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Okay, folks, good morning, good morning on a good Saturday
morning for gardening. You are listening to Garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we got a lot to
talk about there. There is how long has it been
since we had weather like this to go outside and
get some stuff done? A long long time? Right, Well,
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it's here, you know. For weeks now, I've been saying,
don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. What
does that mean? Well, that means that I know, I
know it still says summer on the thermometer, but the
calendar says it's time to get going with fall gardening.
And boy do we ever need to be lots of
things to be doing in the garden and the landscape,
you know, right now, for example, our lawns, This is
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the time to get your fall fertilization in. Don't delay.
You know, every week you delay gives that long a
little less time to have those nutrients taken up and
get in the plant to do what they need to
do to get the lawn ready for cold weather and
also for coming out in spring. Now is the time
if you're going to do a pre emergent get it
out asap, get that in the grass and get it
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watered in. You gotta water those in so that they
go to the soil surface and stop weeds. Now's the
time if you are going to try to fight brown
patch or now they call it large patch. If you're
going to try to stop that, now's the time to
get a preventative down now. Once circles appear, they're going
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to be circles until weather warms up enough to regreen
the grass to grow back in those areas. But now's
the time for all three of those things in the lawn. Fortunately,
we don't have any insects we're dealing with right now
in the lawns. Triffect is enough, right, triffect of activities,
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But now the time to get in it. If you're
looking for a quality organic fertilizer for your lawn, well,
Microlife is the one you need to be taking a
really close look at. They got something called brown Patch
Microlife brown Patch. Now look, listening to that name of it,
you'd think, oh, this is a fungicide, it'stop brown pat.
No it's not. It is It is a fertilizer that
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is chock full of all kinds of microbes that help
populate the surfaces of plants. You know, there's a lot
of good microbes out there that help us have more
success with our gardening. They work in tandem with the
plant's root systems in some cases getting down in there.
There's others that just on the surface create kind of
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a hostile environment. Well, anyway, Microlife brown Patch is a
quality product. Get it down asap though. That's their brown bag.
Microlife brown Patch Microlife Fertilizer dot Com is the website
if you want to find out more about the many
of the products they produce, both trigranular fertilizers and liquid fertilizers,
and also where you can get them, which I'll just
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cut I'll make it easy for you. It's everywhere pretty
much garden centers, feed stores, hardware stores, you know, the
Southwest fertilit All those places carry microlife products. If you
are interested in giving me a call. This is a
call in show. By the way, I can sit here
and talk all day, but basically it's about what are
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your questions? What are you interested in? Well, give me
a call. Seven one three two one two k t
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t r H. I today am going to be going
out to the wild Bird's Unlimited store. This is the
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last appearance of the season. This is the last chance
for you to come out, bring me some samples, or
bring me some photos. Let's let's talk ey to I. Hey,
let's get our picture made too. I'd love to do that.
Uh This wild Birds is in Kingwood, Kingwood, Texas, and
so all of you over there east northeast. Actually, you
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know when we do these appearances, we have people from
the other side of town sometimes because they got a
burning question. Yeah, it just sounds like fun. Well it's fun.
I think it's fun. Uh So coming out to Wilbird's
in Kingwood, that's on Kingwood Drive, right behind Torches Tacos.
In fact, if you hit it out there, a little
early you could grab some really good food. I love torchies.
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I'm gonna be zipping in there about twelve noon and
I'll be there till two there for a couple of
hours at Wolbirds. While you're out there, we'll show you
all the cool stuff they got in the store. I
mean they are stocked up. They're ready to go on
feed and feeders and bird houses and every other kind
of thing you can imagine you'd want for your birds.
Got squirrels that are bugging bugging you by eating all
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your bird seed. Well they've got some bird seed that
let's just say it has a little pepper or two
in it that will make sure the squirrels don't get
into it. You know that stuff doesn't bother birds, but boy,
squirrels and me, I put hot pepper around my edges
in my mouth and h yeah, not good. Not good.
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If you have a question you would like to ask
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
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I was at RCW Nursery a while back visiting with them,
and just they've just got all kinds of good good
sales on right now. There's shrubs, for example. You need
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to listen up. This is a really good deal. Twenty
percent off their shrubs. And they have shrubs of all
kinds of textures, you know, from low growing junipers to
broad leafed, larger broad leaf types of shrubs. They've got
different colors, you know. We got the Laura peddlum or
Chinese witch hazel that's got that beautiful burgundy look and
the just hot pink shaggy flowers in the spring. Twenty
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percent off all of that, and they have a lot
of shrubs on hand too, So make sure and get
by there, get that done. Now is the time. Now
is the time when we need to be planting woody
ornamentals of your trees and shrubs, the most weeks possible
between planting and next summer's brutal heat. The longer they have,
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the more successful they are. And you want them. You
spend money on a shrub, you want it to be successful.
Give it the most time. Plant it now. OURCW Nurseries
dot com is our website. Our CW Nurseries. By the
way is the garden Center right where Tomball Parkway FM
two forty nine comes into belt Way eight right where
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Tomball Parkway comes into belt Way eight. So goodbye there.
Check them out. They are I like to refer to
them as they get it, got it nursery because if
they don't have it, they can probably find it. If
it's out there on the market, they probably find it
bring it in for you. So that's kind of a
little extra sort of nice too. Plus it's just fun
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to shop there. Well, it's time for me to go
to my first little break here. I'll be right back.
Here's the number if you'd like to get on the board.
One three two one two k t RH. We got
some gardening stuff to talk about today. In fact, we
could what do they say, We can talk about gardening
ntil the cows come home. Any of the cows don't
come home, we'll keep talking about gardening. There is a
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lot that is important when you want to have success.
You know, gardening is not something that you need to
fail at. It is not. You may think you have
a brown thumb. You don't. What you have is an
uninformed thumb. And all we have to do is inform
your thumb about some simple principles. What do plants want?
How do you make a plant happy? Once you know
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that it's easy. It is really and it's fun. I mean,
think about nature. Nature gardens all the time. Right, trees
come up in the forest and they growed, the giant,
beautiful things. And how did that happen. Nobody went out
there and you know, talk to them and did all
the magic wands and everything like that trying to get
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them to grow.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
No.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
They they just had what the wanted and that was
good soil. And there is nothing more important, no single
factor more important for garden success than the soil plants
live in their roots, the root system. You put plants
in a soil that's you know, a heavy compacted clay
and no oxygen, very slow water infiltration rates and all
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of that, and they're going to struggle. But you put
them in a soil that has been prepared and they're
going to thrive. And that's how it works, and that's
what Nature's weighs all about. By the way, Nature's Way
On Sherbrookes Circle up in Conra, you go up to
Interstate forty five right where fourteen eighty eight comes in
from Magnolia. You turn right instead and cross over the
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railroad tracks. That's Sherbrood's Brooks Circle First Street to come
to turn right. That's Nature's Way Resources. They've been doing
this for a very very long time. They know how
to make quality, accomplished products. And we're talking about soil
amendments and mulches that go on top of the soil.
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And by the way, their Fungal Friday sale is still
on twenty percent off fungal compost at Nature's Way twenty
percent off every Friday. That's a great opportunity right there.
Also out at Nature's Way they have something called Microlife Mondays.
It seems like every day something's going on out there.
Twenty percent off selected microlife products, twenty percent off selected
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microlife products August. See I mean, excuse me through December second.
It's going to go through December second. So you want
to make sure and get out there, grab your especially
those liquid products you know that Microlife makes. That's a
good time to get those. And finally they're year in
sale their nursery. You know, they have a really nice
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nursery out there, especially with native plants, but but some
non natives as well. They're having a sale fifty percent
off through December first. So we got you know, the
rest of this month and that's it. That excludes some
of their sun native sun perennials, but all the rest
of the stuff fifty percent off at Nature's Way. And
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while you're out there, grab some of their soils by
the bag. Take your truck or trailer out there and
get them to dump a bulk load in it, or
you can just call them and have them deliver it
to your house if you want to go that route.
Nature's Way resources. Whatever you do, fix your soil, amend
your soil, make it special, and you will have success
as a result of that. This year we just went through.
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I was out in my backyard. I have the house
we purchased a while back and moved into had three
cypress trees in it. Now. I have always appreciated cypress
from a distance. I just think they're beautiful. The little wispy,
feathery foliage that they have just real pretty. And down
in low swampy areas, you know, the knees coming up
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are kind of attractive. They're you know, kind of a
unique feature. Well, when you have a lawn and the
knees are coming up in the lawn, that is a
pain in the neck. And we dealt with that when
I put in a new yard this past April and
got all of those out of there and putting a
patio in right now, and already there's some knees sticking
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up where I'm about to lay these flat stones to
make a patio. So I had to dig a few
more of those things up. And so I kind of
have a love hate relationship with Cyprus. It's a great,
beautiful tree, very long lived, very resistant to rot and
things like that. It's a great tree, but it doesn't
like lawns, and I don't like it's knees coming up
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in my lawn. But anyway, that's part of the deal.
I need to get out there and do a little
bit of pruning on mine. I've got one that is
encroaching into an area of the branches where I need
them not to go, So we'll do that. But you know,
this year was so hard on trees. Good Night, we
had two major one hurricane and another major storm that
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knocked out power for a couple of weeks. Affordable Tree
Service can come out and prune your trees and help
get them in as strong condition as they can, and
this is pruning season. You know, if your situation is
like mine, you just need a little pruning here. Maybe
the branch is hanging too low. Now, maybe you have
a broken branch in a tree. A narrow angles, narrow
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branch angles, those are all no nos. Affordable tree can
come out and do that. Martin spoon Moore has been
doing this for a long time. And again we are
here primetime. You need to give him a call seven
to one three six nine nine two six sixty three.
Have him come out. Get on his schedule. Martin does
good job. Martin stays busy, but tell them you're a
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guardenline listener. Get on the schedule. And then sometime between
now and the end of this pruning season that we're
having a prime pruning season. You prune year round. He'll
come out and get that taken care of. He'll look
at the things over see what they need. Give you
some overall true health suggestions and observations. Uh, you know,
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what do you think is happening? Some of those storms
really loosened up some trees and caused them to be
a little bit leaning. Or maybe you see the grass
kind of lifting up. When the tree blows around, it
is kind of like moving and the root system is
kind of lifting up a little bit. That's a that's
a scary situation. You need to have him come out,
whatever it is, have him come out and look. Either
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he Martin or his wife Joe will answer the phone.
That's how it works an Affordable Tree. The website is
aff Tree Service dot com af F first three letters
and Affordable Tree Service dot Com and the phone number
one more time write this down seven one three six
nine nine two six six three. You're listening to Gardenline.
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I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help
you have a more beautiful landscape and more boundiful garden
and more fun in the process. Those are my goals
right there. That's what I would like to see happen
for you.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
And we try to gear the show. We're just that
if you'd like to give me a call. Seven one
three two one two ktr H seven one three two
one two k t R h.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
I was visiting with some of the folks at Enchented
Gardens next spring. I'm gonna early late winter early spring,
I'm going to be going out to in Chenna Gardens.
We were just talking about my talk on topics and
some things like that. Uh, and it just every time
I go out to in Chenna Gardens. It's like it's
like an adventure.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
And I say this before, but we have the best
garden centers of any major city that I've ever been
to here in the Houston area. And I really mean that, north, south, east, west, Central.
We have them everywhere, and they're showplaces to take people to.
In Chaney Gardens on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond,
they're out there on FM three fifty nine, three fifty nine,
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Real close, FM three fifty nine and FM seven twenty
three where they come together just north of Richmond, Katie
fullsher Side. It's one of those places you know, I
would say when you go, take some friends, take people
with you, because it is it's like you're going to
a botanical garden, outing kind of thing where you're just
re enjoying yourself, looking around seeing what they have. And yeah,
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it's not just like running down to the grocery store
by groceries and come home. This is an experience Katie
fullsher Side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Gift shop is
loaded up and beautiful if you want forcing bulbs for
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a gift, you know, Thanksgivings coming up. I'm not buying
a gift for whoever is the host of your Thanksgiving meal.
If it's yourself, buy the one you buy for yourself.
They have beautiful stuff for putting out in the garden,
you know, the blame the uh Carvestone kinds of structures
that you put out just for fun and whimsy. And
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they're loaded up on every plant for the season. They
always are loaded up for plants for the season. We're
going to now go to College Station, I believe, and
talk to Robert.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Hello, Robert, good morning.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
How are you doing morning?
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Well, I'm doing well. What's up with you?
Speaker 12 (17:22):
So?
Speaker 13 (17:23):
I have a couple of high business plants that I've
potted when I relocated to College Station a year ago.
I moved them from my house in Katie up to
College Station, and I've noticed here in the last month
or so, one of those plants has started getting browning,
maybe grayish browning on leads. Starts at the tip and
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works its way through the lead until it finally flakes
off and drops. I'm wondering what's causing that, If it's
insects or a fungus or watering issues.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Usually when something happens in the tips and margins of
the leaf, Robert, it's a plumbing problem, meaning that you
can get that from, you know, temporary drought. You can
get that from burning the roots with a salt based fertilizer.
An excessive amount of salt based fertilizer. Burning the roots
will do that. Something like that's going on because that's
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the last part of the leaf to get it's the
end of the pipeline to get water. And that's also
the end where fertilizer salts would build up. In that case,
is it all over the plant or just kind of
here and there.
Speaker 13 (18:34):
Here and there, and yeah, here and there. And of
the two plants, one seems to exhibit that more than
the other in separate pots.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yeah, separate pots. Maybe one pot doesn't drain as well
as the other. Maybe the soil volume is different, maybe
the amount of sunlight they get is different. I've got
some you're talking about tropical hibiscus, Yes, this is the
tropical Okay, Yeah, I've got some plants like that. And
you know, one plant seems to go into drought stress
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much faster than the other one, same soil too, by
the way, but that so it's it's kind of interesting,
but just kind of water them accordingly. I think they're okay.
You know, we're we're entering the season where there's zero
stress on them and we just start worrying about not
freezing them. And up in college station, you're going to
need to be able to roll that pot into your
garage and when it gets cold.
Speaker 13 (19:24):
Yeah, okay, all right, so I'll watch my.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
My watering.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
Maybe needs it's time to replant repot those two because
it is I think one pot is I think about it.
It's smaller than the other and to be an issue, okay.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Yeah, it could be. Yeah, it's not difficult to grow them.
And boy they're beautiful. Love those things. In fact, you
need if you're more. I got a one of the
Cajun Hibiscus cajun Is. They're a certain breeder that puts
together series called Cajun Hibiscus, and they are just so
beautiful and gaudy at the same time that I got
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to go get a different one next year because I've
enjoyed them so much. Well, man, thanks for the thanks
for the call, and good luck with you your hibiscus.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
Okay, thank you goodbye.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Yes sir, bye bye. Well I'm looking at the clock
and the clock says, skip quit talking. We got to
go to a break. I'll be right back. Here's the
phone number if you'd like to call in the meantime,
be first up seven one three two one two KTRH.
Welcome back to garden Line, folks. We are ready to go.
What what kind of questions do you have about gardening? Vegetables, flowers,
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fruit and plant some herbs. Got issues with the lawn?
Maybe a tree suggestion? No trees are I was telling
talking to my wife yesterday and mentioning the saying is
the best time to plant a tree was forty years ago?
The second best time is today? And isn't that true?
We were looking at a I know, watching something on TV,
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and I had the street lined with beautiful trees that
reached across the street and touched and it was just
this gosh, the scene was gorgeous. But somebody a long
time ago made a decision to put some little scrny
trees up and down that street, and boy did they
ever turn out. Right. When you're going to plant a tree,
you want to make sure and pick a species that
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wants to grow here. That is very important a species
that is gonna thrive in this area. And there are
a lot of different species out there, and sometimes there's
even varieties of the tree that do better. I mentioned
griping about I was griping about the cypress knees in
my yard earlier, and there are cypress that, like Montezuma
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cypress that really don't produce knees. There's even some strains
of the regular cypress that don't. But boy, I wish
I could go back in time and advise the people
that were planting those trees in my yard. I don't
know if they listened to it or not, but hey,
why don't you instead of putting those in, why don't
you put a different kind of cypress in and avoid knees.
That's what I'm talking about. There are types of red
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oaks that do super well here. If you've got a
soggy area, the nuthull red oak does better in poor
drainage than the shoe mard for example. Wood Those are
both great beautiful types of red oak, but each I'm
just saying that species and varieties matter, and think about that.
It's a long term investment or at least you hope
it is. Back in the nineteen sixties and seventies, people
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planted Arizona ashes and new neighborhoods all over the place.
They grew fast, and then they fell apart and by
the time you know, we got about oh about thirty
forty years down the line from that planting. Now you
drive through those neighborhoods, or then you drove through those
neighborhoods and it looked like hat racks. They'd been cut off.
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The trees had sometimes split in the storm. That's not
a not a good variety for strength of the branches.
And so here's this neighborhood that sho been and it's
tree prime, just gorgeous shade trees, and it was basically
going back to the drawing board. And so that was
poor choice for that time. Fortunately, we don't see as
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many Arizona ash around, but there are trees like that.
Pick a tree that's going to last a long time
and get better and better and better, and secondly, take
care of it. From the time the tree goes in
the ground. You need to be thinking about how do
I train this tree, how do I prien this tree,
or hiring somebody like Martin Spoon more affordable tree that
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knows how to do it, to come out and do
that for you. Because when you do this, pick the
right tree, put it in the right spot. Right spot
two means not ten feet from your house or a
curb or a sidewalk, because that has issues down the line,
and you take care of it, It's going to add
a lot of value to your home if you ever
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sell that home, but also if you stay in that
home to have that gorgeous, beautiful shaded area to enjoy.
So that's a little public service announcement, I guess for
the day. But trees are a long term investment. You know,
you plant it tomato, you don't liking, dig it up
and plan another one. With trees, this is a long
term investment, so think about that. I'm going to be
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heading out to the Wild Bird's Unlimited store in Kingwood,
Texas today. I'll be there from noon to two and
I'm going to be given away. Nelson Plant Food has
donated a lot of products, and I mean a lot.
So if you show up at if you show up
at Wildbird's, chances of you getting a really cool product,
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winning a row coal product, or very very high today.
I've got color Store on hand. I've got their vegetable
fertilizer on hand. I've got the fertilizer that is for
planting plants, the one that called Genesis. I've got two
different kinds of samples. Are a sample and also just
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a canister of that that I'm going to be giving
away as well. And there's another one. What is the
one I'm forgetting about. I'll think of it in a minute. Anyway,
I got like four different kinds of Nelson products and
a lot of them that I'm going to be given
away there. Nelson produces quality fertilizers they do. The color
Star is just like a standard. It's one of their
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most universal blends. It can be used on annuals and prins.
You can use it on flowering trees and shrubs too.
It works really well. You know, professionals have long been
using this, not just here in Texas, but many other states.
People have Nelson shipped in because they've learned. Color Star
is a super quality, quality product created over forty years
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ago by Dean Nelson. It's got five different sources of nitrogen.
It's got organic bone meal and blood meal, both organic
products to feed the soil and your plants and come
on out to Wallbirds Unlimited in Kingwood today. That's on
Kingwood Drive, right behind Torches Tacos, and I'll give you
some Nelson products that you can take home and try.
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All right, there you have it. Tell your friend bring
some friends with you too. By the way, it is
our last appearance of the year, last one, last call.
I was working on that back patio that I was
telling you about earlier, and I have a couple of
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golden retrievers and I never knew what golden retrieve. I
thought maybe they were bred to like retrieve ducks out
of a pond or something. I found out they're bread
to retrieve plants. I didn't know this, but when Ellie
was little, I went out and Ellie went with me
and we planted some I think it was Echinasia, four
inch pots purple cone flour in the back in a
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bed and we get them all done. I went inside,
I don't know good drink water. And when I walked
back out, there on my back step was Kenesha. Ellie
had brought it back to me. It's kind of like, hey, Skip,
I think you forgot this in the garden. So I
just wanted to bring it back, so you didn't. So anyway,
that's I always thought they were in the sporting group,
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the Golden Retrievers, but actually they're in the gardening group.
I don't know if you knew that that a CAC
has a gardening group as well. If you're looking for products,
you know, I've been talking about Nelson products. I've been
talking about the microlife products, been nitropized products, Medina products,
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Ace hardware stores all over the Houston area say stocked
up on whatever products you need. You know, when I
start talking about a fertilizer that I think would be
an excellent one for you, you're going to find it today.
There's forty stores in the Greater Houston area, actually more
than forty now in the Greater Houston area, and that's
where you get everything. It is still time to treat
for fire ants. Get that done before it cools off.
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Whenever the weather's mild, fire ants are out, they're out feeding.
In fact, we've got some rain the other day and
here comes some mounds up. I didn't even know they
were there. That's why you want to use a fire
ant bait. And i'd just done individual mound treatments. These
that I hadn't seen yet, I would have then had
to treat with individual mound treatments again. So that's called
whack a mole with fire ants. Go to ACE Hardware
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get a quality fire ant bait when you're picking up
your fertilizer or your turf disease control or your turf
insect control or your turf weed prevention. It's all there
at Acehardware dot com. I'm going to take a break
now and I will be back for our last segment
today if you'd like to be first up seven one
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three two one two K t R H. Welcome back
to guard Line. Welcome back. Glad to have you with us. Hey,
those of you out there in Kingwood, you got a
couple of great garden centers. You got Warrens and you
got Kingwood Garden Center. Now Warrens that we're in Southern Gardens.
That's the one on North Park Drive and Kingwood Gardens
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Centers on Stone Hollow. Both of them are open seven
days a week. They are They're just the kind of
place where you go when you want to find plants
that are gonna do well. Here where you're going to
find products and cool stuff. For example, right now, they've
got the Amarillis bulbs of forcing bulbs they're in stocking.
Plant them in the ground, or you can actually force
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them indoors. I think that's kind of cool. Plenty of
fall veggies Moms still still available. Whenever you go into Warren's,
make sure and enjoy their newsletter that if you sign
up for the newsletter, you will get special coupons and offers,
especially that they're monthly lawn care coupons. Those are that right,
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there's worth the price of admission, and the permission is
free forgetting the newsletter. Just you can go to the
website and sign up. You can call them and sign up,
and walk in the store and sign up. However you
want to go about it. Over at Kingwood Garden Center,
their gift shop is clearing out. They are having their
clearance event now on November or first through the eighth.
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It was twenty five percent off. Guess what we are
now the ninth through the fifteenth it's thirty percent off,
and next week there'll be forty. But don't wait because
that one thing you really want to get is not
going to be available anymore. So that is a really
good deal. They're clearing it out so they can restock
on some really nice stuff. You've got to make room
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for that. So things like if you haven't been to
the gift shop at Kingwock Garden Center, that's jewelry, there's
skincare products, they're scented sprays, flood See how just all
over the places, says kitchen stuff, floor mats, vases, glassware bowls,
picture framed sunglasses, hats, candles, oh wife, loaves, candles, light fixtures, bracelets, stationary.
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You see what I'm talking about. It It is a
great gift shop loaded with stuff, and right now is
your opportunity. This week it goes to thirty percent off
starting today. Take advantage of that and get out there
and check out that beautiful gift shop. We're going to
go to the phones now and talk to David and Tomball. Hello, David,
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Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
Good morning, sir. Hey, before I ask you my question,
you were talking about labrador retrievers. I had a chocolate
lab one time, and she was the best dog I
ever had.
Speaker 15 (31:20):
But she was.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
Always bringing me rewards and going out and finding me
stuff and trying to satisfy me with gifts.
Speaker 16 (31:27):
And one time she got.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Loose in the neighborhood.
Speaker 14 (31:30):
She got loose in the neighborhood and must have gone
into somebody's open garage and brought me back a pop
up toaster.
Speaker 17 (31:37):
And I just I don't know.
Speaker 11 (31:39):
I even I.
Speaker 14 (31:40):
Tried to find the neighbor to see who was missing
one and it worked.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
He's just crazy.
Speaker 14 (31:45):
But anyway, she was always giving me rewards like that too.
But my question is, you were talking about putting down
the pre emergence right now. If I put it down now,
am I also going to be putting it down and
like early March or February as well.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
February yes, uh huh, yeah you are, And but get it.
If you're doing it now, get it done soon because
those we've had that rain, a little bit of cool temperatures,
and those seeds are gonna be sprouting, so yeah, that
it'll last. It'll take you all the way through the winter.
But then the February application is going to be for
your spring weeds, your warm season weeds. The application now
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is for cool season weeds.
Speaker 14 (32:27):
It's the same stuff though, like barricade.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
Yes, sir, barricade for both.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Okay, that's all I had.
Speaker 15 (32:35):
Have a good day man.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
All right, thank you, appreciate appreciate your call very much.
We're gonna now head over to Sean and Katie. Hey, Seawan,
welcome to garden.
Speaker 15 (32:47):
Hey, good morning Skip.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I had a similar question as a previous caller, so
I had my yardists full of what did that call
slander after weed? Is it too late to put down
that carmel load by Nelson?
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Well, okay, first of all, it's not too late to
put on carbo load by Nelson. That's a pre emergent
and a fertilizer. It works really, really well. You just
have to water it in, get the nutrients and the
product into the ground after you do it. However, it
will not control slender aster by putting it down. Now.
The slen aster has already got its little blooms on it.
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It's setting seed. And as much as you don't want
to hear this, the best thing you can do right
now is pull it up. It all comes out of
one tap root in the ground. You may have one
the size of the steerweel in your car. It's coming
out of one place. When the soil is moist, it
pulls pretty easily. Because you will be producing thousands of seeds.
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If you leave that in the lawn now for next year,
if you wanted to do an application, let's say maybe
March for slender aster, maybe a second one later into
the summer. That's when it's sprouting, and that's where your
carbo loade kind of fertilizers or whatever kind of pre
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emergent would be used for that.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Okay, And my second question is I bought a Microlife
compost in the bag and also the multipurpose fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Would that help?
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Would it hard to put it down nail or I mean,
or just a pre merging be fine?
Speaker 8 (34:32):
It would be fine. The concentrated compost in the bag
that's humous. That is like if you take compost all
the way past compost to its final stage, it's a
great soil building product. It's not like you're adding a nutrient.
It's like you're putting stuff into the soil that makes
the soil the structure of it better and just enhances
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mycrobio content and things like that. So that anytimes a
good time to do the humans the the other fertilizers
by Microlife. Now would be a time to do your
fall fertilizing with the one called brown patch. It's it's
a brown bag and it's designed for applying this time
of year.
Speaker 11 (35:13):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Thank you, have a great day.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
You've bet Thank you. I appreciate the appreciate the call
very much. I Uh you heard me talk about Quality
Home Products of Texas. You know, Quality makes the automatic
or sells the automatic standby generator by Generats, high quality,
high quality generator. It sits outside your house, power goes off,
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it comes on. You have to run out there, gass
it up and pull a pull chain to get the
thing producing energy. It does it automatically, just fires up.
Quality is hiring licensed electricians and plumbers right now. And
you know there's all these storms. I mean, everybody wants
a generator now because we learned our lesson that Hey,
this happens here. Welcome to the greater Houston, Aario. And
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it doesn't just have to be hurricane in the summer.
I mean it could be it could be winter storms.
You know where we lose our power. That's happened here
before as well. But to be an employee of Quality
and one of their licensed electricians and plumbers, you know Quality,
all these guys are in house for them, they don't.
They don't go out and hire somebody, you know, secondarily
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to come in and work on your stuff. They have
their own competitive pay, comprehensive insurances, four one K matching
retirement plans, holiday pay, and time off. Uh and just
it's just a reputable, stable organization. Everybody I've ever talked
to a quality I can just tell they loved working there.
Go to Quality t X dot com. Quality t X
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dot com, and that's where you can apply online. We're
going to head now to Joe Joannie, Joanne, excuse me,
Joanne on Lake Conroe. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 18 (36:56):
I bought a couple of plants yesterday at the store,
grocery store, and I probably mistakenly bought three of the
wrong ones. I like Turk's cap, but I've only seen
it in the ground just growing natively. And I bought
a single plant. I don't know what I'm going to
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do with it, but yeah, I put it in a
pot for now, and I didn't know how that would
work out, if I should put it in the ground
or just try to start it in the pot for
a while.
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Well, I mean you could put it in the pot,
but it'll do just fine in the ground. It's a
very tough perennial here.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
My ground is one.
Speaker 18 (37:42):
Yeah, and do they spread?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
They gradually spread outward over time, so occasionally you know
you're gonna probably go out to that out and dig
it up and say, okay, that's far enough. But it's
not like bermuda grass. It's taken over the flower better thing.
It's not that kind of spreader.
Speaker 18 (38:02):
And I thought, a my ground isn't the greatest, so
I'll probably have to add some good soil to it.
But I also bought a plant. I've never heard it
called pepperonia for some reason. And what do you know
about that plant?
Speaker 8 (38:18):
It's a houseplant. It needs quite a bit of light
to do its best. Just be careful not to overwater it.
The pepperonia will do just fine. But if you can
get a bag, or if you can get you a
bag or two a compost and throw it down on
the ground, mix it in a little bit, you can
go ahead and plant that turk's cap. And it's a
nice plant. It has big red flower. Most of the
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types are red. There's a pink and a white type
that they're not.
Speaker 19 (38:43):
Looking all right.
Speaker 11 (38:46):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
Love, thanks, thanks, bye bye. Well I already hear music.
So when we come back, George and David, you are
our first two up. Not gonna be able to catch
your call before us our ends, but if you can
hang around, well we'll put your first up when we
come back. You're listening to garden Line our phone number
seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
It's Essy gas Trim. Just watch him as well.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
As so many birthdays.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
To sup Brasy gas lea not a sun glass, sun beam.
Speaker 20 (39:49):
And of.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Good morning, Good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning. Get
outside and get a little gardening done today. Boy is
the weather ever great? I mean it just this. I
love these temperatures. I spent yesterday all day out work
and in the garden. By the way, my muscles are
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talking to me about that today. They were not real
happy with the amount of exertion I was putting out,
but I sure was happy with the results. I got
a lot of things cleaned up and done. Let's head
straight out to the to the phones this hour. We're
going to go to George in Jersey Village. Hey, George,
welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19 (40:33):
Thank you sched, Good morning to you too. And this
is my wife's question. She's, well, we got about a
million get goes in the garden and they come inside
the house and they scare the poop out of her.
So she wonders, is that kind of a can we
do something about it or not? I don't care.
Speaker 11 (40:50):
I like them.
Speaker 19 (40:51):
And the next thing, thank you very much, go ahead, no,
go ahead, thank you very much for the via that
you talked me into getting. Man, it is beautiful now.
But okay, how about the.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Well, the geckos, you know, I mean, when someone's afraid
of something, it's hard to talk them out of it.
I just those geckos are eating insects, and so I
had them running around the house. You know, I'm just
saying they are a beneficial creature. Now we're going to
quit trying to convince people to leave geckos in their
house after that statement. But they're getting in under the
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door probably, and so it's kind of checked the thresholds.
If you do, you know, tighten up that underneath the
door crack, and that is probably one of the best
ways to keep them out of there. That's the main
way they're getting in, they're just looking for a warm
place to be. They know what's coming. And so I
had I had a couple of my house the other day,
and my Golden Retrievers found them and it was game on.
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They didn't know what to do with them, but they
were very excited about the fact that they were there.
So yeah, all right, thank you, by bye, you bet
you bet, thank you. You take care, appreciate your call.
Plants for all seasons? Is that garden center you have
been to before if you live anywhere up in that direction.
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They are off two forty nine, right where Luetta comes
into two forty nine. So if you were going north,
let's say we're heading from Houston to Humble and you
exited Lueta, it wo just cross over Luetta and they're
right there on the right hand side. Full service garden
center BET around since nineteen seventy three, and that history
and time has really made them a solid horticultural fixture
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in that whole region. People all know about plants for
all seasons. They know when you go in there, you're
going to find really cool plants. They know when you
go in there, you're going to find lawn and garden
experts that can direct, advise, diagnose, suggest and help you
have success. You can take pictures and samples in there
if you want to do that. Plants four All Seasons
(42:57):
dot Com is the website, the phone number two eight
one three seven six one six four six. When you
swing by, check out all the new holiday cactus that
are in. Oh my, they are primetime looking and beautiful.
And another plant I don't talk about much here on
guarden Line, but the adenium the desert rose, Oh my
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goodness here are so gorgeous. I just can't just I
don't know a plant that has as many different colors
of beautiful blooms as desert rose. And it's easy, easy
to grow. They got them at Plants for All Seats.
Go by there and check it out, just just north
of Luetta on the Feeder Road FM two forty nine
Tomboll Parkway. We're going to go now to David out
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in a tess Casita. Hey David, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21 (43:43):
Good morning, how are you? Thanks for taking my call.
I sent you an email day yesterday with a couple
of pictures of some fungus or mushrooms growing in my yard.
I want to try and get rid.
Speaker 11 (43:53):
But I have a dog that I.
Speaker 21 (43:55):
Send more time outside than inside, so I don't want
to use a whole bunch of poison. I've tried some
of the I guess you could call them over the
counter fungus control methods liquid, and I think I even
try to dry it one one time, and I thought
I had them under control, but then they just started
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coming back. I don't know, like I said, if it's
actually a mushroom or if it's just some other kind
of fungus. Because it doesn't grow stem and cap like
your normal mushrooms. It almost looks like growing across the ground.
Speaker 8 (44:33):
Yeah, those are. There are a bazillion different species of
decomposer fungi out there. It looks like did you do
a top dressing on the lawn. No.
Speaker 11 (44:44):
No, it's like.
Speaker 8 (44:46):
That's just your soil.
Speaker 21 (44:48):
Everyone's while. If I empty pot, I'll throw some dirt
on the ground.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
Well, in the fall, when we get a little rain,
get a little break in the temperatures, all kinds of
mushrooms pop up all over the landscape. And basically all
they're doing is they're just turning organic matter back into soil.
That's what they do. And so they can pop out
of the mulch on top of your garden beds, they
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can pop out of the grass. This is a is
a particular kind of fungus. Of course, I'm not a mycologist.
I can't tell you the name of all these fungi.
But this is not a disease of plants, and they
will come and go pretty rapidly. Actually, I would not
be worried about them. I don't think you're gonna do
anything trying to spray them with a funge a side
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at all. I don't think that'll help it.
Speaker 21 (45:36):
Okay, Okay, So yeah, either let them go or dig
them up if I don't.
Speaker 8 (45:40):
Like them, If you don't like them, yeah, dig them up,
or get a rate and kind of get under there
and try to pull them out. But when they're all
entangled with the Saint Augustine runners and leaves, it's it's
a little hard to get them out of there. But yeah,
you could do that. But like I said, they just
something that comes and goes this time of the year
a lot.
Speaker 21 (45:58):
Okay. And then the other I sent you. In the
corner of my garden, we have a Japanese maple. I
think it's a Japanese maple, and the previous owners of
the house had elephant ears and other large leaf plants
just surrounding it, and it took over the corner, and
the sprinklers wouldn't get out onto the grass, and all
kinds of others, and my wife doesn't like them. So
I dug them all up, and I thought I got
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the roots, and I thought I got all the tubers
that were down on the ground as best I could
without cutting a whole bunch of the tree's roots. And
I laid down some garden fabric, and I know what
Randy used to say about that, but I did it anyway,
and covered it up with new molts. And the elephant
ears have found their way through that fabric and are
growing back up. I'd like to get rid of them
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without damaging my tree. And once again, I have a dog.
Well to spend a lot of time in.
Speaker 8 (46:48):
The yard right well, when you're out there digging around,
usually you have to redig elephant ears two or three
times just to get them all because the little piece
left in the ground will pop back up. But you
could go back to that with a fabric that's going
to be hard to do. You might try a product wiping,
a product that contains triclop here t ri I c
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l O P y r onto the leaves of those plants,
or just a good broad leaf weed control product that
you would use in your lawn. If you go to
my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you will see
something called herbicides for skip'sweed wiper, and those herbicides are
grouped by the kind of plants you're going after. So
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either something you're spraying for like poison ivy on my
list there, or something you're spraying for lawn weeds on
my list there, they're all listed out. I would do that,
just make sure and maybe put a little bit of
a surfactin in there. Spreader it's called spreader sticker. Wherever
you buy your product, get some spreader sticker and that
makes it stick to those leaves and not not just
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run right off.
Speaker 21 (47:56):
Okay, and I'm in the I would Hunter would be
the best place to go.
Speaker 8 (48:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, Kingwoo Garden Center, Warren Southern Gardens out there.
You got a number of places out there to go.
And look, you know, got some great stores out there
as well, So you guys are rich with opportunities of
places to get this kind of stuff.
Speaker 21 (48:18):
Okay, all right, well I appreciate you, all right, thanks
for the information.
Speaker 8 (48:22):
You bet and thank you for the call. All right,
appreciate that. Take care, bye bye. All right, folks, got
to run to a break. When we come back, we
will be talking to Roger and Mark. All right, Welcome
back to garden Line on a great day for gardening.
I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help
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you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
and more fun in the process. If someone asked me
the other day, is it okay to put up azamite?
Speaker 20 (48:53):
Now?
Speaker 8 (48:53):
The answer is yes, it is. And here's the deal.
Azmite is not the kind of fertilizer that makes your
takeoff growing like that's nitrogen. That's the three big numbers
on the bag kind of fertilizer. Azmite is a trace
mineral supplement. When you put on asimite, what you're doing
is you are investing in the bank account of your
soil for trace minerals, so that when the grass needs
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a trace mineral, it's there and it's available and it'll
need it. There are a number of different minerals that
are needed in very tiny amounts, but they're essential and
so as it's trying to grow, it's going to have
to draw on though, So create that bank account in
your soil with as mite azimite texas dot com. You
can do it at the same day you're fertilizing. Just
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don't put fertilizer and asimite in the same hopper because
the particle size is different. So just do the fertilizer,
then do the as mite, or do the asmite anytime
of the year that you choose to do that. That's
just fine. I'm going to go now to Tumball, Texas
and talk to Roger. Hey, Roger, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 11 (49:55):
How you doing today. I'm calling to see what kind
of I had a treat taken out and I have
a big void and want to put some kind of
grass in there. I have some Saint Augustine, but I
have a cedar tree. It's kind of cut up high,
you know, it's up high, but something will grow under
there fairly. Well.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
Okay, Well, if you've got Saint Augustine, you could just
stay with that unless you want a mixture of different
kinds of grasses in your launch. Saint Augustine is the
most shade tolerant we've got. That's the thing. It's a
very good grass for low light level areas, and so
you could go that route. There's there's some zoysias that
have significant shade tolerance as well.
Speaker 11 (50:39):
Any particular type on the Saint Augustine.
Speaker 8 (50:45):
Oh gosh. There are a lot of good varieties out there,
and each one has its pros and cons. If you,
you know, wherever you go and purchase your grasses, they're
going to have certain varieties that they carry. Different different
grass producers grow certain varieties. They don't try to grow
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everything there is out there. Uh, And again, each one
has its pros and cons. But there's there is one
called Cobalt that just came out of A and M
recently that is very very drought resilient. It is a
very deep rooted, tough Saint Augustine for drought resilience, very
good for that. It also has pretty good shade tolerance too.
Speaker 11 (51:26):
Okay, thank you very much. Any nurseries carry those or
just have to call around to see who.
Speaker 8 (51:33):
Yeah, you just have to call around. So there, you know,
there's soil there. Nurseries that carry sod, some sod h
Then there's soil purveyors around the area. You know that
that's that's what they do, is they carry sod. I
know there's a King Ranch has a bunch of stores
in the Greater Houston area, And so you just go
to where you are. I think I'd do better probably
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Roger if you if you said, yeah, I went this
place and they had this and this and this, what
do you think is about? So I could comment on those,
that'd be a little leisure. But there's dozens of options
out there.
Speaker 11 (52:06):
Thank you very much, free time, have a good one,
all right, you.
Speaker 8 (52:09):
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have spent as much for that bag, but you spent
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That is a waste of money. Wibirds Unlimited as quality feeds,
and if you are looking for something for this time
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of the year, I would say use their unlimited Wildbirds
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This Wabird's Unlimited Winter Super Blend is an excellent one.
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If you want to see some of it, come see
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head out now to Clear Lake, Texas and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 22 (54:11):
After the hurricane here this summer, I lost a couple
of oak trees, and they took the rest of them
out and ground the stumps, and they also filled in
those areas with some good soil and also put some
sod on top of it. So what I did is
(54:33):
I watered it, you know, twice. I've put little pieces
of sod before, but this was about a palletteful there
in the backyard, so it was a large area, and
so I watered it twice a day for at least
a couple of weeks, especially in October, we weren't getting
any rain and everything looked fine. And then after you know,
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about two weeks, I backed off and just did it
once a day conservatively, And then we started getting some
rain there towards the end of October, so I just
let you know, nature water it. It was getting some
nice steady rain back there.
Speaker 5 (55:12):
Well.
Speaker 22 (55:13):
Now last week it happened pretty fast that whole area
now is brown it looks, and it's also on the
outlying area.
Speaker 3 (55:23):
So it's not just the new saw it. So I
don't know if it's some kind of fungus or something.
I don't know what to do now.
Speaker 8 (55:31):
It must be it must be a rhizoctonia, which is
what a large patch. I'm sorry, brown patches. I've seen
a lot of browning out of areas. You know. Sometimes
with brown patch you get these nice round circles that
are real distinct, and sometimes it's kind of general areas
just sort of browning out with the amount of water
(55:52):
you gave it for the amount of time you watered it.
It's not a lack of water that's causing this, that's
for sure. Okay, Okay, I think now the more you water,
the more brown patch becomes a problem. So it's possible
that actually, you know that you've kind of got that
really going in there now and you just got to
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let it run its course. You can put a fungicide
on it, but once the circles appear, they're there. And
if you had like one circle and you want to
prevent more of them in the yard, I would say
use use a product like nitrofoss eagle to stop it
where it is. And there's nothing wrong with you in that.
It's just that eagle can't turn dead grass green. And
so if anything, i'd put out the eagle, get it,
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get it applied, water it in, believe it or not.
You water that one in because the roots take it
up and stop any additional damage that might be occurring.
Speaker 22 (56:48):
Well, these are huge areas, you know, and I was
afraid to put anything. I was afraid to put anything
on it. I really didn't want to put any fertilizer
or any of that stuff on that new grass, right right.
Speaker 8 (57:01):
Okay, Well, i'll tell you what. I'm going to put
you on hold, and I want you to won't you
send me some pictures of it?
Speaker 4 (57:09):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (57:09):
My producer will give you my email address. Take some
pictures of different angles. Maybe get something up close to
so I can kind of see up close what this
is looking like. And if I see anything else in it,
I'll advise you on that. Okay, Mark, Oh that'll be
great because I'll run out today, is all right? Get
any products that you suggest, Okay, okay, I'll hold on,
thank you, thank thank you. Just hang on and the
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manuel pick that up for you. Buchan As Native Plants
is a premier garden center down in the Heights. You've
probably been there before, you know what I'm talking about.
They always have a wonderful stock of natives, but they
have so much more right now. You ought to see
their gift shop. Gift shops for all kinds of holiday decor.
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Oh my gosh, it's beautiful for trimming the tree. Are
you looking for maybe a holiday plant for example, Thanksgiving
or Christmas type cactus? Those holiday cacti make a good
gift if you're going to visit somebody. They got the
cyclomen that are just gorgeous in colors of white and
pink and red and salmon, and they're just beautiful, beautiful
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color that can take cool. Not a hard heart freeze,
but they can take considerable amount of cool down there
at Buchanans. They also have camellias, which are a cool
season plant. We got the Japonicas and the zankas. One
of them gives you some December bloom when i'm's going
to bloom more in January. But just gorgeous plants all
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at Buchanans. They are on Eleventh Street in the Heights
East eleventh Street, Buchanansplants dot Com. We're going to go
to a break here. When we come back, Fred and Kingwood,
you will be our first up. Just one more reminder
Today after the show twelve noon to two pm, i'llbe
at the Wabbirds Unlimited, Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, right behind
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torches Tacos. Come on out, bring some samples, let's talk,
let's figure things out, and let's help you have a
more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape in the process. Hey,
welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back to garden I'm
glad to have you with us today. I wanted to
talk to you about the Nitrofoss Texas three step. You've
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heard me mention it a number of times. Basically what
it is. It's a fertilizer, a weed prevention and a
disease prevention. Okay. The fertilizer is Nitrofoss Fall Special designed
for fall. The sooner you get it down the better,
so the grass plants can take it up for it
gets too cold, and it will make them more hearty.
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Because when you provide a good load of potassium the
third number on the bag with some nitrogen, the first
number on the bag. That helps the plants as they
capture sunlight and make carbohydrates to be heartier and they
come out stronger in the spring. Also second is the barricade.
The weed prevention doesn't kill weeds that are there. It
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prevents weed seeds from germinating. And our cool season weeds
are germinating right now now. Nitropus barricade is applied and
watered in. The third is Nitropus eagle turf fungicide, again
applied and watered in. The roots take it up and
then when brown patch tries to attack the plant, it's
got the eagle turf fungicide in it. Think of it
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like you would take an antibiotic, and then if you
got some disease that's infecting you, that antibiotic fights it off. Right,
That's how that eagle turf fungicide works. It gets in
the plant and it protects the plant that way. Three
steps Nitropos falls special wind a riser, Nitrofus barricade pre
emergent control for the cool season weeds that are germinating now,
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and Nitropus eagle turf fungicide which helps protect against brown
patch and some that take all root Rod as well.
You're gonna find this down in Baytown at Fishers Hardware,
as well as the Fishers in Mount Bellevue, Pasadena and
Laporte and the East Hardware up there at Single Ranch
Arborgate up in Tombaugh in Shades of Texas, Southeast Houston
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on Genoa Red Bluff. We're going to go now up
to Kingwood and talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, Welcome to
garden Line.
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Good morning, Skip. We've had stumps ground before, and this
particular one I had ground.
Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Earlier this week.
Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
There was hardly any big chips. They were all very tiny,
about the size of my little finger or fingernail. And
I've been trying to separate the dirt from the chips
and that's an almost impossible task. Is there anything that
I can pour into the hole in various layers to
help those chips decompose faster?
Speaker 8 (01:01:55):
Well, they are in contact with some microbes and they
will decompose. Wood chips have a lot of carbon, and
so a little boost of nitrogen with it will help
a little bit. So you might want to get you,
you know, a nitrogen fertilizer. A fertilizer has quite a
bit of nitrogen in it. Which is not what we're
putting on our yards right now, the high nitrogens. But
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for this chip, sprinkling a little bit on there and
watered in, you know, and then I would say, late winter,
sprinkle a little bit more on there and water and
scratch it in. And as that nitrogen gets down there,
the combination with the microbes and little extra nitrogen will
speed that decomposition some.
Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
So a high nitrogen granule fertilizer.
Speaker 8 (01:02:39):
Yeah, you can do granule, you could do a liquid.
It doesn't matter how you go about it. It's a
little less expensive to use a granule that compared to
a liquid.
Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
All right, that sounds great. I'll do that, thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (01:02:52):
Yeah, yeah, not a problem at all. In fact, Nelson
Fertilizers has something called bruce Is that would be a
good one for use on that. It's it's uh, it's
going to release over time, but give you some good
immediate release too.
Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
Thank you, very good.
Speaker 12 (01:03:10):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
All right, thank you, you bet, Thank you. Appreciate your call.
We are now going to go to Matt Matt in
the NASA area. Hey Matt, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Nice kid.
Speaker 15 (01:03:24):
Just an update. I'm actually dying Corpus. Now I'm always
there over at NASA.
Speaker 8 (01:03:29):
The last time I called you, you're in Corpus.
Speaker 15 (01:03:32):
Okay, Yeah, I have two questions. The first one is
I have a chili tippee plant that's about three people,
and about two weeks ago, it looked like the landscapers
might have come and like user weed eater and like
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chopped part of the side of it. All there's like
little raw snu where it was like they were just
torn off, so I thought it was maybe them, and
I looked at it. About another week later, I noticed
it had like some little mites and stuff crawling on it.
So I bought some uh to any uh it's dicidal
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soap organic and I gred it really good at that
and then that was about four or five days and
now it's basically I took some picture though I couldn't
find the place to send them to you, but it's
basically lost all the leaves off of it, all the
stems and everything else that's healthy. And then around some
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of the areas where it was broken off, the leaves
like turned brown, so it has well.
Speaker 8 (01:04:50):
Yeah, I would I would hold off on the anymore spraying.
You know, we're getting into the cool season here, and
so just you know, if you've grown those before, if
we have a real hard for you, you should want
to protect them a little bit. But I would I
think it'll be okay. It's it could be a number
of things. It could be an excessive amount of water.
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Sometimes when you mix soap and sexidal soap too strong,
you can burn leaves with that. But there's not a
pest of chili pekins. That's something you need to really
spray for. In general, they're they're a pretty tough plant,
so I would just give it some time.
Speaker 15 (01:05:29):
It look like it's like chewed through the stem. Though
it was like I mean, it was like a I
took a weed eater to the side of it, but
I think it was wherever it was was eating.
Speaker 8 (01:05:39):
I tell you what, I'll put you. I'm gonna put
you on hold. My producer will give you an email
and send me some pictures. I want to see the
whole bush, and I want to see up close and
sharp focus those areas you're talking about. And if I
see anything else, I'll let you know.
Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Okay.
Speaker 15 (01:05:55):
And I had a second question also, okay, real quick,
what do you recommend for like Stickerberr or Sandsburg control
over the large arty.
Speaker 8 (01:06:08):
Nitroposs makes a product called Barricade that works well for that,
and you're going to want to apply it down in
the corpus area. You want to get it out in
I would say early February so that you you don't
have any graspers germinating too early on it. Then you
probably want to go about sixty ninety days later and
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apply it again to continue that protection. Barricade by Nitrophoss, Yes,
barricade is is their pre emergent and it grasper is
a warm season germinator. It germinates a little bit later
than some things like crabgrass do. But you just need
that second application because when the first wears off, the
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graspers can still germinate if you don't. Okay, yeah, I
do it early, and I would do it again. I'm
a sixty to ninety days later. All right, Matt, thank you,
and I'll put you on hold a man you'll pick
it up and he'll give you an email address that
you can send that to. Well, let's see here. I
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wanted to tell you about landscapers Pride a couple of
products that they have. They've They've got something called healthy
Soil compost. It's made from one locally sourced green materials.
They decompose it down into a super high quality compost
material that is good for any kind of soil, sand
or clay, whatever you've got. Quality compost like healthy soil
compost will benefit that soil and therefore make a better
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root zone for the plants. Therefore better plants, a better production.
Mushroom compost is made from clean local mushroom substrate. The
mushroom compost is a very potent kind of compost and
I've used it for year decades. Actually, mushroom compost is
really good for giving plants an extra boost even beyond
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on what a regular composts can do. You can go
to Landscaperspride dot com find out more about all their products.
They've got a couple dozen plus products that they produce,
from soil amendments to mulches, widely available in the Houston area.
Go to Landscaperspride dot com you can find out exactly
where near you you can find their products. We're going
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to go to a break now and I'll be right
back with some more calls. We're going to talk to
Marie and Jeff and Jeff got two Jeffs waiting in line. Hey,
welcome back to the garden line. Glad you're listening today.
We've got a lot to talk about. There's plenty of
things to be doing out in the garden and the landscape.
If you are west of Tombol or Tumble area and
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toward the west out twenty nine to twenty is D
and D Feed and Supply. D and D Feed and
Supply has been around since nineteen eighty nine and the
place just keeps getting better. They added onto the building
a little while back, and the stock that they have
of everything you need for your lawn in your garden
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is outstanding.
Speaker 12 (01:09:03):
You know.
Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
Of course it's a feed store. You're going to find
lots of different quality feeds for livestock and pets whatnot.
For example, dog food they got Origin Diamond, Victor Star Pro,
real high quality types of things. You're going to find
nitrofoss there. You're going to find bonnit Microlife, Turf Star, Medina,
Airloom soils, Nilson, plant Food, Landscapers, Pride. They do carry
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flats of vegetables and seeds and things like that, and
other kinds of plants seasonally out there out front as
you drive by, three miles west of two forty nine
on twenty nine twenty. The Dover family has been operating
this since it first opened up in nineteen eighty nine,
and it just again, it just keeps getting better. If
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you hear me talk about, oh, you got this past
or weed or disease problem, and you need to go
get such and such, they're going to have it there
at D and D Feed. We love our feed stores
on Guardline and D and D Feed just west of
Combol on twenty nine twenty. It's about three miles west
of two forty nine. Go check them out. Let's see here.
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We are now going to go to Jeff in Plantersville.
Hey Jeff, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16 (01:10:17):
Hey Skip, how are you doing.
Speaker 8 (01:10:20):
I'm good.
Speaker 16 (01:10:20):
I just wanted to ask you about I've got this
weed called barning or stinging nettle.
Speaker 21 (01:10:26):
I don't know if you're okay with it, but I am.
Speaker 16 (01:10:30):
It's terrible when I go out to feed my horses
in the morning and I go out there and open
toe shoes or sandals, I'm in trouble because that.
Speaker 8 (01:10:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, fils you about.
Speaker 16 (01:10:42):
I just want to know what.
Speaker 8 (01:10:45):
It's believe it or not. Even though the leaves are
fine textured, it's it's a type of broad leaf weed.
It's not a grass, it's.
Speaker 12 (01:10:51):
Not a salt, it's a broad leaf.
Speaker 8 (01:10:53):
So anything you would put out to control broad leaf
weeds in your lawn would control that. I would say,
in the spring, go online to my gardening schedules that
are at gardening with skip dot com. Look at the
lawn pest Disease and Weed Management schedule. Put down the
barricade pre emergent in the spring, apply that in. Let
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me see where your planters be. Yeah, you're going to
apply that in early to mid February for that weed,
and then you could do it a little bit later.
But just to be safe, you may need to do
a second application thirty or sixcuse me sixty to ninety
days later and rodded in. If you get some of
that that escapes the pre emergent, you can use a
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post emergent, a TRIMEC type product or some post emergent
broadly weed control to control it. But do it early
on when the plants are young, before they're already setting
their seeds and things like that. Yeah, okay, and get
you a pair of closed toad shoes.
Speaker 16 (01:11:55):
Yeah, it's terrible. Another thing I was gonna tell you
a couple of years ago, told me about I was
trying to grow me some live oak trees and I'm
out in planter's feeling there is they're not just indigenous
to that area. But whatever you told me worked perfect.
Speaker 21 (01:12:09):
I've got that live oak in there and it's.
Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
Twenty booths all now, so oh my gosh.
Speaker 20 (01:12:14):
Okay, yeah, well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (01:12:16):
Glad to hear that word. You bet you take care.
Appreciate your call very much. The folks at Medina have
a number of quality products. You know, Medina products have
been around for a very long time and everybody knows
about you know, Medina's has to grow six twelve six
six T six is a plant food, got high phosphorus
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that middle number, and it's excellent for transplanting plants. So
it's got Medina soil activator in it. It stimulates biological activity.
It's got humid humic acid excuse me, which improves the
soil structure, improves nutrient uptake. As a result of that,
seaweed extracts are in it as well. It's really quite
the concoction medina has to grow six well six. Get
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you a watering can, low measuring cup. Follow the label.
You're not going to burn with it, by the way,
it's not a salt based kind of product that you
burn your plants with. You can use it for folier application,
but i'd put it in a watering can. Anything you
plant in the ground, drench it in well with. Medina
has to grow six twelve six and that will help
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the roots get off to a good start. That's why
that hiphosphorus is in there. By the way, help it
get off to a good start and you can have
success fallest planting season. The best planting season. Medina has
to grow six twelve six is something you need to
look at. We're going to go now to Marie. Hello, Marie,
welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23 (01:13:43):
Thank you, Good morning, Good morning, good morning. My question
is can you fertilize your lawn while treating it for
nut fledge? We had it, we had a really bad
case of nut fledge weed, and we applied some Ortho
nuts sledge this insecticide on Wednesday. And now I'm wondering
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if I can go ahead and fertilize now or should
I wait?
Speaker 8 (01:14:13):
No, you can't you can do that. I'm not familiar
with what's in that ortho nuts sedge probably.
Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
Okay, it was specifically it said nuts sledge.
Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
On the bag, so okay, well, I'm gonna see if
I can find out what's in it. Make sure this
is gonna be one that is gonna work pretty well
for you if I can get it to tell me
what's in the label. Here we go, Okay, self enter zone. Yeah,
you may get pretty good results with it. If you don't,
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next time you go out shopping, get something that has
a lot that's called sedge hammer or sedge ender. Sedge
hammer or sedge ender. And if you go to my
website Gardening with skip Com, I have two publications on
nuts edge. If you'll read the longer one, it'll help
you understand how that weed works. Uh, and it's you.
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You don't ever let nutsedge be in your yard until
it has more than five leaves on the nut sedge,
meaning you want to when it gets up and gets
some leaves so you can put spram spram because if
you let it set, it'll create eight daughter plants and
you may kill mama. But now you've got eight times
as much because you let you let it send too long.
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So read that publication. It's really really helpful. And also
on there it'll give you a list of the products
I'm talking about that I think will do their best
on that.
Speaker 23 (01:15:42):
Okay, we have a lot of nut sledge. We had
our yards resought it this summer and with the rain
and YadA, YadA YadA, the grass never really.
Speaker 8 (01:15:55):
So all I got you, I got you what what
what part of the area listening area for you will
Woodland's okay? All right, well just just get that, get
that go online. It's all free my stuff up there,
and just read about it, learn about it, get the names.
In next spring when the nutsedge comes back, that's the
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time to go after one of those products. I got
to run, Marie, but thank you for the calling. Good
luck getting ahead of that little monster.
Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
You know.
Speaker 8 (01:16:24):
Southwest Fertilizer is the kind of place that you find everything.
You know, I'm naming these products for Nutsedge. Bob's got
all of that. And then it's been around since nineteen
fifty five on corner Bissonet and Renwick. Corner Bissinet and Renwick,
So it's real easy. It's easy to get to and
they always have everything that you need. That That is
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just how it is a Southwest Fertilizer. If they don't
have it, you don't need it. Ninety foot wall of
tools now the largest selection in the city of products
to control weeds, insects, and diseases. The largest section of fertilizers,
and the largest section of organic products. Did you know
that if you're an organic gardener, Southwest Fertilizer gives you
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the biggest range of organic options you got. Hey, it's
time done with mowing season coming up here, Get that
mower blade, sharpen. They can do that there Southwest Fertilizer.
If you got any small engine repair you need to do,
they got a shop in the back that can do
that as well. Southwest Fertilizer dot com is a website
and the phone number seven one three six six six
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seventeen forty four. Well, I hear the music coming here.
Jeff out in Spring Branch. We worked hard at getting
to you, but didn't quite make it this hour. You
will be our first up if you can hang around
when we come back into the next hour. I want
to remind you I'm going to be a Kingwood wild
Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive right behind Torchies Tacos. I'll
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be there today from twelve noon until two pm. Come by.
I want to show you this Kingwood is the awesome
Kingwoodwall birds store there really really cool. Bring me samples
of plants. You know we've been talking about weeds and
describing and things. Throw it all in the bag, bring
it in. We'll identify it, We'll tell you what to do.
This is ida eye time with me rather than a
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quick call on the phone. Here we can sit and
we can talk. We can look at things, uh and
just really do a good job diagnosing, identifying whatever you need. Plus,
I just love to meet folks that listen to garden Line.
Bring your camera so we can get a picture made.
Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
To Welcome to kat r H garden Line with Scamp Richard.
Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
It's trim.
Speaker 18 (01:18:42):
Just watch him as.
Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
So many things to spot taking not a sign s
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starting out.
Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Glad to
have you with us this morning. Thanks for being a
garden Line listener. My goal is for you to have
more success in your garden. I want gardening to be fun.
It should be fun. You can't fail at gardening. You're
going to give up. You give up. That's failing. If
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you just stick with it, keep learning, keep listening, keep
calling with your questions, we will just help turn that
brown thumb green. Because there is no such a thing
as a brown thumb, by the way, just an uninformed thumb.
And we're here to inform your thumb, so make sure
your thumbs listening. This morning, we'll go ahead straight out
to Spring Branch and talk to Jeff. Jeff, thanks for waiting.
(01:20:05):
How can we help.
Speaker 24 (01:20:06):
Today, Hey, Skiff, happy to wait. Man, you are such
a huge help. And I'm looking for suggestions on some
fruit trees or something that I can plant up in
western Walker County, some property that I've had and want
to get some trees started. The one caveat that I'll
go out there and get your take on it happens
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to be a part of the property that it's it's
always a little.
Speaker 21 (01:20:33):
Wet, not not real wet.
Speaker 24 (01:20:36):
I'm not worried about, you know, playing something in the swamp,
but it's always got plenty of water as where the
drainage goes. So happy to answer me the other questions,
but want your advice.
Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
All right.
Speaker 8 (01:20:50):
First of all, I got to make my phone quit
ringing somebody, I thought, now find my phone alert? Well,
I know where my phone is, right in front of me,
ringing on the radio. You know, most fruit likes well
drained soil. So if periodically when you go when we
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go through those rainy periods of death, you end up
with kind of soggy conditions, fruit's not gonna be real
happy with that. So what you can do, I'd do
two things. First, I'd go out there where you think
your fruit trees need to go and get you a
post holed digger and dig down about two feet, just
straight down, and then fill that. Get you a you know,
five gallon bucket of water, fill it up, fill up
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the hole, and then come back and see how long
it takes to drain out. You know, come back in
eight hours, come back in twelve, come back in twenty
four forty eight. It ought to drain out in twenty
four hours. If it doesn't, if there's still water at
the you know, maybe a foot down or whatever in
the hole that's not draining out, that's an indication you're
gonna need to build up or raised area for those trees.
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You know, you can do it by bringing soil in
and dump it in, making a big pictures mound out
there for each tree. You can do it by. I
don't know what kind of equipment you have, but if
there's a way to plow up a little area, but
you do need good drainage, and so you ought to
at least have a foot of soil the water table
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lot to at least be a foot down. It'd be
better for his little further than that. But anyway, I
would check that first, and maybe you choose a different location.
Maybe you do something like I was saying, to raise
up the soil. As far as trees go, you can
grow a lot of stuff up there.
Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
You know.
Speaker 8 (01:22:33):
There's a lot of peaches that will do well in
that area. The pears, there's a lot of good pears.
It just kind of depends on what kind of fruit
you want to grow. Do you know if hand? If
do you know if hand if the soil is sandy
or clay.
Speaker 24 (01:22:52):
I haven't done in a two analysis on it yet,
you know, And there's all kinds of different ways I
could do that, I know, but I would assume that
it's predominantly clay. I know that there are some nice
sandy areas, so it might be a good mixture there.
I don't know, but I'll check it out.
Speaker 8 (01:23:13):
Okay, all right. Well, and then when you're ready to plant,
are you are you in Walker County?
Speaker 12 (01:23:20):
Yeah right?
Speaker 24 (01:23:21):
I mean literally right at the Walker Montgomery line.
Speaker 8 (01:23:25):
Oh okay, well, you you know you've you've access to
done Montgomery County. You've got a horticulture agent Michael Potter
that could advise you there up in Walker, You've got
an ag agent there that could advise you to on
some of those things as far as soil maps and whatnot.
But uh, the AGI Horticulture website has got a lot
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of good stuff on fruit trees. You go there and
look at the fruit tree section, and you know, let's
say you wanted to do pairs, well, it would show
you varieties of pairs that do well in your area.
It would it would give you emation on planting and
pruning each of the fruit trees just however you whatever
you decide to plant. So I take advantage of that
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free info too.
Speaker 21 (01:24:09):
Yeah, definitely, Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 24 (01:24:11):
Most important is getting my getting my soil, right, I
got that, so thank you?
Speaker 8 (01:24:15):
Yep, yeap, you got it all right?
Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
Well care.
Speaker 8 (01:24:22):
Bye bye? All right, folks, fruit trees are fun to grow.
I love I love fruit trees and more people ought
to be growing fruit trees. When you plant a fruit tree,
one of the things you need to remember is drainage.
It's important, and sunlight is important. If you want a
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sweet fruit, it's made sweet by sugars, and sugars are
carbohydrates and carbon hybrids. Hydrates are only made when the
sun shines on the fruit trees leaves. So if you're
in half day shade, you're going to get half the
carbohydrate production you would have in full sun. That kind
of thing, and then pick the variety that fits, pick
one that has the right chilling for the area that
(01:25:03):
you're in. And we can help you with those kind
of things here on Guardline. But like I said, the
horticulture website, the fruite section is awesome. I mean it
goes into all of that stuff. Let's see, We're gonna
head now out to Correne in Houston. Hey, Corene, Hi, Skip,
how are you?
Speaker 25 (01:25:21):
I have a big problem with dollar eat.
Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
I mean I've tied to.
Speaker 20 (01:25:25):
Rip it out.
Speaker 19 (01:25:26):
I sprayed with vinegar that just the grass dive.
Speaker 11 (01:25:30):
But not the dollar beat.
Speaker 19 (01:25:33):
What can I do?
Speaker 10 (01:25:34):
Okay, it's really bad?
Speaker 8 (01:25:35):
This Yeah, there is a there are products that are
on my website at the Herbicide for skip'sweed wiper forget
the weed wiper apartment. It's the list. It's called Herbicides
for weed Wiper and if you go to the section
on herbicides that are for broad leaf weeds in the lawn,
(01:25:56):
it will give you a list of options. One of
the better ones to use is something called Celsius, like
the temperature Celsius. Okay, it's not it's not cheap, but
you buy a little packets that make a gallon of spray,
and a gallon goes a long way because you're just
barely wetting the leaves of the weed. And if if
(01:26:17):
you get celsius, get a spreader sticker with it, something
that helps the spray not roll off of those slick
dollar weed leaves. That that's very important for it being successful.
But there are other herbicides out there. Celsius is just
one that I think you.
Speaker 7 (01:26:35):
I mean, the leaves are getting bigger and bigger. They
start out real tiny, and sometimes I'm on my hands
and knees with some something and try to pull them up.
Speaker 20 (01:26:46):
But it's it's a fighter.
Speaker 19 (01:26:48):
That's not that I'm not going to go in.
Speaker 8 (01:26:52):
Yeah you can't. You can't pull dollar weed successfully. So
just get that spray makes it real easy to do. Okay,
you'll you'll win. You may have to treat it again
some next year, but you good ahead of it.
Speaker 12 (01:27:03):
Yeah, okay, thank you so much, you.
Speaker 8 (01:27:06):
Bet, Thank you appreciate the call. Hey, our phone number
seven one three two one two k t r H
if you'd like to call in. Uh, Janet Forest is
stocked up right now. They are absolutely stocked up with
all kinds of things for the cool season. You know,
Amarillis bulbs for example. They've got the cyclomen is, just
(01:27:27):
one of the best cool seasoned flowers we have, so pretty.
They're loaded up on herbs and all kinds of quality
really qualities, shrubs and trees for example. Uh, they've got hollies,
many many varieties of hollies, the red maple, the kind
that will grow here. They've got that Chinese fringe tree,
one of my favorite spring blooming trees, little shaggy white
(01:27:49):
ballooms with a pleasant fragrance, and then red buds of course.
And in the gift shop, well, it's it's looking a
lot like Christmas in there. Christmas round top materials. The
iron materials have arrived as well. All you have to
do is head out to Enchanted for us. They are
on FM twenty seven to fifty nine, twenty seven to
fifty nine, So if you're going from Richmond towards sugar Land,
(01:28:11):
it's off to the right FM twenty seven to fifty
nine Enchanted Forests. And I promise you this, when you go,
you will be very impressed with this place. It is
when I drive up and park in the parking lot,
it's like I can't wait to get in because it
just looks so cool. It's enchanting. I guess that's what
they call it that anyway, Enchanted for us everything you
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need for fall planting, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and definitely the
most important planting season of the year for shrubs and trees.
They've got new shipments and it is ready to go
go home with you so you can have beautiful blooms,
beautiful foliage, beautiful shade, whatever you choose in the future. Well,
(01:28:56):
I got to go to a little break here. I've
gone really long on this one. When I come back,
we'll talk to Bob and Conroe. First. Hey, welcome back
to the guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey,
I wanted to tell you a little bit about Pierce Scapes.
Pierce Scapes they are landscape magicians. They really are. If
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go online, don't take my word for it, go online
to Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Take a look
at the work they do. It is gorgeous. I mean
they can do a major complete planting or overhaul of
your entire property, or they can just work on a
particular area. Maybe you've got you want a bed installed
(01:29:37):
or a bed revamped and some new plants put in,
and just general. Do you need irrigation repairs, Do you
need landscape lighting, do you need hardscapes? Maybe you want
a patio that is just a beautiful outdoor gathering area.
Maybe you want to go all out and have a
patio that has a rocked in barbecue pit, and you know,
(01:29:58):
you get the idea. They do any of that kind
of thing. They also do quarterly maintenance trimming, weeding, fertilizing,
air raiding, soil soil additions, mult editions, seasonal color irrigation inspections,
all of that. Just sign up for the quarterly maintenance
for that Pierce Caapes dot Com is the website. The
phone number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty.
(01:30:21):
Write this down two eight one three seven zero five
zero six zero. We're going to go now to Conroe
and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 25 (01:30:35):
Good morning, Skip sure appreciate all of the patients and
that you provide for us novices out here.
Speaker 8 (01:30:44):
Happy to be here. Hey, how can we help today?
Speaker 25 (01:30:48):
I send in a couple of pictures that I wanted
you to take a look at of some shrubery in
our yards.
Speaker 11 (01:30:54):
I don't know exactly what these are.
Speaker 25 (01:30:56):
I believe that they're comia or something.
Speaker 8 (01:31:01):
Okay, I think that what you have there is a
wax leaf lagustrum.
Speaker 25 (01:31:05):
Is what it looks Okay, Now that makes sense as well,
and and and.
Speaker 8 (01:31:11):
Yes, yeah, yeah, that is the number one disease of
wax leaf lagustriums called it's a fungal leaf spot, so
cosparra leaf spot.
Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (01:31:23):
Every one of those spots has a little black dots
in it. Eventually that are spores like volcanoes shooting spores
in the air. So all of the other leaves now
have spores land on them and get sick and the
more it rains or the more you water with a
spray mists it gets up on the leaves. Either way,
it just gets worse and worse. I'm not a fan
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of them.
Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
And if you've ever been thinking about redoing that area, well,
this would be a good time just to do it
and put something else in that's not like that. If
you don't want to do that, and I understand that,
you're going to need to get on a spray schedule,
rake up all the fallen leaves to get them out
of the area, and if if it's not too tedious
picking off leaves that are affected would be good, spraying
(01:32:06):
them with a product that I'm going to give you
two different products, and you're gonna want to alternate between them.
So whenever you have a rainy spell, go out and
spray right away and get those leaves sprayed with either
DACONYL D A C O N I L or something
(01:32:28):
called belaton B A Y L E T O N
and you can alternate between those two. Fungen X is
also something that you could that you could use fungen X,
but you don't want to use just one. You want
to alternate between the two and especially after anything that
what's the foliage? You need to get out there and
(01:32:50):
do a spray and eventually by raking up leaves, picking
off affected leaves, spraying regularly, you can get back ahead
of it again. But it's always going to be around
because it's just ubiquitous out there in nature.
Speaker 25 (01:33:03):
Yes, indeed, it is okay, very good.
Speaker 8 (01:33:06):
Why that's why I said at the beginning, if you're
thinking about replanting, now would be a good time that
once you start dealing with that, that is just who
wants to get and spray every time it rains, you know?
So anyway, I hope that helps Bob. Very good, Thank
you sir, Thank you appreciate that call very much. Uh
So the nitrophos folks, I was telling somebody wall to
(01:33:31):
go about barricade there. We were doing it for grassburs
for example, and that's something you do in the spring.
And that's on my schedule. You look at my schedule
gardening with skip dot com. That's my website. The schedule's free.
There's a lawn care schedule and a weed, pest and
disease management schedule. You'll find these nitroposs products on there.
On both schedules. For example, the three step nitrofoss Fall
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special fertilizer. That's step one, step two nitrofoss barricade to
prevent weeds. Now graspers we prevent in the spring, but
right now you're putting barricade down to prevent the cool
season weeds like chickweed and hend bent and carpet weed
and cleavers and all of those clover those kinds of things.
And then the third step is eagle tour funge a side.
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You can put all three down on the same day,
just one right after the other, and then water them
all in with about a half inch of water. Get
them in the soil where all three of them do
what they're going to do to protect your plants. You're
going to find these products at dead Feed and Tomball
at Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond, and Hiding and
Feed on Stubner Airline. I gotta take a little bit
(01:34:37):
of a break. I believe we're up against a break.
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
Or?
Speaker 8 (01:34:42):
Am I off on my time here? So speak in
my ear if you if you hear one way or
the other. Uh, we had some time, okay.
Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (01:34:54):
Let me then go out to Dickenson and talk to Linda. Hey,
Linda Walk of the garden line.
Speaker 7 (01:35:02):
Thank you. I have yellow spots in my yard and
they're getting bigger and getting more of them. I put
down the eagle turf fund beside around the middle to
the end of October, and.
Speaker 15 (01:35:21):
That happened.
Speaker 7 (01:35:23):
Kept them from appearing. And I tried bug bug out
and compost.
Speaker 19 (01:35:32):
And that hasn't okay, okay.
Speaker 8 (01:35:35):
So there's two kinds of yellow out there. One of them,
the whole leaf just turns kind of a bright yellow
color before it turns brown and dies back. That is
probably due to raise actonia, which is what brown patch is.
There are other versions of raisa than brown patch, but anyway,
(01:35:56):
that's the bright yellow leaves and then turned brown. If
when you see yellow, you go pick one of those
leaves and hold it up to the sky and it's
green and yellow striped when you look at it real close,
little skinny little lines up and down the leaf, then
that's iron deficiency, and you can fix that with a
keylated iron product, something that has iron in a keylated form,
(01:36:21):
which means the soil doesn't tie it up so much.
But one of those two is going to be the
cause of your.
Speaker 7 (01:36:29):
They turn brown, there are no lines from the earth.
Speaker 8 (01:36:33):
Yeah. Then nine to five says a product called Eagle
Turf fungicide. I would go ahead and do it now
and water it in with about a half inch of
water so the roots can take it up. Areas where
you've lost the leaves are going to stay that way
until we have enough warm weather for the grass to
grow new leaves on those runners. So it's not going
(01:36:56):
to just make everything change overnight, but it will prevent
it'll prevent further damage and loss.
Speaker 7 (01:37:03):
Okay, I put down Aiden turf in October, So you
think I need to.
Speaker 19 (01:37:09):
Read Oh you did.
Speaker 8 (01:37:11):
You shouldn't need to reapply it that fast. Maybe you were.
Maybe some of this was already infecting before you applied it.
I don't know. I'll tell you what. Let's do this, Linda.
Will you take some pictures, show me the whole lawn
and then get up close to the yellow areas and
show me some pictures in good sharp focus. I'm going
to put you on hold. My producer will give you
an email. Let me take a look at those, just
(01:37:32):
to make sure I'm talking about the same thing you're seeing. Okay, okay,
thank you, all right, I'll be happy to happy to go.
That was just hang on a second, Emmanuel, pick up
the phone just second. Yeah, that that's boy, that's interesting.
You know, it's always good to see pictures because I
(01:37:53):
have folks that will send me a picture and then
they'll go, I'll call on Saturday or Sunday. And by
the way, when you email me, I would I like
to be able to answer everybody's email, but I just
can't handle the volume. There's just no way. So what
we do is if send me an email and then
follow up with a call, and we'll be happy to
help you as best we can that way. You know,
(01:38:14):
the Arbor Gate in Tomball is an extraordinary place. Those
of you who have been there know what I'm talking about.
By the way, I allow yourself some time when you go.
It's not a place you run into and run out of,
like a seven eleven. This is a place you go
in and you hang out and you just go wow
or cool, or I didn't know they had those, or oh,
(01:38:34):
I can't live without that yard art. They have got
all kinds of good stuff right now. The gift shops
are loaded for the holidays. Do you want something, maybe
you don't have a chameleon in your yard. Wouldn't you
like a Camellia japonica or susanqua that gives you blooms
in either late the early winter or the late winter,
mid to late winter. They've got those, They've got azilia.
(01:38:57):
They've got all kinds of wonderful plants there, plus everything
else you possibly would want a plant, from houseplants to vegetables,
to herbs to annual flowers. Have some gorgeous, always always
seasonal color is galore at the arbor Gate is. It
is the kind of nursery and garden center where you
know you're going to get great plants and unusual things
(01:39:20):
as well, so you don't want the same meat and
potatoes everybody else has. But you're also going to get advice.
You're going to get professional advice by people that know
what they're talking about. And you know what I say,
brown stuff before green stuff, meaning fix the soil, then
plant the plant. Arbor Gates got you covered in their
one two three easy system. Unorganic food complete, unorganic soil complete,
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in an organic compost complete. Those three bags set you
up for success with your plants. All right, Time for
me to take a break. I'll be right back. When
we come back, we will head out to Clear Lake
and talk to Mark. Welcome back, Welcome into Gardenline. We're
glad to have you with us. We've got lots of
things to still talk about. That's the way it is
with gardening. No matter what the day is, no matter
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you can find one of the over forty stores that's
near you. I'm going to head now to mark Out
in clear Lake. Hello, Mark, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
Hey, good morning, Skip. I sent you the email that
you wanted.
Speaker 22 (01:41:30):
It's got some pictures that those brown patched areas and
if you've noticed where I resided that that browning's kind
of extended outside of that boundary a little bit.
Speaker 8 (01:41:47):
So, oh, yes, yes I did. I did see those. Yeah,
I can so what I see over in the distance
or the circles that are rise like Tonya brown patch,
and I see some of that in the floor ground.
The problem. The thing that's throwing me though, is throughout
the yard it is brown completely and there's some little
(01:42:10):
sprigs of green in it. And I'm thinking maybe you
have to take all root rot going on in those areas.
I can't stand, you know, ten feet away from grass
and say that's take off for sure. But I've seen
it so much that I kind of know it, and
I think you may be dealing with take all root
rot on that. Did you I'm trying to remember now
(01:42:32):
the call. Did you say you had used eagle already
or not?
Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Oh? No, sir, I have not. I was afraid to
really put anything on there.
Speaker 17 (01:42:43):
You know.
Speaker 22 (01:42:44):
I didn't want to destroy the new grass and I
was just trying to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:42:50):
You can do it, you know, you can go ahead.
Speaker 8 (01:42:53):
I'm sorry, No, No, it's okay, go ahead.
Speaker 22 (01:42:58):
You know the the picture, the far off pictures you
see there you can see where there was a tree there,
and then you look beyond the merd bath and there
was a tree there, and so mine watering when I
watered those areas.
Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
I'm sure you know.
Speaker 22 (01:43:15):
I just didn't do that one area, but you can
see I kind of watered the border as well, so right, I.
Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Can see what kind of spread.
Speaker 8 (01:43:26):
Yeah, I would get some eagle to our fund to
side and I put that down right away, water it
in and let's try to hold things where they are
right now and not get any worse. If a couple
of options. There are some products that are especially good
against takeoll. Root right eagle will help on that, But
there's some other products that you can use for take
off and then there we've seen good results with putting
(01:43:51):
peet moss out at about a third of an inch deep.
You can buy peat moss by the compressed bale. You
break it apart and you just take your little barrow,
dump little piles of it everywhere and turn a rake
upside down, a soil rake upside down so the times
are pointing upward, and play shuffleboard out there, you know,
get your arms down low, swinging back and forth, and
(01:44:12):
you can just spread that real easily all over that area,
and any grass that's still alive in there, it will
help bring that back. There are a number of if
we determine it's take all, there are a number of
things you can do for it. But I think you know,
I hate to send you out to do everything without
knowing for sure what we're dealing with. But it looks
(01:44:32):
dead enough to not be brown patched to me. Get
on your hands and knees, look at those dead areas,
look at the runners and see if the runners are
still green. If they are, you probably are Okay. If not,
you're going to be residing those areas.
Speaker 22 (01:44:46):
There's a there's a close up area picture I took.
I don't know if that if that helps any.
Speaker 8 (01:44:54):
Oh did you send me a photo of that.
Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
Yeah, it's there's one see three four pictures. And I
think it's cold.
Speaker 8 (01:45:04):
Okay, I see, yeah, I see the clothing. Yeah, that
that's the resodded area. Okay, Well, uh, still what I said,
same thing. Put the eagle out a S A P.
And let's watch and see how it does. H and
just kind of watch the overwatering. It doesn't need hardly
(01:45:25):
any water once we cool off here. So uh, just
let's let's go from there. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
So you think the sod is I resott it is, okay,
but around it is, yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:45:40):
Bottom bottom line. I'm having to guess from photos. But
get on your hands and knees, look for the runners
and see if they're green or not. If they're green,
that was probably brown patch and it'll bounce back. If
they're brown, it was takeoff patch and they're not coming back.
You're gonna end up resotting some of those, okay, Okay,
gonna have to run. I'm gonna have to run. But yeah,
(01:46:02):
thanks for the call. By the way, I appreciate that.
Good luck with it. Don't don't hesitate to call back.
And some more.
Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
Well, I'd like to talk to you about the tomatoes
I grow in the summer, so we'll see you then.
Let's do that.
Speaker 8 (01:46:15):
Sounds like a plan, man, appreciate that, you know, talking
about beautiful lawns and things. BnB Turf Pros is the
company for those of you in south West Houston to
get your grass in top shape. They will come in,
they will do a core aeration. They pop the little
plugs out of the ground, leave them on the surface,
(01:46:36):
which is what you want, and they will then do
it compost top dressing. Now they have a special going
on this fall free aeration when you schedule a compost
top dressing. And they use quality, only quality stuff from
like Cena Molts where they get their composts. That if
they look at the kinds of companies I recommend here
on Guardline, and that's the quality stuff that they go after,
(01:46:58):
whether they're fertilizing or ampos top dressing or whatever they're
doing out there.
Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (01:47:03):
BnB Turf Pros covers the area from about sugar Land
and Missouri City on the west end, swings down you know,
through Sienna, Iowa Colony, Manville, Fresno, all the way up
to Pearland on the east end. That's their service area.
And if you want to give them a call seven
one three two one two fifty five ninety eight. Excuse me,
(01:47:24):
gave you the wrong number. Seven one three two three
four fifty five ninety eight. I'm going to give that again.
Seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight.
Or just go to the website where you can see
the work they do. They got some great video on there.
BB Turfpros dot com. BB turf pros dot com. All right,
(01:47:46):
I'm up against a break here. When we come back,
I will pull up Steve from Deer Park. Look forward
to talking to you. All righty, welcome back to guarden Line.
Glad to have you listening in today. You know we're
talking about a lot of diseases in the lawn. Oh
my gosh, I've never seen so many pictures. In fact,
I had to go I had to go cry. I've
(01:48:07):
seen so many pictures of dye in grass. It's just
depressed me to the point, seriously, You know, there's different
approaches to diseases, and one approach that is very effective
is to use products that help that protect the plant
microbially and that help the plant microbially to be stronger.
(01:48:29):
You know, there's fun there are microbes in the soil
that interact with the plant root and cause that plant
to develop more disease resistance to certain kinds of diseases.
Did you know that micro grow bioinoculant by Microlife. That's
a maroon bag microbe grow bioinoculant, sixty three different beneficial
microbe strains in that product. It's a granular you put
(01:48:52):
it out, it goes a long way, like five to
ten pounds will cover a thousand square feet. Because you're
not fertilized with it, you are basically seeding out, if
you will, the microbes all through the yard that then
become part of helping that protect that plant. Micro Grow
bionoculant can be used at the same time you're fertilizing.
(01:49:15):
Just put out the fertilizer, then put out the bionoculant.
But it gives that extra boost to the swall. It
gives the plant the best chance it has now like
with anything a disease like brown patch. You're not going
to have big brown circles and put a fungicide or
put micro grow on it and it just all goes away.
It's too late. The disease has already killed those grass plates.
(01:49:36):
But it's going to regrow. It's going to put green
leaves back on the runners. And when you do, it's
good to have the beneficial kinds of things that are
there to help the plant. And if you don't have
brown patch, and you have in the past, get the
micro grow out asap and get it on there so
that when the disease tries to attack, you at least
have a good supply to make that grass plant surface
(01:50:00):
a little bit more of a inhospitable place for a
fungal infection to occur. That's one way you go about it.
It's all for microlife. Microlife products are easily available all
through widely available in the Houston area. Microlife Fertilizer dot
Com is where you go to find out just exactly
where you can purchase those. We're going to go now,
(01:50:23):
let's see, we're going to the galleria to talk to Forest.
Hey Forrest. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12 (01:50:30):
Hey Good morning, Skiff.
Speaker 26 (01:50:31):
I had a quick question about safe pesticides or insecticides
for my vegetable gardening, and it is slug and snail
bait also safe.
Speaker 8 (01:50:46):
Okay, I'm sorry I didn't quite follow. Are you asking
if slug and snail baits are safe?
Speaker 17 (01:50:56):
Well, I'm asking two questions. Can I put down slugins
and they albate in and around my vegetable garden? And
then what other pesticides or insecticides could I use to
prevent thugs eating my vegetables that they're safe?
Speaker 8 (01:51:10):
Gotcha? Okay, So for the slug and snow bait, get
one that has iron phosphate as the ingredient. It is
a bait the slugs eat it that that high dose
of iron gives them a terminal case of constipation. Isn't
that a nice thought? And so that would be the
one I use. Always use fresh bait, and don't put
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too much out at one time, Put enough out here
and there, and then rebait again. You want them to
have fresh bait so they get a lethal dose of
it when they eat. And as far as other insects,
it depends on the insect as to what you do.
If it's aphids or spider mites. I would say your
best control is going to be insecticidal soap sprays. If
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it is something that is chewing and eating the leaves,
like a caterpillar or a beetle, then I would say
you could use something that has name in it or
something that has spin no said in it sp I
N O S A D. Those are both organic.
Speaker 17 (01:52:13):
Okay, that's great. I appreciate it very much, thank you.
Speaker 8 (01:52:17):
Yeah, there's one hundred other insects out there, but those
are some of the more common ones that we run across. Oh,
by the way, stink bugs. Those learning what their eggs
look like and as you're looking at your plants, pulling
those off helps a lot. But also a product with
pyreethern in it would be helpful for those. Alrighty RCW.
(01:52:38):
RCW has got their sale going on on shrubs, and
you know they have such a wide variety. You think
my daughter's thinking about putting some shrubs in. They just
redid some flower beds at their house and we were
just talking about that the other day. And you know,
RCW has got a wide range of all kinds of
cool shrubs. They got a sale on them, really good deal.
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Right now, and now's the time to plan them. While
you're there, they will provide you with the things you
need to go with that trub, for example, a root stimulator,
of fertilizers and things like that to help get that
shrub off to a good start. Now, they're way more
than shrubs, herbs, perennials, annuals, native plants, trees. They grow
their own trees up in Plantersville, and so they have
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trees that want to live here. They're selected for here.
They're not going to say something that won't grow here,
and they've been grown right and they can even come
plant them out, you know, larger container. You're not going
to lift that yourself unless you want to put your
chiropractors kids through college. But they'll come out and do
a good job of planning them. RCW nurseries dot com.
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Tombole Parkway where it comes into belt Way eight. That's
Tombo Parkway Hagby two forty nine, right where it comes
into belt Way eight. We're going to go now to
Deer Park and talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, Welcome to
garden Line.
Speaker 12 (01:53:55):
Yeah, good morning, Skip. I sent a picture that I
was going to get you to identify the tree or
shrub for me.
Speaker 8 (01:54:06):
Okay, let me see. Let me come up here, Steve,
I don't have a Steve here? Is that the name
on the email Steve.
Speaker 12 (01:54:20):
Well, Steven would be as as Porter as Porter Porter,
I do not have that.
Speaker 8 (01:54:31):
I don't know why it didn't come through.
Speaker 12 (01:54:36):
Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 8 (01:54:38):
Let me let me check one more time, make sure
Richard and Rick and all the rest we have covered here,
and go back just one more quick check. No, no,
I don't I don't see it. I'm gonna put you
on hold. Let's see. Yeah, we got another hour left here.
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Uh a manual. My producer will pick up the phone
and check. Make sure you have the right email, and
let's try it on and I'll be happy to take
a look at it. And you just want an identification
on it, correct, right? Yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:55:15):
I don't think there's anything wrong with it right now
or anything, but what I could ask you one other
question about a plumeria real quick. We have a plumeria
that we pull it up every year for the winter
and then replant it in the spring, and it makes
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flowers only on one branch it makes. It's got multiple branches,
but only one of them makes flowers. Is there anything
I can do to spread the flowers out?
Speaker 8 (01:55:49):
Well, that's strange. I don't know what would cause that.
A plumeria with one branch balloons only. I don't know.
We got any Plumerius Society people out there that know
about this situation. That's a new one on me. I
haven't run across before. I assume all the areas are
getting the same amount of sunlight and everything.
Speaker 12 (01:56:09):
Yeah, yeah, and they all grew gross, please all over,
but just the one branch gross flowers.
Speaker 8 (01:56:17):
Very curious. I'll look into that. If I find anything,
I'll say it on the air. But maybe someone from
Plumerius Society. They they even breathe plumerias and they may
be at ware something. I'm not so all right, all right, well,
thank you, thank you for the call. All right, just
hang on. It may take him just a little bit
because he's got the top of the hour news to do,
but I'm put your on hold and we'll be right back. Well,
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just a quick reminder, I'm going to be at wild
Bird's Ace giving away lots of Nelson fertilizer products that
from twelve to two today in Kingwood, Kingwood Drive.
Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
Welcome to kg R h guarded line with Cap Richard, so.
Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
Just watch him as.
Speaker 8 (01:57:11):
So many good things.
Speaker 24 (01:57:21):
Not a sign.
Speaker 8 (01:57:25):
Hey, welcome back. Good to be back with you guys.
Guess what we're entering our last hour of the day,
nine to ten am. We're here every Saturday and Sunday
from six am to ten am. For those of you
just tuning in for the first time. Tell your friends.
The more the merrier, love to have them listening in.
(01:57:48):
At noon today, I will be out at wild Birds
in Kingwood. Wile ago I said wild Birds Ace. I
don't think there's an Ace hardware store called Wilbirds. The
Ace hardware stores in Kingwood. Some goodwoods, but Wildbirds Wildbirds
in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive right behind Torchy Stockos and
I'm going to be given away a lot of Nelsen fertilizer.
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We got these little jars. They are just.
Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
Well.
Speaker 8 (01:58:16):
For example, I got color Star, I got Rose, I've
got vegetable garden, and I've got Genesis the transplant mix,
which I love that one. I even have some small
packets of the Genesis too, But four different sizes, four
different kinds of jars. I have so many of them.
If you show up at Wildbirds, I bet you get one.
I mean, I don't think I'll run out, So come on, let's.
Speaker 20 (01:58:34):
Go for it.
Speaker 8 (01:58:35):
Nelson provided us a lot of their quality mixes to
get in people's hands. And while we're out there, bring
me your questions, bring me your samples, your diseases, your
insect infestations, your plan identifications. I feel like the statue
of liberty. You're tired, you're weary, you're huddled masses yearning
to breathe free. I think something like that. Anyway, I'll
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be the statue of liberty for plants today. Bring me
some things, less know some let's talk about them, let's
identify them, let's help you have success. Can't wait to
see you out there. All right, we're going to go
straight back here. We were talking a little bit earlier
with Steve and deer Park. Hey, Steve, what you sent
me a picture of is called Chinese or Japanese privet.
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It is Lagustrum japonicum and it is a very invasive plant.
Those little berries get eaten by birds. They haul them
around and poop them out, and these come up in
the woods. It's one of the more difficult invasive plants
that the southeastern United States is struggling.
Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
With right now.
Speaker 12 (01:59:39):
Oh well, I hate to chop it down. Yeah, okay,
well we did you know what it is?
Speaker 8 (01:59:47):
Yeah, that's what it is, and that's the berries. And
if you look around you probably see it somewhere around there,
because you know, of course birds can fly a long way.
But that is lagustrum Japonicum Japanese privot.
Speaker 12 (02:00:00):
Well the one year this we had was loaded with
berries and we must have had a million little bitty
birds on it and they just ate them all up
in a few days. But anyway, I appreciate the identification.
Speaker 8 (02:00:15):
Thank you, you bet, you bet. Thanks for hanging around.
Good luck with that, take care, thank you. Ready here,
we're going to now head to Linda and Dickinson. Hello, Linda,
I think you sent me some pictures too.
Speaker 7 (02:00:29):
Is that right right about the ground?
Speaker 8 (02:00:35):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (02:00:36):
Was this?
Speaker 8 (02:00:38):
Let me make sure I got yes, I replied by email.
That is brown patch. Uh, brown patch is causing those
yellowing spots, and uh the way to prevent it is
with eagle turf funge aside by nitrophiles Eagle turf fund.
Speaker 7 (02:00:57):
But I put that down in October do you want
me to put I put it down in October.
Speaker 8 (02:01:03):
Here's the deal. Yeah, here's the deal. It works, but
you got to put it down, you got to water
it in, and then you got to do that before
the infection. But what I see in the picture is
a lot of infection. So there are very few areas
in that yard other than way out by those trees
where it hasn't already hit. So right, you know, you
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have to just decide is it worth to protect a
little bit of what's left to put it down again
or not. But if you get it down ahead of time,
watered in real good, and the plant takes it up,
then when the brown patch hits it, it tries to infect.
Put the eagles there. At this stage, like I said,
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you're only protecting the parts that haven't gotten it yet,
and all of it will green back up in the
spring as it warms up.
Speaker 7 (02:01:52):
Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (02:01:56):
All right, it's already be the bear of bad news today.
Take care, all right, Bobby, Yeah, we you know I
got I just use this opportunity to say, I got
these schedules up there, and these schedules are on my
website at gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip
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dot com. They are free. One of them is the
lawn care schedule, mowing, watering, fertilizing, adding mineral supplement, micro
nutrient supplements, doing aeration. All of that is on the schedule.
The other schedule is the lawn pest, disease and weed
management schedule. So think of it this way. The first
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schedule is how to grow on the second schedule is
how to deal with things that are after your lawn
or that are causing problems in the lawn. Both of
them go from January to December. There's multiple colors in
them that make them real easy to follow. Like on
the on the disease schedule, you know, I said I
had the insect disease and schedule. On that schedule, if
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you look, there's a road that's yellow for insects, there's
a road that's brown for diseases, and then there's two
rows that are green for weeds because weats are green.
And if you follow that color to the bottom, it
tells you exactly your control options that you would use there.
It makes it really really easy. But I'm telling you, folks,
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timing is everything.
Speaker 5 (02:03:25):
You know.
Speaker 8 (02:03:25):
I over and over again on guarden Line, I talk about, Hey,
it's time to do this or it's time to do that.
Fall is the best planning season of the year. You
can plant twelve months out of the year here in Houston,
but fall is the best. So the longer you wait,
the closer are you are to summer, and the longer
it takes. By the way, that nitrofas Eagle Turf Fungicide
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is one of the three parts of their three step system.
That would include the Eagle Turf fungicide. That would include
the nitroposs barricade that prevents weed seeds from getting started,
makes a barricade over the surface of the soul they
can't come through. Second or third, the Nitrofoss Fall Special.
That's a winner riser. Now you're going to find Nitrofoss products.
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It in Channel Forest and Richmond. You're going to find
it at Ace Hardware, a Memorial Drive. You're going to
find it at Gym's hardbur Montgomery and Stanton shopping Center
for those of you down there in the Alvin area.
All part of Nitrofoss is one two three easy system.
Don't delay. With every delay the problems increase. Alrighty, I
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think we are looking at up time for another break boy.
Time is flying this morning, as it usually does. Built
in sugar Land, you will be our very first up
and when we come back from break, I just want
to remind you today Kingwood wild Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive,
behind torches Tacos. Come on and see me, bring me
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samples and things you want to talk about. I'd love
to meet you. Bring your camera phone so we can
take a picture together. And I want you to see
this swell bird store. It is really cool. I promise
you that, but I got to warn you birding is addictive.
I've never considered myself a birder until I started getting
some things from wild birds and started gathering them to
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the backyard and oh my gosh, I don't know where
they were. It was where I was before and not
having birds because I so enjoy them. Now just another
aspect of gardening. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back
to your guarden line. Welcome back. We're going to jump
right in things again. Hey, uh, you've heard me talk
about Jorges Hidden gardens down in Alvin, Texas. For those
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of you down in the Greater Alvin area unless I
Greater Avenue, what I'm talking about is, you know, like
Santa fe Dickinson, Algoa, Arcadia, Alt Loma, alb of course
Alvin h what I leave, Oh, Hillcrest is down in
that area too. This is your hometown garden center. Jorges
Hidden Gardens Now. Jorge has got an excellent selection of
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all kinds of plans, so I know right now he
has a really good selection of roses, and he always
has a good selection of fruit trees, and he's got
plenty of those as well as well as other shrubs
and trees. And then of course the plants of the
season are there at Horas Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 3 (02:06:15):
Now.
Speaker 8 (02:06:15):
Jory also carries the three sixty degree Tree Stabilizer, the
best product for when you plant a new tree, for
staking that tree and holding the tree while allowing movement
on the tree. That's very important. Hoy carries us for example,
his fall hours. He's closed on Monday, but he's opened
today and tomorrow from eight am to four pm, Saturday
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and Sunday, and then Tuesday through Friday from nine to
three Jorge'es Hidden Gardens. He's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin,
just south of Highway sixth There go check him out.
He's got some really really cool stuff around We're going
to go back to the phones now and head to
Sugarland to talk to Bill.
Speaker 11 (02:06:56):
Hello Bill, Hello, Skip, how are you serving?
Speaker 8 (02:07:01):
I have two questions?
Speaker 15 (02:07:03):
Could I have two questions?
Speaker 27 (02:07:05):
My first is, we have some Japanese blueberry trees in
the back. They're about twelve foot high, provide a privacy backdrop.
I keep them pretty trimmed into hedge. They're pretty unwieldy
right now. I need to be trimmed. My question is
can I do that now in November or is that
something I should wait till, you know, February or so
to do?
Speaker 6 (02:07:26):
You know?
Speaker 8 (02:07:27):
A good, A good, really hard freeze can can knock
Japanese blueberry back, and anytime you prune it stimulates tender
new growth, which would be a disaster with a hard
freeze coming in. I would wait until we get past
the freezes this winter and do the.
Speaker 27 (02:07:41):
Pruning you need to do then, okay, super. And my
second question is we have lantana kind of the same way.
Is that prune now or just wait wait it out
through the winter and oleanders too.
Speaker 8 (02:07:55):
I would I would let the land, let the lantana go,
get a good free on it, kind of kill it back,
and then cut it off just a few inches above
the ground and it will it will come back out
as a fresh new bush next spring. So a lot
of people wait until midwinter to prune the lantana just
because you know how it is down here. I mean,
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we could get almost eighty degrees for a week and everything.
Speaker 9 (02:08:19):
Start growing right right, and oleanders same thing, yeah, leander,
just probably wait until the end of the winter time
to cut those back.
Speaker 8 (02:08:30):
There's not a particular pruning system for leanders. You can
cheer them back a little, but I like the natural form.
So taking in tarcanes out back at the base of
the bushes is another option for those just what you
want to look at, but get past the freezes before
you do that.
Speaker 27 (02:08:49):
Well, yeah, just give me a lot of extra time today,
thank you, sir.
Speaker 20 (02:08:53):
I did.
Speaker 8 (02:08:54):
I did. Drive to Kingwood and I'll see you there.
It's not far. I mean it's just on the opposite
end of hereon Bibill, right, thank you, all right, that's right.
Ciena Molts is the place for the brown stuff that
sets the foundation for all success in a garden. Cianna
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Malts south of Houston. They are in that area of
Pomona and Fresno and manfol and First Colony and Pearland
and oh gosh, Sandy Point our Cola, Iowa colony. That
they cover that whole area down there, and they deliver
within about twenty miles for a delivery fee. But they
are really well known for their premium hardwood bought mulches
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in bulk and their premium soils and soil blends and composts.
So when you go there, do you want native hardwood malts,
doubble ground molts, two inch screen malts. Do you want
a nice beautiful chocolate colored malts, not dyed, natural smells amazing?
Do you want to buy Landscaper's Pride black velvet for example?
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They carry that down there. They have rose soils, they
organic composts, they've got you know, the veggiean urbics that
heirloom soils produces, and they carry the fertilizers that I
talk about on garden Line that are part of the
brown stuff, part of the soil, part of making the
foundation perfect. So your plants are just happy and it
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makes it look like you got a green thumb because
you informed your thumb by taking care of the soil first,
brown stuff before green stuff Microlife Asamite, Nelson, turf Star,
Heirloom Soils, nitrofoss Landscapers, Pride, Nelson, plant Food, Medina. All
of this stuff to set the foundation is there at
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Siena Maltch near Highway six and two eighty eight. They're
on FM five twenty one. They're open today till two,
closed on Sundays Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five.
We're going to head now to Kyle in Boston. Wor'st Boston, Kyle.
Speaker 28 (02:11:01):
Sorry, it must have sounded like Boston. Austin the Republic
of Austin, Central Texas.
Speaker 8 (02:11:07):
Oh, the People's Republic of Okay, I got you. I
used to live there.
Speaker 20 (02:11:13):
I know.
Speaker 28 (02:11:13):
Actually I'm on the west side near Dripping Springs. I
only claim Austin who I can get mailed.
Speaker 8 (02:11:20):
You know, there's bumper stickers in Austin. Hey, Kyle, there's
bumper stickers in Austin that say keep Austin weird. I
promise you that is the most unnecessary campaign. They are
in no danger of not being weird. But let's quit
having fun with Austin and let's get to your question.
Speaker 11 (02:11:39):
There we go.
Speaker 28 (02:11:40):
Yeah, so I brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 8 (02:11:43):
I keep hearing that.
Speaker 28 (02:11:44):
Over the past few weeks, I listened to you regularly
on Saturdays as I go in to work out and
come back home. I've got a little round trip, and
we live on a ten acre piece of property that's
about eight acres of really thick ash juniper woods, thick like.
Speaker 3 (02:12:01):
Machete cut through the woods, thick.
Speaker 28 (02:12:04):
There are some trails cut through the woods, and we
manage those those trails as trees fallen, et cetera. But
the couple of acres around our actual house is a
just mixture of random weaves and flowers and grasses and
whatever has come along over the years. I don't really
pay a lot of attention to treating or taking care
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of the nutrient base of that particular couple of acres.
I mow it maybe five six times a year as
it gets tall in certain areas.
Speaker 3 (02:12:33):
But as I'm hearing more.
Speaker 28 (02:12:34):
Brown stuff before green stuff, my question to you is
what would be best for the total ecology of our
property in treating either nutrient based or pesticide based, or
nothing at all as I'm doing and just letting nature.
Speaker 8 (02:12:50):
Take its course. You know, in an area that big
out there, I don't see a need to go out
and try to fertilize and add compost in the soil
and things just in uneral. Now, if you wanted to
put a vegetable garden or an herb garden, or flower
beds in or shrub beeds or things, yes, then we
would be bringing in decomposed organic matter, compost, mixing it
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in with the soil. Maybe bringing in a bed mix
that already has a mixture of things and putting it
on the soil. Most of your saws out that way,
or kind of a clay a black clay type soil.
But there's some variation, yes, sure, but just in a
kind of I'll just say a wildscape kind of area. Yeah,
don't waste your time and money on fertilizing unless you're
trying to grow grass, pasture, grass for cattle or some
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other thing.
Speaker 28 (02:13:36):
Okay, My last part of the question would be, there
is a particular area we are dedicating toward planting blue
bonnets by seating or actually have done that in the
past couple of weeks.
Speaker 8 (02:13:47):
Since we've read up.
Speaker 3 (02:13:48):
This is the time of year to do it, not
expecting blue it is for.
Speaker 11 (02:13:51):
The next year and a half.
Speaker 8 (02:13:53):
What cod or should we be doing in that particular.
Speaker 28 (02:13:56):
Area over this next year and a half to keep
it healthy so we do get a good bloom and
a good taking of the seeding.
Speaker 8 (02:14:03):
Yeah, you should have blooms in the spring, at least
a few. Some blue bonnet seed has been scarified, meaning
they break the coat down a little bit so it
sprouts better. Others isn't scarified. And you may get some
seeds up this year and some may not come up
till next fall. But whichever way, no fertilizer for the
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blue bonnets. Their lagoons, they make their own nitrogen. The
main thing you need for them is for them not
to be shaded out by other plants. So if you
have grasses, mowing them down really really low, getting all
that debris off the surface, because the mode grass becomes
a mulch on the surface. And the reason we molt
is so weed seeds don't come up. So if you
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want your blue bonnets to establish, they need sunlight. So
whatever it takes to make sure sunlight hits the soil
where you planted your blue bonnets, that would be recommended. Okay, great, well,
good advice. I appreciate. I know.
Speaker 28 (02:14:58):
Wildscaping is not necessarily a common topic. So I just
was wondering what would be best for the general ecology
the plants as well as the deer, the rabbits and
the whatever, if I should be treating or just leaving
it alone, doing what I'm doing, bowing four or five
six times a year and letting it be.
Speaker 8 (02:15:17):
Yeah, that's probably it. And now that you're over there,
have you been to the Wallflower Center yet? In southeastern
or south Austin.
Speaker 3 (02:15:25):
That's actually know what happened, but my wife has all.
Speaker 8 (02:15:29):
Right, well, go there. They've got a lot of advice.
Their website is excellent for native plants, and they can
kind of help you create the kind of wildscape that
you're looking at. And you've also got let's see you
are you're in cott in what part of Austin? Did
you say you're west southwest dripping springs? Oh my gosh, Okay, Well,
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the Natural Gardener is the best garden center in that town,
and they're they're out on the southwest side of town.
Go there, good advice, they have native plans, they've got
all kinds of good stuff there. Spend some time there
with them and they'll hope you get off to a
good start too.
Speaker 3 (02:16:13):
Brady advice. Rady.
Speaker 8 (02:16:14):
Thank you for appreciate the time, sir. All right, tell
them tell them Skip said Hi. Thanks for being a
listener out there. Tell your neighbors listen, Yes, sir, good
time A right bye bye, m all right, Well we're
coming up on another bright here we go. Hey, I
wanted to tell you about Nelson's carbo Load. Carbo Load
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is a product that contains both the nutrient blend you
need high potassium, low nitrogen for going into fall for
your lawn, but it also has a pre emergent herbicide
in it. So you put carbolod down, you watered in,
and you've done both. You've done pre emergent weed control
and you've done fertilizing. From the folks at Nelson. It's
part of their turf Star line of quality products. And
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for those of you who would like to try out
some Nelson products, I'm going to have a bunch of
jars of Nelson fertilizer, the Genesis transplant mix of rose oil,
the color Star perhaps the most famous one over the years,
and their vegetable garden mix, and I'll be given away
out in Kingwood, So anyone out in that direction come by,
say hi. I got so much. I bet, I bet,
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I don't run out, but don't delay. I'll be there
from twelve until two. Look forward to seeing you, seeing
you out there. We are up against a break. I
will be right back with your questions. Give us a
call seven one three two one two KTRH. Hey, welcome
back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today.
You know, whenever our clay soil is predominant here in
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the Greater Houston area, whenever they get wet, they swell,
Whenever they get dry, they shrink. Did you know that
there's that movement. I've got a broken water line beside
my house and I have not dug there, and it's
just the fact that the oil moved and actually broke
physically broke that water line. I've got to go fix
it now.
Speaker 20 (02:18:05):
Yay.
Speaker 8 (02:18:06):
Anyway, It also moves and messes with your sidewalks and
your driveways and your home foundations. Saw movement is so
powerful it can crack a home slab. Well, fix my
slab foundation repair. Ty Strickland's the owner, been doing that
for twenty three years. He knows what he's doing. They
can come out take a look and see what may
or may not be needed, and they don't jump the gun.
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They don't be Oh, I see a little crack somewhere,
So we got to do all this and now they're
not that way. They will look at it and they
will tell you whether it needs work or not, and
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Number Two, he prices it fair. Don't you wish all
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Isn't that all we're asking for is fix it right?
Speaker 24 (02:18:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:19:00):
Well?
Speaker 8 (02:19:00):
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you get from fix my slab. We're gonna head out
now to Katie and talk to Donnie. Hello, Donnie, welcome
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to garden Line.
Speaker 10 (02:19:47):
Hey this is Johnny.
Speaker 8 (02:19:48):
But that's okay, Oh Johnny, okay, all right, we'll talk
to Johnny.
Speaker 10 (02:19:54):
The Medina products that you recommend and I use the
Medina has to Grow long food starting this spring and summer,
and it had good, good results with it. Is there
any benefit that say in instructions to keep using it
during the non growing cool season or just wait till
spring to start using it again.
Speaker 8 (02:20:16):
The has to grow six twelve six. Is that the
one that you have?
Speaker 12 (02:20:20):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (02:20:21):
Yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 11 (02:20:24):
That you could use, Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (02:20:27):
You can use that one. The thing is, you're not
trying to fertilize your plants and make them grow, but
you're you're if you did any kind of planting, the
hash to grow six twelve six would be good for
helping as they during the cool season. Even though the
top may not be growing, the roots are growing and
it helps a plant get established. It's the has to
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grow plant six twelve six. Now, you know I wouldn't.
I wouldn't use their lawn products in the winter.
Speaker 10 (02:20:54):
You know.
Speaker 8 (02:20:55):
I like their super Grow plus I like their has
to Grow lawn. Those are great products. But let's wait
until spring those But the the has to grow six
twelve six, has to grow plant six twelve six. That
would be a good one to use at this time.
The humic acids humde humic acid liquid product would be
a good one because that is helping the soil structure quality.
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So it's always a good time to be doing that.
It's not meting plants grow, it's fixing the soil soap
plants will grow.
Speaker 12 (02:21:23):
Okay, that's what I need to know. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (02:21:26):
You bet, Johnny, thank you, thanks a lot. I appreciate
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And I'm gonna take my last break of the day
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and I'll be right back with your calls. Seven one
three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Guardline. Glad
to have you with us, Appreciate you listening in today.
Speaker 20 (02:25:19):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (02:25:21):
I don't know if you've ever been out to Moss Nursery.
Out in Seabrook, those of you out in that region,
of course you've been. I mean, that is the most
famous nursery in that area. It's been around a very
long time. And when you go to Moss, you are
gonna wander through eight acres. Just think of it this way,
eight acres of paradise. I mean, plants and yard art
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and things you would never expect to see. I mean
it really Moss Nursery just it's just fun. It's fun
to go to and you're gonna find everything you need there.
I mean, like right now, they got all the cool
season color in plenty of pansies and biolas, and on
and on and on down the line their house plant
greenhouse plan to spend some time, because whether you're into
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succulence or foliage or indoor flowering plants, they have it
all right there. Massive pottery selection right now, they got
a bunch of those. If you've seen the containers, it
looks like a face. It's almost like a statue, you know,
of some Greek goddess statue, but the head is like
cut off above the eyes and there it's hollow and
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you can plan in it. It's a planner, but it
looks like a face, so you want to put a
vine in there so it can drape over and look
like hair. Well anyway, that is another shipment that they
just got in from that and most nursery, no matter
what you need, they've got it. Good service, knowledgeable people.
Every time I've gone there, I met somebody that has
impressed me with their knowledge. You know, they harre master gardeners.
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For example. There are a number of very very knowledgeable
master gardener's working and then a lot of folks that
have been in the gardening business for a long time
and they know it all they do. Moss Nursery on
Toddville Road in Seabrook. The website Moss m aas Nursery
dot com m aa S Nursery dot com. By the way,
when you're there, African violet, get you one they you know,
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African violets used to be really popular. Everybody had them.
They're easy to propagate, they're easy to grow if you
give them some simple things they want, uh, And most
nursery's got a good little selection of them for you there.
I'm gonna head out now to Calvin and talk to Craig. Craig,
where's Calvin.
Speaker 3 (02:27:29):
No, Alvin, Texas.
Speaker 8 (02:27:31):
Oh Alvin, Okay, got you? Got you all right? How
can I help?
Speaker 20 (02:27:37):
Okay, I'm in a rental property. I was able to
get the main portion of the front yard back to health,
to a healthy lawn, but I've got that three foot
section that's between the sidewalk and the street, and it's
just pretty much covered up in this that nasty weed
that we've always had, the uh one with a great
(02:27:58):
big base on it. But anyhow, I've got some san
augustine in there, but I'm kind of a weed and
feed it and everything else like that. But I'm trying
to figure out how to get rid of that nasty
weed and get that san augustine to take over.
Speaker 8 (02:28:14):
Then I need to know what weed it is to
give you the best solution.
Speaker 20 (02:28:20):
It's it's that uh, it's that field I've been in
the Houston area my whole life. Sorry, but it's that
that field weed that's got this really dense base and uh,
you know, it just springs up, you know, within a
couple of days every time you cut it. But it's
just that nasty old.
Speaker 8 (02:28:40):
N Let's do this. Why don't you take some pictures
of it?
Speaker 20 (02:28:44):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (02:28:45):
From a somewhat of a distance and then uproll close,
make sure it's in sharp focus, and email it to me.
And that way I can know that when I suggest something,
I'm giving you the stuff that's going to work best
on that weed. That way we're all on the same page.
I can put you on hold my producer Emmanuel, pick
up the phone. He will give you my email address.
Send that to me. It probably won't require you calling
(02:29:06):
back in this case and through where we talk, but
I'll send you some suggestions for it. But I just
need to know what it is, so I don't mislead you,
send you out wasting your time and money. Okay, okay,
not a problem. Thank you so much, you bet, Craig.
You just hang on all right. We're going to go
to Southwest Houston now and talk to Jesse. Hello Jesse, Yeah,
(02:29:30):
this good morning everybody.
Speaker 29 (02:29:32):
Thanks for taking the call. I had a question about
this most that was placed around the base of the
of the tree. It's probably like two foot round, and.
Speaker 15 (02:29:42):
I don't know my neighbors did this?
Speaker 29 (02:29:43):
My friends, you know, So I'll just call them because
that particular mold that they place on there, it looked okay,
but after a month and a half or something like that,
it started developing.
Speaker 1 (02:29:53):
Like a white mold on it on the top, not
all of it, but in.
Speaker 29 (02:29:58):
Certain sections.
Speaker 3 (02:30:00):
Underneath.
Speaker 29 (02:30:01):
It also was underneath there some kind of a bacterial
So I just want to what costs?
Speaker 8 (02:30:06):
Okay, Well, you know, malt is dead organic matter and
dead organic matter rots and the primary thing that causes
it to decompose is fungi. Fungi.
Speaker 10 (02:30:17):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (02:30:17):
You know, you go in the forest and you find
a fallen log and it's got these little shelf fungi
sticking out from it, and you break the log open.
It's got white strands all through the wood. And that's
just part of nature making more quality soil. And so
I wouldn't worry about it on the malts. That is
what you're describing as not a disease of any plants.
If you don't like the look of it, you can
take a raak and kind of start around a little bit.
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But bottom line is it's gonna go away. These are
these are very seasonal, very seasonal. You know, they crop
up typically we get we hit fall, we get a
coal front, we get some rain, and oh my gosh,
there's toadstools popping up.
Speaker 3 (02:30:53):
In the yard.
Speaker 8 (02:30:54):
There's stuff that looks like the dog threw up, and
the flower beds and there's just every kind of fungi
you can image. But the bottom lizer. They're good things.
They're good things to not worry about. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (02:31:05):
Well that's good news. That's good. That's good.
Speaker 8 (02:31:07):
Yeah. Just make sure around those trees you don't pile
the mulch up against the trunk. Uh. Nature doesn't do that.
You want. You want to pull the multch back away
from the base of the trunk so you can see
the broadening, flared out base of the trunk. Uh, and
then put the meulch, you know, on out far as
you The further you put mulch out, the happier the
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tree will be. Trees hate grass, hate weeds. They like
to drop organic matter called leaves on the ground in
the forest and just make rich or soiled year by year.
Speaker 19 (02:31:40):
All right, Well, think it's good, a good day.
Speaker 8 (02:31:44):
All right, Thanks for the call, you bet, I appreciate that. Jesse,
thank you very much for that call.
Speaker 20 (02:31:51):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (02:31:51):
I want to talk about a couple of things here
as we as we head out today.
Speaker 10 (02:31:56):
UH.
Speaker 8 (02:31:56):
First of all, just just a quick reminder again, I
will be at wallber birds unlimited in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive,
behind torches tacos, and I'm gonna be there from twelve
to two answering your gardening questions. So I didn't get
a chance to call in today, Well, take a picture
of things, bring them to me. Let's take a look
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at them. Maybe you got an area in the garden
that you would like to do something, but you just don't.
What would be a good plant for right there? What
would I suggest? I'll give you some ideas for that.
Maybe you have a sample of a weed or a bug,
or a disease or something like that. Put it in
a bag, bring it to me. I get so many
weeds I could probably create a multipile a mile deep.
(02:32:38):
And all the weeds people bring to these appearances because
everybody's got weed problems. That's okay. Wherever sunlight hits the
soiled nature plants a weed, which, by the way, is
a tip for weed control. You know, I talk a
lot about products to put down to prevent wheat seeds
from germinating a products to put down to kill existing weeds.
But you know the best first step and all weed
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control isn't the sunlight hit the soil. That's important. And
so if you can grow a denser lawn that keeps
sunlight from hitting the soil. If you do the compost
hop dressing, that helps a little bit in keeping sunlight
from hitting the soil. If you got a vegetable garden
and you have plowed things up and you're gonna plan
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a little bit later, or maybe you're gonna plant, now,
get mulch on all the other soil areas so that
sunlight doesn't hit the soil and you cut out on
your weed problems that way. That's just a simple tip
for doing that sort of thing. We try to take
the approach that cultural practices are the best approach to
all plant problems. Now, there's gonna be time where dense
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turf still gets weeds. Dollar weed will grow in dense turf,
Virginia button weed will go in dense turf. Slender aster
will grow in dense turf. But those are the exceptions.
Most weed seed problems. We choke them out by not
letting the sunlight reach the soil. Wherever sunlight hits the soil,
nature plants. A weed fall is the best season for planting.
(02:34:06):
I hope that you will get out there and do
some soil prep brown stuff before green stuff. It is
well worth your time and money to prepare the soil
I've got. I have two plants and containers that have
been sitting in front of my house waiting for me
to get to them because I've been busy with other things.
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But I'm not putting them in the ground until the
bed where they're going has been prepared. I'm ready to
go out the bags of quality soil products sitting right
there on the bed ready to be mixed in. Those
plants aren't going to the ground until the soil is prepared.
Don't PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot, Peter Piper,
Don't PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot. I need
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to get better at saying that. Get the soil right,
get the foundation right. It's where it all begins. Brown
stuff before green stuff. That's compost, that is expanded shale
for heavy clay. Soil improvement that is fertilizer nutrients, so
the soiled bank account is stocked up and ready to
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go to support your plant. I'm telling you those tips
for success right there. Look at your thumb. Isn't it
already greener than it was? Before I started saying all that.
I'm telling you you inform that thumb and you can
have success. And that is a key tip for success
with that. So come on and see me Kingwood wild
Birds Unlimited. I want to show you on that store seeds,
(02:35:33):
some of these feeds that they have bird seeds that
they have rather I've got. In fact, I'm going to
be picking some up today myself. I'm in a low
supply on some of the stuff that I need, darn
birds to state at all, But the squirrels didn't. I
got that squirrel excluding feeder from wild Birds Unlimited, and
boy does it ever work. Hey, it's been a good day.
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Look forward to talking to you again tomorrow. In the meantime,
come on out to Kingwood