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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Scared Rict.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the crazy watch a trim, just watch him as
so many good things to set by.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Hey, welcome, welcome, Welcome back to garden Line. It's good
to be back this weekend. We got plenty of things
to talk about, as always with gardening. You know that's
a nice thing about gardening. There is always something to
talk about. I mean, if you only own some fruit trees,
we got something to talk about every day. If you
only own a couple of herb plants or a couple

(00:49):
of houseplants, we got something to talk about. Gardening is
twelve months out of the year, three sixty five and
twenty four hours a day. If you want, we always
have something that is pertinent. We're going to talk about
some of those things today. I'm gonna talk a little
bit about pre emergent herbicides, so stay tuned for that.
We're going to go into a little bit of a

(01:10):
detail on that. I've had a lot of questions about
pre emergence recently, and you know, it's important to get
these things right because think of the pesticides we apply
in sexicides, funch sides, herbicides, all of that. Think of
it is like medicine. And in terms of dosing in things, right,

(01:31):
I mean, you've got you take too much, it's not good.
You don't take enough, it doesn't help. You don't follow
the instructions on the prescribed medications, and you're probably going
to get into troubles. And that is the way it
is with any kind of product that we put on
our plants, for insects, diseases, weeds, even fertilizers. Misapplication can

(01:54):
cause problems. So we'll talk about that a little bit
more in a bit. So just kind of stay tuned
right now. Now, I wanted to tell you that the
gate is wide open on getting some pre emergent fertilizers
out there. It is important that we apply them at
the right time and our If you look at my
schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see October

(02:17):
is the big month for doing that. Now. The idea
is to get it ahead of times. So I'm saying
I'm turning things loose here at the very end of September.
If you want to put one out, especially those of
you who live further north. It's a little cooler for
the north, just a few degrees than it is all
the way south you go to Galaston, for example, or
other areas south. And so, you know, we when I'm

(02:40):
saying on a radio show that goes from Huntsville down
to the coast and then down Corpus over to really
the edge of Austin and over the Louisiana border, you
know saying, well, now is the time. It's kind of
that's a little bit of a range. But I'll tell
you this. For those of you in a little cooler
parts of the zone, now is absolutely the time. And
for those of your further south, if you want to

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get it done a little early, you can. And here's
why those products last. I talk about barricade all the time,
and barricade it's not like it's just going to work
for a few weeks. It's going to be around. And
so if you want to go a little earlier on it,
you can. It's a little earlier. Maybe then you need
to in the warmest parts of the area, but you

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never know what the weather. That's the thing. Weed seeds
sprout based on temperature, and so when we get into
the fall season, as it's cooling off the cool season,
weeds they're sitting there going it's brout now, not when
it's one hundred and twenty degrees, I'm not going to
do it. And then when it cools off a little bit,

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it hits a temperature where they're willing to sprout, and
we got to get our products down ahead of that.
And so it's more important to be a little early
than it is to be a little late. That's kind
of the thing to remember. So now it's time to
go ahead if you want. Early October is great to
mid October, and these seeds will germinate on through the
cool season. So if you know, if you perhaps stopped

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every weed that was going to germinate real soon, then
there'd be weeds that are going to germinate in November
germinate in December, for example. And that's why I like
that barricade product because it covers your window there. Either way,
if you don't get your pre emergent down on time,
you can still put it down for the weeds that
are going to germinate just a little bit later. But
you may have missed a few of the weeds. But

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that's just part part of the deal. What's the best
thing you can do? When you don't do the best thing. Well,
it's it's the second best thing. And so whenever you
can get those, get those applied Ice Hardware stores got
you covered on that too. By the way, if you
need barricade, they've got it. Any kind of a product
that I talk about. The fertilizers we talked about, I'll
be talking about fall fertilizing today again. And ACE has

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got you know, there's we have different brands that people follow.
Some people like to do things organically, some people you know,
synthetic is fine. And no matter how you want to
go about your gardening, Ace has got the fertilizers for you,
especially now and this time of year when it comes
to the fall fertilization. They've got those in supply, things

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like Microlife's Brown Patches, which is their fall fertilizer. And
then they're you know, each particular groups of fertilizer has
theirs for the fall season. So Nelson's calls there's carbo
Loade that's the one for that, and you know He's Hardware,
it's got theirs as well. By the way, I'm going

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to be given away some of Ace Hardware's Fall Special,
which is their fall fertilizer by by a Harder by
Nitrophoss is fall special today when I'm down at Wharton
Feed and Ace. I'll be there after a decent time
after the show today because I got to make a
good trip. But it's from one to three a'llbe at

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Wharton Feed and Ace, and we're going to give away
a couple of bags of specially we're gonna give away
a couple of bags of barricade too. So hey, if
you haven't purchased them yet, you might get lucky. Come
on down. If you don't get lucky, they've got them
there in stock where you can get you some. While
you're down there, you are listening to Garden Line And
this is a call in show, so you know, when

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we do call in shows, we always think, wouldn't it
be a good idea if people knew what our phone
number was so that they could call in, all right?
Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
that is seven one three two one to fifty eight
seventy four or KTRH and give it to you both ways.

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Makes it easy easy to get in touch with us.
Let's see, I wanted to there's a number of things
I want to talk about today, but for right now.
I think we probably need to go to a break,
So I'm gonna stop talking for a second and I
will be right back. Just hang on. Oh, I'm being
told that I got a little bit more time, all right,
let me know when we got a little late start,
so we kind of shift our times a little bit.

(07:01):
Just let me know when it's time. Well, I tell
you what I wanted to. It's going to be a
while before I'm out there. I'm going to be out
it in Channit Forest a little bit later this fall,
and I wanted to. I wanted to tell you a
little bit about some things that are going on out
there now. And Chenni Forest is down in Richmond Rosenberg

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area and that I love going to that place. It
is always fun. Right now, when you walk in, you
are going to see fall asters and moms everywhere. I
mean they are this is their season and they are
showing off. You need vegetable plant transplants to get going.
You need herb transplants to get going. You're still working

(07:43):
on your butterfly garden fall us for planting. You want
to get some things planted that will attract the larvae
and the adults in and Jenni Forest, has you covered today?
Out there at ten Danny's going to be giving a
presentation on his favorite trees and he does carry a
number of trees out there. Start at ten on Saturday,
So if you just want to string together a list

(08:06):
of fun things on a trip, stop in at ten
am there and then head down to Wharton and we'll
talk down there as well. He's got plenty of shrubs
and trees, you know, for fall planting a fault is
the best time to get them planted. He's got some
great camellias. Boy, they're loaded with buds. Camellias just a
great thing to add flowers to a season when we

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don't have a lot of flowers, and that would be
the cool season. He's got some good ones. And you
got to look at his Talivera pumpkins. Those talaveras are
absolutely gorgeous. I mean it's you know, when you walk
into the store. Of course, the mums and the asters
are going to catch your eye, but these talaveras are

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just beautiful painted pumpkins. That would be a great decoration
that you would have for years and years and years
to come. So you got to go by and check
those out as well, and then he has all the
other all decorations and everything you expect from Enchanted Gardens
or Channet Forest actually in Chenne Forest. If you're in
Richmond and you're heading towards sugar Land, it's off to

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the right on FM twenty seven fifty nine, twenty seven
to fifty nine. I mean, you look it up on
your maps, but Enchanted Forest is the place that you
need to check out for all of the things I
just talked about, and they are loaded ready for bear.
And if you want to time your visit today to
when Danny's gonna be giving that presentation that starts at

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ten am presentation on his favorite trees for the area.
And he knows what he's talking about, that is for sure.
Tell what we're going to run out now to Spring,
Texas and talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Hi, good morning, thank you for taking my call. I
get some pright myrtles, probably about eight of them that
are straight in the line, and they're about I guess
fifteen feet tall, but these white spots all over them,
and they have a kind of grayish looking colored to them,
and the leaves are kind of like will teem, what's

(10:13):
my problem?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Okay, well you said from your descriptions, I think two things.
The wilting is likely something preventing water for giving in
the plant. You know, root damage could cause that, but
it could just be a lack of water. It's been
kind of dry, it's been kind of hot. In fact,
we've got a hot week here coming up. Try giving

(10:34):
them some good, a good deep slow soaking, you know,
put a sprinkler out there, put a rain gauge or
a straight sided can, and water as much as you
can for it starts to run off, and then water again,
and water again until you've caught about an inch of
water in that rain gauger or straight sided can, and
I think that will help. Crapes are starting to lose

(10:55):
their leaves. They typically, you know, we'll do something like
that when they're in a long, hot summer stress. But
mine are starting to lose their leaves and that's just
normal at this point. It is what it is. They
are where they are, But if they're a little on
the dry side, that can happen. Now, the white spots,
that's the big problem. That is something called crape myrtle

(11:17):
bark scale, and it shows up as little white things
on the trunks and branches of the limbs. The scale
puts out sugary substance that causes mold to grow on
the trunks and branches. It's a black mold, so literal
city out there. The scale is sucking juices out of

(11:38):
your plant. So when we have scale, we can spray
them with oil to smother them. That is one option.
This particular scale has been a problem to control, and
so people are also using systemic insecticides that are drenched
onto the ground that the roots of the crape take up,

(12:00):
and that the scale then gets the poison when it
sucks the juices out of the plant. I like the
systemic approach and in that you're not putting a pesticide
all over the surface of your plants. So things like
a lady beetle crawling around the surface isn't going to
be affected. But the scale, anything sucking juices out will
be that. The danger on those is when you do

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them before we go into our bloom season, that material
can be up there in the nectar and and bees
go to craig myrtles. So but at this point in
the season you could use a systemic.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Product Okay, is that available at a.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
C at Ace?

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
At Ace, I'm sorry, y.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah. Ace Hardware does carry them. And
you're you're in the Spring.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Area, yes aam is that right?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah? So let see you probably you've got you've got
one on Memorial there Ace Hardware Memorial Drive just outside
about eight. It kind of depends on where in Spring
you are or your Spring or Spring brand.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah, I'm closer to twenty nine and forty five.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Okay, all right, yeah I should there's one. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
Okay, Well I'll try that.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's the closest one to you. Yeah, just go in
there and uh if you want to do you have
a pin or pencil handy, Yeah, I do. I do
write down I I am, I d O AM and
there is a separate word right down and then as

(13:41):
a separate word right down d I N O like
dino dinosaur. Uh ef. Those aren't the whole names. But
if if those two products that begin with those letters
just two different ones, you can choose one or the other.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
For this, okay, okay.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
In business in the.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Roots, yes, we'll tell you. Okay, Yeah, you mix it
in water and you don't have to do it all
over around the plant, just just around the base. Not
too far out from the base is fine. It'll pick
it up from there.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Okay, all right, appreciate.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
It very much, you bet, you bet, Thank you very much.
Appreciate that. Yeah, that great myrtle bark scale. Boy, what
a mess. That is definitely a mess I was talking about.
You know, the fall fertilizing and stuff. Nitrophoss has got
you set up with what they call the Texas three step.
You know, the dance is Texas two step. We're going

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to do the Texas three step in our lawns and
that is three things fertilizer, weed control, and disease control.
And here's how that works. The fertilizer's nitro Foss Fall
Special Winterrizer Nitrofoss Fall Special Winter Riser. It has that
potassium we need to help the plant to make let's

(15:01):
just call it the ana freeze for cold protection or
to store the energy that it needs to come out
in the spring. Fall fertilization is very important and Nitrovos
Fall Specials designed for that. It's got the barricade, which
is the pre emergent. That is the second step. It's
two different products, Fall Special and then barricade. Step two.

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You get it down, you water it in. It prevents
weeds from sprouting. That's the cool season weeds, the ones
we deal with in the spring or sprouting in the fall.
Number three is the fungicide. It's nitrophuss Egle turf fungicide.
And I was just telling Andy Imido that was one
of the ingredients for the systemic well that is what's

(15:44):
in nitrofuss Egle and night fuss Eagle will get in
your turf and when brown patch tries to attack or
take all root rot, which is also a fall attacking disease,
it is there waiting for them. Those diseases. You don't
wait till they're all infected and then try to cure
the grass. It's not very effective to try to do

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it that way. You get in ahead of the disease.
And that's what the third step of the Texas three
step will do. You're going to find nitrofoss Texas three
step products at Court Hardware and Stafford Katie and Katie
Ace Hardware has them. You go up to Brunham plants
or things those of you, and Willis go up to
Growers Outlet. They've got them all there easy to find

(16:27):
those products. Let's go now to Carol in Houston. Hello Carol,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (16:35):
Thank you, good morning. I have several camellias and I'm
having problems with scale. I've been treating with two systemic
funge asides, two different ones. After listening to part of
your call just a little while ago, maybe that's my problem.

(16:55):
I have been spraying the whole bush, trying to get
up under the where the scale is. Am I supposed
to be spraying just in the around the base of
the of the plant.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, there's if you're using an oil, for example, that
an oils are good for smothering scale. That's our one
of our prime ways we control scale. You want to
get it on the scale, So you would spray the
above ground and you would spray all sides of all branches.
In other words, you know, if you just blast over
the top, you're not going to get any scale that

(17:30):
might be underneath that. That doesn't have to you have
to coat them in oil to kill them. So thorough
coverage is critical for controlling scale with oil. If you're
going to go with a systemic approach, then you're putting
it in the roots to get it up in the plant,
because what you're doing is you're poisoning the plumbing inside,
and that's the juices the scale are drinking.

Speaker 8 (17:53):
Okay, I've been using let's say, proprocnisol and emit a cloprid.
So maybe that's my problem because I've just been just
been spraying the leaves and of course up under the leaves,
which is almost impossible because there's so many leaves and
it's hard to get up underneath. So if if I

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were to continue to.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Plants that you're comella plants, you're using those two on.

Speaker 8 (18:20):
Community fa.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, okay, if it's just community okay, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
So if I were to continue using the one of
these two systemic fungicides, do I saturate the around the
base of the plant with that funge aside, you know,
pretty much saturated with with the fuide?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Are those two different products or are they mixed together?

Speaker 8 (18:48):
And they are two different want the let's see what
the coronoisol is fertile and the motorcoporal is bonade. But
I've tried both, you know, well, I couldn't get one
to work, so I've tried the young one.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, but you need to understand, those are very different
products for very different things. In middow product is the
systemic insecticide, and you drench the soil to get it
up into the scale on your camellias, and that would
work very well. Now, camellias attract bees, and we're about

(19:24):
to enter their bloom season, so that's a concern that
I have about putting the amitacloprid on at this time.
Once we get past their bloom season, you can go
after that scale with a vengeance with the amitacloprid, and
that's fine. Proper connaisol is a fungicide, and so it
would control diseases and you would spray it on the plant.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
Okay, the proper connaisol is a is tell me that
again is fault.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
I think we lost you, Carol, if you.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
Would explain the proper Honda's all again for me. It's
a funge a side proconsole.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
It's a funge a side. So if you've got fungal
leaf spots on the plant, in all other kinds of disease,
it can be. It's used on turf for some of
the Jesus of turf. But those two just separate. Those
two products. They are very different in what you need.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
Okay, okay, we have.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
To run to a break, but hopefully that'll get you
off on a good start. And I do, I do
appreciate your call. Folks. We are up against a heard break.
I've got to run and I'll be right back. Hey,
welcome back to Guardenline. Glad you are with us today.
We are looking forward to continuing our conversation with you
about the things that help you have a more beautiful

(20:44):
on and a more bountiful excuse me, a more bountiful landscape.
I wanted to go into a little bit of a
talk here on some things related to pre emergent herbicides.
I've been getting a lot of emails and online questions,

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all kinds of different things from people wanting to know
or misunderstanding the application of pre emergent herbicides. So here,
in a nutshell, is basically what you especially need to know.
Number One, pre emergent herbicides prevent weed seeds from sprouting
and establishing weed plants. They don't control plants coming back

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from underground storage structures. We call those perennial plants. They control,
They stop weed seeds. They don't kill existing plants. You
got weeds in your yard, you put a pre emergent
on them. If it's a pre emergent, it's not going
to kill them. You would need a post emergent, meaning
after they come up to kill an existing weed. Second,

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you need to put them down before the weeds germinate.
And the analogy I use. I did a Facebook post
yesterday about it is the baseball analogy. If you wait
to swing until the ball is over the plate, you're
never going to hit the ball. You have to start
swinging before the ball gets the plate. Right. Well, that
is the analogy meaning that if you wait until the

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weeds are sprouting to put your pre emergent down, you're
probably not going to do much of anything with it.
It can be a good product that works, but you
didn't apply it right. Third, they need to be incorporated
into the soil, meaning you got to water them in.
So when you put out barricade granules, for example, you
water it in with just a little bit of water.
About a third of an inch is adequate because all

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you're doing is getting the herbicide off that granule and
into the soil surface. That's where the weed seed will germinate.
That is where when it tries to push through and
establish the barricade shuts it down. The pre emergent shuts
it down. So that is important to understand what they control,
and that is stopping weed seeds. That's what they do. Secondly,

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you need to apply them at the right also at
the right time, meaning not after they're sprouted, before they're sprouted.
And number three, you need to incorporate them with water.
You need to water them in a little bit to
get them into the surface for them to do what
they do.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Now.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
The fourth thing I want to mention is premerging herbicides
like any medication or any herbicide or insex side or fungicide,
there's things that works against and things they don't work against.
No one product controls every weed on earth. So I
like barricade because it's got a wide spectrum, broad leaf

(23:33):
weeds and grassy weeds. It controls a wide spectrum. But
not every weed will be controlled with any one product.
So if you've got a weed that you're not getting
a response to from whatever product you use, you may
need to switch to try something else for that weed.
But most of the time a lack of performance is
due to the applicator. If we put it down at

(23:54):
the wrong time, we don't water it in and so on.
And that is why I have I have my schedule
on gardening with skip dot com to give you timing
on those things so that you can do it the
right way. And I've gotten a lot of questions about
what I got weeds. Will to pre emergent kill them? No, no,
it won't. Well you know I tried and something didn't work. Well,

(24:16):
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Speaker 9 (27:12):
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Speaker 3 (27:17):
Welcome back to Gardenine. Good to have you with us today. Listen,
if you haven't been to the Arbigate recently, you need
to check it out. It is beautiful out there. You know.
They have all their fall decorations out and if you
look for if you're looking for plants, they absolutely have
some stunning things. One thing that I think they do
a really good job of is putting combo planters together.

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And they've got planters with you know, things like croaton,
which is definitely fall colors, and the trailing plants, the
grass like plants. By the way, fall is for grasses.
If you think about ornamental grasses, Fall is the best season.
It's when they really show off. Anyway, these combo planters
look just gorgeous and you need to check them out

(28:00):
and get you something like that because they are stunning.
If you need things like snap dragons, if you need
other fall planting flowers, if you want decorations for the holidays,
a Halloween, they're getting ready gets all set up here
for the Christmas season as well. But they've got these
little they're like the little ghosts, little ceramic ghosts that

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on a little stick that you put in the garden.
You just have to go by and see them. They're beautiful.
Remember they got the new parking lot out back that
is wonderful and easy, very safe entry to come in
from the back that way just off Treshel Road, easy
to get to. And when you're at Arburgate, always get
a bag of organic food complete which contains everything your
plants need. An organic soil complete, which is a quality

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soil with some expanded shale in an organic compost complete.
It's a compost, but it also has some expanded sheale
mixed in.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
One.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Two three. You've taken care of the brown stuff, and
you grab an arbigate plant and put it in that
and you will have success. We love love kinds of
things they carry there at arburgate dot com. They're just
west of Tombaul. On twenty nine twenty I'm going to
head out now to Paul on the southeast side. Hey Paul,
welcome to garden.

Speaker 9 (29:11):
Line k skip Uh.

Speaker 10 (29:16):
I've got two questions please morning.

Speaker 6 (29:19):
How are you?

Speaker 10 (29:21):
I have sadmins, for lack of a better word, better
ants inch and half. I want the pennsylan. I want
to whack and paint them with something I've heard you
talk about and passed to kill them down to the roots.
And then I want to know the name of the
app if you use for id id.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Okay. So first the saplings. If you go to my
website Gardening with Skip dot com, there is a free
publication called Herbicides for Skips weed Wiper. Now those herbicides
on there aren't just for the weed wiper But what
it does is it tells you buy the kind of
plant which herbicide to you. So if it's a grassy plant,

(30:05):
if it's a sedge plant, if it's a woody sapling
or a shrub or a woody vine like poison ivy,
each of those categories has herbicides with brand names that
I'll put in there. So it makes it real easy
in case you know, you forget later or maybe have
a next you're trying to kill nuts edge you want
to know what to use for that. It's all on
that page. Four saplings for woody plants, Try clow Peer

(30:26):
t R I c l O p y R. And
I'm not going to go through all the brand names
that they won't all come back for me, but c
l O p y R. So it's try clow Peer
and it's sold typically in things that say they're for

(30:47):
poison ivy or brush control or stumpery sprouting or things
like that. But that's what you do. You cut off
the sapling, if it's got any size to it at all,
like at least the size of your thumb, cut it
off and dab straight tricle pair right onto it. I
use those little foam paint brushes, a little tiny ones
on a stick. It makes it real easy, and you
do it right away. Don't don't wait a day to

(31:09):
do it, do it right away. If they're smaller and
you can't cut them off, you can put a little
bit of a diesel oil actually into a tricle peer
and you can wipe them on the sides of the
real small tender saplings because they don't they don't have
bark on them yet, and it soaks. The diesel helps
it stick and soak right in. So anyway, that is

(31:32):
how I would go about those. Okay, what was the
second part of your question?

Speaker 10 (31:38):
The app?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
With the app? You know, there are a bunch of
them out there, and I played around with a few
of them and everyone what basically my impression was, if
it's something from Texas here, it seemed like they didn't
represent well in those apps. Now, if you're talking about
standard stuff like this is a petunia and you know
this is a hollybush, those kind of things, it does

(32:01):
pretty good at that. What I like to use is
Google Lens, Google Lens l E N S and you
can even if you have an Apple phone, there you
can you can download the Google app, and it's in
the Google app. Now Apple has one that I haven't
thoroughly tried. I suspect it's probably very good too. But

(32:23):
Google lens is good for identifying anything, I mean from
that's just I have used with any kind of phone. Yeah,
well then Google lens. Look for the Google l E
n S. Go to your app store and look for
Google Lens l E n S. Okay, all right, that'll

(32:46):
do it. That's the best thing for me. But I'm
sure there's some other good ones. Some of them costs
money to get the good version of them. Google lenses
for you, Yes, you bet appreciate, appreciate your call. Southwest
Fertilizer is the place you go when you want anything.

(33:08):
They're limited to anything. If you want something other than anything,
you can't get so with fertilizer because if they don't
have it, you don't need it. They do. They've been
in Houston lawn and garden tradition since nineteen fifty five.
They're down their corner Business and Renwick in Southwest Houston,
hence Southwest Fertilizer. You can go to the website Southwest
Fertilizer dot com and you're going to find every possible

(33:32):
herbicide and sect aicide, fung just side fertilizers, gardening tools,
on and on and on, things like Azemi. They've got
it there. They also have a shop in the back
that can do repair on your small engines. They've got
more blade sharpening, a lot of very helpful things. Like

(33:52):
I said, you just walk in there and pretty much
everything you need for your lawn and gardens to make
them successful. It's going to be a Southwest fertilizer to
carry the Microlife products you know, and right now, for
example on Microlife, they carry all the fertilizer on the
Microlife I would suggest using their brown patch Microlife brown
Patch it is a fertilizer that has a higher there's

(34:17):
the nitrogen is a little less than their green bag
and the bus potassium you know, real ratios a little higher.
It's time to get that down Microlife fertilizers. I livevailable
Microlifefertilizer dot COM's website. In fact, if you want to
also add some of their products that are called bio inoculant.

(34:38):
Can't go wrong with that. Lots of good microbes to
help fight off disease issues that might be trying to
infect so I do both. I do the Fall Special
and I do the bioinoculate both when you put them
out well, I hear music starting to play in the background.
I need to quit talking and go to a break. Here.
I want to tell you do not forget this. I

(35:00):
will be at Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware today, but
it's a later appearance from one to three out in Wharton, Texas.
Wharton Feed and Ace you can find it on the maps.
I'm going to give away two bags a Fall Special
from Nitroposts, two bags from Barricade Medina, samples plants from
green Lay Plants, and a gift certificate from the muck

(35:20):
Boot Company. Come on see me advertised on this program.

Speaker 9 (35:25):
Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with skimped Rickard.

Speaker 11 (35:29):
It's just watch him as Hey.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Good morning, folks, Good morning on a nice Saturday morning.
I'm looking forward to getting out and about today. I
we'll be down at the Wharton Feed and Ace in Wharton, Texas.
We'll be giving away products and answering your gardening questions.
I'll be there from one to three today, so please
come on out. Everybody listening. If you live way down
Corpus Christy Jan had a chance to come see me

(36:05):
at one of the appearances. Well, here's this is about
as clothes as I'm gonna get. In fact, I've never
been that far out, and I'm really looking forward to
this new newly developed Ace hardware store down there, and
Warton is just it's gonna be fun. We have a
good time, and bring me samples of your plants. Put
them in a bag so that you can bring in
any bugs that are involved, won't crawl away. Bring me

(36:28):
pictures of plants that you have. We'll just deal with them,
all of the different things. You're tired, you're weary, your
huddled masses of plants yearning to be disease and insect free.
I'll be happy to take a look at them. Orges
Hidden Gardens is a place you've heard me talk about before,
but it's done in Alvin, Texas, and those of you
down south, you need to know about it and you

(36:50):
need to go there. By the way, Jorge just opened
up his hours. He's now open every every weekday, okay,
every weekday from nine into three, and then on week
ends he's open from eight to four Saturday and Sunday,
So nine to three during the week eight to four
on Saturday and Sunday, he has gotten shipments of all

(37:11):
kinds of things. And he's just got a bunch more
of his Orgees special formula's fertilizer that he sells. Fruit trees,
including cetrus. They've got those in. They got a beautiful
of succulent types. Landscape plants, for example, cacti, things like
the agave, you know that sort of thing. They're just beautiful.
Some of them already have bloomstalks on them. It's got

(37:32):
great trees. The Cassia, which is a yellow fall blooming bush.
The oh my gosh. One of my favorite plants is
Texas sage also called Cynizo, has a purple flowers. They
call it a barometer plant because it's bloom cycles follow
rain spells. Just go to Hore you're going to see
them all down there again. It's on Elizabeth Road in Alvin, Texas.

(37:55):
Elizabeth Road, Alvin, Texas. Jorges Hidden Gardens. You should go
check those out. By the way, when you get a
tree down there, they carry those three sixty tree stabilizers
at Horehes two, So I always remember to pick one
of those up when you get your tree so that
you can stabilize it and have success. You are listening

(38:16):
to garden Line. The phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. That makes it real,
real easy just to dial straight in. How about this,
let me give you let me give you the letter way.
Some people like that five one or seven one three

(38:36):
two one two ktr H. How about that we'll go
that way too, uh. BnB turf pros is one of
the companies that pretty much exemplifies everything that I like
to see and a sponsor here on garden Line. Number one,
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(38:57):
just do a job, get your money and leave. It's
they want a relationship with the customers. They go above
and beyond to make a personal connection and make sure
you as a customer satisfied. Number two. They do high
quality work and that's why you're satisfied. They show up,
they will do the compost top dressing, and they'll do
the the time aerration to get those little plugs out

(39:19):
of the ground up to the surface. And if you've
got a loan that struggled from summer it needs this.
That is one of the best things you can do
for long Yes, watering is important, Yes, fertilizing is important,
but a compost top dressing after a deep time narration,
that is very important. The website is bb Turfpros dot com.

(39:40):
BB turf Pros dot com their phone number. Write this down.
You're going to probably want to use it, and I
just think you should ride down seven to one three
two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three
two three four five five nine eight. Now they are
down south and west of Houston, and the area that

(40:01):
they cover is also down in that area, so Missouri
City and sugar Land that's the west side, down through
a down Highway six, Fresno, Siena, Arcola, Iowa Colony UH
and then over as far east as Pearland. That's their region.
And they do good work. Go online, check out their
website bb Turfbbturfpros dot com and you see the kind

(40:23):
of work they do. And trust me that this kind
of activity on your lawn, this kind of service on
your lawn is an excellent thing to do here for fall,
because we have we got cool season weeds sprouting, getting
a little compost drop desting on top even has a
little added benefit of shading the soil a little more
to help suppress that we'd see germination. That's something I

(40:46):
don't often talk about about. That well our phone number
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
That is the easy way to get a hold of me.
I was visiting with some of the folks at Nelson's
at a trade show not too long ago, and just

(41:09):
talking about the different products that they have, and of
course right now the one that's in the forefront is
their carbo load. Carbo Load is a fertilizer designed for fall.
Why carbo Well, here's why. When you put down a
fertilizer that's got some nitrogen but also a good amount
of potassium in it, that's what carbo load has. You

(41:32):
are going to build essentially ana freeze in the plant
to strengthen the plant for cold weather. But you're in
by what you're really doing is you're building carbohydrates sugars
in the plant. It does that cold protection, it also
helps it come out strong in spring. They call it
carbo load because when you put it down your lawn

(41:52):
produces a good supply of carbohydrates to increase winter hardiness
and improve spring growth. A forty pound bag covers five
thous and square feet. Of course, you want to water
it in after you apply it, get those nutrients down there,
and it just works really, really well. And now's the
time to get the carbload down. Go to my schedule

(42:12):
gardening with skip dot com. There's two schedules, one for
lawn care and one for lawn pest disease and wheat control.
Down on a boat. They're free. You know, I can
tap me down on that price. Free gardening with Skip
dot Com, Nelson Plant Food, Turf Star, carbo Load. That's
what you're looking for. You're going to find it as

(42:32):
a widely available product in pretty much wherever you live.
I'm going to go now to West Houston and we're
going to talk to Mary.

Speaker 7 (42:43):
Hello, Mary, Hey, Stip, good morning. I just want to
get your feet good morning to you. Can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Yes, ma'am?

Speaker 7 (42:55):
Hello, Okay, I just wanted to You're so knowledgeable about
grass seed versus grass sod and I've heard your different
comments in the past, and I'm in a situation now
where I want to use or would like to use

(43:16):
grass seed instead of grass sod. Okay, and I wanted
to give you your feedback.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
You bet I'll be mourning good morning and on a
good day for gardening. If you live up in the
Montgomery area, Ana Plants and Produce on the east side
of Montgomery, right there on one oh five is the
place you need to go. Visit. All of you out
there listening in the Lake Conroe area, certainly Montgomery and
Conroe all through that area. Ana Plants and Produce has

(43:44):
a great stock of things right now. They got beautiful
moms out there. I saw some great asters out there
too when I was there recently. Roses fall is for roses,
and they've got a good stock of roses as well.
Maybe some perennials like plumeria, you know, the little beautiful
blue flowered plumeria. They have those, they're so beautiful. Plenty

(44:05):
of lantanas to those. Bring those butterflies in Gardena's nice stock.
Guardina's the Salvia leucanta Mexican bush sage. That's the one
that blooms in the fall and has beautiful purple spikes. Oh,
they have some great, really awesome plants. Of a savvy
lecanta out there. They have everything, and they have every

(44:26):
fertilizer you hear me talk about on guardline. If I
talk about fall fertilizer, I don't care what brand it is.
They've got it there. At Ana Plants and Produce, they
carry products for soil member brown stuff first, like heirloom soils,
like Nature's way. You're going to find that there at
Ana Plants. Again, they are out in Montgomery, on the

(44:47):
east side of town, on the east side of town
in Montgomery toward Conra, toward Lake Conro. If you will,
all right, let's go back. We were talking with Mary,
and Mary I think I believe you had a question
about seeding grass. So what is the type of grass
seed that you want to plan? What species of grass?

Speaker 7 (45:07):
Well, this this is a replacement for Saint Augustine grass
that was overtaken by crab grass. And I have pulled
a half of the crab grass mountains and I have

(45:27):
at least half more to pull up. And I'm we're
talking about five hundred to seven hundred and fifty square
feet and the cost of of of Saint Augustine. Uh,
you know, by the Pallette's very expensive so I'm warning
I'm interested in using grass seed, and I bought a

(45:51):
product that says, uh yeah, it's it'll do uh seven
hundred fifty square feet for a whole lot less money. Oh,
then using set can't grasshop it? Well, that's the picture.
That's why I'm calling you. The picture shows a very

(46:11):
appears to be very lush, lush looks like a golf
course or the picture on.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
The back of course it does. They're trying to sell
it to you.

Speaker 7 (46:19):
Yeah, and it's temper says it's temporary.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Okay, Uh yeah, you don't want to do that.

Speaker 7 (46:26):
Uh, that's that's.

Speaker 9 (46:27):
Where I.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Yeah, it doesn't come from seed. That may be a fescue.
If it's temporary, it may be a rye grass. That's
kind of likely. If it's temporary, fescue grows better up north,
not down where we live down here.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
What I do is, if I were you, I would
I don't know how how big the areas where there's
no Saint Augustine is. Oh, it's the whole yard where
you have the whole yard's gone.

Speaker 7 (47:02):
Or the whole yard is I would say good, ninety
to ninety five percent of the yard is Uh, crabgrass
that has to come come up, and I have pulled
it up.

Speaker 12 (47:13):
This I'm under the Uh.

Speaker 7 (47:16):
It's just that's your way, uh making me replace this grass.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Mary, I'm yeah, I'm not convinced that it's crabgrass. There
are several other grasses that can look like that. If
you would like to take a picture and send it.

Speaker 7 (47:34):
To sent a picture I sent. I sent you a picture.

Speaker 13 (47:39):
In Zach.

Speaker 7 (47:40):
I got it. Yeah. I got a response from Texas
A and M a gentleman after subsequent to sending you
the picture.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Okay, what did they? They said? Crabgrass? Yeah, okay, well
I did. I didn't receive an email from you.

Speaker 7 (47:59):
But I'm going to. I'll forward his response.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
To the pictures and send me the picture. When you
do the picture, my producer will give you the email
to send them to me. Make sure you got the
right email from the cross and well, let me take
a look at those. Because crabgrass grass, it won't be back.
It won't be back until its seeds sprout next spring.
So that's easy to stop crabgrass from coming back. What

(48:27):
we got to figure out is how to get you
some Saint Augustine in there. If you've got a picture
of your yard, would you send me that too, and
I'll take a look at it. And I think that
way we're going to be able to do a better
a better job of helping you. Thank you very much.
I appreciate appreciate that call. Mary. Uh. You know you
hear me talk all the time about Landscaper's Pride. You

(48:49):
hear me talk all the time about brown stuff before
green stuff. Well, Landscaper's Pride has got a number of products,
over twenty products that will help you have success with
your plans. I just want to tell you about three
number one black velvet molts. You know black velvet. It's
a composted hardwood malts that has a naturally dark color.
It's not dyed naturally dark color. It's just beautiful and

(49:11):
you always need malts twelve months out of the year
wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed, keep
the ground surface molted, and black velvet is an outstanding
product for that. There's also a planting mix that they
have got. It's a blend of locally sourced pine marks,
got some sandy loam in it, It's got some organic materials.
The compost type materials in. It suitable for most any

(49:33):
growing situation that you're in. Their planting mix is a
great way if you're going to do fall planting, which gosh,
I hope you are. It's the best season of the year.
Don't let it get by. Grab some planting mix from
Louisiana Pride. Louisana Pride dot com is the website louis Is,
louis Excuse me, Louisiana. I keep saying that Landscaper's Pride.

(49:54):
I don't know why I make that connection anyway. Landscaperspride
dot com is the website, and if you go there,
you'll see where you can buy their products, as well
as a list of all the different products they have. Together,
as they say, Landscaper's Pride, let's grow something together. Follow
them on social media too. By the way, let's see here.

(50:17):
I believe we are. Let's see. I think Marry, Are
you back? I think I see it?

Speaker 8 (50:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (50:25):
Waiting on your email?

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Oh okay, I'm gonna put you back on hold, Chris,
would you give Mary my email? Hang on? Sorry about that, Mary?
All right, We'll get an email there to marry and
be on our way. You know, photos are always better
and some things. If you think I might need to
see the photo, you can always call and get the
email to send it in. The reason I don't just

(50:49):
give it out on the air is I'm not able
to answer the emails, just the volume of it and
keeping up with social media and everything else and my
other tasks through the week that I have, I can't
because there's more of you than there are me. And
so what I do is I try to connect the
emails to phone calls and help you that way as
best I can. So please be understanding, Thanks for being

(51:13):
a listener. But that's just kind of how I survive.
I managed to survive and to give you the best
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(51:57):
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(52:17):
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(52:38):
must do in my yard because they do such really,
really good work out there. You are listening to garden Line.
Our phone number is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. When was the last time you
went to Moss Nursery? You know Moss Nursery down in Seebrook, Texas.
Moss always has really cool stuff and stock Gem just

(53:03):
brings in just outstanding, outstanding plants. And you never know
what you're gonna see when you go to Mass, I mean,
there's always something. It is a destination nursery. By the way,
right now, they've got some gorgeous succulent bowls. You know,
in succulent you're so easy to take care of. The
only way you can fail with succulents is to water
them too much. But they have beautiful, beautiful succulent bowls.

(53:27):
Their Housepke Greenhouse is like like none other, absolutely other.
You want Halloween decorations, They've got them at Moss Nursery.
You want plants for Faul, They've got them. The Ddlsmortos celebrations,
all kinds of unusual, like you know Skull and you
know the whole Halloween nine yards. They've got that there,

(53:48):
that rangoon creeper that we've been admiring all summer long,
with beautiful blooms that go from white to kind of
a deep reddish color. Oh, they're gorgeous. They have those.
If they dive the ground in the winter and then
they come back with a vengeance in the spring. You
will not find a more interesting beautiful plant than they're

(54:09):
gorgeous rangoon creepers. But I could go on and on
talking all day. They're at five five one to one
Toddville Road in Seabrook. Or go to the website m
aas Nursery dot com m aa S Nursery dot com. Okay,
I guess say one more plant. Chinese fringe trees. They

(54:29):
have them in very small, smaller container pots as well,
which makes it, you know, quite affordable for somebody want
to get a tree, but you know, put it in
a two hundred gallon tree. Well, Chinese friends from moss
spring bloom, shaggy, fragrant, gorgeous. Perfect for modern lots that
aren't really huge. You know, it used to be we
had huge lots many many years ago. Now typical lot

(54:52):
size is so small you can reach out your window
and close your neighbors blinds. Chinese fringe is a good
tree for that kind of lot. Okay, we'll go back
to the phones here to Montgomery and talk to Brett. Hey, Brett,
we are coming up on a break here. Let's see
if we can get your question and I'll answer it
when we come back.

Speaker 14 (55:11):
Good morning. I have a Chinese friends tree and we're
getting a lot of the leaves or turn around, basically,
have the lead. I was told that maybe some sort
of fun guy need to spray. I didn't know what
you knew about that.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
There is not a significant disease of Chinese fringe that
I've seen here in our area. That's the bottom line.
Uh and uh so I think it's probably a soil
moisture stress related thing. Now I'm gonna put you on
home because I do have to go to break, But
if you want to hang on for more of an answer,
I'd be happy to continue when we come right back.

(55:47):
All right, folks, guarantee an thank you? Oh won't you
zuv heal? I won't you gv all right, welcome back.
Good to have you with Usay listen Nature's Way Resources.
I need you to write something on your calendar. It's
coming up. It's coming up October twelfth, Saturday, October twelfth,

(56:10):
Nature's Way Resources is having their Fall festival and you
need to see this. It is the shindig of the season.
Latin food, local vendors, plant sales, live music, children's activities.
It's going to be a blast. They'll be all kinds
of booths and tables. Certainly, they got the plants there,
and of course when you're out there, you got to
pick up their stuff that is always top quality, from

(56:32):
compost to souls, tumultus. Nature's Way Resources has been doing
this for a long time and they really perfected the
whole thing. I'll be there at the Fall Festival from
eleven thirty to one thirty on Saturday October twelfth. Saturday
October twelfth, eleven thirty to one thirty. Now the festival
will go on longer than that. It'll be from nine

(56:52):
to two, but over the lunch, over the lunch couple
hours there. I'll be there at the Fall Festival entering
your gardening questions. I hope you come see me. Don't
forget too at Nature's Way Fungal Friday sale is still
on twenty percent off fungal compost on Friday's bag and bulk.
All right, we're going to head back now to Brett

(57:12):
in Montgomery. Hello Brett, and let's get back to your question.
You were talking about the Chinese francestry that had a
fungus right.

Speaker 14 (57:21):
Well, I don't know that it's a fungus. I was
told it could be. I can't pronounce is it ce
er cos po r oi d fun guy. So I
don't know what that was.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
I know what it was the last the last few letters.
Someone went off the rail there. But I know what
they're talking about. But those are spots on the leaves.
Sircaspara is a spot. It's not a general browning of
the leaf whicher you see in spots are just kind
of like large areas of brown.

Speaker 14 (57:54):
Yeah, I'm kind of getting like the bottom half the
whatever you want, the furthest away from the stem. The
ends of the leaves are turning brown.

Speaker 6 (58:02):
Quite a few of them, and I have two of
them in.

Speaker 14 (58:04):
The backyard and I may be drown on them. I
don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Okay, So you think your water them at least enough,
maybe too much. So when did you plant those things?

Speaker 14 (58:17):
I'm going to say six months ago.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
They're fairly new, Okay, Yeah, so they have a very
limited root system. Well, in that limited root system, pretty
much everything they're taking up is still mostly in the
area where those the plant root ball went in. You know,
when you pulled it out of the pot, that cylinder
of roots and soil that's still where most of the

(58:41):
roots are. So if you put that in the clay
soil in the overwater, you end up with an underground
bathtub and the roots are submerged and can't get oxygen.
If the underwatering is so easy, because you know in
the garden centers they're having to water those things every
day to keep that little small area of roots supplying
the leaves all over the plant, and so it's easy

(59:04):
for them to get too dry in the ground because
even though the soil around may be moist, the roots
aren't out there much. They're still primarily confined to that
pot area, and so I still think underwatering at times
could be it. I know it's been a long hot
summer and as a result plants have been struggling. I
wouldn't get too alarmed. Just dig down, you know, with

(59:26):
your fingers or a trowel, ride beside where that original
root ball was and feel the soil. Go down about
three or four inches and feel the soil. If it's moist,
that's good. If it's getting a little dry, give it
some water and let's get it on in the fall.
They're going to drop their leaves and by spring, by
next summer, they'll be much better prepared.

Speaker 14 (59:47):
All right, sounds good. I appreciate it, you bet, Brent.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
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go now to Spring, Texas and talk to Kent. Hello Kent,
good morning morning. How can we help.

Speaker 6 (01:01:27):
Skiff? I have listened to you quite a bit and
I really value I value your input. I have a
quick question with regarding to a tree. Early this year,
I lost a nut all oak and I think it
was due to bores, and so I'm I'm intending to

(01:01:47):
replace that tree with another nutall oak, and I was
wondering if there's any kind of recommended soil treatment that
I need to do before I plant that tree. In
other words, of bores, are they in the four or
or what?

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Yeah? No, no they're not. Tell me why do you
think you lost it to bors. What did you see?

Speaker 6 (01:02:11):
Well, I noticed that there were holes around the bark.
This was about a six or year old tree. But
I did not see any kind of stall dust or
anything of that nature.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
But we had just okay, you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:27):
Know, going through a big drought and then the previous
year we had a freeze appearance spring. So I was
just concerned that if I put another tree in, then.

Speaker 15 (01:02:38):
What I also.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
Have a problem with bars?

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Yeah all right, Well Kent, if you saw holes and
no saw dust, you said six to eight year old tree?
Was that correct?

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:02:51):
Rough?

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Yah, okay, so that tree could have had coal damage
that kills some bark on one side, and that is
not unusual with the cold we had less than six
to eight years ago. February twenty one was horrible, and
then we had a December freeze I believe about a
year after that. The bottom line is borers go after

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week and stress trees, primarily. Nudall is an outstanding oak.
It's a good choice. I'm glad you're replacing it with
a nutdall because it's a good one. There's nothing you
do in the soil that fixes borers. So what I
would recommend is, if you want to do some amending
of the soil. Do it in a really large area,
mixing some compost in, and then dig the hole. Don't

(01:03:37):
dig a hole and then put compost in the hole.
That that just creates an underground bathtob you want to
blend in, so blend in compost in a larger area,
dig the hole. Plant the tree at the same depth
it was before. If you're not sure, the topmost root
on your tree should be right close to the soil level.
Salt surface okay, and water in really good. Generally we

(01:04:01):
just don't have problems with borers on those trees. I
think that the boar you had was an after the
fact boor. There are bores that tunnel in the living
tissues around the trunk, and that's where we see sap
and sawdust coming out. And then there are bores that
go into the interior wood and you may get some
sawdust out on that as well. But there there are

(01:04:25):
bores that are the trees already on its way down,
and then the boor shows up and.

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
Had Yeah, I agree with you, where it probably was
a stress tree and the moors took advantage of it,
I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Okay, so the best get that new tree in Yes,
but let me just tell you this can't get it
done this fall. That's the best planting time. It gives
that tree, that's best shot. If there's any roots going
around the outside of the pot, or you see roots
from when the pot was when it was in a
smaller pot going around, cut those roots. It's okay to
cut them. I would do that planting in October. Ideally,

(01:05:05):
you can plan any month of the year, but October
November is probably prime time. And then next spring start
to fertilize it. Make sure it always has a good
soaking of water, and see how fast we can get
that thing growing.

Speaker 6 (01:05:17):
Okay, okay, skiff, thank you very much for your time.
We appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Yes, sir, you bet absolutely happy to do that. If
you are ready to do your lawn for fall, and
I hope you are. We are entering the best season
of the year for the most important fertilization of the year,
and that's the fall fertilization and nitrophos is created. The
Texas three step. Yep, that's a dance, but this dance

(01:05:43):
is in a dance hall. It's in your lawn. Not
a two step. It's a three step. What are the
three fertilizer we control disease control fertilizer is Nitropos fall
special winteriser Nitrofoss fall Special. It's the only time of
year you hear me talk about Nitrofus fall specials. In
the fall it has higher potassium levels, a little less nitrogen,

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and that is the blend that helps the plant produce
the carbohydrates that makes it more cold, hardy and helps
it come out in the spring better. Second step barricade
nitrofus barricade. It's a pre emergent granule. You apply it
out as evenly as you can. Follow the label. Always
follow the label. Watered in with about a third of

(01:06:29):
an inch of water, It's moves to the sole surface
and it stops all the winter weeds that are going
to be germinating over the next two or three months.
And finally, Nitropuss turf eagle fungicide is a systemic fungicide
that will soak into the tissues. So when brown patch,
large patch take all root run when they arrive, it's ready.

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Don't wait until after you see circles. Nitropus turf eagle.
Now you're going to find three step that varyings hardware
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we'll good to have you with us. Say hey, listen,
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I'll be happy to visit with you about that. By
the way, if you want to get eye to eye

(01:07:12):
and ask me questions, come down to Wharton Feed and
Ace today. It's a later appearance in my normal because
Wharton's ways out there for me to get to. From
one o'clock to three o'clock Wharton Feed and Ace, we
are going to be giving away night Foss is providing
two bags of their fall special, the one I've been
talking about. Their two bags of their barricade, the one

(01:07:34):
I've been talking about. You might get lucky in one one.
If you don't, they got plenty of them there at
Wharton Feed and Ace. Bedina is going to be providing
some samples of their product plants from green Leaf Plants.
They'll be giving away some plants from green Leaf Plants.
There are Wharton Feed and Ace and a gift certificate
from the muck Boot Company. And when it finally starts training,
you're gonna need some muck boots anyway. So I'm just saying,

(01:07:57):
bring me samples of plants, things to identify, bring me
photos on your phone. If you don't talk about landscaping
the area, here's a photo. What do I do? Or Hey,
my neighbor's got this plant? What is it? We'll do
all that and more. Look forward to meeting you. Always
love to get out there. I don't get to get
out as far as Wharton very often. In fact, it's
the first time I've been out there, and I love

(01:08:17):
to meet people that listen to garden Line. It's kind
of an eye to eye, face to face. You can
hear the see the face that you hear the voice
of Do I say that right? I think I said
that right. Anyway, I'll be there from one to three
today and I hope that you will come out. It
is bird travel season. Birds have been booking with their

(01:08:38):
travel agents for some time now. The hummingbirds are stocking
up on nectar to make a trip across the Gulf
of Mexico. And can we just talk here a minute,
How on earth does a hummingbird with wings that beat
sixty times a second fly all the way across the
Gulf of Mexico. I mean I couldn't fly across the beach,
much less the ocean like that. How do they do it?

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They do it? You need to help them out, give
them plants that attract them, but also give them something
in a form of sugar water and a bird feeder.
And Wibird's Unlimited is the place for anything bird, including
everything hummingbird. Do you They have several different types of
bird feeders. I love I have two of them. I
love them, absolutely love them. They have the nectar defender

(01:09:23):
so that you know it's gonna be ninety plus degrees
this week, and you put sugar water out in ninety
degree weather and after two or three days, it's getting
kind of funky out there, and you got to change
it out with nectar defender to last over a week
out in the landscapes. That makes it really easy. I
got some in my feeders right now. Baltimore Orioles have
been passing through. You know, if you need bird houses,

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if you need bird feeders, but especially if you need
bird seed. Warbird's Unlimited, as you covered every kind of
blend for every kind of bird and their seed. They
have something called no mess. What does that mean? Basically?
What that means is all the shells and stuff to
get dropped on the ground, or bird seed that they

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don't want to eat, they get dropped on the ground.
You don't have that with their no mess blends and
that way when you buy seed, you get bird food.
Cheap bird food is full of red bebes. The birds
kick it on the ground because they don't like it.
It's not their favorite feed. With Wildbirds feeds, if you
buy a pound of feed, you get a bound in

(01:10:27):
a bird's tummy somewhere out in your landscape. So let's
get ready. Winner is going to be a great time
for feeding birds. You need to get stocked up. Warbirds
Unlimited wbu dot com forward Slash Houston gives you the
six Wildbirds stores that are here in the Greater Houston area,
so it makes it really easy. I was at a
Wildbird's down Clear Lake the other I'm gonna be at

(01:10:49):
another Walbirds later this fall. I'll be to you more
about that later. Walbirds is just a great place to visit.
I always like going in there. It's kind of fun
and inspiring. And the folks that are helping you know
what they're talking about out they can guide you. They
they understand everything. You all the questions you have someone
who's asking me questions about hot pepper and bird feeding there,

(01:11:09):
I just said, go talk to those people over there.
They know all about this kind of stuff. There were
several other questions that I had no idea, and sure
enough they did. In fact, they printed out something right
from their printer there in Wildbirds and said, here's the
answer to your question. Everything you need to know doesn't
surprise me. That's how they do business. You are listening

(01:11:30):
to garden Line. The number is seven one three two
one two k t rh RCW Nursery is one of
those garden centers where when you go there you find
everything you need. And if there is something that you
want that they don't have, ask them because they probably
can get it. That's why I like to call them

(01:11:52):
to get it. Got it Nursery. If they don't have it,
they'll get They'll do their best to find it. The
website is RCW nurseries dot com. They're the garden center
that's there. Were built. Way eight comes into intersects with
FM two forty nine Tumble Parkway. Great selection of roses
by the way right now Shrubs twenty percent off at

(01:12:14):
RCW Nursery, Big beautiful shrubs, gorgeous shrubs like they have
the gold dust Cuba, which if you want a beautiful
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They got hanging baskets trees this month fifteen percent off. Now,

(01:12:36):
how much longer does this month last? Well, it's September
twenty eighth. Get out there, Get out there now. Seven
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(01:12:59):
There is not a better planting season of the year
down fall for woody ornamentals, especially, so you do it
now and that tree has a better chance of surviving
when next summer comes. I'm just saying that's my advice.
All Right, we're going to go out to the phones
now and we're gonna talk to Bill Hope. Bill, Yeah,

(01:13:21):
just call and hear the phone. Let's start. Let's see
how far we can get on. We'll come back after birth.
Go ahead. Yes, I had.

Speaker 17 (01:13:31):
Some areas in my Saint Augustine in my front yard
that since spring has been uh uh running right, kind
of like straws. I put out fungicide. I put out pesticide.
I've dug up spots or no grubs. I put out
killer for chance bugs. Uh fertilized.

Speaker 15 (01:13:55):
I've watered, I've got a sprink.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
I just don't know what to do.

Speaker 6 (01:13:58):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
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Speaker 9 (01:14:10):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Ricard.

Speaker 11 (01:14:23):
Just watch him ass.

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Hey, welcome back guard Line. We are glad to have
you with us today on a good Saturday. I'm looking
forward to this Saturday. Be heading down to Wharton Feed
and Ace in Wharton, Texas. For those of you way southwest,
you ought to be swinging by there, Say hi today
from one to three o'clock. I'll be there from one
pm to three pm. Be giving away some night frosses,

(01:15:00):
providing actually some two bags of fall special two bags
of barricade. We got some Medina samples to give away
plants from green Lay Plants and a gift certificate certificate
that's easy for you to say, from the muck Boot Company.
From the muck Boot Company, we get some rain in here.
You need some mug boots. Well, our phone number seven

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one three two one two k t r H if
you'd like to call in and ask us a question.
We're going to go straight out to Roger and Richmond. Hello, Roger,
welcome to garden Line. Hello. Yes, I have a quick question.

Speaker 18 (01:15:34):
I just installed a brand new SOD and I had
spaced them because it was they took like four palettes
and so it's still not enough. So I faced them
like a foot apart. And what's the best fertilizer and
how much should I waterate? I've been watering every day
for about about twenty minutes on the sprin closed system,

(01:15:54):
and then, uh, we'll best fertilizer I can put on
it right now?

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
Okay, generally we would water twice a day for the
first week, once a day for the second week, and
then back off from there. It's but the volume twenty minutes,
I don't know how fast your sprinklers put out water,
but it could be too much or it could be
just right depending on how much water they put out.
But the main thing is keep it moist. We got

(01:16:21):
another week of ninety mid nineties or so, and so
you just need to know it. It has very little roots.
Therefore it needs frequent waterings. Not necessarily a lot of
water twice a week, twice a day, but it needs
water regularly to supply it. So just just a tip
there on that. As far as the fertilization is concerned,

(01:16:45):
you could use a you want to use a fall fertilizer,
one that is designed for fall. So for example, Nelson
Blackfeet has one called carbo Load carbo load, and you're
going to find carbo load works just fine for it.
It's got that higher potassium and it works well in

(01:17:06):
helping that plant produce carbohydrates. That's why it has that name.
It's part of their turf Star line. A bag of
carbo load will cover about five thousand square feet and
your grass will make the carbs necessary to get stronger,
to go into winter cold and to come out and
spring better. So carbo load is the one you want.
Now you've got some spaces in there of a foot

(01:17:28):
between the pieces of sod. You got a couple of options. One,
your grass is not going to do a lot of
growing in terms of sending out runners and all of that.
As we go further into fall it slows down. You
might want to put on a pre emergent herbicide, but
I kind of have a I kind of got mixed
feelings about that right now, And I'll tell you why.

(01:17:49):
If you put on a pre emergent herbside like barricade
from nitrophoss, it will prevent the weed seeds that are
going to be coming up this fall from filling your
lawn full of weeds in those open bear soil spaces. However,
don't overdo it because you want that product to be
breaking down next spring when the grass runners are starting

(01:18:11):
to come in, because you won't want to use the
barricade in spring, because your grass is going to be
crawling new runners out there and trying to get roots
in the ground. And that is how barricade fights weeds
is by stopping the roots from being able to expand
into their soil. Was that confusing, Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 18 (01:18:32):
I'll work on it, and I'm kind of got a couple,
you know, lead now, so that'll give me something to
work on our Google carbo load.

Speaker 6 (01:18:39):
Where do I get that?

Speaker 5 (01:18:39):
At?

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
Ace Hardware stores have got that? You're out there, you
could probably Yeah, you might want to try try one
of the Enchendas Jennifer Forest, Channa Gardens. They may carry that.
I just haven't looked to see what they're carrying in
the way of of those those fertilizers they might have,
but if not the Ace Hardware store, there's a plantation

(01:19:06):
Ace and Richmond. It's uh, kind of on the Katie
fullsher side up there, kind of up that in a
little bit to the east, so that direction, I know plantations,
got it? Yeah, just let me let me just yeah,
barricade this thing, don't do it. Don't Yeah, don't do

(01:19:28):
barricade in the spring. That's all you need to remember.

Speaker 9 (01:19:32):
Okay.

Speaker 18 (01:19:33):
I appreciate you taking my call, and I love to
listen to your show every morning, every Saturday morning that
you work in the garage and listen to this.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Well, I love the fact that you're listening. Thanks a lot.
I appreciate that call. Take care. Yeah, that is very important. Yeah,
Nelson's that tur Turugh Star carbo load is the product
that I was recommending to them. You're gonna find it
a lot of places, easy to find. It's one of
the excellent fall fertilizers. It's on my gardening schedule at

(01:20:06):
gardeningwith Skip dot com Garden with Skip dot Com. Let's see,
oh I wanted to mention. I talked about garden centers
out in the Richmond area and Chanted Gardens is an
outstanding garden center. They are on the Katie Folscher side
of Richmond going north. They're on FM three fifty nine,
three fifty nine. Again the name of the place Enchanted Gardens.

(01:20:31):
Enchanted Gardens, and right now they are stocked up for fall.
You are going to find plants that are fall color.
You're going to find they still have like things like
petunias that will carry you up until the first frost,
which should be a long way away still, So get
out there and enjoy that. By the way, Andy is

(01:20:52):
going to be out there doing a fall vegetable seminar.
We think the world of Andy for Medina and she's
going to be doing that today out there. By the way,
they're not going to start that. It's ten am, right
when the show's over, so again you can go to
that and then hey, while you're heading southwest, just keep driving.
I'll be at Wharton feed Nace from one to three.

(01:21:12):
But anyway, in Chended Gardens, beautiful baskets, great decorations for
your home coming up later in October. They're going to
have a welcome basket make and take a welcome basket
making take go. On their social media, you'll see stuff
like that. Do you need vegetables, they got them. Do
you need fall color plants, they got them. Do you
need trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, They got it all in

(01:21:36):
Chended Gardens on the Katie Fusher side of Richmond FM
three point fifty nine. The website in Chended Gardens Richmond
dot com. We're going to go now to talk to
Marty in Fairfield. Hello, Marty morning.

Speaker 19 (01:21:49):
Skip question about I killed my netgrass and doveweed. I
know it's not dove wheed whatever the other name is.
It did not kill my Saint Augustine, So I'm pretty
excited about that. That's my go to now. But now I.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Need I don't know use for that. I'm curious the
weed beater ultra.

Speaker 19 (01:22:18):
Okay, anyway, I used the weed beater ultra. It killed
the nutgrass, it killed the Virginia button weed weed, whatever
you want to call it, and it also killed the bermuda,
which I was glad about. Now I don't know whether
I'm going back with Saint Augustine or whether I'm going
to put in a walking path or whatever. If I

(01:22:40):
do the Saint Augustine, I need to probably scratch the
surface of the soil correct before I lay down any sod.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
It's a little helpful. I mean, if you didn't do it,
it's not the end of the world. But if you
can scratch it a little bit, it helps get good
sod to soil contact, which is kind of important. Okay, Marty,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm not gonna question your honesty
or integrity, but we beat her. Altars should not have

(01:23:13):
killed bermuda grass, and it should not have killed that sage.
Now maybe it killed it back, but let's just go
with the bermuda. I'm not convinced that the bermuda is
really completely gone.

Speaker 19 (01:23:24):
So well it's dead, you can okay, Well, and you
know what, on one part of the yard one and
in my garden, I.

Speaker 20 (01:23:38):
I only did.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
I did what something else that you told me.

Speaker 19 (01:23:43):
But in my yard I had so much of the
Virginia button weed that I put weed beater ultra all
over it.

Speaker 20 (01:23:51):
And it did kill it killed it. It killed the bermuda.

Speaker 19 (01:23:57):
And I all I did is I put in one
of two teeths foods of the weed beater ultra. I
put it in a watering can and I just went
around and sprinkled it all over every bit that I could.
But it didn't kill the Saint August Tin.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Hmm, all right, well, I have no I have no
words on that. So I do know this. When like
I'm telling people to use whatever to kill bermuda grass,
I always say, just hang around if we've got some
warm temperatures, see if it re sprouts, because you just
almost never get all of it. Even if you use
something that's going to be very effective against it, you

(01:24:36):
just don't get all of it. And so I would
I would, just i'd watch it so that you make
sure and not have re sprouting after you put new
stuff down.

Speaker 7 (01:24:51):
I haven't, I really have been.

Speaker 19 (01:24:53):
I'm I'm very determined to get it out of my garden.
But anyway, okay, so I'm not trying to go in
were with this other than I wanted to either lace
and bermuda or not bermuda some Saint Augustine, scratch it planet.
Is it okay now to put it down now?

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
But don't. If you're going to do it, don't delay
one bit because as we move into fall, like later
in October November, that grassroots are going to really not
be growing as much. So if you can get it
down soon this week ideally, and get it watered in,
remember twice a week the first week because we're gonna
have ninety five degrees this week, and then once a

(01:25:39):
week the second week, just because you don't want it
to go into any kind of stress. Get those roots down.
By the third week, you're backing off the water, and
hopefully by then you're getting enough roots down to have
really good success with it. By about the third week,
usually grass comes in with enough nutrition to not have
to fertilize for a mind. But I might go ahead

(01:26:01):
and put down a fall fertilizer on it. Just don't
overdo it, but fall fertilizer on it sometime maybe you know,
toward mid to end of October. Just get a little
down to have it ready to go. We're going to
do everything you can to get that grass strong before
going into winter, just in case we have one of
those unusually cold winners.

Speaker 20 (01:26:22):
Yes, sir, okay, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
I appreciate your help. All right, thanks for the call,
Take care by bye. All right, folks, you know we
were talking about fall fertilizers and stuff. Nitrofoss has their
three step one two three simple as that do you
do two steps on the dance floor, you do three
steps on the lawn. Night Fuss Fall Special Winter Riser.

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That's the fertilizer from Nitrofoss four fall applications designed for
fall number two Nitrofuss Barricade. That's the weed control. It's
a pre emergent weed control. Just talking with Marty about
putting down sod. Do not put down pre emergent products
before laying sod because they stop the roots from growing.

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That's how they kill the weeds. When the reach try
to sprout, it kills it, doesn't let the root grow
and it kills it. It's not going to kill the grass,
but you won't be able to get it rooted in.
So let's get that grass fully rooted in and then barricade.
So if you're putting on new grass, or you have
in the last week or so, just hold off on
the barricade. Let's go ahead and just do it in

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the spring. I think that would be the best. Then
nitropous eagle turf fungicide, systemic fungicide. Here comes the brown
pat circles, not when you've already treated with eagle. Here
comes take our root rot. It also prevents that if
you wait until the circles appear, you're not going to
have the results you want because the damage will have

(01:27:53):
already been done. One, two, three from nitrophos three steps fertilizer,
fall special barricade for weeds, preventing seeds, and eagle tour
fungicides for diseases. You're going to find it at Enchended
Forrest and Rechmond, aast hardware city on Memorial Drive up
in Montgomery. Go to Gym's Hardware. If you're an Alvin,
go to Stanton Shopping Center and you can find all

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those products. Let's go now to Tom and Dickinson. Hello Tom,
and welcome to garden.

Speaker 21 (01:28:23):
Hey, how are you doing this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
I'm good, sir. Get that radio off so we can
talk over the phone, and how can I help?

Speaker 7 (01:28:34):
So?

Speaker 21 (01:28:34):
I have a plumb tree in the backyard and we've
lived in this house for a few years. It was
here when we got here. It's a lot of leaves,
a lot of growth, not a whole lot of fruit,
and what does come on doesn't seem to set. And
then over our last when we had Barrel that big
windstorm come through here, it was rocking. You could see

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the root ball kind of moving. Since then, it's been
just kind of sickly looking and losing leaves. And I
know we're just starting to change seasons, but it seemed
like it was like a head of nor where it
normally is. So should I be concerned? Is something going
on with this guy?

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
When did you plant it?

Speaker 21 (01:29:17):
I didn't plan it. It was here we moved into the house.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Okay, so it's been in for at least a year
or so.

Speaker 21 (01:29:24):
Oh no, No, it's a big tree.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
It's a mature tree. Okay, Okay, Well, a lot of
our plants due to the heat, extended heat that we've had,
or starting to drop some leaves. I've got some stuff
in my yard that's dropping the leaves just because I
wasn't watering the heck out of it. All the time.
I think it'll be fine. It just gonna be a

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little bit of an early leaf drop. Just make sure
we're going through another week in ninety five. So give
it a really good soaking, you know, put something out
there to measure your sprinkler, water and water until you've
caught an inch. If you have to do that too,
three applications because it's running off, do it that way,
but totally within whatever day you water, give it an

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inch of water to get that down in the ground
a little deeper, and I think you're gonna be just
fine with that tree.

Speaker 21 (01:30:14):
So we're going on our third year here, and like
I said, we don't get a good set of the fruit.
What should I be doing this time of year going
into next year to give it a better chance of
a better crop?

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
Okay? What variety of plum do you have?

Speaker 21 (01:30:30):
I don't know. They're dark purple.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
I don't know what.

Speaker 21 (01:30:34):
I'm not a Okay, I'm not very good at all this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
Yeah, well, a lot of plums need two varieties to
cross pollinate and do the best fruit set. Okay, Yeah,
Methley plums, they they're pretty good at self fruiting, and
they are they are a purplish plum, so you may

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have a methylee, in which case we didn't answer the question.
Because you got a plumb that should sell fruit, why
isn't it fruiting? But if it requires a pollinator, that's
the reason they're not setting. If it doesn't require pollinator,
then it has to be something preventing bees and pollinators

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from getting to them. Typically, if we or neighbors are
using a lot of pesticide or insecticides on plants, that
kills the bees, and then you don't have the bees,
you can't get the pollinating done. So it's going to
be one of those two things too.

Speaker 21 (01:31:35):
I have not seen a lot of bees there. We've
been in the house for three years. I haven't seen
a lot of bees here at all.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
Okay, well that could be part of it. I don't
have to tell you on that we need to get
some bees in there. You know, you're probably not going
to go put in a backyard high but that would
be one solution. You can do pollinating yourself by going
around with a little artist paintbrush. Pretty tedious for big
old tree like that, but you might try that. Get

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a little, you know, a little artist brush and just
sort of tickle the flowers and go around tickling all
the flowers, and you'll be transporting pollen when you do that.
And even if you do it to one branch and
then watch it and if it sets fruit, you know
what was missing.

Speaker 21 (01:32:17):
That tells me what's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Okay, yeah, okay, thank you, thanks a lot, appreciate the call.
But hey, you know what, just just for fun, just
to give us an one extra tip for you, you
might want to go ahead. I know Tom's you're listening
hopefully by by the radio. Now, Tom, if you have

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a neighbor that has a what you think is probably
a different kind of plumb tree, and it's blooming when
yours is blooming, take if you they'll let you. Just
snip a branch out of it, a small branch, put
it in something to hold water, like a vase I
usually use like a soft drink. Can put the stem
right through the hole, put some water in there, and
hang it in your tree, and the bees will visit

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those flowers in yours. Now, that only lasts for a
couple of days and you need to put a new
branch in. But if you do that and you start
to see results, that's another sign that cross pollinating maybe
what you needed. Hopefully that will be helpful for you.
You know, we love our feed stores here on Garden Line,
and D and D Feed in Tomball is an outstanding

(01:33:25):
feed store. They're out west of town on twenty nine
to twenty. You got out west of Tomball on the
left hand side as you're driving out. They have the
fertilizers I talk about here on Garden I especially night foss,
have a really good supply of nitrofoss out there. They're fertilizers.

Speaker 13 (01:33:39):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
I've seen the microlives out there as well. They are
going to have the fertilizers for this season. And I've
been talking about barricade. They've got that out there as well.
At D and D Feed, Leaf mol compost, rose soil,
fruit and berry and citrus compost, the vegetable and herb
mix for bed mixes. It's all a D and defeat again.

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They're out west of Tomball two eight, one, three, five,
one seventy one forty four. I'll be right back, folks
than you are.

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Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. Good to
have you with us. Hey, I've talked about treecare a

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lot this summer after we had those storms that really
wrecked havoc on the trees. I'm surprised there's a living
standing tree in the Greater Houston area with the storms,
the hurricane and the other beds from we had come through. Well,
you know, affordable tree care is our go to arborist
here with Guardline. Martin spoon Moore does great work. He

(01:35:06):
knows what he's doing and that is important. Do not
let anyone touch your trees. It doesn't know what they're doing.
They can do damage that is forever. The tree never
recovers from a really bad pruning job. Call Martin. The
best time to get your tree pruned. It starts now
really and it goes all the way through February. You
need to call him and get on the schedule because

(01:35:27):
he stays busy, because he does good work. Tell him
you're a guarden line listener, gets you up to the
front of the line. He can prune your trees, he
does deep root feeding. He have just too general overall
check of the tree health. If you've been seeing someone
while ago I was talking about the wind was blowing
on their plumb tree and it was moving in the soil.
If you see that kind of saw movement at the
base from the storms, that is a sample or an

(01:35:50):
example that there is some issues going with that tree's
anchorage and those storms are rough again. October to February
is a short window, So call now to get on
the schedule. I'd advise you to go ahead and get
that booked so you can make sure that when you
need the work done, you'll get it done. And it
may be whatever month he gets there to do it

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is okay. This this winter times when we want to
get the work done and fall by the way. Uh,
just you got to call him seven one three six
nine nine two six sixty three seven one three six
nine nine two six six three. When you call, you're
going to either talk to Martin or his wife Joe.
That's who enters the phone. The owners do. If you

(01:36:31):
don't get them, you've called the wrong place. Hang up
and dial seven month three six nine nine two six
sixty three. Here's his website for those of you who
like to go that route. Aff Tree service dot com.
We're going to go out now to Mike and Brunham. Hello, Mike,
Welcome to Dovermine.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
Hello sir, thank you, sir, good morning.

Speaker 9 (01:36:53):
I'm just calling to trying to find out what's the
best fall lawn organic fertilizer.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
There's a lot of great products out on the market. Uh,
Microlife makes one called brown Patch. Micro Life brown Patch
is one of those products, widely, widely available. You're not
going to have trouble finding that, you know, throughout the
greater Houston area. I would say, uh, the brown Patch
would be the one for you for an organ and

(01:37:26):
it's time to go ahead and get that one now.
You need you need to go ahead and get it,
get it.

Speaker 6 (01:37:32):
Done now, Okay, yes, sir, so Microlife brown Patch.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
Yeah yeah. And if you think you're going to find
Microlife well plants and things down south of Brenham, they're
going to carry micro Life brown patch if you don't
mind jumping over to to blue Bonnet House in Chapel Hill.
They've got it over there too.

Speaker 6 (01:37:54):
Sounds great.

Speaker 14 (01:37:56):
I appreciate some time, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
All right, thank you, thank you, appreciate your time. Oh
I was going to tell you I forgot there's one more.
It's right there in Brenham Ace Hardware, Brunham on Austin,
North Austin Parkway's got.

Speaker 6 (01:38:10):
It perfect you so much, sir, all right, every day.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
All right, you are listening to garden Line. If you'd
like to give us a call, here is our number
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
And yes, microlife brown patch also. And this is just
what I'm recommending you know, the brown patch. One of
the way, the reason they call it brown patch is

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it's got a lot of beneficial microbes that populate that
plant surface and makes it more difficult for diseases like
brown patch or large patch to In fact, just think
of it as putting good guys out there as the
guard on the border the edges of the plant that
are key being the diseases from getting into the plant. Itself.

(01:39:04):
I would also consider if you're going to use that,
why not go ahead and do their inoculant product called
Microlife bio inoculant. It is loaded with sixty three different
beneficial micro organisms. And you can do this as a
granule too. You can put it out as you put
out your fertilizer. Just first through the fertilization, then follow

(01:39:25):
up with the bioinoculant or vice versa. Just to them
separately and watered in water in really good. Get that
water splashing around in there and distributing those things as
you water. That is what I would recommend you do.
Our phone number seven one three two one two k
t r H seven one three two one two kt

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r H Plants for All Seasons is one of those
garden centers. You know when you walk in you're going
to get good service. You know when you walk in
you're gonna get good plants that want to grow here
because they know what grows here. They've they've been in
this since nineteen seventy three here in the Houstonnario. So
they are veterans in terms of knowing how to grow

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things and what to grow and so on. You can
take samples in there and they will give you an
accurate answer. You know, our mom and pop nurseries are
I talk about them all the time. They are the
place to go to get those kind of answers and
plants for all seasons. Right there, just north of Dueta
on fm Are on Highway two forty nine, which is

(01:40:26):
Tambo Parkway. That's where they are the easy out. They've
got a great selection of fertilizers. In fact, they have
a really good deal some sort of sale on the
soil types of products right now. You need to ask
them about that when you go in. And when you
get in there, you gotta go home with a lot
of cool fall plants because they are loaded with beautiful

(01:40:47):
fall color at Plants for all seasons. Plants for all seasons.
Dot com is the website, the phone number two eight
one three seven six sixteen forty six. As I like
to say, if your brown thumb needs to be turned green,
go in there. If you've got a green thumb, take
your green thumb in there with you. You still need

(01:41:07):
to visit because they can make it even greener. The
air plants for all seasons. If you'd like to give
me a call seven one three two one two kt rh.
You know, we always get a flush of calls right
at the end of the day, and it typically it's
more than I can get to at that time. So
I was trying to get people to call a little
bit earlier because occasionally through the day I get caught up. Here,

(01:41:30):
we get some breaks and we can help you with
the questions that you might have. You know that soil
is the key to success. That that is simple. Soil
is the key to success, and Heirloom Soils has an
array of products that will help you have success. They

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have a deal going on right now. If you're interested
in in some bulk and you were willing to go
out to the Porter Location. Porter Location, that's where Heirloom
Soils are made. They have a limited time special you
can you can pick up or have a delivery of
Heirloom Rose soil or their Veggie and Herb mix and
you get a free bag of micro Life sixty four fertilizer.

(01:42:12):
If you haven't been to their website, it's Heirloomsoils dot com.
Heirloomsoils dot com. And the reason I'm sending you there
is you can see all the products that they have.
I could spend a whole segment of the show just
naming all the products that they have at Heirloom Soil,
from leaf mold to rose sooil to veggie soil to

(01:42:33):
the works potting soil, on and on and on, all
quality available by bag all over town and available by
bulk as well. Go pick it up or have them
deliver it. Either way, It's time for me to take
a break, which is what I'm going to do. I
will be right back with your gardening questions. The guard
Line the lad to have you with us today. Look

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forward to visiting with you if you got garden about it?
To Peter, Hey, Peter, where.

Speaker 6 (01:43:01):
You call them from Collins in Brookshire, Texas.

Speaker 14 (01:43:05):
Good morning, you get all right?

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
Well, good welcome the guard Line.

Speaker 9 (01:43:11):
I've got it.

Speaker 14 (01:43:11):
Come part question.

Speaker 9 (01:43:13):
I've got four peach trees that basically died above the graft,
but then at the roof base they do all some
water sprouts, I guess, and I was wondering, can I
graft those water sprouts with some variety of peach trees
that I still have, and if so, what's the best
time to grasp them?

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
The best time, yes, you can. The best time is
to do a tea bud on the new shoots that
are coming up out of the base in the spring.
Once we get new growth where we say that park
that if you were to break them and peel them,
you'd streak the outer bark off. In the winter time,

(01:43:55):
it's not slipping, and if you break them, it's hard
to pull the bark away from the inner. But in spring,
once they get growing, let's say, let's talk about probably
April May. In that time, you can do the tea
bud when you go online and search for how to
do a tea bude and it'll tell you. And that's

(01:44:15):
the simplest one we make, essentially a little capital tea
shaped cut in the shot coming out of the base
of your tree, and you slip a bud right in
that tea.

Speaker 23 (01:44:27):
Fantastic, Thank you, sir, appreciate it very much.

Speaker 3 (01:44:31):
All right, good luck with that. Thank you, Ey, take
care you bet. We're going to go now to Liberty
and talk to Tracy. Hello, Tracy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 23 (01:44:44):
Good morning, skimp. I got a quick question.

Speaker 20 (01:44:47):
I bought some.

Speaker 23 (01:44:48):
BlackBerry plants from Stark Brothers and they shift them. They
were beautiful when they got here. I repotted them and
the only thing I had on hand was miracle growth,
and after repotting them, I'll spray them down with America
grow in my sprayer, and they all died within a week.

(01:45:11):
Any idea what went wrong?

Speaker 14 (01:45:13):
Okay, too much a miracle growth the trend.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
It could be miracle grows a synthetic salt based fertilizer,
and if you mix it too strong, it's like putting
salt water, you know, on a plant, the same effect
that you hurt that burning it can do that, and
so that's possible. It's also since the whole thing died
and you didn't just burn the top, I'm thinking it's

(01:45:38):
also possible that maybe some roots dried out in that
planet transplanting process, or maybe en root to you or
after planting or something. Those plants are young and tender
and not that big, and when you bought them it
was plants, not root cuttings right from start.

Speaker 23 (01:45:57):
Yes, sir, it was a plant.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Okay, Yeah, something dried out there, I think is a
primary problem. But yes, miracles grow too strong, will burn
burn plants.

Speaker 23 (01:46:08):
Okay, I was curious, and I'm gonna try it again.
H We'll see what happens. I appreciate your time.

Speaker 3 (01:46:18):
Well, well, yeah, Tracy, and I would suggest that maybe
you kind of look around here locally for some of
the blackberries that we sell.

Speaker 15 (01:46:28):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:46:28):
Stark has been in fruit tree business a long time.
They're in louisinga, Mississippi up on the river or Mississippi,
Missouri up on the river. Uh, and some of the
blackberries they have don't do well here. And so okay,
I don't know what you got.

Speaker 13 (01:46:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
Do you want thornless or thorny, It doesn't matter.

Speaker 23 (01:46:51):
I'm not that particular. Whatever. We'll thrive here to be
able to make jelly.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
Okay, okay. Well, if it's a thorny variety, look for
one that has the name of a Native American tribe,
such as Shawnee. That kind of name Choctaw, Shawnee are Rappah.
Those kinds of names mean that it's it's a good
thorny for our area. If you want thornless, look for

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one that the first two words are prime prime and
then a r K prime arc, and there's a primary
freedom traveler prime arc. Prime means that it bears the
first year normal blackberries. You have to grow a shoote
one year. It goes through winter and bears the following

(01:47:41):
year prim acne bearing ones like the two prime arks.
I told you they're going to bear the first year
the shoot grows and also after that and arc just
means they were bred in Arkansas's our best blackberries that
we have down here now were all bred in Arkansas
at the University of Arkansas.

Speaker 23 (01:47:59):
Well, I'll look those, I do. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
Yeah, yep, you're out there in Liberty. You're not too
far away from from more in Southern Garden in Kingwood.
I bet they've got him out there, but call them first.

Speaker 23 (01:48:13):
I'll check on that. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
Thank you, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, you bet. Tracy take care,
Uh watching my clock. This time we're going to go
to Mike in China, Texas. Hey, Mike, how can we
help see?

Speaker 18 (01:48:26):
I have a little a problem.

Speaker 6 (01:48:28):
I have a very old.

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
Kate jasmine plant that was my great grandfather's that we
moved several.

Speaker 14 (01:48:35):
Times and I need to move it again. But it
was the best time. Or can I just take a
cutting and move it because my brothers did it before,
but he's no longer with us.

Speaker 23 (01:48:45):
I have no idea how to move.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
You said cape jasmine, right.

Speaker 9 (01:48:50):
Yes, sirs.

Speaker 23 (01:48:51):
The white flowers really sweet smell almost like a magnolia,
the sweeter.

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
All right, the best time is to get out of
this heat and let it cool off. So it may
be late October, it may be November. Either of those
are generally good. But you want to you want to
dig it and get wider rather than deeper. Right, Okay, roots,
if you if you can get down even six eight

(01:49:19):
inches deep is more way more than eight inches, way
more than enough. And you need to do on depth.
But about you, if you can get a foot out
on each side, slide it up onto a tarp. I've
done that and then sort of wrap the tarp around
the base of the plant and tied it off. So
I keep that roots moist, very important to keep of moist.
Get them to the new spot, slide it off the

(01:49:39):
tarp back where it's going to grow, and then watered
in really good. And just remember the thing has no
roots because you've come all off when you dug it up,
no matter how much you treat it. And so you've
got to keep that little root ball moist and it'll
get established all winter and it'll be okay next spring.

Speaker 9 (01:49:56):
Ok.

Speaker 23 (01:49:56):
I need to add some special type of soil or
and uh we have China.

Speaker 3 (01:50:05):
Yeah, I would get I would get a good quality
bed mix, you know, like a roast soil that you see.
We talk about rose soils for sale all the time.
Get a roast ol, spread it out real good, mix
it in with the soil you have, and then add
a little more on top, and then dig the hole
after all that, and plant in it. Don't don't dig
a hole and put rose soil in the hole. Use

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in an area and that plant will be very very happy.

Speaker 23 (01:50:30):
Okay.

Speaker 18 (01:50:31):
I have a backdough, so digging it that's not a problem,
just too.

Speaker 23 (01:50:37):
But didn't want to move it and shock and kill it.

Speaker 14 (01:50:40):
Because it's been been with the family for many, many years.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
I understand, well the thing I recommend. If you'll do that,
you'll be good. Hey, thanks for the call, Mike. I
appreciate that. Yeah. I mentioned while I got a second
to uh who is it Tracy and Liberty about blackberries
and said, go over to Warren Southern Gardens. Warren Southern
Gardens has an outste ending selection of all kinds of plants,
and I know you can find fruit plants there as well,
but I won't tell you this at warn Southern Guardens.

(01:51:07):
Need I need everybody to listen to me for just
a minute. I don't ask this very often, just for
a minute. When you go to Warren Southern Gardens KMWA
Garden Center, say I want to know about the skip special.
If you spend one hundred dollars or more and falls
the time to spend it, tree, shrubs, roses, all kinds
of things, you'll get twenty five percent. That's that's twenty dollars.

(01:51:29):
Exees me twenty nine twenty dollars off of your purchase.
That's that's a one fifth off of that purchase. If
you spend one hundred dollars or more at Warren's Southern
Gardens and just tell them skip sent you, Skip sent
you Okay. They got a great selection of fall plants.
They've got all your veggies, cabbage, brussels, spouts, collared broccolis,

(01:51:51):
all that kind of thing. They're pumpkin patches open. Oh
my gosh, I see just numerous varieties for all your
decorating needs there. They're tree sale thirty percent off some
of their trees. I love that they've got the Traveler
red bud, which is a weeping type of red Bud.
You can get your live oaks, your Autumn Blaze maple,

(01:52:11):
just go to Warn Southern Gardens. But that, by the way,
that that skip twenty dollars off one hundred or more.
Now that doesn't apply on top of sales, but it's
off your purchase in general. Okay, do you need Church
Star carbo Load, you need Microlife, do you need the
brown Patch for Microlive? Do you need Sweet Green, Nicrofoss,
Fall specials, Azemi. They're all in stock and they have

(01:52:35):
lowered prices on all of those as well. At Warn
Southern Gardens. At Warren's Inking, we both Kimra not can
be better now, all right? I hear music means I
got a hu share pretty quick, Rhea and the height
you we are first up when we come back. Don't
forget all of you, especially those of your way down

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southwest Wharton Feed and Ace. I'll be there today from
one to three one to three at Wharton, Texas Eat
and Ace Hardware. We're going to be giving away some
stuff donated by Nitrofoss two bags of Fall Special, two
bags of Barricade EDNA product samples, plants from Green Bay Plants,
and a gift certificate from the Mutt Blue Company. Plus

(01:53:19):
we get to meet talk. I'll look at your samples.
I'll hope you diagnose and identify your problems, well at
least with plants. Be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
Garden Line with scamp Ricter.

Speaker 11 (01:53:40):
Just watch him assupatasy.

Speaker 15 (01:53:53):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
Welcome back to guard Line.

Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:56):
We've got another hour to do today. I hope you're
in joining the show so far, I certainly am lots
of things to talk about. I go several things I
want to visit with you about as we're doing that.
First thing I'm gonna do, though, is go out to
the heights and talk to Rhea, who has been patiently waiting.
Welcome to garden Line, Ria.

Speaker 20 (01:54:16):
Thank you, good morning.

Speaker 24 (01:54:17):
I have a about a twenty foot nashess crape myrtle
that the hurricane had kind of knocked over like it
was leaning, so the roots never kind of came out,
So we tied it and straightened it up and propped it.
How much longer should I leave it kind of tied tight,
because I wanted to kind of wait till after the

(01:54:39):
summer and any storms to kind of loosen it. But
it's got to grow, so I don't know how much longer,
I should leave it kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:54:48):
Yeah, you know, supporting on a tree that size. Yeah,
it's gonna be very hard to make it stay where
you want it to stay now once, you know, if
it was a less three year old plant, you could
straighten it up, stake it for a while and hopefully
get a good root system, and then it would be resilient.
With one that high, you need to leave it a

(01:55:10):
long time. And even at that it's it's you know,
when it had its good, full strong root system, a
storm knocked it over. So now it's had a lot
of damage and it takes a long time for roots
to grow and get big and strong and anchor the plant. Well,
So if you can leave at steak for a few years,
I definitely need to do that. But just know that

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it's going to be more likely to blow over in
future storms than other plants might be.

Speaker 24 (01:55:38):
Oh them, okay, but I'll leave at state then.

Speaker 3 (01:55:41):
Thank you so much, all right, real, thanks for the call.
Sorry to be the bear bad news. Oh no, that sure, okay,
you hear me talk about fertilizing the lawn. How about
as mighte? What's as might it? Actually? Technically I guess
you could call it a fertilizer because it's nutrients, but

(01:56:02):
instead of the big three on the bag nitrogen, phosphorus,
potassium on a fertilizer bag, azmite is trace minerals. It's
all the things that are needed in tiny qualities but
essential that would be things you know. Trace minerals are
things like iron and zinc and manganese and molibduum and
who knows a bunch of others. Azmite is what we
put down about once a year just to build up

(01:56:25):
the bank account of those nutrients. Putting it now is
not going to make your lawn takeoff growing. It's going
to build the bank account. So when the weather allows
your lawn to take off growing and when the moisture
and all that, the bank account is there for the
trace minerals as well. Azemite Texas dot Com is the
website if you want to learn a bit more about it.
Just remember you can put it on any month of

(01:56:46):
the year. About once a year's enough, and don't put
it in the same hopper as your fertilizer. Put out
the fertilizer and put out the azmite separately from it,
and it works really well that way. We're going to
now go to Chris and the Woodlands. Hy Chris, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 1 (01:57:04):
Hey, hi, Skip, thank you very much for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:57:08):
You got.

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
So, I've got a got three store bought or male
order bot sweet Viburnhams out in front. They're did it
really really well for a while. We've got our sprinklers
working again, so they've been getting regularly watered. I don't
know if it's too much, but but the uh, the leaves,

(01:57:33):
the older leaves are extremely dark, and there's these white
these white pests that just won't go away.

Speaker 6 (01:57:42):
They've tried every.

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
Yeah, are they flying around or are they on the
plant just standing on sitting on the plant.

Speaker 1 (01:57:52):
Both they uh, you know, they still fly around it.
And then you know when you when you when you
move the bush, you know, or trying treated or something.
They just like scatter from underneath from on top. They're
mostly underneath the leaves.

Speaker 3 (01:58:06):
Okay, that's probably white flies. There may be some meadia
bugs involved, but probably white flies. And you need to
put a systemic insecticide drenched into the soil around the plant.
It takes up that product and anything sucking juices out
of your plant, which is what white flies and meatia,
bugs and aphids and scale all due. It will kill

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them because they're picking up the poison through the interior
juices of the plant. So you can find Do you
have a pin or pencil handy?

Speaker 15 (01:58:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:58:37):
So sure do?

Speaker 1 (01:58:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
Okay, there's two ingredients that are sold in many different
brand names. But I'm going to give you the first
few letters of each of the two and just get
one or the other one. It begins with I am
id oh in mid doh I am id oh good.
The other one begins with d I n o like dinosaur,

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d I no te f dino tef. So go find
something that starts with a middo or dino tef and
that's what you need to do. Follow the label. Drench
it on. It's gonna take time to get up in there,
but it will kill the things that are sucking juices
out of your plant.

Speaker 1 (01:59:19):
All right, sir, okay, excellent, Thank yous, GiB all right, good?

Speaker 3 (01:59:24):
You bet good luck with that. I hope that goes
well for you. H Medina has several products that are good.
You know, fall it is transplanting season and they have
several products that are good for transplanting. One of them
in fact, I'm gonna I'm gonna recommend you do two.
I would recommend a combination of Medina has to grow

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six twelve six. That's a plant food. It's got six
percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphors, six percent potassium. Phosphor's very
important in root development. It also has Medina soil activator
in it, and other, let me say other good things.
It's excellent for transplanting. The other product is humate h
U m at humic acid by Medina. Now, humis improves

(02:00:10):
the soil. It improves the soil moisture retention by improving
the structure of soil. Humus is the final decomposition product
of compost. When compost goes past compost, it becomes it
heads toward humus. It got micro nutrients, macronutrients, and it
helps the physical properties of the soil and has other
benefits as well. So here's the bottom line. You're going

(02:00:32):
to put any transplant out in the garden, out in
the landscape beds, in the ground, tree, shrub rose, herbs,
perennial flowers, you name. It has to grow six to
twelve six and humate humic acid from Medina widely available
and very very effective at doing what they do. We're

(02:00:52):
going to give them if you love Medina samples today
down there at Wharton Feed and Ace where I'll be
from one to three. So come I pick up some samples.
Let's go now to Neph and Claire Lake. Hello Neph,
Welcome to Gardenline.

Speaker 18 (02:01:08):
Hey, good morning, Skip.

Speaker 1 (02:01:09):
How are you doing?

Speaker 6 (02:01:13):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
Good?

Speaker 14 (02:01:14):
Hey, Skip?

Speaker 6 (02:01:15):
A quick question, yes, sir, so in regards to.

Speaker 1 (02:01:19):
I'm about to make a trip down to Ace Hardware.

Speaker 6 (02:01:22):
It's the pre mergent, herbicide, the barricade, my fall fertilizer,
and my fung your side. Can you let me and
the listeners know which what do you recommend lane first?
In which order out of the all three?

Speaker 3 (02:01:40):
All right, good, I'm gonna have to go to break Nephew. Okay.
We were visiting with Neph in clear Lake and he
was talking about the three products and the nitrofoss three
stuff or fall that would be the fertilizer, the weed control,
and the disease contro and he asked which order to

(02:02:02):
do those. The big answer to that is it doesn't
matter any order you want. You can do them all
on the same day. Now you wouldn't want to put
the granule barricade in the same hopper at the same
time as the fertilizer for fall, okay, because the particle
size is different. But if you went with your hopper

(02:02:22):
a fertilizer and then your hopper a barricade or in
the opposite order, either way is fine. It can all
be done. As far as timeliness, the most important two
are the barricade for weed prevention and the eagle for
disease prevention, because those if you wait too late, you're

(02:02:42):
too late. If the weeds are already up, it's getting
too late. If the disease is already in the lawn,
it's getting too late. And we never know. Maybe here
comes a cold front, some rain, and boom, both weeds
and brown patch appear pretty quick because the temperatures dropped.
So I would say that the fur liiser is the
most flexible one that you could wait on if you

(02:03:04):
couldn't get them all done in one day. But the
other two are just waiting on a good cold front
and some rain to show up. So that's how I
would do that. Does that help, Yes, it does skip okay, Yeah,
So you can do them all on the same day
if you want just just you know, don't put them
all in the same hopper.

Speaker 16 (02:03:26):
Yeah, okay, okay, have you do you know if Nitrophos
does liquid applications.

Speaker 3 (02:03:35):
Uh, well, the ones that we're talking about in the
Texas three step those are all granules and right right,
And I've been yeah to do like, yeah, they don't
have a barricade liquid for example, that would okay, I
was just wondering that knowledge. Okay, yeah, all right, man,

(02:03:56):
Well you're on.

Speaker 6 (02:03:57):
The well, I appreciate it, all right, let me get you.

Speaker 7 (02:04:00):
Let me.

Speaker 3 (02:04:01):
I appreciate your call.

Speaker 14 (02:04:03):
Yep, you're welcome.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
All right, you take care Yep. That's right. And remember
you can get all of those products from night to
us at ACE Hardware, that is Ace Hardware. They've got
all the things you need. When I talk about these fertilizers,
I've talked with the folks at ACE. They carry them,
they're going to carry them. They're out there at the
Ace Hardware stores. Each Ace Hardware stores independently owned, so

(02:04:26):
you'll find a lot of different additional things at Ace Hardware.
It's a cool place to go. I mean, you may think, okay,
you're saying I'm going to go to a hardware store
and have fun. Well any any do it yourself or
nose hardware stores are fun, But yes, I don't care
who you are. They have Ace Hardware stores that carry jewelry.
The aceard restores have fudge bars. Ace hard restores that

(02:04:47):
have a beautiful home decorations and oh gosh, we're about
to start talking about holiday lighting and other things. Ace
has got it all for your lawn and now's the
time for your landscape. Ace Hardware has got your fertilizers,
your pest control, your disease control products, it's got the
fire ant control and yes, now is prime time for

(02:05:08):
fire ant control. Fall is the best time to tackle
fire ants. They did a program out of A and
M Extension Horticulture or excuse me, extension entomology a while
back that it was a program on tackle fireants and
fall as in football season. Right, football season is firent
control season. With bits from your local Ace Hardware store.

(02:05:28):
Go to Ace Hardware dot com and you can find
the store locator and the forty stores in the Greater
Houston area so you can find one that is close
to you. Let's go to Tomball. Now we're gonna visit
with Jack. Hey John, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (02:05:43):
Good morning, Skip. I got another silly question for you. Uh,
I'm on a time cutch you. You can probably hear
a bunch of construction in the background. I wanted to
plant some eaglesons, but I want to know one shit on.
I know now is the perfect time, but I can't
do it because you're taken down part of my fence.

(02:06:05):
So what do you think the best go ahead?

Speaker 3 (02:06:10):
It's fine, Yeah, it's fine. Now, it's fine, but you know,
as you get into later in October and November, even
those are also great times because it's cooled off a
little bit more. There's less stress from transplanting. So if
you want to buy them now, just set them off
in kind of a maybe morning sun area and just
keep them watered until you can get them in the ground,
or you can wait and pick them up later. Sometimes

(02:06:32):
the sales are better earlier, and sometimes the selection is
better earlier, so you may go ahead and grab them.
But either way, yeah, October, it even gets better as
we moved toward October and November for planting shrubs and trees.

Speaker 15 (02:06:44):
Okay, then first of the year after the frost correct
like faboys again or yeah, yeah, you can.

Speaker 3 (02:06:54):
Do it anytime starting from November. Here's a trade off,
John in in the early part of the fall through
winter planting season, you give the plants the most time
to grow roots, establishing roots until summer arrives. The later,
when you get in the colder part, it's less stress

(02:07:14):
on the plants to plant those transplants. And so that's
why I kind of aim for late October November if
we were to pick ideal. But listen, you can plant
an Egleston holly any month of the year. It's just
when it's hot, blazing hot in summer. You got to
water it with just a little amount of water every
day to keep the thing alive. But you can do it. Okay, Thanks, thanks, thanks,

(02:07:37):
thanks for the question. Appreciate that very very much. Let's
see here, who's next. I believe we got Malcolm in
northwest Houston. Hey, Malcolm, how can we help?

Speaker 9 (02:07:48):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
Good morning?

Speaker 9 (02:07:49):
Hey.

Speaker 12 (02:07:49):
I was curious, is there any rhyme or reason to
the numbers that they put the setting numbers on a spreader,
you know, four point five or seven? You know, sometimes
sometimes you're spreaders on the back of the bag and
sometimes it's not so I mean is does four point
five have a meaning like four point five pounds?

Speaker 3 (02:08:11):
No, it doesn't. It does have that meaning. And here's
here is a sheet. Actually Randy Lemon, I'll give him
credit because he did this, developed it a while back,
and I think it's very very helpful. And are you
putting out fertilizer or a pre emergent harveside? Which one?

Speaker 6 (02:08:28):
Nothing?

Speaker 23 (02:08:29):
Right now?

Speaker 12 (02:08:29):
I'm just curious in general, I've.

Speaker 13 (02:08:31):
Been wondering that.

Speaker 3 (02:08:32):
Okay, So what we do is we say, you know,
read the If you've got a such and such brands
breadder and on the bag it says such and such brand,
then it's easy. Already you know what to do, right,
you don't know for fertilizer. For fertilizers, and all of
you listening to me out there, people miss here stuff.

(02:08:52):
So please listen carefully to this. It matters a lot
for fertilizers if you go a knock two above half.
So let's say there were twenty notches on your spreader,
just as an example, you would do eleven or twelve
as your best guess for fertilizers. For pre emergent herbicides,

(02:09:14):
it's different. We do a notch or above one quarter.
So going back to our twenty notches five or six
would be what you said it on for pre emergent herbicides,
fertilizers a notch or two above half pre emerged herbicides
a notch above one quarter, and that'll get you as

(02:09:34):
close as you're going to get. And if ever you're
in doubt anybody, and I do this myself, I'll set
mind too low, not put enough out, because I know
if I finish the yard and have some extra, I
can come back across the other way and get an
even more even spreading of product. If you go north
south and then east west, that's the most carefully blended

(02:09:57):
even application you can get. So it's better to go
under than to go over, because if you get three
fourths of the way through the yard and you run
out of fertilizer, yeah, that's a problem. You know, we
got to go get more.

Speaker 6 (02:10:10):
Awesome all rank you very much, Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:10:14):
You bet appreciate appreciate your call very much. Uh, let's
see we're going to go now to Carolyn and bel Air.
Hey Carolyn, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 20 (02:10:25):
Thank you, good morning. I had foundation work done back
in December, and when they did the foundation work, they
had pulled up some of my azaleas, and I had
about a mature azaleas. Now I only have two that

(02:10:45):
are really healthy, one that's hanging on and one that
I have doubts about. But I'm wondering to replace those.
It's a front bed. What would you suggest I do?
Should I get more azaleas or should I get something

(02:11:05):
else that would grow faster?

Speaker 3 (02:11:10):
Well, the shrub you want is the shrub you want.
So if you like azalies, if you like having them
all across there, I would do azalias. If you start
doing other shrubs, then you kind of have to look
at how you lay them out and how big they're
going to get, and make you know, make sure that
everything is put where it belongs so there's room for
it to grow and spread. There's a lot of great shrubs,

(02:11:31):
but you know, you make the decision. And if you
want azaleas, you definitely want to get a good quality
mix for acid loving plants, a blend, a soil blend
that's high quality to go in those beds. Make those
azalie roots as happy as you can, and then plant
if you fertilize, when you fertilize. You want to use

(02:11:53):
an acid loving fertilizer, and there are many on the market. Microlife,
for example, has one in a pink bag that's for
acid loving plants. There are others on the market UH
and fertilized with that. And if you keep them adequately
watered where they're always moist, not soggy moist, and you
are fertilizing regularly according to the cut the UH instructions

(02:12:17):
on the bag, you can get pretty good growth of those.
As now, anything you plant's going to sit there and
pout for a while, you know, after travel. I think
they kind of just sit there, but then they take
off and so so yeah, I think you either way
is a good idea.

Speaker 20 (02:12:34):
Is it too late to trim back the ones I
have now because they they've really gotten big?

Speaker 3 (02:12:43):
For the for the fact that the plants are too
big and the plants will survive that pruning. Yes, you
can prune now, but you're cutting away the bloom buds,
the spring bloom buds that you enjoy. Those are formed
in late summer and fall, So prune now. Every pruning
is taking away bloom buds. So okay, that's the trade off.

(02:13:04):
I unless you have to get it pruned. I would
wait until after the bloom is over and then do
your pruning.

Speaker 20 (02:13:11):
Okay, so that's another six months. Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (02:13:16):
All right, Carolyn, thank you. I appreciate that. Hey, folks,
if you would like to give us a call, I'm
going to a break, but you can get on the
board seven one three two one two kt R h
ibby right. Ciena Maltz. Ciena Maltz are down south of Houston,
near the north of Road Sharon, near where Highway six
and two eighty eight come together. The actual road is

(02:13:38):
FM five twenty one. You can go to their website
Sienna Maltz dot com and I hope you do.

Speaker 9 (02:13:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
They serve that whole region Lake Olympia, Pomona, Fresno, Manville, Riverstone,
Quell Valley, Iowa. Calling him Meridian first, cont need to
keep going near the Braespin State Park. They are the
place to go for the brown stuff. Remember brown stuff,
the foundation for your garden. Brown stuff that makes everything grow.
Brown stuff. You got the best plants in the world,

(02:14:05):
But what are you going to put them in? Good stuff?
You're gonna put them in compost materials. You're gonna put
them in bed mixes. You're gonna make sure they have
nutrients from quality fertilizers. All of the brown stuff is
at Cienamultch. That includes native hardwood mulches, double ground mulches,
that includes Landscaper's Pride, black velvet, the rose soils, organic compost.

(02:14:28):
It includes things like the Vegian ir mix from heirloom soils,
and on and on and on, sand rocks. Everything you
need and part of the brown stuff the nutrients, microlife, fertilizers, nitrophots,
Landscaper's Pride, Nelson plant Food, Medina, Azamite, the Nelson Turf
Star line specifically too Bone Eye products, the heirloom soils, Pride,

(02:14:50):
it's all there. When you go to Siena Moultch, you
get quality stuff.

Speaker 5 (02:14:55):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:14:56):
Landscapers know what they're doing. They get their stuff from
the the animalts folks and they're friendly two folks, very friendly.

Speaker 5 (02:15:03):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:15:04):
For example, bmb I was telling you about their services
for compo stop dressing and narrating. They get their stuff
from Ciana Maltz. They know it's quality stop and it
is Sienna Maltch dot com fall is for planting. First
comes the brown stuff, then comes the green stuff. Stop
in at Cianna Malts if you're within twenty miles of them,

(02:15:24):
they'll deliver for a fee, or just take your trailer
over there. You pick up and pick it up. But
whatever you do, get that so all right, and let's
the animals help you do that. I'm going to head
now to Sugarland and talk to Ross. Hello, Ross, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (02:15:40):
Hey, hey, Skip, good morning. I've got funny saying. I
got three Japanese you in the front yard, kind of
basically little same light, same water and everything. Well, there's
one the one plant on my right, individual stocks start off.

(02:16:00):
I've had these things for three years, three or four years,
and it's one place on the right I've replaced. This
is the third time I've replaced it because as the
stalks die off, it gets too thin to match the
other one. So I bring in another full full plant.

Speaker 9 (02:16:15):
You have any.

Speaker 13 (02:16:16):
Idea of what it's called, it's just not the whole plant,
just individual just slowly one dies two diyes.

Speaker 3 (02:16:21):
Three diyes. Yeah, and you said, Japanese you, that's what
you meant, right, Japanese you, right, right, Okay, Uh, it's
going to be that when on any plant you get
individual shoots dying, it's either a little borer it's affecting
those stalks, cutting off the moisture flow. But on a

(02:16:42):
Japanese you that's the unlikely cause but possible, or a
canker disease, and it's a little disease that infects the stem,
kills the tissues that take water up and down, and
then the whole thing turns brown. It's just like you're
purened it off essentially. Uh and uh So I would
follow the brown down to where it goes from brown

(02:17:03):
to green and look around the stem there and see
if you see splits in the bark or any holes
and little tiny holes in the bark or anything like that,
and that's going to point you to the solution. Normally
we do not have to spray up in these views.
They just are not prone to diseases impressed problems. But

(02:17:23):
any plant, it could happen. The other thing, if it's
happening following a hard, hard phraeze that they weren't ready for,
that could be a cause. But I think probably some
sort of a shoop canker is what you're looking at.
And that's my best guess without being there and seeing it.

Speaker 13 (02:17:40):
Okay, so I mean, yeah it eventually the whole stock
to the ground goes and I cut it off at
the bottom. I mean, so you can't think anything like
a it's a wet spot in.

Speaker 5 (02:17:50):
An area or.

Speaker 13 (02:17:53):
I mean, there's no way to treat what you're talking
about the cankers.

Speaker 3 (02:17:57):
Not really. I mean could do fungicidal sprays on it,
but generally that's not needed. When you prune it out.
You need to go below the brown into the green,
make your cut, and then spray your printers with life
slid between each cut, so if it is a disease
in there, you're not spreading it. Okay. That's the last

(02:18:19):
tip that I can give you.

Speaker 5 (02:18:21):
Is great lilt oh on the pruning prun so that
if you cut in and you got bacteria now on
that prunter from the infection, you won't take that bacteria
and make a new wound with it.

Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
Okay, russa for you on it, But good luck, you bet,
good luck getting under control of that. We're going to
go now to Kay in Houston. Hey, Kate, welcome to
garden Line. How can we help hi?

Speaker 6 (02:18:48):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 22 (02:18:49):
I have two really healthy looking hibiscus and pots, and
they're green and wonderful, and I've fed them and they
loaded with blooms, and then before they loaded with buds,
before they bloom, they just fall off. So I don't
know if I've got bricks or aphid or rapids or
what's wrong with them.

Speaker 3 (02:19:10):
That's unusual. Yeah, there are some little pests that can
do that, of course, steps getting the flower and mess
up flowers, but generally not that big of a problem.
It could be, it could be a some moisture situation.
Do you see any yellowing leaves on the plants of
older leaves?

Speaker 22 (02:19:26):
No, very few, like maybe one or two, but there's
huge bushes.

Speaker 3 (02:19:33):
Yeah, I'm just just spraying. Yeah, I hate to send
you out spray and everything under the sun, so like
we don't know what, so we're gonna throw everything but
the kitchen sink at it. That's not my general approach.
But your spray and insecticide on them. It's hard to
get those insecticides in the flower, so I'm just not

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inclined to suggest you do that one. Okay, moisture best
you can. There are funguses funde that can attack blooms.
It happens to roses a lot, especially during wet weather,
and infects the pedals and blooms. But let's see this
if you can, I'm gonna put you on hold. If

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you can take some pictures of it early on, you know,
just a number of different pictures of this symptom, and
then okay, send them to me by email. Let me look.
Maybe I'll see something else in the pictures and I'll
be happy to help. So I'm gonna put you on hold.
Chris is going to pick up and he will give
you an email to send those. Make sure the pictures
are in good sharp focus and is show me one

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of the whole bush, but then show me as close
as you can get to the blooms. That's helpful too.

Speaker 7 (02:20:41):
Okay, Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (02:20:44):
All right, you got a little bit of a walk
off the earth. The first one I heard was not
walk up there, although they sang that song. But I
love that band. All right, let's see here. I want
to tell you about fall Fest Buchanan's Native Plants. It's
on October fifth. October fifth, next weekend, from ten to

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three pm. Ten to three. Now, this is a deal
you want to be part of. I'm gonna be there
from twelve to two. We'll be giving away a one
hundred dollars gift card and you have to register to
win that. We're gonna be given away a Microlife brown
Patch bag giveaway the event itself, a pumpkin painting Halloween

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mask craft for kids. I'd to say that carefully. It's
hard to get those words. Coloring stations for kids. There's
gonna be a hay ride. There's gonna be a lot more.
They're gonna have pumpkin ring toss for kid, game bag toss,
a scavenger hut, live music, the local band Yopine. What
a great name for a local band, Yopine. They're gonna
have kids crafts. They're gonna have a moon Bounce. They're
gonna have food, coffee, beer, wine and what else do

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you want?

Speaker 7 (02:21:50):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
One more thing? It's all free. Buchanans Native Plants on
Eleventh Street in the Heights. Now you know, Buchanans is
the place you go for all kinds of native plants.
Buchanans Native plants, that's the name of the place, and
boy did they ever have an excellent selection of that.
It's not just native plants though. Do you need house plants.

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They've got one of the biggest house plant green houses
I've seen in the region. It's awesome. Do you need vegetables, herbs,
everything you can imagine, including soils and products and things
to go with it? Is it Buchanan's Plants. Come see
me next October next talk so sober October the fifth,
next weekend at Buchanan's Native Plants, ten am three pm

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is the whole event. I'll be there from twelve to two.
I hope you can show up. Maybe one that one
hundred dollars gift card. Boy, I have fun with one
of those. At Buchan is the garden center. Let's go
now to Mario and clearly, Hey Mario, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (02:22:46):
Hey Skiff, thanks for taking my call. I have a
couple of things I put Yo pound Holly's as a
kind of a hedge around my beds. Always had boxes
before and replaced them because they weren't doing well, and
so I'm not familiar with what these things do. But

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the tips are turning yellow. Is that normal or is
there's something going on?

Speaker 3 (02:23:18):
No, it's iron deficiency and that's not unusual on Holly's
in general, especially if your pH is a little high.
What I would recommend is begin for the rest of
those Holly's life to fertilize them with an acid loving
plant fertilizer. And there's different things in the market for that,
like for fertilizer for acid loving plants. Microlife has their

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acid loving plant type and a kind of a pinkish
bag that works really well. But it's just going forward.
Everything you fertilize, you use that. In the meantime, gets
you some keylated iron kelated. It's c H E L
A T ED. Follow the label and apply it. It
is a form of iron that doesn't tie up to

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the soil as fast and the plants can get it.
So sprinkle it around the planet at the rate the
label says, and watered in really good and you're going
to be able to provide that quick boost to you know,
to get that iron endo the plant. There's probably enough
iron in the soil, it just can't get to the plant. Now,

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you're okay. And clear Lake, so if you'll go, if
you'll go to the M and D clear Lake Ace
Hardware on Bay Area Boulevard, they're going to have those
kinds of products.

Speaker 6 (02:24:35):
Yeah, I use them, and I'll run over.

Speaker 3 (02:24:37):
There are students.

Speaker 6 (02:24:38):
We're done. Also, I'm in my front lawn. I'm seeing
a lot of weeds, surprisingly because the lawn was really
hearty and mush, and I bought a reed beater complete
from Bowden. Is it a good idea to put that down?

Speaker 13 (02:24:57):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:25:01):
It's a little hot, it's a little hot to apply
weed beater to your lens. If it cools off a
little bit, we get our daily highs mid eighties or below,
that would be something you could use. Just remember that
your broad leaf weeds, that's what that controls, not grasp,
but broadly. Those broad leaf weeds are going to be

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mostly dying off already when cool weather hits, So it'd
be next spring, early before it gets above eighty five
when you would use that product again. But yes, just
let it cool off a little bit, and if we
get close maybe the mid to upper eighties, if you'll
do it really early in the day when it's the
coolest time of the day, that would also be okay
for that bon eyed weed beater.

Speaker 6 (02:25:43):
Okay, And then we'd it be all right to do
it my winter. Would it be all right then? Once
I've put that down to use my winter fertilizer.

Speaker 3 (02:25:54):
Oh yeah, you could do it before or after that.
It's unrelated.

Speaker 6 (02:25:57):
Okay, good. And then what about plants? What do I
do with the plants for the fall?

Speaker 3 (02:26:05):
I've got a I'm not sure what you're asking me.

Speaker 14 (02:26:08):
Oh, well, I.

Speaker 6 (02:26:09):
Want to fertilize. I understand that it's time to fertilize
trees and other plants.

Speaker 3 (02:26:17):
Yeah, for new things that you put in the ground,
you can do that. We just want to be careful
for fall for the other plants to not stimulate late
season growth that's tender and it is more likely to
get by a hard freeze that might show up a
little early. So, especially things that are semi hardy, you

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want to be kind of careful. So I don't do
a lot of fall fertilizing in general to those plants,
but we do for the lawns.

Speaker 6 (02:26:44):
Okay, okay, all right, Well, as usual, you're terristic.

Speaker 3 (02:26:48):
It's a great deal.

Speaker 6 (02:26:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:26:51):
Thanks for being listener, Mario. I appreciate that a lot.
Let's see, we're going to go now to Oliver in
North Houston. Hey, Oliver, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (02:27:00):
When morning skip this our first stem collar a problem
with some solid plants that I have, they're just about
producing fruits. Well, I've noticed some of them are starting
to die. The plants are dying. Could you see why
they're dying?

Speaker 3 (02:27:18):
What kind of plant?

Speaker 16 (02:27:20):
Soril or high biscus at any call of Jamaican high
biscus or roselle, they have different names with it.

Speaker 3 (02:27:29):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why they're dying. It could
be due to a lack of moisture. It could be
due to damage to the roots. It could be from
keeping them too wet and the roots get root rot.
So you know, a lot of things can kill a plant,
and just the symptom that it's dying, I can't really
tell you exactly which of the things that is.

Speaker 16 (02:27:48):
Well, I have not been wanting it a lot neither,
you know. Just there. I have about seven plants and
one saty to die, then another one so do not
die on at the same time. And they just about
producing some fruit, you know, the fruits red buds. So
I'm concerned that I may lose all of my plans

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this year.

Speaker 3 (02:28:12):
Yeah, that's not typically very cold hearty of a plant.
So give it some water, give it a good soaking,
appliant oat the soil about six, six or eight inches deep.
That takes a lot of water, and see if that
perks it up and at least it'll get you through
this season before it gets cold and everything shuts down.

Speaker 16 (02:28:29):
Okay, okay, skip cansel off taking my call?

Speaker 3 (02:28:34):
Yes, sir, thanks for calling. Appreciate you having you as
a guardenline listener for sure. I want to remind you
guys that I'm going to head to day to Wharton
feed and Ace hardware done in Wharton, Texas. So if
you are anywhere off that direction, come on up and
let's talk. Bring me samples, bring me pictures. We'll identify,

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we'll diagnose, or we'll just sit and have fun and visit.
I'm a giving away two bad eggs from nitrofoss of
their Fall Special, two bags of their barricade time for
all that be, giving away some medina samples, some plants
from green Leaf Plants down there, and a gift certificate
from the buck Boot Company now Wharton, Texas. I don't
know if you know this, but this is God's country

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when it comes to agriculture. Cory Boy and the bag
agent down in Wharton County was making sure that I
knew and you know when we're I was a county agent,
and number of counties here in Texas moved around in
my career, and I'm always very proud of my county,
and i know he is too. For good reason. Did
you know Wharton County is the number one producer of
horticulture crops in Texas. That's nursery and turf. And they

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got a lot of big turf farms down there in
Wharton County, But horticulture crops are big. It used to
be that it was just cotton and cattle, you know,
that was that rule of the world. Horticulture crops have
caken over. Wharton County is also the one or number
one or number two agriculture production county in the state
of Texas.

Speaker 5 (02:29:59):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:30:00):
There is a God's country for agriculture and horticulture. By
the way, I hope you guys that are gardeners down there,
grab five friends and come on over. Let's let's have
a good time at Wharton's Wharton Ace and feed down
in that area. I also want to remind you October fifth,
next weekend, the Brazoria County Extension Office is this having

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their first annual Figtoberfest, meaning you want to learn about figs.
There's gonna be doctor Hartman from A and M's a
friend of mine. It's gonna be doing a program on
fig research and data. Steven Yannick from Techsager Life Extension
Horticulture Department. Another friend's going to be talking about fig
trials and pests and diseases destin note the Texas Garden

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Guy will be there. Philed Angelus from Phil's Figgs nine
seventy nine, eight six, four, fifteen fifty eight for more
information

Speaker 9 (02:30:54):
With over the