Weed Wars II: The Root Strikes Back

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Scamp Richter's shoes.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
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Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well, good morning. See you're sitting here trying to figure
out what I want to talk about first this morning.
We got a lot going on I side in the garden.
And by the way that you're listening to the Garden Line,
I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you
have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. And I don't

(01:11):
forget the third part may even be the most important part.
More fun in the process, that is right, more fun
in the process. If you'd like to give me a
call this morning seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Let's talk about the things that you're
interested in. Well, what's going on out in the gardens? Well,

(01:33):
in my garden right now, there's still irrigation work going on.
I have been I uh, when I moved into my
house a number of years ago, I inherited a landscape
and an irrigation system that I have changed quite a bit.
You know, where there used to be grass, there's a
vegetable garden now. And where you know where there used
to be grass on on the other side of the house,

(01:53):
there is now an orchard. And so the old irrigation
system hasn't worked. And I've been a hose dragger, and
I've been a hand water and you know, going on
way too long doing that, and so I finally decided
why not get it in good shape. Well, you know,
when we water our lawns and landscapes, we are basically
using drinking water, process drinking water to keep our plants alive.

(02:15):
That's fine, I mean, that's how we have to do it,
unless you happen to have a well or a really
good rainwater collection system, which that is also on the
to do list for me. Anyway, Drip irrigation is such
an efficient way to water. And when I use the
term drip really what I mean is micro irrigation in

(02:36):
general as opposed to macro irrigation. So when you turn
on your sprinklers for your yard, those are big old sprinklers.
They may be rotors or multi stream rotors or pop
up sprinklers or whatever, but they're putting a lot of
water out just over a general large area. Right With
microin irrigation, it could be a drip line that is
literally dripping water out of little spots along the line,

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or it could be what's called a shrubler, and it's
like a little head that on a stick about six
inches long, maybe a little taller net, and it just
squirts water out and about I don't know, two for
six directions, maybe in a very large droplets, but way
down low. And then you go up one step from

(03:20):
that and you've got a microjet and that is on
typically on a little bit taller steak, and it's shooting
water out in a much larger area. Shrubbler's going to
wed an area about oh somewhere between six inches and
maybe ten inches across roughly, And then a microjet can
they got microjets can water three foot circles and so on.

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But they're put down low, they're sported out down low.
You don't have water going all over the place. And
they each have their advantages. And so I'm going to
talk about the micro irrigation a little bit as we
go through this first hour this morning and kind of
give you some of the differences. Perhaps you can think
about what might fit your situation the best, because anyway

(04:04):
you go about it, micro irrigation is going to be
more efficient. When you put turn on a sprinkler, your
water is flying through the air long distances. It's evaporating
as it does, it's landing on the foliage of plants.
Which the more often you water that way, the more
you promote disease. You are then losing to evaporation. Also
what lands on the foliage because nobody squeeges the water

(04:27):
off the leaves. It just sits there and til it
dries off when you get through it with that irrigation cycle,
So there's many reasons to put water down on the
soil only where plants need it. And that's what we'll
be talking about as we go through. Let's start off
this morning heading out to Porter and we're going to
visit with Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Good morning. I wanted to talk or pick your brain
about just a bumper crop of weeds in my flowerbeds.
I've got like a huge flowerbed with I don't know
twenty or thirty hibiscus, and I'm trying to you know,
nuts edge being one of the main contributors. But I've

(05:09):
got a lot of other weeds on, you know, in
around about flower beds, right, So I'm trying to figure
out what I can leverage to kill the weeds but
not hurt the hibiscus.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Okay, Well, weeds come in three types, grasses, broad leaves,
and sedges. Those are the primary types. And so with
anything that's a broad leaf weed, what kills it is
probably going to hurt your your hibiscus and other broad
leaf flowers and plants. So that's that's where you've got

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to be extra careful for. If it's just grassy weeds,
you can use a grass only killer and even if
it gets on the hibiscus, it's not going to hurt it.
It's it's designed to just kill grasses. So that is
an option there in your arsenal if you will, of course,
mult is the best thing of all. If it's a

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weed seed sprouting, Moltz prevents it from sprouting establishing a plant.
If it is something like nutsedge or Permuta grass or
something that's perennial, well, mults isn't going to stop it
at all. It'll just come right through. And then as
far as sedges, there are products that are specifically good
on sedges. If you go to my website, Bill I

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don't know if you've ever been to Gardening with Skip
dot com talk about it on the air periodically, and
on that website is a publication called nuts Edge and
End Depth Look And if you'll just take a look
at that, it explains the monster that you're dealing with
nutsedge and what to do about it. And there are
products that are very effective against it, and then some

(06:53):
that are only moderately effective. So you want to get
the one I recommend as very effective. It's an ingredient
that comes in more than one brand name and following
for the nuts edge itself.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Okay, go ahead, Candy. I went there, I believe a
while back, and I ended up with a sledgehammer. But
that's kind of what I've done, right, Like, I get
a gallon of that, you know, and I've built wiper.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, oh good, Okay, Well, so here's what I did.
I actually actually break that gallon pack it up, because
with a weed wiper, you're never going to get a
gallon on it one time. I mean I put about
a pint on it at a time with a weed wiper, uh,
you know, over walking all over the yard with a
pint of the mix. So I'll divide that gallon up

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into smaller sections and that way, you know, I maybe
maybe using a quarter of pint today and a week
or two for now you make another one and another one,
So you can go that route if you want to,
uh that that's possible.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
But reading that publication, you'll just see, you know how
you have to you have to stay on it because
you're not going to get it all the first time,
and then when it comes back up by the time
it has three to five leaves, you gotta do it
again or it'll already be making daughter plants and you'll
be going backwards. Even though you're killing the mother plant.
If it's already made eight daughter plants, you got an

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eight hundred percent increase despite the fact that you killed
that one. Plant. So it's diligence and and and timeliness
that's so critical. Uh, for for the other other kinds
of things, Like I said, the grassy products and then
the mult are probably your two best.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Go ahead, Okay, well, I was just gonna say, I'll
be over it Airlin soils picking up some more mults today.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Then oh okay, yeah, and then and get on the
get a dense molt get a dense maltch, to get
a dense maltz bill because uh, you know, a real chunky,
loose maultch, that's fine, but you have to put it
pretty thick in order to block all the light out.
You know, if you have a multi that's a little
smaller texture, finer texture, it doesn't take as deep of

(09:04):
a of a mulching to block all the light out.
So just keep that in mind.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
Uh, and mult accordingly, gotcha, because I use their like
natural mold, you know, which has no dies or anything.
And uh, yeah, I think that's that's relatively loose, but
I'll double check.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Well, and you know, there's nothing wrong with loose. You
just need to put put loose a little thicker more down,
which is fun. The advantage of a chunkier mulches, it
lasts longer. You know, a real fine texture. Mults can
break down pretty fast compared to So it's not a
good or bad. It's a Each one has its pros
and cons. So hey, I got to run to a

(09:47):
little break here, but good luck with that. I hope
you get I hope you get that in And if
you have any other questions, please follow up. We'll be
glad to visit.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
All right, Could I get one more question after the break?

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, after the break, ha, I'll put you on hold.
Folks will be right back. All right, we're back, folks,
welcome back to guardline.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
Good.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Hey, you with us.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Listen, if you're dealing with fire ants out there in
the yard, and especially if you need something that works
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Speaker 7 (10:17):
You know.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
We I like to put out baits for fire ants.
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(10:38):
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(11:02):
Then they work. So we're going to go back to
Bill here out in Porter Bill, I think you had
a follow up.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah, just one other quick question. I've got some sort
of little I think it's a white insect or white
looking Yeah, I'm assuming it's an insect on my high biscus.
I'm just trying to figure out what the best route
to get rid of them, to kill them.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Does it look a little fluffy, almost a cottony fluffy
kind of looking thing. Okay, that's probably mealy bugs. That's
the number one issue one will one of the top
fives that we deal with with hibiscus and mealy bugs
are difficult to kill. You know, you can. There's a
lot of ways to do it. You know, you can
squirt some inse exile soap for horticulture oils down in

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there on them. You just have to get them all coated,
and then you always miss some tiny ones and then
they grow up. So some people will use a systemic.
They put in the ground in the pod or the soil,
and the roots take it up and then anything that's
sucking juices out of that hibiscus plant will pick up
that poison and it'll kill them. But if you got

(12:13):
a lady beetle crawling across the leaf, well there's no
poison on the leaf. And so that's that's one of
the advantages of a systemic being put down in the soil.
Either way, you can do it, just guts to stay
with it. They're not easy to get rid of. The
systemic's a little more thorough of a way to go
about it. But you can kill them a lot of
different ways. You just have to be extra extra diligent

(12:35):
and stay on it unless you use the systemic.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Gotcha, okay, perfect, thank you?

Speaker 4 (12:42):
All right, Well, good luck with that. Sounds like you
got a hibiscus farm going on there, so let's let
me a picture. I'm sure it's.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Beautiful, absolutely all right, sir, Thank you, Thank you, have
a great day.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
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(14:26):
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were talking about I was talking about irrigating and micro irrigating,

(15:11):
and I've got some orchard beds. I've got some little
five by five boxes sitting on top of the ground,
and that's just to give the plants a good up
out of. This is an area that stays a little
on the wet side, and most fruit trees don't like that.
And so I've got some boxes and I need to
put some irrigation in them, and a big old sprinkler
system just isn't It isn't right for that kind of situation.

(15:33):
So what I'm doing is I'm putting some little microjet
sprinklers in those boxes, and they will thoroughly wet the area.
I could just as usual easily used drip. I've used
drip for orchards before. But either way you go about it,
the water comes out down low, it goes on the ground,
it goes in the soil, which is where plants need water.
They don't need it on their leaves, they need it

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on their roots. And so drip irrigation is the most
efficient way for you to apply. You're drinking water. That's
well our water line supply drinking water to those plants.
So you get the most bang for your buck with
the least concern about disease problems increasing disease problems. You

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got some rose bushes, maybe a row of rose bushes,
and they got black spot and powdery mildew and all
these kinds of things. Well, part of the reason can
be that you got a sprinkler coming on three times
a week and keeping that foliage wet, and so drip
micro irrigation is very efficient for that. I've got a
vegetable garden it it has a little drip lines in

(16:34):
it that drip out about every six inches. They've got
a little emitter and so the whole bed wets really nicely.
I've got it two different ways. One way, in fact,
the way I'm working on right now is with my
irrigation clock. That is the same clock used to water
the lawn. I just have a zone that's a drip zone,
but I also have a hose end connector you screw

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it into the hose. It's got your timer on it,
it's got your filter, it's got your pressure regulator. You
do need to bring the pressure down to about eight
eight to ten pounds per square inch, which is way
lower than my water pressure is anyway, and then those
lines go out. So I set the clock. If you
get a you can do anything from like an egg

(17:17):
timer clock that it hooks onto your faucet and hooks
onto your drip system and you just crank it up
and it just ticks down like an egg timer on
the kitchen counter. That's the cheapest way and the most
labor intensive way. I've got one, but that I can
set it and tell it. I want you to water
on Monday and Wednesday and Saturday, and I want you
to water for one hour. And you can even some

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of them are evens a nice You can tell them
water an hour in the morning, then water an hour
in the afternoon if you want. But anyway, however you
go about it, it's a good way to go. And
now wouldn't be a bad time to do it. We
still got a lot of warm weather left ahead and
then've got the cool season coming. But that's what I'm
working on. In the garden to day. In fact, we'll
be doing that right after the show. Uh, head to

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the house and get that done. That is important. After
you look at your summer water bills, you you can
start appreciating micro irrigation a little bit more. You're listening
to garden Line the phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. I was up this

(18:23):
morning getting ready to you know, head to do the show,
and I am sitting there listening to a bird. And
when I turn on my light in the room where
I wake up and sit and have coffee and try
to become a human again. Uh that light, there must
be a bird that roosts outside the window of that room,
because I can always hear them starting to wake up.

(18:44):
And may I think they're waking up. Maybe they're saying
bad bird language at me for turning a light on
in their eyes. But anyway, Uh, just listening to them
chirpo today. I love the sound of birds. I just
do you know, we look at gardening and we think
about well, gardening is about creating a beautiful visual you know,
all these colors and things, and absolutely it is. But

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gardening has so many facetts to it, and one facet
of gardening is sound. I don't know if you thought
about this, but birds are just It's just, it is
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the sound of wind going through bamboo. I love the
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(19:26):
for that. There are six wild Birds Unlimited stores for
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buy cheap bird seed, and cheap and inexpensive are not
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Right now, you got to get the hummingbird feeders out.

(20:09):
I got two at my house right now, go to
Wildbirds and do that. Hey, welcome back to guarden line.
Taking about Wildbirds Unlimited before I went to break there yesterday,
I have the wild Birds Unlimited High Perch hummingbird feeder.

(20:30):
What it is, it's kind of like a flat disk
and the birds sit all around it, so they're up
high where you can see them. They're not hiding behind this,
you know, bird feed while hummingbird feeder. And anyway, I
was just enjoying watching it, and I had a couple
of hummingbirds, and you know how those guys are. They're bullies.

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They start chasing each other off and yelling at each
other and everything else, which is kind of fun to watch.
But I decided I'm going to put another one out.
I have another hummingbird feeder that I had from years past,
and so I got it out there and got it
set up too, and I just noticed yesterday I was
looking at it and they were going around behind it
were one of them was feeding on the backsides. I

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couldn't even see a hummingbird. That's why I like the
Wildbird's Unlimited High Perch feeder so much. But here's the
thing you need to do. You need to when you're
when you're there at a Wildbird's Unlimited store, you need
to get their their little bottle of something called nectar defender.
And it just takes a little bit. It's it's it's
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of what they normally would eat, in fact. But what
it'll do is that will make the nectar last longer.
So imagine this. Get you a glass of sweet tea
and you know, drink about half of it whatever, take
a few steps and set it out there on your
picnic table or your patio or whatever, and let it
sit for two days and then go take a sip.

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Number one. You ain't gonna do that, are you. That's right.
I wouldn't either, because it's nasty, it's sugar water, it's
hot outside, it goes bad, and hummingbirds the same thing,
and so you got to change that out often every
two or three days at the most. But when you
put a nectar defender in there, it just takes a
little bit. When you put it in that water, it'll

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last like ten days. It goes a long time without
going bad. And that really helps the better for the birds,
better for you, because you know how it is. We
forget to change things out, but make sure and get
the nectar defender when you're there, grab you one of
those high perch feeders. Also because hummingbirds are here. Like
I said, I have two in the yard right now

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that are that are doing their thing and just so
much fun to enjoy them. By the way, too, just
another idea, why not plant for hummingbirds. They're a number
of plants that they like. They like Joe pieweed, for example.
They like a lot of the salvias, a number of
different salvias, like I've got some Salvia garnittica. It's kind

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of the purple blue colored, taller maybe four foot high.
Bush does okay in partial shade too, by the way,
although it likes sun and they love that. But there
are many others, you know, anything tubular and red typically
is going to be a hummingbird bush. They like fire
bush for example. They like the oh gosh, what's it
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like those they have tubular flowers on them. And there
are a lot of other things. I mean, I could
spend an hour just naming all the things that hummingbirds
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I want beautiful things that attract hummingbirds. I want a
landscape and not it's nice to have a pretty flower,
Yes you should do that, but why not have a
pretty flower that also attracts hummingbirds Because you know they
love feeders and they will come to the feeders. You
can bring them up close with the feeders, But why
not have a landscape full? If that happens and you

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see a year, next year, the following year, it's just
like word gets around next thing, you know. I mean,
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So stop buy plants for all seasons. Ask them what
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by the way, when you're there, they have gardens services
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You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter.
If you've got a question, you'd like to give me

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a call about well seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Give me a call. Let's talk
the things you're interested in. So today, after the show,
I am going to go out and continue to work
on my drip irrigation at the house and get all

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that set up. You know, the there are a lot
of different ways. Once you have drip irrigation too, that
you can use it. There's a little thing called a
Venturi injector Venturi and what that basically is. It's not battery,
it's not a motor, it's not plug in or anything.

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As water flows through the Venturi injector, it pulls up
whatever you want it to pull up into the water
just because of the pressure changes it goes through there. So,
for example, if you have a nutrient solution that you
want to put into the water, you can put it

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in a little bucket, drop the little line in there,
and it just draws it right in as it waters.
And so they call that. The fancy word for it
is furtigating. It's like you're fertilizing and irrigating at the
same time. And we had a lot of great products,
you know, you hear me talk about these products all
the time that are liquids that we can use enhance

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our plant growth and things. And a little Venturion injector
is not very expensive. But once you have that dripline
going and it's running and you've set it up, you
got to have a backflow preventter on it. It's it's
a way that you can supplement if you wanted to
supplement with you know, maybe they need a little bit
of a a of an iron supplement, or maybe you
want to give a little boost a nitrogen, or maybe
there's some some hormones and vitamins, and you know, all

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the different substances that we can put down for our plants,
you can run those through your Venturi injector. So just
another advantage of having a micro irrigation system set up
for your beds and gardens and things. We'll take a
little break here, we'll come back with your calls in
just a moment at seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. All right, welcome back.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
To guard Line.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Good to have you with us this morning. Hey, have
you got a question seven one three fifty eight seventy four.
Can we call? We'll talk about it. The Fall Montgomery
County Home and Garden, our Home and outdoor Living show
actually is next weekend Saturday, September sixth and Sunday September seventh.
Then I'm going to be out there on Saturday, and
I hope you will come out to see me. I'll

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be giving a talk on you know, some fall gardening
advice and things. I'm going to be giving away some
free fertilizer products from Nelson Plant Food, so you definitely
want to grab some of that, uh and providing you
I have my schedules with me and a bunch of
other things. So just come on out to the Fall
Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. By the way,

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where is that Well, that is out near the airport
in Cotton, north east part of Conroe.

Speaker 8 (30:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
It is on Airport Road at the event center. They've
got a big, old, nice event center out there called
the Lone Star Convention and Event Center. It's a wonderful show.
I always like going. Lots of good things to see.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners are going to be there. They're
have a little booth there so you can come out
and see them as well. That's a group you want
to definitely spend some time visiting with. But that'll be

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next Saturday, so make plans if you will. Now, we'd
love to have you come out and visit with me.
What are we going to talk about, Well again, whatever
you want to talk about. But I've got some things
on tips for success with your lawn and your garden
and other things like that out there at the Montgomery
County Home and Outdoor Living Show next Saturday, Right next Saturday. Oh,

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by the way, I'll be there from twelve to two,
twelve noon to two pm. So spend a little while
talking and then a good while at my little table
where they set me up. And that way, if you
want to bring a sample or something like that in,
we can diagnose it or identify it or I don't know.
In some cases give it last rites if that's a

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condition that the sample is in. Glad to do that too.
Piercecapes is our landscape are here on garden Line, and
it's because the kind of work that they do. You
will not believe what they can do to make your
place look unbelievably beautiful, whether you want. You know, maybe
got a brand new house and you just want to
do the whole nine yards with them. Maybe you've got

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a nice landscape, but there's just an area where you know,
we need some beds over here. These beds need revamp.
We need to fix them up and get them going good.
They can do that. They do everything, drainage, irrigation, plant lighting, hardescapes.
They do everything. And you'll see that if you go
to the website peerscapes dot com. Something else that they
offer though, and this is worth noting. They do a

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quarterly maintenance program where you can have them come out
and once a quarter they come out and they look
at your beds, They go through them. Any weeds that
are there, any molts that need are plenished, they can
do that. They check the irrigation system, make sure it's
working properly. Boys that ever important right now, and they
just they spruce things up. If you need a color

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change out, they can do that. You know, when you
got your pansies in the winter, are not going to
be there in August, that's for sure. Right We do
several We can do several color changes a year here
in our area so it always looks good. And that
is what peer scapes about, is making sure your place
looks good. Here's a phone number two eight one three
seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five

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zero six zero pierscapes dot com. Go check out the website,
see what I'm talking about, and ask them about their
quarterly maintenance program. I was at Ace Hardware store the
other day taking a look at some barbecue equipment that
they had because I'm always in need of a new
piece of barbecue equipment or accessories and things like that.

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You know, ACE is a place where you're always going
to find what you're looking for. You the ACE makes
living better. It does inside the home too. We were
checking out, in fact, I was with my wife going
through this store and we were checking out some of
the indoor accouterments that they have just to make the
place nice. Kind of a farmhouse.

Speaker 9 (34:17):
Look.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
I had some supplies for that, you know, that's kind
of popular now, but not just that one. I mean,
they have anything you want to do to make that
indoor home just a place you want to bring friends
in and sit and enjoy. And the same is true
for the outdoor, that patio, everything you need to make
living better, to make your place a place you want

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to bring people and entertain or just sit back and relax.
ACE Hardware Texas dot Com is the website where you're
going to find your local ACE Hardware store is part
of my garden line ACE Hardware Group. ACE Hardware Texas
don't forget the word Texas dot Com. Ace Hardware Texas
dot Com. I don't care if you need air filters.
Time changes by the way. You're supposed to do it

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once a month. Our paint deck, preservation products, a geneed
propane for your barbecue, they got that too, quality tools,
they have it all. ACE is the place and they're everywhere.
For example, got to Lake Conroe, Lake Conroe ACE Hardware
on one oh five West. How about let's go way
southwest to Rockport. Rockport ACE Hardware State Highway thirty five

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on the west side, Hardware City a memorial drive. I
was there just earlier this year, League City. ACE done
in League City on West League City Parkway. Or let's
go northeast for our final example, Jnr's Importer. Another place
I've been love that store, Jnr's Importer on FM thirteen fourteen.
Those are just what five of many many ACE Hardware

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as you'll find it. ACE Hardware Texas dot Com, ACE
Hardware Texas dot Com. This fall, I'm going to be
out at Nature's Way Resources. If you haven't been a
Nature's Way, they're up there and almost to Conroe. As
you go up forty five, right about where fourteen eighty

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eight comes in from Magnolia, you turn right, don't go
to Magnolia, turn right and go across the railroad tracks
and you'll be there at and then you know, I
talk about places, and I say, this is a great place.
They got great products and stuff, but just really need
to go listen. Nature's Way Resources is kind of like
the grandfather of places that produce quality products when it

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comes to soil, because long ago John Ferguson decided to
create a company that did things in Nature's Way, even
to the point of inventing specific blends for specific kinds
of plants and uses such as roast soil, such as
soils for vegetables and herbs and such as. You know
you hear us talk about leaf More Compost all the time. Well,

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leaf More Compost was born at Nature's Way Resources. You
just need to go there and check them out. You
can also find their by the bag all over town
and you can have them deliver, or you can go
there and pick it up if you want to go
pick it up bulk. Either way you want to go
about it, you just need to go about it. Nature's
Way Resource is the kind of place that you definitely

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want to go by and check out, and I'll tell
you more about it. I think it's eleventh that I'm
going to be out there eleventh of October. I'll tell
you as we get closer to that though, definitely want
to come out and see me if you would.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
Have you.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
But those of you down south and to east, you know,
I'm always bragging on our mom and pop garden centers
around here, and well you got a good one south
and east, south and west. I'm sorry, I'm directionally challenged
this morning in Chanted Forest Garden Center. And Chanted Forest
is a place that provides every kind of plant you
can imagine, lots of wonderful plants to attract pollinators in

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whether it's butterflies, or bees or hummingbirds or you name it.
There on FM twenty seven fifty nine down south of
fifty nine, down south of fifty nine. So you're at
Richmond Rosenberg going toward let's say Sugarland. It's off to
the right down that way. Ninety different types of salvia.
Good night. Favorite genus of plants that there is for me,

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They've got them. Here's a website you got to go
to this write this down Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. They're loaded up with
those fall veggies and herbs right now and fall flowers.
Oh my gosh, you got to get by there and
see them. Cool place the Chended Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.

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All right, music means I got to quit talking. We're
gonna go away for a little bit. I need another
cup of coffee. Wake me up a little bit here.
I just made a couple of verbal bloops because my
brain is misfiring. So we're gonna fix that and be
back with your questions here in just a moment. In
the meantime, if you'd like to give the producer a
call so that when we come back you can be

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first up seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two Friday seven four.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rickard's.

Speaker 10 (39:14):
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Speaker 4 (39:47):
Good morning, folks, Good morning on a good Saturday morning,
on what's going to be a good day for gardening.
Looking forward to get not doing some my my own
this afternoon especially, But if you have a question, we
can assist you with well seven one three, two one

(40:08):
two fifty eight seventy four of that's what you need
to call. Listen if you did some summer fertilizing, but
right now it's been a while and maybe you want
to give your lawns a boost. It wouldn't be a
bad IDEA Sweet Green from Nitrofoss will do that. It
gives a good quick boost. This is a product that
you put it down. First of all, it smells wonderful.
Then that's what it has a name, sweet Green. It's

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like you're smelling molasses or something. Just has a nice
sweet fragrance to it. You put it down your watered in,
it dissolves away. The microbes go nuts because it's lots
of carbon in this fertilizer and they just take it apart.
Release that nitrogen. The grass gets happy in green and
you get happy as a result. It's not a slow release,
and right now we don't need to be putting a

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super slow release on because we got fall fertilizing coming
up where we're going to switch our blend a little
bit for the fall season. So Sweet Green from Nitrofos
great choice for right now to carry you over until
we do this again in October for our lawns. Where
do you get night foss products, Well, you're going to
find them at places like Plants for All Seasons on
Highway two forty nine, Ace Hardware City down a Memorial

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Drive carries night FoST products there as well. If you
go to M and D out in Rosenberg on Avenue I,
you're going to find night foss products there also, like
Sweet Green. Let's set out to the phones. We're going
to go now to Southeast Houston and talk to John. Hey, John,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
Thank you for having me. I appreciate the appreciate your time.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
You bet.

Speaker 11 (41:41):
So.

Speaker 12 (41:41):
I've got pond rose lemons grown from seed. The trees
have been on the ground about five years, some almost
six years. Of course the freeze keeps knocking them down,
but they have not produced, and right now they're just
something to mow around. I've been using top goal ten ten.
I don't know if I needed to go to spikes

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or I just want to supercharge them or kill them
one or the other.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Okay, yeah, well, pone rosa is it gets it makes
a monster of size of a lemon tree in time.
If the freeze doesn't knock it out. It being a seedling,
it may take a while to start producing seedlings. Seedlings
are like little little babies. They have to grow up
to reach a stage where they are capable of reproducing

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and you know, putting on blooms and putting on lemons
and things like that. So it does take a take
a while. And to the tree is even able to
do this how long? Who knows, you know, it depends
on the growing conditions, the health of the tree, and
in the genetics of the seed that you put in
the ground. I would say be a little patient with it.

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But as far as fertilizing, don't do spikes. Just get
you a good quality lawn fertilizer or if you want
to go and get one specific for fruit and things.
We have a number of options you know that you
can I know Nelson Fertilizer products. They have a citrus
and fruit tree types of fertilizer by the jar that

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you can put out there as well. For most of mine,
especially a bigger tree like that, I'm just going to
use a little lawn fertilizer on it. About a pound
for every inch of trunk diameter is usually a good
a good starting place and a pound. By the way,
for most fertilizers is a pint. For lighter weight fertilizers,
it may be more than a pint.

Speaker 12 (43:35):
Okay, So just a standard not I mean, you know
I've been putting ten ten ten on it. But what
what just a standard grass fertilizers.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Yeah, just a lot, just like a typically lawn fertilizers,
or somewhere around the three one two ratio. You know,
an example would be fifteen five to ten because that's
a three one two ratio of nutrients. But it didn't
have to be those numbers. There's a lot of good
products out there, Microlife for examples organic they have a

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six two four fertilizer that's a three to one to
two ratio. Also, you would use more of that because
it's lower concentration of nutrients. But you're not trying to
You just want to go easy. You don't need to
push it too hard. And in fact, if you overfertilize
with nitrogen, you actually hamper fruiting. You want to just
keep it good and healthy. So that's the thing. Sunlight

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and time, that's what's going to get you upon a
rosal limon.

Speaker 13 (44:32):
Okay, and hopefully the freezer will lay off for a while.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Hopefully hopefully so hopefully so if you ever, well, if
you plan it a seed you probably know what upon
a rose of lemon looks like those are monsters?

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Yes, sure, yes, for that we I appreciate so much
the information.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
All right, thanks to call. Appreciate that. John. You take
care and good luck, good luck getting that thing to behave. Yeah,
that that is the case. You got it, you gotta.
That's why we plant grafted trees, because with a grafted tree,
what they've done. You know, I said that the seedlings
are juvenile, they haven't matured yet. With a grafted they

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take a bud or a piece of wood a graft
and they put it from a mature tree onto it.
So instantly you're transferring mature tissues to that root stock,
and so you get fruiting a lot faster when you
do grafting and budding stuff. So on, Hey, the pest bros.
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Whether it's termites, you want something that is put down
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that are running around out there. They can do that
At pest Bros. They know how to tree effectively, then
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whether it's cockroaches in the house, whether it's wild arm
it's running around like a rat's outside the house. They
can cover all of that. Dpestbros dot Com, dpestbros dot

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com two eight one two oh six forty six seventy
two eight one two zero six four six seven zero.
Let's go now to northwest Houston. We're gonna talk to Kenneth. Hey, Kenneth,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (46:33):
Good marn sir, how are you.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Doing?

Speaker 4 (46:36):
Good?

Speaker 6 (46:38):
Good?

Speaker 13 (46:39):
We held two different Now I have two different kinds
of weeds in my yard and it's frustrating. I can't
seem to get rid of it. I've gone to plans
for all season and got some crabgrass killer, and but
that I mean, it works but it kills the you know,
Sant Augustine of your ass when it's when it's hot.

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But I was wondering, I'm trying to send some pictures
to you. I'll send them and I'll let you respond
if if if you okay, please.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
Yeah, we can do we can do that. Just did
my Do you have the email? Do I need a
picture on whole so my producer can give it to you.

Speaker 13 (47:25):
No, he gave it to me. I'm I'm in the
process right now.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
Good. Well, we'll take a look at them and I'll
comment on them on the air and look forward to
helping you with that. Kenneth. Make sure the pictures are
in good sharp focus, good sharp focus, and get up
close so I can see what those things are. Sometimes
I get pictures that are from a distance. It's kind
of hard to make it out, all right, Yes, appreciate that. Yeah,
good quality pictures, that's what's the boy. I've gotten some

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excellent pictures from listeners lately. Oh my gosh, just really good.
And it's like it makes it so easy to help you.
It's like I'm at the house looking at it, and
so that's that is a very helpful thing. Appreciate that.
What I hate is when I get one though that's
fuzzy and it's halfway across the yard, or you know,
it's like, what's this weed? And I see grass and

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I'm zooming in trying to find the weed they're talking about,
and then it gets all pixelated. So yeah, it's frustrating
because I can't help. I want to be able to help.
I want to be able to help. Southwest Fertilizer corner
of Bisinat and Runwick is the place where you're going
to go and find everything you're looking for, I mean everything.
What is it that you need? Is it a product

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for weeds or diseases or insects? Is it a fertilizer?
Is it a tool? Is it something to apply, you know,
like an fire ant applicator or a farent bait applicator
or a fertilizer applicator. Do you need seeds for the
fall garden? Bob's got a great, great variety of seeds.
They're at Southwest Fertilizer along with the products you need

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to put and to make sure you get good production
out of those seats. Corner Bison, Nut and Renwick. They're
in their seventieth year now, that's amazing. Companies that've been
around seventy years. You know, you know they're taking care
of their customers, and you know people aren't showing up
and they go, yeah, we don't have that, and they go, no,
we got five of them. Which one do you want?
They're right over there. Come on, I'll take you to them.

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That's the kind of service you get at Southwest Fertilizer,
corner of Businet and Renwick. Seven one three six sixty
six one seven four four seven one three six six
six one seven four four. So I get going here
and talking and I kind of lose track of time.
I at the look and say, yeah, it's time for

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me to hush and go to a break here. We'll
be right back with your calls. Hey, welcome back to Guardenline.
Good davey with us. All right, what are you going
to talk about? You tell me by giving us a call.
Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Happy to visit with you, help you have success. Let's

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head uh, let's say let's do this. We head out
the phones to Willis, Texas. This morning. Talked to Micah. Hey, Micah,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (50:12):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
So, uh, I sent your email. I don't know if
you've got the pictures or not.

Speaker 14 (50:21):
I did did, Okay.

Speaker 15 (50:24):
I was told of some kind of Chinese invasive species.
But I got quite a few of them in my yard,
and every time I cut them down, they grew. They
grow back.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Worse than like a crape myrtle does.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
And I can't. I just can't kill them.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
I don't want to.

Speaker 15 (50:47):
I don't know if you got I put salt. I've
cut one down and poured salt on it and covered
it up with a five gallon bucket, and it still
grows with nose, sunlight or anything. Uh still growing?

Speaker 16 (51:02):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Is it coming from that tree right beside it? Is
this sprout out at the bottom of it?

Speaker 15 (51:11):
Yes, and it never used to be there before. But yeah,
it's right next to a mimosa tree. And I don't
want to kill my mimosa tree.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
Oh okay, so that's a mimosa the trunk I see. Yeah,
I'm having trouble seeing exactly which plant it is. But
I'll tell you how to get rid of it. That is,
if you will cut these back first, get you a
product that contains the ingredient. You have a pin or
pencil handy there, I can grab one. I mean, yeah,

(51:44):
let me grab one. Grab one. I'm going to give
you a product in a minute. And this product kills
broad leaf, especially woody shrubs, but it'll kill all the
broad leaves too, so you're gonna be careful with it.
But if you've got some hard to kill things like
hack berries coming up in the fence line, or poison
ivy coming up in places, or you know those kind

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of things, that this will will kill them. And the
ingredient is triclope here, and I'm gonna spell that out
t R I c l O p y r. T
R I c l O p y r. And what
you're gonna do is you you you don't need to
spray it. I mean, well, you could spray it if

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you're very careful to only get it on this plant.
But generally what I'll do is I'll cut everything off
back near the base, just leave it about, you know,
a couple of inches high, and then like paint, that
triclo peer directly onto the cut surfaces. So right after
you cut it, you just get you I take a

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little like one of those little sponge brushes you get
for painting at the at the paint store, and and
just dip it directly in the trackle peer. Don't don't
cut it, don't dilute it or anything. Just dip it
in there and dab it on all those cut surfaces
and it'll translocate down and it'll kill it. Now, you know,
if it's a super it looks like this is a
lot of underground energy that because this thing's been coming

(53:13):
back and coming back, so you may it may re
sprout some me and you have to do it again.
But this goes down in and kills it from the
roots down. And so that's that's the way to go. Anytime.

Speaker 7 (53:23):
You can.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Not if you paint the tricle peer directly onto the
cut surfaces of this weed.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
Okay, Okay, Now, if.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
You had a mimosa sprout down there and you sprayed
it on and you got some on the mimosa, yes,
but we're not. We're just applying it to the cut
surface of this we You won't cut that weed back
to a couple of inches high, and you're just gonna
dab it all over those cut surfaces and it'll move
down and it'll do the job.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
Okay, Can you spill it one more time. I got
c t ri I colop.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Y are try peer p y R when you go
buy it. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's gonna be
it's gonna be easy to find. They they probably have
some out. Uh you've got an ACE hardware store there

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on one o five. Uh, and I mean I'm sorry
on forty five. Oh gosh, is that all Seasons Ace?
Is that the name of the one up there? I
was up there recently.

Speaker 8 (54:31):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (54:31):
Anyway, go in there and say and it'll the name
of the product will be something like brush killer or
poison ivy killer, you know those kinds of names. But
the ingredient is triclo pier and uh it works. But again,
just straight out of the bottle, get a little dabber
and dab it right on there and it'll do their job.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 14 (54:56):
I appreciate the time.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
All right, Michael, you take care, Yes, sir, have a
good weekend, you bet. Oh I tell you what. Let
me do this. I'm going to make sure I'm giving
you the the right Hang on just one second, make
sure I'm saying the right. Sorry, it is taking message. Yeah,
it's all Seasons Ace in Willis on I forty five North.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Yeah, okay, yes, I'm familiar.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
Yip, okay, good good. I just want to make sure
I wouldn't send you the wrong place. You bet alrighty yeah,
woody weeds. In fact, folks, the rest of you listening going, yeah,
I've got some poison ivy, or I've got some such
and such. Well, if you go to my website, Gardening
with Skip dot com, that's where I put the things
that are resources for you. And if you go there

(55:45):
and you look for herbicides for Skip's weed wiper, there's
a publication called that I need to change the name
because it's not just for the weed wiper. But anyway,
there you'll find a list and it'll you look down
as to the kind of weed you Maybe it's a
grassy weed. It tells you the things that kill grassy weeds.
Maybe it's a broadly weed. It tells you things that

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killed broadly weeds. Maybe it's a woody shrub vine. Maybe
you've got pepper vine, maybe have poison ivy, maybe you
have something like that. Trickle Peer will be the one,
and then it'll give you the brand names of trickle Peer,
the several brand names that you can buy it in
and that's true with each of these products. So it
makes you real easy. Do you have a yard with

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wild onions while garlic coming up in it, Well, it's
on the list. Go check it out. It'll tell you
what to use. So that's what that's there for. Avoids
you wasting time and money and unnecessary environmental degradation. We
try to avoid that. It's best we can. You're listening
to garden Line the phone number seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, Airloom Soils. They're
up in Porter Taxes, but they are actually all over
the place because their bags are in stores all over
the Houston area and beyond. Airlom Soil has quality products
like illegal compost like a veggie and herb mix that's
one of their most popular products, like a product called

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rose and other bloomers, blend roses and other bloomers. Those
are all high quality products produced by Airloom Soils up
there in Porter, Texas area. You can go up and
get them. If you got a trailer you pick up
you want to go get them, you can do that.
You can call them up and have them bring it
to you. And if you do that, you got a
couple of options. You can say, bring me a supersack

(57:30):
that is a cubic yard in a big, old, giant,
very strong sack that they lift up and set on
your driveway and it's so neat, clean and easy to do,
very easy to do. Now you get there's a minimum.
You know, there's a three sack minimum for delivery. Because
the biggest thing with all these multing and soil products, folks,
is it is expensive. With all the permits for highways

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and things like that that a company has to go
through to just drive you a yard of compost across
Houston is it's a It costs them a lot to
do that. So they have a minimum for a good reason.
But bulk is the most inexpensive way to go. So
you can have them deliver it. You can also have
them deliver it bulk, just dump it on the driveway.
They can do that. They can say a number of

(58:15):
yards that way. All you got to do is give
them a call and here is the number two eight
one three five four nineteen fifty two eight one three
five four nineteen fifty. When you give them a call,
talk to them about the different products and options they have,
or better yet, go to Heirloomssoils dot com and look
at it yourself. See what I'm talking about. They've got

(58:36):
lots of grade options Heirloomsoils dot Com. As simple as that. Well,
let's see here, we're coming up on another hard, very
hard break, and so Steven deer Park, we're gonna come
to you first when we come back, so we have
time to give you at a good time for your
question and helping you with that. In the meantime, go
check out my website, Gardening with Skip dot Com. There's

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a lot of stuff on there. When I get questions
on the air, and you know, it's like it takes
a long time to answer them, I create a publication
that makes it real simple. Is everything you need to
know in it Gardening with Skip dot com. Go check
it out. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to
garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. Good to have
you with us today. Give us a call you got

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a question. Seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Hey, Buchanan's Plants in the Heights is the
place to go. You already know this. Buchanan's Plants got
the best selection of natives anywhere in the region period.
But they're not just natives. They're way, way, way more
than just natives. They have everything that you might need
right now fall, you know, fall ornamental grasses or I

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love them, and they put on their show in late
summer and fall. So many of them, you know, put
up the bloom heads and in the case of certain ones,
even as the frosts and things arrive, the colors are
just beautiful with the ornamental grasses.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
I love.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
I love to see a frosty morning with the frost
on ornamental grass heads and the sun shining through ugh,
just gorgeous, gorgeous things like Lennhiber's muley bushy blue stem
Inland Sea Oas is a good one, Purple love grass,
there's Gulf Coast muley probably my favorite of the ornamental
grasses native in this region. Sideoaks grama little blue stem,

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big blue stem, Indian grass. They got all of that
and more at Buckin's Navy Plants. Now, I want to
remind you that it is the season where we think
about mums, and when it comes to mums ornamental excuse me,
buchanans totally. As you covered any kind of fall color plants.
You want the Halloween colors, you know, the oranges and

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the rusty reds and all those yellows and things like that.
They've got those, but they also have everything else to
beautify your place. That's just just how they rolled there.
By the way, today after the show here starting at
ten am to eleven am, free class at Buchanna's Native
Plants on starting Texas Natives. You want to learn how

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to start Texas Native plants from seed. Show up this morning.
Doesn't cost anything and they will get you all set up.
They're going to have a fellow from next door nursery,
Blas spin Can be coming in and doing that talk.
And while you're there pick up a lot of the
wonderful things they have for the season. Right there at
Buchanna's Native Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights. We're

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going to go now to Deer Park and visit with
Steve this morning. Hey Steve, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:01:36):
Oh, good morning, Skip. We have a crape myrtle tree
that is loaded with the buds. But they've been there
a long time and they're not opening. And I know
last year we had some that never did open at
the end of the summer. I mean, bloom's real nice
in the spring and stuff. But should I just cut

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those off or are they gonna do something to make
them open.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
Or what.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
Steve, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm about ninety percent sure
what you're looking at, or the pods of the seeds
after a bloom. I could be wrong. I don't know
why craps would just sit there and not open, But
after the bloom you end up with these little pods
that are a little bigger than English p h and
they're all over the thing. And so if you'll grab

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on those, cut it off and just take a little
knife or scissors and whatever cut through it and you'll
know inside you'll see that it's seeds inside that. Then
you can just take those off. Some people print them
off as they start to form, as when the bloom's fade,
because the plant puts more energy into blooming. But that's
a very tedious process and most people aren't gonna do

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that with their crape myrtles. But you can't print all right, Yeah,
that's I think that's what you're seeing.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
You're probably right. I'll check that and then anyways, good
to know, So thank you appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
Yeah, good weekend, hasty, Well, thanks for the call. Appreciate
that a lot call back anytime. That is as are
one day they're going to come up with a crape
myrtle that doesn't set seed and it puts all its
energy back into more blooming and that will be an
improvement for sure. Who knows if they I guess if
they could do it easily, they have already done it

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long time ago. Listen, if you are wanting to give
your plants a boost and you're looking for a quality
liquid product that can do just that, the volks at
Microlife have got you covered. The Biomatrix that's the orange
labeled bottle, comes in a court and comes in a gallon.
It's a seven to one to three fertilizer. It is
a great nutrient boost for any plant you got, house plants,

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outdoor plants, vegetables, herbs, I mean, you name it, it's
a plant, it's going to benefit from Biomatrix orange label. Now,
if you're looking for more of a fish based fertilizer,
that would be the Ocean Harvest blue label. It's a
four to two three fertilizer. Bay on the fish, fish
and mulsion type product and it works really really well.

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The other day, I was trying to give a boost
to the root system of some plants that I just
put in, and I got the AF. Micro Microlife's AF
product is a liquid and it just gives a good boost.
They have so many I mean, I don't even know
where to begin with Microlife products. They've got products that

(01:04:27):
are loaded. The AF, for example, has I believe eight
different kinds of beneficial microbes in it. You know, there
are microbes that fight disease, right, some of them are
strup to mice, some are trechoderma, some are basillas types. Well,
they've got several of each of those in this product
and you put it down there in the root system
and it's going to benefit. It can be used as

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a folio spray too, by the way, And whatever the
product is, if it's from Microlife, you know it's natural
and you know it works. That's the bottom line. And
I never put a plant in the ground with out
giving it some sort of a boost to get us started.
And micro Life has so many options to help you
do just that. We're gonna go down to the North side,

(01:05:08):
UH and talk to Wayne. Hey, Wayne, welcome to Guardenline.

Speaker 17 (01:05:12):
Hey, mister skip you today. Yeah, I just wanted to
call just wanted to call him to give you a
little update. A couple of weeks ago, I called you
bought some merry golds the spider mics.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
So yeah, they ate them, ate some of them up.

Speaker 17 (01:05:27):
But uh, that little test worked out good. I was
able to save a couple of the merry golds and
some of them died off. I'll pulled them up. But
I had a couple of questions and I'll hang up
and listen. Uh, so, well, the spider mice try to
attack some of my other flowers, and why did they
only attack the merry golds? And thank you all having them?

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
Well, uh, Wayne, did you when you said test? Do
you Wayne when you said up? Lost him? I think
about testing man. He put a piece of paper under
him and and thump the leaves real good and then
knock some mites off. And you can see him crawling
around on a white piece of paper. So spider maight's
like a lot of things. They have a pretty large
menu of what they like. Some things they love, and

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marigols they love. They absolutely love marigals. Uh, and when
it's hot and when it's dry, when it's dusty, that's
spider might heaven. And so maragols are good for the spring,
and they're good for the fall. Actually, as we get
into September. I often tell people plant miracles at the
end of August, because as we go into the fall,

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the spider maight reproduction, the population explosion just crashes, and
you don't have a big spider maight problem as things
begin to cool off in the fall, and your maragols
will absolutely glow in the fall. But they do like
a lot of other plants. I have an Angel's trumpet
that they love, uh and they're just there's a number

(01:06:49):
of different ones. They love tomatoes, for example. The list
is too long to even try to go through. But
spider mites can be knocked out with a blast of
water for up from underneath the plant. Now, if it's
a little tiny plant growing three inches above the ground's
kind of hard to get under it with a spray
gun of water. But if you can blast the water off,

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that's what I do on my angels trumpet. I just
put my hand above a leaf and blast the bottom
sides of the leaves. Knock ninety percent of the mites off.
The ones that are left end up getting fungal diseases
of their bodies from that wet condition, and it works
really well. So that's that's the way you can do it.
And sexcidal soap will work on spider mites too. All

(01:07:31):
you got to do is get them a bath. If
you don't get them wet and soap, you don't kill them.
So spraying over the top of your plant does absolutely
nothing for spider mites. You gotta spray the bottom of
the leaves where they're hiding underneath there, and that's that's
the way to do it. But good news is the
weather's gonna take care of it and the day length
and everything, and they're gonna be going away, so you

(01:07:52):
don't have to worry about them. You know, they're still
there now doing their thing, but within a month they're
gonna they're gonna have been shutting down. So if you
pull out those old marigals and put some new ones
in now, it's okay to do that. Go ahead and
put the new ones in now, and you're gonna have
a beautiful fall full of maragals for that. Just keep
that in mind, hey, League City feed down in League City,

(01:08:12):
Texas is one of those old time feed stores that
is just it's fun to go into. They take care
of you. You know, you buy something from a big
old bag or something, let them carry it out for you.
They'll be happy to do that. Take the car for you.
You're gonna find the fertilizers I talk about here, things
from nitrofoss azamite product for example, micro Life products, Nelson

(01:08:34):
plant food. They got all of that. They carry bags
of heirloom soils too. You want some of these great
heirloom products, they've got them there at League City Feed.
It is on Highway three, just a few blocks south
of ninety six in League City. So you go across
ninety six cities west head done south on three a
few blocks and they'll be on the left if you're

(01:08:54):
go in that direction. So whether you're in Santa Fe
or Okaming to Real, Webster Bay, Cluff, Lamarx and Leone, Clare,
Lake City, all those communities, this is your hometown feed store.
League City Feed open Monday through Saturday, nine to six
two eight one three three two sixteen twelve two eight
one three three two one six one two. Time for

(01:09:15):
me to take a quick break we'll be right back
with our last segment of the hour. Hey, welcome back
to Garden Line, folks. We are here to help you
have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more fun
in the process. You can give me a call at
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
We'll be happy to do just that. Listen, if you

(01:09:36):
are noticing doors sticking in your house, if you see
cracks in the sheet rock, if you see cracks on
the brick on the outside, something's moving. That's why I
was telling you. Something is moving. And that means you
need to have your foundation checked. And here's who you
need to have it. Here's who you need to have
do it, and that is ty Strickland. He is it

(01:09:57):
fix my slab foundation repair. He owns fixed my lab
foundation repair. He'll come out and he'll give an honest assessment.
He'll take a look, professionally, listening. He knows how to
do this. He is a native Houstonian, fifth generation Texan,
been doing foundation work for twenty actually more than twenty
three years now, probably closer to twenty five years.

Speaker 13 (01:10:17):
Tye is.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
He's just a straight shooter, you know. He says I'll
be there at a certain time. He shows up at
that time, he gives you a price. It's a fair price.
You hire him to do the job. He fixes it right.
But he'll also tell you if you don't need work done,
just because there's movement doesn't mean you have to go
in there and turn up the world fixing your foundation.
He understands what needs to be done, how and when,

(01:10:41):
and he'll tell you that. That's why I just don't
be an ostrich. Don't stick your head in the sand
because there's a crack in a wall. Just talk to Ty.
Let him take a look at it. He knows what
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Two eight one two five five forty ninety nine. Give
you that again. Two eight one two five five four
nine four nine. I was checking out in Channy Gardens.
I can't I go by to see all my garden
centers as often as I can, and I also kind
of followed them online, see what's going on, what's happening,

(01:11:22):
and what the folks that enchanted gardens have gotten in
a bunch of beautiful Talavera pumpkins. Oh they look great.
They just are gorgeous. In fact, they have all kinds
of if you like the Talavera look, I mean, they
have planters that are like Talavera armadillas and things like that.
It's just just go buy there. Listen, this is a

(01:11:45):
fun place because number one, they have all the kinds
of plants you want, everything for the season, every season
of the year. They always are stocked up and ready
for you to come by.

Speaker 7 (01:11:54):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
While you're there, you're gonna be able to pick up
the fertilizers from Microlife and Nitrofoss and Nelson and Medina,
gonna be able to pick up soul products from Nature's
Way and Airlimbsoul. They they've got you covered. But the plants,
oh my gosh, the plants are gorgeous. They have their
they have fall vegetables in, they've got fall flowers in.
They You know, as we're getting ready for this, don't

(01:12:14):
let a day go by without there being beauty and
bounty at your house and just stop in in the
Chenned Gardens Enchented Gardens, Richmond. That's the website. Go check
it out. Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. They're on three
fifty nine FM three fifty nine north of the Katie
or on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond north of
Richmond on FM three fifty nine in Jennet Gardensrichmond dot com.

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We'll go to Tomball now and visit with John this morning.
Hey John, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:12:44):
Good morning Skiff. I have a quick question for you, sir.
Uh Yeah, I've got a limitstery. I've got my lemon
tree in a pot and it's I called you a
couple of weeks, so it's got it's got something neat
and you said go ahead and put some spino said
on it. So I got this Captain Jack's sex a

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side super soap?

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (01:13:08):
Is it soap?

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Or is it okay? Yeah? Okay, I think they're dead.
Bug Brew has spinosa too. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:13:17):
So would that be okay to do that like every
seven ten days to get rid of this whatever is
eating it? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:13:26):
Or you can also send me a picture. Let me
take a look at what it looks like when you
say eating it. If you got some leaves up close
with showing me the damage, maybe I would change my
song if you If I saw something a little different
than I'm imagining right now that you have. But you
mentioned the word soap, and if it's a if it's
a product with soap in it and spinosa, I would

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switch to just spinosid. And I think they're dead bug
brew I believe is the one that has spinosid. The
Captain Jack's bonwe eyed dead bug broke. The soap is fine.
Soap is fine for small, soft bodied past like aphids
and spider mites, for example. But if you use soap
over and over and over again, it can affect plants

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in a negative way. You don't want to just indiscriminately
spray soap, you know, ten times in a month or something.
You will have some issues with that.

Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
Okay, because this head is good for veggies and citrus.
That's why I picked it up, as I saw no
said on one of the Okay, so.

Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
Yeah, one more quick question, it's a good product.

Speaker 5 (01:14:35):
One more quick question.

Speaker 7 (01:14:36):
How often I've got arbigates fertilizer for my fault made
of plant? How often should I give them a little feed?

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
I would mix it in the soil prior to planting.
And if you haven't already done that, after planting, you
can mix some around in the soil surface. If you
can get it in the top inch or so, just
kind of carefully scratch it into the surface and then
water in. Really well, it's going to give you a
gradual feed. So probably, let's see we're sitting here at

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the end of August. I would probably feed them again
in about three or four weeks with the same product,
because we want to promote good vigor in order for
those tomatoes to do their best production. We got a
little small tomato window in the in the fall. You know,
it's not too hot but also not frosty, and so
that we want optimum growth during that time. So I

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do it a couple of times this fall.

Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
Okay, thank you, Skip, all right, good luck with it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
Thank you, John, appreciate that it's a good product. Good
to do. Well, let's see where are we. Oh my gosh,
the music is about to start. I wish you play
a song that I knew I could sing along. That
would be fun for not you though you're listening to
garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are
here to help you have success. So you can give

(01:15:57):
me a call if you we're going into a break
here in just a second if you want to call
and be first up. As we go through Saturday morning,
it gets busier and busier typically, and so uh, one
way to not stand in line is to give us
a call seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Just put put thing on hold. When we
come back from break, you'll be one of our first

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ones up. Happy to visit with you about that. For
those of you who sent me pictures, please do call
in so we can go ahead and discuss those. Use
excellent shots have been coming in today. I really really
appreciate that. I always like it when I can see
a good clear picture and help accurately. You know, the
last thing I want to do is listen to a description,

(01:16:39):
think I know what you got going on, and be wrong,
and then you wasted time and money, uh trying to
spray at the wrong thing. Okay, let's not do that.
Good good quality picture is a good way to do that.
I want to remind you that in a few weeks
here down in Brazoria County at the Extension Office is

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the Strawberry Jamboree Saturday, September twenty seventh, from ten to two.
So starting right when garden Line ends ten to two
on Saturday, September twenty seventh. They are going to have
kids activities, lots of family fund, local foods. They're gonna
be their famous strawberry shortcake contest. Who I was there once,
that was great. Alfid Froberg from Proburg Farms. He knows

(01:17:25):
how to grow strawberries. He's going to talk about strawberry
growing from his thirty years experience. You'll have the opportunity
while you're there to pre order some strawberry roots by
bear route. Call ninety seven nine eight six four fifteen
fifty eight for more information.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Welcome to KTRH garden Line with Skimp Rickard.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
It's just watch him as world s.

Speaker 7 (01:18:19):
S.

Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
Hey, good morning gardeners. Glad to have you with us
this morning. You got a gardening question, well give me
a call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two five eight
seven four Listen. If you're looking for a place to
get the things you need to have success in the

(01:18:46):
garden beds, in your vegetables, in your flowers, in your
lawn trees and shrubs. You're you're wanting to have success
with things you plan around your house, well, ACE Hardware
has got you covered on that. And you know when
I talk about fertilizers, you're going to find those at
ACE Hardware. When we talk about pest control, Ace Hardware
has got you covered on that. The Ace Hardware folks

(01:19:09):
have put together an excellent collection of all the things
you need in order to have the beauty and bounty
that you want when you grow things. Now, when you're
at ACE, don't just go in there for the gardening stuff.
Check out everything else that they have from outdoor living,
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(01:19:30):
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They've got you covered. All the gardening tools you know,
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is ACE Hardware. Well, if you go to my ACE

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Hardware group here for garden line here in Houston, you
have to go to the website called Acehardware Texas dot com.
Don't forget the Texas ACE Hardware Tech. And you're going
to find a store near you. Maybe you're northeast in Crosby.
We'll go to Crosby East on FM twenty one hundred.
How about up north in Spring on Spring Cypress Spring
Ace Hardware on Spring Cypress. That's the one you need
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(01:20:15):
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there and north and to the west of Houston. Ace
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(01:20:35):
you need so you can have success. Plus it's a
fun place to shop. I just like going there. My
wife and I went in on ACE just the other
day just to walk around and look just what have
they got? Now, what's here? What's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
I enjoy doing that. Let's go to Tomball. Now we're
going to talk to meld this morning. Hello Mel and
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:20:58):
Hey, good morning. Never done this before. I'm talking to
from inside my truck, so I hope you can hear me.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
All right, all right, I can hear you from it.
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (01:21:07):
Okay, cool brown spots on my isaiah Lease. The isaiahs
were blooming really.

Speaker 14 (01:21:12):
Well this spring.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
And I don't think it's insects.

Speaker 11 (01:21:17):
It might be fungused because some time ago, like or
several months ago, these little white mushrooms would appear around
the base of the plant and in the bed.

Speaker 12 (01:21:28):
And is there.

Speaker 5 (01:21:31):
I think it's fungus.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
But is there anything I can do?

Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
I know I do have some anti fungel stuff here,
but it doesn't list Isaiahs. Is there anything I can do?

Speaker 14 (01:21:44):
You might say, after the fact, now, is it too
late to do anything about it?

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
Yeah? Hey, I mel When you look at these leaves,
are the are the spots random in different places? About?
How large? Are are they? Are they round? Are they irregular? Shaped?
Can describe one to me?

Speaker 14 (01:22:07):
Oh man, I should have taken a picture, skib.

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
I'm sorry, that's okay, that's okay, no problem, Yeah, okay,
But but do you remember do you remember if the
leaves were buckled or not? You know, like instead of
being a normal flat azelia leaf, it's kind of buckled
like spinach leaves can kind of be buckled sometimes.

Speaker 14 (01:22:28):
That I do believe is the fact. Yeah, I believe,
so I remember.

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
Yeah, yeah, So there there is a disease, a fungus
that gets in the leaves and as it forms causes
it to grow buckled. Typically you'll see some whitish color
on it, but then it'll turn brown. That's one disease,
and then there's the possibility that another fungus has attacked them,
or a bacteria, you know, without actually seeing the leaf.

(01:22:57):
I hate to send you out to buy product A
or B because I may be sending you for the
wrong thing. Uh, And so that that's kind of my
only hesitation. Uh it. Let me ask this. When you
look at the azaleas, is it like these black brown
spots are just all over the plant looks horrible or
you're just seeing a few here or there.

Speaker 11 (01:23:17):
No, it's it's pretty well covered. I mean they're they're
pretty well all over there, all over the plants.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
Yeah. Okay, Well, I don't know which fun side you
have on hand, but you could try one and see
how that works if when you.

Speaker 14 (01:23:31):
Get yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's okay. We have a delay, so it's
hard to not talk over each other here. So that's
good for good for leaf spots. If it's leaf spots,
dacanell is good for that. When you get out there
and get to looking close, notice whether the brown is
more towards the tips and edges of the leaves. That
could be more of a water fluctuation problem.

Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:23:59):
And and today that is also a possibility. And if
you're just not sure, take some pictures, email them to
me and we'll talk again and and and get to
the bottom of it. But in the meantime, if you
use your dacno is not going to hurt anything on them,
Just so you don't you don't have to wait to
take any action at all.

Speaker 14 (01:24:17):
Does this stuff going to the leaves or on the
on the ground.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
On the leaves, Not on the ground. It's not going
to it's not systemic at all. No, it's on the
on the on the leaves. Yeah, if you do, But
send me some pictures because I'll be back on the
air tomorrow and we can we can talk tomorrow if
you want to. All right, all, I appreciate it, Thank
you you bad, thanks a lot, appreciate your call. Take care. Uh,

(01:24:42):
let's see here we are. Let's go to northwest Houston
now and talk to Kenneth. Hey, Kenneth, welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 13 (01:24:49):
Hey, yes, sir, I just want to make sure you
got the pictures that I sent.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
The weed in the lawn, right, yes, sir. Yeah, that
is called Virginia button weed. That is the weed that
has more of it. It grows horizontally, it's got long
strappy leaves. That's Virginia button weed. And in the hot
weather we're having, you need to resort to a product

(01:25:17):
called celsius. And that's easy to remember because celsius is
a temperature thing, and hot weather is a temperature thing,
and so when it's hot, celsius is less damaging to
your lawn than the other products that otherwise would be
okay to use. But I would do the celsius. It's
a little bit better. You're gonna need to do it

(01:25:38):
more than once. I would do it. Now, be ready
to it about six weeks from now again next spring,
when you first start to see these little things up here,
you want to hit them with celsius at that time too,
because this one has little it'll have little white flowers
on it with a little round knobs that are the
seed pods, and you don't want to let it propagate

(01:26:00):
like that.

Speaker 13 (01:26:02):
Yes, well, there's two different types of weeds. Did you
see the other one?

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Yes. The other one is something called dovewed doveweed love
both doveweed and Virginia button weed love it when the
soil is too wet, so you can't control the rain,
but you can't control how often you water. So let
it dry out a little bit more. It will not
make the weed go away, it'll just keep them from
proliferating while you're trying to control them. And the doveweed

(01:26:30):
is another one. You can use the celsius on ed
if you just got little spots of it. There's a
product with cinnamon based on cinnamon that you can sprinkle
on wet doveweed leaves, not the Virginia button weed, but
wet dove weed leaves and it'll just fry them real quick.
It won't hurt your grass.

Speaker 13 (01:26:52):
All right, Thank you, sir, I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
You bet, thanks a lot. Appreciate that call. Well, time
for me to take a quick break. When we can
come back. Colleen and Jersey Village, Gary and Sergeant you'll
be our first two up. Hey, welcome back to the
guard Line. You Davey with us this morning. Listen, if
you haven't done your lawn fertilizing in a while, you know,
maybe it's been a month since you put down a fertilizer,

(01:27:16):
especially like if you put on a slow release, been
several months away, Well why not put on a sweet
green right now to carry you into fall. Sweet green
is a fertilizer that smells wonderful. It is an organic
product that goes down in the soil. You put it down,
you water it in, and the microbes go nuts because
it's high high carbon, which is their fuel. They love

(01:27:37):
that they release the nitrogen. The grass gets the nitrogen.
It looks good, it grows good. The next fertilizing you
do will be in October when we put on our
fall product, which is a different product that we do
in the fall than we do through the rest of
the year. Sweet Green from nitroposs unified. It at places
like aspose as the Woodlands up on kirkandal Ason Sinkle

(01:27:58):
Ranch out on Mason Road in Kate, Texas. And you're
gonna find it in a chanty forest down on FM
twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Rosenberg area. They all
carry night foss products. We're gonna now head out to
Jersey Village this morning and talk to Colleen. Hello Colleen,

(01:28:18):
Welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
Hello Skip.

Speaker 19 (01:28:21):
I have a question in regards to my banana tree
that's fruiting and it's got about twelve inches or more
where the flower piece is going down and where the
bananas are growing up, and I'm wondering. Let me decide
on this question whether to cut the flower piece off
now or continue to leave it on.

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
Just leave I know where at the end of it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
And yeah, yeah, the flower piece is not a concern.
It just needs time, and you're gonna let it go
as long as you possibly can. And you know, if
we're gonna end up having a frost or freeze, you're
gonna need to cut the trunk, bring it inside. Hopefully
it'll be far enough along where it will go ahead

(01:29:06):
and ripen. You can get a dry cleaner plastic bag,
you know the kind they put over your clothes at
the dry cleaner, and slip it over that whole thing
and throw a couple of apples in there. And apples
give off ethylene, which makes the bananas ripen. That's whatever
banana you've eaten from the grocery store has been done
to it. They put them in giant rooms and fill

(01:29:27):
the room with ethylene to do the same thing. But
ethylene makes those bananas start the ripening process. But hopefully
they'll be far enough along where you can ripen them before.
We have a good hard freezer or a frost.

Speaker 20 (01:29:43):
Cool good, excellent, You've solved that.

Speaker 19 (01:29:46):
Just making sure I got it.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
If it works, you know, I don't charge for my
advice on garden Line, but if it works, all I
ask is that you make banana pudding and invite me
over and we'll call it even all right.

Speaker 19 (01:29:59):
Oh okay, going to use it for banana decrease and
banana cream pie.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
Oh oh wait wait, I want to change my mind.
I'm going to change my friend. Thanks Colleen, appreciate your call.
Take care. Oh my gosh, say that coming. We're going
to go to sergeant now and talk to Gary. Hey Gary,
good morning, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
Good morning to Skip. How are you today?

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
I'm doing good, good good.

Speaker 14 (01:30:25):
How can I help?

Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
I got sant Augustine in my yard. Most of it
looks good, but I've got some lime green areas that
are starting to show up this buying green mixed in
with my son with the good with the good green.
I'm just like, what is going on here?

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
Yeah? What's going on is yeah, probably, but it could
also be a root loss. If they start going toward
yellow from lime green. Uh, then you're dealing with probably
a disease called take all root rot that is killing
roots in that area. I have a publication on my website,

(01:31:03):
gardening with Skip dot com that talks about take all
root right. Got two of them. One's a quick look
one pager, the other one's more in depth, but I'd
look at them both. Follow you and it tells you
what to do about those. If it's just lime green,
you might try, you know, supporting it with a little
bit of a nitrogen source to see if it bounces

(01:31:24):
out of it. If it doesn't, I think we're dealing
with a problem with the roots, you know, because a
nutrient deficiency. It can be due to a lack of
nutrients in the soil. It can be due to the
nutrients are there but they're not available for various reasons.
And it also can be due to the fact that
the plant is just losing roots and can't take the
nutrients that are present up and so it's gonna be

(01:31:46):
one of those one of those things.

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
Take all, root all, take all root.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
Take all, root got gardening with skip dot com. It
explains it all. It would take me a long to
say what's just on that publication, so I'll just refer
you to it. It tells you what to use for it.
You got several options things you can do to help.
But I'm not saying just because you have lime green,
you have take off. So I don't want to jump
to conclusions. But if they head toward yellow, you probably do.

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
Okay, Well, I mean it's a little over here, it's
a little over there, it's a little back over here, you.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
Know, it's just kind of yeah, Okay, yeah, that's typical.
That's typical to take all all right, Okay, you take care,
Thanks a lot, appreciate you bet appreciate. Appreciate that call
very much. Cinamalts, that's what you need to know, Ciena Malts.
If you're down south of Houston anywhere South Houston region,

(01:32:42):
cinamlts is not that far away. They are where Highway
six and two eighty eight, not region down south on
FM five twenty one. Just do this right down the
website and go check them out Sienna Multch dot com,
cnamlts dot com. It is the one stop shop for
everything you need to create the foundation for success for
your gardens.

Speaker 7 (01:33:04):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
They've got the composts, they got the mulches, They've got
specific soil blends like a rose soil or like a
veggie and herb mix from you know the folks at
a heirloom soils. Then they have the fertilizers Microlife, Medina,
nitrofoss Nelson heirloom soils as I mentioned already, and then Asonite,
the micronutrient product asimite we talk about all the time.

(01:33:27):
They deliver within about twenty miles of their location down there,
or you can go from wherever you are and pick
it up. Open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five
today seven thirty to two, closed on Sundays, Sienamoltz dot com.
Now you need to know this too. They now have supersacks.
Supersacks a cubic yard of whatever material you want, they

(01:33:49):
will deliver, but you have to get three supersacks to
do that to make it worth it. I explained earlier.
Why you know it costs money to get composts and
mulches and things like that hauled all aroun around the
Greater Houston area because it costs those companies that drive
it a lot, all the regulations that they have to
swim through these days. But three supersacked minimum. It's a

(01:34:10):
great way, simple way. You can drive your truck out there.
You can get your your trailer out there as well.
Why you're there, go look at their vego beds. You know,
they sell vego beds there, and they've got some new
ones set up where you can actually see what they
look like. That is impressive. Check out the metal art.
They've got a nice collection of some really cool metal
yard art or garden art for your garden area. And

(01:34:33):
then go inside check out their pottery. They have the
little shrooms, a little mushrooms that are decorative for the landscape,
leather goods, smart pots, just I mean, I just sit
here going all day. They even have a little harvest baskets,
real cool little harvest baskets. You bring your veggies out there,
put them in there, squirt them with water, clean them
up before you bring them in. It's just a fun
place to go. Si anamals Ci anamals dot com. Let's

(01:34:57):
go now up to tunnel. We're going to talk to
Ken this morning. Hey, Ken, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 8 (01:35:02):
For those kip Hey have we planted a Japanese maple,
probably about two and a half three months ago, and
it's browning at the tips on the leave?

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
Okay, okay, uh, Jeff. That is very common on Japanese maple.
That tip is the last part of the leaf to
get water. So if it gets a tiny bit dry,
a lot of them are pretty bad about that browning.
So you want to keep it moist They do not
want to grow in a swamp. You keep it too
wet and you'll kill them that way. But moderately, Oh okay,

(01:35:42):
well there you go. That means you're going to water
more often in order to maintain a decent amount of moisture.
Make sure they're mults. Another thing is they want light,
but in our southern climate, if they're in too much sun,
it's hard to pump the water fast enough to keep
them happy. And it gets it's a little on the
dry side, and that tip browning is going to be

(01:36:03):
even worse. And so locating them in an area I
like to put them somewhere where they get a few
hours of morning sun and then some afternoon bright light
or dapple shade or things. That's kind of Japanese maple
heaven right there. They just just watch it. So moisture,
I think is your biggest deal.

Speaker 5 (01:36:22):
All right, thanks skip, all right, hey, thanks for the call.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
Appreciate that. Beautiful plants when you get them in their
happy spot. And that's not that not that difficult to do.

Speaker 7 (01:36:34):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries. That is the garden center where
Beltway eight and tom Ball Parkway come together. It's truly
easy to get in and out of then Arounsince nineteen
seventy nine, Willimson families still run the place. They grow
their own trees by the way up there in Plantersville
at Williamson Tree Farm. And so you're getting trees when

(01:36:55):
you go to RCW, getting trees that want to grow
here because they've been selected for the ones that do
best here. They've been grown right, and you're going to
have success with them. When you go in there and shop,
you're going to find everything you're looking for, from vegetables
and herbs to flowers and roses and shrubs and just everything.
I'll tell you this, if they don't have something and

(01:37:15):
you're looking for it, talk to them. They can probably
get it and they'll do their best to do that.
There they get it, got it. Nurseries we like to say,
well again, Tomball Parkway, have you two forty nine at
belt Way eight. You need to go by and see them.
They have a number of different specials going on right now.
I always like to go buy RCW nurseries. It's fun.

(01:37:36):
They're nice folks too, by the way, very nice folks
to be to be visiting with. And so when I
go buy RCW, what I'll find is that there's always
something that is the hot item of the moment. Right now,
the roses are looking great. They've got a really nice
thing thirty percent off select roses, and that's only good

(01:37:57):
through tomorrow. Did you hear that day? And tomorrow the
last two days of the August Rose sale select roses
thirty percent off and they know how to grow roses. Now,
if you want a tree or a shrub, well, they've
got fifteen percent off their trees at RCW again through August.
You got two days left on that. Because fault planning

(01:38:18):
is coming and even if you don't have a spot ready.
You know, I always tell you got to get soil
ready first. Well, get the plant now on such a
great deal. Get that soil ready. Put that plan in
a very bright shade, little morning sun to keep it happy.
We were just talking about Japanese maples. They've got Japanese
maples fifteen percent off two beautiful, beautiful maroon orangey color

(01:38:41):
come fall. Oh looks nice. Anyway, you get the idea.
RCW nurseries dot Com corner of Tumbo Parkway and belt
Way eight in Northwest Houston. Time for me to take
a break. We'll be back after this break with questions
from you at night seven one three, one to fifty
eight seventy four. Hey, welcome back to your guard line.

(01:39:06):
Go ahead, have you with us this morning? Hey, if
you are looking for a place to find everything you
need for your lawn and garden, it is Southwest Fertilizer
in Southwest Houston. They are located on the corner of
Bissinet and Runwick. And I'm telling you this. There is
not a product for weeds or diseases or pests. There

(01:39:27):
is not a fertilizer. There is not a tool that
you need that they're not going to have for your gardening.
They just stay stocked on everything, absolutely, and they have
the knowledge and expertise. You know, a lot of places
you go in and you don't know which product to get.
You know, I got a bug, but I don't know
what it'll kill it. I don't know what else should use.
And you go home and you waste your time and

(01:39:48):
money doing that. Go to Southwest, take a picture, take
them a sample, show them what you got. They'll tell
you what to do, and they will tell you what
products work best. And I did say product with an S,
because there's going to be more than one good option
and they're going to be able to explain that to you.
It just the folks at Southwest Fertilizer. They're all good.

Speaker 7 (01:40:09):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
Bob and his employees that are there is dedicated people
been with him a very long time. Aaron and the
whole team there. They know what they're doing, and so
you go in. There's a certain value to peace of
mind knowing you're getting the right answer, knowing you're getting
good advice, and knowing you're getting a product that's going
to work, and instruction on how to use it so

(01:40:31):
that you do have success. The same is true with
getting good quality tools, with getting your you're a small
engine repairs done. It's all there. It's Southwest Fertilizer. I'm
just telling you this. If you're an organic gardener, is
this a place Nobody has a selection of organic products
like Southwest does. If you're not an organic gardener, nobody
has a selection of products in general as Southwest Fertilizer does.

(01:40:54):
Corner Bestinett and Renwick seven to one three six sixty
six one seven four four. We're gonna head out now
and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 20 (01:41:05):
Hey, Skip, how you doing.

Speaker 4 (01:41:07):
I'm good, I'm good. How are you, sir?

Speaker 7 (01:41:10):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:41:10):
Pretty good, pretty good. I sent you an email titled
weeds too. That's a weed in my son's yard, and
I told him Celsius would probably take care of it.
But I just wanted to verify that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
Mike, I don't have that email. Let's see here.

Speaker 20 (01:41:31):
He responded to it over the week last week.

Speaker 4 (01:41:34):
But oh oh not just now. Okay, you're talking about
a while back. Okay, God got four days ago? Yes, sir, yes, sir,
I now I see. I was looking for something this morning.
Uh so what that weed is is that's called basket
grass basket grass, and it's it's sort of related to

(01:41:54):
like wandering jew, which which wandering jew and dayflower and
basket grass and these things. They they're kind of caught
in between a broad leaf and a grass, and so
it's hard to find products that work well against them. Certainly,
you know, ripping it all out of there is a start,
but that doesn't get rid of it. It comes back.
But the longer it sits there, growing and setting seeds

(01:42:17):
and whatnot, the worst of a mess that you have
with it. And it's difficult to get things that are
going to be effective against this particular weed. If you
have small areas, you can use products that contain cinnamon.
There's one that contains cinnamon and it just fries it.

Speaker 14 (01:42:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
You put it on wet the basket grass, get the
leaves wet, and the cinnamon sticks to the leaves. It's
called agrolon. Crabgrass killer works pretty good products glyphosate in them,
you know, glyphys eate, and it used to be round
up with glaphisate. Round up is not glyphys eate now,
but there's a number of products that have it, but
it kills everything. So when I look at your pictures,

(01:43:00):
look like there's much left worth saving. It just looks
like it's almost all basket grass there, so in the
picture you sent, But round up would do it, but
it would kill everything, and so that's usually not a
good option. But it does work. And I'm sorry I
keep saying round up. It's not round up. It used

(01:43:22):
to be round up and round up anymore, So just
take the R word out of your vocabulary. It's the
glifa sate ingredient comes in many different other forms where
you do your shopping. But anyway, that's kind of your
options there. This is a problem in the southeast. It
invades forests, and I mean people go through all kinds

(01:43:43):
of hoops trying to get it under control because it
is a mess, as you know.

Speaker 20 (01:43:50):
And also, I mean I had called you once before
about a place up in Lake Livingston where trying to
get some grass to grow, and I'd almost considered, because
I have it up there, and that almost considered just
replanting some of that in my place where I can't
get grass to grow, just to have some vegetation there
because it seems to be low and uh yeah, it's

(01:44:14):
almost like a plant a weed.

Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
Well, I understand the I understand the sentiment. I sure
wouldn't introduce it to another area, I think, Uh, I
think it would.

Speaker 20 (01:44:24):
Oh, I've got it up there too. Just you know,
when they built the house, I had clay, and then
I moved. I got a bunch of majority of the topsail,
and I spread it out and planted behavior and uh
now it's growing. But that's about the only thing I
can get to grow up there.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
Yeah, I uh, you know, I wish we I wish
we had better options for it. Uh, but we just don't,
you know, hand pulling out as much as you can,
thickly mulching the area so the seeds of it don't
pop right back through getting it, getting it with its
root system out, And there's a lot of work to
do all that. What what a does? What desirable plant

(01:45:08):
is growing among it? I can't see anything enough photo.

Speaker 20 (01:45:12):
Now, I'm not sure where he took that picture, but
he has it pretty much in his flower beds in
his front yard. And I think that may be picture
of it in his backyard. Oh okay, that he's pretty
annoyed by it, and I don't think that he wants
to use glycopate.

Speaker 4 (01:45:30):
Yeah, I understand. I know people have strong opinions about it.
So yeah. The only other thing would be just to
strip everything to the ground and then put a very
thick mulch over the area. Uh and and try to
smother it out, you know that way.

Speaker 21 (01:45:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:45:47):
If you got a grass, a lawn, that's gonna be
very difficult, you know to do.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
If it's just a flower bed, well, I mean, you know,
you can clean it out and get us under control
and then replant. It would be the options. But it's best.
Grass is a problem if it was small areas. Again,
the cinnamon product could work, is it is cost prohibitive
to go around sprinking sprinkling that product all over a
huge area. And so I don't think I know a
good option.

Speaker 20 (01:46:13):
Yeah, all right, all right, well I appreciate.

Speaker 4 (01:46:17):
It, yes, sir, you take care. Thank you for the cast.
Appreciate that. The folks at Medina have so many outstanding products.
They just I love talking about Medina products because there's
so many good things and they work, you know, that's
the bottom line. They work. It doesn't matter what you're

(01:46:38):
going after, what you're trying to do. I use the
Medina six twelve six six twelve six. It's it's one
of the has to Grow products from Medina, and I
use it for transplanting. Now it's not just for transplanting.
You can use it for general fertilizing. You can use
it for foli your feet if you don't do that,
but it works. I love the has to Grow long.

(01:46:58):
It's a twelve four eight product that hooks up to
your garden hose and you spray and you go and
it's good. Probably my favorite product, and it's one that
came on the market pretty recently for lawn care is
the has to Grow sixteen zero two. It's called super
Grow Plus. That's all you got to remember. Super Grow
Plus from Medina. You can buy it by gallon or

(01:47:19):
you can buy it buy those hose in sprayers.

Speaker 6 (01:47:22):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:47:22):
It's a bottle that hooks up to your garden hose.
It's already set up to put it out at the
right rate. And if you buy one of those, you
can keep that thing by the way, wash it out
real good, and you can just refill it from the
gallon jugs and keep going. It's a very economical way
to go about it. You don't have to buy a
new one and throw the whole thing away every time.
But Supergrow Plus sixteen zero two it is perfect for

(01:47:44):
what lawns need for a boost. And if you've got
a line that is struggling along right now, you hit
it with Supergrow Plus and you're going to see the
results from it. It will green it up. And in
fact I say lawns, I know people that use it
for their tomatoes and the vegetable garden, for flowers, for herbs,
for a lot of things. Supergirl Plus one of the many,
many products from Medina that works. Let's take a quick break.

(01:48:08):
We'll be back and we're going to talk to Randian
and Netherland and Ed and Conro when we come back.
Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us. Hey,
if you're up in the Tomboy area, if you don't
already know about D and D Feed, you need to.
They are three miles west of Tomball on or Highway
two forty nine FM two forty nine, just three miles

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outside if you if you drive out that way, you're
going to see him on the left hand side. And
D and DE Feed. I was out there just last
week stopping by. This selection is so good. I mean
products from Nitrofis, products from Microlife and Nelson, Turf Star
and Medina and so on. They carry the heirloom soils
products by the bag as well, high quality dog foods,

(01:48:54):
high end lines like Star Pro, Diamond, Victor Origin, certainly
livestock food, things to take care of your livestock and horses,
just anything you need like that. It's a feed store,
of course. But do you have pests, Maybe there's rats
or mice outside that you need controlling. Maybe you need
some mosquito dunks with those mosquitos, what are you looking for?

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They've got it, even animal traps. Trying to relocate something
that's bugging you at the place d and De feed,
that's the place to go. And when it comes to
any kind of a pest, weed and disease issue that
you need a product for. Their selection is excellent. I
awso stop in there and look around and go, oh,
they have that. I didn't didn't know they would have that.
That's good. I should know because Dandy Feed does an

(01:49:36):
excellent job of staying stocked up on the stuff that
is most important for you to have access to to
make sure you have a beautiful lawn a Bountiful Landscape
Dandy feed two eight one three five to one seventy
one forty four. It's go out to Netherland, Texas. We're
going to talk to Randy.

Speaker 13 (01:49:52):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:49:52):
Hey, Randy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:49:55):
Thanks. How are you this morning?

Speaker 4 (01:49:58):
I'm doing good. I'm doing good.

Speaker 14 (01:50:00):
I can skip.

Speaker 5 (01:50:01):
I've got a problem with mealy bugs in a large
crape myrtle tree that I can't seem to get rid of.

Speaker 8 (01:50:09):
Can you help me with that?

Speaker 4 (01:50:10):
Okay, well, it could be mealy bugs and it also
could be crepe myrtle bark scale. Are you seeing these
things along the trunks and main branches? Are you seeing
them out on the little twigs where the leaves are.

Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
Mostly on the trunk?

Speaker 4 (01:50:26):
Okay, that is actually crepe myrtle bark scale. Looks just
like mealy bugs or a lot like mealey bugs.

Speaker 22 (01:50:32):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:50:32):
The way to go about this, Randy is to get
a product that do you have a do you have
a pin or pencil handy?

Speaker 6 (01:50:39):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:50:39):
Sir?

Speaker 4 (01:50:41):
Okay, Uh, I'm gonna spell it, uh. The ingredient rather,
it's d I N O, like you're gonna write dinosaur
dinoh and then t ef You are a n dino
tef fur ron. That's the ingredient. You follow the label,

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mix it up in water. Watering can drench it in
the soil. Soak that soil. The plant takes it up,
and anything sucking juices out of your crepe myrtle, it's
going to be killed. And so that would be scale.
If it were meatly bugs, it would work on that.
If it were aphids, it would work on that, but
any it's not. You're not putting a poison all over

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the outside of your tree where a lady beetle or
something would come in contact with it. You're putting it
in the soil and it gets in the plumbing of
the plant, so only something that's sucking juices out of
the plant gets that poisoned. So that's what I would
do for it. It works pretty good. It's gonna take
two or three or four weeks to get it up
in the tree and doing its thing. But now it'd

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be a good time to go ahead and get that done,
as well as earlier in the spring when the new
growth is starting out. That would be a time when
you may need to reapply it because scale doesn't You
don't get rid of all of them at once.

Speaker 8 (01:51:55):
Right, so the initial of the initial application is only
for once.

Speaker 4 (01:52:01):
Well, the initial application, you shouldn't have to do it
again this year because it'll last for many weeks, and
so you're done for this year if you do it now.
But I would go ahead and get it done before
that crate starts to slow down taking up water and nutrients.
You know, once all the leaves have fallen off, there's
not much moving through the plant because there's nowhere for

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the water to go. That the roots take cup you
see what I'm saying. So while it still has stordage
on it, get that stuff down asap, all right, sure, she?

Speaker 5 (01:52:31):
I appreciate it, Thank you, you bet.

Speaker 4 (01:52:33):
Thanks a lot. Appreciate you call very much. The folks
at Greenpro they are experts in providing top quality compost
top dressing infertilangue by the way, and they also do
cor aeration. It's a perfect companion for compost top dressing.
When you do cor aeration, you open up holes in
the soil to bring in oxygen to alleviate compaction. Whether

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your lawn has been struggling with lack of water, whether
it's chinched, whether it's take all rout, whatever it is,
soil compaction from the Piti pattern of not so little feet. Well,
a good quality corporation, accomplished top dressing from green Pro
can help fix that. I mean, I've seen examples of
like yard of the month signs and yards where green

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Pro has been because they they do that kind of work.
They transform your turf, does really really good work. Excellent.
Now if they serve an area about forty five miles
from Magnolia, so think of it as the northwest quadron
of Houston. You know that's not a perfect line, but
Interstate forty five, Interstate ten northwest quadrant, that's pretty well

(01:53:40):
their service area. So Spring, Cyprus, the Woodland's, Conroe, willis, Magnolia,
Montgomery down south, you know, go down to Katie and
West Houston and so on. They're there too. Green Pro.
They know what they're doing. They do good work. They
have very high quality equipment that comes in and it
does it right, and that's very very important. Let's go

(01:54:01):
out now to Conroe to talk to Ed. Hey, Ed,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:54:06):
Hey, good morning, Skip.

Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
How are you I'm good? I'm good. How can we
help Skip?

Speaker 21 (01:54:11):
I've got some isaiahs I've had in probably for four
or five years, and they're they're larger. Isaias Judge Solomon's
is to get the majority of them. And this year,
probably starting about two months ago, I started seeing a
little bit of leaf loss and some scaly almost kind
of Spiderwebby looked to the leaves. They're starting to kind
of turn a little bit. A lot of them are dropping.

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You know, they started putting on some new growth above
the bad leaves. But anyway, is it a fungus or
what have I got going?

Speaker 4 (01:54:42):
Well, you know, without seeing it, I can't tell you
for sure. It could be a fungus. H What's happening
a lot on azilias this summer is we've had some
had some long dry periods and uh, sometimes irrigation systems
don't evenly water all through a bed, and azalea roots
are they're not that efficient. They need to be kept
moist because, unlike a lot of other plants that can

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go through a drought, is areas not so much. And
you get a little dry, and then the demands are
high and you start to see a loss of foliage
and then with a little return of some moisture, you'll
put on new growth and it'll come on, come on
back out. So you may just simply be looking at
a so a moisture issue. If you wanted to take
some pictures and email them to me, I'd be happy

(01:55:26):
to take a look at them. We could talk again
tomorrow if you like, or later today if you're that fast.
But the bottom line is my first guess, as I
would look at so moisture before it starts brand funge
of sides.

Speaker 21 (01:55:39):
Yeah, you know, we've we've been through some grass spells before.
This has a little bit of a different look to it.
But I'll get you some pictures and let you have
a look. I mean, not all of them are affected,
all right, and which which you know? I guess maybe
if it was a fungus, probably hit all of them,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:55:55):
Yes, And one other thing you might want to try
doing is go up close to look at those olderly
eaves that are affected, that are losing their color and
turning brown. Flip one that's not brown already, but flip
it over and see if you see little black tar
spots the size of the head of a pin underneath it.
They're almost shiny tar like. That's that is the poop
from lace bugs and lace bugs have been pretty bad

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on Mozelia's this year too, and that could be playing apart.
They suck juices out and it starts off green, then
it gets kind of stipples with little tan specks in it,
and then eventually it just heads on south from there.
But when you take a picture, show me, okay, pardon
you take a show me, yeah, show me the bottoms

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of the leaves too, up close as you can get
in sharp focus. I'm going to put you on hold
and I will you can get the email to send
me an email on this, and I'll be glad to
visit with you on it. As far as insecticides, if
it's lace bugs, a number of things will work. You
can spray many different kinds of insecticides and kill lace bugs.

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You can also put a systemic in the in the
ground and the roots take it up, and then the
lacebugs are sucking juices out and they get the poison
through their mouth parts, sucking out of the juices of
the leaf.

Speaker 5 (01:57:12):
So those that's one thing I happened.

Speaker 21 (01:57:13):
Let's haven't hit them insect aside this year, so maybe
that has someone to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:57:17):
I'll get you a pitcher. I appreciate your help.

Speaker 4 (01:57:18):
This morning, you bet ed. The last thing I want
to do is just send you out to spray stuff
until I'm sure about it. So thanks a lot. Appreciate
that call. Folks. We are going to take a little
top of the hour break here and we will be
back with your calls if you'd like to be first
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Speaker 4 (01:59:08):
I'm back all right, Welcome back to garden line, a
little bit of a long break line. Hey, it's good
to have you with us today. Listen. If you have
a question about gardening and I can help you with it, well,

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just feel free to give me a call. Seven one
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happy to do that.

Speaker 6 (01:59:39):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:59:39):
The folks at Nelson Fertilizer have got a product that
is called carbo Load, and it is a product we
will put out in the fall season. But I just
want to tell you about it right now because if
you wanted to grab you a bag of it and
be ready to go, that will be just fine. It's
a ten ten twenty product. I'll be talking about it
a lot this fall. But it is a purple bag

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from the folks at Nelson, part of the turf Star line,
and it's ideally made for that fall season. It also
includes a product that will keep the weed seeds from
sprouting all those cool season weed seeds. Now, probably the
most famous of all Nelson products is color Star. Color
Star has been around a long time, it is, I

(02:00:22):
guess for about forty years now. It's been their most
popular product that they've had most landscape professionals know about it.
It's a favorite of the folks that know what they're
doing that do this for a liven. Color Star is
an all purpose flowering plant, food food. I don't care
if it's an annual flower, perennial flower, shrubs, trees, whatever flowers.
Color Star is a good product for that. It acts,

(02:00:44):
it acts fast. It's got an immediate release, but it
also has some organic nutrients sources in it that slowly
release those nutrients out into the soil. Do you put
it out about every three to four months. So if
you are going to be doing a color bed for fall,
you know the pansies, the platoon and use all the
different things like that you want to put on color
star when you get those plants in the ground. If

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you're going to be planting now for the warmerfall weather,
the planting we're doing now, that would be things like
petunias and like marigolds and other things that just look
good all the way up into the first frost. Do
a color star now. So you could do one now,
and you can do one again all around late October
November time when you're going to be doing your cool season.

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Color color Star products from Nelson fertilizer available all over
the place. And most interesting to me is that Nelson
has their products available in a dozen different places where
you refill your jars. You buy a jar and you
use it, don't throw the plastic away, just keep it
and go to Nelson refill location. It's garden centers all

(02:01:50):
over and feed source too, and you just go in
there and reload. Saves you money, saves the environment a
lot of wasted plastic being on away. Let's head out
now to League City and we're going to talk to
Ginger this morning. Hello Ginger, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (02:02:08):
Good morning, Skip. I remember when you used to be
as a county agent for Travis County, where I've just
moved from.

Speaker 4 (02:02:15):
Oh my gosh, that's been a while.

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
Good to know.

Speaker 4 (02:02:21):
Yeah, jeez, you watch Central Texas Gardener in those days
over there. That's a cool thing to have that show there.
All right, how can I help you.

Speaker 18 (02:02:31):
I'm a member of Austin Organic Gardener cell phone.

Speaker 4 (02:02:35):
Well, oh that's a good group. I've spoken to them
a couple of times.

Speaker 20 (02:02:40):
I remember.

Speaker 16 (02:02:43):
It.

Speaker 18 (02:02:43):
It seems to me that the climate right right now
is not much different from what I would experience in
Austin as to temperature and humidity. So I'm really curious
about where zone eight ends and zone nine starts.

Speaker 4 (02:03:00):
Yeah. Well, uh, you can go online and do it.
When you go online, you do a search for the
us d A Hardiness Zone map, Okay, and it's it's
real easy, easy to find. But the bottom line with
the new maps that have come out, uh, is the

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the dividing line down here for US in Texas. Uh
between you said you said zone A and B or
I'm sorry, which which zones did.

Speaker 18 (02:03:31):
You say to nine?

Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
Yeah? Eight to nine? Okay? So on zone eight to nine.
I don't know how to describe you. Uh, it's basically
like Huntsville and College Station, uh or pretty much on
the line between those zones. It drops down just north
of San Antonio and cuts across over little north of

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Del Rio.

Speaker 5 (02:03:57):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:03:57):
For the zone eight and nine line. But it's a
it's not a it's not a solid little line. You
have to look at the map and the map can
tell you that.

Speaker 18 (02:04:08):
Yeah, topography makes a difference to you, isn't topography does?

Speaker 4 (02:04:12):
And sometimes just just the location the way the location works.
It's kind of unusual, but uh, it you'll see like
a scattering of Zone eight spots in Zone nine and
vice versa. So it's not a hard line. And remember too,
these are all based on X number of years of

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data looking at how cold did it get at the
coldest day of the year that year. That's all the
hardiness zone is is how cold at the coldest day
of the year is it going to be? And so
every year is different. So you may be in zone
nine one one year, and then the next year your
weather is more Zone eight, and you may go zone

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eight for three years and then go back to Zone
nine for two years. It just it varies, but it's
a good guy to kind of give you a general idea.

Speaker 18 (02:05:04):
One of the reasons I was interested in that is
that I grow a lot of bulbs and had done
a program for garden clubs called Flowers from Bulbs throughout
the year and a lot of the Mediterranean origin bulbs do.
It did extremely well in Austin, and I was.

Speaker 20 (02:05:23):
Different daffodils.

Speaker 4 (02:05:25):
Yes, I had a lot of ni Trainian herbs or
rosemary and everything. But but you're down in League City now,
so you can add parrot gladiolas to your list that
you couldn't grow parrots as well in Austin as you
can down in this area.

Speaker 18 (02:05:40):
Oh, I didn't know that. And I had had Byzantine
gladiolas which uh survived frost under you know, they can
stay in the ground year round when they're doing doing
survived the conditions and they're so beautiful when they bloom.

Speaker 21 (02:05:58):
Well.

Speaker 4 (02:05:58):
And thank you, thank you. I appreciate you giving us
to call this morning, ginger, and welcome back to the area.
Don't be a stranger, stick around. We'll talk gardening for
this area for you now. Appreciate appreciate you giving me
a call this morning. Thank you, Thank you very very much.
Nelson Nursery and water Garden out there, and Katie, I
stopped I stopped by the other day and was visiting

(02:06:20):
with Ralph, and oh my gosh, the place looks good.
It is just it always looks good there. But they've
got a brand new selection of a whole bunch of
new citrus and other fruit trees too, you know, pears
and everything else. I know a lot of times because
they are so famous for their water gardens. National Leader.
Actually they invented the disappearing fountain and other things. Nobody

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knows as much about water garden as the Nelsons do.
But they are also a garden center. They house plant
I walked in. I always have to stop in and
look at the house plants inside because they're so beautiful,
such a tropical paradise in there. And then you go
back and you know, what kind of play do you want? Roses?
They got them good selection. Herbs, Oh my gosh, they've

(02:07:02):
got a good selection. And it just goes on and
on and on. Fish. They have the lily pads of
all types. They've got the big Amazon type lily pads
that in fact, they're the only people I know of
in the Greater Houston area that carry that one. But
that's a giant ones that have a big lip that
sticks up two or three inches on the sides, depends
on how big the pad is and what specific type

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of Amazon it is. But they look good. They got
the herdy day lilies that just survive through our winters here,
and then they've got the tropical types that don't survive
through the winter. You got to pull them up and
they can tell you how to take care of everything
that they got there. Now. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. That's the website.
Katie Fort Benroad north of Iten in Katie head out

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to Katie go north on Katie Fort Ben Road and
they're just a hop skipping and jump up the street
on the right hand side. Allow yourself time. You will
want to relax and stroll and enjoy the shade shopping
at Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. Let's go now to
Porter and talk to Ray. Hey, right, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 5 (02:08:10):
Well, thanks, Skip, how you doing? I have a problem.

Speaker 16 (02:08:17):
I have.

Speaker 9 (02:08:19):
A garden, well about four or five Guardina bushes in
my front garden bed and also some Laura pedluans and okay,
from my previous house, the lake especially Laura Pedland got
fifteen foot tall and that's not acceptable where I am.

Speaker 6 (02:08:43):
So my question is when is a good time to
trim them back?

Speaker 4 (02:08:51):
Okay, And I'm gonna give you a quick answer. Ray,
I'm I'm I have I passed one of my breaks here.
I'm gonna have to run to it. But Laura pedlums
come in shorter forums too, so rather than fighting it
with pruning, you can always replace it with a smaller one.
If you're going to prune them, the best time to
do the majority of your pruning is at the end
of winter before spring starts, but you can also do

(02:09:14):
minor pruning on through the year up until you could
prune them now. But I wouldn't prune too much now
because you encourage a lot of late season growth that
could have some coal susceptibility. But you can keep them
in bounce with that. And I'm sorry to be so
short on time, but I'm gonna have to run with
that one. Those are my best two advices on your

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Laura pedlums there, folks. I'll be right back. All right, folks,
we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, listen, for
those of you down southeaston Orges Hidden Gardens, you need
to visit the place that is your hometown garden center
down there in that whole area, the region you know, Alvin,
Santa Fe Hillcrost Algoa, Arcadia, Alta Loma, you know that

(02:09:57):
whole region. They are located between Alvin and Santa Fe,
just south of Highway six and the address is Elizabeth
Street in Alvin. Elizabeth Street in Alvin. You go to Jorges,
what are you going to find a lot of really
good fruit trees right now? They just got an excellent
selection of centrus en of all types, and then some
unusual things like Barbados cherry. Do you know Barbados cherry

(02:10:19):
is a type of fruit, It sure is, and it's
a pretty low plant too. If you are looking for
shrubs like beautiful silverados, I call them the Texas age
or Soniso's another name for it. Another name is barometer
bush because it follows blooms following periods of rainfall. They've
got those what you're going to find when you go

(02:10:41):
to Jogeshidden Gardens as quality plants, very friendly service. They
do a very good job of that and they have
an excellent selection of trees as well. By the way,
they also carried the three sixty tree stabilizer. That is
the product, the go to product for me. Whenever you're
going to plant a tree, to take care of it,
ask Corge his fertilizer. He's got some special blends that

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of Nelson have put together for him and they work
super super well. Jorges Hidden Gardens, Elizabeth Street in Alvin.
Here's the number seven to one three sixty three to
two fifty two ninety. Let's go to Spring, Texas now
and talk to Claire Hey Claire, Welcome to garden Line, Peter.

Speaker 16 (02:11:22):
Peter, I have a question for you related to my
side yard. Sure, I've been I've tried for many, many
years to get.

Speaker 20 (02:11:31):
Grass to grow there.

Speaker 16 (02:11:32):
I've resotted it a couple of times with solid Saint Augustine.
It's a It's a narrow space, only about six feet wide,
with a six foot fence on one side and my
brick house on the other side. I assume it's just
not getting enough light.

Speaker 14 (02:11:49):
Okay, So I'm.

Speaker 16 (02:11:51):
Thinking about options. I'm thinking about an option of putting
artificial grass back there on that little area. Okay, it's
not too big, and I just wondered, you know, did
you have any experience with that, or any cautions or
thoughts or whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:12:08):
I don't. I don't have any experience with it. I would.
I'm a plant, live plant person, and so that's just
how I look at it. So if I couldn't, if
it's too shady for grass for me, I'd be looking
at a groundcover or something else. But I know people
that do artificial turf and like it. Just remember that
even weeds will come up in an artificial turf, And

(02:12:29):
I got pictures to prove it. That whatever weed seed lands,
it's going to find its way down in there, so
you will still be dealing You can still be dealing
with weeds in them. Also, if you have pets now
in a shady area like that, not so much. But
in a real sunny area that stuff can get blistering
hot and so little pep ponds aren't big fans of that.

Speaker 5 (02:12:53):
What kind of groundcover do you recommend?

Speaker 4 (02:12:58):
Well, in a shade area like that, you could do.
A ripee is a good groundcover. There is Asian jasmine
is a popular groundcover. Uh, there's a juga. If it's
an area that gets moisture, I can provide adequate moisture
for it. How many hours of sun do you think
that spot gets?

Speaker 14 (02:13:19):
That's a good question.

Speaker 5 (02:13:22):
Oh, yeah, it's it's not much.

Speaker 16 (02:13:26):
You know, it's not like it's completely in the shade
because there's no tree cover. You know.

Speaker 4 (02:13:32):
Yeah, I got you well, Uh, you know, without seeing it,
it's hard for me to tell you which groundcover to
put there that would do its best, but we have
a number of them. You could also just use it
for kind of an ornamental area. We have a number
of things ferns and one called holly fern one called
there is a grass called inland sea oats. It gets

(02:13:55):
about knee high. It's real pretty. That could be used
as an area through there too. So anyway, you have options.
I would just back up a little bit and think
about this one and see what you like. Cast iron
plan if you don't ever want to have to worry
about it. I mean, it's tough as nails. It gets taller,
and so if you're wanting something super super low, you're

(02:14:16):
gonna you're gonna need one low. Those last few, yeah,
then the last.

Speaker 16 (02:14:20):
Few are okay, well let me look at but you
could all see that.

Speaker 7 (02:14:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:14:28):
You could also just do mulches and stepping stones and
things like that through an area if it's not too
large as well. So anyway, good luck with it. Thank
you appreciate that, Coppler. You take care.

Speaker 8 (02:14:40):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:14:40):
Microlife fertilizers are quality products. They just are micro Life
six two four. The Green Bag is a number one
selling organic fertilizer in the Greater Houston area. And it
doesn't burn. None of their products do. Because they're not
salt based, you can use them and not have to worry.
They're loaded with microbes and they support microbes when you
put microlife out, you make your soil happy if you

(02:15:04):
want to. If I can just put it that way,
whether it's the green bag sixty four, which by the way,
now is a fine time to put some out because
you're going to be fertilizing again with a different Microlife product,
and when we get to the end of September early
October and so now would be a fine time to
do a light fertilization. It's also a good time for
humtes plus the purple bag. It's always a good time

(02:15:26):
hum Mates Plus. You're putting it down to build your soil,
to improve your soil. So every chance you get to
put some down over time, it just gets better and
better and better. That's how microlife products work. If you've
got fruit trees, they have fertilizers for citrus and fruit trees.
If you've got acid loving plants, they've got kind of
a hot pink colored bag that is good for azaleas

(02:15:48):
and camellias and blueberries and anything. Puis not the good
one for acid loving plants. Microlife for sale everywhere. Go
to market Microlifefertilizer dot com. You can find out where
to buy it and find out a lot about the
many good products they have, liquids and solids. They'll work.
I say that because they use them.

Speaker 5 (02:16:08):
All.

Speaker 4 (02:16:09):
Right, Let's go now out to a task Casita, and
we're going to talk to Carol this morning. Hello Carol, welcome.

Speaker 16 (02:16:15):
To garden Morning.

Speaker 18 (02:16:17):
Thank you have some quick questions.

Speaker 16 (02:16:20):
Is it too late to treat brown patch?

Speaker 4 (02:16:25):
Well, you don't have brown patch now. Brown patch will
appear when we get a break in the weather, a
cold front and some rain and you get the big circles.
What are you seeing right now? What does the grass
look like?

Speaker 18 (02:16:38):
Well, we have not I live ina cedar word in
the area.

Speaker 8 (02:16:42):
We have not gotten any right.

Speaker 16 (02:16:44):
All this rain just goes around it, so it just
might be dry. So I'll try that.

Speaker 6 (02:16:49):
Okay, you can.

Speaker 4 (02:16:53):
Let me give you one other thought though. There's a
disease called take all root rot, and I would like
you to go to my website gardening with skip dot
com and look at the take take all root rock publications.
I have two on there. There's pictures. Take a look
at that because you may be seeing take all root
right on it.

Speaker 22 (02:17:11):
It could be it could be dropped back all root
take all root right.

Speaker 4 (02:17:16):
Forwards, Take all root right Yeah, it may be that,
but there's information on what to do if it is.
But I don't you have a follow up question.

Speaker 19 (02:17:26):
Yes, I have a Peggy Martin.

Speaker 16 (02:17:28):
I've had it for four years.

Speaker 20 (02:17:30):
It's bloom twice.

Speaker 18 (02:17:32):
It grows politically about twenty flip runners on it.

Speaker 23 (02:17:37):
But I don't know what to do with it to
make it.

Speaker 4 (02:17:39):
Bloom For Peggy Martin, it needs it needs sunlight, but
it only is bloom in the spring for you. You
get spring bloom and you don't. It doesn't repeat bloom
through the year.

Speaker 22 (02:17:54):
Okay, how far back can I can?

Speaker 12 (02:17:58):
I print it now?

Speaker 4 (02:18:01):
You can print it as far as you want. It
is gonna It would be better to get all your
printing and training done asap, because what it has to
do is set blooms in the fall for next year.
So if you print it very hard now, or if
you wait any longer to print it, you're going to
end up with not having bloom set for next spring.

(02:18:23):
So if I were you, I would try to wait
until after it blooms and do your printing at that time.
On Peggy Martin, I'm up against a heart break here, Carol.
I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to run, but good
luck with that on the Peggy Martin for sure. Hey, folks,
we take a break here. We got thirty minutes left
in the show today. If you got a question, now's

(02:18:45):
a good time to call. Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. All right, folks,
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(02:19:05):
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five nine eight. Let's go down to pair Land now
we're going to talk to Archie. Hey, Archie, welcome, to.

Speaker 23 (02:20:45):
Guardline scib I have some archangel allegonias, and I just
sent you a picture. I don't know if you got
it or not. They're they're tall and green and green,
and they bloomed really well about oh five weeks ago,
and now they're not blooming at all. It's just it's
just a bunch of green vegetation showing.

Speaker 5 (02:21:06):
Okay, I cut.

Speaker 4 (02:21:09):
Yes, sheer off what was the old bloomstalks down to
where you start to see some leaves, and then give
them a good boost of fertilizer, high nitrogen fertilizer and
water it in really well. Color star be fine for that.

Speaker 23 (02:21:21):
But that's what I've been using. I've been using color Star.

Speaker 5 (02:21:24):
Yeah, that's what I've been using.

Speaker 4 (02:21:25):
That'd be fine. Put it down, but watered in really good.
And uh, you get to get fresh new growth because
we need them to grow so they can Normally we
would do this a little bit earlier in August the revamp,
but go ahead and do it now if you haven't. Okay.

Speaker 23 (02:21:41):
And I picked up over Southwest Fertilizer the other day
a rangoon creeper, and I was going to put that up,
but then I had a neighbor warned me how poisonous
they are, and they said every part of that planet
is poisonous. And I, you know, and I get cats
and things that come to my yard, and you know,
although I don't have any kids usually playing in the Yorks,

(02:22:03):
I don't worry about that, but some of the animals
and stuff I worried kind of maybe about if they
would try to chew on it or something. Is that
Is that a possibility I've.

Speaker 4 (02:22:11):
Never well, I don't know. I've never heard of a
problem with rangoon creeper poisoning cats and dogs and things.
But I would have to go look. There's a lot
of good online uh information on poison plants and poison control,
so I would I would check that it's a good plant.
It's one that's a little on the coal tender side,

(02:22:33):
So you want to mult that plant really good when
we go into winter, and typically it'll be next year
when it really does its growth and you get a
good bloom show on it. I just don't know. I
don't know on the poison, uh, but but a good
search ought to be able.

Speaker 23 (02:22:49):
To take you kind of like is it kind of
like the trumpet that trumpet plant too?

Speaker 4 (02:22:55):
In what sense?

Speaker 23 (02:22:59):
I know, being very poor to say supposedly, I've got
one of those on my patty.

Speaker 14 (02:23:05):
I can move it in and out.

Speaker 4 (02:23:08):
Yeah. I I always hate to talk about how poisonous
a planet is on the air because people, even if
I say it right, they won't understand. Maybe they won't
catch it right then hear me or something. Uh, but
I yeah, I would check it. I'm gonna I'm gonna
not speculate on this one. I'm just gonna ask you
to go check it out and you can.

Speaker 23 (02:23:30):
Rangon rangun Creeper. Was it Martha's Blooms up there in Annesota. Yeah,
when you went into the place, they had a trellising
in the front there and it was blooming, and I just, oh,
my goodness, it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (02:23:43):
Is a beautiful one. Well, I'm glad you got one,
and and thank you, Archie. I I appreciate that. Uh
Arbrogate in Tomball, I was there just gosh. I was
just just the other day, stopped in visiting with Kennon
Beverly and just checking the place out. It's just so beautiful.
They have so many good plants there. It doesn't matter

(02:24:04):
the season, they are going to have one of the
best elections you're going to find anywhere in the whole
region at Arburgate, and people know that they love to
shop there because it's fun, you know, the whimsie. I'm
walking around taking pictures of all the yard art and
things they have stuck in the ground everywhere. It's just
like going to a botanical garden. And when you go
in there, you're going to find the three things that

(02:24:26):
you need most for the foundation of your landscape success,
and that is the organic food complete fertilizer. That's organic,
organic soil complete, which is a soil with expanded shale,
and organic compost complete, which is compost with an organic shehale.
Those last two, by the way, can be purchased by bulk.
They'll deliver it to you. You just have to call

(02:24:46):
them and ask them. But that sets the foundation for success.
Then you go get the plants that they have, talk
to them. They'll walk with you, they'll talk with you,
they'll hope you find what you need. And I guarantee
you this when you go, I don't care what day
of the year you go to Arborgate, You're going to
find plants you've never seen or heard of that are
your next favorite plant. That's just the kind of place

(02:25:08):
it is. A'm all and a half west of two
forty nine or of two forty nine on twenty nine
to twenty outside of tom Ball. There go check out
what they have got a bunch of new fruit trees
in and you know they have fruit trees twelve months
out of the year. At Arburgate, there's never a month
you can't go buy a fruit tree of all types.
At Arborgate and Tomball. It's go out to Cat's Spring

(02:25:29):
now and we're going to visit with Nancy. Hey, Nancy,
welcome to garden line.

Speaker 22 (02:25:33):
Hi, Skip, And do you have any solution to eradicate
cuban jute?

Speaker 4 (02:25:41):
No, but if it's a broadly if it's a broadly plant,
where's it growing, Nancy. I'm about to run out down garden.

Speaker 16 (02:25:49):
It's just all over the place.

Speaker 22 (02:25:51):
I have a two thousand square fit vegetable garden and.

Speaker 4 (02:25:53):
It is just I don't I pull it up and
pull it.

Speaker 20 (02:25:56):
Up and pull it up, and it keeps coming back.

Speaker 5 (02:25:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:25:59):
I don't know what you mean by cuban jute. If
it's truly jute, then it's going to be. There's a
vegetable called milchia that people grow that is basically the
jukee plant, and it receds profusely, and so the secret
there is melting and don't let it come back up.
But why don't you do this, Take a picture of
the leaves up close and let me take a look

(02:26:20):
at it and see what it is. And I can
reply to you with what I would do to control it.
But just the term cuban jukee put together, it doesn't
ring a bell with me. I'm gonna.

Speaker 20 (02:26:32):
But maybe air releaf like that.

Speaker 4 (02:26:36):
Yeah, send me the picture along with whatever you can
remember of the name, and I'll be happy to take
a look at it, and thank you. I look forward
to seeing this because not too many times I haven't
heard of a plant. But that's one that's kind of
new to me that I haven't heard of. I hey,
Cianamaltch down south of Houston. I was just talking about
him a minute ago when I was talking about B
and B turf and that they use Cinimaltch products. Cinamaltch

(02:26:58):
now has super sacks. It's a cubic yard you need.
If you want them to deliver it, you need to
get three cubic yard super sacks. They'll deliver it, or
if you want to go pick one up in the
truck or trailer, you can do that. They have metal
yard art. I just was wandering through there just loving
the yard art they're getting in now. It is really cool. Plus,
the vego beds are set up out front. Now you

(02:27:20):
ever wondered what a vego bed looks like? Maybe you
want money, Well go look they carry them at Cienamals
and they got them set up there. Seeds and tools,
a nice selection of quality tools. Really, I'm serious, really
quality tools that they carry their at Cnmalch. It's a
one stop shop for everything to create the foundation for

(02:27:41):
success in the soil. Whether it's organic materials putting into
the beds, whether it's fertilizers. They carry them all putting
into the beds there. If you hear me talk about
a fertilizer on Guardline, they've got it at Cnimulch. That's
just the kind of place that is south of Houston
near Well. It's actually on FM five twenty one. So
those of you in areas like Meridian, Pomona Lake, Olympia,

(02:28:06):
Quel Valley, Alvin, Menville, Riverstone there in your backyard down there,
Sienna Waltz dot Com. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back,
Welcome back to Guardline folks. We're in our last segment here,
and uh what it's been a busy day. It's good
to be busy. I had some things I wanted to
talk about, never got around all of them, so we'll

(02:28:27):
pick that up tomorrow morning. By the way, we're on
Saturday and Sunday for those of you new to listening
six am to ten am Saturday and Sunday every weekend
here on garden Line.

Speaker 6 (02:28:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:28:38):
The folks at Nelson have so many good blends, so
many excellent blends I want to talk about too real
quick here. Genesis. Genesis is a transplant mix. It's part
of the nutri Star line from Nelson. It's got mike
Eriza in it. It's got beneficial bacteria and other fungi too.
By the way, in addition to the microisa that benefit

(02:28:58):
that whole soul microbio that's what makes roots happy, That's
what makes plants happy. That's what sets you up for success.
That's on nature gardens is by taking care of the
soil microbiome, and nutri Star Genesis from Nelson will do
just that. You mix it in the soil when you're planting,
whether it's a container, whether you're doing it in a

(02:29:19):
raised bed or an inground garden, you mix it into
the soil. Put that plan in watered and really good.
And as those roots encounter all of these beneficial microbes
and the nutrients that are in Nutristar Genesis, Uh, the
plants are going to get established quickly and they're going
to do well. I've done comparisons with and without it.

(02:29:40):
It was dramatic the difference. And there are not many
products you can say that about, where like you know,
do this one, do that one, whatever, and see the difference.
This is true of Nelson Transplant Mix, the Genesis transplant mix. Okay,
so now that doesn't mean the only fertilizer you use.
After you do that, you will want a top dress
with the one of the nutri Star products or color Star,

(02:30:03):
Nature Star whatever from Nelson to continue that feeding on forward.
The other product is Nutrastar crepe myrtle, good for crape
myrtles or any tree that has flowers on it, so
desert willows, Mexican plums, bhinny are archa tree, redbuds, Texas
Mountain laurel our beautiful summer of Itex works on all
of those Nutra star Crpe myrtle. Apply it now for

(02:30:24):
a final feed as these blooming trees and shrubs go
into the fall and get ready for the next big
bloom show next year. Nelson Fertilizers so many good products
including Genesis Traps plant mix and Nutri star Crpe Myrtle.
Let's go now to sugar Land. We're going to visit
with Veronica. Hey, Veronica, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 22 (02:30:45):
Hey skip now, I was calling just to in response
to the rangoon creeper questions. Yes, yes, I had a
huge one in my backyard and a dog. It never
affected the dog at all or any of the animals
that we had, so I'm not sure about the poisonous thing,
but yeah, I had a huge one.

Speaker 4 (02:31:07):
Well I've known other people that had them and had pets.
But boy, the last thing I'm gonna say on the
air is it won't hurt a dog. Because it's a
minute I say that somebody loses their prize puppy. But
good to hear that was your experience with it. That's
one gorgeous, gaudy plant, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (02:31:24):
It is beautiful.

Speaker 22 (02:31:25):
I have another one going now.

Speaker 4 (02:31:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:31:28):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:31:29):
The funny thing is the genus used to be quiz qualis.
Quiz qualis is Latin for which what which?

Speaker 7 (02:31:36):
What?

Speaker 4 (02:31:37):
And you've had it a one of these plants, and
so you know that it comes out and it's this
cluster of flowers and it's it's like white, and it's
like pink and it's like red and it's like, I
guess that's why they called it. Which what like which?

Speaker 13 (02:31:52):
What?

Speaker 4 (02:31:52):
Which color is it? What color is it? I don't
know anyway, I thought that was a funny, funny anecdote.
Thanks Veronica. I appreciate hearing your result with that. Thank you,
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and we're going to talk To chris this. Morning Hello,
chris welcome to Garden.

Speaker 5 (02:33:58):
Line, hey thanks for taking my. Call appreciate.

Speaker 15 (02:34:01):
It uh, YEAH i sent you an email and you're responded,
yesterday SO i have to kind of go off. Pictures
BUT i have a grassy. Weed it's kind of a
dark foliage and it has the kind of the stems
that come out for the seeds at kind of an
angle to the to the, ground you, know thirty five.

Speaker 5 (02:34:22):
Degres, YES i remember.

Speaker 4 (02:34:25):
IT i remember. That i'm trying to find your email
And i'm not seeing A chris email.

Speaker 5 (02:34:30):
Here cel for the first, Part.

Speaker 4 (02:34:35):
Okay, WELL i know WHAT i.

Speaker 5 (02:34:38):
Know WHAT i.

Speaker 4 (02:34:39):
Saw what you've got is a type of, sedge and
it's not, nutsedge and it's not. Kilinga it's a type of,
sedge and sedges are a separate group of plants from
grasses and broad. Leaves they look sort of grass, like
but they're not. Grasses sedges need to be controlled with

(02:35:00):
products designed for. Sedges and if you go to my
Website gardening With skip dot, COM i have a publication
for nuts, sedge but what it recommends for nuts, sedges
those products are gonna work for sedges in. General i'm
going to give you an, ingredient but it would be

(02:35:21):
best if you would go to the website because it'll
give you more. Options AND i can spell out all
the words here on the. Air but the ingredient is
halo is halo like you, know a halo over your,
head and then sulfur S U l F U r
and then ON O n halo sulfur. On that's the

(02:35:43):
ingredient and you're gonna find it in a lot of.
Products you go to your localized hardware, store you're gonna
find them. There most garden centers are going to carry
a version of halo sulfur. On a lot of feed
stores that you hear me talk about on gardenline are
going to carry those as.

Speaker 14 (02:35:57):
Well let's, GREAT i appreciate.

Speaker 4 (02:36:01):
It you bet you? Bet, yeah, uh you have a
lot of. It i've never seen so much.

Speaker 6 (02:36:09):
The other.

Speaker 4 (02:36:10):
Sedge and, yeah, yeah well that tells me one other thing,
Too and that tells me that area stand little on
the wet. Side and so anything you can do to
dry it out a little, bit where you, know watering's
in your. Control, rainfalls not drainage if it's, poor can be.
Improved and the more you let it dry out a little,
bit the less happy your sedges will. Be they'll still be,

(02:36:33):
there but that at least at least you're not fueling
the sedge with tons of. Water. Uh and but those
PRODUCTS i mentioned will do the. Job just follow the
label very, carefully as, always always follow the.

Speaker 5 (02:36:47):
Label, okay good, Deal, THANKS i.

Speaker 4 (02:36:51):
Appreciate, it all, Right, chris thanks for the. Call appreciate. That,
yeah all, Right, yeah that was that we have weeds
that are easy to control and we have weeds that
are not so easy to. Control and there's a. Variation
AND i know as we wind up the show, HERE

(02:37:12):
i know that it can be you, know, WELL i
got a, weed spray, this it goes. Away everybody's. Happy
but it's not always that. Way sometimes you got a
weed that if it's in your lawn to kill the,
weed they kill the lawn or at least weaken the,
lawn and we want to avoid that whenever we. Can
and not every weed has a good. Solution, no basket
grass is one very difficult to control in large. Areas

(02:37:35):
and if it's a little small, area we got some,
options but very large, area it's just not a super
easy one to. Control and places where they're like looking
at environmental protection and stuff where you, know you've got
a forest in the SOUTHEASTERN us and, whatnot basket grass
is like they just bring in volunteers by the hundreds
and just rake it up and rake it up and

(02:37:58):
rake it, up and it breaks off and. Back but
they're trying to shut it down a little. Bit and
there's also this thing called a. Label AND i talk
about this all the, time And i'm just going to
close down today by, saying the labels the, law and
the label is what a wise person will. Read because
not enough product doesn't. Work too much product almost always

(02:38:21):
has secondary effects that you will.

Speaker 5 (02:38:24):
Not, like.

Speaker 4 (02:38:26):
We love pre emergent products to stop weeds from coming
up right the. Lawn you double or triple that rate
and you've got your grass has trouble rooting because you've done,
That so don't assume if a tea spoons, GOOD a tablespoons.
BETTER i can give example after. Example insecticidal soap safe, easy,
Good double or triple the rate you burn your. Plants

(02:38:47):
you know WHAT i. Mean be careful read the, label,
sir for a. Reason talk to you tomorrow morning