Weed Wars III: Return of the Celsius

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Richter Jomell the crazy here the basis.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
And gas that you can't use trim. You just watch
him as we'll go start the gassies and gas. There
are so many.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Girl thinks to seep back raising in the bay bringing
the bassis and gas and again you Dad, Samos becumbles
back kicking. They're not a salmon glassies and gas and
the sun beaming down between.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
The bassis and gas? Can you jam first?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Starting and treating the bases like gas?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Became you dad?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hey, good morning morning, gardeners. Hey y'all doing today? It
is going be a good day. I can just tell
you that right now. And by the way, for you
early birds that are up listening, first thing this morning,
I'm going to head out to the Montgomery County Home
and Outdoor Living Show today and I will be there

(01:13):
for a good while. I hope you will come out
and see me. I'll be arriving about noon and be
in there till two. We're going to give a little
talk on things you need to do out in the
garden and lawn for fall, if you want to have success,
if you want the place to look nice, I'll be
answering your questions. I'll also have a little table where
I set up and we'll be doing some Q and

(01:33):
A there as well, So I'll mean there for a
couple of hours. Come on out and see me. It's
gonna be a great show that Montgomery Kenny Master Gardeners
are there, and it's just it's one of my favorite
home and garden shows to go to. Just first of all,
it doesn't costumeything to get in. I got great parking
there and lots of really good things to see. I'm
gonna be giving away some Neilson plant food too, by

(01:53):
the way, some samples from that actually little jars up it.
It's not just a little tiny sample, so come on
out grab one of those. I'll have some other things
out there with me, including I'm going to bring my
book on this trip. Will be if you're interested in
getting a signed copy of the book, we'll be glad
to do that for you as well. Well. You are
listening to Garden Line, and in order for this show

(02:16):
to do what we do, you have to pick up
a phone and give us a call. Otherwise I can
sit here and talk about horticulture till the cows come home.
I wonder where that phrase came from. Anyway, I can
and be happy to do that, and I'll start off
doing that. But if you'd like to give me a
call seven to one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two five eight

(02:37):
seven four, if you will, let's see here. If you will,
I want to give you a couple of points just
to if you got a pen or paper handy, it
would be a good idea to write stuff down. I
from time to time I'm giving websites, I'm giving phone numbers,
I'm giving information that you may want to jot down

(02:57):
the name of a particular product that works against the
particular problem. So have a pen and paper handy. One
thing to write down is my website gardening with Skip
dot com. That's me skip Gardening with skip dot com.
There you're going to find those things where someone asks
a question like how do I deal with take all
root rod Well. I've written up two different publications, a

(03:20):
one pager and a two pager. If you want a
fast version the one pager, if you're on a slow version,
the two pager. They're there. You can look them on
your screen. Look them on your phone, print them out
if you like. As are my schedules for lawn care
and also for dealing with pests, weeds and diseases in
the lawn. They're all there gardening with skip dot com.
So check that one out. Listen in the garden in

(03:42):
the lawn specifically. Now, Nitroposs has a product called bug
Out Max that deals with any kind of insect you're
dealing with during this season. This is when we would
still be dealing with chinchbugs. They're going to be heading
out soon, but they're still here. Also late in the
summer or early fall. By the way, September's of summer

(04:05):
month here. If you lived here here, you know that
the issue with sodwebworms can pop up at any time.
Maybe you've got pets and there's fleas and ticks that
are being hauled in and out of the house. Night
fossbug Out Max is a product that works. You put
it down, you water it in. It does its job
simple as that. Now you're gonna find night Foss products
at places like Brings Hardware on Bicinette and the one

(04:27):
on West Timer, the M and D down in Rosenberg
and Avenue. I carries Night Foss products, as does Ace
Hardware City on Memorial Drive. So check those out and
get you what you need to take care of the
things that you have, whether it's lawn gardens, you name it,
flower beds, shrub beds. Well, it looks like we had

(04:49):
some murdly birds this morning. Let's head out to tom
Ball and we're going to talk to Mel. Hello, Mel,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
First of all, thanks for taking my call. And another thing,
thank you for putting me onto stealthiest to get rid
of my button weed. That stuff works, Oh.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Good, Okay, Well, keep an eye on the button weed.
It's a sneaky one. Sometimes it takes a second application,
but all right, we'll glad to hear that.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
And I have another thing that I've got a brand
new read now and I had no idea what it is.
I emailed you a couple of pictures of it, and
I love to get rid of that.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm glad. Oh yeah, I know what you Okay, that
is you have a habit of collecting the toughest, most
difficult to control weeds on the planet. Melt yet button
weed first. Now you've got Now we're talking about dove weweed.
The one that you sent me is doveweed. Dove weed

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looks a little bit like Saint Augustine and that it
has wider leaves, not as long as Saint Augustine. But
they're very fleshy, you know, They're not just real, real thin.
They have a succulentness to them. And that's what you got.
And it is it's prout's late. It comes up. It
is a very difficult weed to control, but Celsius again

(06:12):
is probably the best product I know of to deal
with it. Plus, now that we're still above ninety degrees,
you're gonna be real careful with all the other good
broadleaf weed control products that work, but they can take
a toll on your Saint Augustine. So I usually just
tell people Celsius in the case of this weed too.
The last research I saw with Celsius was the better

(06:32):
one about how do.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
You how do you spell it? I'm sorry, like the.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Bird dove d v dove weed. Yeah, that's it, just
stay with it. I would I would consider next year,
in let's see March, probably at the early April, I
would consider putting down a pre emergent for the dove
weed and trying to reduce any that is coming back

(07:03):
from seed. It has little flowers on it and it
can produce seed. But if you get it under control
this year, maybe consider that next year just a second
option for dealing with it. And keep the soil as
dry as you can. You don't want your grass to
have enough water to be happy. But dove weed loves
it when you make it soggy wet, It loves those.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
All right, Oh my god, Okay, all right, I'll see
what I can do. Appreciate you again, man.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
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When it gets wet, it swells up. When it gets dry,

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it shrinks. We see that. You see cracks in the
ground and during summer drought things you see sidewalks heaving
and moving around. Oh my gosh, does that ever happen here? Well,
it does the same thing to your driveway, your sidewalk
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you know, talking to someone and going yeah, that is
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the brick. We're out to Magnolia now to visit with Dean. Hey, Dean,
welcome to garden line.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
Hey, good morning, sir.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I've got a morning.

Speaker 7 (09:25):
How can we help it morning. I got a bunch
of double knockout roadses that have gotten kind of tall
on me, and I wanted to know if it's a
good time to trim them, and how much can I
cut them back?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I would cut him back. We'll get in a little later.
I like to do this normally in mid to late August.
But if you cut them back now, go back by
about a fourth, and you're gonna get some fresh new growth.
And when you do then, but when you cut them back,
that is, fertilize them a little and water them a little.
Wash that fertilizer into the soil and they they will,

(09:59):
they will come out and you have a really good
fall show. Then you want to worry about him for
a while. They'll be good to go until late winter
when we print again.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Okay, and it's fertilizer. I've gotten it that thing before.
It is hardware. The Granular Organic got for you what
it's called.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
There's a number of them. Microlife makes some excellent granular fertilizers.
There is a one that's more for acidic plants, and
in general, roses do pretty good with that one, so
you might do that. It's kind of a pinkish bag,
but really, you know, if you use the green bag
six two four, if you're looking for the granular organic,
that's for lawns, and it does just fine for roses.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
All right, great, thanks for the information, you bet.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Thank you, appreciate it, appreciate your call. Yep, we got
to run to a break. I've talked my way through
the break here, so let's let's pause a minute and
we'll get going. All right, take care. Hey, good good morning,
Good morning on a good Saturday morning. What you're going
to do today? You got planned well, I said earlier.

(11:08):
I'm going to head over to the Montgomery County Home
an outdoor living show, be there from twelve to two.
Come on and see me, get you a little lunch
break and check out the show. We'll be giving away
some stuff from Nelson Fertilizers, and I just have a
number of different things now. I have my books on HNT,
if you're interested in a signed copy of a book,
we'll be glad to put that in your hands as well.
Give it a little talk on fall gardening tips too,

(11:30):
from the lawn to you name it. If you got
samples of any kind of plants that are maybe it
could be a bug, something you need identified or diagnosed
or whatever, put it in a plastic bag and bring
it with you. You can bring a bunch of them
if you want, especially if you're dealing with weeds, because
there's a number of different kinds of issues. But we'll

(11:51):
be happy to take a look at those, and we're
all gonna I usually on those, I'll hold them up
and wherever I can see them, and I'll answer the question.
But so everybody can see because you're going to go, yeah,
I got that in my yard too. Unfortunately, I don't
allow weeds in my yard. If the weeds were here,
they would say he's a liar. But anyway, the weeds
are a problem. Crabgrass in the garden of life. Hey,

(12:14):
if you'd like to give me a call seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four, we'll visit
about the things that are of interest to you. Had
a little rain the other day, and you know, anytime
things get a little wet, mosquitoes are sure to show up.
Did you know a mosquito can lay an egg in
a bottle cap or a thimble full of water, and

(12:34):
that egg can not only hatch, but go through that
larval life cycle and come out of an adult mosquito.
And it doesn't take much water for mosquitoes to breed.
So underneath the catchpots in your in your underneath your
your plants, they can breed in there. Certainly, bird baths,
hollow tree trunks, saggy gutters that hold just a little
bit of water. There's there.

Speaker 8 (12:55):
You go.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Mosquito dunks fixes all that. You throw some mosquito dunks
into a little pond of water. Let's say one dunk,
one little doughnut they doughnut shaped, will cover about one
hundred square feet and it'll last for a month because
they slowly release a disease that only affects mosquitos and
fungus nets, two things we don't really want to have

(13:18):
around anyway. Doesn't hurt fish, doesn't hurt birds, doesn't hurt
your family pet. It just hurts those two critters, the
mosquito and the fungus net. Now you can break them up,
put a little granules of them in, you know, underneath
those catch basins. You don't need al dunk to go
underneath there. But mosquito dunks are available everywhere. I mean,
I mean it. It's like you know, independent nurseries, feed stores,

(13:40):
ace hardware stores, southwestore Let all these places carry mosquito dunks.
So get you some have them on hand. You always
want to have them on hand because you will need them.
Don't let mosquitos proliferate there at your house. Don't be
a Skeeter breeder. Get you some sqita dunks. There are
a few things that I A woulds say everybody ought

(14:02):
to have on hand, and that is definitely one of
the products. You might as well just go ahead and
get it. Keep it because you're going to need it.
Planks for all seasons. Great Garden Center. I don't know
if you've ever been there before, you should go there.
Plus for All Seasons is the kind of place where
when you go you just find any kinds of plans

(14:24):
you're looking for that are suitable for this season, that
are successful in our area. These folks are experts, have
been around since eighteen seventy three. They garden here. They
probably heard every gardening question that could ever come up,
because the customers come in and ask them questions, bring
them samples, take pictures, and all that kind of thing,
and so it is certainly understandable that you know, this

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would be a place where you're going to get that
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give them a call, stop by there. Sometimes you don't
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You should check out the kind of work that they
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on social media and just seeing the kinds of things
they put together, the kind of products they have, the
kind of work they do. It's just it's just really helpful.
Plants for all seasons. Nowhere are they located. Well, if

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you heading, if you're heading up two forty nine Tomboll
Parkway to Tombo, you exit Luetta crossover Luetta, and it's
just a little north of Luetta right there on the
right hand side easy to find in my yard, I
have been. I have four different grasses in my yard
and the reason for that is Number One, I like

(15:50):
to experiment and play with things. Number Two, if I'm
going to give you advice, I better know what I'm
talking about. And so as new turf comes out and stuff,
sometimes I'll put them in and just check it out
and see how it works. If a diseases show up
and I'm telling you this product, use that product or whatever,
check them out. You don't hear me talk about a
fertilizer that I haven't used. You don't hear me talk

(16:11):
about when I recommend a pest control that I haven't
done now. And if there's a pest I've never had before, yeah, okay,
But I follow the research to make sure that what
I'm recommending works. And so I'm not in the yard
and I'm looking and guess what I saw. I saw
a fall aster. It's really called slender aster. Fall Aster

(16:32):
is a great plant for the garden beds, but slender
aster in my lawn. It is a blue green weed.
You don't see it all year, and typically in the
fall is when it starts growing and by the time
we get to October, you go see these little dime
sized pinkish lavender daisy looking things in the grass. That

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thing can proliferate and you want to get rid of
it before it has its flowers. And so I only
got a few. I stay with them on them every year.
You can spray it with a pre emergent, but you
need to do that for it blooms, it becomes reproductive,
or it won't work. But anyway, they're out there now,
they're growing. So when I see one, I just kneel

(17:13):
down and it comes out of one spot. It's got
a single type root in the ground. Make sure the
soil's wet, and you can pull that thing out real easy.
And because if you don't, I've seen these things in
the yard. Oh I don't know, as big as a
steering wheel on your car, or larger, pretty little flowers,
but each flower has fifty seeds. I've seen plants with

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one hundred flowers. Do the math five thousand seeds. If
you don't pull it up, there's a tip word for
otherwise you're gonna be talking about that more as we
get toward the fall. Also in the yard, I recommend
soul testing periodically soil testing tells you where you are
in terms of nutrient levels. I recommend nutrients and products

(17:57):
that have ratios that fit our gardens. The plants were
growing the lawns area. But sometimes gardens are off, soil
is off. Maybe you have higher iron than your neighbor does,
Maybe you have higher phosphorus than your neighbor does. Do
you see what I'm saying? So a soil test periodically

(18:20):
tells you where you are and you adjust your fertilizing accordingly. Now,
the micronutrients, those are the trace minerals, the ones that
we don't need much of. They are also essential. Just
because you need a tiny bit doesn't make it not essential.
I mean, how much vitamin DED does your body need?
What would happen if your body had no vitamin D?

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Do you see what I'm saying? That's what we're talking about.
And azemite is a crushed mineral product that you'll see
it on my schedule. You can put on a couple
times a year whatever your soil needs, and you put
it down, you water it in, and it provides access
to those micronutrients, and they're very important if you want
to have success. They you cannot have plant growth and

(19:02):
production without all the nutrients. And where do you get
stuff like that? Well, asmat's available every I mean you
feed stores, garden centers, and Southwest Fertilizer, you know. And
when I say Southwest, just like, why do I even
tell you it's at Southwest Fertilizer. Everything's at Southwest Fertilizer. Really,

(19:23):
I mean seriously, every fertilizer I mentioned, and a dozen
that I don't even are there at Southwest Fertilizer because
Bob carries all the stuff when it comes to pest control,
insect control, weed control, disease control. Bob's got it all. Uh,
And you just pull in there. It's a Southwest Houston,
of course, Southwest Houston corner abyssin Nut and Runwick. The

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phone number is seven to one three six six six
one seven four four. Write that down seven one three
six six six one seven four four. If you have
a really weird product's or a tool or something you're
not sure he has it, we'll call him. First answer
ninety nine point nine percent of the time going to
be absolutely yes. Southwest Fertilizer, corner of Businett and Runwick.

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It's time for me to take a little break here
for the top of the hour. If you would like
to be first stop when we come back, give me
a call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. I'm gonna grab me a cup of coffee.
You may want to do the same, those of you
who are up at this hour, if you're a coffee drinker.

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And we'll be right back to answer your gardening questions.
And we are b b back. Welcome back to garden Line.
Good to have you with us. Seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. That's the number you
need to write that down. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Uh, have you been doing

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Chenna Forest lately? And Jenni Forest is the garden center
down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Actually, if you're
in Richmond heading towards sugar Land, up fifty nine or
sixty nine has two numbers. Now right, it's off to
the right back in that way. It's on FM twenty
seven fifty nine. I want you to remember this website

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or write it down. Be better Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX
dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. It's an
outstanding garden center. They always have things for the season.
If you're into like, oh, I don't know, maybe you
want to bring in pollinators and butterflies and things, they
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(21:34):
on that. If maybe you are in and to fruit trees,
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They're restocked on vegetables, loaded up on vegetables. You should
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it is loaded with vegetable. They've got herbs. Any herb
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you walk in and you have a good time shopping
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Maybe you're looking for house plants, maybe you're looking for
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beautiful selection of beauty berry is going on right now there. Anyway,
whatever you need, even down to gardening bling, they've got
you covered. At Enchanted Forest and the products that go
with it. They have those as well. I was checking
out the turks cap. Turk's cap is a native blooming
plant with red flowers, and the hummingbirds are here and

(22:44):
they love that plant. And in Channing Forest has a
nice selection of Turk's cap ready to go. I love
the plant myself. I mean it's tough as a nail.
You almost can't kill it. It's a great plant, and
the hummingbirds love it. And we are in big time
hummingbird season. All right, Let me quit talking about plant,
start talking to two people. Hey, Craig in sugar Land,

(23:05):
welcome to garden Line. How can we help?

Speaker 9 (23:09):
Yes, good morning, Skip. I just want to make sure
when the appropriate time to winter rise my lawn.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Okay, you now of the only fertilizing you would be doing,
and if you hadn't fertilized in a while, would be
putting down a light dose of an immediate release, just
to help the lawn if it needs, if it's not
looking as green, if it needs a little more vigor
in things. You can do that now. The actual winter
rising part of the schedule comes in October, typically through

(23:42):
the month of October I like to go early to
mid October if you if you have you know, the
flexibility and stuff. But if you do it in late September,
if you do it a little later in October, that's
fine too.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Okay, perfect sounds good.

Speaker 10 (23:59):
So you sit down right now.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
An early release, you said, yeah you can if you used.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
To slow Yeah, if you used to slow release, let's
say a month or two ago, we don't fertilize. Now
that's covered. It's got you covered for several months. But
some people I've talked to, you know, the head and
fertilized in a while and the lawn just isn't looking
good and it's struggling and it so yeah, so that's

(24:28):
where I would grab some sweet green. Sweet green is
from nitroposs it is. It's an eleven zero zero. So
it's just you know, just giving it the nitrogen. No,
actually it's not. It's eleven zero four, I believe, but
it gives it a quick boost. You watered in and
it'll it'll it'll immediately be putting that nutrient done in

(24:49):
the solder green. Your line up, uh, and then when
we get into i'd say, if you've done the sweet green,
now I would say about mid October, d your your
fall uh fertilizing which you referred to as winter. I
that's a different product.

Speaker 9 (25:03):
Yes, all right, okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
And you you know you're you're down there in the
uh you know, Richmond, sugar Land and that that kind
of area, and you've got places like Plantation Ace Hardware.
I believe they carry the sweet green down there.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
And then of course the enchanted forest and gardens probably
have some whey green on hand. Too.

Speaker 9 (25:26):
All right, perfect, okay, yes, sir, I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
All right, thank you, alrighty there you go.

Speaker 11 (25:35):
Uh.

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Debbie this morning. Hey, Debbie, good morning.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
I'm done good? How can we help?

Speaker 12 (27:28):
I have as alias that are definitely pot bound and
I want to put them in the ground.

Speaker 13 (27:34):
Is it too hot to do that?

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well, we're awfully close to fall.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
If you are having trouble remembering to get them watered
and things, I'd go ahead and plan them now. They
have a little better chance in the ground than they
do in a pot when they go without water for
a little bit.

Speaker 8 (27:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
If all things equal and you can wait, I would
probably wait and do this in late October early November,
when the stress level is a little lower on the plants.
It's just a better time to establish any kind of
woody plants. But one thing you need to do within
it pop bound azilla. I'm glad you called, is those
roots make a just a tight wad of fine roots

(28:18):
in the cylinder, and they don't unwind underground, and they
don't establish well when they become pot bound. So you're
gonna need to take a knife. I use the little
the little utility knives, the little you know, you push
the blade out. It's about an inch long box cutter knife,
and I'll cut from top to bottom in three or

(28:39):
four places around that cylinder and kind of reach in
and pull out, you know, kind of tear up open
those slices and everywhere you've cut roots, they're going to
branch and send out more roots. But you need to
do that. I would do it in four places around
the cylinder about an inch deep, and the plant will
be fine. But if you don't do that, you know,
if you were to go back next spring and it's

(29:01):
not doing good and you grab the plant and pull it,
it almost comes straight up out of the ground because
those roots just don't mancher out well if you don't
take take care of that problem.

Speaker 12 (29:09):
Okay okay.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
And they like acidic soils, so if you get a
soil blend that's acidic, and then get you a fertilizer
that is for acid loving plants. Uh, they be organic.
We have synthetic options for acid loving plants. That's definitely
what you want to use for them.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Okay, Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Good luck with that day. You bet you take care
you as well. I'm gonna head to a break here
when we come back Kevin and Cyprus. You'll be our
first stup. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line. Good to
have you with us, Thanks for hanging around. We're just
visiting with Debbie and Sugarland going to plant some azaleas.

(29:56):
You know, when it comes to fertilizers, if you're looking
for an organic product designed for the kinds of plants
you want to grow, microlife has got you covered. For example,
in the fertilizers, they have the kind of a pinkish
I look at it as a hot pink bag or
a red reddish pink bag of an acid loving plant food.

(30:17):
So Azelia's and that would be camellias, and that would
be paris and Virginia, sweet spire and blueberries. I'm sitting
here going through my head on all the acid loving plants,
even roses, like things to be a little more acidic
than some of our soils can be around here. And
micro life products work. They work because they are made

(30:38):
like nature. You know, you get they're made from natural,
organic things. And you can just see the ratio of
nutrients right there on the bag. A lot of them
are in a three one to two ratio, which is
a good general ratio for a lot of kinds of plants.
And they do really well. You just need to get
them down. I like to scratch mine into the surface
of the soil. You don't have to do that. I
like to scratch them in the surface or into the

(30:59):
mold elch around the beds. I hope your beds are mulched.
If not, have fun pulling weeds. But Microlife's got you
covered if you need something to use as a folio spray.
Microlife has a number of great products. I like the
Biometrix that's the orange label. It's a seven to one
three product and you can use it on any kind
of plant, any kind of plant you want. Microlife's not

(31:20):
going to burn your plants. You mix them according to
the label. They're not salt based. If you prefer a
fish of mulsion or a seaweed, they have those. The
fish product, by the way, is Ocean Harvest. It's a
blue label four two three. See. These are available all
over town. So it's easy to recommend Microlife because you
can go to a feed source, you can go to
independent garden centers, you can got ace hardware start. You're

(31:41):
going to find Microlife all over the place. It's easy
to work, it's easy to find and it works. And
I say that because I use it. Let's set out
to Cyprus. And talk to Kevin. Hey Kevin, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Good morning, see you. I have a question about compost
top dressing, so I have I have some Let me,
let me turn this radio down. I got your on
apple carp here, hold on one second.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Thank you, Thank you. I appreciate everybody else listening when
you when you call in. I just always have that
radio down and that helped because the radio is a
delay and so people don't know when to talk because
the radio is telling them a different time. All right,
thank you.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Okay, So I'm going to a big box store to
get some compope post drop uh uh top dressing, and
I usually go to the nursery, but i don't have
a lot of time today. And I've got a couple
of bear spots in my front yard where I had
a worker over there not long ago, and he he
was using it as a wash out unfortunately, and had

(32:53):
a lot of clay and other particles there, so it
kind of killed that grass. My question is on the
top dressing from a big box store. Is there a
certain one that you recommend, in other words, organic versus
not our other product?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
No, No, there's not. I've bought soils and composts from
box stores in the past, and you open the bag
and if it's supposed to be a compost, it's got
chunks of wood oftentimes, and if it's supposed to be
a molt, it's got it's just they're not generally, they're
not quality things. And so I know I'm painting with

(33:28):
a broad brush there, but there is no brand in
there that I would say, go get this one. When
you're doing top dressing, it's best if you can use
leaf mole compost, and you know you've got sources of
that around you. I know you've got arbigate, and you've
got plants for all seasons, and you mentioned you don't
have to drive too far from where you are. I
get that. But for top dressing, the leaf mole compost.

(33:49):
And also there's a product from Nature's Way that is
a fungal compost that's screened fungal compost and it does
really well too. Those are the ones. Other than that.
It's kind of like whether they say caveat emptor let
the buyer beware.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
Yeah, I certainly understand, and I usually do go to
one of those two stores you nurseries you mentioned, and
they have quality products and I may, and I may
just put it off still when I have more time
to do that. But I appreciate your advice.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah, and you've got you got a bunch of Ace
Hardware stores around you. I don't know exactly where you are,
and it doesn't matter, but there's you know, you got
an ACE Hardware on Jones Road. You got one down
south just on the southeast corner of Copperfield. You've got
some other Ace Hardware stores in that area. Go to
Ace Hardware Texas dot com and find a lot of
times l carry bags are compost too, so you might

(34:43):
check that out. Oh, very just give a call.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
From Yeah, I didn't know that. That's a great idea. Okay, Well,
thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Skip. You have a good day, Yes, sir, thank you
very much. Appreciate that call. Yeah, quality compost, stop dressing.
I'm telling you, Uh, it is amazing to me what
that people are, what companies will put in a product.
It just I really mean, I've seen chunks of wood

(35:09):
as big as my thumb in something that was supposed
to be compost and that come on, man, that that's
not right. And then you don't even know how they're
made to you may compost the wrong way, and there's
issues you know, they can it can have sometimes piles
go in aerobic and they get sour and they they
have chemical compounds that develop in that that are actually

(35:32):
very damaging to plants. And so anyway, I understand the desire,
you know, for a convenience and and whatnot. I just
think sometimes, well not sometimes a lot of times, you know,
you get what you pay for. So just keep that
in mind. You're listening to garden Line and we're here

(35:53):
to answer your gardening questions. About to take a little
top of the r break here in a bit is
up there in Tomball, which would be too far of
a drive from for Kevin heading up the street D
and D Feed is about three miles west of two
forty nine on twenty nine to twenty and I know
they carry airloom soils products by the bag up at

(36:16):
Dad Feed and that's that's an example of good quality.
So they carry night Foss, the carry Microlife, the Carre
Turff Star from Nelson. They carry Medina products up there.
If you need a product that controls something weeds, insects, diseases,
they've got you covered and they have their their selection

(36:37):
is really good. I mean they go into There's Every
time I go into D and D I check out
what they have on the shelves because I'm always surprised
that at some of the things I did not think
would be available in a little local shop like that,
and they are. D and D does a really good
job of staying stocked up on all those sort of things,
so it makes it makes it really convenient, easy and

(37:01):
easy out. Occasionally they have some plants out front too,
that's kind of nice. At D and Defeat, I am
coming up here on the top of the error break,
and so I'm gonna have to quit talking here a
little bit. They let me know about playing music that
means skip shut up. Before we do get to that, though,
I want to remind you I'm going to be at
the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show for my

(37:24):
first appearance this whole fall, very first one, and that
show is going on today and tomorrow, September sixth and seventh.
Costs nothing to get in. I'm going to be there
from twelve to two. I'll start off with a talk
on tips for fall gardening and lawn and landscape care.
We'll go through that and then we'll move into a
Q and A in a diagnostic session. So bring me

(37:48):
you're tired, you're weary, your disease ridden masses of plants
yearning to breathe free. Okay, that was a stretch. Anyway,
I'll be happy to take a look at them. Throw
something in a bag. It could be a disease, succept
suspect disease. It could be an insect that you want
to identify it, or a weed that you want identified,
or even a little you know, some grass that you're going,

(38:11):
what's wrong with this grass? Take a little plug, a
four by four four x six inch plug out, get
some roots and soil with it, not a lot, just
you know, just two or three inches of the top,
and bring it in. Put it in a zip lock bag.
Make sure and do that because if it were something
like chinchbugs, they're going to scream and run away when
they're in the back of your pickup flying at six
miles an hour over to Montgomery County. So make sure

(38:35):
and put it in a bag so it's there when
we take a look at it, and we will diagnose
whatever kinds of things you guys want to bring in.
All right, all right, Well, here we go, So come
on out by the way at the Home and Guard
Outdoor Living show. I'm gonna give the talk, I'm going
to do the diagnostics, and they don't have a table
where we continue answering questions, so we'll be there for

(38:56):
two hours, so come on out and check that out.
I'm going to have some copies of my schedule on hand.
I'm going to be giving away some copies of Texas
Gardener magazine. If you never subscribe, you need to, and
I'll put a free copy in your hand just to
take a look at so you can see why I
recommend it so highly. I'll also have my books on hand.

(39:17):
If you'd like assigned copy, we can work on that
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Speaker 1 (39:40):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

Speaker 14 (39:44):
It's so.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Crazy just watch him as a world. Hey, welcome back.

(40:18):
You're ready to talk to gardening. If you are, all
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Speaker 15 (40:30):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Let's let's see here. We're going to go out now
to Spring Branch and talk to Lance this morning. Hey, Lance,
welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
Good morning ship.

Speaker 9 (40:40):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Doing good? Thank you?

Speaker 7 (40:45):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Yes, A couple of questions.

Speaker 16 (40:47):
A couple of questions.

Speaker 17 (40:49):
Where can I buy Celsius locally.

Speaker 7 (40:54):
The week the side.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
You're in Spring Branch, Yes, sir, you're in Spring Ranch area.
It's sold in a number of places around town. You're
kind of in a little spot there where I'm not
sure where to send you if you if you had
the first thing I would do is call the Ace
Hardware Store. There's one out in the Memorial area. It's

(41:22):
called Hardware City. It's on Memorial Drive. It's a little
further out from you, but that would be one south
of south of ten Interstate Town. Call them there, go ahead, Yeah,
you know, if you need a number, it's a yeah,
two eight, one, four, nine, six, twenty one thirteen. See

(41:45):
if they have it. I haven't been. I haven't checked
their shelves for it in there, but there's a chance
they would. If you're not successful there, You're gonna have
to go a little distance down Southwest Fertilizer. I guarantee
you they have it corner of Business and Run. That's
that's south of you waste. And then going up Interstate
and not Interstate, going up belt Way eight RCW, which

(42:07):
is Belta eight and two forty nine. I know they
carry it there. Uh that would be the case. And
then going in toward town. Maybe Buchanan's Plants would be
a place to try.

Speaker 8 (42:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
So, like I said, you're kind of in the middle
of an opening there where I don't have a known
retailer that that I know, I know for sure carries it.

Speaker 18 (42:27):
But this has been that this has been helpful.

Speaker 17 (42:30):
The other the other question I had is had some
contractors at my house and they tore a part of
my front yard while they were staging stuff. Yeah, and
I was wondering, could I apply a Medina product?

Speaker 18 (42:44):
Is it kind of a first date or.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
What do you recommend?

Speaker 3 (42:49):
What's what's it looking like right now? Is it is
it green but just kind of chomped up? Or is
it is it you losing some color? What do you say?

Speaker 17 (43:00):
It is certainly chomped up and it's a little dry,
but it's still green.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Okay. I think I would probably get has to grow
for lines. It's a twelve four to eight from Medina
twelve four eight. It hooks up to a garden hose
and so you could go right over there to that
area and just you know, walk through it pretty quick
and just apply that over the area, do it a
little lightly first, and then if you got some more left,
you can come back and do it again. That That

(43:29):
would probably be the easiest fastest way to get something
down those for those grass plants, to get them parked
back up again. Don't forget though, that in October we're
doing our fall fertilization and still do that one because
it's going to be a different ratio product when we
do fall. But that's on my schedule online.

Speaker 10 (43:48):
Have your schedule.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
Thank you very much, sir.

Speaker 9 (43:50):
I appreciate you all right.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Thanks Lance, appreciate the call. Yeah. RCW Nurseries. I was
talking about them up on Beltway eight and Tomball Park.
Outstanding nursery. I love going in there. Number one. The
way they treat you in there is just it's just good.
They really know how to take care of their customers.
We call it to get it. Got it nursery because
first of all, they got about everything. But if they

(44:13):
don't have something, they will get it for you. They'll
do their best. If it's available to get, they'll get
it right now. Fifteen percent off Cajun Hibiscus. You know,
it's one of my favorite types of hibiscus. It's Cajun hibiscus.
The colors are just I can't describe them. But you
look at it and you go, that don't look natural.
I mean hibiscus is red or white? Right, No, no,

(44:35):
not no, You like coral, you like purpleish colors, and
oh my gosh, hibiscus Cajun hibiscus fifteen percent off. They
also have during this month of September thirty percent off
creape myrtles, thirty percent off, citrus trees, thirty percent off
some of the roses select roses, and then they've got

(44:55):
a nice supply of metal yard art. I have to
walk around all the time looking at their yard art
because it's kind of fun. All at RCW Nursery corner
of belt Way eight or right where belt Way eight
comes into Tomball Parkway Highway two forty nine, So it's
easy to get to and go by there and check
them out. So it's fun to go there, RCW. I

(45:18):
was out checking my mosquito buckets. I always have to
look in them, you know, I want to see, you know,
is there wrigglers in there? Mosquito larva, because that's a
good sign. These buckets they attract mosquitoes. So you don't
put them right by your back door. You put them
in the landscape. And the folks at pest Bros Know
how to do it. They they'll place them in places like,
you know, kind of a little enclave where you know
how mosquitoes tend to hang out right in your little

(45:41):
entry way and stuff. Those kind of places. Pest Bros
News how to find them. They put them there. Mosquitoes
go in, they lay eggs. Those eggs never turn into mosquitos.
The mosquito flies away with stuff on its legs that
will kill that mosquito and stuff on its legs when
they land in that saggy gutter that's holding a little water.
It gets in that water and that water will not

(46:01):
breed mosquitoes either, which is a really good thing to happen. Now,
pest Bros does roach controlled. If you got rats and
mice outside if you've got you know, I don't know
what else fire ants in the yard. Termites, for sure,
you need to you need to see their ten year
termite control treatment. It is awesome and they know how

(46:23):
to treat effectively. They know how to do so in
the safest possible manner. Thepestbros dot Com two eight one
two o six forty six seventy. Let's head out now
to full Shore, Texas and talk to Suzanne. Hello, Suzanne, Well,
hello to you.

Speaker 19 (46:42):
I would like to ask you about mol augustum, which
I've never liked augustum, but it happens to be very
pretty and happy looking, and all of a sudden I
notice that it's got some just something real sticky and
real shiny, and just one part of it and it's nothing.

(47:03):
It looks like just milk that's been thrown on it.
Nothing on the underside, and I don't know, I don't know.
It looks really shiny, even in this spot. But now
it's looking like it might have little pieces of something
in it. Little I really don't know, like just a
little rolled up skin or something.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Well, you threw me by the milk thing?

Speaker 6 (47:29):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Is it white? Or is it kind of a clear shining.

Speaker 7 (47:35):
I call it. I would guess, I think I know what.

Speaker 19 (47:38):
You got a clear shiny it just has a little whiteness.

Speaker 8 (47:43):
Here's what.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Yeah, here's here's what's happening. An insect is sucking juices
out of your lagustrum and they're basically peeing out a
little sugary water. And there are several insects that do that.
White white flies do it, but you know it was
white flies. If you went up and sh a branch
in little white nts whenever media bugs will do it,
and aphids will do it, and scale will do it.

(48:07):
I think on your lagustum, it's probably scale. And so
what you do is you put a product down on
the ground that you water in and it goes in
the roots of the plant and anything sucking juices out
of the plant is going to be killed. Okay, it's
called a systemic insecticide. Number of ones out there on
the market. There are number ones out there on the market,

(48:30):
and so you know it's it's not this isn't this
isn't difficult to do, but it really does work. It
works very very well. So that would be my recommendation
to you is to do that probably if you go
to a Plantation Hardware, which is an a store on
Mason Road. It's not too far from you Plantation Hardware Ace,

(48:52):
and just go by there and tell them you need
a systemic insecticide and they'll get you fixed up. There's
an number of ones on the market, and I could
give you like the ingredient names, but you know that
there's one. Let me just give you one. One starts
with a mid. I am I D I am I D.

(49:14):
If you just know those four letters and you go
to get in sex side, that's going to be the
right one. But you follow the label drench it in.
It takes a little while, but it will knock them out. Hey,
I've got a run. I've run over a break, Suzanne,
But good luck very much. Appreciate your appreciate your call.

(49:34):
All right, folks will be right back. All right, we're
back and the sun is on its way. Things brightened
up there a little bit ago. Hey, I was just
visiting with folks out in the Fullsher area, and I
had mentioned the plantation ace which is out in kind
of pe Coong Grove. Y. It's very close to you there.

(49:56):
But I also should tell you there's another Ace Hardware
store right in your backyard. I'm just kind of looking
at the map during a break here Fullsher Race. If
you have not been by your Fullsher Race Hardware store,
it's on three point fifty nine right there in Fullsher, Texas.
So that may be another good one. If you're on
a phone number, if you're still listening our directions, just

(50:17):
go to Ace Hardwaretexas dot com and you can find
all your Race Hardware stores, including that Fullshier store, which
is probably right right next door. We're going to head
out now to Baytown, Texas and talk to Brandon. Hey Brandon,
welcome to garden Line. Heyday morning, sir, How are you.

Speaker 9 (50:38):
Good?

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Good? Thank you? Can we help.

Speaker 10 (50:42):
My family and I moved into a new.

Speaker 14 (50:44):
Build housing in twenty twenty one. Everything that we plant
in the backyard, from crepe.

Speaker 20 (50:51):
Myrtles, peach trees.

Speaker 14 (50:54):
Weeping willows, everything will last about six months and then
long we've had is a freak myrtle for about a
year and then ends up getting root rot. So what
I did this last go around was try to alter
out a lot deeper, get some drain good drainage. But
I mean I can auger about three foot down.

Speaker 9 (51:13):
It is nothing but clay mud. Is there anything I
can do about this?

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Yeah? Okay, So in going forward, you know, don't dig
down because that basically that clay soil is an underground bathtub.
You dig a hole in clay, fill it with water,
and it just sits there full of water. So if
your plant roots are down in that hole, they're underwater,
and that that's one of the things that leads to
root rot build up. I would get some quality soil mix,

(51:41):
something's got some compost and whatnot in it, a good mix,
put it on the ground, mix it in just a
little bit, so you don't go from like compost to
clay instantly. You know that otherwise it creates what's called
perched water table, where water goes through the compost and
hits the clay and just sits there. So you want
to mix it a little bit and then add more
of the good stuff and more of the good stuff

(52:02):
to create that bed. And that way your roots are
essentially primarily above ground, but you're gonna have roots down
in the clay as well. But if you do it
that way, you have better success and the bigger of
an area you can give plants the better. If it's
a little flowers, you know, then you don't need a
big area. But if it's a shrub, you know, the

(52:23):
wider the bed the better off because the more of
a root zone it can get. Don't just make a
little one foot mound of good stuff, you know, make
a bed of it, but remember to kind of mix
that interface a little bit and you'll have better luck
with that.

Speaker 20 (52:37):
Okay, it sounds great.

Speaker 10 (52:38):
I appreciate it, sir.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
I hope that works for you. And if you have
future developments and questions call anytime.

Speaker 7 (52:49):
Yes, sir, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
You have a great day, all right, Yes, sir, you
take care. Appreciate that. In Chinni Gardens down there in
the Richmond Rosenberger every time a lot about Richmond Rosenberg
today and Channa Gardens is just an outstanding place to visit.
You probably have been there, those of you down in
that area, I'm sure have well known. For sure well known.

(53:13):
I love going there because I love the selection that
they have. They just do an excellent job of bringing
in any kind of plant that you're looking for. I mean,
they know how to find the stuff that's gonna do
well for you and to bring it in. That's kind
of how they do things. When you go there, you're

(53:33):
going to find a selection like none other. When you
go there, you're going to find the seasonal plants that
you need. When you go there, you're going to find
everything seasonal two. Right now, you should see their Talivera pumpkins.
They are unbelievably beautiful. Unbelievably beautiful Taalivera pumpkins at Encented
Gardens in Richmond. They're on FM Founder Market three fifty nine,

(53:58):
FM three fifty nine north of rich Shmund Rosenberg. When
you go there, you're going to see the mums. The
moms have started arriving there. When you go there, you're
going to find things like the fragrant India jasmine. It's
actually bell of India jasmine, just a wonderfully intoxicating fragrance.
We've got a bunch of plants like that. Boy to
have that near a back sitting area, that's good. You

(54:20):
don't do fall veggies, they've got them. They got a
nice shipment in. Things are looking good. I mean, when
you go you're going to be greeted. You're going to
find people that know what they're talking about. That can
help you and as well you're going to find you
know how I always say brown stuff before green stuff. Well,
they've got the soil products from hairloom soils and Nature's

(54:41):
Way too, by the way, and they have products from
Medina and Nelson plant food and nitroposs and microlife. You
can get that soil right by starting an enchanted gardens,
take home the soil, take home some plants, and create
some beauty at your house. It's as simple as that
really works. Hey, if you would like to give me
you call seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. Someone was talking to someone the other day
and they were just saying, you know, their landscape just
is blah, and they they go and they buy a
pretty plant and they put it in, but it just
doesn't look right and they're really frustrated.

Speaker 10 (55:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
I was trying to help them with that. And bottom
line is your landscape is what you want it to be.
It should be what you want it to be. So
if you like randomness and just to be a plant collector,
then do that. That's your yard.

Speaker 21 (55:38):
Do it.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
It's okay. But if you want to create esthetic beauty
and with balance and beautiful colors and just to flow
to it, something that's so pleasing to the eye. Called
pierscapes peerscapes. They're professionals. They know what they're doing and
they can do anything you need. Do you want some
landscape lighting. It's going to be cooling off now and

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in the fall, that's a great time to be sitting outside.
Can you imagine having beautiful outdoor landscape lighting or a
new hardscape like a patio or something like that. They
can create that as well. They fix drainage areas, They
deal with the irrigation problems that you might have. They
can design the landscape from top to bottom to whatever
level you want. They also, and this is important, they

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have a quarterly maintenance service. So once a quarter, four
times a year, they come out. They go to your beds,
they switch out any flowers that need switching out if
you and they decide how often you can do that
through the year. They replenish the malts, they deal with
any weeds, They make sure the irrigation is working right.
They just do a little clean up, check up, spruce

(56:46):
up to all your landscape beds. Peerscapes. Does that Now,
go to the website Peerscapes dot com or go call
them on the phone. Two eight one three seven fifty sixty.
Let them create some really beautiful magic at your house.
They can do place you can be proud of Piercecapes
two eight one three seven fifty sixty. I like to

(57:10):
go to the website Piercescapes dot com just to see
the work that they do. You know, it's like inspiring.
It's like, oh wow, that is amazing. It just is
it always is. You heard me talk about Ace Hardware
store a few times today. Already Ace Hardware's are all
over You can go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com.

(57:31):
Ace Hardware Texas, don't forget the Texas dot com and
find my local Ace Hardware stores here and they're all
over the place. There's a map there you can find
the one nearest shoe. When you go to Ace Hardware stores,
you find the supplies you need to create landscape beauty,
the fertilizers, the products I talk about, things to control
wes pests, diseases, weeds. They have that for sure. They

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have tools, for example, and they've got a very helpful staff.
Some of the Ace Hardware stores and have a little
plant section where you can go in. Now, if you're
a handyman, you need to know about Ace Hardware's quality
hand tools, and they fit any budget. They have everything.
They got the Ace brand, the Milwaukee, Stanley Black and
Decker Craftsman and de Walt. They've got you covered on

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all of that. But I'm telling you, I can't go
talking about barbecue because I'm into barbequing and I love
my barbecue. Pet got it from an Ace Hardware store.
Is I bought it from Ace Hardware. Uh, and it
was a rectech brand. They've got all the brands, all
the top brands, you know. So if you want to
Trigg repellet grow, if you want a Weber, whatever brand

(58:37):
you're going for, Big Green Egg, there's a whole nother
one quality stuff at Ace Hardware and all the stuff
you need to go with it. You know, you got
you gotta, you gotta have all your supplies because barbecue
in here in Texas, oh boy. And now with it
going to be cooling off here in the next two
three months, Uh, good time to be outside doing that.

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You gotta start with Ace Hardware. He's harder. I was
visiting with Ashley down at Ciena Maltz the other day. Uh,
and in fact, I need to post this.

Speaker 11 (59:10):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
I got her to take a video of me making
compost angels in there, or malt angels in their piles
out there at cnamlts. If you kind of usually imagine,
if you, if you know what a snow angel is,
you know what a compost angel is. And yes, said
that crazy guy on garden Line was laying in the
dirt making compost angels. But anyway, Ciena Maltz has got

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you covered on all kinds of composts, all kinds of malts.
Do you need things by bulk? Do you need things
by the bag? They delivered within twenty miles and their
products are top quality, top quality. I mean that Cienamltz
dot com. They're on FM five twenty one near Highway
six and two eighty eight FM five twenty one Sienna
Maltz dot com. Oh and check out their garden beds.

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They've got the vego beds set up for you can
see and you can buy them there. They have no
nice selection of new metal yard art too. I love
that stuff. Spruce is up the place a little bit right, Uh,
and they sell things by the supersack with a three
sack minimum. You can buy products to be delivered to
you by the supersack. We'll be right back. I don't

(01:00:18):
know if you can hear me in China Grove, but
we get close to San Antonio area. Welcome back to
guard Line. Good to have you with us. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. That's the number.
If you want to give me a call and talk
about the things that are going on in your garden.
Maybe you got some questions that we can assist you with.

(01:00:39):
We're more than happy, of course to do that. I
always enjoy getting to visit with gardeners. That is that
is my happy place. It really is. I you know,
I mean that I was a Kenny Extension for thirty
five years and uh, that just was a wonderful experience
for me. And for those of you don't know about

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your county extension office, there's one in every county in
this whole region. And you have horticulturists specifically, you got
ag agents in all the counties that can help you.
In Montgomery County and Bryses County, in Harris County, in
Brazoria County, in Fort Bend County, in Galveston County and
an Orange County. I think I got them all there.

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You've got a horticulture agent that can help you. And
I enjoyed doing that. I loved visiting with gardeners. Every
time I turn around phone rang or somebody walking in
the door with a weed in their pocket. We helped them.
We took care of things, and that's just fun. I
like gardeners are good people. Those of you listening. This

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is a hobby that just it calms you down, it
makes you happy. It does, and I love being able
to visit with folks that just enjoy gardening because you know, yeah,
it's important in the sense if you want your place
to be beautiful, it makes sure property more valuable, and
on and on, bragging rights in the neighborhood and so on.

(01:02:05):
But just absolutely get out there and try it. Do
something different. Give us a call if you have problems.
We can help you with those. That's what we do. Hey,
have you been to Warren Southern Gardens or Kingwood Garden
Center lately? These two garden centers out in Kingwood. I
don't know how you got two garden centers in Kingwood,
But good for you. Warrens is on North Park's Kingwood

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is on Stone Hollow, and they're both open seven days
a week, and they serve that whole region out there,
Kingwood and humbold and Valley Ranch, New Caney, porter A
task a seat, all that area. You're lucky to have
these two garden centers. They got new shipments of fall
veggies in lots of nice vegetables for fall. It's time
to be doing that. If you want to get some

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plants planted. Fall is the best time of the year
to do plantings. And so you can go out to
Warrens or Kingwood. You can find things like the salvias.
I got some wonder Salvia's beautiful. Also Esperanza now yellow bells.
Advice's familiar with the yellow one that's the standard called
it's called gold Star Esperanza yellow bells. But they have

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orange types that have more recurved trumpet flowers, the petals
kind of curve back being on and hummingbirds love those things.
They have some beautiful Abelia's too. Abelia's. I grew up
at the standard green type of a billion. Now they've
got types that have variegated leaves. That are more compact

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and size so nice. They've got all of that out
there as well. All you I do is go out
and check them out again. We're in seven gardens on
North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow Drive. Great selection,
great people there too to help you. Excellent plants, the containers,
the soils, everything that you need, really really good. While

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you're out there, we're talking about leaf more compos They
carry the Heirloom soils Aged leaf mole compos top quality product.
Anybody out there in the Kingwood region you're going to
do some top dressing. Heirloom soils Age leaf molccomplishing buy
by the bag Warren Southern Kingwoo Garden Center. They also
have from Heirloom their Veggie Nerb Mix. Veggie Nerd Mix

(01:04:15):
is an excellent product for building any kind of a
vegetable or herb bed or filling up a large container
to do a big old container garden with them. Love
that place, fun, fun, fun, always to go to. By
the way, on all these garden centers, you need to
go and you need to follow them. You need to

(01:04:36):
follow them and on social media, newsletters and just keeping
up the date and stuff like that and you can
go to Warren Southern Gardens by the way, uh and
to make sure you're on the mail list, so you
find out when things are going on, you find out
when they have sales, you find out when new shipments
come in. You know, some of these plants they are,

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you know, they're just outstands and people go and buy
them out. And the worst thing in the world is
go to a garden center thinking you're going to get
a plant and find out they just sold out to them.
So be the first to know. Whatever kind succulents, flowers, vines, houseplants,
beautiful tropicals, vegetables, all that stuff, be the first to know.

(01:05:18):
Go out there and talk to them at Warren Southern
Gardens telling me you want to be on the mailing list. Yeah,
you know. I was talking with someone from Nelson's a
while back, a Nelson fertilizer, and they have so many
outstanding products. One of them I've talked about this before,
but one of my favorite Nelson products is their Genesis

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transplant mix. Genesis is a natural product's gotten microiza with
your fungi that live with your plant in the soil
to make your plant thrive. It's just the way nature
is set up. They have beneficial bacteria in the genesis
as well, and other kinds of fungi too as well.

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There's a thing called soil microbiome, and when it is thriving,
roots will thrive. And when roots thrive, plants thrive. And
whenever I put a plant in the ground, I mix
in some genesis transplant mix in the soil of the
planting hole. It's not going to burn plants. It's not
just a salt based fertilizer. And you put it in
the planting hole and you plant your plant and watered

(01:06:22):
in well. And if you're growing transplants yourself, use this
as you bump them up into a larger container, use
this in the mix.

Speaker 22 (01:06:31):
Do it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
I've done it. I need to repost these. I've got
pictures of tomato plants I bumped up to a bigger
container when I was starting my own tomatoes, and I
put geness in some and I didn't put genesis in some,
and the difference is unbelievable. I mean it was like
stand across the room and you can see the difference clearly.
Really sepperally really works. You can do it for outdoor

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planting and beds and everything like that, but just look
for Genesis. And by the way, I'm going to be today,
I'm going to head over to the Home and Garden
Show which is up or actually Home and Outdoor Living
Show which is up in Conro and I'm going to
be given away, among some other Nelson products, some Genesis
transplant mixed, so you need to come and get some.

(01:07:15):
You can find Genesis and all the Nelson products all
over town. Lots of places sell it and the stuff works.
And I'm telling you on this one. When you're gonna transplant,
you need Genesis to go in that transplant hole. That
is for sure. This summer, I had someone from Houston
powder coders on the air with me and I was

(01:07:35):
just picking their brain because you know, when I first
heard about powder coding, I thought, okay, you're going to
dust a plant and now it's I mean a product
or a metal and now it's gonna have powder sitting on.
How does that Well, they bake it in. It's a
painting type process, but it's done electrostatically, where a powder
in the air is just think of it as magnetic.

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It's like that, but it's magnetic. It just goes to
that metal and it clings to the metal and it
melts into the metal surface, up on the metal surface,
and it basically gives a very long lasting, very it's
like brand new, in fact some cases better than brand new.
They have over one hundred colors they can do. So
if you've got outdoor furniture, if you've got a old

(01:08:18):
barbecue bit that's resting, if you've got yard art and
things that are metal that hang on the side of
the house, or anything metal that's out there, aluminum, cast iron,
rod iron, call Houston Powder Coders, send them a picture,
let them tell you what they can do. You go
to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houstoncoders dot com,

(01:08:42):
and they'll give you a quick quote and they'll come
pick it up. If you hear my voice, they drive there. Okay,
they'll come pick it up. They will do the work
and they'll bring it back. And I'm telling you, if
you've got some quality metal stuff, and especially the older
metal stuff before two thousand, it is just outstanding quality.
You can make it like new for less than half

(01:09:04):
the price. I mean, it really is an outstanding thing.
Go look at their website Houston Powdercoders dot com. And
see the work that they do. They got examples there,
or give them a call two eight one six seven
six thirty eight eighty eight. All right, I'm gonna take
a quick break. We'll be back here for the last
segment of this hour. With your calls seven to one

(01:09:25):
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You can
be the first stop they welcome back to Guardline. All right,
I've got time for a call here seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you've got
a gardening question, we can help you with. The folks
at Medina have for a long time, in the nineteen fifties.

(01:09:46):
I believe they've been making quality products to help both
farmers and home gardeners have success with what they're growing.
And there are a lot of One of the original
products they have was Medinasol Activator. It's still around. People
have loved it for years. It's got all kinds of
good stuff in there that you put it down the

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plants thrive. What they've done is they've taken Medinosol Activator
and they have added to it. They fortified it with
the essential micronutrients and growth hormones from seaweed extract, So
you get all the natural soil building advantages of medinasol activator,
but you also get over forty different trace elements. You

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get something called Cyta cainan, which is a natural growth
hormone that comes out of that seaweed extract. It's got
magnesium and iron and zinc and many other things including
vitamin type products in it. Now Medina Soil or Medina
Soil Activator plus the additional ingredients, it's called Medina Plus.

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That makes it real simple to remember. How do you
use it? You can drench in new transplants, you can
water existing plants that have been around for a long time,
drench the soil. You can use it as a fold
of your feed if you want to do that. That
works just fine. It's not going to burn your plants.
Some people even use it soak seeds in before planting
the seeds. Great idea. It's a good idea to pre

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soak seeds and when you pre soak them and something
like this, that's even better. Medina plus from the folks
that Medina is easy to find. You're going to You're
going to find it at my feed stores that I
talk about. You're going to find it at a Hardward stores.
You're going to find it at uh the independent gardens centers,
and it just it's just available everywhere and the stuff works.

(01:11:31):
You need to look for it. You never tried it out,
first of all, well, I don't know how you missed
it because it has been around so long and everybody
uses it. But the stuff works. Give it a try.
I was visiting with Ralph out at Neilson Nursery and
Water Gardens the other day, and we were just talking about,

(01:11:52):
you know, plants, especially the aquatic plants out there, uh,
the water gardens part of it. Uh, And I was
picking his brain about day lilies. I think probably Ralph
knows more about day lilies than a day lily does.
But anyway, it was nice. It was nice to get
to visit and talk about these things.

Speaker 20 (01:12:11):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
They got an excellent nursery though, too. Even though it's
Nelson Water Gardens Nursery and water Gardens, the nursery itself
is amazing. There's always something going on out there too.
You need to check on them. You need to find
out what's happening, what the sales are coming up, what
the events are coming up. Right now, they got veggies,
Oh my gosh, excellent selection of all kinds of vegetables.

(01:12:35):
They have an excellent selection of herbs as well, and
then citrus. Recently, in fact, when I was out there
visiting with him, they had just gotten in a bunch
of citrus and other types of fruit trees, you know,
other things like pears and peaches and whatnot. They've got
them all out there. They carry products from Nelson plant
Food for example. So if you hear me talk about

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Nelson you're interested in those products, well, just swim over
to Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. When you go check
out the pots, the containers. They have the kind that
are for disappearing fountains where water comes out of the
top and goes around the sides and then goes down
on the ground and circulates again. They have a whole system.

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You can buy it and set it up yourself, you
can have them do it however you want to do it.
You just got to do it. And when you go
out there, the sound of water, you're going to be
amazed and just how therapeutic it is. First time I
went out there, my first thought was I got to
have this at home. I mean, that is like I
don't know, as I having accouncilor a counsel or a

(01:13:38):
psychiatrist or whatever there at your house. I can get
more calming work done in my head just by listening
to water splashing around. It is so good. And they
got you covered on all of that kind of thing.
Check out the houseplants too. Always first first stop when
I go out to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery to
swing in there and check out those houseplants because inside

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they have such a nice selection. It's time for vegetable
planting too, by the way, So get out there and
grab the things that you need and let them. Let
them give you the advice on how to do it right. Listen,
two generations of Nelson's with local experience really can help
and direct you. They'll give you the inspiration and they'll

(01:14:21):
help you do it do it yourself. They're experts you
can trust at Nelson Water Nursery and Water Gardens out
in Katie. Oh, by the way, how do you get there?
You go out ten to Katie. You turn north on
Katie Fort Bent Road. It's just up the street on
the right. Website Nelsonwatergardens dot com. That makes it easy
Nelson Watergardens dot Com. In my yard. One of the

(01:14:47):
tasks that I've got to get to. I'm gonna not
be around this afternoon, but when I get back and can't,
I need to get out there and do a little
quick green up on some areas that I have. I've
got a couple of spots that it's been a while
since I fertilized them. You know how they say the
cobblers kids go barefoot. I'm running around doing everything else
horticulture instead of taking care of my yard. Well, that happens.

(01:15:09):
Sometimes I need to give a little quick green up
and I'm going to do that, just a little bit
of a green up to hold them until the fall fertilization.
By the way, today I'm going to be heading out
to the Home and Outdoor Living show that is in Conroe,
Texas at the Lone Star Center. It's out there on

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Airport Road by the Agrolife Extension Office. By the way.
I'm going to be heading out there and I'll be
giving a talk for about an hour with Q and
A involved on fall tips for your lawn, for your gardens, flowers, shrubs, planting,
all those things. We'll be talking about that and then

(01:15:51):
I'll be doing diagnostics. I have a little table that
i'll be out in the hallway after I finish the
talks and the Q and A inside the speaking room,
and if you can bring me your plants in ziploc bags,
we'll diagnose them. We'll see what's going on. We'll make
sure and get to the bottom of it. I hope
to see you out there again from twelve to two

(01:16:13):
on Airport Road the Lone Star Center, the Montgomery County
Fall and Outdoor Living Show. It's a great show. The
Montgomery County Master Gardeners will be there. I'm going to
have copies of Texas Gardener magazine to give away, so
if you've never taken Texas Gardener, I'll put a free
copy in your hand, and after you look at it,

(01:16:34):
you're going to see just how cool it is. You're
going to want to subscribe yourself. By the way, you
can subscribe to the print, or you can subscribe to
view it online, or you can do both. But it's
an excellent magazine. It works. I also have copies of
my book that I will sign if you're interested in
so come on buy, let's visit. I love to meet

(01:16:54):
people that listen to garden Line, So stop on in.
I'd love to visit with you, get to know you
and talk about the kinds of plant questions that you
might have. A couple of other things coming up on Saturday,
September twenty seventh is the Strawberry Jamboree at the Brazoria
County Extension Office in Angleton. A mission is free and

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there's a lot of fun things. There's, you know, all
kinds of family fund like kids' activities. They're gonna have
fresh local foods there, Oh my gosh, and don't miss
the famous strawberry shortcake contests. If you want more information
on that. What is that contest? I'd be part of
that called nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty

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eight nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight.
They'll give you the opportunity to pre order some breroot
strawberry plants too. They always have that available there. It's
a pre order, it's not plants on site. Did you
do the pre order? You can learn more about the
Brazoria County Horticulture Program at the Extension Office in Brazoria
County on Facebook or again call them nine seven nine

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for fifteen fifty eight. One other thing to get on
your calendar, it's a little further out is fig Toberfest.
I love that name. Saturday, October fourth, from eight am
to twelve noon. By the way, these these products, these
two events are both free. It's at but this one's
not the extension opposite. It's at Lakeside Park in Angleton.

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You'll learn about the history of pigs in the Greater
Houston area. You'll learn the basics so how to grow figs.
Doctor Tim Hartman from Texas A and M is going
to be there. He's a fruit specialist, and he's going
to talk about the latest big research going on here
in Texas. They're gonna have fig treats, local vendors. It's
just gonna be another fun day, same thing. Go to

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the Brazoria County Horticulture Facebook page or give them a
call at the office. Nine seven nine eight six four
fifteen fifty eight. Two fun things went on out there
in Brazoria County. All right, I think I got to
quit talking here. We'll be back if you want to
be first up seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four, just give me a call.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with skip rictor it's.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Crazy trip.

Speaker 6 (01:19:28):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Maybe for peace to suprasy in Great.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
All right, we're back. Let's do this. We got some
gardening to talk about. I sure, do you know what's
part of gardening? Well, let me just make it. Let
me just make a comment. I have said this before,
but maybe you didn't hear me say it.

Speaker 8 (01:19:58):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
When we think about out a landscape, in landscaping and
the outdoor area and being in the outdoor area and
what we like about that, we usually think visually, I
want a landscape that's pretty. I want it to be
designed esthetically well, that have color in it. I want
it to have greenery and beautiful textures and whatnot. That's

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that's what we think about, and that is the heart
of it. That's very important. But gardening is also a sound.
The sound of wind going through bamboo, it almost sounds
like it's raining. It's a wonderful, relaxing sound. The sound
of water splashing. That's just something every landscape needs. You

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really need that. However you do it. You know, it
could be a little fountain sits on the side of
the wall of the brick on a patio, or something
and that's it. Or it could be a fountain, a
free standing fountain, it could be a waterfall, and whatever
you want to do, however you wanta do it, whatever
you want to spend, whatever level sound of water, you
got to have some sound of birds. Very important birds are.

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It is one of my favorite parts of it because
not only many of them are just visually beautiful, in fact,
I mean about all of them are, but the songs
that they make and just watching their antics and whatnot.
Wibirds Unlimited is I would say it's the best place
I know of, but really it's almost the only place

(01:21:28):
that I know of where you can go and you
can get the kind of expertise that these folks have,
the kind of products and the quality products that these
folks have. Now I used to not be a bird person,
but then I went to Wall Birds Unlimited. And by
the way, it's the gateway drug to birding. Birds Unlimited
is because you're going to go in there and what

(01:21:49):
you're going to see is some really cool bird houses
and some really cool bird feeders, and then they have
all this seed and you start talking to them. It's like, well, well,
what are all these seeds?

Speaker 21 (01:21:58):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
Normally you go into a store and it's like, here's
cheap bird seed. Well, it's cheap because it's filled with
the little red bebies. Fifty to seventy percent of the
seed is stuff that birds don't want to eat. That's
not cheap. That means a mess on the ground, that's
all it does. And wild Birds Unlimited you get seeds
that or that things birds want to eat, and they

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have blends for different groups of birds and different times
of the year, and they know their stuff and they'll
start explaining it to you and it's I just get
excited listening to all that they know and how cool
it is. And they're there to help you. They know
birding is a great hobby and they want to have
you have fun with it. That is how things go

(01:22:44):
there at wild Birds Unlimited. You can find one in
Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, by the way. There's six of
them in the Houston area. You can go to clear
Lake and find one on El Dorado Drive in Houston.
We got one on bel Air, we got one on
Memorial Drive. Down in Paarland on These Broadway there's a
wild Bird's Unlimited store, as is there one on Cypress

(01:23:06):
in cypress on Barker Cypress. So go by there. Let
them educate you about birds, and let them put quality
products in your hand that really do a great job,
a great job on bird. Whatever kind of issue or
problem or challenge you might have, talk to them about it.
They have a solution. I've done that. I've picked their
brain a hundred times, and I'm always amazed and how

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much those folks know at Wildbird's Unlimited. Let that out
now to Dean in Kingwood. Hey Dean, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:23:39):
Thank you love your show. Hey, I live on Lake Houston.
I've got apply of a couple of willow trees a
couple of years ago.

Speaker 23 (01:23:48):
And.

Speaker 18 (01:23:50):
They grew to about an inch and a half in
diameter on.

Speaker 12 (01:23:53):
The trunks, looked really good.

Speaker 18 (01:23:55):
And then a beaver came along and bit them off
about eight and it's just off the ground. Both of
them hauled the tops away and just left the stubs,
and then they started growing back a little bit. They've
got a little greenery on them, but I don't know
if they're ever going to grow into be good trees again,
or if I just need to plant new ones, or

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if they're just going to be little stubs now I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Yeah, Dean, what is the trunk diameter on those things
where he cut them off? About an inch and a
half are we looking at? Oh? Very small? Okay, good good? Yeah.
What I would do is let all let all of
it grow for just a little bit, because every leaf
you can get in the sun is going to help

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that tree recover. The root system was extensive and now
it has no leaves to support it. And so as
sprouts come out, don't cut them all off. Leave them
now at some point if you wanted, I would say,
going into this fall, just let it all grow, and
then when we get to the end of the winter,
pick one that you think is the best one and

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recut the tree off. Oh about let's say an inch
above that sprout inch or half inch above that sprout,
and that sprout will have the full force of the
root system to help it take off growing next year,
and it will it will go pretty fast and a

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little fast growers.

Speaker 18 (01:25:28):
I'm confused right now, okay, right now, Like I say,
they're about an inch and a half in diameter the stub,
and they're about eighteen inches tall, and you say let
them grow. They're growing out now, they've got there. They
look like little willow bushes, you know, with a bunch
of little branches growing out of them. So you say,
in the fall, I cut all those branches off, or I.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
Cut the sprout. Are the sprouts coming out to the
very base or are they coming out along that eighteen
inch trunk.

Speaker 18 (01:26:05):
The eighteen inch trunk all the way up from the
bottom to the top. Okay, good at like a little.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Leave everything alone, right, leave everything now, because every day
of sunlight on every leaf you got is supporting the
root system that is really struggling because of losing all
its leaves. And let let that go into winter like
it is. Then in winter, I would say late January, okay,

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U pick pick one of the best sprouts. I don't
care if it's high or low on the trunk, either's fine.
Pick one of the best and cut all the others off,
and then cut the trunk off just barely above that sprout.
So now you have a trunk with a sprout at
the top of what you've left of the trunk coming

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straight up, and let it become your new tree. Next year,
you're going to get some other sucker sprouts coming because
that has so much roots and it's trying to send
growth and uh so, but as the suckers start coming
next year, remove all of them. But leave that one
to be your trunk until whatever height you want it
to start branching.

Speaker 18 (01:27:14):
Okay, okay, So I'll have the I'll have the big
trunk there and then one little teeny thing that i'm
that's growing up to be a trunk, and I do
that next year.

Speaker 3 (01:27:24):
Yeah, but leave it alone until late January. Yes, leave
everything alone till January next year. Select one trunk, cut
everything else off. Simple as that got it, Okay, select
one to be the trunk. All right, good luck. Oh
and by the way, I don't do they allow beaver

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hunting and kingwood because you know they make a nice
cap I hear at least Daniel Boone thought so. Thanks
a lot, Deane, appreciate your call. All right, let's take
a break, folks. We'll be right back with your calls.
All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to the garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to

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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. If you want to talk about something gardening related,
my mantra on garden line I have more than one,
but one of the ones I say most often is

(01:28:27):
brown stuff before green stuff. And all it means is
we go to garden centers, we get excited. We see
beautiful plants with you know, they're just beautiful, they're a
productive or they're a fruit tree, and we can't wait. Well,
slow down, Yes, get those plants, but first get the
foundation set for the plants to go in. And like

(01:28:47):
building a house, imagine laying two bout fours on the
ground and building a house on them. That is not
going to be a long term win, right, same thing
with plants. Get the beds right, take care of the well, compost,
get the nutrients it needs. Get your mulches to go
on the surface and help with weeds and things like that,
keep the soil color, to keep it from eroding, and

(01:29:09):
all of that. Nature's Way Resources has been doing this
for a very long time, and they've been doing it
right because they do it the way nature does. So
with Nature's Way, you know you're getting compost products that
have been composted properly with good aeration, where they are
just become rocket fuel for your plants. They help our

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heavy clay soils to loosen up, to open up so
plant roots can thrive. Nature's Way have you covered. And
they have so many different products. You just have to
talk to them, tell them what you're wanting to do.
They'll put you in touch with the right product to
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They're up there on the way to Conroll Off forty
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fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left. You turn
instead to the right, cross over the railroad tracks and
you're going to be there Nature's Way. They've got rose soil.
In fact, that's where so I was born. They have
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quality mulch options. It just is a great place. Nature's

(01:30:10):
Way Resources dot Com. Go to that website. You can
find out everything you need to know Nature's Way Resources
dot Com and make sure and put it on your
calendar because I'm going to be out there on Saturday
October eleventh. Saturday October eleventh from twelve to two I'll
tell you more about their shindig that's going to be
going on that day later on. In the meantime, don't

(01:30:33):
plan a plant until you put the soil in its
best shape, and Nature's way is a great place to
start for that. We're gonna head out to Clare Lake
now and talk to Mario. Hey, Mario, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:30:45):
Hey, Skip, thanks taking the call two years ago. I
had it in two years ago. I replaced my box
with with Holly's and I'm noticing this year a purplish
tip to the Hollys and I'm wondering if that's just
normal or if I need to do something to correct

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if it's a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
Is this the overall plant has a purplish top or
are you talking about individual leaf points turning purple?

Speaker 12 (01:31:17):
No, it's well all of them. First of all, I
have the extensive planting of these the length of my
house actually, and that everyone of them has some of
these purple tists. It's not doesn't cover the entire top
of the plant, but there are several purplish.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
Yeah, I think I think that's nothing to be worried about.
It could be due to a little bit of a
stress and Holly's how long have yours been on the
ground more than a year? Two or three?

Speaker 7 (01:31:57):
Yeah, about two years, a year and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
Yeah, they're still in a range where the root system
is still really filling in well, and sometimes they get
a little drought stress, especially if irrigation doesn't hit all
parts of the root system. But since it's happening to
all of them, I think it's more of just a
physiological type of thing. I don't think you need to

(01:32:20):
add a fertilizer to fix it. I don't think there's
anything to spray to fix it. Just make sure they
have adequate soul moisture, but not too much. They don't
want to live in a swamp, and I think they'll
outgrow it. I think it's just some plants. There's a
thing called anthocyan and it's a compound in plants that
gives it the reds and the purple types of color

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can come from that, and it expresses itself. Sometimes it's
when cool weather hits, plants will get a little bit
of a reddish or burgundy look to the leaves that
didn't have it before, and as we certainly haven't had
cool weather yet. But I'm just saying it's something physiological
going on like that, If you want to send me
a picture of it and I'll take a close look.
If I see anything different, i'll be I'll let you know,

(01:33:05):
but I'm going to put you on hold, and if
you wish to stick around, my producer will give you
an email. Show me the whole group of polleys from
a distance in a picture, and then get up close
and sharp focus and show me some of what you're seeing,
and I'll be happy to take Mario.

Speaker 12 (01:33:22):
Okay, thanks so much.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
Thank you, thank you. Bet appreciate that very much.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
Uh.

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First of all, it's not just for soil that's composted.
When you punch a hole in the ground with a

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proper core errator and pull the plug out of the ground,
pull the soil out, drop it on top, it gets
oxygen done in the roots and breathes life into the soil.
Fertilizers and organic matter and things fall down in there.
In the root system. It's just a good thing for
the roots. When you throw accomplish top dressing on top.
Now you've added a covering over the surface that in

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a small way is helping block sunlight from the soil,
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Let's go out to pair Land now and we are
going to visit with him. Read this morning, Hey, Henry,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 20 (01:36:03):
Hey, good morning, Skip.

Speaker 8 (01:36:04):
Hey.

Speaker 20 (01:36:05):
I've got a question regarding some sunshine the gustrooms that
I've tried to plant. Uh, they're any flower bed that's
sort of any parking lot. So I'm wondering if drainage
is the problem. But I planted them in the spring
and it's a repeat problem. I've had a couple of

(01:36:25):
years in a row, so I'm about to give up
on it. And they'll they'll they'll show good color throughout
the summer and not a full out of growth, but
from this time of year the it's more of a
dingy yellow and the bright yellow has kind of faded
away and the leaves are starting to shed.

Speaker 8 (01:36:46):
So I follwe this. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
Yeah, well, you know when the symptom is basic, go ahead.

Speaker 20 (01:36:58):
Is this a super finicky up or.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
No, No, it's not. Sunshine's pretty pretty happy, pretty easy
to grow. But you know, when the symptoms are the
plant's dying. Basically, it could be a lot of things.
You mentioned a parking lot type. Does it have like
concrete all the way around it or something?

Speaker 8 (01:37:20):
It does, But this particular bed does have drainage on
one side, so I don't think it's a matter of
being overly saturated.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Do you recall when you planted, were you digging into
a clay soil?

Speaker 8 (01:37:39):
There was some play, Yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
I would let me suggest this. Let's get into November
and early November. It could be late October depending on
the weather, but we wanted to cool off pretty good,
so I'd say early November what I would do, based
on the history of what you've gone through on these
things more than one round of it. I would get

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out there and I would dig the plants up, slide
them onto a tarp where you could kind of drag
them to the side, and then take that bed and
get a good quality bed mix and lay that mix down,
work it into the soil, and then lay more mixed down.
The first step was to kind of create a transition
between clay and good stuff. You don't want it to

(01:38:30):
just be a sudden change as you go down in
the soil and mix a little in, add more of
the good stuff, and let's get a raised mound so
there is some surface drainage of the excess water, and
then reset your plants in it. This ought to be
something that doesn't take long to do. Just make sure
the roots don't dry it when you do dig them up,

(01:38:52):
checked for roots. Are they healthy looking or are you
seeing some soggy water logged Almost sometimes you see just
like a staining, like you know, a cigarette filter has
that tar staining in the filter and stuff. When it's
been like sometimes roots get a coloring like that, a gray,
a brown, you know tan kind of coloring, and it's

(01:39:15):
because the root is dying and rotting. If you see that,
then the problem begin in the soil and it probably
is the drainage issue. But it's hard for me just
to shoot from the hip when it could be a
lot of different things. But that would be my suggestion
if they were mine. Uh, let's get that to be
a spot where plants want to grow because sunshine should
be happy. It should be an easy to grow plant.

(01:39:38):
Maybe a little when you reset them in spring, give
them some fertilizer.

Speaker 8 (01:39:45):
Okay, that sounds good. I will read that, redo that soil.

Speaker 20 (01:39:50):
We'll give it another.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
Shot, all right, Henry, good luck with that. I do
wish you, wish you well well on that. It's we're
right up against a heartbreak here. When I come back,
Jim and wood Forest, you're going to be our first
stop for the rest of you. If you'd like to
call in seven one three two one two five eight
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seven four, or if you like to daba letters kat
rh Isn't that a coincidence? We'll be back. Here we go,
Here we go, We're back. Welcome back to the Garden Line.
Good to have you with us. We're here to help
you answer, help answer your gardening questions, help you have
success with your garden. That's what we're looking for and happy,

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happy to help any way we can, if you want
to give us a call. Buchanan's Native Plants in the
Heights an outstanding place. I love going to Buchanans. It's
a pleasant place to shop. The selection of natives is
just unheard of. It's amazing the selection that they have
of native plants. Uh, there's nobody in the region that

(01:41:00):
has as many. But don't think of Buchanans it's just natives,
because it is not. It is not at all. They
have a wide variety of everything right now, they've got
a good stock of vegetables and herbs and fall flowers
in as well. One of my favorite natives that they
have they're featuring it right now is fall aster. Fall
Aster is a beautiful lavender purple flowers, clusters of them.

(01:41:25):
They're small, probably not the size of a quarter. I've
seen a lot of hoverflies, which is a beneficial insect.
Going to those, they also attract the pearl crescent and
the painted lady butterfly. It's a native Texas plant. Tough
is a boot. You don't notice. It's just a green
shrub during the year, which is nice. I have a
green shrub, but boy, when fall happens, it goes nuts.

(01:41:48):
It's gorgeous, and they've got them there. You need to
ask them when you go buy. So I want to
see these things. I want to see your fall asters,
because don't judge a book by the way they look
and by its cover. Don't judge it by the way
it looks in a pot. This is an outstanding plant
and you will be happy with it as long as
you give it some sun, sunshine and decent drainage. I

(01:42:09):
just want to remind you that their big Shindig, the
Fall Fast, is just a month away now. It's October fourth,
from ten am to three pm October fourth, the Shindig
at Buchanans. The Fall Fest at Buchanan's. It's always good
right now, they got fifty percent of select tropical fruits, perennials.
Select perennials and annuals are on sale as well as

(01:42:31):
four inch pots. Summer veggies now on sale as well,
So you need to stop by there on Eleventh Street
in the heights. Go to the website and bookmarket buchanans
Plants dot com. Make sure and sign up for their
newsletter too. It is very helpful. We're going to go
to northwest Houston now and talk to Diana. Hello, Diana,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (01:42:53):
Oh, good morning.

Speaker 13 (01:42:54):
Hello.

Speaker 5 (01:42:56):
Let me.

Speaker 22 (01:42:57):
Let me shut the radio down. You there there?

Speaker 10 (01:43:01):
You go?

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Yes?

Speaker 22 (01:43:02):
Oh, how can we Hey?

Speaker 13 (01:43:04):
I was wondering on all of them streets. I'm going
to be moving to the fourteen eighty eight area, and
I was wondering, is our avocado our avocado trees?

Speaker 6 (01:43:18):
Okay to plant up there?

Speaker 3 (01:43:22):
Tell me the spot again? I missed the location.

Speaker 23 (01:43:26):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 22 (01:43:27):
Between it's on fourteen eighty eight, kind.

Speaker 12 (01:43:29):
Of between Magnolia and Conroe.

Speaker 3 (01:43:35):
You can plant them up there, but pretty often in
the winter time you're going to have some cold to
deal with. When they're young, you can cover them and
get by. You can take your chances and maybe get
a few years on them and get a little bit
of fruit, and then a winter hits and really kills
them back. But I think you're getting far enough north
to where you're kind of on the line there in

(01:43:57):
terms of should you plant one or not but it
just kind of depends. Just just be ready to cover
them up. If they freeze, they'll freeze back and sprout
back out of the ground, especially if you kind of
pole some mulch upper on the base during winter free
season to just protect that. But then they'll re sprout
back out again.

Speaker 13 (01:44:18):
Well do you think it would be better if I
put them in a large pot that can be moved.

Speaker 10 (01:44:23):
In and out?

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
They are such well, there's such big trees that that
would take a jayant pot to even have a shot
at it. And I don't think moving it would be practical.
Alrighty okay, Well, you know, if it were me, I
like experimenting with plants. I like experimenting with plants, Dana,

(01:44:45):
and I'm not afraid to kill one. So if I
would try it and see how it does, and see
how you like it, you know, at some point you
may go, you know what, I'm getting fruit about one
year and ext years or whatever, and I don't want
to do it, or maybe you decide you don't. I'm
having fun doing this, so there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:45:02):
All right, can you recommend it going to a different Wait?

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Hello, hello, I'm here, I'm here.

Speaker 13 (01:45:11):
Oh I'm sorry, i'm moving. Since I'm moving to that area,
can you recommend a like a plant place up there.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
You're going to be not too far away from Arborgate. Well,
you're not too far away from Arburgate. Really, it's worth
a drive to come down to Arborgate way after that.
There's just not a big nursery up there that I
generally go to that I'm aware of. But anyway, I
gotta run. Thanks a lot. I appreciate, appreciate your call

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very much. You are listening to guarden Line the number
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Listen if you plant a tree, and I hope you will,
because fall is the best time to plant trees. When
you plant a tree, you need to have a three
sixty tree stabilized. It is a green, strong plastic bar

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that hooks up to the post. In fact, they have
an attachment that'll hook up to t posts. Two hooks
up to any kind of post and then it grabs
hold of your tree with a soft rubber strap that
you set to be a little loose, because movement is
important for developing strength in the trunk. If you tie
a trunk, if you just strap it in where it
can't move it all, it will not develop the strength

(01:46:27):
that it will if it bends in the wind a
little bit. And that's what three sixty allows, not a
lot of movement, just a little bit. You're going to
find them at RCWT Jorges Hidden Gardens down south of Houston,
Siena Molts South and a little to the west of
Houston be Cannas, Naty plants in the heights, Arbigate and
Tomble plants for all seasons. On two forty nine on

(01:46:48):
the way up to Tombole. Lots of places carried the
three sixty tree stabilizer. I know Bob has it a
Southwest fertilizer as well. I believe it's a good product,
and once you buy one, you've got it. Anytime you're
going to plant something you want to stabilize, it'll do it.
One stabilizer will handle a small tree. If you got
a bigger tree with a bigger canopy of leaves, it's

(01:47:09):
going to be blown around. You might do two at
right angles to each other on the trunk and then
you've got it covered. It avoids all those wires going
to the ground to trip over and mow around and things.
You just drive a little t post from the ground.
Oh not, I don't know, two feet from the tree
and on and you're good to go. Three sixty tree stabilizer.

(01:47:29):
Let's see here. We are going to now go to
Roger in Spring Branch. Hey, Roger, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 23 (01:47:36):
Hey, appreciate you taking my call. Hey, I sent him
some pictures to the email address. I don't know if
you got them yet. I have some mature live oak trees.
They are about fifty years old, and this might have
happened every year and I just didn't notice, but there
are just some of the little branches are coming in brown,

(01:47:57):
and I thought maybe it was wind damage. You know,
you look around neighborhood and some a couple of the
trees on our street have the same issue. But I
just feel like my trees have more of these.

Speaker 8 (01:48:09):
Little branches coming in brown.

Speaker 23 (01:48:11):
And I'm wondering if it's just you know, natural die off,
or if there's some fungus or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
If you're looking at little twigs and the entire twig
is turning brown, then I think you probably have a
little borer in that twig. Check the twigs real close.
Look for either swollen bots, on the twig where they're
like they it's like a snake that swallowed a rabbit.
You know it's got the swollen spot. Or look for
a little pinhole size holes in the twigs. Based on

(01:48:40):
what you're saying, I wouldn't be concerned. I would just
clip them out. If you want to send me some
pictures of it. Oh, you said you tried to hang
on just a second, roger, let me pull one of
these up. I'd be glad to do. Yeah, you know
that tree is just also lacking bigger I don't know why.
Some around the base compacted soil whatever, there's just some

(01:49:04):
vigor in them. Another possibility based on your photo is
squirrels will come along when they're teething and they will
chew the branches out at the ends of shoots like that,
and you get these we call them flags or little
brown branches out at the tips. I think, more so
than anything else, I said, this is probably some squirrel damage,

(01:49:25):
but I know it's not a disease of the tree.
Although I would recommend measuring the measuring across the trunk
of the tree, and I'm gonna just kind of guess
it doesn't matter the actual number This is just an example.
Let's say it's twelve inches across, give it twelve to
twenty four cups of fertilizer as far out as the
branches go. Spread it evenly all through there. So for

(01:49:48):
every inch orr diameter, give it a cup or two
a fertilizer. Okay, and I think that's the nicest thing
you can do for it. Watered in really good.

Speaker 23 (01:49:57):
Okay, not fungus or anything though, you don't think it's
fungus or anything. Look, okay, appreciate it.

Speaker 24 (01:50:04):
Look thank you to me.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
Yep, you bet. Brian, thanks a lot, appreciate your call.
I gotta take a little break here. When we come back.
Let's see we've got a Gem inwood Forest and Brian
in Clearlake. We're going to be going to.

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Hey, welcome back to the garden line, folks, good to
have you with us. Listen, no matter what product you're
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is recommended that's gonna work, they are gonna have there
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without a question in my mind, recommend just go to
Southwest Fertilizer. You're gonna find it there. They're the corner
of Bissonet and Runwick. I was visiting with someone from
Airloom Soils a while back and we're talking about some
of the blends and things that they have, and you
know they have. Their products are available by the bag everywhere,
and they know how to make quality soils and blends

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and mulches and whatnot. You can buy expanded shale directly
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they it's a three sack minimum for delivery, but each
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dump truck and dump a bunch of right there on
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(01:56:03):
of all their quality products. Heirloom Soils. Let's head now
to gym in wood forest. Hey, Jim, I got those
pictures and ready to ready to talk about those. What
you've got is wactual leaf lagostrums with a with a
fungal leaf spot called circaspara leaf spot. The name of

(01:56:25):
it doesn't matter. It's a fungal leaf spot. That's a
problem with those plants. It's why I don't plant those
anymore around my house because it's just a pain to
deal with. You can fight it by picking off diseased
leaves and spraying with something containing dack O'Neill d aco

(01:56:47):
ni l and then turn around the next time you
see it pop up, or next time you plant or spray,
switch to a different product that is pro piconazole. That's
a different type of fun. Just say you guess, switch
back and forth so you don't develop resistance on this

(01:57:09):
particular problem. But if it rains, you go out and
spray after the rain, because rain is what causes the
spores to germinate, and then you know, you may go
ten days, two weeks or whatever before you need spray again.
But getting ahead of it means spraying and picking off
and picking up off the ground all of the disease leaves.

(01:57:31):
That's why I don't like to plant it. And you
may decide this time to switch plants or if you
want to fight it that alternating and if you want to,
I set a lot of products there. If you want
to email me and get the names of those products,
I'll be happy to reply with those names.

Speaker 15 (01:57:49):
Okay, Yeah, Unfortunately about two thirds of the leaves have
those spots now, so I'm thinking I might be better
off it's switch to a new plant.

Speaker 3 (01:58:00):
Yeah, well, regular spran would help. You don't have to
pick off every leaf if you want. But that's also
a plant that wants to be really big and a
really small spot, so I think you could. You would
do yourself a favor by putting something that its mature
size is much much smaller for that spot. It could
be narrow and upright or whatever, but I'd switch it

(01:58:23):
out if ever mind.

Speaker 6 (01:58:25):
Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 12 (01:58:26):
Thanks for your help.

Speaker 15 (01:58:27):
I listen to you every Saturday and Sunday as I'm
drinking my coffee and it's a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
Oh okay, Well, I thought you were going to tell
me i'd drive you to drink, but I'm glad to
hear that it's coffee. Thanks for listening to garden Line.
I appreciate that. For sure, Arborgate has classes this fall.
They are here, and I mean they have excellent classes,
really good ones. For example, the first class is going

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to be on Wednesday, September seventeenth, just around the corner
at ten am, and it's called Firesider by Cynthia Graham.
This isn't your local moonshine. This uh is a really
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class you learn the basic formula and how to customize

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it to meet each of your needs or your taste requirements.
They'll you'll find out stuff about other teas and tinctures
and toddies and they'll introduce all those to you to
compare the various uses. Wednesday, September seventh, there's only space
for forty people and they fill up, and it's ten
dollars a person, non refundable. So if you're interested in

(01:59:39):
going to learn about Firesider and the other kinds of
teas and tinctures and things called two eight one, three, five,
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and pre payment too on this because that way you know,
I've don sign up and then nobody shows. So in

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other words, that's how that works. But you got to
get out to Arbrogate. While you're out there, check out
all the plants. Make sure you grab their their soil complete,
their compost complete, and their organic fertilizer or the the
organic fertilizer that they carry out there at Arburgate. I
went a little blank there and send to me works.

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By the way, when you go to these programs, park
in the back lot around behind back on Trishel Road.
It's much easier to get in and out than trying
to park in the front because there will be a
lot of people there. There always are at Arbrogate, such
a popular place. We're going to go now to clear
Lake and talk to Brian. Hey, Brian, welcome the garden.

Speaker 9 (02:00:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (02:00:45):
I have.

Speaker 22 (02:00:47):
By Saint Augustine.

Speaker 21 (02:00:49):
Grass has basically deteriorated over the last four or five years,
and one of the big problems I have is dollar
weed in the grass. It's got into file bids, and
I'm able to go in and hand pull that out
and and spray it with Pinneger pretty much got the

(02:01:09):
flower beds under control. Of course, you never haven't totally
under control, but okay, spray.

Speaker 3 (02:01:18):
In the grass.

Speaker 22 (02:01:19):
I have used the product that I got in off.

Speaker 15 (02:01:22):
Nursery Well Doll weed Control, and it just does it seems.

Speaker 10 (02:01:29):
To do the job.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
So I need some recommendations. Uh, do you happen to
know who made that product?

Speaker 8 (02:01:37):
Is it?

Speaker 20 (02:01:38):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:01:38):
Is it bon Eye or Ortho or Monterey or high Yield.

Speaker 1 (02:01:42):
Or what it might be?

Speaker 21 (02:01:45):
High Yield it's kind of one of those bags. It
looks like one of those bags.

Speaker 3 (02:01:50):
Yeah, okay, well, weed Beater Ultra, we'll do it. Bonnit
weed Beater Ultra. Products that have the name Trimech in
them will work. But all of those kinds of things
when the temperatures are over ninety degrees will weaken your
lawn and the vinegar just burns the tops. It doesn't
go down in there and really kill the dollar weed

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completely in most cases. So I would recommend using one
of those. If you want something you can use when
it's a little bit hotter, then Celsius would be one
to try, but you need to make sure and get
a spreader, sticker, something to make the spray not roll
off those slick dollar weed leaves and mix it with

(02:02:33):
the herbicide when you spray, and you get much better
results from that. Just remember that most of the things,
it's gonna be a little iffy to go in the
hot weather that we've been having. So I would do
the Celsius if it were me, because it's simple and
it works and you don't have to worry about it
hurting the lawn.

Speaker 15 (02:02:53):
So okay, Celsius, And I say what that is again?

Speaker 21 (02:02:57):
Please?

Speaker 3 (02:02:59):
Celsius is a product that you buy in little packs
that make a gallon or two and you just spray
it on the leaves, but you got to put a
spread or sticker with it so it sticks to the leaves.
It's a separate product.

Speaker 8 (02:03:10):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:03:10):
And and go to your local Ace hardware store. They're
gonna have both of those out there in Clore Lake.

Speaker 9 (02:03:16):
Okay, God, I hear music. Can I ask one more
question when I come back.

Speaker 3 (02:03:21):
Let's see if let's see if we can do it.
If not, you have to go on hold and we'll
try afterwards.

Speaker 22 (02:03:26):
Go ahead, Oh all right?

Speaker 5 (02:03:29):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (02:03:30):
I have I have a problem with scale on my
bird of Paradise in.

Speaker 1 (02:03:34):
A pot.

Speaker 3 (02:03:38):
Okay uh, I would put a product that's systemic that
contains I'm gonna spell the first few letters I am,
I d O in mid though, middo culprid I it's
a middle cloprid. You put it in the ground, you
water it in, it goes up in the roots and
it kills anything, sucking juices out of the planet. And

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you can also find it at a place like a
nice hardware.

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Salm and hey, welcome to garden Line. Good to have
you back, Thanks for sticking around. Plenty of things to
talk about today, if you'd like to give me a call.
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I was talking about Microlife fertilizers earlier and all the
different kinds of products that they have, and I have
used a number of their products. I'm working my way
through and they have so many and they all work well.
You know that one of the products that I don't
talk about a lot, but it's just outstanding. Is the
Humate's plus. It's a purple bag. Humates plus is like

(02:05:25):
concentrated compost in a bag. If you take composts and
let it go to its final stage, that's called humus,
and that is completely broken down and it builds soil.
It adds organic material into the soil, stimulating microbial life,
opening the soil up, helping clays to loosen up a
little bit and be better structured inside. You can do

(02:05:46):
it as many times a year as you want. It's
a zero zero four, so it's got a little potassium
in it. The main reason we're putting it down though,
is for the soil benefits that it gives. But going
into fall, potassium is important in your lawn. So I
would do huge plus for sure when you do your
fall application a fertilizer. So but don't wait till fall

(02:06:06):
to do it. You can do it anytime that you
want to do it. Microlife also has a bioinoculant that
I really like. A Microlife bioinoculant has sixty different strains
of beneficial microbes, So any kind of plant that you
want to protect drench it with this stuff, put it
down the root system, and spread on the foliage if
you want. Uh, it works in any way, shape or

(02:06:27):
form you want to use it. But these are microbes
that we know so that research has shown are beneficial
to plants, microlife or micro grow, bioinoculant. Kind of a
maroon back. I'm going to call it maroon. I like
the name of that color. All right, here we go.
Let's go out to Tim now in League City. Tim,
thanks for being patient and hanging around. So good to

(02:06:49):
have you on. Hey, no, skip good, thank you.

Speaker 11 (02:06:54):
Well, Hey, I heard about the lady about the avocado,
the lady that called in about the avocado on fourteen
eighty eight. I'm down here in League City, south of Houston.
Is there really that much difference? I mean, I've got
one that's six or seven feet tall still in a pot.

Speaker 9 (02:07:10):
It's gonna be about that.

Speaker 1 (02:07:11):
Time to plan it.

Speaker 21 (02:07:12):
There is a.

Speaker 3 (02:07:14):
Yeah, there is a significant difference between the two. And
you know, we talk about zones, and on average you're
going to hit this temperature in the winter, but every
year is so different that it's hard to predict. And
it really is a percentage game, you know, if something
has a forty five percent chance and not freezing, and
something has a seventy or sixty five percent chance and

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not freezing, that's a significant difference. And I think avocado's
down where you are very doable. I've seen some in
people's yards down south of Houston, and they'll occasionally freeze
way back and then they come back out again and
they just get back in business. You know, if you
had a freeze like that every year, it wouldn't be
worth it. But right, you know, nature rolls its dice

(02:07:59):
and we deal with that, and that's kind of how
it works. So I would plan an avocado where you live.

Speaker 7 (02:08:04):
I'll pick a spot for it, then.

Speaker 3 (02:08:07):
Appreciate it. If you can give it a spot, maybe well.
And if you have a spot tim on the like
of the south side of your house where it's a
little bit of a protection from the brunt of the cold,
you know, uh, it will do better there than it
would on the north side. For example. There are some
micro climates in our yard that make a little bit
of difference, so you might might consider that as you're

(02:08:29):
going about it. But thank you for the call, and uh,
by the way, you know, on garden line I don't charge,
but I do ask for half the produce you get
as a result of my advice. So I love wakam.
Only you can just bring me the avocados. I'll take
it from there. Thanks a lot. All right, well do
thank you, bybye you bet I don't know. I always

(02:08:51):
say that because I like to say that. All right,
we're gonna go to Alan and Kingwood. Now, hey, Alan,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (02:08:58):
Thank you. Jip okay. So I hope you haven't how
to get rid of Virginia, but I hope you have
an answer, Yes, how to get rid of Virginia Virginia
button weed. I tried everything, Yes, it nothing works. It's
a never.

Speaker 3 (02:09:21):
Well, there's there's two solutions to Virginia button weed. One
solution is to call your realtor and move to the
house that doesn't have it. That's probably not acceptable. The
other solution is to use Celsius on it. Celsius is
as far as I know, on the home what you
can buy in the homeowner market. Uh, Celsius is the

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most effective on Virginia button weed. Now you need to
you can do it now. It's already had time to
bloom and set seed. Pods and stuff, so you're kind
of behind the eight ball, but you can do it now.
It needs to be in an actively growing state for
the product to work its best, So you know how
it gets older and it kind of gets it gets
a purplish look to its leaves and stuff. So if

(02:10:06):
you spray it now, that's fine. In the spring, once
it gets growing good, you can spray it with celsius
and then be ready about six weeks later to hit
it again. You don't get it all the first time.
I found and so a second application about six weeks
later is usually good. But if you hit it now,
wait and see what happens in spring when it comes

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back out. If some comes back out, go ahead and
spray it then. But that's a pretty good product. Make
sure you've got something to help it stick to the leaves,
So add a little spreader sticker to your spray. Because
Virginia button weed it doesn't have hairy leaves, but it
it just benefits from a spreader sticker.

Speaker 10 (02:10:49):
So we're talking about spot treating, right, I'm a spot spray.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
And I'm not doing the whole lot of yes, yeah,
yeah I should because oh, it won't hurt the grass.
That's why I like Celsius. When it can be ninety
it can be ninety five degrees. Is not gonna, you know,
hurt your grass. You can you I would spray it

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in the morning when it's cool, and again make sure
the button weed is not stressed. Spread it in the
morning when it's cool with a spread er sticker mixed
in by a spot spray treatment. Like you said, that's
I think the best way to go about it.

Speaker 10 (02:11:27):
Okay, because I've tried everything over the past few years
to Farenheide, which is similar to that.

Speaker 3 (02:11:34):
Similar to it is it is similar, it is not
the same. Yeah, So if you're not getting results, I
might well, if you're not getting results with other sprays
that should work, maybe make sure you're mixing them right,
make sure you're applying them to actively growing weed. Make

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sure you're getting all the button weed in the yard.
Know that there's not some that you're not hitting. But
let's try this Celsius. I think you're going to have
good results because in research trials it's shown to be good.

Speaker 10 (02:12:09):
All right, Okay, Yeah, I just have a backyard that
stays wet a lot. It doesn't have very good drainage
and I understand that's how the best and wheat grows.
It thrives in the wet areas.

Speaker 3 (02:12:20):
So yeah, well, you know you might want to think
about you know, there they can do what's called a
French drain and get the water out of an area
and then a lot of plants that would struggle will
do better there. But but that's just that's a whole
other topic. Have got a bunch of folks online here,

(02:12:41):
let me go get to them. Good luck with getting
that particular weed under control. For those of you down south,
Jorges Hidden Gardens is a place you need to go visit.
It is our garden center down south of Houston. So
all of you in communities like Alvin, which is where
it's located. It's actually between Alvin and Santa Fe, just

(02:13:02):
south of Highway six on Elizabeth Street. That's the name
of the street. By the way, Jorge carries a three
sixty tree stabilizer. I was talking about just a little
bit ago. But all of those communities down there, alta
Loma Arcadia, that whole group of places, Jorgees hitting Guard,
you need to swing by there. Jorge always has a

(02:13:22):
good selection of fruit trees and other plants. He specializes
in all kinds of woody things like like trees for
your yard, you know, the shade trees, ornamental kinds of trees,
crape myrtles and whatnot. Avocados we've been talking about that today.
He carries those a bottle brush and just on and
on down the line. And then seasonally, you know, when

(02:13:44):
it's time for various kinds of vegetables, he has them. Oh,
by the way, he has the Chinese fringe, which is
one of my favorite, probably my favorite current spring blooming plant.
And then the Jane magnolias. Those are the ones that
bloom early, early, early in the spring, before a lee
is on the plant. You gotta go buy or do
a Google search for Jane magnolia and then go buy

(02:14:05):
Jorges Hidden Gardens done in Alvin and on Elizabeth Street
and pick you one up. We're going to go now
to spring and talk to Lucy. Hey, Lucy, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 13 (02:14:16):
Hello. I sent some pictures.

Speaker 3 (02:14:20):
Help.

Speaker 13 (02:14:23):
Are you there?

Speaker 3 (02:14:25):
I am here?

Speaker 13 (02:14:26):
Are you there? Okay, I'm sorry, Yes, some pictures of
spotted I sent some pictures of my spotted laurel that
I planted in my front bed. About a year ago.
And so two of the pictures show black leaves that

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they were getting and I was told by a nursery
it just cut those off and she thought it was
getting too much water, so I quit water.

Speaker 3 (02:15:00):
Probably, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, that's probably it. It looks
like that to me.

Speaker 13 (02:15:10):
Well, I cut the leaves off and we had a
big rain after that, and they seem to perk up
a little bit, but they're just when I first planted them,
they did great, they looked beautiful, but they just look
all droopy and they're just not doing well. So I'm
wondering if I should just call them up and start over.

Speaker 3 (02:15:35):
Oh I don't know. So here's the problem with too
much water. Is it too much water not enough water,
have a lot of things in common. You get too
much water and plants roots can't get oxygen, and you'll
have a plant wilting and standing water because the roots
are dying. They can't get moisture. After the root rite happens.

(02:15:57):
Now it suffers drought because it doesn't have the roots
to take up water. So after, you know, after you
stop watering, it's like the plant needs water because it
stays wilted and you think, well, I'll quit water. Maybe
I need to water the thing is just to get
it healthy. And you know, rather than having to drench

(02:16:18):
with a fungicide, which can be done, just hold off
on the water, give it a chance to recover. Hopefully
it will if it keeps going downhill. No, but looking
at your plant pictures, I think your plant is giving
a good shot at trying to come back. So watch
that water. If there's a downspout or anything keeping it
too wet, there, change that. But in the meantime, you

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might also consider if you want to rework that bed
to put in some other things. You could lift that
plant up, trim it up a little bit, make the
bed taller and higher where it drains better, and then
replant it. And that would be a good thing to
do in November early November.

Speaker 13 (02:16:56):
Okay, Well, I planted them high in the beginning because
I was told to do that.

Speaker 5 (02:17:03):
Okay, but I guess it's not high enough.

Speaker 3 (02:17:06):
I don't know, but yeah, I'll try that inn Well,
it depends on how wet the soil is. But Lucy,
thank you. I hope that works. I think it will
from your pictures, it's pretty clear, guys. I run way
over on my break here when we come back, George
and Jersey Village and Rooster and Brunham, you're a first
two out hey, welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line, folks.

(02:17:29):
Good to have you with us. Listen. Ace Hardware Stores
are all over the Houston area and they are the
place to know when you want to have a beautiful
garden and landscape and lawn part of the landscape. They've
got the fertilizers that you hear me talk about here
on guard Line. They have products to control the problems
that want to spoil your little patch of eden out there,

(02:17:50):
you know, diseases and pests and weeds and things like that.
Ace Hardware Stores has everything. I mean, they're a hardware store.
You know, they've got everything that your father's or grandfather's
hardware store had. But these things things, meaning, these new
Ace stores are just amazing, you know, independently owned. Each
one has its own personality. But they have beautiful interior, furnishings, decorations,

(02:18:14):
kinds of things. They have beautiful exterior in that patio,
turning it into a special place, you know, putting some
nice lights up, having some nice furniture out there. Of course,
the barbecue bits. I always talk about those. Ace Hardware
is located all over, located all over this area. If
you go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com, you'll find
my local Lace Hardware stores like up Northeast Jnr's Importer

(02:18:37):
on through thirteen fourteen, Lake Conroys on one oh five
West Highway one to five west of the Lake of
Conroe in Lake Conra, Rockport, Ace on State Highway thirty five,
and League City as down on West League City Parkway. Oh,
let me give you one more. How about Hardware City
on Memorial Drive in Houston. I was out there not

(02:18:57):
too long ago. Well, aceard Brush stores lots lots more.
Just go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com. They can
find them. Let's go to Jersey Village now and talk
to George. Hey, George, good morning.

Speaker 22 (02:19:12):
I have three questions for you, please, And then I
comment about AS Hardware.

Speaker 7 (02:19:16):
They're the best.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
But the my bowgan via.

Speaker 22 (02:19:20):
I swear to God after the rain, I grew two
feet overnight, and I'm in the mood to prune it
right now that it's coming out into my driveway. But
my wife says, no, no, no, she wants the balloons
to appear and then she'll do it in October November.
So that that's question number one. I got number two.
I got leaf myers attacking my meyer lemon bush all

(02:19:41):
over the place. So can I do anything about that?
Can I leave the lead, leave the leaves on? There
is a trimming off?

Speaker 3 (02:19:48):
And then you know what kind of bush was that?

Speaker 20 (02:19:53):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:19:54):
The second question what kind of busher look? Okay?

Speaker 22 (02:19:59):
And the leaves what look recycled? Go ahead, go ahead?
What what is?

Speaker 3 (02:20:07):
I'm sorry I missed what you said. The leaves were doing.

Speaker 22 (02:20:11):
They're curling up and they got leaf typical leaf minor
tracks send them and they're turning brown and things like that.

Speaker 3 (02:20:17):
Okay, okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 22 (02:20:21):
Third question number three, number three, the when I'm pulling
all the grass and the weeds out of the garden,
I thought, no mothers put those in the recycled in
with the makes sense to me. With the bottles and
the cans and the cardboard and stuff. Would that be
okay you think? Or that your purview or not?

Speaker 6 (02:20:39):
All right?

Speaker 22 (02:20:40):
And a hard would like about them. The best besides
the products election is they almost assign a worker to
come with you and help you to find it and
to talk about what you're going to try to solve
and stuff like that.

Speaker 7 (02:20:53):
So there you go.

Speaker 23 (02:20:57):
It is.

Speaker 3 (02:20:58):
I hate going into like a big box store and
you wander and wander and wander and look for somebody
that can actually just help you. For crying out loud, Yeah,
I know that Ace is great about that. All right,
let's take them in order. Question number one, I've been
married forty three years. Your wife is always right about that.

(02:21:21):
Your wife is always right.

Speaker 18 (02:21:22):
No that you know.

Speaker 3 (02:21:23):
You can print it or not print it, but I'd
rather leave it and not sleep on the couch. Print
it later. It doesn't matter either way. It is fine.
I'm just playing with you. Question number two, don't don't
pull off. Don't pull off citrus leaves with leaf minor
on them. Those leaves still have green and that green

(02:21:45):
still is feeding the plant. Now you need to start
spraying new flushes of growth with one of two organic products.
One is called ASA directin it's it's name, but it's
not oil. It's the name that has something that begins
with a z a okay, asa okay or spinosid spin

(02:22:11):
oh sad spin oh the word sad yeah, spinosid or
as a direct and soak into the tissue and they
work and they last a little while. I mean, you know,
they'll give you about a week of coverage their protection.
So one of those two for that. Now, you got
to remind me. There were so many questions. What was

(02:22:31):
the third question? Again?

Speaker 22 (02:22:34):
Can I put my garbage in there from the garden.

Speaker 3 (02:22:40):
That's see you in the city. Yeah, I don't. I
don't know where I live. They they pick up brush
and stuff and bags of stuff on a separate day.
Uh so yeah. I don't think you can put it
in the recycle bin though, because that's for paper and
plastic and aluminum and stuff like glass we recite. But

(02:23:06):
you know how you can recycle him is just make
a pile of it out there somewhere where you can't
see it around the corner, and let turn it into
your own good soil building stuff. All right, man, thanks
a lot, George, good luck with that.

Speaker 18 (02:23:19):
Yep, yep, bye.

Speaker 3 (02:23:23):
Bye bye, take care all right? Uh wow, uh Rooster
and Brenham, I know you've been holding. We're going have
to wait a little bit longer. We're up against a
heart break here. Listen. Now is the time to call
Martin Spoon Moore an affordable tree and get on the
schedule for dormancys and pruning. When trees go dormant, pruning
is less stressful to the tree. You can take off

(02:23:44):
larger limbs. Get your trees ready for the coming year.
That way, Martin's already booking into November, so don't delay.
Call him. Here's a number, seven to one three six
nine nine two six sixty three seven one three six nine.
Get on the schedule. Maybe get him out there.

Speaker 8 (02:24:02):
And do it.

Speaker 3 (02:24:03):
Fre you stopping those Christmas decorations up with every tree
he pruns for you. Listen to this, you're going to
get a free deep root feeding. So don't delay. Called
seven to one three six nine nine two six six'
three and get On martin's. Schedule he knows what he's.
Doing we'll be right back and we're. Back welcome, Back.

(02:24:23):
Guardline good to have you with. Us lots of things
to talk about. Today, Hey Nelson. Fertilizer Nelson fertilizer has
a product called Color star that is. Outstanding it is
an an industry. Leader i'm telling you many landscape professionals
they depend on it and you can you can buy

(02:24:44):
it two for your home. Landscape been around for about
forty years. Now it's all. Purpose if it has some
has flowers on, it put Color star on. It you
see What i'm. Saying, annuals, perennials flowering, shrubs flying, trees
and other. Things very fast. Acting but it also has
organic nutrients in it as well that slowly release their
nutrients into the. Soil so it's going to be i'd

(02:25:05):
say probably about every three or four months you do.
It you're about to put some cool season color, in
you got to put Color star in with, that and
then just continue on with. It there's a version of
it that comes to the fungicide if you're dealing with
the root, issues but Color star is the one to go. To,
also the Nutri star From nelson also in a. Jar
like Color, star the Vegetable garden nutristars time for vegetable

(02:25:28):
growing lots of, healthy cool season. Vegetables we can be
growing in, pots we can be growing them in the.
Soil this blend By nelson Nutri Star Vegetable garden has
all kinds of nutrients in it that are exactly in
the ratio that plants. Need and you can apply it
monthly because vegetables need to be fed in small doses.

(02:25:50):
Regularly it's got five sources of nitrogen and a nice
even release of those. Nutrients it's good for enriching a
raised bed if you've got, containers or if you have
just regular in the ground garden beds nutristar vegetable garden From,
nelson you need to know that. One we're gonna head
To brenham now and talk To. Richter, Hey, richter good, Morning.

Speaker 22 (02:26:11):
Good morning to.

Speaker 18 (02:26:11):
YOU i you sparked a lot of rekindled some interest
in Things i've been putting. Off one IS i need
to replace the lemon tree THAT i lost in threes
probably three years, ago THAT i. LOVED i, just, uh,
WELL i need to replace it BECAUSE i love. Lemons
and is it beneficial to have two different kinds of

(02:26:33):
lemon by two? Species and does that?

Speaker 9 (02:26:38):
Help?

Speaker 3 (02:26:41):
No most people just plant the mere, Right, no you don't.
Mind to most, people just plant the mere improved. Lemon
that's the better one to grow for our. Area uh
and so just myre. Improved did you have another?

Speaker 18 (02:26:55):
Question, yes you brought up SOMETHING i have always wanted to,
do BUT i THOUGHT i could not afford. IT i,
thought maybe you can tell me HOW i can do,
it and that is air rating this terrible soil we
have and run them here black gumbo in some, places
And i've got it all over my. Yard it's hard to.
Anything and you said air, Rating so how do, yeah

(02:27:19):
the common person do?

Speaker 3 (02:27:20):
That so you don't do it? Yourself, well you got
to run a machine to do. It the machines you
rent aren't as good as the ones that a company
would bring. In but you go over your, yard follow the.
Machine if you can find a machine to rent that
pulls cores out of the, soil get that kind a

(02:27:41):
lot of the aer rators sometimes they just sort of
press a hole in the, ground you, know just like
sticking a spading fork in the, ground straight down and
pulling it back. Out, uh you can do. That and
by the, WAY i, Have i've got a little spot
WHERE i walk through a gate and it always gets
compacted because no matter where you come, from you go
to that gate spot and step on. It, yeah And
i've spading fork and just when the soil is, moist

(02:28:04):
just move it down straight in the, soil kind of
wiggle it a, little kind of crack the soil. Open
you're not spading the, Soil you're just cracking pulling it
straight back up and moving over and doing it. Again
AND i fixed some little spots like that just with
using a spading. Fork now that's not the best way to,
errate but it. Works then follow that with a little
compost that you top dress, over have it fall down

(02:28:25):
in those, holes and in time you do improve the
soil that. Way but you can run an. Errator you
just need to run them over the. Soil they need
to be heavy enough and the soil needs to be
moist so that they go down into the. Ground you
don't want them just going an inch. Deep they need
to get down deeper than.

Speaker 18 (02:28:43):
That for, Years i've been let the wood chippers that
clean up trees and bran. Them they bring the chips
over here and they've Been i've got piles that are
three years old that'd be good to just throw over
over those.

Speaker 3 (02:28:59):
Holes WHAT i, Yeah i've done. That i've done a
wood chip and let them rop. Before and What i'll
Do rister IS i made a little two by four
frame that sits on top of my, wheelbarrow AND i
nailed half inch hardware cloth to the bottom of. It

(02:29:20):
and then you scoop up this material and put it
in there and shake that frame and all the false
small stuff falls through and you just throw it off
to the, side and then you do it again and
you end up with a screened. COMPOST i would screen
it BEFORE i put it, down because otherwise that wood
chunky chip stuff is gonna be.

Speaker 7 (02:29:38):
Good, okay that sounds.

Speaker 3 (02:29:42):
Good So i'm saving you money but making you. Work
how about that.

Speaker 18 (02:29:50):
You SUGGESTED i had lost a lot of box, woods
and you suggested a year ago a dwarf upone and
bought up about twenty five of, them and they're growing.
NOW i need to put flowers in front of them
to give some color of. This so like a sixty foot,
bed And i'd like SOMETHING i didn't have to replace

(02:30:13):
every dead gum. Year is there anything that color?

Speaker 3 (02:30:17):
Has, okay BUT i was about to tell you plant
a bunch Of. Americas, YEAH i was about to tell
you plant a bunch Of. Aragos but with the first
frost that are, gone and then you got to put
in cool season. Color, uh there are perennials that can
give you. Color this one's gonna be a hard one
to answer real quick because there's there's a lot of
options out. There. Uh most perennials have their season and

(02:30:42):
then they don't look good the rest of the. Time
and that's why people use annuals because you can always
have color with. Annuals salvias in general are pretty, good
but finding a salvia is so small that it doesn't
hide your. Yopons that's going to be really hard to.
Do so you're talking about a. Plant you need. It,
yeah you need a. Plant it's only going to get

(02:31:03):
about a foot high on the top of my. Head
nothing is coming to mind right. Now let me think
about that a little. Bit if something comes to me
as we go through the, Show i'll bring it. Up, Okay, well,
hey thank, you appreciate your.

Speaker 18 (02:31:17):
Call all, right what? Care take?

Speaker 9 (02:31:21):
Care all, right you.

Speaker 3 (02:31:22):
Take, care call me, back call me, back be happy to.
Help cienamlts done south Of. Houston they now have. Supersacks
you can supersack holds a. Yard their minimum delivery is
three yards three. Supersacks, okay neat clean. Easy you can
get three different, sacks one of, malts one of. Compost

(02:31:44):
you know What i'm. SAYING i, mean they've got it.
All it's the in the, mount but they got it.
Now you can drive by there and pick up one
if you, want you can pick them up in your
truck or. Trailer. Uh they've got nice new metal art
In they got the New vego beds up front that they.
Planted so have you ever wondered what does that look?
Like you can see it and then you can buy
them right. There they sell them At. Cienamulch they got,
seeds they got, Tools they got a lot of things

(02:32:06):
beyond just the wonderful plant products like, malt like, composts like,
fertilizers every FERTILIZER i recommends At. Cienamulch it's as simple as.
That from the bags to the little jars there south
Of houston Near highway six and two eighty. Eight actually
ON fm five twenty, One sienna multch dot. Com that's the,

(02:32:26):
Website sienna multch dot. Com all, Right lily And, humble
you're gonna be our first up when we come back.
HERE i got to go to a little break in
just one, second and we will make sure and have
plenty of time For. Lily that. Way League city feed
down In League city has been around for a long.

(02:32:47):
Time forty years ago The thunderbergs Old Grandpa, vunderberg built
that store in An okra patch forty years. Ago and
it's that old time feed. STORE i love the smell
of a feed store when you go, IN i JUST
i just of being a defeed. Store this is the old.
Time so you're gonna get your bags carried out for.

Speaker 28 (02:33:04):
You you.

Speaker 3 (02:33:04):
Know it's that. Service it's folks that you. Know you
go in and visit with, them chew the fad a
little bit and get the products you. Need products that
are quality like nitroposs and as a mite and micro
life products Like nelson plant food in the in the
bags or the, jars heirloom soils by the. Bag they
carry airloom. Soils down south In League. City they are

(02:33:25):
On highway, three just a few blocks south of The
highway ninety six In League. City and for that whole
region down, there this is your hometown feed. Store you
got a past, or a disease and a weed, problem
they got the things to cover. It monday Through saturday
nine to. Six seeing swing back after work if you
need to closed On. Sunday League City feed two eight

(02:33:45):
one three three two one six one. Two let's take
a little break and we'll be right. Back have you
ever heard of zeazy? Top there you go right From
Texas Good Texas. Band, Hey i'm gonna be at The
Fall Montgomery County home And Garden, Show home And Outdoor
Living show actually today. Today i'll be there from twelve to.

(02:34:08):
Two the show's going on today and. Tomorrow it's a great.
Show it's out there In conroe On Airport road at
The Lone Star, center And i'll be there from twelve to.
Two i'll answer gardening, questions but Mainly i'll first of,
All i'll start off talking about tips for your fall, lawn, garden,
landscape all that kind of. Stuff we'll be answering gardening.

(02:34:28):
Questions i'll be looking at, samples bring me samples in plastic,
bags will identify the, weed the, bugs, diseases tell you
what you need to do about. Them i'm gonna have
copies Of Texas gardener magazine give away copies Of Texas,
gardener so you can get it's a great, magazine by the,
way you need to see it and you need to.
Subscribe i'll have copies on my book there as well

(02:34:48):
THAT i will sign for. You so come on out
twelve to two, today coming out to The Fall Montgomery
County home And Outdoor living show The, MONTGOMERY. Ca Any
master gardeners will be on site. Too that's a great.
Thing i'll be giving away samples Of nelson, fertilizer nice,
SIZE i mean little jars of this, stuff not just
a little tiny zip lock bag of. It but we're

(02:35:12):
gonna give us some really good samples of that a way.
Too come on, out let's see look forward to seeing.
You all, Right we're gonna head to Humble down and
talk To. Lily Hello, lily thanks for being patient and
good to have you on on garden.

Speaker 22 (02:35:24):
Line good, morning thank.

Speaker 7 (02:35:26):
YOU i have A, bolivia WELL i.

Speaker 4 (02:35:31):
HAVE i have three boga villas and One japanese, jasmine
AND i cannot get any of them to.

Speaker 22 (02:35:39):
BLOOM i don't know what to.

Speaker 3 (02:35:40):
Do, yeah boogovia. Blooms it needs, nutrition but you don't
want to overdo the nitrogen on. Them they need lots of,
sun lots of, sun that's. Good they need moisture in the,
soil but they don't put up with soggy. Soil but
occasionally they can go a little, dry that's. Okay but

(02:36:03):
in general for good growth and, development you, know the
more branches you, have the more blooms you can. Have
you want some decent moisture and moderate amount of a
bougain villa type plant. Food those are the secrets they,
prune they, prune they bloom on new, Growth so you
don't want to be pruning them a lot because when

(02:36:24):
you do, that you're you're cutting away the new, growth
which is where the blooms can be can be. Found,
Now Nelson Plant food makes a seventeen seventy ten bougain
villa food and the little. Jars it's called Nutri Star,
booginvilla and you can buy it in a lot of different.
Places you're up there in The humble, area you, know

(02:36:47):
you can go TO i think kingw Of Garden center
And nelson And Warren Southern gardens are going to carry
it up in that. Area that probably some of Your
Ace sardner stores may have it around there, too BUT
i would use that follow the label on. Them those
are the things in your. Control they bloom a little
bit better when they they you, know are are are

(02:37:10):
kept in a moderate growth right.

Speaker 22 (02:37:12):
Though, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:37:16):
And, japanese that's my tips for.

Speaker 6 (02:37:18):
It.

Speaker 3 (02:37:23):
Yeah, jasmine so is you're talking about a white blooming, jasmine?
RIGHT i? Am, yes uh huh, okay all, right a
fragrant flower we're talking. About there's a lot of things called.
Jasmine that's Why i'm trying to work my.

Speaker 28 (02:37:41):
Way, Well i've never got any flowers on, it SO
i don't know if they're fragrant or.

Speaker 3 (02:37:45):
Not, okay, Okay well they also Like, yeah they also
like Good. Son they can put up with a little
bit of, shade but not too much any Good, son
not over, vigorous but just keep them kind of happy and, growing,
know with a modern amount of water and, vigor and
they should. Do, okay if your plants are very luxuriously,

(02:38:06):
growing you, know the jasmine just lining all over the,
place you may be providing a little too much water
or fertilizer for. It but sunlight it may also be.

Speaker 8 (02:38:16):
Lacking, well it has a lot of.

Speaker 3 (02:38:20):
SUNLIGHT i have a lot of.

Speaker 22 (02:38:23):
SUNLIGHT i don't have. FOOD i put food on.

Speaker 3 (02:38:27):
It, uh, Okay well in that, case THEN i WOULD
i would get a product called Color star From nelson's
and use that on Your japanese. JASMINE i think that
would give it a boost that it. Needs Color star
is a good blend for anything with limbs like that.

Speaker 6 (02:38:48):
Too, okay thank, you so very, much have a good.

Speaker 3 (02:38:51):
Day you might want. To, yeah when you go, in
if you go into Like Kingwo Garden center or, something
just ask them about. It take them a picture of
it where they can see it and see what see
what they say they may if they got some good.
Pictures they ought to be able to tell you what's
going what's going on with?

Speaker 6 (02:39:10):
It, Okay i'll do. That thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:39:15):
All, Right thank, You. Lily appreciate the call very. Much
sometimes plants are just. Persnickety you, know you're you're kind
of doing everything you're supposed to, do and they just
don't want to grow. Sometimes i've dealt with that, myself
and you, know some do different. Things there are a
lot of weird things people do to plants to get

(02:39:36):
them to bloom and grow. Too that's kind of kind of.
Weird but let me tell you about a few of
those in just a. SECOND i did want to mention
to you one more time that if your lawn is
not looking real, great you fertilized, earlier but you hadn't
any nutrients on it in a, while give it a
little boost to sweet green from nine to. Five sweet
green is eleven percent. Nitrogen you put it down first of,

(02:39:56):
all it smells, good you put it, down you watered
in and it dissolves, away and all that carbon makes
microbes just go nuts and the soil they love. Carbon
there's a reason why organic gardeners use molasses on the
soil because molasses is a. Sugar it's a carbon chain
and it really stimulates that and you'll get a good

(02:40:17):
a good growth out of. It it'll carry you up
until you're going to do your fall, fertilization which is
coming In. October so if you do the sweet, green
just a small dose of it right, now you don't
have to overdo, it and then when Mid october, COMES
i would go ahead and put down the fall fertilization
at that point in. Time Ne Sweet green is available
in places where you find nitrofoss, products so that would

(02:40:38):
include places Like Lake hardware And angleton and the one
include and anywhere there's a lake, hardware you're going to
find nitovass types of. Products THE m AND d hardwarees
are going to carry nitovass products like the one In,
cyprus like the one On beamer In Sagemont, area like

(02:40:58):
the one On Bay Area, boulevard are done in Clear
lake And Langham. Creek Case hardware is another good place
that's on five point nine in The copperfield. Area all
kinds of places to find nitroposs. Products all, right, AM i?
AM i on the air right. NOW i had a
pop in my ear And I've i've lost some of my,
sound SO i need my producer to tell me if

(02:41:19):
all is. Well all, Right, well we're coming coming up
to the end of the show. Here let's let's head
out to Tom ball real quick and see if we
can get in a call From. Glenn, Hello, glenn welcome
to Garden.

Speaker 9 (02:41:31):
Line, hey thank, You.

Speaker 10 (02:41:33):
Kif how are you doing this?

Speaker 3 (02:41:34):
Morning i'm doing? Great how can we? Help? GOD i
call the Cause i've got moles in my yard And
i'm wondering what's the guaranteed way is to get rid of? Them,
well moles are best trapped and that's not easy to,

(02:41:56):
do but you can do, it are.

Speaker 6 (02:41:57):
You?

Speaker 3 (02:41:58):
Now when we say, moles let's make sure we're talking
about the same. Credit are you talking about little mounds
of dirt sticking up out of the ground or are
you talking about a little a little trailway where it's
pushed up just a couple of. Inches is it the
things that stick up about eight or ten inches or
is it the just the soil is slightly. Lifted, yeah it's. Trailers, Okay,

(02:42:20):
yeah that's. Malls, yeah, yes you can see, well uh
looks like. Volcanoes yeah, yeah oh another volcano mounds that
is that is. Gophers. Uh if you have a sandy type, soil,
especially you're gonna get. These it's like a firearm mound on,

(02:42:42):
steroids you, KNOW i mean real tall sticking. Up that's.
Gophers the moles do just a little trail barely beneath the.
Surface ever very small. Creature. Uh and so it's gonna
be one of those. Too. Uh but the traps are
probably the best way uh to manage, them and you

(02:43:03):
just have to kind of work with. It there are
some publications AT a AND m on moles and on.
Gophers if you go to a website called agrolife learn
agrolife learn dot tamu dot ed. U, okay agrolife learn
dot tamu dot ed, u and uh we you may

(02:43:26):
you may need to call back. Tomorrow we're running out
of time. Here we can talk about a little more
if you, want, uh but those publications are. Free. Uh
and they're on The agrolife. Website. Uh but but the,
traps there's a trap that sticks spikes down in the.
Ground you push the soil down and when they come
through and push it back up. Again, uh then you
put the spike trap. There if you're not sure which

(02:43:48):
trail to put it, on step on one and press
that down. Flat and then if the next day it's
pushed back, up you know that's an active run that they're,
using and that's where you set your. Trap that's distressed
AS i can say. It LIKE i, Said, glenn be
happy to help you if you want to go back
and continue the discussion tomorrow