You Do Not Have a Brown Thumb!

You Do Not Have a Brown Thumb!

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Ricter Shmell the crazy in the basis gas can use
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begin you did. There are so many good things to
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began you did. Scos back ticking. They're not a sun.
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Tevi presit. The Gassi said gas the can you jam
the first starting in a dreaming in the gases.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Like gas became you did.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Everything is so clean.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And see and never thing is a sound.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Tell you in the sand.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's right, just Smarry so well, good morning gardeners. Well
I told you yesterday is gonna be a good day,
and oh my gosh, was it ever good. Appreciate having
D and D having us come out yesterday. Had a

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good time out there. D and De feed outside of
Tomball on the West Side. And thanks for everybody that
came by. It's good to visit with you. We spent
a lot of time talking plans, my favorite topic to
talk about. If you would like to give me a
call this morning, Well, this is a calling show by
the way you set the agenda, and if I don't
hear from you, I'm going to tell you the things

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that I got on my mind this morning regarding gardening.
After thirty five years, no, it's been forty years now
of doing this sort of thing advising gardeners, I pretty
much know what the questions are each time of the year,
but you guys always come up with new ones. I
tell you, gardening is unlimited when it comes to the
possible topics we can talk about. So if you have

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a question seven one three two one two five eight
seven four five eight seven four, if you've got some
furniture outside that is looking a little worse for the wear,
metal furniture, iron furniture, wrought iron furniture, even aluminum furniture.
You know, I remember when we were growing up, we
had those those chairs, and how do I describe it

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was tubular metal and typically like the arms, the metal
tube that went around and everything was white and then
the seats would be some primary color like red or
yellow or something like that, and they were beautiful, like shiny,
shiny paint. Job. Those kind of things they start to rust,
but that's a cool, valuable piece of furniture. And you

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can take it to Houston Powder Coaders. They can take it,
get all the rust and stuff off, those little rusty bolts,
will put new stainless steel ones on and they just
do whatever's needed. If you got furniture that has straps
on it or things like that, they'll replace those. Make
it like new. Its bottom line, make it like new.
And I say when you take it to them, they
couldn't get it if you want. I mean, they can

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just come right to wherever you are, pick it up,
get the job done. If you go to the website,
you can see some of the work that they do
at Houston Powdercoders dot com. And if you want to
give them a call, I recommend you do. You can
take a picture of your furniture and email it to
them and they can send you pretty quick a quote
right back telling you what it would take to get

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that job done. Now this isn't just furniture. I mean,
if you've got a piece of rustic iron metal on
the side of your house, you know it's rusting and
starting to stain the brick and stuff, why don't you
have them coat it? If you say, well, I like
the rust color, They've got one hundred colors. They got
probably five different colors that look like rust that they
can put on it. Two eight one six seven six

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thirty eight eighty eight. That's how you get a hold
of them. Two eight one seven six thirty eight eighty eight.
Let's let's go on out to the phones right now.
We're going to go to Tomball and talk to Mel
this morning. Hello, Mel, you're the early bird today. Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Oh yeah, good morning, glad to happy to meet you
over at D and D yesterday it was great.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
I sent you, I thank you. I sent you a
photo yesterday morning when I got on the air early early,
and it was about fungus. And last night I checked
my emails and evidently I got one from you talking
about that photo. And I just want to say that's

(04:41):
legit because I got a little warning thing on the
bottom of it, you know, so I got to be
careful of all this.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
So yes, yes, your photo was, Yeah, it was legit.
Your photo was some granules microlife that were on the
surface and they had a little white fuzz on them,
and that's just pat you're doing. What it does. Micro
Life's organic matter and it basically you know, it was
starting to be worked on by by all the things

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that turn anything that's organic back into soil. So just
I just suggested you scratch it on the surface.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, excuse me, But what I was worrying about. It's
I got this thing from you, and it says, may
I keep and use your photo?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, that's a cool photo. And so I don't just
take photos of people send me and use them without permission.
But I'll ask and if you it's okay with you,
I'll hold them in the group. Who knows when I
might have a good use for that, and so anyway,
all right.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Well, good, very good. I appreciate, I appreciate the honor.
And I was so my was sure you can use it?
Is this okay to tell you?

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, go ahead to shoot me? Shoot me a note
just so just so I know.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
All right, that's all I needed, sir.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
One word? All right, mel thanks thanks for coming out,
and hope you have a good spring. All righty, there
you go. Yeah, organic materials on the surface, especially something
as nutrient rich as microlife, it's gonna it's gonna attract
microbial activity. That's how an organic fertilizer becomes a fertilizer

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for your plants. See if you can take things that
are organic, even like a cow pie on the prairie
lands on the ground, and it just doesn't dissolve because
it's nutrients. It is microbially breaking down and the nutrients
in it are released by microbial activity. And it could

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be bacteria, it could be back to the miceeeds, it
could be archaic, could be a fungi. There's a lot
of different kinds of microbes that work on organic matter
and when when that happens, those are released and the
plant gets them. So all organic fertilizer has somewhat of
a slow release factor to it, maybe significant, maybe just

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my but it does have that feature, and that it's
because that's what nature does. That's exactly what nature does,
all right, So don't be alarmed by that. I usually
scratch those things into the surface. If you got pets,
they'll like microlife. My dogs, I have to unless I

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want my garden cultivated them digging around. I have to
kind of scratch it under the surface, put a little
ulch over it or something, because they enjoy it. And
it's that just tells you how safe microlife products are.
They are not they are not a concern at all.
And the gran news. You know, we're about to get
that green bag, which is the typical one people use
for lawn food. It's not the only one you can use,

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but it's the one most people use. It's a six
two four by Microlife and put it out in the lawns.
I use it in my gardens. As I was saying,
that's primarily what I use in vegetable garden I have
is microlife and just put it down, scratch it in
now in a lawn. You know, every time you add it,
it's just going to the soil gets richer, and it

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is my organic and so it is going to help
with building the soil very slowly over time from the surface.
And so yeah, it's just a good round round you
just do it slowly. In an organic world, things move slow, okay.
And that's how nature is. And when I say the
organic world, I'm not talking about organic products only, I'm

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talking about nature itself. Things move slow. Soil doesn't go
from a heavy clay, a dense clay to suddenly just
being all friable and loose. And you can stick your
hand down to your elbow, you know, and the soil.
It takes time to do that. That's how nature works.
But that's a good thing, and so just be patient,

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build it slowly over time. We live in a world
of instant right, and yeah, not necessary, not necessarily the
way to go gradually over time. It's a good thing.
Leak City feed down in Leagues, Texas. There's no surprise there.
In fact, if you go to Lake City, they're on
Highway three, a few blocks south of ninety six. They

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carry all of the products you hear me talk about
on garden Line, like products from nitrofoss Asumite, Microlife, Nelson
plant Food. They carry bags of heirloom soil products as
well as things that you use to control pest, weeds
and diseases. It's easy and it's a good place to go.
You know. It's an old time service, been around for
over forty years now, and they basically just treat you

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like family. You know, you come in and buy something,
they'll be happy to carry stuff out the car for
you and get you loaded. And they're open from nine
to six Monday through Saturday. Close today Monday through Saturday
nine to six. That way, you can swing by after
work if you want to give them a call two
eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Let's go to

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a break right here, and when we come back, Betsy,
you'll be our first stop.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
Could save you for.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh I think so little pure Prairie League this morning.
Welcome back to Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to hope you have beauty and bounty and
a good time along the way. That is how I
like to do it. You know, gardening is i in
my opinion, the best hobby that there is. Now I'm biased,
but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. What hobby gives you

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the level of enjoyment and relaxation and exercise at the
same time, and also health benefits of good food. I mean,
there you go. So many psychological benefits of gardening that
have been proven by scientific studies. All right, there you go.

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Night Foss Imperial is a product that is the quick
greenup that we talk about on my gardening schedules. Now
that's an optional application in the spring, but if you
want to get a good greenup early on night Fass
Imperial fifteen five to ten, we'll do that. Our grasses
are waking up. They're not ready to just take off

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grow fast, fast fast, like they will when the weather
warms up in about a month and two months maybe
from now.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
But the the.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Benefit of it is the nutrients go in the soil,
the plant takes it up, and the plant is able
to have that nitrogen that's needed that's important in greenup.
So that's night Foss and Perial. Where do you get it?
You can get it at Bearing's Hardware on Biscinet or
on west Timer. You can get it at Hiden and
Feed which is on Stupent Airline. Just a couple of
places there, of many they carry night Foss products. Alrighty,

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just about to click on a call and it popped
off the screen. Somebody had to run do something.

Speaker 8 (11:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
If you have a question you'd like to visit about
let's talk seven one three, two, one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two five eight
seven four one thing about night fresh products. All the
ACE hardware stores carry night Fast products. Everyone I've ever
been in at least carries night Frost.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
ACE is all over the place. My group here for
the Guardenline radio show. It covers from Orange, Texas all
the way down to let's see Port Arth or Port
Lavaka and Rockport down that direction and everything in between.
Like there's an ACE on Spring Cypress up north part

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of town. It's called Spring Ace. There's one out northeast
called Crosby Ace. We got Langham Creek Ace, which is
on five twenty nine in Cypress Plantation Ace if here
down southwest toward Richmond Rosenberg, it's on Mason Road down there.
And then there is the Victoria ACE which is on
Navarro Street down south. So lots of ACE hardware stores

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to choose from. Oh is another one, Champions Ace, which
is on Spring Cypress up in Spring. So go to
ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace Hardware Texas dot Com.
Find your ACE Hardware store and see what's going on.
There's always something happening there. I know when we had
the freeze, they were loaded up on every kind of
freeze supply protection you needed for inside, outside, you name it.

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Right now, we're getting into spring, at spring cleaning time.
You need to replace those air filters. Don't forget those up.
You're supposed to do them once a month. I believe
that's what they tell me. Do you need cleaning supplies
for indoors or outdoors? Does that deck need preserving. You know,
you occasionally need to go back in and put a
preservative on it to make sure that wood doesn't decay.

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Way paint everything you can imagine for every season of
the year. As we get into spring, we're gonna want
to make those patios nice. But the main thing we're
doing right now, especially here on garden lines, we're making
our lawns and our gardens look good. And ACE has
all the fertilized supplies you need to do just that.
ACE Hardware texes dot com. I have so many garden

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projects that have just exploded all at once. I actually
did a propagation on some climbing roses that I had
in the back, and I did a kind of unique way.
I took the one of the little hanging vines or
shoots of the climbing rose that was hanging down and

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I bent it until it cracked, not snapped in two,
but just cracked kind of like an elbow, and I
put it down in a pot and I tied the pot.
It got a long story how I did that, but anyway,
tied the pot up and then I just put water
in the pot occasionally, uh, and the darn things rooted
of course, when you wound something a plant tissue, it

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can form callous and from callus you get roots. So anyway,
they were hanging in the air growing and I clipped
them off and brought them in well maybe two or
three weeks ago, and I just didn't look at them good.
But I've noticed spider mites are on those things. Now
it's too cool outside for spider mites to be proliferating,
but in my house they are proliferating on there. So

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I almost you a little video I'll post it to
our social media of the spider mites, how you see
their damage, what it looks like. And I'm also going
to tell you about how I did that. That propagation.
It's kind of an unusual thing. It's a little bit
of a I think it's a little tedious to do
it that way, but I'm always trying to do something different,
trying to find out what are the different ways we
have for propagating plants. And it's fun. That's one of

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the fun parts about plants is being able to make
more of them yourself. Let's go out to the phones now,
we're gonna talk to Arthur this morning. Hey, Arthur, where
are you calling from.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
I'm all the rest here.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
I mean Kennedy, all right, Kennedy, Texas. Yes, Oh my gosh,
are you hearing me on the radio over there?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, I'm online.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay, good Well, I used to go to Kennedy all
the time on the way to run y text go Florsville, Kennedy,
carn City. I know that area. Well, welcome to garden Line.
How can we help.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I love asparagus that I've never tried to grow it.
And I've got some raised beds that I've old molasses
tubs that they fill up for cattle that I've made
in the raised beds. And all right, so you tell
me everything you know about it.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, well, here's here's what you want to do. You
want to get a good quality soul mix. Don't just
use soil from the ground. Get you a good quality mix.
Fill it up, water down a little bit, make sure
it's settled down. Put the asparagus down on the ground.
You can go online. I want to give you a
website where there's a free publication on asparagus. Okay, it's

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the Aggie Horticulture website. Just search for egg and horticulture
and on there you'll see you see a vegetable thing,
you click on and when you get there, you see
an easy gardening series and you click on that, and
there is a publication on every vegetable you could grow,
from asparagus to zucchini. It's really good. So to tell

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you how deep the planet. You put those crowns down
in the ground, fairly deep, deeper than you would normally
think about, and then just water and fertilize it. Just
continue small amounts of nitrogen. Don't let it dry out,
and it's going to take a couple of years for
that crown to develop enough size where you can actually

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get a good harvest out of it. But that crown
builds up. Go ahead, how.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Many crowds can I put? Like a four by four area?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Those buckets are only about foot and a half across.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Right, No, No, these are the ones that they actually
come out with a truck and still full of liquid
and molasses. Four foot by four foot?

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Oh uh, well, I guess you could do four. I've
never tried growing in it like that. But if you
put them two feet apart, a foot from the edge,
you know, and two feet apart, you would get four
kind of one and every corner but not all the
way in the corner, about a foot from the edge.
And then just just make sure and fertilize them. And

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you want them to grow, because what happens is they
store their energy in those crowns down below, and then
in the winter now up north, it gets so cold
that it freezes them back to the ground. And that's
good for asparagus harvest because when spring comes and they
come out, you get nice fat spears. For a while here,

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our asparagus kind of putters through winter, half growing, half
not growing, and it it loses a lot of it's
carbohydrate storage that it could have. And so what we
do is when we get the first freeze whenever that is,
just go ahead and cut it off at the ground, uh,
and then let it when it comes back out. You're

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you're busy harvesting, and you harvest until the spears get
down to about pencil size, and then quit harvesting and
let it replenish itself the following year. That's all in
that public.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
I almost moved to Wisconsin. I was working in Wisconsin
and I was driving down a road and where the
guy that works for me says, oh, look wild the spurgus. Yes,
the right and picking on the side of the road.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
I want to live here.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
All right, Well, thanks for the colle fine day, all right,
say say hello to everybody over there and Cashusco and
PanAm Maria and both take Arthur. Appreciate your call. Let's
go back to the phones. We're going to talk to Dan.

Speaker 9 (20:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Hello, Dan, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Okay, Hello, I'm on there. I guess I'm just I'm
Tyer County, you know, Woodville.

Speaker 10 (20:18):
Okay, Hey, h Basically, but what I was gonna say
was that being a gardener is about patience, hope, and
a future.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
That is true.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Trees that I've seen.

Speaker 7 (20:38):
That are now.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Full trees.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Hey, Dan, I just saw Dan. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
to have to interrupt. I'm gonna have to go to
a break. You just hang on and we'll continue gather
together what your question is and we'll be right back.
All right, Welcome back to guard Line, folks. Hey, those
bed in the Seabrook area are just let's just say

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south and east of Houston. The whole region down there
served by Moss Nursery. Most nursery is in Seabrook. It
is a extremely popular place because so unusual. You know,
eight acres. You can wander through. This family nursery has
been around a long long time for many, many decades.
And when you go, it's just fun. It's fun to
hang out and wander. And right now they are loaded

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on all kinds of plants. I mean, if you want strawberries,
I got those in. If you want color plants, you know,
bedding plants may marrygolds for example. If you want vegetables
and herbs, oh my gosh, I got a lot of those,
lots of beautiful geraniums, and it's just a wonderful time.
Some citruses come in, it looks good. And then, of
course always if you've been to Moss once, you've seen

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the bling, the landscape, bling, the statuaries and fountains and
everything else that they have down there. It's a fun
place to visit. Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas mos Nursery dot com.
Moss has two a's in it. Maas dot com to
eight one four seven eight. Let's go now to Dan

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and hello Dan, we'll bring you back here. What was
your question on citrus?

Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yes, I you know up up here in Tyler County
we had the hard freeze. A couple of years ago.
Our lost double citrus, the seven of them, uh one
has come back from rootstock once before. My best orange

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came from rootstock. What is Should I let this grow
just for green.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Or I wouldn't How long could I.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
Expect it ever to produce anything that I have? Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (22:55):
All right, Dan, if you've got to if you've got
the rootstock, it's gonna not be productive of giving you
good things to eat. The typical rootstock these are grafted
onto makes little seedy, bitter citrus, and so you need
to either graft it yourself or butt it yourself, or
replace it with with a grafted variety. In the future.

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I'm gonna have to go here now, danse but I
just want to say this last thing. In the future,
when you got a cold like this coming, what I
do is I mound the soil up above the graft
for that cold cold nighte okay it.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
Was it was eleven agree, all right?

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well that's too cool. That is way way too cold.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
Yeah for fures.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
All right, thank you for the call. Thanks, thanks, thanks
for listening up there, and good luck. I appreciate appreciate
your call. All righty uh hey Lake Hardware and lumber.
Those of you you that are down in Angleton, include
you've got Lake Hardware's in both They've been serving in

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Brassouri County for fifty years now. Include it's on Dixie
Drive in Angleton. It's on North Alasco. You probably know
that because you've been there already. It's family owned and operated,
old time, old school customer service, the way you want
to be treated when you go into a property or
a company. Lake Hardware dot Com is the website now.
They got a full line of Medina products and micro

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life products and Nature's Way Resources and Nelson plant Food
and night you know do I say nitrophis nitrophis asamite.
If you need weed controlled, past control, they've got it.
And all the garden supplies, you know, the hoses and
sprinklings and sprinklers, watering cans, wheelbarrows, nice Corona tools, good
quality tool all at Lake Hardware, Lake Hardware dot Com

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in Angleton and Velasko. Let's go now to talk to
Linda Wollow. Linda and welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Good morning, scap, how are you.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Doing good?

Speaker 5 (25:03):
I love the show.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
Listen every Saturday and Sunday morning.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 8 (25:11):
I have a humongous bulginvilia that has become too heavy
to hang on a heavy duty wrought iron hook on
my fence in the backyard, and I'd like to divide
the bulgavilia into two or three different plants. It has
three trunks coming out of it. But I know how

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they are about their roots. They don't like to have
the roots disturbed, So how would I go about doing this?

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Very carefully? If you're going to try to divide, I
would even consider like soaking that root ball in water
and getting some loosening up that soil and kind of
getting the soil off of it so it's easier to
get those roots apart and you do less damage to
the roots when you do that.

Speaker 8 (26:01):
That makes sense, all right, So I can't just cut
it to divide it. I would have to, you know,
just gently separate roots.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
You Well, you can cut it. I'm just saying it,
depending on how entangled and how much cutting you have
to do. You're right, it's it's they don't like to
be chopped up a lot. But uh, you can go
about the cutting, just try to try to minimize the
amount of damage and separating them and go ahead and
get that done now before they start growing. Once they

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got a bunch of leaves and stuff out there, and
then you start chopping roots and they wilt and it's
much more stressful at that time. So the sooner you
make this transition, the better off it'll be.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Okay, Is there anything I need to add to them
once I transplant them other than the Nelson's boogainvillia plant
food that I feed them once a month.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, that's it. And I would actually before you do
the Nelson plant that, get some Nelson Genesis and mix
it into whatever soil you're going to repot them up
with genesis from Nelson. That's that is a very gradual.
It is not going to burn the roots, and it
helps them get established and then go back to your
boogainvillia the next time you need to fertilize them. How

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much if I need to add to.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
How long would I need to? Would I have to
continue the genesis wants They're transplanted and I've added it
to them.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
No, if you if you do it initially and mix
it in the soil, follow the label, it'll tell you,
like perse such volume of soil, how much to put
in and then after that, when you're ready to fertilize
them again, sometime a few weeks ahead, you can go
ahead and go back to your Nelson Bougainvillia. I'm going
to have to run, Linda, but I do appreciate your call.
Thank you, and good luck with that. Send me a

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picture of that thing when it starts blooming. I appreciate
that very much. The microlife products, you know that the
liquids that they have are there's so many. There's a
seaweed basic seaweed, there's a fish emotion, basic product, Ocean harvest,
and all kinds of just quality products bottom line. But

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I am really impressed with their bloom producing product. It's
a three eight three and a pink pinkish red bottle
hygh phosphorus that middle number hyphosphorus you can drench plants in.
I was just talking to you know about the booga
and villias. That would be a good one to drench
them in with as well. Get that root system really

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ready to go. Blooms are important, of course, and when
you got a good phosphorus supply down in the root system,
you're gonna have success with those kind of plants and
microlife products. I would suggest that if you're planting something,
consider drenching it in with the three eight three. One
of the things that I do most enjoy is seeing

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the results when you use these products, and they really
do show good results. I used them myself. You know
this isn't just a yeah, someone told me it does good,
or the people that make it say it does good.
Now the maximum blooms. By the way, the maximum blooms
what it costs called the three three. It does give results,

(29:19):
and so I think you're going to see the same thing.
We got to take a quick break. When we come back.
We're going to talk to Don in Parland and then
guitar Dave is holding out there in Lake Conrod boat you.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Can see.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
All right, welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with
us this morning. It is always enjoyable to visit with
you about the kinds of questions that you might have.
You know, wild Birds Unlimited is just it's just an
outstanding source for all things birds, and I know anything
well by birds. Seed a lot of places, well, you

(29:57):
can buy seed a lot of play, but the bags
aren't always filled with things birds. When the eat. That's
just the bottom line. I've seen bags that are about
oh over fifty percent just those red beebies, That's what
I call them. You know, is it something a bird
can eat? It was starving death. Yes. Do they want
to Nope? They kick them out typically and they rather

(30:18):
just go after some of the special seeds that you'll
find in a wild Bird's Unlimited bag. Now, when you
do that, you can buy blends for different times of
the years. You can buy blends for different types of birds,
and they don't all eat the same kinds of seeds
and things. Folks at Wildbirds and Unlimited understand that six
stores around around town here in the Houston area. You
can go to WBU dot com forber Slash Houston and

(30:41):
visit your local Wilbirds store. Pick their brain, talk to
them about it. Look at the equipment that they have too.
Wonderful feeders. I just posted a video, by the way,
off of those of you who follow us on Facebook
of a squirrel trying to get into my eliminator feeder
that I got at Wildbirds Unlimited. And it's kind of
fun watching him because I don't want to. I'm not
a squirrel feeder. I'm a bird feeder. So clire Lake, Cyprus, Houston,

(31:04):
bel Air, Houston On Memorial, Kingwood, and Perland all locations
for our wild birds at limited stores here locally. We're
going to go now to dan In or Don in Paerland.
Hey Don, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Good morning. Are you.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Doing good? How can we help?

Speaker 12 (31:24):
I have some drainers that I'm going to be planning.
But what I did yesterday was I dig the hole
where I'm going to plan them at, and I put
some baits on my and I activated it with some
saw activating. Can I go ahead and plant those drains there?
And should I wait too as not as wins be
bendy or what should I do?

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
You can go ahead and plant them now.

Speaker 12 (31:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
You know we have another hard cold spell. They may
get back a little bit, but I would uh, you know,
I just throw a little sheet over them. They'll be fine.
If you want to go ahead and get them planted,
I would. I would drench them in with a product
that has a good phosphorus content in it. And you know,
we have a number of great products out there that

(32:08):
can do that sort of thing.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
The folks at Nelson Plant Food have something called Genesis,
and I would like to suggest you get some genesis
from Nelson. It comes in her jar. It's got oh gosh,
all kinds of microbial activity in it, and it really
helps new transplants.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
You mix it in the soil that you're going to
plant into and then stick your plant in and put
that soil with genesis in it all around the roots
and you'll see a good result from that in terms
of it kicking off and getting good early growth once
the weather warms up.

Speaker 12 (32:44):
Well, what about the prehole that I are by using
the as and mite and soil activated with that hurt almomenting?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Only if you use too much. As and mite is
micronutrients and they're only needed in small mounts. So you know,
if you overdo something like that, it can cause problems.
Any fertilizer overdone can cause a problem. But just follow
the label and the amount you use this not much, uh,
and then you should be fine.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Oh great, all right, don thank you, yes, thank you,
you bet.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
You bet, thank you, and good luck, good luck with that.
Buchanis native plants and the heights. If you haven't been
by there lately, you need to go. They have the
selection that they got in. I mean, I could spend
the rest of the show just talking about the shipments
the Buchanans has just gotten in in the last week,
the number of uh native plants, the number of vegetables,

(33:42):
the number of you know, non natives that are very
very well adapted here. Oh my gosh, they are loaded up.
They've got peppers and tomatoes and flout beautiful flowering plants,
just outstanding. And you know, it's that time of year.
It's spring, and it's spring at Buchanans, and you need
to get out there and learn about what you're growing.

(34:02):
That They do these classes that are very very helpful.
They just said one on all about tomatoes yesterday.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Go to bekennonsplants dot com. Sign up for the newsletter.
It's free and it tells you what's going on there,
but it also gives you insight into specific native plants
and specific gardening tips. You'll see helpful videos. U Kenni's
plants dot com. Let's going out to Lake Conrod. We're
going to talk to Guitar Day this morning. Hey Dave,

(34:30):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (34:32):
Hey, hey man, Hey, thank you man. I enjoyed the show. Hey,
I got your almost speed dolls. Skip food and flowers.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
You know that's okay?

Speaker 14 (34:41):
All right, Yeah, I'll pluge it over there.

Speaker 13 (34:43):
That I went to a local garden place over here
and they gave me a little.

Speaker 14 (34:49):
Two ounce deal of that medina. And it's it's sixteen
zero two and it's saying to put, you know, two
tablespoons per a gollon And how should I chunk that
out on one or spray it?

Speaker 6 (35:01):
Or what do I need to do?

Speaker 9 (35:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:04):
The medina comes in the sixteen o two, comes in
a quart bottle that attaches to your garden hose, and
it comes in a gallon.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
And if you what I always tell people is buy
the quart bottle and use it up, and then buy
the gallon to refill the quart bottle more economically.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
And so you keep going when you have it in
that spray bottle. Oh, A simple simple of it. Okay, Well,
a two ounce bottle is not gonna you know, treat
your whole lown. I would use it on any plant
that you want to boost growth with. It's got a
good high nitrogen content. And if you want to if
you've got some potted plants, uh, you know, put them

(35:44):
better than a watering can. According to the rate that
two ounce bottle makes two gallons, and uh, just water
it in really good. Everything that you've gotten containers or
little tomato plants sitting out there in the ground.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
They you.

Speaker 13 (36:00):
And then now on those al those grape, my grape,
there are two grapes vines that I got that I
haven't planted them on the ground yet, but I'm looking
south and east is to my lift, and well it's
just my right. I was saying about putting the trusses
for these rons looking south so that when the sun

(36:24):
comes up it goes down for a lot of sun
all day or where do you think I should plan
them on?

Speaker 6 (36:31):
Great?

Speaker 1 (36:32):
As much as you can get, as much as you
can give grape vines there there are fruiting plant, and
fruiting plants would just be happy all day and sun,
but at least six hours. But as you go, you know,
from full day sun to less, incrementally you're going to
get less production out of the vines less, you know,
because it takes sun on leaves to make sugar. And

(36:54):
that's what frea it's all about, is sugar content. And
so as much sun as you can give them day, I.

Speaker 13 (37:01):
Got you, Hey, And then on that boat and they
think that's finally like listening to this show because I
got that one that my wife bought two of them,
so now I'm I'm listening to figure out how to
retransplant them later on because I had to put them
in some big containers too.

Speaker 14 (37:18):
So hey, I appreciate y'all. Man, thanks a lot.

Speaker 12 (37:20):
Man.

Speaker 14 (37:20):
Well, I'm gonna go catch some fish.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, oh boy, but you know on garden line, you
know I don't. I don't charge for advice, but I
always tell people bring me half the tomatoes. Well, in
this case, I can eat bass, crappie and catfish, so
we can. We'll make a demn Hey, one last thing
Dave about and.

Speaker 13 (37:42):
When I do mine, if I flay it out, I
put it in a block. I mean I put it
in a ziplock with the black eyes and then that
way when you saw it out, then it's like it
came right out of the water.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
So yeah, I know how to do this stuff.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
All right, Dave, let me tell you one more thing
about your booga and villa before you go. They like
to be pep planned, so don't feel like you need
always move it to a bigger container. They can stay
in a container a little longer than maybe some other
plants would it. So just keep that one. Good luck.
Hope you catch something today. All right, bye bye, take care.

(38:19):
That's fun, you know that. Do y'all remember the story?
Probably learned this in grade school when settlers landed on
the East coast, you know, Jamestown, all the pilgrims and
all this. They were taught to put a fish in
a hole by Native Americans that they met there. And

(38:40):
then you put a corn seed as you fill that
hold up with soil, and the fish, as it decomposes,
becomes fertilizer for the corn. And we talk about compost
all the time, and nobody talks about composting animals. Fish
being an animal, I guess, but it really is. Is
the case that anything that was once alive decomposed again,
and so that is kind of how you do it now.

(39:03):
I know Dave only catches huge, large fish, you know,
ten pound bass, stuff like that. But if you got
little ones, you know what to do with them. I
didn't throw them back, drop them in a home, tick
a rosebush on top of them. All right, that's a
thought that. Go get you some coffee. I'll be right
back see you in a minute. See all right, folks,

(39:45):
I'm loaded, I got my coffee, I got both eyes
open and at least sixty five percent coherent. So let's
stalk gardening. Here's the number seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four. Are you a morning person?
I used to be like the opposite of a morning person,
and then I've gotten older, I've become more and more

(40:07):
morning Uh just I have. But I oh gosh, I
remember there's some of you out there. If you are
mourning people, and I suspect being up at six am,
you probably are. Anyway, if you're a morning person, be
kind to the people around you. They are just not
ready for the level of cheerful effervescence that you can
produce at six am in the morning. So hey, yeah,

(40:31):
that's I had a had a roommate in college. Oh
my gosh. You'd get up every morning and you would
get the paper and Garfield comic strips are in the paper.
And we live in a place where, let's think the
bedrooms were all off of a main room, and I
could hear that guy early in before six am. They
just laughing out loud at Garfield comic strips and It's like, really,

(40:53):
do you really have to do that at this hour
of the morning. All right, well, anyway, there, there you go,
And now what do I do I get at four
am the morning so I can do this show? There
you go. I enjoy it. My happy place. Hey in
Chenny Gardens Katie fullsher side of Richmond, Texas up on

(41:17):
FM three fifty nine. You need to go check them out.
It is a wonderful place. I mean they have the
selection of plants they you know, they've loaded up now.
I mean it's spring, right. I was looking at their
succulent selection the other day and oh, they have so
many succulents. It's suculents are not hard to grow. In fact,
they had a little class where you could come together,

(41:38):
come and build your succulent bowls yourself. That had all
the supplies there. I think it's a great idea for
a garden center to do. But they always have great
ideas around there. Right now, they're chucked up a chuck
full on the kalladiums. If you don't have kalladiums in
the summer, you know, people often talk about I want
something that blooms in the shade. Well, the number of
things that actually bloom in the show or limited but

(42:01):
foliage in the shade as possible, and kolladiums will brighten
up a shade as much as you want. It's really beautiful.
Their selection of Salvia's is outstanding. And of course everything else,
I'm gonna sit here and name it all. Bottom line
is when you show up, you're gonna get a helpful
team member, as enthusiastic a person as you're gonna want
to see. Come in and just say how can I

(42:23):
help you? And what do you need? And you ask
them your questions. You can show them photos, you can
bring in samples for expert advice. That is exactly what
you would expect from a true mom and pop independent
garden center. Like in Chanting Gardens, they got wonderful fountains,
wonderful chimes, very whimsical yard art. They've got our garden art,

(42:45):
landscape art. They've got their iron back restocked iron figures.
You know, from cactide to swallow cactie to everything else.
You're gonna like this place. If you haven't been, you
need to go, and people go from all over. I
was there before, run into people from Austin that drove
all the way over to go to in Channa Gardens
in Chennigardens, Richmond dot com on three point fifty nine.

(43:07):
Head out there. They'll be open today from ten am
to four pm. A good day to get out, get
stocked up ready because this is going to be a
week of gardening coming up here. Well, we're going to
go to Brian, Texas and talk to Lisa this morning.
Hello Lisa, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (43:27):
Hello.

Speaker 11 (43:27):
I sent a photo. I am rooting a siddle leaf
big and I wanted to seek why the roots aren't
growing faster.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yes, I did see your photos. Well, I don't know exactly.
It might help to have a little bit of a
nutrient in the water, just a tiny bit, but I
think that fiddle if I saw your pictures, those are
wonderful pictures.

Speaker 15 (43:51):
Brother, the.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Amount of root that it has is enough for now,
So I would get it out of there. You know,
plants can make roots and water, but that's not where
they want to be. You know, you never see a
fiddle leaf in nature growing in a swamp. It just
that's not what they want. So I would take it out.
I would pot it up and then if you can
take something to cover it like, well, the first thing

(44:18):
that comes to mind would be like a dry cleaner
plastic bag that you would just slide over the whole thing.
You don't have to seal it off, but just create
an extra humid chamber. Those leaves aren't going to lose
a lot of moisture in that kind of environment. And
the fact that it has a somewhat limited root system
that gives it a little time. I would leave it
on for a month or so, just loosely covered over it.

(44:42):
When you've repotted it up in a good quality potting mix,
least I think you're gonna think you're going to see
good results.

Speaker 14 (44:49):
Okay, that's great, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
That's all I need to know, all right, you bet
now when you repot it if you can, And I
don't know and Brian conversation, who carries them? Nelson? I'm
sure there is some. But if you can find Nelson
genesis up there, mix some in that potting soil. It's
got nutrients in it, but not a whole lot. It's

(45:12):
not a salt based fertilizer where you would be afraid
of maybe putting too much and burning those roots. But
it will really help it develop more roots and be
more prolific in terms of getting established.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
All right, okay, great, thanks you again.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Okay, you bet you take care, bye bye. Yeah, it's
kind of cool. My daughter loves to root things in water.
She just done, I mean just all over. Her place
looks like a jungle, by the way, I'm just saying
it is. The first time I went in there, when
we went to her new place for she was living.
I mean, she had this isn't fair. She had windows

(45:51):
that went like twelve feet high. It was kind of
an industrial one of those industrial type of buildings, you
know where they had the giant windows. Used to be
a factory kind of thing, and they turned it into
apartment living and stuff. It's like, oh, anybody can grow
house plants with this much light. I mean, that's cheating,
you know, most most of you listening and me, uh,

(46:11):
you know, you got these little windows. You got to
shove a plan into the window to get in enough
light to survive. But anyway, yeah, I like that. First
time I walked in, I kept thinking, Okay, any second
now I'm gonna hear tars in uh swinging by on
a on a vine. By the way, that wasn't my
best tars in, but if I did, it would be
too loud for radio. Our phone number seven one three

(46:36):
two one two five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give me a call.
Let's talk about gardening. What are you interested in? Hey,
well tell you. I always tell you how much soil,
How important soil is, How much of plant success is
based on the soil. And it's really true. A plant,

(46:58):
I like to put it this way, A plant lives
and its roots, meaning that is the source of all
the things a plant can take up and needs in need. Yeah,
you can do some folio sprays, but plants aren't made
to take up by folio spray only. It's primarily roots.
That's the water, that's the nutrients, that's oxygen, that's the
microbial activity. That's where all the life of that plant.

(47:22):
The success of that plant is based on the soil.
Brown stuff before green stuff, and the ground up has
a wonderful selection of what I would call the brown stuff.
They're organic composts. They're organic compost. It's double screened for
extra fine texture. They have leaf more compost. They have
a vegetable and herb blend. They have a potting mix

(47:42):
as well a rose mix. It just a mix for
just landscape bits. They make quality soil and mulch and
compost of course. Now you can buy their bags all around.
Moss Nursery I know carries them, the Ace Hardware Memorial
and the one in Champions I know personally carry some

(48:03):
Prime RCWNC Animal also carry them. And if you just
go to the ground up dot com that's our website,
the ground up dot Com, you can find out where
you can buy their bags or if you want to
get it bulk, call them and they'll deliver it. They
deliver out of three different locations around the west side
of town. There's one of those locations, the one on Brittmore.

(48:25):
It's open to the public on Saturdays from seven am
to noon. Now you can order from them to deliver anytime.
But if you want to go buy there, they've got
the bags and you can go buy and get bulk
and stuff. But here's the thing they have there also,
they have a wonderful selection of plants. It's like landscapers
would use this place right to get plants and stuff.
But they don't just carry meat and potatoes. They carry

(48:48):
plants that are not common in the area, but that
are well adapted. Aaron has done a great job of
putting together a nice collection of those plants. They're at
the ground Up. Now here's the phone number two eight
one seven oh zero zero zero three two eight one

(49:08):
nine seventy oh three. That's it. Check them out on
Facebook and Instagram too. Oh and there's a great cubic
yard calculator on their website, the ground up dot com.
You can figure out exactly how much you need. Let's
take a break, we'll be back in a morning. Good morning, folks,

(49:30):
most of the garden line can to have you with us.
It is spring. What are you gonna do on your
patio to bring beauty or vegetables or beautiful vegetables. You
need a good quality potting mix put in there. That
would be jungle Land from the folks at Ncrofoss. Dungle

(49:51):
Land is made with a specifically blended with a Canadian
blonde pete, four different sources of organic matter, migorize of fungi.
That's very important. And when you put it in there,
you know that it's gonna whole moisture, not just all
drain out right away. It's gonna whole moisture, but it's
not gonna be a mucky thing that you just stays
soggy all the time. It drains well. That is jungling

(50:14):
out for outdoors, whether it's flowers or vegetables or herbs
or whatever you want. It's from night to fish now.
Night fast products are available a lot of different places.
You can go to places like the Arborgatee and D
and D feed there in Tomball. You can go to
Fisher's Hardware. There's actually a number of them. There's one
in Pasadena on Southmore, one in Laporte South Broadway, and

(50:36):
then there's the Fishers there at my Bellevue because you
couldn't think of the name on FM thirty one eighty.
And if you're in Baytown you've got a Fishers there.
Fishers all over the place on Alexander in Baytown now
carry night Fass products. Let's go to the phones here.
We're gonna go to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
Hey, Skip, I took them from there?

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Is out last week? Do I need to pick them
back up tonight? H?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
What is the what is the what?

Speaker 9 (51:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:08):
I'm here. What's the prediction for your area? Where are
you calling?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Bleak City?

Speaker 16 (51:12):
I'm in Leak City in the mid forties.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Okay, Well they don't like it. You know, they'd be
happy if you'd bring them in. Once we get down
in mid forties, plume areas get kind of pretty unhappy.
So I don't know problem with Yeah, you're kind of
it's kind of a borderline question. Uh, I would bring

(51:38):
money in. I know it's trouble, but I would just
say that it's not a matter of are they going
to freeze and die? Well, probably not, but uh, they
sure don't like that.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
All right.

Speaker 14 (51:50):
Well they're big ones about eight ft t you know.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
All right, Oh my gosh, All right, well call your
chiropractor and make an appointment and then go move those
Take care of job, take care all right. Oh what
do we do for plants? That's fun though, you know, gardeners,
we're always wanting to grow something in places where it

(52:14):
doesn't grow. You know, Plumerius for example. I mean, this
isn't where plumerius are native, but oh my gosh, they're
wonderful and you should grow them. They're a great plant.
They're wonderful. But we're always trying to do stuff like that.
You know, we go to great links to build up
soil to you know, somebody lives and somebody lives in Austin,
Texas or one of those high pH clay soils over limestone,

(52:36):
and they want to grow azalias. Well, those are native
to Austin. But you pile up a big pile of
pat moss and give it good drainage and stuff, and yeah,
you can grow those there. That's what we do, is gardeners.
We grow things from places where they are not as
well as wonderful natives. Hey, sweet Green fertilizer from nitrophiles
eleven percent nitrogen. This is a product that you put

(52:59):
in first of all, wonderful, that's why it has that name.
And it's also based on a molasses base with microbial
activity turning it into eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer. Sprinkle it
out there on the lawn with your fertilizer spreader and
water down and that's it and then watch your long
term green. Sweet Green is a good green up too.

(53:19):
You can use it anytime of the year, but it's
a good green up. And by the way, I know
it's a lawn fertilizer, but if you want to put
some of that on your tomatoes to give them a boost.
They would love it as well. Lots of plants I
appreciate having a little extra nitrogen boost. You can get
sweet green at places like Texas Feed Stop in Mount Bellevue,
Stanton Shopping Center on North Taylor in Alvin, Texas, and

(53:41):
Plants and Things which is in Brenham Highway three sixty five.
You're listening to Garden Line. My phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. I
was at the Arbigate yesterday visiting Beverly out there and

(54:02):
I picked up a Oh gosh, now the name just
escaped me. Rose Rose, old blush, old blush rose. My
wife loves old blush. When we first got married and
had a little place of our own, we had an
old blush rose and she just loved it. It's an
antique rose, been around since dirt. I have a picture
of one grown in a cemetery right next to a gravestone. Now.

(54:28):
One of my mentors, doctor William Welsh, famous horticulturist, written
many great books too. By the way, if you don't
have Perennial garden color that he wrote, you need to
get it He has a number of other good books
out there, but just Bill Welsh. Anyway, he said something
that I love it. And he talked about, you know, roses.

(54:48):
A lot of times rose rustlers will go out to
like a cemetery or whatever and find roses in some old,
abandoned cemetery and take cuttings and then root them. And
that's how we got a lot of our old roses
that had been long long. Anyway, he says that if
dead people can grow something, you can too. I love that. Anyway.
I got an old blush from Beverly at Arbor Gate.

(55:12):
And while we were there, we walked through the Rose area,
the Gayham and Rose area, and those of you who
went out to see Gay you know how much fun
that was. And we were just talking about all the
new roses. And there's rose breeders like Cordez that is
a German company, but in Cardazz when they set their
feels up they do their breeding and a plant breeder,

(55:33):
you know, will make all these crosses and then they
have these seeds and they don't know if they're good
or bad. They're good parents, but you know, sometimes the
offspring are not the same right, and they'll plant them
a lot in the field, and those fields don't get
sprayed with fungicide at all. And so if a rose
is looking sickly, yank it out. That's not one we're

(55:54):
going to put a name on. That's how Cordoz does it.
And a lot of other breeders are also now focusing
on disease. Ease resistance is being very, very important, and
so anyway, we were talking about those kinds of things.
But anyway, Arbrogate I was out there. Oh my gosh,
they're loaded up ready to go, vegetables spilling out of
the vegetable area onto the little drive through that they

(56:17):
have there in the garden center. Certainly, the same thing
is true with herbs and flowers and hanging baskets and
just beauty everywhere you go. I spent a little time
in the containers while I was there, So many beautiful,
beautiful ceramic pottery containers that they have. Now, you remember
with arbigate they have the three one two three systems.

(56:40):
It's basically a food, a fertilizer that is organic that
feeds anything you want to put it on. I mean
the roots, if it's got roots that can use that
fertilizer and there's a soil for any application that has
composted in it, and it's also got expanded jail in it,
and then a compost that has expanded jail on it
as well. Those last two of the soil and the compost,
you can buy those by bulk. Now you can go

(57:02):
to the arbor gate and they can take a supersack
that they have there, the one cubic yard sack, and
put it on your truck or trailer or whatever and
take it home keep your yard, or you can have
the bulk deliver, but you got to give them a call,
get all that set up, arrange the day for delivery
and stuff, and they can bring you their organic soil

(57:22):
complete or their organic compass complete in bulk to your house.
So it's just another thing we're visiting a little bit
about how that works. They're at the arbor gate, and
you know how I am about soil, brown stuff before
green stuff, folks. You got to get the soil right
if you want to have success. You know, there's certain things.

(57:47):
I talk to gardeners all the time, and one thing
I hear a lot, and I hate to hear it
is I can't grow anything. I have a brown thumb.
Everything I plant dies, you know, and all the versions
of that, and some of your are going, yeah, I
feel that way. You don't need to. Success with plants
is simple. It is learning to see things from a

(58:09):
plant's point of view. That's it. I mean, it really
is like you're in azalea. So I talked about people
growing azaleas in Austin. How do you make an azalea
grow in Austin. You put it in soil that is
acidic and very well drained, and you put it in
a location that is very bright but not blazing sun
all day, and then you water it with a good

(58:31):
quality water and keep the soil moist and feed it
with acidic nutrients sources, and azaleas thrive. And that's seeing
things from a plant's point of view. And that applies
to every other plant, you know, tomatoes and all that.
As you learn those principles, your thumb starts turning green

(58:52):
and suddenly things you buy don't die. It's also good
to pick plants that want to be in your area.
That makes it easier. But the bottom line is learned
to see things from a plant's point of view, and
that's what I do here on Guard line. Every time
when someone calls, they're saying, I've got this plant. It's
doing this, and it's not and whatever. Well, I understand
what that plant wants and so we talk about what

(59:13):
to do. But basically it's me telling you how to
do what a plant wants you to do. And that's
easily learned over time. And gardening is a is a
fun hobby. It teaches us patients, but it also provides
a serenity and a piece and an enjoyment that you
cannot find and a lot of different hobbies. So there

(59:35):
you go. I'm biased, but that is what I think.
And as I always like to say, I may be biased,
but that don't mean i'm wrong. That don't mean i'm wrong.
All right, you're listening to the guard Line. I'm your host,
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We'll be right back. You're back. Welcome regard line. What
was he like to talk about today? I tell what
people wanted to talk about yesterday at D and D feed.
I was out there and oh my gosh, weeds, weeds, weeds, weeds, weeds,

(01:01:25):
weeds weed. Lots of questions about weeds and some confusion too.
Uh you know which product night Frost was sponsoring us
out there, and they had a number of their products,
including barricade and some others, and it's like, which one
do I need? Well, the idea of there's a pre
emergent and there's a post emergent, and what that means

(01:01:46):
is pre emergent means before the seeds come up and
make weed plants, you put it down and when they sprout,
the seeds still sprout, but they aren't able to get
roots down in the soil and they die and you
never see the plant. So it works, but you're not
You don't see it working. You just don't see the weeds.
That's a pre emergent. Post emergent is a growing weed.

(01:02:09):
You spray it and it dies. If you put pre
emergent on a growing weed, it does nothing to kill
the weed because it's not what it's for. On the
other hand, if you put post emergent down and think
that weeds aren't going to come up after that, they
will because it doesn't prevent weed seeds from getting established.
You have to spray it on a living weed for

(01:02:30):
it to work, or apply the granules. By the way,
if you apply granule, post emergents are Yeah, what you
need to do is what the lawn first, so the
granules stick to the weed leaves. That's the best way
to do it for the best results. So anyway, just
some things, Well, nighte Fiss has barricade. For example, barricade's
a pre emergent. So whatever kind of weeds you're dealing with. Now,

(01:02:52):
no one product kills every weed on earth. Okay, there's
just a lot of variation there for post emergent and
pre emergence. The barricade does a really good job of
killing grasses and broad leaves, many many, many species. One
little ten pound bag of barricade is going to go
five thousand square feet and you need to apply it

(01:03:12):
at the label rate and watered in like the label
says to have success. You can get night Fast Barricade
and other night Fast products at Lake Hardware and Angleton
on Blasco. At Lake Hardware and Clute on Dixie Drive.
You can go up to Plants for all seasons on
two forty nine Tomall Parkway. Those are just a few
places they carry the night Foss products and there are
a lot of them out there. Let's go to Louisiana.

(01:03:35):
Now we're going to talk to Ron this morning. Hey Ron,
welcome to garden line.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Hey are you?

Speaker 17 (01:03:39):
Thank you Meyer Lemon. And before the last freeze, I
followed your advice and I mound it up the soil
and the mult past the graph. I covered the top,
but leaves still turn brown. But all the stems are
green except the very tips. I was asking curious if

(01:03:59):
I should cut it back, and it's so how far.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
If it were mine run, I would I would wait,
and I would watch it. You can always prun it
back by scratching the bark and going down a little bit,
scratching the bark and finding where the green bark is
and cutting it back to there. Or you can just
wait and when you see as we warm up, it's
going to start sending out shoots, and then follow that
dead branch down to wherever there is shoots and cut

(01:04:27):
off right right above a shote, and then that way
the plant told you where to prune. Right.

Speaker 17 (01:04:33):
I'm looking at it now that I got little bitty
shoes coming out on some of them right now.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
So I'll so just wait a little while and see
which ones which ones don't?

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Yeah, okay, right, there's no hurry, and that dead dead
branch in there. Other than not being pretty, the dead
branch ain't doing anything. And sometimes what will happen run
is on plants in general. This isn't just a lemon.
But you'll see a shoot coming out and then it
starts to grow, and then it just wilts and dies.
And it's because there was cool damage below it. But

(01:05:03):
early on there was enough juice going through there to
get it going. But then as the demands got up,
it just things just went downhill and it didn't. So
some of the shirts you see may not make it.
Chances are almost all of them will. But I'm just
saying that's another reason why I like to wait.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
Okay, all right, thank you, all right, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Now, Ron, I know Louisiana's a long way to ship
lemons over here to Houston, but I do ask in
exchange for money. We'll just let you send me your
lemons and we'll call it even.

Speaker 17 (01:05:34):
All right, Sure, I'll shoot you something.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
All I want is half of them. All I want
just fifty percent. You got half of them, all right?
Sounds fair to me? By bye, I know, it's an
old joke, you know. I remember when my kids were young,
I owned the room with jokes. Dad jokes were like
the hut. And then there's this age. I can't remember

(01:05:59):
when it happened, but it's probably ten years old, twelve
years somewhere in there. And you start to get a
rolling of the eyes. And then after that it's just
the head drops and shakes and they walk out of
the room. It's like, Okay, that's not funny. I have
been vindicated. I've got a daughter who is in her

(01:06:20):
thirties and she loves dad jokes. She likes a more
than I do. Anyway. She sends me dad jokes all
the time. So there you go. All right, all right, Well,
unfortunately I still tell dad jokes. Do you want to
astronaut eat for lunch? Since we're in the space city?

(01:06:41):
Lunch meat, Jarnathan? I think we need like a symbol
drum kind of sound? All right. I get emails all
the time from Guardline listeners about where do I get grass?
You talk about grass all the time and taking care
of it, but where do I buy grass? You know,
chinchbugs and drought and compaction and diseases take all root rod.

(01:07:02):
I've got dead area. I just want to replace areas
of grass. Where do I go, Well, I'm really particular
about where I send a listener. I need for a
source to have the right varieties that I would use
myself and to have healthy quality sod that's gonna thrive.
And and this is very important for the my listener

(01:07:23):
to be able to get grass that was dug very recently,
like that day or within twenty four at the very
most thirty six hours. As it sits in a palette
for two or three days, it's like it just plummets
in terms of the condition the quality of that grass
all seasons. Turf grass is who you want to work with.
They have more varieties and anybody in the area. They

(01:07:45):
got Bermuda grasses, they got Saint Augustine grasses. They have
Zoisier grasses, both the narrow and the wide types. I've
got a narrow and a wide zois in my lawn.
A xeon and palisades. Those are two that they carry
just as examples. But the is to get that grass
when it's fresh, so you can have them deliver it.
They of course charge a delivery fee. You got to

(01:08:06):
give them a call it's two eight, one, three, seven, five,
seventy five oh five. Or you can go get it
at the Brookshire farm. Now they got thousands of acres
of turf grass all through this region, okay, but at
the Brookshire Farms about ten miles west of ninety nine,
you can actually go pick it up. Take a trailer
out there, bring those, they'll put the pallette on it
and you can bring it home with you, or you

(01:08:28):
can call them have them deliver it. They even have
people that install grass. They don't install it, but they
know people that do and they can connect it with
that so that the turf arrives at your place and
it gets installed properly and so on. But that turf
is going to have been dug that day. Okay, it's
going to be very fresh turf when you get it.
They don't dig it, they don't dig a bunch and

(01:08:49):
just you know, sits there for days and days. This
is so important. All Seasons Turf two eight one, three, seven, five,
seventy five oh five, two eight one seven five seven
five oh five. Go to their website and learn more
about them. It's pretty cool. All Seasons turf dot Com.

(01:09:10):
It's got to the Sheldon area. Now we're going to
talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy, welcome to Garden Line. Hello,
we got Kathy. All right, keviy I, I'll put you
on hold if you can hear me. I can't hear you, Donathan,
to see if we can figure that one out. We'll

(01:09:30):
come back to you. Just hang on. I was visiting
with the folks from Heirloom Soils recently. We're talking about
some of their some of the products that they have,
and uh, you know it just it's always impressed me
the breadth of their products, the depth and breadth of
the products that they carry. You know how I am

(01:09:51):
about soils, and I've used Heirloom Soils products and always
been impressed. You want a soil mix to well. You
want it to be the proper particle size. You know,
either find textured or coarse textured. If it's a potting soil,
you can use the one called the Works. If it's
a blooming plant like a rose, roses and bloomers blend.

(01:10:12):
If you have a succulent, you want something that's grideon
drains well cactus and succulent solmexworks. And of course one
of the most famous is the veggie and herb mix
very popular for any kind of vegetable and herb beds.
They got mixes for landscape beds, for fruit and berries
and centrus plants and so on. And they have the specifics.
If you just want like aged leaf mole composts, they

(01:10:35):
got that. If you want expanded hill they got that.
If you want expanded chail mixed with composts, they've got that.
Bottom line is go to this website Heirloomssoils dot com,
airloomsoils dot com. Find out what they have. You can
buy their bags all over town. Retailers carry them. If
you want to go up to porter and have them
put it on your trailer and bring it home, you

(01:10:55):
can do that. If you want to call them and
have them deliver it, they can do that too. Soils
dot com. That's where you start. Let's take a little break.
We'll be right back in just a moment. All right,
we're back. Welcome back to guard line, and thank you

(01:11:17):
for being a guarden line. That's much I enjoy visiting
with you about the kinds of plant questions you have.
As one of my happy places is talking to gardeners.
Gardeners are good folks. They just are buy and large.
I'm telling you, I enjoy visiting with gardeners, you know,
they they just I don't know, there's just a kind

(01:11:40):
gentle fun I don't know they What is it? Is
it about being out there in nature? Is that? Is that?
What does it? Is it about just being able to
to share your hobbies and enjoy, you know, whatever you've
learned and what you're doing. I don't know. Gardeners are
cool now. We gardener We love to share our produce

(01:12:01):
with people, right, and that means you grow stuff you
want to share. You got some extra, you want to
share it with people. But your neighbors have called me
and they've asked you something. Don't plant so much zucchini
next year. The reason when you were carrying the tenth
basket of zucchini across the yard to your neighbors to
bang on the door, they closed the curtains and they

(01:12:22):
didn't answer the door. That's why it's it's too much
zucchini is too productive. There needs to be a Texas
law that says you were limited to two zucchini plants.
And that's really too much right there in your garden.
But it is I heard about a guy one time
who picked his zucchini and put it in a box
on the pickup seat, and he went in to drink
some coffee, and when he didn't lock his truck, and

(01:12:46):
sure enough he came back out at the truck and
there were two boxes of zucchini. I'm just saying, you're
listening to guarden Line, here's a phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven four seven one
three two one to fifty eight seventy four. Hey, have
you've been to Jorges Hidden Gardens? For those of you
that live down south, you got to get by Hoorges

(01:13:07):
and check him out. He is there in The address
is Alvin, Texas on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas. It's
actually between Alvin and Santa Fe. If you're looking for
where it is, but you need to write down his
phone number. Uh, Horay's phone number. Everything you need to know,
just give him a call seven to one to three
six three two five two nine zero seven one three

(01:13:31):
six three two fifty two ninety. He carries that three
sixty trees stabilizer. He sells a lot of trees too,
by the way, Uh, they lots of fruit trees. I mean,
right now, he's got peaches already blooming. Every kind of
fruit you can imagine, including centrus, including things like blueberries,
you name it. He's got them there now. The kids
help out on the weekends. They show up and you

(01:13:54):
may pull up and be greeted. At cha, Carbo one
of the kids showing up. But there's a family operation,
Jorgy and his wife and kids.

Speaker 6 (01:14:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
He's got good geranium stock in right now. They are blooming,
look really good. Lots of different colors, some really nice
colias too. By the way, Colius is a great plant
for sun and shade. Used to be just for shade.
Now some of the varieties of colias do well and
quite a bit of sun also. Out or Hayes Hidden Gardens,
So get by there. Oh, check out his Peggy Martin

(01:14:22):
roses that are on little trollises. They're beautiful, beautiful starting
to bloom too. By the ways, it's time for Peggy Martin.
Some of you had a few blooms before we had
that freeze on your Peggy Martins.

Speaker 15 (01:14:34):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Or Hayes Hidden Gardens seven to one, three to six,
three two fifty two ninety seven one three six, three
two five two nine zero. If you have trees and
they need pruning, now, it's time to go hurry, go
ahead and get that done. The end of winter is
the best time to prune trees, or in midwinters fine
time to prune tree neating, prune tree anytime of the year,

(01:14:57):
but if you're gonna do more pruning, it's better to
get it done when the leaves are off, if the
tree's deciduous, especially when the leaves are off and you
can see things. You can see narrow branch angles, broken branches,
rubbing branches and problems, and you need to hire somebody
knows what they're doing. Owning a pickup and a chainsaw
does not make someone a tree service. Affordable tree service.
Martin spoon More been doing this for decades, in the

(01:15:20):
business for fifty probably fifty five years now. I believe
with Martin an affordable tree service. Here's a phone number
you need to call seven one three six nine nine
two six sixty three. When you call it, you're gonna
you're gonna the phone's gonna be entered by Martin or
his wife Joe, or his mom Judy. That's the family group, Martin,
Joe and Judy it's not one of them. He called

(01:15:42):
the wrong place. Hang up seven one three six nine
nine two six six three, or go to his website
Afftree Service dot com. He doesn't just prune, he does
deproof feeding. He does pest and disease control. They can
do stomp grinding, does a good job of that. And
if you're about to build around your tree and do

(01:16:03):
any trenching or laying a slab on top of the ground,
you need to call Martin first and talk to him
about pre construction care. That tree is too valuable to
damage it with construction and construction messing with the tree's
root system A big, big, big no no. Call Martin
first seven to one three six' nine nine two six sixty.

(01:16:24):
Three we're gonna go now out and talk To. Chad, Hello,
Chad welcome to Garden line.

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
Morning. SKIP i was calling about, There, yes, sir, SORRY
i was calling to find.

Speaker 17 (01:16:41):
OUT i was calling to find out what would be
the best soil or.

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
Mix to put in a large pot.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
For a growing a peach. Tree. Uh there are some
really good. Mixes heirloom soil has a mix for fruit. Trees,
uh and it comes about the bag so for a
pot you just buy a few bags spending on how
big the pot. Is remember to make the pot as
big as you can because fruit trees need a lot
of soil, volume and they're they're a big, plant and

(01:17:10):
so give it the best volume you can in the.
Soil but, uh the product THAT i was talking about
a minute, ago from heirloom, soils the fruit, trees fruit
and centrus and other kinds of, plants is a good.
ONE i WOULD i would consider that it's heirloomsols dot.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
Com, okay thank.

Speaker 16 (01:17:29):
You, also one real quick, question what how many holes
would be considered a good drainage in that?

Speaker 9 (01:17:37):
Pot IF i GROW i got about a forty five gallon,
pot is What i'm going to grow it?

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
In what would be the Best how many holes SHOULD
i put?

Speaker 6 (01:17:44):
In our size?

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
Holes is this plastic or what kind of pot it?

Speaker 7 (01:17:50):
Is?

Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
Plastic, yes, sir, HUH i.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
WOULD i would drill holes that are about maybe three
eighths of an, inch and AND i would do them
about every six inches in the bottom of that pot
for absolute maximum. Drainage but even more important than the
bottom of the pot is the bottom. Side if you
ever bought a nursery container plant and you notice the
whole there's a hole in the, bottom but there's holes

(01:18:15):
all around the side at the. Bottom and the reason
for that is when you set a pot on the,
ground it sort of seals up to the ground and
even though the hole is, there the water can't go
out because the soil is right there sealing it, up
especially on clay. Soil that's why they put them on the.
Sides SO i would drill probably in a forty five gallon,
pot about maybe four to six holes around the sides

(01:18:38):
of that pot to allow really good. Drainage, okay, great
but right at the, bottom down, low like where your
drill is almost scrape in the bottom of the pot
on the. Inside, yeah all, right oh, okay good luck to.
That thank you very. Much thank. You, yeah thanks for the.
Call appreciate that very. Much Microlife fertilizers products quality for.

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Hum mats. Plus it's a zero zero. FOUR i got

(01:19:23):
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Structure it builds over. Time you can do it as
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(01:19:45):
That the more you do, it the better the soil
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jars to big four pound. Jars if you like that
microlife fertilizer dot com find out where you can get
it around. Town it's. Everywhere it's easy to. FIND i
am hearing some music in the. Background that means we'll
take a little break for the top of the hour.
NEWS i need to add a little bit more coffee to,
them and we'll be. Ready we're ready to go when

(01:20:28):
we come. Back beat you right back, here don't go.

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Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
Starting welcome back to Guarden, line. Folks good have. You
what do we want to talk about? Today you tell
me this is a calling. Show we're here to help
advise you on whatever you're trying to, grow or you
could call. It stump the. Chump ask a, question see

(01:21:15):
IF i can answer. It oh, GOSH i try to
give accurate. Answers you. KNOW i saw a sign one
time that said accurate answers are ten dollars reasonably close
answers or five dollars and dumb looks or a. Dollar
That's i'll try not to do the dumb, look and
we'll try to give you an accurate. Answer And i'll

(01:21:36):
tell YOU i don't know IF i don't, know because
one of the things that drives me. NUTS i don't
care WHERE i am in a hardware, store in a
garden center or. Whatever ask a question and you look
in the eyes of the person that's there to help,
you and you can see immediately that either they know

(01:21:57):
what they're talking about or you stump them and they're
trying to come up with something to. Say it's, LIKE
i just want to stop and go, wait stop right.
There it's, okay let's just part ways. Here i'm not,
upset you know. GOOD i just let's say both of
us are time right, here Because i'm about to Hear

(01:22:17):
i'm about to hear ah And i've been there. Before
don't like, that don't like that at. All SO i
tell you to go to garden centers that are independent garden,
centers mom and pop garden, centers people that are, gardeners
that are people that know about, gardening and then they train.
Them they train them. Well and that is what makes

(01:22:40):
me so proud of our mom and pop garden centers
all over the Greater houston. Area we got them, north, south, East,
west and. Central it's it's just it's a. Pleasure And
i'm telling you if YOU i know. People we had
a call From louisiana this. Morning i've getting calls From
mississippi And alabama and different places at different. Times if
you're listening outside there and you come To, houston you

(01:23:01):
need to do a Horticultural tour Of houston garden. Centers
there are such great. Ones And i've traveled all over
the country for various, things speaking on gardening and things like,
that and every TIME i go to a, CITY i
go find the WHAT i think is going to be
the best garden centers and go visit. Them and that's,
fun learn a lot and see a. Lot but nobody's

(01:23:22):
got what we've got here In houston That i've seen so.
Far And i've seen some really outstanding garden centers around the,
country some awesome, ones but oh my, gosh we have so,
many and it's just fun and they're. Unique so there you.
Go all rights seven one, three two one two five

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it so many. Times seven one, three, two one two
five eight seven. Four give me a. Call let's talk
about the things that are of interest to. You uh
nine to. Fives imperial fifteen five. Ten it is the
red orange Bag Reddish orange fifteen five. Ten it's an
immediate release. Fertilizer you put it, down you get it,

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Wet it, dissolves the nutrients go into the soil and
the plant roots can take them out right from. There
it's just immediate release, fertilizer and we put it down
this time of the. Year if you want to have
an early greenup is it's a little cool for grass
to grow. Fast so instead of saying it's going to

(01:24:25):
make your lawn fell in real, fast we know it's
going to make it greener early. On you, know in,
time as the grass gets, growing we'll put down some
slow releases and we'll get that growth that we're looking
for and the early greenup will be around for a
while to do. That but if you're going to do,
it you need to do it. SOON i like to
get it done by oh early to Mid march at the.

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Latest probably Early march is a good time for. It
but go ahead and get the bag. Now you can
find Night frost products all over you go to In
Jennet gardens or down In Richmond rosenberg. Area they're On
highway three fifty. Nine Court hardware In stafford is On South.
Maine Langham. Creek ace is ON fm five twenty. Nine
they all carry Night fosh products like This imperial fifteen five.

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Ten we're going to go To Northwest houston now and
visit With rebecca this. Morning, Hello, Rebecca welcome to Garden. Line, Hello, Hi,
Rebecca welcome to Garden.

Speaker 6 (01:25:22):
Line good.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
MORNING i don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:25:28):
Do, you Re.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
Becca do you happen to have your phone your radio
on in the. Background, no, okay Well i'm gonna stop
talking and you go ahead and tell me what you'd
like to talk about.

Speaker 14 (01:25:41):
Today, Okay i'm.

Speaker 11 (01:25:43):
Not sure if you're talking to.

Speaker 14 (01:25:44):
Me he didn't ask me my.

Speaker 5 (01:25:45):
Name BUT i had a question about MOLT.

Speaker 11 (01:25:49):
I had during the.

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
WINTERTIME i put down straw like at the base of
my fruit, trees and DO i have to take that?

Speaker 11 (01:25:56):
Down or CAN i just.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Leave it there and let it deteriorate or whatever you
call it by?

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
Itself all, right you definitely want to leave it there
and let it. Deteriorate think about nature and a forest
the way nature's designed to. Work as a leaf falls
on the ground in, mulches and it begins to decompose
as new leaves fall on, it and as new leaves
fall on, them and the forest floor just gets richer and.
Richer so don't take mulch. Away just put fresh mulch

(01:26:25):
on top of it when it's getting a little, thin
but leave the old.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Mulch, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
Great thank you so much for your.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
Help you bet and thank you for the. Call appreciate
that that is the. CASE i go to, nature learn from.
NATURE i mean it makes, sense you know WHEN i
pointed out it's real, obvious, RIGHT i mean you think About,
yeah nature does do. THAT i had someone call one
time and ask is it okay to mulch with oak?
Leaves and it's Like god does in an oak. Forest

(01:26:58):
before we showed up around there to try to do
something to for the, trees oak leaves fell under oak
trees and other trees that were growing around. Them so,
yeah do what nature. Does that's a that's a, good
good way to look at. It plants all. Seasons Great
Garden center right there On Tomball parkway two forty, nine
Where belts keep you Where luetta comes, in just north

(01:27:20):
Of luetta On Tomball. Parkway if you've ever been in
plants for all, seasons you know What i'm talking. About
you're going to find the plants that are really well
adapted this, area and you're going to get the advice
to help you have. Success here we go again on
the independent garden. Centers it's not just the. Products it's
not just the plants and the fertilizers and, things although

(01:27:42):
independent garden centers do have the best, ones and a
lot of places that are not garden centers may carry
things from other parts of the country that don't need
to be sold. Here but when you look at plants
for all, seasons you're going to get quality plants that belong,
here and you're gonna get the products to go with
good soil. Selection you got to walk through the fertilizers

(01:28:03):
and soils to make it to check, out because they
know brown stuff before green. Stuff they know that soil is.
Critical plants For All seasons two, eight, one, three, seven,
six sixteen forty, six or go visit their Website plants
For All seasons dot. Com we're going to go out
To Bay city now and talk To. Mike, Hey, mike

(01:28:23):
welcome back to Garden.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
Line Hey, Skip, YEAH i was.

Speaker 18 (01:28:27):
CALLING i GUESS i missed some of that last conversation
because AS i was calling, IN i realized that y'all
were talking about leaves and in the forest and all that.
Stuff but that's WHAT i was going to call, out
AND i heard earlier you talking about leaf mold. Composts
i'm sure exactly what that is other than you composted
leaves only or. SOMETHING i don't, know BUT i have

(01:28:49):
every night, leaves, okay, yeah And i'm trying and What i've.
Done i've got a thing that can shred them, up,
okay a little reverse blower thing that's got, anyway it
spreads them.

Speaker 16 (01:29:01):
Up And i'm trying to figure out what's my best
use for.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
That and in the Past i've put some of these
like just.

Speaker 18 (01:29:07):
In the, garden, right like walk in, there and and you,
Know i'm not walking on, dirt walking on, leaves And
i'm thinking that's a pretty good use for. It just
grinted up there. Is can you think of SOMETHING i
could do better with? It you, know use it for something.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
Else those leaves you've got are black. Gold they are
so valuable any way you want to use. Them you
can use them as a. Mulch put them about two
or three inches thick on the ground and just let
it be a malt and replenish it as. Needed they'll
decompose away and feed the. Soil you can also you
put it in a compost pile if you. Want it's

(01:29:45):
already about two thirds composted or half composted at least
that the whole term leaf, mold leaf mold. COMPOST i
wish the word mold wasn't in, there because people think
of mold as bread, mold you, know and we're not
talking about. That what we mean when we say leap
old compost is you take a leaf and you start

(01:30:05):
decomposing it in, moist warm, conditions and it starts to
turn chocolate, brown and it starts to crumble. Apart but
before it's completely crumbled, apart if you were to pick
it up and look at it, close you'd see, that,
oh that used to be a piece of a leaf right.
There it's not fully composted to where you can't even recognize,

(01:30:25):
it but that's what it. Is and it's just really good.
Stuff it's good for putting in the. Soil if you
want to blend up some soil and grow things, better
a better soil. Condition it's good for. That it's good
for mults on. Top it's just good. Stuff and congratulations
to you for having a little vacuum thing that grinds
up a little, bit because every time you break up

(01:30:46):
the leaves a little, better they stay in, place they
don't blow away so. Bad and, secondly you expose more
surface to that leaf by breaking it up so it decomposes.

Speaker 18 (01:30:54):
Faster, YEAH i had a good nivry gave me that
thing before you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Moved oh, wow.

Speaker 9 (01:31:04):
Of.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
Course.

Speaker 5 (01:31:04):
Yeah all, right, well, hey thank you very.

Speaker 16 (01:31:07):
Much skip all, right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Appreciate its, card you, too have fun in the garden this.
Week appreciate that a. Lot, yeah leave. Grinders. LISTEN i
am a. LEAF i liberate leaves from curb sides through my.
NEIGHBORHOOD i like the term. Liberate you, know people put
them out to throw them. Away and when you first start,

(01:31:32):
this you're gonna make some. Mistakes you're gonna get home
and have a bag full of sticks and, stuff and it's, like,
yah put it at your. Curb but after a while
you kind of drive down the road and you can
kind of glance at a bag of leaves and, go
that's some good stuff right. There you can just tell
by the way it bulges out around the sides of the.
Bag but quality, leaves nothing's, better nothing's. Better listen to.

(01:31:57):
This hold on just. Second fifty to eighty percent of
the nutrients a tree takes up during the, year or
in those. Leaves, now a tree takes up a lot of,
nutrients and some of it makes, wood but wood is mainly,
carbon basically. Carbon not a lot of nitrogen in, wood
not a lot of potassium in wood and so. On

(01:32:19):
but in the leaves that is where a lot of it.
Goes and when those leaves follow the, ground you have
nature's on slow release mulchion. Fertilizer and you can bag
it and pay somebody to holler it, away or you
can use. It AND i say use. It it is good.
STUFF i meult with leaves all the. TIME i use
other nice storebot. Mulches those are beautiful and they last

(01:32:42):
longer because there are typically a ground wood type, material
bark type, material but leaves are, valuable and those nutrients
are going to go back in your. Landscape and where
are they going to. GO i mean it's in a,
leaf it's decomposing a, way microbes are releasing back into the.
Soil that's a cycle in the, sure that's how nature's
designed to. Work and those leaves are. Outstanding and so

(01:33:05):
when your neighbors put them out, there you know they're
they're just trying to do you a. FAVOR i mean
they're being. Philanthropic you know they're they're helping the gardeners
of the. World, uh and you, say just just. Enjoy
just go out there and get you, some bring them.
Home you can keep them in bags for a little
while before you use them as. Maulch you can grind
them up much and compost with them whatever you. Want

(01:33:28):
just know their good. Stuff, hey let's take a little.
Break i've run a little along. Here we'll be right
back in. Morning out in the. Garden get you it? Wrong, oh,
yeah there we. Go that's, it, man all about. Tomatoes
three things make the phone rings on the Guarden. Line, trees,

(01:33:49):
turf and. Tomatoes that's HOW i was on a skinny extension. Agent, trees,
turf and. Tomatoes the three. T's that's what people want
to talk about a lot of other questions. Too but
when you look at. Volume oh, man let's hedd out the. Phones.
Now we're going to go To tumball this morning and
talk To. David, Hello, david welcome to Garden.

Speaker 16 (01:34:11):
Line good good, morning.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
Sir, hey it was nice.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
Meeting yesterday and well.

Speaker 5 (01:34:22):
And it was it.

Speaker 19 (01:34:23):
Was you gave me some advice on pruning three different
types of. Shrubs great myrtle is a mother type of
bush by my. Driveway, Well i've prone those things pretty
SO i pruned them pretty. Severely got just three to
five trunks coming, up AND i MEAN i prone them.
Severely is there anything now THAT i proned on them

(01:34:43):
THAT i could put on them to help them recover
from the shock or or just let them go?

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
There there's not a worry about helping them recover from the,
shock but they are going to rea sprout with a
vengeance because of that severe you, know heavy, pruning which
you should. Done. Uh but WHAT i would do is
get there's a. PRODUCT i know one is called uh sucker,
stopper but there there are other. Products, basically there are

(01:35:10):
plant hormones in the, product and you you just spray
them or brush them onto those, cuts and it suppresses
suckering and, sprouting and so you don't end up with
a whole you, know bushy jungle coming out of the
base of that plant where you pruned.

Speaker 7 (01:35:25):
It.

Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
Uh and you're gonna have to use those for a little.
While you don't have to do them, often but whenever
you get sprouts and cuts them, off then dab the
sucker sprout stopper on, there and it'll sure save you
a lot of headaches trying to keep them. Pruned after, That, WELL.

Speaker 19 (01:35:40):
I found a bottle of, that or a small bottle
they wanted like sixty, PUPS i would good, grief is
there another one that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Led, no it shouldn't it shouldn't have been that. High
well it's. Not, well it's not, cheap and but you
just need a tiny. Amount you don't need a quart
of it or. ANYTHING i, mean half of a pint
would be enough to get you through the typical home
pruning types of, things because you're just dabbing a little

(01:36:11):
bit on. There you're just putting a tiny bit on.
There Uh, so, okay, Yeah i'd keep. Hunting, yeah there
there's another PRODUCT i can't think of the name of
it that does the same.

Speaker 19 (01:36:22):
Thing, well, Anyway i'm the one that had the dag
pig tree, too AND i went up replacing it with
THE lsu.

Speaker 1 (01:36:30):
Gold, okay, good, good that's a good fig L Su
gold AND lsu purple or good. Figs. Hey uh and
thanks for that little candy dispenser. Thing that was pretty.

Speaker 19 (01:36:43):
Cool oh, well you're.

Speaker 5 (01:36:45):
Welcome you're, welcome all, Right BUT i got.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
IT i only have one, complaint and that is my
family got to it BEFORE i could.

Speaker 19 (01:36:55):
Well the jar and fill it back.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
Up i'll do. That you take, care take, care appreciate.
That all, right, Folks there you have. It, yep sucker.
Stopper if you are going to prune crape myrtles that
have suckers at the, base you need to get something like.
That AND i need to find the other the name
of the other product on. IT i need to check
that price because that's too much from WHAT i was

(01:37:19):
here and. There but, anyway make sure and use that
and the same through as bitex bike text does not
want to be pruned by. People it just says you're
going to take a branch off, There i'm gonna put
five branches right where you took one, off and there you. Go,
yep that's WHY i use that. Stuff growers outlet in willis,

(01:37:40):
great great, place lots of just all kinds of things right.
Now the fruit that they, have you, know it may
be blueberries or maybe, blackberries or shrubs like pomegranites and,
figs or spruit trees like pears and, plums, nectares, peaches.
Apples they're loaded up with them and they got nice sized.
Stock these are these are well, rooted not just things

(01:38:02):
that were bear root and potted up to. Sell they
were grown in a, pot it has been in there
for a. While and the good sized. Plants and remember
when you take any fruit treat that's been grown in
a pot, out you want to cut those outside. Roots
just take your printers and just snip through things going
in a circle sideways and then put it in the.
Ground don't, worry they're going to be fine. Though within

(01:38:22):
two weeks they'll be, fresh new white roots coming out
and establishing way better and faster than if you didn't
do any root, Trimming so don't be afraid to do.
That it grows, outlet you're gonna find fertilizers Like, microlife
Night foss And medina. Products you're going to find a
nice selection of, shrubs, trees, blooming hanging, baskets and right

(01:38:45):
now the, tomato, pepper, eggplant, vegetables all those. Transplants, unbelievable great.
Selection go to the website and they have their availability
on the. Website they do A friday availability on like
all their vegetables site For Growers outlet And willis Is
Growers outlet In willis dot. Com that makes it. EASY

(01:39:09):
i think that's pretty. Smart of them to do that.

Speaker 8 (01:39:14):
In my.

Speaker 1 (01:39:16):
Patio on my, PATIO i have a number of different.
THINGS i got some kalalilies That i'm waiting waiting for
to wake. Up when it warms, up they'll be. Awake
by the, way you can buy those at garden centers right, now.
Klalilies and you, know there's only ten billion plants out,
there And i'm constantly learning about plants That i've never grown,
before BECAUSE i IF i live one hundred and fifty,

(01:39:39):
YEARS i won't have a time to grow all the
plants that there, are for, sure by any stretch of the.
Imagination but one YEAR i, Said i'm gonna try. CALALILIES
i put them in a pot and they, grew they.
Bloom they're pretty bottom when they're, blooming and then at
the end of the air they kind of dwindled and died.
DOWN i, thought, EH i stuck the pot around the
corner and, thought, WELL i guess that was, that because

(01:40:02):
they didn't make. It and then the next, spring boom
out of the. Ground here they come again with another
round of. Bloom and how DID i care for? THEM
i just stuck the container around the. CORNER i guess
you got a little bit of moisture there and water
to keep it. GOING i THINK i may have watered
it once or twice just in. Case but keledies are
a great. Plant so whenever you're doing, That i'm going

(01:40:23):
to be planting some more things out in. CONTAINERS i
got some. VEGETABLES i love to grow them in, containers
even THOUGH i have a vegetable, garden some herbs and.
Flowers you want a good mix to go in. There
Jungle land from night foss is a good mix like.
That it's gonna drain, well but it's also going to hold.
Moisture that's what you want a little of both for
your outdoor. Plants Jungle land from night. Five, now there

(01:40:45):
also is a jungle land for indoor plants that has
water saving crystals in. It i'm talking about the one
outside right. Now that's the thing to. Replenish, now you
got a container that's a, swell maybe dropped, down it's
only two thirds full an. Hour it's. Okay you don't
throw it, away get it out of, there mix it
with some fresh jungle, land put it right back in the,
container and you're right back in. Town and, again where

(01:41:08):
do you get night frost? Products, Well you can get
them At Fisher's hardware In, Pasadena Fisher's hardware In Laporte
plants And, things And brenham On highway three sixty, five
just a few of many places carry Night FoST. Products
works works, well it sure. Does, now any pruning you

(01:41:29):
need to get done, outside you need to go ahead
and get that. Done the best time to prune is
in late, winter and we're kind of there, now although
things are starting to. Move here's what's going to. Happen
as the sap begins to, flow that bark that was
holding real tight to the inner wood loosens. Up and
so when you, prune if you're not careful as that

(01:41:49):
limb starts to fall, down it's going to peel that bark,
off like just like you peel in a. Banana think
of the inside the banana that you eat is the
wood of the, tree and think of the banana peel
as the outer. Bark and the outer bark separates in
spring with the flow of sap from the, wood it's
going to be extra extra extra careful to hold onto

(01:42:11):
that branch before you prune. It if you're gonna have
a branch too big heavy to hold in one hand
while you prune with the. Other if it's that if
it's that, size you need to do a three point.
Cut And i'm not going to try to describe it
on the, air but it's just three, cuts and the
first to take the branch away in a way that

(01:42:32):
doesn't allow the bark to. Strip the third cut is
made at the final place where you would have cut
in the first. Place it's a three point. Cut go
online three point. Cut lots of good, diagrams but trust
me on this. One i've had branches before AND i, thought,
AH i can hold, that And i'm, sawing and all
of a sudden it gets away from, me and now it's.

(01:42:53):
Stripped and when that, happens you end up with a
wound that is, very very very slow to. Heal don't do.
That do a three point cut if you need. To
we're gonna take a little break now for the bottom
of the. Hour news turn over To. Erica see what's
happening around. Town in.

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t R h seven one three two one two k
t R. H i was talking about proper. PRUNING a
QUESTION i often get about pruning is DO i paint the?
Wound you know they're pruning paints out? There isn't that
the way to quote seal the? Wound the answer is
it is not. Necessary it is not. NECESSARY a guy
Named Alex, chigo Doctor Alex, chaigo did a lot of

(01:46:48):
research on forest trees many decades, ago and he proved
through different kinds of things that he did to the,
trees and then taking those trees and slight seen through
them and showing the interior decay and what happened that
pruning paints are not that helpful because, initially, yes it

(01:47:08):
did seal it. Over but some, paints the dark asphalt,
color you, know, paints they actually can really heat up
when the sun shines on that and you got tender
little tissues there that are trying to form in the.
Callus that's not. Good all pruning, paints, though can, Peel
they can crack open sometimes and then moisture gets through

(01:47:29):
and it the pruning paint almost is like a mulch
covering the, surface preventing fast, drying and that promotes interior.
Decay there's one time In texas that we do pruning
paint for where we are, here and if you're listening
from you, know the northeast or some other part of the,
country talk to your local county extension offices about. That

(01:47:52):
but here In texas we have one. Disease it's called oak,
wilt and an attack oak, trees red, oaks white, oaks live,
oaks and we paint oak, wounds especially when we print
oaks here In, texas to prevent a beetle that goes
and feeds on a mass of oak uilt spores on

(01:48:14):
another tree is wound and comes to your tree and
then brings that disease. In because once oak quilt's, in
it's a hard thing to deal. With you can hold
it off a little, bit but basically it's a tree,
killer and so we paint for that reason in areas
that have a lot of oak. Quilt here in The

(01:48:35):
Greater houston, area And i'm, generalizing so take this with
somewhat of a grain of. Salt we don't have big
oak quilt problems. Currently it has occurred, here there and
yonder all through this. Area there's been oak quilt in
college stations In. Houston there's been o quote in other
communities around. Here but it's a center that appears and
then kind of goes, away and we just don't see

(01:48:57):
it taking off like it does In Central. Texas areas
Like Central texas where it's. Rampant every time you prune,
ROK i don't care what time you year it, is
go ahead and cut and then immediately paint the. Wound
but over here not so. Much but that's the only.
Exception so if you had a neighbor that had some, oak, well,
yeap go ahead and paint those wounds on oak, trees

(01:49:17):
but in, general prune pruning paint is not needed and
does not need to be. Used all, RIGHT i hope
that made some. Sense let's go To dickinson now and
talk To chris this. Morning, Hey, chris welcome to the Guarden.

Speaker 5 (01:49:29):
Line, hey, Morning, Skip how you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
Doing?

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
Good? Looking? Help?

Speaker 20 (01:49:36):
Hey but, hey within the last, year year and a,
half at the exact almost at the exact same, time
the same, AGE i had some pine trees that all
just went up and died at the same. Time here The.
DICATIONARIA i don't know if your listeners had the same
issue or.

Speaker 1 (01:49:55):
Not, okay when you looked at those trees as they
were in their, decline did you see globs of sap
up and down the? Trunks? Nope, okay did you see
did you notice sawdust at the base of the tree
like it had fallen down the? Trunk?

Speaker 12 (01:50:16):
No. Shirt the only THING i, once once.

Speaker 5 (01:50:22):
We did have them down there WAS i wanted to,
say like a round headed. Worm mm.

Speaker 1 (01:50:27):
Hmm, okay but that's that's the only.

Speaker 8 (01:50:31):
Thing.

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
Okay, well it's hard to go back in. Time my
crystal ball is broken. Today but the, uh my guess
is going to be that it was a stress or
drought related type. Thing there are other things that could.
Happen lightning strikes could. Happen but you notice that big
strip down the. Trunk oh, yeah we have so so uh.

(01:50:55):
IT i can't any of your answers are not pointing
me to any of the bark beat that attack. Pines
there's about five of them that attack pines in our,
area and around five AND i don't hear symptoms that
point to, those so that leaves me just with stresses
of some. Sort But i'm Afraid i'm not gonna be
able to give you a definitive answer on that.

Speaker 20 (01:51:15):
One, okay no.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
WORRIES i was just wondering if anybody in the area
had the same.

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
Issues, yeah, well we'll listen. Up let's see what they.
Say but if it was, stresses THEN i would expect
there to be others in the area that have that.
Issue but thanks for The thanks for the, Call. CHRIS
i appreciate. That appreciate that very. Much warrens And Kingwock
Garden center are open today from ten to, four Every
sunday from ten to four And monday Through saturday from

(01:51:41):
nine to. Am, no, Wait i'm, wrong ten to five
They've february sixteenth they changed to five, o'clock so ten
to five today And monday Through saturday nine to. Five
they still have their great forty percent off, pottery you,
say a large selection of their. Pottery lots of fruit,
trees lots of vegetable, trees, plants wonderful house plants and,

(01:52:02):
gorgeous gorgeous flowers and blooms and hanging. Baskets warrens In
Kingwood Garden. CENTER i don't know how you got two In,
kingwood but you. Did good for. You warrens is On North.
Park kingwood is On Stone. Hollow let's take a little break,
here and when we come, Back alan and Sugar land
your first stop.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
To set.

Speaker 1 (01:52:24):
It after rocket like a. Book i'll give you a.
MINUTE i know you're jitterbugging right. Now watch up at
the coffee. Table there we go a little tractors this. Morning,
hey welcome back To. Guardline good to have you with. Us,
listen if you are going to prevent summer, weeds you
need to do it. Now if you're gonna use a pre,
emergent you need to do it. Now if you wait

(01:52:46):
until they, sprout AND i say you wait a month
you're gonna get a few weeds that still haven't sprouty,
yet of, course but you're not getting the full of.
Fact do it. Now barricade is a product that controls,
prevents i should, say grassy and broad leaf. Weeds it
doesn't take. Much ten pound bag covers five thousand square.
Feet don't feel that if you double it up you'll

(01:53:08):
get better. Results you. Won't you never do pesticide that,
way or you'll pay the price for. It trust, me you.
Will your plants will follow the label on any, pesticide, herbicide,
fungicide insects, side whatever you. Use follow the. Label but it,
works but you got to get it down and you
got to water it. In that's part of following the.
Label granules of barricade sitting on the surface or doing

(01:53:29):
you no good until you've gotten some water to get
that down in the sole surface where the weed seeds
are going to, germinate and then it does.

Speaker 5 (01:53:36):
Work.

Speaker 1 (01:53:36):
Now barricade and other Night fast products are available at
places like In Jennet forest down To, Richmond Rosenberg Bearings
hardware On westheimer and on bus and that by the,
way and Also Court hardware On South maine down there In.
Stafford let's go to the. Phones. Now we're going to
talk To allen In. Sugarland, Hey, allen welcome to Garden.

Speaker 14 (01:53:55):
Line good, Morning. SKIP i enjoy listening to your.

Speaker 15 (01:53:59):
Show i've sent an. Email they had two photos of
h two different types of. Weeds one was a heart
shake we almost kind OF i don't, KNOW i describe
it maybe like a scallop leaf on.

Speaker 1 (01:54:14):
It, Okay, Uh, ALAN i don't see your. Emails would
it have come in a different.

Speaker 5 (01:54:24):
Name Than i've sent?

Speaker 14 (01:54:26):
It Monday Best, Monday Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:54:29):
Monday, okay all, right let me let me SEE i
can find it while we're talking. Here when you say,
scalloped you mean that the edges are kind of cut,
in uh in little there's like little bumps going around
the outside of the. Leaf, correct uh Huh, okay that
sounds like dollar. Weed is the weed a little bit?
GLOSSY i.

Speaker 6 (01:54:59):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
Maybe so it's kind of A.

Speaker 16 (01:55:03):
Let me step out side and take a.

Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
Look, okay take a look at. That i'm not finding
your email for some, reason but we'll figure it. Down
the one that was hard. Shaped is the one that's
hard shaped or the leaves about the size of a
dime of a dime.

Speaker 15 (01:55:21):
Coin You, no they're, larger maybe about three quarters of
an inch to each.

Speaker 1 (01:55:28):
Long, okay, WELL i think you're talking about dollar weed
and dichondra or the two weeds that you. Have but
if they're a round ish or anywhere close to around
in the, color it's probably in the, shape it's probably those. Two.
Uh what you're gonna want to do is use a

(01:55:49):
post emergent broad leaf herbicide to control. Those and if
you go to my Website gardening With skip dot Com
gardening With skip Dot, com there is a publication on.
Weeds it's herbicides to use with skipsweed. Wiper it is
what it, says and it gives, you according to the,

(01:56:09):
weeds the products to. Use and if you look on
there under the broadleaf weeds, section you'll see the herbicide
products that kill broadway. Weeds and you spray. Them you
want to use a spreader sticker or it's also called
a surf factant in the. Spray so you buy the
herbicide product and you buy something with it that's called
a surf. Factant, Okay, now if you're out there Near,

(01:56:31):
sugarland if you go to like the just went, Blank
southwest fertilizer on bissing it And. Runwick bob's got plenty
of surfactants in stock, there and you put that with
the herbicide and that makes it stick to the leaves
and therefore you get better. Control so you don't want
to water after you apply. It just give them a

(01:56:51):
few days before you. Water but it will work. Well
but you got to eat do that soon as we
start to heat up into the. Nineties some of the
products you are hard, on Your Saint, Augustine so make
sure and go ahead and get it done in the
next two or three weeks if you.

Speaker 5 (01:57:05):
Can, okay so, sorry scalp from probably a dollar.

Speaker 14 (01:57:11):
Weed and what was the other one one more time
please probably probably.

Speaker 1 (01:57:15):
Dichondra the hard one you described as heart. Shaped it
is probably. Dichondra, okay all, right, well good, luck you take, care,
appreciate appreciate your co all Righty Nature's Way, resources you
know they they've got the bulk. Product you can go
get up there At Nature's, way which is Off interstate forty,

(01:57:35):
five right where fourteen eighty eight comes Into interstate forty.
Five you just cross over the railroad tracks on the
east side of forty five and you go get it.
Yourself you can have them deliver, it but you can
also buy it by the. Bag and bags are available
in a number of different. Places you'll see bags At
bearings On, Bissonette Wilbash, Feed you'll see it At Plantroll
seasons two forty nine all SEASONS ace up In Willis Jnr's,

(01:57:59):
ace as well as the Task Asda ace AND k
and M ace Up northeast kN m's And, kingwood Then
Ace Hardware city On Memorial drive And Nelson Water gardens
And katie And Southwest fertilizer and the two enchanteds down
In richmond area And Chenney forest And Chenney Gardens Ace
hardware in The. WOODLANDS i don't know IF i said that,

(01:58:20):
one but, anyway there are bags are available lots of.
Places if you want to just get leaf more compost,
bulk just leaf will compass by, bulk you can go
To Central rock And malt At yale AND i. Ten
they carry Those Nature's way, products and you Know Nature's.
Way they're really one of the originators of a lot
of the quality organic materials we see for sale now

(01:58:41):
in The houston. Area they've been doing it a long
long time and they've been doing it right for a
long long. Time At Nature's, way talking To Ian John
ferguson's son who now runs the, place and talking to
him down In fort Ben county the other day at
a conference we were at just getting the, updates you

(01:59:01):
know how things are. Going i'm looking forward to being
out there. Too i'll be out, there by the, way
and not too long from. Now, oh by the, way
how CAN i forget. This i'm going to be At
Spring Branch ace On saturday Next saturday from twelve to,
two And i'm going to be giving away a number
of products from Micro. Life we're going to be four

(01:59:21):
bags of The green six two four. Bags also four
bottles of The Maximum. Balloons that's a, pink pinkish red
bottle THAT i was talking about three to eighty three
liquid At Spring Branch Ace. Hardware now that is as
a great new hardware store and it's right there In
Spring branch. Area Work road is one of the cross streets.

(01:59:43):
There but you got to get by there and see.
Me we'll be. There they are going to have all
kinds of cool stuff going on At Spring Branch. Hardware
I'm i'm gonna tell you it is They they're gonna
be given away one of those turtle. Boxes you know
turtle boxes that's like the to have now for. OUTDOORS
i mean those things are incredible speaker THAT i can't

(02:00:05):
tell you all the features of. THEM i mean that it's.
Cool some of them even have magnetic where they stick
them on up piece of metal and they hang on out. There,
uh they are excellent. Speakers they're gonna give one of those.
Away and that is no cheap item for. Sure pretty amazing.
Stuff lots of other good things happen in that. Day bring,
me bring me the plants that are weeds or that

(02:00:27):
are desirable plants that you have that you have questions.
About bring them in a little, bag will, diagnose will,
identify bring me photos from your. Phone this is a
nice central. LOCATION a lot of people can get To
spring Branch Ace hardware Next saturday from twelve to. Two all,
right we're gonna take a little break here when we come,

(02:00:49):
Back helen And, alvin you're our first collar. Up all,
Right i's see. HERE i got all the COFFEE i need.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
A right.

Speaker 2 (02:01:08):
Just watching as.

Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
So many things to. Folks let's do. This we're in
our last. Hour guarden line this. Weekend time's Flying Enchinted.
Forests wonderful garden center down in The Richmond rosenberg. Area,

(02:01:37):
actually if you're In, richmond you're heading up to a triggerland.
Direction it's off to the. Right Enchanted forest has loaded
up on tomatoes and peppers and beautiful flowers like. Petunias
they always have good herbs selection there and they are
it's spring and the herbs, are let's, say bursting from the.
Tables there's so many of, them lots of wonderful herbs

(02:01:59):
that they. Have your, perennials you, know Maybe salvia's my favorite,
genus genus of. Plants lantana's gorgeous lantannahs that they have.
There the butterflies are going to line up down the
block for that. One they carry lots Of texas natives
as well as fruit. Trees it's fruit tree. Season to
get them. Done do it now And Enchanted. Forest Enchanted, Forest,

(02:02:20):
richmond T x dot. Com by the, Way, today they're
open from ten to. Four be a good day to
get out, there get the supplies you need for some
afternoon or maybe gardening later this week gonna be a
good week to get out and get some gardening, Done
let's go now To alvin and visit With helen this.
Morning Hey, helen welcome to Garden.

Speaker 14 (02:02:39):
Line good.

Speaker 4 (02:02:40):
Morning i'll my girlfriend From, Columbus, texas was going To
wimer to pick up earthworm casings and DON'T i guess
it's a fertilizer or any. Enhancer But i'd like to
know what it really is and where COULD i purchase

(02:03:01):
this in The manbala.

Speaker 1 (02:03:03):
Area, Okay, Well i'll answer the last one, first and
THAT'S i don't. Know none of our soil suppliers that
to my knowledge make an earthworm casting. Material what it
is is earthworms eat organic matter and it goes through
their bodies and ground grinds it up and it comes out,
well just to put it, unpleasantly earthworm. Poop and that's

(02:03:25):
what castings. Are it is incredibly rich in microbes and
nutrients and. Things it's a good it's a good fertilizer to.
Use it's a good soil amendment to. Use you can
usually buy it in little. BAGS i know he can
mail order. IT i would call some of them the
garden centers around and just, see you, know do you
do you carry them in small amounts they're gonna they're

(02:03:47):
not gonna be huge bags of it because it's hard
to make a lot of earthworm. Castings you, know it's
just because of the nature of. It but it's a
good product if you can find, it but you just
have to call.

Speaker 4 (02:03:59):
Around, okay you couldn't name one particular, One, NO i.

Speaker 1 (02:04:08):
Can't, uh you know there there used to be a
place Call it may still be Around Rabbit Hill forums
that was up Toward dallas direction up forty five that produced.
Them BUT i don't know who Carried Rabbit hill. COMPOSTS
i have seen it from time to time in garden,
centers but you, KNOW i don't know exactly which which
ones might or might not carry. It and that's just

(02:04:30):
one of the mini, Brands i'm, sure all, Right. Helen
sorry we couldn't give you a direct on that, one
but good luck with your. Gardening there's a lot of
other good products out. There but you, know you take
a good compost and you put some organic fertilizer in,
it and you can kind of make yourself a really
good product as. Well our phone number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven one three

(02:04:53):
two one two fifty eight seventy four Uh medina. PRODUCTS
i want TO i want to t specifically about a
couple of products that they have that are available in
the liquid form in bottles where you can spray them
out on the lawn or on the garden of any
kind of. Plants one of them is has to grow

(02:05:15):
On that is a twelve four to, eight which is
a three to one to two, ratio which is what
you want to put out twelve four. Eight it comes
in a quart bottle that has a hosein attachment and
in a gallon. Bottle AND i like to start with
the quirt because then you have an applicator and then
after you've emptied, it get you a gallon and use

(02:05:35):
it to refill your. Court it's an economical way to
go about, it and it is a great fertilizer for
greening up your lawn or using any time of the.
Season like. It there's one called super Grol plus that's
a sixteen zero two that one same, thing cork bottle
with an applicator and a gallon bottle to refill, it
both For, medina both great for. Lawns BUT i want

(02:05:57):
to tell you, THIS i would use it on fruit
Trees i'd use it on vegetable. Gardens those products work,
well and you would expect that from the folks At.
Medina let's now, go let's see, here got a call. Coming,
okay just a. SECOND i wanted TO i wanted to

(02:06:19):
talk about success in. Containers if you want to have
success in a, container you need a container of adequate.
Size here In Southeast, texas it gets, hot and it
stays hot for, many many, months and even the nights
are kind of. Hot have you ever gotten a sweat
broken out in a sweat walking to your car in
the morning eighty degrees and eight hundred percent. Humidity that's

(02:06:45):
a tough. Thing and you need a larger container to
hold more, soil which holds more, moisture which holds more.
Nutrients that's. Important so don't skimp on container. Size always
get a bigger container. Size don't WATCH tv from places
Like New. England In california And Upper. Midwest it's a
different climate there and they can grow in a smaller

(02:07:07):
container without the problem Now. Here in the winter we
can use smaller containers because the demands are, Lower but
in summer you need a good volume and put something
like jungle land in. There Jungle land is a product
distributed By nitropass that drains well and yet it also
holds moisture. Adequately and outdoor Jungle land is one of
the two jungle. Lands there's an indoor one with water

(02:07:28):
saving crystals for your indoor. Plants you're gonna find Night
fast products at places Like Texas Feet stop in Mont,
Bellevue Stanton Shopping center which is An alvin On North,
taylor and plants some things out there In. Brunham they
all carry Night foss. Products let's go back to the phones,
now we're going to visit With becky this morning From.
Spring Hello, becky welcome to Garden.

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
Line, well thanks very. Much are you how CAN i?

Speaker 1 (02:07:55):
Help i'm? Good thank? You what CAN i do for?

Speaker 9 (02:07:58):
You wondering what's the best kind of mulch to?

Speaker 19 (02:08:02):
Use the black or the brown or does it?

Speaker 1 (02:08:04):
Matter, Okay, well if it's a painted, MULCH i wouldn't use,
it say painted. Dyed there's a lot of mulches that
are artificially dyed to be brown or black or red
or something like. That and those, chemicals you, know they're
not gonna kill, plants but they don't do any. Good
AND i would rather use a natural, mulch so the

(02:08:25):
color isn't as important unless you prefer a certain color
to the Mult most of them are going to kind
of be a blackish. Brown as they dry, out they
tend to be a little bit more. BROWN i like
ground up hardwood. Mulch some of, them they will screen
them down to a smaller particle. Size some of them
are larger particle, sizes the finer textured. Ones some people

(02:08:47):
like the look of that a little bit. Better some
people like the fact that a, large chunkier mulch is
going to last. Longer you don't have to replenish it
as often because it decays more. Slowly but that's up to.

Speaker 11 (02:08:59):
You, okay that helps a.

Speaker 1 (02:09:03):
Lot all, right thanks for the. Call have a good
week in the. GARDEN i appreciate appreciate that very. Much
take a little break, here we'll be right. Back, hey
welcome back to the Guard. LINE i got time for
a question or, two or three or. Four give me a.
Call seven one, three two one two five eight Seven

(02:09:26):
four's we go into our second segment of the. Hour
here Today Nelson nursery and Water. GARDEN i always love going.
THERE i put a little clip On facebook the other
day about me sitting in front of a fountain getting
therapy at the sound of. Water, OH i love. That
and At Nelson Water Nursing Rotterer, gardens you're gonna find
that kind of. Thing it's it's just a pleasant place to.

(02:09:48):
Be in, fact when you go, THERE i gotta warn
you you're gonna want to come home with the water.
Garden you just are because it's it's, Therapy i'm telling.

Speaker 7 (02:09:55):
You.

Speaker 1 (02:09:56):
Uh and they can fix you. Up they can show
you how to do it or tell you so you
the pieces and, parts the pumps and the containers and,
everything or they can come on and do it for.
You they can build you a nice giant waterfall if you.
Want they can set up a small water feature like
a little pottery container that has bubbling water coming out of.
It those are so nice and the birds will thank

(02:10:18):
you for, it and even the beneficial. Insects we'll be
able to get a little bit of drink of water
out of a fountain like. That Nelson nursery And Water.
Garden now when you, go remember the nursery. Part lots of,
flowers lots of, shrubs lots of. Trees they got. Hibiscuits
they are ready to. Go the, houseplants as, always are
absolutely gorgeous and the advice is excellent as. Well so

(02:10:42):
what a great time to get out. There they're open
today from eleven am to four pm during the, week
Or monday Through saturday nine am to six. Pm nelsonwatergardens
dot com is the. Website go check it, out but
mainly go and take people with, you and take. Kids
take kids so they can feed the. Fish they got
big old koi in a. Backpond you, KNOW i need

(02:11:03):
to take a kid with me SO i can also
feed the. Fit i'm a little embarrassed to ask for
fish food SO i can play with. Fish but, Anyway
i'm like to find a kid and take them with
me SO i can do it. Too lots of, fun
lots of. Fun you were listening to Garden. Line if
you got a gardening, question here's a number seven to
one three two one two fifty eight seventy. Four or
if you want to die by letter two one two,

(02:11:25):
ktrh you can do it that way as. Well the
first TIME i ever Encountered Sweet, GREEN i was. VISITING
i GUESS i was visiting With Dan snyder From nelson
and uh looking in the bag of Sweet green. Snapping
he's talking about the smell of, it and you, KNOW
i got in there and it just smelled. Wonderful it's
like a Molasses think about how molasses. Smells it's kind

(02:11:46):
of a sweet smell like. That But Sweet green is
because it is based on a molasses and it's basically
a long chains of carbon which fuel microbial. Happiness that's
really what they. Do, microbes especially bacteria and things like,
that they need carbon in order to, thrive And Sweet

(02:12:08):
green is based on. That now it has eleven percent,
nitrogen which is very high for an organic. Fertilizer you
put it, down you water, it it, dissolves it goes
in the. Ground the ground takes that nitrogen. In the
plants take the nitrogen up and things look. Good you
can use it for a greenup or you can use
it anytime or all through the, summer just small doses
of it all through the. Summer it works really. Well

(02:12:30):
and remember it's a lawn, fertilizer but plants don't know.
That you put it on a tomato and it thinks
it's a tomato. Fertilizer you put it on a, flower
bed and you want to get some growth of green
so you can get some production of. Blooms it'll be
happy with that. Too like other night FoST, products you're
gonna find it At heating And Feed Stupner. Airline you're

(02:12:51):
gonna find AN rcw Nurserund Tomball. Parkway you're gonna find
it AT d AND d feed In. Tomball WHERE i
was at, Yesterday, Well i'm talking about WHERE i was.
At Where i'm gonna be Next saturday Is Spring Branch Ace.
Hardware spring Branch Ace hardware that is In Spring branch
is just off Work, road not too far off work,

(02:13:12):
road and we're going to be giving away some Micro
Life microlife. Fertilizers we're going to do the four do
four of the green, bags the six two, four all,
right four bags of, that and we're going to do
four bottles of the Maximum bloom three eight. Three now.

Speaker 12 (02:13:35):
That.

Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
Stuff if you're going to put a plant in the,
ground you want to make those roots, happy make that
plant thrive and get. Established it is an, excellent excellent
product for. That we're going to get away four of
those eight Different microlife products will be at that. Event
you really need to check. It out The Spring Branch

(02:13:56):
Ace hardware is going to have some one of their turtlebox,
speakers a very nice. Speaker they'll be providing that for the.
Event you will also find that they're just gonna have
a lot of good things going on that. Day i'll be.
There i'm gonna be giving away some my schedules of,
course and other information. Sheets i'll be answering your gardening.

(02:14:18):
Questions but you got to come. Out Spring Breach ace
is a really nice, location, easy easy to find and get,
to and SO i hope a lot of you will
come out for that day Next saturday from twelve noon
to two. Pm come on and see. Me let's see, Here,
Oh Southwest Fertilizer, Corner bissinett And. Runwick lots of things

(02:14:39):
going on. Now if you need any small engine, work
they also do. THAT i mean you already. Know they
carry every fertilizer you can think, of organic and, synthetic
as well as every pestweed and disease control. PRODUCT i
tell you all the, TIME i about the ninety foot
wall of tools. There but they have the small engine
shop in the back and you can get blade, sharpened
you can get small engine repair done it's going to be.

(02:15:00):
Busy it's. Spring that's that's how things. Are. Uh but
you need to get by there and check them.

Speaker 5 (02:15:07):
Out.

Speaker 1 (02:15:07):
Uh while you're, there check out the seed. Selection they've
got a bulk bend of seeds where you take a
little scoops and get out seed by the. Bulk that's
the most economical way to buy seeds there. Is they
also have packets for, sale but just go by check them,
out take them a sample or two in there for
them to identify a weed or a. Plant they're very
good at doing that as. Well Southwest Fertilizer Corner bisina And.

(02:15:29):
Renwick Southwest fertilizer dot. Com here's a phone number if
you want to call seven one three six six six
one seven four four seven win three six six six
one seven four. Four they know their stuff always like
going by to Visit bob by the. Way i'm going
to be stopping in there for an appearance as we

(02:15:50):
get into Mid. April, so, uh those of you live around,
there just you've been told for a. Word let's go
To cypress now and talk To will this. Morning Hey,
will we'll come to guarden. Line good.

Speaker 19 (02:16:02):
MORNING i was calling to see if that would be
a good time to apply a top dressing to your.

Speaker 7 (02:16:09):
Lawn and if, so which product you'd?

Speaker 1 (02:16:12):
Recommend, okay so what WHAT i would? Recommend, yes it is,
WELL i would probably hold off on the aerration just
a little. Bit let that lawn go through its spring green.
Up but it's compost hop dressing is great to. Do
now use a leaf moll. Compost it's been finely. Screened you,

(02:16:32):
know you don't want big chunks to sit up on
top of the. Grass you want stuff that falls down
into the, surface and a leaf mow compost is a,
great great way to.

Speaker 3 (02:16:41):
Go sounds.

Speaker 19 (02:16:44):
Good is there a particular place you'd recommend buying that
without gett any?

Speaker 1 (02:16:50):
Questions, well, yeah, yeah there's A i would call uh
uh good. NIGHT i just went blame the ground. Up,
SORRY i used to go there all the. Time there's
the location At britmore where you can go pick it

(02:17:11):
up yourself if you want to do. That but if
you want to just order and have them deliver, It
they've got a spot out there on Wind, fern which
is not too far from you being In, cyprus and
they can deliver. It just go and SAY i need
a bulk order of Leath More. COMPOST i think you
need to. ORDER i believe it's a three yard minimum
for bulk, delivery just because it costs a lot to

(02:17:31):
get trucks out on the highways and do. That but
that that would be a good. Source they've got an
excellent Leath More.

Speaker 19 (02:17:38):
Compost, great there can follow?

Speaker 1 (02:17:41):
Up, yeah go. Ahead, well let me give you the
websites the ground up dot. Com but here's a phone
number for the call center for all their locations two eight,
one nine to seven oh and then zero zero zero
three nine seven. Three you can call them and get

(02:18:03):
all that. Arrange so you were saying. Aerration what was
your question about? Aeration he, said to hold off on
that for.

Speaker 5 (02:18:10):
Now when would you recommend doing?

Speaker 1 (02:18:12):
That, well during the spring green, up you, know aerration
is punching holes in the, ground so it's going to
hit some stolons and parts of the grass plant do
a little bit of. Injury in the long, term it's
not a. Problem but when the grass is just trying
to get, GOING i like to let it get kind
of going better and growing better so that it recovers
faster from the. Aerration it's all usually wait until we

(02:18:35):
get maybe Into april to go ahead and do. That
if you look at my, Schedule i've got aerration listed
on there on the lawn care side of the, schedule
AND i start recommending A april.

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
First about, great thank you for your.

Speaker 1 (02:18:50):
Help all, right, well thanks a, lot appreciate you call very,
much Pest. Bros Pest. Bros is all about making sure
you don't have, legged creepy crawley scaring house guests away
unless you want them to. Leave that can happen at,
times right, well pest. Bros whether it's, cockroaches whether it's

(02:19:12):
other indoor pass if it's fire ants, outside if it's. Mosquitos,
oh they got some great systems for. Mosquitos, uh they
can take care of all of. That and certainly the
termite's the one that does the most economical damage to our.
Homes they've got some excellent ways of managing. Them they
have one treatment that's putting a little trench around your
house and it lasts ten, years and it's in a

(02:19:33):
trench with covered with a little, soil so it's not,
like you, know the family cat goes and lays there
and is exposed to some. Pesticide and that's typical of Pest.
Bros they know how to treat. Effectively they know how
to do it the safest possible, manner BECAUSE i know
you want long term, results but you don't have to
worry about what is this doing to my? Pet dpestbros

(02:19:54):
Dot com two eight one two o six forty six
seventy give you that phone number, again two eight one
two o six forty six. Seventy and they serve a
big area Around. Houston you, know if you're out on
the east side In baytown all the way west DOWN
i tend To katy. Area if you're up north like The,
woodlands they come. There if you're In Texas city down,

(02:20:14):
south they certainly come. There the whole region that we're
talking about, here that's the Pest. Bros and that's who
you need to. Call let's go To, Houston missouri. City
NOW i got, oh, No houston A Missouri. Josh, Hey,
josh welcome back to Garden. Line.

Speaker 7 (02:20:32):
Hey i've got a question about leaf mold. Compost over the,
WINTER i went out in my woods and collected two
or three tons of. It i've never gotten directly into it, before,
though AND i don't know which vegetables would do the
best in it just variety of overall.

Speaker 1 (02:20:50):
Species it don't. Matter it does not. Matter all vegetables
would do good and leaf moore. Compost now you know
when you do straight leafmore that's just like straight. Compost
we typically will put them in soil amended with compost
or amended with leaf more. Compost that makes the structure.
Better and it's not just the nutrients in it and

(02:21:11):
the microbes in, it which is loaded with, both but
it's the fact that it keeps that soil open and
oxygen gets down deeper in the soil because you have
that decaying organic, matter and so you have a deeper root,
system a more efficient root, system and therefore were. Production
it gets a little, dry better root system take up more,
water the same as with.

Speaker 7 (02:21:29):
Newt so What i've done is i built some rock
beds about four foot, deep And i've layered and with
straw at the very bottom and then river bottom dirt
and then this leaf mold compost and layers and. Layers
my top layer will be about a foot and a
half of the leaf bold. Compost so that should just
kind of trickle it all the. Way took all the
goodies down through, everything, Right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:21:52):
Well it's gonna settle a. Lot that's a very fluffy
mix that you describe there aside from the. Soil so you,
know you fill up the bed and you're gonna find
by midsummer it's and have dropped down quite a bit
because that's a tall dead, too but not a problem
with the.

Speaker 3 (02:22:07):
Plants, Awesome, okay thanks, skip have a great.

Speaker 1 (02:22:11):
Day thank, you. Sir appreciate your call as. Always All,
right there you. Go Night Foss imperial fifteen to five to,
ten immediate. Release you put it, down you water, it it.
Dissolves the nutrients are there. Tomorrow AND i mean that
the majority of nutrients from a synthetic fertilizer like that's

(02:22:33):
an immediate release fertilizer are gonna be taken. Up in
the first few days a. Plant there'll be something that's sticks.
Around they don't get every bit of nutrient out of,
it but it takes them out pretty. Quick it doesn't
leave those nutrients in solution very. Long And Nitroposs, imperial
the red orange bag is one that is excellent for.
That you're going to Find imperial and other Night foss
products in places LIKE Rcw nursery On Tomball, PARKWAY d

(02:22:55):
AND d feed In tomball they carried up there too is,
well as also they do In Lanmam creek As hardware
ON fm five twenty nine and many many other places around.
Town the main thing is it's our quick green up
optional fertilizer for spring for, Spring so if you're going
to do, it go ahead and do, it and you

(02:23:16):
can also keep it and use it through the year
in small, doses kind of create your own slowerties by
applying it slowly and small. Doses so there's that option
for you as. Well all, right we're going to come
right back in just a moment with our last half
hour a garden. Line there you, go happy happy. Song,

(02:23:41):
Hey i'm going to be At spring Branch Ace, hardware
real central location for a whole lot of you folks
to stop in Next saturday twelve to. Two NOW i,
said you, know it's on Work. Road the crossroad Is
Long Point Long Point road there For spring Branch Ace.
Hardware spring Branch Aase hardware is always having stuff going,

(02:24:03):
on so it actually is a news. Store but their
plans and their schedules and, stuff they there's a lot
of good stuff happening now On Go texan, day which
Is february twenty, third no excuse, me twenty. Eighth they're
going to be celebrating with a lot Of texas based
products that they've got going on. There come on. Out
they're gonna give Away, ah what's what's it called the

(02:24:25):
speaker speaker THAT i was talking. About they're gonna give
away one of those that is just, excellent excellent. Sound
amazing of visiting with them there and they're describing to
me what all that thing to. Do it's pretty. Cool
when you go, there you're gonna find the FERTILIZERS i
talk about on Garden, line and that includes things From Adena,

(02:24:46):
Microlife Nelson. Nitrophist they've got all of. That we're going
to be a Turtle. Box that's the NAME i couldn't
think of all to. Goo Turtle box is A texas based.
Speaker you gotta go see. One go check them. Out
that is so, COOL i tell you you, KNOW ace
in general is the place for, tools And i'm a tool.
JUNKIE i just am whether it's a new type of

(02:25:06):
a garden hoe or printer or, SOMETHING i gotta have.
ONE i always want to try some new. Tool and
WHEN i go INTO, ace. HARDWARE i just other than
the plant. STUFF i gravitate over to the section where
you find like the hand, Tools Ace, Brand, Milwaukee, Stanley
black And, Decker, craftsman D, Wault, duwalt the yellow, one

(02:25:27):
that's the ONE i. Use battery powered Tools. Man they
have a good selection and all the accessories that go with.
Them you need a nice battery powered. MOWER a lot
of them carry the ego. More and now remember every
hardware store is independently, owned so the owner can carry
what they want to. Carry they put in a fudge
bar if they want. To and some of them do
believe it or. Not see WHAT i. Mean didn't expect,

(02:25:49):
that did?

Speaker 7 (02:25:49):
You?

Speaker 1 (02:25:50):
Well Ace Hardware texas Dot com put The texas in.
There Ace Hardware texas Dot. Com find your Local Ace hardware.
Store they're all. Over you can go way way out
west To, Orange, Texas Orange, texas and they've Got Ace
hardware stores all. Right there's one out In. Orange if
you go way down southeast To Port lovaka And rockport

(02:26:10):
And victoria And Bay. City well go out To wharton
On North. Richmond They're Ace hardware stores and all those
places on the southeast Down Grand Avenue south takema Chalmers.
ACE i met the owner Of Chalmers ace the other
day at a TRAINING i was doing FOR Ace hardware
store employees On Broadway. Street Chalmers ace On Broadway street
down in The galveston. Area lots of Good Ace hardware

(02:26:33):
stores go To Ace Hardware texas dot. Com but let's
have some fun starting next Weekend, saturday twelve to, Two
Spring Branch. Ace come out and see. Me look forward
to visiting with, you and you may win some. Stuff
we're gonna be having a lot of cool. Giveaways all,
righty all. Right lines are open surprisingly normally things getting

(02:26:56):
a nine o'clock hour and it fills up, fast of
course say that it probably. Will but if you want
to get in without a, weight and that would be
a good time to. Try uh seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy. Four will help you have
success with your garden. Landscape that's WHAT i like to.

(02:27:17):
Do one WAY i put it here on garden line
is we want you to have. Success we want you
to have a bountiful, garden a beautiful, landscape and we
want you to have more fun in the. Process gardening
can be a, blast and it really. Can and when
you grow something, yourself whether it's cut flowers you brought,

(02:27:38):
IN i don't talk about those. MUCH i should talk
about cut flowers. More but you can grow and have,
success whether it's vegetables and herbs that you bring in
to spice up the. Kitchen like you're cooking and people
are over and you're doing some, cooking say, hey just a,
minute come with, me and you go outside and clip
some oregano or rosemary or whatever you. Got you get
fresh herbs from the. Garden that's. Impressive but we're not.

(02:27:59):
Bright we're just enjoying the fruits of our. Labors that's.
GARDENING i enjoy. THAT i enjoy that a. Lot so uh.
Oh also at The Ace Hardware Spring Branch ace this Coming,
saturday twelve to, Two i'm going to be giving away my.
Schedules i've got a bunch of printed up on low

(02:28:20):
pads in their front and. Back one side you get
the lawn care. Schedule the other side you get the lawn,
pest weed and disease management. Schedule if you can't come
out To spring Brandch a's Next, saturday just go on
my Website gardening with skip dot. Com the schedule they're.
There you can print them up there as. Well all,
right we're going to head out to talk To harry
now down In Santa, Fe. Texas, Hey, harry welcome to Garden.

Speaker 16 (02:28:42):
Line Hey skip Is terry Not, Harry no, Problem.

Speaker 1 (02:28:48):
Terry, Okay, Yeah, HEY i was at all, Right.

Speaker 16 (02:28:51):
Test, canada some friend's house this weekend and they had
some Bold i'm bold mag know you, trees one with
the suit of magnolia and with blooming, out, yes with
pink and flowers.

Speaker 3 (02:29:07):
Here In.

Speaker 1 (02:29:08):
Senifed they will they do quite. Well uh They, uh
there is a. Suasan i'm trying to think of the
other lady's. NAME i just want to blank on. It
there's another lady's. Name they're called this tulip, magnoia, uh deciduous,
magnolia and call them tulip because the, blooms although on
the variety you're talking, about they're kind of, strappy but

(02:29:30):
they come upward like tulip blooms come. Upward but they
while the plant is, dormant before the leaves, arrive you
get those. Blooms and they're one of the earliest things
to bloom in the. Spring so they ought to be
in more. Landscapes they're, very very.

Speaker 16 (02:29:44):
Nice they're, beautiful they ARE i think.

Speaker 1 (02:29:50):
Some jorg does have. SOME i saw some at his place. Recently,
uh just give, him give him a call and make
sure you know he's still got them in, stock, Right,
Okay i'll check him. Out, hey let me let me
buy a.

Speaker 14 (02:30:05):
Question let me give.

Speaker 1 (02:30:06):
You let me give you a number for right, quick
just so you know you don't drive all the way
there and why? NOT i mean it's worth going because
you got other good. Stuff oh you? Know, okay all, right?
GOOD i think you had a follow UP. Q.

Speaker 6 (02:30:22):
Yes.

Speaker 16 (02:30:22):
Uh back In, may one of my neighbors still don't
know who it, was left me some uh plants on my,
driveway SO i put them in the ground SO i
was going. OUTTOWN i didn't know what to were and
they end up being red ochre or purple?

Speaker 1 (02:30:36):
Ochre all? Right is That sixon?

Speaker 12 (02:30:39):
Thing red or?

Speaker 14 (02:30:40):
Purple that's WHAT i looked.

Speaker 5 (02:30:41):
Like, ANYWAY i have today And.

Speaker 6 (02:30:45):
I'm not sure what to.

Speaker 5 (02:30:46):
Do when CAN i plan them on how to plant
them and all that kind of.

Speaker 1 (02:30:50):
Stuff, yeah okra is one of the most heatoler vegetables we.
Have you don't have to wait till it's. HOT i
would plant them In. April uh, probably let it warm
up just a tad. Bit it's not reinterested in. Growing,
well we have fifty degree nights and. Stuff but let
it warm up just a little bit and then put.
Them What i'll, do and What i'd recommend you, do

(02:31:10):
is get some boiling hot water and put some ochre
seed in a cup and pour that water on them at, night,
okay and it'll cool off pretty, quick but the hot
water makes it soak into that woody seed. Faster and
let us sit all night and then in the, morning
get up and dump out the. Water AND i wet
seed sticks to your. Fingers So i'll put the okra

(02:31:32):
on a paper towel and just kind of dry them
off on the. Outside and it's easier to plant, them
but that pre swelling will speed up the germination when
you actually go out to plant.

Speaker 5 (02:31:41):
Them, okay all right, here fair, enough all, right all.

Speaker 1 (02:31:47):
Right thanks, sir appreciate you call you bet you take.
Care let's see, here let's go To joey And. Orange Hey,
joey welcome to garden.

Speaker 16 (02:31:54):
Line hey, boss thank.

Speaker 20 (02:31:56):
YOU I.

Speaker 9 (02:31:59):
I just replant a lime, tree DID I is this
the right time for me to do. THAT i guess
it's probably pretty late for the.

Speaker 1 (02:32:07):
Question, no it's actually. Fine you, know citrus is a
little coal, tender SO i usually wait till spring to
plant them and get them in the. Ground the only thing,
is if you, know we got a little bit of
a cold snap, COMING i don't think it's going to
hit you hard In orange enough to worry about cetrus
at all. Though uh but if we ever do have

(02:32:27):
another like frost, forecast just throw a little cover over
them and they'll be. Fine but, yeah now's a good.

Speaker 9 (02:32:34):
Time, HEY i lost a lemon tree about ten foot from,
it but it's regrown AND i tried to graft it
here just a few weeks.

Speaker 5 (02:32:43):
Ago, dude where CAN i get a Good.

Speaker 6 (02:32:46):
Myer's lemon graft dad around?

Speaker 1 (02:32:48):
Here, OH i don't. KNOW i couldn't tell. You you,
KNOW i don't know sources for people. That you, know
somebody's got my our, lemon you, Know, YES i. Did
that's WHAT i.

Speaker 9 (02:33:02):
Did lims off a bit AND i grafted. It, YEAH
i grafted it online AND i still got the tape on.

Speaker 3 (02:33:08):
IT i don't, know it's been on it about three weeks,
now maybe a.

Speaker 5 (02:33:11):
MONTH i hadn't pulled the wrap off of it, yet
BUT i GUESS i. CAN i don't, Know, Okay i'm
not sure of.

Speaker 1 (02:33:17):
It to it all? Right, well just be, patient be
patient and see hopefully did. Well, hey thanks for the.
Call thank, You, joey appreciate. THAT Rcw. Nurseries you, know
WHEN i think OF, RCW i think of people that greet,
you the people that are knowledgeable and plant selections that are.
Awesome and that is no more true than when it

(02:33:39):
comes to. Roses AT rcw. PAGES i Ask david And
kathleen send me a list of the, roses and it's
like pages single space of rose. Varieties but that dwindles
every day because people are coming and cleaning them, out
and you better hurry up and get over there so
you have the best selection you. Can ARE W nurseries

(02:34:01):
lots of knowledge. There anything you want to ask any you,
know how DO i plan a? Rose how DO i
take care of?

Speaker 7 (02:34:06):
This and?

Speaker 1 (02:34:07):
Stuff they'll help you with. THAT Rcw nurser is the
garden center On Tomball parkway in belt wag eight ro
easy to get to right. THERE Rcw nurseries dot. Com
they're open today from ten am to five. Pm so
about to open up over. There you better get ahead
of everybody else so you have the best selection you
can on those. ROSES R. Cw let's take a little break.

(02:34:27):
Here when we come back marine up In, lakeside you're
gonna be our first caller. UP i got a good,
job all, right, folks welcome back to the guarden. Line
good to have you with. Us, Hey i'm gonna give
you one. More you know how they say last, call
since we've got some honky dunk music in the. Background
last call meaning sooner is better than. Later for barricade the.

(02:34:51):
Weeds when we get this warm. WEATHER i know we
can chill off a little bit, here but we had a,
warm warm week before and it's gonna get warm again
and the weeds are going to start. Sprouting barricade prevents
sprouting weeds from making, plants so if you, wait you're
not getting benefits from, it although it'll be some weeds
at benefit that germinate, later but you want the full.

(02:35:13):
Benefit so get it down now now, now, now put it.
Out water it in just a little bit of, water
about third of an. Inch get it in the soil
so it does what he's supposed to. Do, now that's
a night foss, product so you're going to find it
places that all night. Foss you, know there's Four fishers
hardwares down. South there's one In pasadena On, southomore there's
one of The port On, broadway one In Mount bellevue

(02:35:35):
ON fm thirty one, eighty and then one down In
baytown On. Alexander those are all among the many places
that carried night foss. Products let's head out now To
lakewood Of. States we're going to talk To maurene this.
Morning welcome back To Guardenline. Marine thank.

Speaker 11 (02:35:50):
YOU i was listening to your talk this morning all
probably didn't miss a.

Speaker 1 (02:35:55):
Minute and So lawrence.

Speaker 11 (02:35:58):
Containers SO i went outside and started measuring all my
containers Because i'm going to switch from and eight by
ten to contain your GROWING i think.

Speaker 5 (02:36:10):
Look easier for.

Speaker 1 (02:36:11):
Me SO i have a.

Speaker 11 (02:36:12):
Variety the largest ONE i have is twenty, four but
it's only six foot six inches. Deep THEN i go
down to ten across a nine inch. Deep SO i
have a, variety but large is.

Speaker 14 (02:36:31):
In the eye of the. Beholder so what do you?

Speaker 5 (02:36:34):
Think what what are you trying to tell?

Speaker 1 (02:36:36):
Us, Hey mareen what do you want to grow in?
Them what kind of? Plants were not a little vegetables
or trees or.

Speaker 11 (02:36:43):
Yes yes it's, yes they're. Small, no no, trees just edible.
Food SO i wanted to do oat. GRASS i had good,
success but you KNOW i had a whole GARDEN i
could do in the.

Speaker 14 (02:36:56):
Ground so that's.

Speaker 5 (02:36:57):
Different so DO i have to? Do so you.

Speaker 1 (02:37:01):
Go?

Speaker 5 (02:37:01):
Ahead, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:37:03):
Here's WHAT i would. Do let me just tell you
the container that's six inches. Deep you can grow lettuce
and spinach and little crops like, that and you just
have to keep it well watered because the more surface
area you, have that's where you're losing. Evaporation in addition
to the plant pumping water out with its, roots you're
losing surface. Evaporation SO i wouldn't put an okra in
a six inch deep, container BUT i would put some

(02:37:26):
of the, greens some of the little herbs and things
can grow in. That just be conscious the fact you
can get the water a little more often in that
with things that are taller that have leaves that will
catch in the. WIND i WOULD i generally aim for
about a same height as. Width in, general it didn't
have to be that. Way but if the bottom is
narrow and you've got a tall plant like, okra it's

(02:37:48):
gonna blow. Over so the more width you, have the
more stability it. Gives SO i generally say about the
same height than with but don't get hung up about you,
know a little difference in this or, That but that's
WHAT i would aim. For and when you're looking at smaller,
vegetables you, know two and a half gallon pots things
like that are. Fine you'll grow a maybe kale or

(02:38:09):
broccoli or something in the cool season when the demands are,
low and then as we get into the warm, season
you need as much soil as you can. Get and
so even for a, tomato unless it's a dwarf, type
five gallon is not enough. Soil you want to get
about ten gallons worth of soil for a tomato to do.
Better and bigger is always, better but be. Careful the

(02:38:30):
bigger the vegetable plant like, okra the bigger the container
soil volume needs to be to support.

Speaker 5 (02:38:35):
It.

Speaker 11 (02:38:37):
Good, Okay i've written down a bunch of, measurements So i'm.
Great thank you so much for your, time bye.

Speaker 1 (02:38:43):
Bye all right, Now, marien you know my advice is,
free BUT i need half of the PRODUCE i, love,
Okra so just bring half of what you grow to the.
Station we'll call it. Even all, right let's go To
marty In, Spring. Texas Hey, marty welcome to Garden. Line.

Speaker 16 (02:38:58):
Hi.

Speaker 11 (02:39:00):
THANKS i have a Question i've Heard i'm wanting to.

Speaker 8 (02:39:04):
Do OH i hate that, grass that bermuda grass or
whatever it is like the use on the golf court
and gets in Your Saint augustine and.

Speaker 1 (02:39:13):
Ugly SO i want to.

Speaker 14 (02:39:15):
Get it er rated and top.

Speaker 1 (02:39:17):
Dressed, Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:39:21):
AND i heard you talk about somebody that would do.

Speaker 14 (02:39:24):
That it's been a long, time.

Speaker 1 (02:39:27):
Absolutely, yeah. Absolutely let me ask you, this how long
has this long been In.

Speaker 3 (02:39:36):
Oh now you're talking in ages about fifteen years for sixteen.

Speaker 1 (02:39:44):
Okay, WELL i was going to, say uh, there just
as an aside BEFORE i get to your. Question, uh
there are companies that have the ability to treat bermuda
in A Saint augustine lawn without hurting the lawn The Saint.
Augustine really it's a process with, expensive expensive, products too

(02:40:08):
expensive for home. Buying but some not ever landscaper is
gonna even know about, these but you may check around
if you're really as tired of it as you described.
There there is a way to start managing, it But
i'm gonna leave that up to you calling your. Landscaper
as far as the aeration and, compost top dressing and,
fertilizing a company called Green pro works in your area.

(02:40:29):
Now the website Is greenprotexas dot. Com the phone, number
do you have a pen?

Speaker 5 (02:40:36):
HANDY i, Do i've got pen and.

Speaker 1 (02:40:39):
Paper all, right here comes the phone numbers eight three
two three five to one zero zero three two eight
three two three five one zero zero three. Two they
can just come out and, fertilize or they can do.
Correoration they can do compost top. Dressing you just have
to visit with them about. It but they do service your. Area.

Speaker 14 (02:41:00):
Yeah oh, good, okay very, Good thank you so. MUCH
i appreciate, it.

Speaker 1 (02:41:07):
All, right thank you very. Much appreciate. That appreciate the. Call.
GUYS i just looked through the. Clock it can't be this.
Time we're still having. Fun oh my, gosh, WELL i
guess we'll have to go outside and have. Fun now
it's coming up, there it. Is the music's already. Started all.
Right i'm gonna tell you another time BECAUSE i want

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you to be there Next, saturday the twenty, eight from
twelve to Two spring Branch Ace. Hardware spring Branch Ace.
Hardware they are at the corner Of work And Long Point.
Road nice central, location so wherever you're listening from easy
to get. To there's gonna be some incredible. Giveaways i'm

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gonna giving away four bags Of microlife green bag six
two four for the lawn and other things. Too place can't,
read so you can use it on whatever you. Want
also four quart bottles Of Maximum blooms THREE a. Three
that's a pink red bottle that's loaded with. Phosphorus when
you put a plant in the, ground you drench that.

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Down you get that root system going so you get results.
Fast all, right lots of more. Giveaways i'll tell you
more about that next. Weekend