What's going on with my apple tree?

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Mills.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
What a trip.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Just watch him as well. So many bird things to
seep back, bass game almost not a side gas sun

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bean and.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well good morning starting, Good morning gardeners on a nice
little saturday here. We've got some warm weather we're in
the middle of right now, but boy'd be a good
morning to get out there and enjoy. Enjoy being outside once.
Unless you have headlights, you might want to wait just

(01:01):
a little bit, but it's time to warm up and
get ready for it. Let's talk about things that are
of interest to you in gardening. What's going on in
your yard right now? You got a question, give me
a call seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two five eight
seven four or make it easy, KTRH. Give us a call.

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We'll talk about the things that are of interest to you.
I was hunting down a product the other day and uh,
I couldn't believe it. I thought it was more widely available.
It was a product for stopping regrowth of stumps and
printing cuts and things like that. Because I've got a well,
I've got a couple of things that are giving me

(01:43):
some trouble with that. One is a crate myrtle. Crate
myrtles are bad about re sprouting from the base and
even from like if you cut off a limb of
any size at all, you get resprouts all around where
you cut it off. And there are hormones in the
plant that can prevent that, and you can purchase and
spray them on. One of them is called sucker stopper,

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and I see what's in there's several of them, something
about stump ory sprouting as part of another one's name. Anyway,
they work, and so I was trying to find that
product spray on. In my case, it wasn't just a
crape myrtle. It was a Vitex. Vitex is a beautiful
blue blooming summer shrub slash tree. It's really kind of

(02:29):
caught between the two. It's hard to get it to
be one single trunk, although you can. I'm working on
it right now, and I sucker type type reducing products
are important if you're going to try to get it
to be one trunk. But anyway, I've got one. I
cut off all but one central trunk on and I'm

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trying to train it into a tree. I'm going to
find out if it works before I tell you it
works for sure. I think I can do it. We'll
find out anyway. Bottom line is I couldn't find a product,
and I went three different places looking around for the product,
and finally I just, you know, I realized, if you're
going to find something like that, where do you go
for something that other people don't carry or even all

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the things that everybody carries. Southwest Fertilizer it's a corner
of Businet and Runwick. Bob, you know, he's gosh. That
place is now on it's seventieth year. By the way,
Bob's not if you're listening, Bob, I just want to
make sure we get that real clear, you and I both.
There's somewhere south to seventy joking aside, It has been

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around for seventy years, and it's it's around for seventy
years because they carry products people want, They treat people
like they want to be treated, They have reasonable prices,
and it just that's it. Friendly service, quality products and
great selection. Corner Busnet and Renwick. Save yourself trouble running
all over the place. Just go to Southwest and they're

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going to have it products like what I'm talking about
for example. Then anyway it seems to be working so far,
we're gonna we're gonna watch it and see how it goes.
But that's a that's a pretty handy deal. It's kind
of cool too, because you're basically taking a plant's natural
hormones and you're turning it into something to help you
get that plant to grow like you want it to be.

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By the way, of course, it's turf fertilizing season. Time
to get out there and do that. You need to
make sure you got what you need in order to fertilize.
And if you go online to gardening with Skip dot com,
that's my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll find
my schedules plural. There's one that is a lawn care schedule.

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It's mow water, fertilized air rate supplements, micro supplement. Well,
that's on the schedule. The other one is what goes
wrong with your lawn and what to do about it.
That would be preventing weeds, that would be killing existing weeds,
that would be dealing with diseases and dealing with insects
for example. Both of those schedules are free. You can

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download them, you can stare at them on your computer
or on your phone, whatever you won't do, and they work.
By the way, while you're at Southwest, grab some of
the Eagle turf fungicide if you're dealing with gray leaf spot.
Gray leaf spot is a problem on Saint Augustine when
the temperatures are mildly warm, not one hundred degrees and

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blazing dry. But when they're warm, they've heated up for summer,
the beginning of summer which we're in now, and the
humidity and surface. More importantly, the surface moisture on the
grass blades is high. So if it rains a lot,
which it did, we got seven inches a couple of
weeks ago and saw a little bit of gray leaf

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spot showing up. If you water too often, I always
tell you water deeply and infrequently. It's simple. How do
you water your lawn? Two words, deeply, infrequently. When you water,
give it a good soaking, then let it dry out
and keep those grass blades as dry as you can
for as long as you can. You can't control rain,
but you can't control your irrigation. And when it stays wet,

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a lot and it's warm, gray leaf spots going to attack.
And if you look at my schedule for plant problems,
for lawn problems rather a gray leaf spots season is
listed in there when it could occur. Sometimes you have
a little it's not worth treating. But when you need
to treat, Eagle turf Fungicide from Nitrofoss works. It is

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a systemic It moves into the plant and it sticks around,
and it gives you an extended period of control as
a result of that doesn't just wash off with the
next train. So Eagle Turf Fungicide by Nitrofoss is a
product that we would recommend for take the not take
off the gray leaf spot. That's what I'm talking about
right now. Anyway, it's easy to do, easy to do. Hey,

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when it comes to the lawns, I just I'll talk
about this a little bit more later. I just have
been working on a couple of lawns this season that
we're trying to get in better order. And I'm going
to talk a little bit about what do you do
when you want to when you want or need to
maybe don't want to, but need to replace a lawn.
And there's some simple steps for doing that. Now, for

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those of you who already have a line, you need
to think about getting that lawn in its top shape
for summer. And the way we do that is by
applying something that's gonna gradually be released over time. You
don't want fast flushes of growth. Don't just dump a
bunch of high nitrogen fertilizer at one time on your lawn.
Get you some Nitrofoss Superturf. That's the silver bag Nitrofas

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Superturf nineteen four to ten. Put it down and it's
going to be sixteen weeks of gradual feeding of your lawn.
That's the way you want to do it. You're gonna
find nitro Fass Superturf at places like Plants and things
up in Brenham, Fisher's Hardware on Alexander down in Baytown,
and Lake Hardware Clute on Dixie Drive as well. I'm
gonna take a little break right now and we'll come

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back with your calls if you'd like to be first up.
Seven one three two point two KTRH. I woke up
into this week late in the week and I could
not even whisper without coffee. I thought, oh boy, we
got this thing called a radio show. To do I
have you have to have a sick day? Knock on?
What since I started doing Guarden Line, where I just
literally couldn't do the show? Uh, And anyway, I thought, oh,

(08:19):
this may be one of them. I may have my
first one. But thanks to a good family doctor and
some wonderful medications, I'm here. So we'll try. We'll see
how coherent I can be today. But at least I
got my voice back where we can talk. And by
the way, if you like the talk seven one three
two one two k t r H seven to one

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three two one two k t r H. If you've
been down to in Chenny Gardens lately, you know I
one of my favorite things that I like to do
is to get out there and visit garden centers. And
I do a lot. And it's not just because I
do Garden Line or you know, for years it's County
Agrolife Extension Horticulture with the texting and uh agrolife extension.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
But I do it because I love to I just
I love to get out and when I go to
a garden center, I could easily lose an hour even
if I've been to it many times before, just going
around looking at plants, reading the tag seeing what's new.
You know, there's this new variety of this or that
species always coming on the market. Uh. So it makes
it really makes it fun, I think, and I encourage

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you to be that kind of a garden uh business visitor.
I just not just nurseries, but also garden supplies and
tools suppliers. And I learned something every time. Absolutely do.
You got to You have to have a great level
of disinterest to not continually be learning as a gardener.

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And I mean that because when it comes to gardening, uh,
there's always something new there just always is. And Channa
Gardens is like a prime example of that. Every time
I go into a Channa Gardens there are plants that
I have not seen before because the industry is out
there churning them out left and right. And by the way,

(10:12):
the taxonomists are out there changing the name left and
right too much to my chagrin. But anyway, the Chenna
Gardens will give you the options that you have, by
the way, by really nice, friendly staff that know what

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they're talking about. And I don't care what you're interested in.
Maybe some new types of hydranges, maybe you're into hanging baskets.
You know, I've been kind of pushing on you this year,
saying you got to get out and do some containers.
You are not going to believe the selection of containers.
Every kind of plain old you know, terra cotta, but
quality terracotta, not the cheap junk that you buy at

(10:55):
some places. Quality terracotta. Talavera, the beautiful paint of Talavera,
and all the inspiration you need. Go by and look
at some of the submarines put together there. Look at
the combo containers that she's built. I'm talking about everything
from hanging baskets to upright containers, to things that are
just unusual shapes and forms, almost like the container itself

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is another figurine in the garden. They've got all of that.
And when it comes to color for summer, Boogainvilias got
a bunch of desert rows in too. By the way,
those are gorgeous. If you've never tried desert rows, that
would be a new plant to take on. One time
years ago, a wise man, a doctor Georgia A. Mckeachen,

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who was a pomology professor of mine at tex A
and m He said, every year, you pick one plant
and you learn all you can about it for the
whole year. It's not that you only learn about one planet.
It's just like and for me, I've done that. You know,
I'll spend a whole year on a particular kind of plant,
just learning and learning and learning all I can about
that plant, and then the next year try something else.

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It doesn't have to be twelve months, but you get
the idea and you just you just build, you build
out your knowledge. Maybe you're really into African violets, or
maybe you don't even know how to spell African violet,
we'll start messing around. Learn about them, get one, play
with it, try to propagate it. Things like that makes
gardening really fun. Well in Chenni Garden's got you covered
on all that. They're on the FM. They're on FM

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three point fifty nine on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond.
You can go to in Jennigardens Richmond dot com and
find out more. But the main thing is just go
and today would be an outstanding day to get out
and pay them a visit. Let's head out now to Spring,
Texas and we're going to visit with CR this morning.
Hello CR, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yeah, suir, hey, good morning.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Morning.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
All right, So I have a question, So what do
you recommend as far as getting rid of the armadillas
that are tearing up your lawn that are coming in
and your flower beds. How do you get rid of
the armadillos.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
There? There's there's not simple ways to do it. They're
there because there's soft soil with earthworms or grubs or
other things they're interested in eating. That's what they like,
is those little soft bodied critters like that in the soil.
That's why they root around looking for them. So what

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sometimes people say, well, you know, kill the grubs and
they won't have anything to be Well, actually they will
still they'll be earthwork. If you're watering and it's moist,
you're gonna have earthworms and other things for them to
look for. Plus it's easier to root their little nose
through soft dirt than hard concrete clay. Uh. So that
that leaves us CR with with capturing in a live

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trap and taking them somewhere else, relocating them to another location.
The the those live traps can be baited.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
There's a public if you go to the Texas Wildlife
Damage Management Service publications they're at I can tell you
how to get to them in just a moment. But
there's one on Armadilla's and it shows you how to
set up a live trap. And basically what you've got
is two boards to funnel the armadilla into the trap.
They're bumbling little creatures, and so usually they go alongside

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the house or along a fence or something. You know,
they tend to kind of not just wander aimlessly all
through the yard, but they tend to have a way
they travel, and you can sort of set up that
those boards coming like a v outside out of that
trap and lead them in. If you will take elbow
macaroni like mac and cheese macaroni and just boil the

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macaroni and beef bull yon. It's like you've created some
little grub like creatures by doing that, and you can
drop one here, drop one there. Don't get them too
full before they get in the trap, but you can
lead them right into the live trap that way, and
it makes it a little easier to catch them.

Speaker 8 (15:03):
That's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Okay, if you go to a website, yeah, the website
is Agrolife.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Learn A g R I L I F E learned
dot t A m U dot d U t A
m U dot e d U is like Texas A
and M university dot e d U, like all university
websites in dot ed U.

Speaker 9 (15:27):
Okay, okay, all right, that was very helpful.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
I appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Okay, good luck with that one. Appreciate your appreciate your call.
Excuse me, alrighty uh yeah. Interesting thing what to do
with armadillas. As a kid, we used to chase them
and try to catch them. You could outrun them, but
about the time you tried to stoop down and then
they they get away from you again. And if you

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ever grab one by the tail, good luck. They're not light.
Their tail is kind of tapered, so you're trying to
hold onto it and it's slipping out of your hands.
I don't know what we were going to do with
them when we caught them, but we caught them, and
then we kind of realized we didn't have anything to
do with them, so let them go catch and release.

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You know, we are in nesting season still for many
of our songbirds. I've got I have some swallows, barn swallows,
that are nesting underneath our front porch, and we let
them do that. We just love them. We love the
songs that they little chirping sounds that they make there.
I don't know if song is a good way to
describe it, but we like them. And when the babies

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get old enough, they sit up on the edge of
the nest and there's not likely have little wide fat
smiles and you can look out the window and see them.
But anyway, this is the time when a lot of
birds are nesting, and the folks at wild Birds Unlimited
have a perfect blend of seeds to provide all kinds
of birds, many many kinds of birds what they need

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this Season's called Nesting Super Blend. You're only going to
get it at Wildbird's Unlimited. Now. You can buy it
in loose bags to put in any kind of feeder
you got, and it also comes in seed cylinders that
are compressed, And so if you're going to go on
a little trup, a seed cylinder is a nice way
to go because the birds kind of have to peck
at it to get it out of there. It slows
them down just a little bit. I mean, they'll clean

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I've got boy now that birds have found my feeders,
they just are like lined up and waiting and so
they will clean me out pretty quick here. So anyway,
I like the seed cylinders too. Now there are six
Wildbirds Stores Wilbirds Unlimited stores here in the greater Houston area.
So you can find Wildbirds Unlimited in Kingwood. You can

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find Wildbirds Unlimited in clear Lake or in pair Land
in Houston on the west side, when the southwest I
both are bel Air and Memorial Dry both have wild
Birds Unlimited stores. And then in Cypress on Barker Cypress
that is another of the six wild Birds Unlimited. You

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can go to w b U dot com, w b
U dot com forward Slash Houston to find the wild
Birds Unlimited store near you. Let's head out now to
a task casita and we're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, good.

Speaker 10 (18:16):
Morning, Good morning, sir, thank you so much for taking
a call.

Speaker 11 (18:21):
UH.

Speaker 10 (18:22):
Today's aeration day, going to errate the yards, all right,
and we want we want to get with some of
those weeds that are there facts a lot of beads
and we want to feed the grass and what combination
should we use today?

Speaker 3 (18:37):
All right? So are you going to do compost top
dressing also or just aerration.

Speaker 10 (18:45):
Uh, just aerration.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Okay, So you want to air rate and then you
want to put down a barricade. Barricade from Nitrofoss is
a weed prevention. Now have if you have you used
barricade this spring already you.

Speaker 10 (19:03):
Know haven't used it, but okay I mentioned it last
week also and just wondering.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, well I just asked because you don't want
to overdo anything, including barricade. So if you haven't used
it yet, go ahead and put down barricade according to
the label. Don't overdo it. The label amount is the
right amount. You go underdo it or overdo it and
you have problems, get as even of a spread as
you can and then water it in with about a
half inch of water. And this is after you've erated. Okay,

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you can put the barricade down. And if you haven't
fertilized this year, you could also fertilize this year. And
so if you wanted, you know, something that's going to
be slower released to carry you through summer, that would
be a good choice. Right now, I talk about the
Nitrofoss superturf in the soilber bag is an excellent product

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for that. The folks at Nelson have a product that's
called Bruce's Brew, and it is a combo. It gives
you some fast release, so you can get a good
quick boost, but then it spreads out where you're gonna get,
you know, several months of feeding out of it over
time too, so that's a good option as well. They're
both on my schedule. And then water with about a

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half inch of water just to move the barricade into
the soil surface and the fertilizer dissolve it and get
it going down into into the soil a little bit,
start to get it.

Speaker 10 (20:29):
Which can we get to Nelson brew?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
The Nelson Bruces Brew is widely available. I don't have
right in front of me a list of everybody that
carries it, but I bet I could pull one up
here if I If I try, I'll see if I
can get one up before we're done here. But anyway,
there it's pretty widely available as well. Let's see you're
calling from out at the task Asida. You might try.
You've got some ACE hardware stores around you. I would

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I would probably give that one a try, and see
ACE usually carries a pretty wide variety of things, and
unfortunately it's gonna take me a while to find. I
tell you what I'll do. We're gonna take a break
here in a little bit and I will find some
sources of Nelson plant food in the task Asta area.

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And I'll just say I'm on the air for you
when we come back. How's that?

Speaker 10 (21:23):
Thank you, sir?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Alrighty good? Well, you take care and I do appreciate
your call. All right, We will be back in just
a moment with that. Yeah, Nelson Bruce's Brew is an
outstanding product. That combo of immediate release and slow release
is good. It's got carbon nitrogen, carbon based nitrogen sources
that also help beat microbes that are there present in

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the soil as well. It was time for me to
take a break. We'll be back with your calls. If
you would like to be one of the first up
seven one three two one two kt r H. Now
would be a good time to give us a call.
All right, folks, welcome back to garden Lines. In answer
to Jim's call, where to find Nelson plant food products

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like Russus Brew out in that area. Ace Hardware a
task Asita on timber forest in Humble, Texas. Jim Ace
Hardware a task Asita on timber Forest and Humble. They
carry according to their website, Nelson's website, they carry the
some of the Nelson plant food products. So that hopefully
gets you off to a good start. Let's see here,

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We're going to go out to Brunham now and talk
to Rodney. Hello Rodney, and welcome to garden Line. Thanks Jip.

Speaker 12 (22:39):
I'm having a problem with some first year guardena's. They
bloom and the yellow the leaves.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Are turning yellow.

Speaker 13 (22:49):
I have fed.

Speaker 12 (22:52):
Acid loving plant food, you know, water regularly. I just
it just seems like from the get go the leaves
started turning yellowing.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Rodney, is it the leaves that at the ends of
all the shoots that are yellowing or is it the
leaves that are older further back the shoot that are yellowing?

Speaker 13 (23:15):
On you, I think it's it's it looks like out
toward the ends.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Okay, Well, that is that is typical of iron deficiency.
Iron deficiency can be caused by a lack of iron
in the soil, but it can also because by high
phos lack of iron in the soil. But you may
have enough iron in the soil, but it's tied up
because either the pH is high or the phosphorus is high.

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That's the middle number phosphorus. Now you mentioned you're using
acid living fertilizer or as fertilizers for acid living plants.
That's a good thing. You may need to use a
keylated form of iron. Keylate is c A E L
A t E. It's like it's it's spelled like chi late,

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but it's pronounced key late. It is an iron that
has a little bodyguard around it that keeps the soul
from tying it up so fast. I would try that
and see if you see some benefits a little quick
green up from that. Other longer term would be maybe
continuing to use your acid loving plant fertilizers, but maybe

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even a little bit of sulfur to lower the pH
of the soil. Just want to be real careful with that.
If you wanted to send me a picture so I
could look at it and make sure that what I'm
picturing is what you're seeing, I'd be happy to take
a look at it too. Where will the time that
the key lated, You're going to find it all over

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the place. Any place that's you know, really into gardening,
the independent garden centers, your ace hardware stores. A. Yeah,
you're out there in Brenhams, so you know you're gonna
find it, you know, if you if you can find
a nice hearder, they probably have a keylated form out there.
Plants and things on a Highway three sixty five might

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have it. I've been by there to check for that.
But they carry a lot of things out there, and
I know they carre some of our sponsor products at
plant Plants and things as well by skip. I appreciate it,
all right, sir, you take care. Thanks for the call.
That is the case RCW Nurseries RCW Nursery is it's

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I love that garden center. I just first of all,
I like the convenience of it. It's it's local. It's
right where Tomo Barkway two forty nine comes into a eight,
so it's really easy to get to. When you go
to RCW, you're going to find everything that you're looking for.
And they've got a Memorial Day sale that begins, well
it has begun, and ten percent off all the krpe

(25:58):
myrtles and roses ten percent off. So now they're a
great time and it's still time. Get them in the ground,
get them watered in, just help them along a little
bit as the weather worms up. They'll be fine. Twenty
percent off of their metal yard art, and that includes
those metal arbors, metal benches, trellises to grow things on.
Those are gorgeous. And they have other kinds of little

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metal yard art, you know, hangs on the walls, decorative.
It's is really beautiful stuff. So stop by RCIW this
weekend and take advantage of some of those Memorial weekend savings.
And boy did they ever have an outstanding selection of
crate myrtles. And remember when you buy a crate myrtle
from Marcy W or wherever you get a crate myrtle,
by the size that you want, don't you know? Natchez

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is a great beautiful crpe myrtle, wonderful tree disease resistant,
thirty feet tall, beautiful white flowers and cinnamon colored bark.
I love it. But if you've got a spot where
you need a ten foot crpe myrtle, don't put natches
in there. Get you one that only gets smaller ten
field there, crpe myrtle to get three feet high there,
Cramerle's get thirty feet high. Pick a good one, and

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boy does our CW have an outstanding selection for you.
Just run by there and check it out again. Talmball
Parkway be Way eight, RCW nurseries dot com. Let's go
now out to New Caney. We'll visit with Armando there. Armando,
Welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Sent you his photos yesterday showing my Saint Augustine grants
that have put down about three weeks ago, and about
a week ago is started browning in the area and
I keep watering it and I got bad information on
how to fix it because the person didn't know what

(27:46):
he was talking about. But anyway, I sent you those
photos hoping you could help me out there.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
I'm looking for it. There we go. I think I
found you, all right, Oh, yes, I see I remember
looking at those. Yeah. It's a little hard to tell
specifically what's going on. First of all, what's the deal
with that green line? Is that a fertilizer line alongside
the driveway.

Speaker 14 (28:14):
Picture?

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Or is that green weeds?

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Probably weeds?

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Okay, So that grass was was real new, as you indicated,
and grass during the first day, two week to two
weeks has got to be kept consistently moist. And that's
not just a once a day. It's because the grass
has very little soil at all, and it's sitting now

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on top of your soil. And if it set on,
let's say you had dead weeds or dead grass underneath it,
sometimes the roots can't get contact with the soil underneath,
and it's it's difficult for them to get rooted in well,
or at least quickly. I would recommend watering twice a day,
And it looks to me like it could have been

(29:02):
that before the grass could get roots down, it went
through a dry period. And sometimes that's when it's sitting
at wherever you bought the grass, you know, before you
picked it up, it was already going in distress. Sometimes
it's when you get at home and the process of
getting it planted. But last time I planted grass, I
even was squirting a little bit of water on the palletts,

(29:25):
just because there were a couple of pallets we hadn't
gotten to yet, and I was keeping them moist. I
put it down, and as soon as I can, I
start putting little water on it just to help it.
And then, like I usually tell people, twice the day
the first week, once a day the second week, just
as a general guy. Depends on the temperature and whether
it's sun or shade, of course, but it looks like that.
It also could be some takeoll root rot involved. But

(29:49):
this happened so fast that I don't think unless it
was already going downhill from take all, I don't think
that happened at your house because of how.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Fast it stopped. The palants that I've been buying have
been real good crash and this is just the one
incident where this happened. And I'm saying, what the hell
you know? Yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I don't know. I think because of the speed of it,
I'd chalk it up to somehow that it's it got
a little bit too stressed.

Speaker 15 (30:20):
Yeah, because.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
Before you know, laying the sod down. But uh and
I thought I had wanted regularly enough, but apparently not. Okay, well, uh.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Well, I'll deal with it without a without a crystal
ball and being able to go back in time and
see the whole process from when they had it at
the garden center. You know, I can't really tell you
for sure, but that's my best guess.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Okay, all right, sir, goodness, thank you for you all.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Right, Hey, thank you so much. I appreciate appreciate your
call very much. Good to talk to you.

Speaker 14 (30:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
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(31:58):
little break now and when we come back, Jim and Spring,
you'll be our first up. Welcome back to the garden line.
Good have you with us? Hey, how can we help
you have a better place and more fun gardening? You
tell me, give me a call. Let's let's do that.
Gardening is supposed to be fun and we want you
to have success. That's what we're here about. Part of
that is, for example, in containers, having several things. Number one,

(32:22):
a container that has good drainage holes. Drainage is critical.
Now I've grown things without good drainage tools before, especially
indoor because I totally control the water. But you get outside.
We had some succulence and a container outside underneath and
let's say a porous ceiling, you know, like an arbor

(32:42):
top with some plants on it. And I'm telling you,
we got rain and rain and rain, and they drowned
because they didn't have good internal drainage. The soil held
too much. It wasn't gritty enough. I guess for them,
and there wasn't enough drainage holes. Well, if you got
the container that has good drainage hools, then a soil
that holds water some but drains very well is important.

(33:04):
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(33:24):
I'm at Bellevue on FM thirty one eighty where you're
going to find Nitrofoss products. Let's head out to Spring
and we're going to visit with Jim. Hello, Gum, and
welcome to garden line.

Speaker 16 (33:37):
How you doing, Yeah, I question, good question. The last
two seasons my yard has really done great. It's been
dark green, nice and big. Is the Saint Augustine grass
and I talk about yard of the month, typical stuff.
And for some reason this year when Breen came around,

(34:02):
half of my yard there's dark green and the other
half is brown spots. And I'm talking about major brown spots,
and it's almost like a disease that's taken over my yard.
I've never experienced this, and it's gotta be going nuts
because I've done everything right. I've fertilized every year and well,

(34:22):
in fact, the last two seasons, I really haven't had
to fertilize because it's been so dark and green and thick,
watered every day. And the only thing I did different
was towards the end of the season last year, I
put down a fertilizer because I had some weeds coming up,
and I didn't use the typical fertilizer like I've always used.

(34:44):
And this year it's just wiped out half of my yard.
It's brown and I'm pulling my hair out. I don't
know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Can you describe the brown spots to me in terms
of size and shape and and do they do they
progress or does it just appear and then it you know,
it doesn't spread after that.

Speaker 16 (35:08):
Well, it's it's spread it over The next half my
yard is green, half of it is brown. And they're great,
they're great, big spots. I mean, we've raked up the
brown stuff and a bunch of dead weed or dead
grass that we raaked up. We put them in bags,
and now it's just like dirt, a little bit of grass.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
I mean, it's okay, it's very very extreme.

Speaker 16 (35:30):
I just don't know what I did wrong.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah. Well, the problem in me helping you with it
is I can't see what you're describing. Based on what
you're saying and the extents of it, it sounds to
me like it could be a disease called take all
root rot. I have information on take all root roight

(35:55):
on my publication on lawn Problems, the lawn Schedule that
deals with weeds and diseases and insects. Uh, And so
you you might take a look at that and see.
I think the best way that I can help you, Jim,
is for you to take some pictures. Let me see
the whole on and then get up as close as
you can, make sure it's in good sharp focus. Attach

(36:17):
the photos to the to the email so that I
can zoom in really good and look. Uh. And let
me take a look at those, and I'll give you
a better answer than me just shooting from the hip
here with my best guests being take all root right
as being a likely cause that I can't be certain
about that at all, based based on just kind of

(36:37):
the description of dead spots.

Speaker 17 (36:40):
O good, all right, I.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Understand. Well let's get to the bottom of it. So
so we don't waste your time and money on something
that's you know, shooting at the wrong problem. Uh, I'm
gonna put you on hold. I'll handro pickup and he'll
get you an email to send me that information and
thank you for that call. I'm talking about Spring. Spring
Creek Feed Center is up there, just north and east

(37:07):
of Tumbul It's in Magnolia Area twenty nine seventy eight,
twenty ninety seventy eight. That's the f Farm to Market
Road FM twenty nine seventy eight. When you go into
Spring Creek Feed there's always something interesting. First of all,
they greet you, you get treated right in there, and
it just makes it more pleasant, you know, to go
in and shop lots of good stuff. Of course it's
a feed store, so yeah, they have all that. But

(37:30):
you're listening to a gardening show, Well, they also have
a great gardening supplies. You know, do you need fertilizers
like you hear me talk about from Nelson turf star
Line or Microlifeline or nitroposs's line. They've got it. They've
got fungicides and pesticides thanks to kill weeds. They even
have a little garden section where you can get some

(37:50):
baskets and plants and things like that that you would like.
Spring Creek Feed Center is easy access again off FM
twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away for Grime Parkway
and Highway two forty nine. There's discounts for senior citizens
and military too. By the way, they can special order
and they do have a delivery service as well. You
just have to ask them about the details of that

(38:11):
Spring Creek Feed Center when you drive up. It says
America's Country Store right on the front of the building,
so you can't miss it. You are listening to Garden
Line and I will be taking a little break here
in a little bit, but we are glad to have
you with us today. You know the goals that I
have in the show, and I say this a lot
this way. I say, we want you to have a

(38:32):
beautiful garden and a bountiful garden. I want you to
have a beautiful landscape, and we want you to have
fun in the process of doing it. When you get
pointed in the right direction. With a little good information,
you can have fun in doing it. And we just
learned a little bit as we go. Now just a point.
I was doing some tree pruning the other day. Yes,

(38:52):
you can do tree pruning still now you just don't
want to do too much. But it reminded me that
storm season is coming. The hurricane season is coming. Storm
season seems to be here almost all the time. Last
summer we had some devastating storms took out our power well.
Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore's company been talking about
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(39:13):
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(39:56):
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which Means i'm gonna quit talking. Here we're gonna get
rolling here on some other. Things we've got a little

(40:18):
top of the hour. BREAK i do have a few
thoughts That i'd like to mention. Today, OH i want
to tell you about one thing before we before we
end up this. Hour uh there's a patriotic concert in
Sugar land and it's going to be On, Sunday may twenty.
Fifth Sunday may twenty, fifth that is what. Day that's, Tomorrow, okay,
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(40:39):
tell you a little bit more about. It if you
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two four sixty one twenty. Six, alrighty good, Morning good, morning.
Gardeners welcome to Garden. Line i'm your, host Skip rick
or good to have you back with. Us what do

(41:00):
you want to talk about? Today whatever you're interested. In
guess What i'm going to be doing this. Afternoon you,
Know i'm always telling you you need to go To
Ace hardware to check out their barbecue. PITS i am
the owner of a proud bouncing baby barbecue. PIT i
am looking forward to go picking it up At Ace.
Hardware just been shopping around for a long, time looking

(41:22):
at all the brands and things that they. Have and
we love living, outside do you you, KNOW i know
when it's one hundred degrees and middle of the, day you,
know nobody wants to be, outside but getting out and
getting some grilling. Done we spent last night out on
our patio with some, family just relaxing and enjoying that
cooler end of the. Day you, know once the sun

(41:43):
gets off of, you it's kind of pleasant to sit out. There.
Anyway we like spending time, cooking cooking. Outside don't like
to heat up the house in the, summertime so, yep
we dove. In, Finally i've been shopping around brands for
a long, time you, Know Ace carri's brands Like Woodpillet,
girls a By. Treger they've got The rectech as. Well

(42:04):
they have got The Big Green. Egg, boy that one's
got a cult. Following Big Green egg is a charcoal
type of a, grail not the low. Brickouts but, anyway
go Buy ace and ask, them they'll explain it all to.
You There's. Webergrails i've Had Weber girls for many years
of my. LIFE i love those. Things, Anyway Ace Hardware
texas dot com that's the website you need to go.

(42:27):
To you can find all My Greater houston area and
then SOME Ace hardware stores AT Ace Hardware texas Dot.
Com when you go, there you'll find stores in places
Like League CITY Ace hardware On West League City parkway
down there and guess Where League. City that's, Right Victoria
ace On Navarro. Street another good one you head up

(42:48):
To willis To All SEASONS Ace hardware ON i forty Five,
north or maybe go To All Star ace out In.
Magnolia those are just a few of the MANY Ace
hardware stores you'll find at A Hardware texas dot. Com
you hear me telling you you need to do this
for disease in your grass or you need to do
this fertilizers, now and here's your options and things go

(43:11):
TO Ace. Hardware they're going to have, Them you're going
to find them. There Ace hardware has got you covered
on turning your outdoors into a little bit Of. Eden
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(43:33):
That Ace Hardware texas Dot. Com by the, way you
need some help loading that, pit so if anybody's not
doing anything, later we making. List just. Kidding you are
listening To guardline and here's a phone number in order
for you to call in so we can talk about
the things that or of interest to. You what do
you wonder, about what kind of issues you're dealing? With

(43:55):
what kind of plans are you wanting to make to
beautify or make your garden more? Bountiful well seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four or seven
one three two one two k T R. H Give
alejandro a callill put you on the board and we
will visit with you about the things that are of
interest to. YOU i was talking about different products and

(44:18):
things that we need to do and deal with. Things,
boy the other, day the fire ants we're. Out you,
know we got all that, rain and that's when the
fiance will then following, that they'll rebuild their mounds above.
Ground do you see the little mounds that are rising
up above the above the sod or the garden soil
wherever they're. Located. Uh there's a product from the folks

(44:40):
At Night foss called fire Ant, killer and it is
very effective for a good, fast quick, kill good fast quick.
Kill fire ant killer from the folks At Night. Fish
you got a mound and you're, gonna you, know people
gonna be gathering and, stuff now's the time to get that.
Out get it on the mound and it'll shut them.
Down Fireant killer is very. Effective it contains delta, methrin

(45:03):
which is a very effective quick kill on those fireants
that you're dealing. With you, know long, term we got
bait type products we put, out but baits never get them.
All BUT i always start with the bait and then
when you have escape, mounds you can do the quick
kills with something like The nitrofoss fire ant. Killer you're
gonna find na fosh products in a lot of. Places

(45:25):
you go down To Clute Lake harbor And clute On Dixie,
drive you'll find to go To Stanton Shopping center In
North taylor And, alvin go TO m AND. D Clear
lake On Bay Area boulevard down there In Cley. Lake
you're going to find nitrofoss products there as. Well oh my,
goodness the boards just lit. Up so y'all are Working

(45:45):
alejandro overtime. Here everybody decides to call it. Once, WELL
i was talking, about you, know getting a pit set
up and doing some pruning this. Week for those of
you who are having to replace the sod in your.
Yard maybe maybe you just have a section of grass

(46:06):
that has died out and you're going to fill it
in and you need to replace the sid. There maybe
you're going to redo the whole. Lawn however you want
to go about, it whatever you need to, do now's
a good time to get it. Done it is warm
enough now where grass is very actively. Growing you put
it down and you hope it get. Established is because

(46:28):
those early days are very. Important here's WHAT i mean
when you put sod out right. Now first of, all
you want the sod that is absolutely, fresh absolutely dug
that morning. Fresh you want to put, it put the
side pieces down on prepared soil that means its holes
have been filled in that there's no weeds that are
come back through the. Side if you've got nuts edge

(46:51):
or bermuda, grass for, example in your, property and you
lay Your Saint augustine's od right on top of, it
or any kind of sod on the nuts, edge it's
going to be right. Through and now you're dealing with
how DO i kill this weed in my turf? Grass
and it's much. Harder it's much easier instead to kill
the weeds, first get rid of. THEM i don't care

(47:11):
how long it. TAKES i was advising one of my
daughters sign in law on a property they're doing and
they've again several weeks ago or prior to, planting to
get rid of those perennial. Weeds because you you may spray,
them but then you're not going to get them. All
they'll be. Back and when they come, back, now what

(47:32):
do you? Do, well you, know you spray them. Again
and then they did it three times to make sure
they've got it all under. Control then the sod went
in on top of. It that is an important first
step is get rid of perennial weeds. First your options
are way, way way better if you get rid of
the weeds before you put the sod. In so that's

(47:54):
just a. Tip i'm going to give you some more
tips on putting out side as we go through the show,
today but that'll at least get us off to a good.
Start i'm gonna have to take a little break here
in just a, second but WHEN i come, back let's,
see we're going to talk To paul In Jersey village
And beth up In tomball in just a, moment so

(48:15):
you guys hang on for the rest of, you like
to give us a call seven one three two one TWO.
Ktrh all, right, thanks welcome back to the Garden. Line
good to have you with. Us looking forward to visiting
with you about the things that are of interest to. You.
Now nobody wants to talk about foundation, issues RIGHT i,
DON'T i, Don't eve won't think about. Them rather be
an ostrich stick my head in the. Sand, well it

(48:37):
didn't get better when you stick your head in the.
Sand it just. Doesn't if you've got cracks in the
sheet rock inside your, home especially go look at the
corner of a, window like in a bedroom or. Someplace
she has a little crack going down from the. Corner
that's a sign of. Movement if you go, outside you'll
see the same thing on brick. Too and it's not
just where windows, are but that's just a. Commonplace maybe
your doors are sticking. Inside that means something's, moving something.

(49:00):
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as a matter of, fact he understands our. Soils he
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what most, importantly what you need to do about. It

(49:21):
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Listener free estimates for garden line. Listeners he'll come, out
he'll take a. Look you'll tell you what needs or
doesn't need to be. Done and there's times when he's told,
somebody you, know it's moving a little, bit but at
this point there's not something that warrants you, know a great,

(49:44):
uh you, know tearing into everything and to fix. It
but when it needs to be, done he knows how
to do it. Right he knows what to. Do he's
got to have a, good straight level foundation that doesn't move.
Around and in our clay soils was shrinking and swelling
with wet and dry cycles they. Do that's just what.
Happens we've got to deal with. It so let's see.

(50:05):
Here we are going to go To, PAUL i believe
In Jersey village. Next, Hello, paul welcome To.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
Guardline Hey, chip thanks for let me.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
CHAT i am looking for some suggestions on a nursery
that sells organic mulch bulk preparably in this. AREA i
think you guys have kind of recommended some in the
past AND i need to do, it AND i just
want to see if you might have some.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Recommendations, yeah, well as far as you, know like a
nursery Selling arburgate will bulk sell their organic soil, complete
and they will bulk sell their organic compost. Complete but
those are both amendments or things that are the soil

(50:52):
itself as opposed to a moltch that goes on the.
Surface now you can put compost as a surface, mulch
BUT i think you're looking for, more something a little
chunkier than, that you could give them a call up
At Nature's. Way they're not too terribly far away from,
you and they do deliver in, bulk and they've Got
Nature's way is On interstate forty five as you're going

(51:16):
up Toward. Conro it's not The, conro but it's up
that direction On Sherbrook's. Circle you can go to the.
Website It's Nature's Way resources dot. Com and they've got
several mulch. Options i've used their double ground mulch And
i've used their native hardwood types of. Mulch they're both
excellent and they work. Well and again you can buy

(51:38):
them by the. Bulk they'll come drop it on the
driveway if you. Want they also are having a heck
of a sale right now on their fungal based. Compost
that's a compost based on you, know ground up mulches
and wood products and. Things it's been turned into a.
Composts i've never heard of anything this cheap, before but
it's fifteen dollars per, yard and that it should be

(52:00):
many times more than that because it's a quality. Product
but you on the, sale you got to pick it
up up In conro so you don't have to take
a trader or something up there to get. It but
there's no limit on. It but, Anyway Nature's Way resources Dot.
Com here's let me give you a phone. Number it
is nine three six nine three six h two seven

(52:22):
three twelve hundred if you want to just call them
today and talk to them about your options. Hundred you say,
yes seven twelve, hundred and they're probably the closest closest
to you.

Speaker 14 (52:34):
There, okay all, right that's.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
Great that's that's a lot of good. INFO i really appreciate. It,
yet take, care all.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Right, Sir good luck and enjoy. It i've Used i've
used their many of their different products at different. Times
always been very. Pleased, yeah, okay all, right thank you.
Sir you take. Care uh THE i mentioned, earlier we're
we're talking about garden centers and places you love to

(53:04):
visit and. Things Nelson Water. Garden it's Actually Nelson nursery
And Water. Garden they're out there In. Katie you head
out ten To, katie turn north On Katie Fort Ben
road and they're right. There makes it real easy to find,
them easy to get. To they have such an outstanding garden.
CENTER i mean it starts when you walk through the
front door and you go into the main, building and

(53:26):
that's where the house plants, are and you're gonna pausitive
for a minute because it is amazing the selection that they,
have very beautiful to just lots of quality. Plants you
step back out into the back and now you're in
all the other. Plants you, know vegetables and herbs are
right there on the right hand, side and on the
left hand side you got flowers and. Things you walk

(53:48):
a little further back and you get to the shrubs
and the trees and the vines and plants that love
shade and plants that love sun and roses and everything.
Else right, now this weekend is memorial To it's the
lawn and garden tax free. Weekend so It's may twenty, fourth,
Today Tomorrow sunday and twenty Six. Monday eligible. Items there's eligible.

(54:10):
Items it's a state a tax free items includes plants
of trees and grasses and multed soil and. Compost by the,
way we're just visiting With paul And Jersey village this.
Weekend there ought to be a tax free on a
compost In multiti. Products PAUL i should have mentioned that
to you and then a groundcover for. Example now if

(54:33):
you are looking for an added to, that out At
Nelson Water gardens And, nursery they've got an additional twenty
percent off some of the nursery. Stock that's at least you,
know thirteen bucks and. Above they've got that as. Well
but just call them, up go check them. Out this
is a state wide. Sale this our. Sale this is
a state wide deal this weekend from the state government

(54:55):
taxes twenty lots of discounts on tax bet just by
the fact that it's being tax free as well as
some our garden. Centers you're doing, that but you got
to go out To Nelson Water gardens And. Nursery it's
a beautiful. Place if you don't see their, website go
To nelsonwatergardens dot Com nelsonwatergardens dot. Com they're Open monday
Through saturday nine to six and today or tomorrow from

(55:16):
eleven am to four. Pm on this text free. Weekend
we're going to head out now To tomball and talk To. Beth, Hello,
Beth welcome to Garden.

Speaker 18 (55:25):
Line good, Morning.

Speaker 19 (55:27):
Skip thank you so much for all the help you.
PROVIDE i have another question about my apple, trees AND
i hope y'all aren't getting tired of hearing about my apple.

Speaker 18 (55:37):
TREES i really appreciate the.

Speaker 19 (55:38):
Help i've sent you a couple of pictures of a
green apple tree THAT i, have and you, KNOW i
just planted them last, year so they've only been in
the ground a. Year but it has something going on
with the bark in it in the in the trunk
of it that is the same thing that was happy

(56:00):
and with the red delicious that you know, dye and
SO i just wanted to check it if it was
some kind of insect or or what what you thought of.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
It, Okay i'm trying to take a look at the
pictures as we speak. Here describe to me what it
is that you're seeing As i'm getting these opened. Up
what is it about the photo that's concerning?

Speaker 19 (56:25):
You so in the, trunk it's like it's got an
abrasion on the, Tree but there's there's nothing going on
around these trees that would hit it or upbraze it
or anything like. That they're in they're in hogwarre, fences
so individual, senses so there's. Nothing it's, protected but it's

(56:47):
like it's like the bark it's there's it's just like
one little section of the bark that's got it's all roughed,
up you. Know it's it looks like it's on a,
brak but it's not Really.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Okay, well the photos are all kind of shot from
the same angle in the same, place so looking at,
THEM i can't really zoom in enough to see real,
well but WHAT i see looks to me like it's
either a, canker which is a little disease that can
attack the trunk and kill some of the. Tissues there's

(57:25):
not a spray for. Cankers you just get the tree
as vigorous and healthy as you, can and it closes
over that. Wound as it, grows it just kind of
just closes it back over. Again that's that's probably my
recommendation to, you based on WHAT i can see in
the photos from the photos you sent, ME i wish

(57:49):
there was a spray we could put on, it but,
yeah so just take care of.

Speaker 19 (57:55):
It, yeah it's leaping out really, well so hopefully it.
Will it'll dry then and THEN i did have one
more question for you to. Find, yeah, sure SO i
have a red roam that is got cute as little
baby apples on, it and so it's it's doing. Well

(58:17):
AND i know you always, recommend you, know for the
first couple of years to to cut off the, fruit
SO i will do. That BUT i just have an interesting,
question and is there like a trunk, size a minimum
trunk size that you would want to have before you
let the apples grow.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
For a couple of, years you, Know so it's it's
kind of a it's kind of let them be on
the ground for a few, years, uh you. Know AND
i try to find a happy medium because people want
to try an. Apple but you, know if in the
second year you want to leave it to let it
have an apple or two just so you can have
something to, taste that's that's. Fine but in, general the
energy that goes into growing that fruit would be going

(59:04):
into growing a bigger tree that'll have more fruit the next.
Year so as you leave, fruit what you're doing is
limiting in a more than like if you leave one,
fruit you're losing more than one fruit the next, year
you know What i'm, saying because you would have gotten
a lot more branches that could have held several more
fruit and that's why early in the life of a

(59:25):
fruit tree we say pull the branches. OFF i mean
pull the fruit, off not the.

Speaker 15 (59:30):
Branches, okay, yeah, okay thank, you.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
All, Right, beth good luck with. That and just watch
those spots on the apple. Trunk if it gets, worse
take some close up pictures and good sharp focus and
send me some different angles on. It BUT i think
we've covered it. Enough BUT i just leave the door
open if you need to resend some more. Later all,
right thank you for the. Call very. Much good to

(59:56):
visit with you and enjoy a chance to kind of
hopefully help out little bit with what we're. Doing you,
Know nelson plant food folks have got a number of
quality products that are in small. Jars they have The
Nutral star, line which is specific plant fertilizers for specific
kinds of. Plants there's a Nutri star for. Vegetables there's

(01:00:18):
A Neutral star that covers acid loving, plants you, know
like azalias and blueberries and cameoas and gardenias and those
kinds of. Things they have A Neutral star for. Plumeria
they have A Nutra star for, buoginvillias and each of
those individual products works. Well now you can buy the
little jars of, it and you, know check your teaspoons,

(01:00:38):
out just follow the. Label it's to how much to
sprinkle around each your. Plant and then when you're, done
there's about a dozen places in town where you can
refill The nelson. Jars you go there and it's just
like buying peanuts at the, store where you pull the handle,
down you put the bag underneath. It you Know i'm talking. About,
well it's like you're buying refilling your. Fertilizer that way
saves you a little money and it avoids thrown away

(01:00:58):
all that. Plastic it just makes. Sense we had to
have more products that are that are sold that way
from the folks At, Nelson so it makes a lot of.
Sense let's. See, yeah don't FORGET i mentioned this earlier
in a, caller But Nature's Way resources has a humongas
sale now through the rest of this, month so that

(01:01:20):
isn't much month. Left we've got about a week left
here in this. Month fungal compost overstock sale fifteen dollars a.
Yard now you gotta go get. It you gotta go
pick it, up get your, trailer. Pickup however you go
and buy, it go out there and get. It Nature's
Way resources does deliver, products but for this sale fifteen
dollars per, yard and you don't want to miss that one.

(01:01:43):
Out go to the Website nature'swayresources dot com and follow
them On instagram and On facebook and that's where you
find out about things like this incredible sale that they
have going. On right. Now we're going to go now
To richmond and visit With. Brian, Brian welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:02:01):
To Dargen Horns. Gift thanks, Sir, HEY i just put
some some fig trees in my. Backyard is barricade labeled
for fig?

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Trees, no it's labeled for lawns only just fallen, now
so go.

Speaker 14 (01:02:17):
Ahead that's What i'm asking is is it safe around?

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Figs, Well i'm going to Say i'm going to give
you a qualified yes if you use a product as.
Recommended you, know let's say you have a. Lawn when
you're doing barricade on your, lawn trees around, you from
shade trees to flowering trees to fruit. Trees they've got
roots over there in the. Lawn, okay so you are

(01:02:42):
using it around the, tree but you can't like, say
OH i got an. Orchard i'm going to use, barricade
and though you know you have to stay within the,
label but you got to put it down at the right, Rate,
brian don't overdo it and don't put it down right
for a gully washer, rain put about a half inch
of water to get it moved in where it locks
up at the surface of the. Soil and then you'll be, okay.

Speaker 14 (01:03:03):
Okay because these ARE i, mean these are brand new bear.
Roots all, right sir, said these are brand new. Figs, okay,
yeah hang, ON i tell you WHAT i. HAVE i
have a very hard. Break if You i'm going to
put you on. Hold if you want to hang, On
i'll pick it back up when we come. Back all,
right and welcome. Back good to have you back with
us here on Garden.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Line uh listen, now the folks out At Warren's Southern
gardens In. Kingwood Warren Southern gardens In. Kingwood you know
There's Kingwood Garden center And Warren Southern gardens boat there In,
kingwood both great places to. Go they each have their
own i'll, say, personality you know what they, carried the
look of the, store the kind of things that they
kind of specialize a little more in maybe it's worth

(01:03:47):
going to both of. Them but right, Now Warren Southern,
gardens they're having one incredible sale and it only lasts
through this, month so we got about a week. Left
actually we have right at a week left in the.
Sale may thirty first is the last day of the.
Sale twenty percent off purchases of one hundred dollars or
more one hundred dollars or more twenty percent. Off so

(01:04:09):
you spend one hundred, dollars you buy a hundred dollars
worth of, stuff you only cost you eighty. Bucks now
here's the other, one and you're gonna need to think
about this for a. Minute forty percent off purchases of
three thousand or. More, NOW i know you're, Thinking i've
never gone to a garden center and bought three. Thousand,
okay but listen to. This if you're going to redo your,
landscape and this would include, uh you, know shrubs and

(01:04:33):
flowers and, trees we're talking about everything. Here we're talking
about things, like for, example some of the, archways a
metal archway that maybe you, know you walk through as
you're going out in the, garden containers and all kinds
of things WERE i, mean this is your chance to
do a major redo for forty percent. Off so in other,

(01:04:54):
words you ring up three thousand dollars worth of stuff
you pay eighteen. Hundred so this is kind of like
an opportunity that's. Incredible AND i, realize you, know you
don't just go every week well some people we do
grave weekend spend three thousand dollars on plants and. Things
but if you want to do if you want to
make a big impact and go to go do, this

(01:05:16):
go to one In Southern gardens and walk around and
look and you'll see What i'm talking. About go to their,
website you, know check them, out find out what's what
all that they have it you will be very very.
IMPRESSED i mean everything for beautiful containers that have been
put together just awesome and that you, know we got
a lot of products fertilizers and soil based products and,

(01:05:36):
whatnot and then just incredible. Stuff SO i don't, know
this is an Unusual i've never had a sale like
this talked about on Garden line, before but it is
one where for those of you who really want to
get a big job done and you're, looking you're not
going to find a way to say Forty bucks on
everything you buy like. This it is, incredible largest sale.

(01:05:59):
Ever all. Right Warrens Southern garden In. Kingwood there's also
where you Find Kingwood Garden. Center warrens is On North Park,
Drive kingwood is On Stone Hollow. Drive both of them
are open seven days a. WEEK i don't. KNOW i
think i'd go buy IF i were you. Today look
around and think about. This, uh it is an. Opportunity
it is an opportunity to make a heck of an

(01:06:20):
investment in your. Property let's Go, now we're going to
go back To brian In. Richmond, BRIAN i think you
had a little follow up.

Speaker 14 (01:06:28):
Maybe, yeah they're they're bear. Roots SO i just wanted
to make sure that it was going to be, okay
one more one more question after, that if that's all?

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Right. Yeah so, here here's the. Thing when you put
barricade down and you watered in with just a little
bit of water third of an inch maybe half an inch, Maybe,
uh it goes into the sole surface and it sticks
there and it it adheres to the soil. Particles and
if it didn't do, that if it just washed, through
then it wouldn't be up there to fight the weed.
Seeds germinating near the. Surface so that's how it. Works.

(01:07:00):
Uh now that's WHY i say if you overapply it
and then gully water it, in gully washer water it. In,
yeah you can get some down in roots and maybe
have some, issues but just do it right and you
should be okay on. That all? Right what was the fire?

Speaker 14 (01:07:13):
Up so my creole tomatoes are doing great and the
mocking bird are enjoying them more THAN i, am And
i'm ready to start shooting. Them, no that's, illegal But
i've tried. EVERYTHING i can't keep the darn things.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Out they're eating the.

Speaker 14 (01:07:30):
Fruit they're my, tomatoes my tomatoes and.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Tomatoes, yeah you, know there's suggestions out. There it's too
late now for. This but some people say if you
put red ornaments out before the tomatoes are, ripe they'll
go out and peck those and figure those red things
aren't worth. EATING i don't know IF i believe, that
And i've never tried, it but some gardeners say that
works for. Them have you tried putting organza bags over
tomatoes or? Not are you familiar with?

Speaker 14 (01:07:54):
THAT i have.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Not you can go, ONLINE i mean you can go
to you, know place place Like amazon and look Up
organza bags and they come in different sizes that are
little mesh a little fine. Mesh bags are used in you, know.
Brides we'll give them out to bridesmaids with gifts inside and.
Stuff they have a drawstring on them and if you buy,
one depending on the kinds of tomatoes you're, growing from

(01:08:17):
a long cluster to a single round, tomato you just
slip them right over and pull the string and they.
Last when you're, done you just pull them off and
store them and you can do it again next. Year
but you got to bag each tomato in order to do.
That but when it comes to birds other than, netting
that would be the THING i would. Try, okay all,

(01:08:39):
right these are cheap bags. Too they're very. Cheap they're.
Pinnis we're gonna buy like one hundred of them or. Something, yeah,
okay if you give it a, try let me. Know
i'd like to hear back from you and how it
work and what kind of tomatoes you put them on and.
Stuff i've had a number of gardeners tell me they like.

Speaker 14 (01:08:54):
It, so, yeah they're. Creoles there you. Go they're good
slicers and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Clusters, yeah yeap CREOLES a good Good louisiana slicer been
around a long. Time. Thanks thanks, man appreciate your call very. Much,
hey if you're looking for a quality fertilizer product for your,
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(01:09:21):
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(01:09:42):
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(01:10:23):
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(01:10:46):
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it's right. THERE d AND. D i was in just
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(01:11:07):
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(01:11:52):
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Too you, know there's no such thing as a. Houseplant
we just bring them in the, house then we make them.
Houseplants jungle and Water saver has the crystals to help
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(01:12:14):
case you forget to water for it to, bound trap
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Bellevue all carry Night fosh. Products time for me to

(01:12:37):
take a quick break. Here when we come, back we
are going to visit With eric And cyprus And robert
in Wood forest if we can get to. That all, right,
folks welcome back to Guard. Line glad you are with us. Today.
Listen plants for all. Seasons they are easy to. Find
you just go Up Tomball. Parkway when you get To,
luetta you exit cross Over luetta and it's just about

(01:13:01):
a block north or less than a block north Of
luetta right there on the right hand, side going toward tunnel.
Direction Plant Troll seasons has an outstanding selection of all
kinds of. Plants right. Now they have a really nice
selection of different kinds of. Gingers you, know there's a
number of different kinds of ginger out there that you
can purchase the hidden. Gingers they call them that because

(01:13:25):
they have, big, old, large almost cannon like, leaves if
you know what can of leaves look. Like but then
kind of down in the plant a little bit are
these beautiful spike ballooms that are just. GORGEOUS i mean
it's not like they're, hidden you can't see, them but
instead of sticking them way up on top like a butterfly,
ginger they're kind of down in the plant a little.
Bit and they have a number of different beautiful new

(01:13:47):
breeding lines that have been released over the past years
that are just. Gorgeous when you're, there you're going to
find a selection of some really cool pottery that they've
got In they have really nice large. Pots and remember
when you're potting up here In, texas especially for, summer
you need a bigger pot than you think you. Need
just get a bigger one because you need to hold

(01:14:08):
a lot of, soil and that soil can hold a
lot more. Water, therefore so those plants are going to
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six sixteen forty. Six we're going to go now to
Wood forest area and talk To. Robert, Hello, Robert welcome
to Garden.

Speaker 20 (01:14:37):
Line good, morning. Sir SO i have children that live
over In kingwood and they have some old growth, azaleas
and my, wife, okay love to grow azaleas in Wood,
forest which is obviously vast different Than. Kingwood so, okay

(01:14:59):
we had we had a couple of them out, there
but they've not bloomed in about three. Years so is
there some BETTER i don't know how to even, ask
but the generic azalea that would grow in the proper you,
know acidic. Condition then another.

Speaker 3 (01:15:24):
Yeah, uh well are you in in Wood? Forest is
in on the east side just inside the?

Speaker 20 (01:15:29):
Beltway, no, no, no We're conroe would forged oh By.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Conrad, Okay, so so azalias want bright, light but they
don't want direct sun all. Day they can take a
tad bit of, it you, know but in general they're
an understory for us plant and so they they do
you need good. Light so if they don't have enough,
light they're not gonna bloom as well because it takes
light to make. Carbohydrates takes carbohydrates to make. Blooms so,

(01:15:59):
uh they need adequate sun light, intensity not direct sun.
Necessarily they need an acidic soil and a continually moist.
Soil they're not efficient at taking up. Water they don't
have root hairs like a lot of plants, do and
so they do need to be kept moist and out of.

(01:16:20):
Stress and then as far as are your plants looking
good but just not blooming or do they not look good?

Speaker 20 (01:16:26):
Either, no they look, fine it's just they won't set a.
Bloom AND i know there's different kinds nowadays because of you,
know genetic. Differentiations but, yes you, KNOW i just look
at the stuff that they grow In kingwood AND i,
think why CAN'T i do?

Speaker 8 (01:16:45):
That you?

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Know, yeah but maybe it Was maybe it's because they're
twenty years. Old you, KNOW i don't know. Yours you're
saying yours are twenty years? Old or there's In Kingdom, no, no, no,
no no no.

Speaker 15 (01:17:00):
Ones.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Yeah, yeah, okay that's what you, Said. Ashley, okay, yeah,
so uh so it's just a matter of a good
maybe rethink the soil. Mix is? It is it well?
Drained is it a raised? Bed do just have lots
of acidic types of organic matter in? It and you,
know get some fertilizer or some acidic loving fertilizer if

(01:17:22):
you're not already using, it and use that and, UH
i think it probably could be a little on water,
quality but usually you'll see problems with that when it
comes to burning of the edges of the leaves and
some other similar. Things but you ought to be able to.
Grow I'm i'm beginning to think this may be more
related to. Light but you KNOW i. Can't i'm not
there walking around looking at, Them So i'm having to

(01:17:43):
give you my best.

Speaker 20 (01:17:44):
Shot they're underneath some pine, tree so you, Know I'm
i'm Getting i'm getting the, straw of, course but uh, anyway,
okay the, Light i'll give that A i'll give that
a measurement and see how we.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Do, yeah, okay well they definitely can grow into the.
Pines so, well good luck with. IT i hope hope
that helped a little. Bit if if you may want
to try up in the watering a little or upping
the fertilizing a little and see if maybe you can
kick them into gear on that. Too that that'd be
my last thoughts there on that. One, robert all, righty thank,

(01:18:17):
you thank, you. Sir appreciate appreciate the call on that very. Much.
Uh medina products are whether there's just a plethora Of
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(01:18:38):
Products you, Know Medina Soil activator has been around a long.
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and Created Medina. Plus It's Medina Soel Activator. Plus it's
got the things that increase blooming and leaf growth and fruit.
Set if you're going to do some. Transplanting it's a

(01:18:59):
great one to water plants in with, it as well
as other many of The medina products. Are you can
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Product Medina plus based on the Original Medina soil activator

(01:19:20):
that many of you have used for years and know
how well that. Works you're going to Find medina products
widespread through our. Area most of our you, know ace hardware,
stores our feed, stores our independent garden centers will Carry medina,
products making them easy easy access for. Gardeners let's go
up To cyprus now we're going to visit With eric
a little. Bit Hey, Eric welcome to Garden.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Line Hey, SKIP i got a couple of tree questions for. You,
YES i talked to a tree guy, recently And i'm
thinking and, thinking is it safe to trim, trees you,
know in the heat of the, summer which we're kind
of approaching. Anyway i've got a large water oak in

(01:20:03):
my backyard in a pretty mature live oak in the,
front AND i just want to make SURE i don't
do any damage by trimming them or trimming them too.
Much and SO i want to get your feedback on
that you can.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Trim you can trim them all. Summer it's better to
minimize it than to do a lot of. Trimming and
so have you ever seen time laps photography where they
show a flower that may have taken six hours to
open and it does it in six. Seconds you know
What i'm. About time. Lapse so if you were to
take a pruning cut and you were to watch it

(01:20:39):
through the year From january To december time, lapse what
you would see is in winter it's not closing at,
all and then in spring it closes real, fast and
then in summer it slows down to a, crawl and
then in fall it speeds up a little, bit and
then it shuts down again in. Winter, Okay so that's
why we like to prune at the end of winter,
ideally because we get the fast time of healing right following.

(01:21:01):
That so you can prune though, anytime it's just not
going to close as, quickly and you don't want to
take out save the bulk of you're pruning for, winter
and do pruning through the year as needed here and.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
There so when you say at the end of, winter
are you saying Like February, MARCH i guess for russ.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
Uh no, more more like here Late january and In
february you're going to be seeing growth depending on let's
see where you're In. Cyprus, yeah you're going to see
some growth starting In. March so, right, yeah you'd like
to get it done ahead of. That here's the other.
Problem in the, winter the bark is stuck tight to the.

(01:21:44):
Wood when the sap begins to, flow it's real easy
to strip the bark. Off and when you're, pruning you
don't want a limb to fall and to rip a
little banana peel section of bark with it when it.
Falls so you want to use a three point, cut
and you need to go look that one up. Online
there's lots with a search engine you can find about
three point. Cuts and we'd like to do printing when

(01:22:07):
the bark, isn't as they, say, slipping it's much better
to avoid it when it's.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
Slipping, okay So January, february that'd be a good time bark.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
Wise It's January, january Early february to Mid february up
in your area would be fine and.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Alright covering spraying the black stuff on there after you
cut a, limb you, know leave an open.

Speaker 8 (01:22:30):
Wound is it don't necessary or is that?

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
No you don't need to do. It we don't have
much oak wild around. Here if your neighbors had oak,
WILT i would say spray the, cuts but they probably
don't because we just don't have. Much, okay thank you all, right,
folks welcome, Back welcome back to the Guarden. Line good,
day be with us today your Host Skip, richter and

(01:22:57):
we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and
a beautiful land cape and more fun in the. Process
and by the, WAY i talking earlier, TODAY i was
talking about being sitting outside with family, yesterday just enjoying
the end of the. Day sun had gone, down so
that was still you, know upper, eighties low nineties even,
initially BUT i didn't feel so bad because we're just sitting.

(01:23:20):
Still we got a little family put on us out
there sometimes so it's a little, hotter but we enjoyed.
It but you know WHAT i, noticed there were almost
no mosquitoes, outside almost. Done and we had two weeks
ago seven inches of rain in our. House and that
means every little thing that can hold water has got
a puddle of water in. It and all it takes

(01:23:41):
for a mosquito to reproduce is a bottle cap full of,
water literally like a thumbleful of. Water basically that is
not much. Water and so there it was mosquito breeding.
Season and this is the same way at your. HOUSE
i mean it could be your irrigation sprinklers coming on
filling up. Something it could be you water and a,
plant and underneath the plant pot that little tray underneath

(01:24:04):
that holds. Water mosquitos will breathe in there and they
can do. That and months AGO i had Pest Bros
come out and install their mosquito buckets at my. Place,
now a mosquito bucket is not like this force field
that goes out and kills any mosquito that flies over
the fence from your. Neighbors but every mosquito the buckets
draw them to the. Bucket there's an odor that you

(01:24:28):
can't smell, it but the mosquitoes can and they go to.
IT i never smell my head right over the. BUCKET
i don't smell, anything but the mosquitoes, can and they
go to. It and they land in, there and when they,
land they get stuff on their, feet and that's the
beginning of the end for the. Mosquito they lay eggs in,
there and you see all these. REGULARS i opened the
bucket lid the other day covered with the regulars little

(01:24:49):
tomato mosquito larva in, there and they were just going to.
Town but those larva will never turn into an adult
mosquito because that bucket won't it's got stuff in it
won't let. Them but the fact that they're, there that
stagnant water brings more mosquitoes in and the odor so they,
land they get stuff on their. Feet that does two.
Things one of them is a disease of. Mosquitos and

(01:25:11):
that mosquito's got about a week to live before it'll
take it. OUT i. BELIEVE i believe a week is
correct on. That but you don't want to kill them right,
there because you want them to fly off and go
to other places where they will lay eggs in other
bits of, water and by this stuff they carry with
them on their, feet mosquitoes can't grow in that water.

(01:25:32):
Either and it just, works, Well, yeah you want that
mosquito going around everywhere there's stagnant. Water you want a
mosquito from one of your buckets to go, there and
it just causes this suppression of mosquitos through the whole
airt and it doesn't kill every mosquito there. IS i,
mean nothing's going to do. That you get you a
foger out there and nuke your house and yard every,

(01:25:53):
day and you're still gonna have mosquito to fly in
whenever the mist settles from the. Fogger, okay But i've
never seen anything like. IT i, mean last night was
the first time we saw a few mosquitos, around just a. Few.
Uh AND i don't like the in the. FOGGERS i have.
One i've used, it and when we're gonna have a
party with people out and. Stuff in the, PAST i

(01:26:14):
would get it out because you, know you know how
bad mosquitoes can. BE i Know i'm droning on about,
this BUT i was just really really impressed with the
way this worked and that Pest. Bros is that the
folks that brought it. Out Pest. Bros covers the whole.
Area and they don't just do. Mosquitos they cover the
area From baytown all the way across To, katie From
Texas city all the way up to the. Woodlands you

(01:26:35):
need termite work, done they're experts at. That you, need you,
know indoor treatment of indoor, past you got fire ants,
outside they do it. All Pest. Bros the website is
the Pest bros B. Ros thepest bros dot com two eight,
one two oh six forty six seventy two eight one
two o six forty six. SEVENTY i Know i'd droned

(01:26:57):
on about the mosquito, thing but, LISTEN i have had
so many suffering summers with mosquitoes that anything that reduces
them is. Helpful and this is this works really. WELL
i can deal with a, FEW i, mean Because i'm
not willing to pay the environmental cost of constantly nuking
every bush and shrub and part of my. Property but,

(01:27:19):
boy does this ever? Work? Well all, right well there you.
Go can you Tell i'm excited about? IT i. Am
let's head out To dickinson and we're going to talk To. Linda, Now, Hey,
linda welcome to Garden. Line good.

Speaker 15 (01:27:34):
MORNING i, HAVE i think you some pictures of yellowing
spots in my, grass and the grass is actually dying
in those.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
Spots, YES i got, THOSE i sure did the. Pictures
it doesn't look really that one picture is a distant.
One it's kind of out of, focus BUT i can
see THE i can see some a lot of browning
leaves in. It and then and the close up shows
some of the grass dying back WHEN i. Look WHEN

(01:28:04):
i zoom in on that close up, One, LINDA i
see some gray leaf spot AND i think that's the
primary thing that you've got going on based on just
that close up, picture BECAUSE i can't make out detail
on the other. One gray leaf spot causes gray spots
on the, leaves and if you look close you'll see
some on, there and then the grass blades will often.

(01:28:24):
Die the tip turns, brown sometimes the whole grass blade
turns brown and it just looks like dying. Out but
that grass will regrow, fresh healthy. Leaves the more you
can minimize how much of the time the leafs the
grass blades spend, wet the. Better the wetter it, is

(01:28:45):
the more gray leaf spots you're going to. Have you
can treat it with a product From nitrofoss Called Eagle
Turf Fungicide eagle like the. Bird but at this, STAGE
i don't. Know you could go ahead and do a
treatment on, it or you could just kind of wait
and see and if if you go through perags of rainy,
weather it's going to be. Worse but as it heats

(01:29:06):
up and gets a little drier on, US i think
you're going to see it naturally reduce it as.

Speaker 15 (01:29:11):
Well, okay thank, YOU i appreciate.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
It all, Right we'll keep us posted if you see
any other problems in, it just let us, say we
can take a look at other. Pictures all, right you take,
care appreciate that very. Much Jorges Hidden gardens down in Alivin.
Texas you, know if you go down To alvin and
you head head south on six or south east on,

(01:29:38):
six and you go to Towards Santa, Fe orges is
off to the right back in. There horay has always
got stuff going. ON i, mean he has a lot
of really cool plants right. Now he's got some beautiful
brugmancias angels. Trumpets oh my, gosh if you've never seen.
Those they have pendent, flowers which is where they get their,

(01:29:58):
name like an angel trumpet hanging down from. Heaven. Uh
and they're fragrant late day in the. EVENINGS i love fragrant.
PLANTS i put an angel's trumpet Or brugmancia in on
the southwest side of my outdoor sitting area That i've
been talking, about because in the evenings you get this
nice little fragrance wafting in from. Them they're pretty. Cool
cours or he's got everything, else got avocados still have

(01:30:19):
fruit on or already have fruit on the, trees, avocados
beautiful hibiscus, collections lots of different kinds of, fruit pears
and peaches where he's got a great, selection all kinds of.
Flowers there's lots of nice tropical. Things and then of
course shrubs like, crape murles and trees and, sunshine lagostrum
and you name. It he can do it. All he
can come out and plant them for you if you'd

(01:30:41):
like him to do. That that's horeh sid And. Guards
it's On Elizabeth. Road Elizabeth road In, Alvin. Texas here's
a number seven to one three six three two fifty
two ninety seven one three six three two five excuse,
me seven one three six three two five two nine

(01:31:01):
Zero Jorg Hiding gardens done In. Alvin let's take a
little quick. Break we'll be right back And rufus And.
Cove you'll be our very first stop when we come,
back and welcome back to the garden.

Speaker 14 (01:31:11):
Line.

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
Folks good day have you with us this. MORNING i
hope you're enjoying this. Day it is a great day
to be. Gardening i'll tell you that that is for.
Sure League city feed is down in guess Where League.
City that's right south and east Of houston a little
Bit League city Feed if you're looking for the exact,
location it's On highway, three just a few blocks south

(01:31:34):
Of highway ninety six In League. City so all of
you down in that, region this is your this is
your hometown feed. Store And i'm talking about places Like
dickinson And lamark And baycliff And Webster, Clare Lake, city Elkam, Into,
Real Santa, Fe San, leone all those. Places you just
head over. There the place has been around for forty.
Years our grandpa built it forty years ago in An

(01:31:55):
ochre patch and The thunderberg, family third generation now still
run in that. Store old fashioned service carry the bags
out for. You and you know when you go, in
you're gonna find what you're looking. For you, know, Well
skip talked about nitroposs or asumide or microlife or heirloom
soils or you, Know nelson plant. Foods they're all. There
products to control pests and weeds and diseases that you

(01:32:18):
might find on my lawn care schedule or just in
general maybe for your roses or other. Things they're gonna
have all those products for your premium pet foods always.
Available if you got backyard. Chickens they got the, feed
they got the, feeders the, waters the, bedding, everything but the.
Chickens local honey, too they have they do sell local
honey down. There League City feed and again they are

(01:32:38):
On highway, three a few blocks south the ninety six
In League. City Open monday Through saturday nine to, six
so you can swing by right after. Work closed On
sundays two, eight one, three three two sixteen twelve two
eight one three three two one six one. Two let's
go out to cove now and talk with Rufous, Hey,
Rufus welcome to Garden.

Speaker 10 (01:32:58):
Line Martin.

Speaker 13 (01:33:00):
Skift can you hear?

Speaker 15 (01:33:01):
Me?

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
Yes all, right YES i. CAN i.

Speaker 13 (01:33:07):
Good i've got these thornless BLACKBERRIES i. Planted some's been
in ground two three. Years those have been around six seven.
Years And i've noticed something THAT i THINK i should
have cut off about months. Ago these things started putting
on a shooter coming out of the main portion of
the root, system and at FIRST i thought it was

(01:33:29):
just putting on more. Vines but this thing is, massive
kind of reminds me of the shooter that comes out
of a century. Plant AND i was, wondering is this
the end of the life of this BlackBerry or SHOULD
i now at?

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
All that's just, now that's just a, big, strong upright growing. Cane,
okay it's got leaves on, it.

Speaker 13 (01:33:49):
Right that's it just.

Speaker 8 (01:33:52):
Leaves.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
Yeah so so here's here's how all blackberries. Grow that
they send up a shoot out of the base out
of the soil, typically and it grows the first, year
and it may branch the first year. Too the second
year it produces berries and then it slowly. Dies so

(01:34:14):
once you've harvested a shoot coming up out of the,
ground go ahead and cut it off because it will
not bear again after that winter time that it went. Through,
yes so the first year we call them a primocine
prime is in one year number. One then they go
through winter and they become a. Floricane, now some of

(01:34:36):
the thornlets like what you're talking, about they will produce
in the primacine year the first, year but after the
second year they need to be. Removed and so those
shoots are. Fine WHAT i would do rufus is once
it gets up to about chest, HIGH i would pinch
the top out or snip the top out of, it
and it'll force more side. Shoots and those side shoots

(01:34:58):
will be where you get all your your, fruit the
primary fruit from. Those so time to some people put
a wire across. There, pardon.

Speaker 14 (01:35:10):
You're right, AGAIN i, have.

Speaker 13 (01:35:14):
BUT i haven't caught them.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
Yet.

Speaker 13 (01:35:15):
YEAH i left them long BECAUSE i didn't want to
damage because the fruit came on so. Prolifically it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
Massive that's, Fine but that's. Fine get the ones that are.
Fruit tell me the tell me the. Name tell me
again the name of the.

Speaker 13 (01:35:32):
VARIETY i Have, apache and Some navajo and.

Speaker 8 (01:35:38):
Some uh what's the other? One god there they're Native indian.
Names but but, yes.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
Those are all. Bread.

Speaker 13 (01:35:48):
YEAH i have a patch off that have fruit on.
It now when the summer's.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Over, With if on The apache and on The, navajo
they're not going to bear. Again so once they, fruited
you cut them. Off then you take those vigorous shoots
that you've been talking about and you lift them up
and tie them to the. Wire it's good to have
a vertical, WIRE i mean a horizontal wire going, about you,
know about chest high or, something and you can tie

(01:36:13):
them to, that tip them and then they'll they'll produce
their side, shoots which will produce next year's crop for.
You if it's some if it's one of the the
everbearing and not ever. Bearing if it's one of the
primate cane, bearers then you get a little bit the
first year, too and then you can also have some
the second. Year but generally blackberries producing the second year

(01:36:35):
that a shoot has, grown and then it will not
refruit after. That, okay good luck with, those have. FUN
i remember you just on guarden. LINE i don't charge for,
advice BUT i do ask for half the produce you.
Get so just bring me half your. Blackberries we're gonna
call it. Even. Thanks that's what you. Do you take,

(01:36:57):
care you, Bed you take. Care nurseries has got a
deal going on right. NOW i was telling you about it.
Earlier but the crape. Myrtles they have a great deal
going on with crape. Myrtles have you did you hear me?
Earlier ten percent off all the crape myrtle trees and the.
Roses ten percent off the. Roses and if you're looking

(01:37:19):
for some cool yard, art they've got in by yard,
ART i even mean the little arches and panels you
know that trellises that you would grow things on all
those metal, ones as well as some cute metal. Decorations
they've got that for twenty percent off right now this
weekend only For Memorial day savings at r C W. Nurseries,

(01:37:41):
now while you're, there you're going to find lots of other.
Things you. KNOW i always brag about Their cajun, hibiscus
WHICH i just think is the, gaudiest prettiest Hibiscus i've,
seen really cool tropical. Hibiscus they've got all kinds of
plants for, heat and then when it comes to shrubs
in general and, trees super top quality FROM marcw Nurses
they're located corner Of Tombo parkway and, beltwaita let's go

(01:38:04):
to fulsher now and we're going to talk To. Scott, Hello,
scott welcome to Garden. Line Good, lawren thanks for having.

Speaker 13 (01:38:11):
Me, HEY i got a question regarding. FURTIGATION i was
driving home AND i THOUGHT i had.

Speaker 21 (01:38:17):
This great idea to purtilize through my sprinkler. System AND
i started doing research on, it and it looked like
they were doing it in the eighties for quite a,
while and it really fell off the. Map and SO
i was, wondering after doing some research and, forums why
we don't use it in The houston. Area are if
the benefits and it did benefits of using.

Speaker 8 (01:38:38):
It down, here.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
You're referring to the furtigation. Specifically, yes, yeah furtigation is
a process that is best used for fine tuning the
timing of nutrient. Applications so if you needed to get
plants real quick nitrogen, boost you could do it through
a dissolved nitrogen source in your irrigation. Water that's for those,

(01:39:07):
listening that's what furtigation. Is it's fertilizing in the. Irrigation
that's where the word furtigation comes. From if you had
like an iron, deficiency you, know maybe you would put
something in for. That as far as what do you
pay per pound of, nutrient it's a much more expensive
way to. Fertilize you, know it's less expensive to put

(01:39:28):
a dry granule on the, surface work it, in and you,
know fertilize that, way the traditional. Way there's nothing wrong
with the. Furtigation you just need to have an injector
that puts it out at the right, rate not too,
strong and you need to have a backflow preventter so
that when it goes, off sometimes there can be a

(01:39:49):
backflow into your your water system and then you would
have contaminated your water with that fertilizer. Water so there's
a breaker valve that prevents the back. Flow you need
to have that for. Sure but the some injectors force
the fertilizer into the irrigation system like with a, pump

(01:40:10):
and some of them use something called a venture system
whereas the water flows, by it just naturally pulls a
little bit of the fertilizer water into. It those are less,
expensive much less technical to deal, with but not as
controllable and accurate as a pump system would.

Speaker 21 (01:40:30):
Be, okay, thanks Kip.

Speaker 13 (01:40:34):
YE i WAS i was wondering if you know they
if they need The venturi.

Speaker 21 (01:40:38):
System they do it drip almost and it's like a
microdosing of fertilizer.

Speaker 8 (01:40:42):
Constantly but, yes you know when we.

Speaker 21 (01:40:47):
Do, It, yeah we'll do it once or twice the
summer and then the.

Speaker 13 (01:40:50):
Wintertime and you, know is it is it possiful.

Speaker 15 (01:40:53):
To do something like?

Speaker 13 (01:40:54):
That and will it hurt your flower?

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
Beds, no it won't. Hurt IF i were spraying it
onto the foliage of, THINGS i wouldn't be real crazy
about spraying a fertilizer onto the foliage if it got too.
Strong but if it's in a proper. Rate that would
be just. Fine you can certainly do. That the other
thing to keep in, mind you, know when you're doing
the furtigating is just make sure it's small doses over.

(01:41:19):
Time and, yeah the venturi is it's a little typically
it looks like just a little section of plastic that
has a hose that comes out of, it and you
have a five gallon bucket with your fertilizer in. It
you drop that hose into the five gallon bucket and
as the water flows by in your, irrigation it just
pulls it out of the. Bucket that's the simplest.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
System, okay thank you very.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
Much, yeah just make sure and get fertilizer that's made for,
that because a lot of fertilizer comes in a clay
based particle and other, things and you don't want stuff
like that clog in your. System, okay that'll do, it, Alrighty,
YEAH i haven't had a fertile furtigation question in a long.
Time it was. Good good to get one of those.

(01:42:06):
Nitropas superturf is the silver bag that you see in feed.
Stores you see it in ase hardware, stores you see
it In southwest. Fertilizer you see it in garden, centers
our independent garden centers around. Town Nitroposs superturf nineteen four,
ten silver bag feeds for sixteen. WEEKS i don't know

(01:42:26):
what else to say about. It it's the way to
fertilize your lawn in the summer is slow. Release that's the.
Way and superturf is exactly.

Speaker 9 (01:42:35):
That.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
Superturf you put it down and if you do it
now and return your, clippings your next fertilization will be this.
Fall we're to point now where super turf will carry
in with the return clippings and you'll be just fine
all the way going into. Fall you're going to find
it at a number of places LIKE Rcw nursery Carries
Nito fass products the plants for all. Seasons On Tomball

(01:42:57):
parkway right there just north Of lueta carries Night fosh,
products d and de, feed And tomball carries night To fresh,
products as does The Intended forest down in The Richmond
rosenberg area works super super. Well by the, way if
you need compost top dressing, Done Green pro are the
folks that can do. It they serve the northwest quadrant Of,

(01:43:20):
houston That's interstate forty five TO i ten the northwest.
Quadrant they can do core aeration and they can do
compost top, dressing and those two together will do more
for your lawn than just about ANYTHING i can think.
Of greenprotexas Dot com eight three two three five one
zero zero three. Two, hey welcome back to The. Guardenline

(01:43:43):
i'm your, host Skip rick for good to have you
back with. Us glad to give me a. Call here's
what you's got to. Do reach me seven to one
three two one two ktr h seven one three two
one two ktr. H going just for a. BREAKDOUGH i
was talking about Green pro and the services they, offer
the compost top, dressing the core, aeration that combo it

(01:44:04):
feeds the soil biology by and it aerates the sort
it breathes life into the, soil if you, will because
it pops the plugs out of the, ground and then
the compost stop dressing some of that falls into those holes,
too and it just it's what makes golf courses do
aerration all the. Time if you've got an area that's
got a lot of foot, traffic especially that soil, compaction

(01:44:26):
the roots can't get oxygen and then they can't take
up nutrients and they can't develop a good deep root,
system and it just fixes. That that's why it's so
cool to do the. Correration in graenpro green, protexts they do.
It they do it in the northwest quadrant Of houston.
Area that Means interstate forty five around To interstate iten
think of it from nine o'clock to twelve. O'CLOCK i

(01:44:46):
guess if you're looking at a looking down at a,
clock that is The houston. Map Intended forest down In
Richmond rosenberg is one of the places that if you've
not been there, before you've got a. VISIT i know
most of you probably have gone now standing, there she
everybody knows about it and they love. It Intended forest
has a selection of plants that are just like none.

(01:45:08):
Other they specialize in, pollinators nectar rich plants to support
bees and butterflies and. Hummingbirds they still have different kinds
of milkweed. Around you, know the plants that attract the adult,
butterflies but also the plants that feed their. Larvae so
important if you want to have a butterfly. Garden YESTERDAY
i was at my daughter's house and she has a

(01:45:32):
citrus TREE i believe it was a lime and there
was a swallowtail butterfly flapping around the, tree AND i
just pointed, OUT i go that one is going to
lay an egg and the caterpillar is going to look
like bird poop when you go out to look at
it's it's gonna look like bird poop on the. Branch
but it's a swallowtail. Caterpillar so that lime tree is
actually producing butterflies for her. Yard isn't that? Cool And

(01:45:55):
Chendi forest knows all about. That they got lots and
lots of great, options big, giant beautiful shade. Trees it
doesn't matter how hot it gets, outside it's a good
day to go out and wander through the shade Added
Enchanted forest to see the wonderful things they have to.
Offer Enchanted, Forest, RICHMOND tx dot com say that. Again Enchanted, Forest,

(01:46:19):
RICHMOND tx dot. Com, oba The Organic Horticulture Benefits alliance
is having an. Event it's a fourth annual one Called Oba.
Palooza Oba palooza is the kind of celebration you would
expect with a name like. That it's a fourth Annual
Oba Palooza Organic fair And. Workshop be a full day

(01:46:42):
full of Organic, Gardening Sustainable living and ecological inspiration, Lectures Joe,
Lample Joe. Gardner if you don't Know Joe, gardner he's a,
great great, guy great great. Programs, excellent, excellent. Excellent he'll
be there speaking eight other organic expert lead breakout sessions
will also be going. On jo'll be doing a keynote

(01:47:02):
and doing another talk as, WELL i, believe and there
will be lots of engaging. Talks, really it's hands on,
insight by the, Way i'll be speaking. There i'm going
to be one of the speakers AT Oba palooza this.
Year so the question is when is? It, Well august,
second from eight am to four. Pm where is? It
United way Of Greater houston at fifty waw waug H,

(01:47:24):
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Pm if you're interested in, registering you do need to register.
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and come out and see. Me say hi to. Me
if you, Come i'll be there speaking as. Well At
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(01:49:33):
is a kind of quiet time right, Now so maybe
get in a caller to you here before the end
of this little. Segment. Uh three Sixty tree stabilizers are
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That it's an adjustable arm goes to different. Lengths you
can use two of. Them if you've got a lot
of wind and you need to control north, south east
west and just give a little extra, stability you can
put two on on. There if you have a multi
trunk crape, morale you've, planted put one on one trunk

(01:50:39):
going north, south one on another trunk going east. West you're.
Covered you're gonna find them At plants For All seasons
on two forty. Nine you're going to find them At
Buchanan's Navy plants in The. Heights you'll find them AT
R C w where two forty nine comes into Belt,
way eight at jorgeesid And gardens down In, alvin At
Siena maltz down In, sienna south Of houston south and
little to the. West and you're gonna find them At

(01:51:01):
arbigate up In tomball just west Of tombul on twenty
nine to twenty three Sixty tree. Stabilizers i've got two
of them right now on trees in my yard and
they just set it and you're you're good to. Go
they will take care of the. Job even when we
have storms come. Through those little trees are doing just
great because of the three sixty tree stabilizer that is on.

(01:51:25):
Them Ace Hardware. Stores you hear me talk ABOUT ace
all the. TIME ace is the, place you. Know it's
a hardware. Store it's got everything you. Need everything your
dad's or grandpa's hardware store, had But aces have so much.
More they've got some really good deals going on with
barbecue pets right. Now it's a great team to. BUY
i bought my own just during this great sale that

(01:51:47):
they had going. On they also are going to have
every kind of fertilizer you're going to need for your
lawn and pest control products and we control, products and
tools and sprinklers and hoses and things to prune and
whatever you need to make a more, bountiful beautiful garden and,
landscape you're going to find. It Ace Hardware. Now you

(01:52:07):
can go to the WEBSITE Ace Hardware texas dot. Com
there you'll FIND Ace hardware stores LIKE k and M
ace In, umble k and M, Atascasita ace In, Umble.
Texas Plantation, hardware which is down On Mason road In, Richmond.
Texas Rockport Ace hardware And, Rockport. Cyprus Ace hardware On Jones,

(01:52:29):
Road Deer park on sixteen Hundred Center street In Deer,
Park League, City Ace hardware On West League City parkway
In League. City and how about this. ONE k AND.
M kingwood up there In, Kingwood texas On Kingwood. Drive
those are just a few of the Many Ace hardware
stores part of my garden Line Houston Ace Hardware. Team

(01:52:52):
you can go To Ace Hardware texas dot com and
find out. More find the store near. You let's take
a little. Break we'll be right back with your. CALLS
o car, Right we're, back. Folks good to have you with.
Us he lost nursery down In. Seabrook you need to
go check them. Out gem's always got truckloads of things

(01:53:13):
coming out done At Moss. Nursery, beautiful, beautiful. Beautiful he
has some altheas that are just gorgeous colors of pink
and white hot, pink almost a kind of a lavendery
colored one as. Well single, flower double, flowers most. Updouble they're.
Beautiful it's a great Old southern, shrub been around for

(01:53:34):
a long. Time it looks. Good he also has EXTRA
i don't talk About xora very much. Here but he's
got some types that go four to five feet, high
like the Yellow exorra. Sunset specifically that variety The Maui
red is kind of a. Dwarf it gets about two
to three feet tall and wide along the, coast along
the bay and all that area really down. There extra

(01:53:58):
is an outstanding. Plan people playing it all the way
well up Into houston as well and. Beyond just. Gorgeous
it never gets too, hot it never gets too. Humid
you can dead head them so that they do bloom
a little bit, more but it's not. Necessary but when
you go To Moss, nursery you're going to find all
kinds of unusual and really really cool. Things and don't
forget it is tax free, Weekend Wellmorial day weekend that

(01:54:21):
is today Through. Monday multious, soils water, fishing, plants rain,
barrels all kinds of things are listed as tax. Free
if it saves. Water it's going to be a tax
free weekend at all our garden, centers including A Moss
nursery and Garden. Center we're going to head now out
to The woodlands and talk To. Jeanette, Hello, Jeannette welcome

(01:54:43):
to Garden. Line, hi good.

Speaker 22 (01:54:46):
Morning my question IS i have a willow oak tree
that is approximately one hundred feet.

Speaker 15 (01:54:54):
Tall and when it gets, dry it limbs break off and.

Speaker 23 (01:54:58):
Drop and this is a really big tree and really large,
limbs AND i just want to know WHAT i can
do to help with.

Speaker 10 (01:55:06):
That not.

Speaker 3 (01:55:08):
Much maintaining adequate soil moisture helps a little, bit But
southern limb drop in the summer is a very peculiar.
Phenomenon there's different speculations as to why it. Happens but
you can have a perfectly still day in the middle
of summer and a limb just snaps out of a
tree and. Falls it's a weird, deal but it you,

(01:55:31):
know what is in your power is to make sure
the tree doesn't get drought. Stressed sometimes it's associated with
maybe an injury to the trunk or a bore inside
or something that's weakening the, limb but not. Necessarily sometimes
you look at the fallen limb and you can't figure
out what. Happened it's not rotten, inside it just it
just does. It, unfortunately we don't have a spray or

(01:55:51):
a magical cure to make it go.

Speaker 24 (01:55:53):
Away that's exactly What i've been experiencing FOR i don't
know ten or more.

Speaker 23 (01:55:59):
YEARS i have been watering it around the trunk to help.

Speaker 3 (01:56:03):
It then that seems to be uh huh. Successful, yeah all, Right,
well you, know don't just water at the trunk, though
water out as far as the branch. Spread and when you,
water do a good. Skin you don't have the water every.
Day you don't have to water every week even but
if ever weeks during hot summer, drought you could give

(01:56:24):
a soaking of about an inch or more of water
all through that area beneath the branch, spread a good deep,
soaking then that will. Help all, Right, yeah all, right
thanks so. Much all, right you, bet you. Bet you take.
Care we're gonna go To andy now In college. Station, Hey,
andy welcome to garden. Line, hey thanks so.

Speaker 11 (01:56:46):
Much you long story, short top seeded top, tops put
sand dirt saying top soil all over the. Yard and
then about two weeks AGO i seated from you to
grass all over and we went to the producers co
opt to do.

Speaker 15 (01:57:05):
That it's been two.

Speaker 11 (01:57:06):
Weeks no grass does it sometime it takes longer than?

Speaker 12 (01:57:08):
That or is it all or?

Speaker 18 (01:57:09):
Not or?

Speaker 3 (01:57:10):
What, well like any, seed whether it's a vegetable or
a weed or a desirable plant like your bermuda. Grass your,
plant it it just has to stay moist consistently in
order for it to. Germinate so you don't want to
mix the seed in too. Deep just scratch them barely
into the, surface water them in real, well and keep

(01:57:30):
it moist as best you. Can so you don't want
to put on an inch of, water but you want
to put on small amounts frequently to maintain. Moisture once
the seed starts to, germinate if it dries, out it.
Dies so that's the key early on with a little
tiny seed like your bermuda, grass is to keep it
consistently moist equi. Moist and then once it gets, established

(01:57:54):
then we begin to wean back to watering very. Infrequently
those first weeks you just need to, yeah several. Weeks,
yeah once it, germinates it's gonna need at least another
couple of. Weeks a pretty GOOD tlc there to keep it.
Going and hope we don't get a gully. Washer what

(01:58:16):
usually happens when you seed out bermuda as you get
a gully washer and then it washes all the seed
off into one spot and so you got a real
furry spot on the ground and then a spout. Nothing
Uh so that's what we like to try to avoid
if we.

Speaker 11 (01:58:28):
Can that's WHY i waited till after we got that
five minutes rang about a month.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
Ago, yeah, yeah well thank, you that's right tomorrow. Weekend
yeah you as. Well thanks a. Lot appreciate the. Call,
Andy you take care up. There say hi to them
at producers for. Me all, righty, well there you, go. Folks,
uh that is the thing On it's one REASON i
don't recommend seating for turf lawns most more number, one

(01:58:55):
most of our, goods most of our good southern. Species
there's not a good seed option. Permuta there. Is that's
an exception terms of seed, options but it's a little
hard to get it going and get. Success a lot
cheaper than. Sodding but uh yeah to more of, it
more of a. Challenge, hey the folks At arburgate are
loaded for bear when it comes to all kinds of

(01:59:16):
things that you're going to want a. Plant remember this
is tax free, Weekend so things that help save, water, plants, trees, grasses,
soil compost and Mult remember when you go To. Arbrogate
you've got their one two three System organic Food, complete
that's a fertilizer for anything with. Roots organic soil, complete
which is the soil that contains expanded shale which helps

(01:59:39):
keep the clay open very very. Well and Then organic
compost complete also contains expanded. Shale those last two organic
soil and organic compost, complete both of them are available by.
Bulk all the folks At arburgate let them tell you
about how to get a bulk order in place for.
You arbrogate is a wonderful place to. Visit in, fact

(01:59:59):
today would be a good time to go out. There
they have got some gorgeous, TROPICALS i mean, beautiful beautiful tropical.
Plants you know the elephant. Ears both the allocations where
the leaf points kind of up or a little bit,
horizontal and then the collocations where the leaf hangs. Downward

(02:00:19):
the point of the leaf is kind of pointing more.
Downward beautiful, colors of course, green but ones with colorful
petioles of the leaf like a purple, petiole or with
markings in the, leaf or with beautiful colored. Leaves you
want a tropical, paradise you've got to have some collocations
and allocations And arburgate has got you covered with that

(02:00:40):
and done. Some today at ten, am the men AND
i quit talking on Garden. Line Henry flowers is going
to be talking At arborgate with an introduction to culinary.
Herbs ten am Today arburgate introduction to culinary. Herbs you
don't want to miss. That when they're located on twenty
nine to just a mile and a half west of

(02:01:02):
two forty, nine just west Of tomball on twenty nine
twenty remember to go around the back On Triisher road
where you can get, good, easy safe access to that
back parking. Lot it's the only ONE i used now
love that parking. Lot great new addition there For. Ourburgate,
well you're listening To. Guardenline i'm your, Host Skip, richtor

(02:01:22):
and we're going to take a top of the hour.
Break if you would like to be on when we come,
back be one of the first ones. Up now it
would be a good time to Call alejandro and have
him get you on on the air with. Me get
you on the board so we're ready to. Go all
you gotta do is called seven one, three two one

(02:01:44):
two fifty eight seventy. Four if you like letters seven
to one three two one two k t R h
and we'll get you off to a really good. START
i was talking earlier about putting in a new lawn
and the importance of getting red of perennial weeds. FIRST
i don't care if it takes three or four weeks
to get it. Done whatever it, takes get it. Done

(02:02:05):
no nut's, edge no bermuda, grass no perennial weeds, underneath
because they're going to pop right through and then it's
harder to deal with them in the. Lawn the other
thing to, remember get your lawn area leveled, out bring
in some, soil smooth it out a little, bit get
it leveled out really. Nice and before you put on the.
SOD i usually about a day BEFORE i put on,

(02:02:25):
side will water it pretty, good not to turn it
into a mud, swamp but just to moisten. It allow
it a day or two to kind of soak, in
and then lay your sod and begin watering. Immediately immediately means.
Immediately last TIME i put in, SID i hadn't put
in probably twenty feet of, it AND i already have
somebody squirting it with water to just to hold on

(02:02:48):
because that sod doesn't have hardly any root, system and
that little narrow strip of black, clay soil or, sand
depending on where you buy, it that it came in.
On you got to keep that plant alive til it
gets roots in the. Ground so to make it over
simple in the heat of summer in the, sun twice
a day the first, week once a day the second.

(02:03:09):
Week i'm not talking about putting an inch of water
on twice a. Day that'd be what fourteen inches a. Week,
no you don't have to do. That you just wet
it a little bit and then wet it again later
in the. Day the next, day wed it a little,
bit good, morning early, morning mid, afternoon do it, again
and then back off to once a. Week now in
shade or when temperatures are, cooler not as, critical but

(02:03:32):
it's still as very important if you want. Success all, right,
folks we got an hour left in us. Today let's do.
This welcome back To. Guardenline i'm your, Host Skip. Richter
it is good to have you with. Us glad you're
with us. Today, HEY i want to remind. You i'll

(02:03:52):
start telling you about this, earlier but there will be
a patriotic concert In sugarland honoring our fallen heros This
Memorial day. Weekend here's the. Facts write this Down, Sunday
may twenty, Fifth that is tomorrow seven o five pm
at The Sugarland Town, Square Sugarland Town. Square if you

(02:04:14):
want more, information Contact Scott. Author he is available at
seven to one three eight two four sixty one twenty.
Six Scott author seven one three eight two four sixty
one twenty. Six it is going to be a really special.
Amount there's gonna be a lot of local talent, there
a number of different, singers ballet, dancers good. Night it's

(02:04:37):
quite a tribute to those who gave their life for the.
Country singer Songwriters bill And Kim nash are going to
be part of this as. Well they've grabbed me award
winning folks. There. Uh sugarland resident And Texas Radio hall
Of fame Member Scott author will m see the event
that that is going to be. Cool you know they do.

(02:04:57):
This this is in the first time they've done. It
they've done this. Before i've talked about it more than
once here on Guard. Line. Uh they suggest you bring
some can food donations with you when you come because
it's a free. Event by the, Way East Fort Bend
Human Needs ministry will be served with those can food
donations that you. Bring, oh and bring a lawn chair
so you have a good place to sit. Again Sugar,

(02:05:18):
Land Sunday, tomorrow seven five. Pm patriotic concert in Sugar
land for honoring the fallen heroes on This Memorial day.
Weekend there'll be a brass. Band oh my, gosh it's
gonna be. Good it's gonna be good for mor. Info
it's got author seven to, one three eight, two four
sixty one twenty. Six all, right hope you got. That

(02:05:38):
let's now head. Out we're gonna we're gonna go, east,
Right we're gonna go east all the way To New, Orleans,
louisiana and talk To. Susan, Hey, susan welcome to.

Speaker 22 (02:05:48):
Garden, hey good, morning thank. YOU i have a high
biscus that dies back every. Year it's the very showy
bloomy large blooms And i'm. Curious it's about. Good what's
the best way to treat that to to print it
so THAT i can.

Speaker 3 (02:06:06):
Get the most budge and flowers this. Summer, yeah in the,
area probably, dies it dies to the, ground, Right, yes
just cut it off a few inches above the, ground
just just a couple of inches above the, ground and
it'll come back out from the base and a whole

(02:06:27):
bunch of isshoots out as it has for you each,
year you know, that. Right that's. It then then once it's,
growing you don't need to do additional. Pruning you can
cut back on them some but most people just let them.
Grow and the hibiscus as long as it's, growing it's
producing clusters of buds as you've seen each, summer and
it just each bud is open for a, day, right so.

Speaker 22 (02:06:52):
After they, BLOOM i don't dead ahead it or. Anything
it will it produce more flowers after. That so once
it goes, through its, cool it's finished.

Speaker 3 (02:07:01):
Blooming yeah, Nothing, yeah that's. Correct that, okay, yeah, no
nothing to do that cluster just they all take their
turns and. Uh but you know what a cool thing
you can do with, it, though is if you will
pick them when they're almost fully opened in the morning
and put them in the. Refrigerator they will sit there
until the evening and not with her. Up you can

(02:07:22):
put them in you can put a little shallow bowl
of water in, there but you don't need, to and
you bring them out and if you have an evening,
gathering you can set them around on tables without water
and they just look beautiful for a good while in the. Evenings,
otherwise by evening the bloom would have already been curling
up and not looking so. Good so that's just a
little tip.

Speaker 22 (02:07:40):
THERE i have a great.

Speaker 3 (02:07:42):
Idea thank you all, right all, right you, bet thanks
for the. Call Tak care bye. Bye if you're trying
to give your lawn a, good nice quick, boost Sweet
green from the folks At, nitrofoss we'll do. It sweet
greens and organic type fertilizer in that it's a natural,

(02:08:05):
Base it smells, wonderful and it fitted out it dissolves.
Away being high carbon, material it is just like rocket
fuel for beneficial microbes in the. Soil they love carbon based.
Sources you. Know organic gardeners have known you put like molasses,
out which is a sugar, carbon and it just makes

(02:08:25):
microbes go. Nuts it's a really good environment for optimum
health and performance of your. Lawn Sweet green eleven percent,
nitrogen which is high for an organic type. Product you're
going to find it at dozens of retailers all around.
Town you can go To Stafford Court hardware On South.
Maine you can go to THE m AND d And
cyprus up on The, weta or just down south of

(02:08:45):
there The Langham Creek Ace hardware on five twenty, nine
go up To Ospas ace in The, woodlands or go
To Ace Hardware city On Memorial. Drive all places that
carry Night fosh. Products we're going to add now Two
richmond And type Two. Frauda hello For hannah Regard.

Speaker 25 (02:09:01):
Line thank you, sir good money. LEARNING i have a,
question and thank you for taking my phone. CALL i
appreciate THAT.

Speaker 7 (02:09:15):
I purchase a house back in twenty twenty.

Speaker 26 (02:09:19):
Three it's a brand new. HOUSE i have a. Tree
it's a small tree in my front. Chart but since
twenty twenty, THREE i do not see that tree is.
Growing it's still, green but it's not it's not REALLY

(02:09:39):
i think it's it's.

Speaker 7 (02:09:41):
Not going or say something.

Speaker 18 (02:09:43):
WRONG i asked my gardener.

Speaker 26 (02:09:44):
And he put some fertilizer in.

Speaker 9 (02:09:46):
It so that's help.

Speaker 26 (02:09:49):
It and it's becoming more blooming and more green and.
Green but it's still love without is? It is it?

Speaker 9 (02:09:57):
Really you?

Speaker 1 (02:09:57):
Know is it?

Speaker 6 (02:09:58):
Growing so can you advise?

Speaker 15 (02:10:01):
Me so.

Speaker 3 (02:10:04):
For, hanah tell me what kind of tree it is
do you happen to.

Speaker 26 (02:10:07):
Know i'm so.

Speaker 3 (02:10:11):
Sorry, now that's, okay that's. Okay here's the. Thing it
could be a lack of, moisture and it could be
a lack of. Nutrients fertilizing is always a good, idea
but watering during, hot dry weather is even more important
to get a tree to grow. Fast another thing that

(02:10:31):
speeds up growth is to get the grass and weeds.
Away if you can create a mulched bed around. It you,
know if you can only make it two feet out
from the, trunk that's. Fine if you can make it,
wider that's even. Better but that helps speed. Growth sometimes For,
hana trees sit in the pot too long and the
roots go around and around in, there and then when
you put them in the, ground if you don't cut those,

(02:10:52):
roots they they don't unwind underground and they don't venture
out into the soil as well as they would had
they been cut or not left in the pot so.
Long at the garden centers and, growers but that could
be the case with, IT i, would you, know it's
kind of hard to say without me digging it up

(02:11:13):
and looking at, it BUT i would try the. MULCHING
i would try making sure it's getting out of quate.
Water and if you wanted to take a hand, trowel
let me ask you. This do you remember when it
went in the ground in twenty twenty? Three do you
remember about how big that pot?

Speaker 20 (02:11:28):
Was?

Speaker 3 (02:11:29):
Is are we looking at like a five gallon bucket
or we looking at a one gallon? Tree or were
looking at something much? Bigger i'm not.

Speaker 26 (02:11:40):
Sure if you, LIKE i can take some pictures to.

Speaker 3 (02:11:44):
You, yeah you can do. THAT i, would you, KNOW
i would take a hand, trowel dig around the, tree
look for roots going in a, circle and if you see,
them cut, them cut a few of. Them but right,
NOW i think the most important thing is going to
be multing it to keep the weeds away the competition
down watering it second most important, thing, watering, watering watering

(02:12:06):
during dry hot, weather and then finally continuing to. Fertilize
if you have lawn, fertilizer and you put about two
cups for every inch of trunk, Diameter so if that
tree was the size of a, broomstick you, know then
maybe an inch, wide then it would get two cups of.

(02:12:26):
Fertilizer if it's the size of a soft drink, can
A Coca cola can that's about three inches, across so
that would be six cups of, fertilizer but not dumped
at the, bottom but spread in a big circle around.

Speaker 7 (02:12:39):
It, okay, Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:12:42):
I'm gonna have to have to, run BUT i do
wish you. WELL i need. TO i need to run
to a. Break but thank you very much for your.
Call we'll be right. Back. Folks with the calls From
lisa And, SEABROOK i See carl and Clear lake And
nick And. Cypers, hey welcome back To. Guardline good davey
with us. Today thanks for joining. Us i'm your, Host Skip,

(02:13:05):
richter and we're here to help you have, bounty beauty and.
Fun that's the. Goal that's what gardens and landscapes and
lawns and whatnot should. Be let's do. That we can do.
It give me a, call let's figure out what's going,
wrong if something's going, wrong or how to plan and
prepare so that things just hit the ground. Running cinamulch
down south Of houston is your one stop shop for

(02:13:27):
all things foundational to. Success brown stuff before green stuff
means fix the soil, first then put in the good quality.
Plants that want to grow, here and that's the recipe for.
Success cienamulch is Near highway six and two eighty eight
ON fm five point twenty seven south Of. Houston the

(02:13:49):
website mark this Down cienamulch dot, com cnmulch dot. Com
it is a one stop. Shop mulches composts various kinds
of soil blend products Like Landscaper's Pride Veggie, urbics just
being one example of the many things they carry. There
they carry roast soil as, well by the, way fertilizers

(02:14:11):
for microlife And nelson's and medina and nitrofoss and Azamite
Sienna mulch when you if you're within twenty, miles they'll
deliver for a small. Fee but when you Leave Siena
malch you've got everything you need to get that plant
off to a good. Start AS i like to, say
you want your plans to hit the ground running and

(02:14:32):
not just sit there soil. First Cianna maltch is a
place to get that. Done we're going to go now
out To, Seabrook texas and talk To. Lisa IF i
can find the right button, Here, lisa there we. Go
welcome to Garden. Line, Lisa, Hello, lisa we have you,

(02:14:57):
Alrighty i'm gonna Put lisa back on. Hold we're gonna
go a clear lake and talk To. Carl, Hello, Carl
welcome to Garden.

Speaker 27 (02:15:03):
Line, hey how you doing.

Speaker 3 (02:15:07):
Doing? Good how can we help? Today?

Speaker 27 (02:15:10):
Uh i'm interested in buying a kumquat. Tree at the
POT i was eating kumquats off a wild once And
Hugh development came in and took it. Out, No AND
i don't. KNOW i think the ONE i was eating
was a. Nagami it was a little, tart but it

(02:15:34):
was really. Good BUT i understand the knee walls are.
SWEETER i don't know If i'd like that as much or.
Not i'm probably gonna have to try a couple of to.
Compare but, Anyway i'm going to buy one or the.
OTHER i don't know where to buy. Them what the,
pottom how the pottom or anything?

Speaker 13 (02:15:51):
Else can you give me some?

Speaker 10 (02:15:52):
Information all?

Speaker 3 (02:15:55):
Right? Well to buy? Him just tied right up To Moss.
Nursery head up To Moss nursery And. Seabrook that's where
you find. Them they're going to have them up. There
if you have trouble finding them. There you can go
down To Jorg Hidden gardens down Between alvin And Santa
fe call, first but they're probably are going to have

(02:16:16):
them down there as. Well Both maiwa and nagame are
both good. Varieties one is more, round one is more.
Oval but you, know with, kumquats it's the skin that
is the primary thing we're interested in. Eating it's very,
tasty makes good marmalade and all of. That you want
to put it in soil that has got good organic

(02:16:37):
matter content worked. In if drainage is at all a,
question build a raised mound so it doesn't stay soggy,
wet fertilized, moderately and they're one of the heartiest citrus
you can, grow so you shouldn't have any problem in
your area growing them. Successfully, now How.

Speaker 27 (02:16:59):
I'm going to put it in a pot BECAUSE i fled,
here so that that's not good for. It SO i
want to be able, to, okay you, know put them
on a higher level or bring them. In how how
big do they? Get is there a difference in size
between in the gammi and The.

Speaker 3 (02:17:19):
No not, really not not. Much they do grow in a,
pot but you need as big a pot as you
can get so think in terms of the volume of
a half whiskey. Barrel but don't put them in a wooden.
Pot they'll rot. Out it'll rot. Out but about a
half whiskey barrel in, size you're gonna need to use
a dolly with a little strap around the pot to
move it at that. Size but that way you'll get

(02:17:42):
more of a plant that's less likely to be constantly
drought stressed from being in too small of a. Pot,
okay all, right, Sir i'm Gonna i'm gonna need to
run to some pardon.

Speaker 27 (02:17:59):
Any any other advice on it is type of pinting
soil to.

Speaker 7 (02:18:03):
Put, in.

Speaker 3 (02:18:06):
You, know a good quality in a big pot like.
THAT i would probably use a rose. Soil it would
work real well for, that excuse. Me but any kind
of blend made for a container or a bed that's
not too chunky would be good for. That and then
fertilize them with a good citrus. Food the folks At
Nelson Plant food have the jars of products for citrus and,

(02:18:28):
fruit and that would be a good one to. Use And,
CARL i got to run got some folks in line,
here but good. LUCK i wish you well with. That,
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of wonderful natives At Buchanans Native. Plants let's go back
To seabrook now and talk To. Lisa, Hello, Lisa, HELLO
i have a.

Speaker 7 (02:19:42):
QUESTION i would like to get a small tree that
has white flowers from our front yard for a project we're.
Doing we had looked at the little gym, magnolia but someone, said, well,
no it still gets about thirty five.

Speaker 14 (02:19:56):
Feet it's a big.

Speaker 7 (02:19:56):
Tree so do you know of any small tree and?
Else don't mention The chinese.

Speaker 3 (02:20:01):
Fringe chinese fringe is. Wonderful it gets medium size in,
time but it grows kind of. Slow BUT i like.
It it depends on your soil and the site as
to how big it's going to. GET i typically it
should be about a twenty five foot tree under great
conditions in, time not a lot bigger than that most

(02:20:25):
of the. Time you're going to keep it twenty or
under most of the time on. Them it just depends
on growing. Conditions then there are some dwarf or semi
dwarf types of crape myrtle that don't there's crape myrtles
that don't get twelve fifteen feet. Tall that would be
another tree that you could consider if you want to
go that. Route chinese, fringe, THOUGH i like it a.

(02:20:46):
Lot it's a beautiful spring.

Speaker 7 (02:20:48):
Bloomer do you prefer The american fringe Over chinese frange
or do you see a difference than them growing?

Speaker 3 (02:20:54):
Here, well people that are into native plants go With
american fringe are much. Showier on A chinese, fringe they're much. Showier,
Okay so there's not a right or. Wrong most, people you,
know they want the, flashy pretty and SO i usually
Say chinese. Fringe But american fringe is a good native.
Tree it's just the blooms are not as white and

(02:21:17):
showy as on A chinese.

Speaker 7 (02:21:19):
Fringe and is there a dwarf magnolia that's shorter than
a little?

Speaker 2 (02:21:25):
Gem not?

Speaker 3 (02:21:27):
Really, no not not really that would that would not do.
It were you wanting this tree for? Flowers are you
wanting it just for?

Speaker 13 (02:21:37):
What?

Speaker 3 (02:21:37):
Evergreen or certainly not Show.

Speaker 7 (02:21:40):
At that, side the whole front yard is going to
be just white. Flowers everything is white and. Green and
SO i just, Thought, OKAY i like, MAGNOLIA i like to,
leave BUT i don't want anything that's.

Speaker 28 (02:21:50):
Huge, yeah there are, some there are some other white blooming,
trees BUT i don't think anything's going to stay the
size you want dependently that's truly that.

Speaker 3 (02:22:02):
Showy, okay thank you all, right good luck with, That
thanks for the. Call appreciate. That APPRECIATE u talking to you.
Today let's see WHERE i AM i, Here, oh Jungle.
Land Jungle land is distributed By nitrofoss and it is
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there's an outdoor. Version either way you, go whether it's
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distributed by Night, Frosh you're gonna find it in places
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Places there's a lot of Night fosh products out, there

(02:22:42):
but these are all places that carry Night fresh products in.
General and with the Jungle, land you've got a well
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moisture but still drain away the excess as long as
it's in a good container with good drainage down. Below all, right,
here let's SEE i tell you what we're going to.
Go Uh, Marty, UH i want to have you tell

(02:23:07):
us a little bit about The Lone Star American Hibiscus.
Society you got about thirty seconds to do it before
we have to hit a hard.

Speaker 18 (02:23:14):
Break, okay well, Skip thanks for the. Opportunity we are
Selling Cajun hibiscus at The. St Basil hall at seven
oh Two Bernie road In sugarland today only from eleven
until we're sold.

Speaker 3 (02:23:32):
Out, Okay and that is the hall in Sugar, land.

Speaker 6 (02:23:39):
Right, correct Mich.

Speaker 18 (02:23:43):
Columbus all, right, well thank, you thank.

Speaker 3 (02:23:46):
You that's The Lone Star American Hibiscus. Society all, right thank, You.
MARTY i wanted to try to squeeze in. Here if
we could appreciate that information for, people maybe they'd be
interested in joining The Lone Star Hibiscus society as. Well
we'll be right back, already Little Steve miller to bring
us back in garden. Line last half hour of the

(02:24:06):
day coming up, Here, Hey may Is National Humates? Month
what is? Humate what is? Humus humus is a final
decomposition stage of organic. Matter wonderful soil improver helps our
clays has lots of of, course lots of. Carbon it's
a good it's a good way to sequester carbon in the.
Soil as a matter of, fact lots of different species

(02:24:29):
of beneficial microbes in, it including strains of microhizol fungi.
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(02:24:50):
Out And national Hum Mats month we talk about Hum
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Do humates are designed into nature to make soil, better
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(02:25:13):
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and just one more reminder on this. Today Oba palooza
Is Saturday august. Second this is a big all day
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(02:25:36):
SPEAKERS Oba Palooza, Saturday august, second eight am to four.
Pm if you want more, information go TO HbA online
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Cypress texas and talk To. Nick, Hey, Nick welcome to Garden.

Speaker 23 (02:25:53):
Line good, Morning, skimpyrio.

Speaker 3 (02:25:58):
Doing, well doing? Well understand you sent me an? Email
is that?

Speaker 23 (02:26:02):
Correct, yes, SIR i sent you a picture of a
tree in my.

Speaker 3 (02:26:05):
Backyard when did you send?

Speaker 14 (02:26:10):
Us?

Speaker 3 (02:26:11):
Nick?

Speaker 9 (02:26:12):
Uh not?

Speaker 3 (02:26:13):
Yet?

Speaker 23 (02:26:15):
Okay your your screener said he had, it pulled up
an email FROM i.

Speaker 3 (02:26:23):
Am, Yeah i'm. Looking i'm not seeing. It it's Under.
KIM i. Think, yeah well, Hmmm i'll keep. Looking but
tell me about what tell me about what we're.

Speaker 23 (02:26:37):
Looking when you get the, picture you can just you.
Can the question is the tree is actually a v.
Tree it's like two trees in one And i'm wanting
to get rid of.

Speaker 10 (02:26:51):
One part of.

Speaker 23 (02:26:52):
It and the split is at the very base of,
it not very much as they probably about two feet
up and it, splits and it's two different. Trees do
you understand WHAT i?

Speaker 3 (02:27:04):
Mean? Okay AND i will what? Size the size of
those two trunks bigger than.

Speaker 23 (02:27:16):
They're they're twenty plus years, old so they're pretty. BIG
i would, say maybe it's hard to tell exactly how
big they. ARE i can't wrap my hands around.

Speaker 13 (02:27:33):
Either. Women let's put it that.

Speaker 3 (02:27:34):
Way, Okay so here here's the here's the bottom. Line
anytime you it gets that far along before you make the,
cut there's gonna be a big section of exposed interior
wood way before it can heal and close or close
over that, Wound you're gonna end up with decay going.

(02:27:55):
On so the base of that tree is gonna be
weaker than the rest of the, tree which means during
a decade down the, line during a good, storm it's
more likely to snap. Off. There there's nothing you can
do to fix it or prevent. It there's no sense
in painting the cut that only actually makes it low
worse in terms of not rotting. Inside so you just

(02:28:18):
have to make your best. CHOICE i would go with
the you, know whichever one is a little, bigger maybe
or pointing in the direction you need it to, point
if one leans away from the house versus toward, it for,
example go with the one leaning away just in.

Speaker 23 (02:28:32):
Case, okay so you're, saying go ahead and cut, it
but leave the bigger.

Speaker 10 (02:28:40):
One is that my?

Speaker 3 (02:28:42):
Understanding if. Possible, yeah all things being, equal leave the bigger.
One all things being, equally lead the one leaning away
from the, house those kinds of. Things but that's that's
kind of the situation you're. In there's there's no magic
cure on this. One, okay, okay.

Speaker 23 (02:28:57):
YEAH i figured.

Speaker 16 (02:28:58):
That but the all right one THAT i want to
get rid of is over my.

Speaker 10 (02:29:02):
House so that's What i'm.

Speaker 3 (02:29:03):
Wanting, Okay, well there you. Go all. Right SO i just,
hey thank, you thank, you thank. You, yes, sir that's.
It thanks for the. Call appreciate that very. Much good
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going to go now To beaumont and talk To Mary. King,
Hey Mary, King welcome to.

Speaker 15 (02:29:55):
Gardener, hi thank you for taking my.

Speaker 17 (02:29:58):
CALL i have a biscuits one That i've had for several.
Years in the last several years it has not. Bloomed
this year it's got beautiful green leaves and still no.
Flowers AND i have fertilized it in the ONE i
want last year it's starting to do the same. Thing
pretty green, leaves but no. HOURS i don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:30:18):
What, Okay if the plant looks, good just make sure
you're not overdoing the nitrogen the first number on the fertilizer.
Bag that makes it grow real. Fast and with a
lot of, plants when you overdo the, nitrogen they don't
bloom as. Well you need to turn the radio off
there in the, Background, mary turn the rady the. Other

(02:30:40):
the other thing is make sure it gets really good.
Sunlight the more sunlight you give a, hibiscus the better
it's blooming is going to. Be and to the, right
it's less than six hours of sun you're going to
have less than good bloom. Performance if the either.

Speaker 14 (02:30:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (02:30:58):
I'm, SORRY i have, yes.

Speaker 3 (02:31:07):
Then just watch the extra. Nitrogen give a little bit of. Time,
uh it ought to settle in and start blooming for.
YOU i don't know. What there's nothing else in your
power THAT i can tell you to do right now for.

Speaker 17 (02:31:16):
It get so old that they don't bloom.

Speaker 3 (02:31:19):
Anymore, no, no they keep, Blooming they keep. Bloming this
is a tropical type of, HIBISCUS i, assume.

Speaker 17 (02:31:27):
Yes, Sir, yes, Sir.

Speaker 3 (02:31:29):
Yeah, no it ought to. Be it ought to be
settling down and blooming for. You you may have to
go out and threaten. It you, know they say talk
to your, plants but that includes threatening your.

Speaker 17 (02:31:38):
Plants, okay got, That thank you so.

Speaker 3 (02:31:42):
Much all, right all, Right, mary take. Care, yeah sometimes
we just don't have, great great. Solutions there may be
something going, on but it's kind of hard to tell
on the phone. Call Uhom soils is a purveyor of
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Well Heirloom soils has special blends for veggie and herb
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(02:32:26):
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take a. Break we'll be right, back all, right, folks were.
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Speaker 15 (02:39:13):
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Speaker 3 (02:39:15):
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Speaker 9 (02:39:16):
Amy, yes, sir, okay, YES i just got a quick
question about a. Vtext so right, NOW i have been
in this house for a. WHILE i don't know really
how old the vitext, is but it's about four or
maybe five feet away from the, house and it's big
enough to where the majority of the foliage is above

(02:39:38):
a one story, house right and AND i want it
there BECAUSE i want the shade because it's a really
hot side of the house AND i want some shade
during the hot. Summers And i'm, wondering do you think
there's any problems that could get run into as far
as like the roots damaging the.

Speaker 3 (02:39:57):
Foundation, no here's what. Happens it's not that the roots
are going to lift up and crack your foundation like
roots can do a. Sidewalk what happens is tree. Roots
and it doesn't have to be a tree wrap beside your.
House it could be a tree halfway across the. Yard
the roots find that, nice, moist shady spot and they
proliferate there because the water runs off the, roof there's

(02:40:18):
plenty of, moisture and they pump the soil dry during
hot dry, periods and that wetting and, drying that shrinking
and swelling of the, soil that's what causes foundation. Problems
so your, vitex if it's given you, shade you're. Okay
you just may have to water a little extra in
there just to take care of. It but, YEAH i

(02:40:39):
think in this, case just a little extra water if
you want to have if you want to talk to
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OEAY i got to. Run they've got a bunch of,
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Here we're gonna go To susan and sugar land mark
your Next, Yes, susan how can we? Help Thank.

Speaker 18 (02:41:31):
JIM i just got new sprinklers And i'm getting my
front yard satted with.

Speaker 19 (02:41:35):
Palmetto BUT i want to know what is the best
time to run those.

Speaker 13 (02:41:39):
SPRINKLERS i know in the morning sometimes or.

Speaker 19 (02:41:42):
At night it's it's too, wet it's not.

Speaker 6 (02:41:44):
Good scrapped.

Speaker 3 (02:41:47):
An ongoing for On yeah for ongoing lawn watering early early,
morning early, morning before sun comes. Up even you get
that ground, wet you soak it in real good and
the sun comes up and it all off pretty. Quick
and that's the best. Time if you're putting a new lawn,
in you gotta water it frequently lightly for the first,

(02:42:08):
week a couple times a, day for the second week
once a, day and then back off to a normal watering,
schedule as in full sun when it's, hot if it's in,
shade or if the temperature's not, hot you can back
off that WHAT i just said a little. Bit but
you're aiming to water early in the morning once about
once a, week.

Speaker 19 (02:42:27):
RIGHT i was told THAT i have to wait three
weeks to mow.

Speaker 3 (02:42:32):
Yes, yeah you wanted to root in really good before
you start running tires and everything else over.

Speaker 18 (02:42:37):
It, okay all, right very, good thank you so.

Speaker 3 (02:42:41):
Much all, right you, bet thanks a, lot appreciate. That All,
right we're going to run to our last collar this.
Morning mark In, Richmond welcome to Garden.

Speaker 10 (02:42:49):
Line thank.

Speaker 24 (02:42:51):
YOU i quick. QUESTION i used to could get content
Triple action. TWENTY i don't see it available much. Anymore
i'm spraying a fungus on a wound on a. TREE
i Like constan. Twenty what CAN i?

Speaker 3 (02:43:03):
Use you?

Speaker 25 (02:43:06):
KNOW i.

Speaker 3 (02:43:06):
DON'T i don't know that it's around or. NOT i.
DON'T i don't want to stay on the air BECAUSE
i could, guess BUT i don't. Know that's the bottom.
Line consent is just a surface. Sterele you. Know it's
kind of like if you take a sponge with bleach
in it and wipe off the. Counter you kill the,
butt you, know kill whatever's on the. Counter but it
doesn't go in and do. Anything it's not a. Systemic

(02:43:26):
it doesn't soak in and do. Stuff is what are
you seeing on the.

Speaker 24 (02:43:30):
TREE i just have a wound that is, healing and
a barbarous, said just spray a. FUNGICIDE i was alternating
with coside one time coside and then consan twenty the following.
WEEK i was just alternating and THAT i ran out of.

Speaker 3 (02:43:48):
It if you're, not if you don't have a disease
or something, THERE i wouldn't do anything to. It just
keep the tree adequately watered during hot summer drought, weather
and it'll close that wound. Over it's not going to
close a lot when the weather gets, hot but in
fall it'll close a little. Faster. AGAIN i don't see
a need to spray. It and if it were a,

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canker spraying the, surface wouldn't do it.

Speaker 24 (02:44:11):
Anyway, okay all, right, thanks.

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