Don't be afraid to fail at gardening

Episode Transcript

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Well, good morning, so goodto have you with us this morning.
You are listening to garden Line.I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we are here to turn brown thumbsgreen. We are here to inform your
thumb. That's the secrets. Thesuccess with gardening is just understand and a
few things that plants want. Right, you make them happy, they make
you happy at works. Well,there's a lot of ways we can do

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that, simple ways. I alwaystalk about the brown stuff before the green
stuff and what that means for thoseof you who are new to garden Line.
That means that first you create thefoundation for success by building soil that
drains well, that holds adequate amountof water, that has good nutrient content,
that has good organic matter content.You set the stage with that,

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and then you put the plant inthe ground. That is why we say
brown before green. And you cando them both at the same time.
You got today, get out thereand do some shopping, get you some
beautiful plants one of our garden centers, and also have a few bags of
the brown stuff, including fertilizer,so that when you put that plant in
the ground, it's going to havesuccess. For example, if you're doing

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a houseplant. Maybe you've purchased thehouseplins are still so popular. Maybe you
purchase houseplant, you're gonna come home, you're gonna pot it up in a
little bit bigger pot and you're gonnaget going on it. Or maybe you
have some that you're gonna repot.You need to grab a hold of some
jungle land. Jungle Land is there'stwo versions. There's an outdoor version for
vegetables and flowers. There's an indoorversion for houseplants. The indoor one has

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little crystals in it that swell upwith water when you water, and then
as that soil begins to dry out, those crystals hold onto the water a
little longer and roots can access itthrough those crystals. And as a result,
let's just say, it makes suresoil a little more forgiving, or
it makes your neglect a little lessnoticeable. I have houseplants that have literally

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gotten on the phone and called theSociety of the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants
to report me before because I hadthem in some back room, forgot about
them, didn't didn't water them,and so on. But anyway, jungle
land with water saving crystals, thatis why they make it and it works
very very well. You can getit places like ace out at Sinco Ranch
on Mason Road. They have itout there. You can get it at

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a Tascasita Ace also and Jim's Hardwareand Montgomery. All these places carry nitropost
products like the Jungle Land. Whatwe're gonna do. We're gonna run straight
to the phones here this morning,pretty quick. Let's add to Conroe and
talk to Heyl. How you doingthis morning? I'm good, I'm good.

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What's up? Okay? So Idon't know if this is a dumb
question or not, but I waswondering do you treat do you recommend treating
your yardat for weed stuff before orafter you mo because because unfortunately I didn't
retreat it before the season started andI have an over thundered so trash in

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my yard. Mm hmm. Wellthat's a good question. Yeah, okay,
So if you're doing a pre emergentherbicide to putting it down to prevent
future weed seeds from coming up,it doesn't matter if you do it before
or after you mow. If you'redoing a post margin killing the weeds that
are already there, you want tospray them and give it about a week

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if you can to take that inat least a few days to take that
spray in and start to move downinto the weed to kill it. If
you mow, you have less weedleaves to get the spray on. So
that's why we would spray a coupleof days or a few days if possible,
before we have to mow again.A great all right, I appreciate

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it, very helpful. Once again, all right, Cheryl, thank you,
have a good Sunday. That's athat's a good question, you know,
Cheryl said to Hope. It's nota stupid question. And I've said
this before on guard Line. Thereare any stupid questions. There's only stupid
answers. Now. I know you'rethinking, no, I've heard stupid questions

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before, but that's not how Ilook at it. The way I look
at it is if it's your question, it's legit, and we're going to
answer it. Okay, I'll worryabout a stupid answer, so the pressure's
on me. Did not give youa stupid answer, Seriously, though,
I asked the questions you have becauseI guarantee you there are other people that
have that same question. You maythink you're the only one listening to guard

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line that doesn't know all about plans. And that's not true, and all
of us are dumb at something ifyou ever thought about that. I think
I was telling somebody this the otherday. I can't remember who I was
talking to anyway, it was eitherWill Rogers or Mark Twain. Probably Will
Rogers. It sounds like like him. But he said, have to Being
smart is knowing what you're dumb at. Don't you wish more people realize that

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you're talking to them? Yeah?I said, we're all dumb at something,
and unfortunately, when we're dumb,it's something we often don't know it.
So, oh boy, all right, notoh of the philosophical here.
We're going to talk about gardening today. If you're looking for success with your
lawn, it is important to havea bank account of nutrients in the soil

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so that when the lawn needs todraw on them for nutrients, the nutrients
are there. Okay. We thinkabout fertilizing several times a year, right
you have, Well, it's allmy schedule, you know, fertilizing the
spring or fertilizing the summer, fertilizingthe fall. Well, plants don't eat
only in the spring, summer,and fall. And when I see eat,
I'm anthropomorphizing here, but you knowwhat I'm saying. So, what

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they do is they take up nutrientsevery day, but they don't just take
up the three big numbers on thefertilizer bag. They take up tiny,
microscopic, microscopic, tiny trace elementsas well. Did you know your plants
need selenium? Did you know yourplants need nickel? Yeah, there's some
processes and some plants where nickel isrequired, Zinc, iron, molebdenum.

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You're not going to see that ona fertilizer bag typically, well maybe iron.
So how do we do that?Well, we put trace mentals in
the soil. Now, you don'tneed a lot of them, very little
is needed, but they're essential andthat's why asumite is here. We put
asmite down. It's a mind productthat contains trace elements. And if you
have a soil test, you knowexactly what your lawn needs and you can

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fertilize accordingly. And that that's themost important way to go, is to
do first to a soil test andthen fertilize accordingly. In the absence of
a soil test, we give yougeneral recommendations, and I do that all
the time here on Gardenline. Generalrecommendations, and as mite would be an
example of that. Okay, oncea year probably is going to be enough,
but could be less, could bemore. As mite down. The

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nutrients are in the sole bank accountand every day of the year, three
hundred and sixty five days that grassplant's roots have access to the nutrients that
it needs. We don't wait untilthey're lacking and showing symptoms. We take
care of them ahead of time.That makes sense, all right, Well,
that's how that works. It's adifference between macro nutrients need a lot

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of them, micro nutrientss need alittle bit of them. Both are essential.
We're going to take a break hereand I will be right back.
Our phone number if you'd like togive me a call seven one three two
one two kt RH. Welcome backto Guardline. Good to have you with
us today. I like to say, what do you want to talk about
today? You know, the showis a call in It's for you to

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ask questions and we're happy to helpand answer them. So feel free to
give us a call seven one threetwo one two kt r H and I
will do my best to give youan accurate answer and lead you in the
right direction. We're going to headnow over to Tomball and talk to Ben.
Hello, Ben, Hey, howare you doing this morning? I'm

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good, sir. What's up?Hey? I had a question about Well,
let me start off with the ladythat called before. I have a
smart question and I want your dumbanswer. Okay, it's funny. I
got plenty of those. I'm justtrying to be silly. I don't know.
That's okay, it's a lot.I have these cactuses and deaf and

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I was watering them every day,and I keep losing the cactuses and somebody
came by my place and they said, you're not supposed to water them every
day? Is that? Yes?Yes, cacti are built to storm moisture.
You can got in the desert whereit rains nine inches a year,
and their cacti very happy out there, and you going over water them absolutely,

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yes, yeah, and you'll geta couple of things happen. You
rock the roots, and you alsowhen water stands on the cactus and cactus,
the way the structure is that watercan kind of stand on it a
little bit. You get these bigblacks sunken rotting areas as well. So
how often should I water you?Once? I would say never, pretty

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much? Really, yeah, yeah, pretty much. I mean a lot
of it depends on where they're growing. Of course, if they're up high
and dry in a very gritty bedthat drains super super well, you could
water them every now and then.But it rains so much here that we
just pretty much don't have to doit. Cacti and succulents in general are

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pretty forgiving when it comes to neglect. But they're in pots underneath a porch,
though, so I don't know ifthey get a lot of rain right
well, and if they're not gettingaccess to any rain, I would probably
say, oh, I don't know, once ever a couple of weeks or
longer apart that would be fun.Wow, yeah, they but they most

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cact i need a lot of suntoo, so if it's under a porch,
just make sure they are getting adequatesun. Okay, well, answers
my question. Then, so everycouple of weeks and maybe set them out
under instead of underneath the porch.Set them out in the sun. Yeah,
I didn't know that, Yeah,because they keep dying on me.

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So well. And you know,when you say a word like cactus,
it means a lot of different things. I mean, people call Christmas cactus
cactus, and that does need tobe watered more often. But in succulents
are the same way. There aresucculents that need more frequent watering. But
in general that's why people love those. It's because you can neglect them and

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they still make you look good.Already, Well, I appreciate you,
man, Hi, you take care. Thanks for the call. Ben appreciate
it alrighty. You are listening togarden Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter. Our phone number here itis, Write this down, keep it
with you. Who knows you mayhave a question pop up in the middle

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of nowhere. One day listening tothe show seven to one three two one
two five eight seven four seven onethree two one two fifty eight seventy four.
We need a little refrigerator magnet withthe number on it. That way,
how about a speed doll. Puton speed doll on your phone.
That's another option. I was talkingyesterday about the number of things. Of

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course, lawns a very big topicof it, and I think I would
I mentioned in fact, I knowI did. I mentioned to you some
of the products that airloinm Soils has. Airlom Soils is a premium creator,
blender of a purveyor of quality mixesthat your plants will thrive in. So,

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if you are looking for a rosesoil, a rose soil is good
for roses, it's good for shrubs, it's good. You know, you
grow a lot of things in rosesoil. Just ignore the word rose at
the beginning. Sure, it's greatfor roses. But airling Cels makes an
awesome one. They make a fruitand vegetable type soil. There is a
excuse me, a vegetable and herb. They also have one for fruits and

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including citrus that you can do thatworks really well. They have a leaf
more compost that works really well.Airloom Soils specially designs and creates quality soil
mixes, and that is not somethingthat everybody is able to do. I'll
tell you that I've seen a lotof junk out there on the market.
You go to someplace and you're buyinga bunch of cheap bags, You're getting

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cheap junk in the bag. That'sjust how that works. I have opened
up bags that were supposed to bepotting soil and there's little wood chips in
there. Come on, man,that's ridiculous. You can try harder than
that. Airloom soils is quality product, and remember how important soil is.
That's the foundation. That's the firststep. We'll do the first step right

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and use airloom soils. You canbuy bags all over the place, are
widely available. You can go outto porter with your little truck or trailer
and say dump some on the backhere and take it home with you.
You can call them up and havethem deliver it, either dumping it in
the driveway or bringing a supersack toset in the driveways. A lot neat
or cleaner way of going about it. Holds one cubic card to soil.
But however you go about it,give Heirloom Soils a call. First of

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all, go check them out online. It's Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com. They have
an outstanding soil calculator on their website. So if you're thinking about, for
example, we're about to put insome garden beds, actually some vego beds,
and I know how tall they are, how why they are, how
long they are? I can gointo that calculator, and I can.
It'll tell me exactly how much soilI need, and even to the point

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of like how many one cubic footor two cubic foot bags do I need
to buy if I'm not buying bulk, or how many five gallon buckets?
Literally, Yes, that's a coolcalculator. But Airloom Soals of Texas is
the name, and that's what youwant to look for. I'm looking forward
to getting those vego beds planted becausethere is a there is a whole summer

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worth of growing. Someone said theother day, well did I miss my
vegetable garden season? And in fact, this was yesterday. I was out
at the arbor Gate by the way, Thank you appreciate Beverly and Ken and
all the folks out at arbor Gatefor hosting us yesterday. We had a
good time. Thank all of youfor coming by. That was that was
fun. We had y'all about warmme out with questions. But I love

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it. I love it, loveit. So anyway, I was out
there and talking with someone. Theywere saying, hey, is it too
late to plant vegetables? No,it's not here in the Greater Houston area.
We can grow vegetables year round.I mean it's really easy, you
know, to just walk outside onany given day and there is something that
you could plant in a flower bed, in a vegetable garden, and so
on. But in summertime, wethink about things like oak grow, We

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think about sweet potatoes, black eyedpeas. All those take the heat very
very well. Melons do well inhot weather, and we're because it takes
a long long time to grow them. We're growing our winter squashes, our
storage squashes and pumpkins and things,though some of those are like over one
hundred days in the ground before theyreach harvests, so have to plant those

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in hot weather. And then thereare a lot of greens that aren't grown
commonly here by traditional Texas gardening enthusiasts. When you say greens to most when
I say greens to most of youthat are listening, you probably think of

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lettuce and spinach. You might thinkof collareds and kale. But it doesn't
go a lot further than that whenwe say the word greens. And in
fact, there are a lot ofreally good greens from parts of the world
that are hot and sultry, likeHouston. It's like Southeast Texas. So

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things like malabar. Malabar is agreen. It's a vining green, very
succulent leaves that grow it just laughsthe summer heat. Molokhia is another one
that is real popular in Mid Easterndishes. Not just Mid Eastern, but
it's very popular there. Things whereyou might make a dish with rice or
lamb or something like that. It'san excellent green. And I could just

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go on talking about a lot ofdifferent kinds of greens. Amaranth the farmers
call it pigweed, but there aretypes of amaranth that are very very large
leafed and great for greens in thesummer, and they can take the heat.
They do very well. There's asilosious. Some people call that Egyptian
spinach. I don't like calling thingswords that are not and so I didn't

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say Malabar spinach like most people do, because it's not spinach. It's malabar.
Egyptian spinach is a type of soilsia. You can eat that, and
boy does it ever grow in thesummertime. So you need to stretch or
I would recommend I'm going to tellyou what to do, but I do
recommend stretch your a little bit.There are a lot of cool things out

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there that you can grow. Newflavors. Oh gosh, I couldn't believe
I forgot this one. Perslaine.Perslane is a weed, Persalane is a
beautiful flowering hanging basket, and perslaineis also a vegetable. There are vegetable
types of personale, larger leaves,more succulent and plump, high in Omega

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three, fatty acids, very healthy, nice lemony tang taste, many options
and uses. So there's no reasonnot to have a very healthy garden all
through the summer. Try some newthings. Maybe you don't like them,
maybe you will, who knows,but I would recommend you give them a
try. So, yes, wecan garden every day of the year here

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in the Greater Houston area. Whenit comes to growing things, good things
to eat. Chanted gardens that inRichmond is one of those destination garden centers
that people love to go. Andyou know they're gonna have things like the
vegetables I'm talking about, they're goingto have herbs. The herb selection is
outstanding, actually beautiful flowers, lotsof things like salvias, and things that

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want to grow in the heat here. And when you got to enchant it
and you purchase a plant, you'regetting more than just that plant. You're
getting expert advice from the folks thatwork there. They know what they're talking
about. You're also getting the confidencethat if they're selling it to you,
it's going to do well here ifyou give it the right conditions for whatever
the particular plant is. And thatis really important while you're out there.

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Grab the fertilizers that I talk abouton Guardline, grab the soils I talk
about on Garline. They've got them. Yep. Take the brown stuff home
when you get the green stuff.They have shrubs and trees and all kinds
of things and little fun trends likefaery gardens. That's where you create this
little miniature garden with figurines and tinyplants and it just looks like a scene

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from Lord of the Rings or something. It's all that's missing is a couple
of hobbits. But they can setyou up on that as well. Out
there in Chenny Gardens. Hey,they're on the north side the Katie Fullsher
side of Richmond Highway three point fiftynine. Enchanted gardens Richmond dot com.
Be right back, Welcome back toguard Line. What are we going to
talk about today? You tell meit could be anything related to horticulture.

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I was in a conversation yesterday thatsome men and a woman there, and
the conversation drifted into sort of abit of a debate about how to do
things around the yard and whatnot.It took me a while to finally realize,
Okay, I'm out of my leaguehere, so I'm backed up.

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I like to tell people that,hey, gardening advice is free. Marriage
advice is three hundred dollars an hour, but I'm happy to offer it for
what it's worth. You don't wantyou don't want my advice on things other
than gardening. Really well, Iwas, well we talk about before we
went to break. Oh gosh,can't you remember? I know, I'm
always talking about the soil and lawnsand things like that. Yeah, it's

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some o my min. It'll comeback to me. I had some questions
yasterday that were related to caterpillars,and I wanted to just kind of give
some general concepts to think about whenwe're dealing with pests, and I'll kind
of focus on caterpillars in particular.People see a hole in a leaf and
they think my garden is under AsSalt. Something has to die, and so

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we grab the stuff to nuke theleaf and kill everything that might have eaten
that hole. It's not worth sprayingif it's not a significant problem. Now,
small problems can go bad fast,and you can get a lot of
pests from a small start. Butin general, just because there's a hole
here and there, that's called nature. Nature always has holes here and there,

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and so it's not worth purchasing aproduct and you know, spending your
Saturday meling mixing up stinky water tospray on your plants if it's not necessary.
A study a long time ago,I need to hunt this one down.
But they took green bean plants andthey pulled leaves off of them,
physically cut them off, and theyfound that I think they had to remove

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like forty percent of the leaves beforethey saw a significant drop in green bean
production. Now that's not to saygreen beans don't need their leaves. It's
just to say when you have holes, even quite a few holes here and
there through the little green bean row, it probably doesn't need to be sprayed,
it probably doesn't. Plants are ableto they make the carbohydrates to still

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get the job done. Now,that is not to say we never need
to spray. Absolutely not, andcertain kinds of pests can explode in population.
I wouldn't with the first sinus somespider mites. I would get a
blast of water and blast them off, because you can do that, and
they build up fast. And ifyou wait until a disease or pest problem

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has already destroyed most of the plant, it's a little late to spray then.
And that's usually one And I getthe question from folks is like,
Okay, what is this and whatdo I do? Well back up in
time, do something earlier would havebeen helpful. But I may be sounding
like I'm talking out of both sidesof my mouth here, like don't spray,
Yes, spray, I'm just sayingthat, don't be alarmed because there's

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a few pass. Another concept tothink about is when you have pass you're
gonna attract the beneficial insects that attackthose pests, So caterpillars, for example.
Do you know the number one dietof paper wasps, those little things
underneath the eaves of your house.You know that's seeing you. Well,
the number one diet of those iscaterpillars by far. So when I'm out

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of my garden. Fact that thishappened just yesterday, I was out of
a garden and there were wasps flyingaround some squash plants and some other plants
that were there. And why werethey there? Well, they were there.
They're there for two reasons. One, there's a little extra floor nectaries
where they can get some sugary substanceson plants. It's not just flowers that

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make the nectar that certain kinds ofinsects, like the plants themselves, have
other structures that can make nectar.That's a separate conversation. They were there
looking for caterpillars to take back home, and they do that. Also,
very important birds are songbirds. Oneof the best bird food items you can

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have are caterpillars. And the oaktrees will have a lot of different caterpillars.
You don't even really see them ornotice them. They're up there in
the air, but that is animportant food of birds and in our gardens
as well, that's an important food. And so just because there's a caterpillar
doesn't mean you have to do somethingabout it right away. When you do
have to do something about it,aim for something that is targeted, like

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BT. BT is a bacteria inthe soil that's made into a spray.
You spray it on leaves and becauseof the unique I'm nerding out here,
but hang with me, because ofthe unique situation and a caterpillar's gut,
it creates toxic crystals that kill thecaterpillar. If a grasshopper eats a leaf,

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it won't do it. If youeat a leaf, it won't do
it. If what else a grasshoppers, slugs, snails, beetles eat the
leaf, the standard caterpillar BET won'tkill them. So that's a very targeted
and that's better than putting something outthere that kills everything, and then you
deal with the response. We needto talk about that some other time.

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But caterpillars, they serve functions thatI think are good generally in nature.
So trying to have a pest freelawn garden, whatever you have a totally
devoid of any pest is not practical. It comes to an environmental cost.
It's not practical, and you know, just to be real honest, it's

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not necessary that that is really true. So keep in mind that when you
have a few pests, you aregoing to keep a population of the thing
that attack those pests. And Ithink that's a good thing too. And
songbirds to me, that's just theicing on the cake. Is another advantage
of having a few pests around.So let's back away from the idea that

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everything has to be perfect and completelypest free and just embrace the fact that
nature doesn't do that, and ifwe try to create that, it comes
at a cost. I garden becauseI like to get in the garden,
and I like to grow things,and I like to watch nature in action,
and that is fun. I literallywas sitting down in the garden in

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a garden yesterday filming a squash vineboard laying eggs on a squash plant and
then looking at all the eggs andit's for a little educational video and do
it. But it's fun to getout and do that. My idea of
fun is not mixing up sprays allthe time, but when needed, I

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will absolutely do that to protect thegarden. All right, Well, there
was a little on a log foryou. Uh, if you were in
Tomball, your hometown feed store isD and D Feed D and D is
out west on twenty nine to twentyjust a few miles out there west of
Tombule, and D and D alwayshas the supplies you need for your gardening.

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It's going to have all the fertilizersI talk about. They do carry
bagged soil products. They have plantsout there too. By the way,
you need to swing by seasonally.That that changes the things that they bring
in and have. But D andD is going to have quality products.
And if you're feeding animals or pets, they have very high quality feed for
your pets, the and your livestockas well. You know what with D

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and D you're going to know whenyou go in there, if you've got
to get an insect side, fungeside, or herbicide, they're going to have
it. They have an excellent,excellent supply and it's D and D feed
now the phone number two eight onethree five one, twenty one forty four.
I uh was talking with someone yesterdayabout they had a lawn problem,

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and it was like they tried allkinds of things, and I was suggesting
that they do, you know,some air raiding on their lawn, and
I think that is really important andif you live in the Magnolia area or
really the northwest quadrant of Houston,green Pro is your provider for deep aeration,

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So what do I mean by NorthwestHouston. I mean Spring, Cyprus,
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Iten Katie, West Houston, CentralHouston, North Houston. Give Greenpro a

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in the Magnolia area. Now they'lldo a quality job. They absolutely will
help your lawn on because clay soilsand especially compacted clays, they don't drain
well and grass struggles. You're wateringit, you're giving it fertilizer, but

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there's a problem because the roots can'tbe happy. Air rating really helps.
Compost stop dressing with a quality materialthat's all they use at green Pro really
helps. Here's the website greenpro dotnet. I'm gonna take a little break.
I will be back if you wouldlike to give Evan a call and
get on the board. Seven onethree two one two KTRH. Welcome back

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to garden Line. Welcome back.We are gonna talk all kinds of things
gardening for the next few hours.Here we go to ten am today.
By the way, you can listento garden Line via podcasts. Yes,
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I think that's a good combination.You know, maybe you're out there

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digging in the dirt and something occursto you and you want to give us
a call. Well, let's dothat. We can certainly do that.
I was at Moss Nursery this pasta Friday on Friday and visiting with Jem
and I'm telling you that place asalways looks out standing. They have a
whole bunch of limelight Hydrangea trees.So imagine a long Hydrangea stalk coming straight

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up and then on the top isthis big green head on the top of
the stalk, so it looks likea little tree. And boy, they're
loaded with blooms, a beautiful,beautiful plants. You know, when it
comes to Moss Nursery, they're goingto have everything you need period. I
mean, I can just say namethings like elephant ears. They I saw

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some of those beautiful level in earsI've ever seen at Moss Nursery on Friday.
They have hanging baskets everywhere, beautifulbeautiful hanging baskets. Cactus and succulents,
plenty of those as well. AndI always have to go to the
house plant greenhouse because it is alwaysloaded with plants, beautiful plants, and

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I guarantee you some that you've neverseen before. If you want to attract
butterflies and hummingbirds, just go talkto the folks here by the way.
The staff there are gardeners. Theyknow what they're talking about, and just
say, look, I want toput in a butterfly garden. I want
to put in a hummingbird garden.What are some plants that you would recommend
And they'll take it right to them. They'll they'll get you set up.
Moss Nursery is on Toddville Road inSeabrook. It's real easy to get to

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listen that the nursery's been there,family owned. It's a seventy year old
family operated business. Eight acres.To wander around, allow yourself some time
because there's a lot to see andyou don't want to miss it. Moss
Nursery dot com, maas Nursery dotcom. That's the That is the official
web side address. If you haven'tdone your slow release fertilizer yet on your

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lawn, now is the time toget it done. Now is the time.
Superturf by Nitrofoss that's their silver bagwill do the trick for you.
It'll carry you through the summertime bygradually releasing nutrients half of the nitrogen a
slow release, and Superturf gradually releasingnutrients. Those little yellowy areas in the
lawn, I'll say chartruch. Youknow, it's kind of in between yellow

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and green. Maybe it needs alittle bit iron. That's commonly a problem
when you have the yellowing areas.Four percent iron in the super turf as
well. So it's just an allaround great fertilizer and it's easy to find.
You know, night Foss products arewidely available. You go to Fisher's
Hardware down on Southmore, South Houston. You go to Fisher's Hardware on Broadway
Street and Laporte. You're going tofind Superturf and other Nitrofoss type products as

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well as up in the woodlands,shades of Texas or out it in chanted
gardens. I was talking about themat Richmond Rosenberg, all places where you
can get that super turf by Nitrofoss. I was in the garden yesterday.
I was telling you, I wastaking pictures and filming and as I sat
there, mosquitoes were all over atme. I mean they were just going

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around and you know that they liketo hide in the foliage and come out,
and boy are they ever excited aboutthe rain that we just had.
They are breeding and coming out likecrazy. You need to get some mosquito
dunks and just always have them onhand because it rains here a lot,
and when you have standing water,it doesn't take many days for mosquitoes to

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lay the egg hatch out into thelarva and come out as the adult.
I mean, their life cycle isfast. When you put mosquito dunks in
water, it releases a disease ofmosquito larva and you never see the mosquito
as a result. They last abouta month. One dunk will cover about
one hundred square feet of water.Just another reminder, too, empty the

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little dog dishes or the little birdwatering trays because that's where mosquitos can also
breed. Are you can sprinkle somedunk pieces in there as well if you
want to do that, watch yourgutters. It's sag and hold water.
That's another place mosquitos breed. Justremember, mosquito dunks aren't going to harm
people, pets, fish, birds, or otherwildlife. It only affects the

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larva of the mosquitos that you're goingafter. Makes pretty good sense. You're
going to find them at nurseries,feed stores, our garden centers, ace
hardware stores. Alf was fertilized,I mean, just on and all easy
to find mosquito dunks. And youdo need to have them on hand because
who wants to sit outside and swatall day? That's not my idea of

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a fun time outside. Uh.Yeah, if you'd like to give us
call, our number is seven onethree two one two fifty eight seventy four.
I at the Arborgate yesterday when Iwas out at Arburgate, I was

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talking, you know, with Kurtfrom three sixty Tree Stabilizer. By the
way, thanks Kurt for donating thetree stabilizers we gave away yesterday. And
this is a nifty invention that hecreated it instead of the old days where
you know, you had to getwire and then cut garden hose to put
in the wire so that it didn'tcut into your trees, and you had

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these three guy wires holding the thingdown and you tripping over them. And
it's easy with three sixty Tree Stabilizerjust hammer a tepost in the ground and
there's a attachment in there that fitson the teapost and it holds your tree.
It's about probably about foot and ahalf long and it grabs onto the

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tree. You strap it loosely soit allows movement. They work very well
and if you like, if you'reputting a crape myrtle with multiple trunks,
you can put a couple of teepostsand two tree stabilizers from right angles coming
into the tree and it holds it. And they're available at Southwest Fertilizer.
They're available that plants for all seasons. And Horges Hidden Gardens down in Alvin

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RCW and Buchanans and Arbrogate all carrythe Tree three sixty tree stabilizer product.
They work and they last a longtime. Once you get one, you
just hang it up in the garagebecause the next time you plant something you
need to stabilize like that, it'sgoing to do that. If you haven't
been down to a chanted forest andChannet Forest is down in Richmond by the

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way, and specifically it's says you'reheading to sugar Land off to the right.
What's that FM twenty seven fifty nineout in Richmond. There's always something
going on at the forest. Imean they have events every weekend. It
seems like they are always coming inwith new plants, and the place is
always beautiful, and it's another oneof those destinations you go to and it's

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like you want to take your familyin, friends, and by the way,
you should, because even non gardenerscan appreciate the beauty. And besides,
we're trying to brainwash them and makethem gardeners, right, but even
non gardeners can appreciate the beauty ofthis place. And there's their gift shop
is wonderful. It's just cool.If you want to do a plant planting

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for butterfly attraction, they've got thebest selection of flowers that attract butterfly adults
and of the larval food plants thattake care of the butterfly babies that end
up becoming butterflies out there at EnchantedForest. They'll even if they got them
on hand, they'll even give youthe caterpillars that fit that plan. If

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you need to like take home agolf fritillary caterpillar larvae with your passion vine,
for example, or a pipeline swallowtailwith your pipeline. It's just fun.
They know what they're doing. Checkthem out. Oh, by the
way, I forgot to give youtheir website. The website for Enchanted for
US is and here we go.Fine, just Enchanted Forest, RICHMONDTX dot

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com. All right, Well,time for a little news break here.
I wanted to let you know thatnext weekend, Saturday, May eighteenth,
eleven thirty to one thirty albeit LanghamCreek Ace Hardware Langham Creek Ace Hardware,

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and that's kind of northwest direction inHouston. I hope you'll come out and
see me. We're going to behaving a good time giving some things away
while we're there and answering your gardeningquestions. It's a really cool Ice Hardborough.
I'm looking forward to. Last timeI went there, I really had
a good time. Well, I'llbe right back. Welcome back to guarden
Line. Good to have you today. It is a good sunday. I

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hope this afternoon you've got plans toget outside, maybe do a little bit
of garden center shopping. It isspring, folks, and summer is coming.
Good to get those things, getthem in so your landscape looks good.
I want to talk a little bitabout color in the summer here in
a little bit. But we're gonnawe're gonna start off well. First of

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all, I just wanted to mentionI was at Arburgate Nursery this weekend and
had a really good time out there. Was visiting with folks that came by,
answering questions and things like that.And you know, I just find
that as people are coming up andsaying things like, well, I need
a plant that will and then youfill in the blank, you know your
plant to do this, planth todo that, It's just like, Okay,

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go over there, go over there, go over there. It's at
Arburgate and take home. The onetwo three system. That was something we
talked about a lot, because rememberbrown stuff before green stuff. Arburgate's one
two three is a soil, anorganic soil that has in it some expanded
shale, which is important that holdsthe clape open better than just compost does

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because compost rots away. It's veryimportant to have composts, but the addition
of expanded shail is good. It'sgot a compost that also has an expanded
shaley material in it, and it'sgot a fertilizer that fertilizes anything with root,
but with roots, it's an organicfertilizer. But when people were coming

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out of there, it's like theyhad their brown stuff also the fertilizers of
course part of the brown stuff,and then they had the green stuff and
they're going to have success. Andit is so easy at Arburgate because they
got staff that know what they're talkingabout. They've got the exact plants that
do the best here, and theyalways have things that are new, that
are exciting, that are different,that are a new twist on things.

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So it's just fun to go outand shop at the Arbrogate. For those
of you who have been living undera rock and don't know where it is,
it is on twenty nine to twentywest of Tombull, just west to
Tombull. Remember take Tresha Road aroundbehind the Arbrogate to the new parking lot
in the back. That is thebest, easiest, safest access you can
get to the Arbrogate. It isreally nice and really cool. I'm very

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impressed and so excited to have itbecause it opened the door, and boy,
that thing was packed yesterday had alot of folks coming out getting stuff
for mom and getting stuff with momtoo. I want to go ahead and
go to some phone calls here.We're going to start off in West University
and talk to Jonas. Hello,Jonas Mony Skip, thanks for taking my
call. You've met. I havea little pot where I'm growing some mint,

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and in that pot has sprouted alittle maple sapling. It is now
about fifteen inches tall on the perimeterof the pot as well. And pot's
not a big pots, maybe abouteight inches in diameter. So I want
to preserve that little sapping, thatlittle maple. What do I do at
this time? Should I transplant it? Should I keep it there? Should

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I remove it? Should I?Well, at the stage it's in,
if you could carefully get it out, you know, with as much of
the route, you're not going tohurt mint. You can drop mint on
this on the the your driveway andrun over it for two days and then
pot it up and it'll keep growing. But this sapling, I would get

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it into a container where it cangrow a little bit bigger if you want
to do that. If you cando a container that has a screen on
the bottom instead of just like around container where the roots go around and
around. It's better the screen rootsgo down and they hit the air,
and we say they burn off,and then they branch and then the other
ones burn off and you end upwith a really good root system instead of

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just that circle of spaghetti going aroundthe pot. And so that would be
one thing that I would consider tryingto do. How could I get a
screen containers as there's ways people doa couple of things. They If you
have a little piece of hardware cloth, you can just take a container,

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cut the bottom out and set iton that and it'll go down. The
roots will go down, and dothat. There are pots that are made
specifically to prune the roots as theygrow down. We don't use milk cartons
anymore, but I used to usethe square milk cartons. Cut the bottom
of them and just set them ona quarter in chardware cloth. You can
do that otherwise, if you wantto go ahead and just put it in

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whatever kind of container you have,just remember in the fall, when you
get ready to plant it, youwant to cut any circling roots at that
time before you put it in theground. Okay, but I should consider
placing it in a larger container.Yeah, because it's going to need a
little room to grow. I'm assumingyou're giving it its own container. You're

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moving it away from the mint,is that right? Absolutely? Yeah?
Okay, all right, yeah thatprobably take them in along with me.
I don't know, I'll just putthe whole thing and auger container. All
right, however you want to goby it, but that that's how you
do it. And then falls theabsolute best time. I would say,
November, plan on putting it inthe ground. I can, I can
crasplan it into the ground. What'sthe life expectancy of a grown maple tree?

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The life expectancy of most trees justdepends on the life they have to
lead. Good soil, good location, good drainage. Probably you're going to
get, you know, forty tofifty years out of a maple tree,
depending on the species of maple thatit is. Some are not long lived.
Silver leaf maple is not long lived. Some of the red maples do

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a little bit better. Are maplesindigenous to this area? There are some
that indigenous to East Texas. Yes, right, right, well, thank
you so much. I really doappreciate there. And all right for the
mother, stay all right, youtake care. Thanks for the call.
Jonas your hometown feed store. Ifyou live in League City is League City

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feed In fact, I shouldn't sayif you live in League City, if
you live anywhere down there. They'reon Highway three, just a few blocks
south of Highway ninety six in LeagueCity. So it's just a hop,
skip and a jump for clear LakeCity folks, Baycliff, Lamark, San
Leone, Webster El, Coming toReale, Dickinson, Santa Fe, all
that whole region. This is yourhometown feed store. The Thunderbergs built this

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forty years ago and Wes and sisterMadison still run the place out there today.
While you're out there, if yougo out on a weekend, typically
you may run into Ruschak the Dalmatian. I love that name for a Dalmatian
Rushack, but say hi to them. Two eight one three three two sixteen

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twelve. You know they're open Mondaythrough Saturday nine to six, so you
can swing by there after work closeSundays today, they're closed Monday through Saturday
nine to six. It's the oldtime service where they carry their the bags
out for you. If you hearme talk about it, a fertilizer on
guard line, they have it.They also have sol blend mixes. That's
some of those I talk about toyour on guard line. Premium pet Food.

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If you got backyard chickens, theyhave everything you need for your backyard
chickens as well. If you havea pest disease or weed problem, their
selection of pest control products is outstanding. You're going to find a way to
deal with whatever you're having to dealwith. They're at League City feet and
they also hope you have that beautiful, bountiful lawn and landscape as well.

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Let's go to Texas City now we'regoing to talk to Danny. Hello Danny,
good morning, Skip, Thanks fortaking my call. Hey, I
got a question. I've got apeach tree that I topped out. It's
about twelve foot tall, and Itopped the whole top of the tree out
and it's growing straight up, notto the side, not to the lift,

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just going straight up. It's tallerthan houses. Now I'm probably gonna
end up taking it out because mywife's seventy, I'm sixty. I need
something closer to the ground, okay, to be easy accessible. You have
any suggestions for a peach plumb andpair. Oh, there's a number of
good ones. Out there if youwould like, you know, here's what

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I would suggest you do, becausethat's a pretty wide variety of questions in
that one question. If you goonline to the Aggie Horticulture website, it's
easy. Just find Aggie Horticulture onthe web. There's a fruit section you
front page. Just click on fruitsand nuts, I believe is what they
call it. And when you getthere, there's a free publication. You
can look at it on your computeror you can download it if you want,

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on every fruit you can imagine,I mean, from avocados to I
don't know what's a Z fruit eightZ. But they have a publication on
peaches and plums. They've got apublication on pears, and on citrus and
on and on that will give youa list of some of the varieties.
You're in a very a low chillarea, meaning that the winter, the

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hours of winter temperatures in the fortiesare very low compared to further north in
Texas, so you want to selectpeaches and plums that are going to do
well in that area. And there'llbe lists on there as well, and
our Good Garden Center as you goto you know, you're not that terribly
far away from Moss. Over there, Theges Hidden Gardens in Alvin. They

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always have fruit and they carry varietiesthat do well here, so that'd be
another way to go about. Okay, this is a peach or a plum
and it'll do well here. Okay. Yeah, I passed Lake City feet
every day driving too and from Wark, and I want to go down one
forty six. I passed Moss Nursey, so I know where both of those
are at. Yeah, where's thatone in Alvin? At It's on Elizabeth

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Street in Alvin. It's Orges HiddenGardens and Elizabeth Street and Alvin. All
right, thanks sir, Yeah,I think the I believe his his.
I don't know if it's a webor social media. Texas Groundkeepers. It's
a different business that he has,and I believe that's the one that you
could go look up to Texas Groundkeepersdone in Alvin. But that's that's Forges

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Hidden Garden, same same guy.All right, thanks sir, all right,
you take care, Thanks for thefor the call. Well let's see
here, looks like I just bumpedright through a break. We're gonna go
ahead and stop here and take aquick break. I'll be right back.
Welcome back to guard Line. Whatare we gonna talk about today? You

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tell me by calling seven one threetwo one two kt r H seven one
three two and two k t rh. RCW Nursery has got some stuff going
on today for Mother's Day. Theyhave a little deal where you can kind
of paint a container, uh,and it comes with the plant and everything's
sort of like a craft top thingthat mom can do or you can do

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with mom, or something like that. Just go buy and check them out
or give them a call out there. By the way, the website is
RCW Nursries dot com. RCW Nurseriesdot com. They are located very easy
to get to Tomball Parkway, whichis Highway two forty nine where it comes
into Beltway eight. And while you'rethere, maybe mom should pick out a
rose bush. That would be acool one. Now, okay, I'm

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going to go out on a limbhere. This isn't my business, but
it's a suggestion. Okay. Whenyou give someone a plant, it is
a gift that gives repeated dividends.In the case of roses, blooms here
after year. When you go andplant it with them or for them,
that is a memory also, andyou know it's easy to grab a gift
and go here, Happy Mother's Day. It's a whole different thing. And

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to take time and to go andjust it doesn't take forever, you know,
just sit down and do the planningwith them, bring the gift,
you know it. I just thinkthat is a great way to do it.
I walk through gardener's yards all thetime and they'll point it a plant
and they say, yeah, myson gave me that. I got that
from a friend over in Timbuktu.That gave and its just its memories and

(50:05):
its connections and that makes it alittle more special. And RCW Nursery can
get you fixed up on any kindof plant like that that you want to
do. They can get the productsin your hand, like the fertilizers I
talk about here to have success.I think that's that alone right there,
as they say, is worth theprice of admission. Let's got to the
woodlands here. We're going to talkto Mike. Oh, Mike, Hey,

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good morning, Skip. I havea question. Yeah, I have
a question about I had two btextrees planted yesterday. They're thirty gallons and
I'm just wondering when I should startfertilizing them. Well, they're going to
have to grow a little bit toget some roots before they can even benefit

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from the fertilizer. The people thatgrow the trees are fertilizing the pot,
so that little pot already has nutrientsin it that they've been using to grow
it quickly. So I would sayprobably let's get about at least six weeks
in after planting before we begin tothink about fertilizing. But just moderate amounts
will be fine. Okay, thenuse maybe six two four, Yeah,

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that'd be an excellent Yeah. MicroLife sixty four is an outstanding fertilizer.
Does does very very well. Okay, one more question real quick. I
have some crate myrtles small, they'repretty small, but I noticed a couple
of weeks ago that well, thebark is kind of all black, and

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I've got little white spots running allup and down the branches. Yes,
that is called Yeah, that's calledcrate myrtle bark scale, Mike, and
the white is the little cottoney coveringsthat are over over the scale. The
scale produces sugary water that basically,just to put it blunt, they pee

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out the sugary water on your plants, and that mist that they put out
grows city mold. That's how youend up with the black. There's not
a great way this time of yearto control the scale at this point.
Systemics will do it, but systemicsend up in the blooms and creat myrtle

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pollen and nectar are very important tobees in the summer when not a lot
of other things are blooming, andso I tend to avoid that as a
recommendation, although that is one ofthe options that are out there. People
have tried everything from a soft brushgrubbing off the trunk and things to ignoring
it, and it doesn't kill acrepe myrtle. They do have their natural

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enemies. There's a specific kind oflady beetle that eats crepe myrtle bark scale,
and if you can kind of ignorethe ugly and the black, it
tends to not be an ongoing bigdeal for the plant. But if you're
trying to get if you absolutely donot want to have that next spring when
the crawler scale crawlers come out,there are some things you can do,

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but that's going to be more ofa March April time. We're past that
now. Okay, okay, andwhat would I use? What would I
use on that? Well? Preventit all right in a nutshell. And
you may not want to go tothis trouble, but here here it is.
You don't know when the crawlers arecoming out, but it's a temperature

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and weather related thing. So Itell people to get some double sided sticky
tape and put it around a branchthat has the white things that you described,
and check it every few days.And when the little babies come out,
there'll be a little tiny reddish browncrawlers going around. And when you
see them sticking to the sticky tape, now they're out. Now's the time

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when you can use almost any insecticidespraying the branches get good coverage. It
could be an oil, it couldbe a soap, it could be you
know, something that's more powerful thanthat, and you you knock them out
because one mama scale. Can youknow you got a hundred babies that are
crawling around there, and so knockingthem out at that stage is easy.

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You do the minimum damage to beneficialinsects at that point. Okay, great,
well I'll be looking for him nextyear. Then all right, all
right, Mike, thanks for thecall. Appreciate that I need to put
that on the on the website.When our souls get wet, which guess
what the soul's wet, right,And when they get dry, they shrink
and they swell. And when theyshrink and when they swell, it cracks

(54:35):
our slabs, foundations, It cracksdriveways, it cracks sidewalks. Fix my
slab foundation, repair Tie Strickland.It's been doing this twenty three years.
Ty is an expert, very knowledgeable. He can come out, he can
take a look. Maybe you sawa crack in the brick outside, maybe
cracking the sheet rock inside. Maybea door is sticking because it's shifted,
the house is shifted a little bit. Have him come out. Tell him

(54:58):
your guarden line listener. You getfree estimates, free estimates if you're tell
them you're guarden I'm listener. Thething I like about Tie and number one
just a very pleasant person to workwith. But he is committed to showing
up on time. He is committedto pricing things fairly, and he is
committed to fixing it right. Andwhat more do you ask? You know,

(55:21):
when you have somebody come to yourhouse to do work, you want
them to show up when they saythey're going to show up. You want
them to be fair and they're pricing, and you want it when they fix
it for it to really be fixed. That's Tie Strickland Foundation Repair. Fix
myslab dot com as a website twoeight one two five five forty nine forty
nine. Let me give you thatagain. Fix myslab dot com two eight

(55:45):
one two five five forty nine fortynine. Don't put those kind of things
up things off either, because it'sbetter to deal with things early, uh
than to just well next year,I'll get to it and whatever it.
That can lead to other more expensiveissues. Let's go to South Houston.
We're going to talk to Jim Now. Hello, Jump, Hey, thanks

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for taking my call. Yesterday youmentioned nime oil for powdery mildew on a
crate myrtle. Yes, my prizeplant is a burgundy leaf crpe myrtle,
and I noticed yesterday there's the beginningof some pottery mildew on the leave.
My question to you is, andI did some Internet research, there seems
to be a lot of products outthere with nim oil in them. I

(56:30):
would love to find something that's ina spray bottle kind of like a Windex
bottle because I don't need gallons ofit. But are there some brand names
out there that you'd recommend I lookfor, Uh, not really. Neme
oil is neme oil, but justbe aware of the fact that neime.
When you see a product with NIMEon the label, there's two types.

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One is the extracted insecticide that isnot neme oil, uh, and it
says as a directin on the labelinstead of nemol. The other is the
oil itself, and it says nameoil in the ingredient. So make sure
first of all that you get theright name. But as far as brands,
it doesn't matter a lot. Jim, you're done. You know South

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Houstino specifically just right where you are, but I know pretty close to you,
I bet is the Gateway hardware.It's an ACE hardware on telephone road
right there behind the airport. Andthere's some other very close to that.
Yeah, there's some other ACE theyshould have ready to use. Spray bottles
of nem oil on the shelf mostplaces. Most of the aces are going

(57:34):
to carry that. Now. Isaid name oil just because it's an oil.
But if you see something called horticulturaloil. You can use that as
well, horticultural oil. You justdon't want to spray it when the sun
is you know, one hundred degreesbaking down on the leaves, So do
it elarady in the morning and youcan do that. There are other fungicides
that will control powdery mildew. Oil. Is it just basically coats over that

(57:59):
powdery subst and kills it on thesurface and it'll come back u So periodically
you may have to do that.Let me ask you one other thing while
I've got you on the line.In my backyard, in the Saint Augustine
grass, I'm beginning to see toaespillsfor the first time. Is there anything
I can apply to the grass thatwill be pet safe? You do not

(58:19):
need to apply anything. Just knockthem off with your foot. You know,
they're not a disease of the grass. They're they're they're part of nature
turning organic matter back into soil.And when we have weather changes, we
typically get an outbreak of those mushrooms. So yeah, nothing nothing to do
about that. Nothing that will workeither. For that matter, one more

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time, the knem oil that isfor insecticides, what what is that?
What should I look for look for. It does not contain look for.
Just let me give you what tolook for. Look for niam oil on
the label. Hey, I'm upagainst a hard break and I got to
run. But good luck with that, John, Thank you for the call.
Welcome back. Good to have youon garden Line today. We are

(59:06):
talking about lots of different things relatedto gardening. You know, pollinators are
important and you hear a lot oftalk these days about protecting pollinators, attracting
pollinators and whatnot. One of ourkey pollinators or honey bees. Honey bees
are out there in your garden andthey are causing you to have more produce.
Did you know that someone called yesterdayabout a cucumbers that were misshapen.

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That is poor pollination. You gota whole bunch of seeds in a cucumber,
and if you get about half ofthem pollinated, you're going to have
a weird shaped cucumber. If youget all of them pollinated, you have
a very nice, plump cucumber.Well, how about getting the backyard beehive.
Yes, you can do that.It's allowed if you want to learn
about it. Maybe you're just okay, I'm curious. I'm not committed to

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do it yet, but I justwant to learn about Call the Bee Supply.
They're in Dayton, Texas, andthey have lots of beginning bee keeping
classes. There's a honey extraction classand more come in this fall. By
the way, I'll tell you aboutlater. But they're so good and so
easy to it's fascinating. You sitin the classroom, you learn all of
this amazing stuff. Your mind's goingto be blown about bees. Then you

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go out and you've got hands onyou know, if the weather's permitting,
you get out. You get tosuit up and have some hands on experience
handling the hives and going through it'sa really really cool experience. Thebesupply dot
com. That's the website, thebsupplydot com. They also have a b
rental program. If you've got fiveacres to twenty acres somewhere in that range

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and you're within fifty miles of Dayton, Texas, they can come out put
bees on your property and care forthe bees for you. And it's part
of a b rental. You justneed to go ahead and go to the
website find out more about it.The b rental program at vbsupply dot com
here's a phone number nine three sixseven seven six zero seven thirty nine seven

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seven six zero seven three nine.Buchanan's Native Plants is one of those destination
garden centers. It's just fun towalk through. It just is it's I
don't know, I love I lovegarden centers. I guess I'm in the
right line of work here, butI just love wandering through really cool garden

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centers. And Buchanans is that it'sthat hideaway in the heights that that's how
I think. It's on Eleventh Streetand you're driving long eleventh Street and all
of a sudden, boom, thereit is, and you just wander in.
And the things they have there arereally really well adapted to here.

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For example, they are probably thebest single source of native plants that I
know of in this region. Theyspecialize in that they even have tables that
are just like this is just aHouston area native, or this is a
regional native or Texas native, andthey keep a good stock of that.
So if you're in into native plantsor would like to get into naty plants,
they'll set you up on that.But any kind of plant that you

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want to get into their houseplants selectionis outstanding. It really is really amazing.
Uh. In fact, you knowthat wouldn't be a bad thing to
do today is grab mom and takeher out to buchanans Plants. Do a
little shopping with her. She willenjoy that. By the way, you
know, we we like gifts,but we also like time spent with those
we love. Buchanansplants dot com thatis the website. While you're there,

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you can pick up the brown stuff, the fertilizers, the soil blends that
set your plants up for success.They carry everything I'll talk about here on
garden Line and then some and don'tforget to go into the little bungalow their
gorgeous gift shop while you're there.Our phone number is seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four sevenone three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. If you would like togive me a call, happy to visit
with you about the things that areof interest to you. We've had a
number of questions, or at leastI have both email questions and on the
air and just people that see mewhen I'm out and about doing things related

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to the pests of the lawn likesod web worms and chinchbugs and things,
and we are too early for that. There's no need to worry about any
of those pests that comes later inthe summer. But let me suggest again,
if you have not already gone tomy website, please do so and
bookmarket. I periodically will put thingsup there that are very timely, like

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back in the winter I did oneon how to protect plants from frosts and
freezes for example. That's just that'swhat I'm talking about. But up there's
my schedule, my lawn care schedule, and then also my lawn pest disease
and we'd management schedule. And ifyou look at the latter, it is
it shows you when to treat forchinch bugs and soid web worms. If

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they're going to be a problem.You don't just trea because it's that month.
But if you start to see aproblem, you can do that.
It tells you when to treat forgrubs, and then it tells you when
to treat for older grubs. Thesecond treatment that you can do if you
have a grub problem, So getthose. When you look at the schedule's
color coded. You go to thebottom and it tells you the products that

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you can use, and if youwant to go organic or synthetic, there's
options for both down at the bottom. So print it out so when you
go shopping, just take it withyou and kind of all you have to
do then is point you got oneof those, and that will help get
you off to a good start.For example, Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer

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is going to have everything, everythingthat's on that schedule, they absolutely have.
I like to say that Bob andSouthwest Fertilizer, if they don't have
it, you don't need it.And that's really, really basically true.
Whenever I'm trying to keep up with, Okay, what's the latest products on
the market, those companies don't havea need to notify me that they've got

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a new product out there. ButI can go to Southwest and I guarantee
you Bob has it, and heand I have conversations often about hey,
here's a new product coming out,and Bob is always willing to stalk the
latest thing that works. They knowwhat they're talking about, and they add
when you go in there with apicture or with a sample, they're gonna

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be able to help you find theproduct you need and then tell you about
the proper way to use it.That is important, just turning people loose
with products and it may not evenbe the right one. That is I
see that too much, but notitself. Was fertilizer for example, they've
got has to Grow supergrow plus.That's the new has to Grow product by

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Medina. Supergrol Plus is a sixteenzero two fertilizer. It is a hose
end applicator. It's a court bottle. You hook it up to your garden
hose and takes about ten minutes togo over your lawn and one bottle will
cover about four thousand square feet.And it's got nitrogen that's immediately available,
which is important good fast green up. But it also has nitrogen that are

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more gradually available. About a fifthof the nitrogen is going to take a
little longer to release, which isgood. It's got seaweed extract in it.
It's got a keylated form of ironthat doesn't tie up so fast to
the soil, but the plant canget a hold of it. So if
you've got yellowing areas and your grassjust doesn't now the color you want has
to grow, Supergrow plus sixteen zerotwo. And yes, Bob has that

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too. He's one of the firstones to sign up to get the shipments
in to get the has to growsupergrow plus. By the way, it
also has humic acid in it.It's got a little molasses in it.
I mean, this is a concoction. Your plants will will love you for
it. Our phone number is sevenone three two one two k t r

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H seven one three two one twok t r H. We are going
to run out to the phone nowand talk to Herta in Spring Branch.
Hello, Herta, good morning,thanks for taking my call. Uh that
kal lily. You know it hadthe kind of yellow leaf on it,

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but now the the blooms have it'sjust a touch of brown on them.
Okay, but now I put asof mine on them. Okay, half
a teach and that's the mineral stuff. Okay. Yeah, Hurd, I'm

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I'm up against the break. Willyou hang on? Can I put you
on hold and come right back toyou when we're done with this brand?
Yeah? Yeah, let's let's dothat so I have time to answer that
question. Our phone number is sevenk t r H. If you like
to get on the board, withEvan. I'll be right back. Oh
yeah, homegrown tomatoes can't be hometomat is. Welcome back to Garden Line.

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Good to have you with us today. We were in a conversation with
Hurta. Hurta, I understand thateven the blooms are getting some brown spots
on them. On your calor lilies, yes, yes, and they're I
don't know if this is part ofit or not, but there are some

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white dots. Well they're not dots, the little tiny mark, maybe six
of them on a leaf. Okay, but anyway, I don't know what
else to do. Okay, well, uh, you know, as far

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as the brown spots, that's goingto be some sort of either a disease
or just due to water being toomuch water not enough. Most likely these
are in the ground, right orare they in a pot? Oh?
No, they're in a pot,A small pot. I think. I
think I'm going to have to putthem in a larger pop. Well,

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are at least ten stems in thisfive inch pot? No, it sounds
like it's a beautiful one. Soin a pot, yeah, in a
crowded pot, it can get toodry, and when calos get dry,
they are not happy. On theother hand, if the pot doesn't have
good drainage, the holes are cloggedor whatever, they can get water logged

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and they don't like that either.So I don't know which of those it
is, but I would just continueto make sure you maintain moderate moisture.
Just pick your finger down in thepot a little bit and feel it.
And as far as the spots,there's no spray that I would recommend at
this point in time. All right, all right, okay, all right,
well, thank you very much.You have a good day, you

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too, heard it, Thank youvery much. I appreciate that if you
have flower beds that tend to notlook good at certain times of the year,
and now you don't have to don'traise your hand, you don't have
to admit that. I'm just saying, if, well, how about this,
your neighbor has those kind of flowerbeds. Well, Jason at Pierscapes,

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you know that he has created ateam that they pretty much can do
anything you need to have beauty aroundyour house. So I'm talking about when
I say anything, I mean likehardscapes, I mean landscape lighting. I
mean you've got a drainage problem thatyou need to fix. They can deal
with that. Boy, we foundout that the other day when it rained
and rained and rained and rained.Well, Jason at Pierscapes also comes out

(01:10:40):
and does quarterly maintenance. I sayJason, he doesn't go out and do
the maintenance, but his team does. And they can come out and every
quarter you sign up for the dealthat okay, every quarter you're gonna come
out. They're gonna get those beds. They're gonna put new seasonal color in
the beds. They're gonna weed them, they're gonna mulch them, any kind
of trimming that needs to be donein that bed. They check the irrigation,

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make sure it's functioning right. Andthey can do what we call color
changes in the industry. You know, we have the cool season color and
we have warm season color. That'stwo changes. You can do four changes
a year. I mean, ifyou really want to, I mean you
can just keep changing out. Youknow, it gets spring, things start
to get a little struggling in summer. Put things that can take the heat

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in. They can do all ofthat for you. Now, Pierscapes is
a professional company and if you wantto see the work they're capable of doing.
You know, you need to goto the website, and that is
Pearscapes dot com. When you goto peerscapes dot com, you will see
amazing things. Now, you don'tneed to have a taj mahal in order

(01:11:45):
to have Pearscapes come out and turnyour place from to wow. They can
absolutely do. Hey, summertimes coming. We are out on our patios in
the evenings enjoying things. Let themcome out and turn that place special.
Two eight one three seven oh fiftysixty two eight one three seven oh fifty
sixty. You really need to checkout pairscapes dot com the website. Every

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time I go, it's like,holy mackerel. That is awesome. It
really is. It's kind of workthat they do. I got some let's
see. You got to open lineshere if you'd like to give us call
seven one three two one two kt R eight seven one three two one
two k t r H. Outthere in Kingwood, Texas, you've got

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a couple of garden centers that,uh well, you just need to be
proud and happy you got them therebecause you don't have to go far to
have beautiful plants, knowledgeable staff.And that's Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's Southern
Garden. We're in Southern Garden justlooking at some of the things that are
going on there. The color isoutstanding and they have everything from like elephant

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ears that have deep deep pink centerstripe and them you got us see it.
It's just it's gorgeous to Vinka thelittle Madagascar periwinkle that just goes through
it. Laughs. When summer heatcomes, just like this ain't nothing.
You guys are whims and so ifyou want color, it's dependable. They'll
do that. They got a volvulustwhich is a beautiful bluish purple flower that

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kind of groundcover, stay a littlebit lower to the ground. If you
want to have summer color, theyhave it. And I mean you can
go all the way out and getyou know, go go all the way
and get a plumeria, you know, Hawaiian layflower. You can get beautiful
giant hibiscus out there. And theyhave a good stock right now of all
the heirloom soils products that I talkabout and the fertilizers as well. Kingwood

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Garden Center worn Southern Gardens in Kingwood, Texas. It's really really easy to
turn your place into a beautiful placewith the products and advice. Oh,
by the way, I forgot tosay, very knowledgeable staff that can point
you in the right direction. Thatis very very important. I was answering

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some questions yesterday when I was outat the arbor Gate and Nelson plant Food
has one called Slow and Easy.People were asking me some questions about slow
and Easy. Slow and Easy isit's a chemistry that releases nitrogen very slowly
over time. Now, nitrogen comesin many forms. You know, we

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talk about nitrogen, but there's alot of different forms. Some forms it
just dissolves away, like putting wateron sugar. I mean the sugar's gone,
it's washers right away. But that'san immediate nitrogen that's important. But
some forms release more slowly, andsome forms I don't care how much it
rains, are not going. It'snot gonna leach them out of that particle.

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It's because of the form of nitrogenthat's slow and easy. You can
put it down. Now, yournext fertilization is in fall. Get my
schedule on gardening skip dot com.It'll tell you when to fall fertilized.
But when you use slow and Easy, now you're done. You're done.
It's going to feed all through thesummer. It's an acidifying fertilizer too,
which is very helpful certain diseases liketake all root rot, love high pH

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and so anything we do to acidifya little bit, it's helpful and it
just helps those nutrients or it helpsthe plant to take up the nutrients by
providing them in a gradual form.Nelson Slow and Easy one of the many
Church Star products that Dean and thefolks at Nelson's have easy to find,
widely available, Slow and Easy.Remember that we are going to go now

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to Northwest Houston and talk to Alexander. Hey, Alexander, how are you
doing this morning? I'm good,sir, Yes, sir, that's great.
I have a question about a rowof bush. Alexander. Are you
there? Oh, yes, sir, I'm here. I'm sorry I lost

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you there you cut out on menhelp, I'm sorry. I have a
rose bush. It bloomed last year. Now my gardener, my garden is
great, and my wife with heput fertilis on my roll bush and it
it won't bloom. We have nobuds on it. But it bloomed last
year. Real pretty okay, Nowit won't bloom this year. Somebody told

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me to put some bacon soda onit. Now, should I have done
that? No? No, don'tdo that. I mean it's one time.
It's not gonna kill the rose bush. But don't don't do that.
Oh so is this a one thatjust blooms in spring last year and then
didn't bloom in the summer. Youknow it's blooms in the summer only the
summer only. Okay, yeah,all right. Uh, you don't happen

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to know what the name of itis, do you? Oh? No,
ok, not a problem. So, uh, roses need lots of
sunlight to bloom. Well, sothat's number one. At least six hours
of sun in order to bloom.Well. There are some roses that blooming

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early on and the first thing inthe spring, and then they don't keep
blooming. Those you don't want toprune those in winter because you're cutting away
all your bloom buds. The onesthat bloom all through the summer and even
in the fall, those you canprune anytime. You're not going to be
cutting off all the bloom buds.I would suggest you get a product for

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roses. There are products by Nitrofossthat are designed for roses. You can
buy them in a little plastic jarand sprinkle them around that and watered in
really good. If they have twodifferent products for roses by Nitrofoss. So
you're up in northwest Houston, yougo to an ACE hardware store up in
your area and they're going to probablyhave those on the shelf. But look

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for that follow the label watered inreally good and we need to get that
rose blooming again, okay, specificallyfor roses. Yeah, thank you,
sir, I got a run fora break. Appreciate your call. Welcome
back to guard Line. Hey,it's good to have you with us today.

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A little clouds in the sky today, but I'm not really worried about
that. The temperature is wonderful.It's just a good day. Good day
to be out, good day togo visit a garden center too. By
the way, get some time outthis afternoon, get around, Maybe take
your mom with you. You know, I've been telling you this morning that
that is a that is a reallygreat idea because you can go out.

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You can go shopping with a mom, Let her pick the plants out she's
interested in today and go home.And help her get that in the ground,
just a little extra twist to makememories. And that's a lot.
You know, a lot about gardeningis making the memories, the enjoyable things
that we just we love doing,and the beautiful plantings and just watching the

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place get better and better year afteryear. If you haven't forlized your yet
this summer, you need a slowrelease fertilizer nitrofoss silver bag that makes it
easy. The silver bag Superturf nineteenfour ten, nineteen four ten. Half
the nineteen percent nitrogen half of thatis going to be slow release. It's

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going to release very gradually over time. It also has iron. Iron helps
make grass green. Your Saint Augustinelawns often will get kind of shark trissy
yellowy in some areas, and ifyou pick up grass blade and hold it
up the light, you're going tosee streaks of yellow and green. That's
iron deficiency. Super Turf has fourpercent iron and helps with that helps keep

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the lawn greener. So it's notjust nitrogen that's needed to have a green
on it's also having adequate access toiron for that grass plant. Superturf is
one of the products by nitrofoss thatis going to be available in so many
different places. Katie Hardware out onPenoak. It's an ACE hard store out
there in Katie they have nitrofoss products. Ace Hardware and Memorial they have nitrofoss

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products. Maybe you're down in alvinStanton Shopping Center carries nitrofoss products as well.
You're listening to garden Line and thephone number if you would like to
give us a call. We actuallyhave some open spots here if you'd like
to give us a call. Sevenone three two one two kt r H
seven one three two one two kt r H Plantrall Seasons is that garden

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center at Luetta and Highway two fortynine Tombol Parkway. So if you're going
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long time, been around since nineteenseventy three. The Flowerty family, UH
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Very very knowledgeable staff people. Youbring them a leaf, you bring them
a picture, you bring them abug. I mean they're going to be
able to help identify it and tellyou what to do about it if anything
needs to be done about it.If you have a brown thumb in your
own opinion, well go to Plantsfor All Seasons. They turn bron thumbsgreen
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if you want to give them acall set two eight, one, three,
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It is, by the way,it's not just go there and buy
your plants. I mean they actuallycan help you with delivery. They even

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ask them about what you need,and if they can't do it,
they'll direct you to someone who willdo a very good job. They are
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driving down the road and just thinkingabout the kind of weather that we get

(01:22:01):
when it comes summertime. The thingthat made me think about it is June
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November. And what happens when thosestorms hit and you lose power. I
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talking about days and what happens tothe food in the freezer. What happens

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I'm going to go out now toLeague City and talk to Suzanne. Hello,
Suzanne Bye. I have a patchof crab grass. I guess that's

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what you call it. But it'sset stick heavy and it throws up tall
okay, branches, and Randy saidthe only way to get rid of him
is is dig them out. Well, I did dug out a few,
and they're really hard to dig out, and I just wonder, is there

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anything else I can do? Imean, I poisoned them with round up,
okay, and they're all they're allyellow now, so what can I
do? The roundup didn't kill them, is what you're saying. Yes,
yeah, I think it did,but I think they'll come right back.
Okay. All right, Well i'lltell you what I am hitting a heartbreak,

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Susanne. I'm gonna put your onhold, and when we come back,
we're going to tackle this question.Thank you very much, Phone number
seven one three two one two ktRH. Welcome back to guarden line.
Hey, good to have you withus today. Landscaper's Pride has whether they're
they're like hometown, they're east theeastern region of Texas and down in the

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Houston area is just like that's theirturf here, and they they have a
wide variety of product. I havetwenty seven different products that are made and
it's basically products that are going togive your lawn under your lawn, give
your flower beds and your vegetable bedsor whatever you're growing. It's going to
give them a boost so that theydo better. So, for example,

(01:26:39):
Gardener's Magic Soil. Okay, Gardener'sMagic Soil is an organic pine based blend
and it's got humus and it's gotscreen pines, got some composted rice holes
in it as well. And theyeven have a chicken pellet fertilizer lasts up
the three months releasing in there.So this is a soil that plants.
It's ready to go, ready forthe plants, and ready to have excess

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that works. Well. Now they'remultous. Oh gosh, well, let
me give you three. Just asan example, pine Bark molts that's the
most popular locally sourced pine bark moltsslow decomposition rate. That pine bark malt.
It takes it a wild to decompose, so you get the mulching effect
for a long time. They havehardwood based malts. This isn't ground up
pallets. This is truly hardwood basedmult that sits on the surface. I

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like it because it locks in reallywell as a molt, so if you
get a whole lot of rain,it's not gonna wash away. It's going
to hold on pretty good there.And then they have the black velvet.
Now, the black velvet is notdyed mults. I can't stand dyed malts.
I think it's ridiculously artificial and unnecessary. Black velvet is naturally dark,
it's velvety, it's dense. Itkeeps your plants in good shape because it's

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moderating soil temperatures. And also itis helping prevent the weeds from coming in.
And we always should keep the soilcovered, whether it's covered with turf,
covered with mulch. When sunlight hitsa soil, nature plants a weed.
These three mulches from Landscaper's Pride preventsunlight from hitting the soil in your
garden beds. You can go toLandscaperspride dot com find out where to get

(01:28:10):
them. They're widely available, veryeconomical choice that you can get all through
the Greater Houston area. I'm goingto go now back to Suzanne in League
City and Suzanne, we were talkingabout a grass. I'm not sure which
one you have, It doesn't reallymatter though. There's crabgrass and then which
is an annual, there's Dallas grass, which is a perennial. The first

(01:28:31):
step in getting ahead of these thingsof them coming back, as you were
saying, is getting a good,dense, healthy lawn. When your lawn
is dense and healthy, you arenot going to have crabgrass sprouting up in
it wherever sunlight hits the soil.Yes, you will have weed seeds coming
up. Dallas grass being a perennial, you just fa have to kill it
because those plants don't go away.They come back here after year. And

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you had used the glycysate herbicide tokill it. That will kill it.
It will create a dead spot inthe lawn and then your long grass can
come crawl back over on it.But we don't have a product that just
kills these weedy grasses and doesn't hurtyour lawn grass. Are you with me?
Okay, yes, I am soso. I guess I should weed

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eat the weeds the yellow they've died. Weed eat some low to the ground.
Yeah, yeah, you can dothat, just take them back,
depending on how thick this area is. You know, some people just have
a grassy weed here and then onethere and then one there. Some people
have a whole passage. I digthose up. Okay when that happens.

(01:29:39):
Okay, so this is a biggerarea then, right, it's about ten
by ten Okay, yeah, justjust remember you can get rid of weeds,
but when you leave the soil bearthey will be back. And so
that's where you have to step inpretty quick and get some sod on those
spots. I see him coming andjust pig it out. Yeah yeah,

(01:30:00):
okay, you so much. Yeah, all right, Suzanne, thanks for
the call. I appreciate that.A lot out at the Nelson's Water Garden
and Nursery out there in Katie,they have they've created a spot that is
just I don't know how do Isay it. It's a destination, that's

(01:30:23):
one way to put it. Uh, it is just fun to go and
shop. I love walking through,and I'll tell you this. When you
walk out there, you know thethe nursery itself is loaded with all kinds
of plants. They they're always updatingand the plants that need to go out
that season, they're going to havethem there. And that includes things like
herbs and flowers and whatnot. Butthe water garden part, that's what the

(01:30:45):
that's what made them nationally famous reallyand they are. They really are a
leader in that industry. Uh.They created that fountain that disappears that comes
out of a pottery piece. Soimagine this big, tall, upright glazed
pottery that has water coming out ofthe top. It goes to the bottom
and that water disappears into rock andthen is recirculated through. That's great for

(01:31:11):
birds. The sound of water isalways welcome in a garden. When you
add the sound of water, itis so relaxing. And when you go
to this place, when you goto Nelson Water Garden and you see they're
set up there, you're going tosee one hundred different ways that you could
bring water into your landscape and they'llgo out to your house and do it.

(01:31:32):
They do the work. They createwaterfalls, they create the Discippring Fountain.
I was talking about, they'll doall that, or they'll advise yous
you want to do it, butthey know what they're doing. Then Nelson's
have been doing this for a longlong time and their garden center is really
outstanding. Think of it as yourWest Houston garden center. That's kind of
what it amounts to out there inKatie. You just turn north on Katie

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FORTMN Road and it's a rocks throwup there on the right hand side.
Take some friends with you and gois it because really this is a place
that is inspirational. I'm going togo to Parland now and talk to Archie.
Hello, Archie Martin skipped, Yeah, I just thought I just thought
i'd call you and tell you thatI had, uh Martin come out and

(01:32:15):
taking down a couple of trees fromme this uh this week, and they
did a marvel job. And youknow, so affordable trees is a good
place to go when you want somethingdone well. And these two trees were
in the corner of my lot andit was and some of the branches were
up in the power lines and everything. Boy, and he really took care
not to you know, endanger anyof my other uh you know, plants

(01:32:39):
and stuff too. Well. Iappreciate you saying that it's always good to
hear good reports. It does notsurprise me at all. You know,
when we take on a sponsor here, it's not you know, they've got
to be people that we believe aregoing to give the service you just described.
So h thank you, thank you. I've used him for a long
time, even when Randy was youknow, for in fact, two of

(01:33:00):
my neighbors came over and got bids. You go, that's the way to
do it. That's right, allright. Well, were you just calling
for that to talk about? Yeah? They basically that's what I was calling
for. Because my roses and everythingright now are doing great. Yeah.
Uh, you know, as longas I keep praying and feed them stuff,

(01:33:20):
I think I'll be all right.Name. I just got a new
neighbor that that bought the house nextto me, and she's just you know,
she's a single mom and she wasshe had this house has these oh,
planter boxes that were made out ofthe bricks in the front of the
house. So I went ahead andpulled all the old dirt out of that
for her and put some fresh dirt. But I told her, since the

(01:33:43):
front of the house faces the east, she needs something that will grow that
doesn't take her a lot of sunbecause it's not going to get a lot
of sun there because by noon,you know, it'll be in the shadows.
So could you suggest something that's colorfulthat takes just a little bit of
Are we thinking about like annual flowersor what specifically kind of plant or I

(01:34:05):
don't know. She just wanted somethingto make it look brighter. Well,
that's an easy area for color becauseit gets enough sun to have good blooms
and yet it doesn't have to dealwith the full brunt of that blazing hottest
time of the day, so shecan grow a lot of kind of things.
They're a good heat tolerant plant forsummer is venka or Madagascar periwinkle.

(01:34:28):
Those are typically going to be white, red and pink. There is a
coral version to sort of coral versionthe angelonias, which is called summer snap
dragon. That's another option. Lentanna'swould do well in that particular area,
and they'll give you a repeat bloom. And then of course if it's a
little bigger plant, there's some wonderfulSalvia's that just bloom and bloom. They're

(01:34:51):
gonna get taller. There's many speciesof salvia, so some are about oh,
I don't know, twelve inches toknee high. Some some of them
are going to be about waist highor so. And there's something that you
could put in there would be morepermanent, if she wouldn't have to change
out all the time. Yeah,So the salvius would be a perennial,
the lantana would be a perennial.Those those would be two options that of

(01:35:14):
the things right now, probably two. Well they might they yeah, they
probably be okay, they can't taketoo much sun, but you know,
New Guinea impatience there. They're colorful, but they're annuals, so you're gonna
have to replan them. Yeah,okay, all right, well, thank
you so much. Yeah, Archie, I appreciate that. Thank you very
much. Yeah, and for thoseof you who've been hearing me talk about

(01:35:38):
Martin spoon more an affordable tree ifyou'd like to get a hold of them,
it's a f F tree service dotcom, aff Tree Service dot com
and a phone number. So I'mgiving a second to grab a pen there
seven one three six nine nine,twenty six sixty three, seven one three
six nine nine twenty six sixty threeare talking earlier about hurricane season is just

(01:36:00):
about here. Get those trees properlycleaned out, selectively pruned, all the
dead limbs out, and so on, because after the fact it's a mess.
You need to have Martin come inand get those trees as ready as
they can be for the storm season. We're going to go to Bill in
Sugarland. Now, Hey, Bill, good morning Skip. We have two

(01:36:24):
sago palms that are about twenty fiveor thirty years old. They're about six
feet tall, and I have noticedthat there are little white, yellowish hand
spots on all of the individual leaves. And I'm wondering, is that a
disease process or is it a deficiencythat I need to supplement the soil?

(01:36:44):
What do I need to do aboutthat? Okay, in your color descriptions
there, I just have to isthis like a tan spot you see on
top of the leaf or is thisthe white stuff you're seeing just under the
leaf? Now, it's a tanspot on top of the leaf, and
it's one or two millimeters in diameter. They're not large. There's a little
bitty spot. Different things you know, can cause that that kind of thing.

(01:37:06):
I would just say general care iswhat's within your power. There is
no sprays that you need to doto a sego palm. Those are resilience,
they're tough, they're good. Youknow, if it's some lower limbs
that are primarily doing that, youcan prin those out and you still have
the top of the plant looking good. That if it's that way, that

(01:37:28):
would be one option. But justmake sure and leave plenty of foliage.
All right, Well, yeah,it's on every individual little leaf. And
I noticed last year that some ofthose individual leaves were turning yellow, and
I supplemented them with magnesium selfate.I think it was. So I've got
a commercial right here. Let meget you do this. I'm gonna put

(01:37:49):
you on hold. Evan is goingto give you my email address, and
I want you to send me picturesof the tops and bottoms of those leaves
up close, in good sharp focus. Will you do that? Yes,
sir, I think I can giveyou a better answer that way than trying
to picture what you're trying to describe. All right, just hang on hold
and Evan will pick it up.All right here, we are time for

(01:38:12):
the news. Seven one three twoone two k t RH is a number
if you'd like to get on theboard. Welcome back to garden Line.
Good to have you with us.What's your question today? If you like
to give me a call seven onethree two one two KTRH, we'll be
happy to visit with you about that. Uh. You know the best time
to plan tree forty years ago,second best time today. And if you're

(01:38:33):
looking for a quality tree, VerdantTree Farm. Verden Tree Farm is the
largest independently owned tree farm here inHouston now Verdant Tree Farm. Let me
give you the website because you're goingto want to go there. There's great
resources there Verdant v E R dA n T Verdant Treefarm dot com.
You can go on there and foryour standard decisions, decid you west types

(01:38:57):
of trees. They're going to haveinformation on all of the different ones.
Like what's the difference between a regularcypress and amna zuma cypress. You can
go on there and read about that. The palm's same thing. What is
a good hearty palm? Well,I guarantee you Verdant Tree Farm can tell
you exactly the hardiest types of palmsthat they have. They can they have
the right palm for any budget.They can make things look good. Take

(01:39:19):
pictures, go in, sit downwith them, walk out there. Tag
pick your tree. They'll tag it, they'll bring it, they'll plant it,
they'll do it right. And that'sthe way to have success. And
Verdant Tree Farm specializes in that.Whether you're down in Pearland on Broadway Street
at Verdant, whether you're at theVerdant up at let's say Yale Street and
I tent up in the heights orout in West Houston Parker Cypress. Verdant

(01:39:43):
Tree Farm love love going by andvisiting with them and just seeing what's what's
the latest thing there, because theydo a heck of a good job and
grow in their trees. Let's headto Livingston. We're going to talk to
Bill. Hello, Bill, goodmorning morning. I have a newly installed
orient pair of Prus Communists. Yeah, and it's developed a whole bunch of

(01:40:09):
brown spots all over the leaves.All right, Uh, soil we have
our here is very heavy clay.Yeah, top six or twelve inches as
black and the rest are down belowis brown. Yeah. Well, pears
are it's in a swimming pool.Pairs are resilient. They don't want to
be completely sub submerged. They cantake some temporary wet conditions, but they're

(01:40:32):
very tough. You see abandoned paarsand homesteads all the time driving driving or
abandoned homesteads with living pear trees stillthere. As you drive through the countryside,
you probably have a disease called fabrealeaf spot. Fabrea leaf spot it's
a fungal leaf spot. Right.Usually it's not bad enough to warrant spraying.

(01:40:54):
When you look at it and it'slike, man, I've lost about
a third of the leaf area onmy tree, it probably would be helpful
to spray. But most years youdon't have to worry about that. But
when we have these wet years,it can be a little bit of a
problem. I've never sprayed a treefor for brea leaf spot, but I
could see a reason why someone maywant to. Okay, so I dug

(01:41:19):
a hole for a fence pole slightlyupslope from it. When I hit two
two feet, I had a streamrunning through the underground. Oh my,
okay, that's direction. Well,if you've got two feet of decently aerated
soil. Even if you have afoot and a half, that pair is
going to be able to survive anddo it. Okay, so we did

(01:41:40):
to a heavy amendment of the soil. Yeah, okay, so it would
be lighter, so hopefully it'll hangin there. Yeah, how do you
spell that for brea F Let's seef A b R A e A but
f A b R A e A. Yeah, kind of interesting spelling.

(01:42:01):
You can look it up find outmore information on it. But it's a
leaf spot, so number of fungicideswill work on it. Things. Well,
I'm not going to list of allthe names of fungicides, but you
can find more information on that online. And wherever you go, you know,
your local garden center should have somesomething for disease on FRU one other
things. I'm new to your area, so I don't know your nurseries and

(01:42:25):
searching here, I'm looking for apink pamelo, a pink pamelo citrus.
Yes, what part of town areyou in? North east side of Livingston,
Oh, Livingstone? Oooh boy,I just don't know up there down

(01:42:45):
in the Houston area with the gardencenters we talk about here on Guardenline,
they're going to carry citrus, butwith a with that unique I was going
to say, with that unique ofa ctrus, you really need to call
and because they're probably gonna have toorder it in for you. They probably
are not going to just have itsitting there and stock. Okay, any
major nursery in the area then yeah, well you know, as we go

(01:43:10):
north, you've got Arburgate Nursery andTombaal. They keep citrus and fruit trees
year round, so it doesn't matterwhat month of the year. It's not
a seasonal thing for them. Theykeep them year round, So that would
be one option. Plus it's afun place to go. You could also,
let's see, you would be comingdown. I'm sorry, I don't

(01:43:32):
have the map in my head.Are you coming down forty five or fifty
fifty nine? So when you getto Kingwood, I would call Warren's Gardens
Center. But this is definitely gonnabe one they're going to probably order and
bring in, so make sure andget the call in. Yeah, that

(01:43:54):
that might be a little closer foryou. Okay, they're not swimming anymore,
No good, They're doing good outthere, all right. Well,
thanks for the call, appreciate thatvery much. If you want to have
success, if you want color onyour patio, and I hope you do,
you need to consider containers. Containersprovide versatile color. I love planting

(01:44:17):
in containers. Jungle land potting soilis a very good mix for containers because
it holds water, but the particleswhole water, so you don't have the
water every day, but it drainsthe excess away. It's made of four
different sources of aged composted organic matter. It's got micro rustl fungi in it,

(01:44:39):
and it's easy to find. Youknow, nitrofash products are all over
the place, and no matter whereyou live, you're going to find some.
For example, Kingwood Ace hardware.I was just talking about Kingwood.
The Arborgate up in Tomball's going tohave these products. Southeastern shades of Texas
is a place where you're going tofind nitrofoss products. And let's I'll give

(01:45:00):
you another one. Growers outletting willisthere's another place readily available. But go
ahead and get those things planted,get the color in. Do some things
that can take heat, like theperiwinkle, madagascar prairiewinkle, or the angelonia
for example. Those are all verysummer, tall, tough, and you
want that color so you have beautifulcolor all through the summer. Let's see,

(01:45:24):
I've talked about ACE Hardware before,but you know, ACE has a
slogan ACE is the Place, andI like that because it really is the
place. It's the place for allthe things you needed when things flooded and
you needed all the supplies to cleanup and deal with that. It's the
place for your lawn. It's aplace for your landscape. It's a place

(01:45:45):
for fertilizers and soils and tools thatyou might need out there. ACE is
a place for all kinds of things. ACE has. Often the ACE Hardware's
which are independently owned, have individualgift shops that again, each place is
going to be a little bit differentthan the others, but you will find
amazing things for inside your home aswell as things to make that outdoor patio

(01:46:10):
just a really special place you wantto hang out. And then, by
the way, when you're at ACE, go ahead and grab those mosquito dunks,
because you want that outside in orderto have a place that we can
enjoy hanging out. Nobody likes mosquitos. That's no fun at all. I
always enjoy going to ace. Bythe way, I'm going to be at
Langham Creek Ace Hardware next Saturday fromeleven thirty to one thirty. Langham Creek

(01:46:34):
Ace Hardware is over on Barker Cyprusin northwest Houston. It's south of the
Berry Center. It's really easy toget to near Highway to our FM five
point twenty nine one. It's acopperfield area. How about that. Maybe
that makes it a little easier.I'll be there answering your questions. I'll
be there looking at samples, lookingthe photos on the phone to help you

(01:46:57):
have a more beautiful garden and bountifulgarden as well. I'm gonna take a
little break. We'll be right backwith your calls. Well, welcome back
to Guardline. Good to have youwith us today. We are talking about
all kinds of things gardening, includingyour gardening questions. I was talking yesterday
about the microlife humates plus the conconcentrated I can't talk concentrated compost in a

(01:47:21):
bag. What is a humus?What is the substance humans? Well,
it's think of this. Take grass, cuppings and leaves and then decompose them
until they are compost and then letthe compost keep decomposing until it reaches its
final state that is humous. Microlifehumates plus has all the benefits of humus

(01:47:45):
in your soil. And what doeshumus do well? Humus helps build soul
structure. Humus has a couple oftypes of naturally occurring acids in it,
like humic acid and fulvic acid thathelp with releasing nutrients from the soil.
Is a wonderful addition as far asif you were to interview your your full
microhizal fungi and your microbes, theywould say, yeah, we like it

(01:48:06):
too. Microlife has a wide varietyof products humus. This is one the
microlife humts plus. Excuse me,hum mates plus. So when you're doing
your fertilizing, maybe using the greenbag the six two four, well also
do the purple bag when you doit this way. Here's here's how this
works. The natural system is it'sall about the soil. You keep making

(01:48:30):
the soil better and better and better. And that's what microlife products do.
That's why people like them so much. And as you do that, it's
not like you're rushing in for somequick fix. Yeah, they release nutrients
and they're helpful and they grow yourplants and stuff. But you're looking at
the long term and you're continuing tomake things better and better and better.

(01:48:51):
And you know what, if you'llglance down every now and then, your
thumb will start looking a lot greenerin the process. That's microlife fertile life.
For more information, you're gonna findthem pretty much everywhere I talk about
here on Guardline. I'm going tohead out now to Miguel and Harlingen.
Hey Miguel, good morning, Goodmorning. How are you doing well?

(01:49:13):
Termed? So have a question.We've been having this increased heat wave and
it's gonna get work. My wifewants to plant some flowers outside in the
next to the mailbox. So Iwanted to get your opinion and what will
be the best thing to do,especially for us down here. So you
have a little flower bed out there. We have two little concrete flower beds.

(01:49:38):
We just bought some ponting toil.We're working on it. So they
want to they want to grow somethingthere. They wanted something pretty and want
to find out what your best opinionwill do for that. Okay, uh,
well. Angelonia is one of myfavorite summer flowers, and it's very
heat tolerant if you can provide itwater. It does need to have water,
not soggy, but just you know, it's not a succulent or cactus.

(01:50:02):
You gotta water it. But Angeloniais beautiful, comes in a lot
of different colors and it and itdoes really well for you out in an
area like that. Periwinkle, uh, Madagascar prairiewinkle is sometimes called vincau.
It is a flower that comes inpink, it comes in white and red,

(01:50:26):
and there's even a coral type color. Those things just laugh at the
summer heat. And so that wouldbe another good one that you could put
out there that would be pretty dependablefor you. I'm looking at it all
right, Michael, Thanks for thecall. Appreciate that very much. Definitely
do hey up in Montgomery. Whatis your hometown garden center? Quick quiz

(01:50:48):
ding ding ding Ana plants and produce. That's it. They're on one oh
five. They're on the east sideof Montgomery, so it's really easy to
get to them. When you goto A and A. Of course it's
a garden center, you're gonna getplaying, yes, but they have a
lot of cool blaying too. Imean all kinds of things that you would
put in your yard for interest,put on the patio, you know,
like a chimneya for example, outon the patio. They've got all kinds

(01:51:10):
of stuff like that. But theyhave one of the best selections of fertilizers
and fertilizers soil products that I've everseen. And I really mean that.
You hear me talk about nitrofoss Theygot them at A and A, all
of them. Nelson plant food,yes, they've got that, including the
turf Star line, and like theSlow and Easy we were talking about yep.
A and A's got that. Allthe micro life products good night.

(01:51:32):
I mean you see what I'm saying. All the heirloom soil products, Nature's
ways, leaf mold, composts isthere, asamite. Is there anything you
need to get the brown stuff rightso that you can have success with the
green stuff. A and A plantsand produce. They have a landscape crew
that serves the area around Lake Conro. You need to call them for that

(01:51:54):
too. You generally keep my schedulesthere on the checkout counter. If you
like to just swing by there forone, they can give you one and
you can use that if you didn'tbring your own when you're out and about
shopping ana plant and produce. Thatwas a fun time to go out there.
Let's see here. I'm going togo now to if I can get
the button to work to Humble Texas. And am I talking talking to GOPI?

(01:52:18):
Yes, sir, all right,perfect pronunciation. I'm a first time
caller. My knowledge in the wholearea you're talking about it very limited.
Okay. The first question is relatingto any kind of a root killer.

(01:52:39):
I have a sewer line and it'sabout five feet from the tree. And
this property is built in nineteen fifties. Probably it has we don't know because
it's five feet inside where it's acash iron or our concrete all those,

(01:52:59):
but probably has developed cracks. Sowhat we do is we have to go
and you stew machine or road ruderto basically them off as it gets worse,
clucks up the plumbing. Yes,I was looking at video of some

(01:53:19):
that are total root kullars. Theysay they do kill their few. Put
that in, but you won't killthe tree. Yes, oftentimes thoughts about
that, Well, oftentimes those arecopper based. Copper kills the roots and
it just burns them basically, andthey run those through the sewer lines.

(01:53:44):
But there are some other substances.But I'm not a route control chemist sewer
line expert, but I can tellyou that yes, those are done.
But getting that rotor ruter through thereis important because even if you kill the
roots, you got a bunch ofdead roots composing very slowly in that wet
environment. So it's good to gethim out of there. Well, we
use one of these balloons at expandthat actually thrushes it out, so flushing

(01:54:10):
it out is not a problem.Let me tell you about this four that
I saw. You probably mentioned oneof them. It's the first one is
called FTC Store Pure Copper sulfate.Yeah, they say pentahydrate. Okay,
crystal that one. That's it.Hey, I'm sorry to interrupt you go,

(01:54:31):
but I'm going to run short hereon time. But I've kind of
told you what I know about thetree roots and the sewer. I think
you had another question you wanted toask about. Yeah, the second question
is with all the dry weather wehad, uh last summer, some of
the shrubs they're kind of we hadto trim a bunch of limbs off it's

(01:54:56):
it's almost looking bareh know. Oneof the few of their modelugas from and
one. It looks like for tiatype family. Maybe it's got red leaves
coming up and the last one wouldand what's your what's your question about them?
Yeah? What do you put infor a fertilizer? For the fertilizer,
I would use your lawn fertilizer,all the ones I talk about.

(01:55:17):
If you go to gardening with Skipdot com, gardening with Skip dot com,
there's a fertilizer schedule. Any ofthose work really well for trees.
So go up to the tree,take your thumb and how many thumb wits
across the shrub or tree or whateveris it. That's how you give it.
Two cups for every thumb with acrossthe trunk, spread out even land

(01:55:38):
watered in. Hey, I'm sorryto have to go, but I am
out of time here, but thankyou very much for your call. If
you're down south and you need thebrown stuff to make your garden happy,
that is Cienamulch. Cienamulch has allthe fertilizers I talk about. They have
quality things like leaf mo compost,like the veggie HERBNX like rose sooil,

(01:56:00):
like mulches, like decorative rock.It's all there. When you go to
Sienna and you go home with theirproducts. And by the way, they
deliver within about twenty miles of thelocation. You've got success set up for
your plants. They're gonna do well. They're on FM five twenty one.
Here's the website. Go there,Sienna Mulch dot com, Siena multch dot

(01:56:23):
com. They can deliver within twentymiles. You can go pick it up.
They have stuff by the bag.They have stuff that's bulk. You
get to pick what you want.We want to set you up for success.
That is true. Absolutely. I'mgonna be next Saturday at Langham Creek
Ace Hardware. That's in the Copperfieldarea over there in northwest Houston. It's

(01:56:45):
on Barker Cypress. If you'd liketo come see me, I hope you
will. Eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll be taking questions. You can
bring me samples, you can bringme photos, and I just like to
meet the listeners to Garden Line.So come on out there. We're gonna
have a little shindo out there.We'll be giving away some really cool stuff.
Including some nitroposs products out at LanghamCreek Ace Hardware. So come on

(01:57:06):
out. It's always fun to goout to an ace. I love to
love to get to meet the folksthat are coming in that listen to Garden
Line. We just always have agood time. Those of you who were
at arbrogating yesterday, you know wehave a good time. We were cutting
up. All right, Well,we're putting this one in the books.
We'll see you next weekend. Rightdown Langham Creek Ace. Welcome back to

(01:57:30):
the garden Line. Good to haveyou with us. We've got one more
hour to put in the books.Here. It's nine oh five right now,
be here for about another hour.I think a while ago I was
talking like heading out the door,candor not time yet. I want to
talk a little bit before we goto calls about Nelson's Slow and Easy Plant

(01:57:54):
Food. It is a gradual releaseproduct for your long a slow release product.
But the way that the Nelson Fogdeanand the Nelson team have designed this
is that it's going to give yousome fertilizing nutrients out now, and then
it's going to gradually release, especiallythe nitrogen over time for a very long

(01:58:15):
time. I mean it'll go fourmonths out or more. So when we're
doing it right now, you're thinkingyour next fertilization is in the fall.
So get it taken care of.Let the chemistries in there do what they
do. There's things that you know, some fertilizer, you get it wet
and it dissolves and the nutrients arethere, and they're not going to be
there forever because they wash away andother things happen. Plants take them up,

(01:58:39):
microbes take them up. But thisalso has one that you I mean,
you can sid in wet soil andit will still be releasing later on,
and that provides a really good benefitby stretching out the growth, grass
actually has a less root system whenyou overdo the nitrogen. I will say
that again. If you to takeand I've seen pictures of this, like

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they took three crocks of nutrient waterand one of them had almost no nitrogen,
and one of them had a mediumamount, and one of them had
a lot. The one that hada lot was very green on top.
It was the biggest greenest. Soyou get to mow a lot when you
do that. But when they pickedthem up and showed the root system.
The high nitrogen had less than halfthe root system of just regular fertilizing,

(01:59:25):
So we don't want to do that. We don't want to overdo it.
So you want the nitrogen gradually fedto your grass. And that's why Dean
designed this slow and easy to be, slow and easy to do, and
it makes lawn care very easy.It's part of the turf Star line that
Nelson's has. It's widely available.You're going to find it in a lot
of different places, and I thinkyou're going to be pleased with the success.

(01:59:47):
And I'm excited about the fact thatthat slow growth rate is really important
going through the summer season. I'mgoing to go here to humble a go
pie. I think we still haveyour round, Is that right? Yeah?
I'm still here. Okay, Uhwell, let's we're on the other
side of the news out here.Let's uh see you were you were going

(02:00:08):
to ask about shrubs and I talkedto you about fertilizing them. Did you
have a follow up on that?No, that's all. Uh Okay.
What's the name of the fertilizer you'retalked about? Okay, Well, there
there are a number of ones.I just was talking about Nelson's plant food,
slow and easy. If you're goingto fertilize shrubs, though, you

(02:00:29):
might want to consider one called Bruce'sBrew Bruce's uh b r u ce apostrophe
s b r e W. That'sfrom Nelson, but it's going to release
more of it a little earlier,and I think that would give you,
probably for your shrubs trying to geta little boost in them. That might

(02:00:51):
might be a little bit better foryou for that particular application. All right,
okay, all right, well,thanks for getting no to investigate further
on the root killer. Use someoneto call to explore you know, I
would talk to plumbers, I guess, but I'm telling you, Gop,

(02:01:11):
you have overstretched my brain on theroots. I could make stuff up if
you like, but I don't.I don't know anymore, do you mentioned?
All Right? Well, anyway,thank you for your time, thank
you for the call. Appreciate thatyou take care of Good luck getting those
roots out of that system. I'veI've had to deal with that myself,
so I know what you're talking about. Uh. Today's Mother's Day. Surprise,

(02:01:35):
Happy Mom, Happy Mother's Day.All the moms out there. If
you, let's say, you haven'tgotten. Okay, Mom's close your ears.
I want you this, uh,sons and daughters, If you have
not gotten a Mother's Day gift yet, I've got I've got what you need
to do. Run over to Wildbird'sUnlimited and get one of the really cool

(02:01:57):
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scrollproof feeder. There's a book onthe joy feeding birds that in that book,
the actually the founder of Wilbird's Unlimitedanswers common questions about birding and having

(02:02:20):
birds around the yard as a hobby. They have many others. You know,
it would be even better than yourunning by and grabbing one of those.
Take Mom with you and let hershop, let her pick out whatever
she wants in there, And howabout that for a Mother's Day gift.
Warbird's Unlimited six stores all over theHouston area. WBU dot com, forward

(02:02:41):
slash Houston. We're going to gonow to Meadows Place and talk to Jim.
Hello Jim Hello Skip I've got athirty forty foot pecan tree in the
backyard. Early in the year Februarytime frame, trimmed off some of the
low branches. Now I'm getting continuedgrowth at the cutoffs. Other than trimming

(02:03:03):
those cutoffs off. Is there anythingI can do to keep to prevent them
from regrowing there? Tell me onemore time, what was the type of
tree you said you have? Pecan? You could trim them off again.
At the base of those pecan shoots, even if you don't see it,
they're little tiny buds, lots ofthem all around the all around the shoot

(02:03:25):
that can develop. And that's whywhen you cut it off and maybe you
leave a little half inch stub,you're going to get a lot of re
sprouting because those buds of they're waitingand you just stimulated them to grow.
So cutting back as close as youcan on those little ones would be helpful
in cutting that down. There aresome products that will stop that kind of

(02:03:47):
growth. One it's called sucker stopper. Now I have never told somebody with
a pecan tree to go buy suckerstopper, but if you want to suppress
that sucker type of growth, whetherit's coming in the bottom of a tree
or a pruning pruning wound area,sucker stopp or something you could spray on
it. Just have to follow thelabel on it when you do it.

(02:04:09):
Okay, that's what I need toknow. Thank you all right, Jim,
thanks a lot, appreciate the call. You know you're gonna I would,
I would say you're probably gonna finda sucker stopper at Ace Hardware stores.
ACE carries a lot of different things. I have not gone into all
the Aces to see if they havethat product, but that's where I would
definitely start there and just call themand see No matter where you live in

(02:04:32):
the Greater Houston area, you knowyou got forty Houston area ACE Hardware stores
that are part of the Houston Groupand so that makes it easy, and
just go to the website acehardware dotcom and find the store locator. In
fact, what when I go thereis something pops up and says can we
use your location? I say yes, because then you get a map that

(02:04:54):
has Ace Hardware's all over the place. I mean it just red dots all
creation. By the way, thisworks not just here in Houston, but
you know you're in other cities aroundTexas, and I guess even further you
can do that the map and makesit easy to find the ones that you
need. ACE Hardware is going tohave the fertilizers I talk about. For

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example, I talk about the SuperTurf by Nitrofoss, that is the silver
bag, that's the nineteen four toten nineteen four to ten. It also
has four percent iron in it forgreen up. Half the nitrogen is in
a slow release form, so youget an immediate feed, but you also
have a gradual release out there overtime. And they also you know,

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there are a number of Nitrofoss products, but a while back, I was
talking a lot about the Sweet Green, the eleven zero four natural type fertilizer
that they have. Well at thispoint in time, unless you just want
to fertilize in small amounts with aquick release, then I would suggest just
get you a good slow release likeSuper Turf Silver Bag nineteen four ten,

(02:06:02):
apply it and let it do thegradual release for you. You're going to
find Nitrofoss products in many, manydifferent places, including a bazillion ACE hardware
stores that are out there, aswell as the Encented Forest and Enchented gardens
down in Richmond. They both carrynitrofoss products down there, and the plantation

(02:06:23):
ace by the way up there ina Richmond Rosenberg. Also. I mean,
it's easy to find nitrofoss products allover this region. I was in
an ace the other day, andagain, like I said, each one
is a little bit different, soyou know, it's not just a cookie
cutter going from one to the other, although there are many, many similarities.

(02:06:45):
But I was in one the otherday and they had a machine that
sharpens knives and you can bring yourknives, lock them in there and it
just does the sharpening forus. LikeI'd never seen one of those. That's
pretty cool. Well, let's takea little break. I'll come back in
just a bit. Seven one threetwo one two kt RH Slaying on a
Sunday morning here on the garden Linet'ssleep at the Way of Die. We

(02:07:09):
are going to go straight out tothe phones right now and talk to mel
In Carmine. Hello, mel Well, good morning. Really appreciates taking my
call and love your show. It'sthat you helped me. I have a
question about a magnolia. I cangive you the official name, but they
call it a saucer magnolia plant.We butter at a home depot about six

(02:07:30):
months ago and it just won't grow. Now, followed your directions about putting
it in the ground with some rosemix and watering it, but it just
won't kick off, and it's got, you know, scattered leaves. I
sent a note over to the website, and I don't know, I didn't

(02:07:50):
see a place to attach a photo, but anyway, I was wondering what
can I do to get that thingto kick off and start growing. It's
been in the ground long enough,should be doubling in size. How long?
When did you plant it again?About four months ago? Yeah,
well, it can be a littleslow. They do need good drainage in

(02:08:13):
the soil, so if it happensto be a clay and low lying and
certainly been a wet year, thatcan be a problem for them. Did
you happen to notice when you pulledit out of the container did it have
roots wrapped around in circles inside thegar Yeah, a little bit. And
again I followed your advice. Ibroke them up and made sure that I

(02:08:35):
didn't let them stay rooted down.Okay, good, good, that's important.
I generally tell people to cut those. I think you've done what you
need to do. Moist soil,good sunlight, and adequate nutrition. A
lawn fertilizer is going to be ahigher nitrogen fertilizer and that's going to be
good for supporting new growth on plants. Generally with saucer magnolias, tulip magnolias,

(02:08:58):
all the different decisions smagnollia types,we don't have to worry about pushing
them all the time. They dopretty good growing at a little bit slower
rate. And especially the other thingto remind you is it's gonna set buds
for next springs bloom in late summerand fall, so make sure you're not
pushing them with too much nitrogen.Then make sure you're not pruning them.

(02:09:24):
Definitely after about June or well maybeJuly. After that, it's got to
settle in and set those buds.So that's looking forward on it. As
far as why it didn't bloom thisspring, you got me on that one.
I don't know why it wouldn't haveif it's healthy. Yeah, because
it looks like it's got some littlepods like it wants to have some blooms,

(02:09:46):
but nothing came out. Yeah,I don't know, you know,
without being there and seeing it,and maybe something would become visible. But
hopefully it'll settle in and do wellfor you. Did you buy it?
I don't need to know where,but did you buy it somewhere local?

(02:10:07):
Yes? I did, and I'vebeen using you know, as usual.
Listen up the micro Life product therearound it. Encourage it. Yeah,
that's a good one. The sixtwo four. Now, while ago you
may have heard me say, forevery thumb with give it two cups of
fertilizer. If you're going to usethe Microlife the concentration of nitrogen is lower
in that, so I would doubleor triple that that rate. For every

(02:10:31):
inch of truck, every inch oftrunk diameter, I would give it probably
five cups of the Microlife fertilizer sprinkledevenly all around the branch spread of the
tree. If you can rake itinto the soil, it's even better.
Or rake it into the mulch andthen water it in, well, that's
even better. All right, allright, Well, thank you very much.

(02:10:54):
Well, good luck with it.I hope it straightens up. You
know. One one last tip isif you go out with a chainsaw and
fire it up and start walking towardthe plant. And then you turn off
the chainsaw and say I'm coming backand I'm gonna do it next spring.
If there are no blooms on it. I find that helps them. They
tend to bloom better that way.All right, again, great advice,
Thank you so much. Sorry,all right, thank you appreciate the call.

(02:11:18):
Let's see here we are gonna go. Who's been waiting on this?
Tim? And Massachusetts? Tim?This is a long distance call. Good
morning, good morning, Skip,A great show. Thank you. So.
I had a rose bush that wasinevertently cut down last year and it
overwintered. The roots overwintered pretty well, and I noticed the start to sprout.

(02:11:41):
What should I do for fertilizer?There? A quality rose type fertilizer
would be good. Do you justhave one rose bush? Yes? Okay.
Nitrofoss makes a couple of quality fertilizersthat can be used on roses.
And it's a little jars. Areyou are you actually living in massu sits
now? Yes? Okay. Youprobably don't have nighter FoST products up there.

(02:12:05):
And I looked around. I can'tfind them up this way, you
can both organic and synthetic fertilizers aregonna be available in your area, and
I would just I would, Iwould find one that is kind of it.
Let me back up just a minute. Is the rose overall its growth
has been good for you looking backwardsand previous yes, and previous years it

(02:12:30):
has. I never really trimmed itback, but it always sprouted new sprouts.
Yeah, and and booms. Okay, well you know this one's this
one's probably I'm guessing fifty two,one hundred years old. Holy moly.
Okay, well, obviously it's beendoing really well. If it's lived that
long, I don't know your soilsup there, and and so it's hard

(02:12:54):
for me to advise you specifically onwell you need this three nutrients on the
bag and this numbers, you know, but in general with roses, nitrogen
is important in moderation. We don'toverdo it, but nitrogen supports bigger and
every rose bloom is occurring at theend of a shoot, and so every
time you trim them back, everytime that you stimulate new growth, you're

(02:13:20):
going to have rose, good roseproduction, but again don't overdo it on
that. And good sunlight too,you know, over time, trees get
bigger and what used to be fullysunny becomes more and more and more shady,
and your rose blooms are going togo downhill as a result of that
as well. So that's another minorfactor that might be at play as well

(02:13:43):
in this. Okay, okay,great, And then one another question.
I have an old pear tree alsothat half of it is kind of died
off, but half of it hasflowers and buds. Now, what fertilizer
should I use for something like that? I almost never fertilize pears pears.

(02:14:05):
Pears are very vigorous and they wantto grow straight up, and we don't
want them to grow straight up.We would like them to open up like
a normal tree. So if ittruly is just no vigor, then you
could use like a little bit ofa lawn fertilizer on the pair, just
not one that has weed control init. If most pears, at least

(02:14:31):
my experience with them has been thatthey have really good vigor, And so
what we end up doing rather thanpruning them to try to make them branch
out, because they just you prunethem and they just send up more shootes
straight up. You lean those branchesout with a cord and then maybe use
the steak or something to kind ofhold them down at about a forty five
degree angle and they'll after a couplemonths of being set like that, they'll

(02:14:56):
tend to stay like that. Butas far as fertilizing, other than seeing
nutrients symptoms on the leaves, likedifferent kinds of yellowing or something on the
leaves, I would go easy onit because it just exacerbates the tendency to
be too vigorous and upright. Okay, and then last question, rule Barb.

(02:15:16):
My root Barber is sprouted quite welland it's starting to flower or seed.
Can I cut and I'm going totransplant? So can I do I
cut down that seed pod? Yeah? You can let it go. Well.
Either way is fine, but ifyou if you cut it earlier,
the energy that goes into the bloomingand producing seeds could be directed elsewhere in

(02:15:41):
the plant. But it's not anight and day thing. Ruber will be
fine with you as you transplant eitherway. Okay, great, thank you
very much for the information. Allright, So, I just I don't
know if you listen to guardline much, but I always say that when we
give advice We don't charge, butwe do ask you to send us half
of the produce that you're growing.So I'll be looking for a rhubarb pie

(02:16:05):
here at the station next next.What is it special up here? Yeah,
I know it is. Hey,thanks a lot, good to thank
you very much, good to talkto you. You bet, you bet,
bye bye. Yes. The antigrosIporium out there in Independence, Texas
is a show place. It's alwaysa good time to go because there's always

(02:16:28):
interesting things going on out there atthe Anti Rosmporium U. For example,
they have a lot of native plants. You know, they're roses, I
mean, for crying out loud,they are nationally known for their antique roses.
But there's so much more, likea really good selection of natives,
a lot of different salvias and colorplants and whatnot. Every Friday and Saturday.
Out there by the way is theirTinker Garden Workshop. It's for kids.

(02:16:54):
It's an outdoor play based educational curriculumfor kids that are two to eight
years old. Just go to thewebsite. Here's the website. We are
excuse me, Antique Rose Emporium dotcom. I was giving you the email
address Antique Roseemporium dot com. Goto the website the upcoming events. You
can sign up for things there.All of their roses at Anti Grosemporium are

(02:17:18):
in two gallon containers, so they'rea really good, strong, robust plant,
twenty nine to ninety five each acrossthe board. Now, when you
go out to Anti Roseenporium, takeyour friends because it is fun. It's
fun to walk through. It's beautiful. It's like you enter another place and
time. And if you've got agroup that would like to go out there,
give them a call or go tothe website and where you can get
information to email them. They canaccommodate garden tours and presentations like a lunch

(02:17:43):
and marn or something like that,and they'll give you the details about it.
But it really really is worth thetrump out to Independence, Texas.
It's time for a news break.We'll be right back, all right,
Welcome back to Gardline. Good tohave you with us today. What are
we going to talk about in thislast half hour of the show today?
You tell me We're gonna find outright now from Roger up in Deer Park.

(02:18:07):
Hey Roger, Hey, good afternoonor morning's to it? Yeah,
it still is. I got aBlackBerry push in my backyard and I'm trying
to transplant it, move it tothe front because of the neighborhood a wood
fence up, so it's only getsone side. So I'm trying to figure
out one the road direction northeast west, so forth, so on, and

(02:18:33):
then the spacing between the plants,spacing between the roads, and what kind
of what size hole would I bedigging up the armacane? Okay, are
you talking about thornless or thorny blackberries? No, this is the thorn variety.
They call it the saw tooth.Say that last word one more time.

(02:18:54):
What kind of what variety saw tooth? See? Okay, that's a
new one to me. Well,in general, you're going to put your
blackberries out about three feet apart.They can go four feet apart. They
can go a little wider if youwant. They a lot of the older
types come underground and send shoots up, so they form a hedgerow a solid

(02:19:18):
row in time. But some ofthe newer, the thorn this especially,
they tend to be individual plants moremore so than the thorny. Uh.
As far as the width between rows, you're going to want to keep your
rose pruned and narrowed and thinned outproperly so that you don't give blood every

(02:19:39):
time you try to pick blackberries.Uh. As far as the distance between
them, how many roads are youtalking about here? Oh? Just two
or three? Okay? Yeah?Are you going to are you going to
need to take any equipment down theroad, like maybe you know you got
to spray around a lawn mower oryou know. Okay, yeah, you

(02:20:05):
just need plenty of room for you. So that's gonna take about ten feet
probably because they're those those shoots aregonna come up, You're gonna tip them.
They're gonna make side branches that areout and down. Uh, And
you want to be able to walkdown the middle of that row without being
grabbed on both sides by some longblack BlackBerry shoot out there. So I
would say ten is fine. Youmight get away with eight and be okay

(02:20:28):
if you're trying to crowd things ina little bit. But you can also
prune to help keep things clear inthe walkway. Okay, what kind of
root deps? I mean? Thesedo send out shoot or you know twit?
Those are not Yeah, those rhizomesare not very far unto the ground

(02:20:52):
going horizontal there and from them comethe shoots that help create that thicket or
hedge of blackberries. So you're goingto be trimming those out. You're going
to decide how why do you wantthis row? I would suggest two feet
wide? Uh, and then anythinggrowing out from that just gets you know,
rotortail, dug up whatever. Butuh, it'll end up making the

(02:21:13):
whole thing a solid BlackBerry briar patchif you if you don't keep them in
the rows. Oh yeah, I'veseen that happen. Kind of root dipped?
Are they? When I'm asking this? Is that if I wanted to
put a wall up on the inthe ground. Oh uh yeah, plus
uh dig up the prima change totransplant them from the back to the front.

(02:21:39):
Yeah. Uh, that's good.That's a good question. I've when
I've dug down, they've all beenin about the top six s eight inches
for sure. Uh in that range, probably eight being a little bit lower
than you're going to have them go. I don't if you wanted to put
a vertical wall in, I would. I would uh uh just think that

(02:22:00):
if you could get down eight teninches that ought to be adequate. But
I've never tried that before on them. That is a good idea though.
Yeah. Plus that's what I waswondering about digging them up too, you
know, kind of when I shovelaround it when they're small and little ursus.
When they you know, the pymMcCain's come up, sometimes they're worse

(02:22:22):
than in any kind of weed.Quick. Yeah that's right. Well,
good luck with those blackberries out therein Deer Park. Look forward to hearing
success from them. Thank you Rogerfor that call. I was talking to
Ian out of Nature's Way Resources yesterdayand we were just talking about some different
things. But they are really stockedup on all the different quality products that

(02:22:48):
they make. You know, theymake fine leaf, more compost that is
just Cadillac stuff. I mean,they really know how to make a good
fine screen. So if you wanta top dresser lun they can provide that.
They also have a fungal based compostand they have a screen version of
that too, which is also goodfor top dressing your lawn out there.
Remember that on Fridays Fungal Fridays,ten percent off their bagged fungal based products

(02:23:13):
twenty percent off their bulk. Sowhether you go out there with a trailer
and pick it up, take ithome, or whether you have them deliver
it. They got plenty of thaton hand, and that is super high
quality stuff. Of course, they'vegot the rose soil that originated at Nature's
Way Resources, the leaf mold,composts and so on. Nature's Way Resources

(02:23:33):
also has native plants. They gota light, nice little nursery right there
on site. If you've never beenout there, you head up forty five
and where fourteen eighty eight comes infrom Magnolia. You just turn right and
it's just right there. Here's aphone number you're want to write this down
nine three six three two one sixtynine ninety nine three six three two one

(02:23:56):
sixty nine to ninety or you canjust go to Nature's Way Resources dot com
Nature's Way Resources dot com. Let'sgo now to round Rock. Talk to
Marianne. Hello. Marianne, Hello, I wanted to ask about my daughter's
plum tree. She lives here inround Rock and that tree is a beautiful

(02:24:16):
tree and it is loaded with plums. But they are just full of worms
and it's like the worms are insideof the fruit. Is there something they
can do about that? Not afterthe fact, but next year when the
plant's blooms have almost all fallen.When there's very few blooms left on the
tree, you begin to have tospray for an insect called the plum creeculio.

(02:24:41):
Now, since they've got those,every plum that falls to the ground
or has a worm in it needsto leave the property. Throw it in
the trash, get it off theproperty because the peculio larva that when it
falls on the ground, they're goingto come out and pupate, and then
they're right back next year. You'rejust raising a new crop of those.
Don't get rid of all of themto get those plums out of there,

(02:25:03):
but it really helps. So allthe all the fallen fruit out and then
spraying. There are insecticides labeled forfruit trees. You want to wait until
most of the blooms are done soyou don't kill your bees. But starting
then all the way up, asthe plums begin to grow, you're going
to do some thinning. Plums tendto set too much. And if you

(02:25:24):
look when you're thinning and you seethe little baby green plums that have a
little slit cut in them, alittle crescent shaped slit very small that indicates
that a plum curculio has already laidan egg in there. Thin those out
and leave the ones that you knowthat aren't already have eggs in them.
That's kind of the package on plumbcurculio to get her back in better shape

(02:25:46):
there. Okay, okay. Isthere a particular product that I should look
for? No, not any particularwhen there's a number of different products out
on the market that are but itjust needs to be labeled for fruit trees
that that is important. So whetheryou you know, you get a Bonneye
or a fertile home or a Montereyproduct, whatever the high yield. There's

(02:26:09):
a lot of brands out there,but find one label for fruit trees that's
an insecticide. That's important, exactly, all right, Mariann, all right,
appreciate it, thank you, Thankyou very much. We're going to
take a break here. When wecome back, Lee and Tom Ball you'll
be the first up a little bodyEagles to close things down. Our last
segment for today here on Garden Line. We appreciate the fact that you listen

(02:26:31):
to Garden Line, and I hopethat you will tell your family and friends
about it as well. You mighthave noticed that we get calls from pretty
far away Houston. Folks move awayand they keep listening, or go visit
their family and friends. You know, anybody can listen to us anywhere they
are. You can go to thepodcasts and listen to past shows. You
can listen on some of those someof those podcast apps like the IHEARTMEDIAPP you

(02:26:54):
can listen actually live to the show. There, you got your phone with
you out in the garden. You'regood to go. And we are always
happy to help people have a morebeautiful and landscape, a more bountiful garden.
That is kind of why we're here. I had some let's see,
we're gonna go Tombo. When Italk to Lee first, Hey Lee,
how are you doing today? Great? Thank you? Got three fig trees

(02:27:20):
my backyard, about two are abouttwo years old, ones about one year
old. Two of them have holesin the leaves. Maybe I've counted fifteen
twenty leaves and then it looks likewho splotches, It looks like rust on
the other side. That was allright, Google symptoms, there's just too

(02:27:43):
many answers come back. That makessense. Hm, Well, the holes
in the leaves, I wouldn't worryabout I've never seen insect told that that
are too much. As far asthe rust, when you it looks like
yellow spots on the top, isthat it Now, no, just look

(02:28:03):
like rust, like redish oine rust. Okay, there's no yellow. And
then the leaves are starting to wrinkleup like a prom or something. Now
that's very interesting. It's lee,I tell you. Well, go ahead,
I'm sorry. A lot of thethings I read mentioned it could be

(02:28:26):
a blight of some sort, butthere was no treatment. Yeah. The
only the only problem I see onfigs though, is rust. The disease
rust. It's a fungal disease,and it's difficult to control because you got
to find something that will control rustand something that's labeled for figs, and
that combo is difficult. Sometimes peoplewill use sulfur based sprays. Sulfur is

(02:28:48):
a weak fungicide. If you stayon it, you can keep the fungus
at bay. But once you gotthe spots, then those spots are producing
spores. Typically out of the bottomof the leaf. You'll see some spores
coming out. But that's the mainthing. When the weather is like it's
been, you know it's going tobe a bad year. Raking up the

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leaves and getting rid of them helps. It doesn't eradicate it because rust floats
through the air on its spores,so it can come in from a lot
of places. Okay, I cansearch for something to spray on it,
but it doesn't have so is itlike a commonal situation? No, no,

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not at all. It weakens thetree, and I've seen trees.
I've seen figs almost completely defoliated byrust disease in a very bad year.
The tree survives it, just whenyou take all that carbohydrate production out,
its ability to make a nice sweetfig is not there. And it also
weakens the tree too, So wetry. You know, you don't always

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have to spray, But sulfur isprobably the one I know you probably find
with a with a label like that. There may be another one out there.
Off the top of my head,I can't think of a fun just
side labeled for figs that's effective againstrust. I can do a quick search
and yeah or not, Yeah,you might, you might be able to

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do that. That's not a badidea. In fact, I'll if I
can, if I come up withanything in the next what do we got
here? About five minutes, sixminutes of the show. I'll say it
on the air. Just keep listening. I guess maybe the the local gnursery
might have some some of the Yeah, yeah, yeah, RCW. Might

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you know you're what is you justdown street? You're in Tamboul area.
You you're real close to plants forall seasons and Arborgate plans row seasons has
a pretty good list. I'm tryingto remember if I've saw the spray aable
uh in there on that. Butanyway, just here's the thing. Call
them, call them before you driveand ask them, tell them what you're
looking for, and yeah, I'llget them a call. Pushing on one.

(02:31:07):
All right, sounds good, Thankyou, Thank you, appreciate your
call. Yeah, that's an interestingdisease. You know, we've had a
lot of questions about fruit and stufftoday and Arburgate uh and being a store
that sells fruit trees year round.I mean that that's kind of cool.
You can always go and get somethingthere. But I talked about Microlife earlier

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and I didn't mention that a Microlifehas a product that is called citrus and
Fruit. It's a six two four, just like the green bag that for
Elijah. This one is in anorange bag. Yeah, orange like ut
that's right. University of Tennessee OrangeCitrus and fruit six two four. It's

(02:31:50):
another good product by Microlife if you'dlike to get something for your fruit trees
that works really well. They alsohave some liquid products. They have got
one it's also the same color oforange, and it's called Microlife Biomatrix seven
to one three. You might haveheard me talk about it before. It
is a liquid. You mix itin water and you put it on plants.

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It's got a good dose of nitrogenin it. It's loaded with microbes.
So when you're planting things and youwant to water them in, you
can use Microlife Biomatrix. It worksvery well for that. And like all
Microlife products, widely widely available.Just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
Or if you hear me talk aboutACE Hardware and Southwest Fertilizer and this or

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that nursery or this or that feedstore, you're probably gonna find Microlife in
all of those places. Makes itsuper super easy to do. I want
to remind you that on next Saturday, I'm going to be at Langham Creek,
Ace Hardware, Langham Creek Ace Hardwareis in Northwestson. It's in the
Copperfield area. It's actually on BarkerCypress. Some of you familiar with the

(02:33:00):
center where you got to go southon Barker Cyprus and you'll get to Langham
Creek Ace Hardware. Uh. Andwe're going to be doing all kinds of
things. I know we're giving awaysome nitrofost products. I'm sure there's some
other stuff we're going to be givenaway then, uh, and I'll be
there to answer your questions. Socome on out, grab those leaves with
spots on them and things like that, and you know, let's uh,

(02:33:22):
let's make sure that we help youhave success. That is important. If
you have photos and things that youwant to bring out that is that's fine,
don't don't worry about it. We'llbe taking looks at those will help
you make sure we get them diagnosedright. That is important. Diagnose it
right, and then send you tothe product that's going to be effective.

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If indeed a product is needed,and in many cases you just don't have
to need. You just don't haveto spray for things. You heard me
talk about that a little bit earliertoday. It's it's not a really big
deal. When you just get ahole in a lead here and there and
whatnot. It's really easy to do. Yep, that is the case.

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I try to minimize spring by theway. I just do you know,
we've got to get organic products,We've got synthetic products. You can go
either way on those. Sometimes withparticular plants and diseases, you do not
have the option to you know,have maybe an organic product for that particular
situation. But in general, justfocus on taking care of your plants.

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Get your plants as healthy as youcan. That's good fertilizing, it is
good, watering as needed, nottoo much. Avoid wedding foliage anytime you
can. So that's the deal.When you take care of your plants,
you're going to minimize the problems,not eliminate all of them, but minimize

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them and you're much more likely tohave success. And so that's what we
focus on when we're trying to helpyou. Along with those kinds of things,
I want to mention what other thingand there are a couple of websites
that I think will be real helpfulfor you. Number One, I hope
you go to gardening with SKIP.That's my website. I'm slowly building it

(02:35:09):
out as I can, putting newsflashes up as we see those kind of
things come along. But it's gotmy two schedules, the long care schedule
and the long Pest Disease and Weedmanagement schedule. Please download those, have
them handy so that when you're lookingfor the right product or the right time
or whatever, there you go.I mean, you've already got it in
your hand. Another is the AggieHorticulture website. It's Aggy Dash Horticulture dot

(02:35:35):
TAMU dot edu, Aggie hyphen orDash Horticulture dot timo did du. There
is a section on vegetables that hasa bazillion free vegetable publications. You can
look at them on the screen ordownload them. There's a section on fruit
that is very very helpful there aswell. If you need to do soil
testing, soil testing dot ta Mudot edu. Soil Testing t AMU dot

(02:36:01):
edu is another place where you canget good help. And whenever you do
need to send a plant in tohave it diagnosed, there's a plant clinic
up at n M. The Stateplant Clinic is Plant Clinic dot TAMU dot
edu. You might want to bookmarkthose because when you need them, they're
going to be very very helpful foryou in finding the kind of information that

(02:36:24):
you need. When when I getout of here, I've got some planting
to do. I'm trying to gethome today. In fact, I've got
the first thing I do is getsome mowing done. I have planted four
different kinds of grass. Yeah,I know who does that? Fort different
kinds of grass around the house toSaint Augustine's two Zoysius one two in the
front in the back. I gottaget those things mode. You know,

(02:36:45):
the more often you mow, thebetter it looks. And here I am
sitting on the radio instead of takingcare of my lawn. For crying out
loud, I can't let that happen. Listen, we appreciate you being a
garden Line listener. It's been afun weekend. Really enjoy to look forward
to talking to you again next weekend. Remember pass shows are available by podcasts,
and please remember I'll be at LanghamCreek Ace Hardware next Saturday, eleven

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thirty to one thirty. Come outand see me. Let's get some product
drawings. I'll even have some freesamples to give away. Of products out
there, So come out and seeus. Have a good time. In
the meantime, get out in yourgarden and have fun. Listen, Gardening
is not rocket science. If thingsgo wrong, it's like playing with an
etch of sketch. You know how, you turn it upside down and shake

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it. With gardening, you justget a Rota tiller and you get a
fresh new start in life. Don'tbe afraid to fail. You've got to
kill a lot of plants to bea good gardener.