Unexpected deer visits and advice for fertilizing

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Scamp Richard.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's crazy gas trim.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just watch him as us so many good things to
seep baas.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Gas.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Not a sign credits gas sun beam down between.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, good morning folks. Oh, we are glad to have
you with us this morning, and we're gonna have a
good day talking about plants. Every day is a good
day when you talk about plants. Right, Well, how about
you give us a call if you've got a question
and we will talk about plants. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two k t r H

(00:58):
seven one three two one two kt r H. Now
if I say talk about plants, we can talk about bugs.
We can come out in diseases. That's kind of boring,
isn't it. Oh goodness? And we can talk about weeds,
Yes we can. I was you know this fall I've
been in a number of different appearances out and about,

(01:20):
and it seems like weeds or what everybody wants to
talk about. People show up with a bag full of
plants for ID and they're all weeds. It's okay, I
know weeds are an issue. Just a reminder that fall
aster is blooming in our LUNs now, and if you
have it, you'll know it. And here's how you know it.
The weed is very blue green, dark blue green, so

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it really stands out, especially if you're a grass is struggling.
And it has little tiny daisy like flowers with a
lot of skinny little petals, way more petals than a
daisy would. But these things are about dime size and
they're all over the place. And there's one thing you
do right now for it is hand pull it. I
know you didn't want to hear that. Make sure the

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soil is wet so it comes out easily and doesn't
break off. All you got to do is give it
an irrigation and grab it at the very base. It
may be a weed the size of the steerwheel in
your car in terms of width, flat as a pancake
because you've been mowing the lawn and it goes horizontally
really easily, and you just grab it where it comes
out of the ground and find that spot. Wiggle a

(02:24):
little bit and it comes straight up out of the ground.
Get it out of there before it's at seeds. However,
flower is gonna have about fifty seeds in itever and
the plant can have just dozens and dozens and dozens
of flowers, and so you got to get it out.
Don't try to spray it. You're not going to kill
it with a spray. Now that it is, as we say,
gone reproductive, meaning it's blooming and setting seeds in general,

(02:48):
post emergent broadly, if we control does not do a
good job after those weeds have gone reproductive. Okay, so
just keep that in mind. Now's the time to get
that hand pulled. And it is called fall aster. It's
been there all well almost all year. It's sprouted when
the weather warmed up and been kind of hiding from you.

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In a they can lot of it'll get like knee high,
well higher than knee high, but in our lawns it
just goes sideways and does a good job of it's
a survivor. Well, you are listening to the garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is
seven to one three two one two k t r H. Now,
in the fall, we have three things that we are

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focusing on in our lawns, and that is our fall fertilization. Secondly,
dealing with the weeds that are going to be germinating,
for next spring's big appearance that they'll germinate. Now, sit
there all winter, and then in spring they take off
growing bloom set seeds. And the best way to note

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to think about that is our blue bonnet, our beloved
state flower, the blue bonnet. It sprouts in the fall,
get a little bit of coal front, a little bit
of water, little rain from it, and hear that thing
comes up, but you don't see it almost all winter.
It's there, but it's tiny, and then it takes off growing.
That's what our winter weeds do, So now is it
time to prevent them. Third thing is dealing with the

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upcoming disease infections, which are large patch or brown patch,
big circles in the lawn and take all root rot.
Nitrofos has set us up to take care of all
three with what they call the Texas three step. It's
a good name for it. You just dance across the
lawn with the fertilizer, which is the fall special, the barricade,

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which is the prevention of weeds. It prevents weeds when
they try to sprout, It kills them before they get
up and establish. And then third the nitrophoss eagle turf
fungeicides a systemic protectant. Now the fertilizer is time to
get it down. The sooner you get it down, the
more good it can do. Because as it gets cold
that grass come quit growing and the fertilizer isn't as

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helpful as it would be right now, so get it
done now, out especially now, get the barricade down. Now,
watered in about half inch of water. Move it into
the soil. That is required for it to work. You
gotta watered in. Third, get the Eagle turf fungicide down
now it also it's okay to water after that. You
don't have to water after the Eagle Turf fungicide, but

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if you do, it moves into the soil and it's
taken up by the roots as well as the top
parts of the plant. So three steps fall special wind riser,
the night frost barricade and the Eagle Turf fungicide. You
can find this at Court Hardware down at Stafford Katie
A s hardburre Kase it as does plants and things
out in Brenham And for those of you up in Willis,
just head over to Growers Outlet and you'll find it there.

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We're going to head to the phones now and talk
to JJ. Hello, JJ, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Ground and got plenty of plants, pot plants right above
the ground. Do I have to ground that?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'm sorry, JJ, I lost the first part of which
she said, could you repeat it for me? Please?

Speaker 5 (06:03):
I raised plants in pots and they're elevated above the ground.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Do I have to ground them?

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Plants?

Speaker 4 (06:12):
I've had a friend to me, then.

Speaker 7 (06:13):
I have to ground it.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Absolutely not. Across the country, people grow plants in pots
on tables. Soken. I need you to turn that radio off.
But no, you can. You can just grow them. You
can set them wherever you want to set them and
grow them there. Okay, all right, I believe we took

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care of that. Let's now head out to Parlant and
talk to Kay.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Okay, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 8 (06:42):
Hi, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. Yes,
I just have a question. I have a great big
crpe myrtle in my backyard and it keeps putting up,
you know, the suckers keep coming up and I keep
cutting and cutting. Is there any way to stop them?

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Temporary number number one? Yeah, what you need to do,
okas you need to cut them off as close to
the trunk as you can. Don't leave little stubs that
just leaves more buds to come out, So off as
close as you can and then spray it there is.
There are various sprays that have the word sucker in
the name, like sucker stopper. That is an example of one.

Speaker 9 (07:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
And you spray that. It's a hormone and it tells
the plant not to grow a shoot right there. Now.
It's not permanent, it's not like it lasts forever. But
if you when you make your cuts, go ahead and
spray that cut surface and it works pretty good.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
Okay, okay, Well I was afraid the spray anything, you know,
I didn't want it to damage the other plant. But
thank you, yes, I will do that. You bet have
a great day.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Bye bye you too. Thank you appreciate your call. All right,
time for me to take a little break. We'll be
right back, folks. Seven one three two one two kat
r H. All right, folks, good to be back. Let's
keep going here on garden line. If you'd like to
give us a call. Seven to one three two one
two five eight seven four are KTRH seven one three

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two one two KTRH last Saturday, I was out at
Nature's Way Resources and thanks to Ian John for having
me out. It was great. They had their fall festival.
We had a really good time, and I just wanted
to remind you their Fungal Friday sale is still on.
That's twenty percent off their fungal compost. Fungal compost can

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also be used for top dressing or you can put
it down in your soil. It's an outstanding product, works
very well on any kind of plants. So Friday's the
time to get out there and get you a great
deal twenty percent off on the fungal compost. Of course,
it's a good time all the time to be out
at Nature's Way. You know, their mix of products is

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just amazing. I mean they have they have blends. Let
me just give you an example. They have bent blends
for your blueberry growing. You know, they have a little
more acid living place. They got the cactus and desert mix.
Of course, they got quality potting soil, rose soil mixes
for gardens and flower beds, just general landscaping kinds of mixes,
all kinds of different mulches. I mean I could just

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go all day talking about their products and a lot
of the products we talk about here in the Greater
Houston area, like leaf mold, composed rose soil, they were
born at Nature's Way, so they've been doing this a
long time. Right now, they've got a really good sale
in the nursery and they have a lot of great
native plants too, by the way. They have fruit trees,
they have houseplanted shrubs, all kinds of things. But now

(09:34):
through December first fifty percent off their nursery plants. So
I don't know you're going to ever find a better
sale than that fifty percent off their nursery plants. At
Nature's Way Resources and Nature's Way Resources on Sherbrook Circle,
you go north on forty five where fourteen eighty eight
comes in from the left from Magnolia. You turn right

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across the railroad tracks and make another right and you're there, easy,
easy to get to and lots of good quality things.
I was out about in the countryside the other day
and was in Anti Rosing for him, and I love
going there and you will too if you haven't been there.
Those of you who have know what I'm talking about.

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Anti Rosingporium is just a wonderful destination for gardeners, and
I would say, if you're gonna make that little trip
out to Independence, Texas and it's not far, I mean,
it's a very nice little outing, be a good thing
to do today or tomorrow afternoon. Even antique rose Emporium
is it's like a wonderland. So take some friends with
you and just enjoy walking around. It looks great. They

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are loaded. They're overflowing actually for fall. Of course they
got roses and roses and then have some more roses.
Everything you do you want a shrub large? Do you
want a small shrub? Do you want one that's almost thornless?
Do you want a climber? Do you want a climber
that repeat blooms? Do you want one suitable for a container?
What color do you want? What fragrance? Do you see

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what I'm talking about? Anti rosing? For him? Now they're
gearing up for their fall Festival of Roses, and you
need to write this down. By the way, I always
listen to garden Line with a pen or paper in hand,
because I was giving you stuff like this. You need
to write down Fall Festival of Roses November one, two
and three. The first day is a ticketed garden party.

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That's Friday, November first, and then Saturday and Sunday are
free and open to the public. They're going to have
speakers like Rosarian by the way, Chris Weisinger, the Bulb Hunter,
is going to be there, Mike's Rent from micro Life
will be there, Henry Flowers, doctor Stephen George with the
earth Kind program from up in the Dallas area. Doctor
George is a hoot. In fact, I'm going to say

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he's Toot's good friend of mine and you will. You
will be rolling listening to that character talk. He is
really good. They're going to have an artist in market
and food trucks and plants of all types. Of course,
they got the gift items and of certainly of course roses.
When you go to Antique Rosenpium, tell them I sent you.
You got to listen to this part. Tell them I

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sent you. Get ten percent off at discount even if
you go order online. When you order online in our
coupon codes skip twenty twenty four skip twenty twenty four.
Antique roses. Of course they're roses, but there's so much more.
You can give them a call at ninety seventy nine
eight three six fifty five forty eight, or do this.

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Just go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. There you can
find out everything that's going on, all the plants that
they have, and Antique Roseemporium dot com will get you
all set up. Four roses and a lot more. And
they really do have a lot more, some really nice
herbs and vegetables and other things right now out there. Well,

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we are in the big middle of fall according to
the calendar. And remember, don't look at the thermometer, look
at the calendar. That's what's important when it comes to
our fall gardening. For example, if you wait until it
cools off and we get a cold front and some
rain to put out your pre emergency may be a
little late doing that. If you wait put out your fertilizer,

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well it'll be there in the ground, but the plant
roots won't be as active as they were when it
was a little warmer warmer like now. Ace Hardware has
got all of those things that you keep hearing me
talk about, like your fall fertilization from all the different
companies organic and synthetic. At Ace Hardware, they've got things

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like the barricade. They've got things like the Eagle, which
is the fungicide for a brown patch and take all
root right as well. They've got the fire ant control
and it is still time to do that. Knock those
fire ants out now with a bait. And there's several
reasons to use a bait. Number one, it gets all
the mounds, even the ones you don't see. Okay, a
mound treatment, you're just playing whack them mole with the bait.

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You get them all. ACE Hardware has several different brands
of bait including come and Get It. Most aces I've
been in as i've looked, have got to come and
get It, which is an organic mate for Finrance if
you want to go that route. And when you're in ACE,
you're gonna find seasonally everything you need. They're fixing the
load up here and get us ready for the holiday

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season with lights and things. I'll tell you more about
that later, but that's just like ACE. They're always on
top of things and always everything you need. I was
in there the other day needing some plumbing parts for
some plumbing that I was doing, and just you know,
it makes it easy because you go to ACE and
you know they have it. That's why they say ACE
is the place there's forty ACE stores in the Greater

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Houston area. You can go to ACE Hardware dot Com
find the store near you, and you're all set up.
So get in there and get it all done. Get
your fertilizers, any kind of weed controlling, kind of disease control,
pass control, and all the tools you need, everything else
you need to have a beautiful, beautiful place. And ACE
is the place for a beautiful place. We are listening

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to garden Line and our phone number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. One of my
daughters was out an antique rosenporium just a whole about
a week or so ago, picking up some roses for
their place they have just moved into, and I recently

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moved into a new place for them, and uh, they
just are getting it fixed up so nice. And one
of the things they wanted to get done with some roses,
well that's they got them fixed up out there at
the antique rosing porium, which is no surprise, beautiful stuff.
They bought some gorgeous some climbers and shrub roses that

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have unbelievable fragrance out there. We talk about issues with
trees a lot, you know, I say on guard line,
and we used to say this, and we do say
this in the Agrlife Extension office around the state. Three
things that make the phone ring are the three t's, trees, turf,
and tomatoes. Tomato and the vegetable garden number one question

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by far. In fact, I should have added them up
over the years. I would almost say that probably thirty
percent at least twenty five percent of all questions coming
in on vegetables or about tomatoes. But the two big
ones really are trees and turf. You gotta take care
of your trees are the most valuable part of your landscape.
And Affordable Tree Service is the place to call someone

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ask me this week. You know, hey, what I was
driving and I heard you talk about Martin Spoon Moore
an affordable tree and I didn't write it. I couldn't
write it down. All right, we'll allow it. If you're driving.
We don't want to want you to have a wreck.
Just send them the number seven one three six nine
two six sixty three seven to one three six nine
nine twenty six sixty three. Here's the website for those

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of you who like to go about that direction. Aff
tree Service dot com, a f ftree service dot com.
Martinal Prune. He does deep root feeding, he checks your
trees overall health. You're gonna do any kind of thing
like you know, trenching or doing something around the tree's
root system, you got to call Martin first to come
out because once the damage is done, you know, if

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you do it and then the tree is not looking good, well,
I mean, you know, he doesn't have magic potions. He
does good job. He's not miracle work, all right, So
don't wait until after you've done the damage. Call him
before so he can help you avoid that so important. Uh,
you got to get him booked though it is we're
in the big middle of tree middle where at the

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beginning of the tree prime pruning season it'll go all
the way through the end of winter. And he stays busy.
So you got to call him and book him to
come out, get him a you know, it doesn't matter
if he comes out in February or whatever. Just book
him now to get that done. And the number again
seven one three six two six six three. I in

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my garden and yard I was I was out. We're
fixing the put in a patio. I've got an area
that I've prepared a while back and just kind of
got away from the project doing some other things. But
I've got some crushed road based top materials down. I'm
fixing to put a flat stone patio in in the
backyard and uh, you know, just a dry not cement

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today in or anything. Our soil moves too much for
for cemount without lots of extra efforts.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Anyway, so we're gonna get that out. And I was
just getting all that set up doing some other things.
I've still got some nuts edge popping up here and there.

Speaker 10 (18:43):
You know.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I I've got a publication online about how to control it,
and what I tell you online works. It does work
if you follow my instructions online at gardening with Skip
dot com.

Speaker 11 (18:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
The publication up there is called nutsedge and in Depth.
But anyway, and so I had some coming up and
one of my fine textured zoysias nuts edge shows up
like a Neon sign in that find texture zus. And
I was just doing the wiper, the product that you
need to do for it. Had some coming up still
in a flower bed. I had a flower bed that
was loaded in nuts edge and it's down to probably

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oh less than a tenth of the nuts edge that
it had, and it will never get a chance to
come up and have sunlight. I will win, and I
am winning just staying on it. But that means I'm
practicing what I preach. If you want to beat nut's edge,
you cannot let it come up for air. In other words,
it comes up, and you let it sit there for

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three weeks capturing sunlight. And it's just you're increasing the
problem when you do that, You're going backwards. It's not
just one plant. That one plan is making daughters, and
those daughters are making daughters, and that's how it becomes
a problem. So stay with it. Well, enough of the
nuts sete lecture. Let's go to Janet Important Natures. Hey, Jenet,

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welcome to gardenline.

Speaker 11 (20:06):
Hey, good morning. I was wondering how deep how deep
you plant tulip bobs?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
How deep you plant.

Speaker 12 (20:18):
Uh huh tulip bombs.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Tulips four times three to four times the width of
the bulb deep?

Speaker 11 (20:26):
Okay, okay, okay, all right, sure, thank you, okay, all.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Right, Janet, you take care, Thank you having the call.
All right now, I havn one three two one two
k t r H. If you'd like to give me
a call listen. If you are planning on doing your
fall fertilization, do not delay. Now's the time to get
it done. And Microlife has an excellent fertilizer. It's called

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brown Patch, and it sounds like it'll be a fungicide
to kill diseases. Well, what it really is. It's a
nutrient pack fertilizer designed for fall that is also packed
with microbes. And when you get good microbes out there,
there are many species of microbes that help fight bad microbes.
That's kind of how nature works. And the sixty three

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different beneficial microbe strains in another product that I like
to put down with the brown Patch, and that's MicroB
Grow Bioanoculent. So here's here's here's how it works. You
put on the Microlife brown Patch, follow the label, put
it down the bag, put it on the proper rate,
and then I would suggest you get also the Microbe

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Grow bio Andoculent. It only is it only takes about
five to ten pounds per thousand square feet. This isn't
a fertilizer. It is just loaded with sixty three different
strains of beneficial micro organism. You put those two down,
you watermen really good, and you have provided a lot
of additional microbes just splashing up there on the plant

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surfaces and everything else as you irrigated in or as
it rains. And that's your fall fertilization. And that is
the double package from the folks at Microlife for your
fall lawn care. And it's important to get that done soon,
very soon, don't alive. I'd say this weekend would be
the time to get it done. Those organic materials are

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going to decompose as microbes get a hold of them
and break them down, and that's what they do. They
release the nutrients. That's what happens to the leaves that
fall on the forest floor. Microbes turn them into plant
food and so Microlife if you want more information, Microlifefertilizer
dot com is where you can find out where you
can buy it, which I already save you some time
and tell you everywhere pretty much everywhere I see that

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stuff A feed stores and garden centers, ace hardware stores,
the Southwest fertilizer, lots of lots of places. Let's go
to friends with now, and we're going to visit with Marcus.
Hey Marcus, Welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Good morning, morning morning.

Speaker 13 (23:03):
I got about five foot crate myrtles in my front yard.
I got two of them, and they've always blossom from
the top and they're really nice and thirty. After the
freeze a couple of years ago, they kind of start
growing from the bottom or in the middle, and they
stop growing from the top. How would I change that?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, well, it's because the freeze knocked it out. The
freeze came when they weren't ready. You know, plants harden off,
they get ready for winter, and we had a December
freeze that hit them and they were not ready. And
I've seen crate myrtles killed all the way to the
ground and then they're re sprouting. So you just got

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to print out all that dead top growth. Now if
it's if it's really a mess and it's ugly, you
can take some of the shoots at the bottom and
reform your tree out of that or your bush out
of that. Meaning you're going to cut all of them
away except for maybe three or four and then reform

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the tree by pruning those into the shape of a
tree as it grows. If it's not that bad, and
you've got some parts above ground that still look good.
Then you just need to cut the dead back to
where there's healthy wood. But you kind of need to
look at them carefully. You may walk around them and
see a trunk or a branch that has major sunken

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areas where it's like part of it is alive, but
part of it is dead, And that probably needs to
come out.

Speaker 13 (24:31):
Right because I know it is it growing like in
the middle. They got branches popping out in the middle,
but there's not there's notting on the top. So if
I cut it down where they start growing, then it's
gonna look like a shrub. And the Hoa's already sent
me a letter saying cut your shrubs. And I'm like,
they're not shrubs, they're great myrtles.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
And so what you're gonna do, yeah, Marcus, So what
you're gonna do is if you want to leave, if
you want to cut them back to where in the
middle they're sprouting out, you got to cut out everything
but maybe a couple of branches on each of those
stalks in the middle, because you know, crape myrtle comes
out of the ground and although there are single trunk

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forms usually they have about three trunks, and then those
three trunks fork, each of them becomes two, and then
each of those two comes two more. And so you're
gonna go back and like you got a trunk, and
at midway up it's just got all these sprouts coming out,
you know, cut it down to two sprouts there and
cut the top out, and that's gonna be gonna be

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pretty hacked up looking. So I can't see your myrtle
to you know, tell you go right here and make
this cut. Some people have just gone to the bottom,
cut them out there and then chosen three more trunks
to come back with and then pruned into a beautiful
shape those three. Let them come up and branch, and
then let the branches come up and branch. But depending

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on how serious the cold image is, that's your approach.
Just think about a beautiful look at the most beautiful
grant murder you've ever seen, and look at how the
branches form on that. And that's how you're going to
prim this to be all right, A lot of shrubby,
a lot of shrubby stuff is gonna have to come out.
I wouldn't do it now though, that would just spur

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new growth and if we have another December freeze, then
it's really in trouble. From that, Wait until we get
into egoes fully.

Speaker 14 (26:25):
Dormant, Okay, which will be when?

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Hell, we'll see depends on the weather.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
You know I've been. I've been down in your area,
your south of Houston.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
It could be January. It just depends on the weather
we have. But I would do the printing if I
if you can wait that long in the HOA will
wait that long. I would do it probably in oh,
mid January, something like that would be a good time.

Speaker 14 (26:52):
All right, sir, sounds great, Thank you, thanks.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
For the call. Appreciate that. Hey, I'm going to be
in a chanted forest and chanted forest down to Richmond today.
I will be there today from eleven thirty to one thirty.
Actually I could probably get there about eleven forty five,
but anyway, come on out. I've got a little bit
of a road to get there today. But about eleven
forty five ish to one thirty one forty five, I'll

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be there doing Q and A giving out Medina products.
Medina's provided a bunch of free giveaways for us if
you can get there at ten o'clock. Debbie Ping's one
of the staff members there in Channed Forest is going
to be doing a program on shade plants, and she's
just really good at plants that put up with low
low light. And you just want to go hear her

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and then stick around shop a little bit and I'll
show up. Well, they've got a channed forest. They've got
fall veggies and color, oh galore. It's everywhere if you
need herbs or vegetables or just annual plant perennial plants.
They also have got great shipments of shrubs and trees,
including red buds and holly's, maples, oaks, magnolias. They even

(28:03):
have a good shipment of fruit trees. Then, and you
know our pollinators and Chennifors really specializes in plants that
attract butterflies and the various pollinators that we have. And
the days are getting short and those pollinators are looking
for things to eat, our things to feed on, and
so you just really hard to beat the natives. Salvia's

(28:23):
and antanas or excellent choices for those as well. When
you walk in two enchanted for us, you just go
up and talk to one of the folks there. They
know what they're talking about. They can point you to
plants that'll do well. And if you'll come today June
about eleven, let's say eleven forty five. I'll be a
little conservative there. I make it there earlier, but eleven
forty five and about one forty five, I'll be there

(28:45):
answering your questions and I can point you in the
direction of some of those planets. You can bring me
some samples and bags too, by the way, I'll be
happy to help with those. All right, Well, here we
are on another break. I got to run for that.
Michael and Humble, you be our first up when I
come back. Welcome back to Garden Line, folks. Good to
have you with us as always, if you'd like to

(29:06):
give me a call seven to one three two one
two ktr eight. Simple as that. You know, fall is
the season to get things planted, especially the most important
of all the great things we should plant in the fall,
or the trees and shrubs, the woody ornamentals. And the
reason is you need time for those root systems to
establish before next summer when it will be blazing hot

(29:29):
and dry when next summer arrives. So now's the time
to get them planted. I would say don't plant a
tree without grabbing a three sixty tree stabilizer. Rather than
getting the wires out and cutting wires and hitting stakes
in the ground and you know, finding pieces of garden
hose to go around the tree so you don't cut
into it with a wire. Just get a three state

(29:50):
three sixty tree stabilizer. You can just put a post
in the ground. Simplest thing would just be to get
a tea post. The stabilizer has an attachment where you
it attaches to the te post and it holds it.
If you've got a larger tree, you want to go
one kind of north south, one kind of east west,
so you're holding it from both directions that way, no
matter way which way the wind blows, it's got it

(30:10):
well stabilized. You can find these things. They last forever too,
and they hold the tree with a little slack so
it can move just a little, which is important on
it getting well established and having a good strong trunk.
You don't want to just honker it down where you
can't move it. All three sixty tree stabilizers designed to
do that. You can get them at RCW Nursery. You

(30:30):
can get them at Buchanan's Native Plants way downs out
in Alvin Jorges Head and Gardens. They have them there.
Over at the Arborgate in Tomball Plants for All Seasons
has got them on two forty nine and now south
Well Southwest Fertilizer has them shooting. I mentioned that one
and now the new place is cnmlch Ciena Malts is
now carrying the three sixty tree stabilizer. I'm going to

(30:54):
head now to Humble and we're going to talk to Michael. Hello, Michael,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (31:00):
Yes, sir, the quick question here is is that I
purchased a Sam Houston peach tree in the spring and
I in the pot, you know, and the whole purpose
was to do this, it said so I had won
the year before and when the winter came it.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
Didn't make it.

Speaker 15 (31:19):
So I've transplanted this peach tree into a bigger pot
since then and it's doing well.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
It's about seven or eight feet.

Speaker 15 (31:28):
Tall by now, and I'm wondering when would be a
good time to put it in the ground, and then
of course after winter, because I was just going to
move it into the garage when it starts dropping, you
know where it doesn't do so well.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, you know, Michael, the best time would just be
go ahead and get it done. Sam Houston peach peaches
in general, they can take our winners just fine. And
if you planted it now, you would be able to
give it more time to get roots established for next
summer coming. They peaches don't like being in pots. And

(32:07):
in fact, if you had it outside, if you want
to wait until the leaves fall off, you can do
that and then plant it. But I would get it
done before winner if I were you, and take it
out of the pot. How big how big across the
top of the pot is it? I mean we're talking
about something the size of the steering wheel in your
car or something bigger or smaller.

Speaker 15 (32:27):
Well, the pot itself at the top is probably, oh,
I don't know, twelve eighteen inches wide. Yeah, it's probably
eighteen inches when.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
You put it in the ground, and you're gonna see
some roots going around the outside. And this is going
to be hard to do, but I need you to
get a box cutter, knife or printers and go vertically
through the outside of that root ball and cut the
roots from top to bottom on the outside that are
making a circle. They will branch underground then and it'll
establish better in the long run. So if you want

(32:59):
to wait until the cooler, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 15 (33:04):
As opposed to taking it out of the pots, is just.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
You know, no, you're planting. No, you're planning in the ground.
So when when it comes out of the pot and
you're about to put it in the ground, don't put
it in the ground with roots going in circles. Cut
those roots because everywhere you cut them, they'll they'll branch
and fork out and go into the soil around the plant.

Speaker 15 (33:27):
Okay, okay, all right, I understand, okay, all right, yeah,
And I usually use the fertilizer that that's meant for
you know, fruit trees.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Well for for this, don't don't don't put fertilizer in
the planning hole. Just put in the ground and next spring,
when it starts to grow, then start with that fertilizer
for fruit trees.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
Okay, okay, thank you, sir.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I appreciate it, you bet, thank you for the call.
Appreciate that we we were talking, you know about the
importance of soil. I always say brown stuff before green stuff,
brown stuff before green stuff. Heirloom soils has a really
good deal going, right, now I mean and you need
to hear this. They have a brand new one cubic

(34:12):
yard supersack. Now this is they're branded with the Heirloom
Soils and Warrens Rock and multch So this is a
very limited time deal. So you need you need to
hear me on this. You you get one cubic yard
of aged leaf mold composts. Be perfect for top dressing
your yard. You can use leaving More compost for anything,

(34:35):
mixing it in the soil. Plants love it. But you
get that plus the supersack itself for only ninety nine dollars.
That's a seventy five percent savings per sack now age
leaf More compost. That is a that is a souper
high quality, very special product. And you get the sack
and the compost for ninety nine dollars and that's only

(34:58):
good through October twenty six, next Saturday, So you need
to act on it now. But now's the time you
need to be doing top dressing on your lawn. And
here you go. You get the supersack and everything for
that price. Now perfect for gardening, perfect for landscaping too.
You got to go out to the porter yard if
you want you can pick it up there. I mean,
they will deliver it, but you got to get three

(35:18):
sacks minimum for delivery. You know, they can't drive one
sack all the way across town or something like that.
That would be very cost prohibited. But if you get three,
they'll deliver it. Are you can just take your little
truck or your trailer out there. It is on Highway
fifty nine in Porter, Texas And all you have to
do is go to rock N maulch r O c

(35:41):
K the letter N and then mulch rock the letter
in and maultch all one word dot com rockinmultch dot com.
If you do slash delivery on the end. You can
book your order there or here's a phone number. Why
don't we do it this way? Two eight one three
five four nineteen five fifty two eight one three five

(36:02):
four one nine five zero. They're open from seven am
to three pm two day. They're closed tomorrow and during
the week Monday through Friday, seven am to four pm. Again.
This is a special deal, the one yard Cuber super Sack.
You get the sack and the age leaf mol compos
one qbic yard of it for ninety nine bucks. Boy

(36:25):
Bear jump on that one. We're going to go now
to Meadows Place and talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome
to garden line.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Hello Skiff, thank you.

Speaker 13 (36:36):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Saint Augustine Yard, been following your schedule. Everything was looking good.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
I was watering once a week with a with a
good soap. The grass in the front yard. The blades
are turning brown. It's not it's not take all or
round patch. And I started with the barricade and the
eagle fund you side got that down and was going

(37:06):
to apply the fertilizer today. Question with adding with adding
bug out max and as amite help this time of
the year. Are is that a waste of money? Now?
And wait till the spring.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
There there is no pest to put the bug out
for now. There's no reason to put bug out now.
None of the lawn pests are active now. But the asmite.
You know, anytime, if you haven't done it in the
past year, I would go ahead and do the asamite.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Also, I did it last fall. Was the last time
I used it?

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah, well you can do it again now. You can
do it again now, you know, in the absence of
a soil test to see what exactly you needed. There's
nothing wrong going ahead and doing that again now. But
as far as the browning, I think you're fertilizing a
little bit of water is gonna is gonna help out.
Just make sure and use a fall fertilizer.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
You know, not right, I've got that ready to go
in summer.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
All right, i'd like you're ready to go.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
I appreciate the information. Have a great day, Jim.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Thanks good luck with getting that lawn in top top shape.
Plants for All Seasons is at really just north of
Luetta on Highway two forty nine, Tomball Parkway, just north
of Luetta right there on two forty nine. The website
is Plants for All Seasons dot com. Here's the phone
number two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six

(38:28):
two eight one three seven six one six four six.
This family operated business. Will you you heard me talk
about them. You go in there and any question you have,
they're going to build an trick. Go in there, and
any plant that you need that grows here, they're gonna
point you to it. They're going to tell you how
to take care of it. And I mean, if you
want to go in there, maybe there's plenty you didn't
buy from them. Just go in there and ask them

(38:50):
a question about it and they'll help you. And they
may they may tell you, well, here, here's one of
the problems. Is you need this product or that plant.
Here's a plant to replace it with a maybe not.
They've got all the stuff you hear me talk about
when it comes to fall fertilizing and weed prevention and
all of that plans for all seasons. Been doing this

(39:10):
since nineteen seventy three. And it's because they know what
they're doing. Let's take care of their customer. I'm gonna
take a little break here, Mike and Surfside. You will
be first when we come back.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
R H Garden Line with scared Rickards.

Speaker 14 (39:36):
Just watching.

Speaker 16 (39:37):
Alrighty folks, let's just jump right in here and get
going on this next hour on Garden Line.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
We're glad you're listening this morning. And if you are
one of the people that are shy and don't like
to call in, or maybe I don't know, just never
have why not call in today? Like to talk to
you our phone number seven one three two to one
two kt r H seven one three two one two
kat r H. For those of you down in league

(40:09):
City and all of the surrounding communities. I want to
tell you about your hometown feed store. I'm talking about
League City Feed now, oh coming to Reale, Clare, Lake City, Baycliff, Webster, Lamark,
San Leone, Dickinson, Santa Fe, all of those communities, that
whole region down there. This is your feed store now.
They are open from Monday through Saturday from nine to six.

(40:31):
Closed on Sunday. They'll be closed tomorrow, but today Monday
through Saturday nine to six, So you can swing by
after work during the week or today, it'd be a
good time to go buy. When you get there, you're
going to find your fall fertilizers that I keep telling
you about. You're going to find things to control pests
and weeds and diseases. Do you need to get out
there and get a premergant down or something They can
get you fixed up at League City Feed. You know,

(40:53):
the Thunderbergs have been running this store since it's been
over forty years ago that the store was originally built.
And when you go in there, you get the old
fashioned service. They carry the bags out for you. You know
it's you. It's that traditional feed store. Maybe I don't
know maybe you grew up and your parents or somebody,
grandpa or something took you to a feed store. That's
that feel that that is just a night I love.

(41:15):
I love going in feed stores. I love the everything
from just the aroma of a feed store. I just
I just think that's cool stuff. Well, this this is
that kind league city feed. They take care of you.
They got the products you need. What more do you want?
If you want to give them a call to eight
one three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three
three two one six one two. We're going to go

(41:38):
now to surf side and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Hey, thanks Skip, I you got a question for you.
I've got some gorgeous eggplant bushes loaded down with blooms,
but the fruit's not setting. I'm curious to see, you know,
being being the time of the year, going in the fall,
should I just go ahead and pull these plants up
and go in with my fall crop? You know, the spinach,
the kale, turn ups, mustard. What do you think? You know?

Speaker 2 (42:11):
It's it's a tough call. We're getting late enough now
to wear for even if fruits sat today for them
to reach a stage harvestable stage is kind of iffy
because if we get some cooler weather in here, it's
going to slow them down, and then they slow down
to the point essentially not moving along at all. I

(42:31):
don't know. If they were mine and they had a
few fruit on some, I may leave one and you know,
then try to plant the rest sort of head your bet,
or you could just pull them out and move on.
It's time to come the other stuff in? Yeah, what
has happened to the other stuff in?

Speaker 7 (42:46):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (42:47):
They went under salt water? You know when we had
the most recent hurricane, and they were under smalt water
for I don't know three or four days, lost all
their leaves, and I figured they were dead. What do
you know, they start They just turned up to be
beautiful plants. My okre did the same thing, lost all
the leaves. I thought they were gonners. I've got more
ocre than I've ever had right right.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Now, So we'll good, good, good for you.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
I don't know the salt water helped them out or not,
but it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Well appreciate something, right, all right. We'll take care and
have have fun. Have fun in the garden there, Mike,
all right, bye bye. That's that's funny. You know, plants
sometimes surprise you.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
You know, there's a natural instinct in plants when not
not every plant all the time, but basically when a
plant is about to die, for example, it will often
set more fruit than normal. I've seen that with peaches.
You know, where a peach tree is struggling, going down,
and all of a sudden, it just sets a lot
of fruit. It's almost like a survival thing. Got to

(43:48):
keep the species going. You know, We've got to get
a lot of seeds out there because I'm about to croak.
I don't know exactly what the plant's thinking, but I'll
tell you that that is not unusual to see. I
was talking about, but plants fall seasons. A little bit
before we went to that last break, and I forgot
to tell you this. They've got some beautiful fall bulbs,

(44:11):
like the amarillas bulbs you know, have the beautiful giant
trumpets on them. You can plant them in the garden.
You can use them for forcing or something. They've got those,
They got the paper whites in that are looking good.
And they also have got a stock of strawberries and
they got some in a couple of weeks ago that
are just beautiful little plants. Now's the time to get
your strawberries planet. So if you thought about putting in,

(44:32):
you know a few strawberries in the garden, or you
can put them in as long as you got a
sunny flower bed, you can plant them in there if
you want. Strawberries planted in the fall are the best
because by the time we get past this brunt of
the winter, they'll be producing and carry you all the
way into May. So plunch fall season's got you set
up on those as well. Nitrofoss has their three step

(44:55):
program and the three steps are fertilizer, weed prevention and
disease prevention. Fertilizer weed prevention, disease prevention. If you're going
to do those processes any or all, now is the
time you have to get it done. And here's why.

(45:15):
Fertilizer is the Nitrofoss Fall Special designed for fall. It's
got the balance of nutrients. It's on my schedule. It's
on my schedule if you go to gardening with Skip
dot com. It's got that blend of nutrients that helps
a plant go into fall, produce the carbohydrates to have
more cold heartiness, and to come out stronger in the spring.

(45:37):
It also that part of the three step program is
the barricade. That's a weed pre emergent. I use the
baseball analogy because it works for me, maybe it makes
sense to you. That is that if you're going to
hit a baseball, you got to start swinging before the
ball gets the plate. And when the picture let's go
of the ball pretty quick, then your bat better start

(45:58):
moving the pictures thrown the ball. When it comes to weeds,
when we get a call front and little rain, those
weed seeds are going to come up. The fall weed
seeds that's clover and hand bit and chickweed and cleavers
and carpet weed and just a bunch of them that
we see in the spring. Okay, they're sprouting. Now you've
got to get the pre emergent barricade down before they sprout.

(46:20):
Put it down, watered in a half inch of water.
There you go. Third step disease prevention. Brown patch is coming.
It will arrive. Some yards have it real bad, some
yards don't have it. There's a variation in that. But
fall is when you see the big brown circles, and
if you're going to prevent them, you got to get
ahead of time, right, That's called prevention. Once the brown

(46:41):
circles appear, they're gonna stay brown no matter what you
spray on them, because they've already killed the grass blades.
AND's wait until it warms up to regrain. So get
it down now. Not fruss eagle turf fung just side
now one two three fall special barricade eagle turf fung aside.
Those are the three steps. You can get it at
Bear Bearing's Hardware, the one on Best and on West Teimer,

(47:01):
all spa Ace in the Woodlands Lake Hardware and Angleton
and in Lake Jackson, and you can find them at
RCW Nursery as well. Folks, Time for a break. I'll
be right back list today if you'd like to give
us a call. Seven one three two one two k
t r H seven one three two one two k
t r H A simple as that. Well, let's see

(47:25):
here I wanted to I wanted to talk a little
bit about RCW Nursery as we get going in in
this next segment. R CW is the garden center that
is where Hiway two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into
belt wag eight. RCW nursery is always a place to
go to get whatever you need, Like right now, do

(47:48):
you need fall vegetables? Do you need beautiful color like
crotons and and annual flowers? Do you need? What do
you need?

Speaker 9 (47:55):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (47:56):
They are having a really really nice I think, really
really nice deal going on in terms of shrubs and
trees and things like that. All trees fifteen percent off
fifteen percent off, so you know fall is the time
to plant those things. Well, they've got you covered and
they grow on themselves up at the Williams Tree Farm

(48:19):
up in Plantersville, Texas. But do you need like a
beautiful shumard red oak or maybe add blanchard southern magnolia. Gosh,
those things are quarridous. They've got that up there. They
have many many other trees too, and shrubs and they
always have a good selection of roses at RCW. Well,
I won't tell you this next Saturday. Next Saturday, I'm

(48:40):
going to be there for their fall Fling next Saturday
RCW Nursery. That's the twenty sixth of October. I'll be
there from twelve noon to two pm. They're going to
have barbecue lunch. They're gonna have prizes and sales and games.
We're gonna be giving away some stuff there while I'm
there again there right there, We're two forty nine and
Tomball Parkway. Come together. Easy to get to r CW

(49:04):
Nurseries dot com. That's how you can find out more.
Put her on your calendar next Saturday, come out and
see me there. Look forward to visiting with you. This
past week, I did a lot of traveling, actually went
out of state, and I was like, when I traveled
to go see, you know what's beautiful in that area.

(49:24):
I was out in North Carolina and you know, just
looking at garden centers and looking you know, I always
go to arboreatams and places like that when I get
a chance. But I tell you, I say this all
the time here. You don't know how fortunate you are
in the greater Houston area with the kinds and numbers

(49:45):
of garden centers that we have. I you know, I
was out in the Raleigh and Durham and what's the
other town in that triple City's Raleigh Durham, not Wait Forest. Anyway,
I was at a that triangle and there's a great arboretum,
the Ralston Arboretum in Raleigh, but when it came to

(50:08):
garden centers, it is like, what that that's not gardens.
I mean, you come here, north, south, east, West, and Central,
we have garden centers that you would want to take
your family too. When they visit, you know, it's like, Okay,
we're having a good time, but jump in the car.
I want to show you something. That's the kind of
garden centers.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
We have here.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
And really we are really really fortunate in that, and
I hope you take advantage of that. I mean, no
matter where you live, there is an outstanding garden center
not too far from you. And I know a lot
of people that kind of do the horticultural tourism, meaning
they'll cross all the way to other side of town
just to go see something different, you know, just to
go see something new. And that's cool. That's fortunate to

(50:51):
be here. So anyway, that just something I observed again
and I said it before, But you go to San Antonio,
some good guard garden centers, Austin some good garden centers,
Dallas some good garden centers, but not as many, and
not every kind of garden center you can imagine. No,
Like you're really into native plants, or you're really really

(51:13):
into I don't know, you fill in the blank. There's
gonna be a garden center that covers that in our area. Anyway.
I'm just bragging about our garden centers because they are outstanding.
You know, when I talk about plants, I always tell
you that the foundation you set for the plant is
at least as important, if not more important, than the

(51:36):
plants you put in. Now, it's important to plant adapted plant,
but it's most important to get the soil right. Brown
stuff before green stuff. Brown stuff's the soil. Green stuff's
the plant right. Okay. Landscaper's Pride has got an array
of products that'll give you the brown stuff. Their compost

(51:56):
ped is made from local screen pine excellent soil dave.
It improves the structure of the soil and adds those
essential organic materials that do break down in time and
feed your plant and make the soil better. They got
a planting mix it so it's called planting mix from
Landscaper's Pride. Locally sourced pine barks, got some sandy loams,
soil in it and organics. It would be really good

(52:19):
for you know, filling in some areas and bringing that
bed level up if you will. If your beds sunk down,
which they do in time, mix some planting mix in
and bring it up and it would do really, really well.
It's good for pretty much anything you want a plant
and then black velvet malt. You know it's not blazing
hot anymore. People think, well, it's hot, I have to melt. Well,

(52:39):
it's cool. You have to melt. Malt keeps weed seeds
from coming through. Maltch moderates soil temperature. Malt prevents rain
from causing erosion or crusting or compaction. Black velvet malts,
it's beautiful, it's naturally black, and it works really well.
Every month is a good month to put down black
velvet malts from Landscapers Pride. You can go to Landscaperspride

(53:02):
dot com find out where you can find it near you,
and the answer is going to be pretty much everywhere.
It's widely available. You can also follow Landscaper's Pride on
social media and as they say, let's grow something together.
That's Landscaper's Pride. If you'd like to give us a call,
our phone number is seven to one three two one

(53:23):
two kt R eight seven one three two one two
kt R h I'm going to be heading back to
the phones here in just a little bit. I wanted
to mention you've heard me talk about Quality Home products.
They're generators, for example. I talked about those a lot
this summer with the two storms we had that knocked

(53:44):
out power for what seemed like forever in each of
the two storms. A lot of people now want generators
and have been, and Quality Home is actually hiring. If
you are a licensed electrician or plumber, electrician or plum
that's licensed, you need to give them a call. You
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(54:08):
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time I've talked to someone at Quality Home, I'm usually
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and how does this work and all of that, But
I just pick up from them they love working there.
I mean, this is a place people really enjoy working.
They take pride in empowering homeowners with dependable solutions for

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They have a retirement plan that they match for one
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(55:11):
go check out maybe apply there online. All right, I'm
going to go to Spring, Texas and we're going to
talk to Lance.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Hello Lance, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (55:22):
Good mornings, Thank you very much, and good morning to you.

Speaker 7 (55:25):
Skip.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
I've got a question for you today.

Speaker 17 (55:31):
I remember trying to well, this thing's kind of like
part of the family. I've got a naval orange tree
that barely serve. It was almost twenty feet high, makes
navals beside naval oranges larger than softballs. I mean they
were really nice and sweet and wonderful, and every year,

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and I've been keeping this thing for like twenty years,
but every year I would cover it with a parachute
and then put you know, a surplus parachute and cover
it and then put some high pressure sodium lights under
it to keep it warm. And unfortunately last year the
wind managed to whip up the edge of them, or
not last year on big freeze it the wind got

(56:17):
under it and froze it back to right at the
right at the graph line, and I started nursing it
back because I couldn't really tell am I above it?
I'm below it? I actually think now last year I
got a few oranges and they were small, But this

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year it's looking pretty good, and they're they're probably they're
larger than baseballs now, and they normally I harvest them
around December. They're kind of a late late planet, I guess.
But my question is how do I distinguish I mean,
it's right at the graph I guess. Question one is

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if I've got a native root growing amongst the good shootes,
will there be any transfer of that native fruit? I
don't know what you would call it into the new
fruit there?

Speaker 5 (57:17):
I mean, you.

Speaker 17 (57:18):
Follow me, the natural will it affect the quality of
the orange that I've got hanging? And then the second
question is how do you distinguish I mean, I've got
some shootes with oranges on them.

Speaker 7 (57:34):
And I've got some shoes that don't.

Speaker 17 (57:36):
Have oranges on them, and they're an echine diameter. I mean,
they've gotten pretty good sized.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Okay, what do I do?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
All right? So here here's the answer. The answer to
the question of is the rootstock gonna transfer something into
the fruit? Now, it won't do that. The shoots coming
up are either rootstock or they're your naval oranges. And
if you got oranges on them last year, those are
definitely the naval orange, because the rootstock will produce little, tiny,

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bitter fruit that doesn't come close to comparing to the
sizing and quality of a naval orange. Typically, the rootstocks
are much thornier too. That that is okay. Some types
of citrus are naturally thorny more so than others, but
rootstocks are very thorny, and so I think you would know.

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The other thing is when you look at the rootstock,
if instead of having single leaves, it's got leaves and
clusters of three that are smaller. Okay, clusters of three
that are smaller, that's a sign of a rootstock also.
But sounds like, at least in part, you're back in
business with the naval.

Speaker 17 (58:45):
Large yeah, I think I am, because if anything, the
questionable limbs that I was concerned about are actually large.
I mean they're not, and the leaves are very.

Speaker 7 (58:57):
They're they're good size, good size leaves.

Speaker 17 (59:00):
But I'll look for clusters at three and if I
see that, shall just leave the tree alone. I mean
I can go put some survey ors marking flagging on
them or something and then cut them later.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Or yeah, I would let them at this point. I'd
let them sit until the underwinter to not to stimulate
growth by pruning. But but at that time, cut them
off as close to the base as you can. And
I've got to run there telling me it's commercial time here,
but good luck with that. And as always on garden
line lands, the advice is free. I just asked for

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half the produce that you get.

Speaker 7 (59:35):
We got about twenty there, so we'll let you know.
Thank you much.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
All right, You take care, you take care, all right, folks,
I'll be right back. Let's do this. Let's do some
garden line today. We've got a lot of questions we
need to answer, and I have some comments I would
like to make just to help you as to what
do we need to be worrying about and doing right now.
One thing we need to be doing right now, not
worrying about, but doing, is getting down our fall fertilization

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and Microlife has got you covered with their brown patch.
Microlife brown patch, now that is not a fungicide. That
is a fertilizer for fall. It's designed for fall. The
ratio nutrients is right for fall. But it's a fertilizer
that's chock full of microbial content to help fight against problems.

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You know, there are good microbes and there's bad microbes.
There are microbes that fight disease. There's a lot of
different things out there in the world that we have
just in the last few decades begun to learn more
and more about. And one of the things is that
when you have a population covering a plant surface of
good microbes, it's very difficult for a disease sport Land

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and to establish successfully. Microlife brown patch is a good
fall fertilizer. Get it down soon. You need to get
it down. It's going to decompose away and release those
nutrients to your grass to get it ready for fall
and for coming out strong in the spring too. I
would follow that up with Microlife bio inoculant. Now, that
is a maroon burgundycuter maroon bag. Bioinoculon has sixty three

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different strains of microbes. For example, it's got Bacilli subtlest.
Bacillis subtlest is a natural in fact that you can
buy Basilli subtlest in a bottle as a fungicide. It's
got bacillis. Okay, are you ready for this nerd alert
amelo licopations Bacillis amelo licopations. These bacillis are like bt
that kills caterpillars, but these kill fungus, they do, and

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it's got sixty three of them. I just gave you
two Microlife products are widely available. Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
That is the website if you want to find out
where you can get some yourself, and I hope you do.
We're going to go to clue leg now and talk
to Mario. Hello Mario, and welcome to garden.

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
Hey, kif you've been great for me, I really appreciate you. Hey,
I have a couple of questions. You already answered one
a moment ago about Paul fertilizer. But the other question,
a related question, is I still have some weeds and
I'm wondering if I can put both down today. That
was my plan, but I don't want to do something

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that's gonna have a problem with the grass.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Okay, yeah, so you've got weeds any Are there any
little flowering weeds that you see a couple?

Speaker 5 (01:02:28):
Yeah, it's not a lot of those.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Down, Okay, So anything with a flower on it, a
post emergent weed control is not going to knock it out.
And plus it's probably already made seed. So even if
you kill them, you still got the seed. As much
as you can pull those out and put them in
a five gallon bucket and get them out of there,
throw them in the trash, that is saving you a

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lot of headaches next year. So I different people have
different ability to get on hands and knees and do that,
and different time availability, but that is something for weeds
that are flowering and have and seed. Now, as far
as killing weeds post emergently, the brown, the warm season
weeds are pretty much at a stage where it's going
to be very difficult to kill them anyway. But now's

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when you would put down the pre emergent because all
the cool season weeds will be germinating really soon. And
down there in Clare Lake, all you need to get
is a little cold front and some some rain, and
you're gonna have to eat sprouting everywhere. So don't don't
delay on getting down your barricade application. If you have
not done one, if you've done one since spring then

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or since summer, don't don't do another one?

Speaker 5 (01:03:38):
And but can I do them together, the fertilizer and
the uh, the pre emergence, Okay, great, can don't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Don't don't put the yeah, don't put them in the
hopper at the same time, because particle size is different
on those two. Yeah, but one then turn on, load
up and do the other one same day, same time. Yes,
go for it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
Okay, great, your thanks bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yeah, thanks bye bye. Good looking that line and tiptop
shape our phone number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two
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Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights is it's just a
fun place to go. If you haven't been there, maybe
you live some distance awayta you gotta consider it that
it'd be a good outing today or tomorrow afternoon. Maybe
get out. They are loaded up with pumpkins. When I
was there a few weeks ago, Oh my gosh. And
when I say pumpkins, I'm talking about pumpkins and gourds

(01:04:36):
and every kind of weird, gnarly looking thing we put
on our tables to decorate for Thanksgiving all the way
to pumpkins for carving, or pumpkins for making pie, or
the what they call the fairy tale pumpkin. It's kind
of an almost pinkish orange kind of squatty thing. I
guess it looks like Cinderella's coach probably, But anyway, they

(01:04:56):
got mums there. They've got beautiful, beautif full house plants,
just unbelievable fall vegetables. Of course it's Buchanans. They got
native plants. They specialize in native plant You're not gonna
find a better place to get a variety of Nati
plants anywhere in the region of the Buchanans. Nati plants
in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street there in the Heights.

(01:05:18):
And fall is for planting. So you know, I've been
saying this all fall. I guess I'll keep saying it
for a while. But you can plan any month of
the year here in the Greater Houston area, you pretty
much can. If in summer it's harder. You got to
kind of touch and go water them. Just live it,
not too much. Fall is so easy. You put them
in the ground, you give them a good soaking, maybe

(01:05:39):
a little bit more here and there, but just don't delay.
You're giving your plants a head start. And listen, do
you remember summer? Remember this summer, Like every summer, it
is hard to be a plant. And so why not
get the roots in the ground now and let them
get growing. You know, roots of plants will grow. And

(01:06:00):
when the temperature is even in the low fifties. Uh,
And so they are slowly establishing. And I tell you
you get a head start. And plus there's some good
deals on plants now, so fall planting. That's it again.
Buchanan Street, eleventh Big Cannon Street. Buchanan's Native Plants on
Eleventh Street in the Heights. Here's the website. Go there,

(01:06:22):
check it out, look at the educational materials and sign
up for their newsletter. Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com.
Buchanan Street. Maybe they should name eleventh Street Buchanan Street
that would be a good idea, all right, listening to
garden Line. My phone number is seven to one three

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two one two k t r H seven one three
two one two.

Speaker 9 (01:06:50):
K t r H.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
I stocked up my bird feeders yesterday and I had
some hummingbird feeders that were kind of kind of yeh,
been out a little bit too long because I went
on a trip for a week. Well, came in, cleaned
them all up. They're ready to go back out. You know,
you put hummingbird feeders out because sometimes you'll get a
hummingbird or too that just hangs around. There are some
that are doing that now. They'll hang around here during

(01:07:14):
the cool season. So you can put a feeder out
if you'd like to do that. But right now, what
you need to know is that the Wile Birds is
going to be the place where you get everything you
need for birds. That's a quality. They're feeders are quality.
I have more than one, and they are excellent bird houses.

(01:07:37):
And when it comes to bird seed, listen, they they
bag seed that goes into bird's stomachs. And you think, well,
doesn't everybody know you buy a cheap bird seed that's
full of red bebes and the birds kick it out,
and then you got these weeds coming up on the
ground below them. They the bird seed blends that are

(01:07:57):
cheap are cheap. Okay, that's just the best way to
put it. And I don't mean inexpensive, I mean cheap,
and it just makes sense with wild birds. They even
have a no mess seed, which means like if you
buy sunflower seeds, which birds love, they go crazy over that.
Well they don't. They shell the sunflowers before they put
them in the seed, so it's like one no mess.

(01:08:20):
It's excellent products. I use their seed myself. The birds
love it. I should go outside right now and bring
them in here so they can tell you themselves. Because
my birds love the seed from Wildbirds. I love it
at six stores in the Houston area. Go to WBU
dot com, forward slash Houston, and there you go. That's
all you need to do to find one of the

(01:08:40):
six Wallbirds stores near you. Time for a break, I'll
be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. We are
here to answer your gardening questions. So all you have
to do is give me a call. It's seven one
three two one two kt rh on three two one

(01:09:01):
two kt r H I wanted to tell you a
little bit about Cienamulch. I talk about them all the
time because they are an outstanding source of I'll just
say this, the brown stuff the foundation for success with plants.
When you go to see in a Malts, you need
things like, you know, a quality soil like a rose

(01:09:23):
soil or maybe maybe heirloom soils, veggie nerb nex. They
carry that there. One of the products from Landscaper's pride,
like the black velvet for example. They carry that. There
lots of different options from maltz to soil, to compost,
to sand, to gravel to stone palletts. You're gonna put
a little patio in your backyard, you need to stop

(01:09:44):
in see an A malt You're open Monday through Friday,
seven thirty to five today seven thirty to two. Closed
on Sunday. So here's your chance today to go buy there.
Pick up some stuff there at FM five twenty one,
which is near where Highway six and two eighty eight
come ge, just north of road sharing the website just
write this down Sienna Maltz dot com, Sienna Maltz dot com,

(01:10:08):
that whole region down south of Houston. This is your place.
They deliver within about oh twenty miles or so with
for a small fee. And when you're in there, part
of the brown stuff also grabs some fertilizer. And if
you hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's at Sienna Moltz.
They got microlife, They've got asamite, they got Nelson's, they
got heirloom soils, they got nitrophoss, they got Medina products

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and I said, Landscaper's pride products there And you know
people that know what they're doing. They use me Cnamal's
like BMB turf Pros for example, they do the compos
stop dressing. They use c Animals products for that because
they know it's a quality product. You're not going to
go wrong with Cienamalts. You can buy it bulk, you
can buy it by the bag. But whatever you do,

(01:10:53):
go buy there and buy it. And I'll tell you this,
you are not going to be treated better at any
place than you are at Cenatz. They're friendly, they're helpful.
They just just if you ever said I go I'm
going to a mulch place because I want to have fun,
well you can say that about Ciana Mount. Every time
I go by there. I just leave feeling good. I

(01:11:15):
enjoy enjoy visiting with the folks and just just seeing
the quality products that they have there at Sanna Mulch.
Brown stuff before green stuff. So get some. They will
get you set up for success. Out well in Kingwood,
way out and those are you in Kingwood. Don't think
you're wet in Kingwood, but those in Houston. Yeah, out

(01:11:36):
there in Kingwood not too far away. Actually, nice little drive.
Warrens Southern Gardens, Kingwood Garden Center, both of those are
outstanding places to go visit. You know, they're open seven
days a week, so it makes it really easy to
get out there. Warren's is on North Park Drive, Kingwood
Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Right now, they are
having something called a Pansy's Party. And here's what that means.

(01:11:59):
A teen four inch pansies. That's a full flat. You
got to buy the whole full flat, eighteen four inch
pots full of pansies. Twenty four nine now through November three.
It's time to get that done. They've got fertilizer that
you want to get when you get your pants. You
want to mix that into the soil and plant your pansies.

(01:12:21):
Watered in really good, and then as they begin to grow,
fertilize them again. You got to push those things. You
got to get growth, and oh my gosh, they will bloom,
bloom bloom. We just pansies. Don't even think we have
winter done here. They're so called party. They also have
some special low prices on some bed mixes and composts
and other things. If you want to oversee your lawn,

(01:12:42):
they have Rye grass in stock right now for doing that.
They have Emerald Rellis bulbs in stock, lots of veggies,
beautiful moms, something else. When you're out there at Warren's,
join their newsletter. They've got special coupons and offers, especially
their monthly lawn care coupons. You can do that on
their website. You can do that by going into the store,

(01:13:04):
or you can do that by just give them a
call on the phone. Either way you go about it.
Join the newsletter there for information and some really good
deals out there at Warren's Southern Gardens, And oh my gosh,
the place is gorgeous right now. Fun, fun day to
get out and go do that. It's one of those
destination garden centers you just love to go visit and

(01:13:26):
all of you over there are Kingwood and Mbol and
New Caney, Porter, Splendora, that whole part of the region.
It's just down the street Warren's Southern Gardens and Kingwood
Garden Center. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and we have got got a little bit
of time here. If you'd like to give us a call,

(01:13:46):
we can probably fit that in for we have to
go at the top of the hour seven one three
two one two kt r H seven one three two
one two k t RH. I want to remind you
that today I'm going to be an enchanted forest from
about eleven forty five to one forty five, somewhere in
that rain time range. I'm getting there as close to

(01:14:08):
eleven thirty as I can. Let's put it that way.
I'll be doing Q and A. Come on out, let's visit.
What is your question? Bring me samples for identity identifying,
Bring me samples for diagnosing. We can do that. Put
them in a little bag, plastic bags or nothing escapes.
If you've got photos on your phone, bring those. You
got a weed that you want control, pull it out,

(01:14:31):
put it in a bag, or take a picture of it,
but make sure it's a good, sharp, clear focus picture.
I'll be there. I want to remind you. Debbie Ping,
one of the staff members out there at in Chenna Forest,
is going to be doing a shade plant lecture at
ten o'clock today. So the minute I stop garden Line,
the minute I shut up, Debbie starts talking. How about that?
That's how that works. And then I'll be there about

(01:14:51):
eleven forty five and we'll be doing that for at
least a couple hours. Out there, I'm going to be
giving away Medina products. Medina's given us some really qu
giveaways by the way that we'll be providing. And while
you're out there, leave room in the car because you
are going to see an awesome selection of vegetables and
herbs and annual color. If you can leave room for

(01:15:15):
a shrub or a tree, they've got some outstanding selections
out there, including fruit trees. By the way, out at
Enchanted Forest. Now, Enchanted Forest is on FM twenty seven
fifty nine. So if you were in Richmond, you're heading
up towards sugar Land, towards Houston sugar Land direction, you
turn to the right. They're on FM twenty seven to

(01:15:35):
fifty nine. Okay, so come on down and see me.
If you've never been there, I don't care where you
live in town. You need to swing by and check
this place out. It is really really cool and I'll
be giving away those Medina products. By the way, while
I'm talking about Medina, Medina Plus is kind of like
a Cadillac product that they produce. You know, you've known
about Medina Soil Activator for a long time. It'scot where

(01:15:58):
I don't know, a zillions, ten bazillion different kinds of
microbes and other ingredients that help stimulate plant growth. Well,
Medina Plus also has over forty trace elements. So take
Medina Soil Activator and you know, enhance it with over
forty different trace elements. Things like CID of cainans that's

(01:16:19):
a natural growth hormone. Seaweed extract is where you get
that magnesium, iron, zinc, and just I can't name them all,
a lot of different things. You're going to increase blooming,
you're going to increase the fruit set and leaf growth
if you're going to transplant. And I hope it's fall,
I mean I hope it's fall. I hope you'll transplant

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trees and shrubs and vegetables and herbs, everything you put
in the ground. Just get your watering can, put some
Medina Plus in it, mix it up according to the
label and drench it over the plank, get it on
the foliage, get it on the roots especially, soak it
down into the soil. It's going to do really well,
and it just helps your plants hit the ground running.

(01:17:01):
That's at least the way I like to put it.
You can use it as a folder if you want
too foldier sprays. It's not going to burn plants. Medina
Plus want of mini products from the folks at Medina
and follow us for planting. And if you're going to plant,
you got to get some of the Medina Plus water
in with that. Just keep it on your shelf because
you're going to want to do foldier feeding, You're going

(01:17:23):
to want to water plants in whenever you plant them.
It's just a good product to have, so always keep
it around. It's not just like something on the schedule
that like, oh you only use Medina Plus. If no,
you were twelve minths out here, makes it well that
hour went fast. Huh oh, well, we'll be right back.

(01:17:46):
We got another couple hours in us here. I hope
you will hang around. Give us a call seven one
three two one two KTRH. If you call soon enough,
you need the very first up. When I come back
from the break, just again, Enchanted four TuS today. Get
in your car head down there. I'm going to get
there as close to eleven thirty as I can, and

(01:18:06):
I'll be there answering your gardening question. So come on
out and see me. Let's visit. I always like to
meet listeners face to face, you know, on garden Line.
I got a few minutes that I can talk with
you and answer a question to get to some other question.

Speaker 10 (01:18:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
But when you come out to an appearance like this today,
we have eye eye time is what they call it FaceTime,
and we can visit. I may even walk over and
point you to a plant and discuss some other things
like that when we're there at Enchanted Forest FM twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richard.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
It's just watch him as many a side.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
All right, folks, welcome back to Jardenline. It is good
to be back with you. We got lots to talk
about and I want to get right to it. So
first thing I wanted to mention to you is if
you have not done your fall fertilization, the folks at
Nelson have you covered with a nice combo product. And

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what do I mean by that? What it's called carbo load.
Carbo load. Why carbo load because it is the blend
of nutrients for fall fertilization that helps that plant produce carbohydrates.
Sunlight on leaves with good nutrition equals carbohydrates. Carbohydrates equal
cold hardiness, carbohydrates equal stronger growth in the spring, simple

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as that carbo load does just that carboload also contains
a pre emergent herbicide, so you do not want to
delay putting it down. Get it done a sap. All
we need is the cold front and some rain, and
we're gonna have weeds sprouting all over the place for
cool season. That'll be big and messy in the spring.
That's that's when you really notice them. But they sprout now.

(01:20:17):
So get carbo load down, watered in about half inch
of water, get that into the surface and prevent those
weeds heats from getting started. So it's kind of like
a two pack punch here. We got carbo load with
the nutrients, the perfect blend of nutrients with the pre
emergent harbicide all in one, watered in all from the
folks at Nelson, part of their turf star Line carbo

(01:20:37):
load for fall. I'm going to head now, excuse me,
head now out to Galveston, Texas, and we're going to
talk to John. Hello, John, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:20:47):
Hello, Mitch, how are you this morning?

Speaker 7 (01:20:50):
Super good?

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
God?

Speaker 9 (01:20:53):
Yeah, and Midge. We have been gone a couple months.
Excuse me, skip that, pardon me, had been gone a
couple months, and when we got back here about ten
days ago, I noticed some brown patch in front in
my front yard. So I treated with a product that
nitroposs recommended, Eagle point three ninety six. I can see.

(01:21:15):
I think that brown spot is maybe expanding or worsening
because places where the grass is completely dead, you recommended
a product of a few minutes ago brown spot. Would you
double dose? Would you put that over the top of that?
Would you do nothing? Would you double dose with Eagle?

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
If you put Eagle out at the right rate and
followed the instructions, you don't need to do it again.
It's there. It's a systemic. It gets in the soil
that if you water it in, it gets in the
soil and it it actually is taken up by the
roots as well as being taken up by the fold.
And what happened is brown patch. You know, the conditions
were right, and so it started infecting and then you

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put the eagle down and then you saw more damage.
It's because it was already infecting in that other area
and the brown patches are just appearing. That's why we
always try to get it in ahead of time. But
it should stop additional brown patch infection for you. Now,
those brown spots, they're going to sit there and in
spring they'll regrown, regrow, regreen. Brown patch doesn't kill grass,

(01:22:19):
but it does make it look ugly.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
Yeah right, Yeah, you've done.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
You've done all you can do.

Speaker 9 (01:22:26):
So in terms of the rest of the yard, and
it's been treated. But this little patch where I have
brown potch is only about it's only about twenty four feet.
Would you just dig that out and throw in new
grass maybe in a month or so so kind of kitches.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
No, No, your grass would be fine. And the grass
is not going to grow in this cool upcoming cool
weather and stuff, So you're good. Just you know, just
ignore the brown for now, and it will they will.
It will come back when we warm up a little
bit in the spring.

Speaker 9 (01:22:59):
And Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Yeah, John, good luck with that down there in Galveston.
Appreciate your call, all right, folks. That's how that works.
It's as simple as that. You know. In Chenne Gardens
down there in Richmond is one of our destination garden centers.
You know, we love love going to visit places like
in Channa Gardens. They are on three fifty nine. That's

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the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond. So if you're in Richmond,
you're heading toward Katie Fullsher direction. Well, that's find FM
three fifty nine and that's when you find in Chenny Gardens.
If you want to make it simple on yourself, just
go to the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted
Gardens Richmond dot com. They had an event there just

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I don't know, a day or so ago. It was
called the Harvest Hound Event and people brought in their dogs,
kind of dressed them up a little bit and put
them with pumpkins and mums and things like that. Just
go to their Facebook page and look at the pictures.
It's great. That was great. You can do that. Bring
your kids in. They've got the pumpkin house. This is

(01:24:10):
just a whole wall, exterray wall full of pumpkins. They've
got all kinds of great. Let's just save photographic spots
for your photogenic children. How about that? And you too,
By the way, adults can do I think it's just
allowed for adults to do that as well. While you're
out there, you're going to find everything you want to
find it a nursery in the fall time, from plants
of course, to the things to help plants grow, like

(01:24:32):
the kinds of fertilizers you hear me talk about on
garden Line, things I recommend on Guardline. You're going to
find it enchanted gardens. They are open today Monday through Saturday,
actually eight to five and tomorrow ten to four. Either day.
Good time to get out to enchanted gardens and enjoy yourself.
I love those dog pictures. Let's go to West U

(01:24:54):
and we're going to talk to Charlie. Hey, Charlie, welcome
to guard Line.

Speaker 4 (01:24:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:25:02):
I've got some bugs on hibiscus and I set some
photos in.

Speaker 9 (01:25:08):
Did you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Uh, I've got it here I'm pulling them up. Let's
see here, give me just one second, okay, let's talk.
Tell me, tell me about the history on this thing.

Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
Oh yesterday, when did you first see them?

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Okay, yesterday? Well, well my wife said I got some
bugs there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Yeah. Uh, mostly what I see are where aphids used
to be. I'm sure you got some aphids still on it.
I see a few, But all those little white, shrivelly
looking things, those are the skins of aphids. Aphids. Just
like a snake sheds its skin, aphids shed their skin.
And so you see all these little white, dried things.

(01:25:58):
That's that's nothing to work about it. It's just like
the dead, empty skin of an aphid. Uh, I don't
see many. If you wanted to blast it with some water,
maybe just get a good stream and blast it from
all angles. I think that would be fine. The answer there,
because they're helping take care of the aphis answer dairy
farmers and aphids are dairy cattle. That's how that works.

Speaker 6 (01:26:23):
Okay, So yeah, I can blast it with water, or
I can just kind of let then take care of them.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Maybe, well, well they actually they're they're promoting the aphids.
They take care of them. And stuff. So uh, the
ants aren't doing you any good, but I would blast
it with water just to get a few of them off.
But in general you don't have a big problem to
worry about there.

Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
Okay, all right, Uh, well.

Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
More question please if you get time of Yeah, you
have new side has been there. This is the fourth
week now and anyway, it's not going to grow much
in a cool wather. Okay, do I need the water?
It's been so dry in Houston as rain there for.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Just a good soaking a couple times a week for now,
and then after about two or three weeks you can
back off and we won't worry about it for fall
once it cools off a little bit, don't worry about Hey,
I got a run for a break here. But thank
you for the for the call, Charlie, appreciate that. All right, folks,
I'll be right. Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you

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are with us today. We've got lots of things we
need to be covering today and when we get into
your calls here in just a moment, if you'd like
to give us a call seven one three two one
two five eight seven four Spring Creek feed is just
let's think of it as Magnoia northeast of tom Ball
direction on twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine seventy eight.

(01:27:54):
It is your hometown feed store up there, and boy
is it ever a feed store. Beautiful beautiful place.

Speaker 18 (01:28:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
You walk in and it's like, wait a minute, did
I walk into a feed store or a boutique. I mean,
it says scot Lots of cool stuff, but when it
comes to gardening. They got all the fertilizers, the full
line of turf Star from Nelson, They got micro Life,
they got nitroposs. They have things to control weeds or
diseases or pasts. The staff there is friendly and they

(01:28:23):
are courteous, and it's just it's a pleasure to shop
there at Spring Creek Feed if you're an FFA or
four H if you are were in the military, or
or in the military, if you are a senior citizen.
There's discounts for all of those groups there, and they
can also special order products and they do offer a
delivery service at well as well. Spring Creek Feed Center

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on FM twenty nine seventy eight. Just minutes away from
gand Parkway and Highway to forty nine up there, in
that area. Hey, I'm going to go now out to
Steven and Steven it says you're in the Rio Grand Valley.
Is that right?

Speaker 14 (01:29:02):
That's right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
How you doing, I'm good, I'm good. How come you
help it?

Speaker 14 (01:29:07):
Okay?

Speaker 19 (01:29:08):
So I recently moved to the valley and my front yard,
I've got Japanese plum trees, the Japanese blueberry, I apologize,
Japanese blueberry, and the sooty black mold on the trunk
and the leaves, and it's starting to affect the other plants,
the other shrubs in front of the house, and maybe

(01:29:30):
even the grass underneath.

Speaker 9 (01:29:33):
M hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
Well is growing. It's grown on a sugary substance that
an insect is producing. There as several insects that can
do that. It could be aphids, could be scale, could
be mealy bugs, could be white flies. I mean, but
it kind of doesn't matter what it is. The control
is going to be the same. If you put a

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systemic insecticide down in the soil, you drench it into
the soil, it will take it up and the plumbing
of that plant will have the insecticide in it, and
so anything sucking juices out of the plant, which is
what's causing the city mold. Something sucking juices, It poisons them,
and it kills them. That is the simplest way to go.

(01:30:17):
You can also try using insecticidal soap spray's horticulture of
oil sprays on a Japanese blueberry. It's hard to get
good coverage, and with both the soap and the you
have to coat the insect with the pesticide to kill
it with the soap or the oil. So I would
say for you and a Japanese blueberry, the best thing

(01:30:37):
would be to use a systemic And I hear you
have help there with you on the phone. Can I
give you something to write down?

Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:30:47):
Absolutely, that's what I was gonna ask for.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Do you have a suggestion, Yeah, I'm going to give you,
like just a few letters of two different ingredients that
either one would work. One is I am I do oh,
I am I d oh. The full name is a metacloprid.
But if you just go in and look for a
systemic insecticide with I AM I d oh, that's the

(01:31:12):
other ingredient. Different products is d I n O dino
t e F dino TEF. Actually it's but either yeah,
either a metacloprid or dinotephron. Just look for those first
few letters. Only ingredients that only products that they begin
with those letters. Okay, you don't need both one or

(01:31:34):
the other, all right.

Speaker 14 (01:31:35):
And and I would I would treat the tree.

Speaker 19 (01:31:37):
I'll treating the ground all around the tree and the
shrubs and.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Yeah, okay, right read the label. Basically, you're gonna mix
it up and you're gonna drench it around the base
of the tree. You didn't come out maybe three feet
around the tree. But basically you're getting it into the
soil for the roots to pick up. So it takes
a quantity of water to get it down in there.
This is also definitely a drudge.

Speaker 14 (01:32:02):
Got it is is also affecting my Saint Augustine.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
No, no, it's just whenever an insect produces honeydew, anything
under the plant or or drifting out from that is
going to get the city mold on it. I mean,
you get city mold on a picnic table if it's
underneath the tree. With these kind of insects.

Speaker 14 (01:32:22):
Okay, we also have a lot of leaves start falling.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
Off well, and that can happen a little drought stress
if it gets dry and then finally range or you
water it that they'll do that. Japanese blueberry will lose
those old leaves. Sometimes they even turn a pretty red
color before they fall off. But it's the older leaves
and it's not you know it, it's not a sign

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that the tree is about to die or anything. That's
just a stress response, and so I wouldn't I wouldn't
worry about that. Just make sure that you keep them
adequately moist.

Speaker 19 (01:32:57):
And one last question, how long you take uh to
get back to read the benefit the benefits?

Speaker 7 (01:33:07):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
It takes a few weeks for that to get down
in the soil and then move up in the plant.
But this isn't a life and thing. The trees. Okay,
if you do nothing, the tree will live. It'll just
be ugly. So uh yeah, just go ahead and get
it done sooner rather than later. As it cools off,
you know, the trees not taking up and moving water
as fast and so it slows it down even more

(01:33:30):
the results. But you should be all right, very good.

Speaker 14 (01:33:34):
All right, Hey, thanks very much, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Yeah, all right, thanks for the call. Take care, Yes,
thanks Matte, good good to talk to you. All right.
Here we go uh. Someone called earlier and asked about
as you know, can I do am now? The answers
no matter when you call me. The answers yes, January
through December. You can do as anytime you want. It's

(01:33:58):
a trace mineral supplement. Trace mineral supplement things that are
needed in tiny quantities, but that are essential, So you
don't put it out like a standard fertilizer where you're
putting a whole lot out because it's you know, nitrogen,
and fertilizer promotes growth and makes your long green, all
that kind of stuff. Now, asimite is just put out
in small quantities, like a forty four pound bag will

(01:34:20):
cover six to twelve thousand square feet. Goes a long way.
Don't overdo it. Follow the label, don't do that. If
a teaspoons good or tablespoons better, do it at the
right rate. Some micronutrient needed in micro amounts but essential
as amite. You can go to asmite texas dot com
find out more. If you have a vegetable garden, I
would recommend doing it in there as well. About ten

(01:34:42):
pounds per thousand square feet in a vegetable garden should
be about right as a mite provides those essential nutrients
that you need. Okay, I see what I was had
something in my head that I was gonna talk about,
and now my brain just went blank on it. Oh well,

(01:35:04):
does that happened to you? Just not happen as much
as it does now. Right. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook
is one of those garden centers you got to go to.
There's not another nursery in town that is like Moss Nursery.
There's not. It is a destination nursery. It is eight
acres of a gardener's paradise. This garden center has been

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around for a very long time, and people that are
anywhere in that region. In fact, I know people from
Crosstown that go down there to see it. That massive
pottery selection, acres of every kind of plant you can imagine.
Their house, bat plant greenhouse is outstanding and when you
walk through, you're going to see all kinds of strange stuff.
You know, Jim goes all over the world bring stuff back,

(01:35:48):
African masks and mineral specimens and taxidermy mounts and even
some old swords and things. I mean, you never know
when you turn a corner what you're going to see
at Moss Nursery. Their house plant greenhouse, as I said,
is awesome. If you need plants for dark rooms, plants
for bright rooms. If you're into succulents and cacti. You
want something to stay small, you want something to get tall.

(01:36:10):
Moss has got it and then some and right now
it's time to plant woody ornamentals. They are loaded with
woody ornamentals. It's time to put out color plants for fault.
They're loaded for that. We're hitting the time now to
put down our our actual coal season plants, you know,
pansies and things like that. Moss is always going to
have what's in season. They're at fifty five eleven Toddville

(01:36:32):
Road in Seabrook's the Here's the website. Just go to
the website Moss Nursery dot com. Here's how you spell
it m a As Nursery dot com. I'm going to
head now out to Lake City and talk to Jim.
Hello Jim, Welcome to garden Lining.

Speaker 10 (01:36:51):
Good morning, Skip, Skip. I just have a question about
the quantity of fertilizer and put out for thousand square
feet of the nitrofoss eight twelve sixteen, and I think
you had mentioned divide the first number into one hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
For summer fertilizers. Yes, for summer, and that's to get
the nitrogen level to a pound per thousand square feet.
But in fall, we're not needing that much nitrogen, so
you would drop that down a little bit. I would say, probably,
I haven't looked at the bag recently. The bag should
tell you exactly what to put out, but I would

(01:37:33):
say you're probably looking at Hang on just a second,
let me do probably about eight pounds of that per
thousand square feet.

Speaker 10 (01:37:42):
Yes, well the bag does say six point six pounds
per thousands.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
Okay, there you go. I was even overshooting it. Okay, yeah, yeah,
go with that. Go with that. And it's because in
fall we need a little nitrogen to go up with
the potassium into the plant, but we don't want so
much nitrogen that it stimulates a lot of late season growth.
Then we run into brown patch issues being worse. So
follow the label.

Speaker 10 (01:38:07):
I got you.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
That's what I know.

Speaker 10 (01:38:09):
You always said follow the label, and that's where I
was coming in THEEAH confusion.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
Oh yeah, okay, that's it. Well you did the right thing.
Thanks for calling to clarify that.

Speaker 10 (01:38:19):
Thanks for your help all right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
Yes, sir, bye bye. Our phone number is seven one
three two one two five eight seven four seven four
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
I'm gonna take a little break here for a little
bit of news and I'll be right back. Just want
to remind you today after the show eleven thirty to

(01:38:43):
one thirty eleven forty five to one forty five and
Shanton Forest Garden Center down in the Richmond Rosenberg area
on FM twenty seven to fifty nine, come out and
see me. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have
you with us. Hey, we got some room on the
phones if you'd like to give us a call seven
one three two one two ATRH seven to one three
two one two. KTRH is just visiting with Jim about

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the Nitroposs Fall Special fertilizer. That's the eight twelve six
eight twelve six. Notice that first number is kind of low.
That's what we want for fall. Nitrogen is important in
being taken up with the potassium for fall cold heartiness.
But you don't want to overdo the nitrogen. That's why
we switched to false special the brown bag by Nitrofoss

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in the fall. It's part of their three step program.
What are the three steps? Well, first the fall special fertilizer.
Second the barricade preventative weed control. It prevents weed seeds
from getting established. Doesn't kill existing weeds, it prevents them.
But that's why you got to do it now, because
cool season weeds are going to be germinating. In fact,

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they probably are in some places already. And then finally
the third step is eagle turf fungicide that prevents the
brown patch also called large patch, and the Takeollo route,
which will also infact in the fall. If you look
at my schedule, I say do that in October and
do it again in November. I would do it twice

(01:40:09):
for the take all, especially now for the brown patch.
Just once is enough. But one, two, three, Fall Special barricade,
Eagle turf funderside. All three together you can find them
an Enchened Forrest down there in Richmond, Rosenberg. You're going
to find it at Ace Hardware City, a Memorial Drive,
Jim's Hardware, Montgomery, Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin, all places

(01:40:33):
that carry that Texas three step by Nitrofoss. And it
is time upset again. It is time to get all
three done. Do not delay. When you're playing baseball, you
don't wait until the catchers has the ball to start swinging,
do you No, You swing ahead of time to get
ahead of it. That's what you got to do with
these three products. Get it done now. All righty, We're

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going to go to clear Lake now and talk to Ann. Hello, Anne,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:41:02):
Good morning. I have a problem with my camellias. They
have a bad case of powdery mildew.

Speaker 9 (01:41:11):
What can I do?

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Powdery mildew on camellias? Uh? Can you describe what you're
seeing to me?

Speaker 11 (01:41:21):
It's just a white covering on the underside of the leagues.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
Okay, Uh, that doesn't sound like powdery. But anyway, any
kind of a mildew or a fungus or something like
that can be Yes, yeah, it didn't as a fungus.

Speaker 11 (01:41:43):
But okay, I did name oil. Yeah, I sprayed it
twice with name oil and it didn't help at all.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
You know, I don't I don't think it's a funus.
I think that's an insect thing. Here's what I need
you to do, and I don't want to send you
in the wrong direction. I need you to take some pictures.
Pick a leaf off, set it on the table and
take a good close picture, make sure it's in sharp focus,
and then email it to me. If you need me to,
I'll put you on hold and our producer will give

(01:42:19):
you the email and let me see that picture. Maybe
before the end of the day I can answer it.
If not, I will tomorrow. Okay, all right, I'm putting
you on hold and Chris is gonna pick it up.
You bet. I'm gonna go now to Dickinson and talk
to Less. Hello, les, Hey, how you doing. I'm well,
thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:42:40):
A couple of questions quick.

Speaker 20 (01:42:43):
I'm looking for like a bible or something as far
as literature on gardening and you know, step by step,
you know, year round type deal.

Speaker 14 (01:42:56):
Do you recommend anything?

Speaker 18 (01:42:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
Yeah, Well, a guy named Doug Welch wrote a Texas
garden book that is excellent. Texas Gardening by Doug Welch.
There is a guy named Neil Sperry up in Dallas
that wrote a Texas garden book as well that is outstanding.
I wrote one called month by Month Gardening in Texas.

(01:43:20):
It's for the whole state, but it goes by section.
You know what part of the state you do this,
that and the other. That's more I how to care
for your landscape, what to plant, what to fertilize, the
wind to perune, all that kind of stuff. So all
three of those books I think would would do a
good job for what you're looking for.

Speaker 20 (01:43:36):
Okay, And I'm sure they're all on online.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
Yeah, yeah, they're online. You can find them in bookstores
and online.

Speaker 7 (01:43:45):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:43:46):
Now, second question, like answer bugs in your fla in
your vegetable beds instead of using I don't want to
use any kind of chemicals. And it is dieticious heart.
It's a good product to use.

Speaker 4 (01:44:07):
That's it's good for.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Yeah, it's good for some things that sometimes I tell
you less the thing we need to do is go
bug by bug kind of on it. There's not just
like a one. Fire ants are just yes, fire ants,
all the above fire ants. Okay. I would get a

(01:44:32):
bait called come and get It, Come and get it
fire ant bait. I believe it's made by fertilom It
is organic and it is a bait. It contains spinosa.
You sprinkle it very lightly all around. The ants pick
it up, they take it back to the queen that
kills the colony. That is the best least toxic way
you can go for fire ants. All right, thank you?

(01:44:56):
All right? All right, so thanks for the thanks for
the call. Appreciate that and good luck with that. Wish
you well. Where are we doing on time? Have we
got time? Let's see here? Good time for another call.
Let's go to West Houston and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:45:13):
Thank you, really enjoy your program.

Speaker 21 (01:45:16):
I'm calling about pride and far Batis plants that decorated
by backyard all summer and are beautiful, but the blooms
are gone now and leaving a very string dangly plant.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
Yes, that I would get rid of.

Speaker 21 (01:45:34):
And the question is can I prove them to the
ground now or should I wait till cold comes and
turns them brown and then prove them?

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
You know, if you can wait, I'd wait. And here's why.
Printing is a stimulating process. And now once cold has
killed them back, you know, cutting off dead things doesn't
stimulate anything. But if you got a branch and you
print it, you know how on a tree, you print
a branch and all of a sudden, here come all
these shoots out of where you pruned. We don't want
Pride of Barbados, which is kind of cold tender. We

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don't want to encourage it to grow late in the season.
I don't know that it would be the end of
the world or anything to print it now, but if
you can wait until a good coal comes through and
knocks it back and then print it. Also throw some
good multch, a thick layer of mulch over the base,
and that way that crown of the plant is protected.
So in the spring it comes back. It's going to

(01:46:25):
be a slow one to come back. It's a sleepy
head doesn't want to grow until about May. But mulch
kind of helps protect that. After you've done the prunting.

Speaker 12 (01:46:34):
Okay, good advice.

Speaker 21 (01:46:36):
I might mention that this plant has really thrived in
my backyard and I must have a dozen volunteers that
popped up in various.

Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
Now there you go. Yeah, well it's a beauty, isn't it.
It's a beauty. Yeah, really is Well, thank you, I
appreciate I appreciate that very much. You take care. Think again.
Thanks for that. Call the folks at Greenpro. They know
how to do aerration and compost top dressing. Aeration and

(01:47:08):
compost top dressing. So for they got a deal going
right now and it's from now through fall. They will
airate for free if you purchase a two yard minimum
of compost top dressing, have them do that service to
your lawn. Price to start at five seventy five plus tax.
This is a one of the single most invigorating things

(01:47:28):
you can do for your plants is do that aeration
and then a compost stop dressing. I say, plants for
your lawn. Greenpro dot Net. That's the website two eight
one three five to one forty seven thirty three. They
serve about forty five miles from Magnolia, So just think
of Interstate forty five and Interstate ten the northwest quadrant.
That is the area for green Pro again, greenpro dot

(01:47:52):
net two eight one three five to one forty seven
thirty three. We'll take a break. I'll be right back
to have you with us here on guarden line. We
got lots of gardening still left in us today. We'll
be going till ten o'clock, at which time I'm gonna
jump in a car and make a bee line for
enchanted forest. We'll I'll be from about eleven thirty eleven

(01:48:14):
forty five two about one forty five. So I hope
you come out and see me. Enchanted Forest is done
in Richmond on FM twenty seven fifty nine. I hope
you come on out. I talk about ACE Hardware all
the time because when people call me and they're looking
for this fertilizer, that pesticide or you know, controlling weeds
or diseases or insects or something, I know there's an

(01:48:37):
ACE near them, and I know ACE is going to
have what they need. And ACE carry's tools. They carry,
you know, everything you need outside like watering hoses and
wheelbarrows and all that, but all the different products to
have success with your plants. ACE Hardware is going to
have those and everything else you need inside and outside
the house, whether you're doing plumbing or electrics, electrical, or

(01:48:58):
maybe you're looking for some applying indoors or some beautiful,
beautiful items for the home. You know, ACE Hardware is
not just a hardware store. It is a hardware store,
but it is that and so much more. You're going
to find some really cool gifts at ACE Hardware. With
this season coming up, you're going to go see somebody
for Thanksgiving, stop in at ACE Hardware and grab a

(01:49:19):
really nice gift. And I'm not I am not kidding.
I mean really, you you walk into an Ace Hardware,
you're gonna find something that you go, you know what,
Mom or Grandma or the kids or whoever you're going
to see Aunt Millie, they would love to have that item.
And while you're there, you can grab the fertilizers for fall,
you can grab the we control, you can grab the
disease control because it's all going to be there. You

(01:49:40):
can grab the fire ant control too. I told someone
a while ago we were talking about fire ant baits
and mentioned come and get it as an organic one.
I've seen that in ACE Hardware stores as well. All
you have to do is go to Acehardware dot Com,
find the store locator, forty stores near you. Forty stores
near you. Let's go to Pleasantville, New We're going to

(01:50:00):
talk to Debrah. Well, Hello Debrah, and welcome to garden.

Speaker 22 (01:50:04):
Well, good morning, Skip. I have a question about some
left over peat moss that I bought for takeoff right
ahead in my yard. So I'm I'm restarting a yard
and I got some swinter rye glass. Can I use
that peat moss now to sprinkle on those three yards. Yeah,

(01:50:26):
I see it's coming out little hairs.

Speaker 2 (01:50:29):
Yeah, so you want to you want to let it
get up first. Uh okay, and because you're gonna put
pete moss out about a third of an inch deep
and uh so you know you don't want to cover
up a seed and block the light out. So let
it get on up and then you can spread that
peat moss all around on it.

Speaker 6 (01:50:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
You gotta watered in after you spread it. You want
to get it wet and get it down there around
the grass runners. That's where it does its suppressive uh
activity on the on the take off.

Speaker 22 (01:50:59):
Okay, what about the what is it? What about the
the new said I laid down? Can I put some
peat moss? I do that new son on top and
help it, because I don't have time to water it
a lot, and I've already lost.

Speaker 4 (01:51:10):
The square or two.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
Yeah. Well, I am not sitting gonna replace good water.
And it's still that side has almost no root system,
and it's got to get roots in the ground. So
as frequently as you can water it, the better. Unfortunately,
got a little dry spell. We're going through here and
not going and so you got to get the water
out there. On it, uh, if you don't want to

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lose it. But pete moska on top of it if
you want. But just a little bit, just about third.

Speaker 22 (01:51:38):
Of them, okay, all right, So I can go in
through my pet moss on the rye grass, and my
old problem would take all root right on the other yards.
It's two different yards. And just wait for them the
new rcke.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
Just as long as the just as long as the
rye grass is tall enough to where when you put
pete moss on it you're not smothering seeds. You know,
the leaves will stick up through it. Then it'll be.

Speaker 22 (01:52:00):
Okay, I'll wait, Thank you, Sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
Bye, good to talk to you again. You take care
all right, folks. That is that hey, Arbigate Garden Center.
You know it's it's a wonderland. It is a destination
and it is fun. And when you go to Arbrogate,
by the way, those of you who've been living under
a rock and don't know where Arbrogate is, it's a
mile and a half west of two forty nine on

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twenty nine to twenty in Tomball. And you got to
go just to see the take friends or family and
go see yeah, people coming in for you know the
holidays or something, get out take them out there to
Arbrogate too. Arbrogate dot Com is their website. They are
loaded with fall color, but they're also loaded with some
really cool gifts and things for people that don't. They

(01:52:48):
pretty much have everything right, You know how hard it
is to shop. How about an air plant? Do you
know what airplan is? At Tealanzia's. It's like they're kin
to pineapples and bal moss. And if Bama is any indication,
I think you might be able to grow an airplant.
They're easy to grow, and they're cool, and they're different
and I don't know, it's just something different. And Arborgate

(01:53:09):
is loaded with not only the standards vegetables and fruit
trees they fruit all year round out there, and herbs
and beautiful, beautiful color plant Right now, that place is popping,
And they even have a kind of a special going
on on a lot of their fall and Halloween type decorations.
Twenty five percent off on a lot of the ones
that they carry out there. And so this would be

(01:53:31):
a great time to get you one of those Talavera
pumpkins or something else like that. You know that you
would just enjoy and use year after year. It's all
at the Arborgate on twenty nine to twenty about a
mile and a half west of two forty nine. While
you're at Arburgate, grab their food, their organic food complete,
their organic soil complete, and they're organic compoost complete. Those

(01:53:54):
three bags are the brown stuff that helps all the
green stuff you bring home from Arborgate to thrive. The
brown stuff is the foundation. Organic food complete, Organic soil complete,
Organic compost complete. Only at Arburgate. We're gonna head now
to Lake Jackson and talk to Charlie. Hey, Charlie, welcome

(01:54:15):
to garden Line.

Speaker 23 (01:54:18):
Good morning, and have a quick question about I have
a big oak tree in my backyard and it's a
low area and I'm wanting to put some dirt in
because when it rains, that area has standing water for
a period of time and it always goes right there
and it looks like it's going to be about four

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to six inches that I'm gonna need to add dirt.
Is that too much because there are exposed roots?

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Yeah, I wouldn't do it. I don't want to smother it.
Three inches YEA three is three is pushing it and
it'd be better not to even do three if you
can avoid it. But it's also a function, Charlie, of
what percentage of the root system do you cover. And
I'm here putting, you know, let's say you're putting some
soiled around, you know, four feet out from the oak
tree in all directions. Well, that's not a big deal.

(01:55:09):
But when you start to cover a good volume of
the area underneath the tree branch spread, then you can
do some problems. So I would do it in stages,
maybe two inches now, you know, we get into next year,
a couple of inches sometime in the year, and then
just do it that way. But also consider how you
might read might divert that water away wherever it's coming from.

(01:55:32):
Maybe that'd be another opportunity to to you know, kind
of avoid that standing water. But yeah, just don't overdo it. Fantastic,
Thank you.

Speaker 23 (01:55:41):
I enjoyed your show and I've called a few times
and over the years or else the last couple of years.

Speaker 12 (01:55:48):
And good advice.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
Thank you, slad you have, glad you have, Thank you, Charlie.
Good luck with that. Do definitely wish you well. Nature's
way resources, you know. I was out there, oh for
the Fall festival on Saturday the twelfth, had a great time.
They always put on a good show out there. They
still have their Fungal Friday sale on twenty percent off

(01:56:10):
their fungal composts twenty percent off. That's a superb deal
right there. Fungal compost is good for top dressing, it's
good for mixing in the soil. It is good for
a lot of things. I mean, it's like Nature's Way products.
Nature's Way knows how to put in or create some
of the most outstanding products for putting out in your

(01:56:31):
garden and in your lawn, in your landscape, because it
all begins in the soil, and Nature's Way is all
about the soil. Right now through December first, they got
their year in sale in the nursery. You know, I
have a nursery and they sell plants out there. Nature's Way.
Nice selection of natives and many many other kinds of plants, fruit, trees, houseplants, shrubs,
you name it. Well, it excludes the native sun perennials,

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but fifty percent off their native plants through December first,
So head out there, grab some of those. Now is
the time to get them planted. And why you're in
Nature's Way You're going to get everything you need in
the way of brown stuff to make that green stuff happy,
to build the foundation for the plants that you're bringing home.
They're on if you go up Highway forty five or

(01:57:14):
fourteen eighty eight comes in, you turn right across the
railroad tracks and they're they're at Sherwood Circle right there.
Makes it easy, easy to find them. Sherwood Circle. Well,
I believe we're putting this hour in the books. Wow,
there's time's flying this morning. They say time flies when
you're having fun. You know what, Permit the frog says,

(01:57:36):
time's fun when you're having flies. I'm sorry, I'm a dad.
All I know are dad jokes. That's fun to do.
Don't forget today. In fact, go ahead and get your
car fired up. It won't be long here. We're going
to go out to Enchanted Forest in Richmond Rosenberg area.
They are on FM twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest.

(01:58:00):
Come out and see it. If you've never been doing Shandon,
I don't care where you leave. You need to come
and see this place. It is outstanding. I love going
out there. I'll be there for two hours. Get there
probably a little after eleven thirty here for a couple
of hours answering your questions. We'll be giving away Madina
products and wonderful products then they did by Medina. Bring
me samples, bring me photos, Let's solve these problems, and

(01:58:23):
most of all, let's just meet and have a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:58:28):
So this new dog, welcome to Katie r H. Garden
Line with Scar Rictor.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
It's so weesy. Just watch him as so many things
to susy away.

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
Side, Welcome back side, Welcome back to garden Line, Welcome back.
I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to answer
your gardening questions. Well, I like to put it is,
we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden
and a more beautiful landscape. Simple as that. How can

(01:59:20):
we do that? Give us a call seven one three
two one two k t r H. Seven to one
three two one two k t r H. I've told
you about r CW Nursery a number of times and
I just have to repeat myself. Now is the time
to get out to r c W Nursery. You know

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they are having uh just a number of things going on.
Number there, for example that their fruit tree or they're
trees excuse me. Trees, shade trees, things like the magnolia,
southern magnolia and the schumart oaks, those kinds of trees, beautiful,
beautiful ones. They are on fifteen percent off sale. That
is outstanding. That is outstanding now. They also they've had

(02:00:05):
specials on shrubs this weekend, twenty percent off shrubs. The
Cajun hibiscus has been on. I was just enjoying my
Cajun hibiscus I got there. It's a it is so beautiful.
It is it still is just beautiful. And no matter
what you're looking for, maybe a lace bark elm would
be a nice one to add a burrow because a
good one to add, for example, lots of good trees

(02:00:28):
there and that's the place to do it. And by
the way, don't forget next week on Saturday. Next Saturday,
I'll be at RCW, that's October the twenty six I'll
be there from twelve to two. So if you live
up in that area, come out and see me. Love
for you to do that, and while you're there, pick
up some of the great specials that they have going on.
They also are loaded on fall color, they're loaded on vegetables,

(02:00:51):
and everything. Pretty much, if you need a plant, they're
gonna have it. They're ready to go. ARCW is what
I call the get it, Got It nursery because if
they don't have something which is rare, they can get
it for you. They can order it for you and
bring it in most cases, and while you're out there,
you can pick up the fertilizers I talk about here
on garden Line. By the way, RCW Nursery dot Com

(02:01:12):
is the website. And where are they located? Right where
Beltway eight comes into FM two forty nine, also called
Tomball Parklay. We're going to heading out to Cleveland and
we're gonna talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (02:01:27):
Hello there, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (02:01:30):
I'm well, sir, How can we help? I got I
got some pecan trees.

Speaker 18 (02:01:36):
I got all about twelve pecan trees. There are different
types in pat hole and pipe chail and whatnot. Anyway,
the pecans they put on pecans in the spring, and lighter.

Speaker 4 (02:02:00):
They have.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
Get from black spots on.

Speaker 18 (02:02:03):
Them and then okay they'll finally turn black and they're light.
I mean, they're they're ninety good. But what I'm asking
is I think this is a fungus. But you tell me,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
Okay, Well, how old are these trees that you have.

Speaker 18 (02:02:28):
Now they're almost at thirty years old?

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
Okay? And has this been going on the whole time?

Speaker 19 (02:02:39):
Know?

Speaker 18 (02:02:40):
At first day I had a few cons, not many,
but a few cons. And for for the last about
six years, I have not had en cons at all.

Speaker 7 (02:02:52):
They all turn black.

Speaker 2 (02:02:55):
Yeah, okay, Well, what's happening is there? There are a
couple of diseases. There's diseases of the foliage, and when
you kill foliage, you can't fill the kernels because foliage
makes the carbohydrates that go in to make a pecan kernel.
But there's also diseases of the trunk I mean, excuse me,
the shuck, the shuck around the pecan. And interestingly enough,

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the material that goes inside the nut to make the
kernel has to go through the shuck, and that shuck,
if you get a black rotting disease on it, it
blocks the flow into the pecan and you will not
have good, healthy filled pecans. They'll be all black and
shriveled inside. And so controlling diseases of both foliage and

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the shuck itself is important. The problem is you got
quite a few trees there, a dozen, and pecan trees
thirty years old are pretty good size, So you've got
to have quite a sprayer to not only reach the
top of the tree, but give you good coverage. If
you can get that kind of sprayer, you can put
fungicides out during the season that stop those decays from happening.

(02:04:04):
Over here in the eastern half of the state, we
get enough rain to where we have a lot more
disease problems than you would, you know, west of Interstate
thirty five in central Texas for example. Yeah, do you
think you can do you have that kind of sprayer
or can you can you find a way to spray
if not get.

Speaker 18 (02:04:23):
Uh oh, maybe a little more with the sprayers that
are that I have. Uh huh, it's really really hard
to reach the very very top about the last five
favors top of the tree.

Speaker 2 (02:04:40):
Yeah, well, if you can get all out of it,
if you can get all that done, then you're probably okay.
You just don't want to be standing underneath it having
the spray come back all over you. You know, sometimes
on our child, witch too high spray and it ends
up coming back on me. So but uh, there are
there are some products out there. What I would do
if I were you, See you're out in Cleveland, you

(02:05:05):
might try talking to one of your ACE hardware stores.
You got a couple of them out that direction. That yeah,
uh yeah, yeah, M and D. Well talk to M
and D and see what they can carry for pecan
disease control.

Speaker 6 (02:05:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:05:25):
If you, you know, want to email me, I can
send you some suggested products for it, but it's not
going to be real easy to find. You may end up.
Uh if I M and D cannot get something for you, Uh,
just email me back and I'll see if I can
find another option. But start there with M and D.
You need a disease control for pecans, and that's going

(02:05:47):
to take a kind of a specialty product to do
a good job of that.

Speaker 18 (02:05:51):
Okay, a question. I have tried spray with copper soul fight.
I'm not doing good at all if I keep that up.

Speaker 2 (02:06:03):
Cop Copper is okay on some diseases, but not the
one you have. Copper's not going to be the solution.
And I'm hitting a hard break here coming up, so
i gotta run, but I'm gonna put you on hole.
Carrie and Chris can give you an email for me
and just follow up with that and I'll take care
of you. All right, folks, I'll be right back. Yes today.

(02:06:27):
I just want to remind you that as soon as
this hour of the show is up, the show is
up at ten o'clock, I'm gonna head over to Intended
for Us. I'll get there about oh, probably eleven thirty today,
maybe eleven forty five, and I'll be there for two hours.
So come on out and see me. We're gonna be
giving away Medina products and I'll be answering your gardening questions.

(02:06:48):
And believe me, they are stocked up on all kinds
of cool plants and decorations for fall. It'll be a
fun time. I promise you that if you want to
get compassed, top dressing, aeration or both hopefully both done
to your lawn and you live down south South and
especially south and west of Houston, bm B Turf Pro

(02:07:10):
is the place you need to call. B and B
turf Pros have. They have a goal, and that goal
is to make you happy. And I really mean that.
It's not to them just about let's get your money
and go on down the street and whatever customer satisfaction matters,
and that's why they do high quality work and they do.
I've seen their work. They also only use quality products

(02:07:33):
that I recommend here on garden Line. So for example,
when they're going to do top dressing, they're going to
get it from Cenamlts and they're going to get the
quality stuff from Ciena Malts. For compost top dressing, they
will errate your lawn and they'll do a compost top dressing.
Make sure it's air rated right, not like the aer
rators you rent at the store to do what you're selling.
You can do that, but now they have much better

(02:07:54):
equipment for it, and also for the top dressing. It's
a messy job, but they can do it. And they
basically go above and beyond to make not just you happy,
but make that personal connection, make sure you're satisfied because
they know that's what's going to bring you back. It's
here's the website BB Turfpros dot com, b B no

(02:08:17):
end BB Turfpros dot Com. Here's the phone number seven
to one three two three four fifty five ninety eight
seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight
if you are in that region, you know from over Oh,
I don't know. Let's say how far west we're going

(02:08:37):
to go, maybe Sugarland direction, across Missouri City and then
down through down Highway six, all through their Fresno Cnar Cola,
Iowa Colony, Manville, and even as far east as Pearland.
That's the region they service. And nothing will help your
lawn just bounce back and look great when it's in
a stress condition, especially compaction. Then a good eraation encompassed

(02:09:01):
tob dressing. We're going to go now to talk to Joe. Hello,
Joe Welsome Garden Line. Thank you.

Speaker 12 (02:09:10):
I want two questions please.

Speaker 2 (02:09:12):
One.

Speaker 24 (02:09:14):
I have a shady area and I would like to
plant ground cover.

Speaker 12 (02:09:18):
What would you suggest? That's my first question. Ivy.

Speaker 2 (02:09:25):
There's a lot of good groundcovers, Joe, Ivy is fine,
English Ivy. The prime with the English Ivy is it
just takes over the world, climbs up your trees constantly.
It's a sprawler real fast. So that's one that people
will use. If the shade is bright, you can use
an Asian jasmine in those areas. That's another vining type
of groundcover, but it needs decent light for it to

(02:09:47):
do well. I see people just plant pardon it has
some light's not a lot, okay. Loriope and mondo grad
both can be planted as a solid groundcover, and that
takes a lot of plants, but it makes a really
nice dense groundcover if it's moderate light. The Aztec grass

(02:10:11):
is think of it as a white and green striped riope.
Aztet grass is not grass. It's more like loripe, but
it's white and green stripes. So it really brightens the
shady areas. Shady areas are already dark, and then when
you put a dark green ground cover, it just sort
of disappears in there. And it's nice to use something
with some lighter colors like that. Course, ferns would be

(02:10:33):
good for an area like that.

Speaker 24 (02:10:36):
Next question that is, I built some aubors. They're about
ten feet high, and what can I plant that'll grow
over the top and that gets hit too hard when
we get that freeze every year. What would be something
that'll be climbing climbing roses?

Speaker 2 (02:10:56):
Yeah, climbing roses. The climbing rose is fine. Most climbing
roses only bloom in the spring, but that's fine. I've
got an arbor that has a climbing rose. It's a
spring bloomer on it and uh, they do fine. Another
thing you could do is there's a type of wisteria
that has kind of a burgundy flower, a deep deep

(02:11:20):
blood red burgundy colored flower. It's called Chinese wisteria, and
it it does well on an arbor. It's a it's
a woody vine. There's there's a lot of different plants
you can put an arbor. Some of them, though, are
just a little too enthusiastic, if you know what I mean.
You know, they want to take over the world, and
they can overwhelm an arbor. So we'd like to stay

(02:11:40):
away from those.

Speaker 12 (02:11:45):
This Chinese with steria, what color? It has a flowery
you said.

Speaker 2 (02:11:50):
Yeah, it's it's not like the regular. When people say
with steria, you picture those bloomed blue to purple colored
like clusters of grapes thinging everywhere. This has a small
or cluster that's a deep burgundy blood red. Uh and
it but it's also a woody wisteria vine that you
can put on an arbor without it just taking everything over.

Speaker 12 (02:12:12):
Is there any other thing that flowers that you would suggest.

Speaker 2 (02:12:20):
Well, there's trumpet creeper, Madam Galen is a variety of
trumpet creeper with big flowers. But I'm telling you that
thing is such a vigorous thing and sometimes they'll sucker
on you that I would hesitate to do that on it.
You could do a coral. Don't do coral. Oh gosh,

(02:12:43):
the name is just escaping me. I just cross vine
cross vine called tangerine beauty. That one has smaller, thin vines,
but it really runs all over the place, and so
you trim it when it gets too far. But it
has spring flowers that are a tangerine orange color, very pretty,

(02:13:03):
and that would be an option as well.

Speaker 12 (02:13:06):
On the trellis tangerine.

Speaker 2 (02:13:10):
Tangerine beauty is the variety cross vine cross vine vine. Yeah,
but do you want to get tangerine beauty. That's the
prettiest one.

Speaker 12 (02:13:24):
Okay, thank you for your house.

Speaker 2 (02:13:27):
All right, good luck with that. You take care, yes, sir,
you as well. That is Those are all great vines.
I love vines. We don't have enough vines by the
way people are planting. People don't plant enough vines. That
is an underplanted plant. We live in the South and
it gets hot in the summer, and arbor with vines

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over it. It makes an outdoor area livable, and i'd
encourage you to do that. Do you have a western
wall that it just the sun bakes it at the
end of the day and then you got that heat
radiating into the house half the night. Put a viine
on it. We should use vines more, all right. I
told you about Nelson carbo Load. That is their fall

(02:14:13):
fertilizer carbo Load. It's fertilizer and it's weed prevention. It's
a pre emergent. We'd prevention all in one. I want
to tell you about nutristar Genesis from Nelson. Genesis is
designed for transplanting plants. So whether you're moving something from
one pot up to a bigger pot. If you're doing that,

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mix some Genesis into the soil in the new pot
to help get that plant off to a good start.
If you're putting something in the ground, like maybe you're
gonna plant a rose bush this year, or maybe Joe's
gonna put a vine in this year, you know, well,
how about putting some Genesis in the soil around it.
It's one of the few fertilizers I would say mix
into the soil and it's okay. It's not gonna burn

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your roots. It's not salt based, all right. It's got
micro riz in, it got beneficial bacteria. It's got other
fungi too, by the way, that support that soil micro
biome that's so important. When you mix genesis into the
ground and water your plan in, well those roots come
out and they're in their happy place and they really
show it. And I've seen that myself. It really does work.

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It's from Nelson. Plant food comes in a jar, clear
jar with a screw top lid, and it works. Genesis
for transplanting your plants. And as I keep saying, I
hope you, I hope you're planting right now. There's not
a better season for transplanting than we're in right at

(02:15:37):
this time. We love our feed stores here on guard Line,
and you know the D and D feed store out
west of Tombol, they're about three miles west of two
forty nine on FM twenty nine to twenty. This place
is great. I mean they expanded it recently last summer
and summer for it anyway, they recently expanded it. It's
even better now. When you go inside, you're gonna find

(02:16:00):
the stuff that I talk about. You know, you hear
me talking about nitrofoss and you hear me talk about
microlife and Nelson turf Star and Medina products and heirloom
soils and you know the Nelson all the different Nelson products,
Landscaper's Pride soils. They've got all of that at D
and D Feed and Supply. They also, of course their feet,

(02:16:20):
so they got feed. They got quality, high quality dog foods,
a little uh, I don't know what you call it,
but I call it a dog deli. It's like a
little special things bones and stuff that are flavored for
them to chew on. If I go to D and
D my dogs find out I didn't bring them anything,
I'm in I'm in trouble because they know about the
dog deli at D and D Feed, D and DE Feed.

(02:16:42):
Here's the phone number. Two eight one three five one
seventy one forty four. Two eight one three five one
seventy one forty four. Listen the dovers open this in
nineteen eighty nine and the place just keeps getting better again.
Three miles west of two forty nine on just outside
a Tomball. While you're there, grab you your fire ut bait.

(02:17:04):
It's time to get that done. Anything you need to
do to control weeds, diseases, and insects, you're gonna find
plenty of it. They're in D and D feed, they
really do. I was in there not too longer than
an outstanding selection of those products.

Speaker 4 (02:17:20):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:17:20):
You are listening to garden Line our phone number seven
one three two one two k t RH seven to
one three two one two k t r H. Have
you ever been down to Jorges Hidden Gardens? That is
probably our southernmost Am I right about that?

Speaker 4 (02:17:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:17:38):
I say I thought southern most garden center I talk
about here on garden Line. They're in Alvin, Texas.

Speaker 5 (02:17:43):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:17:43):
Horay just keeps getting that place better and better every
time I go. There's some new things that they have.
You know, when you go to Hoges, you're gonna find
plenty of woody ornamentals, tree shrubs and all sizes, two
huge ones. If you want Peggy Martin row. That's a
rose I have on my trellis. They always have to
veggies and tomatoes and whatnot. Lots of fruit trees, always

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have fruit trees there. That's a place where you're going
to get that three sixty tree stabilizer. So when you
buy a tree from Morae. Grab that three sixty tree
stabilizer so you can stake it and take care of it.
Or hees got citrus trees, he's got other kinds of fruit.
Just go buy and see him. Orges Hidden Gardens. They
are on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of Highway nine.

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So all of you down there in Alvin, Dickinson Hillcrest, Alcoa, Altalloma,
or Arcadia, Santa Fe, this is your hometown garden center.
Go check them out this weekend. I'm gonna take a break, folks,
I'll be right back. Things about plants and whatnot. Had
a call come in a Heidi from Tree Search Farms
did a little Hey, here's another idea. I was talking

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to Joe about a plant for a vine on a trellis,
and she was suggesting a butterfly vine. That's Miscagnia micruptra.
I believe it is the species. It's a good one,
and why they call it butterfly vine. Okay, it has
little yellow flowers, Okay, fair enough, but then the flowers
are replaced by seed pods that look like butterflies. You

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just got to go see it or look it up.
See what I'm talking about. But they're really cool. People
will let them dry and then pick them and use
them in arrangements. You know, maybe spray paint them, put
some glitter on them or whatever if they want to
dress them up. But that's a good vine that is
a billowing, strong grower. I mean, it'll produce a good
solid vine on a trellis for sure. So it's just

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another option there that you might want to keep in mind.
I was talking about Jorge two. By the way, Orges
Hidden Gardens down in Alvin Horace got a shipment of
blueberries in I mean like ten different varieties and they've
got both the rabbit eye type and the Southern high
bush type. Those are two different kinds of blueberries, and

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it's important that when you buy them you get at
least two varieties of the same type. Okay, so too
rabbit eyes or to Southern high bush, and he has
some of each one. If you want to know more
about blueberries, the Aggi Horticulture website has a really good
publication on blueberries. And do you just go to Aggie.
Just do a search for Aggie Horticulture, go to the

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fruit and nut page and there is a publication at
that page on every kind of fruit you can grow,
from avocados to I don't know what is a fruit
that begins with z is, but anyway, it got the
whole nine yards, and if you go there you can
learn about the different sections of the state where we
can grow these, and then the different varieties and some
information on them. But just remember that when you get

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rabbit eyes, you want to get a second rabbit eye.
Now they'll produce some fruit by themselves, but they do
better when they have a second variety to pollinate them,
because you get more seeds pollinated, and therefore the berries
will be bigger. So don't buy one blueberry by at
least two of the same type rabbit eye and so

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high bush and I know where he's got like tiff
blue and climax. Those are all those are examples of
rabbit eye types. And he's got one called sharp blue
and Biloxi. Biloxi, I know is a southern high Bush's.
I see some others on the list, So take take
a look, Premiere, that's a rabbit eye. But he's got
them therein so now it'd be a good time to

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get those things planned before you put them in the ground.
By the way, take a box cutter knife and cut
vertically through the root ball that came out of the
container roots cylinder, cut vertically in four places around the
plant about an inch deep, and then separate those roots out.
They will establish better that way if you'll do that. Well,
that was a lot of fast information right there. Let's

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head out to talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn, welcome to
garden line.

Speaker 11 (02:21:50):
My grandpa.

Speaker 1 (02:21:51):
So yesterday I checked on.

Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
My Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (02:22:01):
They're good.

Speaker 11 (02:22:02):
But today they're gone. And would deer go close enough
to the house to eat them or was that something else?

Speaker 2 (02:22:11):
You know, it could be a lot of things. There's
some little caterpillars of one that will go out at night.
You don't see them in the day. They go out
at night and they cut off your seedlings. They chop
them down like someone chopping down trees in the forest,
and they cut them off right at the ground and
you'll see the seedling kind of laying there. Usually. Now,
if it were deer, the seedlings should be completely gone

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overnight like they were there today. They're not there in
the morning, that kind of thing. And if that's the case,
you may also see deer tracks, so it could be
the one could be a seedling, or it could be
the deer tracks. It also could be a disease. But
then you just see the rotted, fallen over, shriveled up
seedling the next morning. So it's gonna be one of

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those three.

Speaker 11 (02:22:58):
Did you eat sweetpeas?

Speaker 5 (02:22:59):
Though?

Speaker 2 (02:23:00):
Well, deer eat just about everything. There are a few
plants they don't like, but yeah, they'll eat sweetpeas. They
sure will. I'll eat sweet peas, so yeah, dere will
love them. But seriously, you with deer, you just have
to almost put like a little fence cage type thing
over them to keep them out of there because deer

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they yeah, they'll do a lot of damage.

Speaker 11 (02:23:26):
And should I try sweet peas and gammer?

Speaker 2 (02:23:30):
Should I try a different seedling?

Speaker 4 (02:23:32):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:23:33):
You should try sweetpeas again. Fall is a great time
to plant them, and you did the right thing planning
them in the fall because they grow slowly through the winter,
and next spring you're just gonna have good, good yields.
Is this the flowering type, the type that you grow
for flowers or the type you grow for eating.

Speaker 16 (02:23:52):
Flowers?

Speaker 2 (02:23:54):
Okay, well, then in the spring is when they'll take
off vining and grow in the flowers, and by fall
planting them, they have a head start, so you're doing
the right thing. Just replant them. If you don't see
any when you came out, where all of your seedling's gone,
or just some of them.

Speaker 12 (02:24:14):
I think all of them, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (02:24:17):
I saw like a shriveled husk, but I don't know
if it was one of them or if it was
something else.

Speaker 2 (02:24:22):
Okay, okay, well what you should do. I don't know
if you did this first time around, But if you
soak those seeds overnight, like let's say you're gonna plant
tomorrow tonight, you would put them in in warm water
and let them soak all night, and then when you
plant them, they're gonna come up faster that way. But
then figure out something you can cover them with when
they come up, you know. I it could be wire,

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like the kind of wire you put under a rabbit cage,
you know, for them to hop around on, or something
that just keeps the deer from getting to those seedlings.

Speaker 14 (02:24:55):
Okay, thank you, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:24:57):
You bet, Thank you for the call. Appreciate that. Take
care all right, there you go, there you go, And
I got called Grandpa. I think I know that Evelyn.
There you go. All right, so we are. We are
ready to go for some more calls. If you'd like

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I'll be right back with your calls. We are on

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our final segment today before I head out to Enchanted
Forest Garden Center down in Richmond area. If you have
a chance to come out, please come out and see me.
I'll be there. I'm aiming for eleven thirty and maybe
a few minutes later that I get there, but I'll
be there for at least two hours answering your gardening
questions and giving away Guess what, Medina has donated some

(02:27:06):
really cool stuff that I'll be giving away in addition
to giving away hopefully good accurate advice. I try to
do that. Like I say on Guardline, they're any stupid questions,
just stupid answer so the pressure is on me and
other words, to not give a stupid answer. Well, we're
gonna we're gonna try that out right now, and I'm
going to go out to Brenham, Texas and we're going
to talk to Leonard. Hey, Leonard, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:27:30):
Good morning. What you said weren't very much about the
bricks and growing vines on it on the west side
of your house, and you seem to say that that
might cut out some in the heat. So I was
very interested in that. I was concerned about with that
for brick, the strength of it or could it climb

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up into your attic maybe or yeah, amazing, you.

Speaker 2 (02:27:56):
Know any Okay, yeah, I get it. I get it.
Well it's a good question, Leonard. The answer on your
brick is no, it's okay, we'll hurt your brick. You
got to get if you're gonna have it stick to
the brick, you got to get a vine that has
what's called hold fasts, and those are little discs the
vine produces on what are the equivalent of aerial roots

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that stick to something. And so it's not the vines
that twine around stuff. It's not the vines that have
little curlicues that go out there and grab stuff like
a cucumber vine does. But it's the hole fast. But
what I would do is if you could put up
a wall in front of it of a strong material,

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like a livestock panel or something like that, it could
grow on that and then there'd be a space between
the wall and the brick. The only thing you have
to worry about, Leonard, is those things with hole fasts
when they get up and start touching your painted eaves. Yeah,
they can do some damage there because when you pull
them off, you're left with that little woody thing sticking

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to your paint. And and that's not good.

Speaker 7 (02:29:06):
Okay, all right, that's great. Another thing real quick for
you don't mind here and bred and we have a
problem with gumbo. I've got quite a bit of it.
You just can't find a place that a nice sandy loan.

Speaker 4 (02:29:17):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (02:29:18):
But I'd like to some fig some pig trees and
other fruit trees. And I want to big big hose
that I hear that you don't you don't replace that
dirt that you took out with this good soil. You
got to put back that gumbo. But yeah, even gumbo.

Speaker 2 (02:29:36):
So yeah, even gumbo. But but here's you got two options.
First of all, let me say this. Figs are happy
in gumbo. They are. Uh. You know, Houston had a
several hundred acres of figs back in long ago, uh,
commercially produced to southwest of Houston.

Speaker 6 (02:29:54):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:29:54):
And so figs are happy in that kind of soil.
That's all the rice paddy country out there, and they
can grow in that. I had a fig in some
horrible sticky soil at my house up you know it.
Just all you have to do is just give them
adequate water and they're happy. Now. The second thing, if
you wanted to take it up a notch, you could

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spread compost over a large area and roto till it
in to improve the soil a little bit, and then
dig the hole and plant the fig into that mix. Okay,
And so you're not putting compost in the hole. You're
you're mending the whole bed area. And then you're digging
the hole and using the amended soil that came out

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of the hole to go back in.

Speaker 7 (02:30:38):
So you don't ever put like rose soil in there, not.

Speaker 2 (02:30:44):
In a hole, because here's what happens if you dig
a hole one time one time in Houston, I went
to a place that had a whole row of red
Tippotinia shrubs alongside the building, and they were all dying,
and it was black clay soil. And when I went
I grab grabbed a shrub kind of pulled on it,
and it came right out of the ground and the

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roots were black and gooey and smell like swamp gas.
Because what happened is you dig a hole and now
you've got an underground bathtub, and you fill it full
of nice compost and put your plan in it. And
when it rains too much or you irrigate too much,
that organic matter decomposes anaerobically can get oxygen, and you

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get some nasty stuff coming out of there. So don't
make an underground bathtub and fill it with compost and
plant roots. Just amend the whole thing and figs will
grow in black clay. Don't worry about that.

Speaker 7 (02:31:38):
That's a good illustration, now I understand that. Thank you
so much. All right, I've got If you've got time,
box woods.

Speaker 2 (02:31:47):
Yeah, I got I got time. Sure, go ahead, I
got box with.

Speaker 7 (02:31:50):
I did five boxwood probably three months ago. And they're
all dying and Uh, I really I did everything I
could do, maybe doing what you just said about digging
a hole. I did add some really good soil after
I took out the plants that were there before and

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I replaced them all with these boxwoods. And now they're dying.
And I really I've got a big investment with labor
and plants and everything. I don't want to lose them.
But they're just dying.

Speaker 2 (02:32:25):
Describe dying to me. What is the whole plant going
at once? Do you lose one branch at a time
or what.

Speaker 7 (02:32:34):
There's twenty five of them in a row there, and
some of the plants have still got a little bit
of green on it, but the three fourths of it,
the leaves are just really brown. And these are new
little much the whole plant. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:32:51):
They're box woods.

Speaker 4 (02:32:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:32:54):
I know you've invested in them, and so we're going
to try to help you with that. In general, I'm
getting to where I hate to even recommend because they
get they can get nematodes in the roots that can
wear them down, take them down. They can get a
root disease, several root diseases, and then they can get
the box with blight, which tends to attack the top,

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and it usually hits a branch at a time. The
bottom line is, there's not a good control for any
of that, none of it, None of the things that
attack box woods. Do we have a great spray for
other than one or two of the root rots that
we can drench the soil for.

Speaker 7 (02:33:29):
But yeah, well I'm gonna pull them all out and
try to figure out something that would be nice edge
in front of my house.

Speaker 2 (02:33:37):
Okay, so let's let's do this, Leonard. If you will
follow a branch that's browning, not dead, but browning so
on its way, take your pocket knife and slice vertically
down that branch and look inside. If you see, like
if you cut it off with printers and you see
a ring of black, that's one disease. If you see

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just see discolor under the inside the branch all over,
that's like black gray brant, dark dark brown, that's a
disease indication. Pull up some roots when you got one
that's dying, and look for knots on the roots instead
of normal roots. It looks like a string of pearls,
or it's even knotted up worse than that, looks almost

(02:34:19):
like the michelin Man all bumpy and lumpy and everything.
If you see any of that and you want to
send me a picture, I could take a look at it.
I'm going to put you on hold and if you
choose to hang on and Chris will pick it up
and we will get you an email where you can
take some pictures and send them to me and I'll
be happy to diagnose it at the next step.

Speaker 7 (02:34:39):
Okay, fantastic, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:34:42):
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