Where to Start as a Beginner?

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:07):
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him as world basis gas that are so many good
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sound glasses and gas, so beamon tweet the gas and gas.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, good morning starting.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Treating gases das time you did.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm just giving you a minute to get a cup
of coffee.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Sunday.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm heeled up and ready to go. Both guys O,
Welcome to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and
a beautiful landscape. And what's the third one? More fun
in the process. That's right, Well it is. It's gotten

(01:17):
a little hot on us, hasn't it. The temperatures going up. Finally,
I don't know if this holds true. In fact, I
heard that for the weather that our average temperature really
isn't that much cooler this summer because the nights are warm.
But that I know the daytimes have been milder than normal.
I mean, we can have some pretty wicked weather even

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in June certainly through July, and we've been fortunate. So, okay,
we're gonna get a little bit of hot weather here,
but that's okay. Well, when you plant the plants that
can survive it, and when what is the first step?
What is the mantra on garden line all the time,
one of the mantras brown stuff before green stuff. When

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you get the soil right and you put the right
plants in ones that can take it here, they can
take our climate. Summer is not a problem. We just
make sure we give them a good deep soaking on
an infrequent basis. That's the way. With a few exceptions
such as putting in a new lawn would be an exception,
but in general, a good deep soaking, but not very often,

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not very often. And when you do that, you're going
to end up you're going to end up with success.
The plants are going to do well. You go out
and take native plants, for example, I mean, nobody's out
water in them at all. In fact, for those, nobody's
really prepared the soil for where they're growing out there
unless they're in your yard. But that's kind of that's

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the kind of steps that help you have success. So
when it gets this hot outside. I was out yesterday
mowing my lawn part most of my lawns, and it
was just blazing hot. Is dripping wet coming in from
doing that. There's no fun being out in that kind
of weather. But you get everything set up right, and

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your time outside is mental. Get out in the morning
when it's cool, get out late late in the day
when it's not quite so hot. Those are good times
to get those sort of things done. As you know.
Just a reminder, and I know I'm not your mom,
but I got to tell you this. Be careful, Drink
plenty of water, use the sunscreen, or long sleeve shirts.

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You know, first time someone told me that it was
cooler to wear a long sleeve cotton shirt than short sleeves,
I thought, yeah, there's no way, And oh my gosh,
it is so true. I wear those now all the time.
Protects your skin and it is cooler, it really is.
So take care of yourself. There's such a thing as

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heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and certainly lots of skin
issues come from overexposure to the sun. So be careful.
I want to keep you around if you had been
I've had several people ask me do. I have chinchbugs
in my lawn and a lot of the pictures I'm
looking at are not chinchbugs. But we're in chinchbug season,
so you certainly could right now. But nitrofoss bugout Max

(04:14):
is made to control whatever insects are down there in
your lawn. It controls over one hundred and thirty different
kinds of insects, and within about forty eight hours or
so after putting it down, it's done its work. It's
doing its work, and it sticks around a wall too,
so it's like if something shows up next week, the
bugout Max is still going to be there doing its work.
Bug Out Max controls things like ants and fleas and

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ticks and any kind of an insect down there in
the sod. You're going to find bug out Max, like
other nitrofoss products, in many places. For example, you go
to Plantation Ace Hardware down in Richmond Rosenberg or maybe
Langham Creek Ace which is on FM five nine just
behind Copperfield there northwest Houston, RCW Nurser on Tumball Parkway

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in Beltway eight, and then head down to Angleton or
Clue to one of the Lake hardware stores down there,
and you're gonna find nitrofrost products there as well. I said,
I mowed most of my lawn yesterday, So what is
that about. Well, I have a part of my lawn.
My lawn is a big experiment. By the way, I've
got four different kinds of turf grass, and you must

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be thinking that looks horrible. Actually it doesn't. Two different
kinds of Saint Augustine in the front, but they're separated
by our wide driveway, and so you kind of don't
number one if if you really look at them, you
can see there's a little difference on them, but in
general it looks good. In the back, I've got two
different kinds of Zoysia and they're separated by a patio

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between the two. So anyway, I got all but one
section of zoysia mode and the reason I didn't mow
it is I had some nutsedge coming up in it.
And nuts edge, you know, this is a very fine texture.
Zoys is one called xeon and on nutsedge shows up
comes up above the zoisa itself, and I don't know,

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I just don't want weeds in it. So what do
you do? Well, you you got to be careful what
you use. But there is product called sedge hammer. Sedge hammer,
there are other brands. That's just a brand. But I
say the brand because if I say halo sulfur on,
you're not going to remember that, or at least I wouldn't.
And so anyway, I went out there and did a

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little squirt on each nutsedge coming up, and it'll work.
It takes a while. It takes about two weeks to
fully work. You'll the first thing you notice is well, visually,
standing from a distance, you start to notice it turning
yellow and then finally brown and it's gone. But it

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works right. You know, you can burn the top of
a weed with vinegar or a lot of different product
products that do that, but for nut set, you just
pops right back out of the ground. That won't that
won't control it. You need something that goes down, down,
in down into the planet of those nuts and kills them.
And that is the way you get rid of it.

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And you've got to be patient for that. But it's
better to do it and be patient and have success.
So anyway, I don't want to spray and then turn
on mow it right away. It says on the label,
wait two days. So I'm going to give it to
or maybe even three days before I go back and
mow that section of the turf. But that's the way
we get ahead of them. So anyway, if you want

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to know more about that, I've got a publication called
going nuts No, it's called nuts Edge and Indoor in
Depth Look nuts Edge and in Depth Look. It's on
my website Gardening with skip dot com. And if you
go there you're going to find a lot of information
on nuts edge. Do you know there's a yellow and
a purple type of nuts edge, and we have them

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both here in our area and they do not respond
the same way, and so there's a lot of differences.
But you need to read that because then when you
go about controlling nuts age, you'll understand the secret to
success and getting rid of it. Okay, let's call going
nuts over nut sets. It's free. It's on my website
Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com

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Plants for All Seasons is a garden center right there
on Tamball Parkway Highway two forty nine, right where Luetta
comes in, just north of Luetta. It's been around since
nineteen seventy three and this is the kind of garden
center where you go and you're talking to folks that
have been gardening here a long time. Folks at no
gardening that no plants, that know the problems we have

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because they see them come through the door every year,
people bringing them a sample or a picture and saying
what's this and they can point you. Number one, tell
you what it is. Number two points you to the
product you need to control it. It's as simple as that.
Plants for all seasons. Dot com two eight one three
seven six one six four six stop buying. Check out
their selection of heat tolerant plants. Like I was just

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talking a moment ago, Let's take a quick break and
I'll be right back with your calls. It would help
if I gave you a phone number seven one three
two one two kt r H. Welcome back to guarden Line. Gods.
Glad to have you with us this morning. Hey, if
you'd like to give me a call and talk gardening,
first thing in the morning is a good time to
do it. We usually get a call or too early,

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but it takes people a while to get up and
find that phone. So let's see seven one three two
one two k t r H. And in the meantime,
I'm going to keep telling you about some things that
I'm noticing out there.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
I have a.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'm gonna come back to that. Come tell my VI
text here in just a minute. I'm gonna come back
to that one. I just want to remind you that
whenever you're using any kind of a herbicide in your
lawn and it's hot weather, you need to be very
careful what you use and when you use it. Almost
all of the broad leaf post emergent weed control products

(09:58):
the ones where you look out and you got these
weeds that aren't grassy weeds in your lawn, they're broad
leaf weeds, and you're wanting to kill them pretty much
anytime from about May to October almost and the temperatures
in the upper eighties are higher, upper eighties are higher,
that's twenty four to seven in the summer just about
You can stress and damage your lawn and lead to

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other issues with these products. So you need to be careful.
So why you always hear me talk about celsius because
you can go up into the early nineties the low
nineties with celsius without a problem, but be careful with
that because that kind of damage does lead to things
like take all root rots sometimes and other stuff, so

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be real careful with using those. If you're going to
spray something, do it early, early in the morning, whenever
the lowest you wake yourself up, whenever you can see
to spray the weed out there and get it done
before the temperature so it dries up before the temperature
goes up, and you can minimize the issues by doing
it that way. We're going to head out now on

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the phones and go to Seabrooke and talk to Lisa. Hey, Lisa,
welcome to garden line for amilion.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Can they take afternoon sun?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
What was the plant that you were talking? I missed
the plant.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
Encore avilias. Can they take afternoon sun?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh? Well, they don't like it. They they can take
a little bit, but they're going to be stressed. They're
gonna wilt a lot. It's going to be hard to
keep for them to pump the water fast enough and
be real happy. It kind of depends on how many
hours of sun it is, but I would say a

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little bit, yes, but I wouldn't just give them half
a day of afternoon direct sun. They would like to
be a little more shade than that. For sure.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
And my next question was about foxtail ferns. I really
like the look of them, but I've read some articles
where they're feel like if you plant them with roses,
are certain plants that, after a couple of years, because
of the way their root system works, that those can
kind of choke out other plants. So I'm wondering is
that true or because when I've answered some nurseries, some

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people will say, well, no, it's not invasive.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, it's not invasive like bermuda grass, you know, or
it goes crawling through all your flower beds real fast.
But they do spread and they do have a very
dense packed root system with underground storage tubers. So if
that were gonna be a problem, you would just get
a little shovel and take the edges off the clump

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and remove them. You know, it's prevent it, but it's
not going to move very fast at all, and I
wouldn't worry about it. You wouldn't want to plant one
right up against a rose bush anyway, so I wouldn't
worry about that.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right, Lisa, thanks a lot, appreciate your call. You
take care. Mosquito dunks are something you need to have
in your garage. I just the other day went out
and was looking at a one of my family members
place at a little puddle of water somewhere. I mean
it was actually like a dog bowl, and there were

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little mosquito wregulars in it, and it was like, man,
if you just take a little chip of a mosquito
dunk and put it in there, it's gonna float and
it's gonna get rid of in fact, one dunk. They're
like little doughnuts, like those little Debbie White powdered doughnuts.
That's the size they are, roughly, And you can throw
it in a pond and it'll cover one hundred square
feet ten by ten area of surface for a whole month.

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It releases a chemical, not a chemical, oh my gosh.
Not a chemical, that's the good thing about them. It
releases a disease organism, a bacteria that kills mosquitoes. It
doesn't hurt birds, It doesn't hurt lady beetles, It doesn't
hurt parasitoid wasp you know the ones that helped control
a FIDS. It doesn't hurt the family pets. It is

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just something that affects mosquitoes and it works, and you
can find them all over the place, feed stores, hardware stores, nurseries,
garden centers. Just I keep them on the wall in
my garden area, and so whenever I need one, you
can go right out there. You can shut it down,
because don't be a skeeter breeder. Nothing runs a nice
summer outing more and having a bunch of darn mosquitoes

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flying around. Let's heading out to clear Lake and talk
to Adeline.

Speaker 7 (14:36):
Hello, Adeline, Well it's Adeline, honey, but that's okay. Listen, honey,
I wanted to tell you that was some good love,
and those red roses got me into all kinds of trouble.
You had suggested that it was okay just in red
roses to a man, and my let me tell you what.
I'm moving on to the next now, because you can't

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tie Adeline down. You see, I'm too old to be
tied down. I've got to move and get well. I can't,
but I wanted to thank you, darling for that advice.

Speaker 8 (15:09):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Okay, so are you saying it? Did it go over well?
Or did it not go over?

Speaker 9 (15:14):
Honey?

Speaker 7 (15:14):
We made love on that long okay.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, Nadelan, We're not gonna We're not gonna go there.
All right. Did you have a question this morning?

Speaker 7 (15:25):
I have a question, Yes I do. Do you think
it would be inappropriate for me to send the same
kind of roses to his roommate?

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Hello, I'm not going to weigh in on that one.
All right, Well, I appreciate thank you. I appreciate your
call very very much. Thanks a lot. Alrighty, Okay, here
we go. Let's head to Scott down in Sugarland. Hello, Scott,

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welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 9 (16:02):
Hey, love your show.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Thank you for all the help you give all the time,
and you just make it fun. I've got a problem
with hybrid teas where the past two years I've had
a lot of die back and I've got I'd prefer
the yellow colors. I've got peace and love, Gina, Lola,
Bridgeta and sparkling shine and the sparkling shines. That really

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that hit the hardest. What can I do and say?

Speaker 1 (16:30):
I'm I lost the I didn't catch that name of
the of what the disease you're talking about?

Speaker 4 (16:36):
The rose die back where the stems.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Turn for rose die back. I see what you're saying. Okay,
you know number one when you do the pruning. Is
it happening from the point of pruning down or is
it just attacking the side of a stem without any.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
But it can be kind of as some of the
knobs where things are branching off. But most of the
time it sounds where the pruning is done. And I
try to keep my pruners.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, that's that's good. I use life SOYLI just because
it's easy, you know, to carry with you just spray
the pruners in between cuts and stuff to avoid spraying them.
I suspect. I suspect you could do some sort of
a fung of sidal spray on those cut spots and things.
But that doesn't sound real practical to me. Uh, I

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need to ask. I'm not ask our rose specialists what
they use. We've got a great Houston Rose Society here,
and maybe someone from that will come in and, you know,
tell them what the standard is for that. But basically,
printing wounds are a place of infection, and there is
there are issues with rose die back and whatnot. But

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other than other than the sterile pruners are maybe using
a fungicide following it. I don't know what else I
would I would tell you on that one.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, then you're just as frustrated as I am, because
nothing seems to really slow it down. You just keep
prune until it gets all the light about a six
inch plant.

Speaker 8 (18:15):
But anyway, I know what.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm gonna take. Yeah, during a break, I'm gonna look
into this a little more because I I just don't
have that problem on mine, and so I need to
look into it a little more, I said, because I
don't have the experience with it having I just have
not had a rose die back kind of stem die
back type problem on it. But let me look into it,
and I just keep listening this morning, we'll come up

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with something. All right.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Thank you all right, So thank you very much. Appreciate that. Yeah,
that's that's interesting. You know. One thing that I try
to do is grow pretty much all kinds of plans,
even some that I'm not that interested in, but I'd
just like to have experience with them, or maybe I
have a friend or family member that has one that
works too, because you know, it's one thing to read

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about what works, and I know how to find the
research on it, and so that's what I do. But
it's a whole other thing. When you do it yourself,
you have the issues come up yourself, and then you
better able to help people with that. Ace Hardware stores
I was talking about mosquito dunks while ago. You can
get mosquito dunks at every Ace Hardware store that I've

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ever been in. At least, ACE Hardware carries all the
supplies you need for garden success, from the fertilizers we're
putting out to the things to control weeds and diseases
and pass to the tools, to the hoses and the
sprinklers and just you want to have good success. They
have it. Mowers, lawn mowers. I know a lot of
stores carry the Ego brand or the battery powered mower.

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That's that's one that I got a long time ago
and still use. ACE Hardware is the place. It's where
you would expect you're going to do outdoor grilling and things.
Maybe you need pro pane, maybe you need a grip bill.
Oh my gosh, they have got you covered at ACE Hardware.
You can go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace
Hardware Texas dot com and find the store near you. Uh,

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and they're all over the place.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
So do that.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Places like Crosby Ace and up northeast of town, up
north of Town, Spring Ace on Spring Cypress Plantation Ace
on Mason Road, Donner, Richmond, Rosenberg, Lamb Creek and five
between nine and Cyprus and Champions Ace and Spring Cypress
up there in northwest in the Spring area. I Oh
my gosh, I got coming up on a hard break. Okay,

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well we come back. I want to talk a little
bit about that by text. We'll be right back. Remember
when people harmonize. Welcome back to the guarden Line. Good
to have you with us today. Hey, if you'd like
to give me a call to seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four D and Defeed west
of Tomball three miles west of Tomball on twenty nine

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to twenty is the place where you're going to find
all these fertilizers and products that I talk about here
on Gardland. They have an excellent selection of things to
control pests and weeds and diseases. But they have fertilizers
from Nitrofoss and Microlife, Nelson Turf Star Line Medina. They
little jars of Nelson plant food. If you're looking for

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any kind of a pest management bulk fertilizers and things.
They have those as well. They carry plants seasonally there,
and then you can buy bags of heirloom soil products,
quality soil products there at D and D Feed and Tombol.
While you're in there, make sure and grab some of
their high end dog food pet foods. They just stay stocked.

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It's easy to get in, easy to get out, and
good service. And the best thing is when you walk
in there, you know you're going to find what you
need and walk back out and not have to go
somewhere else. Looking Dandy Feed three miles west of two
forty nine in Tomball two eight one three five one
seventy one forty four. We're gonna head now out to
Beaumont and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, welcome to garden.

Speaker 10 (22:05):
Good morning, Thank you, Skip, Good morning. I have a
large crpe myrtle that has already started losing its leaves.
They're turning the orangish red that you know they do normally.
But isn't it a little early for it to start
dropping its leaves?

Speaker 1 (22:22):
You know, we get a leaf drop in the summer,
especially as they get a little bit stressed, and sometimes
there's a couple of fungal leaf spots that can attack
crape myrtle, and if you get some of those on them,
just like a rose bush, the leaves will turn color
and drop off. But I've noticed that it's a nice
fall by the way, crate myrtle is a decent fall

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color plant. But just the mean things. Just give them
a good deep soaking occasionally if the soil has gotten dry,
and other than that, if it hasn't gotten dryer or whatever,
just just don't worry about it. They'll be okay, okay,
you're talking about You're not talking about like seventy five
percent of the leaves falling off, right, No, not yet.

Speaker 10 (23:06):
But it's a steadily turning. It seems like they're steadily turning.
It looks like it's going to start into the fall
drop off. But it you know, it seems early for
to do that. But there isn't anything to reverse it.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, you know, a little fertilizer and water will kick
in new growth and that that will be that that's
essentially reversing it. If it's a significant amount of disease,
spraying could be in order. But I have never in
my life sprayed a great myrtle for disease.

Speaker 10 (23:40):
So for me, either, I've had that. I've had that
tree forever and it's so beautiful. And then and the trunk,
the trunk looks good and everything, and I'm thinking, and
I looked at the LEAs there's no you know, there's
no critters on it or anything. So right, I just wondered,
you know, why is it happening so soon? Just don't
worry about it.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm getting yeah, I'm getting some drop myself. Yeah, some,
But I just don't worry about it. You know, give
them a boost of fertilizer. When you fertilize your lawn
around them, that fertilizes them too. There'll be nutrients in
the soil. And then maybe good soaking if you feel
like it's been a little on the dry side. Generally
around the area it's not been too dry, but that's

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what I would recommend. Nancy, all right, thank you so much,
Thank you, Bet, thank you for your call. I appreciate that.
And Jenny Forest Garden Center is down in the Richmond
Rosenberg area, but it's kind of if you're heading towards
sugar Land from Richmond, it's off to the right on
FM twenty seven to fifty nine. I was down there

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just the other day. Oh my gosh, such beautiful, beautiful plants.
I mean, they are stocked up and loaded. Visiting with
them about you know some of the they're really good.
First of all, I have a number of things, but
they're very good at pollinator plants. They have excellent selection
of plants to attack pollinators. They have an excellent selection

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of herbs and vegetables and flowers and shrubs, and there's
still well stocked in shrubs and trees and summer color.
I've just I you know, from horizon to horizon, beautiful
summer color. Giant shade trees. That's what you need to
know right now. Giant shade trees that you shop under.
It was a warm day. I was walking around, just

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enjoying the shade and getting to be out in one
of the prettiest garden centers. You're going to see Enchanted forests.
Richmond Rosenberg on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Right down
this url, this website enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.
Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. We're gonna go up

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to Mount Bellevue now and talk to David. Hey, David,
welcome to garden Line. Good morning.

Speaker 11 (25:56):
I got a question kind of similar to the pre
corn I've got a I've got a red maple in
the front yard that's been in the ground about and.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
David, we lost you there. I lost you right before
you told me how long it's been in the ground.
I'm gonna put David back on hold. Maybe we can.
I wonder if you can get with him and see
we're going to move on to Ed. Hello, Ed, welcome
to garden.

Speaker 12 (26:28):
Line, going and sir, thanks for having me again.

Speaker 13 (26:34):
Somewhere I'm shore the other show. I heard something about
molasses being good for the treatment of soul at least
made it periodically molasses being I heard something about dry molasses.
I stopped by Wahbosh and there is a bag molasses,

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but also a feat stock molasses.

Speaker 12 (27:05):
Is that something worth doing?

Speaker 14 (27:07):
How do I do it?

Speaker 5 (27:07):
If I do it?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, we generally refer to it like as a horticultural molasses.
It's not like the stuff out of your pantry, the
real sticky, goody stuff. When you put molasses out dry,
it's easier to put out. And anytime you put sugary
stuff on the foliage, you're going to get city mold
and things, so for you to spray. If you could

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spray a thick molasses spray or a water down molasses spray,
you would end up with city mold all over that.
It's just like when aphids get on things and they
excrete that sugary substance. So the dry granules make it
easy to apply and you avoid that other issue. I
was just saying basically what it does. It's carbon. It's

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carbon chained sugar is a long chain of carbon molecules
and atoms. And when you do that, the microbes in
the soil love it and they get very busy and
they get there, especially the bacteria of beneficial bacteria in
the soil, and it can be very helpful for that.
And so I think that's the main reason that people

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are using that will use molasses out there. You just
want to do it in moderation. And uh, yeah, that's
probably what you heard. I didn't say anything about it,
I don't think on this show.

Speaker 12 (28:31):
So if I apply it, I didn't buy it yet.

Speaker 13 (28:38):
Is it something that's granular enough that I.

Speaker 12 (28:40):
Can put it in my.

Speaker 13 (28:43):
In my fertilize the applicator and and spread it like that, or.

Speaker 12 (28:49):
Do you should just kind of chicken beat it.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Well, I wouldn't chicken feed it. I would I would
try putting it in there a little hands or something.
Just watch it because if it gets a little moist
and humid, it can get a little sticky, and then
you're gonna have problems with it being able to distribute.

Speaker 12 (29:09):
You broke up a bit if I get it's what happens.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Well, if it's you know, real humid and moist conditions,
it can get a little sticky and so it doesn't
drop down through the spreader like a good paralyzer would.
So just just avoid that. Hey, I got a run,
But thank you for your call. I appreciate it, and
you take care and good luck, good luck with that.
League City Feeds done in League City, Texas. That's a

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surprise that whole area, though it's your hometown feed store
el coem Ina, Reale, Clearla, League City, of Course, Santa Fe, Dickinson,
San Leone, La, Mark Baycliff, Webster, all those communities down
south of Houston is served by League City feed. Thunderberg's
had been operating this store for over forty years, and
when you go in there, you're going to get the
old time service, you know, carry the bags out for you,

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that sort of thing, to find the products that you need.
Products to control and manage the problems of your plants,
pest weeds and diseases. Things to fertilize, quality products, organic
and synthetic types both and even soil blends, you know
the Airlom soils. They sell bags of heirloom soil. One
of the best blends you're going to get around town.

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And it's available there at League City feed Now if
you want to give them a call to eight one
three three two sixteen twelve. They're open all week, closed
on Sunday. They're open money through Saturday from nine to six,
so you can swing by their after work. Makes it
really easy and convenient for you. I got to go
to a break, but we'll be right back. Welcome back

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to guard Line. You can't have summer without the beach boys.
That's just it is just I is. Hey, if you
want a beautiful landscape, you just need to know the
word pier scapes. Pier scapes is they're the leaders. They
are outstanding and don't take my word for it. Go
to the website pierscapes dot com, piercescapes dot com. Check

(31:05):
them out. Look at what they do landscape lighting, drainage work,
irrigation issues, designing landscapes, installing hard scapes, everything and it's
top of the line stuff. I don't care what level
of you know, I think you need, from a bed
development to a giant renovation of everything, they can do it.

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They'll make your place beautiful and you'll see that when
you go to Piercescapes dot com two eight one three
seven oh fifty sixty. Also ask them about their quarterly maintenance.
Come out once a quarter and they turn your flower
beds into their top level beauty. They really do. They
are excellent at those type of things. You were listening

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to Gardenline. The phone number if you like to give
me a call seven one three two one two k
t r H seven one three two one two k
t r H. I was needing a product the other
day and I and it was something that's very hard
to find. It just you just not can find at
many places. And the first thing comes to mind is, well,

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go Southwest fertilizer. Of course they have everything. If Southwest
doesn't have it, you don't need it. And I'm talking
about fertilizers of every type. So I've never seen a
place with so many different options of fertilizer, organic, synthetic,
U dry fertilizer, liquid fertilizer, everything you can imagine. Now,

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if you are looking for something to control pests or
weeds or diseases, the best selection in the whole region
Southwest Fertilizer corner of Bissinut and Runwick and Southwest Houston
seven to one three six sixty six one seven four
to four. You're going to find that they treat you
right there. The products they have are outstanding, the tools
are outstanding quality, and the selection is just nobody. Nobody

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can match Southwest Fertilizer when it comes to selection. I'm
a tool collector, I guess you could say, and that
there's always some new tool that I think I need.
A lot of times I'll get one and then I'll like, Okay,
this is one of my favorite tools.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
That's how it is with the soil knife. Yeah, the
soil knife is just think of it like as a
big old booie knife, but with a curved blade that
is much more rigid, strong enough to just dig in
soil and pry out roots. And it's got a little
song On one side, I love those kind of tools.
I'm always looking at different kinds of tools and just

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to see is there a better way of doing things?
Sometimes I just need to go into maybe a little
rant on my favorite tools. But anyway, I love tools,
and those of you who have a shop and stuff
you know what I'm talking about. I mean tools. You
never get enough tools, right at least that's how I
look at it. I was talking with David from RCW

(33:52):
the other day.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
He was on.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
We were discussing trees. I hope you heard that if
you didn't go back and listen to past Garden Line
shows and listen to the conversation we had about trees.
It was really good and helpful. I've gotten a lot
of positive comments on it. I think that was what
day did I tell you?

Speaker 9 (34:12):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
It was July nineteenth. That was Saturday the nineteenth that
we had David on from eight o'clock to ten o'clock.
But anyway, our CW Nurseries is the garden center right
there Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight. They grow their own
trees up there in Plantersville at Williamson Tree Farm, and
they also install trees for you if you need shrubs

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or if you need roses, Oh my gosh, rose selections
incredible there. And then finally things that can take the
summer heat, like the Tropical Hibiscus Cajun series. I love
those hibiscus all there at RCW Nurseries. Let's hit out
sugar Land. Now we're going to talk to Gonzalo. Hey, Gonzalo,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Thank you very much. Did you hear me?

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yes, sir? Hello, Okay, well, yes I can hear. I am.

Speaker 15 (35:04):
Totally ignorant about starting a garden or getting plans for
my front of the house and so on. And I
was wondering if there are any courses that you know,
or if there are any books that I could get
and buy and and start learning, you know, because when

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you don't know nothing, it's pretty hard.

Speaker 8 (35:27):
You see what I hear you?

Speaker 15 (35:29):
I need to show everybody knows.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, well, uh, it's a good it's a good question
to ask, Gonzalo. Are you wanting to like vegetable garden
or do you just want to do all kinds of things?

Speaker 15 (35:43):
Well, I would like a vegetable garden and a flower
garden in the front of the house.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
You know, something that is not very.

Speaker 16 (35:52):
Very very.

Speaker 17 (35:55):
Difficult.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Okay, all right, Well, there is a there is a
book on Texas vegetable gardening by a fellow named Tom
Leroy and Bill Adams. They live in the north of
the here and west of the Houston area. Excellent, excellent books.
I would recommend that one for vegetable gardening. But you know,
the first thing I would do is go to the

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websites of Enchanted Forest Nursery down in Richmond Rosenberg and
Enchanted Gardens Nursery also down in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
They have educational programs throughout spring and throughout the fall
season where you can go. It's free and you learn
all kinds of things about whatever the topic is. Maybe

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it's attracting butterflies, what flowers attract them, or maybe it's
how to grow vegetables. Those are excellent your county Agrolife
Extension offices educational programs Enchanted Forest and Enchanted Gardens. Those
are two different places. Yeah, gardens and forests. Go to
their free programs and learn about that. I need to

(37:00):
put a list of recommended books on my website. I
don't have that. I'm going to add that to my Yeah,
I'm going to add that to my website. It's gardening
with skip dot com. There's also information for free for
you up there. Uh, and so I would I would
do that. That's about the fastest way I can answer
the question because I'm running out of time here. But

(37:22):
that's a good one. And just take it a day
at a time, learn a little bit as you go,
you know, just a little bit here and there. Okay,
thank you, and have fun.

Speaker 12 (37:33):
I appreciated you.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Thank you, sir, you bet hey, thanks for thank you
so much. Well, thank you. I appreciate that you take
care all right, folks.

Speaker 9 (37:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Coming up in the eight o'clock hour today, I have
asked Ty Strickland, he's a fellow that owns Fixed my
Slab Foundation Repair, to come in and teach us about
how how to number one, protect your foundation and when
things need fixing, what to do about it. If you've
got a let's say you've got a not just your

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house foundation, but your driveway is all cracked and sidewalks
or heaving and things, what can you do about that?
And what about tree roots? How do they work in
terms of the foundation, and what can you do about that?
We're going to learn all about that because I know
you got trees in New York, Man, they do things
to see bods. Hey, welcome back to guard Line. They're

(38:38):
not a sad Thanks for listening in today. Appreciate that.
By the way, a real good question just before we
went to break there from Gonzalo about you know, where
do you get good information? You know, I don't I
want to get into gardening, but I need to learn
a lot about all these things. I'm going to post
a list of some of my favorite books to the website.

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Something that should have come to mind right away when
I heard his question, and it did during break, and
that is Texas Gardener Magazine. If you Gonzala, if you're
still listening, Texas Gardener Magazine is a wonderful resource. It's
written by gardeners for gardeners here in Texas, and I
know of no better source of just good information on

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all kinds of plants. Plus it's fun to read. You
You can subscribe to the paper version, you know, regular magazines,
or you can also that or subscribe online where you
can see the magazines online in print amount and you
have access to all the back issues. If you do
the online, Gonzalo, you can go back and look at

(39:46):
let's say you're interested in vegetable gardening, you can look
at articles on vegetable gardening going back years and so
it's like instant access to tons of good information. Again
written by Texas gardeners. And I know I actually am
one of them. I write for it myself, but Texas
Gardener would be another good resource for you on that.

(40:08):
Nelson Plant Food is a maker of wonderfully successful plant foods,
ones that you put on and it's like, oh now
my lawn looks great. That would be like turf Star.
Slow and Easy feeds over four months. It gives your
line exactly what its needs, a little bit acidifying, so
it gets that pH downe a little bit, which helps

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with the iron deficiency. For example, Slow and Easy is
an outstanding product. They are a purveyor of the nutri
Star line, things like a nutristar, bugain villa, or plumeria.
Those are specific fertilizers for specific plants. You know there's
a vegetable one there is, like I said, bougain villa
and plumeria and others. Many of those are available in

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little jars all over town. And then the products that
it continues on, not just the nute straline. But they
have the color Star fertilizer. Any flowers really, but certainly
your flower beds are going to benefit from color Star
all by Nelson. They all work. They're excellently formulated, designed
for our soils, designed for our climate, and design for

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our plants.

Speaker 8 (41:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
And in fact, just yesterday I used some Nelson plant
food in one of I was doing a plant putting
a plant in, and the genesis is a great one
to mix into the soil from Nelson. I always do
that putting plants in because it sets the foundation as
those new roots begin to grow for success. You are

(41:33):
listening to guardenline the number seven to one three two
one two kt RH seven to one three two one
two kt rh. If you haven't been to Arborgate recently,
you need to get out there. They didn't matter what
time of year it is, They're going to have a
wide variety of plants for the season. And the way

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the place is set up, it's just fun to shop
because it's beautiful. You know, they have lands cape, gardens
and yard art and all kinds of decorative things. And
when you see one of the employees and ask them
a question, they take you and show you the answer
of the question. You know, it's not like, well, there's
probably one over there. You go down there and turn left.
Now they walk you over to it and they put

(42:15):
your hands on it and they answer your questions to
help you have success. That is one of the things
they are best about. While you're there, grab their one
two three completely easy system. What is that, Well, it's
a food for anything with roots. That's a fertilizer, it's organic,
a soil for any application that you might have, and

(42:35):
a compost to improve any soil, whether it's sand or clay.
It works well. Both the soil and the compost contain
expanded shale, which is very important for a long term
benefit and our clay soils, and both the soil and
the compost are available by bulk if you would like
to order that and have it delivered. Arbrogates a mile

(42:55):
and a half west of two forty nine on twenty
nine to twenty in Tomball, So it's not very far,
just out there on the edge of town arbor Gate
Garden Center. I always love going in there and visiting
with them. They they do. They just do an outsitting job.
You need to check out their gift shops too. They
are really really nice. That's of good stuff. Take a

(43:18):
friend when you go too. By the way, you know,
we should do more garden shopping, you know with our friends,
garden club members, friends, master gardeners, who you know, whoever
you know that likes to garden. Maybe someone that would
like to garden but they just haven't started yet or
they haven't learned yet. Take them with you out there
to the arbor gate. They learn a lot. You are

(43:41):
listening to garden line the number here seven one three
two one two k t r H seven to one
three two one two k t r H. I had
someone from a Quality Home Products of Texas on UH
and discussing the whole idea of generators as Joey let's
see that was last on Sunday, that's a previous show,

(44:04):
and we just talked about picked their brain on you know,
what are the generator technologies out there? What do you
need to ask somebody when you're buying a generator, What
are the things you want to watch out for? What
are some of the features and stuff? Because I knew
someone from Quality would be the one to answer all
those questions. They do it right, and I mean that

(44:26):
I mean, I've never run into a company that just
checked every box like Quality Home Products of Texas. And
when I talk about checking boxes, Yeah, you want a
good generator, but a lot of people will sell you
a generator. But it's not just buying it. It's making
sure you get the one you want, the one you need,

(44:47):
the one that serves what you need, making sure it
is set up and hooked upright, making sure someone else
takes care of all the permits that you have to
go through and you need to, don't try to get
around those you pay for that, making sure that it's
put together right. You know, all their staff, I mean,

(45:08):
all their contractors are in house. They don't have to
sub out. They have their own electricians and so on,
and that is important.

Speaker 13 (45:15):
And then.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
I don't know, it's hard to say what the most
important point is, but this is close to it, if
not the most important. When they walk away and you've
got your generator and all is done. For most companies,
that's the end. Not Quality Home twenty four seven three
sixty five. They even can go in and look at
an error code on your generator, like you call them
and go, hey, such and such is going on. What

(45:38):
do I do. They can go in. Sometimes they can
just right there fix it without even coming out. But
they will come out if they need to, and they'll
make sure you get service. That's why so many people
have given them a five star review. That's why they
win the Better Business Bureau Award for a customer service
all the time. Products of Texas QUALITYTX dot Com seven

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one three quality. Give them a call seven one three Quality.
Let's take a little break here. We will be back
with your calls in just a moment. All right, folks,
we're back. Hey, let's new garden Line. You got a call,
you got a question, Give me a call. Seven one
three two one two KTR eight seven one three two

(46:24):
one two fifty eight seventy four. Brown stuff before green stuff. Right,
that's what we say here on Garden Line. And I
don't know of a better place to go for the
brown stuff than seeing the most So what is brown stuff?
For those of you who are listening for the first
time today, First of all, welcome. If you've listened to
more than one show, you already know. Brown stuff is

(46:46):
the soil. It's the foundation for plant success. Plants basically
live in their roots. It is I would say the
most important aspect of success with plants. Uh, there are
a lot of very important aspects, watering and fertilizing, properly,
choosing good plants and so on. But the soil is
the foundation. And when you get the soil right, it

(47:09):
drains well, it's got good oxygen down in it, it
has all the nutrients that are in it, and microbial
activity is at its peak. Your plants are going to
do good. And Ciena Mulch is your one stop shop
for composts, for soil blends like the Heirloom Soils Veggie
Nerbnix for example, and then for fertilizers. You can get
your microlife there. You're Nelson Turf Star Line, You're Nelson

(47:31):
Plant Food jars that I was just talking about before.
And then the Medina products high quality product, nitrofoss fertilizers, azamite, asomite,
your micronutrients supplement. It's all there at Heirloom, at Heirloom
at Ciena Mulch. Now they're on Highway or they're on
FM to five point twenty one near Highway six and

(47:53):
two eighty eight south of Houston. Just go to this
website and everything you need to know is there Sienna
mult dot com, cienamalts dot com. They are open Monday
through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday today seven thirty
to two, and closed on Sunday cienamalts dot com. Someone

(48:15):
I think I mentioned this the other day, but my
neighbor came over the other day. We were talking and
they were bragging on Sweet Green Sweet Green fertilizer Sweet
Greens from Nelson and it is a fertilizer based on
a molasses type base with microbial activity that has become
a eleven percent nitrogen natural organic fertilizer. Now you're you're

(48:39):
not going to find a higher It's hard to find
a higher level of nitrogen and an organic fertilizer than that.
But it works so well you put it down. It's easy.
It smells good, by the way, that's why sweet green
is part of the name. Smells sweet, and it is
based on a sugar based product. Those carbon chains and
my crobs go crazy. They release the nutrients and your

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grass turns green and never it was just thrilled with
the results they got from it, and they should be.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
It's not a slow release, it's an immediate release, so
you can do small applications about every six weeks or
eight weeks, a little application of it and carry you
on through the year. I know people that will use
it when they got an area that just kind of
not really looking good and needs a boost, they'll put
some of it out to get a quick boost on it.
Sweet greens available. Lots of places around town. You're gonna

(49:28):
find it, hide, hiding and feet on student or airline.
You go up to down to in Chaney Gardens out
there just north on FM three fifty nine north of
Richmond Rosenberg. The Fisher's Hardwares, you know, the one in Laporte,
mop Bellevue, the one in Pasadena, the one in Baytown,
all places that carry night to FoST products like this

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sweet green. Well, you're listening to garden Line, you know what.
I don't have my call screen up here. There we go,
all right, We're gonna head out to pa AirLand and
talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (50:03):
Do you want to skip? How were you, sir?

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Doing good? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Excellent?

Speaker 16 (50:10):
Yes, sir, I'm here, Yes, sir, I sent an email
last week regarding my lawn that you know I am.
In less than a year, it went from beautiful, lush
to uh, just looking like it looks looking horrible. So
I was hoping you could be able to take a
look at some of the pictures and see if you

(50:30):
could have maybe just kind of give me an idea
about what your thoughts are.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Yeah, be very happy to I did take a look
at your pictures and the lawn. You know, you send
me the picture of what it used to look like,
and it was beautiful. And now what I see from
it looks looks to me like take all root rot,

(50:55):
and now it parts of it could be tinchabug, but
I'm about ninety five percent sure that it take all
root rot is what you have as far as little
holes in the ground that you know that's some kind
of insect, but it's not related. It's not related to
the issues that you're having with your lawn. Anything that

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stresses the grass opens the door for take all, which
is ubiquitous. It's not like take all came over from
the neighbors or something. It's in your it's in lawns period.
But when you weaken the grass to take all has
a chance to take over, and that that's what's happened
in your lawn. It could be shade. It could be
so compaction. If you use a broad leaf herbicide when

(51:39):
the temperatures are hot, you can weaken the lawn and
take all can move in. So there's a lot of
stress as drought as another one gets a little too
dry for a while sometime. But it doesn't matter what
how it got there. It just that's what's happening now.
And so what you need to do is two things.
You need to deal with the symptoms of it, and

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then you need to shut down the disease. If you
look at my lawn care schedule online at gardening with
Skip dot com, excuse me, I said lawn care schedule,
I meant lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. Their
take all is on there and he tells you what
to use and when to apply it. Using a spray
of a micronutrients that has a manganese and iron in

(52:24):
it will help. It'll help the plant get those nutrients
because it doesn't have the roots to take them up.
Take all kills roots and so Fertilome has one that's
an iron and micronutrient solution. You put it in a
hose in sprayer. Now this isn't going to kill the disease.
You're just trying to keep the grass alive long enough

(52:48):
to be able to shut the disease down and get
it in a place where it can grow again. But
that's what that does. And there's one other thing. I
don't talk about this a lot on the air, but
pete moss. You can buy peat moss and compressed bales
and they're three point eight cubic foot three point eight
cubic foot compressed bail. Each of those will cover one

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thousand square feet and you only need it about a
third of an inch deep. But within seven days you
will see a green up just from doing that. So
the peat moss application is put down, spread out evenly,
and then watered to kind of settle it down in
around the rhizomes or excuse me, the stones on top

(53:30):
of the ground of your grass. So we're talking about
micronutrient spray, a peat moss application, and then the treatment
that is put down and watered into the ground to
help put a fungicide systemically into the plant itself. And
that's it. And some of your areas are so far
gone that you're probably going to need You may just

(53:53):
want to kind of resid sections of it there, just
because it's going to take such a long time for
grass to all in from the side.

Speaker 12 (54:01):
Oh, yes, okay, all right, I will do it. Yes,
are perfect, all right.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Well you're going to be in for an extent. Yeah,
you're in for an extended battle. This isn't a quick fix,
so you can get it back again. All right, Thank you, Mark,
appreciate you. You bet take care. Jorges Hidden Gardens down
south of Houston in Alvin, Texas. Actually it's on south

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of Highway six between Alvin and Santa Fe. The address
is Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas. Jorges carries all kinds
of these wonderful selection of trees and shrubs, fruit trees.
Always got fruit trees around right now. Plenty of citrus,
even things like blueberries. When I say fruit, he's got

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seasonally you'll see vegetables and flowers and herbs and different things.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
There.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
You're going to find that three sixty tree stabilizer I
talk about all the time. They're at Jorge Hidden Gardens
on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, h Here's the number seven
one three six three two fifty two ninety seven one
three six three two five two nine zero. Let's head

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out to Webster and talk to Marene. Hey, Maureene, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (55:20):
Hello, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Sure, I have a.

Speaker 5 (55:29):
Desert rose.

Speaker 14 (55:31):
I pruned three little cuttings on one branch, and now
that branch is completely dyed and soft and soggy. I
cut it off and I put some fung just side
three on the wound. Is there anything I can do
to save this tree?

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Did you send me a picture of Marene?

Speaker 9 (55:55):
Yes? I did.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Yeah, I thought I saw that. Okay, Yeah, you know,
you've kind of done what you can do normally when
you make a cut. If you want to treat it,
you know, with some sort of a fungicide on that cut,
you can do that. That is not like a little
tree where you're going to get callous closing over the
limb you cut off kind of thing. But but you

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will have some of that internal decay, but it shouldn't
threaten the life of your plant. From what I saw
in the picture, it looks like you're going to be Okay,
I don't. I don't see it as something that's going
to move all all around through the trunk and kill everything.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
It just.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
So so I think. Yeah, I think you're okay. Beautiful
desert rose. By the way, you really grown a beautiful
one there. Yeah, and I won't be pruning it again
all the way.

Speaker 14 (56:52):
Did put cinnamon on the cuts, but I that's why
still got it.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Yeah, I you know a lot of the home remedies, Yeah,
they have some partial benefits and things, but yeah, I'm
not surprised that cinnamon didn't fix it all for you. Well,
that's a lesson learned from me. I think I think
you're gonna be okay. Well, obviously they know how to
grow desert rows, so I'm not going to tell you
how to keep it happy. You already know how to

(57:21):
do that, all right, okay, bye bye bye bye. I
was out yesterday checking my mosquito buckets. Those are those
that I got from Pest Brothers.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
You know.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Press Brothers come out and set up mosquito buckets for you,
and they know how to do it, and then they
come back and service them. They have to be serviced
each month because what they have is something that attracts mosquitoes,
draws them in and then when they get there, they
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they lay eggs. Those those larva will never hatch, But
that mosquito when it lands picks up a little dust

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that it will within seven days, that mosquito is going
to be gone. But they're also going to carry some
of the product with them to other water sources, maybe
a saggy gutter where mosquitoes are breeding. They'll get them
there and it works, and pest Bros Can do that.
They work all the way from Texas City up to
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Call them for a quote two eight one two o
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pest brosbros dot com, dpestpros dot com. I have a
couple of houseplants that were needing kind of a boost,
and I was I was setting up or transplanting a

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new plant, putting it in and stuff, and what do
I do. I grabbed my medina. My medina has to
grow six twelve six plant food and water them with it.
Now you can use as a folio feed too. It
works really well. Actually, yesterday when I was doing some
plant rejuvenile. I got the Medina Plus. Medina Plus is
the standard old Medina soil Activator's been around for years

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and works with a lot of additions and micronutrients and
other things. And those liquids are easy to mix, easy
to apply, and they work. I use it myself. I
can tell you that they work. You can find Medina
products all over the place, garden centers, feed stores, ace
hardware stores, a Southwest fertilizer. Uh, they're just widely available.

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Medina products been around for a very long time, and
there's a reason for that. It's time for me to
take a little break here for the news. We will
be right back with your questions at seven one three
two one two kt r H seven one three two
one two kt RH. All right, welcome back to garden Line.

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Be happy to visit with you about the questions you
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It's on the Katie Folscher side, So from Richmond Rosenberg
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it first opened. And it's an unforgettable experience to go
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and you just your jaw drops because from horizon to
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I'm talking about roses and hibiscus and shrubs and trees

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and vegetables and flowers and herbs and succulents and you
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medina and soils from nature's way and heirlooms soils there.
Every time I go, I just I spend extra time

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because first of all, there's so much to see but
I just am amazed at what they do. The metal baskets.
I could call them wire, but it's heavier than wire.
It's like a metal iron metal basket that They're huge,
and oh my gosh, when they plant those with multiple plants,
it is stunning. By the way. They have classes from

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time to time on how to do that yourself. But
you can get everything you need. You just say, hey,
I want to have a basket like that, and I
don't know how to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
What do I do?

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
And they'll show you the Well, well, you can do
this and this and this and put them all together.
Here's the liner for it, here's the soil for it.
And you get home and it's fun and it looks
good for a very long time because it was done
right with the right plant. It's in the right products
from in Channa Gardens. I'm going to head out to
Cypress now and talk to Melanie. Hello, Melanie, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 8 (01:02:09):
Hello. I heard you last week talk about you were
going to put some microly six two four and cumates
down on your yard, and I thought I might do
that too, because I had a bag of hume mates
in my garage.

Speaker 9 (01:02:24):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:02:24):
My question I was going to do yesterday and I
didn't get it down, but then we got a balley washer,
so it might have been too much rain. But when
I do this, I want to put it also in
my beds. Do you when I when I put it
on top of my milk, should I rake it into
the mulch or will it just go through the mulch?

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
It ideally if you could get it down in the
soil a little bit, that would be best because that, yeah,
you know that is what humus. Uh where humus does
its work. Uh, you know lawns. You know you're not
going to rot or tell your lawn, but you just
put it on the service. It'll work its way down
there in time. Yeah. Being the final decomposition stage of

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organic matter, it's very stable and it lasts, and you
cannot put too much hum mates down well, I mean
practically speaking, you know, if you ever put it down
four times a year, you could do that and that
would be fine. But it's not going to fix things overnight.
But it's it's gradual. Yeah, it's slow to work, but

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it builds the soil, so those clay soils that are struggling,
you know with air movement down into the root system
and other issues like that. It's a it's a long
term benefit because it's what nature does. Nature text things
long term. So do you do this?

Speaker 8 (01:03:41):
Does it matter which one you put down first, the
humates first, and then the six.

Speaker 15 (01:03:45):
Four or what?

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Okay, it doesn't it doesn't matter.

Speaker 8 (01:03:49):
Doesn't matter, Okay, and then just water it in with
my sprinkler system.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Huh. Yes, might change, just like you normally would. Yeah,
just followed up with with your water and return your
grass clippings as best you can.

Speaker 6 (01:04:06):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
I talked to my yard guy about that and told
him I wanted some grass clippings in my yard instead
of him bagging them all up. I don't know if
he's going to cooperate, but one other questions I've got.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
If he wants if he wants your if he wants
your check, he's going to cooperate.

Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
So all right, that's your joint. And is there a
good fertilizer for bulbs, you know, because I have these cross.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
And yeah, the crying bulbs are very to grow. Generally,
when we're going to plant bulbs, well, we'll put some
fertilizer down into the soil.

Speaker 15 (01:04:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Typically phosphorus is the main thing we go for, but
it's not the only nutrient bulbs need. They need all
the nutrients, but a phosphors is one the little extra.

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
People used to put bone meal down in the bottom
of the hole when they were going to set a
bulb in it. I wouldn't go to that trouble now,
but I would mix. There's a number of good products
that will have a higher level of phosphorus, you know,
that you can put down, And so I would any
anything like that is going to be is going to
be helpful, don't So what kind of bulbs you're thinking

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about planting.

Speaker 8 (01:05:22):
Well, I've already I've already been planted. I planted them
a couple of years ago and they never bloomed. And
then this year, all of a sudden, they bloomed, and
I'm like, oh, how neat okay? But I thought, so
is it just c.

Speaker 9 (01:05:40):
Lily?

Speaker 8 (01:05:41):
I had spider lily? Ye cry, And I'm going to
do I'm going to plant some raing lilies. I am
going to paint some plants and ring lilies too.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Those are all wonderful bulbs, and you know, but let
me let me qualify my answer. Then A little bit.
I was assuming you were going to plant. Phosphorus does
not move down in the soil hardly at all. And
if you don't put it down in the soil, putting
it on the surface. It if you put some on

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the surface and you came back ten years from now
and you measured the phosphorus levels and the top inch,
the second inch, the third inch, it would almost all
be in the top inch, maybe inch and a half
or so, because it stays when you put it. Okay,
So just use just use regular balanced fertilizers. A lot
of different things will work. And those bulbs are so

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easy you can't go wrong. I mean, no girl on
the side of the road with that.

Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
Oh yeah, how about color star? Would that work on it?

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Colors? Fine?

Speaker 8 (01:06:41):
That's fine, okay. And I do have some plumbias too,
And I do get the plumari of food. They've been
blooming really good this year, not plumbarius, so.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Oh really okay. Well, that's that's a lot of questions
of people that have people that have trouble getting plumerius
to bloom. That seems that you know, you know what
it sounds like you had.

Speaker 8 (01:07:09):
Well, I had a real big one that I cut
down and I just put them in potts and those
are the ones that are just blooming profusely. But then
the big one that was blooming last year, it's not
blooming at all, So I got to do some work
on it. I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Well, if you're going to do future planting, yeah, if
you're going to do future planning of any bulbs. Gluemria
food is bulb food, Plumeria food is buld Nelson Nelson
plant foods Plumeria and iron tropical food. It's a five
percent nitrogen, thirty percent phosphorus, five percent potassium. So that's

(01:07:47):
that is awesome.

Speaker 8 (01:07:49):
That's good. Okay, I sure will thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Okay, all right, you take care. Thanks for the call.
Bulbs are Bulbs are a wonderful thing to grow and plant.
They they're not hard at all get naturalizing bulbs. They
once you get them started, they take it from there.
Like I said, they're literally they're like roadside things. They

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just come back here after year without any help from us. Hey,
if you enjoy birds, you need to know about wild
birds unlimited no place as the selection and the quality
for all things related to birds as wild birds Unlimited stores.
There are six stores here in the Houston area. One
on Kingwood Drive in Kingwood, one on El Dorado down

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in clear Lake, one on East Broadway in Pearland. In Houston,
head out to the west side, you've got one on
Memorial Drive and southwest on bel Air and then up
in Cypress on Barker Cypress WBU dot com forward slash Houston.
That's the website to get to all those stores. You
need to go buy there. While you're there, pick up
some nesting superblood. It's still okay to be using the

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nesting super blow. It's a high quality food for your birds.
But no matter what kind of birds you're attracting, you
go in and talk to them and they're going to
point you to blends that are especially attractive to those
kind of birds. And when you buy a pound of
wild bird seed of Wallbird's Unlimited seed, you get a
pound in a bird's belly. Do you know what I'm saying?

(01:09:20):
That's their no mess group of feeds. It's not junk
kicked all over the ground. And it's not those red
bebes that are filled up in cheap bird seed that
just get kicked to the ground. So what you thought
was cheap is actually expensive because you're not getting but
about half of what you put out there in the
birds tummy, maybe less in some cases. Let's take a

(01:09:41):
little break here and we will be back with your
calls at seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Well, that just reminds me good. My wife
has a patch of cherry to math. You have sun
gold and something else. I can't remember what the other
one was. Anyway, The vines are just sprawling and crawling everywhere.

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Somebody asked me about that yesterday as a matter of fact,
But what do you do about your tomatoes? In fact,
my daughter asked me about that. She has some vining
cherry type tomatoes at her house and some slicers, and
they're just crawling all over, flopping everywhere. And so here's
what I told her. I said, Number one, you can
just take those vines and just throw them back over

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the trellis, you know, if they're all the way to
the ground and crawling along, just throwing back on the
tomato cage or the trailers or whatever the fins are
going on, and just let them keep going. And when
the weather cools off, they'll start setting fruit again. The
cherry set fruit pretty good in the heat. Or you
could take the ends of the vines, let's say about
oh a foot from the end, take that vine and

(01:10:48):
just dig a little hole, you know it could be
let's say three inches four inches deep, and set it
down in the hole. Now, sometimes I'll take a coat
hanger and bend it into a U shape and make
a little peg, little staple thing to go down in
the ground to hold it underground, because when the wind
blows it's going to pull it up out of the ground.
Or sometimes I'll set a brick on it. But keep

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that area moist and within a very short time that
vine will produce roots, tomatoes root. Anytime you keep the
vine moist, it starts developing roots. Even in the air.
You'll see the little bumps on them. And once it's
well rooted, cut it away from the mother plant and
now it's its own plant. And get the mother plant

(01:11:29):
out of there with all the dead leaves, disease leaves,
spider mites, all that kind of stuff. Just get it
out of there. And you've already planted and gotten a
good head start on your fall tomato plants, and it's
time to get that done now and the next within
the next few weeks. You need to go ahead and
get that done. But those are your options on rejuvenating

(01:11:49):
a tomato patch. Let's head out to a test casita
and talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 17 (01:11:56):
Thank you so much, sir, Good morning. Today's problem is
too much water and.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
Too much heat.

Speaker 8 (01:12:03):
Here we go, my scary starry night.

Speaker 17 (01:12:05):
The high biscuits was looking kind of funny, so I
got my picture. This application did the analyzation according to
picture of this, and it said I was watering too much,
and it said to use baking soda water mix to
spray the plant. And after I did that yesterday, it
rang two inches again last night. Now my question is

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if I use micro my Microlife Ocean Harvest or Soil
Plant or my Biometrix seven one three, if I spray
my plants, will this protect my plants from either too
much water or not enough.

Speaker 6 (01:12:50):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
I don't agree with that app. I've seen those apps,
and they I don't know where they get there. It's
like a picture. I mean, I look at the picture.
I say it could be five different things, and the
app says it's this number. First of all, I would
not do not use baking soda on the plants. You
don't need that. I would all those fertilizers. Yeah, well,

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all those fertilizers are good for the roots, and I
would do that. And if you wanted to send me
a picture of the plant, let me look at it.
I'll be happy to assess it and we could talk
about you know, what you might need to do. I
can't picture your plant, but as far as the baking soda,
don't do that on that plant. And yeah, just just fertilizing,
get good vigor and good and the soil. Those fertilizers

(01:13:35):
are all gonna they're not going to burn your plants,
and you can use them and they'll work well.

Speaker 17 (01:13:41):
Okay, now the question, Now, the question is real quick.
I did spray it with the baking soda, but then
again too after I sprayed it, we got two inches
of rain last night. So that did that rain wash
it off the baking soda?

Speaker 6 (01:13:57):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
Probably no, probably did with two inches of run, but yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Hey Jim, thanks for that call. Good luck with good
luck with those And if you want to send me
that picture, I'm gonna put you on hold and if
you want to send me the picture, just hang on.
My producer will give you an email to do just that.

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Southwest Fertilizer, you know I talk about all the time
that they've got herbicides and sexicides, fungicides, fertilizers, I mean
everything you can imagine. If you're an organic gardener. This
is the place where you will find the widest selection
of organic products anywhere in the region. Okay, not just
in Southwest Houston. By the way, they're on the corner
of Bissonet and Renwick. They also have a little shop

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in the back where they can do some engine repairs.
You know, you need a blade sharpen. By the way,
One of the things people often forget is keeping the
more blade sharp. It makes clean cuts that makes the
lawn look better. It actually does a clean cut versus
a dull blade. It's easier on wear and tear on
your mower. If you got a battery operated mower, you

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can cut more yard with that battery charge with a
good sharp blade than you will with adult ones. Just
more work for the mower. Southwest Fertilizer for anything you're
looking for, been around seventy years because people know when
you go there you get good advice, friendly service, quality
products and great selection. Southwest Fertilizer dot com that is

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the website for them. We are in storm season. In
storm season is when we have tree issues. You get
a hurricane in here. You just get a storm in
here and a significant amount of damage can happen. Your
trees need from the time they're planted to be pruned properly,

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and Martin Spoon Moore's company, Affordable Tree Service can do
just that. Now, maybe you've got a tree that's older
and it's got some issues, have them come out and
look at it. Because you get a limb breakage, you're
looking at property damage, you're looking at damage to power lines, utilities.
You're looking at injury to people, significant injury to people.

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You want your trees to be healthy, you want them
to be stable. You don't want to have to pay
the cost of removal, which is very costly on a tree,
and you just want peace of mind when you're in
a storm. Well, that's what they're all about at Affordable
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this down and just keep it. Maybe maybe your neighbor
comes by two weeks from now and says, hey, who

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(01:16:50):
I'm gonna be having Ty Strickland from fix my slab
foundation repair after this break. Next hour we will be
taking calls about foundation types of issues for one hour.
If you've got a gardening question, hang on to the
nine o'clock hour and we'll come back to gardening questions then.
But we're gonna we're gonna ask Tye questions like what

(01:17:15):
about tree roots? Do they go underneath your foundation and
break it? What can I do to prevent that? You know?
How do I take care of my foundation? Because our
soils are shifting here all the time. Maybe you got
a driveway that's heaving. Do I have to tear it
up and put a new one in the enters? No
wait to hear what ty says can be done for
those big crack driveways that are heaving or sidewalks. I

(01:17:37):
drove put one the other day. It's like, I feel
sorry for any kid that went down that sidewalk on
his bicycle. I mean it was like almost a foot
and a half high. The tree root had broken up
this sidewalk like the San Andreas fault. All right, stick around,
we'll be right back after the news. Hey, welcome back

(01:18:05):
to garden Line. I hope you enjoyed that last hour.
I know a lot of people did based on the
comments I'm getting talking to Tystrickland fix my slab foundation
repair about all things foundations. You know, pretty much everybody
listening to me is living in a house and has
a tree in the yard, or your neighbor right next
door does, and therefore foundations are applicable.

Speaker 9 (01:18:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
Sometimes people say, well, that's not a gardening thing, Well,
yes it is. It absolutely is, and I think that
they're interesting things that we can do. That was very good.
If you missed that and are just tuning in, you
can listen to past shows on the website kt r
H website, go to the garden Line section or download

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the iHeartMedia app. You can listen to my past shows
also on the iHeartMedia app. And he also listened to
garden Line live on though our media app. So there
you go. Well, moving on, we're back in the business
of plant related calls and things, so feel free to
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They'll come in. They do things like radiant barriers in

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this oven right above the roof of your ceiling or
your ceiling in the house that's radiating heat down into
your house. Your AC is having to deal with that.

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How about having them put in fiberglass insulation. They can
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about the fact that that ceiling fan fixture that's up
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two five eight six twenty eight ninety three. Let's go
out to a Tascacita this morning. Now we're going to
talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line. My
pictures that I sent.

Speaker 17 (01:21:01):
I sent three pictures, one of one of the plants,
the story hibiscus, that looks good and the other one
that's not. And I just wanted you to compare the two.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
I did. Uh, which one are you talking about? The
one that the one that doesn't look good. Are you
talking about the green more greenish one, yes, or I'm
trying to see in the picture. Okay, yeah, okay, so
uh starry Hibiscus our starry night Hibiscus starring starry night,
to be specific, is one of the newer hibiscus varieties

(01:21:35):
that has the burgundy leaves. You know this, it's your plant,
but I'm just telling other people that are listening, and
whenever you get good, good sun exposure, plants that have
some color in the leaves color out better. That's true
with Chinese or a peddlum Chinese witch hazel. It's it's
just true with a number of plants that would have

(01:21:56):
colorful foliage, reddish burgundy colors in the sun. Then they
get in the shade not so much. If the plant
that's not coloring is in more shade. That would be
one reason that could happen. If we go through a
lot lower light intensity and you've got a lot of
vigorous growth, you may see some greening that will turn

(01:22:18):
a little darker with time. So it's going to be
one of those two things, Jim, I can't tell you
which one, but it's not a disease it's not an insect,
it's not anything. It's not a nutrient lack in the plant.

Speaker 17 (01:22:32):
Well, you're absolutely right. I do appreciate it, and thank
you so much for your help, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
Thanks for the call. Appreciate that you take care. Super
Turf by Nitrophoss is kind of a go to slowly
fertilizer here for the Greater Houston area. Was designed for
our soils in this area. It was also designed for
the types of turf. We have the Saint Augustine Bermuda gras,

(01:22:59):
Luysier gras, those those lawn species. It's going to go
about four months, about sixteen weeks out there. So when
you put super turf down, your good until we do
a fall fertilization. It is a silver bag, easy to find.
You walk into a store, you see fertilizers, the silver
bag that's Nitrofoss superturf. You're going to find it in
places like plants for all seasons. On two forty nine

(01:23:21):
Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, you go down Southwest
to Bearing Hardware a Bisonette and on West Timer you're
going to find both. Both of those places carry Nitroposs
products as well. Let's go now, to Marine out in Lakewood, Estates.
Hey Marine, good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
I have I think simple questions, but I'm not doing
wevery very well on what I should be feeding my
coravinca or my zinnia something called primrose. It has a
different name also, And then I just want to check
in the last one is do I really feed my hibiscus.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
Twice a month?

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
It's doing okay, but I don't want to overfeed it
because it's getting hot.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
Yes, so what let me take those backwards? Favorite feet?
A plant depends. It depends on the kind of fertilizer
that you're using. Like I just talked about nitrovass super turf.
You could fertilize a lawn every six weeks with nitrofoss
sweet green. But if you're going to use superturf, you're

(01:24:35):
only going to fertilize about every four months because that's
how long it lasts. So that's true of the fertilizers
you use for your flowers too, And it's also a
function marine of how much fertilizer you put down. You know,
you a little tiny little bit, you can do it
very frequently. And so that's the thing. The point they're
making about the hibiscus is is you want to keep
it vigorous and growing and healthy, and it does its

(01:24:57):
best that way, and so that's reason. Now as far
as what fertilizer, the folks that Nelson have two different products.
They have a product for hibiscus specifically, it's part of
their Nutrient Star line. The mix ratio of nutrients in
it is excellent for hibiscus. But they also have something

(01:25:17):
called color Star and color Star for anything blooming is
going to work well, and these come in jars. There's
about a dozen places around town where you can take
the jar back and refill it for a lower cost
and avoid having a third plastic away. But those products
would be what I would recommend for anything flowering, which
is basically the list of things that you gave me.

Speaker 8 (01:25:41):
Oh good, Okay, Well, the high biscus is doing well,
and so I did measure the pots because.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
The directions I try to follow directions if I still
have them on the container.

Speaker 8 (01:25:54):
So that's okay. So mys is doing well, I'll continue.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
But no problem with the Corvinca zinia, which are a
son loving So you're saying color Star.

Speaker 5 (01:26:06):
Is great for them.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
Color Star, yep, color Star. All of those just follow
the label I will.

Speaker 8 (01:26:15):
I'm good, all right, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
All right, you bet if if you're happy, I'm happy.
We're gonna go to a break folks when we come back,
Mike and Lake Jackson, you'll be our first stop. All right,
welcome back, guys. Good to visit with you. Hey, Buchanan's
Native Plants. I was there just the other day visiting.
In fact, we had Zach Buchannon on the show and

(01:26:40):
just talking about all kinds or no, we're gonna have
excuse me, we're gonna have Zach Buchannon on the show
talking about native plants tomorrow during the eight o'clock hour.
So give us a call during the eight o'clock hour
if you have a question about that tomorrow. Okay, we're
gonna go really into all kinds of things about natives.
I think you really enjoy this one. But Buchanan's is

(01:27:03):
on eleven Street and the Heights, and you know, I
was walking through that their new checkout area, the new
little barn area where you check out doesn't matter if
it's sunny, rainy, whatever, it's a nice, nice place to
stand and check out. Now, I really like that one.
But the selection that they have is just amazing, from
the house plants to the fruit trees to the things

(01:27:24):
that do well in the shade. I bought me some
stuff for shade of myself over there, and you know
it's I don't know. It's just a fun place to shop,
great gift shops and plenty of supplies. You know, fertilizers
you hear me talk about on Guardline all the time,
and soil products you hear me talk about. But when
it comes to natives, nobody as a selection that they do.

(01:27:46):
And I mean not just natives, Like, yeah, it grows
in Texas somewhere, which could be I'll pass. So that
doesn't necessarily make it a good plant for Houston, does
it well? But they have natives even for Harris County.
They have a table with just plants that grow here
and here or grow here in Houston, native native habitat
in Harris County. Buchanan's Native Plants. They're experts, they know

(01:28:09):
their stuff, and you need to go to their website
Buchanans Plants dot com. Buchanan's Plants dot com. That's where
you're going to find a ton of helpful information and
you've got to sign up for their newsletter. You'll love it.
Let's uh, let's go now to Lake Jackson and we're
going to talk to Mike this morning. Hey, Mike, welcome
to garden Line. Yeah, yep.

Speaker 9 (01:28:29):
I've got a gregf tree that's about seven years old,
and uh yeah, I think I treat it good. I've
got a lemon tree that's about thirty feet from it.
It blooms all the time. That this thing is never
put a bloom on it. And you know, I use
the Medina citrus pcan, the yeah Medina plus, and every

(01:28:54):
so often I sprinkle epsit salt around it, and yeah,
it'll make leaves and that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
But uh, I just can't get it to bloom.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
Is it very thorny or not very thorny?

Speaker 5 (01:29:08):
No thorns, no thorn, I can see the graft.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
Yeah. Yeah, Well for a for a grapefruit or an
eat broad tree to bloom, it needs to be in
decent health and it needs to have lots of sunlight.
And so if your tree sounds like it's in decent health,
if it's right by some other centrist, it's blooming. Unless
it's in less sunlight.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
It has everything it needs than the limon tree.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
And that and that weird.

Speaker 9 (01:29:45):
If you'd suggested digging a hole and filling it with water,
and you see how it percolates. And I did that
and you water, it doesn't stand there, you know, Yeah,
you can watch the level go down.

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
So I try to keep the water and yeah, I heard.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Well, you know there's not well, I mean, if it's
excessive growth, I mean, you know, it's like just growing
like crazy. You may be pushing it with too much nitrogen.
And when we do that to plants in general, we
can have a reduction in production. But it sounds like
you're doing everything right to me. So I'm not sure

(01:30:22):
why that tree isn't isn't blooming for you.

Speaker 9 (01:30:25):
Maybe it does, it'll put out leaves, but it didn't
really grow. You know, I got a orange tree that's
about fifteen feet away from it, and it's well, I
have to, you know, to keep them from freezing. You know,
I have to trim them back a little bit to
keep the cover on it. But you know, it's never
frozen or you know, lost leaves, you know, due to that.

(01:30:47):
But you know, it's just seems like you didn't do anything.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
Yeah, so we've eliminated the most likely causes of it
not blooming. And you're saying it's not blooming, it's not.
I want to make sure that you're not telling me
it blooms but doesn't except fruit, but that it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:31:08):
I've never seen Okay, well I did see a blue
on it in a body.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Yeah, if you want to send me a picture of it,
let me look at it and see if in the
setting or anything up clothes, I can see anything. I'll
be happy to take a look. But I don't. I
don't know why that thing isn't blooming, other than it
maybe just needs a little more time. That's possible. But
seven years it should if it's a grafted tree, seven years,

(01:31:38):
you should be getting something for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
Yeah, not longer, you said. Well, sometimes you just got
to pull them up and struggle over again. They did.
They haven't got so much money of this.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Yeah, you know it's not going to work.

Speaker 5 (01:31:52):
It's not going to work.

Speaker 1 (01:31:53):
Yeah, well, i'll give you. I'll give you a humorous
tongue in cheeks solution. I knew this is a true story.
There was an old guy that had a pecan tree
that wouldn't produce well, and he walked out and he
fired up a chainsaw and walked around the tree and said,
if you don't start having pecans next year, I'm coming

(01:32:13):
back and own to finish the job. So I don't
know if that if that'll work or not. Sorry, I'm
not able to give you a good answer on that one, Mike,
but I will take a look at a picture if
you I'm gonna put you on hold, but you can
hang up if you want, or you could give a
get my email. All right, all right, thank you very much.

(01:32:35):
I appreciate that Nelson Nursery and water Garden down there
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a little bit on the side there. First of all,
it's nationally known for what they do with water gardens.
They've invented things like the disappearing fountain they have. If

(01:32:57):
you need a pond built, if you want to get
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gorgeous fountain where water goes over the sides and recirculates,
they can do all that, or they can advise you
on how to do it. If you want to take
that route when it comes to plants, when it comes
to products like fertilizers and soils to take care of
your plants. Get everything set up right. They got you covered.

(01:33:18):
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(01:33:40):
and Water Gardens out there in Katie, Texas. You can
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We're going to go now to Northwest Houston and talk
to Gwen. Hello, Gwen, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:33:53):
Hello, Hi, Hi, I guess you want my question, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 15 (01:34:02):
All right.

Speaker 18 (01:34:03):
Early last spring, a year and a half ago, I
put down new sod Saint Augustine, and it was beautiful.
This year it is just I didn't even notice when
it started, but it looks like something that I might
call a brown patch. But brown patch is a symptom
of a grass problem. It's certainly not the cause of it.

(01:34:24):
So my guys they dug this grass up, a lot
of it and they tossed it away. Now I have
this dirt around some decent grass, but I've got to
put new sawd Do I treat the sod? I don't
know what the problem was.

Speaker 1 (01:34:42):
No, you don't treat the sod. I wish I could
have seen it before they pulled it out. Then I
could probably tell you more about it. But I would
put it in in this hot weather new sod. First
of all, it needs to be pressed down so there's
contact between the soil the sod came with and the
soil in your yard. It needs to not have any

(01:35:04):
airspace under there. Water twice a day for a week,
and then back off to about once a day in
the heat of summer, and then from there you can
back off the you know, going toward twice a week
and it'll be just fine. Normally we don't water grass
that often, but with the demands on it and the

(01:35:25):
fact that the new side's only going to have about
a half inch long route hanging down there, you need
to water frequently just to get it established right now,
and then as it gets going if you start to
see any any symptoms, send me some photos.

Speaker 18 (01:35:40):
I've got some photos that I took before we pulled
the grass up. One of my employees just all right
demands me listen to him that I need to put
dawn dish washing liquid on it, and the other employee
just says, I need to treat it for some.

Speaker 5 (01:35:56):
Kind of a bug.

Speaker 18 (01:35:57):
Okay, yeah, I'll send you some pictures of you'll give
me your email address.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
I'm putting you on hold and my producer will do
that right now. Thank you, Gwen. I appreciate, appreciate your
call very much. B and B Turf Pros. It is
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come out, they've got very nice equipment and they can
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That's a proper way to airate. Take cores out and
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with a compost top dressing and they you know, it's
amazing the work they do. They service the area from
like Sugarland and Missouri City, all the way across down
Highway six and across past Perland and Friendswood over to
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big the lawn is and how far they have to drive.
But I can tell you this, it's a lot less
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This family owned company will provide you honest, quality work.
I've seen the befoors and afters and it is amazing.
Let's see. Uh head out now to Rebecca in Tumble. Hey, Rebecca,

(01:37:36):
welcome to Garden Line. Hottie. Hi you you just had
Tie on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:37:44):
Who's my husband?

Speaker 19 (01:37:45):
And I asked him to ask.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
Us I've met you too? Yeah, we yes, And.

Speaker 19 (01:37:52):
We're building a retaining wall for drainage and we have
to put a flower bed in it. I want to
know what's the easiest thing that I don't even have
to look at to put in. And it's going to
be shallow, a retaining walk with some color.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Oh you do plants.

Speaker 19 (01:38:15):
Well, I think the wall is going to be two
feet wide.

Speaker 1 (01:38:19):
So okay, yeah, okay, And Rebecca, I'm up against a
break that is that is very that is very hard.
Hang on, I'm gonna we're gonna come back to that, uh,
to that question, and I want to have more time
to be able to help you with it.

Speaker 9 (01:38:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
Okay, all right, folks, got to go to a quick break.
We'll be right back to finish Rebecca's call and with
your calls at our seven one three two one two
ktr H. All right, welcome back to guard Line, folks.
We're here to answer your gardening questions. And by the way, uh,
if you haven't been to an Ace hardware store lately,
you need to go to one. I'm telling you this

(01:38:59):
is not sure Father's hardware store. They have all the
stuff Dad's hardware Store and Grandpa's Hardware Store had, Yes, absolutely,
but they have so much more. Right now is barbecue season, right,
We're in the big middle of it. They got grills
from Trager, they got grills from Big Green Egg, from
Weber and many other brands including Rectech, which is what

(01:39:21):
I use AP pellet grill from Rectech. I love it.
Got it at Ace Hardware Store and all the supplies
you need to go with them. When you go to Ace,
ask them about the free set up and delivery and
setup of grills. I think it's over four hundred dollars
an up. I believe that they do free delivery and
set up, and boy, they had mind waight a' done

(01:39:43):
because it is well well built. Ace Hardware stores places
like Ken and Ace Hardware and Kingwood on Kingwood Drive,
All Star, Ace and Magnolia Portlovaka, Ace on Calhoun Plaza,
Kilgore's Ace to the Southeast on clear Lake on East Main,
and Katie Hardware on Pino in Old Town. Katie, We're
going to get back now with our conversation with Rebecca. Rebecca,

(01:40:04):
sorry for having to cut that in half, but you
were asking for plants that you could put in a
retaining wall bed right.

Speaker 19 (01:40:12):
Yes, it's I think it's two foot wide and three
foot deep and we can irrigate it. I just want
something I don't ever want have to mess with again.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
Oh okay, well, you know greenery is certainly an option.
A bed that size, a very dwarf shrub could work
in it. If you're looking for color. Most of the
color plants are annuals or perennials. With annuals, you're having
to replant them seasonally. With perennials, they tend to have

(01:40:45):
their season where they look the best, and then there
are seasons where they don't. But there are some beautiful plants,
the esperanza, the yellow bells that you see, it gets
quite tall, but that would be one if it's a
sunny spot that would do really well.

Speaker 6 (01:40:59):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:41:00):
By the way, how much sun or shade does that area?

Speaker 19 (01:41:02):
Again, it's full sun. And before we've had knockouts in
that place, which I like, but it was in our
natural soils, so it had too much clay and they
didn't bloom as much. And this we're gonna be able
to put our own soil in it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
So yeah, something like that, Yeah, I would. I would
get a good quality bed, mixed soil and and and
fill it up in there and you could grow a knockout.
Knockouts now come in more forms and colors than they
did before. But that's a rose that is just bulletproof.

(01:41:40):
It does very very well. There's some other good they're
gonna bloom for you. Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna bloom
for you in cycles through the year. So if you
like knockout, I do too. I think that would be
a good one to try to use in there a
lot of the other plants. If you're gonna you don't
have to get out and pamper them and you know,

(01:42:02):
try to keep them happy and growing. So I think
the knockout maybe, or a rose in general, maybe the
best way to go for that for continuing bloom. There's
one o the plant and it's called thrialice. It's th
h r y.

Speaker 9 (01:42:21):
L l.

Speaker 1 (01:42:25):
I as spelling matter, it's thrialice. My brain isn't spelling
right now. But it is a evergreen that will die
to the ground in when we get a good hard
winter freeze or die back.

Speaker 9 (01:42:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
But it blooms for more of the year than anything
I can think of. I mean, the minute we get
to spring, it's blooming, and then it'll carry all the
way into the first hard freeze. It's yellow clusters of blooms.
And the more you share it, the more it blooms.
If you don't share it, it's fine. It'll make a
big bush with blooms. But as you keep it a

(01:42:59):
little more compact with a shearing or two, it's smaller
and it even blooms more. But that's a tough one.
It's also disease resistant. If you're up there in Tomba
in an area where you might have deer, I said disease,
I meant deer.

Speaker 19 (01:43:14):
Okay, So three allist does it bloom? Is it more
greenery or more bloom?

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
Well, it's nice green foliage, but once it starts blooming,
it's like you can't catch it out of bloom. And
it's covered with yellow blooms, clusters of yellow blooms at
the ends of each little shoot. That's why when you
share it, well was one shoot, Now you get two
that rea sprout or three, and so you have three
terminals with blooms on them instead of one. You just

(01:43:45):
do a shearing or two early on, right, and it's
even better. I've got one that I haven't gotten around
to sharing, and it still looks good. It's just up
about four feet high right now. So one of those two,
whatever your aesthetics prefer.

Speaker 16 (01:43:59):
Very good.

Speaker 19 (01:44:00):
I gotta say about your ace hardware go to Jones
Road for the ladies out there. Any gift you want
to get to forgive for anybody, you can buy it there.
In addition to hardware.

Speaker 1 (01:44:14):
I know I've been in that store. Oh gosh, if
you like the farmhouse looking doors, they've got a whole
section for that, and yeah, just pretty cool. Well, listen,
you're talking about if you don't want to have to
take care of a plant, you're talking about not one
have to take care of this plant. Won't tie do
all the work for you. I mean, just point and
tell him that needs trimming, that needs fertilizing. He doesn't

(01:44:37):
have anything else to.

Speaker 19 (01:44:38):
Do, right, He's really really, he's so slow. He's never
busy he does Yeah, he's just laying around the house
all the time.

Speaker 8 (01:44:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
I don't see how he I don't see how he
gets it all done. Hey, thanks Rebecca. I appreciate you
those plants.

Speaker 15 (01:44:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
You bet all right, let's see Nature's Way resources up
north of Houston on the way to Tomball on the
right hand side, right where fourteen eighty eight comes in
from the left. Instead of going left toward Magnolia, you
turn right and cross railroad tracks and you're a Nature's Way.
These folks have been making the best quality soils you're

(01:45:18):
gonna find anywhere for a very very long time, from
back when John Ferguson started it and operated it to
now his son Ian running the place. Roast soil was
born there, leaf moole compost was born there, and many
other things as well. If you want a fungal based
compost which work well, I use it myself. They have
a very good sales called Fungo Friday, and that they

(01:45:39):
have some others special Just talk to them, Just talk
to about it. Go to the website Nature'sway Resources dot
com Nature'sway Resources dot com. You can get the phone numbers.
You can give them a call. Go by there and
get a good quality product. And also their bags are
sold in a number of places as well. Nature's Way
Resources dot Com. Let's see here, John and Humble. I

(01:46:03):
am down to a short enough time that I'm gonna
I'm gonna go to break and then come back to
you so I can give you a little bit more time.
We'll be right back, folks. Hey, welcome back to the
guard Line. Folks. We got our last segment of the day.
I'll be here in the morning. Six am bright eyed
and bushy tailed. Won't you join me? Then Sunday morning,
six to ten, let's go out to Umble now and

(01:46:25):
talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:46:29):
Hey, good morning everybody. I got a problem with thatch
or dead grass. I think you call it thatch. Anyways,
I'm looking what can I do to get rid of it?
And then after I get it off the lawn, what
do I do to treat it to help? It's almost
like the grass is standing out.

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
That's a good question. So just so unclear where you're
seeing that that there's also a living lawn. There's just
thatch in there inside it? Right, yes, sir? Or is
everything down?

Speaker 5 (01:47:01):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:47:01):
No, it's it's still got you know, plenty of grass.
But you can see it down there on the you know,
on the on the ground in between the blades of
grass just looks to me dead grass or thatch.

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
I guess what everybody calls it.

Speaker 12 (01:47:14):
Just trying to understand what to do to get it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:16):
Okay, you bet, all right, here's here's what you did.
First of all, it's it's not easy to do in
our southern turf grasses because they crawl around with stolens
on the surface, and when you try to deep that,
you just rip everything up and it's it's a mess.
But what you can do is core aeration where they

(01:47:36):
pop a plug out and drop it on the soil,
followed by compost top dressing. What that's doing is it's
creating a microbially rich zone through that thatchy area and
it decomposes faster. When you do that, it helps speed
the decomposition. You want to back off on fertilizing and

(01:47:58):
watering a little bit. The more you fertilize with nitrogen,
the faster the grass grows. And so if you picture
these runners like snakes crawling all through your lawn, the
faster they're going, the more runners are left crawling over
each other, and the more thatch you create, whether it's
Saint Augustine's suisia or Bermuda grass, you get that faster

(01:48:18):
that way. So back off. It doesn't mean don't fertilize.
It just means let's keep it healthy without overdoing it.
And watering has the same effect too. If you let
it still a little bit dryer, that wet enough to
be healthy, but just a little bit on the dryer side.
That also helps slow down that runner growth a little bit,

(01:48:41):
and that helps the clippings you put that you make
with your mower, that's not going to create the thatch.
In fact, they decompose so fast it may even help
a little bit because they're like just nitrogen dropped there
on the surface.

Speaker 12 (01:48:57):
Okay, so aerate it and then put some job dressing
on it.

Speaker 1 (01:49:02):
Are eight and compost top dress back off on the fertilizing.

Speaker 15 (01:49:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:49:07):
And I some folks think that there are some of
the fungicides that we put down because they killed funguses
and things that might have an effect on decomposition of
thatch a little bit, because it's being decomposed by not
just bacteria, but also the fungi can be involved in
that as well. So maybe just don't overdo fungicide treatments.

(01:49:32):
If you don't have to do them, don't do them. Yes, sir,
I do appreciate ready, Thank you, Thank you appreciate that
call very much. Take care. Sanamaltz down south of Houston
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(01:49:56):
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(01:50:18):
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You're going to find a place that has top quality products,
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(01:51:02):
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eighty eight, over one hundred colors they can cope with.
Coating is better than painting, and you're going to be
very impressed. I mean, it'll make your furniture like new,
absolutely like new. I was visiting with folks from spring
Creek Feet a while back. Sprin Creek is up in
the Magnolia area on FM twenty nine to seventy eight,

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kind of north and little east of Tumbule and just
minutes away from Grand Parkway, by the way and to
forty nine. They carry the fertilizers you hear me talk
about from turf Star and Microlife and nitrofoss. When you
walk in, you're gonna get great service, very friendly service,
very helpful folks. I always kind of like to try

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to give you a picture. First of all, you drive
up and you see this big, beautiful, giant it looks
like a barn, just giant, beautiful, beautiful thing. There's plants
and all kinds of stuff spilling out the sides in
front of the store. You walk in off to the
left or all your quality dog foods, you know brands
Victor Purina, quality brands of pet food. You look straight
ahead and it's like, oh my gosh, I can stock

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my house up with all kinds of beautiful things. It's
really nice, beautiful store. And then off to the right,
that's a sweet spot in my opinion, because that's where
all the gardening stuff is. The products to control weeds,
to control pests, to control diseases. Check them out Spring,
Creek Feed and Magnolio on FM twenty nine seventy eight eight. Well,

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you've been listening to garden Line and I was going
to get to talking to you. Oh, I think I'm
going to just go ahead and mention it earlier ones.
I don't want to tell you about my Vitex. Vitex
is really bad about sprouting. You cut off a side
branch and you get ten of them that sprout out
of that cut spot. There are products you can put
on and it's called sucker stopper, and you need to

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do that. You you make the cut, you apply them
to the wound. You don't get re sprouting. And I'm
not trying to sell you sucker stopper. That's just a
brand name of one of these products. But they work.
I've done it. If you've got crpe myrtles that are
doing that same thing. Sucker stopper got to put some
on there. It's amazing how well that works. All right,
we've got a little bit of time. We're going to
run out to Harlan Jen talk to Eric. Hey, Eric,

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welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:54:28):
Hey Skip, thanks for taking my call. I've got a
San Augustine lawn and we got flooded out a few
months ago, and we haven't been in the house for
a while, and the lawn has gotten away from us.
And I discovered that I think, well, I think I've
discovered that I have grubs going on in my lawn,
a big areo grass.

Speaker 8 (01:54:50):
This is all died out, excuse me?

Speaker 11 (01:54:53):
And so what what what's the best way to treat that?

Speaker 1 (01:54:59):
Okay? Or are you in Harlingen or are you here
in the Houston area.

Speaker 11 (01:55:04):
It is oling but basically the same climate.

Speaker 1 (01:55:08):
So long you can still yeah, right, you can still
download my schedule from gardening with Skip dot com and
it tells you when to treat for grubs. Here we
start in June and through June you use one type
of product. Then for July and August you can still treat,
but the grubs have gone down deeper and you have
to switch products. But it's on the schedule now for you.

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June is going to become mid May as the start
of all this. Because your your climate's a little you
get to spring a little faster than we do. Not much,
but a little bit, right, So go to gardening with
Skip dot Com. I don't have time to read you
the products, but it's on the schedule there. Gardening with
Skip dot com. First line of the lawn pest, disease

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and weed management schedule is insects, and as you go
across it tells you about grubs and chinchbugs, which are
the two primarily primary once you're going to have in
your area, not so much the sodweb worms down there.

Speaker 12 (01:56:06):
All right, all right, sir, I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (01:56:08):
I'll check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:56:09):
Thank you, Hey, you bet, thanks for calling. Just send
me what a bushel basket of citrus next harvest season
we'll call it even take care eric. Appreciate that. Appreciate that.
Oh wow, it's been a fun, good day. I hope
you enjoyed it. I had a good time. We're gonna

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be back tomorrow morning, six am to do the same
thing again. Won't you write down this phone number? Stick
it on your refrigerator or buy the phone seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four