Take Your Kids Out to the Garden!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
It's shoes crazy trip.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
You can just watch him as worlds. There are so
many good thanks to sleep bats in gay gass, back sides, gas,

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sun beam and down between gasp.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Well, good morning, Good Sunday morning, gardener. Good to have
you with us this morning. Welcome to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Rictor, and we're here to help you
have a beautiful garden, a bountiful garden and more fun

(01:04):
in the whole process of it. Gardening is a blast.
My happy place. One of my happy places is out
in the garden. Another one is talking to gardeners. That
would be you. Whether you know it or not, you
are a gardener. I believe that with all my heart.
I really do. Don't tell me about brown thumbs. There
is no such thing as a brown thumb. There's only

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uninformed thumbs. And we're gonna inform your thumb. And if
you want to talk about your thumb like it has
a color, well we're gonna turn your thumb green by
teaching your thumb a few things. And all of a
sudden you'll find that, I don't know, you may be
walking across the yard and drop a pencil on the ground.
Next morning you come out and it's rooted and grown
into a pine tree. I'm just saying, right, okay, I

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mean that's that's making a big claim for garden Line.
But we're gonna give it our best shot. How about that.
If you'd like to give me a call, here's how
you do it. If I can find my number from
me seven one three two one two k t r
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it or not, I have to stick that number up
in front of me because as many times as I've

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said it, in the moment I need it, just that's
not always there. Right, all right, we'll give us a call.
We'll talk about the things that you are interested in.
For sure. You hear me talk about Peerscapes a lot.
Pier Scapes is the professional landscape company. Then we talk
about all the time on guarden Line. The folks at Peerscapes,

(02:28):
I don't care what you need, they can do it.
And it's really true. Go online, look at their website
Piercescapes dot com, Pierscapes dot com and just kind of
click around in it. Look at their social media too.
Lots of pictures of jobs they've done. Maybe you are
looking at that backyard spot kind of outside the back
door alongside the house, and you're thinking, you know, a

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patio would be really nice. Maybe some stone out there,
we could set up some tables and just enjoy things.
How about a little barbecue put over here in the side.
Maybe we need a little rock wall going around this bed.
And you just keep imagining and get the inspiration from
pierscapes dot com. You can find a lot of things there.

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Now you give them a call, you get set up,
come in, let's talk about what you're going to do.
What do you want. Maybe it's revamping a bed, Maybe
it's just the whole landscape. You know, I want to
do a complete landscape. They can do that. You're driving
around one night and you see beautiful lighting on somebody's
home and you just think, you know, that would be
a good security thing to have. Plus it's gorgeous going

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out at night. They can do that. You got a
wet spot that doesn't drain well, they can fix that.
Pierscapes does it all. Also, they do quarterly maintenance, like,
for example, once every three months. Coming out looking at
your beds, sprucing them up, getting any weeds out, replenishing
the mulch that's in the bed, making sure that irrigation

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is working well. As the season's change, you can arrange
for various we call them color changes, you know, going
from pansies to petunia. In other words, as you come
out of winter, there's there's nothing that they can't do,
and when they get through doing it, it looks great.
Pierscapes dot Com. Here's the phone number if you like
to call them. Two eight one three seven oh fifty

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sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero.
This afternoon, I have some things I'm wanting to get
my hands on, uh in as far as gardening is concerned,
and one of them is some plant propagation. I've got
several different plants that I want to propagate, in other words,

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make more of and you can do that by seed.
That's what nature does every day, is casting seeds out
from one plant to grow more. And you can also
do it about cuttings. There's other ways to propagate as well.
But I'm going to be doing some cutting rooting myself,
and I just haven't gotten around to it. I've got
a little light table indoors. That's a nice quality light.

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You get a good loose media one that grows. Excuse
me that that you can moisten, but that isn't sop
and soggy wet. Really important to have good oxygen down
at the bottom of the cuttings when you put them
down in a growing mix to root them. I've got
some rooting hormone I keep in the refrigerator. That's how
you keep it fresh. And it's just a dust. You

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can also buy it as a liquid. Just put a
little around the cutting, put it down into the mix
that you are going to use for rooting, and then
some kind of clear cover over the top that allows
all the light to get through, but it doesn't allow
the moisture out. You don't need them to dry out.
Think about this, that cutting has no way of taking
up moisture. It is rootless when you put it in there.

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But as it develops roots, then it can begin to
take up its own moisture. And you don't have to
pull it out every day to look at it and
see if it has roots. If you do that, a
little tender root will break off and the cutting will die.
So you just wait and when you see new growth
starting on your cuttings, new little growth starting to grow out.
You know it's got something down that's taking up nutrients

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to support that growth, and that means it has a root.
Rather than yank it out, I'll take a little fork,
like to use a little plastic fork just to get
underneath the cutting, kind of lift it up with the
fork and then kind of shake it just a little
bit and you can see the rooting media begin to
fall off and you can see the roots. Then you
pot it up into a new container and you're good

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to go. Anyway. I've got several people that are wanting
some plants that I have, and so I'm just going
to root some cuttings today and get some of that done.
It's some the other day as well. It's a lot
of fun to do it now. Once they're kind of
established with some roots on them, they don't need to
stay indoors under lights. It's just it's so blazing hot
in the months to come that I just usually start

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mine inside to do that. There's one other way that
you can start a cutting that's almost like guaranteed success.
It's close to guaranteed success, and that is with what's
called a layer la ye er. So let's say you
have a vining rows, you know, a climbing they call
them climbing roses. But and you go out toward the

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end of the vine and you bend it, and as
you bend that it sort of cracks and it becomes
like a hinge, like an like your elbow. Okay, so
picture your elbow. Your fist is the end of the vine.
And you put that elbow under ground or in a
pot under the soil, have some way to pin it down.
Set a heavy rock on it, take a little bent

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coat hanger and pin it down into the soil. Keep
that area moist. That wound will begin to callous where
your elbow is, and roots will begin to form, and
you just kind of have to check on it periodically,
not very often, every couple of weeks, maybe a little bit.
And once it's going got roots of its own, you
cut it loose from mom. In other words, between your

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I keep using my arm as the example, but between
your elbow and your bicep. You know it's connected to
your body that way, right, So you just cut it
off there and now it's its own plant. You can
dig it up. I like to do it in containers,
because then you've already got it in a container and
you just keep going anyway. There's a lot of ways
to propagate, and propagating is fun. It's a great way
to share things also that you just can't find anywhere.

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You know, maybe or maybe a plant has a wonderful memory,
you know, like it's one that you got from Grandma's
house before she passed. And now the house is gone,
it's no longer in the family, but everybody remembers that
you fill in the blank a shrub that was outside, uh,
and now you can share that with your other family
members as a memory of Grandma, for example. See what

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I'm talking about. It's good to know how to do
some cuttings. Well, I'll tell you what we are getting
my excuse me, uh, looking at a time to take
a break here. I'll come right back, and Lisa in Seabrook,
you're gonna be our first stop when we come back. Alrighty,
welcome back. Good to have you with us here on
garden Line. Look forward to visiting with you about the

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questions you might have this morning. Seven one three two
one two kat r let's go out to the phones.
Now we're going to head out to Seabrook and visit
with Lisa. Hello, Lisa, Welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Good morning, Good morning. We're looking for a small white
flowering tree, and yesterday I saw something called by Burnham.
Does that row well here?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Well, there's about one hundred and fifty different by Burnham's
literally probably more than that out there. There's some that
make little small bushes or some that get a little
bit taller. Some do okay here, and some do very
well here, and some need to be further north. It's
kind of a it's kind of hard to answer as
a single question, but there are a few that do

(09:39):
really good. There one that you might like. There's some
native ones, and if I were you, I would you're
done in Seabrook, I'd run over to Moss Nursery and
ask them what kinds they have, what kins they can
get that will be more tree form. If you go
a little further west from here, Rusty black Harvo Burnham
is really popular as a native tree. We have a

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number of native I Burnhams here in the country, and
so that one is good. It can be a little
tricky to get started, but once it's established it's nice.
It has fall color and makes little berries that attract
the birds and things. But yeah, it just depends on
which one. The southern arrow wood, I wouldn't say it's
tree size, but it can get a little bit larger.

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That would be a possibility. Just make sure you get
the southern one. So those are some of the things
if you're looking for other kinds of trees. Now, the
Chinese fringe I like a lot, but it gets it
probably you're going to see it eventually up around twenty
feet maybe tall is a tree. I don't know if

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that's too big for what you're looking for or not. Okay, okay.
It has shaggy white blooms in the spring. You can
do an online search to see pictures of it. And
the blooms have a nice little fragrance, very light fragrance.
But there's so many of them that when you walk around,
you pick that fragrance up, which is nice.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Okay, thank you, you bet.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
You bet.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
We'll go over and talk to him at mosque because
they know what they're talking about over there, and they
can you know, they can point you in the right direction.
If there's a specific by Burnham you like to, you
run across and you want to call back some time,
I'd be happy to visit with you about you know,
more specifics, but most of them think of most by
Burnhams as big shrubs, and some of them can be

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trained into kind of a tree form and do pretty good.
All right, Lisa, Well, thanks for the call. Good luck
with that. You take care if you are dealing with
gray leaf spot in your Saint Augustine, and you may
well be. Listen, gray leaf spots everywhere and the conditions,

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environmental conditions make it become a problem. Okay, So you
go all through the heat of summer and you see
very little greatly spot at that time. But about now
the temperatures are a little milder, but we're getting more rainfall.
And then some people turn their sprinklers on way too often,
and that's when Gravey's spot takes off. An eagle turf

(12:11):
fungicide from nitrofoss can shut it down. It can shut
it down. Just remember your overwatering is one of the
things contributing to gray leaf spot in your Saint Augustine lawns.
So number one's let's back off good soaking not very
often when you need to treat for it. Eagle turf fungicide,
Eagle turf fung aside from nitrofoss You're gonna find Eagle

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at Ace Hardware. City of Memorial. You're gonna find an
m dat and Rosenberg Bearings hardware on Bisonette and on
West Timer, and also plants fall seasons, plants for all
seasons as well. All righty, let's now head out the
League City and we're going to talk to Walter this morning.
Hey Walter, good morning.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
I sent you an email with quick tim regarding the
lawn changing colors to yellow, and I sent three pictures
along with the emails. Now, I forgot to mention to
you as something funny. Something funny is that I have

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two oak trees and the leaves are like green and yellow,
and it seems to me that the lawn is taking
over the color of the yellow from the trees. I
don't know if that's a possibility or not, but I
follow your schedule and watering and fertilizing, and I'm not
really sure why this yellow. And it looks like I'm

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the only one in the block that getting the grass
that is yellow.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, so I have your pictures. I want you to
after we talk today and the sun comes up, go
out and pick some of the yellowish grass blades and
hold them up to the light. And I think what
you're going to see is when you look close, it's
striped yellow and green through up and down the length

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of the grass blade. That's an iron deficiency. And I'm
ninety nine percent sure you're going to see that based
on the photos from a distance that you sent me.
If that's true, you can try an iron supplement on
the lawn and that will help replace the there's iron

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in your soil. The grass can't get it because it's
in a form. Grass is not able to pick up
right now. So a supplement can help green it up
for you, and that would be a good idea. Be
very careful with your iron supplement because you've got driveways
and walkways and things. And if you get iron supplements
on concrete, it stains at a rust color. So after
you apply it, get your blower broom and get it

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off the surfaces and then watered in really good. It
should do pretty good. I think you will also do
well if you get it as a liquid form. A
fertile home has a micro nutrient iron and other micro
nutrients supplement. It's by fertile home. It's in a gray bottle,
and it has more than just iron, It has manganese
and other things in it. And I might just do

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it that way, maybe a hose hose en sprayer, and
that ought to green it up. Now, having set all that,
the question is why isn't the grass getting the iron
that's there in your soil one form One reason may
be if you have high pH or hyphosphorus or other things,
or there's a lack of iron. But another may be
a disease called take all root rot, which kills roots.

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And when roots die, their ability to take up nutrients
goes down, or you may if they're not there, they
can't take them up at all. So the overall grass
plant is lacking because it doesn't have enough of a
root system to do that. If take all is the problem,
you're just going to need to go to my schedule,
my schedule on my website UH for UH Lawn Pest

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Disease and weed Management, and you'll see take all root
run in the fungicide row going across and it tells
you when, and then at the bottom it tells you
what to use to control the take all. I can't
diagnose take all just from a distant picture of a lawn,
but having seen this so many times, I would say
there's a fifty to fifty chance that take All may

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be involved. But still that fertilum supplement would be a
good IDEA.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Great, thanks so much. That's very comprehensive, and have a wonderful.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Day, all right, hopefully not too comprehensivell right, thank you, Walter.
I appreciate, appreciate your call very much. It's it's summer season,
and when it's summer, there are storms, and whether there
are storms, our trees can sustain severe damage. Remember last summer,
two storms came through and what was power out for

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two weeks with each one, and at least some places
around town. You need to pureniture right to develop good structure.
And by the way, printing starts when you put the
tree in the ground. It's a little scrainy tree in
the ground. That's when we call it training at that stage,
but it's pruning that's when it begins. If you wait

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until the tree is twenty feet high to begin pruning,
you're messing up because you've already developed narrow branch angles.
There's already structural things that aren't going to be good
and strong. So you want to start your trees early.
And that's where I would hire someone to come in
and help you with the training from the beginning. But
if you already have an established tree, you need someone

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that knows what they're talking about to do the pruning.
And that process is not it's not that difficult. Just
remember that. It's like a lot of things in life.
The sooner you deal with an issue, the less problems
you're going to have, the less difficulty you're going to
have and trying to deal with it. Okay, don't put

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things off, don't be an ostrich, put your head in
the scind if. I like to tell people this, if
if you go outside with a saw, you're admitting guilt.
And here's what that means. If you have a young
tree and you see branches and you go, this isn't
a good spot. I'm going to take my lopper prunters
and prune this off and you stay with it diligently

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like that, you almost never need to get the saw out. Okay, now,
I realize there's situations where you got to solve branches,
but I'm just trying to keep create the concept that
the bigger the branches you're sawing off, the more you
have put off a problem that could have been dealt
with earlier. So don't from the time it goes in
the ground begin the prunting process and get somebody that

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You heard about him on garden Line for a long
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get an appointment. It's a family company. Martin's mom's probably
going to answer the phone. UH, and just tell her
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to the front of their line. They're the priority. They're

(18:58):
the priority. So and they fill Affordable Tree stays busy.
They they fill up really quickly because they do good
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going to do construction around a tree, you gotta call
them to come in.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
This is a third generation company that's been in the
Houston area taking care of our trees for a long time.
Affordable tree Service seven one three six nine nine two
six six three Important to take care of your trees,
all right, take care of your trees, all right. Well,
I'm gonna take a little break here, David and Tumbull.
I don't have time to give you justice on your call.

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Will take you first when we come right back. Oh yeah,
welcome back to the guard line. Folks. What are we
going to talk about today? You told me. I mean,
I got a lot of things I can talk about
a lot on my mind gardening wise, but hey, this
is about you. It's about your yard, your garden, your
flower bed. Let me give you one encouragement today this week,

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well this week, how about today? Today? Be a good
day anyway, Get involved with a kid with gardening, if
you've got children, if you've got grandchildren, however you go
about it, get a kid out there in the garden,
get their hands in the dirt, and let them just
get dirty, make a mess, and have fun in the soil.

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That is part of the fun of gardening. I know
some of you, you know, have sterilized kind of situations.
You keep kids in because you know when to get sick.
A kid that plays in the dirt. And this is
medically true. When we're exposed to a lot of things
like that, running around barefoot and stuff, it builds your
immune system and you're healthier. But a child that learns

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to grow flowers and vegetables and things is more likely
to eat healthier Because I grew it, I'm going to
eat it. It's really different. Broccoli looks different when you
grew it, as opposed to when your mom's trying to
shove it down your throat.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Right.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Oh, by the way, today is National go barefoot Day,
so throw the shoes off. Nobody wears shoes today National
barefoot Day. Oh boy, I remember those days running barefoot
all summer. There we go. All right, we're gonna go out.
The phones out, I'm gonna head the tumball. We're gonna
talk to David this morning. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Good morning, Good morning, sir.

Speaker 7 (21:20):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
I've got a grapefruit tree and a meyer lemon tree
that I planted about the same time, about a little
over a year ago. And the grapefruit tree, they both
were probably about a foot and a half tall when
I put them in the ground, and the grapefruit tree
now is about four feet tall. It's it's the limbs

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are spreading out. It looks really good. It's doing real well.
The meyer lemon, if it was a foot tall when
I planted it, it's only a foot and a half
tall now and it's not doing at the same rate.
Is that just normal for that type of fruit? Or
doing something wrong?

Speaker 5 (22:02):
Not that not that.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Unusual? Uh that that lack of growth. So it could
be a lot of things, and it could be more
than one too, probably not just one. Uh, lack of sunlight,
lack of good drainage in the soil, lack of moisture,
depend upon the soil going into a stress. Well there
erutriance done in them.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
Well they're only about ten feet apart from each other.
And I'm putting the microt the tickers and fruit. I've
been putting that down about every two months, and I'm
going it's just not seem for what there it littles healthy.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
All right, Well, you're doing everything you should do. Uh,
good sunlight. Let's see the other the other thing. And
I doubt this is the cause. But just keep in
mind that in the early days of these the early
years for two or three years of these plants getting
the fruit off so that it puts all its energy
into growing gives you way more fruit in the long run.
You know, I know, we want we've got a little bloom.

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We want to have a fruit, a few fruit. But
that also really stunts them back. But I don't know
what else to tell you if it's really too early
for it to be a girdle a girdled stem. But
you might just dig down around the base of the
stem and make sure there's not something strangling the stem.

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Sometimes the little tag, those little tags that loop around
and go through you know, there's a hole in the
tag and you wrap it around the tree and go
back through the hole. Sometimes those can be real tight
on the base of a stem or something else strangling
like that. I don't think that's the problem. But we're
kind of grabbing at straws here because everything else that

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could go wrong you seem to have done right. So
I'll just continue to fertilize. You might want to give
them a little boost of something with some nitrogen and
see if you can push a little bit more growth
on them. That would be good. Are you real sure
that the soil where that lemon is is very well drained.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
I only imagine because I mean they're both on pretty
level ground. They're only about ten feet apart from each other.
So I'm going, well, I don't know, Okay, I'll take
and see you.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
But okay, well, okay, well I'm going to eliminate that
then from the possibilities, but I would get a booster nitrogen.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
You know, the.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Product you're using for microlife is excellent, but they also
have a supplement that it's called bio bio Matrix. It's
a little orange quart bottle and you can folier spray
with that as well, and I would try a drench
of that. It's a seven one three, I believe I

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need to look at the bottle again the third number.
It's something like a seven one three. It's got mostly
nitrogen and you just drench it over the soil in
a watering can. Can spray it on foliage. It's hard
to get folier feed and a citrus, but if you
try to do that, do it early, early in the
morning when it's cool, and spray your folier spray upward
to hit the bottom of the leaves, and you may

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get a little bit of a boost into the plant.
That way, but a good drenching of the root system
is also good. That That's about all I got for
you now, other than going out there and uh, threatening
the plant that you're going to yank it out of
the ground and throw it in the burn pile if
it start growing, and that I go out there and

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sing you how's your well? Do you have a good voice,
because that could also be the problem that might be growth.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
All right, thank you for the call. Appreciate that. All right,
let's see here where we we're going to go now
to a task. Casita and doctor Jim, Hey Jim, welcome
to guarden Line.

Speaker 10 (25:58):
Good morning.

Speaker 11 (25:59):
The best way check moisture in the ground.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
How do you do it?

Speaker 10 (26:05):
Another one?

Speaker 11 (26:06):
You're checking your trees?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Are we talking about fairly new planeted trees, you know,
in the first couple of years or what are.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
We talking about?

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Yeah? Okay, all new, they're all new.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, you know, the just the simple primitive way would
be to go out there, get you a hand trowel
or something, dig down about four inches or so, about
four or five inches, and then just feel the soil
and see how it's doing and kind of get a
feel from it. That way literally a feel from it.

Speaker 9 (26:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
There are moisture meters that are very erratic in their accuracy,
depending on so particle size and as to how well
they actually measure. When it's a tree in an area
that you think maybe getting could get too much water,
some people will put a pipe down into the grain.

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And let's say, I'm going to just make up a
number here, but let's say you got a pipe that
was about oh an inch and half in diameter and
you put it down into the ground at the depth
of the root ball that you planted. Then you can
come along with a little doll stick and stick it
down in that pipe and then pull it back out
and you can see if it's wet at the bottom
or not. You can see if they're standing water in

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it or if you see what I'm saying, and you
always want to water it and don't overwater it. That
that keeps you from kind of overwatering it, because if
water is coming up in that pipe, that's not good.
But the only other thing is just going by the
temperatures and doing a good moderate soaking just periodically to

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help it along. And that's you know, you kind of
have to learn your soil, if you have sandy soil
or clay soil or whatever, frequency of watering is going
to vary a lot. Okay.

Speaker 11 (27:54):
And also was just told that you should never water
a newly planted tree day. Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, that is a very good question.

Speaker 11 (28:11):
And the reason why they said that because you should
give you should give the roots a chance to expand
and find water on their own. Is that true?

Speaker 1 (28:21):
I wouldn't say it that way. I tell you what
here in a nutshell is the deal on this when
you buy it. Let's see, you know, butterle of tree
for a tree whatever, and it's sitting in a garden center.
They're watering it every day to make sure it has
a good soaking and it stays wet. It depends on
the time and it's cooler and cloud and stuff. They're
not watering it every day. But my point is it

(28:42):
needs constant water because the whole root system is right
there in the pot, and the holes drain out well,
so you don't overwater it, so it doesn't hurt the
water like that. When you put it in the ground,
the root system is still the same and the top
is still pumping water out through the leaves on warm
sunny days, so you are having to water frequently to

(29:03):
keep that little root ball moist. You don't want to
overwater it and get soggy. That is deadly to a tree.
But on the other hand, even in moist soil, the
water can't wig end fast enough into that root ball
to supply the tree. You're going to need to water
the base of it. And gradually you're watering a bigger
area but less frequently, And it's just a it's a transition.

(29:25):
That's why it's so much better to plant and fall
and winter in spring because the demands aren't so high.
When you plant in July and August, you can you
can plant then and keep a tree alive. But that
it's a touch and goat thing. Not too much water,
not enough water, you know what I'm saying. So what
you said about watering every day, Yeah, I could see

(29:45):
a situation where you would water very lightly every day
that rootball, just don't overwater it. That's early on, But
as soon as you can, you're wanting to back off,
and you're wanting to switch your watering cycle to where
eventually within by the time that you get the end
of the first summer, you should be watering about once
a week, and that ought to be more than enough.

Speaker 10 (30:08):
The next question you mentioned, Hey, hey.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Jim, I'm gonna have to put I might to put
you on. I got to put you on. Who go
to a break? Hang on, we'll come back. Alrighty, we're
hopping here on Guarden Line. Good to have you with us.
I guess what I did yesterday? I barbecued. I had
a go ahead time barbecue with my new pellet grill
that I got at Ace Hardware. Our ACE Hardware is

(30:34):
yours if you are thinking, if you're in the market
for a barbecue bit or any accessories to go with it.
And I'm talking about the best brands you can think
of out there. I mean the you know, things like
Big Green Egg, things like Trager, things like Rectick, things
like oh gosh, what's Weber? There's another one in there more.
I mean, I'm not naming them all. Ace Hardware has
got it and they've got all the accessories you need
to go with them. Uh, you need to find your

(30:56):
local Ace Hardware store Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Listen, ladies,
Father's Days coming up. I'm just saying, wow, this would
be a good one. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Find
your local ACE Hardware store. They're all over the place,
and at Acehardware Texas dot Com you can find out
of course when you're in there, get some fertilizer for

(31:17):
your lawn, get all the kinds of things you need
to have a beautiful outdoor living experience. You can go
to All Star Ace and Spring up on Rayford Road.
You can go to K and M in Kingwood, which
is on Kingwood Drive. There's also a K and M
at task Asita, which is in an humble address out
there on the east to the north and east of
us Cyprus Ace on Jones Road another good example. And

(31:39):
if you're done in Deer Park, there's deer Park Ace,
deer Park Lumber, Ace Hardware on Center Street. That's just
a few of the many, many ACE Hardware stores that
you'll find at ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. We're going
to go now back to a task Asita and Jim,
I think you had a quick follow up question.

Speaker 11 (32:01):
Right, and also to help you out on that that
Microlife Biometrics is a seven to one three Ye that
last call you have seven three okay, yeah, okay, yeah.
When mixing I mix the four to two three with
the microlife, soil and plant energy. I made a mix
of that. You have mentioned something about spring. You said

(32:24):
spray upwards under the leaf, but if you just spray
inside and under it and all around, that also helps correct.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, So the reason folio feeding is an unnatural way
for plants to kind of take in nutrients there. Plants
are designed taking nutrients from the roots. Okay, but if
you follow your feed in the morning, the stomates, which
are little openings in the bottom of the leaf are open,
and you get better take in of the nutrients. And
not all nutrients are taken in the same on leaves

(32:55):
for folio feeding. Centris tends to have a waxy kind
of leaf surface anyway, a little shining, and so just
spraying over the top you're not going to get the uptake.
But in the morning, when the stowmates are open, spring
upward to the undersurfaces would be the way to go
about that. All righty, thank you sir. I'm gonna I'm
gonna need yeah, I'm gonna need to run, but thanks

(33:17):
for the call. Jim. Look forward to, uh, you know,
seeing some pictures of these these beautiful trees that you're
taking care of you take care you too, talking about
the ace hardware and just you know, find everything you
need there. They have everything. I mean they have. You
can get the propane tank there. If you've got a

(33:38):
gas type grill, that's another another thing. Uh, and any
kind of outdoor beautification around, you know, a patio of
landscape stuff. They've got all this good stuff for it. Hey,
have you been to Plants for All Seasons recently? Plants
for All Seasons is at Luetta and Tumball Parkway, which

(33:59):
is highway to So if you're going north from Houston
toward Tomball, you exit Luetta across over Luetta and it's
right there on the right hand side. And if you're
a green thumb, you probably already know about Plants for
All seasons. If you think you have a brown thumb, well,
I'll take your thumb in there and they'll educate it.
They know what they're doing. They're true lawn and garden experts.

(34:20):
They really know their stuff. Right now, they've got some
beautiful hidden gingers in a number of different types of
hidden ginger. They carry a variety of plants. I'm just
picking one out hidden ginger. If you've got a bright,
bright shady area is a perfect plant for that. It's
got a big kind of a can of leaf sized leaf,
maybe a little smaller than that, and then these bloomstalks

(34:42):
that are just beautiful. They make a cup flowers too,
by the way, but they come up from the center
of the plant. That's why they call it hidden because
it's not like the bloom is just sitting way above
the foliage. It's kind of in the top of the
plant there. Beautiful and you got they got them plants
for all seasons, which isn't a surprise. They carry everything
that would turn your lawn into a more or your
landscape into a more beautiful place in the springtime. If

(35:06):
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Speaker 10 (35:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
The lawn care schedule is there. The pests, disease and
weed management schedule is there. The publication on herbicide products
for application with my weed wiper or without the weed
wiper is there. I got to call yesterday someone had
a grassy weeds and they wanted to kill the grass,
but not kill their pretty flowers in the bed. Well,
there are actually some products on the schedule they just

(36:20):
kill grass. So whatever kind you're going after, it's right there.
Good article on lawn care long Care one oh one.
I would highly recommend that you read that. It talks
about some of the basics of success with lawns and then,
of course, you know me, you got to talk about dirt.
Great gardens begin with great soil. Another new publication up

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on Gardeningwiskip dot com well, welcome back to gardening. Gardening
on garden Line. That's what we're doing here, plant in
the airways. I guess you could say, I don't know,
tell that sounds a little bit corny to me. But
we want to help you have success. And today is

(37:03):
going to be a good day to get out and
enjoy this afternoon, we're gonna have some nice weather at least,
you know, as far as I'm concerned whether we can
we can actually get out and get a little bit
done in Sometimes when it comes to gardening and gardening tasks,
I think we we tend to kind of make something
bigger than it needs to be. You know, we think,

(37:25):
oh my gosh, I got to do this, I don't
know how to do this and stuff. It's really it's
really not that difficult, and when you take it in
small chunks, it works pretty good.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
I'm I need to take my own advice there, because
I get out gardening and I feel like I got
to get it all done today, you know, and I
go and go Instead of spending a short time out
getting some things done and going doing some other stuff
come back to another time. I just tend to stick
around and nothing else nothing else gets done that day
but my gardening. And when summer comes and it's blazing hot,

(37:54):
that is not a good way to do. Get a
little work done early, early in the morning, get maybe
a little done toward the end of the day. It's
still warm at the end day. But pace yourself. Take
care of yourself too, by the way, take care of
yourself because a lot of things that they sneak up
on us. For example, a heat stroke is one that

(38:14):
can sneak up on you. I remember, I've never had
heat stroke. I have had heat exhaustion, and that scared
me enough to kind of get my attention. But skin damage,
you know, take care of that. I bought some little
sleeves that you slide up your arm. They're actually a
kind that like bicyclists might wear. On one end your thumb,

(38:36):
there's a hole for your thumb and your fingers to
come out, and the sleeve just goes over the top
of your hand and all the way back, all the
way up into your bicep underneath your short sleeve shirt.
And I use those driving in the car, but I
also get out there and do some gardening. There's some
nice brands out there. Come in different colors and shape,
sizes and things. But take care of your skin. Sun

(38:57):
damages is cumulative. And these sleeves you may be thinking, yeah,
it's blazing hot. I don't wear them. It's cooler to
wear them. When I put that sleeve on, it's very
it's very thin, a very kind of spandexy, I guess
very you know, stretchy. And when I go out and
if your body perspires just a little bit, it cools

(39:17):
off real fast. It blocks the direct sun from getting on.
You just got good SPF factor and it makes gardening easier.
The first time someone convinced me that gardening in a
long sleeve shirt was actually cooler than gardening and shirt sleeves,
and it's really true, especially if it wicks the moisture
away pretty well. All right, well that's enough advice. I'm

(39:39):
not your mom, but I do. I do like to
remind people of those things because they are important. We
want you to take care of yourself. Out in the
garden yesterday we were watching the birds coming to our feeder.
I have the eliminator feeder from wild Birds Unlimited. It's
one of my several feeders, but the eliminator from wild
Birds on Limited. The squirrels can't get in it. They

(40:02):
climb up the pole, they try to reach over there.
When they grab a hold of it, the door shuts
and they can't get to the food. And they don't
like that, and I do like that. And we were
watching birds coming to the feeders, and just so many
kinds of birds now are out and about. You know,
it's nesting season. This is a time when birds need
an extra powerful blend that's going to have the oils,

(40:24):
the proteins, the calcium and things like that that are
all part of everything from laying eggs to skeletal development
of the birds. And wild Birds Unlimited has something called
Nesting Super Blend. It's only available there. You can't get
it anywhere else. You can buy it in bags, you
can buy it by those compressed seed cylinders. So whatever
kind of feeder you have, you can put the Nesting

(40:46):
super Blend in it, and you need to. It is
a good support for our birds at this time. Now
you're going to find Nesting Super Blend at any of
our six wild Birds Unlimited stores here in the Houston AIO.
So if you're listening to me and you're up in Cypress, well,
there's one on Barker Cypress. Maybe you're kind of West
Houston and a Memorial Drive store would be the one

(41:08):
close to you. Maybe kind of south in a little
to the west, the bel Air store may be the
best one for you. If you're in Pairland on East Broadway,
you'll find a wild Birds. In clear Lake, there's one
on El Dorado, and in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive another
wild Bird's unlimited store. Now, while you're there, check out
everything they have and spend some time talking to them.

(41:30):
Take your questions, and these folks know what they're talking about.
They really do. They're experts, and if you have questions,
they can help you. They can help you find the solutions.
I love their bird seed for a number of reasons,
but mainly because it is quality seed without all the filler.

(41:52):
If you want to sell bird seed and you want
to sell it cheap, and I use the word cheap
not in a positive way, you just fill it full
of the lower red bebes. And I've seen bird seed
that is like sixty seventy percent red bebes. That's a
sortum and it just birds don't like that. That's not

(42:14):
I mean, if they're starving to death, de leat it,
but that is not what they like. It ends up
on the ground and it sprouts, and now you got
weeds under your bird feeder because you planted the weeds
there by putting that in the feeder. Get a quality feed.
Wild Birds Unlimited has blends for different seasons. They have
different blends for different kinds of birds, different groups of birds,

(42:35):
and then they have something called no mess blends. So
when you get a no mess blend, you're getting this
certain amount of certain kinds of seed blend, but you're
getting it so there's zero mess. For example, if there's
sunflowers in it, the shells are already off, so you
don't have a blow pole sunflower shells underneath the feeder.
That's the no messed option, no mess option, and they

(42:58):
will will sell you probably and cylinders if you want
to go that way, or loose bags, however you want
to go about it. They have quality products and you
see the difference. I've seen it in my feeders, just
the enthusiasm and the amount of birds that are coming.
They're just lining up down the block to get in there.
Because I love quality seed, and that's exactly what they
get from wild Birds unlimited. All right, So there you go.

(43:23):
If you've never gotten into birds, you need to try.
Just get one bird feeder, put it out where you
sit in the morning with your cup of coffee, and
you will really really enjoy it. It is addictive. Though
you've been warned all right on talking about gardening and

(43:45):
garden line. I wanted to talk a little bit about
some herbs today, and I'm not going to have time
to get too far into them here before I take
a break, but I just wanted to start with basil.
Basil loves hot weather. I didn't even want to grow
when it's cool spring weather. It wants hot weather. And
there are so many kinds of basil from the standard

(44:07):
Genoees kind of type basil that you would think of
when you're thinking about cooking with basil and making pestos
and things like that, to all these flavored basils. You know,
there's basils that are a lemony flavor. I have the
African blue basil. I'm not particularly fond of it culinary wise,

(44:31):
but some people love that flavor. There's basils with the
licorice type of flavor, the tie basil and things, and
I grow the African blue just for the pollinators. I've
never seen a plant that's just so covered with pollinators
all the time. Is African blue basil when it goes
to blum. It's a very good, hardy plant. But why
not add some basil to your gardens this year. It

(44:52):
could go in a flower bed, it can go in
a vegetable garden. It doesn't matter where you put it
in a container. But we went out the other day
and we were harvesting herbs. One of my daughters was
out chopping through our oregano bringing some in because we
were doing some cooking. And it's just nice having fresh
herbs yourself, and they're not hard to grow. I'll talk
about that more. We come back. All right now, we're

(45:14):
gonna take a little break if you'd like to give
me a call. Seven one three two one two KTRH.
All right, folks, we're back. Good Davey back. Thanks for
hanging around with us on garden Line this morning. We've
got some interesting questions here. In fact, let's head up
to Cyprus and visit with Martha this morning. Hey, Martha,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (45:35):
Thanks Jim. I had this plant. I got it a
couple of years ago and had it repotted into a
bigger pot, and I put it out on the atrium for.

Speaker 10 (45:46):
The cold weather and when I look and then.

Speaker 12 (45:49):
I forgot about it. So I looked at it just
recently and it had grown tremendously and the big leaves
had fallen down as you be. And I don't know
whether to cut them off whether. I don't know what
I should do with that plant. It's pretty healthy, but
I don't know what to do with it.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yes, well, that's a kellal lily, the one you sent
me the photos of. And Kellalies are wonderful plants, that is.
You know, there's eight hundred thousand bazillion kinds of plants
out there, and believe it or not, in almost forty
years now, I haven't gotten around all of them yet.
And so keller lily is one that I began working

(46:26):
with more last year, and we planted a bunch of it,
and I thought it in a pot, and we thought
they had all died because they kind of shrunk back
and shribbled. But I just set the pot out of
the way because and the time at the moment to
mess with it. In this spring, we came out the
same thing as we looked and all of a sudden,
here comes kllalilies out of the pot. Oh that's great,
But yours look a little lanky and kellalily And it's

(46:50):
a native environment. It's an African plant. I'm pretty sure that. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure that's right. Anyway, it gets a lot
of sun, full sun kind of thing. Now, I've always
felt like maybe we should put it in a little
bit of a break from the hottest time of the day.
So when we get into hotter summer weather, maybe give

(47:10):
it a little bit of a very late day shade.
But it'll be a more compact plant that way. When
it gets super lanky and the petiols are thin of
what you described, Martha and what's in your photos, they
kind of flop over, and I wouldn't remove them. If
they turn yellow, go ahead and cut them back near
where they attach at the base. But they are capturing sunlight,

(47:32):
and they're making carbohydrates, and they're feeding the little bulbs
that are that are in the soil there. So make
sure that you leave the leaves on as long as
you can, as long as they're doing something for you.

Speaker 12 (47:47):
Well, is it better to plant it out in the ground.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Some people do. Yeah, some people do. They they like
consistently moist soil. It's a little dry, they're not going
to be happy. So in a container, you need to
water them regularly to keep that soul moist. Some people
even go to the step of getting a tray that

(48:12):
they can put water in and then they set the
plant in that tray. And I don't mean like the
plant is immersed in water. I mean just like maybe
the bottom inch of the soil in the pot is underwater,
and so it can constantly lick the water up. And
that way you don't forget to water it. You just
have to throw some mosquito dunks in there periodically, so

(48:34):
you don't breed mosquitoes in that.

Speaker 12 (48:37):
Oh okay, okay, okay, all right, I'll try that. I
mean because it looks really healthy. I was shocked when
I looked at it because I hadn't looked at it
for a lunch.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Yeah. Yeah, look, no, it does look very healthy and
it's beautiful.

Speaker 9 (48:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
The sunlight they're capturing now helps build the energy reserves.
And I said earlier a bulb, it's actually a rhizome
to produce the flowers. So at the end of the season,
your foliage is gonna, you know, just kind of disappear
away and the plan will go dormant. And then in
winter let them be dry, just let them sit, let

(49:13):
the pots sit there, and you don't have to worry
about water or anything in the winter. And then when
the spring growth comes, you will have those bulbs that
have the energy they need to be able to bloom
better for you next year.

Speaker 12 (49:26):
Okay, okay, okay, all right, okay, thanks, I guess I'll
keep it.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Oh gosh, you got to keep it? Yeah, you bet,
you bet.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
Well.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Enjoy it. They're beautiful.

Speaker 12 (49:40):
Yeah, it's in an atrium and it does get some there.
But I should put it out, probably right, I mean
I put it, I think so, yeah, from the winter.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
And yes, I but pot we had last year that
I didn't have in good sunlight, uh, and then it
came out this year. It was lanky like that because
it's not an enough sun uh. And it had one
we call them blooms, but their spaths, those those colorful
structures that are on top of a calo lily. It

(50:12):
only had one for the whole plant. And it's just
because it didn't have the energy. It's all about sunlight.
Carbon energy for any kind of I didn't.

Speaker 12 (50:22):
See any flowers at all. I didn't I've never seen
any flowers on it. Do I need to feed it?

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Then we'll take good care of it, okay, all right?
Well moderate, just just moderate something with a good phosphorus content. Yeah,
just a oh gosh, yeah, just a moderate amount. As
you can see, it doesn't lack for nitrogen. It's it's
got some bigger in it. It looks okay, but just

(50:50):
a moderate amount. Don't don't overdo it because then it
gets real floppy and lanky. All right, thanks for the
thanks for the call. I appreciate that, Martha. All right,
next year, when you take care of it, uh, send
me a picture of all the blooms on it. Will
take a look at those. Uh yeah, kalallyes. You see
those in stores now, they're selling them, you know, full

(51:10):
of blooms. They have been for a little while now,
they've been probably the last month I've been seeing them
out there in stores. It's a good plant.

Speaker 6 (51:17):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
There's a lot of plants like that. We just don't
we don't use them enough and and deal with them enough,
and they end up it's like that's hard to grow.
It doesn't work.

Speaker 6 (51:27):
Well.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
All you had need is to know is what a
plant wants. You got to think like a plant, you know.
That's why I said there's no green thumbs, there's just
informed thumbs. Well, now, if you got a kalally, give
it good sunlight, keep it constantly moist, do not let
it dry out. Let it dry out in summer I
mean in the winter, and set dormant and bring it
back out and you'll have It's easy care. It really

(51:49):
is easy. We did nothing, do nothing for our calilies
from the end of the season all the way up
until spring. When you start to see new growth. That's
when you bring it out and give it some good
sunlight again. All right, there you go, and some people,
if some of you grow them in the shade in
your beds, give me a call. I'd like to hear
about what you do, how much light they get, and
everything like that. I know you can, and so maybe

(52:12):
that that would be of interest to some other folks
to hear about your success. Medina. Medina is a lawn
and garden product source for all kinds of good things.
There are two products I want to tell you about
right now. One of them is and they both go
on a hose end. They're a bottle that has a

(52:34):
little screw attachment onto the garden hose. One of them
is Medina has to grow lawn, has to grow lawn.
Remember when a bottle says the name of a plant,
that doesn't mean you can't use it on other plants.
It just means that's what they're primarily marketing it for,
is lawns. Okay, it's a It is a twelve four eight.
That's a three one two ratio, which is what I

(52:56):
like to see in a lawn fertilizer. Twelve for a
Medina has to grow on You look it up at
the garden hose, you go over your lawn, just follow
the instructions. It's easy. It's just really easy to do.
I like it because if you've got some spots that
they just need a boost, you can go out there
with your hose end sprayer. The hose end sprayer be
in the bottle itself and you can just kind of

(53:18):
dose those areas, I say, feather it out into the others.
You know, just you don't have just a line like
with a dry fertilizer, where you drop it and then
where it's not it's like green here, not green there.
You can just kind of feather it out and really
kind of give a boost to some little spots. But
it's not just for that, it's for your lawn. The
other product for Medina is called Supergrow Plus. Super Grow

(53:40):
Plus same thing, bottle, hook it up to a garden hose.
I mean these things are for sale in larger quantities too,
like gallons. But Supergrow Plus is a sixteen zero two
that is a boost of nitrogen and it's excellent for lawns.
It works very very well. I've used both of them.
I like both of them. I would recommend that you

(54:01):
use both of them. And so it just gives you
the ability to do that precision application. Now, if you
get anything that needs a boost of nitrogen and get
it growing. Could be your herb garden, could be your
tomato plants and a vegetable garden or something else, you
can use these Medina lawn products for that and it'll
do the same good thing for those other plants as well.

(54:23):
All righty Medina products from Medina. Now you're gonna find
Medina products everywhere you go to Southwest Fertilizer. I mean
they got probably every Medina product under the sun. You're
going to find them at garden centers, you know you're
your independent garden centers. You're going to find them at
feed stores. You're going to find them at these hardware stores.
They're widely available, easy to find, and they work, that's

(54:44):
the bottom line. As they work. You're listening to garden Line.
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we'll talk about the things that are of interest to you.
I'm going to go back to herbs. I was talking
about herbs before break and I mentioned the fact that

(55:08):
basil loves heat. It's easy, easy, easy to grow. Give
it lots of sun and enjoy it. Most types of
basil will start to bloom and set seeds. If you're
going for basil foliage to eat, that's not a good
thing because when it starts blooming and setting seeds, it
doesn't produce the big, old, nice leaves that you're wanting

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to harvest. It kind of runs out and it puts
all its energy into blooming and setting seed. That's when
the pollinators get very interested in it, though, so you
can go for that. I will share my basil back
periodically to get fresh new growth on it, give it
a little boost of energy with some nitrogen that has
to grows twelve four eight has to grow on would

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be a good one to use for basil to give
it a little boost. But anyway, you give it a
boost and get some fresh new growth out and then
you just can enjoy it. Again. Consider all the different
kinds I mentioned oregano. There's several types of oregano, several
types of oregano that you can plant. Oregano makes a
great groundcover. I would highly recommend you get herbs out

(56:14):
of the herb garden if you want to make a
beautiful Louis the fourteenth type geometric, all trimmed up in
everything herb garden, go for it, do that right, but
put herbs in your vegetable garden. I have chives at
the end of my rose. I have a regano growing
at the end of the I put basil at the
end of the tomato. In fact, if you're going to

(56:35):
grow tomatoes, why not put basil on one end and
a regano in the other. And you're just ready to
go for all the stuff you do with tomatoes right
there in your garden.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Do that.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Time is another great one. It's not as vigorous as
a regano and spreading, but it stays nice and low
for the most part, and it does really well. I
think we My wife has like three a time growing
in her planting garden and it looks really good. Makes
a good good groundcover. You can do all of these

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and containers as well. So if you have a big
old pot full of flowers and things, why not you
let some oregano or time spill over the edge of it.
There's always a place for herbs. They're fun to grow,
and it's not a healthier way to season up your
food than with the herbs you grew yourself fresh from
your garden. I need to take a little break here

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and we will be back with your calls at seven
one three two one two kt RH A little bit
of a Sleep at the Wheel for those of you
who love that band from Austin, Texas. I do sleep
at the Wheel. Hey, you're listening to Guarden Line. Our
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to the phones now and we're going to have the
spring branch and talk to Herda. Well, hello, Herda, welcome
about the morning.

Speaker 13 (01:00:12):
My questions about day lilies. Okay, I have a number
of them that have shrouded up, and I find out
why they call them day lilies. They roll up at
night or in the evening. But anyway, what is it

(01:00:33):
okay to put them in a container?

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
You can grow day lilies in the container if you
keep it adequately watered, and do it in a container
with a volume of soil in it, not just like
a little gallon bucket, you know. I mean you need
you need to give them plenty of soil to work with,
but you could do that. They're pretty tough plants, all right,
all right?

Speaker 13 (01:00:58):
Do I feed them anything?

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Get you a fertilizer that has a good middle number
content that's phosphorus, and apply it just periodically. You can
do it in the spring. You can do it in
the summer if you need to. But the bottom line
is you just want to keep them healthy. You don't
want to push them into lots of growth in our lawns.
We're always pushing them with nitrogen to make them grow

(01:01:23):
because we want them green and full and thick. With
daylilies and other flowering plants for that matter, our goal
is the flowers, and so we don't have to over
push with nitrogen and things. But you can get a
lot of good products. The folks at Nelson Plant Food
have a number of different products that will do very well.
There's one called color Star. Color Star you'll find it

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little in your area wherever Nelson products are sold, and
follow the label on it. But color Star would be
an excellent one for use on your.

Speaker 13 (01:01:55):
Dayly Lisa, I put one of them in a quart
container and took it to my neighbor as a gift.
Would that be too small for it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
For long term? Yeah, for long term it would. I'm
not sure what we're I'm not real sure we're talking
about day lilies here. Are you real sure that that's
the name of this plant?

Speaker 13 (01:02:18):
No, I'm not really right now. I don't have a
way to get the information to you. I can ask
a friend maybe to do it, but it may be another.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
That's fine. Let me ask you this what color of
the blooms?

Speaker 13 (01:02:40):
They're a cream white.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
Okay, creamy white. And are they shaped like a trumpet?
Or are they shaped like a.

Speaker 13 (01:02:55):
Trumpet? It's just one boom to a stam. This stem
is the size of a straw. It looks like about okay,
well over foot tall, and they have a ball at
the bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Okay, Well, maybe maybe we're dealing with the dailily. There
are several plants that have that fit that description. But
whatever it is, the the advice I gave you is
is going to be sound for the whatever kind of
plant that fits that description.

Speaker 13 (01:03:25):
All right, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
All right, all right, all right, you take care of yourself.
Good to talk to you.

Speaker 13 (01:03:32):
All right, thank you, bye bye.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
M h.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
All right, there we go. You know, some people can't
walk in shoe gum at the same time, I can't
use the right mouse when I have two monce. I
just and you to step away from the mouse and
let somebody else drive. I guess. Anyway, we're back with
your questions. Listen, phone number you need this one seven

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one three two one two k t r H. You
don't talk about today. I'm kind of going on about herbs.
And we'll continue to here for a while because I'm
trying to convince you that you need to grow more herbs.
I really think you do. There are very few plants
that are so versatile as herbs. There are herbs that bloom.
I planted some pineapple sage the other day. Pineapple sage

(01:04:22):
is a Salvia, Okay, so there's a lot of great Salvius.
Salvia is my favorite genus of plants that is out there.
If I had to pick one genus, it would be Salvius.
And I like a lot of plants, but I would
pick Salvius. Anyway. I planted some pineapple stage in late summer,
and in fall it puts out even the most for
the whole year. Red tubular, long, skinny blooms that hummingbirds love.

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Of course, it has a pineapple fragrance to the foliage,
but in fall it is quite the bloomer. Another fall
blooming herb is Mexican mint marigol. Some people call it
Mexican marigol mint. That is not the name. It's not
a mint. It is a marigold Mexican mint marigold. Okay.

(01:05:07):
It has a licorice smell smelling foliage. So think of
black jelly beans. That's what the foliage smells like on it.
In fall, it loads up a clusters of little yellow
daisy like flowers that are absolutely beautiful. So that would
be another good one to plant now so that you
could enjoy it in the fall. There are herbs for flowers,

(01:05:27):
There are herbs for flavors, There are herbs for beautiful foliage.
Try some herbs this year. I'm going to take a break.
We'll be right back with your calls. Welcome back to Guardline.
Good to have you with us today. Hey, uh, bugs
bugs in the lawn? What do you do? What do
you do for chinchbugs? It's not quite chinchbug season yet,

(01:05:48):
it's coming. If you get my schedule, the long pest
disease and we'd management schedule. You see when we start
to look for chinchbugs, you see when we treat for grubs.
You see when we deal with you know, various things
through the year. That's what the schedules put there. What
about fire ants, that's another one they're always around. It
seems like, well, bug Out Max Granules covers it all.

(01:06:09):
Bug Out Max is a lawn and garden insect control
and you put it out on your lawn and it
deals with all the different things we're dealing with, from
grubs to fire ants to caterpillars that are chomping on things.
Even if you have fleas out there and the maybe
you got a dog and there's fleas living in the thatch.
That's part of the cycle of fleas and then they

(01:06:31):
bring them inside. Bug out Max granules by Nitrofoss that
will shut them down. Now, so where do you get
that kind of thing? Well, for example, you could get
it at RCW Nursery on Tomball Parkway. If you go
to Langham Creek Ace Hardware that's on five pot twenty
nine backside of Copperfield. There Plantation Ace Hardware on three

(01:06:51):
point fifty nine that's north and Liddle to the east
of the Richmond Rosenberg area, and then out in Ankleton,
Lake hard where in Angleton on Velasco and Lake Harbor
and Clute on Dixie Drive all places that carry night
Foss products. Let's go to the phones now. We're going
to head out to Magnolia and talk to Jane. Hello, Jane,

(01:07:13):
Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, Hi, how can I help?

Speaker 14 (01:07:21):
I have a really tall crate myrtle like it's over
my rooftop and like every time this tiny year, I
feel like it's raining underneath it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
But it's really not raining.

Speaker 14 (01:07:33):
It's kind of like a gummy white substance.

Speaker 10 (01:07:37):
And I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Gummy white. Well, I'm not sure if it's.

Speaker 14 (01:07:44):
White or clear, but it feels like it's raining underneath
underneath that tree. Nowhere else in the in the whole ark,
but underneath that tree.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Well, well, uh have you ever you know, you know
how people are like sitting outside and they got drinks
and they got the little umbrellas in their drink. You've
seen that, right, Yeah, you need to get umbrellas because
of what I'm about to tell you. Oh, bugs are
peeing on you. That's what's happening, and so you need
a little umbrella for your drinks, so your iced tea

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or whatever. Out there. Bugs there are insects that suck
the sap out of plants and they get the they
get the minerals and nutrient kinds of things out of it.
But they drink so much that it's going in one
end and out the other end of the bug. And
they're just constantly squirting that little little bits out and

(01:08:39):
so it doesn't really hurt the tree much. The trees
able to more than make up for it, but it does.
Sometimes some of those substances are very sugary, and we
get honeydew, and therefore we get a city mold, the
black city mold growing. That's some types of insects are
causing that. There's other types that they just pe out

(01:09:00):
a little watery substance, and that's what it is. Now.
You can look at it two ways. You know. You
can look at it for what it is and get
grossed out, or you can look at it as a
nice missed system that helps cool you last summer when
you're sitting underneath getting a little spray of the let's
just say.

Speaker 10 (01:09:18):
A little bit.

Speaker 14 (01:09:19):
There's a little bit of black black on the bark
at the very bottom of the tree, like a dark Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Well, crape myrtles also have crepe myrtle bark scale and aphids,
and both of those put out the sugary water that
causes the city growth. What you're describing to me as
a different insect is more of a plant hopper, and
so yeah, that's that's it. Well, I don't know, I mean,
you could nuke your tree and kill everything. Now it's not.

(01:09:49):
And I just don't like, you know, sending people out
to nuke the tree with insecticides because something with six
legs is crawling around on it, So I would I
would ignore it. Just yeah, just you can get you
can get the little umbrellas, I'm sure on Amazon for
a good price. And so there you go. Maybe get
your an umbrella while you're at it. Sounds good, all right,

(01:10:13):
all right, thank you, take care you best. Thank you.
It's go to League City and talk to Carol. Hey, Carol,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (01:10:21):
Hello.

Speaker 9 (01:10:23):
I spoke to you last year about my white beach
spider lily that have fungus on them, and you told
me to get two products, the try try dimophon and
my clothes get to nil. And I found the second one,
but the first one the only place I can find

(01:10:43):
that is online for two hundred and fifty dollars a gallon.
Do you have any alternate in or anything.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
That, Yeah, you're talking about try a dimophon, Yes, sir?
Was that the first one? Okay? Yes, sir, you know
I I'm actually not remembering exactly what it was. I
think you was the problem some little spots on the
leaves and then if you turn a leaf over, there's

(01:11:11):
kind of a dusty, rusty colored thing underneath there. Yes, okay,
well there are there's triadim ifon in more economical packages
than that. That's just a fun just side. I wish

(01:11:31):
if I saw a picture. My hesitation is this, I
could suggest some things. But really, if I could see
a picture of the spots again and make sure I
know which disease it is, I could better target recommendation
to you. Okay, so.

Speaker 10 (01:11:57):
Excuse me.

Speaker 9 (01:11:58):
The second one you guys made is uh, it controls
it somewhat, but it just comes back with a vengeance
before I can put it on there. Even every ten days.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
Oh wow, we'll see Michael. Butte nil. It's systemic and
so it should last for a lot longer than that.
I'm not sure.

Speaker 6 (01:12:21):
We can do this.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
A couple of ways you could. You could get a
product called daco nil d A C O N I L.
That is a brand of the ingredient that's in it. Uh,
the ingredient. I keep giving you these long chemical names,
but that's really the best way to recommend something. But
Chloro thallo nil is dacoil and it is very good

(01:12:45):
against rust type diseases. If indeed this is a rust.
So I I just I just want to know that
we got we got the right disease. And so if
you want to do this, if you'd like to go
and take a picture of what you're seeing, show me
the whole plant, and then show me up close and

(01:13:05):
good sharp focus, check focus before you send them the
top of the leaf, and then show me the bottom
of the leaf on these spots. Then I can nail
it down and get it right and not waste your
time and money on something that may not work that well.
Because Michael buttinhil if it quickly is not working, then
we don't need to be using it because it if

(01:13:25):
it works, it works, and you shouldn't you shouldn't have
that experience with it. But that's how it is. You
just like you go to the doctor and they don't
have like one medicine for everything that could make you sick, right,
and so that's how it is with these fungicides as well.

Speaker 9 (01:13:41):
Okay, okay, well I'll do that. Then I'll send your
picture and see if we can get the right products
for it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
All right, happy to do that. Thanks for your call, Carol,
look forward to that. I'm going to put you on hold.
I'm gonna put your hold and I'll handro pickout and
he'll give you the email that you're gonna need. All Right, folks,
the music means time to go to a top of
the hour break. Well, this morning is flying by already
eight o'clock almost. Well, I'm glad you're listening. I hope

(01:14:12):
you're having a good day, and I hope you have
plans for a really nice afternoon getting out there in
the gardens. Remember that herbs are for everybody, and herbs
are for everywhere. Containers, flower beds, I can even I've
seen people use solid burnett, which makes a little mound

(01:14:32):
of leaves that tastes like cucumbers. Solid burnett as a
little lining around the bed like you would use litt
riopy or something. I've seen people do that with chives too.
That's another idea. Just a pute for you. Well, welcome back,
Welcome back to the garden Line. We look forward to

(01:14:56):
helping you with the kinds of questions that you might
have today. I want you to have success. Listen, Gardening
is fun. The best hobby there is period.

Speaker 6 (01:15:04):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
I'm not I'm okay, I'm biased, but that doesn't mean
I'm wrong, you know what I'm saying. It is a great,
great hobby. I've enjoyed it my whole life, considered a
blessing to be able to be for my whole life
really working in a field that I absolutely enjoy. So

(01:15:26):
two happy places probably near the top of my list.
One is visiting with gardeners. We're doing that right now,
did it for thirty five years in the agrofe Extension
Agent Texas A and M. And the other is sitting
out in my garden and just messing with plants and
watching bugs. You know, I enjoy learning and watching. It
is a fascinating world to go out there and just

(01:15:49):
be still a while and see what's going on.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
I talked about African blue basil being such a great
pollinator attractor because it gets a a pretty good sized
basil bush and it it just blooms and blims and
blooms and blooms and blooms, and you sit there and
you look at them, and you see the different things
coming in. You learn a lot about them, and uh,
it just it's a wonderful field.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
I know some of you arek go sit and stare
at your basil. But whatever kind of gardening you like,
I don't care if it's houseplants, if you like just
playing with plant propagation and starting seeds and growing transplants.
If you maybe the lawn is that, maybe you are
the lawn ranger of the neighborhood and that is what
makes you happy, A perfect pristine lawn that just looks good. Well,

(01:16:32):
go aheadside and be happy, enjoy that. Gardening has something
for everybody, no matter what you're growing. And I've gotten
a lot of emails Toda. I'm waiting on some follow
up calls from these folks that have done emails. But
lots of pests, lots of disease problems and things. If
Southwest Fertilizer, you just need to put that on your rolodex.
Remember we used rolodexes. Southwest Fertilizer corner of bus Nutt

(01:16:54):
and Runwick website, Southwest Fertilizer dot com phone number seven
to one three six sixty six seventeen forty four seven
to one three six sixty six one seven four four.
They've got everything that you need.

Speaker 9 (01:17:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
You know, a while ago someone was calling me and
they had well it was Carol talking about the the
lily and want to make sure we got that disease right. Well,
I don't care which of the many types of leaf
spot diseases and things that attack a lily. She has
the answer and the solution to its at Southwest Fertilizer

(01:17:31):
because they carry the whole thing. That is, when it
comes to diseases. It's like the pharmacy for plants. Everything
that you would need to manage or deal with the
disease is there. If it's insects, same thing. If it
is spider mite's same thing, If it's weeds, same thing,
they have it off. They don't have it, You don't
need it. It's as simple as that. Southwest Fertilizer corner

(01:17:52):
bus Nutt and Runwick stop ey there, say to Bob
and the team, if you've got a question about something,
you can take a picture in. You can take a
sample in samples even better, put them in a little
ziplock bag so something doesn't crawl away, and take it
to them. They'll do an assessment of it and you know,
points you to the right thing. So anyway, that Waspertilizers

(01:18:13):
the place you need to know, and the phone numer
you need to know right now, is seven to one
to three two one two KTRH. So you can give
us a call and we can talk about the things
that are of most interest to you. Yesterday I was
talking about Moss Nursery and I made a statement. I
saw some information from us about a place called the

(01:18:36):
Clay Pigeon. It's a grand opening and some of the
bands that are going to be there and the fact
they're having a crawfish boil and everything there, and we
got some calls on it. And as I looked into it,
what I found out was, well, actually Jim's got a
new place in Austin, Texas, South Austin on Slaughter Creek Drive. Now,
I know we have people that listen from Austin and
from that area. But if you are inclined to go

(01:18:58):
over there, if you live over there, the klappage in
Grand Opening Extravaganza Saturday, June fourteenth, from twelve to six pm.
There will be a crawfish boil. There's gonna be music.
Of course, it's Austin. You've gotta have music, all kinds
of interesting stuff, pop up market and a lot of
other fun things. Anyway, that is, if you want more information,

(01:19:21):
just follow the Moss Nursery on social media. They've got
stuff posted. They even have a little qurer code you
can click on with your camera to find out more.
If you don't have plans for this afternoon, how about
a plan? The plan is to go to Moss Nursery
and go check out.

Speaker 15 (01:19:38):
What they have.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Moss has got every category of plant in spades. As
they say, it is an outstanding place. If you are looking,
I'll say house plants. You know, house plan is a
term we made up. No plant is native to houses,
but plants that can take a very low light or
prefer a low light environment. We typically them houseplants, but

(01:20:01):
then a lot of those, like cactine succulents, they need
more light. And you can find the same things at
Moss's Houseplant get any kind of category you want. They
have gorgeous staghorn ferns hanging from trees out there. You
just have to go see them. They're unbelievably beautiful staghorn ferns,
whatever kind of plant you're looking for. Hanging baskets, hundreds

(01:20:22):
and hundreds of hanging baskets for summer color. Things that
will look good today. You got folks coming over this
afternoon or this evening. Go get you some color from
Moss Nursery, hanging baskets, container color, whatever, and you can
have beauty instantly. Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas two
eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two

(01:20:45):
eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. We're
going to go down to Tomball and talk to Jody. Hey, Jody,
welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Thank you for having
me morning, Happy to do it. How can I help?

Speaker 16 (01:21:04):
Yes, sir, I've recently purchased some guardinas and they're still
in the containers that I purchased them in. I've only
had them for a week. They're on the northeast side
of my home, which is where I wanted to plant them.
But I'm doing something wrong. I'm either overwatering or not
watering enough because they're literally turning black.

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
Okay, is a tissue itself? It's a tissue itself collapsing
or is it like a coating that if you wet
your thumb and rubbed it, you could rub the black
off the leaf?

Speaker 6 (01:21:43):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (01:21:43):
Well, I can't get anything to rub off on my hand.
It just literally looks like it's dying like it's burnt.
I'm thinking maybe they're just they can't tolerate the heat.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Oh, they can take the heat. That typically if you
give them a little late day shade is good. But
they need plenty of sun to be able to bloom
their best. So I think the problem is in the roots.
Lay one of those containers over, kind of bump on
it a little bit, and then slide it sideways out
of the container. And if the roots on the outside
aren't nice and creamy white colored, then you had a

(01:22:19):
root loss. And that could have been due to soggi,
it could have been due to dry Either one kills
roots and they need to probably be moved into a
very bright shade so the demands are lower on the
plant and given some time to recover and be real
careful with the watering during that time. Hopefully it's not
so far gone that you have difficulty saving them. But

(01:22:41):
that that is what I would do on those. And
make sure and get you when you get guardian, You'll
always get you a good acid loving fertilizer. And you
know up there and which which direction from Tomball or you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Northwest?

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
Oh? Okay, well there you go. I mean Arbigate's kind
all kinds of good stuff in there that they know
what to give you for guardena so they can get
you all set up. But first let's just get those
things on their feet. Check the roots. If you've lost
a lot of roots, it's gonna be touch and go.
But just wait before you plan them. Let's try to
get them some new growth on them and get some

(01:23:20):
healthy roots on the outside and then put them in
the ground. Okay, okay, good, perfect, Thank you all right, Jody,
you bet, thank you for call. Appreciate that very much.
You two. I've got to run to a break here.
Kevin or Kelvill and Tomball and Bill and Galveson you'll
be our first two up. Welcome back to the garden Line, folks,

(01:23:43):
Little Dolly Parton to get us go on this hour.
We're going to head now down to Tomball. Let me
get my right mouse. We have problems with today and
we're gonna talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Good morning ship, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 5 (01:24:01):
Molds.

Speaker 6 (01:24:02):
How can I get rid of moles?

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
Yeah, warns don't seem to work.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Uh and and I just want to make sure we're
talking about moles and not gophers, right or do we
need to picking that one out? And okay, all right,
so moles. First of all, I'm gonna I'm gonna point
you at a publication that will be very helpful for you.
If you go to the agrolife Learn website agro Life Learn,

(01:24:34):
there is a publication on managing mold damage and you
just do a search for it. But managing mold damage
it goes into the oh gosh, I can, It goes
into the specific options that you have, some options involved
bringing a pest control operator around to do it and whatnot.

(01:24:58):
But it's just agro Life Learn a mu dot Eed,
you do a search for mole, so mole publication when
you go there, when you look at it, what it's
going to tell you is your your basic options are
trapping from a homeowner standpoint, okay, And there's a couple
kinds of traps. One kind is a loop. The trap
sits on the ground. The loop is underground, the mole

(01:25:18):
goes through. It's kind of gross, but the mole goes
through and that loop snaps up on the mole. The
other is a spike that goes down from the top.
It's called a harpoon type trap. It tells you how
to find out which it runs, are active, where to
set the trap, how to set the trap and stuff. Uh,
and that is the that is kind of what's in
your control. The idea of poisons don't really work the

(01:25:38):
toxicans because moles don't really eat grain baits and things.
But and the and then other things that only a
PCO can do are out there, but that that's probably
the best way for you to deal with them.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
The traps are better than the poison.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
From what I hear. Now, I'm not a wildlife damage
management expert at all, but from what I've heard, the
toxican the baits that are available for moles not usually
that effective. They just don't eat grain baits and stuff.
Maybe something new is on the market, but yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
They haven't work so far. Okay, I'll get that.

Speaker 15 (01:26:21):
To try and thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
All right, thank you very much, appreciate your call. Let's
see here, oh, Airloom soils. Heirloom soils is kind of
a one stop shop for anything you need to get
the ground ready for planting or to improve the ground
around existing plants. Bed mixes like things for roses and

(01:26:44):
other bloomers, things for fruit trees, things for vegetables and herbs.
Whatever it is, airlom soils has got a blend for you.
Just go to the website airloomsoils dot com and learn
about it all the products they have, and then head
out to your local garden center, feed stores. All kinds
of places carry airloom soils products. You can buy them
by the bag. If you're going to do a big

(01:27:05):
job and maybe revamping a big bed or building a
big bed, you can have them deliver by the cubicyard
to your place, either dumping it on the driveway or
bringing it by what they call supersacks cubicyard holding sacks,
or you can go out there and get it. Go
to Porter. It's out on Highway fifty nine Inporter, Texas,
the Warrange Rock and Malt location where airloom soils comes from.

(01:27:30):
They have that stuff out there as well. But start
by going to airloomsoils dot com airloomsols dot com find
out the products that they have, all kinds of things.
They also have shale too. You hear me talk about
expanded sheales sometime and how it holds up longer than
organic matter. Does even in keeping a clay soil open.
You can get it from there. Airlom Soils makes a

(01:27:50):
combo of malt or compost and shale too. You can
buy them both together in a bag. Airloom Sols quality products.
I say that because I've used them and I've seen
the results. Let's now, let's see we're going to head
to Bill in Galveston. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Thanks get good morning. I sent you two photos good

(01:28:13):
morning of some powdered plants. One has its leaves as well,
the other one's doesn't have it. So what's the difference
and they got the same treatment, same place. Yeah, those
are angel wing bagone. Well not angel wings or regular pogonias.

Speaker 11 (01:28:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
And you know, different things can cause the foliage to
fall off. It could have gone through a dry period.
That's very likely, Uh, saggy wet soil. If the those
hanging plastic hanging baskets the drainage holes are plugged or
whatever and they're not draining, well, it could be that.
But that's the difference. And I know what you're probably

(01:28:53):
gonna tell me is, Yeah, but they're hanging side by
side of water and the same and I don't have
an answer for that. But it's not an insect, it's
not a disease. It is some sort of a stress
in the root system that's causing that defiliation. So I
should make sure that that the drain holes are up
from that flog. Yeah, make sure you know, water it

(01:29:15):
a lot and see if a bunch of water runs
out the bottom. If it doesn't, then stick a pencil
up through the holes or something kind of open them up.
So I don't know what could be done there clogging them,
but just check for that. Bottom line is it's in
the roots that we're seeing the problem.

Speaker 6 (01:29:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
If it a root rock got into them, then it
may eventually kill the whole plant. You know, it may
may not be that. You just wait and it gets better,
but you just have to wait and see on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
Okay, thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate you call very much.
You take care. Well, what are we looking at here? Yeah,
we got some time. Let's now head to talk to
John and Tom Ball. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:30:04):
Yes, sir, I bought some a couple of months ago,
some Ingleston Hollies and some magnolia.

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
Okay, So.

Speaker 6 (01:30:12):
How often show fertilized in the beginning and for how
long consistently?

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
Okay? Yeah, So when when you put a new plant
in the ground, new tree or shrub in the ground,
it does not need fertilizer for a while. You get it,
let it get established. When you start seeing new growth occurring,
like the plant is getting established and doing doing well,
you can begin to fertilize it gradually. Uh, you said

(01:30:39):
Eagleston Holly. And remind me of the second plant that you.

Speaker 6 (01:30:42):
Said, Magnolia, Magnolia little Jim.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
Okay, well, I would get I would get a plant
food for acid loving plants.

Speaker 5 (01:30:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
And so depending on you know what, what kind of
product you prefer to use.

Speaker 4 (01:30:56):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
The folks at Microlife have a microlife product for acaid
loving plants. It's kind of in a deep pink kind
of bag, pinkish red bag, and it works really well.
It being an organic not salt based, it's you're not
going to burn plants with it. You can mix it
into the soil a little bit, scratch it into the
surface so it can decompose a way. But it's gonna

(01:31:18):
take a while before those plants have the root system
that's out now in your soil and your planting beds
to be able to need and take up the nutrients
that they need. What was in the container when you
bought them is enough to hold them for a good while,
at least six weeks.

Speaker 6 (01:31:34):
Okay, So I have fertilized it through arburgate. They're they're fertilizer.
So I think they told me once a month, and
I wouldn't show them that. Is that just too much monthly?

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
That's fine? Yeah, you could do that and arbigate. They're
fertilizers organic. It's an organic type fertilizer. So again you're
not salvation. I come them. Just gradually feed them as
you go by a little bit at a time. You're
getting the soil built, you're getting the soul better, and
just what they're telling you there, just follow out. That

(01:32:09):
would be just fine for their organic Yeah, all right, sir,
you take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much.
Whenever we are fertilizing plants, I just want to remind
everybody of something sometimes I talk about fertilizer like you're
giving a plant a boost. Like I was talking about,

(01:32:32):
you know, the Medina Hosen spray application of a higher
nitrogen product where you're just getting that nitrogen out in
there to give it a boost, and that nitrogen is
very volatile. That comes, it goes. The nitrogen that's there
today is not going to be the nitrogen that's there
a month from now. I mean, it gets taken up
by microbes, it goes off, it's a gas, it washes away.

(01:32:52):
There's a cycle in the soil of nitrogen, but all
the other nutrients, especially. We're building a bank account in
this and so when you're using a product and you're
doing it over and over again over time. You know
he was talking about the arrogate organic product. You are
putting lots of nutrients in the soil, lots of different nutrients,

(01:33:14):
not just three, and as a result, you're building that
bank account. So as these trees began to grow, he
had magnolia and eaglestunt whatever you're planting. The roots go
out there and they go, hey, I need a little
bit of this or that or the other. It could
be phosphorus, or it could be potassium. It could be
magnesium or sulfur or zinc or manganese or whatever. The

(01:33:36):
bank account has it and it's ready to go and
That is how we think of fertilizing, not just a
boost that's more than nitrogen, but building the bank account
so the plant can have success. I'm going to take
a quick break and Mike and surf side, you're my
first step when we come back. All right, In our
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them something to attract mosquitos, so they come in there,
they lay their eggs. Those eggs will hatch into larvae
that will never become an adult mosquito and then mama

(01:34:43):
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is a disease a fungus of mosquitos, and that mosquito
won't last a long time. But anywhere it stops with
a little bit of water, maybe your neighbor's got some
old tires in back that are holding water, or a
bur bath that they haven't tried to clean out for months.

(01:35:03):
When it lands to lay eggs there, that water will
get a little bit of a dose of that stuff
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And so basically your buckets become bait stations to make
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We're going to head now to surf Side and talk
to Mike this morning. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (01:36:26):
Hey, thanks Kip. Hey, quick question for I was just
thinking about this today. When is the optimum time to
pick your vegetables. Would it be the morning or the
evening or the middle of the day or does it
even matter?

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
It can matter. Some things don't matter, like potatoes underground,
it's not they don't technically ripen. They get bigger o carrots,
for example. I try to do my harvesting in the morning,
and so do commercial farmers. Once the day heats up,
there's something called field heat that's in the vegetables. You know,

(01:37:01):
those tomatoes are hotter hanging on the vine if you
will when it's twenty five degrees outside, and so if
you when you pick things in the morning, especially things
that are prone to declining and quality, like sweet corn
being the ultimate. You pick it while it's cool, you
bring it in. You either use it or store it
or refrigerator, you know, whatever you're going to do, and

(01:37:23):
it lasts a lot longer than if you waited until
mid afternoon to pick sweet corn and you bring it in.
The declines is going much faster at that time, So
avoid the field heat. Pick in the morning in general
that it doesn't matter for everything.

Speaker 17 (01:37:40):
That's exactly what's kind. For tomatoes would probably best in
the morning, I'm guessing probably.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
Also be a little better. But tomatoes, yeah, tomatoes and cucumbers,
a squash and things. But it's not it's not a
big deal, you know, on them. I mean they you
see tomatoes sitting outside on a road sides down for days,
you know, underneath the cover of shade. Uh, and they're
getting hot. But it's not as big a deal for them.

(01:38:08):
But you know, all things being equal, just.

Speaker 17 (01:38:10):
Pick in the morning, okay, cool, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
Here here's when here's when you pick a tomato an
hour before the bird shows up to pecket. I understand,
all right, Mike, thanks a lot for your question.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
You take care, Bye bye. That is true. We're gonna
go to Follsher now and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
Welcome to the garden Line.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
Hiki.

Speaker 10 (01:38:38):
Thanks thanksgaking my call. I've got these tests that have
been attacking some pottered plants that have in my patio,
and I sent you some photos. They're they're not all
the same. The one that's thinks the most prevalent is this.
It's this white material. I'm assuming it's kind of an insect,

(01:38:59):
but I can't really finding me on those. It's but
there's all this kind of black gunk that it's leaving,
and it's it's gone over four different plants of line.
And then I got a couple others, one which has
some little white bugs on them, and another one they're
kind of I wondering if there's the mighty spider mites
that they're kind of like a very very very very

(01:39:21):
tiny kind of brownish color. Yeah, yeah, And I'm just
wondering the uh.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
Is one of those that it looks like a camellia.
Is that what it is, that's right shrub. Okay, Yeah,
that is called T scale, that little white scale. It
sucks the juices out of the plant and then it
basically peas out sugar water. And that's why you get
a city mold that'll be growing there. It's already starting
but growing pretty soon. The best thing on that would

(01:39:51):
be a systemic insecticide that gets into the plumbing of
the plant, so when those scale insects suck the juice out,
they get the point in that way, something on the
outside of the leaf will be poisoned because it's not
sucking juices out of the plant, and a product ingredient
mid oh cloprid im I do clo p r I

(01:40:16):
d e mid oh cloprid on the camellia specifically, will
help shut that down. The T scale. All right, there's
some other systemics, you know, depending on where you shop.
You're out there in full sure, you've got a really
good ACE hardware store not too far for evening plantation
ACE on three fifty nine. They're going to have a

(01:40:36):
number of products like that out there, and I would
try that. Then there's another plant that has white stuff,
but it's along the veins of the of the leaf
that is also a scale. There may be some meai
bugs on that one too, but they're on the veins
because that's where they can get the main pipeline of
the plumbing and get more juices out of it. And

(01:40:58):
it's the same solution for that plant, Okay. And then
the final one, I am amid cloak prid I AM
I D O c l O p r I D.
And there's a lot of brands of a middle clo

(01:41:19):
prid in fact, oh gosh, yeah, there's just there's just
a bunch of brands of it. You don't you don't
have to really, Uh yeah, it's the the I just
tell telling them about a product a little bit earlier, uh,
that had some in it. But the other thing, uh,
the the plant with the kind of silvery centers of

(01:41:39):
the leafs with green edges that could be spider mites.
I'm too far away in the photo to see for sure,
but it looks a little like spider mites to me.
Blasts of water from up underneath that plant, up under
the leaves to dislodge them insecticidal soap spray early in
the morning before the sun comes out and starts baking down,
but both waters and insecticidal soap. You have to get

(01:42:03):
the plant the bug wet. You have to blast it
with the spray of water or soap. If a one
leaf is over another leaf and so those bugs are
protected by the leaf below it, You're not going to
get control with those products.

Speaker 10 (01:42:18):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
So thorough, be thorough.

Speaker 11 (01:42:22):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:42:23):
And the one with a little white bug are those
the photo with a little white bugs? Are those spider mates? Two?
Are those like acids?

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
Is this the one? You only have three photos?

Speaker 18 (01:42:39):
Right?

Speaker 10 (01:42:41):
Four?

Speaker 6 (01:42:44):
One two three?

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
Four? Okay? So we did the scale, We did this
silver leaf plant, and then the other comments I'm made
Where there are along the veins of the leaf that
is scale, also are mealely bugs. It could be mealy
bugs also on that leaf. I'm what I'm seeing is
a combination. But that's another amiddo clopri job right there.

Speaker 10 (01:43:03):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, got it all right.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
Good luck, Thank you you bet appreciate your call. Glad
we could be of assistance to you. Microlife fertilizers, so
many good brand are brands, so many good types on
the market. This stuff works. I would recommend right today
you grab some Microlife Biomatrix orange label seven to one

(01:43:30):
three fertilizer and Microlife Ocean Harvest blue label four two
three fertilizer product based on a fish. As a matter
of fact, the first one orange label for inside or
outside blue label for outside. The label will tell you
how to apply it, how to mix it and everything.
They'll both give your plants a good boost and it's

(01:43:50):
a good way to get things going so you have
success with those plants. I'm gonna be back in just
a moment.

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
Welcome back to Guardlande and good to have you with
us this morning on a nice Sunday morning. You got
a question, you'd like to give me a call? Seven
one three two one two k t r H. That's
the number you can dial. Got room for a call
or two here before we get to the end of
this hour, Maybe one call, I believe looking at the clock.
Nitrophis super turf is a product you hear me talk

(01:44:19):
about all the time, and it's because it works. It
was designed many years ago based on research from Langra
University scientists turf researchers throughout the Gulf Coast region. If
you get down to places like tex A and m LSU,
Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, all the way across the University

(01:44:40):
of Florida and everything. You're going to find a consistent
message from the turf folks, and that is your fertilizers
need to be in a three one two or four
one two ratio is a general general guide. That's that's
a good ballpark to aim for. And they need to
release the nutrients slowly over time. That is the best way. Now,

(01:45:02):
you can take an immediate release fertilizer and if you
overdo it, you get a lot of top growth. But
what happens is you get to mowmore because it grows
like crazy on the top, nice deep green, but the
root system actually is less than if you fertilize properly.
That's a weird thing, but it's true. And so with
nine to five superturf, you put it down and for
four months it is feeding your lawn for you over time.

(01:45:26):
It's designed for that design for our hot, humid summers
and our Southern turf grasses like Saint Augustine Bermuda enjoys you. Now,
when you put it down and return your clippings, they
are going to release nutrients slowly over time is they
decompose also, which means the next fertilization you've got is
going to be the one if you put it down now,

(01:45:47):
the next fertilization you have is going to be the
one in the fall. This false fertilization nine five superturf
is available a lot of different places. You're going to
find it at places like maybe down in the Sage
Mind Area M and D. Beamer. There's an M and
D Clare Lake as well on Bay Area Boulevard. If
you go to Alvin Stanton Shopping Center on North Taylor

(01:46:08):
carries night Foss products, and then in Baytown Fisher's Hardware
on Alexander and Brenham Plants and things on Highway three
sixty five Night to five superturb the silver bag makes
it easy to find. And remember, let's go out now
to League City, Texas, and we're going to talk to Carol. Hello, Carol,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:46:29):
Hello. Did you get my picture skip of atha lilies?

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
Oh gosh, I did, yeah, that those are excellent photos.
By the way, they are very ugly that I was
looking at them, though I didn't see the under Oh yeah,
you did send me an underside of the leaf. Okay,
it could be rust, or it could be what it
is is it's a fungal leaf spot that that I'm

(01:46:56):
sure of, and so any kind of a systemic fungicide
should do a good job of shutting that down. It
could be rust at the stage it's in right now,
I can't definitively say, but watch the bottom sides of
those leaves. If it's rust, out of the bottom, it's
like the little leaf explodes out these little, tiny, tiny

(01:47:20):
microscopic orange spores, and you'll see them coming out of
the bottom. You rub your thumb across it, and there'll
be orange on your thumb, like you rubbed it over
something rusty. But that's the why they call it the
rust fungus. But a systemic would be a good way
to go. I would probably try did you tell me
you had tried the one called propacnasole, no shock? Okay? Okay,

(01:47:50):
I would try one called propa conasole, okay. And it's
p r oh pr oh p I co o n
A z o l e pro con a zouls o

(01:48:12):
l E. Propa Conasol is a good funda side for
a number of different things. It's available over the counter
and you can just basically get it pretty much anywhere.
Garden centers and feed stores, H eight hardware stores, places
like that. Okay, City you've got some. Yeah, you've got

(01:48:36):
You've got a League City feed store that I'll bet
you has Propa Connasol. It's right there just south of
Highway three.

Speaker 9 (01:48:44):
Starting appreciated because last year I ended up just cutting
them off to the ground in about August and they
came back real nice without the rust on them again.
But then my pros and now we're starting all over again.

Speaker 1 (01:48:59):
Yeah, Yeah, that's it. And you know the bottom line
on it is you just have to stay with it.
Diseases are better prevented than cured. That's just that's just
the bottom line on it. And what I've seen, you know,
and looking at things, if you wait, like the leaves

(01:49:21):
you sent me that have all those spots, they're gone.
I mean, if you don't leave them for a while.
But I would take everything out, it's gonna be a
pretty good printing and I'd get it all out of there.
Because that's like when they say typhoid Mary, you know
one sick person that gets all the others sick. Uh,
And I think that, Yeah, yeah, I think that that

(01:49:42):
would be probably your best bet, but I would try
the proper condis. I think you're gonna probably have the
best bet with that for an over the counter should
that for whatever reason that work, there is something like
the resistance in diseases. We can switch you to another one,
but let's start with that one.

Speaker 15 (01:50:01):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:50:02):
I hope I can find it at my League City Feed.
I appreciate to hear.

Speaker 1 (01:50:05):
Thank you, Oh, League City Feet'll have it. If not,
you've got a nice hardware store there down there, they'll
have it. To Propagonazo. Just go go ahead, talk to Jeff,
one of the folks there at League City Feed. Well,
all right, thank you. All right, folks, we've got to
go to a break here, Glenn and Richards, We're gonna
come to you first when we get back from this
little break. Hey, I want a low public service announcement.

(01:50:28):
On Saturday, August second, Saturday, second all day, eight am
to four pm. OBA, the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance is
hosting their Oba Palooza, the fourth annual. I'll be there speaking.
Joe Gardner, awesome speaker, will be there and many other
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(01:50:53):
All right, folks, we're back. We got one hour left today,
one hour left this weekend on garden Line. Oh the way,
We're glad you're listening in with us today. I hope
you're enjoying the show. I'm gonna head straight out to
the phones this hour. We're gonna go to Richard's and
talk to Glenn. Hey Glenn, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:51:16):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:51:19):
Morning.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:51:21):
I had a question on uh, different type of grasses
uh that you see you might see in h field
black fields and the ditches and whatever, you know, driving
in rural areas.

Speaker 13 (01:51:37):
Uh.

Speaker 18 (01:51:38):
Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I need to
I need to get some seed down some bear property.
You know, it's a pretty pretty large area, and I'm
just trying to figure out what type of seed I
would need, you know, something that's kind of low maintenance.
Beat got hogg it, you know, a couple of two or.

Speaker 15 (01:51:57):
Three times a year. Uh yeah, kind of low maintenance
and just to kind of fill in.

Speaker 18 (01:52:05):
Or fill up, you know, fill the.

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
The payor dirt that I have right now. Yeah, got you.
Uh so that's a it's kind of an agriculture pasture,
uh type question. Uh, I would recommend that you give
a call to your agg agent with Aggerlife Extension for
Grimes County, and that is mister Matt Pfeiffer. Matt Pfeiffer

(01:52:31):
is over in the office. Uh yeah, to Grimes County.

Speaker 6 (01:52:35):
Off.

Speaker 1 (01:52:35):
Let me just give you a phone number. Ready, you
got you got a pin or paper paper handy hold on?

Speaker 14 (01:52:40):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:52:41):
Yes you bet nine eight seven three thirty nine O
seven eight seven three thirty nine O seven. He's going
to have access to a lot of the agrolife information
on pastures, the best best pasture grasses and management of
them and things like that.

Speaker 9 (01:53:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:53:01):
And he he could point you in the right direction
most likely. It's give me something that could be seated.
There's a few, like certain types of bermuda that are
used from spriggs. But I think you're going to want
more of a native pasture type grass most likely. And
that's going to be the guy that can He can
better point you to that than I can. I. I
I focus on grass that you grow to look at

(01:53:23):
in the lawn, you know, and and I get you
a better answer for what you're looking. Yeah, yeah, tried,
all right?

Speaker 15 (01:53:30):
That some common bermuda and I mean it took, but uh,
yeah it is and it's very expensive, the common bermuda.

Speaker 1 (01:53:41):
So yeah, well yeah, well you know, maybe Matt and
the last name I wist spell it p p f
e I f E r p f E I f
are all right, okay, by just give him out a

(01:54:04):
call telling skip sent you and uh and he'll he'll
be able to walk through through it with you, get
you in the right direction. Thank you, okay, sir, I
appreciate that. Thank you, Bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate
your call very much. Uh you too. For everybody listening.
Every county in Texas is served by an AGROLFE Extension office,

(01:54:24):
and in that office you have, uh all the counties
are going to have somebody that works in agriculture in general,
and that would be everything from raising livestock to growing
pasture grasses and things, uh to farm ponds and whatnot.
They're going to have a four h and youth agent,
which pretty much I've just heard about. Four h It's

(01:54:44):
an awesome youth development program teaches leadership and all kinds
of wonderful skills for youth that's not just about stock shows.
Four each is good. And then a family and community
health agent, and back a long time ago, the Family
and Community health position focused on things like sewing, making
clothing and canning vegetables and food and other things. Now

(01:55:09):
there's still those kinds of educational materials, but they do
things they go away beyond that, like health prevention diabetes
and heart disease, things like exercising programs like Walk across
Texas wonderful progress. Listen, the extension service is something everybody
outn't know who your agent is agunts are and reach

(01:55:33):
out to them to take advantage of that. In all
the areas, all two hundred and fifty four counties of
Texas in this part of the state, every county has
an office. You get out far enough in West Texas
where there are jackpipe rabbits than people, and you may
have an office that serves more than one county. But
over here everybody, every county has got an extension office
with several agents. Now, just while I'm rolling on that,

(01:55:57):
if you are in Harris County, or in Galveston County,
or in Fort Bend County, or in Brazoria County, or
in Brass County or in Montgomery County, I'm probably forgetting
somebody you have a horticulture agent as well in those
counties that run the master Gardening program and do all
the horticulture education. All right, so public service announcement. I'm

(01:56:20):
getting a bunch of those out today. Let's head now
to Missouri City and we're going to talk to Ray. Hello, Ray,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
Hey, good morning, Skipton, thanks for taking my call. I
don't know if this is your area of expertise, but
I'll give it a shot.

Speaker 6 (01:56:35):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:56:36):
In my backyard, I have Saint Augustine grass and there
are a few places that's sinking and it's not level,
so I want to put some top soil to level
it off. My question is will the grass grow back
or do you think I'm going to have to reside
those areas where put the top soil.

Speaker 1 (01:56:59):
How deep do you think you're gonna need to put
the soil?

Speaker 4 (01:57:03):
Maybe no more than three inches, maybe not even that high.

Speaker 1 (01:57:07):
Okay, okay, So, and you did say Saint Augustine? Correct?

Speaker 11 (01:57:13):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:57:15):
Okay, So Saint Augustine, if you completely covered up, it
kills it. It can't, you know, if it's got a
few if it's got grass blades sticking up, they get sunlight,
the end of those runners will push on up and
come back to the surface and you'll fill back in.
So if I were you, I would do it in
small amounts, maybe do an inch at a time, and

(01:57:38):
I would use topsoil, a good loamy topsoil blend on
the surface there. Some people use a kind of a
sand and loan blend, and some people put a little
compost in it, but not too much compost because that
shrinks back down over time, and you're trying to raise
the soil level, not raise it up and have it
go right back down again. So a topsoil about an

(01:57:59):
inch at a time time, let it grow back in
and get thick and pretty, and then do another inch
in those areas, and that'll kind of give you a
way to you know, as you're looking at it, going now,
I need a little more over there, a little more
over here. Now. If you want to get it all
done at once, you can do it all at once,
but then you're going to need to put some side
back in on those spots where you've covered it with
three inches of soil. Okay, I would I would.

Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
Do exactly That's what I needed to know, all right,
Appreciate the information thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
You bet, thank you. Appreciate your call. Ray, thanks a lot.
Uh listen, if you are trying to reach us here
on garden Line, I just won't tell you that you
can do so at seven one three two one two
k t r H. Seven one three two one two
k t r H. I'll take a break and I'll
be right back. Hey, welcome back to garden Lines. We're

(01:58:53):
looking forward to talking to you today. I got some
show left here in our final hour of garden Line
this morning, So uh, I guess call now or forever
hold your piece until next Saturday when we'll be back again.
Arctic Insulation Solutions I talked about them yesterday. They are
pretty much the experts the way I look at it

(01:59:14):
when it comes to cutting down on your heating and
cooling bills. So, for example, they do things like foil
radiant barriers. It's not aluminum foil. It's a quality product
on a very stronger base. It's an excellent product. But
think of it like you would think of an aluminum

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foil that reflects heat back. Well, this goes up in
your attic and it goes on the rafters across the attic.
Because I have an opening at the top so he
can escape out from behind there, and it can make
thirty degree difference, and the temperature inside your attic, you know,
addicts can get I've heard people have been attics and
it was like one hundred and sixty degrees. I've been there.
I mean definitely one hundred and forty hundred and fifty even. Well,

(01:59:58):
what happens to that heat. It's radiating down on the
ceiling in your home. And if you've got gaps around
like where the registers are, that the little grades that
put the air conditioning out, or around a light fixture
or ceiling fans or wherever. If there's gaps around there,
I mean, it is making a significant difference. Artic insulation

(02:00:20):
solutions can also come out and they can do a
seal up of all of those gaps and things and
the difference that makes. It's like, well, if you left
your window open all day to day in your living
room or something, your air conditioner would be working pretty
hard to keep up with that, and you would not
be as comfortable in the room, would you. Well, that's
why you need to have these guys come out and

(02:00:42):
do what they do. Now, the radiant barrier that's one option.
Another option is they can put in insulation. They can
do any kind of insulation that you want done. The
one that I would suggest you take a good hard
look at is blown fiberglass. It costs less and it
works very well. And they'll they'll put an I stick
fluffy layer in there that'll go up to about R

(02:01:03):
thirty eight on top of your ceiling. And that is
really important if you already got some stuff in there
and they're just gonna come in and top it off
and get it right everywhere. It just takes a few
hours for them to do that. They are very budget friendly,
and so that means you go to them and you go, look,
my electric bills are killing me. What can you do?

Speaker 10 (02:01:24):
You know, I.

Speaker 1 (02:01:26):
Don't own Fort Knox. I need to know, and they'll
tell you, okay, well with your budget. These are what
I would suggest. Here's the one, two three options that
I would start with. One, go to two, go to three,
however far you want to go. That's the best bang
for your buck that you're going to get. They work
with you like that. They have solar attic fans. That's
a fan in the attic that's solar powered. You don't

(02:01:48):
have to run electricity to it, and anytime the temperatures
in the attic get above eighty five and above seventy
five percent humidity. By the way, you don't want mold
in the attic. This fan comes on, and I mean
it moves there about fifteen one hundred cubic fee per minute.
It moves air out of the attic. Go up in
your attic on a sunny day, or least stick your
head up in there. Be careful because it is unbelievably hot.

(02:02:12):
You change the temperature up in attic thirty degrees, you've
made a big difference in your air conditioning bills. So
this kind of service ends up giving you money back
over time or saving you money over time if you will,
and as a result, it is worth the investment to
do that. Now you can go to their website. It's
arctic Houston dot com. Now most of us don't know

(02:02:34):
how to spell arctic, so I'm gonna spell it for you.
It's not art, it's a arc tic Houston dot com,
arctich Houston dot com, or call them call them at
eight three two five eight six twenty eight ninety three
eight three to two five eight six twenty eight ninety three.

(02:02:54):
They can do anything needs to be done up there.
I mean we're talking about old insulation, dusty, moldy, pestin,
invested whatever. They get it out there for you. They
disinfect the attic area for improved air quality. They're air
seal all those things we were just talking. I was
just talking about their Arctic Solutions. Arctic Insulation Solutions, by

(02:03:15):
the way, they cover all the way from on the
west over in Berkshire, the east on the Bay Town
up north to Willis and south of Galveston. If you're
hearing my voice, they probably service your area. Eight three
to two, five, eight six, twenty eight ninety three Arctic Solutions.
Tell them you heard about it on Guardline. So I've

(02:03:36):
been talking about herbs today. Herbs are one of my
favorite types of plants to grow because they're so dad
gum versatile. I've talked about herbs. Of course, everybody knows
herbs and cooking and that that alone is worth growing herbs.
But herbs can be ornamental. I talked about using solid
burnout or chives as lining about like you would line

(02:03:56):
with the little riopy or something. Herbs can be ornamental,
like rosemary. If you have a Let's say you have
a like relief in your landscape topographically, you know there's
a high bed and then something lower. You can have
rosemary spilling over the side the trailing types and they
bloom really well, which attracts pollinators by the way it

(02:04:16):
supports pollinators. Or you can have upright rosemary shrubs very
drought resilient. Give them good drainage. They don't want to
be in a swamp, but give them good drainage, and
once they're established, you're going to be doing very little,
if any watering to your rosemary because it's a very
very good tough plant. There are herbs that are groundcovers,
like oregano and thyme, we could be using those. And

(02:04:40):
there's herbs that have beautiful flowers. I mentioned Mexico at
myrgold and I mentioned what was that pineapple, sayes salvia
that have beautiful flowers. Those are just two examples. There's
way more than that. The term herb can be spread
pretty far and wide over a lot of different things,
and they are beneficial. One time I was in a

(02:05:05):
garden up in Montgomery County, had the extension office there,
and I saw a little mud Dauber type wasp and
it was on time blooms in their herb garden, and oh,
that's interesting, And I thought that mud Dauber is getting
something out of those time blooms. And it flew off
and I saw it flew off to a fence, and
I followed it and it was making the little round

(02:05:27):
marble shaped mudballs. I'm not talking about the big long
cigar shaped things that are underneath your eaves that you hate.
About a little tiny round marble. You've probably seen them
on the screen to your house. I took that mud
ball and broke it open. You know it was in
it almost a dozen looper caterpillars. They were out in
the garden eating leaves. So that mud Dauber was out

(02:05:48):
there getting loopers and bringing them back and feeding it
to its babies. And the herbs were also serving a
function in that whole cycle. Herbs bringing in beneficial insects, parasitoid,
wasp lay eggs, and aphids that cause the aphids to
turn into a mummy. It's really cool if you're an aphi.
It's like watching the movie Alien. But that herbs are

(02:06:09):
an important part of our landscapes. Again, containers in beds
wherever you want to grow them. They are herbs to
grow and you should try some. And plus I just
like smelling them. You know, I cannot pass by rosemary
without rubbing on the on the leaves of it and
just smelling my hand as I go buy same thing
with copper canyon daisy and some others. When my kids

(02:06:31):
were little, one of my daughters, we had one of
those topiary rosemary's inside that's like shape like a Christmas tree.
You know, you buy them at Christmas and bring them
in and you know they're shape like a Christmas tree,
and then you put them outside and plant them when
the holidays are done. She would go out and hug
the thing. I mean, she would bear hug that rosemary
and she'd run down the hall. And I'd walk down

(02:06:52):
the hall later, and I think Mussolini had invaded or something.
I mean, there was like this Italian scent of wonderful
rosemary fill in the house. I love herbs, as I
hope you can tell, and you should too, give some
a try. You can grow culinary ginger. There's another herb,
I'll call it a herb. You can buy the little
ginger sections in the store, plant them in the ground

(02:07:15):
about two inches deep. They need lots of consistent soil moisture,
don't let them dry out. And they need shade, but
bright shade. So under the eaves of your house is
a great place to plant those. If you keep them
moist molt the soil that little bit you planted will
expand and you can actually harvest a crop of ginger
from your own beds. Just remember shade, shade, shade, but

(02:07:39):
bright shade and moisture, and you can do that. People.
Some people grow all kinds of things like that that
are culinary. All right, well, there you go. That's my
best shot at trying to get you to grow some
herbs this year. Try something new. Every year we ought
to be trying something new, maybe a new plant. It
may be no way to grow a plant, however you

(02:07:59):
want to go about it. Try something new. Too much
fun to have in horticulture in your lawn. It's time
to be doing the slow release fertilizers, the ones that
take a long time to gradually release those good nutrients
into the turf. And Neilson plant Food has a product
called Slow and Easy. Slow and Easy, and that's a

(02:08:23):
good name for it. It has it's designed. Dean designed
that with several different types of nitrogen fertilizer in it,
nitrogen compounds and some types of nitrogen. Some forms are
immediately available. Some forms with some soul moisture and some warmth,
they begin to release faster. Others it doesn't matter how

(02:08:46):
wet it is, they're not going to release the nitrogen.
There's biological activity that's going on to help break that
down and get it out. But the combination is with
Slow and Easy you get a gradual feed over four
months plus. I mean, it really feeds long term. And
you can find Nelson Slow and Easy in a lot
of places that carry no some products. And when you

(02:09:07):
put it down, you're good. You're good to go until
my fall schedule application. If you download my lawn care
schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see when
to apply it in the fall, when to apply fall fertilizers.
Slow and Easy will take you from now all the
way through there. It's a super product. It works very
very well, and it's widely available here in the Greater

(02:09:28):
Houston area. Take care of your lawn and return your
clippings now. If it rains for a week, and by
the time you get out there. You know the grass
is the tall. You could lose a toddler in the
front yard. Well, then you're going to have to bag
those up. But I would use them as mulches. I
would use them as walkway materials. Put them in a

(02:09:50):
compost pile. Don't throw away those are free nutrients. Listen,
when you put fertilizer on your lawn and you grow
grass clippings, and you cut off those grass clippings, they
are full of the nutrients that the plant took up.
So do you want to, as I say, rent fertilizer,
put it down, grow grass clippings, pay somebody to haul
it off your curb, or do you want to recycle

(02:10:12):
your fertilizer grass clippings or nature's own slow release fertilizer.
You just get to decide when you mow. Am I
going to mulch them back in? Or am I going
to use them for my compost in my beds and
I walkways? Or am I going to pay somebody to
haul away the fertilizer I bought? All right, Time for
me to take a little break here. We'll be back

(02:10:33):
with your calls seven to one three two one two
KTRH got wide open lines right now. If you don't hesitate,
you can be one of the first one or two up.
All right, welcome back to Guarden Line. Folks.

Speaker 6 (02:10:46):
Have you with us?

Speaker 1 (02:10:47):
Uh, let's see here, I'm gonna just go straight out
and talk to uh. Let's see. We're gonna get on
the phone to Houston, talk to Glenn. I think this
morning or this next call here. But first I've got
to grab the right mouse. It's an epidemic today. There
we go, Glenn. Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:11:05):
Hey, good morning, Skipt. I wanted to ask you some
things about my pecan trees.

Speaker 15 (02:11:10):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (02:11:11):
I don't want to say trees plurally, because what it
actually is it's it's two trunks coming from the same
root system, okay. And I've never had any pecans on it.
And I was told by someone that I would need
to have a female pecan tra I don't know. I
couldn't tell you a male from a female tree, So

(02:11:32):
I don't know what I've got out there, Okay, But
but it's been there for some years, never had any
pecans on it. And there's some neighbors behind me that
have some pecan trees, probably within fifty yards and I
don't know what that they've they've buried pecans in the past,
but they've always been rotten inside, so I don't know
what's going on on with those. But okay, what do

(02:11:55):
I need to do to get this pecan tree to
bear bear pecans?

Speaker 1 (02:12:03):
What is the rough diameter of those trunks about? You know,
waist higher, so we're talking about eight inches ten inches?
Four inches?

Speaker 19 (02:12:10):
How about well they're roughly twelve inches.

Speaker 1 (02:12:15):
Okay, all right, So just a clarification first, the people
that said there's male and female pecans, that's not true.
But what they were trying to say wash There's two
types of pecans. One the pollen those little pipe cleaner
looking catkins that hang down and fall on the ground
later that they come first, and then the individual little

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tiny pecan nutlets become receptive to pollen. The other type,
it's vice versa. The pecan nutlets are receptive and then
that tree's pollen is shed toward the end of that
or a little bit later. So you want one of
both types, either pollen first or nutlets receptive first. There
are so many pecan trees around the area, and there

(02:13:00):
is some they're wind pollinated, not be pollinated. That generally,
you don't have to worry about putting two different types
of pecans in your yard. They'll pollinate themselves. And if
you've got a neighbor with trees, they probably are the
are going to pollinate your trees for you. If you
don't know which type you have. Next spring, go out

(02:13:21):
and if you can reach a branch to look at it.
Notice when the nutlets come out, little tiny ones, I
mean they're like a quarter inch long when they first
come out. And then look at the pollen, and you're
going to see one is going to be before the other.
If the ends on the nutlets are already black or brown,
that means they're done. They've already either been pollinated or not.

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And just see which happens first. And that's the type
of pecan you have. So I suspect around your neighborhood
you're going to have some pecan dust pollen that is
adequate to pollinate your tree. If that's not the case,
then you would need to plant one that's the other

(02:14:02):
type from what you have. There's a website. Do you
have a pin or paper handy there where you could
write something down?

Speaker 6 (02:14:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:14:12):
Yeah, yes, I want you to go to a website
and the name of it is Aggie Horticulture. I'm not
going to read out the URL. Just do a search
for Aggie Horticulture. On that page. There's the very front
page you'll see where you click on fruits and nuts
and you click there and you get a list of
ever possible kind of fruit and nut you could ever grow,
and go down to the pecan one and look at it,

(02:14:34):
print it out, read it online. It's free to do
whatever you want to do with it. And read a
little bit about those and the varieties and that thing
I just got through describing to you about pollen first
or nutlets first, and when you determine what you have,
you can use that publication to pick a variety that's

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the other kind from what you have.

Speaker 3 (02:14:59):
Alight.

Speaker 7 (02:15:01):
One more thing, very quickly is last year I had
a real issue with the webworms on this tree.

Speaker 4 (02:15:08):
It was they were really really bad.

Speaker 1 (02:15:11):
Do they watch come out later later on, like in
the fall?

Speaker 3 (02:15:14):
Is that is that when they make their way back.

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
Around the worst webworms or late summer and fall, we
have a spring population that ever now and then can
be kind of bad. Usually is not too bad, but
start looking in August for webs and and you can
break those up with a long pole or a strong
stream of water. You can spray the trees. Most people

(02:15:38):
in a residential neighborhood are not going to go to that,
but just breaking them up. But they're number one predator
is paper wasps. They build a little paper nests under
your heaves. They eat web worm and other caterpillars all day.
That's their number one food.

Speaker 7 (02:15:53):
Well back when I was in the pest control because
I had a spray rig on my truck where I reached.

Speaker 19 (02:16:00):
Okay, very high, but I don't know there you go there,
but that's fu of them, you know. Yeah, all right, Glenn,
good luck, Thanks for you all right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:16:14):
Yes, sir, thank you very much. Appreciate the call.

Speaker 7 (02:16:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:16:18):
Nelson Water Gardens. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is out
there in Katie. It's your West Houston destination garden center.
It is, and it's a great one too. You go
in there. First of all, drive to Katie out I
ten turn north on Katie for Ben Road, and then
just up the street a little bit on the right
will be Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. You're going to

(02:16:38):
find the most beautiful pottery I've ever seen, and all
the kinds of those tall vase like urns that you
used to make a water recycling or yeah, recirculating kind
of fountain that by the way, Nelson invented that. Uh
you you can buy them there or you can you

(02:16:58):
can take any container that can turn it into one
of those. But they are just beautiful. They have the
fish to go in ponds, they have the things like
lily pads and others to go in ponds. But their
nursery is just loaded with gorgeous plants, all kinds of things,
from the houseplants that are inside to the plants on
the outside. This is a good time. And I'm telling you,

(02:17:18):
as we get into summer and things get hot, you
need heat loving plants like vinkas and like pentas and
zinnias and other things. They've got all of that at
Nelson Water Garden. And also at Nelson Water Garden, you're
going to find the beautiful sound of water that alone
is worth going and grab a kid to go with

(02:17:39):
you and go in. When you and some child you
know there, your kids, your grandkids, whatever, or maybe your spouse,
I'm just gonna leave that one there. They tell them
you would like some fish food to feed the fish,
and they'll give you a little a handful of fish
pellets and the kids can go out in the back.
There's a big old pond in the back where you

(02:18:02):
can reach down and the fish literally come up a
little bit out of the water and you can just
drop the fish food right in their mouth and kids
will love that. I love to go and just listen
to the sound of water. There are a few things
as therapeutic as water. But I got to warn you
you're gonna want to come home with some kind of
a water feature from Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens because
they are so so cool. Well, I need to take

(02:18:24):
a little break when we come back. We got two
calls and that is Dwayne in Mount Bellevue and Jim
in a task Casita and y'all will finish up the day.
Welcome back to Garden Line. Listen to Ace Hardware stores
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ACE is a place for you fill in the blank.
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eighty eight, League City ACE down in League City, Lake Conroe,
ACE on Highway one oh five out almost to Montgomery.
Out there Port Lavaca, ACE, Calhoun Plaza and Port Lavaca
Memorial Ace Hardware a Memorial Drive. I was there earlier
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out in Orange, Texas on sixteenth Street. All examples of

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covered everything you would need. It's a great place. Not
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specialty gifts that you'll find in your Ace hardware store.
What's that out now, Tom up Bellevue. We're going to
talk to Dwayne. Hey, Dwayne, welcome to Guardenline.

Speaker 3 (02:20:27):
Hey, good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I
sent you some pictures of a fist tree that I
planted in early twenty twenty four, and unfortunately it didn't
survive the freeze. So I have new limbs coming up
in the picture you can see. And I read all
kind of articles. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to

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cut some back to send it out to get more
fig down the road, or if I just need to
let it stay like it is.

Speaker 1 (02:20:59):
If I were you, I would not prune it at
this time. The fig lost, you know, its top growth
to the freeze. But basically it needs to get a
lot of leaves in sunlight, making carbohydrates to build power
and strengthen that plant so they can grow faster and
bear well. So for now I'd leave it alone. But
what I would do is I would get rid of

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the grass around it. You can find a product that
kills just grass. You got bermuda grass around it, and
you got your Saint Augustine around that. If you could
give that fig about a two foot in all direction circle,
whatever you can afford to give it esthetically, go ahead
and kill the grass in that big circle area and
put a nice mult over the top. You can even
compost over the surface of the soil and get that

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fig growing. And that was that will do more for
making it grow and become a nice big tree that
will bear for you than even fertilizing will. Just that
grass is a strong competitor with the fig. So that
doesn't mean don't fertilize. You could also fertilize, but I'm
just and uh, if you're looking, have you ever been

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to my website gardening with skip dot com.

Speaker 3 (02:22:07):
I've been there a few tip.

Speaker 1 (02:22:09):
Yes, okay, okay, good, Well, when you go there, there's
a thing called herbicides for skip'sweed wiper. Basically, it's a
list of herbicides according to the weed you're going after,
and there's two on there. I think there's two, uh uh,
maybe more that are just grass killers, so you can
spray them. If they get on the fig, it won't
hurt it. If you spray them in your contunity bed,

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it's not going to hurt the petunias. They kill grass,
and I would use one of those. You're gonna have
to probably do it more than once, but that's the safest.
If you get in there, you know, with the equivalent
of the old round up type stuff, and you get
it on the figure, you're gonna kill your fig. So
I like that grass on the killers. But they're there.
It's on the website herbicide less set up there. But
I would get going on it. That's the biggest favor

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you can do it. It also keeps the weed eater
in the lawn mower away, which which is important.

Speaker 6 (02:22:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:22:58):
Yeah. So one more question is you can see where
the day it stop is it's still about three foot
Do I just go ahead and cut that back?

Speaker 1 (02:23:06):
Okay? Okay, yeah, you can just if it's dead, just
cut it off there at the ground. Yeah, all right,
good luck. Now you know, the rule on garden line
is I don't well. The rule on guardline win is
I don't charge for advice, but I do expect half
the produce you grow as a result of my advice.
So I love figs. Just bring half of what you
produce to the to the show and we'll call it even.

Speaker 3 (02:23:27):
All right, Well, once I get some strawberry big failure,
I'll bring you some.

Speaker 1 (02:23:32):
Have a good well, I am pulling your leg. I
gotta have a little fun with you. Thanks a lot, ma'am,
appreciate it. Have a good weekend. We're gonna go now
to Tascasita and talk to Jim this morning. Jim, you
are the caboose of the show today. How can we help? Okay?

Speaker 11 (02:23:48):
So today's question is about technique application.

Speaker 3 (02:23:53):
Okay, and here's what it is. I spread some good compost.

Speaker 1 (02:23:57):
On the bed.

Speaker 11 (02:23:58):
Now I've got shredded tee deer bark.

Speaker 1 (02:24:02):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (02:24:02):
What I'm doing.

Speaker 11 (02:24:03):
Question is when I spread it, I'm spreading it wet
because it spreads a lot easier, believe it or not,
and more evenly. Now, the next question is do I
keep the bark tight or do I keep it loose
on the ground, on the bed itself.

Speaker 1 (02:24:23):
You said.

Speaker 11 (02:24:23):
The bottom line is, I'm looking at it now and
it looks really good wet underneath.

Speaker 10 (02:24:28):
But you tell me what to do with the rest
of it.

Speaker 1 (02:24:32):
Now, just leave it loose. I don't I can't quite
picture it. But like if you have long strips of
cedar and so it literally was just like all this
light and air going through, because it's so like a
pile of sticks, then you probably need to grind it
up a little bit more. But you don't need to
press it down. You need to press it down.

Speaker 11 (02:24:52):
Don't need to press it down.

Speaker 3 (02:24:53):
Okay, Oh I skip, thanks a lot for help.

Speaker 1 (02:24:55):
I have a great day. Thank you, Thank you man,
you too. Shit you call well, folks. I've got a
little bit of time here for me to talk about
one or two things, but I just want to thank
you for listening today. It's been a good day on
the phones with you. Guys. We want to help you
have success. Just remember, if you have questions during the week,
send me a photo, but then follow up with a call,

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follow up with it all. I'm just not able to
take on answering emails and you know, kind of end
up a lot of times questions you sort of like
you become pimpals going back and forth, and I'm just
not able to I wish I could. But if you'll
send me your question with some photos attached, then call
on Saturday or Sunday and we'll talk about it. We've
had a number of people that have done that.

Speaker 6 (02:25:41):
So the.

Speaker 1 (02:25:44):
Idea is when you send a photo, to make sure
it's in sharp focus, and I need to see what
you're seeing, and so I usually like a picture of
the overall setting. So I get a picture of that
overall plant, and then up close, maybe turn a leaf over,
take a picture of the underside. Check them before you
send them. You want a good, sharp answer, not a

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fuzzy answer, So don't send me a fuzzy photo, send
me a good sharplaint and we will help you. Looking
forward to helping you and pointing you in the right direction.
It's time for us to go. I hope you have
a wonderful week out there in the garden. Get out
and visit one of our independent garden centers this afternoon.
These mom and pop local businesses deserve your support. They

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help make it possible for you to get to listen
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are sponsoring the show and support our sponsors. I just
asked that you do that, but maybe get out there
and just have fun. There are so many good things
to do, so much time, so many plants, so little time.
As the way I like to put in, have a

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great week.