The Peach Tree Catastrophe

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Katie R. H. Garden Line with Skip Rickard.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Shoes, Bason.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Gas trim. You just watch him as work God gas.
There are so many goings to soup battas in bays.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Gas again you did.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
SMOs comes back again? Not a sign glass and gas
sun beamon of between gas first starting and I an't.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
All right folks. Hey, good morning gardeners and want to
be gardeners. If you have never put a seed or
a plant in the ground in your life, you're at
the right place. This is garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and if you got a question, you can
give me a call seven one three two one two

(01:08):
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. We will provide the advice and
the direction to help you have success. The way I
like to put it is, I'm here to help you
have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more fun
in the process. And that third one is every bit
as important as the first two, because if we're not

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having fun gardening, then why we're doing it right. If
you've had frustrations, if you tried things it didn't work,
if you think that you have a brown thumb. First
of all, I'll promise you you do not have a
brown thumb, for there is no such thing as a
brown thumb. There are uninformed thumbs. And all we have
to do is give your thumb some information, kind of

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teach it how to see things from a plant's perspective,
and all of a sudden it starts looking kind of green.
We'll be happy to do that right here, So let's
get rolling this morning. We are on the doorstep of fall.
I know the calendar says September, right, that's fall month. Well,

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in Texas we stay kind of hot through September. But
you can't look at the calendar. I mean, excuse me.
You can't look at the temperature. You gotta look at
the calendar. And that's where we are. Fall is the
time when we put down our products to help the
long go into the winter stronger and to deal with

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a bunch of different things. That's the reason that night
Frost created their three step program. It's called the Fall
three step program from night Frost. What are the three steps? Well,
first of all, it's the Fall Special Winter Riser that
is a fertilizer designed to help that lawn get strong
to go into winter it's strongest. A lot of plants,

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including lawns, are pulling in sugars carbohydrates as the sun
shines on the leaves and they're getting that inter freeze,
if you will, in the plant. That's very important. Also,
that storage will make it come out in the spring stronger.
The fall fertilization is the most important one of the year.
Fall fertilization is the most important one of the year

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because it helps the plant not just now, but it
helps it next spring as well. Coming out early. Lawns
emerge in spring from the energy they store it and
fall the spring fertilizations. As the lawn starts to put
out new roots, it can begin to take up those
spring fertilizations. But the initial strength and growth coming out

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in the spring is based on the fault. That's why
it's so important. Night Fuss fall Winter special, a fall
special winter Riser eight twelve six. That's the one that's
the one you want to know. There's a couple of
other steps. There's night foss barricade, which helps prevent cool
season weeds which will be germinating depending on the weather,
most likely starting in October and November. Those are big

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months to have something down so that when the weed
seeds sprout, they can't develop into a weed plant and
they're gone, all right. Third night Fuss Eagle turf fungicide. Now,
this is a product that is actually taken up by
your lawn to protect it against brown patch, you know
those big brown circles that you see and other diseases.
If you wait until you see a bunch of circles,

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you can still apply a product, but the circle is
going to be the circle until spring green up. Okay.
It doesn't make dead leaves come to life. It protects
against the infection, so you can stop it from getting worse.
But you need to do it earlier so that you
know that you're not going to even have those circles.

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That's how that works, the night Foss three step program.
That's what's important.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
Now.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
If you want more information on application of all these things,
if you go online to my website gardening with Skip
dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. Look at my schedules.
I've got a fall. Excuse me. I have a lawn
care schedule that's how to grow along water fertilized basically,
and then I have a pest disease and weed management schedule.

(05:12):
That's everything that goes wrong in the lawn and what
to do about it. Okay, that's how those two schedules work.
Look at those follow them carefully and night trust texas
three steps set up to do just that. Alrighty, Well,
I have been out in the yard doing some sprucing
up of some of the beds that I have. I've

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got a little weed experiment going. Yeah, I said that right,
a weed experiment. I wrote a publication on dealing with
nuts edge a while back, and the thing that I
put in the publication it works. I know because I
did it.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
I do it.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Years have been dealing with nuts edge, and I learned
what I learned. But I've heard some other things about
this will or work or that or work. So I
got a couple of pet guinea pig nuts edge plants
I've let to live, only to kill them later. But
I'm missing around with them and trying some different things.
So I was in the bed the other day pulling

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out all the other weeds, and I actually left the
nuts edge behind. I know it's weird. Well, in for
the sake of science, so you can have a better yard.
That's why we're doing it. I want to make sure
my advice to you is stuff that I know works.
That is, I've tried. And people always come up with
crazy other ideas on how to do this or that
or the other. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're not. So

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if you are interested in hearing more about or finding
out about dealing with nuts edge that those two publications
actually are on my website Gardening with Skip dot com,
that will help you to have success get off to
a really good start. What is the mantra here on
garden line round stuff before green stuff? What does that mean? Well,

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all it means is before you put a plant in
the ground, get the soil right, get it right. And
Ciena Mulch is a great place to do that. I
love going down there. It's done there just the other
day looking oh, by the way, they have got some
nice new metal yard art in. It just looks cool,
really neat stuff. And also they set up their Veggo
beds upfront and planted them so you can go by

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there and see the beds. They sell them there. They
sell the Vego bed there at Cienamulch. Here's the website,
Cienamultch dot com. It's on FM five twenty one just
south of the Houston area, off to the little off
to the west and south. Sienna Mulch dot com. The
best products for success in preparing the foundation for your plants.

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You're going to get there at Ciena Mulch. They've got
you covered for all of that. And they also that
includes the fertilizers you know for microlife and medina and
nitroposs and Nelson's and soils from heirloom soils. Of course, Azamite,
the product we talk about all the time. You're gonna
get all of it there Sienna Multch dot com. Go
check them out. Let's take a little break and we

(08:04):
will be back with your questions. If you have one
right now, it'd be a good time. Seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to
the Garden Line. I was talking about Nitrofos's Texas three
step program before in that last segment. Uh, and do
you know you can get in a lot of different places.
Night Foss products are widely available places like Enchanted Forest

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in Richmond, like Lanam Creek Ace hardware up there in Cyprus,
just behind Copperfield and Bearings Hardware on Bissonette, which, by
the way, Nitropos is having me over to Bearings Hardware
on Bissonette this coming Saturday. Next Saturday, I will be
there and you don't want to miss it. I'll be
there from twelve thirty to two thirty and I'll be

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getting six giveaways like a drawing. Every twenty minutes, we're
going to be given away the three step program, Eagle Turf, Funge,
side barricade, and Fall special fertilizer. So every you know,
every twenty minutes one of those three is going to
be given away for two rounds of them, so that
that's a good opportunity there. Come on out again twelve

(09:11):
thirty to two thirty and I look forward to seeing you.
I hope you can make it. We're going to head
out the phones now go to Parland and visit with
Dawn this morning. Well, don welcome to good morning.

Speaker 7 (09:24):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
I got it?

Speaker 8 (09:28):
It's good. I got a situation. I don't know exactly
how to explain it. In my yard.

Speaker 9 (09:35):
Throughout my yord I have been noticing that there is
either this fungus that is growing and it looked like
calmonneuw because it's.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
A big chump.

Speaker 10 (09:47):
Now, I dig it out of the ground trying to
get it up, and then I noticed.

Speaker 11 (09:52):
That it had a roof on it.

Speaker 12 (09:56):
So what I did?

Speaker 10 (09:57):
I dig it up and I sprayed around that aerial
with on triple at twenty twenty.

Speaker 13 (10:05):
Do you know what that is?

Speaker 8 (10:06):
I'll just start to pop up, even in my flaba beds.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, I think I think what you're seeing is I
think it's a fungus, and I think you're what you're
seeing as the culminer looking thing on top was a
little very tight cluster of a bunch of little mushrooms
that don't exactly look like mushrooms, but they're similar. And
then the root looking thing. Those are the hyphie or
with the roots very white. Yeah, they were good, that's

(10:39):
what you're saying. Yeah, So you can send me a
photo of it, and if if it's if I'm wrong
about that when I see it, I'll reply to you
in the email. But I'm ninety percent sure that's what
you're seeing and it's nothing to worry about. We're going
to see a lot more of this stuff when we
get into fall. As a temperature breaks, a lot of

(10:59):
other mush rooms will start to pop up, and they'll
pop up in the mulch. You know what they're doing
is they're decomposing organic matter. So there you can say
they're a good thing. They're not a disease. They're not killing,
you know, attacking your plants. They're just working on decomposing
the organic matter. Uh. And the one you're describing, I

(11:20):
think I know which one you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (11:22):
Also, when I when I when I, when I first
touch it, it does break up into the air like
a powerly substance.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Okay, I'm one hundred percent sure it's a fungus now
that is and there is not a disease of plants
that fits the description you gave me about the common
air looking thing.

Speaker 10 (11:45):
Okay, So if I because I was always killed, but
I didn't want to cut over with my lawnmower and.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
Tracking everywhere else, you should I go ahead and try
to dig it out. And they sprayed the tat saying
behind it.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
No, no, there's no reason to just just come over
and ignore it. It'll go away. It'll go away in
its own and it's just doing what nature does. And
those spores are already everywhere. It's just when conditions are right,
that's when they pop up, and so you don't need
to worry about that one. No water, Yeah, yeah, well,

(12:22):
uh I would, I would not worry. We got plenty
of things we can worry about, don like world peace
and and hunger. Let's let's worry about those. We're gonna check,
We're gonna take We're gonna take this one off the list.

Speaker 11 (12:37):
All right, I guess.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
All right, don you take care?

Speaker 6 (12:43):
All right?

Speaker 5 (12:43):
By alrighty? So, uh, if you'd like to give me
a call, uh seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Yes, we are gonna see a lot
of fungi popping up, especially when we get a little
cold front coming through here, which we did already kind of.
That's probably why you saw the seeing that one. But

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it'll fall is for fungal fruiting bodies to stick up
and show their face, and not a problem. There are
a few mushrooms that we would concern be concerned about.
Typically those are going to be at the base of
a tree trunk when you see those. But there are

(13:25):
bazillions of fungi out there and only a few do
we have to worry about, So in general, it's probably
not a problem. But give me a call, send me
a picture. You know, we'd be glad to take a
look at it and see if you are sitting there
at home and go I got some in my yard,
call this show, get the email, send me a picture,

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and then follow up with a call. I'm not able
to email answer questions. I just am not able to
do that. It's enough. I got my hands full with
my horticulture consulting and also the of course doing this
show and so. But if you do send me one
and follow up with a call, we'll talk about it.
And a picture helps me to give you a better answer.

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And I don't want you to have to waste time
and money on products that you don't need. So a
picture is worth that thousand words. Like they say, that
is what I would recommend. In fact, we've got a
few folks that are going to be calling in today
that sent me some stuff, some pictures and things. Well,
so I was talking about getting out and sprushing up

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the flower beds. I put down some malt. Actually a
really nice product from the folks. That Nature's way, Nature's
way up there in Conroe where to forty nine excuse me,
we're fourteen eighty eight. Now, now I'm in the right
town where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five. It

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goes off to the If you're going north, it goes
off the left. You turn right, Shobrock Circle. You're right there,
easy get to. I love Nature's Way, and I love
the products that they have. They're excellent. This particular malt.
I've tried several other mult In fact, I'm working through
all the different mulches that they have and just putting down.
This was a nice The texture was nice, the color

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was nice. It just went down really really well. Kind
of a medium texture. You know, you can get a
very chunky mult from them. That kind of mult is
gonna last a long time. You can get a medium
textured mulch, or you can get things that are even
finer textured. Of course, finer texture has a smooth look,
but it breaks down faster, which is good and bad.
It's bad because you got to remulch again a little faster.

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And it's good because when mulches break down, they feed
the soil. Listen, that's how nature works. Things that were
alive fall under the soil surface and die, whether it's
a raccoon or a tree leaf. I mean everything, it
hits the surface, it decomposes, and that's where the nutrients
are released back into the soil. That's how nature works.

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So when we put on mulches, oh quick, tip on mulches.
Don't just take out the o mulch and put new in.
The old mulch is good. Stop that's doing what I
just said. Put the new mulch on top of it.
By the way, Nature's Way Resources dot Com is their website,
Nature's Way Resources. I'm going to be out there on

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Saturday October eleventh, around twelve to two Saturday October eleventh.
They're gonna have their big fallshind egg out at Nature's
Way Resources nature's Way Resources dot com. Yeah, that is
the case. In anyway, I was putting the mulch down
and smoothing it out. Oh gosh, the bed looks so

(16:42):
good when you're done with that. And I had very
few weeds. I'd used another Nature's Way mulch in the
bed previously, and so this wasn't many weeds there. I
think probably one or two actually that I had to
pull up. When you put on a mult you want
to make sure it's thick enough to block all the sunlight.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
Out.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
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and whether it's a hurricane or not, when storms come through,
they do damage to your trees. An Affordable tree service
is a company that knows how to properly prune your trees.
Pruning season, the prime pruning season is coming up here,
you know, the cool season, dormant pruning. That's the less

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least stressful of the tree. And Martin spoon Moore and
his Affordable Tree team, they know how to take care
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You can do all kinds of things, all kinds of
services that will help and benefit your trees. So give
him a call.

Speaker 14 (18:09):
On that.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
You are listening to garden Line the phone number seven
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it's kind of quiet in the morning, and then it's
kind of hectic later and people hate for people to
have to wait in line to talk, and so I
was trying to get to shift the calls earlier rather
than wait until the end of the show. And so

(18:33):
if your your favorite person that likes to call into
Garden Line is sleeping next to you, nudge them and
wake them up and tell them now be a good
time to give me a call.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
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eight one two o six forty six seventy two eight
one two o six forty six seventy I just was
laughing at the thought of picturing somebody screaming and running
around the kitchen. I have seen that when I was
When my kids were young, they were very insect friendly.
They weren't afraid of insects in general, because I taught

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them that they played with insects and stuff. Bud spiders.
I couldn't convince some spiders were okay. I'd hear a
scream from the back of the house, and you know,
I was imagining a monster the size of Rhode Island.
I get back there, it's a little fuzzy, black jumping
spider in the window. I know, honey, that thing, you
know it? It captures flies and eats some for us,
So that's a friend. After my speech, they want to

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know if I could take the Ilama shoe and kill it.
So anyway, I failed at having people embrace spiders. Anyway,
you get the idea. Hey, we're going to take a
break here for the top or bottom of the hour news.
We'll be right back with your calls. Seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four. So well, welcome

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back to the garden Line.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Easy.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
Good to have you with us this morning. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and if you have a gardening question, I'd
be happy to help give me a call. Seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Have you
been in China gardens lately? If you haven't, you need
to go check them out. And people go from a
long way away to come to this place because it's
a destination type of garden center. It's a kind of

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place where you go you take your friends with you
when you go, because it's a great outing to go
with friends and just wander around the place and enjoy
all of the different things they have, from the gift
shop to the incredible selection of pottery, to beautiful, beautiful
plants right now. It's time to be getting ready to
put in or actually putting in fall flowers. We've been

(21:22):
planting fall flowers for a little while when the warm
season end, like petunias and things and snapdragons and dianthus
that take us into the cool. They've got all of
that and nice, nice healthy plants as well. It's time
to blot blue bonnets. They got you covered with blue
bonnets out there as well. Do you want to do
fall garden vegetables? Same thing, plenty plenty to choose from.

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You had to grow some vegetables. Remember, our healthiest best
vegetables we can grow are for our fall garden. All
kinds of healthy greens and you name it.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
And they just.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
News alert they just got a new stock of fruit
trees and berry and I'm talking about things you know,
like citrus trees part of the fruit group, and blackberries
and blueberries. The new shipment of all of those. Know
I what kind of fruit trees and berries you're looking for,
You're going to find them there. So stop by. Also
carry the products you hear me talk about on garden line.

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You know those product lines from nitrofoss and Microlife and
Nilson plant food and medina products for the ground, remember
brin stuff before green stuff from Nature's way, heirloom soils,
and they just absolutely have everything you need for success,
including expert advice so important, A quality, independent garden center

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with folks that know what they're talking about to help
you to make it an unforgettable experience. Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com. That's the website, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
They're on FM three point fifty nine on the Katie
Fulsher side of Richmond. I love going to visit garden centers,
and I've said before, one of these days we need

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to do do a garden center tour, you know, get
a bus and just drive all around the greater Houston area.
We are so fortunate here in this Houston area is huge,
huge area. But whether you live north, south, east, West,
or central, there is a great garden center for you
to go visit in your neighborhood, and I just think
we need to get around and see them all. That'd

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be kind of a fun trip. Of course, you'd take
about four days to adequately adequately take in all of
these great garden centers, but that's the way it is.
It's good. Hey, a D and DE feed store up
in Tomball. We love D and D. It's on FM
twenty nine twenty just to the west of Tomball. I
stopped in there the other day to drop off some

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things for them. When you go into D and D
you're going to find all the products you need, whether
you're controlling pests and weeds and diseases, whether you're doing fertilization.
You know, I was just talking about the the fall fertilization,
the importance of that, and disease control and weed control.
D and d's got you covered on all of those

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quality brands. Quality dog food too, by the way, high
end lines like Victor and Diamond and Star Pro and Origin,
and of course it's a fat store. So anything for
your livestock they have got you covered there, including some
mosquito dunks for those dead gum mosquitoes that pop up
when we get rains and our nice mile weather spoil

(24:21):
the outdoors. You know, we're about to get to enjoy
the outdoors again, this cooling off a bit. Well, DND
Feed I'll help you in order to maybe make that
outdoor gathering a little bit nicer with some of their
mosquito dunks three miles west of Highway two forty nine
on twenty nine two eight, one, three five, one seventy

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one forty four. So in I always try to tell
you what things that I'm doing in the garden out there.
You know, that's how gardeners are. We talk to the
fat uh. And one thing that I was doing the
other day is getting my vegetable guard and ready for
fall planting. I've had a lot of beds that have

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been followed this summer stay kind of busy and didn't
really fill it with plants, typically oak rah at my
house like I normally do in the summer, but I've
had it mulched all summer. And I'm telling you, I
walk by and I'll pull one weed here, one weed there,
And it's not because they're in weed seeds and the
soil there are, but it's because it stays mulched. You know,

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when I get shredded leaves, I put them down. When
I get grass clippings, I put them down. So occasionally,
you know, you have to bag your clippings because it's
rained too much and the surface of the soil is
ready for me to plant. And so that's one of
the things I'm going to be doing, is is doing
a little more prep on that, mixing some nutrient in

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the soil and getting ready for another round of planting
that we are in the big middle of right now
in the fall. Also getting irrigation set up. Now. I
know we're toward the end of summer, but we do
need to irrigate. You know, even in the cooler season,
there's times when we need to irrigate because you know,

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you've got you've got little plants like lettuce or something
like that that is is wilting because it's gotten up
to eighty five degrees when it's not supposed to, you know,
So an irrigation system helps. I would encourage you to
think about having somebody redo or do an irrigation system
for your yard and your gardens and your beds. That

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is drip or some form of what we call drip.
There's drip, which, like the name implies, drips out of
the hoses, and then there's kind of a shrubler that's
sort of like bubbles out of the water a lot
faster than drip. There's little microjet types of sprinklers that
squirt the water in a circle, a small circle low

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to the ground. The little steaks I have on my
micros are about four inches high above the ground. There
was about six inch steak. Push a little bit in
the ground and they they'll wetting area. Oh, from both
size of a basketball up to even wider than that,
and that what's a larger area and you can see
it working. That's important. You don't have a clogg, demtter
and drip sometimes you can do that, but putting that

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in with a timer is so helpful. And I installed
I've got several timers around the house. I got the
one with my lawn, the timer in the garage, and
one of those zones is actually a drip zone that
I have. But I also have hose end timers. I've
got some irrigation pipe goes underground, comes out of faucet

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into a timer and all the filters and pressure regulators
and things, and I can just set it to come
on what days I want, for as long as I
want it to run, and I don't have to worry
about it. And I'm telling you the latest edition is
I've added a whole bunch of little tubes around the
patio for my containers, oh my gosh, watering containers over

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and over and over and over again. It's hard to
do in the summer. But you can say you can
get a system set up for you. You can have
a really nice one, hire somebody to come in and
do it, or you can just you know, do the
plug and play yourself with some little simple systems. It's
easy to learn stuff online to get your little patio
drip system or something like that. I would encourage you
to consider that, Hey, your local ACE Hardware store is

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going to have everything that you need, everything that you
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Let's take a little break here. We'll come back with
your calls and Charlie and Hudspool you'll be our first up.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
A long night.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
Oh yeah, I'll get the blood flowing. Hey, welcome back
to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Listen.
Nelson Fertilizer has so many great products that I don't
even know where to start and talking about these, But
let me just let me talk about one right now,
and that's a Genesis transplant mix. This is a special

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natural type fertilizer that has microriza in it and back
beneficial bacteria and other fungi that really benefit that soil
microbiome that's the fancy name for the MicroB neighborhood done
in the dirt that helps roots thrive. It's designed for transplanting,
whether you're putting things in a container or an in

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ground bed or one of those above ground gardens. You
know you've got a raised bed garden and a This
stuff works anytime you're gonna plant, you mix a little
into the planting soil around where the root system is
going to be. It's not gonna burn your roots. I
always say, you know you don't put salt based fertilizers
in the hole and burn roots with them. But this
you can. You mix it in the transplant hole flowed

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up with soil, and then later on as you go
through you're gonna top it off and finish with products
like nutri Star, Color Star Nature Star. As you fertilize
the top of the ground. But when you're transplanting, set
those roots down into soil with Nilson Genesis transplant mix
and it'll make them jump. And I've seen it myself.
The stuff really works. Find the folks at Nelson. Lots

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of quality fertilizers available all over town. Makes it easy,
all righty, I was discussing some various things going on
around the art. I was talking about drip irrigation and
the clocks and timers and things. Everything you do that
makes the maintenance of gardening less work makes it more enjoyable.

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You know, I cannot tell you. In fact, if I
knew and could tell you how many times I have
killed a plant by not watering it, you quit listening
to the guarden line, you would you turn it off
and go those guys, well the cobblers kids go barefoot,
so leave me alone. But it's true. You forget to
water a pot and it struggles. Maybe you don't kill it.
Maybe it's a tomato, let's say, and you know you

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got home and you didn't water it for a day
or two and it's all wilted, and you water and
it perks up, and you think, oh good, I didn't
kill it. But what you did is you threw off
its production. And maybe it had a blooms that had aborted.
It just didn't set the fruit. Anytime you stress the plant,
that's a problem. So how do you make that easier

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on yourself? Because it's so discouraging to see that you
paid for this plant, you put in a beautiful pot
you can't wait to eat. I'll use tomatoes again. That
luscious tomato was no fun. So drip irrigation helps out simple, easy,
not difficult to do. There's a lot of tips, and
you listen to Gardenline, you hear me give tips on

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different ways to do things just to make it easier.
Malching is prime example of that. Don't pull weeds, malch,
keep maltch. Don't let the sunlight hit the soil. Wherever
sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed and now
you got to deal with that weed and you want
to avoid that. Let's go out to Huntsville. We are
going to visit with Charles. Hey, Charles, welcome to garden.

Speaker 8 (32:26):
Good morning, Good morning. Did you get the picture of
the two? Yeah? Did you get the picture?

Speaker 5 (32:34):
I did? I did the Japanese maples? I did?

Speaker 15 (32:39):
Oh, both of them are okay. My wife won't speak
to you on the phone. She's afraid to talk on
the telephone and get it on the radio.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
So I'm there, don't buy all right, that's fair enough.
So what what you want to know is what's wrong
with with them? Yes, sir, okay. So Japanese maples. There's
a lot of varieties, but we kind of think of them,
and I think of them at least in two different types.

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Some have a bigger leaf, you know, like a regular
maple leaf on a tree, sycamore leaf, those kind of
broader leaves, and some have very fine, almost thread like leaves.
The ones with thread like leaves are a little pickier
about being in too much sun or I found, even
with the drought issues that they can have, and I

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think that's what's happened to yours. Looking at the tree,
you know, I just it's like the part that's sticking
out more out into the sun seems to be the
most affected by that. The demands are higher on those leaves,
so just continuing to make sure it never lacks for moisture.
They don't want to be in a swamp. But if
they dry out a little bit, it'll show up on

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those especially a thread leaf type of a Japanese maple.
They're especially prone to that. On the other type. I
believe it's called blood good. I believe you have the
blood good variety that one. It's a very strange symptom.
First of all, the overall tree looks fine, so I'm
not worried about the symptoms. And the close ups. They

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are little holes in the leaves. There are tiny insects
that can chew those holes. From the look of the holes,
those insects are long gone. You look around the edges
of the holes and there's a big wide tan or
a tan area. That means they ate the area and
then they're gone. And now the leaf is starting to
dry up where they severed those tissues. You know, if

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it was afresh something, then we might be talking about
spraying them to kill that bug. But I don't think
you need to worry about it. I think it's just fine.
I think it's older damage and so that one I'm
not concerned about.

Speaker 16 (34:53):
Great.

Speaker 15 (34:54):
Well, I think the lack of water is probably the
number one cause because they're out front and it's hard
for her get it. So I think you hit the
nail on the head on that.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Now you're you're uh, you're calling from Tennessee, right.

Speaker 15 (35:09):
Right, Yeah, we're no, I'm sorry. Uh, we're north of Huntsville, Alabama.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Yeah, okay, Well, you're in great country for growing these
kinds of things. You bring. Bring the Japanese maples down
to Houston and we can grow them. We just have
to be extra careful about putting them in too much
sun and not watering them because it's so hot for
so long. And I know you have heat as well,
but I think it was.

Speaker 15 (35:36):
A nice fifty one degrees this morning when we let
the dogs out at six, So but it's gonna warm up.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
Okay, you just made ten million, You just made ten
million people feel bad. Thank you for that? All right, Well,
thanks for thanks for calling in Charles. You bye bye,
you as well, you as well. Buchanans native plants in

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the Heights. Such an awesome place. I love going there
and they are. By the way, got to tell you
their fall festival is coming up in three weeks, so
you make sure and put that on your calendar. By
the way, go to the website and check them out,
Buchanons Plants dot com, Buchanansplants dot Com. There you're going

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to find out about events like the big Shindig fall
festival they have going on. That's when you find out
when they get the bulbs in. You know, right now
they've gotten a nice selection of Frisian daffodils and spider
lilies and ornamental garlic and all kinds of things. Pumpkins.
Pumpkins are there, really cool like the fairytale Cinderella type pumpkins,

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and many others are there. It's hummingbird season, so does
Buchanans have hummingbird plants? You bet they do, including some
really nice native ones. So whatever you're wanting to do
and if you want a garden that's successful, you want
quality plants that want to be here and that you
find Buchanans native plants in the Heights Buchanansplants dot Com.

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We're now going to go to Tomball and talk to Beth. Hey, Beth,
welcome regarden line, Hi.

Speaker 17 (37:16):
Skift in morning. I wanted to ask you about I
have some very special irises. I brought them back intouly
from my great grandma, well actually from my grandmother's yard,
but she had brought them from my great grandmother's yard,
you know. So these are one hundred year old irises
and for more and so they're very special. But I

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brought them back in July in pots and they've been
doing well, and I think I need the partners get
them ready to go into the ground so they go
into go through the Lenner. But I wanted to.

Speaker 13 (37:51):
Get your advice on the actussies.

Speaker 17 (37:53):
They're very special to me.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Iris. Is you plant iris in the fall just you
can do that, or you you can also plan them
in the spring. It's they'll do fine either way. I
would I would get them in the ground, all right,
That's what.

Speaker 13 (38:10):
I was thinking.

Speaker 17 (38:11):
Yeah, thank you so much.

Speaker 18 (38:12):
So that's great. Time for one more question.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
All right, let me do this. I'm gonna put you
on hold. I've got to go to I got to
go to the top of the hour right now. And uh,
if you want to hang around, I put you on hold,
and I'll take your second question when we come back.
And after that, Jim and a task Casita. You're going
to be our very first up. All right, you're listening
to garden Line. Got some news at the top of

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the hour. Let's go get us a cup of coffee.
By the way, if your neighbor the lights aren't on
at the house, go bang on the door and wake
them up. Tell them they're missing garden Line. A good neighbor,
you're my favorite.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Skip Rickard's.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Crazy trim. You just watch him as woo. Many things
to see Bot Brasy.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
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Speaker 2 (39:26):
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Speaker 3 (39:34):
Salmon.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Hey, good morning, Welcome back to the garden Line, folks.
If you would like to give me a call if
you got a gardening question. Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four League City feed down in
you got it? League City. In fact, they're just a
few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three. Okay,

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so if you're down in that region, Clare Lake City,
you know, Santa Fe, San Leone Baycliff, Webster, all those
all those communities. Head over League City a few blocks
south of Highway ninety six on three you'll find League
City Feed And when you find it, you will find
one of the old time garden centers, garden centers, feed
stores that we just love. I grew up going to

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feed stores. I'm a dad. Just that smell of a
feed store. I loved it. And this is the old
time service. You know, they carry the bags out for
you and when you go in, you're going to find
what you need that is important. You know you need.
Do you need some products for your your soil, like
products from nitrofoss or as a mite or microlife or

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airloom soils, Nelson plant food products. Do you need something
to control pests or diseases or weeds? How about just
playing premium pet food. It's always available there, as well
as other products you would expect in a quality feed
store like League City. Feet again, uh this uh, this place,
I tell you this all the time. But they're open

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up till until six Monday through Saturday, nine to six,
closed on Sunday. But that with that six o'clock he
was swinging by there right after work and grab everything
you need. Lake City feet two eight one three three
two sixteen twelve two eight one three three two one
six one two. We're going to go back now if
I can find the button to Beth and Tom Ball. Hey, Beth,

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I think you had a follow up question.

Speaker 17 (41:29):
I did so just of interest. I've been reading about
using coffee ground to you know, business pool and stuff
like that, and I just wanted to know what you
thought about that. With the coffee groundstools and all.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
Yeah, it's fine. They're they're an organic substance and moderation.
They are acidic, and so mixing some in the soil,
I wouldn't put, you know, an inch deep coffee grounds
mixed in. I would just put a little bit and
mix it in.

Speaker 8 (41:59):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
And if you're gonna plant little seeds, I wouldn't do
the coffee grounds right before that. There's a little bit
of a seed growth in aibition that I have noticed
when I've tried to start seeds, and I'll soil that
had quite a bit of coffee ground, so other than that,
and that all decomposes away. So it's not like now
forever you can't plant seeds. It's just if this fall

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you're gonna plant seeds. I wouldn't do it right away.
I'd let them get up and going.

Speaker 6 (42:27):
All right, okay, great, thank you, all.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Right, thanks for having on to talk with you this morning. Yeah,
let's head now out to a task Asita, and we're
going to talk to Jim this morning. Hey, Jim, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (42:43):
Well, good morning.

Speaker 16 (42:44):
I'm outside here in the front yard. Everybody listens to
skip on ktr H trying to wake everybody for the.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
People yelling at you from the front porch. No, that's up. No,
they're all sick.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
Here's a deal.

Speaker 16 (43:01):
This spurage white stuff whatever.

Speaker 8 (43:04):
The those weeds.

Speaker 16 (43:05):
They've just gotten out, they've just gotten It's unbelievable. They
keep on and spreading right now. First of all, a
pre emergent. Nelson's makes a pre emergent. We've got a
couple of companies that natural fosters all make. Isn't it

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too hot to be spreading it right now?

Speaker 5 (43:30):
No, not a pre emergent. Just follow the label, don't
overdo the application of pre emergence. Do it right as
the label says, and you can do it anytime. You
don't do it. Pre emergent product is going to make
sure that those seeds when they they will start to sprout,
but then they can't get a root down and the
weed seedling dies before it even gets started. That's how

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they work. But yeah, you could, you could do them.
Now we're we're kind of we're kind of late for
warm season weeds to be germinating, although if you mixed
up the soil and watered it, the seeds would sprout
out of there. Most of them have already done what
they're doing in the non disturbed soil areas like you're loing.
But the cool season weeds will be germinating starting in

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October typically here, and so you need to be ahead
of that. That's where the barricade from nitroposs comes in.
And it's on my schedule for an October application.

Speaker 16 (44:27):
Yeah, I was watching your schedule, Yes, and it's on October,
so and so the temperature doesn't really have anything to
do with it.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
It won't hurt.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Not for the pre emergent. No, it's not a big deal.
The thing with pre emergence two things where people go wrong.
One is they don't water them in after they put
them down, because they have to be washed down into
the soil. But just a little bit of water, not
a lot, just a little bit, because they have to
be in that soil surface where the weeds are going
to sprout to do their work. Thing is people think

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if the teaspoon's good, a tablespoon's better, and it's not
when it especially when it comes to pre emergent. All right, okay,
I'm good.

Speaker 16 (45:09):
I'm gonna spread it on the whole yard, and I'm
just going to get either one. Which one do you
recommend for right now?

Speaker 5 (45:16):
Both of them are good. I you know our fall fertilization.
If you're wanting or excuse me, if you're just doing
a pre emergent, I would do that barricade, uh and
uh watered in really good and well, I said, really good,
half inch third of an inch to half inch of water. Okay,
and that would be fine, But you know, I don't
know that I would do it now. I would buy

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it now, but hold off and put it on in
early October so that because that's when after that is
when the cool season, we you're germinating warm season. We're
kind of done with that. They're gonna they're not gonna
last long. I mean, you could use it now, I
don't use it now and then use it again just
a month later. It takes a little longer before you
do a second.

Speaker 16 (45:57):
One's the whole thing I just wondering about is yeah, yeah,
I was in one of your bodies. The whole purpose
of Premerson is to kill the.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
Seeds, correct, Yep, yep.

Speaker 16 (46:07):
That's in the matter in the ground, right.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (46:11):
Oh, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Speaker 19 (46:13):
That's my goal.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
Make sure they'll come back for next year.

Speaker 8 (46:15):
Yeah, quite skip, Hey, have a great day.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
That yeah, you bet. And you're gonna find those night
Foss products at all kinds of places, you know, they're
they're easy to find. There are lots of lots of
different spots no matter where you live. Really kind of convenient.
Makes it easy to find you're looking for it, by
the way, yep, thank you, thank you, sir.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
Take care.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
These hardware is typically yeah, Ace hardware is typically carry
those uh yeah on places like I know some of
y'all are listening from different parts of town, but Court
Hardware and Stafford carries night Foss ospase Ace up in
the Woodlands carries Nativos r c W on Beltway belt
Way eight and two forty nine Kerry's Night to Foss.
All right, we're going to take a quick break here.

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When we come back, Rommy and Siena, we're going to
talk about those Peggy Martin pictures you sent me. All right,
welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
Good to have you with us.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
To the devil.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
All right, let's do this. If you'd like to give
me a call. Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Uh. Plants for All Seasons is one
of those garden centers. It's been around since nineteen seventy three. Uh,
and it's just the kind of place you go where

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you know you're going to get expert advice. You know
you're going to find plants that want to grow here,
and you know you're going to find people that are
dedicated to help you have success. That is so important.
This family owned and operated garden center is is the
place where people can trust what they're buying to be
good and the advice are getting to be good. They're

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true lawn and garden experts. You can take them pictures,
you can take them, you know, samples in a little bag.
Put them a little plastic bag so they can keep
them fresh and keep anything from escaping away out of
it and take it in. Let them take a look
at it. The website's plans for all seasons dot com.
Plants for all Seasons dot com phone number two eight
one three seven six sixteen forty six. It's located right

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there on Tomball Parkway, H two forty nine, just north
of Luata Plants for all Seasons. Let's see. We are
now going to Rommy in Siena. Hey, Rommy, Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 20 (48:39):
Hey Skip, thanks for taking my call. And you know
I did send you to pictures that you asked me
to send you, so I'm hoping I didn't send too many.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
You know, it may be perfectly fine, but I just
wanted to see what you thought.

Speaker 20 (48:57):
You know, it's looking a little tired from the but
I'm hoping that, you know, some of it's the yellowing leaves,
but also there's some curling on it, and I don't
I'm hoping it's just maybe they're just dry.

Speaker 6 (49:11):
I don't know what you think.

Speaker 11 (49:13):
I think.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
Yeah, and I've got a Peggy Martin that I just
didn't get around to doing a lot of watering on
this year because it's a it's a very good tough rose,
but it's been hot and it's been very dry. The
crinkly leaves could be from an insect doing some damage.
It doesn't look like a virus to me, so we'll
keep watching for that. But I don't think you that

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it's a virus thing, just based on the type of
crinkling that's going on on those leaves. I think a
lot of the yellowing and some of whatnot is stress related.
Peggy Martin is not prone to diseases either, But there
are a few leaf spots on it, some angular stuff,
some stuff that might look like a tiny bit of
circosper on it, just not enough. The I guess the

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photo that would can serned me the most is the
one you have upside down where you know it's just
they're just a lot of browning on the underside of
the leaf. So but other than that, I'm not gonna
recommend any spray. I would just say let's keep healthy

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and happy. Uh, it wouldn't hurt to give them a
little fertilizer right now. Not a lot, though we're getting
a little later, but a mild fertilization watered in really good,
and I think it's going to be fine. But if
anything changes or gets worse, please do send me some
additional photos and let's talk again on garden just right now.
I don't think we did.

Speaker 20 (50:42):
I did put some micro life last week, so you know,
we'll see how that does. But you're saying it probably
doesn't need fung aside like it's yeah.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Yeah, I am. I am very slow to recommend that
you a pesticide on something unless we're in a situation
where without it you're gonna have severe damage, you know,
to your plan or loss or something like that. And
I don't see anything worth spraying for now. I was
a little concerned about the leaf form, but it I

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think it's gonna be okay. Let's watch it, though, and
like I said, please do let me know. I mean,
even if it's a few weeks from now and there's
some growth on it and it doesn't look right, send
me another picture and let's talk.

Speaker 6 (51:29):
Okay, all right, it sounds good.

Speaker 20 (51:30):
Well, I'll keep an eye on it.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
You, bet Ronnie, thanks a lot, appreciate sending those photos.
In Yeah, there's a lot of things that happened to
plants and boy, when we get to the end of summer, folks,
I mean it has been tough. Imagine if you had
to live outside these last three months. You know, it's
like I think I'd be wilted and twisted and spots
on me too from that kind of a situation. But anyway,

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you get the idea. Medina makes a lot of great products,
and you know, they started off the Medinasol Activator. It
was just kind of like one of the grandfather products
that came from Medina. By the way, do you know
Medina is made out in Uvality, Texas. Yep, just down
it in from us out there Texas Home, Texas is

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home for Medina products. The Medinasoil activator. They added some
things to it that I think was an ingenious idea.
Over forty different trace elements added to that Medina sool
activator and the cytokinin, which is a natural growth hormone
that comes from seaweed extract. Then there's not just trace

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almost there's also some magnesium in there and a lot
of other things to help increase the plant's health, better blooming,
better fruits, at better leaf growth. You can drench plants
with this Medina plus by the way. I didn't tell
you the name of it. Menisasol activator with all this
added is called Medina Plus. And Medina Plus is excellent

(53:00):
for watering plants in at transplanting. It's also good you
soak seeds in it and kind of do that pre
pre soak before you plant to get a better germination.
It's easy to find sold all over the place, finding
at our feed stores. You're going to find it at
places that well, our independent garden centers, places that like

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hardware stores, off ast fertilizer, they're going to carry Medina
products like this Medina Plus. You need to check it
out and you need to have it on hand because
every time you're doing something in the garden, there's gonna
be a good use for it. You were listening to
Garden Line our phone number here seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 16 (53:44):
I was.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
I was at League City Feet a while back and
looking at all the things they carry. I try to
keep up with all my sponsors and what they're carrying,
what they've got, what's new. Uh, well it's not new,
but League City Feed has had Airloom Sol's products for
a good long time. You can buy there and buy
them by the bag. You know, Heirloom Soils has this huge,
wide array of products. You can go to the website

(54:07):
Heirloomsoils dot com Airloomsoils dot com and that's where you'll
find all the different things that they carry. And they're excellent,
excellent products. Every time I've used one, I've had good
success with it, and so I'm pretty excited about them.
Just the other day, I was using some of the
veggie and herb mix from Heirloom Soils because it is

(54:27):
just good now. I know, the bag says veggie and
Herb gets you a magic marker and just right on
there and flower beds and containers, you know, just because
it's good for all kinds of things. It's not just
limited to the veggie and herb mix. Now. Heirloom Soils
is from Porter, Texas just northeast of Houston. That's where

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they're made, but they're sold all over by the bag.
They are. Also you can go out there and get
them in bulk, which bulk's the most cost effective way
to buy a soil, a blend, a malt or anything
like that. Or you can have them deliver it to you.
They can delivered by the supersack with a three yard
minimum of the one qbic yard supersacks, and they can

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also deliver by the bulk. Dump it in the driveway
if you like, so you can get busy. Fall is
for planting. Before planting comes what taking care of the
soil green, brown stuff, before green stuff and Heirloom Soils
has got you covered. Go to that website, heirloomsouce dot
com and check out their soil calculator. It's really cool,

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very helpful too. You're listening to garden Line and our
phone number is seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. We'll be happy to visit with you
and help you have success in that. Anywhere I go
around town, I go to the local independent garden centers
that we talk about here on garden Line. An example

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of that would be the Warren's Southern Gardens Worn Southern
Gardens out there in Kingwood, all so a sister place,
Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood. Those places have
excellent selection, they have excellent advice, people that know what
they're talking about. You know, products from Nelson, like their

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turf Star Carblow. They just got a shipment of those
in they're ready to go with that. A nice selection
of fall plants, even the vegetables that you need for fall,
or there the cool season annuals or the annuals that
we plant for fall, you knowing plants some warm season
that will take us up to the first frost, and

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then there's the cool season, the ones that go into
the cool season. Warren's always has a good selection of
anything in its season. Some really nice shrubs too. If
you look at something for something a little different. There's
an Abelia glossy abelia called Radiance that, in addition to
the white flowers, has white lining around the edges of
the leaves and it just jumps out at you. You know,

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a green shrub is pretty. Green is pretty, but when
you do something that really makes it pop, like this
Abelia Radiance. It's about a three by three and shrub.
By the way, Oh, that reminds me. We had a
glossy Abelias at the house when I grew up. Uh
and I remember it because whenever, you know, I took

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the horse and buggy to school every morning. Okay, don't
believe that, but it's been a long time, and I
saw some pictures after I grew up and left parents
passed away, saw pictures of the house and it was like,
these abelias are like pushing above the eaves of the house,
rubbing on the eaves because it's the old time giantabelia.

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So many different shrubs now we have in dwarf forms.
And to have an abelia that is only about three
by three nice in compact and has that extra pizazz
of the white on the leaves, that is cool. And
that's just one example of the shrubs there at warren
Southern Gardens, Warren's Other Gardens, and Keewa Garden Center. Warrens
is on North Park, Kingwa's on Stonehallow, and both of

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them are open seven days a week, which is nice.
Well let's see here, I've got a little slow day
on the phones today. Normally were hopping on a Saturday
morning by this time. I used to do a radio
show in another city earlier in my career, and the
producer will always say, don't talk. If you talk, people

(58:26):
just sit and listen. If you just stop stop talking,
they'll they'll call. So there you go. Generally, we're covered
up by now with them if you are wanting to
have really nice curb appeal, if you want your home
your landscape to pop, you got to call pier Scapes
or go to the website. Here's the phone number two

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eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. Here's the website
peerscapes dot com. Go to the website. I can't talk
about all the different things that they do and for
your landscape. You can see pictures there at the website,
but I can tell you that they also have, in
addition to things like irrigation repairs and landscape lighting and

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on and on and on, they also do a quarterly
maintenance program where they come in once a quarter, they
take care of any weeds in your flower beds, they
spruce up with some fresh molts, they make sure the
irrigation's work, and right all of that kind of maintenance
stuff that needs to be done. Once a quarter they
come in and they keep your place looking at best.
Piercecapes two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty or

(59:34):
piercescapes dot com. I'll be right back. Good to have
you with us this morning. Give me a call if
you got a question, that would be seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

Speaker 9 (59:49):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
If you have not been to the arbor Gate, first
of all, welcome to Houston, because you couldn't have lived
here more than a year and i' been to the
arbor Gate. You need to go out there and check
it out. They're Amal west to Tomball on Highway twenty
nine twenty FM twenty nine to twenty a mile and
a half west of two forty nine, specifically on Highway
twenty nine to twenty. They've got the best selection of

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all kinds of things every season of the year. That
regular deliveries of cool season color and vegetables and herbs
going on right now. Extensive selection of fruit trees, berries
and grapes, by the way, they carry fruit trees year round.
They're at the arbor Gate. You want to do some
seeds starting, they got little seeds starting kits and the
seeds to go with them. It's just a you know,

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I could literally talk for two days on just the
different groups of plants that they have there at Arburgate.
They also have the one two three completely easy system
that's a food for anything with roots, an organic food
for anything. You can use it on anything. A soil
for any application that you have which also includes expanded shale.
I will say something about that in a minute. And

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a compost that also includes expanded shale. So these are
completely organic. Now, expanded shale is a product that is
like think of a kitty letter that has been heated
up thousands degrees hot and expand it out, and so
now it's more like a lava rock, you know, with
all the little holes in it, but it's real time,

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it's small. You put it in a clay soil and
it holds that soil open, and it helps keep it
better air rated, It helps water move in, It helps
water flow in the soil, helps oxygen come in, helps
the plant roots. So here in Houston, if you got
one of those black Houston clays, and that's actually the
name of a clay, an official name, Houston black clay.
If you've got any kind of clay soil, you put

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expanded hiale in it and you're going to get the benefits.
And now organic matter does similar things. It holds it open,
plus they decomposes to release nutrients and stimulate the microbes.
But the shale also present in there is an additional
way in a longer term than organic matter to keep
that soil open. So if that's what I'm talking about
at the arbor Gate, now, Arburgate's always having classes going on.

(01:01:58):
So on Wednesday, September seventeenth, guess when that is. Next Wednesday,
they're going to have a program called fire Sight or
fire spelled phy r.

Speaker 20 (01:02:09):
What is that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
Well, Cynthia Graham is going to be talking about herbal
remedies for flu, cold and other issues for centuries. As
part of the class, you'll learn the basics of the
formula and how to customize it to meet your needs
and tastes. There'll be other teas and tinctures and toddies
that they'll be talking about. And this is on Wednesday,
September seventeenth at ten am. Here's what you need to hear.

(01:02:32):
There are only forty spots and they fill up quickly.
It costs ten dollars per person, and you need to
call in and reserve your spot repay. You can't just
show up. You have to pay ahead of time and
call in. That way, you listen. I've been doing program
for a long time and I know that if people
say they're coming, they don't always show up and now

(01:02:54):
this seat is sitting empty, so they're going to make
sure every seat is full. Two eight one three five
one eighty eight fifty one two eight one three eighty
eight fifty one. We're going to go now to Huntsville
and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles, welcome back.

Speaker 16 (01:03:08):
I just want yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:03:10):
I had a green thumb. When I lived in El Campo,
I had the following trees. I had a live oak,
a water oak, a burroak, a SCHIMMARTI.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
Red tree.

Speaker 15 (01:03:23):
I had a lace bark elm and I had a
river birch. I had a meer lemon tree. And last
of all, my daughter gave me a fig tree which
was three foot tall, and when I finally moved and
left El Campo, it was about twelve feet tall. So
the only thing I had terrible luck with I tried
to do the arborgate. I mean I arburgate the conservancy

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on trees, and there was a hazel nut project they
had and I tried to plant them on the north side,
and I think it was just too hot. But that
was my biggest failure. But everything else, everything else crew
and I brought the Boroh with me to Tennessee. And
I still got one.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
Hey, Charles, did you okay? Good? Well, thanks appreciate you
calling in you take care. Thanks for that. Okay, we're
going to go now to We're going to head to
UH northwest Houston and talk to Brian. Hey, Brian, welcome
to the garden Line.

Speaker 21 (01:04:23):
Yes, good morning.

Speaker 14 (01:04:24):
Am I the Brian?

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Yes, I'm here.

Speaker 21 (01:04:28):
Welcome okay, Yeah, uh love your program, very informative. I
have a question, Uh. I work for a company that
does concrete resurfacing and we generate literally tons of concrete dust.
The pH value is probably off the scale, completely unrealistic

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as pH. Is there anything that can be done with
this as far as regenerating a source rather than us
just throwing away a ton of concrete dust.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
I don't know, but I would be hesitant to use
that in the soil. I need to know some of
the parameters of it being a dust. It would be
really easy to clump and then when it gets wet,
it sets up right, just like your your concrete product.
Is that correct?

Speaker 16 (01:05:28):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:05:29):
No, it does not regenerate with with with water. I
just hate to throw.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
Away you know what I would do? All right, here's
what I would do. I want you to go to
a website. It's called Soil Testing dot T A m U,
which stands for Texas A and M University, dot E
d U, the first three letters in education. Soil testing
dot TAMU, dot EEDU. Find the number on there and

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call and talk to the folks at the Soil's lab.
They are soul chemists and they understand all these things
and have that conversation with them. If there's anything that
can be done with it, they will definitely be able
to guide you there. But I'm not going to be
able to provide that information, but I do. I do
appreciate your call. Thank you. I'm gonna have to run.
We've got another folk folks here waiting on the line.

(01:06:20):
Let's go to Mike and West Houston. Hey, Mike, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (01:06:25):
Thanks. I've got a thirty year old live oak that
seems to be losing an abnormal amount of leaves over
this past month.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Okay, when you look at the leaves laying on the ground,
do you notice anything? Do they have black spots on them?
Or the tips brown and the rest of the leaf green?
What can you tell me about the fallen leaves? Are
they all brown?

Speaker 14 (01:06:49):
They just seem to be all brown. It's never lost
its amount of leaves this early in the year.

Speaker 6 (01:06:57):
The tree also.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Okay. Well, the new growth is a good sign. Something
stressed that tree for a while. And I don't know.
You know, we haven't had the driest of years, but
a drought can do that. But live oaks are so
dead gum resilient. I can't imagine unless you have a
special situation there that it would have been drought damaged.

Speaker 14 (01:07:19):
They started, I don't know, but i'd started well three
or four months ago. There was a major trimming, took
some big limbs off of it. Stressed from that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
Yeah, mum, probably not, Probably not that. But here's the deal. Trees,
trees like live oaks and magnolias, they they appear evergreen,
but the old leaves drop periodically at different times of
the year, and so when they get in a stress,
they'll drop the old leaves. But the fact that it's

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sending out new shoots tells me the root system is
good and things are working. So I can't tell you
what happened, but I can tell you that it sounds
like the tree is okay. Just keep an eye on it,
maybe have an arborus. Call Martin spoonmore. Come out and
take a look at it if you're concerned. But my
gut feeling shooting from the hip is that this is
probably not a problem. If you need, do you need,

(01:08:14):
If you want to call Martin, I can give you
a number. I don't know if you wish to do that.

Speaker 14 (01:08:21):
Yeah, I want to call one. Yeah, can I look
you up?

Speaker 6 (01:08:25):
So let me give you give me the number.

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
Now, let me let me just let me just give
you a number. Seven one three six nine nine two
six sixty three, seven one three twenty six sixty three.
All right, all right, well, thank you appreciate your call.
All right, you bet all right. I got to go
to a break here. We'll be right back with your calls.

(01:08:47):
Uh seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
You can be the first stup. All right, welcome back
to the garden line. Like a lava flow comes in
from the sides, is over to protect that inner wood.
And that's what I mean when I stay. Depending on
the health of the tree, that's how fast in it heal,
and the size of the wound, that's how long does

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it take to come across it? May or may not
close over in time. But there's nothing for you to
do now other than keep the tree out of stresses
so that it has its best chance.

Speaker 8 (01:09:21):
Got you, got you okay, perfect, perfect?

Speaker 5 (01:09:24):
Hey, Thanks, appreciate, appreciate your call.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
You bet you take care. Listen, we live in an
area with clay soils and they move. If you don't
believe me, dry around down and look at the sidewalks,
especially older neighborhoods. I mean, it's like the Rocky Mountain
range going down the sidewalk. That is because our soils move.
And what happens at your house is the driveway, the
sidewalks and your home foundation is affected by our soils.

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It's called shrinks. Swell gets wet, it swells get dry
as shrinks. And that's when you see cracks on the
sheet rock inside, or cracks in the brick on the outside,
or a door that used to not suddenly sticks. Maybe
it sticks a while and then it goes away, and
then it sticks a while again because that soil is moving.
Don't mess around. Call fix my slab foundation repair. Ty

(01:10:10):
Strickland's been doing this for twenty three years. He's a
native Houstonian, fifth generation Texan and ty knows how to
do it right. He can walk out there and assess
the situation and he'll tell you if it needs fixing
or if it's just let's wait and watch. Because all
foundations have some cracks in him. There's always going to

(01:10:31):
be some movement in time. Okay, so tight, I jump
the gun. Start charging your money. He gives you an
honest assessment, and then when he does need to come
in and fix it, he shows up on time, he
fixes it right, and he charges a fair price. Fixmslab
dot com. Fix myslab dot com two eight one two

(01:10:52):
five five forty nine forty nine two eight one two
fi five forty nine forty nine. Hey, it doesn't hurt
to don't be an ostrich. Stick your head in the sand.
Have him come out, take a look at it. Fix
my s lab dot com. We are gonna be putting
this hour in the books. Here go to the top

(01:11:13):
of the hour. News got two hours down here in
guarden line today, I got two more to go, looking
forward to your calls. If you would like to be
first up when we get to the next hour, then
during this break, give me a call. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was looking

(01:11:34):
at a barbecue pit the other day and it was
a nice solid metal barbecue pit quality pit, but it
had some rust, you know, some rust happening on it
where the the elements had just kind of taken the
paint off or whatever. And I'm just thinking, man, that thing.
You don't need to let it just go rusty. Take
it to Houston powder Coders, or you don't even have

(01:11:54):
to take it. Here's the deal. They're the biggest powder
coder in the region. Over one hundred different color they
can make. If you want a pink barbecue pit, they
can do it. I don't never seen one of those,
but I never saw a purple cow either. Remember the poem. Anyway,
Houston powder Coders outdoor furniture, outdoor art on the walls,

(01:12:14):
that metal art, you know, cast iron, wrought iron, aluminum
patio furniture, metal patio furniture, they can do it all.
They will pick it up, they will bring it in,
they will repair it, and they will bring it back
to you. It's it's really easy to do. That old
heavy barbecue pit. Let them deal with it, all right,
And any of the things they need to do to
fix it. You know, maybe some of those maybe it

(01:12:36):
has vinyl straps or sling fabric or something like that,
rusty hardware, plastic feats that have worn off of that
patio furniture. They can fix it. All you do this,
take a picture, send it to sales at houstoncoders dot
com for a quick quote. You can give them a
call two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight.

(01:12:57):
Or if you just want to go see the website
and learn a little bit more about this, you'll be impressed.
Houston Powdercoders dot com. Houston powder coders dot com. Go
check out their work. They know what they're doing. Don't
go away that metal furniture. They can bring it back
to life for a fraction of the cost of what
it originally costs you. Well, the music means I need

(01:13:22):
to turn things over to the news. Head out of here.
I just want to remind you turing to break. Hey,
check out my website gardening with Skip dot com. There
you'll find a lot of helpful information and there's always
more coming. I'm working on several new things right now
to go up on the website, so check it out.
It's free to download and we'll help you have success.

Speaker 11 (01:13:44):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:13:46):
Also, just a reminder today, I'm going to be are
you ready for this. I'm going to be at Bearings
Hardware on Bisonet. I'll be there from twelve to two.
Compliments of Night or Foss you come in there, they'll
be there as well. We're going to be giving away
six nitro FoST product next the three Style Exus three

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Style Eagle Funds, your Signe Barricade, pre Emergent and Fall
Special fertilizer. You might win, but you can't if you
don't show up.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Shoes, Crazy gas can trim. Just watch him as.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Many give things the Sea Bot bass and gas.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Sables not a sign credit the glass Gas Sunmon.

Speaker 7 (01:14:59):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (01:14:59):
Hey, hey, welcome back to the garden Line. Good to
have you back with us. Hey, if you want to
give me a call seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four, let's talk about what's going on
in your lawn. I would say you could just call
the brag on your lawn, but I don't think we're
going to do that. I know you're proud of your lawn.
I'm sure to send me a picture. I'll be impressed. Uh,

(01:15:21):
and I will. Because when people follow the schedule, they
follow the schedule. That means the two schedules. I have
one on my website gardening with skip dot com, the
lawn care schedule and the lawn Let's just say problem
dealing with the schedule, you will have success. These are
things that have been research tested, improving. They work. The

(01:15:42):
products that I recommend or products that I've used and
I know work. And so that's the secrets to success
on that. Everybody wants to have a beautiful a beautiful lawn. Uh,
and it can be done. It is within reach. I
was talking somebody about turf the other day. We're visiting
about species of turf and varieties of turf. Somebody stopped by,

(01:16:04):
visited the house and we're just kind of walking around
looking at some of the ones. I got two different
Saint Augustine's in the front, two different Loysias in the back.
I know that sounds weird, but look if you saw it,
it works. Got a big driveway between the Saint Augustine,
so you kind of don't really notice unless you just
really look at them. That they're different a little bit.
And then in the backyard I got a patio on

(01:16:25):
a walkway between the two zoysias. But why do I
do that? Well, it's because I want to be able
to help you, because I need to know how things
you're going to do. You know, if I tell you
this variety blah blah blah is going to be good
and it does well here, but I've never grown it before,
I have no way of knowing that for sure. Then

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I'm not very helpful, right, So I experiment, I try
things out, I test them. Plus I like doing that.
It's just fun. My family can tell you that everything's
an experiment. Sometimes. Sometimes I'm very great for the fact
that my wife puts up with my horticultural endeavors that
I come up with. And we've had times where the

(01:17:07):
dining room table was just full of siege from one
end to the other, where there was a light on
starting transplants in the kitchen over on a wall on
the side. Anyway, we've progressed past that. But hey, when
you get into gardening, I'm telling you, I'm just warning you.
If you've got a spouse getting into gardening, just get

(01:17:28):
used to it and be careful because it is addictive,
and they'll pull you in. They'll pull you in as well.
RCW Nursery is the garden center there where Tamba Parkway
comes intobout Wag eight. The Williamson's have been operating ARCW
since nineteen seventy nine. They also have the Williamson Tree

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Farm up there in Plannersville where they grow a lot
of high quality trees, the kind that you want to
plant your species, varieties that do very very well here.
I love going to RCW because I know I want
to go there. There's always gonna be something cool to
look at, something going on, something new, and they've got
a lot of good, newsworthy stuff right now. For fall decorations,

(01:18:10):
they've really got you set up. You're good to go.
You like those taliberra pumpkins and yard art types of
decorations for fall, for Halloween and Thanksgiving and whatnot, they've
got you covered. Remember in September, this is not gonna
last forever, so you're not gonna mind a better deal
than those trees. Fifteen percent off Cajun hibiscus, fifteen percent

(01:18:31):
off CRP myrtles and citrus too. By the way, thirty
percent off select roses thirty percent off. All their middle
yard are arbors, travelises and signage thirty percent off for
the month of September. Listen, the best time to plant
a tree is in the fall, and here's your opportunity,
depending on what you plant, fifteen to thirty percent off.

(01:18:53):
You can't beat that. Rc W Nurseries. You got good expertise.
The folks who who help you. You know what they're
talking about. I've been doing this a long long time
and you can trust them. You can trust them. RCW Nurseries,
Tomball Parkway and belt Way eight. RCW Nurseries dot Com
corner of Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight. We're gonna head

(01:19:16):
out Cypress now in a visit with Mark. Hey, Mark,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:19:22):
Good morning. How are y'all doing.

Speaker 5 (01:19:25):
Doing good?

Speaker 8 (01:19:26):
Good?

Speaker 11 (01:19:27):
I have what I think is a moth problem in
my Saint Augustine. The grass ends up turning like real veiny,
and like you end up seeing the soil instead of
the grass, and it just looks like real matted down.
It's not everywhere, but it's in spots. We tried spraying
huh some stuff called cyonara.

Speaker 5 (01:19:47):
Tell me you've heard of that, Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:19:50):
Yes, and we've reapplied and reapplied. We just just can't
seem to get a handle on it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Well, sinon Aro will kill about anything. When you say moths,
just just describe the moths.

Speaker 11 (01:20:05):
The moths to me, they're they're small and they just
jump from spot to spot. You mainly see them when
you spray, you kind of flush them out. Don't really
see them during the day. Okay, I don't know how
they are, but they're they're small.

Speaker 5 (01:20:24):
You may you may be talking about fall uh side
web worms. I say fall side web worms typically attack
late summer and fall uh and they're on my schedule.
Go to gardening with skip dot com download the pest,
disease and weed management schedule and when you do that,
you'll see side webworms on there. Specifically, I start warning

(01:20:45):
about side web worms the beginning of July UH typically
to the end of August. They kind of they kind
of wind down. They can go a little later, and
that I think that's what you've been dealing with. Cyonari
should have killed them now. The moths just lay the eggs.
They don't eat the grass. It's the it's the larva
that are down in the thatch and you get on

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on your hands and knees, and it looks like something
just you know how when they take a bite out
of a sandwich, you can see where each tooth bit
out of a sandwich, you got that little jag of bite.
That's kind of what your grass blades look like. And
if you dig around in the thatch, you'll find these
little green to tan translucent worms. The cyanara will kill them,
it will. And so since you already have it on hand,

(01:21:29):
I would first make sure you still have the worms.
I suspect you killed them already, and that you know
the lawn is just continuing to look like it looks
because it's got to grow. Let's make sure and you
get your fall fertilization on it normally, I say do
that in October, beginning of October, if you want to
start that a little earlier, just to get a little

(01:21:49):
boosting growth, so you get some leaves on it so
it can kind of rejuvenate and recover because it needs
to make a lot of carbohydrates going in the fall.
So that's my recommendation to you.

Speaker 11 (01:22:01):
Mark, all right, how can I find your schedule again?

Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
You said, skip, uh, Yes, gardening with Skip.

Speaker 11 (01:22:09):
That's me, Oh gardening with.

Speaker 5 (01:22:12):
Perfect Morning Skip dot Com. Yeah, thanks a lot, appreciate it.
Take care all right, we're gonna take a quick break.
I'll be right back. Oh boy, welcome back to the
guard line. Good to have you with us. You got
a question, I got an answer. Seven one three, two

(01:22:33):
one two five eight seven four. Give me a call.
Happy to visit with you about that.

Speaker 16 (01:22:38):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:22:38):
As am I is a product you hear me talk
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Now in a nutshell. Micro nutrients are nutrients that you
only need a small amount of, but they're essential. Without them,
it limits the plant growth. Or if they have none,
the plant can't grow. But if they're low, that's the

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limiting factor in success. Whatever nutrient is most limiting in
the soil, that is the level to which that plant
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plant does better, and you give it everything it wants
and it thrives. As of Mite is a crushed mineral
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(01:23:23):
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If you got a vegetable garden, get a ten pound bag.
One thousand square feet coverage in a ten pound bag.
As Mite can be used with any kind of fertilizer

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you use it. You know, we're always putting down the
big three, the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, but don't mix
them in the spreader. So go out do your fall fertilization,
but then come back and load up with the asimite
and according to the label, put the as mite out
as well. You can go to asmit Texas dot com
if you want to find out more information. It's easy
to find azemite. It's just sold all over the place.

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You find it at ACE hardware stores. You're going to
find it at our independent garden centers, at feed stores.
The main thing is, don't forget it's on my schedule.
Go look at my schedule. It's on there to do that.
IM visiting with Mike from as Mike the other day
we was talking about, you know, some of the products
and things, and I was sending some information for there

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for them in some of what they're doing just kind
of talking about why it's important to use it. And
there's a concept called lee bigs barrel. So let me
get nerdy on you here just a little bit. Lie
Bigs barrel is basically a symbol to show us why
nutrients are needed in the amounts that they are. So

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if you take a barrel, a wine barrel, a whiskey barrel,
depending on your preferences, and you were to cut off
those staves the sides of the barrel, and you know,
maybe half of them went to the top, and then
some were cut off three fourths or halfway up to
the top, and there's one that's cut off only a
third of the way up to the top. How much
water could you put in the barrel? You could fill

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it as high as the lowest stave one third. That
nutrient represented by each staves a nutrient. That nutrient would
be what's stopping whatever plant you have from achieving its
full potential. So you provide plenty of that nutrient, and
now the ones that are, you know, only halfway up,
that's the limiting nutrient. That's the concept of the barrel,

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and it helps us understand why we need a full
stock and the bank account of the soil of every
nutrient that a plant needs, and those micronutrients they're only
needed in small amounts, but they are needed. All right,
We're going to run out to Spring Branch and talk
to HERDA right now. Hey, Hurda, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:25:56):
Thank you, Good morning, my us.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
It's about.

Speaker 22 (01:26:02):
I have sage.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
In a pot and.

Speaker 12 (01:26:08):
Would it hurt it if I cut it in half
and made two clients out of it? Or should I just.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Leave it alone?

Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
I'm sorry, tell me the name of the of the plant.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Well, it's sage.

Speaker 12 (01:26:30):
It's that gray silver gray plant you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
You're talking about the shrub, not the herb, are you
talking about?

Speaker 12 (01:26:39):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:26:40):
Yes, yes, the shrub?

Speaker 5 (01:26:41):
Yes, sir, I'm sorry, okay, okay, No, I would I
wouldn't do that. I would just I would just plant
it as it is. It'll be better for it to do.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
That, all right.

Speaker 21 (01:26:52):
All right, Well, thank you very much.

Speaker 22 (01:26:54):
You have a good day.

Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
Bye bye, Well you have a good day to Hey,
I heard it. I'm going to be next Saturday. I'm
gonna be at Bearings Hardware on Bitcinet. If you get
out and about get it from twelve to two, So
come see me all right, if you if you able,
all right, you take care appreciate it. That all right?

(01:27:18):
Seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
That is the number I UH have told you about
a number of the different products that nitro Foss has
UH and the three step is the trio for fall,
the Nitrofoss Texas three step. So here's how this works.
First of all, you prepare your lawn for the fall

(01:27:38):
winter season with their Nitrofoss Fall Special Winter Riser. It's
got a good chunk of potassium in it that provides
winter hardiness and also helps without initial growth in the spring.
It's got a good load of phosphorus as well for
the root system. Then second step is to head off
your cool season weeds with barricade Nitrofoss Barricade. Now this

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these seeds are going to be sprouting in October November
and you won't hardly even see them or know they're there.
But boy, will you know next spring when the clover
and the chickweed and the henbit just grow like crazy.
Stop them. Now, follow my schedule with night FROs Barricade.
Third step night Fuss Eagle Turf Fungicide. Now this product
you put it on the lawn watered in, it is

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taken up by the root system of the grass and
its it shuts down that brown patch before it even
have a chance to start. If you wait until you
have big circles out there, well you can still apply
the nitro Fuss Eagle and prevent additional issues. But those circles,
the leaves have been ritted off and they're going to
stay brown circles until spring, when the grass starts to

(01:28:44):
grow again. You need to head them off. The Texas
three Step very timely, very important, Night Fuss Well Special,
Nitro FROs Barricade, Nightavaus Eagle Turf funge Aside. Now, if
you'll come out to Barings Hardware, I'm going to be
there with Nitrofoss next Saturday from twelve to two. From
twelve to two, I'm going to be given away the

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Texas three Step, two whole complete packages of it. We're
gonna be giving away as six giveaways, two Eagle turf
funge asides, two barricades, and two fall specials. So every
twenty minutes for the two hours i'm there, I'm gonna
be giving some away. If you show up, you got
a good chance of winning. And by the way, I
hope you show up and love to visit with you
and meet you. I'll have some copies of my schedule

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on hand as well as some other cool giveaways. All right,
there you go. Where do you get nitrophiles? Anybody you
have an idea? Well, I'll give you a few. How
about Court Hardware and Stafford? How about all Spas Hardware
up in the Woodlands. That's an ACE hardware all Spause
And then I was just telling you about RCW Nurseries
two forty nine in the Beltway. They carry nitoposs products

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there as well. Our phone number seven one three two
one two five eight seven to four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four give me a call.
Let's talk about the questions that you might have. I
haven't talked about vegetables today, and I want to encourage

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as much as I can for you to plant a
vegetable garden. Now you don't need to go plow up
the back forty to have a vegetable garden. You can
do that if you want. Or you can just get
a box and drop it on the ground and fill
it full of good quality growing mix like a vegetable
and herb type soil. If you want, you can grow
your vegetables and a container on the patio. By the way,

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the cool season is a less stressful season. The demands
are lower, so you're not having to stand there over
a container to water it two or three times a
day trying to keep your plan alive. Okay, that was
an exaggeration, but you get the idea. Get a container
that holds at least five gallons of soil. That is
what I would aim for. I've grown things in smaller containers.
It just takes a little stress out of it. If

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you can get something about five gallons more as fine
to and then plant. There are good planning schedules available
out there. In the September season. Think of the blue
leaf vegetables, that is broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, col robbie, kale, collars.
Those vegetables go in in this month. Then as we well,

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also you can plant a Swiss charred and you can
plant beats this month and next too, And as it
cools off a little bit, we start thinking about things
like lettuce, and it gets even a little cooler, we
start thinking about things like spinach. There's a lot of
things you can plant in the fall. If you got kids,
they need to grow something. Kids that grow things are
more likely to eat those things. They may turn their

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nose up at broccoli, but when they grow their own
and then you figure out a good way to prepare it,
you may be setting them on their way to a good,
healthy lifestyle. So why not of vegetable garden this fall.
So many good garden centers I tell you about that
have those in from seeds to transplants, have some fun
and have some success. Let's go out now to a

(01:31:59):
task as sea, and we're going to talk too, said
I said, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 7 (01:32:05):
Well good, thanks for taking my call. My problem is
I have a group of blooming roses that I've had
for a couple of years now, and I've actually got
ten bushes. But one of them developed a cluster at

(01:32:26):
the blossom and the real strange thing on a fine branch,
there will be a much larger growth that's covered with thorns.
And then where the flower actually blooms or blossoms, there's
a whole group of blossoms that grow together in a wad.

(01:32:47):
And it's just that this doesn't turn into flowers, it
turns into a mess.

Speaker 5 (01:32:54):
Yeah, yeah, well you have a mess. It's called rose
rose that it's a disease. I can take a look
at a picture, but based on what you've said, the
only thing that comes to mind is rose rose out.
And this is not something that you can I got
bad news. It's not something you can cure or fix.
It only gets worse. Little mites carry it from one

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plant to another. And these mates are so tiny that
they literally can spin a little filament of webbing and
float on the air from one bush to another. So
if they're in your neighborhood, they could float to your bushes,
your bushes, your neighbors. Rose could get infected from them.
And so what we do is we pull them out,

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all of them. They're never going to get better and
there's no hope on those roses. And like I said,
it is bad news. But I would recommend you get
out there and do that.

Speaker 6 (01:33:49):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
You don't want to grab the bush, you know, when
you're trying to pull it up and be shaking it
and everything's coming loose and flying around. It's better to
be if you can get a trash bag over them.
Even if you have to prune a few can carefully
to make it where you can slide a trash bag
over it, tie it at the bottom of the bush,
and then when you dig it up, you've got everything
contained in that bag and you can get it off

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your property. Uh. And that that is after a week
or so, you know, maybe a couple of weeks, or
just wait until a little bit later in the fall season.
Go ahead and plant your new roses in there. That'll
be okay. But right now, if it's not.

Speaker 7 (01:34:28):
Okay, well that's good advice. I've got ten Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
Uh so, Sid I lost you there for a second.
I think I think you can hang on just a second. Hey, yeah, yeah,
I want to. I want to give you a website
and where you can learn more Rose Rosette dot o RG.
Rososette dot o RG. Go that out and you can

(01:35:01):
learn all about it. And I think you'll recognize the pictures.
All right, Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Well, gosh,
I'm up against the heartbreak. I gotta go. We'll come
back in just a moment, we'll go, all right. I mean,
if you remember Blue Swede, I think that comes really

(01:35:21):
close to being a one hit wonder group. But that
was a good one, all right, we're back with your
garden line here. Jraesidden Gardens down in Alvin, Texas. If
you haven't been there, you need to go. Any anybody
down south of town. This is your local hometown garden center.
They're out there on Elizabeth Street between Highway Alvin and

(01:35:44):
Santa Fe. So if you're in Alvin, just head down
Highway six towards Santa Fe. You're gonna end up turning
right to get back down there to Elizabeth Street and
Horace Hidden Gardens. He's got a nice selection of color
including well, the snapdragons were in very recently. They look
great too. By the way, you need those for the fall.
Have you heard about the beautiful desert roses? That is

(01:36:05):
kind of like the hot plan of the year. I'm
used to never hear much about desert roses. Now you
hear about them all the time. You can get your
own there at Horages Hidden Gardens. He also has a
nice Hearts Fire Hearts, a fire red bud that has
reddish foliage at the ends and then that's a new
growth and then as you go back it's green. It

(01:36:27):
just looks like the tips are on fire. He also
has those Galveston County Vegetable Guides the September October Vegetable Issue,
which is the newsletter for the Galveston County Master Gardeners. Excellent.
Boon Holiday drops them off there the other day and
he's got those on hand. If those of you done

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that direction, this is an excellent publication for you. Yeah,
Horace Hidden Gardens seven three six three ninety. You guys
in Galveston County are very fortunate to have Boo Holiday around.
Excellent horticulturist friend of mine, and just a wealth of
good gardening information. Take advantage of it. He's at your

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Galveston County Extension Office. Let's go now to Dickenson, Texas
and we're going to talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:37:20):
Hey, thanks Skip.

Speaker 23 (01:37:22):
I've got some lemon trees that I plant from seeds
and now they're like four or five feet tall and
they're starting.

Speaker 6 (01:37:28):
To branch out.

Speaker 5 (01:37:29):
Should I be training those in some way?

Speaker 6 (01:37:31):
Or training them?

Speaker 5 (01:37:35):
You know, we generally trim centris so that branches don't
hang down in the dirt, and that little kind of
arching branch down low when it gets the weight of
a lemon on it, it's heading downward. So we typically
clean off the lower ones to get a little bit
of a trunk on them so we can get underneath
them to do what we need to do. Branches that
are crossing, branches that are broken, branches that are extra

(01:37:57):
crowded in there, you can do some trimming training on
those as well. I wouldn't do too much though.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Pruning causes regrowth, and lemons are coal sensitive, and we're
about to go into winter, so generally I try to
wind up my pruning of coal sensitive plants by the
first of August, so you might just let them set
for now, other than maybe when we're removing a branch,
but even that's going to cause new shoots, so that's

(01:38:25):
how you prune them. But I'd wait. I'd wait until
spring when the new growth begins to do.

Speaker 23 (01:38:30):
And then just one more question on my lemons. I've
got some leaves with some looks like some slime, and
the leaves are withered, so I've got.

Speaker 6 (01:38:38):
Something crawling on them.

Speaker 23 (01:38:39):
Maybe at night as am I looking for a snail
or a slug or what's leaving this slime all.

Speaker 5 (01:38:43):
Over my leaves. It's not a slime on the leaf,
that's a natural coating on the leaf. But what's happened
is a leaf miner has chewed the insides of the leaf.
They tunnel between the top and bottom surfaces. You'll see
little trails, a little squiggly serpentine trail in there. Sometimes
you'll see that silvery look, this lime look you were

(01:39:04):
describing you. They'll curl, they'll buckle and twist and.

Speaker 21 (01:39:10):
Hit.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
At this point in the season, I wouldn't do anything.
Don't cut those leaves off there. If there's still some
green on them, that leaf is still helping the plant.
So leave them alone. Next year, and whenever you get
flushes of new growth, immediately when you see the flesh,
you need to spray the plants. I'm going to give
you two products. I'll give you second here to grab
a pen and paper, but one of two products, not both.

(01:39:34):
One of two. The first one is called spinosaid spin
the letter O and the word S A D said spinosid.
The second one is a long one. It's called asidirectin.
But if you just look for something that begins with
a Z a D A zad, that is that is

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the first part of the chemical. Both are organic, but
you gotta spray the new growth before the leaf miner
starts doing all their damage. They won't attack the older leaves,
so you don't have to worry about the older growth,
the leathery, dark grit leaves. They don't They're not gonna
mess with. It's the new growth.

Speaker 23 (01:40:12):
Yeah, thinks to be at the at the end of
the brand is where I'm seeing this.

Speaker 5 (01:40:18):
Yeah, And when you do pruning, you're gonna get new growth.
So just have those one of those two products on
hand and be ready to spray on periodically, probably about
ever two weeks, as long as there's still tender succulent growth.
Maybe I'm gonna I'm gonna narrow that down. I'm gonna
say every ten days, as long as their narrow succulent growth. Okay,

(01:40:38):
very good, Thank you, Thanks you bet, Thanks a lot.
Appreciate appreciate your call.

Speaker 8 (01:40:45):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
Micro Life Fertilizers so many good products to choose from.
Microlife has been around for gosh over thirty five years now.

Speaker 8 (01:40:53):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:40:54):
They are. They are purveyors of both the granulars the
kind we put in our yard. But they have a
granular for everything. They've got one for acid loving plants,
one for fruit trees and citrus. They've got one for
the lawns. That's the best selling organic fertilizer in Houston,
the sixty two four. It's a green bag. We're going
to be using their one called Microlke brown Patch, and

(01:41:15):
it is it is an a brown bag, but it
is a different formulation for fall on the gardens and
we'll be doing that. You need to get it now
because we're going to be putting it down starting in
late September for the Microlife brown Patch. And you can
find Microlife all over the place feed stores, independent garden centers,

(01:41:36):
Ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer. Wherever you live, there's going
to be an access to brown Patch. The brown Patch
is the name of the product and it works microlike
brown patch. All right, let's now go to southeast Houston
and talk to Charles. Hello, Charles, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:41:54):
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:41:55):
How are you look?

Speaker 12 (01:41:56):
I remember booth way?

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
Okay? All right, well, how can we help today? Charles?

Speaker 12 (01:42:05):
I'm sorry, could you repeat it?

Speaker 21 (01:42:06):
Boots?

Speaker 5 (01:42:09):
I just said how can we help today? Okay?

Speaker 12 (01:42:12):
Look, I want to ask you real quickly about my
favorite plant, the Coleus toil e us.

Speaker 11 (01:42:22):
Around the tips, it.

Speaker 12 (01:42:25):
Might be read a purple or maybe some dark color
and lighter on the insect. Is the season over for
potting and planning.

Speaker 5 (01:42:34):
These, well, you're going to have to bring them indoors.
They can't take even a light frost. They're very cold tender,
and they like warm weather. But some people, if you've
got lights indoors and you can keep them going, you
can do that, keep them going, a lot of people
just replant every year like they do all the other
annual flowers.

Speaker 12 (01:42:56):
Okay, all right, Oh yeah, I heard that they were
annuals and you could take them inside and retrain you there.

Speaker 5 (01:43:04):
Okay, look, well if you if you give them as
give them as much light as you can so they
don't just get weakened spinley over the wintertime. But good
luck with that. That's a beautiful old foliage plant. I
love those. Hey, thanks thanks for calling. I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (01:43:18):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (01:43:18):
Thanks, Yeah, you take care, You take care. Listen. If
you're looking for anything to take care of your lawn
and landscape, just go to Southwest Fertilizer corner Bustin and
Runwick in Southwest Houston. Uh here's a phone number if
you want to give me a call. Seven one three
six sixty six one seven four four. They're gonna have
everything that comes out of my mouth on garden line

(01:43:40):
when it comes to inside control, disease control, weed control,
and fertilizers, everything and then some. They got a ninety
foot long wall of tools, quality tools, brands like Felco
and Corona that are gonna last a long time. And
they have expert advice. They're friendly, they know what they're
talking about. You bring them a picture, you bring them

(01:44:00):
a sample, they'll point in the right direction southwest Fertilizer
corner of Bissonnett and Renwick seven one three, six, six
six seventeen forty four. Let's take a break and we'll
come back with our last segment this hour. It is
good to have you with us. If you want to
give me a call, got open lines. We can actually
take some calls here. You just have to put in

(01:44:21):
seven one three, two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two fifty eight seventy four in Channey
Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area. They are on
FM twenty seven to fifty nine. So let's do it
this way. If you're in Richmond and you're heading up
towards sugar Land up fifty nine or sixty nine. Uh,
it's off to the right FM twenty seven to fifty

(01:44:42):
nine Enchanted Forest. Now, what you mainly need to do
right now is write down their website because it is
very helpful and you can find out everything you need
to know how to get there, their phone numbers, the
products are going on, the events going on, and they
always have events in the spring and fall season going
on there. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Rechmond,

(01:45:07):
TX dot com. Uh, they got a lot of cool stuff.
You know, they always have good stuff for butterflies and
pollinators there. They've got some awesome Telerara pumpkins. I mean,
the selection is incredible, cool season color plants, your your
vegetables for the fall, you know earlier talking in to
being a grown a few vegetables in a vegetable gardener,

(01:45:27):
even if it's in a pot on the back patio. Uh,
And they can get you set up with all of
that kind of thing. Also, by the way, Uh, they
are even they even have something that's a mushroom kit.
It's a live mush It says live my celium. My
Celium just means the essentially, it's like the equivalent of
a stemmer root of the fung just fungus. They have

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pink oyster, for example. If you want to grow your
own pink oyster mushrooms at home, they got a kit.
You buy the kit, you take it home, You follow
the instruction and you're harvesting mushrooms. No, you don't have
to put it out in the sun. You do it
inside all right, inside the house. Kind of cool stuff.
That's encented forest out in Richmond, Texas chened Forest Richmond,
TX dot com. Let's go now out to Ankleton and

(01:46:12):
we're gonna visit with Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (01:46:16):
Hey, good morning, How are you.

Speaker 7 (01:46:19):
Good?

Speaker 5 (01:46:20):
Good? How can we help?

Speaker 13 (01:46:22):
Okay, So I have a lantana on the west side
of my house. In the spring, I get flowers, that's
nice and all.

Speaker 11 (01:46:30):
And after that I get these little.

Speaker 13 (01:46:32):
Green peanut looking deals on there and they and they
turned like peanut like a like a not like teinut
I guess, like a tea round. And then they turned
black and then the leaves get a white white something
going on.

Speaker 5 (01:46:47):
Yes, okay, so uh what that what that thing is?
It looks like a BlackBerry.

Speaker 14 (01:46:53):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:46:53):
That is the seed pod that is the fruit of
the flower lantana is sometime apes don't do that hardly
at all. Other types do it when they're when they're
growing by themselves, they don't do it. But if there's
other types of antennas that they crossed and the insects
are crossing them, then they'll set the pods. But the

(01:47:16):
pods are poisonous and uh, you know they take some
energy from the plant. Uh, So you can just go
in there and snip them off if you want to,
But if you have more than one kind of lantanna,
that seems to make it worse about setting those pods. Okay, Now,
the silvery on the on the foliage could could be
several things. It could be old leaves, you know, just

(01:47:38):
old worn out leaves. And there's also some insects that
suck juices out of antenna leaves that can cause a
similar thing.

Speaker 13 (01:47:45):
So so for the insect for the insects prevention or
getting rid of them, would that be a systemic or
would I put something topical on there?

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
Well, the systemic works better because the insects that do
that are sucking juices out of the plant, and that
way they're sucking up the poison. That's in the plumbing
of the plant rather than sprayed on the outside. The
only negative is when you have flowers and insects are
feeding on the nectar, they can pick up a little
bit of an insecticide. It generally doesn't kill them out right,

(01:48:15):
but it doesn't do them any good. Uh, And so
that's the trade off.

Speaker 13 (01:48:22):
So so I guess I guess you would say that
the uh, then I should go with a topical and
and a recommendation for a topical.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:48:33):
You know, there's there's there's a lot of different ones, uh,
any insecticide out there, and they are really a lot
of different ones. I would I would just say, get
one labeled for use on flower beds and things, spray
it upward from underneath the plant, and do it at
the end of the day so it has time to

(01:48:53):
dry off and and and before the bees or whatever
start a butterfly start arriving the next day. But those
insects that do that are hiding under the leaves typically,
so if you get good coverage of the underside of
the leaves, you'll have better success with the product. And
I know that's hard to do because the antennas are
download to the ground. But that that's what I would

(01:49:14):
recommend if you're going to go the topic will route.
All right, I've got you've got to run. But uh,
good luck with that, and thank you very much for
your call. That is that is the case.

Speaker 21 (01:49:27):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:49:27):
You know, a place like ACE Hardware store is going
to have exactly I should have mentioned to him as
local Lace, They're going to have what you need for
spraying for insects. You know, to go in and just say,
you know, talking to Skip on guardline and I just
need a regular topical type of insecticide and not have
to be a systemic what do you have and they'll
they'll show you their options there. Uh and and these
bugs are pretty easy to kill. If you just get

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a good quality insecticide out there that's labeled for use
on those kind of plants, you're gonna find ACE all
over the place. To find yours, go to ACE Hardware
Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. You get
a map and they'll show you exactly you know, where
the local ACE Hardware stores are that are near you.
For example, Spring ACE up on Spring Cypress, Crosby ACE

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on FM twenty one hundred out in the northeast direction
out in call Crosby. How about Plantation Ace. They're on
Mason Road there in the Richmond Rosenburg area. Plantation ACE Hardware.
In Victoria, there's Victoria Ace on Navarro Street and on
FM five twenty nine. In Cypress, just kind of on
the back end of Copperfield is Langham Creek ACE Hardware.

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That's just a few go to ACE Hardware Texas dot
Com find your local ACE so you get everything you
need to have a beautiful, bountiful lawn, garden, landscape, you
name it. They can do that for sure. I I
was visiting with somebody just when was it a little
over a week ago, and we were talking about some

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different products and things, and the folks at Neilson Fertilizer,
they have so many lines. They've got the Turf Star
line that for lawns. They've got the Nutri Star line,
which is typically sold according to the plant you're looking for.
They've got Color Star a line as well. In that

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Nutri Star line, there's one called Nutri Star Vegetable Garden,
and Nutri Star Vegetable Garden is designed to provide nutrients
to vegetable crops which need nutrients quickly, and they need
it regularly in order to grow. Because you know how
long does a broccoli plant, I'll stay in the garden,
not that long. It's got five different sources of nitrogen,

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gives you a nice even release of nutrients. I would
do it about once a month, a vegetable garden nutri
Star product from Nelson about once a month. It's great
for your raised beds, even for containers, or if you
got in the ground beds, that's good for that too.
I've been telling you you need to grow vegetables this fall.
Well there you go, grab your jar of nutri Star

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vegetable gard from the folks at Nelson, and you're going
to see good success with that. In fact, I would
grab the Genesis transplant mix first for the planting time
to put in the soil, and then the vegetable garden
for subsequent fertilizing as those plants get growing. Sounds like
a good plan to me. Well, I'm hitting close to

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the top of the hour here. We're gonna get some
music going here in a minute, so I'm gonna hold
off on taking more calls if you would like to,
going into our final hour of garden line. After the
top of the news here uh seven one, three, two,
two fifty eight seventy four. If you want to give
me a call before we come back live, you can
be one of the first ones up when we do

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come back. In the meantime, go to my website gardeningwith
Skip dot com. Check out all the things that are
there on the website. There's a lot of good information,
including these schedules. You need. These schedules. Falls a busy
time in the lawn. For example, we're treating for take
off root rod, we're treating for brown patch and the lawn.

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We're putting out a pre emergent product to prevent cool
seasoned weed seeds from germinating. They're the ones you don't
really see in the fall of the void that they
show up in the spring, and you could have prevented
them in the first place in the quality barricade product. Now, also,
this is the time to do fall fertilizations in the fall.

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That it's all on the schedule, tells you exactly when
to do, it tells you the products that I would
recommend that you use. Provides all that information as well
as a lot of other good things to help you
have success. Because It's not all just about sprand and
killing stuff. It's about understanding how to make plants grow
in a way that makes them more resistant than resisting.

Speaker 1 (01:53:51):
Welcome to KTRH guarden line with scip Rictor.

Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
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Speaker 3 (01:54:11):
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Speaker 5 (01:54:25):
All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back. Here we go
with our final hour gardenline for today. By the way,
I'll be back tomorrow morning six to ten every Saturday
and Sunday six am to ten am. Simple as that
you can do that. I want to remind you that
I'm going to be at Barings Hardware next Saturday on
Bessonette as a guest of Nitroposs and night Foss is

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having us out there and they'll be on hand as well.
We're gonna be given away this is incredible, six different
bags of Nitrofoss Fall to three step, the three products
you've been hearing me talk about today more than once.
We're going to be giving away six bags. So there'll
be two of the Eagle fungicides, two of the Barricade

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the pre emergent that you need, two of the Fall
special fertilizer, and all three of us need to go
down this fall. So that's six different giveaways every twenty minutes.
In other words, we will give them something away there.
I have some other cool giveaways as well while we're
out there, and I hope you'll come out and see
me again. This is Bearings Hardware on Bessinet. It's next Saturday,

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the twentieth of September, from twelve noon to two pm.
Come on out and see us. We'd love to have you.
We'll be answering your gardening questions. If you want to
bring me a picture or pictures of things in the yard.
If you want to bring samples, put them in a
plastic bag, bring them in, we'll identify them, and we're
just gonna have a good time. We always do at
these appearances, and I'm really looking forward to this, so

(01:55:53):
I hope you can. Hope you can join us. Let's
see here. Let's head out now to the woodlands and
we're going to talk to Sam this morning. Hey, Sandy,
welcome to garden.

Speaker 8 (01:56:02):
Line High Skip.

Speaker 16 (01:56:04):
Hi.

Speaker 12 (01:56:04):
Skip.

Speaker 19 (01:56:05):
My husband and I were gone for we were gone
for two months this summer, and when we came back,
my entire backyard flower bed was filled with spurge.

Speaker 22 (01:56:16):
Well we got that all pulled up.

Speaker 19 (01:56:19):
And now we're gonna put down some malt. But I
think I should use a pre emergent before I put
the malch down.

Speaker 2 (01:56:27):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:56:31):
Yes? Yes, because the pre emergent needs to get to
the soil surface. So I would put down the high emergent.
By the way, all my schedule for a fall, we
talk about doing a pre emergent for cool season weeds
in October, you can do one now. But the spurge
is a warm season weed, a warm season annual weed.

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So I would get the barricade and then hold off
in an early October apply it because it's going to
stop the clover, chickweed, henbet, carpet weed, cleavers, all of
those weeds that come up in the fall and then
just or a mess in the spring when they're taken
off and growing. So that would be the taming. Then
next year, if you look at my schedule, there's a

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February application of the barricade. Spurge is a late sprouting weed. Okay,
so if you would, if you would put this down
maybe let's say mid to late April, could even be
the first to May, but I'd get done mid to
late April. The barricade again. Uh, you don't want to

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do it too soon after the February application, but about
April for the spurge, because it what it does is
it sits there and that those whatever pre emergent you
put on, it's going to break down and and then
on the coast is cleared, the spurge sprouts. So so
you gotta you gotta get it out a little bit
later to catch that spurge.

Speaker 22 (01:57:58):
So can you recommend a barricade that I can I can.

Speaker 5 (01:58:04):
Buy, Yeah, barricade from nitropos. It is available all over
the place. You're going to find it anywhere nitrofoss products
or so. So you know, Hiding and Feed in Houston,
the plant for all seasons, UH carries it. The fissures
hardware down in Pasadena are just three examples of the

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of the places that carry it up in your area.
All spas ace in the woodlands should have barricade in hand.
I would go there, okay.

Speaker 22 (01:58:38):
So in the meantime, you know, I should probably hold
off on the mulch then until the first of October, right, Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:58:50):
I would do Okay, if you were putting a pre
emerging down, I'd put it down and water in and
then put the mulch on. If you're not going to
do it right now, then I would just put the
mulch on as soon as possible, because wherever sunlight hits
the soil, nature plants a weed. You can chop every
beat off the ground and mix up the soil a
little bit, and suddenly here's a whole new bunch of weeds.

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And so you you got to get the mulch on
to block out the light.

Speaker 21 (01:59:16):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay, all right.

Speaker 22 (01:59:23):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (01:59:26):
All right, thank you very much. Appreciate that. Good luck
getting ahead of those. Yeah. I was spending some time
this week studying some of the research. I'm a nerd
and I like to do that, and hey, it benefits
you because I get better answers. Right, But studying some
of the research on some of these late weeds to germinate.
The spurg is one of them. Another one. Oh gosh,

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last week I have not had a single call on
dove weed today. I don't believe last week it was
all dove weed all the time. That's one that holds
its breadth and waits and when it gets hot, then
here it comes doveweed sprouting in our lawns, and dove
weed is very hard to kill afterward after the effect,
although it can be done. That's a whole nother discussion.

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But I need to write a I need to do
a publication on doveweed and put it up on the website.
I'll get to work on that anyway. So those applications
need to be a little later again, a repeat. It
doesn't mean you don't do the spring application. It just
means the spring applications once you get forty five sixty
days out, most of them are breaking down and not

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doing their thing, so you have to do them again
at that time. But you guys, use the right ones
that fit the weed that you're going after, or get
something like barricade that covers both grassy and broadly fweeds
does a good job for that, all right well. Wild
Birds Unlimited. Wild Birds Unlimited. It is one of my

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favorite stores to go to because it's just fun. I've
gotten more and more and more interested in birds. This
time has gone long, and it's because I love to
hear them. Number one, the songs, Oh my Gosh in
the morning, that is music. I also like to watch them.
They're beautiful little birds. I was at my mother in
law's house yesterday and looking out the window and there

(02:01:15):
was a little tiny bird of one of a little
finch type bird that was just working on the feeder
there and we just got to watch them right outside
the window. Wild Birds Unlimited carries the types of seed
that the birds love. They don't fill their seed with
red bebies, those little red sorghum seeds in there. Birds

(02:01:35):
don't care about those as much. They kicking out on
the ground more than want to eat them unless they're
starving to death. Wild Birds Unlimited can get you set
up with the products that work, and it's blends for
all kinds of different birds, and it's blends for all
seasons of the year, and as we go from season
to season, I'm switching them out at my feeder the
spring and summer. I was early summer especially, I was

(02:01:59):
doing the Sting Super Blend from Waldbirds Unlimited. But there
are other seasons that we're at and that are coming up. So,
for example, find a Wildbird's Unlimited store, and there's six
of them in the Greater Houston area. You can go
to WBU dot com forber Slash Houston, WBU dot com
forbard slash Houston. Find your local store. So if you're

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in Cypress, there's one on Barker Cypress. If you're in
the west direction from Houston and westside of Houston bel Air,
if you're in southwest side Memorial Drive, if you're in
Pairland on East Broadway, if you're in clear Lake on
El Dorado Boulevard, if you're in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive.
These are all Wildbirds Unlimited stores. You're gonna find expertise.

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They will help you. Right now is hummingbird season. Get
their high perch feeder. I just filled mine up again
the other day, and make sure you get nectar Defender
from Wilberds. A little tiny capful into that sugar water
that you're given your hummingbirds will make it last seven
to ten days, not going bad in that period of time. Otherwise,

(02:03:03):
what happens to sugar water in the heat outside. A
couple of days and you're starting to go not so
much well. Nectar Defender from wild Birds Unlimited. I promise
you you will enjoy the stores. Time for me to
take a break. We'll be back in just a moment,
perhaps with your calls at seven one three, two, one two,

(02:03:24):
five eight seven four. All right, welcome back to the
garden Line. Good day of it with us. Good Hey
you with us this morning. Thanks for being a listener.
We appreciate that. I hope you enjoy it now. I
know I talk to people all the time and they say,
we listen to guarden Line, but I don't want to
call in. I don't want to be on the air. Listen.

(02:03:45):
If you've listened to guard Line even one show, you
know that I'm gonna be kind and respectful. I don't bite,
I don't yell at anybody. I don't shame anybody. It's okay.
We all make mistakes. If you have killed a plant,
welcome you are on and you're you are on the
road to being a great gardener because you've got to
kill a lot of plants to be a good gardener.
That's just the facts. There are no stupid questions. I

(02:04:09):
know you're thinking, oh, I've heard stupid questions in my life,
but that's not how I look at it on garden Line.
They're no stupid questions, are stupid answers. The pressure's on
me not you give us a call. We'll be happy
to help you. Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Cienamlts is the place that you need
to know if you were anywhere down south and southwest
of Houston. They're down there on FNM five pointy one

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near Highway six and two eighty eight. Here's the website.
This is important to write this down because you're in
need it. Sienna Mulch dot com. Go check it out.
You find the phone number, you'll find where they are.
You'll find all the information you need to know. They
this place carries the best of the best stuff to
have success. You know, I'm all about taking care of
the soil, building the soil, creating a foundation before you

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plant the plants. Cenaml has got everything you need. They
have super sachs too. Now, if you don't know that,
Supersac holds a cubic yard. Whatever material you want from Cenamulch,
if you can go pick it up. They'll set it
in the back of your trailer or truck. If you
are looking to have it delivered. It's a three supersack
minimum for delivery, but they're delivered within about twenty miles

(02:05:18):
for small fee. That's what they do. They can bring
it out by the bulk too. Or you can go
there and pick it up by the bulk, or you
can pick up things by the bag. They have got
you covered on the most important stuff. And listen, fall
is the best planting season of the year. Don't wait
until it's time to plant the day you're going to plant,

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Get your soil right, and you will have better success.
It's just how that works. Be smart, take care of
the soil first, and then put in your plants, and
you will enjoy the dividends of that wise choice. And
cian amulch is a good place to start. All right,
We're going to go to spring now and talk to Chuck. Hey, Chuck,

(02:06:00):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (02:06:02):
Thank you, pleasure speaking with you. Hope you're having a
wonderful day.

Speaker 5 (02:06:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:06:07):
So, I have actually two subjects. I have two subjects
that I want to ask you questions on. The first
and the easiest. I have a Christmas for the Christmas
or Oriental peach. Now often and what do I fertilize
it with? I just put it in the ground. It's
about a year and a half old, and just plant

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it in the ground in a good spot.

Speaker 5 (02:06:33):
I have never heard of a Christmas Oriental peach, so
I can tell you what the fertilize peach is with
you can get.

Speaker 7 (02:06:43):
Fruit.

Speaker 8 (02:06:45):
Yes, it doesn't vary any fruite, it's just that's on
a risk.

Speaker 5 (02:06:51):
Yes, okay, it sounds like peppermint. Yeah. So you can
get you a Centrius fertilizer, I mean a fruit fertilizer.
Excuse me, many of our purveyors sell that. I know
that micro Life, for example, has one just for fruit.
You have some of that. Okay, so you said you

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had the micro Life one. Am I correct about that?

Speaker 8 (02:07:17):
That's correct?

Speaker 5 (02:07:17):
Okay, So I'm for anyone listening, I'm giving these instructions
for that product that just doesn't apply to every fertilizer
out there, So just so unclear. But with the Microlife
fertilizer for fruit trees, you want to go up to
the trunk and measure the width of it. And I say,
the easy way to do it, because this isn't an

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exact science, is just use your thumb and for every
thumb with across the trunk, you're going to give it
of the Microlife product. You're going to give it about
three to six cups of the Microlife fertilizer, spread out
out to the edge of the branch spread of the tree.
And if it's a brand new tree, then I would

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just give it a cup sprinkle around the bottom it
gets a little bit bigger, you know, a couple of
cups around the bottom. But as it's growing, you can
use the trunk diameter because the bigger the trunk diameter
is more fertilizer it's going to need. It's a bigger tree.
But the rule of thumb is for microlife. For each
thumb within the trunk, three to six cups of fertilizer.

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And it's not going to burn them. That sounds like
a lot. It's not going to burn them. It's micro
life organic. Scratch it into the soil if you can
scratch it into the mulch. If you can, it's a
little bit better. If not, you can leave it on
the surface. It'll be fine. But I like to scratch
mine in just into the mulch or soil surface and
then water.

Speaker 8 (02:08:36):
Real good, good deal.

Speaker 5 (02:08:40):
Enough chuck, Let's get to the second question I got.
I got some folks that are lined up here, So
what's the.

Speaker 8 (02:08:46):
Second you should have? You should have some pictures on
the para tree.

Speaker 5 (02:08:51):
Yes, uh huh, I do okay, what's wrong with it?

Speaker 8 (02:08:55):
Well, question part of it is that the other part
is about three four weeks ago, you made a comment
that when like this fir tree has come back from
actually two different freezes. But what you're saying was a
volunteer that came above the graft I was able to
save enough of the trunk that it put on a

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couple of sprouts. And this is one of those sprouts.
It's mature. But comment was at that time you said
that these trees take off and they want to grow
straight up to the sky. I'm thinking, I'm going to
have to weight down some of the key branches, put
some weight on the kind of flatten them out a
little bit.

Speaker 6 (02:09:37):
That's and trim off.

Speaker 5 (02:09:39):
That's what you're going to do. Yeah, let me give
you a quick answer. I wouldn't do a lot of pruning.
Everywhere there's a branch that comes out and heads north,
heads up, I would put a spacer in there and
imagine like a little wooden ruler with a notch in
each end, and you pull the branch out and you
wedge that in there to the branch out. Now you

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may only go a certain distance, and you feel like, man,
I'm gonna break it if I pull on. Then just
stop there and put it in there and let it
sit there, and then later you can move it in
a little bit further. But something to push those branches out.
The alternative is to tie a quarter around them and
pull them down, but then you've got ropes everywhere you're
tripping over, and it's just better to use a branch spreader.

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And if you go online and do a search for
branch spreader and pear or apple either one, you'll see
example of what I'm talking about. But in a nutshell,
it's just basically something like a wooden ruler that's got
a notch in each end. So you can get a
little stick and make one of those.

Speaker 8 (02:10:40):
Okay, sure that sounds good, and.

Speaker 5 (02:10:44):
Don't print take them out to take them out to
a forty five degree angle real quick. And the leaves
those look like they could be some disease spots, but
we're at a time of the year whereas leaves get older,
that's not unusual, and I would not recommend spraying it
at this point. Just shake up the leaves. When you're done,

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get them out of there, and I think you're.

Speaker 21 (02:11:07):
Good to go.

Speaker 5 (02:11:08):
Sorry to have to run now, but good luck, good
luck with that tree. And I do appreciate your call.
We're going to go to John and ro Sharon. Hey, John,
welcome to garden line.

Speaker 6 (02:11:20):
I have a peatch tree question.

Speaker 5 (02:11:22):
Also.

Speaker 6 (02:11:25):
Okay, one looks great, full of.

Speaker 24 (02:11:32):
Leaves and everything, but the other one leaves only go
about halfway up on the branches and then a lot
of suits sticking out the top with no leaves. I
wonder what's getting those leaves or or the branches are bad.

Speaker 5 (02:11:49):
Or you have any idea. I don't know.

Speaker 12 (02:11:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:11:53):
I have to look at that. If the leaves have
come off, did the leaves never grow on the shoots
or did they grow and then fall off.

Speaker 24 (02:12:01):
I don't think they ever grew. I'm not sure if
I knew where to Soviet picture since your picture.

Speaker 5 (02:12:09):
Yeah, here, here's what we're gonna do. I'm putting I'm
putting you on hold right now. Don't don't hang out.
My producer is going to take it and he will
give you my email so that you can send me
those pictures and I'll take a look at him and
see see what I see. That's the best way that
I can help you at this point. Uh, The folks
at greenpro are experts and taking a lawn that's struggling

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and breathing life back into it. And here's what they do.
They come out there and they do a core aeration.
A core aeration pops plugs out of the soul, drops
them on the surface, and gets oxygen down in the
root system. Then they top dress the lawn with finely
screened compost, a quality compost that is very helpful to
the lawn. A lot of that composts will fall down

(02:12:53):
in those holes too, by the way, and just add
the organic matter to stimulate my chrobia life and again
stimulate the roots system. If you've got soul compaction, there's
no way out of that other than correation. And then
I would suggest following that with a compost cop dressing.
Even if it's just a struggling lawn that you're trying
to get going, Uh, this is a very helpful process.

(02:13:15):
So maybe your lawn struggled with drought that summer, or
take all root rot or foot traffic stomping it, or
maybe something like chinchbugs chomping on it and things. If
you've got a living lawn in the area, even if
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zero zero three two. I'm going to take a break

(02:13:57):
and we'll be right back with Rachel and David. Good
to have you with us. If you are looking for
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not going to find a better place than Southwest Fertilizer.
Southwest Fertilizer carries everything. If you're managing problems of the plants,

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they got it. If you're trying to get plants just
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I talk about. I am the fifth garden Line host
to talk about Southwest Fertilizer. So basically since the beginning,
they have been around and people love the place. And
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now out to Chapel Hill and talk to Rachel. Hello, Rachel,
thanks for waiting. Good to have you on garden Line.

Speaker 2 (02:15:18):
High Skip, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 25 (02:15:22):
I'm trying to I'm trying to plant some trees in
hard clay, and I just wanted to make sure that
I'm doing it correctly. I was told by the three
people to uh dig the hole, and we did, and
it's like rock. And they said, put the dirt it

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was that came out of the hole, put it back in,
mix it with compost, like a cotton ber compost, and
then you know, put don't don't put a bunch of
nice dirt back in because the tree needs.

Speaker 21 (02:15:55):
The roots need to get used to the the bad dirt.

Speaker 26 (02:15:59):
But the sides of the hole there looks like concrete,
and I'm worried that the tree roots aren't going to
grow into the side of the whole.

Speaker 5 (02:16:10):
Okay, So two things about planting in a hard clay soil.
Number One, pick a plant that wants to grow in
that There are a lot of plants. You know, you
stick a blueberry out there, it's not gonna make it
in that kind of soil or a zalure or whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:16:27):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:16:28):
Pick pick a plant that can grow in that soil.
Number Two, wet the area well ahead of the time
you're going to plant, uh it needs. You're gonna have
to wet a little bit, and then wet a little
bit more, and then wet a little bit more to
get that water to move on down in the soil
about you know, eight or ten inches or twelve inches deep.

(02:16:48):
If you can, uh, and then and you don't want
to overwet it, you just want it moist. Then when
you go to break up the soil, it'll be much
easier to work. And what I would recommend is amending
a large area so like if you wanted to put
expanded shale in. That's helpful. If you wanted to put

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composted materials in, that's helpful. And you mix them in
the soil as deeply as you can in a larger area,
and then you go dig the hole and use the
soil you dug out of the hole to replant the plant.
We don't amend the hole, we amend a larger area. Now,
if this tree is going to be sixty feet wide

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at maturity, you're not going to be able to amend
a large enough area to make much difference at all.
If it's a smaller tree, you know, you mend a
ten foot wide area around it, and you can you
can help it at least early on getting going. But
the first step that making sure the tree is going
to be able to grow there. That's important.

Speaker 8 (02:17:47):
Okay, great, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (02:17:51):
All righty, and put a fertilizer in the planting hole.
Yeah yeah, don't put salt based fertilizer in the planning hole.
Just wait once it gets growing again. I would say
in the spring, you see some growth, then start to
fertilize it. Then with depending on the fertilizer, you're using
one to three cups of a product or inch of

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trunk diameter or inch of trunk diamers. So, if it's
an organic product, three cups. If it's a synthetic product,
one cup.

Speaker 26 (02:18:20):
Okay, okay, all right, great, thank you very much.

Speaker 21 (02:18:24):
With that, Thank you you beautt.

Speaker 5 (02:18:28):
We're going to go now let's see here. We're going
to head out to need Villain. Talk to David. Hello, David,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (02:18:38):
Hello, Skip, how are you doing to day?

Speaker 5 (02:18:42):
Good?

Speaker 14 (02:18:42):
Good?

Speaker 5 (02:18:43):
How can we help?

Speaker 6 (02:18:45):
Yes, sir, A good question. What desert roses? Could they
be maintained in this time? You're around Houston area.

Speaker 5 (02:18:56):
When it gets about forty degrees, they get very unhappy,
and below that they get more than unhappy.

Speaker 9 (02:19:02):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:19:03):
So I would say, you know, if you're if you're
in the forty degree range somewhere even fifty to forty, Uh,
you may see some leaf yellowing and leaf drop. But uh,
when you you need to bring them in when it's
gonna get real cold, it's gonna get to freeze.

Speaker 6 (02:19:20):
So that we were going to try to you know, uh,
put them in pots in the in the house.

Speaker 5 (02:19:28):
Yeah, I'm in the house. You need to get as
much as you can give them. They want to be
they want to be in the sun.

Speaker 6 (02:19:37):
That if you want to want to.

Speaker 5 (02:19:40):
Be narrow window even with a little plant light over
them would even would even be more helpful. But uh,
you can move them out on days when it's mild temperatures,
you know, day gets above fifty five degrees, they say
above sixty. Uh, you can put them outside, let them,
let them have a little bit of time in the sun.

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But don't leave them indoors for a month and then
suddenly put them in full sun. You know, they they
they need to be getting a good amount of light,
not just suddenly exposed to too much.

Speaker 6 (02:20:16):
So we could pot plant them and put them out
on the board or whatever and leave for in turn.
At the whether that they don't like just bring them in.

Speaker 5 (02:20:26):
Yeah, that would be fine. They're beautiful plants. Okay, beautiful plants.

Speaker 6 (02:20:30):
Yeah, I really like them.

Speaker 5 (02:20:31):
All right. Okay, you're you're out there in need you're
out there in Needville. I bet you one hundred dollars.
They have some at Enchanted Gardens, which is stone the
street from you.

Speaker 6 (02:20:41):
Right, okay, yes, okay, okay, I'll check it out.

Speaker 5 (02:20:46):
All right, all right, thanks, you can take care. Thanks
for my call. You bet you bet. Micro Life products
have been loved by gardeners and plant professionals for over
thirty five years now. They just have such a good
lineup and there's so many we could talk about.

Speaker 13 (02:21:04):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:21:04):
I talk about the fall fertilizer, the one called brown Patch,
the one that we put down in our lawns for
fall fertilization, and we need to start applying it in
late September. You can apply in October as well, that's fine,
but i'd get the late September to early October application down.
If you're able to do that, you can go to
Microlifefertilizer dot com and find a full list of all

(02:21:26):
the retailers. While you're there or where are you're shopping,
grab a product that is is for the indoor plants
as well, and I would suggest Microlife Biomatrix seven one three.
It's an excellent product and it really works. We're going
to go now out to excuse me just a minute,

(02:21:47):
had the wrong call pulled up here, go to go
to Jennifer in the Woodlands. Hey Jennifer, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 4 (02:21:53):
Thank you, Ski, how are you this morning?

Speaker 5 (02:21:57):
Good good, thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:22:00):
Question about a red maple that I planted at about three.

Speaker 25 (02:22:05):
I have a question.

Speaker 4 (02:22:07):
It's a baby one. The diameter of the trunk is
maybe an four months ago, maybe an inch and a half.
It is not doing well. Uh, that are burnt. It's
not producing any new leaves.

Speaker 12 (02:22:20):
The leaves.

Speaker 4 (02:22:22):
I tried to follow the traditional treat and ice of
you know, two times the depth, two times the width
of the relanting advice. I did not fertilize it initially.
I just I've been putting a hose ball, just a
slow drip once a week to really saturate on it.

(02:22:42):
I I really don't know what else to do at
this point. It's just it's not the area.

Speaker 5 (02:22:49):
Yeah, all right, Jennifer, you're cutting it well, you're cutting
in and out like it's jumping forward and backward in
your conversation. So, uh one quick question. Did you say
you planted it four months ago? Yes?

Speaker 8 (02:23:06):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (02:23:07):
Yes, okay, so okay. So those Japanese maples you said
Japanese maple, right, I was, oh, red maple. Okay, okay,
thank you?

Speaker 6 (02:23:20):
Uh so.

Speaker 5 (02:23:22):
Yeah, red maples. Well they will grow here. But when
they're struggling for moisture for whatever reason, you do get
the tips of the leaves turning brown and burning back
a little bit. That can happen if you put too
much salt based fertilizer, Like if you put it in
the planting hole and then planted the plant, You're going
to burn roots and you're going to see that on

(02:23:42):
the leaves. That can also happen by overdoing it from
the top of the ground too. I would say, try
to keep it evenly moist without keeping it soggy, wet
or letting it go dry that early on. That has
a very limited root system and it takes a while.
By ring, it's going to have a little bit better
root system and it won't be as touch and go

(02:24:04):
as it was these last few months. I would do
that a little bit of fertilizer. Let's wait till next
spring to put it on, though. Get you a lawn
fertilizer and use that around them. We can talk more
about it when that time rolls around. But depending on
the fertilizer you choose, you use more or less to

(02:24:24):
accomplish the same thing. But I think that's the main
thing right now. It's just it's more of a physiological
thing than an insect or disease related thing.

Speaker 21 (02:24:35):
Got it all righty, thank you, all.

Speaker 5 (02:24:37):
Right, thank you for the call. I appreciate that we're
going to go to quick break. Steven new Waverley, you're
first when we come back. Welcome back to the Garden Line.
Votes we We're glad you're listening today. Seven seventy four.
That is our number. I wanted to let's go straight

(02:24:59):
out here, Steve's been Wait a little wall. I accidentally
picked you up a minute ago, Steve, and uh hold again,
try about that. But welcome back to Gardener.

Speaker 21 (02:25:09):
No problem.

Speaker 18 (02:25:11):
Well, hello, good morning. So, uh I have fond memory yeah,
do you hear me?

Speaker 5 (02:25:19):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 14 (02:25:20):
Hello?

Speaker 18 (02:25:21):
Oh okay, good So I have fond memories of being
a kid and run around the field and taking lots
of buckets floats of BlackBerry. So I decided to grow some.
I'm not really a gardener, never done this kind of
stuff before. So anyway, I'm flipping through Facebook and I
saw an ad.

Speaker 6 (02:25:35):
I bought some.

Speaker 18 (02:25:36):
They finally arrived. I slapped him in the ground and
then I thought, oh, I don't know what I'm doing here,
So I started face or googling and you know, YouTube's
and all that stuff, and so I put in an
irrigation system. I'm drift watering them. Then I ended up
building a bunch of trellises and all this stuff, and
so I started trying to train them up, you know,

(02:25:58):
and trim off things. And it's really frightening going out
there and looking at you know, strong growth and going, no,
I need to trim this one because YouTube said I
needed to, because I need to train up that stronger
you know came there. But all that seems to be
working and going. But okay, I'm some of the plants

(02:26:19):
are really growing strong and some are not. And I'm wondering.
I got a little pH soil tester and I don't
remember what the number was, but it seems like it
was low, and so I don't really know about fertilizing.
I don't really know about whether I should try and
adjust the soil pH on the weaker ones or hey,

(02:26:40):
maybe out of you know, ten plants, some are just
stronger and summer weaker. And that's just the way life is.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:26:46):
Okay, I got you well. At the risk of sounding
self promoting, I'm gonna say be careful on the YouTube.
Just listen to the garden line. Call me anytime you want,
and we can talk or go to your County Extension
office up there in Walker County. You got a good
agent up there that can help you as well with
those things. So you know, the information online is only

(02:27:07):
as good as a source. It's kind of like talking
to your neighbor next door. If your neighbor knows what
they're talking about, that's okay. If they don't, it's not okay.
And so be real careful with that. Do you happen
to know what variety of blackberries you have? Yeah?

Speaker 18 (02:27:21):
They were advertised as Doyle's thornless, but what they are
are Himalayan blackberries MLA and thornless blackberries.

Speaker 5 (02:27:30):
I've never heard the Himalayan. I'm familiar with the Doyle's variety.
If you plan, I'm going to direct you. I'm going
to direct you to some other varieties. Do you have
a pin or pencil handy?

Speaker 6 (02:27:44):
Uh no, but this is all the podcasts. Yeah, I'll
go back and listen to it.

Speaker 5 (02:27:49):
Yeah, you can do that, or just remember this. There
is a website called Aggie Horticulture. Aggie Horticulture. Find that website.
On the front page there's a section for fruit and
nut plants, and in that section. There's a whole free
publication eight pages with color pictures and charts and instructions

(02:28:11):
on just growing blackberries. Very very helpful. I'll tell you
about pruning them. That's gonna be one of the big
one of your big challenges is pruning them at the
right time and in the right way. But get that
publication on Aggie Horticulture and that'll help you with it.
It did okay today as we're talking on lost track
of what was your original question about black about the blackberries?

Speaker 6 (02:28:34):
Ah?

Speaker 18 (02:28:34):
Yeah, So, like I said, some plants seem to be
growing really strong and others are seem like the straggling
compared to the ones that are growing strong. I think
I've planted them pretty late. I mean I've planted as
soon as I got them. It was like may or something.
But I'm wondering if whether I need to adjust the
soil pH fertilize.

Speaker 6 (02:28:53):
How I would do all that?

Speaker 5 (02:28:56):
If you are you in a clay soil or not?

Speaker 18 (02:28:59):
Is this thing other than clo It's mostly kind of
play in that right in that area. So I've only
got one good, really funny spot.

Speaker 5 (02:29:07):
Yeah, well, watch for the new growth turning less green
like yellowish colored and that's a sign of a deficiency.
Here's what I'd like you to do. Would you. I'm
gonna put you on hold, and I want you to
take pictures of your patch and of any close ups
of things that look not right to you and email

(02:29:27):
them to me. My producer will give you an email.
Let's pick it up from there. I'm running short on
time here, but I'd like to keep helping you with this,
so just hang on. Neilson Nursery and Water Gardens. It's
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It's out there in Katie, Texas. You got to Katie
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(02:29:49):
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(02:30:10):
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Nelson Nursery Water Gardens out there in Katie. The website
Nelsonwatergardens dot Com, Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. All right, we're gonna
go see Margaret here on garden Line. Welcome to the show.

(02:30:31):
And we're pretty short on time, so let's try to
do this as quick as we can.

Speaker 6 (02:30:35):
Margaret, Okay, I have two things.

Speaker 13 (02:30:38):
My lemon tree lost all of its leaves. The lemons
are looking like they're startings try to die, but I
don't know what to do with it.

Speaker 5 (02:30:51):
Okay, when it drops all its leaves, it's typically due
to a sol moisture problem. Too Soggy wet drownding roots
are too dry can cause that. About all you can
do for it right now is make sure the soli
state is evenly moist and it should put out new growth. Unfortunately,
we're late in the season and so new growth means

(02:31:12):
extra col sensitive. So you're gonna is it in a
container or in the ground.

Speaker 21 (02:31:19):
It's in a container.

Speaker 5 (02:31:22):
Okay. If you can roll that container in to protect it,
that would be good. What was that last question? See
if I can answer it? Real quickly.

Speaker 17 (02:31:29):
The last question is I have Saint Augustine and I'm
getting yellow patches in the Saint Augustine.

Speaker 5 (02:31:37):
Okay, uh. Go to my website Gardening with Skip dot
com and look for a publication called take All Root Rot.
There's two publications. See if those pictures look familiar, and
if so, do that. If not, hang on, my producer
will pick up your call and give you an email
to send me pictures