilizing. They do want fertilizer,

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but excess is a lot of lush foliage at the
expense of blooms, So watch that. Try to keep the
water as even as you can. Too much or too
little can cause that bud drop. And so that some
of that's in your control. Irrigation. The rain is not
in your control unless you move the plant where you
have control of water. They like well drained soil. Certainly

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temperatures can cause problems, but I wouldn't. That's not the
issue we're having right now with your with your hibiscus.
But that's something else that can cause a bloom drop
type problem.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
That sends something from ace culp is from bon eye
called eight and sprayed with that other than if that's
helping or not, are you familiar with them?

Speaker 1 (16:43):
What is in bone eyed eight eight? We see if
I can pull that up right quick and find I
don't know what the.

Speaker 7 (16:53):
Supposed to target eight different things?

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay, all right, you tell me what's in the label.
They're not telling me anyway. Let me see if I
can find something on it. I'll have to see the
ingredient in order to know, Okay, it's.

Speaker 7 (17:10):
Got I don't have it with me right now.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
It's a synthetic. It's a synthetic peritheid. Yeah, that'll kill
a lot of things. That'll kill the caterpillars, will kill aphids,
it will kill, yeah, the things that are most likely
to be on your probably not scale, but other things
it would work pretty well on.

Speaker 7 (17:30):
Okay, all right. Also, I have a quite myrtle that
was planted in March. It's fifteen gallon quaite myrtle at
nice size. But I'm just now seeing a little white
on the leafs. It's a fashion. I thought it was
supposed to be the resistant and it's story need to

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get white. I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, yeah, Bashian part pink is. It's a pink, pink
blooming crate myrtle. And it's an old time create myrtle.
Been around a long time. People have loved that. I mean,
it's one of the more more famous cret myrtles that
we've got out there on the market. It's been around
a very very long time. I don't it's powdery mildew.

(18:20):
Trying to remember, I don't think it has strong powdery mildew. Resistance.
Need to need to check that. I'm trying to remember
it might I mean, I'm just saying I did. I
should know. I did a big chart on powdery mildew,
great myrtle varieties and powdery mildew. Uh, you know, success

(18:43):
in terms of resistance rather to it. So you need
to make sure and choose from the ones that are
actually Bash's party. Pink does show good, good to excellent
powdery mildew resistance, so it shouldn't be getting that. When
you say white are you are you talking about like,
do you know what powdery mildy looks like? Is that

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what you're seeing? Or you just something white?

Speaker 7 (19:06):
Another one? Once before I have seen it on a
different crate than I took out because of the whe Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well, I've got about thirty seconds. I have to go
to a break here. In thirty seconds, let's you want
to just hang on. When we come back from break,
I can continue with it on this one. Okay, sure, yeah,
just hang on, you bet all right, got to run
to break here. We will be back with your calls
seven one three two one two k t r H

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seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Just hang on, we'll be back to finish this crape
myrtle discussion. All right, I just have to say one thing.
I saw a Taylor Swift in concert. I know, I know,
before she was famous. She was a backup singer to
Brad Paisley, and we were over in New Bronfels, Texas,

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and I who Taylor Swift was. I guess not many
people did at that time, but anyway, I thought that
was cool. That's my claim. That's the closest I got
to a claim to fame. That is that I went
to a Brad Paisley concert. All right, let's go back here.
We're gonna go. If I can find the right button,
there we go, Bonnie. In spring, we were talking about

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powdery mildew. Powdery mildew if that is what it is,
which you know, there's possibilities. It could be that your
plant actually isn't a bashing party pink. It may be
another pink variety that was sold as that. That's unlikely,
but that's possible. That would be a reason why it
might have powdery mildew. It could also be that what
we're thinking is powdery mil do something else, but for

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powdery mildew. There are products out there that'll work. Nem
Oil works pretty good if the plant's not too big
to spray, but nemo coats the leaf and it prevents
it for a while, so you would have to spray
it regularly in order to control it. I just don't
think people are willing to do that much spraying with

(21:02):
For the pottery mildew, there are systemics that will shut
it down for longer. Why don't we do this? Why
don't you if you want to take a picture of it,
I'm going to put you on hold and my producer
will give you an email. Send me some close up,
really well focused pictures of what you think is pottery mildew,
and that way I can comment on it and we
can be sure instead of me.

Speaker 7 (21:23):
Guessing that I can try that.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
All right, all right, well, I'm put you on hold here.
You bet that's what we'll try here, Alejandro, pick up?
You bet? Glad to do it? Glad to do it?

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
The The folks at Nitrophiles have a number of products
that just works super well. What one of those is
a product called bugout Now bug Out Max, that's what
it's called. It is an insecticide that you sprinkle out
on the ground. It washes off the granules into the
soil surface, into the thuch area, and it does a
number on whatever kind of insects you've got. If we're

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talking about fleas and ticks, if we're talking about chinchbugs,
if we're talking about caterpillars, that are it. It just
works well. Bug Out Max from nitrofoss is available in
a lot of different places. If you go to Enchinned
Gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg on FM three point fifty nine,
you're gonna find bug out Max. If you go to
Hiding and Feed on stupidor Airline, or if you go

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to Plants Fell Seasons on two forty nine, they carry
nitrofoss products at all these places. And so there's just
an idea for you. Let's let's now go to the
woodlands and we're going to talk to Huey. Hey, Huey,
Welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 10 (22:36):
Good morning, first time caller. So I have a question.

Speaker 11 (22:40):
I noticed my backyard have a lot of zinc hole
slash pots that is not making a big hole, but
he just small pots everywhere.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
And it's not like the.

Speaker 11 (22:51):
Grass is still there, the sawds is still there, but
it's like a little sink hole. So I don't know
that's some kind of animal at the bottom that kind
of take these holes.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
So I don't know how big are How big are
they here?

Speaker 11 (23:03):
I would say about about a foot a foot why
narrow depending when I walk through the little sink on
my foot.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, you know, there's different things that can cause something
like that occasionally. You know, if you had if there
were a tree that had big root under the ground
or something, and then that tree's long gone, but now
the wood is finally riding away, it'll cause there to
be a soft spot that sinks down. Some kinds of
animals tunneling underneath can do that. I'm assuming you're knowing though,

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that it's not something digging down from the top, right,
It's just you're just walking on normal looking ground, but
it's soft and sinks correct. Yeah, okay, it's gonna be
one of those things. And you know that's getting outside
my gardening expertise to go any further than that on it.
But I have encountered that before for the reasons I

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just mentioned, I've you know that has caused it. I
would just say, get you a good quality kind of
a top soil or sandy loamy top soil, Sprinkle it
over those areas and bring that bring that soil level
back up, and then your grass should crawl back in
over that and be just fine.

Speaker 11 (24:20):
So when you say sprinkles top soil, don't even cut
out this on and underneath it.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Just sprinkle on top of it.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I mean, that's the fastest, easiest. And if you
want to go in and excavate a little foot foot
wide circle of soid whatever it needs to be, and
then put some soil in there, step on the soil
to kind of press it down real good, and then
set your side back down on top and start watering.
You could go that route too. That's just a little
more work, and then you have to remember to water

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it regularly for the first couple of weeks to make
sure those roots otherwise they'll start to die back if
you get the water for a couple of days. Okay.

Speaker 11 (25:03):
Yeah, you could be right about the tree and with
the old route, because I have two tall pine trees.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
They sit in the back, y'all. One of them was
cut and they'd been there for.

Speaker 11 (25:13):
At least twenty plus years and new grow massive, you know,
and the other one's still there.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
So I'm assuming you could be right.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
You know, it's in the proximity area.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, well, okay, well whatever cause did. It's easy to fix.
But uh appreciate you calling in. Thanks good talking about
Thank you, sir. Okay, sir, you bet, you bet. Yeah.
It's always kind of interesting playing Colombo in the yards
because it could be it could be a number of
different things. You know, it's it's hard to just say

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for sure exactly what is causing some of these things. Hey,
if you haven't been done to mass nursery, go down
right now and and check out their hardy hibiscus. The
hearty happened. Everybody knows about the tropical hibiscus down here.
Those are the gaudy ones that come and ever color
under the sun. I mean, they're amazing beautiful. Hardy hibiscus
typically are going to be red, white, pink, or splashed

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or streaked versions of those three colors. That's their colors.
But the blooms are huge. I mean, they're like we
call them dinner plate hibiscus because they're that big. The
ballooms can be that big on them. Moss has got
a great selection. A lot of the new ones coming
out from breeders now are pretty exciting.

Speaker 12 (26:25):
You know.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
The foliage can be kind of almost a burgundy tinted
green that's really gorgeous. It looks good. But moss has
a lot of things. They've got something called sun patients.
Sun patients are basically impatiens that were bred to take
more sun. Normal impatients can't take too much sun. The
sun patients they'll grow in a shady spot. But they

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also if it gets a little sunny, they can do
that well. And some of them are beautiful with a
yellow and green and the foliage and then the beautiful blooms.
Impatients are a great little plant to choose while you're there.
If you are into house plants or succulents, they have
an unbelievable supply. I mean they've they've got, you know,
like cactie, the barrel type cactie, the very upright right

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tall types of cactie. They've got the trailing succuments, the
string of you fill in the blank. Moss is just
the place you go to find everything, the standard you know,
the standard things, vegetables, herbs, flower bedflowers, you know those
kind of things. They've got lots of that. But the unusual.
I love to go see some of the pottery that

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they have. There's some wall planters that are just beautiful,
like one of them almost it was like a lady's face,
but the head is kind of hollowed out up there.
It's a ceramic talavera type, you know, with that Mexican pottery,
bright color patterns on it, and you plant in the
top and you just let something trail out of the
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or whatever. You don't have to water it that much
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about shopping at Moss is just the fact that it's
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don't know what you're gonna see, because it is the
most eclectic nursery that I've ever seen, and it's just
a lot of fun to go visit. By the way,
it's on Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. Moss nursery dot com.
Moss is spelled m aas two eight one four seven
four twenty four eighty eight. I'm gonna take a little

(28:36):
break here and we'll be back with our last segment
of this hour. Already, welcome back to Guardline. Good have
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and every time you spend a little money there, it
starts to pay you back. You are listening to garden
Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to
help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
That is at least my goal wants you to have
success with that, and part of that is taking care
of your plants, making sure you're fertilizing them, making sure

(32:53):
that they're getting the nutrients that they need. Sometimes people
forget and don't fertilize like they should because, yeah, there's
not on the top of the list. The plants alive,
it's green, it looks good. Well, when we're pushing a plant,
let's say, to bloom a lot. Nelson Plant Food has
a neutral star line. There's a Nutra star for bugavillia's,
there's one for blum areas. Of course, there's one for

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vegetable gardens and so on. There's a Nutra star for everything.
But by pushing them along with that fertilizer at the
right rate and good blends like Nelson knows how to make,
you encourage leaf growth, which captures sunlight, which makes carbohydrates
which is required to make a bloom or a fruit
or whatever you're growing that plant for. But you need

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to follow the schedule on their labels and fertilize them
periodically and keep them in a healthy state, not overfertilizing,
but not underfertilizing either. If you see people that, if
you see a place and it's just like blooms everywhere,
they're fertilizing those plants and Nelson Plant Food is an
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of things. Well, music means I gotta quit talking for
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for example, how to control nut sege. Oh my gosh. Well,
good morning, good Sunday morning. Welcome back to guarden Line.
Good to have you with us. Hey, if you got
a question to visit about. Seven one three two one
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phones and we're going to go to Spring Branch and
talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (36:14):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (36:17):
I have a question about a contry it's about sixty
five years old. And yesterday I suddenly looked up because
the area I normally look at.

Speaker 10 (36:27):
Was just fine.

Speaker 13 (36:28):
And I look up and I see the three other
major branches of the tree. The leaves are all wilted
and they're just hanging up there. So is there some
disease going around killing the contrees or.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
No, not not like that. So it put out leaves
and now the leaves are wilting, So that means something
has messed up the plumbing in that branch. So that means, well, it's.

Speaker 13 (37:00):
Three corners of the tree. It's three quarters of the
tree with the same branch. I mean three major branches
going out, and I have one good branch and I
don't see any damage.

Speaker 10 (37:10):
On it yet.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, the same thing, same answer though, So what's happening
is water was flowing to those leaves and now it's not.
And so it could be borers that are in the branch,
that are in the way down where the you know, wherever,
wherever you see a healthy branch, you go, you follow

(37:33):
the branch out and it's got leaves. You follow the
branch next to it out and it doesn't Something on
that doesn't side is disrupting the float. It could be
a number of things, borers or a possibility because they
essentially cut the plumbing tubes that are carrying the water
up to the top. It could be a canker, a disease,

(37:53):
a wound, something along those lines. Now occasionally it's it's
in the soil to a degree, an individual root. You
could follow its flow path all the way up to
a leaf. Okay, a little tiny root up all the
way up to a leaf. So if you were to
go on one side of your tree and cut all

(38:14):
the roots, you would see a section of that tree
wilt immediately because it had lost all its supply of
water for the taking to survive the next pot day. Now,
it's not necessarily right above that what you cut. Sometimes
the trunk twists a little bit, and you know, the
flow isn't necessarily just straight up, but generally it is.
So I would look at the soil too, and say,

(38:35):
what has happened on the side where, in your case,
three fourth of it where you're seeing all of that
wilting on the branches, and just consider that. It could
be a trench that was dug. I don't know, it
could be other things, but something unknown at this point
is affecting the plumbing, and it has happened pretty darn quick.

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If you're seeing that, that's Has this been going on
for months or is this just a new thing?

Speaker 13 (39:04):
Well, I just basically noticed it in the last couple
of days. I saw a low wilted branch from the
way the window is, and I thought it was just
that one branch, and I walk out and I finally
look up and it's like, oh my goodness. Yeah, Well,
think there's any possibility of saving the street or is it.

Speaker 10 (39:25):
Just a goner.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Boy wilting like you're describing. I'm I'm not positive about
its opportunity or as chances of coming back, But I
can't predict it. You know, I'm basically talking to you
on a phone call here. I can't see the tree
or walk around it or anything. I wasn't there the

(39:48):
past weeks and months and stuff, and so it's really hard.
It's hard to say for sure, but these kind of
things tend not to be just temporary. Now, if for
some reason that the three is sixty five years old,
that's the thing that is kind of makes me not
very hopeful for it. You know, if an area got

(40:11):
dry well, the roots that supply that area could start
to wilt and new water and they come back. I
don't think that's the case with your tree. So that's
leaving us with physically damaged plumbing. You know again, birrors, cankers, whatever,
root rots, whatever, and that doesn't fix itself quick enough

(40:31):
to save those branches. The demands are high, and the
temperature is hot, and it's going to get hotter. So
I would say unlikely, but definitely don't give up on
it just yet.

Speaker 10 (40:45):
Well that's kind of what I thought she would say.

Speaker 13 (40:48):
Okay, but I think I'll watch and see what happens
through this last branch, major branch going up.

Speaker 10 (40:56):
Okay, but yeah, if it's.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Some time and see that that isn't We're not there.
There wasn't any minor lightning strike or anything else like that.

Speaker 13 (41:08):
They no, no, no, we haven't hit any Okay, strikes.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Well, I'm I'm grabbing for straws. But the bottom line is,
speaking of straws, the straws that carry the water up,
something something to shut that down. Pecans don't have vascular
plumbing diseases. Some plants get bacteria in the plumbing and
it clogs it up. And the water camp from to
my knowledge, pecans don't have a disease like that that

(41:37):
would quickly shut down a tree like yours has exhibited.

Speaker 13 (41:42):
Well, I thought there was something called cotton roots rots
that barons had.

Speaker 10 (41:48):
But yes, okay, but that doesn't fit right.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
They can get well, they can get root rots normally.
There are several root rots that that are our plants
and and pecans, you know, with with any kind of
thing that shuts down the roots. Now, the pattern of
cotton root rot is somewhat similar to that. The pattern

(42:14):
is it affects the roots on one side, and then
as the disease progresses through the soil, it kills more
and more. And then so you look up on the
tree and you're seeing a progression go through the tree
somewhat like you're you're describing there. But you know, bottom
line is uh, you know it. There's no control of

(42:37):
that that okay.

Speaker 13 (42:40):
Okay, if I take this tree down, there's not a
there's not a funge a side for for cotton. Yeah,
if I take this tree down, do I need since
the cause is kind of unknown, do I need to
just send the wood to the to the garbage side
or is it usable or with propagated somewhere else. If

(43:02):
I use the wood for barbecue or a fire or something, yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
I would be said, wise, No, it's not it's fine.
You can do that. You can do you know. And
the more we're talking about this, the more you know.
I'd mentioned root rots initially, but I think that cotton
root rot is an example. It generally is a little
bit slower in progressing through a tree, but you know,
those pecond limbs are up high, and we shuffle in

(43:29):
and out of the house every day and don't always
look up, so it could have been going on for
a little longer. But anyway it is, it can affect
up the cond trees and it flat kills them. I've
seen orchards with sections, you know, huge areas that were
like a like someone through a fire on the ground
and it's burning outward, you know, from there, and you

(43:50):
watching the trees decline in a pattern like that. And
so there's not a there's not a good solution to it,
especially at this stage where three pours of the trees gone,
and if it is cotton root rot there, it will
not bounce back. But if you could acidify soil, you
can help stave that off if you you know, cotton

(44:16):
cotton root rot likes high pH soils, and so if
if you were it's very hard to acidify a huge
volume of soil deep and wide and everything. But if
if soil could be acidified, it would stave off a
cotton root rot proliferating like that. So in case of

(44:38):
your yard, that's not a solution, it's too late for that.
But that that is about the only thing that we
can effectively do. We don't have a fungicide that we
just spray on the soil and it fixes it.

Speaker 13 (44:54):
Okay, Well, hey, well, thank you for appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah, I'm sorry to be the bear about news on
this one. But if you wanted to be sure, you
could dig up a root. You'll see on the roots
kind of a white, a whitish kind of matting underneath
the outer surface. And if you saw that and want
to send it to the lab of text A and M,
the plant disease diagnostic lab, they could tell you, yeah,

(45:20):
that's cotton root rot or not. But I don't think
that's that is not going to change anything you do
and will not help save the tree. So but I'm
really up against a heartbreak here, So thank you for
the call and sorry to be the bear bed news Jim.
I got to run, folks, I'll be right back. All right,
we're back, folks, We're back. Let's talk gardening. We're going

(45:42):
to head straight out to Texas City and talk to
Alan hey Ellen, welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 8 (45:47):
Good morning, Thank you, sir. My quick question is about
my front yard. I've been following the fertilization schedule last Saturday.
I didn't mind er June first of July application and
I'm working out of town. So my wife called me yesterday,
told me the front yard and turn yellow, and the
second between the sidewalk and the street don got major

(46:09):
brown patch and looked like the yacht parts dead.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
So whoa.

Speaker 8 (46:13):
I'm coming home today to have about two.

Speaker 10 (46:14):
Or three hours to do something to the yard.

Speaker 8 (46:16):
Is there something you can tell me to do?

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Is there any way that you could have your wife
shoot a picture over here, take one on the phone,
email it over to the station for me to look
at this morning. I mean, I can I can shoot
from the hip. Okay, well I can shoot from the help,
but yeah, ye for her, Okay, that's fine, that's fine.

(46:41):
I'm just trying to help you as best I can. Uh.
The yellow wing is basically it's usually a sign of
an iron deficiency. But it's not because there suddenly wasn't
iron in the soil. It's because roots have died most
likely now. Roots can die from droughty conditions, they can
die from soul compaction, they can die from take all

(47:04):
root rot, which is a disease of the soil. So
the causes are so widespread that it's hard to give
just a quick answer to that's where a photo when
you get home. If you're seeing the yellowing kind of
erratic through the yard, like it's not just real clean
cut here, not there, and so on. It's more just yeah, erratic,

(47:27):
no pattern to it. That is probably take all root rot.
Grab a grass blade and pick it a yellow grass blade,
and hold up the light and see if it looks
like green and yellow stripes going down the grass blade,
like railroad tracks running up and down the grass blade.
If you see that, then that is an iron deficiency
and something's wrong in the roots. If there are a

(47:52):
couple of steps you can take. Boy, I hate to
prescribe stuff when we haven't even yet determined for sure
what the cause is. But in your situation, kind of
being in the mind here, you've got a couple hours
and you got to get back out again. I would
get a product from Fertilo that is a iron and
other micro nutrients spray. It's a bottle. It comes a

(48:13):
little bottle, little gray bottle, and it'll say iron and
other micro nutrients is what's in it. And then I
would get a hose en sprayer and folier. Spray the
grass with that, Spray the whole grass with that. I
would also get a product this is on my schedule,
But for all the rest of you listening, I would

(48:35):
answer this a little differently in a different situation. So
I just don't don't assume this is my answer to
every every take all problem. But if you wanted to
get a product that is that contains a zoxy stroban
a z O x Y S t R O B
I n uh. And you go to you you're in

(48:59):
sugar Land, you need go over to Southwest Fertilizer. Oh,
Texas City, Okay, Oh, I'm sorry, I'm looking at the
well an Ace Hardware store over there might have it.
You may find it there. But a zoxystrobin is the
ingredient that you need to find and you want to

(49:22):
sprinkle it out. Here's the order of everything. I'm sorry
to confuse you. I'm bouncing around here. To cut out
the ozoxystrobin granules. It'll be granules. You want to water
it in according to the label, and then hose in
spray the foliage of your grass because you're bypassing the
roots to get these micro nutrients into the grass plant.

(49:43):
So those that's what's within your power right now. In
a nutshell, longer term, we need to see pictures. We
need to know for sure what's going on. What you're
describing doesn't sound like chinchabugs to me. It could be,
but they tend to start like near a curve, a driveway,
a sidewalk, something rock masonry, and they gradually move out

(50:06):
into the lawn. So closest to that concrete in the sun,
it's the deadist and then as you go out it's yellow,
and then as you go further out it's healthy green.
That would be change gags, and that's a whole different thing.
And all of these are on my schedule online at
gardening with Skip dot com. So if you need to
can't remember that as Oxystruben Later gardening with skip dot
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(50:30):
and it'll tell you what to do, all right, ter fact,
mister fact.

Speaker 8 (50:35):
Ken brown patches, stuff like that be tracked in by
someone walking across your yards. They landscapers go from yard
to yardyard and they walk across.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Mind, you can move diseases on equipment theoretically, you know,
maybe a grass blade sticks to their foot and the
spores and stuff on it come in. But that's not
the big problem. How they get there. Those diseases are
pretty ubiquitous. And when we create the conditions they like

(51:05):
over fertilizing, we get a cool front coming in, we
get some rain coming in. That's when we see, you know,
the brown patch circles start to pop up. Okay, so it's.

Speaker 8 (51:14):
I'm just settling in a bit with my wife.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Okay, Well, I mean, could could it happen? Yes? But
it's the analogy I like to use for this. I'll
just be real brief he before we go is if
you let's say you have a shady side of your
house and it's a brick siding, and you have a
faucet there and water mist is spraying out of the
faucet under the brick. Suddenly algae starts to grow. Well,

(51:38):
how did algae get on that brick? Well, it was
it was in the air. It's everywhere, and you just
created a nice, moist, cool environment and algae gre That's
how these diseases are. So I wouldn't worry about people
walking across the lawn being the problem. Okay, Well then
I win in Okay, So, oh hey, I don't want
any part of that. You know, you know, gardening advice

(52:00):
is free. Well on god, yeah, she's probably listening. She's
probably listening. Make yourself a comfortable place on the couch
for tonight after talking like that about Yeah no, seriously, Well,
a gardening advice is free. Marriage advice is three hundred
dollars an hour. So how do you.

Speaker 8 (52:18):
Do I know when not to say nothing? After thirty
seven years, I know when not to open my mouth.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
So I hear a wise man speaking, Thanks Allan, appreciate
your call. My gosh, what happened? I sent him to
Southwest Fertilizer. You know Southwest fertilizer is I don't care
what you're looking for, any kind of insect disease? Weed.
You need to fertilize. You need tools to do this.
You need perunters. You know, you need a fertilizer spreader
or a fire ant spreader or baits for everything. Southwest

(52:47):
Fertilizer corner of this nut and Runwick. Listen. They've been
around since nineteen fifty five. And you don't do that
without taking care of your customers, doing it right, and
make it sure when they walk in there they don't go, well,
we don't got any of that. You might try down
the street. No, Southwest Fertilizer is the down the street
place that you go for everything. Seven to one three
six sixty six one seven four four. Gosh, boy, that

(53:12):
call went went south. Uh Michael and Sugarland. Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 6 (53:18):
Some morning skiff. Hope you're having a wonderful morning. Got
a couple of questions for you. I've got a forties
plus year old I've been told by one of the
tree people it's a Carolina ash. It's about old, fifty
sixty feet tall. Last year, out of nowhere, it was
covered with what I've been told was web worms. I

(53:39):
mean they were all over the three in different areas.
I'm literally falling from the ground and calling. My first
question is what can I do about them, if anything
at all?

Speaker 10 (53:50):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (53:50):
And secondly, I've discovered a grass and I don't know
if you know. I'm in Sugarland out in near the
southwest part of Fort Bean County.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
It's too late.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
It's popped up all over my Saint Augustine and the
roots are really very strong. Has anyone else in what
the Johnnie mentioned is this very aggressive grass?

Speaker 1 (54:13):
There are several that it could be. But tell you what, Michael,
You take a picture of it. Take a picture of
it in the lawn, up close, as close as you
can get, make sure it's in focus, and then pull
some up and set it on a like a tabletop
surface or something where you can zoom in and everything
I see the grass and the weed and the picture
and instead of it being mixed among other plants. And

(54:34):
let me see a picture. I'll tell you what it
is and what to do about it. But I got
to see a picture to do that. As far as
the webworms are concerned, they fluctuate your ear depending on
various conditions. Their number one enemy is paper wasps, the
ones that build the nest under your house. They eat
caterpillars all day long, and so you break up webs
and they have a chance to get in. Now, if

(54:56):
this is a big, big tree like you're described, and
you can't break up the webs up there, so you're
left with spraying. And if you catch it early on,
early before the whole tree is covered in webs and
has no leaves on it, and you spray the foliage,
but once or twice a week, depending on which product
you use. Organic products like BT you're gonna have to

(55:19):
spraym a couple times a week, something like spinosid maybe
once a week, and then there are other products that
will last even longer than that. But if you can
get the spray up to the foliage when the webworms
start to come in and chew on it, it'll kill them.
But you can't get the sprays inside the webs. That's
why we want to do it early when the first
little sign of a web is occurring, because there's gonna

(55:40):
be other webworms hatching out that you don't from the ground.
You don't see them yet and because they haven't built
that web yet, so that's the only way to avoid it.
The other thing is do what nature does and that's
put up with a little bit of defoliation here and there.
The trees have are resilient, they'll bounce back. But if
you ain't pretty so those are your options. Thank you, guys.

Speaker 6 (56:01):
But I guess, I guess basically what you see these
things are not something that reside in.

Speaker 10 (56:05):
The tree over the fall or the spring.

Speaker 6 (56:07):
They're actually coming from the ground or from caterpillars.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Yeah, the mothlight flies up there in lazy egg. I
got ten seconds. But they occur in this time of
the year, but they occur mostly in late summer and
early fall. Thanks a lot, Michael, appreciate that call. You
take care. I'll be right back, folks. All right, folks,
welcome back to the guarden line on a lovely Sunday morning.
Looking forward to visiting with you if you want to

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give me a call. Seven one three two one two
kat r H. Speaking of water, imagine your backyard, and
you got this rock patio, and right off the edge
of the patio is a little pond with some goldfish
or koy or whatever whatever you're interested in. You got
some lily pads with blooms coming up, other kind of
beautiful water plants there. Maybe there's a waterfall coming out

(56:54):
of the side of of a little stack of rocks
or something. You know, you get the idea. Nelson Water
Gardens and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas can make
that happen. They are specialists in that. Maybe you don't
want to go all that way and you just want
a big, beautiful ceramic glazed pottery urn with water spilling

(57:17):
over the side. It's called a disappearing fountain. They invented it,
and it recycles back and comes up back through the
middle of the big beautiful glazed pottery and birds love it.
Benefics of insects I like that too, by the way,
But you have the sound of water as you're sitting
out in the patio. They can make that happen. Nelson

(57:37):
Nursery and Water Gardens, Katie Fort Benroe, just north of
the Katie Freeway out there in Katie. Nelson Watergardens dot
Com go check them out. Pretty cool stuff. Every time
I go out there, I just want to loiter and
listen to water. I really mean that. I love the
sound of water. I got a little fountain in my backyard,
and oh my gosh, just it's therapy. Gardening is there.

(58:00):
It really is. Plants for All Seasons on Highway two
forty nine, just north of Luetta is a place where
you go and you get primarily, I would say you're
going to get three things. Number One, you're going to
get expert advice. These people that work at Plants Fall Seasons,
the people that own the Flowery family, they all know

(58:21):
their stuff. You bring them a sample, you bring them
a picture, you bring them just a verbal question and
they're going to point to the right thing. Secondly, you're
going to get a great selection of plants that is
suitable for the season that you're wanting to do. Like
right now, your flower beds need color for summer. Summer
shouldn't be a sea of green in your landscape. Give
it some colors other than green, an addition to green.

(58:43):
They can do that. Number Three, you need products that
are quality products. Before you can even check out there,
you got to go through the fertilizers and right outside
is all the soil mixes and the mulches and things.
You hear me say all the time, brown stuff before
green stuff. That's how that's or is set up. At
Plants for All Seasons. You get the soil right, you

(59:03):
get the right plants, you get the right advice, you
have success. That's why people love this place. Plants for
all seasons on high Way two forty nine, just north
of Luetta Road two eight one three seven six sixteen
forty six. That is a fact. Beautiful, beautiful. Well, give
me a call if you got a question. That would
be a good time. We got open mines seven to

(59:24):
one three two one two kt r H seven to
one three two one two kt r H. I don't
talk about container gardening enough in my opinion, and the
reason is I don't see enough container gardening going on
out there. A lot of people, you know, they just
maybe tried containers and not had success. Well, I want

(59:46):
to give you a few tips, a few tips so
that you can have success with containers. Containers are great
for growing vegetables, for growing herbs, for growing flowers, for beauty.
One of the tips I would suggest is get a
large container. Don't just put I know you watch TV

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in some gardening show filmed in New Jersey or northern
California or someplace where they don't have the summers we
have here. You need a large container to hold a
volume of soil, which holds a volume of water and nutrients,
so you're not water in that container three times a
day trying to keep the plant out of drought stress.
A large container. Get a quality soil blend to put

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inside the container. You get a quality soil blend, you
put it in that container. A quality blend holds water
and nutrients well, but it also drains well. It doesn't
let itself become a soggy, mucky mess. It drains the
excess out. And by the way, a quality container has
drained a tools in the bottom too. And then you

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put the right kinds of plants in. If it's large
enough container, you can do multiple plants. And there is
nothing more beautiful then a large container with something tall
coming up out of the center. You've got some things
filling in around the sides, and then you have some
things draping over a little vining, you know, pennant draping
plant coming over the side. That is gorgeous. And you

(01:01:12):
go to a good garden center and they can help
you find They can help you pull a selection of
plants that go together. You know, they need to either
be in the sun or the shade, depending on where
the container is going to be. And so your plant
choice needs to match that a large quality container, invest
in one. I know they can be expensive, but cheap

(01:01:32):
containers don't last, they don't look good. So once a year,
just once a year if that, get a nice container
to add a glazed pottery to add to your outdoor
living area, and I'm telling you you will enjoy it
for decades. They last, quality soil to go in them,

(01:01:52):
and then the right grouping of plants for the location.
You can have containers beautifying your shade. You can have
containers beautifying the sunny spots, but have some Now. One
additional thing that I would add if you want to
make it easier for yourself, a little drip irrigation system.
It could be something you hook to the garden hose
with a little timer on it that goes along and

(01:02:13):
has a tube that goes in each of your containers,
whether they're hanging baskets underneath an arbor, or whether they're
container sitting out on the patio, that comes on and
waters them all for you. If you get too many containers,
you spend a lot of your day run around water
in them all. You don't need to do that. A
little drip system makes it essentially fool proof. So those
are some tips, but we need more containers. They are

(01:02:35):
so versatile, they're so beautiful, they're so useful. We should
be trying more of them. If you are looking for
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all of those kinds of things, ACE Hardware has got
you covered. They have the kinds of things you need
to make that deck would last, the seedlings, the stain,

(01:03:00):
and all kinds of other things. Take a look at
your deck. Don't let it get too far along because
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start to decay. Then you're going to need to replace
the whole thing. ACE Hardware has got you covered, and
that you know, hardware storees that pain. Of course, ACE
has got top brands that will really really work well
making that outdoor area so nice. I love going into

(01:03:21):
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(01:03:43):
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on Broadway Street in Galveston. Actually that's kind of south.
Ace Hardware is everywhere. Go to ACE Hardware Texas dot
com to find yours. Let's head out now to Magnoia
and we're going to do it with Joel. Hello, Joel,
Welcome to garden Line marrin Skip.

Speaker 14 (01:04:02):
How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
I'm well, how can we help?

Speaker 10 (01:04:07):
I sent some.

Speaker 14 (01:04:08):
Email in with some pictures of the Japanese maple. I've
got two Japanese from Aple, once healthy. They were planted
all about twenty years ago, and one is shedding, lease dying.
I've I've been taking off branches as they get brittle,
they got bones of them. I leave them there so
I get some growth that is starting to come back.

(01:04:29):
And I sent a picture of the healthy one to
show you what that looks like and what the root
area looks like. They both looked the same, So I
just want to hit not any ideas of how to
treat that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
I'd hate to lose it. Yeah, well, you've got them
in a good setting. They like to be in a
partial sun, a good light, and everything like that. The
one that's dying seems to be dying primarily at the
top and on one side, that is probably something going
wrong down in the root system, and I can't tell
you what that is, but something is not right in
the room over on that side. Check the trunk of

(01:05:02):
the dead branches, follow them down to where they attached
to living branches, and see if you notice any borer holes, sawdust,
or any other sign of that going on. That would
be the next step to looking at it. Overall, the
root system looks good. I would throw a lot of
multch over it, though it helps cut on on weeds

(01:05:24):
and Japanese maple loves to be in a forest floor environment.
Decomposing rotting leaves and organic matter on the surface. Those
are all in your power. A little boost of fertilizer
wouldn't hurt. You could certainly do that. And the only
other symptom I see is the tip burn on the leaves,
and that just means water and nutrients aren't making it

(01:05:46):
fully up there to supply the demands of the plant.
When you see the tips of margins burning, So that's
my quick answer. If you want to delve into it
any further, I'm gonna have to take a little break here,
but we can come back and can you. But that's
pretty much just I think of.

Speaker 14 (01:06:03):
Yeah, I've been spraying with the polioge spray and then
with micro life sea ocean spray or ocean sea whatever
it is. The yeah, yeah, yeah, let's spraying that in
the polage and then drenched around it. So continue that
way then.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Yeah, yeah, make sure the sol stays moderately moist, fertilized
moderately most of that soil, and I think you set
it up for its best chance of success. But check
for boards and other things. Thanks, thanks a lot, Jarl.
I appreciate, appreciate your call. We're gonna take a little
break here. When we come back, Paul in Alabama, you'll
be our first job, all right, Welcome back to guarden Line.

(01:06:39):
Glad you with us today. Let's hit out here to Troy, Alabama.
We're going to talk to Paul this morning. Hello Paul,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (01:06:47):
How are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
I'm doing good, doing good.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
Got a question for you, Well, one time you was
telling somebody how to use the Facebook to take a
picture of grass of flowers? Is that on your website anywhere?

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
Not Facebook? Use your cell phone? But I suppose there's
a way to take pictures of the Facebook, but I
don't do it, so I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
I have the phone there and I was thinking for
Saint Augustine grass and it come up buffalo grass. Are
you familiar with buffalo grash?

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Yes? I am? Are you? Are you? Are you taking
this picture in Troy, Alabama?

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
In Troy, Alabama?

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Yes? Uh, there's there's very unlikely that it's buffalo grass
in Troy, Alabama, unless somebody had side shipped over and
planted it in their yard or something. But I think
you know the problem with those planet identification things is
they can be really wrong sometimes. But if you want

(01:07:55):
to send me a picture of it with something to
show size or scale, put a pencil or a ruler
or your hand in there in the picture. I can
tell you if if it's buffalo grass or not.

Speaker 10 (01:08:08):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
One other question this time of year, does Saint Augustine
Grace have pod seats on top of it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Seedheads? Yes, it can not. All varieties are as likely
to put on seed pod seedheads. The old common Saint
Augustine does it a lot, But in the last few
weeks and several yards, I've seen a seedhead or two
here and there, but not a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
Okay, well, I was just curious and that's what I'll
come up as buffalo grass, and I was almost sure
it was Saint Augustine, but we.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Yeah, no, buff yeah, buffalo grass. Seedheads are very tiny
and skinny. They don't look at anything like those big
flat things that come up out of Saint Augustine. Not
any work close, but hey, thanks for the call, Paul.
I do appreciate that call back anytime, you bet. Identifying
gas is kind of an interesting thing. There's a lot

(01:09:02):
of ways we do that. Sometimes you have to get
down to the point of a microscope, not a microscope,
a very good hand lens, looking at the hairs where
the grass leaf attaches to the stem. How about that
for identification. They're these little hairs or something called leaguals too.
I'm not going to nerd out on you. I'll stop that.
But anyway, trying to identify between's so many, many, many,

(01:09:26):
many many kinds of grass out there. Grass is out
there that it takes a little bit of time. Sometimes
to figure out exactly which one it is. But most
of the ones you're dealing with. If it's a sod
a lawn grass, that's easy. I can just look at
it and tell you without getting close. If it is
a weed, probably easy if you send me a good
sharp picture where I can see the grass itself and

(01:09:48):
its growth habit. If you you know the summertimes when
I'm always on my schedule, it's all about slow release fertilizers,
you know, fertilized now with something that's going to laugh
for a long time and carry all the way to fall.
That's simple, that's easy. You do it once you're done.
But there's times when you want to just give your
grass a little quick boost. And Sweet Green is an

(01:10:10):
organic plant food from Nitrofoss that does that. My neighbor
puts them out. I think I mentioned this before. He
puts them out this year, and we were talking across
the fence the other day and he was like, man,
that grass looks great. That stuff works. Yes, it does work.
Sweet Green is an eleven percent nitrogen organic, one of
the highest analyzes for an organic plant food. You're going

(01:10:31):
to find smells wonderful. That's part of the name sweet Grain,
so you can put it in the back of your car.
I jokingly say, when you buy a bag of it
and throw it in your car, you can want to
drive around loops six' ten an extra trip or two
before you go, home just to enjoy the. Smell, okay that's,
ridiculous but it makes a. Point put it, down water it,
in and watch you turn. Green don't overdo. It you,

(01:10:53):
know we don't want to create a lot of top
growth at the expensive root growth this time of. Year
but you got some areas that are struggling that need
a little. Boost this is a great way to give
them that. Boost you can do Sweet green all through
the summer if you, want and small applications over time
where you're kind of, work you, know kind of feeding
it in small amounts as you go. Through that's fine,

(01:11:14):
too however you will go about. It it's a great
product that really does work this time of the. Year
i'm Mainly i'll suggest it to somebody that needs to
give their grass a little quick. Boost Night foss products
are available at places you, know like Dand feed And.
Tombal you go TO Rcw, nursery you're going to find nitrofoss.
Products you go To Ace Hardware citi a Memorial, drive

(01:11:36):
you're going to find nitro foss products there as. Well
you are listening To, gardenline we're about to come to
the end of this. Hour next, Hour i'm going to
have a special guest come in From houston Powder coders
and we're going to talk about what is this thing
called powder? Coating how does it? WORK i think you're
going to find it interesting because most people have some

(01:11:59):
type of outdoor metal furniture or metal art or even
metal in you, know like a lamp post or something
like that that's outside that you want to make sure it,
lasts it doesn't, rust it doesn't corrode, away and it looks.
Good And Robin orlando From houston Powder coat is going

(01:12:20):
to be here and we're going to pick her brain
a little bit on some of this, process AND i
think you're going to find some very interesting. Things and
if those of you who love on the, coast there's
even a type of coating that they can do where
you're dealing with things like the salt spray and whatnot
that just eats metal. Alive so here we. Go that'll
be the next. Hour this, morning i was looking outside

(01:12:44):
And i've got some cardinals that love my. Feeder i've
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Excluder squirrels can't get. In they hate. It you will
not believe the language they use around that feeder because they.

Speaker 15 (01:13:32):
Ain't to do.

Speaker 10 (01:13:35):
All.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
Right music MEANS i gotta quit, talking but we'll be right.
Back we'll be right. Back just hang, around.

Speaker 16 (01:13:42):
Folks, see, hey welcome back to the garden.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Line we are in enjoying OUR i hope you. Are
this shows all about how to have a bountiful garden
and a beautiful, landscape how to have more fun in the.
Process how to make your outdoors more. Beautiful that's JUST i.

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LOVE i love being, outdoors and anything that makes it
more bearable more, BEAUTIFUL i think is a, great great.
Thing we deal with those fire ants, outside we deal
with the mosquitos, outside you, know those kind of things
we have to deal, With, well we have ways of managing.

Speaker 12 (01:14:32):
Them.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
All you hear about me talking about that on garden
line all the. Time it's not that difficult to. Do
by the, WAY i just wanted to mention the fact
that fire ants seem to be just or are just
an ongoing. Problem remember when you're going after, fireance you
got two. Options you can do an individual mound treatment

(01:14:56):
to kill the answer are there right, now or you
can do a bait treatment that reaches the whole area
and mounds you don't even see the bait. Gets AND
i would recommend bait treatments in. General there's a lot
of baits on the. Market they each have their own
way of, working specifically different chemicals that are in them

(01:15:17):
that do, this but they are super low in. Toxicity
and here is. Why if you had a very strong
insecticide that when littlelap picked up the granule to take it.
Home it killed. It, well they would never make it
to the mound to kill the queen and all.

Speaker 10 (01:15:29):
The rest of.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Them so these are very, low low low, doses and
they're put out at very, low low low, amounts like
one pound of bait per acre of ground your yard
probably an. Acre and so it doesn't take much at
all to do. This it's a granule, here a granule.
There don't dump them on the, mound spread them. Out
ants will be out looking for. Them if you don't

(01:15:50):
know if answer out or. Not by the, way they
tend to be out at the milder parts of the
day during, summertime the heat of the day not as,
much but they're. Out you can throw a potato, chip
anything oily protein and a tuna fish can, lid you,
know a couple of freedom on the. Ground if they're
out and, about they're going to find. It come back
fifty minutes. Later if their ants all over it time to.

(01:16:12):
TREAT i like to cut hot dogs up into little little,
sections like a quarter. Inch and you know those wireflags
that they, use like to mark an irrigation line or.
Something you get one of those and stick it on
the hot dog and stick it in the. Ground that,
way you can find your little hot dog out there
in the middle of the yard and you come back to,
it and, boy if their ants are out and about,
foraging they'll be all over that hot. Dog it's funny

(01:16:35):
how they line up. Too it's kind of. Cool. Anyway
that means it's time to. Bait bait, baits suppress the
mounds you don't even see. Yet so that is the
most environmentally sound way to do. It in, fact if
you think about, it with a bait type of an,
application you're going to be able to avoid mounds that

(01:17:00):
are not currently visible and. Present just doing individual mound
treatments only is playing whack a mole with fire. ANTS
a mound pops, up you treat, it but what you
don't see is a mound over there to the side
that is forming underground but hasn't if you will boiled
up to the surface sort, of you know with that
that pile of dirt coming up out of the. Ground,

(01:17:20):
uh and and so individual mound treatments have their. Place you,
know you need to do something. Fast you want to
get rid of. Them you want To you got a
party coming up tonight or tomorrow or it depends on
which product you use for. It you can get rid
of them, fast but the bait should be the foundation
of what you. Do bottom. Line that's a Bottom and
by the, way if you are one hundred percent ORGANIC

(01:17:41):
u there is a bait called come And Get it
By Fertile home that is spinosid and organic. Insecticide it's spinosid,
based spinosid. Based so there you. Go you even have
something for. That all, right let's head out To. Magnolia
now we're gonna go To magnolia and talk To. Ronnie good, Morning,

(01:18:01):
Running welcome to Garden.

Speaker 17 (01:18:03):
Line hey, buddy, HEY i sent you a question on
pre emergent and you'd ask IF i called, in maybe
the audience wanted to hear the.

Speaker 10 (01:18:11):
Answer getting prepared my ju Line august, planning you recommend, that?

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
Okay and oh, yeah and these are these are vegetable,
beds right, Running, yes, yeah you know there is a.
PRODUCT i don't know that it's labeled for. VEGETABLES i
have to check. IT i think it's called preen that
you shake it out of the container onto your flower,
beds and it is a pre emergent that's labeled for flower.

(01:18:40):
BEDS a lot of our lawn pre emergence are not
labeled for flower beds and. Gardens. Uh BUT i don't
do that in my vegetable. GARDEN i just you, KNOW
i work up the, SOIL i get my planting, ready
and THEN i molted really, heavily AND i just don't
find a pre. Emergent Plus i'm always moving soil, around digging,
up you, know planting, seeds putting in, transplants and so

(01:19:01):
that breaks that force, field that surface covering of the
pre emergent that prevents wheat seeds from coming. Through and
SO i just find THAT i would rather just use
mulches to do, that but you might, It, yeah, good
a good thick. Multch and when a weed comes up
and it's, young you, know just catching it. Early i'll

(01:19:21):
do some just a little quick hampulling here and. There
But i've GOT i have four beds right now that
are that are, open and they are like three feet
wide and twenty feet, long and there's probably four weeds
Because i've just kept it. Covered every TIME i mow
the grass and it's a little, TALL i take the
clippings over there and shake them on the soil surface
down those. Beds so When i'm ready to, PLAN i

(01:19:41):
can pull it back and go to. Town that's the best.
Way and that's what nature. Does nature drops organic matter
on the soil to block weed.

Speaker 13 (01:19:48):
Seeds And i'm as you, Said i'm changing and replanting
all the, time so it would disturb that pre.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
EMERGENT i see.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
That, okay, yeah yeah it. Does it's just not really
practical in a vegetable.

Speaker 15 (01:20:02):
Garden, okay, buddy thank, you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
All, right thanks for the. Question appreciate that very. Much
good to have you call. Yeap that is? IT i
just you, know in vegetable, fields, farmers, growers they use
they have pre emergence for what they. Do but they're
going in, there they're plowing the, field they're getting their
plants in and stuff and putting the pre emergent, down
but not a whole, lot not a whole, Lot and

(01:20:29):
in a vegetable, GARDEN i just don't think it's practical
to do. That the product that let's see what WAS i, oh,
yeah we were talking about the different ingredients and. Stuff
there are some ingredients that aren't so available on the
home garden shelf that would be, available you, know commercially

(01:20:51):
that people could use but, hey the WAY i look
at this is probably most of the GARDENING i do
you would costfi as organic. Gardening there are times WHEN
i need to do something, different AND i will there
are times for, Everything BUT i don't just treat things

(01:21:11):
organic or synthetic products WHEN i don't need. TO i
try to avoid. That it cost, money takes. TIME i
don't want to spend my saturdays mixing up smelly water
to spray on plants to kill. Bugs i'd rather enjoy
my garden out there at that. Time so there's a
lot of things we can do culturally to manage pass
the things we do to avoid pass resistant, varieties don't

(01:21:34):
do things that help increase disease and pest. Problems and
when it comes to a vegetable, garden my, gosh mulch
is so. Available you grow it at your. House by the,
WAY i don't know your grass clippings are mult your
leaves shredded and caught in a lawnmower bag or, mulch
AND i just stockpile those things and use them all.
Year and then there's wonderful store bat mulches. Too let's see,

(01:21:58):
here we are now going to go To conroe and
talk To. Jimmy, Hello, jimmy welcome to Garden.

Speaker 10 (01:22:03):
Line good, Morning thank.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
You how can we?

Speaker 18 (01:22:09):
Help how often can you put that nitro foss bug out?

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Out you shouldn't need to put it out?

Speaker 10 (01:22:18):
More go.

Speaker 18 (01:22:21):
Ahead my other question IS i have an eastern red
buck tree that's really dropping the. Leaves it's probably about
fifteen years. OLD i looked at it AND i took
it to some leaves and stuff over The County Extension,
agency and they really couldn't give me any kind of

(01:22:41):
answer on.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
IT i looked for. Boards all, Right, Jimmy, yeah let
me let. Me let me do. This i'm up against the.
Heartbreak hang, on we're gonna come back and answer those
two questions from. You Just i'm put you on hope
for a. Second we'll be right. Back, alrighty welcome back
to the Garden. Line we're gonna head back out on
the phone. Now talk To jimmy And. Conro, So, jimmy

(01:23:02):
you've got a you won't know how often can you
put up bug out max from night? Foss and you.
Can you shouldn't need to do it more than once
in a. Month it. WORKS i mean it goes down
there and lasts and does its. JOB i generally would
say once in a summer is all it should. Take
but if you needed to reapply it later, sometime that's.

(01:23:22):
Fine we have different times that we're. Applying for, example
maybe you're doing an early treatment for grubs and then
a month later you've got chinchbug showing, up and so
you have to do it again for, That and so
that's kind of how often you might apply. It as
far as your tree dropping, leaves red buds are not
super long lived, trees and they do have issues that come.

(01:23:45):
Up and AS i think you mentioned jerisels a few
years in, there and so it's not unusual for a hot, weather,
drought any kind of a root, damage things like that
to affect. It you see and. Browning if you see
browning on the edges and tip of the, leaf that's
a sign of a plumbing, problem meaning water is not

(01:24:08):
getting to the leaf and that could be due to
lack of water in the soil or something like a
borer blocking cutting the tubes that flow that water up
to the. Top it could be one of those. Things
can you describe what the leaves look like that you
were taken into the to the office for them to look.

Speaker 18 (01:24:27):
At, well they'll turn you, know, yellow and you, know
different shades of, yellow and then, EVENTUALLY i mean they
just dry up and they'll be.

Speaker 10 (01:24:40):
Brown, okay, Solved no sign of.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
That, yeah, well anything done around that redbud tree trenching
and you, know anything done over the soil or in
the soil or to the roots or that you can think.

Speaker 18 (01:25:01):
Of, NO i use that nitroposs what is that fifteen nine, ten,
yeah fifteen.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
Five huh the red bag The Imperial, YEAH i use. It,
yeah that's good.

Speaker 18 (01:25:18):
Our fall of their spreading flation. Program, yeah never, heard no, Problem, no, never, No,
no that's not a that's not the, problem that's for.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Sure but when is your red butd tree growing in
the turf where grass is grown up to the, trunk
or is it in a flower bed with. Mulch it's
in the, Turf, Okay sometimes as you mow around it
or weed eat around, it you nick the, bark and

(01:25:54):
when that wound, occurs you can get a disease that,
attacks as we call them, cankers that attack and kill
some of that. Tissue and that might have been a
factor in. THERE i don't know that it, is BUT
i always like to see a nice mulched area around.
Trees they're happier with. IT i would, say right, now
about all that's in your. Power if you've, done if

(01:26:16):
you've done the when was the last time you used
that nine, five, fifteen five to?

Speaker 18 (01:26:20):
Ten let's see it's probably around.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
May, okay, well you're good to go on. That that
tree doesn't need any more. Fertilizing just make sure it
doesn't lack for. Water that's what's within your. Power look
for sawdust or holes around the tree, anywhere AND i
think you've done that, already but keep keep an eye
out for. That and look for sunken spots on the

(01:26:46):
bark where maybe a canker has killed the bark underneath
and it's kind of sinking in a little. Bit there's
not a spray for. Those but we're just trying to
figure out how old did you say it? Was did
you say fifteen?

Speaker 10 (01:26:57):
Years be at least fifteen?

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
Years, okay, Yeah so it is a beautiful. TREE i
wish they lived more dependably, longer but sometimes they run into.
Problems but that's about ALL i can tell you without
actually seeing samples in my. Hand, Jimmy, WELL i appreciate you.
Day thank, you you too appreciate that very. Much let's

(01:27:22):
go To oakbury and talk To. Lee, Now, Hello, lee
welcome to Garden. Line Fine. SKIP i have a banana.

Speaker 19 (01:27:29):
Tree it's about fifteen sixteen inches. STALL i was wondering
what kind of soil WOULD i put it?

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
In are you putting it in a pot or are
you going to put it in the. GROUND i was
thinking about putting it in a. Pot which would do
you think it'd be? Better, well it'd be better in
the ground because it has access to a lot more
soil and moisture and. Nutrients you can grow a banana
and a. Pot you just have to be extra careful

(01:28:00):
to do small doses a fertilizer regularly and to water almost,
daily you, know keeping that thing in its best. Shape
the bigger the pot are, better the pot will. Better
thing that restricts its growth better in the. Ground if
you can find a kind of a protected, spot you,

(01:28:20):
know maybe on the south side of your house or
something under the eaves or near the eaves or, whatever
where it's a little protected from the coldest. Wind that,
way maybe you'll get one of those trunks to survive
through the winter and you can have a crop of
bananas the next. Year but typically what happens is they
freeze back to the ground and then they come back,
out but they don't they don't produce having been killed

(01:28:41):
to the. Ground so putting it in that kind of a,
location they need lots of. Sun the more, sun the, better.
Man if you're putting it in the, GROUND i would
get something Like Heirloom soil's got a veggie and herb
mix that would be perfect for mixing into the. Soil
there's also A rose soils that you see heirloom. Calls

(01:29:03):
there's rose and other flowering, plants but mix that into
the bed to get a good high organic matter, content
and then dig the hole and plant them in that.

Speaker 10 (01:29:13):
Bed, okay so you said heirloom.

Speaker 18 (01:29:17):
Soil.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
Yeah heirlooms a brand of products. Here they're sold by
the bag all over town and they have a number
of different. Mixes but there's one Called roses and other,
bloomers and there's one Called veggie And. Herb they also
have a fruit tree. Blend all of those are gonna
work fine for. BANANAS i.

Speaker 19 (01:29:38):
See, okay, okay, okay, okay all, right sah. Yeah let
me ask you one quick. QUESTION i have a. Child,
oh a cherry tree that's not producing. Anything what do
you think might be the? PROBLEM i HAD i put it. In, uh,

(01:30:02):
well my son put it in some guard buchanus plant food.

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
And you, said. Cherry it's a cherry. Cherry, yeah what
kind Of do you know what kind of cherry it?

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
Is?

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
Uh not off and it's still got the tag on.
It M, oh well that'd be that would be good to.
Know is it did they sell it to, you like
as a native cherry tree or did they sell? It
is it something that's for for growing fruit to? Eat
do you you?

Speaker 19 (01:30:34):
KNOW i don't know anything about. It i'll have to
call you another time on.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
It, yeah let's do. That, yeah why don't you Do
why don't you do? That i'd be happy to visit
with you about. It get the tag if you, Want
i'm going to put you on hold and uh and
if you, want my producer can give you an email
where you can send me a picture of the cherry
leaf close, up you, know like you hold it in your.
Hand take a picture of your. Phone. Uh that would
even be better for me to turn and which one

(01:31:01):
and that way we can get to the bottom of.
This but either, way thank you for the call and
look forward to visiting in the future with you on this.
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(01:31:44):
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(01:33:12):
got you covered we're gonna go now To houston to
talk To. Dudley, Hello, dudley welcome to Guard Oh, Dudley
i'm SORRY i made the mistake of taking your call
thirty seconds BEFORE i have to go to a hard.
Break hang on just a, second, Sir my. Apologies will
be right. Back you'll be first, up And joseph And
katie you'll be right After dudley when we come back
from this. Break just a reminder, again go to the

(01:33:34):
Website gardening With skip dot. Com that's where you find
my schedules and lots of other information on how to
have success in your. Gardens thank you for. Listening we'll
be right back, Alrighty good morning on a Lovely sunday.
Morning thanks for listening to The. Guardline good to have

(01:33:56):
you with us. Today if you're looking for a quality
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green bag The microlife six two. Four it's a three

(01:34:16):
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six two four green bag and you can do. IT
i would do it two or three times during the
course of the warm, season you, know not just. Once
but you could do it earlier in the. Summer you
can do a little later in the, summer carry on
in to that fall. Fertilization haven't done any, Fertilizing, well

(01:34:38):
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like it's done in. Nature, now if you're going to
do the green, BAG i would suggest grabbing some of
the humane. Plus that's a purple. Bag we call that

(01:34:59):
Concentrat it had compost in a. Bag humus is a
final decomposition stage of organic. Matter and when you put
humates into the soil onto the, soil they work their way.
In you begin to improve the structure of the. Soil
better structure means deeper, oxygenation it means better root. Growth
it means more microbial. Activity it means the lawn is

(01:35:21):
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(01:35:44):
com find out more about it and all the other
products that they. Carry let's now head out To, Katie
texas and we're going to talk To. Joseph, Hey, joseph
welcome to Garden.

Speaker 17 (01:35:55):
Line Hey, slip how are you?

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
Good how can we help the? Day So i'm trying.

Speaker 17 (01:36:04):
To get my loan to look like a golf course
and all, RIGHT i got the weeds taken care, of
BUT i have a bunch of grassy weed AND i
sent you pictures and it seems to be getting, worse

(01:36:24):
especially in this in the. SUMMERTIME i have neighbors that
their yards are very, bad AND i don't know if
it's coming from their yards or what to do about.

Speaker 1 (01:36:34):
IT i don't have A joseph. Email did it come
in a different, name do you? Think or how long
ago this was a this was last week that you sent?

Speaker 17 (01:36:46):
It, yeah last WEEK i sent it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
And then oh, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah let's see.
Here i'm Not i'm. Looking i'm trying to hunt down
The you say you have nuts edge crabgrass in.

Speaker 10 (01:37:00):
THERE i THINK i think.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
One here we. Go, okay let me let me open
these up and take a. Look, okay you put down
a barricade, product and that is a pre emergent and
you have to get it down before the weeds. Sprout,
Uh and a barricade will not work on nuts. Edge
nutsedge is coming from underground, tubers and so there's that's

(01:37:24):
a whole nother. Thing the other weed you sent me
a picture of is called. Doveweed doveweed it's almost a,
rubbery Little Saint augustine looking sort of weed that comes
up and it's a. Challenge it's a challenge to get
doveweed under. Control let's start with the. Nutsedge i'm gonna
make it easier and just say go to my Website

(01:37:47):
gardening With skip dot, com and there's a publication Called
nutsedge an In Depth, look and it will go into
the kinds of nutsedge we have and what you do
about them and how to do. It and the fast
answer is you use a product Like sedgehammer that's one
brand of the, ingredient but by publication gives you other,

(01:38:07):
brands and you do it every time a nutsedge plant
is up and has three to five, leaves and you
never let it up for. Air you do. Not if
you let it come up and have five leaves or
more and keep, growing it's making daughter plants and you
are probably have eight times the nut said you had
if you had treated it. Earlier so that's the quick.

(01:38:29):
Version but read that publication At gardening With skip dot.
Com it'll tell you what to do. Now the, doveweed
on the other, hand is it's a. Sleepyhead it doesn't
tend to come up until things really warm. Up so
whereas other weeds are, sprouting you, know let's, see you're,
in you're, In. Katie other weeds are sprouting kind of
maybe Late, february but mostly in Early march and Through,

(01:38:52):
march doveweed sleeps until About may sometime and then begins to,
sprout and so you you can go after it with pre.
Emergence BUT i don't think you're going to have success
on it with the barricade. ITSELF i have not tried
barricade on that particular. Weed but right now you can

(01:39:15):
use a product Called celsius on, it and it's very.
Effective it's not, cheap but you buy it in little
packets that make one, gallon so that makes it more,
economical and so a gallon goes a long way because
you don't have to drench the. Weed you just have
to get it wet with The celsius and using a,
spreader sticker something to help it not roll off those

(01:39:37):
slick dove weed leaves will make your control, better.

Speaker 17 (01:39:44):
All, right, Perfect, YEAH i notice it's worse in The
it seems to get worse when it's, rainy when it's.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
Wet, yeah it loves, yeah it loves, it and it
loves warm. Weather and, yeah it's a it's a it's
a problem. Weed but the INFORMATION i gave, you can
you can turn this. Around you can get under.

Speaker 10 (01:40:06):
Control all, right all, right thank, you thank, You.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
Yeah thanks a. LOT i APPRECIATE i appreciate your phone.
Call let's see. Here where are? We, okay we're going
to go to now go To debbie And. Alvin, Hello,
debbie welcome to garden. Line Hey, skip.

Speaker 3 (01:40:25):
Can you hear?

Speaker 10 (01:40:26):
Me, okay because, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 20 (01:40:30):
Yes, okay, Okay, sorry trying to control the phone in the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Car and all.

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
Right, right about.

Speaker 20 (01:40:39):
Fifteen minutes, AGO i sent you a few pictures of my.

Speaker 1 (01:40:43):
Grass i've got. Them i've got.

Speaker 20 (01:40:46):
Them two years ago we had the most beautiful, lawn
and now we have these big dead. Patches someone just
a few days ago told us they thought it was grub.
WORMS i don't think we've ever had to deal with that.
Before but then we have this invasion of some kind

(01:41:08):
of weed or other grass THAT i tried to send
you close up pictures.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
Of, yes, YES i got, THEM i got. Them so
here here's what's going. On something is killing Your Saint.
Augustine judging from the pattern of, IT i would lean
toward take all root rot in that. Area my publication
on my Website gardening With skip Dot com Called Skip's

(01:41:34):
Lawn Pest disease And Weed management schedule. Lists when you
treat for take all root rot on there and what
do you use for take all root? Rot SO i
would recommend you go get. That you can print it
out and it covers all the different insects and diseases
and past you just hang it up in the. Garage
you're ready to. Go, now what's happened is as The
Saint augustine has gotten weak and, struggled you've got two different.

(01:41:57):
Weeds let me see is it? TWO i see two
different weeds in. It one of them is bermuda grass
that's taking over and that's very hard to get rid.

Speaker 19 (01:42:06):
Of.

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Uh and it from a homeowner, standpoint there's not a
product you can go out the garden center and buy
that kills bermuda, grass but Not Saint. Augustine professional landscapers
have access to things that can do. It but you
kind of have to live with the two or you
kill everything and. Replant those are the two options for
for the home guard garden end of the. Market the

(01:42:31):
other weed that's in there is is a sedge or
kai linga type, weed and those are the ones that
have the little it's like almost like a little ball
on the end of a stalk with three leaves coming
out right underneath. It that that is a sedge or,
kilinga and those you can also. Control. Those they are

(01:42:54):
easier to deal, with but you got to you gotta
jump on, them and you gotta get busy to get that. Done.
NOW i, UH i was just talking about a product
called sedge, hammer you, know for the nuts edge with
the previous. Collar sedge hammer will suppress ki, linga but
it won't outright kill. It you have. To you have

(01:43:16):
to hit it a bunch of. Times but there is
a product called image for nut. Sedge there's more than
one thing called. Image. Image you want the one that
says image for. Nutsedge even though this is a nuts
edge and it will kill kylinga, species follow the label,
carefully but it's only going to kill that one type
of grassy looking stice actually not a. Grasp it looks like. Graft,

(01:43:39):
okay should SHOULD i dish that?

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
Up SHOULD i pull up all those?

Speaker 20 (01:43:45):
Weeds?

Speaker 1 (01:43:47):
Well you, can but it comes from seed and you're
probably not going to get it. All as far as the,
nut the bermuda, grass that's the one that kind of
gives it the bluish look as you look across your
lawn right in your. PHOTO. U SO i think there
the decision is between hiring somebody to come in or
biting the bullet and just killing. Everything making sure you

(01:44:09):
get all the. Bermuda dad's gonna take two or three
weeks of watching and spraying and then Put New Saint
augustine in if you want Pure Saint. Augustine i've run
out of time, Here, Debbie i'm gonna have to, Run
but good luck with. That don't forget gardening With skip dot.
Com all, right, folks will be right. Back, hey you're
listening to garden, line not, music but we do some

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Us glad to have you with. Us have you been
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(01:45:37):
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(01:46:21):
Gardens richmond dot. Com see What i'm talking. About by the,
way they're open today from ten to Four monday Through
saturday eight to. Five let's they've shortened those hours a
little bit for summer and to check. That sometimes our
garden centers will shorten up a little, bit BUT i
do know, this they'll be out there today and it
would be a good time to go. Visit let's head
out now to the. Phones we're going to go To

(01:46:42):
houston and talk To. Dudley, Now Hello, Dudley good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
Morning we've got some water oak. Trees one that was
planted about ninety days. Ago it's canes and Diam it's
about thirty foot. Tall it's been in the ground about ninety.
Days we've got some long what they call long horned
beetles on the. Tree how do you kill those?

Speaker 1 (01:47:10):
BEETLES i would get a product containing By fenthren and
spray the. Trunk it'll stick around for a while and
if they go crawling across it and, stuff you've got
that product on. There you probably need to do that
about once a month for. Now generally we don't spray
for long horned. Beetles you got a young tree and

(01:47:30):
you're obviously concerned about, it we could do that. Now
anything that's already laid an egg and the larvae has
chewed into the, tree that exterior spray is not going
to kill. It and you're kind of out of luck
on trying to kill. Those but the sprays of something
containing by friend there and it's fairly, persistent and you
get it on the. Bark make sure cover all the

(01:47:50):
bark all, areas so anywhere beetle crawls or on that,
surface it'll get to.

Speaker 5 (01:47:56):
Them and what is it? Called, Now i'm going to
a right down.

Speaker 1 (01:48:01):
What, Okay i'm Gonna i'm gonna spell it out by
Fen thren B I F E N t H R
I n by Fen. Thren that's an ingredient good and
it comes it comes in many many. Brands you, know

(01:48:21):
YOU i don't know what part Of houston you're. In
but you Got Ace hardware stores all over the place
that are gonna that are going to carry products that
contained by fen. Thrin just go To Ace Hardware texas
dot com and find your. Local very.

Speaker 5 (01:48:33):
GOOD i appreciate. It thank, You.

Speaker 1 (01:48:36):
Thank, you, sir appreciate to. Call good luck with. That
are you kidding? Me is this hour? OVER i demand to.
Recount there's no, way there's no way this hour is.
Over for crying out. Loud all, right, Well i'm gonna

(01:48:59):
go refail My i'll be. Back we got another hour Garden.
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me leave you with a nice thought for the. Day

(01:49:19):
it's a. QUOTE i love gardening quotes listens By Barbara.
Kingsolver whatever lofty things you might accomplish, today you will
do them only because you first ate something that grew
out of the. Dirt, hey welcome. Back it's glad to

(01:49:40):
have you with us on Garden line. Today thank you
for listening. In we're gonna have some fun if you'd
like to give me a call some point in this
in the. Morning we got about an hour left seven
one three two one two k t R. H we're
gonna go. Out we got some folks out there on
the phones right, now so we're gonna head straight out
to the phone's first thing and go To craig In.
Beaumont Hello, Craig welcome to garden. Line oh, good more

(01:50:04):
to skip. Moarning hey got a.

Speaker 21 (01:50:08):
Question i've got a plumb, clock uh a tree THAT
i planted about three months ago and to my, surprise
it produced six, plums but it since has recently started
just leave is shriveling?

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
Up AND i know we've been getting a lot of.

Speaker 12 (01:50:24):
RAIN i don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:50:24):
If that's the, calls but just a little. Concerned maybe
WHAT i might, Do, uh give me a little more
information on the shriveling.

Speaker 12 (01:50:34):
Up what are you, saying, uh just just to leave
themselves or are OR i, MEAN i don't, KNOW i
better say than shriveling? Up they're just are they are they?

Speaker 1 (01:50:45):
Welting are they getting? Yes are they getting? Dry or? Okay?
No so kind of a, Okay, uh that's a plumbing
problem and so water is having a problem somewhere between
the end of the tip of the root and getting
to that. Leaf that could mean a root. Rot it

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could mean soggy wet water that is like a clay,
soil a poor. Drainage roots can't get. Oxygen that causes.
Problems it could be a root. Rot it could be
a borer or a canker that's affecting the stem of
the plant somewhere along the. Way SO i would look for,
HOLES i would look for. SAWDUST i would look for,
sap gummy sap coming out of the plumb cut somewhere

(01:51:29):
on the. Branches those are indications of the sap is
an indication of a, Canker and any of those things
will cause the wilting because it just shuts down the
water supply to that. Leaf so it's gonna be something
along those. Lines are you noticing it pretty evenly around
the tree or is it just one branch? Primarily, no

(01:51:50):
it's the whole. Tree the whole tree not. Good, WELL
i don't know the. SETTING i don't know you're, oil you,
know if it's a low lying area or well drained or.
Whatever BUT i would dig down about six. Clay, okay
that could be part of. It how long has that

(01:52:10):
tree been in the ground three, Months, okay so it
still has a very confined root. System dig down around
the root system with a trowel about six inches deep
and feel the. Soil and if it is very, wet,
sticky that's probably the. Problem as far as what to
do about. It at this, point you could try taking

(01:52:32):
a spading fork and going straight in there and wiggling
a little bit to get some, oxygen some air down
into the root. System don't spade the soil, up but
just push it, down pull back on the, fork rock
it back and, forth and then pull it straight back.
Up and. SEE i think that's probably too, little too,
late but it's worth a. Try it's one thing that

(01:52:52):
might be in your. Power and then a longer term
you may need to be looking at how to use
subsurface drain that, area get some water away from. It
and the most drastic of measures would be when we
get into the wintertime Like, JANUARY, uh to dig the thing,
up redo a bed in a nice raised bed of

(01:53:14):
well drained soil mix and then reset it immediately while
that tree is. Dormant. Uh and and so if we
can keep it alive till then that would be what to.
Do you can't do that, now but it's gonna be
one of those. THINGS i think if you get looking,
close you may see some gummy sap around the base
or on the main branches and things that could be a. Canker, okay,

(01:53:34):
okay all, right thank you my. Friend sorry sorry to hear,
that but good luck on getting behind that for. Sure
i'm gonna go now to the woodlands and we're gonna
talk To. Ian. Hello, Ian welcome to Garden. Line good, Morning.

Speaker 2 (01:53:50):
JIP i appreciate you taking my. Call i'm calling about break.
Myrtle it's about two and a half three foot in,
diameter so it's a very old crape, myrtle and this
year the leaves did not come.

Speaker 3 (01:54:05):
Out i'm not gonna say.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Totally there are some leaves on the crape, myrtle but
mostly it kind of looks like a lot of the
limbs are. Dead i've pulled on them that they don't break.
Like they're dry and, brittle but there's very few leaves on.
It i've also.

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
Noticed some mushrooms growing at the base of the.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
Trunk i've knocked them, Off i've read up AND i,
Said i've seen something where it says that could be root.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
Rock But i'm trying to figure about WHAT i can
bring it, back HOW i can bring it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:38):
Back all, right, good let's, uh let's let's talk about.
This how long has it been in the ground more
than a?

Speaker 3 (01:54:45):
Year, oh, yes, Sir.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
I've been at this house for about fourteen, years and
It's i've always had. It and like, say it's a
very large crape, Myrtle so it's been in the ground for.

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
A long, time and it's always looked good up until just. Recently, yes,
sir is that?

Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
Correct, okay it's had, flowers, so, yes, sir it's looked.

Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
Fine, okay, hmmm well it could be a real right
the mushrooms they, were are you sure they were attached
to the wood of the trunk or the top of
the roots coming up right out of the trunk or
could they just have been in the soil around next
to the. Tree i'm pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Sure they were actually attached to the trunk of the
tree at the very.

Speaker 3 (01:55:29):
Base all?

Speaker 1 (01:55:31):
Right what color were? They and about how big was
the diameter of the mushroom.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
Caps they were kind.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
Of a reddish color and they were probably about maybe
two and a half three inches tall and maybe same
same diameter two and a half three.

Speaker 1 (01:55:46):
Inches, okay would you say maybe a honey it's SOMETHING i, Noticed,
Okay but would you say maybe a honey? Color would
that be the kind of red or something redd or light?

Speaker 3 (01:56:02):
Red?

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
Maybe?

Speaker 15 (01:56:04):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:56:05):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:56:07):
Okay, Well i'm just trying to kind of weed through
a lot of possibilities here on. This so if you're
seeing dead, limbs they're probably dead limbs at this. Point
they should have leafed out or for whatever, reason they.
Didn't if something's wrong in the, roots such as a root.
Rot there's one possibility called armillaria root rot also called

(01:56:27):
oak root, rot that creates clusters of little mushrooms the
size you, described but they're more kind of of a
reddish honey. COLOR i don't, think hearing you describe, it
that's what it. Is but if it's, that it's going
to kill the tree and there's no fixing. It it's just. Done,
now let's just say they're not associated necessarily with the.

(01:56:50):
Tree they just happen to be right there at the,
base working on some decomposing organic matter or. WHATNOT i
think cutting the crape myrtle back all the dead limbs
back is an. Option uh do you have some limbs
that are fully healthy and some of the trunks that
are fully dead or or what's the what is?

Speaker 5 (01:57:11):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:57:12):
LIKE i don't see a lot of limbs with flat
with leaves on.

Speaker 3 (01:57:19):
Them there's it's kind of through the tree. Itself, okay
land it Would it kind of caught me is that
there's a lot of.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
Them and just to kind of add, THERE i do
have a couple of pine trees kind of probably stealing
some of the. Light but they've been there for years as,
Well so just got to give you.

Speaker 1 (01:57:39):
That, Okay, well uh here here's the. Thing if it
if it is one of the bad things doing, it
that tree is are gone or, anyway so it's not
going to come. Back Uh so if it were, MINE
i think WHAT i would do is cut it back
to near the ground and you should get a lot
of base sprouting and select one under two or three

(01:58:00):
or whatever you want trunks that comes out of that
base sprout to rebuild a good healthy. Tree, now if
the root system is, dying you're not going to get
good re, sprouting and that's just a sign that it's just.
Declining cutting it back is not going to kill. It
the lack of any good root system and health is
they mean that it's already. Dying but a bunch of dead.

(01:58:21):
Limbs you can't live with. That and it sounds like
most of the top looks pretty. Bad SO i, would
if it were, mine give it one last shot by
cutting it back to near the ground and hopefully getting
some healthy news shoots that come out that we can
rebuild a tree out. Of if, not then then pull
it and go go back in with another one at some,
point all, right, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Okay, yes, sir thank you for the, information.

Speaker 1 (01:58:46):
You, bet thank you for the. Call we're going to
have to go to a break, Here adeline And. Clearlake
you'll be our first stop when we come back The
loco back guard. Line. Folks good to have you with. Us,
hey if you'd like to give me a call seven
one three two one two KT r eight seven one
three two and two k T R. H we are
now going to go out to Clear lake and visit With. Adeline, Hello,

(01:59:07):
Adeline welcome to.

Speaker 22 (01:59:08):
Garden, hello young, MAN i have a. QUESTION i have
fallen for a younger. Man he is in his. SEVENTIES
i am ninety. Two years, old AND i would like
to know what love FLOWER i could send him that
would be nice for this time of.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
Year uh, huh, well good for. You that is a
that is a nice thing to. Hear and do you
know there are so many great. FLOWERS i like flowers
that last a little, longer you, know and one of
those and you have to go to the florists and
ask him what it is you may not be familiar.
With it's Called, Freezia's. Friezia's frizias last a pretty good,

(01:59:53):
time freezers. Hunting and you get an arrangement of all
these flowers and seems to me like one of the
last ones to go was the freezias in. It and then,
Roses roses are always a good. Flower rose red roses
or the flower love and a. Guy, NOW i.

Speaker 22 (02:00:12):
Would that be appropriate to send you An oh, lord, No.

Speaker 1 (02:00:18):
I'm not An you're gonna have to Call you're gonna
have to call Deer abbey or hints To hellowy's or
something to get the Appropriate i'll say, this if you're
ninety something years old and you're gonna send flowers to somebody's,
havingy it's. Appropriate it's your, Business so do what you
want to. DO i think by this stage in, life
you should do what you want to.

Speaker 22 (02:00:36):
Do my friend, said the call you make, sure.

Speaker 1 (02:00:43):
Oh my, gosh oh my, gosh for crying out out
and tell. Him, okay, okay we're gonna we're gonna steer
this one a little different. Here but let me let
me just say. This if your friend and you have
been talking and he said to call, me you tell.
HIM i said that it is customary for a man
when he receives a flower for a woman to send

(02:01:04):
a dozen of that same flower. Back that's for good.
Line oh all, right, MONEY i like. That thank.

Speaker 22 (02:01:10):
You i'm planning on getting my group on. Baby thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:01:22):
A Hund we have got to cut that. Cliff i've
gotta have. That that is a great. ONE i love
callers On Garden. Line feel free to, call but. Listen
i'm not. Okay let me just. Okay i'm just gotta keep.
Moving sean In, hempstead welcome To Garden. LINE i don't
know if you were, listening but try to top that
if you. CAN i cannot talk. That, okay good, listen

(02:01:47):
what's your question To.

Speaker 8 (02:01:50):
We just built the house and we just had our
yards sought that last week With, bernita AND i wanted
to know IF i needed to be doing anything else
besides just.

Speaker 1 (02:02:00):
Water last WEEK i would, say you, know water and
be every other day by this time this week On,
bermuda just just don't let it get. Stressed it needs
to get the roots in the, ground and sod comes
with very little. Roots it's a thin layer of clay
soil with very little roots in, it so we try

(02:02:22):
to pamper it a little. Bit by the second, week,
though you're backing off a little, bit and then certainly
next week you are MORE i would wait a few
more weeks before you start to fertilize. It, probably let's
say four weeks after you you put the sod, down
begin to fertilize it with one of the fertilizers you
hear me talking about all the time here on Guarden.

(02:02:42):
LINE a good one right now would be the silver
bag From, nitrofoss which is Super Turf nitrofos Super. Turf that,
is it's got a gradual. Release so what it's gonna
do is it's gonna give your fertile your long little
bit of, fertilizer and then over, time over the next four.
Months it's going to keep fertilizing it and keep it,
growing but in a nice gradual. Way that grass are like,

(02:03:05):
GRASS i, guess and you could say is like us
in one, sense and that is we eat a little
bit every. Day you don't eat your home months of
food in one. Day and so it's good to put
a fertilizer down that gradually releases. It and super turf
the sober bag from night to. Foss so we'll do.
That you're going to find it to all kinds of
ace hardware. Stores you know that super turf is just
widely available here in the greater your.

Speaker 10 (02:03:26):
Scenario, okay, well thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:03:28):
Sir all, right, now the most important thing on Beautiful
bermuda grass lawn is regular. Mowing the shorter you cut,
it the more often you have to cut it if
you want it to look. Good if you let it
get tall and cut it way, back it looks. Horrible
so regular mowing at whatever your height is all, right, yall,
yes thanks a, Lot all, right thank, you take, care bye.

(02:03:50):
Bye all, right there you, Go Spring Creek Feed. CENTER
i don't know if you live up in The Magnolia tomball,
area but they are up there ON fm twenty, nine
seventy eight northeast Of, tomball really close just minutes away
From Graham parkway And highway to forty. Nine both they
carry the full line of the. Fertilizers like you KNOW

(02:04:10):
i mentioned. Nitroposts they carry The Nelson Turf star. Line
they carry The microlife line as. Well if you need
things to control, weeds either to prevent them or to
kill existing. Weeds if you need things to deal with
diseases and, pests there they got you covered. There you
just walk in the. Store first of, all your draw's
gonna drop because you look straight in front of you
and he's just. Gorgeous all kinds of things for the

(02:04:31):
home are. There off to the left is all your,
feeds including high quality pet food. Lines you know they Carry,
victor they Carre purina and. Others and then to the
right that's the garden. Spot that's my happy. Area right over,
there you're going to be greeted by friendly. Folks and
by the, way if you are military or a senior,
citizen they have discounts for you there At Spring Creek
feed again on In magnolia ON fm twenty nine seventy

(02:04:55):
Eight Spring Creek feed. Center can't miss, it big beautiful.
Building you are listening to Garden. Line if you'd like
to give me a phone call seven one three two
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one two k t R. H we'll be happy to
visit with you about the kinds of gardening questions that

(02:05:15):
you might. HAVE i have seemed to be receiving a
lot of questions on turf turning yellow, lately and it's
not just here on the, air but just in general
and driving around. Town i'm seeing that When Saint augustine,
grass especially as it's kind of the predominant turf we
deal with, here when it starts to turn. Yellow there

(02:05:37):
are a couple of things you might. Notice if you
get up, close you may see a grass blade and
the whole blade is just uniformly. Yellow that could be
due to a chemical. Damage it could be due to
some other types of causes that may just disease or
whatever just causing that. Yellowing when you see streaks of

(02:05:58):
green and yellow in the same and sometimes you have
to pick the blade and kind of hold up to
the sky and look at, it and you'll see those vertical.
Streaks that's a lack of. Iron but the question is
why is there a lack of. Iron maybe your soil
doesn't have. Iron that's the least likely cause that your
soil doesn't have. Iron maybe the iron is there but
it's not. Available that's a very likely. Cause high pH

(02:06:21):
and hygh phosphorus can cause iron to tie up and
not be available to the. Plant so that is why
we recommend. You you know you hear me talk about
the three one two four one two ratio. Fertilizers that
one in the middle that's. Phosphorus we don't need to
add a whole lot of. That and if you over the,
years as your pH goes, up as your phosphorus goes,

(02:06:43):
up you create a problem by by that and that
can cause a lack of iron in the. Plant when that,
happens we have to use a keylated iron to fix.
It and a keylated iron keylate comes from A latin
word meaning. Claw so imagine there's an iron, Molecule, like
make a fist with your left. Hand that's the iron.
Molecule now take your right hand and grab your. Fist

(02:07:05):
the keylate is the claw that right hand that's grabbed
onto the iron and it protects it in the soil
so the plant can get. It it lasts. Longer regular
iron ties up like the iron you already. Have it'll
green up for a, while but it didn't last. Long
kilada iron is a better way to, go and your
good garden centers and feed, stores places Like Southwest Fertilized

(02:07:25):
race hardware, starts they're gonna have keylated iron that you can. Use.
Now sometimes in the spring we get a little bit
of a yellowing and early green. Up when it's cool
and extra, wet we see a little bit of. That
the final cause is one you don't want me to,
say because it's it's the bad, one and that is
take all root. Rot it kills. Iron the grass plant
can only take up iron at the tips of its.

(02:07:46):
Roots so when take all kills, roots we see the
nutrient deficiency of iron deficiency because the grass is not
able to take up the iron even that's there because
of the loss of root system due to the. Disease
go to my. Schedule Skip's Pest disease And Weed management
schedule talks about take all on that, one and you

(02:08:07):
can see what to. Do but there's a little quick
kind of a summary of iron in the turf and
what you might be looking. For time for me take
a little break here in just a, bit BUT i
did want to get that out to. You by the,
way my, website gardening With skip dot Com gardening With
skip Dot com is where you will find all of these.

(02:08:28):
Things both of my schedules are. THERE i would recommend
you prun them, out stick them in the, garage put
them on the, refrigerator make a paper airplane with. It
whatever you want to. Do just know that it'll be.
Available you can carry it with you into the store
when you're, Going, yeah there was something per take all
and it's this thing right, here and you point at
it and it says a, zoxystrobin and then the person

(02:08:49):
in the store takes you over there and tells you
what to use for. It the same is true for
the other. Side the other side isn't just fertilizing, though
it's a lawn care. Schedule so that side is what
do you do to help the long grow fast and do.
Well so it has a row Across january To december
for synthetic, fertilizing a row across for organic, fertilizing a

(02:09:12):
row for core, aerrating a row for proper mowing that's very,
important a row for, watering and then all the products
at the bottom that you're going to need to do.
It and it's all there At gardening With skip dot,
com along with some other very helpful publications like controlling
woody weeds in the landscape like poison ivy and controlling nuts. Edge,

(02:09:33):
hey welcome. Back that's all This Brad paisley And Taylor
swift going on. TODAY i don't know good to hear. Though,
hey we're going to go out spring now and what
we were see if you get my collar back on,
HERE i just lost. Somebody but if you would like

(02:09:53):
to call in seven to one three two one two
kt R h seven to one three two one two
kt R. H Nitrophoss eagle is a fungicide that is a.
Granule you put it down on the ground and you
water it in and it is ingredients called. Michael it's
one of the systemic fungicides that there, is and so

(02:10:13):
it moves up into the grass plant and so when
gray leaf, spot which we've been having quite a bit
of this spring or, summer rather when it tries to
attack the, disease is there protecting the grass plant against.
Infection from the. Disease diseases are better prevented than. Cured
that's the bottom line in general on. Diseases so getting
ahead of it with that systemic into the grass helps

(02:10:35):
fight that. Disease now it also works on not just
gray leaf, spot but it works on it has some
effect on take all root rot as well and other
kinds of turf diseases that we deal. With so where
are you going to find a product called tell me,
again who is? Listening eagle eagle turf fungicide from Night?
Fuss where are you going to find? It where Night

(02:10:56):
fass is, sold which is all over the? Place Ace
Hard Red Sinkle ranch has it On Mason, road And
katie Aspos as up in The woodlands On kirkandall is
going to carry nito frost. Products Enchanted forest ON fm
twenty seven fifty nine down In. Richmond rosenberg carries nitrofost
products as, well so it's easy to. Find just, remember with,

(02:11:16):
diseases it's better to prevent them than to cure. Them
so if you wait until a plant is all disease,
ridden you, know even affective, products it's a little late
to get much benefit from. Them all, Right, Now we're
going to go back out to the phones and talk
To bonnie And. Spring Hello, bonnie welcome to garden.

Speaker 7 (02:11:33):
Line Hi, SKIP i sent. Pictures i'm hoping you got.
Them just now.

Speaker 1 (02:11:41):
Tell me what their pictures of my quaite.

Speaker 7 (02:11:43):
MYRTLE i was asking earlier today if they had white
spot AND i sent.

Speaker 1 (02:11:50):
Pictures, oh, YES i remember the. Call, yeah that is
not powdery, Mildew, bonnie there. Is there are some little
tiny spots that are little specs, there probably some kind
of a little fungus or bacterial spec but that's of
no concern at. All the white material you see in
it is almost it's like a, residue and a lot

(02:12:11):
of times something like that is from irrigation. Water some
of our irrigation water has calcium deposits or iron deposits
or other things in. It in the case of these,
though most of the leaves don't show, It SO i
don't know why you're seeing it on some leaves but not.
Others but if you look at the leaves that have,
it if you were to imagine spraying something on the
leaf and then with gravity it sort of rolls, downward

(02:12:33):
that's kind of the pattern that it has on. There
so it's something probably coming out of the irrigation, system
but nothing to be concerned. About, okay, no no need
to treat for. It your crepe myrtle looks, good overall.
Beautiful you don't happen to know the name of that,
variety do? You by any?

Speaker 7 (02:12:53):
Chance bashiam is WHEN i was, told Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:12:56):
Bashian, okay oh that's. RIGHT i remember now you had
called earlier about. Baschium, yes but, no don't worry about.
It and bashions just resistant, Anyway so we're good to.
GO a trim trimmt like you wanted the. ONE i
don't see the base of the tree in the, picture
but it looks like it may have grass growing up
close to. It if you can keep that grass, away.

(02:13:16):
Great myrtles have thin, bark and the lawnmower and the
weed eater nick the bark and then you start getting you,
know wounding in the bark or other. Issues so give
it a little bit of.

Speaker 7 (02:13:26):
Around should be, okay, okay oh, GOOD i appreciate.

Speaker 1 (02:13:31):
It, thanks you're in good shape, then all, right, yeah,
yeah thank you for the.

Speaker 7 (02:13:35):
Call, okay bye.

Speaker 1 (02:13:37):
Bye alrighty, there uh let's, see we're gonna go to
sugar land now and talk To. June Hello, June welcome
to Garden.

Speaker 5 (02:13:48):
Line.

Speaker 9 (02:13:49):
HI i have a lot of weeds in my flower
bed And i'm already using slage candles for the uh
red grass that's taking hair, off BUT i can't get
rid of the rest of the launchy, LEAVES i mean
WEEDS i have in. THERE i went to In Santa.
Park they told me to get weed beta. Ultra that

(02:14:12):
didn't do. Anything it produced more weeds, almost AND i
just don't know what BECAUSE i can't get rid of.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
Them. Yeah, well the weed beater alter didn't make them.
WORSE i don't know why it didn't work on the
broad leaf weeds it should. Have are your weeds mostly
grassy or are they not? Grasses other kinds of?

Speaker 9 (02:14:34):
Weeds, no it's other kind of, Weeds, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:14:40):
Okay so weeds are either coming from seed or their
perennial weeds that are coming up out of the ground
from underground plant parts that when you chop them, off
they just come back like you're nutsuch does. Right so
the weeds that are from seeds are, good, thick multched.
CONTINUALLY a weed seed has to have sunlight when it

(02:15:01):
tries to, sprout and a good thing mulch prevents. That
so that's the number one thing for weeds from. Seed,
now if you've got weeds that are able to come
back out of the ground and through them alt you
know they're existing strong grass weed plants on the, right
then to treat, Them, okay you're gonna need to treat
them with some kind of a broad leaf herbicide to

(02:15:22):
get rid of, those or hand dig them all. Out
how big is this flower?

Speaker 15 (02:15:26):
Bid it's not that.

Speaker 9 (02:15:29):
Big but my landscape guy that's pulling my weeds is
complaining about so many of, them AND i can't do
it BECAUSE I i just. CAN'T i can't do it
with my. Health but it's it's quite a, bit but
not a huge.

Speaker 15 (02:15:46):
YORED i, mean you, KNOW i don't have.

Speaker 9 (02:15:48):
A lot of flower. Beds, OKAY i don't know what
why they all of a sudden coming up this.

Speaker 1 (02:15:54):
Year, yeah let's real. Quick tell me what are the
main good plants you're? Grown and in those flower beds
the desirable.

Speaker 15 (02:16:03):
Come court high, biscuits rouse A sharon and casper and
oh what was the other? ONE i can't think of.

Speaker 1 (02:16:18):
It, Okay so So i'm hearing a lot of. Shrub
i'm hearing a lot of shrubs right, right, right, Okay
so you can carefully spray and not get it on the.
Shrubs just make sure the shrubs don't have sprouts at
the bottom that the spray gets. On so a broad
leaf post emergent weed killer with a spreader sticker to
make it stick to the leaves of the. Weeds when

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you go to, yeah you're you're there In Sugarland Southwest
fertilizers at the corner Of businet And. Runwick it's not
too far away from, you and you go in. There
i've got broad leaf weeds and a flower. BED i
need a spreader sticker to go with, it and they'll
put both of them in your. Hands and then when
they're sprayed with, that it, well it will kill, him
but it will also kill desirable broad leaf, plants so

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you cannot get it on the foliage of your good.
Plants if you want to do a weed, wiper if
you go to my website gardening with skip dot, com
a weed wiper can be. Built bob's also At Southwest.
Fertilizer he's also got the tool you make that with
and that you apply the herbicide to the sponge and
then you reach. Down you don't have to bend over there,

(02:17:26):
there you, know just drop your arm by your side
and it reaches all the way to the ground and
you squeeze with the sponge on those weed leaves and
it moves down in them and it kills, them and
that avoids the. Spray that avoids the accidental. Damage but
if you got a big bed full of tons of,
weeds it takes a long time to do that that.
Way BUT i think talk To bob about, it and he.
Can he. Can he can show you what to what to,

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have and it's not hard to make if you've got
a pint canning jar lid and a piece of kitchen
sponge and on on my publication online it's even what
size little, bolt just to buy a little bolt at
a at a at a hardware store and use that
to attach. It but, Anyway bob will show you all
that when you go To southwest.

Speaker 9 (02:18:08):
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Speaker 1 (02:18:13):
Skip My, no my my website is gardening With skip dot.
Com with gardening With skip dot. Com, yeah gardening With
skip dot. Com, Okay But bob probably has that thing
printed out because he sells the tool for it so all. Right,
hey thank You, june APPRECIATE i got a. Run good,
luck good luck getting ahead of those you bet be right, back.

(02:18:36):
Folks good to have you back with. Us thanks for
listening to the Guarden line. Today, hey we got one
little segment. Left we'll be off for a while. Now
so if you'd like to if you got a question
you'd like to, ask, well that'd be a good time
to call. In seven one three two one two k T.
R i probably got time for a couple more, calls

(02:18:56):
so seven one three two one two KT. R you
hear me give these adages all the, time like brown
stuff before green stuff and. Whatnot, well it's because there's
just some simple principles that help us have success with our.
Plants and one principle that is important to remember is

(02:19:18):
don't wait when you start to see a, problem find
out what it, is and act. Soon and here here's.
Why like a, disease you start to see a little
bit of a leaf spot on a, disease, right, well
you end up waiting and next thing you, know the
whole plant's got the spots on it and most of
your leaf area has been compromised or. Killed and, now,

(02:19:39):
yeah you could spread a fung, aside but to protect
what it's almost all gone. Right the same is true
with insect. Feeding you, know a few caterpillars here are.
There that's. Okay they're a little tiny things when they hatch.
Out but they get big and they get, hungry and
they molt and they get bigger and, fast and next
thing you. Know you, know if you, wait let's say
you have fall webworms in your pecan trees and you
got little web nest up. There now's the time to

(02:20:02):
get there and do something to stop. That if you're
going to do something about. It but if you wait
until the whole tree is full of webs and has no,
leaves well there's no need to. SPRAY i, mean you're.
Done and they often say that the best fertilizer is
the footprints of the. Gardener what that means is when
you're in your garden and you're checking things and taking

(02:20:23):
care of things and, whatnot that results in a really
nice garden of very happy. PLANTS i would also say
that the best pest and disease control is the footprints
of the. Gardener the sooners you get out, there the
sooner you check. IT i was in my garden the
other day looking at some, things AND i saw some
aphids on a. Leaf, NOW i could go in with

(02:20:44):
a squirt of insecticidal soap and just knock those out
with something so. SAFE i take baths and soap, right
they're very safe. PRODUCT i could knock it out real.
Early IF i wait until the plant leaves are twisting
up and there's a, sugary you do all over the,
leaves and city mold is growing and. Whatnot that's a
little late to do. Anything but you know WHAT i.

(02:21:05):
NOTICED i noticed some beneficial. INSECTS a lady beat a.
LARVA a lady beet mom had, said, oh there's layfid's
that's baby. Food meafood. Too by the, way this is
what she, Says and so she lays some eggs THERE
a larva hatches. Out Now i'm not gonna spray, anything
because even insecticidal soap will kill that lady beat.

Speaker 10 (02:21:23):
Larva that's.

Speaker 1 (02:21:24):
There but how DID i know? THAT i knew it
by getting out in the garden and checking. Periodically you,
know don't check it every. Month get out as often
as you. Can plus it's fun go out early in
the morning when it's. Cool it's fun being out in the.
Garden but the sooner you catch a, problem the better
off it. Is it's that is a life, principle isn't,
It whether it's, gardening or relationships or paying the bills or.

(02:21:46):
Whatever doing things on time saves you a lot of.
Pain dealing with things early on helps a. Lot so
there you. Go that was. Readvice but for, gardening act,
soon don't, wait and your options are and also from
a pest control, standpoint the, safest most organic. Options you
have full range of those early in a problem. Process

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as things get, older not so. Much for, EXAMPLE bt kills.
Caterpillars we know that works, Well but when a caterpillar
is older and it's slowed, down it's, eating and it's
getting ready to turn in a moth that will lay
a lot more caterpillar, eggs, well then you're not going
to get control WITH. Bt the younger the caterpillar, is
the more voraciously feeding young, CATERPILLARS bt wipes them. Out

(02:22:31):
as they get, older it's not as. Good another case
in point of the sooner you do, things the more
safe natural options you, have and the more effective it'll.
Be all, RIGHT i feel like i'm fussing at you.
THERE i don't mean it that, way but it is
an important thing to. Know maria In. Cyprus you're our
next collar on guarden. Line how can we help the?

Speaker 6 (02:22:52):
Day, hey good.

Speaker 23 (02:22:53):
MORNING i have got quite a few morning, glories AND
i Went day's hardware AND i did get a fertilizer
specific to flowering vines and it didn't. Work so what
CAN i do to get my morning glories to?

Speaker 1 (02:23:11):
Bloom, Well morning, Glories keeping the foliage healthy is the
most important. Thing they get spider. Mites and you look
at a green leaf that starts to look speckly whitish tan.
Color that's spider. Mites and so the more of the
leaf they take, out the less carbohydrates to make blooms
there will. Be so that's a prime thing on morning.

(02:23:34):
Glories good sunlight to shine on the. Leaves go, Ahead,
Yeah i'm.

Speaker 23 (02:23:40):
Sorry the leaves are. Healthy it has east south exposure.

Speaker 10 (02:23:50):
Sun they get pretty good.

Speaker 1 (02:23:52):
Sun have you grown them there? Before?

Speaker 5 (02:23:56):
NO i.

Speaker 6 (02:23:56):
Haven't.

Speaker 23 (02:23:58):
THERE i have a cedar fence and behind.

Speaker 9 (02:24:00):
It go.

Speaker 1 (02:24:03):
Ahead, uh, well but the plants look healthy to you
when you look at, Them yes they.

Speaker 23 (02:24:11):
Do, OKAY i would give Them, okay maybe that's.

Speaker 1 (02:24:16):
Right i'll let. THEM i think you're GONNA i think
you're gonna see. Results a good healthy plant getting decent
amount of sun which it sounds like yours, are it
should start to flower pretty. Soon so, uh just to
give them a little more. Time and, uh you have
to know which variety you planted OR i know that's
a long shot.

Speaker 23 (02:24:35):
Question, no BECAUSE i had SEVERAL i just grabbed and you.
ANYTHING i could find so different varieties out. There but
it's like a ten fifteen feet long, area AND i
threw fish in line up into the tree behind my,
fence and so they're they're growing very happily up the.

(02:24:56):
Tree BUT i just wanted to see something that's.

Speaker 1 (02:24:59):
Interesting, yeah WELL i think you'll GET i think you'll
get some. Blooms if they're getting, sunlight and if the
plants look, healthy they should. Bloom they should start. Blooming
don't over don't give them a bunch of nitrogen fertilizer
that moves the needle in the wrong way on getting
morning glories to. Bloom so just a little, bit but
not too. Much that's another thing that can cause vine

(02:25:19):
growth at the expense of bloom. Production so hopefully they'll
turn around, awesome make you happy like you were when
you bought. Them, yeah thank.

Speaker 23 (02:25:28):
YOU i listened to you all the, time and FINALLY
i needed some help with.

Speaker 3 (02:25:32):
This so you have a great.

Speaker 10 (02:25:33):
Day thank.

Speaker 1 (02:25:34):
You all, Right, maria you have a wonderful. Week take
care there you. Go all. RIGHT i think we're going
to call that the last call of the. Day it's
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