The Ridiculous Rainstorm

Skip Richter answers your questions all morning long!

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Showes Mill the crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
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(00:30):
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the gases like gas.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Maybe can you m.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
First starting and treating the bases like gas?

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Became?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
You did everything here so can see how y'all doing
this morning? Well, I uh leave some of you got
some sky irrigation last night. I am getting an echo
in my headphones. Hearing my own voice twice and once

(01:10):
is enough, that's for sure? Sure? All right, Well, welcome
to Garden Line. I am your host, Skip Rickter. We're
here to help you have success. All right. I need
to get my echo out of my headphones somehow here.
Have you ever had somebody that everything you said? Maybe

(01:32):
when you're a kid, you would say something and then
another person would say just what you said back to you,
just to irritate you, and they wouldn't quit. That's what's
happening in my headphones right now. Driving me nuts. All right,
Well that's a short drive. Hey we are we are

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here to talk about gardening and a lot of you
got some good rainfall last night. I hope you did,
and maybe today depending on what part of the listening
area started raining a little further north and work in
this way south. Nice little break in the weather with
the front boy, did we ever need that? For those

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of you who follow us on Facebook, we I did
a little video on do you fertilize before rain or not?
You know, should you yes or no? And I talked
about the details of that. If you don't, there we go. No,

(02:35):
it's back, it's back, all right anyway, if you don't
or do fertilize before rain, which is the better way
to go? Well, the answer to that for those of
you who didn't see the Facebook video is that you've
got to I'm sorry just a minute, give me a

(02:56):
second here. I need to talk to my producer. Give
me some words here. What's going on with the echo
because I am having a hard time doing the show
hearing myself about a second delayed. Well, I'm not able

(03:21):
to hear anything except myself, So if you're talking to me,
I can't hear you. Well, there we go. Oh, yes,
we can do it. Nope, I'm back. I'm echoing again.
That is weird. Anyway, back to the rainfall. If you

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are going to only get about a half inch of
rain fertilized before rain, because it'll water it in nice
even application of water across the lawn. If you are
going to get more rain, and I know you don't
know exactly for sure, but you know the last minute
forecast as to what they're predicting, if it's going to
be more, I would hold off because, especially if it

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hits let's say an inch and a half or something
like that, you're going to lose some of your fertilizer,
especially if it is a soluble type fertilizer. So if
you are dealing with something that is going to dissolve
away pretty quickly, it may run off the surface. In fact,
in fact, any fertilizer can be physically carried off the

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surface if you get water sheeting across the surface. If
you are looking at a soluble though, it'll also wash
down straight down into the soil. So if you get
this rainfall going straight down and out of the root
zone of your plants. So I get calls from people

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sometimes and say, hey, I fertilized, or maybe they say
I put down a pre emergent, or maybe I put
down you like the nitropaus eagle for example. That is
for the diseases of fall, like the large patch and
brown patch. Well, if you put down those and it
rains a whole bunch, do you put them down again? Well,
it depends on how much it rained. Barricade tends to

(05:14):
stick in the surface pretty well. It's one of the
best pre emergents for grabbing onto the soil surface and
hanging on there, and that's where it needs to be
to prevent its weeds. The nitrofous eagle needs to go
down in the soil to be taken up and build
disease resistance into the plumbing of the plant, if you will.

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So in brown patch attacks, the eagle is inside the
plant fighting against it. And then of course the fall
fertilizer from nitrophoss that is one that is going to
move down into the soil and the root system. But
too much rain is not a good thing, so be
careful with that. That is kind of how that works,

(05:57):
all right. I tell you what. In order for me
to not lose my sanity, I'm going to go to
a commercial right now and we're going to see if
we can affect us. Yeah, you go when I'm back
on top of myself, back on top, let's try to
take a call here. We are going to go out
to McCallan and talk to Al.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
Sure in can you hear me?

Speaker 7 (06:23):
Can you?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
I can?

Speaker 6 (06:25):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (06:28):
Hello, Okay. I have a kind of an odd situation.
But I do gardening, but I also do a little
mechanic work on the orthopedic chairs, and it seems like
I'm on my knees more than i am anywhere else.

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And I was hoping to find how to buy that
garden line Lynch.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh, okay, are you are you calling from McAllen?

Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yes? Am, okay, I do I use I use the
internet to get to you.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, some of our sponsors up here carry them. Of
course you're down there. I don't know who carries them
down there. If you will go online and do a
search for garden kneeling bench, you're going to get a
bond of options for it.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
So good.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, yeah, that would Yeah, that would probably do it.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah. Well, I'm trying of trying to get a hold
of one it just seems like I have a harder
and hard time getting up and down and work on
these benches that mostly laying on the floor and doing
the work at floor level, and then get back up

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and help, you know, get the help I need. But
it's these are specialized tears and we work on them
pretty much all the time.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, Well I would try it. It's simple and it works.
I think you'll really appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
It sounds like every time you've described the use of it,
I've been real happy with the description. So yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Hey, will you take care of good luck getting you
one of those when you get one, and tell me
how you like it. Sure it right, Thank you, sir.
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eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three
seven five zero six zero. We're going to go now
out to Myerland and talk to John.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
Hello John, Oh h, I'll still There's two things Monon one.
When I look down in Homestead, Florida working a job avocado,
I believe it might have been a Marcus avocada. They
were huge. Avocado's green skin. Love things grow here.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
We need a cold, hardy type of avocado. One simple
way to tell the difference is the kind you buy
in the store, like hass They have a leathery, bumpy skin.
The kind we grow here are still kind of green
and have a thinner smooth skin when they're ready to pick.

(10:32):
So you just need to go to a local garden
center and ask them for an avocado and they'll sell
you the right one. So like where you are located
down there, and you kind of got some options. You
could you could go down to one of the Chenna
garden getting Jenet forest places down toward Richmond, or you
could head up to Buchanan's Native plants pretty close to you.

(10:54):
They're up in the heights.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
What about further south towards Port. I'm hold them up
now a little called.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, yeah, I don't know the garden tenders down there, Yes, sir,
I would say, go.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Ahead, yeah, it's doesn't be a part of cold down.

Speaker 8 (11:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
But when a coverront comes through, if it's a if
it's a big one, it's going to hit Rockport like
it hits Houston. So it's going to be a bit
of a gamble. Typically when we do the type of
avocados we have here that we can have a cold
front that kills them back to the ground and they
re sprout out of the base. Uh So I would

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think in Rockport, here's the problem when you put something
like a hoss in the ground it's gonna it's gonna
kill it back dead, and I don't think you're going
to see a good resprout on it, so I would
be safe.

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Okay, water salinity. I mean, it's actually aust well in Texas,
very quiet, peaceful community, but it's a well system and
the water is kind of salty. I guess I should
clean that up.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, it's kind of hard to do if you're going
to do a lot of irrigating. You know, the systems
that clean that out of the water are pretty expensive
when you're doing a lot of gallons of water.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
Over here in Myer Lane. There is something else that's
kind of disturbing to see. Just this week, I've seen
four heritage oaks, not a thing wrong with them, and
people are just cutting them out and I don't understand why.
I'm sure it's not a garden line, listen't it.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
But yeah, I wouldn't know on that.

Speaker 7 (13:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Well, good luck with that avocado. I wish you well
and if we can help you any further. You may
also want to talk to your county extension agent down
there in the county you're going to be in. It
could be a Ransas county, could be a rock. You know,
whichever county talk to them and ask them about the

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avocado thing. They're going to be more familiar with that
specific area. All right, John, thank you very much. I
appreciate that Nature's Way Resources is not just a place
to get quality soil, which they are. There were many
of our great soils were born, like rose soil. A
lot of people sell rosol now, but that's where it started,

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is Nature's Way Resources. Leaf moo compost, the high quality
leaf mo compost that we talk about all the time,
the finely screened that you put over your lawn and
it settles in. By the way, you only need about
a half inch or third of an inch deep on
that leaf more compost and it'll do its work. But
they also have a two acre nursery, fruit trees, natives, houseplants, vegetables,

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one of the largest varieties of native plants you're going
to find in this area. Right there at Nature's Way Resources.
They are if you head up to Interstate forty five
toward Conro, they're going to be on they're actually instead
of turning, let's say you wait or you go to
the spot where I'm sorry, guys, I'm I'm having trouble

(14:28):
thinking while I'm hearing myself. Where fourteen eighty eight comes
in from Magnolia. You turn right instead, go across the
railroad traction. You're right there at Nature's Way Resources Nature'swayresources
dot Com. That is the website, Nature's Way Resources dot Com.
Stop in there, go buy, check them out, give them

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a call, or you can find their products available by
the bag in number of places. And they got a
couple of places around town. Know that they're doing them
a bulk, not all the products, but like Central Rock
and Malts carries their fine leaf mole compost by the
Cubic Yard located there on it In and Yale Street.
But anyway, whatever you do, get a quality product from

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Nature's Way Resources. I just put out some of their
molts the other day. All right, we're going to go
now to and talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 9 (15:22):
Yes, sir, good morning, and thank you so much for
taking my call.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
The situation is.

Speaker 9 (15:29):
Of course, you know, all of our grasses are looking
with say it like they escape.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
There's a fungus among us.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Okay, it's everywhere.

Speaker 9 (15:39):
Uh now according to your letter, your your newsletter. Uh
let's spread the the peat moss Canadian peat moss correct.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
And also sulfur cort We.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Do it.

Speaker 10 (15:55):
Not at the same time.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
No, yeah, well you can. But that's for take all
root rot specifically, and it's for those of you listening
that wonder what he's talking about. I have a publication
on my website called take All Root Rot. In fact,
I had two of them on take all up there.
But look at the more in depth one, which is
what he's looking at with all those details about peete

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moss and sulfur and different things. But basically there, you're
just trying to acidify that runner zone on top of
the soil. And it is one of the things that
helps hamper take all root rot. But it in and
of itself is not an eradication method for takeof.

Speaker 9 (16:39):
Okay, So here's the other situation. The fungus. I use
the microlife fungus. Okay, brown patch, Now you're right right, bumpasch.
I'm sorry, the bump patch. Let's stoot this way here.
I put down you put down twenty pounds per thousands

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square feet. Now when do we start seeing that? When
do we start seeing.

Speaker 11 (17:05):
That work.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
For managing diseases for enaging diseases. Okay, Well, the sixty
three different beneficial microbes in Microlife brown patch. The minute
you put them out there and splash water on them
with your irrigation or rainfall, they're activated and they're doing
what they do. Now, if you've got a plant that

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is already infected, it's not like they're not a systemic
fungicide that goes in and kills them, but it creates
that hostile environment on the surface of the plant and
plant roots too, by the way, that is beneficial in
helping fight or deter diseases that might come in.

Speaker 9 (17:52):
So then all right, so but we're saying it doesn't
kill it. It's a preventative. Correct, it's a preventative. A
beneficial microbe can kill. Depending on which microbe, it can
kill certain disease microbes, or it can repel them or
do a number of things. I'm just saying that once

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grass is infected interiorly with these putting a beneficial microbe
on the outside doesn't do as much as it would
in terms of prevention before the disease in facts, so
that that's the primary benefit. That's how you get the
most benefit out of your microlife brown patch. That's why
I've been saying since late September, get it down now,

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get it down now. Okay, So you also you also
recommend the bone eyde? Correct? Should I do that?

Speaker 8 (18:42):
Instead?

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Use a bone which which which? I don't know which
bone eyde?

Speaker 9 (18:47):
It's in your newsletter.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (18:55):
Yeah, on your own website website, right.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Okay, Uh, I'm not sure where I have a bone
eye product listed on there? Uh?

Speaker 9 (19:09):
Yeah, you got one if you if you're.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Going to chemically, if you're gonna chemically fight take all
root rot, it's done by putting an ingredient called a zoxystrobin.
But that is you're reading that off the website too. Uh.
That is a fungicide that is systemic. You put it down,
you water it in, and it goes up in the roots,

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and it specifically is one of the better ingredients to
fight take all root rot specifically. Okay, Hey, I've got
to run uh jim up against a heartbreak here, but
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com seven one three Quality Go. Uh, welcome back to Gardenline.
I'm your host, Skip Richter fighting the gremlins again today
in the in the wires. Uh, 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. I think we got it. I

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believe we have it fixed. We'll see here. Uh. Anyway,
Plants for All Seasons is the place where you go
to get expert advice quality plants and all the products
that you need to have success with them. So for example, uh,
you know about brown stuff before green stuff? So do
they When you walk into Plants for All Seasons, we

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drive up. You know, you go in to the to
the shop there you have to step over the for
the soil products and mulchis and things like that just
to move into the building. I say step over, you
know what I mean? Miss Anyway, But when you go
to check out, you got to walk past the fertilizers
and those are the secrets to success. So don't go

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into a garden center not get the quality products. And
that's exactly what they carry at Plants for All Seasons. Yes,
get the plants. Absolutely, get the advice, bring them samples,
let them help you solve the problems that you have.
They're experts, have been doing this since nineteen seventy three.
But also go home with those quality products that will

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help you have success. Set your plants up for success
and plans for all seasons. Plans for all seasons dot
com two eight one three seven six one six for six.
Let me give you that number again. Two eight one
three seven six one six for six. Someone was asking
me this week about carboload and they're trying to understand

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the you know, the numbers and why that wire the
numbers like all different than they are and the rest
of the year. Well, it's because in the fall we
need primarily potassium, but we need a little nitrogen two.
So potassium is the third number. Nitrogen is the first number,
so ten ten twenty, see what they're doing there. Ten

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percent nitrogen, ten percent phosphorus twenty percent potassium. That's carbo
load if you throw in a little bit of prevention
for the weeds. So you put carboload down, you water
it in about a half inch of water, and the
fertilizer moves down into the roots and the weed prevention
sticks up near the surface. So it's a one stop shop.

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Normally you will not hear me recommend weed and feeds.
I know there's a bazillion of them not there, and
they're promoted heavily and everything. I understand that. I just
prefer to do my weading separate from my feeding. And
I'll tell you more about that in the spring maybe,
but for right now, I just need you to know
that fall is a time when pre emergent fertilizer or

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herbicides and fertilizers can both go on at the same time.
That's why we got turf Star carbo load from Nelson
ten ten twenty. It's a purple bag. It's hard to miss,
you see it ever where you see it. I'm going
to be giving away four bags of that today at
Brenham Ace Hardware and I'm going to be at Brenna
Ace from twelve noon to two pm, so all of

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you folks there around the Brenham area, the greater Brenham area,
maybe the metropolis is of Burton and Summerville and even
up to College Station. If you live in round Rock even, well,
come on over. Let's let's meet. We'll be at Brenham
Ace Hardware and give it away those four bags of
carbo load while we're there. Now, those of you up there,

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if you've heard me, do talk about any appearance that
I do. I always say, we'll put some plants or
we that are disease leaves or bugs in a bag
and bring them by. We'll identify them and help you
get a good solution. The nice thing about these appearances
is I get to sit and talk to you eye
to eye, and we have time to actually go into
the detail. And if you just want to bring me
perhaps the award winning tomato you just grew and brag

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on it, I'll listen to that as well. But the
main thing is for all of you right now, get
hold of some of that carbload and we will get
you all set up. All right. You are listening to
garden Line the phone number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Give me a call and

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we will help you have success. That's what I like
to do, a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
and more fun in the process. It's my goal.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
We were looking at some trees the other day. Somebody
had some trees that they were kind of wondering if
does this need pruning or whatever, and uh, you know,
I was looking. I'm making some suggestions and things they
might want to think about. You know, if you haven't
had your tree looked at in the last couple of years,
you probably need to go ahead and do that. And
now is the time. And the dormance season is the

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most important season of the year, the most important season
of the year for pruning. Okay, And if you are
looking for somebody who knows what they're doing, that is
affordable tree service Martin Spoon Morris Company. You can give
Martin a call at seven one three six nine nine
two six six three and get on the schedule. Have

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him come out, take a look at your trees. Have
him come out in the dormant and season, do the
pruning on him and everything.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
For those of you who haven't gotten a good deep
soaking of water. Our trees are under major drop stress
in most of the listening area. I know mine are.
I'm seeing early drop of leaves and things like that. Well,
Martin can come out. He can do things like deep watering,
deeper watering, deeper feeding, getting that moisture down into the
sol profile to help your trees out, to help rescue

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them from that. Now, if you want to learn more
about the services they offer, go to afftree service dot com.
Aff tree service dot com. You can find out all
the different services that they offer. By the way, this
is just an aside, but if any of you listening
to me right now are planning on building a house

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and you're putting in a spot where you got a
beautiful tree or two or three, you need to call
Martin before you do the construction so he can advise
you on what to do to protect those trees. I
can't tell you how many times I've seen houses built
and I can tell what they were doing. They wanted
the shade of that tree over their house. And they
you know, they put the house right up close to

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the tree, and two, three, sometimes even five years down
the line, that tree finally just goes downhill and that
is a major destructive thing to build a house rund tree.
But there's a lot you can do to prevent that
kind of damage. But once it's done, you know, you
can try to alleviate it a little bit, but bottom

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line is you can prevent it, but after the fact,
you're you're on a big uphill battle at best to
protect that tree. So cal Martin have them come out
and take a look at that anytime you're going to
do anything to the root system. I went to a
place one time. I know I'm talking trees here, but
it's a good topic. I went to a place one

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time and they had a big, giant, beautiful tree and
somebody had run a trench on one side of the
trunk about three fear or four feet out, and it
must have had like, let's say, water in it. And
then because you don't put water and electric in the
same trench, and then on the other side of the
tree trunk three or four feet out, it had another trench.

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It was probably who knows what that one was. You
essentially took about ninety five percent of the roots off
that tree when you did that. Because if you look
down from a bird's eye view at a tree. The
branches are starting at the trunk and going out in
all directions right, Well, the roots are too, and so
if you were to take a knife and just slice

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through the soil your trench or whatever they use and
cut all those roots, you're cutting all the roots that
are outside of that trench. There are things like that
people don't realize, and it's very very important. The further
you get a trench away from the tree, the better.
The further you can keep it from the trunk, the better.

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And if you've got to do two trenches, do them
both on the same side. Don't do one on one
side and one on the other. Because once you've made
a trench and cut those roots, if you go out
further and make another trench, well the roots already had
been cut that are out there. So it's just a
little logic there on it. But the main thing is
get somebody knows what they're talking about to come out

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and take a look and advise you before you do
anything around a tree. And more knows exactly what he's
talking about on that he can come out he can
provide that advice. And by the way, that's seven one three,
six nine nine two six sixty three. Let's go to
a quick break here and we'll be back in just

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a moment. All right, we're back. Is welcome back a guardline.
Good to have you with us this morning. Listen, when
you're doing your fall fertilizing, remember that you got things
called micronutrients that need to be out there in the
soil as well. They are essential, They're just needing tiny amounts.
That's why fertilizer bags have three numbers on them, because

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it's the big three the things you need in the
biggest quantity nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. But there are seventeen nutrients
that plants need to have to survive in general. There's
some few add on here and there for various things,
but basically seventeen nutrients. The azimite product is a micronutrients

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supplement mined out of Utah, and you can put it
down anytime you want. I generally would say put it
down when you're doing your fertilizations because it's on your mind.
Then you got the fertilizer spread are out, Just go
ahead and do it then. But the best thing you
can do on all your fertilizations, by the way, is
to have a soil test and see what the levels
of nutrients are in your soil. I give these recommendations.

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Put on this much, put on that much. But the
bottom line is what's in your soil. And so your
neighbor may have a different soil nutrient content than you
do due to years of fertilizing or not fertilizing. The
main thing is make sure those micronutrients are ready to go,
that they're there. They're in the bank account for the
plants to withdraw as they need it. As amte asamte

(30:39):
Texas dot COM's widely available. Doesn't take much of it.
It's a micronutrient, but it is an essential I say
nutrient nutrients, I should say all the micros that you're
looking for, uh, and but they are essential to your plants.
All right, we're gonna head out on the phones here.
Let's see who am I speaking to? And where are

(31:00):
you calling from?

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Who is this? All right? We're gonna put you on
hold here when we come back, and we'll come back
to you in a little bit. Here, let's go out
to h I just lost guitar, Dave. There we go,
All right, let me let me give one more shot

(31:29):
here all right, Uh, this is skip on garden line.
Who are we speaking to?

Speaker 12 (31:37):
Don't you hear me?

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yes? Yes, who am I speaking to?

Speaker 12 (31:43):
My name is Milliame is Steve up with a sapers.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Okay, good. How can we help today, Steve?

Speaker 12 (31:52):
I've got a surly large caroline cherry an you got
it three years go on the fifteen yelling pot plant.
It takes a few Well, but lately I'm seeing some
yellow leaves with like a rich spot on them, maybe
five percent of the tree. But I'm thinking, I'm thinking

(32:16):
it might be a hungle problem. But are you familiar
with set at all?

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Well, yeah, it's probably on the leaves that are older.
So like if you start at the tip of the branch,
that's the new leaves, and as you go back in
toward the tree, it's probably happening on leaves that aren't new.
They're a little bit older leaves on it. And isn't go.

Speaker 8 (32:39):
Ahead, go ahead, No, I was just going to say
it is the lower part of the tree. The tree
is about twenty feet tall.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, I think it's okay. I think it's okay. Those
that's an evergreen tree, Steve. It's evergreen, and the old
leaves don't live forever, and as they start getting older,
they can turn and yellow. You can have different things happening,
and they could fall off. As long as your new
growth is coming out, it looks good, it's healthy. I

(33:07):
wouldn't worry about it a lot. I don't think it's
any disease you need to treat for. And I don't
think you have a significant nutrient problem at all. Those
are those are native trees, and they are shrubs and
they do they do well here, So I think you're
off to a good start.

Speaker 12 (33:23):
So I don't think you don't think I need a
spray of a flung decided or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
I do not know.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
I try no, I think you're good. I would. I
would just not sweat it, just keep an eye on it,
and if anything changes, you know, sure, give us a call.
We'll be happy to to take a second discussion or
maybe even a look with some photos. But what you're
describing is not something that concerns me.

Speaker 8 (33:47):
Okay, okay, that's good. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I appreciate it, you bet, thanks for the call. I
appreciate that. Hey and Chenney Forest is down there in
the Richmond Rosenberg area, it's on. If you if you
were going from Richmond toward Sugarland, it would be off
to the right. Okay, that's FM twenty seven fifty nine.
That's the road that it's on, twenty seven to fifty nine.
Just write down this website. It's an awesome site. Tells

(34:13):
you everything you need to know. You can sign up
to find out about things going on there. You can
find out what events are going on this weekend, next weekend,
and so on through the fall. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Go check
them out. It's a great place, always something going on.

(34:35):
It looks good all the time. And boy, this fall
it is just outstanding your fall color. Is there even
things there? Let's say, well today, for example, they're having
a living wreath making take where you learn how to
build a living wreath. That's right, it's real beautiful. It's
a ten am. Give them a call first though, make

(34:56):
sure that all is still good to go there, but
go to the website hinted for US Richmond t X
dot com. While you're there, pick up your bulbs. They
got boxes of bulbs ready to go there. They got
all the cool season color plants you need, and as always,
it's a fun place to shop. It just is. Alrighty,
We're gonna go now to Guitar Dave and Lake Conro.

(35:19):
Hey Dave, welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 13 (35:21):
Hey, I was underneath the canopy wall, go, I mean
another canopee, a can of pee, you know, that's why
I couldn't get But yeah, we had a Yeah, we
had a little bit of water over here.

Speaker 8 (35:34):
You know. Yeah, it raining pretty good, So we did
good there.

Speaker 13 (35:38):
Good, But no, My question is, yeah, I know we
needed it back because I've been having to water around
the house and everything and you know, getting cracks a half.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Yeah, why all right, kind of stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, what what kind of question you got for me today?

Speaker 13 (35:52):
My question is my question is, okay, so what do
you think right now if I start rooting around in
the back because I got a big piece of property
on the side fifteen feet wise sat feet long, and
I'm going, what kind of vegetables do you think I
need to plant right now today?

Speaker 9 (36:10):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (36:11):
You plant all the blue leaf vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower
called robbie, brussels sprouts, collareds, kale, all of those that
they can be planted today. It's starting to cool off
a little bit. I go ahead and start on things
like well, definitely, I forgot the root crops. Beets and
turnips and radishes can be planted right now in your

(36:33):
area as it cools off. We're looking at things like
lettuce and a regular if you like those kinds of greens,
and then let me get a tad bit cooler and
spinach can go in. If you've got transplants, you can
just go ahead and do spinach now. But spinish likes
a little bit cooler weather. But those are just a
few potatoes. Two late potatoes you can plant. You can

(36:58):
plant carrots a little later for mine. Hey, I'm up
against a hard break here, Dave, go.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
Ahead, I got you.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
I appreciate it all right.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Your Montgomery County Extension Office over there in Conroe has
got a great vegetable planting list. You need to give
them a call and they'll give you one for your area.
Thank you for that call.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Cia Maltz. The folks at Ciena Malts are the place
to go for all of you south of Houston. They're
down south of Houston. UH for all quality things that
go into your soil for example, you need composts, you
need bed mixes, well they carry those, they carry mulches,
they carry for example, the bed mix. You know you're
looking for veggie and herb mix, David just talking about vegetables,

(37:42):
filling up a bed for a vegetable or herb garden.
They've got a mix. They do, they absolutely do. And
it's from Maryland Soils. You go find Microlife, Medina, Nitrofoss, Nelson,
Turf Star, Azami, all of that, Siennamultch dot com, molts.
It's the one stop shop for the homeowners. Cnamulch dot com.

(38:06):
Go check them out. All right, Well today I'm gonna
be at Brenna Mace Hardware from twelve to two, So
everybody up northwest come on out and see me. Those
of you out there in some distance and driving into
Houston is a little bit far for these appearances. Well,
I don't get any further north and west then Brenna

(38:26):
Mace Hardware, at least not yet, not up until now.
We're gonna give away four bags of Nelson's Carbolow the
purple bag. It's fertilizer for fall and disease or weed
prevention for fall fertilizer and weed prevention four bags at
Brenna Mace Hardware.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Welcome to kzy r H garden Line with skimp Rickard.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
It's just watch as so many things to suit a sign. Hey,

(39:24):
welcome to garden Line. Glad to have you back with
us today. We got the gremlins out of the system
and we are rolling like we're supposed to roll here
on guard Line every every Saturday and every Sunday. By
the way, for those of you new to the show
from six am to ten am, you can listen to
garden Line on k t r H seven forty am.

(39:46):
You can also listen on your apps, for example the
iHeartMedia app. You just look for garden Line on there
and you can listen live. Or you can listen to
past shows too. If you missed the show and you
want to go back and here's some things, or or
maybe you were listening and you didn't write down that
thing and you want to go back and hear what
it was, well, go to the past shows on iHeartMedia

(40:08):
app or on the KTRH website. You can find those
there as well. I was talking about Ciana Maltz before
we went to break Ciana Maltch is it's just a
great place to get everything you need to create that
foundation for success. I always love going in there first
of all, real friendly folks, but they just keep expanding it.

(40:28):
They got a nice little shop inside now where you
can get all kinds of cool items. On the outside,
they have done some demo planting, like the Vego garden bed.
They have one of those set up because they sell
those there at Ciana Maltch and you can see what
looks like and I think you'll be impressed when you
see it. They also have the bags, the kind of
felt like bags that you put out and you fill

(40:50):
them with a growing mix and then you plant right
in those, so it's like a soft sided container and
they're great. I've grown in those before myself. But those
are some of the the things that are there at Cienamulch.
They deliver within about twenty twenty miles of their area
for a fee, of course, but you can give them
a call if you want a bulk brought out, if

(41:10):
you want to bringing out in a supersack, or you
can just go there, go to Cienamulch and pick it
up yourself. Cienamaltch dot com see yes. Yesterday day before
I was out in the garden doing some work and
putting down some things, and I was looking at I've
got on my shelf of products and things. I have

(41:33):
a number of different Medina products because I like them,
because they work. Medina hash to grow six twelve six
is the plant food. They can be used anytime of
the year for whatever you want, but I like to
suggest it for fall planting. And if you're going to
put something in the ground, just drench that soil with
Medina has to grow six twelve six and it will
get that phosphorus that twelve the middle number. Higher phosphors,

(41:56):
get them down in the root system where it can
help that plant establish a root, a strong, a hearty
root zone. You know. That is the secret of success plants.
I like to put it this way. Plants live in
their roots, meaning the success of the root system determines
the success of the plant, and Medina has to goes
six twelve six. The way I prefer to do it

(42:17):
is to drench a new plant in with that product.
You mix it in water. I put mine in a
watering can and just drench it over it really good.
As you're planting, do it again a week later, and
then a third time a week after that, and that
plant will be well on its way to success. It's
just one of the many, many products that are available
from the folks at Medina, and they are widely available

(42:39):
feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, quality mom and
pop garden centers. That's what I'm talking about there, and
you're going to find them at a number of places
because they are widely appreciated, they're widely used, and therefore
they are carried all the way across our Greater Houston
area and our KTRH listening area. If you'd like to

(43:03):
give me a call seven one three two one two
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fifty eight seventy four, feel free to do that. I
was talking with Randall at pest Bros. The other day.
We always check in on our UH sponsors from time
to time, see what's going on, what's happening, And he
was telling me, boy, right now, it's all about varmints,

(43:27):
you know, and pest Bros. You know they do everything.
You got family coming for Thanksgiving and you need the
cockroaches out of the house, called pest Bros. They'll come
out and get you set up where you're in control
of that. They do dermit treatments and lots of things.
You hear me talk about their mosquito buckets all summer,
but they also do varmits. You know, you got things

(43:47):
that are trying to get into your house and when
cool weather hits, they are going to be I mean
it could be something as small as a mouse or
a rat, or it could be something as big as
a raccoon or apossum, or something in the middle like
a squirrel. Had a neighbor one time that had squirrels
in his attic and they had chewed the insulation off
the wires in the attic. Now you don't have to

(44:08):
be a rocket sassist. So that's not a good thing.
It's not a safe thing to happen. But the head
pest bros can keep them out. They'll come out, they're
doing an inspection. They'll see, they'll know there's ways they
can tell if we're rats are getting in or things
like that. And it doesn't take a big area. I
mean a small area like where your you know, your

(44:28):
AC lines go into the house or for something around
one of those lines. Ras can get in there. Call
pest Bros. Have them come out and do an estimate
or do an evaluation. Excuse me to see what's going
on and what may or may not need to be done. Uh.
You can call them for a quote at two eight
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(44:48):
two O six four six seven zero, or go to
the website the pestbros dot com, the pest bros dot com.
So I'm going to be at Brenham Ace Hardware today,
that is from twelve until two, So I hope you'll

(45:09):
come out and see me. And I was telling all
the folks out there in that whole area. You know,
if you're in Avinsota, if you're at Lake Summerville, if
you're again I mentioned Burton, but any of the communities
out that way that listen to Garden Line. This is
as close as I'm gonna get out to your direction.
And I hope you'll come out from twelve to two today.

(45:29):
Remember you can bring me weeds and samples and things
in a bag. And I say I should say lawn
weeds in a bag. Saying bring me weed in a
bag could be misunderstood. We don't do that here. To
bring me your lawn weeds in a bag and we'll
identify them and we will tell you how to prevent them,
how to control them. Speaking of preventing them. At Brenham

(45:52):
Ace Hardware, I revenue giving be giving away four bags
of Nelson Carbelade that is a fertilizer with a pre
Emails mergent in it, and you put them down, you
water them in and you get the benefits of both
four bags of that. So come on out they if
you don't win a bag, they do carry them there
well as well at Brenna Mace Hardware. But be happy

(46:13):
to visit with you. If you've got photos on your phone,
that's another great way to be able to look at things.
You know, you describe something and my brain may not
picture what your brain is describing. So bring me photos.
We'll take a look at those and help you have success.
That's the way it goes. All right, we are coming
down into the month of October and it ain't gonna
last much longer. The RCWSL is for the month of October,

(46:39):
and you need to not let this get by. I
call it the perfect storm because you got the perfect
time to plant along with the perfect sale on all
the things you want to plant, so azaleas and camellias
fifteen percent off, crate myrtles, thirty percent off, select roses
and citrus trees forty percent off, perennial thirty percent off.

(47:00):
See what I'm talking about. It's time to get them
in the ground, and they are providing you one of
the best deals you're gonna get anywhere. You need to
take advantage of it. R CW Nurseries. That's a garden
center where Beltway eight and tom Ball Parkway come together.
Really easy to get into, get in, get out while
you're there too. You're gonna be tempted by the concrete

(47:21):
yard art and their decorative metal art. It's really cool.
By the way. Those are thirty percent off to at
RCW nurseres Well. Let's take a little break here and
we'll be back with your calls seven one three, two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Enjoy on a rainy day, Boy,
is it ever a rainy day? I mean from Beaumont

(47:43):
to beat Eyes. You'll know where Beateyes is. Looking up
from Beaumont to beat Eyes to Belleville and Brunham and
Bay City. Even the Blessing tex who knows you're blessing
Texas in I'm looking all the b words up that
are out there getting rain today. We've got some waves
coming through, and boy are we ever glad. This drought

(48:04):
has been stressful. And when you stress a plant, you
open the door to problems. You open the door to
all kinds of issues. With oak trees, for example, especially
post oaks, hypoxyln canker moves in when a plant is stressed.
When lawns take all root, rot moves in when a
plant is stressed, and there are many other examples of that.

(48:26):
This rainfall is going to give them a break. Hopefully
you will get some. I hope you get a good amount.
If you don't remember to water, and a little squirt
on top of the soil doesn't do the roots down
in the ground much good at all. Even for grass,
you need to wet that soil about six inches deep
when you're water in your lawn, and for trees six
to twelve inches deep, a good deep soaking. So there's

(48:49):
a bank account of water in the soil. So I
have a question, if you listen to Guardenline, you already
know the answer to this. How do you know how
deep you've watered. You go out there and you turn
on your sprinkler and it runs for thirty minutes, whatever
the number, It doesn't matter what the number, it runs
for x amount of time. How do you know how
deep the soil is wet? Well, you get a screwdriver,

(49:10):
a long handle screwdriver. Not just litw short, but a
long handle screwdriver. I like to use a little flathead screwdriver.
I don't think it matters. I push it down in
the soil, and if the soil is wet, it'll easily
push down into the soil unless you hit a root.
But if you go down through some moist soil and boom,
all of a sudden, you just like you hit a

(49:31):
concrete sidewalk that's buried underground. That's the dry zone right there.
And so you just pull it out and see how
deep that is. That's how deep you wet it. And
you need to water your turf, so you get six
inches deep. It could be deeper, but at least six
inches deep with your irrigation. That way you get more
of your irrigation water you're drinking water you're pan for

(49:52):
to put on the lawn. You get more of it
down in the root zone to help that plant. Water
off water often, and you promote disease water shallow, and
you promote shallow rooting water deeply infrequently, and you promote health.
That's as simple as I can put it. But that's
how it is. Hey, your ACE hardware stores are ready

(50:14):
to go. They've got everything you need for this season.
I mean, we are looking at the season where we're
doing things inside the house and perhaps a few things
outside the house. Everything for your lawn and your garden
and your landscape, the fertilizers of soils, the pest control
and whatnot. You're doing some decorations for the holidays. They
still have Halloween. Gosh, you couldn't think of the word.

(50:38):
They still have Halloween things for decoration there in your
ACE hardware store. Anything that needs repairing. Check out their
quality hand tools. Quality brands like new Walt and Craftsmen,
Black and Decker, Milwaukee and so on. They've got those there.
I was just looking in my garage. I have one
air filter left from a AC unit. You know, those
big big flat filters you've got to change monthly. Supposed

(51:02):
to change a monthly, uh, to make sure you got
good clean air and it's not too much, you know,
uh resistance as the air moves through, because they're not
full of all the dirt and everything. Well, that's where
you can find every size you're looking for. There at
your ACE Hardware store, whatever you're looking for, and that
includes things like fire alarms, home safety, fire extinguishers. Just

(51:25):
go through and then check out their section of special
gifts and things. They have a lot of cool stuff
at ACE Hardware stores. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. Now
there's a store K and m Ace out on Timber
Forest in the task as set. Excuse me, I got
I got tied up because there's also a K and
m Ace in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. There's All Star

(51:49):
Ace in Spring on Rayford Road, Deer Park As on
Center Street on the east side southeast, how about Patco
on West Willis Street, and Alvin Single Ranch has one
there on South Mason and Katie Cyprus Ace on Jones Road.
I used to live right by that and went to
that all the time. That's where I first joined the
ASH Rewards program, which you should join as well. And

(52:11):
I shouldn't forget to say, Brenna Masargar, That's where I'll
be today. From twelve to two giving away four bags
of carbel load today. All right, well, got a low
quiet on the phone here, Let me give you the
number again. Seven one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. You definitely do want to have success by

(52:36):
taking care of your plants and providing them to the
things they need. Someone was asking me the other day
about the Texas three Step program from Nitrofos. Uh. You
know I talk about all the time because this is
the season for it. And what nitro Foss has done
is they've taken everything you need to do in your
lawn right now and they've put it in a package
they call Texas three Step Now. It's three different products.

(52:59):
The first one is the Fall Special Winter Riser. It's
an eight twelve sixteen fertilizer, so it's got that good
potassium level along with some nitrogen that's important for winter
heartiness and good early spring growth. It's got the Eagle
Turf Fungicide Eagle Turf fungicide from Nitrophus. It's part of

(53:19):
the Texas three Step Now that is taken up by
the roots to protect against brown patch. We're getting these
rains right now. You need to get that down yesterday.
I mean get it down right away because you want
the roots to take it up. So when brown patch hits,
before those circles happen, your eagle Turf fungicides protecting against them.
Same thing can be said about winter weeds. Little rain,

(53:42):
little cooling off. Here they come. Chick weed, henbit, gosh cleavers,
that's another one. Annual bluegrass. There's another one, many many
winter weeds that we deal with. Nit Fross barricade is
part of the three step. So we got the fall
special fur winteriser, the barricade, and the eagle turfunge aside,
and you can get nitro Voss's three step program in

(54:05):
many different places. You know, a lot of places carry
night Foss fertilizers and other products, for example, Lake Hardware Inclute,
Bearings hardware on Bisonette, Fisher's Hardware in bay Town and
plants and things up there, and Brenham also carries the
knight Fuss Texas three step. We're going to go out
the phones now and let's see who are we speaking

(54:28):
to and where are you calling from?

Speaker 7 (54:32):
Carla?

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Hey, Carla, where are you calling from?

Speaker 14 (54:36):
Carla Houston Tombaugh.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Welcome to garden Line. How can we help?

Speaker 14 (54:45):
I have the clover has taken over in my flower beds,
and the neighbor plants bamboo, and it's all coming up
in my yard.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Oh boy, oh boy. Okay, well that's well. As far
as the any of weeds in the flower beds, the
best way to control them if it's a if it's
a weed that looks somewhat like clover, is to get
to pull them out or hold them out, just kind
of clear that area out and then put a good
thick three to four inch multch down in the flower

(55:16):
beds to just blanket that soil and prevent light from
hitting the leaves as the plant seeds try to sprout,
and it will, it will keep them all out. That
is the best way to go there. As opposed to
a chemical approach in the flower beds. Yeah, as far
as the bamboo is concerned, you the non chemical ways

(55:40):
to dig it out. Boil boy, that is a battle.
You're gonna have to are some folks to come out there,
because I mean literally, you are excavating to get all
those those underground rhizomes of bamboo out. The chemical way
on it would be to spray something that is a
grass killer in the different things that will kill bamboo.

(56:03):
Just go to your local ace hardware store, ask them
what they carry that would work on grassy weeds. They're
gonna have more than one kind of plant, and so
that would be a spray. If you dig it out,
you might want to look at putting a little vertical
barrier like a wall underground. There are various types of

(56:27):
products you can purchase that form a wall that bamboo
hits it and it can't keep moving into your yard.
That's a big excavation job and expense as well. So
having a neighbor with a running type of bamboo is
an unfortunate situation.

Speaker 14 (56:46):
So it's is it a shallow root formation or deep?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
It's not super deep. You know, it's all going to
be up there, probably in the top oh eight to
ten inches or so of soil, and so it can
be it can be dug out, but you need to
have the soul needs to be moist so you're not
trying to chip through concrete to get to it.

Speaker 14 (57:06):
Okay, I took a staw. My husband had a big
saw with a needle noose blade, and I took that
saw and I stuck it in the ground and I
went down the length of the fence hoping to eliminate this.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Well, that would stop that, That would stop the runners
that are coming in, it would it would cut them off,
but you still have to dig them up because they
have their own rots underground. There's yeah, yeah, just so
severing them from the mother plant just makes it easier
to get them up when you dig. But it doesn't
stop it at all.

Speaker 15 (57:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (57:44):
It will stop are.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Well until a new one comes across, and then you
have to cut it off again.

Speaker 14 (57:52):
Yeah, that would be plant every six month.

Speaker 10 (57:55):
Good day, all.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Right, thank you, mam. I appreciate your call. Seven one
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nine four nine. Well, I hope you're enjoying the rain today,

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for those of you who have it. I'm sitting here
looking at the the uh weather you know, the the
radar thing, watching the bands come through, and uh, it's
still still coming, still going. Looks like a lot of
it's moving out of the area. And now I'm not
a weather man, so I don't know what's going to
happen later. But if you got some good for you,

(59:38):
good for you. And if you're about to get some
good for you as well, on that. Uh, Moss Nursery
one of my favorite garden centers. Moss Nursery has been
around for ages. I mean, this is a seventy year
old nursery. Okay, it's eight acres, eight acres of plants.
You wander through and it's just wonderful, full of plants,

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full of pottery, full of unsuspected things you don't suspect
to walk up. You turn a corner and there's a
big wooden canoe hanging from the ceiling. On one of
their little sheds out there, you find a totem that's
been carved into wood. You find all kinds of unusual
things at Moss Nursery. I like to put it this way.
If you combine a pedanical garden with a museum, and

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then you filled it full of gargeous plants of all types,
incredible selection of pottery. You have Moss Nursery and Seabrook, Texas.
They always have cool stuff going on down there. I
was checking out a while by I was talking about this.
But they've got the camellias, you know, various types of communitis,
the sussanqua and the Japonicas and even the t camellias
they carry those periodically as well. When you're there, make

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sure and pick up your bulbs that you're going to
plant so that you have years of return and you'll
be good to go. Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas
two eight one four seven four four eighty eight. Who
remembers fall in on my head, think you fall in soon? Lovee.

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All right, welcome back to garden Line on a wonderfully
rainy day. I say that, and I must also say
for those of you who suffered damages from tree limbs
falling and loss of power and things like that, it
hurts got to you. That's that's the trade off we
sometimes get when we get these rainstorms. It'd be nice
to have the little gentle rains come for about eight

(01:01:32):
hours at a time, but instead sometimes we end up
getting the storms that go along with it. I talk
about Microlife products a lot because I like microlife products.
I use them, I believe in them. Microlife has a
product called brown Patch, and that sounds like, oh, it's
a fun de side. No it's not. Here's what brown patches.

(01:01:54):
Bron Patch is a fall fertilizer combined or let me say,
enhanced or enriched with sixty three different beneficial organisms that
fight disease, that help plant. Some of them directly are
fighting the disease, some of them are enhancing the plant growth.
They're basically here to help plants. So they're what nature does.

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It's in nature. It's not like somebody made these things.
Microlife enhances their fertilizers with extra amounts of these kinds
of micros, especially this brown patch, the brown patch and
the brown bag. So that makes it easy to remember.
It's time to put it on. You need to do it,
and soon soon soon. When you do it, you gotta

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water it in. You need a little water to kind
of dissolve those particles and or just cause them to
soften up and break apart is probably the better way
to put it and get them doing what they do.
Microbes get a hold of the microlife fertilizer, they break
it down, and they release the nutrients to your plants,
just the way nature fertilizes. That's how that works. Let's

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head out to Needful, Texas. Now we're going to talk
to Vernon. Hey Vernon, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (01:03:06):
How you doing today?

Speaker 10 (01:03:07):
I sent you some pictures of some Asian some Asian melons.
I have an elderly neighbor next door. She doesn't speak English,
and we exchanged vegetables over the fence. But I don't
know what they are and what to do with them.
I wonder if you knew what they were.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
That's very interesting. Uh, well, one of them looks looks
like a honeydew. That's not an Asian melon, but a
lot of times with Asian some Asian vegetables are truly
uniquely Asian. You did you know that that is a
cultural cuisine type vegetable. Some of them are just forms

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of plants that we already grow here. Did you send
me two pictures? I think that's what I got.

Speaker 10 (01:03:50):
Yes, one one cut open and it's been a whole one.
But they've got a smite slight smell of a cucumber,
and they're kind of a It tasts a little like
a cucumber.

Speaker 8 (01:04:02):
But they're a little bitter.

Speaker 7 (01:04:04):
I have no idea what they are.

Speaker 11 (01:04:07):
Even I can't figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Yeah, well, these are shaped like a musk melon or
a cantleoape or a honeydew. They look more like a
honeydew on the inside, but the outside doesn't look look
like a honeydew. I don't. I don't know exactly which
one that is. Uh. The there is a bitter melon,
but that doesn't look anything like this. It's almost more
like a somewhat like a cucumber shape with lots of

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big bumps on it. Uh. And yeah, I know that
you know what that is is. Okay, you've seen that one. Huh.
If I were to this looks a lot like there's
a thing called wax gourd that it looks sort of like.
I don't. I don't know though, Yeah, who knows. Uh,

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I'm not sure. The word better sounds good to me
when I'm eating a melon.

Speaker 10 (01:05:00):
I thought it was like a honeydew. I thought it'd
be sweet, but it's not. I'll wait for her kids
to come over to speak English and maybe if one
of them can explain it to me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Okay, that'd be kind of cool. Hey, let me know
when you find out. Because I think that Asian vegetables
are way underplanted in our gardens here, and there are
a lot of really good ones, and we are in
the prime season for a lot of great Asian vegetables.
I'm gonna talk about that since you brought it up.
I'm gonna talk about that here in MOBT. But thanks

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for the call, Vernon, and let me know thank you
you take care, bye bye. It's a little like a
wax squore, but not quite so we'll see find out
what that is. So Asian vegetables, let me let me
talk about that just a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
There are some of the fastest, easiest to grow vegetables
for the cool season in that group we call Asian vegetables.
Now I'm a radish fan. I don't like the little
red hot radishes. My dad loved them, salt and radishes
in his pocket knife, and he was happy. He loved
those things. I'm not a big fan of those. But

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there is a radish called a dikon, and there's some
of the Asian radishes that are very mild. There's one
that is called watermelon radish, and it's only called that
because it's kind of a shartruse pale white to greenish
on the outside, and on the inside it's red like
a watermelon. That is a milder radish, and so I

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actually enjoy those. Bakchoi and pockchoi are two greens that
we should be growing a lot more of they're wonderful
and they're fast, like twenty eight days from seed. You
can get something out of those things. I mean, we
could go on and on. There's a lot of other
good Asian vegetables, but in this cool season, it is
one that you definitely need to be growing some of

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those in your vegetable garden. If you've never done it before,
you know how, I'm always telling you do something different,
something new. What are you gonna try new this year?
If you're a vegetable gardener, I hope you'll try some
Asian vegetables in your garden. Excellent, excellent, excellent product. Plants.
All right here, let's uh, let's go to Robert in Magnolia. Hello, Robert,

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welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:07:19):
How you doing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Doing good?

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
I gotta I got a big grapevine that's growing up
over my trellis and it won't stop growing. It grows
all okay? Is it okay to trim it back? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
You can? You know this late in the season. I
generally don't prune for a winter because things try to
grow and then that's just gonna get killed back. But
you can if you need to otherwise in midwinter the
coldest time you get as we let's say, probably around
early February or even mid February. Now I wouldn't wait

(01:08:01):
that long. I'd do it early February. You can print
them a lot then, uh, And that that will that's
what that's what great growers do. They prune in the
winter time primarily.

Speaker 8 (01:08:13):
Well this was the first year that they actually grew fruit.
But they're going crazy. And the the other. A couple
of months ago, I talked to you about an apple tree.
Is that a planet from a seed? Well, it's doing wonderful.

(01:08:33):
You told me to put it in the sun. It's
about six inches tall, and I just wanted to say
thank you, and I'll give it good. I'll give it
back to the Earth like Johnny Appleseed would do. And
there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
There you're good. Well, just remember to name it the
Robert Apple or the Magnolia Special or something like that,
and you'll all right. You'll have a namesake. Thank you, Robert,
appreciate you have a great day, you too, Bye bye.
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Speaker 8 (01:09:45):
Oh by.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
All.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Welcome back to guard Line. There you go. Good to
have you with us. We're here to help you have
a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in
the process. That's what we're all about here. Hey, have
you been to Buchanan's Native Plants lately? If you haven't,
you really need to go. They such an outstanding place,

(01:10:10):
a lot of fun to shop there just because of
the variation in plant types, and you know, it's the
best place to get natives. They have a broader selection
than anybody in the region. But it's not just natives.
In fact, natives are the minority of plants. They're at
Buchanan's Native Plants. If you're looking for bulbs, maybe you
want to force some paper whites indoors, Oh gosh, go

(01:10:32):
get some from Buchanan's Native Plants. Maybe you are looking
for seeds for your garden, for vegetable transplants, herbs, transplants,
and everything you need is right there. They still got mumpkins. Mumpkins. Wow,
they out across a mom and a pumpkin. That would
be interesting, a pumpkin with flowers all over it. Anyway,

(01:10:53):
Mom's at Pumpkins. They were seventy percent off right now.
So it's a great time to do that last minute
decorating for the fall holiday season at Buchanus Native Plants.
When you're at Buchanans, you're going to find that there
are not only a wide selection, but a great group
of people to help you. You're also going to want

(01:11:13):
to subscribe to the newsletter. Go to Buchanansplants dot com
sign up for the newsletter. I mean, everything you know
that's going on at everything that is going on at
Buchanan's Plants, you're going to know about you know exactly
what's going on. For example, the oh gosh, I just
went blow Harvest Floral Workshop is Tuesday, November twenty fifth,

(01:11:37):
that's from twelve to one, and they're gonna have somebody
come in and teach about floral decoration for that wonderful
time of year. They've got their holiday open house coming
up on December sixth, and on and on. But you're
going to find that out when you sign up for
the newsletter. You're also going to get good tips and
information on plants success at Buchanan's Native Plants. Again. They

(01:12:00):
are on Eleventh Street and the Heights. We're gonna go
to the phones now, let's see here. Who are we
speaking to now? And where are you calling from?

Speaker 6 (01:12:11):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
I'm Scott.

Speaker 16 (01:12:13):
I'm calling from a seaber up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Good Scott. How can we help today?

Speaker 16 (01:12:19):
Well, I've got something killing my tropical plants, the high biscus,
and it's starting to attack my lime and lemon tree,
causing the leaves to curl up. At first I thought
it was a fungus, but it's kind of a white
webby substance on the bottom of the leaves.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Okay, that is probably there are a couple of Yeah,
there are a couple of things. Uh, it could be
a scale insect that is on the Yeah, on both
of those, there's a possibility of scale on those. Mealy
bugs aren't webby, but they are kind of a white,
cottony fluffy that really love a business a lot.

Speaker 16 (01:13:02):
Yeah, that's what that's what it is. And also the plumbreas,
so it's hitting the plumbarias the lemon and pme tree
not as not as much, but definitely the high biscus
in the plumbaria.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Okay, well, I know in the hibiscus in plumeria you
can use a systemic product. And the reason I like
those is because rather than spraying all over the plant,
you're putting it in the soil and it goes up
in the plumbing of the plant and anything that sucks
juices out of the plant is sucking up that insecticide.

(01:13:36):
That's how those work. So mealy bugs and scale and
white flies and aphids are all examples of things that
are controlled when you do a systemic in the plant.
As far as the citrus is concerned, because that's an edible,
you're going to need to check labels really carefully. There
are products labeled for citrus, but not everything that systemic

(01:13:57):
is labeled for cetrus. So there you would just have
to kind of check it out. You know, where you're
where you're doing shopping.

Speaker 16 (01:14:05):
So what what is a systemic. I'm kind of new
at this, so I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Okay, no, no problem at all. A systemic is in
the case in our conversation, it's an insecticide that is
drenched into the soil, watered into the soil around the plant.
The roots take it up and just like they move
water through the plumbing of the plant, they're moving the
water with this insecticide in it. So on the outside

(01:14:32):
of the plant, there's no pesticide, but on the inside
of the plant, anything that's gonna suck, there's no beneficial
insect that sucks juices out of your plant. So they're
it's not like they're going to get it. It's the
stuff that's sucking juices out that it gets. And and
so there are a number of ingredients that do that.
Amid a cloak immeado cloapre. It is one ingredient in

(01:14:54):
many different products. It does it Acfate is another one,
orin is a name of a product that has acefate,
but check. I prefer the meadow cloprid type products, but
both of them can work.

Speaker 16 (01:15:12):
An example of that, I mean, is there a product
you'd recommend or a specific that I should look into.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Well, I tell you what, Let's do this. If you
will email me, I will send that to you and
I'm going to put you on hold and have my producer.
We're having problems with the producer hearing the caller, so
he's just going to come on and tell you the
email address that you can send it to and I'll

(01:15:42):
have him repeat it for you twice, and that way
we can get that information to you. Thank you very
much for that call. Heirloom Soil products outstanding products that work.
Heirloom soils is available all over town by the bag.
They deliver all over town for of course the delivery fee.

(01:16:02):
Either bulk or if you want a qbicyard supersacks, they
can bring those out, but you got order three in
order to make it worth it for them to deliver somewhere.
They carry the products that you will have success with.
And I say that because I use them. I know
those products. Veggie and herb mix outstanding product. They have
products for fruit trees, et ceteras. They have products for

(01:16:24):
acid living plants. They have potting soils, you know the
potting soils that you use for indoors, and on and
on and on, so many products. Just do this. Go
to Airloomsoils dot com, heirloomsoils dot com and look at
the product list of all the things they carry. You
can go out to porter and pick them up by
the bulk. You can drive all over town and find

(01:16:46):
them by the bag. You can have them deliver it
to your house. But whatever you do, choose your quality
Airloom Solce product. They also have mulchiz too. By the way,
they've got composts mixed with expanded shale. The expended shale
lasts longer in our clay soils. A lot of good
varieties there. And on the website aeromsoulce dot com you'll
find their calculator so you can figure out bulk exactly

(01:17:09):
how much that you need. Alrighty, music means I gotta
turn it over to the news. I've got a caller
up on the board. We will you will be our
first up when we come back from break. Don't forget.
I'm gonna be at Brenham Ace Hardware today on North

(01:17:29):
Austin Highway, Brenham Ace Hardware Today. I'll be there answering
your gardening questions, meeting a lot of listeners that I
don't get to meet because you know, I'm all over
Houston area. And if those of you that are out
north and west some distance, this is the chance to
come on in. Hey, put your name in the hat.
We're gonna give away four bags of carble load from Nelson.

(01:17:52):
That's the fertilizer and in our dizzy Gosh weed prevention
in one product fertilizer and we prevention in one product Carbalod.
I think that's been the garden Guy, maybe showing up
with you today too. I know you love him. Come
on out and see him.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
Welcome to Katy r. H. Garden Line with Skip Ricord's.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Shoes, the crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
Gas can trim. Just watch him as many bats to
see bot basic quick gass back again, suns gas the

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sun beamon down between.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
All right, folks, stop.

Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, what we're gonna do this?
How I'm gonna go straight out the phones and got
that's been there hanging on for a while. Hey, welcome
to garden Line. Who am I speaking to and where
are you calling from?

Speaker 6 (01:19:09):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Yes, sir, Yeah, my name is Shane.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
I'm from the Negro area. Thank you for having me on.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Glad.

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
My question is, so, I'm thinking of doing a garden,
probably about like a thirty by thirty sized garden and
killing killing the ground using the attractor, you know, with
a with a five foot pto tiller. So in the past,
if I if I seem to remember right, there was

(01:19:44):
something that you could throw on the ground and then
tilling to the soil to uh kind of in preparations
to try to keep the weeds down. Do you do
you know anything about that? Or am I thinking of
something something totally different.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Well, that's actually a combination of different things you're saying there,
But I would not do that for a garden area
there there. For your garden, you just need to get
all the tilling done and then mulch do your planting.
Multch the area very well if you can thirty about

(01:20:24):
thirty you know, that's a lot of mulch. But what
I do is every winter season I collect a lot
of leaves, stock pilom and have them there for mulching
through the season to it. There are pre emergent herbicides
labeled for vegetable garden use. They don't control all the

(01:20:46):
different weeds that you might have, and they don't control
anything perennial, So if you had Remuta grass or Johnson
grass or something in there, the pre emergence would not
be helping you on that. Those are come back from
underground parts. So in general I don't recommend, but there
are products that are labeled. If you go, you know,

(01:21:06):
to your call your local county extension office and ask
them about some of the best places in your area.
If you're not already aware of them to buy those
kinds of products, they can kind of point you in
that direction. But it's primarily a pre emergent that's been done.

Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Another option this is this is just an option because
thirty about thirty is pretty good size area. If you
wanted to till and let the weeds come up, and
when they're very young, then spray and kill all the weeds,
then you would have had most of the seeds that
are near the surface that would have sprouted, and you

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would have killed them, and that'll give you a good
head start on keeping control of weed. So then when
you go in, you don't till again. You just disturb
the soil as little as possible and plant your plants.
And so that that is one other strategy you might take.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
Okay, and I had heard of that spraying round up
basically on it. What is the timeline on doing that
as far as between sprays, and I know there's a
certain certain weight period before planting.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
Yeah, with well, glaphys I'm going to use the word
glaphys that's the ingredient because the garden Center feed store
for gardening versions of round up or are not glaphys
eate anymore. There's something else, but it's more of the
commercial things that are still still round up, still glays anyway,

(01:22:39):
without confusing. That's just one example. I mean, you know
people that are doing organically, they can spray vinegar I
mean and burn the weeds off when they're young and
tender and kill them that way. But whatever you use,
just let it, let the weeds come up and get
a couple of inches on them and then do the spray.
It can be a little taller than that. That's just fine,
but you want most of as many as possible to germinate.

(01:23:02):
And if it hadn't rained after you tilled, putting a
spray of water on it will definitely get those weeds
up and growing. And so as far as the data
harvest or data to plant you were talking about when
you put on glave state, you could wait a few days,
you wait a week if you wanted, but you're going

(01:23:23):
to be able to drop seeds right in the ground.
The way it works is not as a pre emergent.
It's just when you spray it on green stuff, it
kills the plant that you sprayed it on. It's not
a soil soil killer like that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
Okay, all right, well I sure appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
All right, thank you, thanks for the call. You bet
good luck with that, Jane. I don't know how long
you've listened to garden line, but I do have a
rule here. My advice is free, but I expect half
the produce as a result of my advice. Just drop
it off at the station. We'll call it even. Thanks Shane,
all right, thank you, bye bye, bye bye. That's not

(01:24:06):
too much to ask, is it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Warren's Southern Garden and Kingwood Garden Center in Kingwood, both
of them in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park Drive,
Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Now, both of
those places are open seven days a week and they
are stocked up right now for fall. You know, you
want cool season color plants, they've got it. Do you
want moms, They've got it. Do you want decorations and

(01:24:31):
things for faull They've got those. They're set up and
ready to go. Nice selection of houseplants too, by the way,
their little house Plant Greenhouse has a nice selection of
beautiful all things. And you know, as we move into
the winter season, a lot of our gardening moves indoors,
so go check them out. Shrubs, trees, everything. You hear
me talk about products, you know, like the veggie and

(01:24:53):
herb mix from Heirloom Soils or a while ago, I said,
Heirloom Soils has a has a compost with expanded shale
in it that really helps loosen up the soil. They've
got those there. Products from Microlife products from Nelson Plant Food,
they've got them there at Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwood
Garden Center. Check out the websites. You know, I'll just

(01:25:13):
give you Warrens off the top of my hand, Warrenssouthern
Gardens dot com. That's pretty easy. Warrensouthern Gardens dot Com.
And both of those garden centers very complementary of each other.
The things they carry in one versus the things they
carry in the other. It's a nice, nice blend. Go
check them out. You are listening to Gardenline our phone

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number seven one three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Nelson carbo load is one of those products you're gonna
find at Warren's in Kingwood. Warrens and Kingwood carry the
ten ten twenty Nelson carbo load that has the pre

(01:25:57):
emergent herbicide in it. Now, for those of you come
in up to Brenham, Texas to visit me today, we're
gonna be giving away four bags of that by the
way up there in Brenham. And I believe last time
I talked to him Destin, the Texas garden Guy is
going to be showing up up there with me, So
we're going to be cutting up and having a good time.
Bring some samples and plants and things. We'll take a

(01:26:19):
look at them Dustin can fig you in on all
the quality products from the folks at Nelson plant Food.
Another one though, that I want to talk about right
now is Genesis Transplant Mix that is part of the
nutri Star line from Nelson. Genesis easy to remember Genesis
Transplant Mix. Anytime you're going to plant a plant, you
mix some Genesis into the soil that you are going

(01:26:42):
to plant the plant in two So, if it's potting
soil going in a container, if it is the soil
in a bed that you're going to put a rose
bush in, mix some Genesis around that. It's got mic riza,
it's got beneficial bacteria and fungi. It's designed to help
that plant get establish. Is to minimize the transplant shock,
to get that root system going. And it just works.

Speaker 5 (01:27:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
After you do that and the plant gets growing and stuff,
you can switch to the other Nelson products like Nutral Star,
Color Star, Nature Star and so on. But Genesis Transplant
next quality product from the folks at Nelson. I'm gonna
take a little break and I'll be right back. If
your foot's not tapping, you better check your pulse. You

(01:27:26):
may be here.

Speaker 17 (01:27:30):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Welcome back to the guard Line. Hey, good to have
you with us this morning. Ace Hardware. ACE Hardware is
all over the Greater Houston listening area. My Ace Hardware
stores you can find all of them at ACE Hardware
Texas dot com. Don't forget Texas. Ace Hardware Texas dot com.
You're gonna find stores like All Star and Magnolia, like

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K and M in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, like Port Lavaca,
Ace on Calhoun Plaza, Katie Ace on Pinoak Road in
Old Town Katie and Champions Ace on Spring Cypress or
up in Spring. When you go to Ace Hardware, you're
going to find the products you need to have success
in your lawn and garden to create that beautiful outdoor
sitting area to enhance the inside of your home. If

(01:28:14):
you've not been to an Ace Hardware store lately, you
need to go check them out. This is amazing. You know,
I used to go up my dad to the hardware
store all the time. I always like to do that.
You know, there's a guy in the back that could
come up and help you fix anything you tell you
how to do it, and stuff like well. Ace Hardware
stores are still stores that serve as the old time

(01:28:35):
hardware store. But they don't look it and they have
so so so much more, lots of cool things, beautiful
decor I've seen jewelry. I've seen beautiful decorations for your home.
You want to create that little uh what is it
style called farmhouse? You know, kitchen and things, and on
and on and on down the line. Certainly quality barbecue pits,

(01:28:57):
all the top brands. ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. Just
just head out to one. Let me give you a
few more. How about aspass on cirkandall up in the Woodlands,
All Seasons, Ace and Willis on Interstate forty five North, Euvaldi,
ACE on neu Valde Road in the east side of Houston,
Chambers ACE on Broadway in Galveston Bay City, ACE on

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Seventh Street. There's another one for you. Let's go now
to Houston and we're gonna speak to Dell this morning. Hellodell,
Welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 17 (01:29:30):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:29:31):
I have a plume.

Speaker 17 (01:29:32):
Aria's about six feet tall and it has three branches
off the main stem and it keeps flowing off over
because it's hell top any that the leaves and I'm wondering,
I know it's not. It's good time to prone it right, Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
Not not the best time, but you're gonna can you
hear me?

Speaker 8 (01:29:56):
I'm sure, yeah, no I can.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
Yes, it's not the best time. But when it goes dormant,
do you usually bring it inside?

Speaker 8 (01:30:06):
I do? I hang it in the god.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Yeah, so before you put it out, that would be
a time to go ahead and print it. Cut off
whatever you need to cut off as you wish. You
may also need if there's a bit of wind, you
may even need a like a steak with some sort
of a strap holding onto the plant. That would be
another option. And one other option, Dell, is to dig

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a hole and in the hole the berryer pot that
is a little larger than the pot it's growing in.
Then you take it out of your garage. You set
it right back down in the pot. It's called pot
in pot and that keeps it from blowing over because
it's like you planted it, but you didn't plant it.
You just set it. And you just set the pot

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down in the ground in a larger pot.

Speaker 17 (01:30:57):
Okay, turned down against a wall.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
There you go.

Speaker 9 (01:31:04):
Go.

Speaker 17 (01:31:06):
Good luckily, Thanks Jipank, you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Very much appreciate that call. Uh yeah, that that's pot
in the pot. You know, people that grow plants like trees,
you need to go to gardens and any buy. You
see this container with a tree in it, right, and
you think about how they grow those. Well, you set
all those pots on the ground up on a windy
hillside and a giant tree farm or something, you're going

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to be picking them up three times a week. They
blow right over. So sometimes they'll put a wire down
the row that's you know, several feet off the ground
and attach the tree just carefully to that wire to
hold them up right. But there is there are some
places where they'll do pot and pot in the ground
and just drop the pots down in there. It's not

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as common as other ways, but it's a possibility. Nelson
Nursher and Water Garden is out there in Katie Tows
And if you go out to Katie, what you need
to do is this. You go out to Katie, you
go north on Katie Fort Ben Road, north on Katie
Fort Ben right and you don't have to drive forest.
Just up the street a little bit on the right

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hand side Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. Go check them out.
The nursery is outstanding. You know, it starts when you
walk in the front door and there's house plants everywhere,
and it's it is a cool shop in there too,
but lots of good quality plants are there. Now. The
next step you take is out towards the back, where

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you're gonna encounter the herbs and the vegetables and the flowers.
As you keep walking, you're gonna get to ornamental grasses.
You're gonna get to perennials. Off to your right, there's
gonna be all kinds of trees and shrubs of fruit
fruit types, as well as like roses that are you know,
not fruit type. Trees and shrubs. It's all there. In

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the meantime, you're gonna hear the water, and the water
is the magic. That's what I still think they need
to charge a mission for, because that is therapy. Go
sit out there, just be still, close your eyes a minute,
take a deep breath, and imagine that at your house.
Imagine the sound of water like that at your house.
I'm telling you, it's wonderful. I just I had a

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water pump that had gone out, had been there for
a long time, finally gave out, and I just put
a new one in and we got the sound of
water back on our back patio. It's just an ambiance
that's wonderful and you can have it by going to
Nelson Nursery Watergardens. They'll tell you how to do it
yourself if you're going to do one of those yourself,
or they'll come out and do it for you. Nelsonwatergardens

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dot Com, Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. You gotta go check them out.
In my own yard yesterday, I was working on mulching.
I was saying I had some multi materials from Nature's
Way resources. I like to try different products in my
yard is a hodgepodge because I'm always trying different products.

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So when I tell you works well, it's because I've
used it and it worked. And I was trying a
couple of their the mulches that I hadn't used it
from there before. Trying those out, I know they're going
to work. The beautiful condition, gosh, wonderful, wonderful product. I
was doing a little bit of that, and I was
also doing some fertilizing. I had to get some fertilizer

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down on my yard. I did some fertilizing and flower beds,
shrub beeds and things, just because I hadn't gotten to
it this year on those shrub beeds, and so I
now I'll go ahead and put it down. Now, throw
a little mulch on top, and they're good to go,
ready to go. So now you're getting those kind of
tasks done and out of the way doing my next
lawn mowing. And I noticed some of the brown patch

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was starting to appear, a little spot that stays too wet,
and that is typical a brown patch. I got an
area it's a little lower lying and that's where the
water sits, and that's where the brown patch shows up.
And so that is just an example to tell you
that we are going to have it up here in
your yard now because we just got all these rains.

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And when you get these fronts in, the temperatures cool
off a little bit, and that makes brown patch happy,
very very happy. And you got to do something because
those diseases have got to be dealt with now. The
folks at Microlife have a product called brown Patch, and
basically what that product is is a fall fertilizer with

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sixty three different species of disease fighting or plant enhancing
fungi in it. So there are beneficials in the soil
that fix nitrogen out of the air and the soil.
They put it into the soil and the form plants
can use. There are products that are beneficial microbes that

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fight disease. Did you know, hey, let me ask you this.
Have you ever used triple antibiotic ointment on a cut
on your arm? Do you know what that ointment is?
It is different types of bacteria that produce an antibiotic
that fight disease. Now, you're not putting the bacteria in
your arm. A pharmaceutical company in a lab is making it.

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But that was discovered in the soil. They brought it in.
They figured out this smell booger is producing antibiotics. And
so when you have the neomycin, you know, mixing the
you know those things you're talking about bacteria, So anyway,
they're bacteria that do that in the soil naturally, they're
bacteria that have anti fungal process properties, or bacteria that

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produce growth hormones. There are many products that have antifungal
properties in this particular blend that's included in Microlife brown Patch.
So you put it down now, you better get it
down right away. Get it down right away. If it's
sitting as a dry granule on the surface. Watered in,

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it softens those particles. They start to break up part
the microbes get busy on them, and then everything starts
to go to work, whether it's fertilizing your lawn or
whether you're trying to enhance your plant health and strength
or fight diseases and things. That's what it's all about.
All from the folks at Microlife Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
That's the website Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You're listening to

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garden Line if you'd like to give us a call
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Something I'm noticing in area lawns is the fall aster
is blomin and if you I you know, I dry
by lawns that are drought stressed and struggling, and they
get thin. That's why they have more weeds because they

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get thin from the stress. And I just see this struggling, brown,
shriveling lawn and then I see these deep blue green
plants with tiny, little dime sized uh what's the light
purple lavender lavender daisy flowers on them. That's it. When

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you see those, you need to pull that up. It's
one plant coming out of one tap root. You pull
it up and you get rid of it because it
is loaded. It's gonna be loaded with seed for next
year if you just hand pull them. And I'll get
out in the morning, cup of coffee or something, five
gallon bucket and my kneeling bench I just got in
the yard and I'll just pull them. It's kind of

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gratifying to be able to get them up and just
see your long go weed free in an area because
those things will spread in a big circle. But it's
the one plant, one plant coming up. But you got
to deal them now. I'm seeing them all over town blooming.
And if you've got those in your yard, don't let
them bloom and go to seed or you will be
sentencing yourself to a lot of weeding, and you don't

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want to do that. All right, We're gonna take a
break for the bottom of the hour news. I want
to remind you I'm going to be at Brenham Ace
Hardware today Brenham Ace Hardware, North North Austin Parkway and Brenham.
It's from twelve to two. I'll be giving away four
bags of carbel load. Come on out and see me.
All of you in the surrounding communities around Brunham. This
would be a great chance for us to meet and

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for me to answer your gardening questions and take a
look at the samples you bring in. Who knows who
that is? Jimmy Buffett of course. Yeah, it's okay to
play Jimmy Buffett when it's not summer. Not just all
about Caribbean fishing and all this stuff. I love Jim.

(01:39:34):
But you're listening to the Guardenline. We're glad to have
you with us. Let's do this. Let's run right out
to the phones here. We're going to head the east
Houston and we're going to talk to Steve this morning. Well,
good morning Steve, morning from the Garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:39:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:39:48):
How can we help you?

Speaker 15 (01:39:53):
Not bermuda grass, but winter rye grass. I thank you
of putting some seed down.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
Okay, well let me. I can tell you why I
wouldn't do it, and I can tell you how to
do it, so we'll do both.

Speaker 6 (01:40:15):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
One thing about well, so people plant it so the
lawn looks nice and green all winter, and yes it
absolutely does that. My reasons to not plant it are
that number one, imagine that you were going out there
with millions of weed seeds and you were going to
just throw them all over your lawn. You wouldn't do

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that because it's like, well, you don't want weeds in
your lawn. I know winter ryger overseeded drive is prettier
than weeds, but to the grass plant it's the same thing.
It's like you are planting things to compete with water
and nutrients. In the spring, when the grass is trying
to really green up and get going, the overseeded grass
is growing even faster at that time, and it's a

(01:40:58):
competition thing. It's not going to kill your lawn, but
it will stress your lawn, and so I generally tell
people to avoid it. If you want to have that
pretty look, I understand what you're going to want to
do is I would wait in an early November. I
would get a mix of annual and perennial rye, a

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mix of the annual and the perennial. And the reason
is annual comes up fast and it you know, it
gives you a quick result. The perennial rie is a
little slower to get going, but it has a nice
prettier color actually in it, and it's a little bit
deeper in the color, and so when you do a
mix of the two, you kind of get the best
of both worlds.

Speaker 8 (01:41:40):
Okay, all right, And.

Speaker 15 (01:41:44):
Staying on the subject of the lawn, should I or
can I double up on my fertilizings. I put down
the microlife organic and I use the the pre emerged herbicide.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Okay, the barricade probably, yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:42:08):
The barricade, yes, that's precisely yes.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
Okay, so I'm sorry, but tell me the question then,
based on.

Speaker 15 (01:42:16):
The I was thinking of making another application of each.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
No, you don't need to do that. When you overdo
pre emergent herbicides, you can cause problems for grass. So
you want to follow that label real carefully, but it
will affect the rooting of your grass, which you don't
want to do at this time. A proper application at
the label rate, you're good to go. You don't need
to add more to it. As far as the fertilizer
you read on either if you put on the right

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amount or the recommended amount on the bag at that time,
this fall time of the year, that'll carry you. You've
got the nutrients in the grass plant to get it
as strong as it's going to be your next fertilization
will be in the spring.

Speaker 15 (01:43:02):
Okay, all right, well and thanks for the thanks for
the heads up on the on the Rye grass.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
Yeah, and Steve, have you been to my website by
any chance?

Speaker 15 (01:43:13):
I have, Yes, Sir, I visited. Well, i've sporadically consistently.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Okay. Well, the reason I'm asking is I just wanted
to know that you've seen those schedules for long care
and for weed disease and insect control. Yeah, have you
got those and you know what you know what to
do in the spring. You'll come back to the barricade
in the spring.

Speaker 7 (01:43:35):
But not right.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
Oh hey, thanks for the call.

Speaker 15 (01:43:38):
More question if I may, Yeah, and I'll hang up
and listen. I was thinking about putting planting some large
fifteen gallon bushes right now here in okay October.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
Yeah, yeah, perfect time, perfect time. Okay, very good, very
good time to do that, So go for it. Make
sure when you pull them out of the container, any
roots going in a circle, just cut them. They'll establish
faster and better if you do that. Don't be afraid
to cut those circling roots and plant them at the
same depth they were growing in the container so that

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the soil doesn't go higher on the trunk or whatever. Okay, certainly, certainly, goodbye,
you bet you take care. Yeah, that's the case. Hey,
the folks at Greenpro, these folks are experts, experts at
providing top quality compost, top dressing and fertilizing by the

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way too, to keep your lawn healthy. They also do
the core aeration. Now, core aeration is a perfect companion
for compost top dressing because here's what happens. You core airrate.
You pop a plug out of the ground and drop
it on the surface. That's what cor aeration is. That's
the best way to airrate.

Speaker 4 (01:44:56):
They do that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
They got quality equipment, very nice equipment the airrate, and
then they'll put just the right level of top quality compost,
fine screened compost on the top. What you've done is
you breathe life down into the root system. Oxygen gets
down there, drainage, the lawn's ability to take in water,

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increases the biology. Oh my gosh, compost and the soil
and oxygen. You have got some really happy microbes which
make for really happy plants. So if your lawn is struggling,
especially if it's recovering, from Chinchbudge or brown Patch or
take af patch. If you've got a thick layer of thatch,
this is the one thing that is in your control

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to get rid of that. It's already been created. Is
a quality corroration and it's just the way to go.

Speaker 6 (01:45:46):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:45:46):
They cover the area, the folks at Greenpro, they cover
the area about forty five miles around the Magnoia area.
Think of it as the north west quadrant of Houston.
Conrad Willis, Woodland Cypress spring out in Magnoia, Montgomery down
to Kadie and Westst. Houston Central. You know, you know
what I'm saying it, So think of it and I

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forty five in the northwest quatter. That's that's primarily the
area that Greenpro works. Greenprotexas dot com, Greenpro Texas dot Com.
Here's the phone number. Eight three two three five one
zero zero three two. I just saw somebody they were
running to get a piece of paper. You know, you're
supposed to listen to guardline with a paper and a

(01:46:27):
pencil because I'm gonna occasionally say something you might want
to remember. Eight three two three five one zero zero
three two. There you go. That's it.

Speaker 8 (01:46:39):
That is it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Hey, RCW Nurseries. My gosh, what a great nursery. I
love going there. Just wonderful folks at RCW. And they
carry such quality plant product. You know, they grow their
own many of their own shrubs and trees up in
Plantersville at Williamson Tree Farm, so you get in quality stuff.
But right now is the perfect storm of the best

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time to plant, with the best sales you're going to
find on the things you want to plant. So if
you want crape myrtles and roses and citrus trees and perennials,
all of those are on sale. Bougainvillas or on say
you gotta placeing over winter booga and villa, you can
get them half off there right now. Wouldn't be a
bad idea.

Speaker 7 (01:47:21):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
If you're looking at camellias and azelias, you know camellias,
that's the way you get blooms in the winter. There's
two types of camellias. One blooms more in the December time.
One blooms more in the January February March, you know time,
but December January both on that first one. Rcw's got
them our CW nurseres dot com. There where Tambo Parkway

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comes into belt Way eight Tumbo Parkway belt Way e RCW.
That's all you need to know. Let's take a little break.
I'll be right back and we'll talk to Melon Carmene. First. Hey,
welcome back. We're back to the guard line. As it
is a perfect storm in your lawn. There is not

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a busier time, a more important time for you to
have success in your lawn than right now. Right now,
it all comes to a head. Here's why we're going
from summer into fall and winter season. We're supposed to
be in fall. You look at the calendar where it's fall.
Definitely fall, you know summer September is a summer month,

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and first part of octobers this summer month here in
the Greater Houston area. But once we get the break
of the temperatures, a little rain, a little cooler, lots
of things happen. First of all, you need to have
fertilizer down to get that grass plant as strong as
it can be going into fall. You need a fertilizer
that's higher and the third number potassium. Secondly, if you've

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got any kind of winter weed issues you've had before,
definitely need a product to prevent those weeds because there's
they start sprouting now. You know, remember last year when
you had all the the hend bit and chick weed
and cleavers and clovers and annual bluegrass and all that
stuff in your lawn and you were just like, ugh,

(01:49:12):
I get rid of all this. How do I spray
it skipt to kill it?

Speaker 6 (01:49:15):
You can do that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
You can spray later to do it, but now's the
better time you put on a perimeergion. You don't have it.
It stops the weed seeds from happening. Third thing, with
this rain we just had, brown patch circles will be
appearing across the area. The temperature's right, the moisture's right,
the disease is ready to go, and in fact it's
already starting in some lawns. Nitrophos is put together a

(01:49:40):
package of three things to do all those street things.
It's the Fall Special whin a riser fertilizer. It's the
nitro fross barricade wheat prevent. It is the Nitrofas Eagle
turf fungicide, which is a weed a disease prevent. You're
going to find these nit frost products all over the
Greater Houston area you go to Enchannet Forest and Richmond.
You go to Langham Creek Ace Hardware up in Cyprus

(01:50:02):
on the backside of Copperfield. You go to RCW Nursia.
I'm just talking about RCW where two forty nine in
the Beltway come together. You go to Auspas Ace up
in the woodlands. These are all places that you're going
to find these nitrofoss products. Ready to go, Listen. I
can't be urgent enough on this. You gotta get it

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done now. If you wait until the lawn is full
of big brown dead circles, it's a little late to
prevent it, isn't it. If you wait until weeds are
up and growing, it's a little late for a pre
emergent to work. And if you wait a little bit
longer on the fertilizing, the grass is going to be
slowing growth, root growth and development is slowing as it

(01:50:44):
gets cooler, and you're not going to get the benefit
of your fertilizer. Like if you do it now, check
out my schedule at gardeningwith Skip dot com. Gardening with
Skip dot com. There's a fertilized fertilization. Well, let me
do it this way. There's a lawn care schedule. That's fertilizing, watering, mowing,
micronutrient supplements, air rating, things like that. It's how to

(01:51:05):
grow up pretty long. There's a second schedule that's the pest,
weed and disease management schedule. I should call it that
what goes wrong with your lawn schedule because all the
things that want to attack your lawn, how to deal
with them is on that schedule and when to deal
with them. January through December. Now, if you don't live
right here in the Greater Houston area, you live let's
say a little further north, well, still use the schedule.

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Just change the date a little bit. Maybe if you're
up in like Huntsville, for example, you might move it
a little bit earlier in the fall. Fall comes a
little bit earlier there than it does done in Galveston,
for example, And so you just move it up a
little earlier, and then in the spring a little bit later,
because you know your cool season tad bit longer. And
I mean I'm talking about a week, not much. But

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the main thing is to get the schedule and do it.
Get your night frost Texas three step and get busy.
If you I was talking earlier about the fall aster,
also called actually the proper name for it is slender aster.
Sometimes you'll hear it called roadside aster or black black

(01:52:10):
land aster, but those actually speak to different specific asters.
But in general, the slender aster and our lawns, you've
got to get those out of their it's too late
to spray them. As a general principle, when a weed
becomes reproductive, the post emergent sprays that would normally kill
that weed don't work well. And even if they did work,

(01:52:34):
if you've already got seeds on the plant, spray in
the weeds not going to make the seeds dead. They're
going to be there for next year. You've waited too long.
Fall Aster is that way right now. Don't try to
spray it. Pull it up. It's not hard. We're not
asking you to pull up ten billion plants. We're talking
about going around and you got an area size of
a basketball or bigger, and it's an ast plant. Got

(01:52:56):
all these little lavender blooms on it, dime sized. Just
find them middle it. It's going to be weaving through
your grass, It's okay. And find the middle of it
and reach down and if you will pull on that
tap root right in the middle, usually in the middle
that you'll get the whole weed up and it works.
You got to do it now. It's just where we

(01:53:16):
are for right now, just where we are. I hope
you're enjoying this rain. Boy, has it ever been nice?
I really really appreciated getting it. Listen, our lawns were
getting stressed. I even have had an area of my
lawn I did not realize how dry it is now.
I keep my lawns on the dry side. I water
very deeply with a good soaking when eye water. But

(01:53:37):
I don't water very often at all. And there's a saying.
Have you ever heard the saying the cobblers kids go barefoot?
What that means is the guy who makes shoes doesn't
have time to make shoes for his own kids, or
he doesn't take time because his kids aren't buying shoes,
they're just getting them free. That's how it is in
my house. Sometimes there's times when I know what to do,

(01:54:00):
but I'm off running around. Like this afternoon, I'm going
to be at Brenna Mace Hardware from twelve to two
giving away four bags of carbeload, which is fertilizer with
the weed prevention in it. I'll be giving away those,
but I won't be at my house. Dink here of
my yard. That's how it goes. And sometimes the Cowbridge
kids go barefoot at my house. Which came into play

(01:54:22):
late this summer, meaning September, when I just didn't water
like I needed to and I had a little dry
spot and the grass started really showing the stress. So
what am I doing out there? Well, I'm following my
own schedule. I just fertilized and got that down, watered
it in really good not too long ago. Made sure
that you know, as far as weed problems that we

(01:54:45):
might have, that they're prevented. And then when it came
to diseases, you know, making sure that if you have
an ongoing brown patch problem in the fall season, the
cool season, then a prevention treatment is in. Remember, prevention
is the key. Now, I don't have brown patch in
my yard. I just don't. It's because I don't overwater,

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I don't water too much, I don't fertilize. I get
the right kind of rainfall in the fall, though, and
I will see brown patch because nature does that. Anyway,
you get the idea. My grass has been irrigation rescued,
and then we got these rains a little bit later.
Just yet just came this today. Anyway, Good to go, Hey,
wild Birds Unlimited, Very important, wild Birds Unlimited, WBU dot

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com Forward slash Houston, WBU dot com Forward slash Houston.
Right now there's a lull at the feeders. Get those
feeders cleaned out and right back up and stock them
up with Winter super Blend from wild Birds Unlimited. You
need to do that because the birds will be coming back,
and the Winter super Blend gives them high fat and
high protein so they can do well in the shorter

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feeding days of fall. And you want those birds We're
about to be getting the yellow warblers, yellow rumped warblers,
I love that name, Orange crowned warblers and ruby crowned kinglets.
They're coming soon. Get the feeders out, but get them
cleaned up. Don't leave all that moldy old bird seed
in your feeders. Get them cleaned up real good, and
then get a quality blend like Winter super Blend from

(01:56:17):
Wildbirds Unlimited, WBU dot Com Forward slash Houston. Now, if
I were a bird, would I rather be a yellow
rumped warbler or an orange crowned warbler I'd rather be
an orange crowned warbler, that's for sure. Actually, I wonder
if there's a maroon crowned warbler. That's what I'd really
like to be anyway. All right there, I go, I digress,

(01:56:40):
forget it. Hey, go in and try to stump the
Wallbirds Unlimited folks. They are experts, they know their stuff,
you know. I'm reaching out to that. We got a
lot of great Wallbirds Unlimited managers around our area, and
I'll call them. I'll just ask them questions, you know, like, hey,
what about I reached out to one the other day
about here the hummingbird's still here? Do you think they're

(01:57:01):
pretty much gone? Because I hadn't been seeing him at
my feeder? Sure enough, you know they pretty much moved on.
But remember we still have those rufous hummingbirds that hang
around sometime through the winner. So if you want to
leave a humingbird feeder out, you might get a pleasant
surprise of some overwintering rufous hummingbird that says thank you
for leaving that feeder out for them. All right there, Hey,

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don't forget today Brenham Ace Hardware, I'll be giving away
four bags of carbo Looat and Texas Garden guy Destin,
He's gonna probably show up out there. From me and
I have chatted a little bit, I think he's gonna
be there talking about those Nelson products out there. It's
always good to see him. Those of you haven't met him,
you need to come out and meet him. He's a
great guy, enthusiastic and he will be there as far

(01:57:46):
as I know with me today. If he doesn't, I
know where he lives, I'm gonna toilet paper his house,
so we'll see. Hopefully, hopefully he'll show up out there today.
We appreciate you being a listener to Garline. I'm gonna
take a little break. We got music about to start
on me and uh I will be back with your
calls for our last hour of the day nine to ten,

(01:58:08):
last hour of the day after we do these news items.
If you want to give me a call, you can
go ahead and get ahead of the boat. You know,
sometimes we get to this last hour of the show,
things can get a little bit busy. Well, if you
want to get ahead of that boat going dol out,
just put the phone on hold and we'll be right
back with you. Seven to one, three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four, or if you like the letters
to make it easy to remember, seven one three two
one two k t r H. We need to get
a phone number that says, let's see garden line howl.
What would be the numbers to spell out garden g
r D. Anyway, we need to come up with something

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like that that makes it even easier for all right,
I'll go getting a.

Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with scamp richardses crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
Just watch him as many good things to seep batsays.

Speaker 1 (01:59:30):
Not a sign.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to guarden Line, folks. So
good to have you with us today. Glad that you
were hanging out with us. I'm just sitting here looking.
Uh all may know. Oh my gosh, Dustin except picture.

(01:59:54):
This character is out in the yard in a skeleton suit,
and that is hilarious. Texas Garden talking about Texas Gardener.
We were just talking about him while ago. Uh that's funny.

Speaker 5 (02:00:07):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
Hey, by the way, who sent me that thing? Oh
it was Louise. Hey, Louise, how are you doing out there?

Speaker 11 (02:00:14):
Man?

Speaker 2 (02:00:15):
It's good good to see. Where'd you get that picture?
You need to back blackmail him with that. I think, Uh, listen,
the uh the most important thing about gardening, that I
think is to have fun, to enjoy it, to enjoy
yourself out in the garden. And you're thinking, no, no,
the most important thing is to have food eat. Yeah,

(02:00:37):
that's good. That's a great benefit of gardening, for sure.
Oh my gosh, that's a great benefit of gardening. The
second thing that people say, well, no, I want beautify
my lawn in my lanesk. I want to even a
house more valuable. That is another benefit of gardening. But
you gotta have fun in the process. Man, This isn't
It isn't stressed. People are afraid of failing at gardening.

(02:00:58):
I've talked to gardeners for decades and I keep hearing
that same thing. Well, I don't know how to do it.
I'm afraid I'm gonna mess up. Or I tried it
and I failed.

Speaker 8 (02:01:06):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
I have a brown thumb. Listen. I want you to
listen to me, just for a minute, just a minute. Listen.
You do not have a brown thumb. You don't. You
have a green thumb. It just doesn't look green yet.
All a brown thumb is is an uninformed thumb because
the reason Grandma could grow anything. You know, it's like

(02:01:27):
Grandma drops a pencil on the ground and it grows
into a pine tree. Yeah, that kind of thing. It's
good Grandma knew how to provide plants with what they need.
It's as simple as that. And that's what we help
you do on Guardline. So what I'd like you to
do is to bring your thumb that you think is
brown with you, sit down at the radio, let's talk.
We're going to inform your thumb and suddenly you're gonna

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find out things are greener. And when you have success,
you have more fun. That is important. We want to
help you have success. But know this that nature wins.
Nature wins, and what does that mean. That means that
you never just like do something and you're done. The
weeds will come in, that plants will die for various reasons.

(02:02:13):
You know, that tree gets struck by lightning, something that
hadn't happened before shows up and now it's attacking your
tomato plants and things. That that's just nature doing what
nature does. We can continue to head that off, but
that's part of the challenge of gardening, and that's part
of the fun of gardening. In my opinion, it really is.
It's it's the better you get, the more you learn,

(02:02:33):
the more fun it is. And the more you start
to try things outside your range get you get into
dedicated gardeners, and they're always trying to grow something that
shouldn't be planted here. You know, the minute I say,
you know, if Cynthia is not going to bloom in Houston,
well someone will send me a picture of one they
got to bloom one year, but still don't plant them here.

(02:02:53):
Right anyway, you get the idea, have fun, figure out
what you're doing. Let's talk if you have a question.
Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
We're going to go out to Carmen now and talk
to Mel. Hey, Mel, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (02:03:10):
Good morning, Chip. It's great to talk to you.

Speaker 7 (02:03:11):
As always.

Speaker 11 (02:03:12):
I really appreciate all the information this morning. And I
missed about planting, and in particular I was interested in
planting some trees. And I wonder if I need to
put a pipe down there towards the bottom of the
hole before I set the tree in it, where I
could add water. I see some landscape people do that

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and I don't know if that's very effective or not.

Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
Yep, don't don't do it. It's it's not very effective.
If you want when when you put a tree in
the ground, you have that root cylinder that came out
of the container and went in the ground, that's where
all the roots are, and that's where you need to water,
not down at the bottom of the container, at the
top soaking all the way down from the top down.
Almost all of the mature tree and established trees' root

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system is in the top photosol, So water up in
that top foot that's where you primarily need to have
your water. If what I will do, if you've got
a tree and you're kind of concerned about the watering
and stuff, if you can create a little soiled doughnut
around that tree, a berm around berm around it, maybe

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three or four inches high. You can fill that full
of water and it'll all soak straight down, and that
is the best way to get your tree through that
first season. After that, you don't need to worry about
watering right there, because gradually, over the course of a year,
those tree roots are going to get further and further out,
more and more of them out and the tree is
better and better established. But other than using some sort

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of other watering device, it drips water right there at
the base of the tree. I would say, yeah, don't
don't put the pipe that.

Speaker 5 (02:04:52):
That's great.

Speaker 11 (02:04:53):
That took a lot of regetrawork.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
Now let me make one caveat to that. Okay, you
can put a pipe in the ground that goes down
to the bottom of the root zone, the bottom of
the planning hole, and you can use that as a
water gauge. If you take a dry like a dowel
or those square yardstick you know, things that and you

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stick it down in the pipe to the bottom, and
then you pull it up and you see six inches
of water. It's wet six inches high going down in
that PVC pipe. Now you know you got a problem
with too much water. So it would be more of
a how to tell when it's overwatered than a where
to apply the water pipe.

Speaker 11 (02:05:41):
Super one other cool questions on trees once you plant them,
when it starts growing and you get a lot of
I call them suckers or lembs way down by the
root system that are shooting up, should you trim all
those off? Yeah, take away from the tree.

Speaker 5 (02:06:01):
It does.

Speaker 2 (02:06:01):
And in the case of trees that are grafted, which
you know fruit trees typically most of them are grafted.
Those are rootstocks sprouts that are coming up, and so
you definitely want to remove those. But even on an
oak tree or something, a sprout coming out at the base,
cut them off as close to the base as you can.

Speaker 11 (02:06:22):
All right, as always, thanks so much for all of
your great information, and I'll continue to listen. I get
one other question, what about planting. I have some planters
that are like to you know those stainless not stainless,
but those galvanized tubs that are all kind of oval shaped.
They're sitting in the sun and they're just cooking everything

(02:06:44):
I planted them. Although they have a trickle water on them,
they do everything I put in there just dies tomatoes,
anything that I planted there.

Speaker 2 (02:06:54):
Yeah, I don't know what else is going on. A
lack of drainage, a lack of adequate water those those planters. Sometimes,
well the water troughs don't come with holes in the bottom,
and you need to draw your own holes in there
to get the water out of those. But excess water,
not enough water, is more likely, or the wrong kind

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of mix. Maybe for some reason. But the metal does
heat up, but it's not a big effect. And especially
those shiny galvanized things, you know, they're going to reflect
a lot of heat too, So I wouldn't worry about
the temperature on those. There's something else going on. Mill
All right, all right, super thank you, thank you, you
bet you take care. We're going to go to a

(02:07:35):
quick break here. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back
to Guardline. Let have you with us today. I'm your host,
Skip Rictor. We're here to help you have success with
what you're planning. One way to have success, in fact,
the way to set up for success is to start

(02:07:56):
with the soil, brown stuff before green stuff, and Nature's
Resources is the place to go. Nature's Way has been
doing this longer than anybody listen. Nature's Way Resources is
where soil products like rosa and leipmo compost were born.
That's where that's where those things that are now such
a staple of Houston gardening began. So here's the deal.

(02:08:18):
You go to Nature's Way. Drive up Interstate forty five
right about to where fourteen eighty eight comes into Interstate
forty five. Fourteen eighty eight is a road for Magnolia.
Instead of turning that way, you cross over the railroad tracks.
Turn right if you're going north, cross over the railroad
tracks and you're going to get right there. You'll see
the science for Nature's Way when you get there. You

(02:08:39):
can buy it by the bulk, bring your trailer, bring
your truck. You can buy it by the bulk. You
can buy it by the bag, or just give them
a call and have them deliver it to you. They
can bring it out and supply it to you. They
do have a few places around town that stock some
of their products in the bulk, so you can ask
them about that. But go to this website Nature's Way
Resources dot com. Nature's Way Resources dot com. That is

(02:09:03):
a great website. They've redone. It looks good. It's just
real up to date and lots of good information on there.
And when you're there you can find out where they're located, eat,
you can find out phone numbers and things like that.
Remember they do have a two acre nursery, fruit trees,
native plants, a real nice selection and natives, houseplants, vegetables,
lots of other things at Nature's Way Resources. But the

(02:09:26):
main thing is quality. Soil quality, mulches, quality soil mixes
and everything you need to set the foundation for success
in your yard. Let's go now out to the phones.
Welcome to garden Line. Who are we speaking with and
where are you calling from? This morning?

Speaker 1 (02:09:49):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (02:09:51):
Yes, who am I talking to?

Speaker 18 (02:09:54):
This is Scott and I live out in the Fulture area.

Speaker 4 (02:09:59):
All right, and I've got a weed problem apart.

Speaker 18 (02:10:02):
I've got a weed that's in my Saint Augustine grass.
It kind of looks kind of grassy, but I dial
in the number and nobody picked up. I wanted to
send a some photographs of what it is and try
to identify it and see what I need to do
to get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:20):
All right, Well, here's here's how we're going to have
to do that. I'm going to put you on hold
and someone is going to pick up and they will
tell you the email. So have a pen and paper ready. Uh,
they'll probably do. They need to do it twice so
you can get it written down. We're having a problem
where they can't hear you when you call in. So yeah,

(02:10:40):
I wonder I think so yeah immediately when I called.
It's just a deal we're having to deal with technically
this morning but just just I'm putting you on hold
right now. Just hang on. They're going to give you
my my email address slowly twice so that you can
send me those pictures and I look forward to seeing

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them for the rest of you. You are listening to
Guardline and we're here to help you have success in
your garden. I'll tell you another place that is set
up for you to have success, and that's Arborgate. Now
something you need to know about going on today at
Arburgate they have got a mister Henry Flowers is going
to be doing he's well known speaker on herbs here
in our area. He's doing the four Iconic herbs. And

(02:11:24):
who can tell me what the four iconic herbs are?
Let me ask it a different way. Who has listened
to Simon and Garfunkle in the past, Yes, Parsley Sage
Rosemary in time.

Speaker 4 (02:11:35):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
He's gonna talk about the history, cultivation, varieties and usage
of these four wonderful iconic herbs that all gardeners should
be growing and using in the kitchen. And I'm telling
you those are easy to grow. You've learned some basics
of what they want and you can have success with them.
That's at ten am at Arburgate this morning. But you
need to call them first. You need to call them

(02:11:57):
first to make sure there's space two eight one three
five one eight eight five one. There's only forty spots,
and so you're also going to need to prepay because
they need to know that the forty who said they're
coming are going to show up, so advanced payment. Just
call them two eight one three five one eight eight
five one. Why you got them on the phone. Why

(02:12:19):
don't you sign up? Tomorrow's class from Pam Panic Pens
is an old friend of mine back in the days
when I was in Austin, Texas. And Pan's going to
be talking about gardens of Texas growing with resilience. She
has a brand new book out. It's called Gardens of
Texas and it is amazing. I mean they're beautiful. She
chooses a few just visionary type landscapes that are around

(02:12:42):
the Greater Texas area and she talks about how resilient
gardeners can deal with the change in climate changes in
our plant palette, how to take care a while life,
how to find just more enjoyment, and the whole process
of gardening. Show give you some strategies for creating gardens
that can weather the storms. And boy do we have

(02:13:03):
things that come through here that make it a challenge anyway,
cultivate resilience in your landscape. Go out and listen to Panpanic.
Tomorrow there'll be a book signing to follow again. Call
them now, call them today at the arbor Gate at
two eight one three five one eight eight five to one.
When you go, leave plenty of room in your car.

(02:13:24):
You're going to want to bring away some of the
wonderful soil products that they have, as well as plants
like the vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit trees which are twelve
months of the year at arborgate shrubs, vines, cool season
color and then lots of cool landscape blank as well
at the arbor Gate, that's for sure. Have you ever

(02:13:47):
been to Cinnamalts down south of Houston. It is on
FM five twenty one, kind of near where Highway six
and two eighty eight are down there, going south of Houston.
Cinamaltz is open Monday through Friday from seven thirty to
five and Saturday from seven thirty to two. That would
be today clothes on Sunday. Why you're down there get

(02:14:08):
the quality products. They have to start with success. So,
for example, if you want to order a supersack to
have delivered to your place, if you're within twenty miles,
for a fee, they will deliver supersacks. You've got to
buy three of supersacks.

Speaker 6 (02:14:22):
To do this.

Speaker 2 (02:14:22):
Each one's a Qbyard, but three qbyards, you know, that's
just a good landscape bed. But anyway, you can pick
up your supersack and your own truck and trailer if
you want, drive over there and save that delivery if
you like. They also have the ability to deliver bulk
and again within twenty miles, and you can go in

(02:14:43):
and buy stuff by the bag. Why you're there. All
the best fertilizers you hear me talk about on garden
Line are at Cienemulch. That would be micro Life Products, Neilson,
turf Star products, Nitrofoss Products, Medina products, Asamite products, and
then the Microlife and Nelson buy the jar as well,

(02:15:06):
and then of course heirloom soil products like the veggie
and herb mix they carry there at ci Animal Cienamals
dot com. Go there, it'll tell you everything you need
to know, but leave some room in the car because
they've got seeds, they've got tools, they've got really cool
stuff in the store inside. And they also sell the
Vego bed, which you can see set up out front,

(02:15:28):
so you kind of get an idea how that might
look in your landscape. So leave room when you go
by there. The main thing is just do it. Do
not put a seed or a plant in the ground
without getting that soil right first. That's the secret to success.
Let's take a little break and we'll be right back. Cope,

(02:15:54):
I'm going to break too soon. I thought I had
missed my break. Well, there we go, all right. They
say time flies when you're having fun. I'm having fun.
I hope you are. Kermit the frog says times fun
when you're having flies. Some of you remember Kermit. The
nitrovas Texas three step. I've been telling you about it
this morning, and you need to hear me. This is

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the time. We are at the moment where you gotta
get this stuff done. The three steps are fertilizer, weed prevention,
disease prevention one two three, fertilizer is night foss Fall
special winterizer eight twelve sixteen fertilizer high and potassium exactly
what you need for fall, for winter heartiness and good

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burst of growth in the spring. Secondly, night fass barricade
to prevent weeds. If weeds are up and growing, you
don't use pre emergent. You do it before they're up
and growing, and they with this rain and cool weather
are ready to sprout. Got to get that down right now,
get it done. And then finally, night foss eagle to
fungicide that is also taken up by your lawn roots

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like the fertilizer is, and it makes that grass plant
able to protect itself against brown patch and certain other
diseases as well. One, two, three. Put all three of
them down the same day. I would say that day
is today, by the way, and I don't care if
you just had rain. You gotta water them in. You
got to water them in about half inch of irrigation
because you got to move them into the soils. Okay,

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that's how you do it. Knight Foss Texas three step.
Where do you get it? Well, you get it at
Heat and Feed in Houston. You get it plants for
all seasons on Lubeta. You get it at Fisher's Hardware
in Pasadena. Another place you can get it, and you
can get it at Court Hardware and Stafford. Those are
the Knight to Foss products that I've talked about all
the time in the fall, and those are just a

(02:17:42):
few of the many places at carry Night Foss products.
That is a fact. I like that they package the one, two,
three that way because that makes it real easy to remember.
You know what to do, and you need to do
them all now. The only thing someone called me that
they can I do them all on the same day. Yes,
you can. You don't have to, but you can. I

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like to do them all on the same day because
they all three go down, and they all three need
watering in with about a half inch of water. So
you can just put them all three out, make one
pass with the fertilizer, one pass with a weed prevention,
one pass with the disease prevention, and then watered in
with a half inch and you're sat. You're ready to go.
But listen, don't delay. You delay and you're not going

(02:18:27):
to get the benefits of these great products. There you go.
All right, let's see here, We're gonna go out the
phones now and let's see who are we talking to
and where you're calling from?

Speaker 8 (02:18:42):
All right.

Speaker 7 (02:18:42):
This is NEFCOV from clear Late.

Speaker 2 (02:18:45):
All right, go for it. How can we help you today?

Speaker 8 (02:18:49):
Yes, I.

Speaker 19 (02:18:51):
Know the nitro foster three step. I usually do it
every year, and you just said it was weird because
but can we put it down the same day? And
because you not recommended to do that? But but if
you're yeah, it's okay, but you get spread so different.

Speaker 2 (02:19:15):
Just put them in separate applications. By the way, in
about forty seconds, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to go
to a hard break. I can't change. Okay, yeah, really.

Speaker 19 (02:19:24):
Quick as water as watering them in and we're supposed
to get some rain tonight. Sometimes I'll spread them down
right before the rain and uh, but what are you
just there?

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
Okay, fine, that's fine. If it's if it's gonna rain
an inch or more, I would wait and do them
the next day. And then I know it's more about
watermen just a little bit, because if we end up
getting a gully washer, it's gonna wash away fertilizer. It
is gonna Uh, it's just a problem. It just needs

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a little bit of water to move them in to
activate them in the soil. So that's what I would
recommend their net and I appreciate your call. Unfortunately I
got to go to a hard break here, but thanks
and good luck getting your yard in shape. Those are
great products and they'll work for you. We'll be right back, folks.
All right, we're back. I go back to the garden line.
Good to have you with us. You got a question,

(02:20:19):
here's the phone numbers seven one three, two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I love in Shanea Gardens. I
love going to in China gardens. It's I get out
of the same experience every time I park in the
parking lot. I get out and I look up and
it's just like it appears as if it's from horizon
to horizon, just all kinds of things. Quality plants, quality pottery,

(02:20:45):
really beautiful, beautiful selection of everything from shrubs and trees
and roses and vegetables and herbs. If you're looking for succulents,
if you're looking for a house plants. They've got everything
out there, absolutely everything, and a nice selection of all
of it. When you go out there, you're gonna find
plenty of pumpkins. Still, you're gonna find plenty of things

(02:21:07):
for decorating for fall. You're gonna find those things at
bloom and fall. And if your landscape is full of
blooms right now, head out to Enchanted Gardens and take
a look. Say I want to see your fall bloomers,
and you're going to find things like Greg's Missflower, for example,
the blooms in the fall, like Salvier Lekent, the Mexican
bush state, the blooms in the fall, and others and

(02:21:29):
many others. So here's the deal. You put that in
your landscape, so your landscape looks good twelve months out
of the year. Twelve months out of the year. Oh
what about winter? What blooms in winter? Camellias do? And
they've got those at Enchanted Gardens Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
They're north of Richmond. Katie folsher Side FM three point

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fifty nine. Good selection, good expertise, wonderful team, as enthusiastic
as they come. You can take them samples, you can
take them photos. Help you with that. Open Monday through
Saturday eight to five Sunday Tomorrow ten to four pm.
The main thing is just go Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com.

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Let's go out here at the phones now, all right,
Welcome to garden line. Who am I talking to? And
where are you calling from?

Speaker 6 (02:22:21):
Skip?

Speaker 18 (02:22:21):
This is Scott out in fulsher again.

Speaker 2 (02:22:24):
Did you get the email with the pictures? Let me see,
I did not.

Speaker 8 (02:22:36):
Well.

Speaker 18 (02:22:37):
I gotta failure notice on each one of them that
I sent. So I did something wrong on my end.
Is there a way to call back in tomorrow to
check it out and see what it did wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:22:50):
Yes, we're gonna have the same glitch in the system tomorrow.
Let's do this. We're let's try one more time. I'm
going to put you on hold. Am. My producer Nicholas
is going to pick up, and he is going to
say real slow and clear my email address twice for you,
and let's see if that that may be where something
went wrong. Maybe something's not tightened today.

Speaker 18 (02:23:11):
But as asking to ask him to speak a little louder,
I could hardly hearing.

Speaker 2 (02:23:16):
Okay, all right, there a loud, slow and clear two times.
Here it comes. Thanks a lot, appreciate that call for sure.

Speaker 5 (02:23:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:23:25):
Southwest Fertilizer is it's one of my favorite places shop
and I like nursy. I going and seeing you know,
acres of flowers and all that kind of stuff. I
love garden centers, love them. But I'm telling you I
get excited about walking into Southwest Fertilizer too. Every time.
I'm going to walk that whole ninety foot wall of
tools to see what's new, what they got because they

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carried the quality brands, not junk so Felco and Corona Prunters.
For example. Someone earlier called from the valley in Texas
and want to know where to get the kneeling bench
the kneeling seat. Well, they've got those there at Southwest Fertilizer.
Chase can't drive up from the valley to Southwest, although
it might be worth it, but they have those. They

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have my favorite tools. You know, I don't talk about
soil knives very much, but I love Swell knives, one
of my top five tools. Bob's got. I think he
has at least two different kinds of soil knives there.
The spreaders for your fertilizer, for your fire ant bait,
by the way, fall is a time debate for fire
ants too. He's got those at Southwest Fertilizer, and of
course all the brand names of fertilizer quality brands. If

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you're an organic gardener, you're not going to find a
bigger selection of organics anywhere in the greater Houston area
than Bob's got at Southwest Fertilizer. Simple as that, friendly service,
quality products, and unbelievable selection better than anywhere. Corner of
Bissinet and Runwick Southwest Fertilizer. Here's a number seven to
one three six six six one seven four to four

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seven to one three six sixty six one seven four four.
Since I can't who's calling this morning, let's see here,
We're going to go out to the phones. Let's see
who are we speaking to and where you call him from?

(02:25:15):
All right, maybe that was Scott's still holding. I don't know.
Would you check and make sure Scott's got that email
that he needs on there? Well, I was talking about,
you know, Southwest Fertilizer and Chenny Gardens and loving going
to those places. I want to tell you a place
that I love just seeing the work that they do,
and that is Houston Powder Coaders. Now what is powder coating, Well, basically,

(02:25:42):
powder coating is like painting, but different. They bring your
metal objects into this room, and they got a little room,
and they got rooms is big enough to hold a
gooseneck trailer. Okay. They bring them in there and they
electro charge the metal, and then they put a dust
in the air, a powder in the air that is

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attracted to and adheres to and melts onto the surface
of the metal. It is way better than painting. If
you ever tried spray painting, I've done that and I
get these runs, you know, that run down. You can't
avoid that because it's a liquid that you're spraying on.
There doesn't have with Houston powder. With the Houston powder
coats because they're powder coating. You got this nook and cranny.
You can't quite get pain into Houston powder coatters. Can

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You got rust and you're trying to get rid of
your ust, Let them have it. They will take it.
They will get rid of the rust. If you got
bolts and things like maybe you got a glider in
the backyard, a metal lighter you like sitting on that
needs some bolts. Ill put new stainless steel bolts in it.
You have straps, you know, some of our furniture has
slings and straps and more plastic caps and it's a
tubular type of petio furniture. They replace all of that.

(02:26:51):
They make it look like new And here's the best part.
They come and get it. If you hear my voice,
they come and get it. Yeah, but I'm calling from
getting text They come and get it. Yeah but I'm
calling from hunts. They come and get it. They will
come get it, they will bring it home, do it,
bring it back to you top quality. If you want
to get an idea what it would cost to have

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something done, first spot and tell you this. It's going
to be way, way, way cheaper than trying to replace furniture.
Just just send them a picture. Here's how you do it.
Take some pictures, good pictures, send it to by email
to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houstoncoders dot
com and they'll give you a quick quote. You can

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give them a call to eight one six seven six
thirty eight eighty eight to eight one six seven six
thirty eight eighty eight.

Speaker 8 (02:27:43):
But do this.

Speaker 2 (02:27:44):
Look for Houston Powder Coders on Facebook and check that out.
You'll see pictures of what they can do and it'll
give you ideas. Or go to the website Houston Powdercoders
dot com. Hey, the holidays are coming, people going to
be coming on over. Uh, why not turn that petio
furniture into something special. You got no barbecue pit that

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is kind of looking the worst for the wear starting
to rest a little bit. Oh my gosh, they can
do it. And most barbecue pits are black, but you
make it any color you want. In fact, they got
over one hundred colors to choose from. So I want
somebody to get a pink barbecue pit or a green
winter maroon. Send me a picture of it when you

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have them.

Speaker 8 (02:28:27):
Do it?

Speaker 2 (02:28:28):
Be different? Right, be different. Let's take a little break.
We're gonna come back for the last segment of the day.
If you would like to give me a call seven
to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
I got two more spots that I can take in
phone calls. Seven to one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four.

Speaker 6 (02:28:51):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (02:28:51):
Just welcome to garden Line. In the way, Oh what's
today's the twenty days? I will have another show before Halloween. Oh,
I mean I have one tomorrow, but not on Okay,
Well we'll come is that right? Seven? Yep? I miss
it by day? All right, there we go. Well you're
listening to Guardline. We're in our last segment. Here of

(02:29:12):
the day and we're going to go straight out to
the phones here. Uh is this Scott calling me this morning?

Speaker 18 (02:29:20):
Yeah, so that I finally kind of figured out skip.

Speaker 2 (02:29:24):
You did? You did that is Ah. The good news
is I got your photos. The bad news is it's
called dove weed. Dove weed is a very difficult weed
to control.

Speaker 15 (02:29:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:29:36):
It's a late sleeper. In other words, when we put
out our our like barricade in the spring in February,
by the time the dove weed sprouts, that weed control
product has broken down and is no longer controlling weeds
because because dove weed waits to sprout a long time. So, uh,

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if you can get another applic cation down later, you
can try pre emergent wise. But I got to tell
you the research I've seen, most of the products we
have access to in the home market are not good
at preventing doveweed. It's because it's really it's kind of
in between grass and broad leaf in a sense, and

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so it's hard to find a product that works on it. Now,
there are products that your landscape care companies have access to,
they're very expensive to buy the bottle, so for you
to buy it, try to buy it and stuff. It's
a lot. It's just too much to be practical. But

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a landscape care company could come out and use a
product called Spectacle that does work for the doveweed, but
you would just have to talk to a professional company
with licensing and stuff see if they could do that.
Once it is up and growing, celsius is suppressive for
it is suppressive for it, and so you may get

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some benefit from the celsius. But don't use a spreader
sticker on your celsius when it's hot, because when doveweed
starts growing, it's already hot, and so the spreader sticker
in celsius in hot weather is a problem. And without
the spreader sticker, it's hard to get stuff the stick.
So that's the conundrum. That's why I said the bad news.

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As you have dove wheat, what I would do right
now is, and you're not gonna want to hear this,
but the most you can pull up and get rid
of the better because it's full of seeds. Yours has
flowers and seeds all over it. And the more you
pull up, throwing a five gallon bucket and get it
out of there, the better off you are next year.
In terms of fighting it. What is in your control,

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Scott is to not water any more than you have to.
It doesn't mean lechard long get drought stressed. It just
means don't water twice a week. You know, go as
long as you can between waterings, and that helps. We
loves wet conditions, and so if you keep it on
the dry side, it's not going to do as well.

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So that that would be one thing. And then hiring
someone to come in and treat it, or trying the
celsius yourself. But do it as early as you can.
Now that you know what dove weed looks like, you're
going to recognize these little tiny plants that are coming up,
probably sprouting about early April, I would guess most years

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in your area. And when you see him coming up,
if you treat him, then with the celsius you have
a better shot at it.

Speaker 7 (02:32:36):
Skip would.

Speaker 18 (02:32:39):
Oh they pape would that.

Speaker 2 (02:32:46):
They should be able to.

Speaker 6 (02:32:48):
I have not.

Speaker 2 (02:32:49):
I have not asked them that, but it'd be worth
a call. But I tell them that the product you
need for it is called spectacle, like a little Ben
Franklin glass. All right, yeah, okay, well yeah, that's that's
a problem.

Speaker 18 (02:33:05):
Spread, it's it's it's getting around, and it is in areas.

Speaker 7 (02:33:09):
Where when I do and I don't.

Speaker 18 (02:33:11):
I use the Texas A and m UH program, you
know where they tell you how much to water every week,
so I don't over water.

Speaker 7 (02:33:20):
But there are areas where it's you know, and that's
where this stuff tends to be.

Speaker 11 (02:33:24):
So I'll have to have to try to pull out
as much as they can. And like a succulent too.

Speaker 18 (02:33:33):
When you hit it with the green tremor the water
flying everywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:33:39):
Yeah, it is, and it's a it's a problem. Yeah,
that spectacle is a pre emergent that's labeled for Saint Augustine.
But don't do the spectacle early in spring like my
other like on my weed schedule for most weeds, this
one you're going to do, I would probably say very
first of April. I would get it down paper amazed,

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have to reapply it because no product lasts forever out there,
you may have to reapply it.

Speaker 7 (02:34:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:34:05):
There are products products that contain like trimac that contain
two four D are okay on doveweed, but when it
gets hot, they are really hard on your Saint Augustine.
So that's the problem. Is this guy shows up late.
But Celsius is on the on the list of some
of the better products that work on it.

Speaker 18 (02:34:24):
So just just remember I did buy a packet of Celsius.
I did buy a packet of Celsius, and I'm going
to try it on and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (02:34:34):
Well, well, at this stage, going reproductive at the end
of the season, I don't think it will help much.
You can try it. I won't hurt anything, but I
don't think it will help much. And here and the
thing is, you got all those seeds. You know your
picture shows them up close.

Speaker 6 (02:34:50):
And so.

Speaker 2 (02:34:53):
Yeah, all right, sir, Well, sorry to be the bear
of bad news, but thanks for being persistent. At least
we were able to get to your call.

Speaker 11 (02:35:01):
Take care, all right, I'll buy.

Speaker 2 (02:35:05):
Yeah, there's some weeds I just I just hate to
hear about. And of weed is one of them. Basket
grass is another one. Virginia button weed is a tough one.
That's another one difficult to control. But that's that's how
you have to go about it, if you're going to
go about it. All right, Well, Scott mentioned that he
said that texas A and n I don't remember how

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you put it, but that Texas A and M thing
that tells you when the water.

Speaker 4 (02:35:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:35:30):
That is a really really good website and you can
you can use it pretty much anywhere. Not all water
systems subscribe to it. But what it basically is is
there's weather stations that measure the rainfall and the solar
intensity that you know, the sunshine because there's a difference

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in how much water you're using if it's sunny versus
if it's cloudy, for example. It looks at humidity, it
looks at wind speed. It takes all all these things
and it crunches them together into one one result that
tells you when to water. So basically, you say, I
have Saint Augustine, and uh, I need to know when

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to water my lawn, and it says, okay, you live
in for Ben County, We're gonna go find that golf
course out there that we we have the weather station
at that's near your house and they determine. It's called
watermyard dot com watermyard dot com. So you go to
water my yard I'm sorry, not dot com dot org. Sorry,

(02:36:34):
watermyyard dot org and just follow the instructions that are
on there and it's really good. It's the most resource
efficient way to water. Absolutely. Now there's apps for Apple
and apps for Android for it. And again not all
areas we'll have it, but I know right now the Harris, Galveston,

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Fort Benn and Brass Counties all are part of that.
But a lot of the countries. I mean over in
Austin area, you know Cedar Park and and if you
go up to Dallas area, it's a lot of different
areas corporate. Those of you listening in Corpus Christie, there's
some some participation down there, the whole Lower Colorado, Colorado

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River Authority, the Harris Galveston Subsidence District, and so on.
So there's a lot of areas that are listening to
my voice. They can hear it. And if it's not
right in your area, maybe it's close enough to still help. Now,
what it doesn't do is it doesn't tell you necessarily
if it's rained at your house, you got to kind
of figure that out. But you get emails from them,

(02:37:36):
it tells you what to do, makes it real easy
to use. So I would encourage you. That's watermyyard dot org.
Now I know I'm telling you this right when we
go in the winter, we don't need to be water
and hardly at all, if any, but the call sort
of reminded me of that resource watermyard dot org. Why
you're writing down websites, gardening with skip dot com, gardening

(02:37:59):
with check that out, Brenno Mace Hardware, Folks, I'm about
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Bring me baggies full of all kinds of things from
insects and diseases and weeds and you name it. Bring
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(02:38:20):
you have success and have more fun in the process.
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