April Showers Bring May Flowers... Just Saying

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Trim just watch him as well, make things superpazy.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Again. Not a sign.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Salmon of well, good morning, gardeners. Welcome to garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and looking forward to visiting
with you today about the things that are of interest
to you. Got questions, feel free to give me a
call seven one three two one two k t r

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H seven one three two one two k t H.
Or for those of you who like to die by
the numbers and not hunt out the letters, seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four five eight
seven four. However you want to however, you want to
dial it, and I always say dial. I still say dial.
You know, remember the days when we actually dialed. You
had to stick your finger and this little round circle

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on the phone and turn it in a circle and
it kind of roared it back to the number. Yep. Well,
I still say dial. All right, anyway, punch in the numbers,
maybe that's a better way to do it. Either way,
we'll talk to you and we'll figure out what we
need to be discussing today. Of course, the weather is
a big deal. Today we got some rain blasting through

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various parts of the listening area, and uh, I just
wanted to let you know, for those of you up
well anywhere that we're planning on coming out to Kingwood
to warrange Southern Gardens today, I'm not going to be there.
We've had to reschedule that and obviously due to the
weather and so we're gonna set that up for a

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different time. So if you're planning on it, well, not
today we're gonna but we will be back out there,
excuse me. In fact, I'm going to be there on Saturday,
April nineteenth. That is the Saturday of eas Easter weekend,
So Saturday April nineteenth, we'll be there at Warren's Southern Gardens.

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I apologize to that. I was really looking forward to
going out there. I love going to Warren's. Is a
wonderful place, lots of selection and we even had a
little bit of an indoor area where we could gather
and talk. But with weather like today, we figure people
probably don't need to be out on the roads at
that time, so we are rescheduling that one. To start off,

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I wanted to mention that when you're wanting to have
beauty outside. You know, there's different ways we do. We
revamped the landscape, we put in flower beds. I mean,
there's a lot of great ways to create an environment.
One of the simplest ways is just to use color containers.
And I don't think we use enough color containers. Every
year I add one a large container to the landscape.

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And when you put in a container, if you want success,
it needs to have drain holes so that it doesn't
get soggy bogged down as water builds up inside, the
container needs to drain out, and you need a quality
container mix to do that, and that would be jungle Land.
Jungle Land is sold by Nitrofoss and they have the
outdoor version called Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil. Jungle Land

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Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil, and you can find nit
Fross products a lot of different places. Plants and things
up in Brennam, M and D and Clear Lake as
well as the M and D Beamer which is on
Beamer in the Sagemond area. Those are all places where
you're going to find Nitrofoss products. But remember, get a
good quality potting soil. You want it to drain well,

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but you want it to hold some moisture too, and
that's the blend. That's the goal of a quality soil,
or one of the goals or two of the goals.
But Junglelean will provide that for you. Let's head out
to Magnolia and we're going to talk now to Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yes, thank you, good morning, good morning. Yes, I'm a
new azalea planter, and I had heard in the past
that after azelia's bloom you should trim them. And mine
are only eighteen inches tall and they're starting to lose
their blooms.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Do I still.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Trim them at young of an age? And how would
I do that?

Speaker 6 (04:37):
No?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Not necessarily at all. The point that is being made
when people say that is if you're going to prune them,
prune them after they bloom, sometime between now and midsummer.
That way they have time to grow new shoots and
set bloom bud so next year you have a bloom show.
If you prune them in winter, like we do a
lot of plants, you'll be cutting off all your blooms.

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That doesn't mean you have to print them after they bloom. Uh,
if they're missed, if they need shaping, if you've got
you know, one bush that has a giant, gangly wild
hair shoot coming out to the side and you kind
of want to cut it back and balance it and things,
that's what you would do after the bloom time. But
just because you haven't the celia doesn't mean you need
to print it.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Okay, wonderful, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Well you bet enjoy those. They're beautiful plants. Appreciate the call, Cheryl.
You take care. We're we're getting this rain today, and
we do from time to time. In fact, here in
southeast Texas, when it rains, it pours. It's the Morton
Salt commercial. How many I'll remember that Morton Salt commercial,

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little girl carrying the umbrella with the salt spilling out
behind her. Well, it does pour. When it rains here,
we get the gully washers. And then in summer we
get dry soil, dry conditions and dry soil, and that
shrinking and swelling activity from getting wet, getting dry, getting wet,
getting dry. That is what causes all these issues with

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hardscapes in our area, like a sidewalk, like a driveway,
like the foundation in your house. And fix my slab
foundation repair. That's our go to foundation repair company here
on Garden Line. Ty Strickland's been doing this for twenty
three years. He's a native Fewstonian, fifth generation Texan. As
a matter of fact, he understands the soil, he understands

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the movement. He knows how to assess and how to fix.
And it is a rare thing in the service industry
to find somebody who gives you a fair price, shows
up on time, and fixes it right. I'm sorry that
that's just the way it is. No matter what you're
hiring somebody to come do at the house. If you

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can find someone that shows up on time, fixes it right,
and gives you a fair price, you've done something. And
that is exactly what Ty does with fix my slab
foundation repair the website, fixmyslab dot com, fixmislab dot com.
The phone number two eight one two FI five forty
ninety nine two eight one two FI five four nine

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four nine. Give them a call. If you've got sticky doors,
cracks in the brick, cracks in the sheet rock, have
him come take a look at it. That is very
important not to be an ostrich and stick your head
in the sand, but to take a good close look.
I was checking out the roses at RCW Nursery recently
and oh my gosh, their selection is just amazing. They

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still have good selection of roses. You know they they
get in some All the rosarians know about RCW and
the rose selection that they have, But did you know
they have really nice selection of color too, annual color.
Now you can go to RCW Nurseries dot com or
just drive over there to the corner of Beltway eight
and Tomball Parkway, which is highway to forty nine. You're

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going to find everything you're looking for from trees and
shrubs to beautiful color, calibracoa and petunias and day and
verbina and just all kinds of things at r CW Nurseries.
Let me take a little break here and we'll come
back with your calls.

Speaker 7 (08:11):
Win.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Hey, welcome back to the garden line. Glad have you
with us this morning. It's a good day to be
inside talking about gardening for right now. That is what
is That's exactly what we're gonna do. By the way,
if you don't if you haven't downloaded my schedule on
gardening with Skip dot com, that's my lawn care schedule.

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Actually there's two of them, lawn care and lawn pest
disease and weed management. They're all free. You need to
do that. And what you'll notice is we're getting in
the time where we call summer fertilizing. We have our spring,
we can do an early green up, we want to
do that, but basically the bulk of the grass growing
is kicking off big time now and that's when we

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switch over to a longer term fertilizer or I mean,
you can still use one that's a meat release, you
just have to do it in small fertilizations over time.
But it's easier just to grab some Nitroposs Superturf. That's
their silver bag. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer.
Put it out and it's going to give you about
four months of fertilizing and by gradually feeding like that,

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you don't get that flesh of growth, which means you're mowing, mowing, mowing,
trying to keep up with it. It's a nice graduate release,
really excellent design product. Night Foss Superturf's available in places
like D and D feed in Tumbull Fisher's Hardware down
in Baytown on Alexander and also the Fisher's Hardware on
FM thirty one eighty and Mont Bellevue. Let's head back

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out to the phones. We're going to go to a
memorial area and talk to Bruce. Hey, Bruce, Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 8 (09:45):
Good morning, Stiff, Thank you. I have a couple of questions. One,
my yard suffered last year a bit and I'm trying
to catch back up. I've got weeds and I think
we're switching from cool season herbicide treatments to warm so
I needed, sorry for spot treating weeds for this warm time.
And I have some concerns we have mature trees, so
I've been trying to avoid the weed and seed wheat

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and feeds like with atrazine or dacanda and things like that.
Is there something that's just taken up through the foliage
and doesn't get taken up by roots through by the soil.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, if it's a broad leaf weed, there are products
that do control broad leafs selectively, they don't hurt grasses.
And then there are if it's a grassy weed, it's
hard to kill in your lawn because, with a few exceptions,
if you kill a grassy weed. You kill a grassy lawn,
and so we avoid those as post emergence, which is
what you're asking about for the broadly weeds broadly okay, Well,

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for the broadleaf weeds, we're basically looking at something that's
a combination of different products.

Speaker 9 (10:49):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
And there are a lot of blends out there, you know,
from Bonaie has their weed beater, the burd Loam has
their weed free zone I believe as they call it.
But they're combination. Sometimes you'll see a product that says
trimac tri mec. That means it's a combination of three
in that case, different broadly weed controls. And by doing

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those combos it covers a broader group of weeds, you know,
and no one product until we'll kill every weed. So
those combo products is what I would do. I'd mix
them in a sprayer and then just spot spray. Do
it in the morning when it's the coolest part of
the day.

Speaker 8 (11:27):
Okay. And the second question on my laund rehab, I've
got a copy of the schedule and this month I
plan to airate gypsum get ready for summer fertilizing and
top dressing with composts. But I also need to patch
in some sod. Where does the sod patching fit into
a combination like that after aeration?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, well yeah, I would. Here, here's the thing. If
you put the sod down, you're going to need to wait.
I would probably wait about a month before I do
the aeration. You want the side to root in really,
really well and begin to grow and be a good,
strong plant. It's a transplant, and so you want that

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transplant to get on its feet and get going, then
do the aeration. Now, as far as gypsum, gypsum is
helpful if your problem ishight sodium in the soil and
a clay that doesn't drain well due to sodium. If
you don't have a sodium problem, the gypsum is not
a big help. It doesn't. Gypsum, contrary to popular belief,

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doesn't just break up a clay because it's a clay.
What it does is that it makes sodium leave the
clay particles, and therefore the soil can form a better structure.
But if it's not a sodium problem, gypsum is don't
worry about putting the gypsum down.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
Okay, I'm gonna guess that's it.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Then all right, so we call back if you got
any other questions. Appreciate it. Thanks a lot, you take care.
You know, it's I know it's hard for me to
talk about a sprinkler on a day like this because
we're getting plenty of sprinkling. But you know, summer's coming
in that tree you plant it last fall or this spring,

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especially this spring. And those of you who are continuing
to plant trees, which I hope you are, trees and shrubs,
those plants don't have extensive root systems. When this summer comes,
they're starting to root in, but not like they need
to be. And that's where a tree hugger sprinkler is
so helpful. It goes around the tree. You hook it
to your garden hose and you can turn it on

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just a little bit, so maybe it's just watering a
little you know, eight inch circle or ten inch circle
or whatever, or you can turn it up more and
more and more to where maybe you've got a five
year old tree that's getting some good size on it
and you're water in a very large area to rescue
it during the summer drought times, or to keep the
growth going, keep it moving. Tree hugger sprinklers are available

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in seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen inch sizes. You
can go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com find out
more information about them. But it says tree hugger. But
if you're planting a rosebush or a shrub, it's good
for that too, and you're gonna find them a lot
of places. D and D feed up in tumble Spring
Creek Feed Center, League City Feed Done in League City,
Southwest Fertilizer, and many ace stores like Sinkle Ranch and

(14:22):
Katie and K and M and A Task a seat
in full Sure all the places you can get tree Hugger.
I talked about RCW Wallago, they carry it, Nelson Watergarden,
were in Southern Gardens, in Chanting Gardens, and in Channy Forest,
a Kingwood Garden Center, Arborgate. You see what I'm talking about.
They're widely available, So no excuse not to grab you
one and keep it with you. Because anytime anything gets planted,

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or even something that's well established, like a tree, when
we go into one hundred degrees for one hundred days
with no rain at all, you know, rescue that tree
and tree Hugger is the best way to do it.
We're gonna head out to sugar Land now and talk
to Michael. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden line Skid.

Speaker 10 (15:07):
I've got a couple of questions my garden from last year.
It did very well. I put this. It's an outside
in the backyard garden. I started garden now by putting
down basically a plastic covering to keep the weeds out,
covered it over the winter time, went out about two
weeks ago and took the cover off, and I've got weeds,

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not necessarily leads with grass coming in. I want to
know what can I do to treat that and the
little pieces of clover that I'm seeing popping up before
I put my plants in more.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
This is this vegetables or flowers or what all is
going in here?

Speaker 10 (15:46):
It's vegetables, basically vegetables, squash, carriage beats. So that sort
of things finached.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Okay, Well, you got a couple of options, and we
have several, and I'll just get maulty, some of which
I'm sure won't be acceptable, but they are options. And
that would start with, for example, getting a hoe or
hand pulling and getting rid of the weeds that way.
A second option would be to roto till the area
and then multch it very well, very thickly, so any

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weeds trying to sprout from seed couldn't make it. What
I did in an area I have an orchard area,
I saw some grasses coming up, and so I just
took a weed eater and took them to the ground
and then I mulched it really heavily. And as those
grasses try to sprout, they're going to try to push
leaves up. But if they can't get them to sunlight there,

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it's going to kill the plant. And if they do
get them to sunlight and throw more mulch on them.
But so those those are some of the options that
you can do. Back in the day when everybody took
the newspaper, a newspaper was an excellent mulch to then
cover with leaves. It would it would kill pretty much
anything but bermuda and nuts edge under it. But you

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just need to smother them basically, And is a good
way to do that.

Speaker 10 (17:04):
Is there no product chemical wise that could be put
in there that would be safe to put in.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah? Yeah, if you're if you don't have any desire
plants in them, is there nothing in there?

Speaker 11 (17:17):
Right?

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Now that you're afraid to killing.

Speaker 10 (17:20):
Well, there's you know, I haven't even started my planning yet.
It's a it's basically took the cover off, so there's
nothing in there other than I've looked at this grass.
It's a strange grass that popped up last year. I've
sent it all through boy Being County. It has the
really really deep roots, so I'm having to pull it
or warden it from the roots. That's what I'm meaning

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when to get rid of.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Okay, so there there is a product.

Speaker 12 (17:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
The ingredient is glue fascinate okay. Uh. And it's I'm
gonna do you have a pen? Do you have a pen?

Speaker 11 (17:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (17:57):
It's it's g l u fos I n ate glue
foss and eight. And it's used in the same way
that you would have used around up. Do you spray
it on an existing plant and it kills it broad
leaf or grass whatever, it kills it, and it moves
down there. It's sold in a number of different brands.

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Let's see where you're calling from. Sugar. Oh, you're you're
close to Southwest Fertilizer. Just just go over and talk
to Bob about glue Fascinating he's going to have some
products on hand from that. Your ACE hardware stores may
have some of that as well.

Speaker 10 (18:35):
Great, thank you, Schi. One more question what I follow
the schedule and you are looking pretty good right now,
but I'm seeing some patches of clover. What would be
a good post e merger to put down right now?

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Well, once these cool season weeds like clover become reproductive,
meaning they're blooming and they have seeds on them already,
they're harder to kill with the post and urgents. And
just because of the growth stage therein it, the way
these pre emergents often work, they don't work well and
that in a weed in that stage. But that said,

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you can spray them with any post emergent broad leaf
control that's labeled. Is this a lawn now, Michael, I
missed that. If you said that, yeah, that we're.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
Talking about it's sin Augustine I've got in my.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
Backyard yet, Okay, okay, thank you? Yeah, And so something
labeled for the turf you could use as a spray.
I'll tell you what I've been doing, and that is
hand pulling. And the reason is this. If you've got
a clover and it has a hundred seeds on it,
which wouldn't be a surprise. You could even if you
killed that weed. Now you have one hundred seeds. You
didn't accomplish a lot because the clover is going to

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die anyway when it heats up. So those weeds are
about to go away anyway. And I would rather get
the seeds out of there. And clover comes out of
one spot in the ground, it's very easy and moist
soil to pop it up. I have a little kneeling bunch.
I'm out there with a long, little weeding fork, and
you can cover a lot of ground pretty fast. Now,

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if you don't want to do that, or not able
to do that, then you're left with two things. Number one,
set your mower very low and mow and bag and
capture as much of the seed therefore as you can,
and don't get it out of there. Don't don't return
the clippings get in this case, get the weed, seeds
and clippings out of there. And then the second thing

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would be to sprim with a broad leaf post emergent.
If you were going to do that, I would do
that before I mow, because you want it to move
down in the plant, all right.

Speaker 10 (20:42):
Thank you and yeah, I've been doing a lot of
hand pulling on my knees, so I know we exactly
what you talk about. I have a wonderful day, Skip,
Thank you as always.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
All right, thanks Mike, appreciate you appreciate that call. Our
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That's where leaf mol compost was born. They know what
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Speaker 7 (23:41):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Visiting with Michael Wallago about you know, managing weeds and things,
some of the post emergents and the whatnot that's out there.
I just I think I mentioned to him Southwest Fertilizer.
That's the place on the corner of Businest and Renwick,
and I know that I can always send someone there
and whatever they need is going to be there. You know,
if I say, well you need to go fine in

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this case, I think someone else it's talking about a
glue foscin eight. You know what is that you probably
hadn't heard me say that one before on the air. Well,
I know Bob's got it. It's Southwest Fertilizer because they
have everything you need. If they don't have it, you
don't need it. It's as simple as that, simple as that.
And if you're an organic gardener and you're looking for
the broadest selection of organic products in the greater Houston area,

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to four. I'm going to be there toward the end
of this month too, looking forward to coming on down.
All right, let's go out to Gary in Salt Lake
and we'll see how we can help welcome garden line Gary.

Speaker 13 (25:01):
Good morning morning. A quick question. Now, I'm not slid
like I'm a sergeant between a freeport and mad.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
Sergeant.

Speaker 13 (25:13):
Okay, thank you, yeah, sergeant, sergeant. Question salt water and
sant augustine, Like on a high tide or a little
serge or whatever it gets on that san augustine, will
it kill it?

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well, sant euxtine does not want to be watered with
ocean water. That's for sure. One one good dosing of it,
Probably not the end of the world, especially if you
follow with an irrigation to kind of rense those salts
out of the area. Right, you're probably that's a case
where a little gypsum put on the soil to wash

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it down into the soil would be helpful. Is another
part of the remedy. It's not just adding the gypsum.
It's adding the gypsum and then getting a good drenching
to wash it down through the soil. Profile. Now, there
are some more salt tolerant There are some more salt
tolerant turfs, but they have their own challenges other than

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the salt issue.

Speaker 13 (26:10):
Right, okay, all right, well, thank you very much. That's
my question.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
All right, Gary, good luck have fun down there. All right,
there you go, as simple as that, it is time
to be fertilizing our lawns for summer. So I don't
know where you are with this. If you did a
spring green up, he probably used nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five
to ten. It's been around for gosh, at least fifty years.

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It's created by the turf Research Universities of the Southern
Gulf Coast. That not the fertilizer product itself, but that ratio,
that three to one to two ratio, fifteen five to ten,
lots of nitrogen, not much phosphorus, medium amount of potassium.
That's what you're looking for, and that's what's in Imperial. Now.
Imperial is in a reddish orange bag, kind of a

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red orange bag. And you know, if you want to
use that, it's like, well, your schedule says we can
use slow release. Yes, you can use slow release. You
can also take something like Imperial and just do very
small applications over time and sort of create your own
slow release equivalent if you will. But whatever you want
to do for a quick green up on your lawn,

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you know it's not looking good, Hey, I want to
get something down quick, Go ahead and do that Imperial
fifteen five to ten. Give it about a month or so,
maybe six weeks, and then follow it up with your
slow release fertilizer and you will have a beautiful lawn
all the way up into fall.

Speaker 11 (27:35):
Now.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Imperial is available at places like Fisher's Hardware and Pasadena
Fisher's Hardware and Laport. If you go to D and
D feed up in tomball or plants for all seasons.
On two forty nine, I was just talking about them
all places you're going to find nitrofoss products. We're going
to head out now to Brookshire, Texas and talk to Sammy. Hello, Sammy,

(27:57):
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (27:58):
Hey, thank you.

Speaker 11 (28:00):
It's honored to talk to you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
I was gonna ask about tomato plants.

Speaker 11 (28:06):
Is it okay to feed them once a week?

Speaker 15 (28:08):
Every week?

Speaker 6 (28:09):
I'm using a microlife. And the second one is trimming cucumbers.
Last year I trimmed too much, and I don't think
that cucumbers spared very well. Maybe I've cut too many
leaves away. And this year I was thinking about leaving
it all natural.

Speaker 11 (28:22):
I just go finding them. Would you recommend trimming them?
And so how much? Thank you?

Speaker 4 (28:28):
You're talking about trimming the cucumber vines vines.

Speaker 11 (28:31):
Yes, or all the big leaves and the vines.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Okay, Well, first of all, on the MICROLFE, that is
a fertilizer that is going to release as the microbes
break it down over time, so you don't need to
fertilize it that often with microlife. If you put microlife down,
oh maybe twice during that tomato growing season, you know
we're gonna be growing. We're gonna be producing tomatoes on

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into June. I mean it could go longer than that.
You could be in July for sure too. But I
would say about every four weeks a good dose of microlife.
You're not going to burn them with it, so you
can put a little bit more down and that would
be That should be good. A couple applications of it
for that particular tomato season. Now, on the trimming, I
wouldn't trim the cucumbers. If you need to trim, you

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know they're going in a direction you don't want. You're
gonna cut that off and let the growth in other
directions continue on. You can do that, but there's no
specific cucumber pruning system that we have to follow.

Speaker 11 (29:28):
Terrifict, thank you for your time, have a great day.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Ah right, good, thanks, appreciate your call.

Speaker 11 (29:34):
You too, by bye.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
I have lost control of the board.

Speaker 16 (29:39):
Here.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Let's see here if I can get that thing. But
there we go, get it back on there. Thanks, thanks
for the help. There. We are talking about a lot
of different topics here on garden Line today, but I
do want to mention another one and that is turf
aeration and compost top dressing. Now what is that all about. Well,

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in our heavy clay soils, especially in compacted clay soils,
the oxygen can't get done in the soil very far.
Water doesn't move in very fast, it runs off instead
of soaking in well, and aeration makes little holes in
the ground. It pops plugs out of the soil, drops
them on the surface, which by the way helps reduce

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thatch a lot. And then compost top dressing gets that
organic matter down into the soil. You know, with a
gardening rototail every time between crops, but with a lawn
you can't rototil your lawn and move organic matter into
the soil. BnB turf pros is a professional when it
comes to this process. If you are living from sugar

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Land to Missouri City all the way across to Manviln
Paarland in the southwest part of Houston. That's your company.
Go to bb turfpros dot com seven to one three
two three four five five nine eight seven one three
two three four fifty five ninety eight. Talk to them.
They know how to do it. They'll treat you right. Alrighty,

(31:05):
welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you
with us. We'd like to give me a call. Seven
one three two one two KTRH. I was out in
the yard yesterday doing some things. And actually I was
sitting around a little our table in the back the patio,
sitting with my wife. They're talking about some various stuff,
and uh, two cardinals came, male and female cardinal to

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the feeder. And it's it is because we put the
kind of food they like in it. There's a product
in the you only get it at Wildbird's Unlimited. It's
called Cardinal Confetti Blend. And I mean they love this stuff.
It's got black old sunflowers, sunflower chips, nutrisapp bark, butter bits,
peanut has dried mealworms, striped sunflowers. See if there's a
bird listening to this, they're salivating right now. I can

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tell you that. I mean they come to this. It's
like me and inchu ladas. You know, if you want
to set a trap for me, just put an inchilada
in it and I'm gonna walk right in there. Cardinal
confetti from wild Birds Unlimited is awesome. It's awesome stuff.
Now when you're there, you're gonna find a lot of
other quality blends. The nesting super blend very important this

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time of era because it has the protein and calcium
that birds need to lay eggs to build the skeletal
structures on the young as are coming up. Very important.
Nesting super blend from Wildbirds. And where is Wildbirds? Well,
there's six of them in the Greater Houston area. If
you're in clear Lake on Eldorado, if you're in Cypress
on Barker Cypress, if you are in West Houston on

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bel Air Boulevard, if you are excuse me, on Memorial Drive,
and then Southwest Houston is bel Air Boulevard just south
of downtown. Getting them all mixed up here Kingwood Drive
in Kingwood, Pearland. How about East Broadlet Broadway in Paarland.
Six different Wildbirds Unlimited stores. Go to WBU dot com

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forward slash Houston you can find the Wildbirds Store that's
near you. I love I love watching the birds, I
really do. And we have some swallows that are nesting
on our front kind of our front porch. There's a
little post up under the eaves and they've built their
nest and they come back to it pretty much every year,

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and they're there now. I love to listen to those
low guys as they chatter and it's like their chattering
and fussing' or I don't know what, but it's a
lot of fun. And they come and then they go,
they fly the coop is, so to speak. They're gone again.
Birds are a nice addition to the landscape. Just a
reminder again, I'm not going to be at Warren's Southern

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Gardens today. I was, but because of the rain and
the issues that we're dealing with, we have postponed that
until Saturday, April nineteenth. That's a Saturday prior to Eastern Okay,
Saturday April nineteenth, I will be at Warren Southern Gardens. Now,
that doesn't mean you can't go to Warren Southern Gardens
our Kingwood Garden Center. Both are there in Kingwood. Both

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are open seven days a week. This is on North
Park Drive, Kingwood, is on stone Hollow Drive. It's easy
to get to now. When you go in there, you're
going to find the products I recommend, like products from
Microlife and Nitrofoss, Neilson turf Star, airloom soils, the little
jars of Nelson plant food. Both Warrens and Kingwood have
the refilling stations where you can refill Microlife and Nelson products.

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You buy the jar originally and then you just bring
the empty jar back in and pull down the hand.
We'll fill it up like you're buying peanuts in the
grocery store. And it's a very economical way to go,
and it's also a way that avoids thrown more plastic
out there in the environment. Right now, the color at
those places is outstanding. You should see it. I mean
it's it's beautiful and it is worth a trip out

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to either Warren Southern Gardens on North Park or Kingwood
Garden Center on stone Hollow Drive. If you'd like to
give me a call. We get a little bit of
time here. We can get a quick call in seven
to one three two one two kt r H seven
one three two one two. Ktr Ace Hardware stores are

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all over this Greater Houston area. And you know, ACE
Hardware is just all over the place, period, but here
in the local area. If you're looking for that group
of ACE Hardware stores that are here in our Houston
area that we talk about all the time, that's Ace
Hardware Texas dot Com. Put the word Texes in there.
Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. No matter what you're looking for,

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Ace Hardware has got you covered. It is time to
fertilize the lawn. It is time to do weed control
in the lawn. And so what where do you go? Well,
Ace Hardware They're going to have the fertilizers that I
talk about. They're going to have the products to control
insects and diseases and weeds not just in a lawn,
but in your garden and in your landscape. Do you
need tools for pruning? Do you need spreaders for your fertilizer,

(35:52):
for your fireant, bad for all of those kinds of things.
Ace Hardware that's the place to go. They will get
you fixed up. And all you have to do is
go to Acehardware Texas dot Com to find the store
near you. Now, when you're there, I gotta warn you
take an empty pickup or trailer so you can go.
You're gonna see a barbecue pit that you can't live without.
I promise you that every time I go in, I

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see a barbecue pit I can't live without. In all
the outdoor living things and indoor living that ace hardware
offers be a good day to visit too. It's indoors,
don't have to worry about the rain. All right, let's
see here. We're gonna go now and talk to Shane. Hello, Shane,
Welcome to garden Line. Let's see do we have Shane? Well,

(36:38):
you know what we do have, Shane. There we go. Hey, Shane,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (36:42):
Hey, Skip, how you doing, sir?

Speaker 4 (36:45):
I'm doing good. How can we help?

Speaker 17 (36:48):
I want to see what you recommend. I'm looking to
redo our flower beds and add some cactus, some cold hardy,
probably down to twenty degrees. Okay, what would you recommend him?

Speaker 18 (37:00):
Where I find them?

Speaker 4 (37:03):
You're done in road sharing area? Yes, yes, sir, yeah
you know I would.

Speaker 19 (37:08):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Well, first I just check out Jraes Hidden Gardens down
in Alvin. Uh they do have I think the last
time I was in there, I noticed that they did
have cactus, some cactus in I could be wrong about that.
You may want to give them a call first, uh,
and see when you head down. You know from you
just to the west is enchanted forest and chanted gardens
out in Richmond. I do know that they carry some

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and they can go through them and tell you which
ones are cold hearty.

Speaker 20 (37:35):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
In terms of outdoors, you know, we when we say cactus,
that covers a lot of different kinds of plants, and
so whether it's cactus or agave or yuccas or you know,
all the different desert type plants, they've got you covered
on those.

Speaker 11 (37:52):
Okay, I appreciate it, all right.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
You bet, Thank you for the call. Appreciate that alrighty.
Let's see here, Well I've got time for another call.
We're going to go now to Waller and talk to Blake. Hey, Blake,
welcome to garden Line. Hey, Skip, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
It's actually Walker County, a Walker County, Okay?

Speaker 11 (38:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Hey, We've been in a new home for about two
months and we put down some say Augustine.

Speaker 14 (38:23):
It's been growing great.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
But do I do you think I should put any
fertilizer down?

Speaker 13 (38:29):
I mean, it's fresh sod.

Speaker 11 (38:30):
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 4 (38:32):
When did you plant it.

Speaker 13 (38:35):
Beginning of March.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
I would I would wait at least four weeks, if
not six weeks before you start fertilizing that grass just
isn't gonna need it until about them. Uh. And then
I would you know, just maybe do a go ahead
and do a slow release at this point so it
will gradually feed it as it continues to establish and

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and and and grow in.

Speaker 21 (39:01):
Okay, and what products you think you'd recommend?

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Yeah, we got a couple of good good products out there.
The Night of Fuss has the silver bag. It is
called super Turf. Super Turf. It's a silver bag, real easy,
easy to see, so that you know, that would be
a good example. You know, it kind of depends on
what's sold right in your area. I don't know the
stores up there. Are you in Huntsville or just outside

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or what?

Speaker 13 (39:30):
Yeah, about fifteen minutes from Huntsville.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Okay, I'm sure you've got some up there. I just
haven't been to the garden centers up there recently, so sure.
Probably if you've got an ACE hardware store, I'm sure
they're going to carry stuff like that.

Speaker 22 (39:45):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Thanks, Skip, appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (39:46):
Man to have a good day.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
Yeah, thanks for the call. Take care. All right, there
you go, well talking about you know, different things that
we need to be doing. At this time of the year,
it is it is time to make sure that you
have done everything you can to avoid the weed problems.
And a barricade by nitrofoss is a product that we

(40:11):
put down and then we watered into about a half
inch of water. It moves into the soil surface and
then when a weed tries to germinate, maybe it's crabgrass
or grassburrs. Those are summer weeds. You're not having to
deal with them because they never show up. The barricade
shuts them down before they get started. And you're going
to find nitrofoss products at RCW nurseries, You're going to
find it at Hiden and Feed on Student or Airline.

(40:34):
You're going to find it at ACE Hardware City on
Memorial Drive. Lots of places carry nitro foss products. And
barricade is one that will put down a barricade and
shut down the weeds before they even get started. Now
you want to hurry up and do it because every
day you wait as weeds get germinated and begin to
make little plants. Barricade isn't a post emergent. It doesn't

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kill existing weeds, it prevents new ones from coming in.
I've got a lot area that's very thin. That means
weeds are going to show up wherever sunlight hits the soil.
Nature plants a weed, so barricades away. We avoid that
from nitroposs. Just one more reminder as we wind up
this hour, I'm not going to be at Warren's Southern

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Gardens today as had been planned due to the weather.
Just feel like I don't need to try to be
pulling people out through that kind of weather that we're having,
So we're going to postpone it. I'm going to put
that off and on April nineteenth, that's a Saturday, April nineteenth,
I'll be heading out to warren Southern Gardens. Okay, so

(41:39):
that would be one to two saturdays from today. All right,
there you go. Well, while I'm talking about that, I'll
tell you where I will be next Saturday, and that
is our seed w Nurseries. That's Saturday the twelve, from
twelve to two at our c w R set. When
I come back, i'll tell you a little bit more

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about that.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line. With Skip Richard.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
It's just watch him as so many good things to
spot by.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
Hey, folks, welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter. We're here to help you have a bountiful,
bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process.
Gardening should be fun, and it is fun. Sometimes we
get all tied up in a nott you know, sweating weather. Oh,
I don't know how to grow a plan. I'm going

(42:54):
to kill a plan. I always kill plans and all
that kind of stuff. I understand that, but it's not
necessary maybe and inundated with rules. You know, people say, well,
you have to do this this way, you have to
do that that way. Listen. The only rules are have fun.
Oh and the rules that are between you and your hoa.
I'll stay out of that one. But seriously, it's gardening.

(43:18):
Is it's fun and it don't There's no shame in
killing a plant. There's just not. That's part of the
learning process. You can get you another one. Or maybe
maybe you didn't plant it right. Maybe it wasn't a
plant that wanted to grow here. Maybe you got busy,
went on vacation, it didn't get watered or you know,
all the billion things that can happen along the way.
But the plants are for you to enjoy. That's why

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we plant them. You want to beautify your landscape, you
want to add value to your landscape, and you want to
have fun, and so have fun. It's okay, you can
get you another plant. One of the best horticulturists in
this country from over on the East Coast a number
of years ago, made a statement, and it was to
be a horticulture She got to kill a lot of plants.
And I think that I'm giving you permission to kill plants. Okay,

(44:06):
isn't that the weirdest thing to hear on a gardening show?
You go kill plants. No, I'm not saying you should
go do it. I'm just saying it's okay if you do.
You're learning. Do you know that nature kills plants every year.
They're called annuals at the end of the season. In fact,
they commit suicide. They they bloom and they die because

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the season is changing. I mean it just it's part
of the switchover of the landscape. And don't be afraid
to do that. And know that all landscapes too. By
the way are temporary. They all need renovating at some
point or they become a mess, just a mess. You know,
those shrubs you can't even are growing over the eaves
of the house. You can't see out the windows, all

(44:49):
that kind of thing. So it's a constant state of renovation.
That's what nature is, and I think that's one of
the best things about gardening because it's always a new star.
There are not many places in life situations where you
can just totally start fresh over. I mean zero. You

(45:09):
could right now, get out there, pull every plant you
got up, run a rototiller over the whole property, and
replant everything the way you wanted to look. I know
I wouldn't necessarily recommend that, but you could. You could.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this, let's learn,
let's have fun, and don't be afraid to try something new.
I've planted things before, and later I thought, well, was

(45:30):
I thinking I knew that plant wasn't going to work there?
I mean, if I had thought about it, pull it up,
move it somewhere else, or just put something else in
its place. All right, I think that makes sense. Well,
let's head straight out now to Kingwood, and we're going
to talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.
Thanks thanks for having me.

Speaker 7 (45:51):
Hey, I had some real hard packed dirk and a
couple of places over by some big oak trees and
sycamore trees. I mean just heart packs almost like seeing
it and break down and put some new sawd there
and and some sand in the step. But okay, growing
in this hard pack, especially in the backyard is uh

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a layer of fungus. It's almost like its just picked fungus.
It looks like a green AstroTurf carpet.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
It's not grass.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
Definitely a fungus.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
So what did I use to kill that before?

Speaker 7 (46:27):
I uh try to you know, first area and then
put some new over it.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
Well, what it is is it's a moss, a moss
and uh you you know you can you could spray
it and kill her, or you could just kind of
scrape it, or if you're going to do any spading
and rototilling, it's going to break it up anyway. But
if you just want to scrape it off, that's fine.
There are products. There's a product called moss Max moss
smacks that you can spray on it. But it's there

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because it's shady and it's wet and and other things
just aren't growing, and it's filling in the space, and
so I wouldn't worry about it a whole lot. Just
scrape it off and go on with the preparation that
you're talking about. That's good. You want to get that
soil ready so you can have a chance for success.

Speaker 7 (47:14):
Okay, I appreciate you very much.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
Thanks, Hey, Mike, Thanks lot. Remember I'm not coming out
to Kingwood this today, but I'll be there on Saturday,
April nineteenth, So if y'all got it, you get a
chance coming out and see me. Bring me some of
your moss. I'd like to see it, all right, take care,
all right, thank you. Okay, soil and quality in terms

(47:41):
of nutrients, I want to talk about that just a minute.
The way nature works, you know before we showed up
with fertilizer spreaders. The way nature works is organic matter
decomposes and it releases its nutrients into the mineral of
the soil, which is also releasing the nutrients for the
mineral particles that are on there, and it creates this

(48:03):
perfect environment for roots to thrive microlife. Fertilizers designed around
that principle. You know, every granule of microlife was once
something living. Okay, there was something living that decomposed into
what now is a fertilizer product. It has been produced
into a fertilizer product that you put down and microbes

(48:24):
get a hold of it like they do any organic
matter in nature. They break it down and they get
those nutrients out. So the green bag, the six to four,
the number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston from microlife,
that's what we're talking about. It's a good ratio, perfect
ratio for plants, a three one two ratio for that
lawn you're wanting to grow. It's time to get that out.

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You can do it now and you can repeat that
through the season. If you follow my schedule, you'll see
on there I got an organic row going across on
the lawn care schedule, and you just apply it and
allow it to come completely be released by nature to
feed the grass. That's how it works. You can also
put the purple bag hum mats plus. Think of that

(49:07):
not as a fertilizer, but as a soil improver, a
soil amendment. It is a final decomposed states of organic matter.
Humates plus the purple bag by Microlife. Those two together
make a really good way to kick off spring in
a very good way so that you can have success.
Now you're gonna find Microlife at a lot of different places.

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It's widely available. One example is Buchanan's Native Plants Downtown.
They're on Eleventh Street and the Heights. And by the way,
if you haven't been to the Buchanans you need to
go Eleventh Street and the Heights. Here's the website, though
I want to make sure I say this, Buchanansplants dot com.
You need to go there, sign up for the newsletter.
It is wonderful. It is informative and very helpful. And

(49:52):
if you canons, you're gonna find the fertilizers you're looking for,
the soil products you're looking for. But most important, you're
going to find one of the best selections of native
plants throughout this whole region, and non native plants as well.
Today'd be a good day to be in their Houseplank greenhouse.
It's huge and it's covered. I could get wet in there.
Buchanans Native Plants eleven Street in the Heights. I'll be

(50:16):
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and they knocked out power for like a couple of
weeks each. I mean it was a long time, depend
on where you live. I had family in the Houston

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kind of makes you think about, oh, I wish I
had a generator, so and keep things going, keep that
food and refrigerator from going bad, continue to work. You
know a lot of you work from home, or at
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don't have power, well, you're up a creek.

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go now to Tomaliah out in Walker County. Hey, Tomaliah,
welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 22 (52:39):
Good morning. I'm calling to ask you about my Esperanza. Okay, okay,
true confession. I did not take any measures to protect
her through this cold that we had up here in
December and January. I don't see any signs of life
should I? I mean, is well you start sprouting?

Speaker 4 (53:05):
You might? I mean what you probably got down did
you get in the low twenties or how cold did
it get for you.

Speaker 22 (53:14):
Very low teens?

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Lo teens?

Speaker 23 (53:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Well, Esperanza, even you know in milder areas will die
back considerably in the winter, often to the ground and
come back. If that crown of the plant was up
a little high and exposed, and if there was no
mulch piled up against it to provide a little insulation,
it's possible that you lost it. I would give it

(53:42):
a little more time, though. Let's let it warm up
a little more by the end of April, for sure it.
If you don't see life on it, I don't think
it's coming back. Esperanza likes warm weather, and in general
they're pretty cold, Harty. But boy, if you were low teens,
that you may have lost it in that one. So

(54:03):
but I wouldn't give up quite yet.

Speaker 22 (54:05):
Okay, okay, thank you very much. Sir, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
You bet, and in future years, by the way, tummila
just a pile of big old pollo mulch over the
crown of the plant. Comp could be composed or mult
or whatever. Just when we're going into a coal spell,
you can buy a bag of compost and just dump
it on the base and then pull it back after
the cold spell. You don't leave it smother it all winter,
but that'll get you through. These kinds of things provide

(54:31):
that little extra thanks a lot for your call. Nine
to fives. Barricade is the product that you put down
to prevent weeds. I don't care if it's a grassy
weed seed coming up, a broad leaf wheat seed coming up.
But remember the word is prevent. It doesn't kill existing weeds.
It prevents the wheat seeds. So when it works, you
don't even know it because you never saw the weed.

(54:52):
You know, if you got a weed, you spray and
kill it. Well, you see that barricade is on the ground,
forming that barricade to event the weed seeds from ever
getting started. And if your lawne is thin, you will
have weeds wherever sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants a weed,
and wherever barricade hits the soil, that weed is prevented.
Now you're gonna find barricade in a lot of places

(55:13):
like M and D Cypress on Luetta Road, Langham Creek,
Ace on FM five twenty nine. That's in the Copperfield area.
Kde Ace Hardware on Pinoak all examples of places they're
carry nitropost products. We're going to go now talk to
Joe in Spring, Texas. Hey, Joe, welcome regardline.

Speaker 24 (55:32):
Hey you get Hey, I've got a weed in my
yard that just will not go away. I've been pulling
on it for about two years now. I think it's
called Sunshine the mosa. It's kind of a thorny vine
with little purple flowers on it, and you know, get
out there and pull it up and it just keeps
coming back. Anything I can spray on that.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Have you noticed when you touch the leaves, does it
do they close up like they're literally folding up from
touch or not?

Speaker 8 (56:03):
No?

Speaker 4 (56:05):
Okay, Well that is a that is a semi woody weed.
Those vines are like wire, aren't they very very strong?
Zach Am, I correct about that? Yeah, okay, And the
giveaway is those those little catclaw dorns on it. You're
going to need to do one or two things. Either
hand dig it up when the soil is moist, just

(56:27):
get a spade or a I use a soil knife
underneath it and lift it up out of there, or
spray it with something that is a pretty powerful broad
leaf control. There's a product called trimec that will hurt
your lawn if you spray it discriminately. But if you
can get just a little bit on the weed leaves
and you'll minimize the damage to the lawn, but it

(56:49):
will kill them. There are also some products that have
trimech in them, TRIMEC, t r IMEC, that's three different
broad leaf herbicides. They will at least make it weak
and sick, and they may kill it and they may not.
But that's a that's a tougher weed to control. But
those would be the options.

Speaker 24 (57:10):
Okay, So if I get it a little bit on
the grass, like say you get it on a few
blades of the Saint Augustine, does it tend to kill
off the whole runner of Saying Augustine or just at
one little spot.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Well, it might. It depends on the condition of the grass.
You know what I would do. If you go to
my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you're gonna find
two things. One is the weed wiper. I make a
homemade weed wiper that you can make two and I
tell you how to do it. It sponges on the
end of a stick that squeezed together, and you could
put the product like trimec on the weed wiper and

(57:45):
then reach down and just squeeze that weed, trying to
get it mostly on the weed. Even if you kind
of lifted and pull the weed up through the grass,
get it up on top and just just squeeze a
little bit on the weed. That would minimize damage about
as minimal as you can as you can do it.

Speaker 13 (58:01):
Okay, okay, okay, all.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
Right, Joe. Thanks Gardening Gardening with Yeah, Gardening with Skip
dot com. That's where you need to go. Thanks a lot.
I do appreciate your call. If you go down to
the Richmond Rosenberg area and you head northward, Katie Fulsher,
you're going to come across Enchanted Gardens on FM three
point fifty nine, and that is a special place. You
can go to the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond, Enchanted Gardens

(58:30):
Richmond dot com. And you're gonna find there a lot
of information. When you walk up, your jaw's gonna drop
because this is a sprawled out, beautiful place that everywhere
you look there's something interesting you want to go see,
whether it's vegetables and herbs or flowers, beautiful color, ornamental grasses, roses, trees, shrubs, pines,

(58:52):
whatever kind of plant that you're looking for, you're gonna
find it there at Enchanted Gardens and Richmond And again
it's Katief of Richmond outside of town FM three point
fifty nine. While you're there, you're going to see cool
stuff like containers. They have a beautiful container selection, those
nice wire baskets that you line with coconut core to

(59:12):
keep core, to keep just a gorgeous, gorgeous hanging basket
underneath your trees or wherever you choose to put it. Fountains,
wind chimes, whimsical yard art. I mean, it's it's all there.
And then when it comes to products, remember how I
always say brown stuff before green stuff. When you leave
in Chana Gardens, make sure you've grabbed some fertilizer from

(59:33):
Microlife or Nitrofoss or Nelson or Medina. Make sure you've
grabbed soil products from Nature's Way or airloom soils. That
mean they they know what they're doing. They know that
it's important to get the soil right. At enchanted gardens
in Chenne Gardens Richmond dot com. That's it. That's what
you need to know. So I in my landscape this

(59:58):
past week, I did a major renovation cleanup of the lawn.
I had some lawn areas I just hadn't gotten in
in mode yet and they had a lot of dead
grass and them, you know from last year's leaves it
got frost burned or whatever, and got it all cleaned
up and ready to go. I got as much of
the old stuff as I could, just with a good

(01:00:18):
lower mowing, not I wouldn't say scalping, not that low,
but got a good low mowing on it. And it's
it's coming back green already. It looks really good, by
the way. And if you are looking to get your
lawn in good shape, you need to use a quality
product to do that. One example of that kind of
product is sweet Green sweet Greens from Nitroposs and it's

(01:00:41):
an organic plant food and they've really done their homework
on this many years of research and getting this formulated
and done right. But it's eleven percent nitrogen product that
is a sugar base, a molasses type base, and as
a result, it smells good. So when you put water
on it or it rains on it, it reacts with
the water and releases the nutrients into the soil to

(01:01:05):
promote growth of the plant. Microbes love it. Any organic
gardener can tell you that molasses is something they put
on the soil to support a proliferation of microbe growth,
especially those good bacteria that are in the soil, to
promote that optimum health and performance of your plant. Now,
sweet grains available from many places, as are other nitrofoss products.

(01:01:27):
So you're going to find Nitrofoss products at Ace Hardware
City on Memorial Drive. You're going to find it at
Aspas Ace in the Woodlands, or at ACE at Sinkle
Ranch on Mason Road out there in Katie. Another quality
product from the folks at Nitrofoss. If you would like
to give me a call, We've got time for a

(01:01:47):
quick call here before the next break. Seven to one
three two one two kt RH seven to one three
two one two kt r H. If you look outside,
and you've got metal furniture that ain't looking its best. Okay,
we used to have those kinds of chairs that are
tubular metal and then you sit on the metal plates.

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They're always painted primary colors, you know, real pretty. When
you sit them, you kind of bounce a little bit
because of the curve of the legs the way the
chair holds up. You know what I'm talking about. I
don't know the name of them, but I know they're cool. Well,
Houston Powder Coders can turn one of those into a
brand new chair. What they'll do is they'll bring it in.
They'll deal with any rust, if there's any wells that
need fixing, they can do that. All that rusty hardware

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you know that bolts the chair to the leg, They'll
put brand new stainless steel bolts and screws and everything
on it. They make it look new. It's better, way
better than painting. Powder coating is. And they have over
one hundred different colors to choose from, so you can
choose everything from those big old primary colors red and
blue and whatever, all the way down to some real

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subtle antique looking colors. I mean, they have them all.
They're all there and it looks really really good.

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They do with They deal with cast iron, they deal
with rot iron, They deal with the lunum patio furniture.

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Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
They If you've got a lamppost out in the in
the landscape and you want to bring it in and
have them redo it, make it new, they can do that.
A railing maybe going down a porch railing or a
metal railing, they can do that. They can replace the
sling fabric and the vinyl straps in some of the furniture.
They can do it all. Houston Powdercoders dot Com Houston

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When they're done, time for me to take a break.
If you want to give us all so your first
stop seven one three two one two ktr h. All right, folks,
that is wishful thinking today walking on sunshine. All right, Well,
hope you get a little bit of sunshine. We certainly

(01:04:13):
don't want to complain about the rain, though it's good
for our plant. Nothing like rain water top quality water
you can have. Hey, if you've got some indoor plants
that you need to repot, and occasionally you do need
to repot your plants, or maybe you bought a new
little plant and you wanted to bring it home and
put it in a container, make sure you get them
the soil that they need. And just like soil is
important outside brown stuff before green stuff, it's true inside

(01:04:36):
in jungle land, water saving potting soil from night fuss.
It's distributed by night fuss. It is a quality product
that drains well but holds moisture well also, so the
excess strains away, but then between waterings it holds onto
that moisture to provide it to the plants. Those water
saving crystals are there just to do that. That is

(01:04:57):
exactly what they do. Even when the soil drives out
a little bit, the roots can grab a hold of
those crystals and they can continue to get some moisture
out until you remember or I remember to water them again.
That's jungle land, now, jungle land's available from m D
and Cypress on Luetta Road. If you head up to
Hide and Feed on stupidor Airline, or if maybe you're

(01:05:18):
in bearings hardware on Businette or on West Timer, you're
going to find nitropost products. Let's head to a Taska
seed one now and we're going to visit with Jennifer.
Good morning, Jennifer, Welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 25 (01:05:31):
Hi, Skip, I have a bed by my house. It's
about four foot by sixteen and it's on the north
side of the road, I mean of the house, and
so in the summer it gets full sun all day
and in the winter is full shade all day. So
I am trying to figure out what kind of plant
I can grow there that has those kind of light

(01:05:54):
requirements or we'll make it, I guess with those kind
of light requirements.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
So it's it's shade in the winter because of the house.

Speaker 25 (01:06:04):
You're saying, yes, because of the house and where the
sun is. Ok, it's shade in the winter. And then
as the sun, who's it's sun in the summer.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Yeah? Are you looking for a shrub or what kind
of plant you're looking for?

Speaker 15 (01:06:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:06:19):
I mean a shrub would be great. I've tried a
couple when they've died, and I thought, oh, well, maybe
I can make it a vegetable garden and then just
have it be bear in the winter. That would be
another option, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Or in the wintertime. In the winter you'd get some light,
not direct some, but you can get a little too.
You probably could grow some greens there in the winter,
lettuce and spinach kinds of things. I mean, they want
a little more light than that, but they might do okay. Well,
there are shrubs that can take both the sun and
the shade that you know. There's there's one that's a

(01:06:58):
good one for under the window so burglars can't get
through it. And it's called Chinese holly. It has sharp
pointed leaves that are very stiff, but it'll put up
with quite a bit of shade and also quite a
bit of sun. Yopon will do okay in some shade too,
especially during that winter time when there's not a lot
of demands on the plant. And so that a dwarf jopond,

(01:07:20):
talking about the little dwarf joponds, that would be a possibility.
Let's see. Then the other alternative would be instead of vegetables,
you could do color, you could do shade loving plants
and sun loving plants is in a transition if you're
doing flowers or things like that, a few of them, Yeah,

(01:07:40):
just to just trade them out as you go through.
So those would be I guess there are a few
options that come to mind. Okay, when you know, when
we say sun and shade, we're talking about the sunlight
hitting the soil. But there's there's a difference in light
intensity within shade. You know, you can have a shade

(01:08:01):
that is very bright and so there are there are
solar rays that are are light rays that are reaching
the plants. Or you can have a shade that's real
dark where it's hard to grow anything but monkey grass.

Speaker 25 (01:08:15):
Yeah no, I don't want monkey grass. Yeah yeah, Okay,
maybe maybe the dwarf gepon good and annual in front
of it, you know, and and swamp those out.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
You you could that that is definitely a possibility. And
so what I would do if I were you is,
you know, go to a go to a good quality nursery,
uh and and talk to them about it, let them,
let them show you what they have and you know
what what's going to do. Well, you're you're not far
away from Kingwood and Warren Southern Gardens both. Uh right

(01:08:55):
there in Kingwood, and I think i'd run over and
and take a look at them, tell them, tell them
about the spot, and ask them what they have. And
they're going to have some other options. There's a lot
of different options on plants and things.

Speaker 25 (01:09:06):
Okay, okay, all right, well that sounds good. Maybe this
year is the year I can get something in there.

Speaker 13 (01:09:15):
Okay, figger around.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
Thank you, there you go, there you go, you bet,
Thank you for the call. Appreciate that you take care,
good luck getting all that set up. Arburgate Garden Center
in Tomball is a destination place. It's as simple as that.
If you've got family and friends that are coming to town,
take them to Arburgate. They will love it, even if

(01:09:40):
they're not gardeners. They will love the gift shops that
are unbelievable. They'll love the landscape bling and I'll tell
you this. They're going to see a plant they like.
They're going to see a rose bush. They're going to
see annuals or maybe some vegetables or herbs or whatever.
House plants. They have a beautiful house plant selection there.
Arburgate is just west of Tombull on twenty nine tw
you head out that way, just look for Trichel Road,

(01:10:03):
Trischel Road and it's a little loop that goes behind
Arburgate and it gets you to that back parking lot
where you have all weather safe entrance and it's the
easiest way to park at Arburgate. Now, while you're there,
pick up their one two three completely easy system. That
is a food that feeds anything with roots, a soil
for any application, and a compost that don't improve any soil.

(01:10:26):
Also from sand to clay. Both the soil and compost
have expended shale in them, which is very important, especially
in our heavy clay soils around here. If you're looking
for a pollinator garden, go talk to them at Arbrogate.
Those folks are They're so nice, so hopeful, and so knowledgeable,
and that's important. They'll walk with you. They'll say, well,
here's some plant. Come over here, let me show you
this plant. This is cool. Or maybe you want to

(01:10:48):
create a color combo container and they'll help you put
that together. And plants that go together, plants that structurally
you know, are suited to each other in a container
they'll help you do all that and check out their
containers because they are stunningly beautiful quality experts that will
help you with any problem that you have, to help
you find the solution. That's at Arburgate Garden Center. That's

(01:11:11):
there just west of tom Ball again on twenty nine,
twenty I love, I love going in there. I was
visiting with some folks at Nelson the other day. We
were talking about fertilizers and all of this, and Nelson
has a couple of fertilizers that are part of their
turf Star line. Turf Star just meets fertilizers designed for turf.

(01:11:33):
Both of these blends can last up to six months
that I'm talking about, and they are good for any
turf grass you got here in the South, like let's
see Saint Augustine, zoisia or beagrass, all of those they
do well. One of them's Bruce's Brew. Bruce's Brew you
apply it about every six months. It gives you a
quick green up, but it does have some of the

(01:11:53):
extended carbon sources or nitrogen sources that release over time,
and that's important. Bruces Spruit. The second one is Weedinator
now Weedenator's night your typical weed and feed. It is
a product that has a growth regulator in it and
a post emergent herbicide. So you wet the weeds or
catch them right after a rain. Get those get that product.

(01:12:15):
The dry granules on the weeds. They stick to the
weeds because the weeds are wet. And I don't care
if it's chickweed or clover or dandelion, dollar weed, grassburds,
pig weed, purse lane, ragweed, you know, any of those
vining weeds that are in your lawn. It'll get after
them after I leave it about a day or two.
And then what I would do is watered in to
get that nitrogen down and other nutrients down into the soil.

(01:12:38):
That's weedinator Bruce's spur and Weedinator two touch star lines
from Nelson's that work. They absolutely do work. Let's see,
we are kind of short here on time to take
another call. When I come back from a break gym
in meadows Place, You're gonna be our very first up.
I want to be able to give you plenty of

(01:12:58):
time to ask questions that you might have. At that point.
I want to remind you that I'm gonna be at
RCW Nurseries on next Saturday, the twelfth of April, from
twelve noon to two pm. Come on and see me.
We're gonna have some great giveaways. They always put on
quite a show of giveaways and things out there at

(01:13:19):
RCW Nursery. I'll be there to answer your gardening questions.
This is a good time to bring me weeds and
all other kinds of questions. We'll get to the bottom
of it to help you have success. I'll be right back.
All right, we're back. Welcome to Guardline. Good to have
you with us. We're here to help you have success. Listen,

(01:13:39):
it's mosquito season. When these rains are done, there are
gonna be little pockets of water everywhere. And do you
know that a mosquito only needs literally a capful of
water for to lay an egg and reproduce and create
another mosquito. So there are places everywhere where mosquitos are
breeding on your property. Pest Brothers, the premiere pest control service,

(01:14:01):
our company here on garden Line. They have a system
that is wonderful. Just go ask them. I'm not going
to describe the whole thing to you. Just go ask
them about their mosquito buckets, mosquito containers, the stations. Basically,
the bottom line is they attract mosquitos. They lay eggs
in the buckets that never never turn into adult mosquitos.

(01:14:23):
That's part of the system. Bring them in. They can't
reproduce there. But the mosquito flies away with two different
products on it. One of them when they land in
one of those little cap full of water, places your
gutters underneath the the catch basin, underneath the potted plant
or bird baths or whatever where they land. They prevent

(01:14:44):
mosquitoes from developing there without harm in the water to
beneficial creatures like birds and cats and dogs and lady
beetles and all that. And they walk away or they
fly away with the disease that kills them. It's a
fungal disease of mosquitoes affects mosquitoes. It's like BT and caterpillars.
You know you spray BT at work because you know
it's just gonna kill the caterpillars. This works on mosquitos

(01:15:06):
that way. Dpestbros dot com, dpestbros dot com. You need
to call them and get that system set up, because
you once you get it going, then not only at
your house or the mosquitos being treated, but your neighbor
that has those tires in the backyard that are breeding mosquitos,
the mosquitos will go over there and they'll make sure
that water doesn't become a breeding station. Is that cool

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or what? Dpestbros dot Com two eight one, two oh
six forty six seventy. Let's head to Meadows Place now
and we're going to visit with Jim this morning. Hey, Jim,
welcome back to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (01:15:40):
Thanks skip, good morning. About three weeks ago, I bought
two six inch high to make a plant at Southwest Fertilizer.
Brought a home transplant them in uh ten gallon containers.
They're growing well. They're about three four feet high now
and I've been trimming off the low suckers and anything

(01:16:03):
touching the ground. My question is pruning them topping them out?
What do I need to do to increase the fruit production.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Well, the less you prune, the more fruit you will get,
but it will become a jumble of vines. The fruit
will be smaller and a little slower to reach maturity.
The more you prune. Like tomatoes that are steak, they
just have one trunk, that's it. Anything else coming off
that you cut off and you just leave that steak,
you get bigger fruit, earlier fruit, but less fruit. So

(01:16:35):
there's a trade off. And generally, Jim, what I'll do
on my vines is I'll allow them to have two
or three or four maybe shoots coming out and then
use as we call it, suckering them. Wherever a leaf
comes off the vine, a shoot comes out right there,
we pinch those out or break those off, or prune
those off, and just sort of manage the number of

(01:16:57):
vines that that plant can have, and that there's not
a right or wrong number. There's you know, we got
cherry tomatoes, and we got slicer tomatoes, and we got
paste tomatoes, and each type is a little different. But
basically you're doing selective removal of those shoots to keep
it at a minimum so it's not just full of
just solid, dense leaves everywhere.

Speaker 19 (01:17:19):
I understand. That's that's about what I've been doing. My
question is they're getting getting really tall now they're topping
them out to help or not.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
Well, you know, if you could fertilizing them and watering them,
they wouldn't do that. You need to stick them in
a bed full of gravel and tell them good luck. No,
I seriously, on those you can top them and the
side shoots then become the main shoots. What I'll do
I usually grow mine on a fence kind of thing

(01:17:48):
or in a very tall cage. I'll just let those
shoots trail back down to the ground again and then
cut them off there. Don't don't worry about don't be
afraid of them draping on over.

Speaker 13 (01:18:00):
Okay, I understand, appreciate the hell, thank you sir.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
All right, Jim. Now, Jim, you know the rule on
guard line is you got to give me half the
produce if I've give you free advice.

Speaker 15 (01:18:09):
So I'll give you half.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
Yeah, there you go. Take care man. Appreciate the call
for sure. Up in Willis is a garden center that
if you live anywhere around there. I mean I'm talking
about Willis or Tomball, I'm talking about the lake communities,
you know, April Sound Belt, Water Point of Quarius, all those.
I'm talking about New Waverley, anywhere in the area, even

(01:18:34):
Conrad in the Woodlands. Growers outlet in Willis is the place,
and that is also their website. Growers outlet in Willis. Now,
why is that important? Well, you go to the website
and they, unlike almost any other source you're gonna find,
they'll tell you what's in stock now on the website,
and they'll tell you how much it costs. If you

(01:18:54):
want to go check it out. Check it out Growers
Outlet in Willis. They're on Highway seventy five, just south
of Willis, just a few minutes from Interstate forty five,
easy to get to, and they have a wide variety
of everything. Whether you're looking for vegetables and herbs to
flower beds to giant, gorgeous hanging baskets, to shrubs and
trees and fruit, they've got it all a Growers Outlet

(01:19:17):
in Willis. They also carried the products to go with
your plants, you know, the fertilizers and soils and things
like that. And they have a wonderful little gift shop
in there too with some nice home and garden related
items and locally sourced honey, pickled foods, jellies and jams,
bath and beauty products. It's just a fun place to shop.
Growers Outlet in Willis. That's it. That's all you need

(01:19:39):
to know. Good do me this favorite. Just write that
website down and go check it out. See what I'm
talking about about availability and pricing and everything. Growers outlet
in Willis dot com. That's a website. I think it's
pretty cool. I was talking earlier about Nature's Way Resources
and the products that they have. You know, in Nature's

(01:19:59):
Way they back products, So you can go there and
buy them by the bag and bring them home, or
you can go to they sell by the bag and
a lot of different retail outlets around the Greater Houston area.
Or you can go and take an empty pickup or
trailer and pick up bulk product. Maybe you want a
lot of leaf mole compost, or maybe you want a

(01:20:19):
lot of fungal based compost, or maybe you need one
of the many quality mulching products that they sell there
in Nature's Way Resources for your bets, or you can
call them and have them deliver it. They can do
that too, however you want to go about it. The
main thing is get that organic matter to your house,
put the composts in the soil, put the mulches on
top of the soil, and create that natural environment that

(01:20:42):
plants were designed to thrive in. It's just as simple
as that Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Nature's Way Resources
dot Com two eight or excuse me nine three six
two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven
three twelve hundred in there. Their new renovated website, Nature'sway

(01:21:02):
Resources dot Com is really cool. It's very helpful, a
lot of good information on there. So go out and
see Ian and you know, the whole gang out there,
and they're very helpful, very friendly, and they can when
you tell them what you're wanting to do. You know,
like you may say, well, I want to grow azelias
or I want to grow blueberries. They go, we have
a soil for that, and they do. They have a
soil for acid living plants. Or maybe you're wanting to

(01:21:24):
grow something that needs a very gritty drained, well drained mix,
like a cacti or succulent type of blend. Whatever you need,
Nature's Way Resources is going to be able to provide that,
no no hesitation at all on my part. And recommending
them as a quality source for soil products. Well, let's

(01:21:44):
see here we are about to put this hour in
the books, and so I want to mention that I'm
going to be at RCW Nursery's next Saturday, that is
the twelfth of April Saturday. For twelfth I'll be there
from twelve noon to two hours. There, I'll be answering
your gardening questions. Last time I was out there, people
had bagfuls of weeds and plants and you know what

(01:22:08):
kind of plant? What is this? How do I get
rid of it? Or I like this, how do I
get more? People brought pictures on their phones, like you know, here,
here's my neighbor has this beautiful blooming shrub. Do you
know where I can get one of those? Or what
that is? Or here's an area my landscape that I
just can't get grass to grow, or I can't get
flowers to bloom or whatever. That's what we're there for.

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We're there to eye, to have a good time and
answer your gardening questions. And we'll be giving away a
lot of cool giveaways too, right there from RCW Nurseries.
And when you're out there, you're going to be able
to pick up that rose bush that you can't live without,
because they have plenty of those trees and shrubs. Maybe
if it's a big tree, you know, you may have
them come out and plant it. For you. You know,

(01:22:49):
there's a certain sized plant that I can plant, and
if it gets bigger than that, I'm in great danger
of helping my chiropractor put their kids college, if you
know what I'm saying. Because I think I can lift that,
I think I can lift it. It's like that Toby
Keith song, I ain't as good as I once was. Well, anyway,

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they'll come out and plan them for you. They've got
the equipment, they know how to do it, and then
they have all the supplies you need for planting shrubs
and trees. And by the way, get that thing done
now so that it has as much time as you
can give it before weather gets really really hot. The
best time to plan tree is forty years ago, the
second best times today. That's kind of how we look
at it. All Right, we're listening to Garden Line. I'm

(01:23:35):
your host, Skip Richter. We're about to put this one
in the books this hour, that is, and the books
will be back with your questions and calls after that.
So if you want to go ahead and get on
the boards, you can be one of the first up
seven to one three two one, two fifty eight seventy
four or seven one three two one two KTRH and

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you can go about it that way. Now, today's a
rainy day, so I know a lot of you aren't
going to be getting out and doing a lot of
yard work and things like that. But there are things
you can do. You can take care of your house plants.
Take a look at those. Lay the pot over, slide
them out of the pot. Look at the roots. You know,
are the is the pot so filled with roots that
it's just like this white water roots. It's time to

(01:24:18):
repot that thing. You need to get that done. Is
the are the roots looking like they're rotten and brown?
And water salt probably over the water. And check your
house plants out, look them, look for past, look through
all the things. Take advantage of a rainy day.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scared Ricter.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
It's just watch him as doubles.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Sad.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Well, well, well, welcome back, Welcome back to guard line.
Good to have you with us. We got lots of
things we can be talking about today, and we are.
We're going to be talking about the things you are
interested in. If you'd like to give us a call.
Seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three
two one two KTRH. Now, Nitroposs has a product called Imperial.

(01:25:29):
It is the red orange bag, reddish orange bag, the
fifteen five ten immediately released fertilizer. You put it down,
you watered in, it dissolves the nutrients, it puts them
in the root system and really than a day or
two that the basically the plan is already taken those
things up, so it gives you a quick result. You

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can use it at any time in the season you want.
I mean, you could use it all through the season
if you want to do it in small amounts over time,
kind of creat your own manual slow release by just
putting little that's out here and there. Primarily we use
it for a good quick greenup and I'll often put
something like that down as the first application of the
year for the you know, the good quick results. And

(01:26:12):
now's a good time to do it too. By the way.
Nitrofis Imperial fifteen to five to ten available in places
all over the Greater Houston area like D and D
Feed and tom Ball Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena,
M and D and Beamer in Sagemont area. Let's head
out now to Peerland, and we're going to talk with Troy. Hey, Troy,

(01:26:32):
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:26:34):
The Born and Scap.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
Morning.

Speaker 21 (01:26:39):
I add just a couple of questions for you. One
is related to vi burnhams. I have a beautiful stand
of them for probably four years now, and last year
I got white flies in them real bad, and I
got this black coating it seemed like on the leafs
that I just could not ever get rid of until

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the winter and we had the big freeze. We cover
them up well, but we still got a.

Speaker 15 (01:27:06):
Bit of burns.

Speaker 21 (01:27:07):
I trim most of that out, but I noticed the
white flies are back, but the new growth is looking
really healthy. So one, what do I treat the white
flies with? And then two, now I am seeing what
looks like a healthy limb. All of a sudden, the
leaves are just starting to droop on.

Speaker 15 (01:27:25):
Them, and I have no idea what's that?

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
Okay, Well that's a you got a couple of good
complex questions there. First of all, the white flies. There
are things that kill white flies, but they also killed
the things that control white flies for you. And oftentimes
what happens is you get on this treadmill of pesticide
where you're killing white flies, and then you end up
with a white fly outbreak because the things that were

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helping keep them somewhat in check are now gone, and
the white flies come back faster, and so you're just
you're kind of on a treadmill. I generally try to
avoid that if possible. One way to avoid it is
to use the systemic product that goes up in the plant,
drenched on the roots, goes up in the plant, and
anything sucking juice is out of the plant, whether it's

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scale or white flies, whether it's mealy bugs or aphids,
is gonna receive that poison through the sap of the
plant instead of nukenhole plant with a pesticide, So that
that's one option. Another option would be to just treat regularly,
and there's insecticides. There's things like horticultural oil sprayed on

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the undersides of the leaves that kills the eggs and
the pupa of the white fly. They're underneath the leaf hiding.
They're not the white things you see flying around, but
they're part of the life cycle of that insect. So
those would be a couple of options on the white flies.
I like the systemic a little better because it doesn't
It doesn't affect the lady beetles and lace wings and

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parasitoid wasps and other things that are helping keep those
in check. As far as the wilting leaves, that just
means water is not getting to that branch. It could
be due to a damaged root. It could be due
to a canker on the stem. That's that's shut down
the pipeline from the root to the top. You know,
there are different things, but the bottom line is if

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you've got a healthy plant and one shoot is turning
brown or wilting, let's say at this point it's just wilting,
follow that shot back and look at it real carefully
and see if you see sunken areas or splits in
the bark. It may have been that the coal snap
we went through this year, that that you did get
some tissue damage, and you would just print it off
below that tissue damage and that would be all you

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have to do.

Speaker 21 (01:29:40):
All right, Great, any recommendation on the systemic, well, well
pretty much.

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
Now you know we're looking at emido cloprid. That is
a product that is the ingredient. It's not the brand.
It's sold in a lot of different brands, and so
you just have to you know, you just have to
wherever you shop, go and look for meadow meadow cloprid.

(01:30:09):
Now you're let me see you are down You're in
pair Land, is that right? Okay? Yeah? Uh, So you've
got you've got a number of ACE hardware stores in
your region there that you can go to that are
probably going to carry a product that contains a meadow
cloapred on it. There is an M and D on

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a beamer. Uh that's not too far away from you. Uh,
they're kind of friends would area, So I would I'd
probably I'd suggest I'm sorry, I said friends with They're
they're up at gosh, the Beltway, Sammuston Tollway around the
and then okay, good yeah, and then down Uh there's

(01:30:55):
an ACE on Edgewood Drive to there in friends with It.
So anyway, well it's not hard to find them. Just
just look for the if the ingredient begins with I
am I d o im me, Oh that's the right product.

Speaker 21 (01:31:10):
I'm gonna give it a shot. The one final question
for you, I would really like to plant a couple
of blue balcony Boganvillion.

Speaker 20 (01:31:22):
And I am.

Speaker 21 (01:31:22):
My research is suggesting now that it may not differ.
Have you heard of it?

Speaker 13 (01:31:28):
If so, could you get it?

Speaker 11 (01:31:30):
Or is it just a myth?

Speaker 4 (01:31:34):
You said, balcony blue balcony.

Speaker 21 (01:31:37):
Balcony, Yeah, sir, if you if you google it, the
images are just beautiful and it's the perfect color for what.

Speaker 11 (01:31:43):
I'm looking for. But I can't find it anywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:31:49):
Well, I've not seen that one before. What I would
do if I were you is call Moss Nursery. They're
just you know, east of you there in Seabrook. They
carry a lot of different plants like that, and I
would I would say do you have it or can
you get it? And they'll be able to tell you
yes or no on that. That's probably the simplest, fastest

(01:32:12):
way to to to check it out. Yeah, that that
would be that. Probably as far as selection they're they're
probably gonna be as good as you're gonna get there.

Speaker 21 (01:32:25):
I was there a few weeks ago, but I didn't
have it on my list at the time. But I
did go by a stand a fars and they said
they haven't seen it years.

Speaker 4 (01:32:34):
Okay, well yeah you may not if they didn't. If
they hadn't seen it. You know, the mosque carries a
lot of stuff. Or you may just call R. C. W.
Nursuy too. They have a really good selection of bougainville
is up there. I'm just trying to think of other places.
Someone may go, well, let me go look for it

(01:32:55):
and see if I can find it, but that that'd
be my best suggestions. Okay, appreciate you. Yeah, I've got
to I've got a YouTube. Take care, appreciate that. I'll
be right back, folks. Oh man, I don't know when
the last time I played some bond job here on
garden Line. Hey, we're glad you're with us. Would you

(01:33:16):
like to ask a question or just brag about the tomatoes?
Jagury last year seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two ktrh.
Now we'll bragging in moderation. We're not gonna listen to
too much of that. But I know how it is
as gardeners, you know that is right? You know what
the best garden I've ever had in my life is

(01:33:37):
my next one. It is gardeners are optimists. And when
I look at a seed catalog, when I'm in a
garden center, walking through looking at plants. I can just
tell you that tomato right there, it's going to be
six feet tall and have eight hundred thousand tomatoes on it,
and they're all going to be perfect size and perfect shape.
I can see it in my mind's eye. Now, reality

(01:33:57):
doesn't always turn out that way, but we're dreamer because
we've had those kind of seasons before. That's a good
thing about gardening. Keeps you young, that's for sure, keeps
you young. I mentioned moss nursery while ago I was
talking to somebody about, you know, finding a particular kind
of plant, and moss nursery is it's unique. It's just unique.

(01:34:20):
You may think you've been to all kinds of garden centers.
If you haven't been to a moss nursery, you haven't
been to all kinds of garden centers. This is eight acres,
family operated, seventy year old garden center that you wandered
through and around each corner. Is something you didn't expect.
And of course they have all the kinds of plants,
you know, flowers and trees and hanging baskets and vegetables

(01:34:41):
and herbs and houseplant. Their houseplant sections like second to none.
Everything you're looking for, our fruit, trees and shrubs and
so on. They have it all there. But it's just
a pleasure to wander through and do. And the folks there,
they are knowledgeable. I've been there more than once, and
you know, visiting with someone working there and they're a
master gardener and they're just doing. They're working there because
they has love plants, you know, they love that. They're

(01:35:04):
enthusiastic and they help you. I mean twenty different kinds
of aalias. You know, hadranges and just everywhere you look,
whatever you're looking for, they've got it. You may walk
in and go, Yeah, while back, my neighbor had this
thing that was blooming, didn't have any leaves on it,
and you know I'd like to plant one. Well, the
blooms are gone now, right, But they can point you

(01:35:26):
to the plant. You're probably talking about a deciduous magnolia.
They can put you in touch with it, tell you
how to plant it, tell you how to take care
of it. MOS Nursery Seabrook or Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas
maas Nursery dot Com two eight one, four seven four
twenty four eighty eight. We're going to go now and
talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 26 (01:35:48):
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
I want to know what I can use to kill
poison ivy?

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
All right, where is it growing? What good plant is nearby?

Speaker 9 (01:36:00):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:36:01):
It was just among a lot of jew in the
groundcover and a lot of weeds.

Speaker 4 (01:36:07):
Okay, okay, Well, h wandering jew is hard to kill.
So you probably kill the poison ivy and not killed
the wandering jew. But I would what I would do is, well,
let me ask you one more question. Does it have
a trunk on it, you know, like as big as
your little finger or larger or is it just a

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little little tiny thin things coming out of the ground. Well,
it's smaller, yeah, smaller. Okay, I would use a product
containing trichlop here t R I C l O P
y R. Now, there's a publication on my website, and
my website is Gardening with Skip dot com. It's a

(01:36:52):
free publication. It's called Herbicides for Skips weed Wiper and
you can see how to build a weed wiper. It's
easy to build. I mean, you don't you don't have
to have tools and all that to do it.

Speaker 7 (01:37:02):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
And and then the herbicized to put on it, and
for whatody weeds like pepperbine and poison ivy and hackberry
seedlings and all that. Tricle Peer is listed and the
brands of triclo peer are also listed. So you can
just print that out off the web, take it with
you when you go shopping. And uh, if you get
the tricle Peer on desirable plants, it's probably going to

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kill them too. So the weed wiper allows you to
get it just on the poison ivy leaves without having
to touch them. So anyway, those are your options.

Speaker 27 (01:37:37):
Sharon, Okay, very good, Skip, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
I appreciate you, Bet, thanks a lot. Appreciate appreciate your
call a lot.

Speaker 13 (01:37:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
Someone's the other day again is asking me about what
are trace minerals. I don't understand this. What do you
mean by trace? And what I mean by trace is
that you only need a little of them. But the
fact that you'll need a little doesn't mean it's not essential, right.
I mean, you don't need a lot of vitamin D
in your body, but if you had none, you'd have

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a creek, right, because it's essential. Well, trace minerals. He's
not a mineral. I know that asmite is a mind
product that contains trace minerals, and you put it down.
You can do it once twice a year, whatever you need.
A soil test really would tell you exactly what you need.
But uh, most people will put it down when they fertilize,

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but you can do it anytime. It doesn't have to
be done in conjunction with fertilizing, but it provides those
trace minerals that are needed in small amounts, but that
are essential. Basically, what you're doing is you're putting into
your soil bank account all the things that you're gonna
need when that grass starts making its withdrawals, and therefore
you have healthy plants from azemite. Let's see here. I'm

(01:38:52):
going to go now to Bill in the Houston area. Hey, Bill,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 20 (01:38:58):
Thanks Skip. I have a magnolia tree. It's about twenty
feet tall and probably got about a ten inch circumference base.
But yesterday I picked up a thirty gallon trash bag
full of leaves off the ground. It just started dropping
leaves over the last week or so, and I'm just

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wondering what may be going on.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
Okay, are the leaves at the end of the branch
is still green, and on there it's the older leaves dropping.

Speaker 20 (01:39:29):
It's kind of on one branch every leaf is gone
I noticed this morning, But most of them are are
older leaves, and there's still lots of leaves on the tree.

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
Okay, well, you know I'm not there looking at the
tree and digging around everything. But my best guess, I
think what you're looking at is normal transition leaf drop
Magnolia's in the spring, as new growth starts coming, they
drop all the old leaves. That that is. For some magnolias,

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that is a very dramatic drop. In some years it's
a very dramatic drop, and for other magnolias in other
years it's not as dramatic. But that's nothing to be
concerned about. Now, when you have a branch with no leaves,
something else is going on. Could be a freeze crack
from freezing. It could be I don't know, a borer
in the branch, or a canker killing the bark around

(01:40:23):
the branch. But if you want, I can put you
on hold and you can take a picture of it.
Take me a picture of the whole plant. Then take
some kind of up close, you know, showing the question
I was asking, which leaves uh, And I'll be happy
to take a second look and see if I see
anything else on it. How about that?

Speaker 20 (01:40:41):
Well, I may have to do that after a while.
I'm out running some errands. But I thought i'd give you.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
Yeah, yeah, no, no need, no need to do it
at all, and no problem, no rush, I'm going to
put you on hold if you want to do that,
just hang on and Jonathan will get you an email.
Appreciate your call. Yeah. Magnolias and live oaks do that.
And I had two live oaks in my front yard
and one of them each year it dropped leaves, but
it's still had this full canopy. The other one almost

(01:41:09):
went completely bare every year. Genetically different trees growing in
the same yard. I don't know why, but it's it's
just nature. It's what nature does. Not at all unusual
to see that kind of thing. Well, I mentioned it
was gonna rain today, right, It probably is raining today
where you are right now, most areas are getting some

(01:41:30):
Mosquito dunks are a really handy product that have been
around for a long time. You can find them everywhere,
you know, ace. Hardware stores are going to have them,
Your nurseries are going to have them, your feed stores
are going to have them. They're widely available. Mosquita dunks
like a little small beige donut. It floats in water.
And you know, you got this little pond out there,
it's kind of still water, it's not moving. Well, that's

(01:41:53):
where mosquitoes like to lay their eggs. Throw throw one
onto the water. It floats and it releases a bacterium
that is toxic to mosquito larva. It is not toxic
to birds or fish, or the family pet or anything out, dragonflies,
anything else that's around the water. It is specific to
mosquito larva. So one dunk covers one hundred square feet

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for about thirty days or more as it slowly dissolves away.
They also have a granular farm that you can scatter
in smaller areas. But if you underneath the catch basins
on your plants where water tends to stand, it works.
Mosquito dunks again widely available. They work. Look for them
in a garden center and a hardware store, a nursery,
a feed store near you. Let's see, we're going to

(01:42:41):
head out now to Tomball and talk to John. Hey John,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:42:46):
Good morning, skiff, thank you. I've got to arbigate coming
in to playing about ten Eagleston's hollies. So I've got
to move to a yellow rose bush. So am I
just fighting and losing battle here with this this time
of year?

Speaker 13 (01:43:05):
Or is it doable?

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
It's it's doable. It wouldn't be the time I would
choose if I were given choices, but you know here
we are, and so I would go ahead and give
it a try. Uh is it a it's not a vine,
it's not a tree climbing rose, it's a bush, correct?

Speaker 15 (01:43:23):
Correct?

Speaker 11 (01:43:24):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
Okay? And about how long has it been in? More
than three years?

Speaker 15 (01:43:30):
It's probably been in about two years?

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Two years?

Speaker 15 (01:43:35):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:43:36):
All right? Well are you going to immediately replant it
in another location?

Speaker 15 (01:43:43):
Yes? Yes, before the come yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:43:47):
Good. So what I do is go to the new spot,
go ahead and dig the hole to get ready for it.
But when you dig the rose bush, you want to
go wider rather than deeper. So if you even get
eight inches deep, that's plenty deep for the rose. But
I will dig all the way around it, and then
I will kind of dig underneath it with a flat shovel,
not the curve shovel, but a flat one, and slicing

(01:44:10):
the roots underneath it as you kind of lean the
bush one way now for me, using twine or something
to pull all the rose branches together and upwards so
they look, you know, they look like a rocket coming
out of the ground rather than a spreading bush. That
makes it easier to get in and work around it.
I slide a tarp underneath it as far as I

(01:44:30):
can get it, and then I go to the other
side and start digging the roots, cutting the roots as
I go under it, and slide that bush onto the tarp.
And you can drag it with quite a bit of
soil that way without hurting your back to the new location.
Slide it right into the ground planet make sure it's
the same depth it was watered in really really well.
And if you got some sort of a a light

(01:44:50):
shade that you could cast over it, you know, a
shade cover or something you could even be like the
spun down polyester fabrics, something to just give it a
little break from the sun while it gets some roots in.
After two or three weeks of that, you can you
can pull the cover off. But if you keep it moist,
remembering that you've cut off most of the roots, keep

(01:45:11):
the roots that are there moist, I think you're gonna
find that you have really good success with that.

Speaker 15 (01:45:17):
Perfect thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
They like today be a good day. Yeah, today be
a good day to do it with all the overcast
guys in rain. But I suspect you may not be
interested and do it that today. Anyway, there you go. Hey,
I gotta go to I gotta go to a break, folks.
I'll be right back. Oh boy, I'm looking out the

(01:45:41):
window right now and this rain, rhythm of the rain. Hey,
we'll be glad we had it later. I wish we
could bottle it up and keep it for July and August,
but it is what it is. Right Welcome back to
garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, if
you haven't been down to Jorges Hidden Gardens down, you
got to go. Orge just keeps making that place better

(01:46:04):
and better and better. I mean he specializes in all
kinds of trees, shrubs, things like that, because every kind
of plan do you need a fruit tree? Peaches and
on and on through the fruit tree, including ceteras too.
By the way, and blueberries and whatnot. He's got that,
He's got pretty much. The rose selection is really it's
really excellent. I love the what is the Oh gosh,

(01:46:27):
I got one in the backyard, Peggy Martin, Peggy Martin rose.
Jory's got some wonderful Peggy Martin roses that just look excellent.
And so anyway, yeah, that would be a good place
to stop today. Jorge, starting at nine pm or nine am,
they're going to have a herb gardening program there. It's
free at Jorge's Hidden Gardens. It's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin.

(01:46:51):
Elizabeth Street in Alvin, So if you're in Alvin, you're
heading down towards Santa Fe direction. It's about halfway and
then you turn off to the right to get to
Hora Hidden Gardens. He also saw I got in some
really beautiful bottle brush plants. A boy, the pollinators, the
bees love those things, absolutely love those things. Anyway, go

(01:47:11):
by and see it, say hey, hooray for us. And
while are you there, you can get the three sixty
tree stabilizer that is outstanding for securing and making sure
your trees are off to the best start that they
can get. Let's go to the phones. Now we're gonna
go talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 16 (01:47:31):
Well hi there skip log time, no talk. How are
you to everybody?

Speaker 13 (01:47:39):
Anybody?

Speaker 14 (01:47:40):
Okay, and nobody wants it?

Speaker 16 (01:47:44):
Okay, this load tree. Do you have the pictures?

Speaker 15 (01:47:53):
I hope.

Speaker 4 (01:47:55):
Uh, well i'm I'm I have the email, but there's
no pictures attached.

Speaker 22 (01:48:00):
That won't work.

Speaker 13 (01:48:01):
Then okay, yeah, well.

Speaker 4 (01:48:04):
So I guess, uh the board pictures. Yeah. What you
need to do, Susan on this is attach the email.
Don't embed that, don't like paste it in the text,
but attach it using that little paper club when you
do send it and I think I'll get it that way, okay.

Speaker 16 (01:48:24):
Okay, because I said that's what you mean, right the
leaves and then.

Speaker 4 (01:48:30):
Well, yeah, what whatever you want to ask questions about
and call me back once you get it. Once you
get it here, okay, thank you. M mmmm. Well, while
we're talking about the emails and stuff, just so you know,
I'm not able to just type answers to emails, so
I can't do the pempal thing during the week. But

(01:48:54):
if you have a question and I can attach a picture, uh,
if not, just the question. Go ahead and send it
to me and then follow it up with a call
on Saturday Sunday morning on Guarden Line and we'll talk
about it. We'll make sure and get it solved that way.
I just the volume of email and the work that
I do during the week as well, there's just no

(01:49:15):
way I can tackle you know, just do an email
typing back and forth. Plus I'm a slow typer. That's
another thing. When you send me an email, always attach
it rather than embed it. Embed it means pasting it
in the text. It is very hard for me. Sometimes
I open them and I can't see the whole picture
without me saving it and then reopening the safe out

(01:49:36):
and I just can't do all that at once while
I'm trying to do the radio. So if you will
attach it using the paper club thing, then I can
open it up and I can take a good look
at it. All right. I want to help you as
best we can. I think that's the way we can
do it. Year round Houston, year round Houston dot com.

(01:49:57):
Now that's year around Houston is the name of the company.
It's also the website, Year round Houston dot Com. They're
specialist when it comes to corroorating and compost top dressing.
They know to do it. Now you can do those
kinds of things yourself. You're very cumbersome to do. You
gotta rent a machine, you gotta transport it. And when
you get done, you've got pose a compost in the driveway.

(01:50:17):
You got to clean all that up. It's a dusty mess.
Then you got to clean up the machine, send it
back or take it back and just have year run
Houston come out and do it. They basically cover the
area for our garden line audience here inside the beltway,
okay inside the beltway. So the website year round Houston

(01:50:38):
dot com, the phone number eight three two eight eight
four fifty three thirty five, they'll come out. They use
only quality screened plant based compost, no stink to it.
It easily settles down into the lawn. And when you
do a cororation and a compost top dressing on top
of it, that very dense clips you're dealing with will

(01:51:01):
be enhanced. If you're dealing with a compacted soil, it
is absolutely essential if you're going to get out of
the compaction problem, to do the correoration and the compost
top dressing and you can do that repeatedly over a
period of years, however you want to go about it.
But it does literally breathe life back into the lawn

(01:51:22):
because you're bringing oxygen down into the root system which
it couldn't get before because of the compactically soil year
around Houston dot com eight three two eight eight four
fifty three thirty five. If you would like to give
me a call today, the phone number is seven to
one three two one two KTRH seven one three two

(01:51:43):
one two k t RH. I want to remind you
that my schedule is online if you if you want
to see a copy of my lawn care schedule and
my lawn past disease and we'd management schedule. Excuse me
fading in and out here because I'm trying to reach
for something. Both of them are online. You go to

(01:52:05):
Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com
and you'll find them there. There's a lot of other
information on that website too. By the way, I definitely
need to check it out Gardening with Skip dot Com.
Lots of good free information that I've put on there
that will help you have success, help you have a

(01:52:25):
bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process.

Speaker 13 (01:52:29):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:52:30):
That's that's the way we look at it. But go
to gardening with Skip dot com. Look at my publications
that are on there. Look at the schedules, and you'll
see exactly what I'm talking about now, the new schedule,
or the schedule that's been on there for a while,
rather the lawn care schedule. If you look at it
first of all, you can download it as a PDF

(01:52:52):
and print it out. I'll talk to people all the
time that have put it in their garage by their
fertilizer spread or on the refrigerator or whatever. You will
see that year now in the time when we start
applying that slow release fertilizer to our lawns. And one
of the products that I highly recommend is Nitropas super
Turf Nitrofass Superturf. It's a silver bag. It's a nineteen

(01:53:16):
four nine okay, nineteen excuse me, four to ten, sorry,
nineteen four to ten fertilizer in a silver that's the easiest,
the silver bag. You walk into an ACE hardware store,
you look across the store, you see the silver bags
way over there. It's only bag like that. Nitrofas super turf.
You put it out at about five pounds per thousand
square feet and it's going to feed your lawn for

(01:53:37):
four months gradually. That's you know, when we dump a
whole bunch of fast release fertilizer, a whole bunch of
it right on the ground, Well, the grass can't take
all that up at once, and we lose a lot
of it. So when you do a slow release, the
grass is taking up nutrients every day. And you want
a fertilizer that's gradually releasing every day. That's super turf.

(01:54:00):
And you're going to find it in places like plants
for all seasons on Luetta. You're gonna find it at
Ace Hardware, Sinco Ranch or M and Dace on Luetta.
H those are all examples of places where you're gonna
find nine to five super turb alrighty, well, let's see,
I wanted to grab a phone call, but I don't
quite have time. So when we come back, Doug and Richmond,

(01:54:20):
you'll be first up, followed by William in beat eyes. Ooh,
the metropolis of beat Iyes. Looking forward to.

Speaker 2 (01:54:26):
That is what my Brad says.

Speaker 4 (01:54:30):
Oh yes, you can uh huh, I can relate to
that what Toby ddenttey is. When you go ahead and
do it the next morning, your body says, that's right,
that's right. Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have
you with us. Spring Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM

(01:54:52):
twenty nine to seventy eight Grand Parkway and Highway two
forty nine, just a few minutes away from Grand Parkway
in two forty nine. This is one heck of a
feed store. Beautiful inside you walk in, just like is
this a feed store? He is so beautiful inside, all
the different indoor giftings and you know, just an anything
you can imagine really to decorate and around the place.

(01:55:14):
But then you look left and you see feed everywhere.
And then you look right and you see garden everywhere.
Garden supplies, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, fertilizers like turf Star from Nelson, Microlife, nitrofoss.
They carry all of those products there at Spring Creek Feed.
If you're an FFA or four h raising livestock, or
if you're military or senior citizens, their discounts for you.

(01:55:37):
Spring Creek will special order and they do have a
delivery service as well. Again in Magnolia on FM twenty
nine seventy eight just minutes away from Graham Parkway in
Highway two forty nine. That is Spring Creek Feed. Let's
head out to Richmond and talk to Doug. Hey, Doug,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (01:55:54):
Thank you very much, Skip, Good morning morning. I have
a q about leaf miners. My citrus started started sprouting
fresh leaves about a month ago, and all four trees
have got nice now full sized leaves and they're hardened up. Okay,
but I want to know the trigger for leaf miners.

(01:56:15):
Is it weather temperature? When do they start proliferating? And
I'm going to get in touch in control of it
with the spinosad this year. And yeah, only spinosad, no
knee oil.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
And okay, Doug. So basically, leaf miners like tender succulent growth,
as you indicated, and so whenever you have a flush,
you're gonna have leaf miners around. They have they go
through their life cycle. They when they finish in a leaf,
they drop out on the ground, pupate, and then they're
right back in the area again. So they're flying around
looking for tender growth. So pretty much they're there all

(01:56:48):
the time through this summer. Uh and so when you
have that growth, treating spraying with spinosid as you indicated,
just that growth, that's the way you need to go. Okay,
well that sounds like that spinosa will so it'll soak in. Yeah,
it'll soak into those tender tissues, and so spray both
sides of the lead. Not necessary, but I would do
it just to be sure.

Speaker 21 (01:57:08):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
And that's it. You can get ahead of those things.
Just remember too that if you've got a good sized
ceentrus tree that's healthy and strong, they're not going to
really hurt it much. I mean, they make it look bad,
but the bottom line is they're not going to make
you have less citrus because the amount of damage they
do is not enough. Now, if it's a little young
tree you're trying to get to grow, yes, yeah, don't

(01:57:29):
don't let them set it back. I hope that helps. Uh.
I do have a question, Yeah, you might. You might
want to protect them, Okay, I just uh you're just
gonna need to, uh give them a little more time

(01:57:50):
on the flowers. They should if they have sunlight, sunlight
and time on a cetrus, you should be getting blooms. Uh.
If you want to send me some pictures of them.
I'm gonna put you on hold and my producer can
give you an email if you're want to send me
some pictures of what you're seeing. Maybe I'll see something
else and I'll be happy to do that. Sorry to
have to run so fast on us here Heirloom Soils.

(01:58:13):
If you're looking for a quality soil product, no question
from beginning to end, whether it's composted cocoa core, fruit
berry and citrus mix, bed mixes for the landscape. If
you're looking for veggie and herb mix. Maybe you have
cacti and succulents and you want a specific blend for that,
or a potting soil called the works or rose bloomer

(01:58:34):
roses and bloomers blend covers roses and all the other
kinds of plants like that. Heirloom Sail has got premium,
top of the line premium. You're going to find the
bags all over the place and garden centers near you.
Just go to heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. Learn
about these products, look at their calculators, see you know
how much to get, and then call them and have

(01:58:54):
a delivery, have them bring out a supersack or find
out where you can get them by the bag, because
it's on the website Heirloomsoils dot com. We're gonna head
out to beat Eyes now and talk to William. Hey, William,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 28 (01:59:09):
I'm fine, I'm really in Plantersville.

Speaker 4 (01:59:12):
Oh pleasure. Okay, all right, I got a question.

Speaker 19 (01:59:15):
We had improved berry vines.

Speaker 28 (01:59:21):
I have blooms and they have little berries starting. How
many should I trim some of these off?

Speaker 19 (01:59:29):
The berries?

Speaker 4 (01:59:29):
You tell about strawberries each all about strawberries, blackberries? Oh no,
don't trim any of them off? No, no, leave them all.
The plants can handle.

Speaker 15 (01:59:39):
Half about the twelve little berries on them.

Speaker 4 (01:59:44):
Yeah they do. How long have these plants been in
the ground?

Speaker 28 (01:59:48):
About two years?

Speaker 4 (01:59:50):
Okay, yeah, no, leave them that's okay. Just fertilize those things.
Fertilize them with a good lawn fertilizer, and keep those
things vigorous and growing, keep competition down, and you'll be
good to go. All righty okay, okay?

Speaker 15 (02:00:04):
What about putting a's and mine around a pear tree?

Speaker 26 (02:00:08):
Will that hurt it?

Speaker 13 (02:00:09):
Called fireblight?

Speaker 4 (02:00:10):
They won't hurt it. No, it won't hurt it just no,
it won't affect the fire blight at all. Just do
it at the label according according to the label rate,
and don't overdo it. William, I'm sorry, I'm up against
a heartbreak here, but appreciate. I appreciate your call very much.

Speaker 25 (02:00:25):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:00:25):
Nelson Plant Food has the jars of product that are
nutri Star line. The Nelson Plant Food has some excellent products.
Bet they got one that's for vegetable gardens. They got
one for the zalias and acid living plants. There's one
for food areas. There's one for boog and villias. You
know we're entering their season right now. It just goes

(02:00:47):
on and on. It doesn't matter what kind of plant
you want to fertilize. Nelson Plant Food nutri Star jars
or the way to go. And there's a dozen places
around town where you can take that old jar back
in and you can refill it to save little money
and quit throwing the quick having to throw the plastic away.
It really it really works good. I think it's an
ingenious thing that they've come up with to do that.

(02:01:09):
Nelson products, you can depend on them. They work and
I can tell you that because I use them I've seen.
I've seen the results that they produce, and they're excellent.
Earlier I was talking about containers. Everybody ought to have
a container on the patio. It's it's important to create beauty.
The nice thing about containers is they're versatile. They don't

(02:01:31):
look good. Just take them out around behind the garage,
put a new container in, or pull the plants out
and put new plants in. Jungle Land potting mix is
a quality product. It's called flour and Vegetable planting soil.
It's an outdoor version of jungle land. It drains well,
it holds water well, it holds nutrients well. It's just
a good product. It's a good product and you're gonna

(02:01:53):
find it in a lot of places. Use it to
make those containers beautiful. Remember when you plant a container
here in our area, make it an exercise larger or
two in our heat going through the summer. It helps
reduce stress that you don't have. The water is often
and with jungle land you will have that water holding
capacity and success. You're going to find it like other

(02:02:14):
Nilsen products, You're going to find them in places like
Chented Gardens at in Richmond Rosenberg area, the Plantation, Ace
Hardware and the Richmond Rosenberg area. You're going to find
it Aspase Ace in the Woodlands or Ace Hardware City
on Memorial Drive. They work, and you ought to have
more containers this year. Every year I add a container

(02:02:35):
to the landscape because they're just beautiful. You can grow
vegetables and containers. You can grow flowers and containers. They're
just a wonderful, versatile way to garden. I like that,
and we ought to have more. And by the way,
if you get tired of watering your containers all the time,
get you a drip irrigation system. They are not hard
to find, they are not hard to set up. I

(02:02:56):
have some that are just on a hose beb and
there's a little timer on the hose bill and I
tell it to water once or twice a day, depending
on the containers and where they are, or every other day.
You just set it and forget it, and the hose
goes along the ground. A little tube comes up and
goes into the container, and it takes care of it,
and your place looks good. You know how when we

(02:03:17):
forget somety like the other day, I forgot to water
a tomato that's in a container and it wilted. Do
you know what that means? It means that I'm going
to have less production. And now the plant worked back
up when I watered it, but it went into that stress.
It was trying to set fruit, trying to develop prood.
Who knows, I'm have blossom ind right now on that thing.
Get you an automatic irrigation system on that and it'll

(02:03:37):
work really well. Just a tip for those of you
who are gardening in containers, whether it's herbs or vegetables
or flowers or anything that you're growing. If you've not
been out to Enchanted Forest in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
you really need to go. This is This is the

(02:03:58):
kind of nursery you take your friends too and they
come and visit. It is outstanding, just beautiful. When you
drive up, you feel like it's almost like you've entered
an old Western town. You know, the storefronts and things
like that, and then you walk in the beautiful shade
trees to stroll under as you shop. It is Tanny
Forest is great and when you go in, oh my gosh.

(02:04:19):
Someone called me the other day or emailed me the
day and they were looking for they have a certain
kind of plant. They were looking for caterpillars for that plant,
and I was just I told you go out to
in Channet Forest. Actually they were asking about the caterpillars.
I said, we'll just go there. They'll give you a starter,
and they will. They had the best selection of pollinator
plants and butterfly plants that you're gonna find anywhere. And they,

(02:04:41):
of course because they have them all the butterflies. No,
you ask a butterfly. You me and Santoni and ask
a butterfly. They go, oh, yeah, go to in Channa
Forest over there. They all show up there and you
get to take the plant home with your starter caterpillar
if you want to bring it home with you. They
have a beautiful selection right now of roses too, by
the way, Oh they're gorgeous. Clem How many of you
tried clemitis? You can actually grow a clemitus here. You

(02:05:04):
want to put it in a spot where it has
afternoon shade and morning sun and moltz the roots really
good and give it the best chance of success. But
they have those here, beautiful annual color plants. They've gotten
a shipment of Madagascar periwinkles. Some people call them Vinka.
Oh it's just gorgeous. I mean I could go. I
could just talk all the way through this commercial break

(02:05:26):
about the products they have it in Channa. First, I
forgot to tell you in Chinnish forest Enchanted Forest Richmond,
TX dot com. That's the website, Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
dot com. They're on twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
To fifty nine.

Speaker 4 (02:05:41):
Well, music means I gotta quit talking, but not until
I tell you that Next Saturday, from twelve to two,
I'll be at RCW Nursery. We're gonna have a good time.
They always put on a good show there at rc
There're gonna be lots of giveaways. I'll probably be some
snacks and some drinks to have there while we're there.
We're just gonna talk about all kinds of things gardening

(02:06:02):
that are of interest to you. You want to bring
in samples and things we can do that. Come on
not meeting you. I'd love to be doole and listen
to Garden.

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
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Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
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Speaker 4 (02:06:52):
All right, folks, we got some garden line to do.
Let's talk gardening. Seven one three two one two ktrh.
That's how you do it. Seven one three two on
two ktr h. What are you interested in talking about?
We can discuss that for sure. I got some emails

(02:07:15):
and got that photo of a tree from Susan, so
we're ready to go on that one. Whenever we are
ready to go. U anyway, give me a call. Let's
let's discuss the kinds of things that you are most
interested And if you've been emailing me this morning, please
follow up with a phone call because I'm just not
able to respond to emails right now.

Speaker 28 (02:07:37):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:07:37):
Sanamlch is placed. I was there the other day for
one of their big events that they have. They always
put on a good party there. Sanamulch is the place
you go to get everything set up for success with
your plans, and it is so important. And there's a
reason I say bronze stuff before green stuff. And here's

(02:07:58):
what I'm talking about. People that are not educated in gardening,
that they haven't learned how to take care of plants
and what to do. Typically, what happens is you go
to a garden center are you whatever? And you just
buy a plant because it's pretty and you want to
bring it home and you want to plant it, and
then you walk around looking for well, where am I
going to put this? Well, let's put it there, and

(02:08:19):
you just PLoP it down in the spot. That is
a recipe for disaster. You need to create a foundation
for success. If you're building a house, you wouldn't just
walk over in a pasture and go, well, I'm going
to start laying two by four us right there on
the ground. Now, you wouldn't do that. You'd build a
foundation first. Of course, that's ridiculous to even think otherwise.

(02:08:39):
It's true with plants too. Cienumult is a place where
you go to get the foundation right. It's the brown
stuff that comes before the green stuff. They sell a
wide variety of compost and compost soil blends so you
can have success, so you can get the root system
happy from day one when it drops in the ground.

(02:09:00):
They sell the mulches they go on top of the
soil to prevent weeds, to keep the soil cool, to
prevent erosion, to prevent crusting of the soil. They sell
the fertilizers they go in to provide the nutrient boost
from microlife from Nelson's both the turf Star and the
plant food jars that they have from Medina, from nitrofoss

(02:09:21):
from azamite. They even sell things like veggianeermicx from Heirloom soils.
It is easy, easy to have success when you start
at cienamlts. Ciena Maltz dot com is the website. Go
to that Sienna Moltz dot com. It'll tell you that
they're on FM five twenty one near six and two
eighty eight. It'll tell you the hours, which, by the way,

(02:09:41):
Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty
to two closed on Sunday. Sienna Maltz dot com south
of Houston, so they serve that whole area, Siena Plantation
in Quell Valley and Arcola and Lake Olympian, Pomona and
Fresno and Sweetwater and sun Creek Estates and Pearland and
if you're out near Brasispin State Park or First Colony,

(02:10:03):
these are the communities that are just in the backyard
there at Sienamulch dot com. I'm gonna go to the
phones here and we're gonna talk again to Susan. Hey, Susan,
I got that picture that you sent.

Speaker 26 (02:10:15):
Oh great.

Speaker 4 (02:10:18):
Good, And I can't well, A number of different plants
have that leaf pattern, and at this young stage of
the tree, it's hard for me to be certain, but
I would say eighty percent sure it's some type of
an ash tree. There's a lot of different kinds of
ash trees that grow in the Greater Houston area, so

(02:10:39):
I don't know which one, but it's not unusual at
that stage for it to come out of the ground
like a rocket and have a single trunk and just
reach for the sky, and so you can leave it.
It may end up being a tree that is not
a good long term tree, or it may be a
tree that is a good long term tree. There's good
ash trees and then there's some ash trees that are

(02:11:01):
not so good to have. And I can't tell you
at this stage which of the two it is.

Speaker 2 (02:11:06):
Okay, well.

Speaker 16 (02:11:10):
Plant it, right or should I just leave it in
the pot?

Speaker 15 (02:11:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:11:15):
Yeah, I don't leave in the pot. It won't. Yeah,
it doesn't have a long term future in a pot
just because it's going to be a very big tree.

Speaker 16 (02:11:25):
It is because I can plant it. I mean, I
can plant it and give it a chance because it
wants to survive. I've decided.

Speaker 4 (02:11:38):
Yeah, okay, all right, well that's an option in any
way you want to go about it. But that's my
best shot on it. It looks like some species of ash.

Speaker 16 (02:11:49):
Okay, And why the characteristics of an ash anything good
or bad about them?

Speaker 4 (02:11:55):
I mean, well, they grow, they grow fast, which it
sounds good, but a lot of times trees that grow
fast or weak wooded, and they don't make a good
long term tree. Not always, but sometimes ash trees are deciduous.
They will, you know, Chris drop the foliage and the

(02:12:16):
fall nothing spectacular on fall color, kind of a dirty
yellow color, a golden yellow, dirty yellow color on the ash.
But anyway, that's my best shot, you know, So good
luck with that, and thank you, thank you for the question.
I appreciate appreciate that very much. Nelson Water Garden is

(02:12:39):
the west Houston nursery need to know about you if
you're looking west. This is a destination place for many reasons.
It's Nelson Nursery and water garden. So first of all,
we know Nelson Water Garden. If you want a discipling
fountain coming out of a beautiful container. If you want
a waterfall in the backyard, they can build all that,

(02:13:01):
or they can tell you how to do it. If
you don't do it some of that, do it yourself.
They're gonna have the fish and the plants for ponds
and all of that, and ponds just that therapeutic sound
of water is worth having a pond right there. But
Nelson Nurserying Water Gardens has tons of beautiful plants. From

(02:13:21):
the houseplants indoors that are some of the most beautiful
houseplants you're going to see to the as you enter
the outside and you get to the vegetables and the
herbs and the flowers and all of that, moving on
into the fruit trees, the shrubs or roses that you
know they're a nursery. There are nursery and gardens that
are there in West Here's how you get there. You

(02:13:44):
go west the nine ten. You turn when you get
to Katie, you turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road
and it's just across the railroad tracks right there, just
a little bit up the road on the right hand side.
They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to six. Sundays from
eleven to four Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens, West Houston's
full service local destination nursery. It really is. I'm gonna

(02:14:10):
have to run to a break here, Trey in Spring,
you will be first when we come back. I just
like the guy's eat a two big ball let men.
Remember bj Thomas, it's my chest to get on all
my rain songs. I think it had to rain for
a while for me to cover all my rain songs.

(02:14:30):
Got a lot of it. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line.
We're glad you are with us. We're gonna run straight
out here to the phones this hour and go talk
to Trey in Spring. Hey, Trey, welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 11 (02:14:45):
Thanks you get good morning.

Speaker 24 (02:14:47):
Quick question I.

Speaker 23 (02:14:47):
Had that's coming up? Okay, Yeah, I have some bermuda
that's coming up in my Saint Augustine in a patch
and I've not been able to get rid of it
for a few years. So what would be the best
rim for that?

Speaker 4 (02:15:02):
Well, the official best remedy is either live with the two,
which isn't a remedy at all, or get rid of
everything and start over with the grass you prefer, which
sounds like it's Saint Augustine now there are some other options,
but I can't go into them on the radio, the
whole gamut of them, Trey. If you would like to

(02:15:24):
email me, I can provide you with the information about it.
I've got a sheet on that that I can tell you.
There is a way to get rid of the Bermuda
and the Saint Augustine, but typically you would hire somebody
to come in and do it. There are a few
people that will do it themselves. The problem is the
products are so expensive that for you to buy it
for just one yard doesn't make a lot of sense.

(02:15:47):
But if you want to, if you want that route,
just let me know. I'll put you on hold. You
can send me an email and I'll send you the
info on how to do it. But those are the options.
Live with it, get rid of everything and start over,
or this other more expensive but way that I think
will work for you.

Speaker 11 (02:16:08):
Sound good, appreciate it?

Speaker 4 (02:16:10):
All right? All right, I'm putting you on hold and
Jonathan will pick up and give you an email. Alrighty, Yeah,
that's it. Speaking of if you if you want your
if you want your grass to look good night to five,
super turf is what you need to know about it
is sitting nineteen four ten lots of nitrogen. You're thinking, well, skip,
I'm gonna have to mow mo mo if I do that. No, no, no,

(02:16:33):
you're not. And here's why. In lasts sixteen weeks. So
you're just getting a little bit of that nineteen for
the first week, and a little more the second week,
and a little more the third week. You see what
I'm saying. It's gradually feeding like your lawn gradually takes
up nutrients nine to five superturf. It's an excellent product.
It lasts again four months, sixteen weeks. So if you're

(02:16:55):
going to look for it somewhere, well you're not gonna
have trouble finding it. You're gonna find it at like
D and D feed up in tomboal plants for all
seasons on Luetta Lake Hardware, both the one in Angleton
on Velasco and on Dixie Drive in Clute. So easy
to find products from nitrofoss like that. Speaking of ACE Hardware,

(02:17:18):
by the way, Ace Hardware always stays stocked up on
whatever you need to have success in your lawn and
garden and landscape, whether it's fertilizers, whether it's pest control,
disease control, insect or well, I said pest control, the
weed control. They have those products as well. And when

(02:17:39):
you go into your ACE Hardware store, you're going to
find people that can take you right to the product
you need and make it easy for you. Now, when
you're in ACE, you're going to see a lot of
other stuff. Well, I didn't I thought there was just
a hardware No, it is not just a hardware store.
It's an ACE Hardware store. And there's a difference quality
products for the home, for outdoor living, really cool stuff.

(02:18:01):
I have a string of lights. We call them beer
garden lights, those little string of bulbs that don't get
real bright, but in the evenings they just create that ambiance.
We got some of those around our patio. I love
those things. Barbecue pits, all kinds of outdoor enjoyment comes
from an ACE Hardware store as well as everything for
your landscape, your lawn, in your garden. You can go
to Acehardware Texas dot com. Don't forget Texas. Put Texas

(02:18:25):
in there, Ace Hardware Texas dot com and you'll find
the ACE Hardware stores near you. They're part of our
Houston group here in the ACE Hardware world and you
will have success. And there are stores near you and
you need to go check one out. And today it'd
be a good day, because I promise you it's not
raining inside an Ace hardware store.

Speaker 13 (02:18:43):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:18:44):
Let's go out to Kingwood and talk now to Misty. Hey, Misty,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 27 (02:18:50):
Thank you very much. I was calling to see where
I could find a Chinese fringe tree. And is it
too late for me to plant?

Speaker 4 (02:18:59):
It is not too late. It's a great time to
plan them. You're out there in Kingwood. I would probably
go to Warren Southern Gardens already suspect there.

Speaker 27 (02:19:11):
Okay, they're all out.

Speaker 4 (02:19:15):
Oh yeah, well it doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 7 (02:19:17):
It is.

Speaker 4 (02:19:18):
By the way, it's my favorite spring flowering tree. Now
it's it's I love them. So if they didn't, I
don't know. Maybe they can order to get them in
for you. But let's see here where let me.

Speaker 17 (02:19:31):
Get my brain begin to order.

Speaker 27 (02:19:34):
They have to order in October, so I wouldn't be
able to get any unless they're a nursery somewhere close
Housard left.

Speaker 4 (02:19:44):
I just shooting from the hip here. I would say
you you've got two options pretty close to the same
distance for you. Probably the closer one is RCW Nurseries
where I'm going to be next Saturday. They do carry
fringe trees as well. Call them before you drive because
they may have had a run on fringe. It's a
great tree. But our CW Nurseries is where belt Way

(02:20:06):
eight and two forty nine Tomball Parkway come together. Or
a little further away for you is to go down
go down to Seabrook which is way south on the
Trinity Bay and Moss Nursery. Maas I know, they carry
Chinese fringe trees also. They ought to be able to

(02:20:28):
get you fixed up. But talk to RCW.

Speaker 27 (02:20:33):
I will hope to see you there next Saturday, but
I don't want to wait until next Saturday to get
it if they have it.

Speaker 25 (02:20:39):
But thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:20:40):
Yeah, all right, we'll get hey. By the way I'm
going to be, I'm going to come out to Warrens
on the nineteenth, that's a Saturday of Easter weekend. Albe
at Warrens. We had to postpone today's event until next Sat.
Until two saturdays from now, but I'll be out in
your neck of the woods as well. All right. Thanks
for the call though, I appreciate that, mister. All right,

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(02:23:13):
it's is it too late to use barricade, and it's like, well, no, yes, no,
meaning if you had a weed that sprouted back in
early March, well it's a little late to use barricade
now right for that weed because it's already up and growing.
But those weeds are going to sprout all through summer.
Some of them come on later.

Speaker 3 (02:23:33):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:23:34):
Grass burr is a little slow to wake up in
the spring, comes on a little bit later. Barricade will
stop weeds for about forty five sixty days somewhere in
there from whenever you apply it, and you want to
follow the label, apply it at the label rate. Always
do that. Very important to do that. But you know,
you may have done a barricade in the spring, but
there that doesn't mean you're good until fall. I mean

(02:23:56):
there's weeds that will sprout during the summertime. There's weeds
that are sprouting right now. Now. I've got an area
where I just did some clean out of an area
of lawn from some existing winter weeds that were about
to go to seed. And as I was looking, I
saw a little tiny seedling starting to come up from
another kind of weeds. So there you go. Nitrofoss barricade.

(02:24:17):
It works. It covers about five thousand square feet. That's
just a little ten pound bag covers five thousand square feet.
Don't overdo it. Do it according to the label. That
way you get the best results. You're gonna find Barricade.
Another nitrofoss products at Well add in Brenham plants and things.
If you are done in Baytown, Fisher's Hardware in Angleton

(02:24:37):
Lake Hardware. How about alvin Stanton Shopping Center. Just some
examples of places, and there are many of them where
you can find nitrofoss products. If you would like to
give me a call in Talk Gardening phone number seven
to one three two one two ktr H seven to
one three two to one two kt r H. This

(02:25:03):
this afternoon. I've got some indoor plant tasks to do.
I've had some plants that'd spent winter underneath the light.
They are beautiful house plants, but they, you know, they
can't take the cold, and I just don't have enough
areas in the house to put them. I mean, you know,
you've only got so many windows, and I know, so
many plants so little time. I suffer from the same

(02:25:24):
issue as you probably do. Oh there's a great plant.
I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna bring it home. Where
are you gonna put it? Don't bother me the questions
like that. By this plant I'm bringing home, That's what
I did. So it's time for them to go. Outside
and start to enjoy the bright areas outdoors. And when
I say that, I don't mean sun, I mean bright shade.

(02:25:45):
So when you're dealing with plants that are accustomed to
being in a lower light environment, don't stick them in
the full sun. They'll sunburn. Put them in a bright
shade like a porch or a patio, or underneath a
beautiful shade tree. You know, underneath a live oak tree.
A lot of things won't grow. Oh but boy, will
house plants grow well. There there's a there's a brightness
to the light that they can do pretty well. And

(02:26:06):
so get them out into those areas, let them get
some fresh air and enjoy it. And then give them
a boost of fertilizer. You want to give them a
product that is gonna do well for them. Now what
I use most of the time when I'm dealing with
my houseplants, I've got my micro Life Biomatrix. That's the
orange label. It's sitting around all the time waiting for
me to use it because I'm always using it. But

(02:26:29):
Biomatrix orange label is a seven one three fertilizer that's
a good boost of nitrogen. You can also use the
Ocean Harvests blue label. I'll often use the Biomatrix indoors
because it is an odorless fertilizer. The Ocean Harvest has
a little bit of a fish smell, that's what it's
based on, so I'll put it outdoors. But either one

(02:26:50):
could be used outdoors, the orange label Biomatrix the blue
labeled Ocean Harvest. And those are two of just a
dozen gray products by micro Life that are in liquid form,
both in quartz and in gallons. Give your plants a boost.
They've been sitting there all winter with low light levels
and just kind of hanging on. It's time now to

(02:27:10):
get them growing, and a good boost of products like
those will really help that happen. And where are you
going to get Microlife everywhere? Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot
com and find out about all the everywheres and their
other products as well. I'm gonna take a break now,
and when we come back Wayne in Baytown, you'll be
the first stop.

Speaker 2 (02:27:30):
You got any sistan.

Speaker 28 (02:27:34):
Here you go?

Speaker 4 (02:27:35):
How long has it been since you heard that one?
Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with
us today. We're going to jump right out to Baytown,
Texas and talk to Wayne. Hey, Wayne, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 28 (02:27:47):
Thank you. Yes, sir, Brandy live and used to tell
us the warrant. I guess using weed and seeds fertilizers
for your grass? What do you think about weed and
feed for your dress?

Speaker 4 (02:28:03):
I miss some of what you said there, but I
think your question is what I think about weed feed?

Speaker 15 (02:28:08):
Right?

Speaker 28 (02:28:09):
Yeah, weed and feed for loder.

Speaker 4 (02:28:12):
Yeah, all right. Well that's a hard one to answer fast,
but I'll give it my best shot. If I'm given
the choice, I would rather apply the fertilizer I choose
when I want to apply it, and apply the weed
control I need for the weed. When I need to
do that, I prefer to do it separately. But there

(02:28:33):
are times of the year when you can put the
two together and it works. In the spring, the cool season,
weeds are starting to, you know, really put on their
growth and it's cool enough to where you're not going
to damage the turf with the post emergent broad leaf
weed control products, those kind of combinations could be used
at that time and they would work. And then in
the fall time we have an overlap between fertilizing season

(02:28:57):
and pre emergent herbicide season, So you could do a
combo like that at the time. But a lot of
times in many of the products that are on the market,
I don't like the weed control product that's in the
weed and feed, or I don't like the fertilizer blend,
for example, And so that's why I tend to prefer
to do it myself separately. But like I said, there

(02:29:19):
are times when you can do the both and it
will work, and I generally those are the times when
I'm talking about those products. If I'm talking.

Speaker 28 (02:29:29):
About them, well, okay, thank you ship yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:29:35):
Yeah. So I don't know if that answer it well
or not, but they're options and people like convenience, and
I realize that. But yeah, I generally do it separately
myself when I can, all right and now and okay,
now would be an okay time to put out a

(02:29:58):
product that if the weeds aren't too far advanced in
terms of setting seed and they're about to die anyway,
you could use those kind of products that kind of
a post emergent broad leaf type product on it now
and it would it would work. Generally, it's better the
earlier you can get those applied, the more effective they're

(02:30:20):
going to be. The younger a weed is, the more
susceptible it is to being controlled. That's that's just the
way it is. So you could do that now at
that at that point in time.

Speaker 28 (02:30:30):
All right, Okay, thank you, Yeah, you bet.

Speaker 4 (02:30:34):
Thank you appreciate that call. Let's head now to Joe. Okay,
see Joel and Magnolia. Hey, Joel, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (02:30:49):
Hello, Skip, can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (02:30:51):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 18 (02:30:53):
All right, Hey, yeah, I've got a question regarding lagustrums.

Speaker 19 (02:30:58):
I've lost a few of them.

Speaker 18 (02:30:59):
Do that punk decide or the blight that they're susceptible to?

Speaker 11 (02:31:03):
And I've been spraying it, treating it.

Speaker 18 (02:31:05):
With console fourteen point three, and I just want to
know if if is there a frequency?

Speaker 20 (02:31:15):
Is there a.

Speaker 18 (02:31:15):
Frequency that I should how often can I apply it?
What's the dilutionary? Is it announce per gallon? And also
is there should I be rotating that with some kind
of copper fungicide between treatments.

Speaker 4 (02:31:33):
I don't I'm not picking up what that what that
product is?

Speaker 25 (02:31:36):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (02:31:37):
There is it?

Speaker 18 (02:31:37):
Consand oh p R O P I C O M
A Z O L E fourteen point three.

Speaker 4 (02:31:47):
Oh proper connasole. Okay, got you, got you? Okay, Uh,
propa connaisole would should be effective against the gustrum leaves.
That's a circaspar fungus that does that. Dacanil, which is
chlorothal o'nil is another good leaf spot fungicide. You're just

(02:32:10):
gonna need to do it periodically. And lagustoms are plagued
by that, especially in areas you know where we get
a lot of rain, which welcome to this area of
the state.

Speaker 2 (02:32:21):
Uh and uh.

Speaker 4 (02:32:22):
It's one reason I'm not a big fan of wax
leyflogostrum because once they get in and it looks bad
and it's you're never going to eradicate it. You just
are on a now for the rest of the time
you have that bush. When you have rainy periods, you
better put a spray on following the rain, if not
a systemic before the rain.

Speaker 18 (02:32:40):
Okay, okay, all right, So and what come gluten rate
for gallon?

Speaker 4 (02:32:45):
Do you oh that I'd have to read the label on?
I don't know. I just just grab you a label.
You can find labels online if you've lost yours for
the product. But yeah, just just follow the label real carefully.
But propagonazole is a product and it covers a lot
of different fungi. All right, Uh, just one one last

(02:33:06):
thought though, mark mark on one thing, mark before I
let you go, get a second fungicide like the like
the chlorthal nil or dacanil as an alternate to alternate
between the two. Don't just use one fungicide. You know
every week for the whole year, you're gonna end up
creating resistance in the disease. So alternating fungicides is a

(02:33:27):
good way to go and by to help prevent that
resistance development. Okay, all right, wonderful, Hi, thank you, you
take care for sure? That's here. Oh yeah, Medina products.
Medina has so many good products. I was thinking the
other day, like what what Medina products can I talk
about it? I mean, there's has to grow, There's there's

(02:33:49):
the super grow, the one that hooks up there's one
that hooks up to your garden hose at sixteen percent
nitrogen products, zero phosphorus and just a little bit of
potassium in it. And you just spread over the law
and I mean it'll give you a good green up.
And by the way, even though it kind of is
fore lines, you can use that or anything people used
on their gardens, spray their tomato foliage and the ground

(02:34:10):
around the tomatoes and watered in real good. I mean
it's a good product, but that's a Medina example. The
hastro growth the has to grow plus I like the
hast grow six twelve six plant food six twelve six
is six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six percent potassium.
And I like to use that for watering in transplants.

(02:34:31):
And what I'll do is whether it's a rosebush or
a tomato plant, you just planch plant watered in really
good with a drenching of has to grow six twelve
six plant food mixed in water. I put mine into
a watering can, and then a week or two later,
do it again. A week or two later, do it again.
And by doing that about a week apart or so,
you're going to give that plant's root system the best

(02:34:53):
chance of getting off to a good successful start. And
phosphorus is very important. That's why it has a high
middle number, very import and developing a good strong root system.
That's from Medina, like many many other products that are
widely available when you look at garden center speed stores,
when you look at Ace Hardware stores South It's fertilizer,
younifind Medina products all over the place. Let's see here

(02:35:17):
we are. Tell you what, Mark, I'm gonna go ahead
and start your call. I've got about one minute and
we'll probably have to carry over break, but let's go
ahead and get started.

Speaker 13 (02:35:30):
Yeah, Hey, good morning. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (02:35:31):
I was just wondering that.

Speaker 26 (02:35:34):
We control our ants pretty well in our yard, but
our raised garden, we're starting to get a few in
our garden and our potatoes come in in our beanside,
and I'm just wondering what we could put on the
match really that we can talk.

Speaker 4 (02:35:51):
The one product I know of it's called come and
Get It by Fertile Loan and it's a fire amt
bait that is organic that contains spinosid. Come and Get
It by Fertile oam the bait. It's in a bluish
colored bag. I know Bob's got it over there. It's
Southwest Fertilizer. I don't know what part of Houston you're in,

(02:36:12):
but it's not too hard to find Come and Get
a fire ant bait labeled for use in vegetable gardens. Mark,
I got to take a break, I put you on hold.
But if that answered it, thank you. I will. If not,
we'll talk to you when we come back. All right,
we're back. Hey, welcome back to the garden line. Good
to have you with us. I got one segment left today,

(02:36:36):
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We're going to head down to Paarland now and talk
to Kay. Hello, Okay, welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 12 (02:38:36):
Good morning, Skip. Thank you for taking my call. Yes,
I have a question. It's actually for a friend of mine.
I heard you talking with a lady about ash trees earlier.
And my friend has a couple of trees and it's
not her property, she's leasing. And there are trees and

(02:38:57):
the leaves. When the leafs fall, they pierce they're pointed,
and they pierced the plants below. Do you have any
idea what kind of it? She thinks it's some kind
of an ashes.

Speaker 4 (02:39:13):
I need I need to see a picture of it now.
Now ashes have little seeds that are like oval that
are pointed at one end, and when they fall they
often will kind of helicopter down. But some you know what,
I need to see a picture. If they can take
a picture of the leaf with something else stuck on
it and tell what it is. Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 12 (02:39:35):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:39:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (02:39:37):
Have a roast day.

Speaker 4 (02:39:38):
You bet bye bye you two k bye bye. I
appreciate your call very much.

Speaker 3 (02:39:44):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:39:44):
If you are looking for an outing to someplace magical,
it's let me just suggest it's the anti grosing for him.
You need to go see it. It's out there north
of Brenham, Texas in Independence, the big metropolis of Independence, Texas,
which I'm told by by the way, is where Sam
Houston from Texas History was baptized. That's what they say.

(02:40:06):
Well anyway, Antique Rosenporium they even breed their own roses
out there.

Speaker 7 (02:40:10):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:40:10):
They have two new releases that they bred. Call it
once glass Slippers, Glass Slipper, excuse me, and the other
one is Cupids sweetheart. You need to go see those now.
There's events all the time. On April the ninth, just
a few days from now, starting at ten am as
the children in the Garden workshop. It's for ages three
through ten. You get the tickets off the website. Here's

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the website. Everything I'm telling you you need this website
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It's a good place to take a group for a tour.
Contact them ask about that. They even have guided tours

(02:40:55):
as well, where someone takes you around and answers questions
and stuff. By the way, they're gonna be closed on
Easter Sunday, April twentieth, but their normal business hours are
Monday through Saturday from nine thirty in the morning till
five thirty in the afternoon. Coming up is the annual
Easter Egg Hunt on April nineteenth. You don't want to
miss that. The kids are going to love that. One

(02:41:16):
strucks at ten am. By the way, there's all kinds
of stuff going on that day, from face painting to
lunchboxes from smash burg serving smash Burgers to By the way,
the proceeds from that annual Easter Egg Hunt go to
the Branham Children's Museum and then a big deal Rose
and Herb Conference April twenty six. Circle dot on your

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calendar April twenty six, ten am to three pm. They're
going to have a whole day full of educational seminars
and workshops and more. Also follow Antiqurosen for him on
social media. Let's go out now to talk to Anna. Hello, Anna, Hi, Hi,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (02:41:58):
Yes, I have a quick question.

Speaker 9 (02:42:01):
I have an orange tree is having to lose their
leaves and is the come of the year The leaf
should be coming on, but they're coming on and they're
falling off.

Speaker 4 (02:42:19):
Is it the older big leaves that are falling off?

Speaker 19 (02:42:24):
All of them?

Speaker 9 (02:42:26):
All of them well, because the old ones they fall
when it was winter and now the new ones are coming.
But they are falling.

Speaker 28 (02:42:41):
Well.

Speaker 4 (02:42:41):
And I can't tell you exactly what that is, just
based on that description. If you will take a picture
and email it to me, let me look, show me
the whole bush, and then show me up close like
what you're seeing on the branches, and then pick up
some of the fallen leaves and show me. Because you're
talking about little small leaves falling too, I'd like to

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see photos of that. Maybe I can help you better.

Speaker 3 (02:43:04):
Then.

Speaker 4 (02:43:05):
The only thing that comes to mind initially is if
you if your tree is going through some sort of
a root stress, you know, soggy conditions, no no good
oxygen in the roots, or some other issue. But let
me let me put you on hold, and uh, my
producer will give you an email and show me some pictures,
good sharp focus, attach them to the email, and I'll

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see if I can help you further from that. And
thank you. I appreciate very much you calling.

Speaker 28 (02:43:32):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:43:33):
Let's go now to Baytown and talk to Carol. Hello, Carol,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (02:43:39):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (02:43:40):
How are you, sir?

Speaker 4 (02:43:43):
Doing well?

Speaker 22 (02:43:44):
I am redoing a one of my bands. I just
pulled up the broccoli. That's done now, and as I'm
trying to turn over the dirt to add more, there's all.
I sent you an email, by the way, and it
says garden dirt.

Speaker 4 (02:43:57):
I think on it.

Speaker 22 (02:43:59):
There's white stuff at the bottom layer as I'm putting
it over.

Speaker 19 (02:44:05):
Is that mold?

Speaker 13 (02:44:07):
Is that good stuff and that nutrients?

Speaker 22 (02:44:09):
Or I wouldn't sure what to do.

Speaker 4 (02:44:11):
That's good stuff. I see the picture. That's good stuff.
That's called my celium, and basically it's little strands of fungus.
But it's not a disease of your plants. It's one
of the many, many kinds of fungus that turned tree
trunks and leaves and other organic matter back into good dirt.
And so all that's doing is it's it's breaking all

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that stuff down and releasing the nutrients for your plants.
So don't worry about that at all. That's just part
of it.

Speaker 9 (02:44:38):
Roast soil and some composts and roast soil to that
bed to make it more so good.

Speaker 22 (02:44:45):
I didn't know how to do.

Speaker 15 (02:44:48):
So. It was good.

Speaker 4 (02:44:49):
Yeah, good news. I'll be the bearer of good news. Today.

Speaker 22 (02:44:53):
My asparagus is finally producing. I'ven't been enjoying my sparagus
this year. I've waited three years for it.

Speaker 27 (02:45:00):
I'm really enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (02:45:01):
Oh boy, Oh that's good stuff. I love that. All right, Well,
thanks for the call. Appreciate that. You bet you take
care of Carol. If you're looking for a quality immediately
releasing into the soil fertilizer for your lawn, sweet green

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is that now? It's not I say immediately. It dissolves
and releases immediately. But basically it's coming from a molasses
base that has lots of carbon, which makes your beneficial
microubs very very happy. And it's by Nitrofoss and it's
called Sweet Green. It's called Sweet Green. It's eleven percent nitrogen,
one of the highest percentage of nitrogen of any organic

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product you're going to find on the market. And where
do you get it, Well, you get Nitrofoss products a
lot of places. You can go to Cyprus, M and
D on Luetta Road. You'll find it there, the M
and D, dun and Rosenberg on Avenue. I you can
find it there. You can go to Ace Hardware, Citium Memoria,
or Hiding and Feed on Stupent or Airline. You can
go to Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena, or D

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and D Feed and Tomball. That's just beginning the list
of all the places you can get quality products from.
Night Fross like this sweet green furliger smells wonderful too,
by the way, smells wonderful. Well, wow, today flew by,
it really did. It just seemed like we got started,

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but had a lot of good things to talk about.
A lot of your calls too. I'll be back in
the morning from six thirty to ten. For those of
you somewhat new to garden Line, garden Line is on
from six am to ten am every Saturday and every
Sunday right here on Katrh seven forty am. Now you

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can also listen live and to pass shows by getting
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to me live like right now, you could be out
in the garage rummaging through your fertilizer making the plan
for next months fertilizing. Or I was saying I was
repotting plants. Today you could be doing that listening to
Garden Line with your phone on in the pocket. Just
listen live, so easy to listen to. Once it quits
raining outside, you can take Garden Line with you to
the garden and to be live from your garden. Send

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me a picture and we'll solve it right there on
the air. One of these days, somebody's going to do that.
I think that'd be an interesting way to do business. Well,
thanks for listening. Remember next Saturday. Next Saturday, I'll be
at RCW Nurseries from twelve to two, twelve to two
at RCW Nursery right where Tamai Parkway comes at about
way eight. For those of you who tune in late today,

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I'm not going to be at Warren's today. We postponed
that until the week after next four, the nineteenth April nineteenth,
twelve thirty two third. I'll tell you about that this
coming weekend, but just go ahead and bump your Warren's
appearance to the nineteenth the day before Easter and next Saturday,

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RCW twelve to two pm. I'll be giving away a
lot of cool stuff. They always have a good time
out there, and you got to go out there and
see their boogain videos and their roses, both in the
blooming Chinese fringe trees. They're so beautiful.