You Can Make Your Own Garden Of Eden

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Katie r.

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H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

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Speaker 1 (00:44):
Starting all right, well, good morning, good morning, happy Easter morning.
We have got us a day that a throw a
few clouds our way, but that is okay. Things are good.
You know, we need rain anyway, right, we always need
some rain, especially when summer gets here. Well, wish we

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had that rain.

Speaker 8 (01:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, we're here to help you have success in your gardens.
That's what we're looking to do. And so thanks for
listening in. It's good to have you here. We're gonna
take your calls. We're going to answer questions, and I
just made drone on about a few things I think
are important and timely for this time of the year.
So we'll do a little of all the above. If
you'd like to give me a call seven one three,
two one two fifty eight seventy four for those of

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you who like the dial numbers and not hunt letters,
for the rest of you seven one three two one
two k t rh do it either way ends up
in the same place if you looking for a few
two dues for the coming days. We've got our lawns
in super happy shape. They love the temperature. They're gonna

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get some rainfall on maybe a little bit today. For
a lot of you, it's tigned to put the fertilizers out.
They carry us into summer, and nitro foss superturf is
ex exactly that kind of fertilizer. I was talking to
someone yesterday at it the Warrens Southern Gardens in Kingwood.
By the way, thanks for everybody that came out. Thanks
for Warrens for hosting us out there. I really appreciate that.

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But someone was asking me about, you know it, should
I put on fertilizer now? And of course the question is, well,
what have you already done? And they'd put out a
fast release maybe a month ago, roughly a month ago,
and so the answer is, well, you can put something
out now, you can wait another couple of weeks. Probably
that fast release is going to last a while, even
though it's fast release. But then when you put the

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slow out, it's going to carry you on through summer,
and that would be the slow In the case of
nitro fross is there super turf, the silver bag. It
is designed to gradually release nitrogen in the product over
a period of about four months. So if you put
super turf out now and you return your clippings, by

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the way, clippings are full of grass food because it's
what grass took up. They decompose a way, they release
some nutrients back in the soil, it'll carry all the
way up into fall. I mean, if you want to
go that far out with it, you can just make
sure get it down at the right rate, watered in
really good, and then sit back and enjoy. It'll give

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you a nice even growth rate so that you're not
trying to catch up mowing all the time. You know,
you push your grass with a lot of nitrogen, excessive nitrogen. Okay,
some is good, too much is not good. Isn't that
true with a lot of things in life, such as
good food. Yeah, some of us enjoy a little too
much good food sometimes. Well, anyway, when you do that

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to your grass with nitrogen, what happens is the grass
takes off and grows very rapidly. It gets very green,
of course, but you're pushing it a little too hard.
You get to mow a lot because you're pushing it
too hard, excessive applications. But you also you also have
a strange thing happens in the grass that when you

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over fertilized lawns, it's not like you get lots of
top growth and lots of root growth. It's like you
get lots of top growth at the expensive root growth.
I saw a picture one time of a turf research
thing where they grew turf in three the same turf
in plugs in three different crocs of liquid, and one

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had not enough nitrogen, one had the right amount, and
one had too much. Well, the one was not enough,
it was not looking real good. It didn't have the
vigor it needed. It just wasn't healthy, but it was there.
The one with the right amount looked good, and the
one with too much was emerald green and twice as tall,

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which means mowing. Then they lifted it up where you
could see the roots that were down in that liquid
in the crock, and the one that didn't have enough
nitrogen had a very good root system because it was
starving and looking for something. The one with the right
amount had a nice top growth with the balance of
a good root growth. The one on the right that

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was emerald green and twice as tall had less roots
than the one with the right amount of nitrogen. Now,
when you go into summer and it's hot and you're
trying to take up water, you need roots unless you
want water all the time a lot. And also when
you have that kind of a root system, if you
have a few grubs, chew in a few of the

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roots off well. In a good healthy grass plant, a
few grubs, it's not a problem. But in that kind
of situation you have less roots and now a little
bit of root damage, and you even suffer more from it.
So what am I seeing all that for. It's to say,
when you fertilize in the summer, don't overdo it. If
you're going to use an immediate release, do it in
very small amounts over time. Don't look at the bag

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and go, well, it says to put down x amount
and keep doing that through the summer. Break that up
and do it in small doses. It's like you're making
a slow release out of an immediate release by applying
it slowly over time. But when you do something like
coming back circle where we started here. But Nightfass Superturf,
the silver bag, you're going to get a nice gradual

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release over time, and you don't get that flesh of growth.
You don't end up with the grass that is growing
too fast, too tall, too green, with less roots. It
is the other end of that. It's proper growth, the
middle croc. In my story of that research project. If
you will anyway, where do you get night Fuss products, Well,

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you can get at plants and things out in Brenham.
Fisher's Hardware down in Baytown will carry that Lake hardware
Inclute another place where you're going to find Nito Fuss products. Well,
you were listening to garden Line this morning. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and my goal is to help you have
a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape. And I know

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it is not rocket science, good horticultural practices, good gardening practices.
It's just not. It's not that difficult. You just have
to follow a few principles. And one of the principles
is to pick plants that want to be here. You
pick things that want to grow here, and you're going
to have success with them and you go to a
good quality nursery that knows what they're talking about and

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you're going to have success. And Growers Outlet and Willis,
by the way, is that kind of nursery. They have
all kinds of things right now. They have a selection
of roses that is outstanding. They have a lot of
milkweed plants covered with the little monarch caterpillars. By the way,
they have everything you need if you're looking for products
four year lawn like microlife and nitrophos and medina and things.

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They carry all that as well. You're going to find
some outstanding landscape color and beautiful hanging baskets. They really
have a beautiful section of those. And I can't even
name everything they have, but Growers Outlet in Willis is
the website. They're just south of Willis on seventy five.
Growers Outlet in Willis. Hey, welcome back to the guardline.

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Blood have you with us this morning on a nice
easter Sunday. Welcome to garden Line. I was sitting outside
in my patio yesterday and just enjoying it with some family.
We were sitting out there for a good while and
I was watching my feeder I've got a one of
those hopper type feeders that has made out of recycle

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plastic from Wildbirds Unlimited, and I have it full of
the Nesting super blend that is an exclusive product for
wild Birds Unlimited. That is important to have out now
because our birds are nesting.

Speaker 9 (08:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
It's got the calcium innut that's needed to form the
eggshells and the skeletons and things of birds. Well, anyway,
I was watching and I watched a blue jay and
during the not too long time we sat out there,
he made five visits to that feeder. He was hogging it.
He loved it. There was also a pair of house spinches.

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If you haven't seen the house spinches, they're little, tiny birds,
but the males often have like a or at least
the ones at my house have kind of an orangish
red hue over their head and part way down their chests.
They're really attractive little birds. They can have some yellow
on them in some parts of the country as well.
But anyway, I was watching those go back and forth
to it, and I'm telling you, we are in nesting

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season for many of our songbirds, and this perfect blend
designed by the folks at wild Birds Unlimited is one
that you really need to have out now. It is
time for putting this blend out and I'm telling you
birds love it. You can purchase it from Wildbirds Unlimited
in loose seed bags, you know, the regular bags of seed,
or you can purchase it as the little firm formed

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cylinders of seed where they have to peck the seed out.

Speaker 10 (09:39):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
By the way, also it's time to get your hummingbird
feeders out while you're there. You know on Wildbirds just
check them out and ask about their high perch hummingbird feeder.
That's wild Birds Unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder. It's my
favorite nectar feeder for the hummingbirds. And you can find
Wildbirds Unlimited stores all over the greater Houston area. There's

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six of them here that includes in Kingwood, Clear Lake,
pear Land. There's a couple in Houston on one on
bel Air, one on Memorial, and then up in Cypress
on Barker Cypress there's another wild Birds Unlimited story. It's
easy to find them. You just need to go check
them out, and you need to get some of the
quality products that they have. I've got a couple of
feeders that I'm I have got in the backyard right

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and watch them and it's pretty interesting. I'm learning a
lot about birds in the process. Let's head out to
Bill in Galveston. Hey Bill, this is a garden line
and we're glad you're calling this morning.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Happy Easter.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Happy Easter to you as well, sir.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
I sented photos in the last one of the last
two weeks. One had to do with my peaches and
trying to keep the scrolls off of them. If if
you got it or not.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yes, I did. Uh you sent you put a kind
of a covering over them, right.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
I put a mesh covering.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I hope that's Oh, it's okay, it's fine to do it.
Just you know, how's it working out?

Speaker 8 (11:08):
Well, it's it's it's a little heavy on the bridge
because they're not that it's not that old a tree yet.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
But but uh huh yeah, to know that was a correct,
correct way going on. But you could you could do that, Uh.

Speaker 8 (11:24):
Go ahead, you go ahead.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Well, uh, sometimes what I'll do is take a for
a not so heavy cover like that. I'll take like
a half inch PBC pipe. I like to use the
gray one. It comes in like ten foot links and
has a belt in so you can hook more than
one pipe together without having to glue it and make
an arch over the tree, like let's say you go

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from north to south and another arch from east to west.
Then you can throw your covers over it and he
keeps it off the tree and all of that. But
that's just another little tip slash technique. Okay.

Speaker 8 (12:00):
Secondly, I sent you a picture of my I have
a cotton tree which is doing well, but there are
all kinds of leaves down below it. I've try to
figure out whether that's normal or whether so you need
to worry about it.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
What I should be doing about it?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Tell me the name of the tree again, said avocado avocata. Okay.
Evergreens like avocado southern magnolia is the same way too.
They'll drop some older leaves from time to time, and
that a few yellow leaves on the ground like that,
especially in a spring transition like this, is not a
big concern. I think your tree is fine. Okay, that's

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all I needed to know. Thank you very much. All Right, Hey,
thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much. You have
a good day. Whenever we're trying to have success with
things that were growing. It's just all about the soil.
It always is about the soil. And while it's so
easy to get excited about buying plants and flowers and vegetables,

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and you know, you can just picture all the beauty
and the bounty you're going to get from these plants
you're buying at the garden center, don't forget to go
home with something to make the soil better. That's why
I always say brown stuff before green stuff. And Heirloom
soils is an excellent example of that. Airloom soil sold
all over the area. You can buy it by the bag,

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and you can also buy it by the bulk. You
can go get it out in porter if you want
to drive out and get a bulk load on your
trailer or something. If you want to have them bring
it to you and dump it on the driveway, or
bring a supersack and set that on the driveway. That's
a cubic yard of mix. You can do it anyway
you want. And when you go when you go to heirloom,
it's not just like a product out there. I mean

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they have a fruit berry and citrus mix. They have
a mix for landscape beds. They have a Roses and
Bloomers blend veggie and herb mix. That's one of my
favorite ones. I use it for a lot of things.
And then of course they have the mulches and the
things like expanded shale and leaf mold compost and whatnot.
You're going to find all you need there. Go to
Airloom Soils and check them out, look at the products

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that they have, look at the calculator to the on
the website. It's very helpful and helping you decide, well,
how much do I need to get to cover this
area or to make a bed this big or this
wide and long and so on. You can all you
can do that on the website. And if you're looking
for it by the sack, just look in your local
garden center, speed stores. I started the different places. I

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in fact a lot of places around town I'll find
Airloom Soil products, and so I encourage you to check
it out and to use it because it works. Let's
go out to Patterson. Now we're going to talk to
Susan this morning.

Speaker 11 (14:36):
Hello Susan, Hey, Skip, good morning, Happy Easter, A happy
Easter to you.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yes, sir, I have a question about two different vines
that I try to be organic, but I cannot get
these under control. One of them, someone told me, is
called cow itch, has no stickers or anything, so it's
fairly easy to pull. And then there's another one that's
very stickery. It looks kind of like a vine, but
it doesn't ever bear anything other than make me say

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words I shouldn't say. So I was wondering if do
I use the triclep here on those.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Or yes, yeah you can. And the nice thing about that,
especially if you use my my weed wiper or a spongebrush,
is you're putting out just small small amount of a product.
You're not spraying it everywhere. You're not spraying on the viney.
You're applying it to the cut vine, or if it's

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a younger vine, if you if you even rub it
on the sides of the vine. You can put a
little bit of vegetable oil in the triclop here if
you want, or people use diesel oil too, but and
that makes it stick and soak in to the sides
of a vine if it's not really woody, meaning you know,
sometimes even poison ivy h's a point where it's got

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almost a lot of bark on it, you know, as
it gets really a big vine, and yeah, on the
sides of that, yeah, yeah, but yeah, cow, it's is vine.
I don't.

Speaker 12 (16:05):
Oh, I was gonna see.

Speaker 10 (16:06):
I don't really mind it.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
It's just, uh, I've got it coming up in flower
bits and stuff. I had a yard guy cut it
all down, and now.

Speaker 12 (16:14):
It's it's come back with a vengeance. So do I do?

Speaker 6 (16:17):
Is it better if I cut it and then dab
it on that cut part of the stem, or put
it on the leaves or both?

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, if if the vine is so small that, you know,
it's like a little less than a pencil, it's kind
of hard to get it on the cut end like that,
but yeah, that's pencil size. I would put it on
the cut end and then I'd wipe it on the
sides of the vine as well. And that's where putting
a little bit of an oil in it, some some
kind of an oil to make it stick, like a

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vegetable oil or you have diesel that that's what farmers
and rancher shoes to do.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'll probably do the vegetable oil because I'm not I
don't have a whole lot of diesel oil around yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
There you go, Okay, do that, and you know it's
better in the spring. You put less out. You don't
get the product on things that you don't want to
hurt or you don't want to kill, and so it's
a pretty good way to go. If you go to
my website gardening with Skip dot com, I have a
publication that you can download called, uh controlling Woody Weeds

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in the Landscape and uh okay, so woody weeds are
things like poison ivy cowitch buying the hackberries that the
birds sat on the fence and pooped and planted, you know,
along the fence line. Uh, that kind of plant. But
that publication is free, it's easy. It tells you exactly
what to use and how to do it. It was
a little picture there.

Speaker 12 (17:37):
Okay, excellent, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, thank you very much. Appreciate appreciate your call. Yeah.
That uh, that is the that was like a world
changer when I when I first rouse reading about how
rancher or a thing that Agrolife Extension Service had posted
on the web for ranchers getting rid of brush. You know,
I mean, you know, they got a pasture, they're trying
to get grass to grow and feed cattle and getting

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rid of brush and things and the different approaches and
basically just adapted it to the backyard garden. I have
a thing called the Skip's weed Wiper that's on the website,
and that is another way that we minimize best to
side use but maximize effectiveness without hurting plants that we
don't want to kill. And you can go look at that.

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And so I've got some other stuff that I'm about
to post up there too. I'll tell you about it
when we get it up. But it's also related to
how do you know what product to you use for
this or that weed? So we'll get that up pretty soon.
I was talking with someone the other day about Nelson
plant food products and we're just discussing the array. And

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in fact, yesterday when I was at Warren Southern Gardens,
I was just noticing the boy. They had a lot
of different Nelson products in stock that are part of
the turf Star line. There's a lot of them. Only
talk about a couple of them and only on the air,
but there's a lot of great products that Nelson has.
But their product Bruce's Brew is a really unique one.
I speak about fertilizers like they are fast release or

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slow release. You know, we sort of simplify it by
dropping them into those two categories. Well, Bruce's Brew kind
of straddles that fence. Bruce's Brew gives an immediate release.
It's good for a quick green up, and boy, now
that the weather's warm, it will work really well for
doing that because the grass is willing to grow. But
it doesn't put all the nutrient in that one quick greenup.

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It releases some evenly over time, so you're going to
get to some degree a pretty good little slow release
product release out of that. Bruce's Brew as well, So
it's one that kind of straddles a fence on that
and you can use it anytime a year. You use
it on anything. Even though it's a low fertilizer. It

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works on a lot of things. But it's a good product.
You got to look for it. It works really well.
Nelson Plant Food does a great job of coming up
with the chemistries that help their products work best. And
when I say chemistries, what I'm talking about is nitrogen
is nitrogen. But there are forms of nitrogen and there's

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some that are immediately available that are some that are
going to release over a little time, and there's some
that take a long time to release, and you get
all that packed in one with Nelson's. I got to
take a break. We'll be right back. Well, now I
know why I am not hearing myself in Mayors because
I have my mic off for crying out loud. I
hope you enjoyed the music in the meantime. Okay, Operator Air,

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you think I've ever done the show before, well, welcome
back to Garden Line. Get to have you with us.
I am gonna go into a couple of things I
wanted to visit about this morning. And the first thing, well,
I'll talk about some of it later, but if you
are wanting to have color in your landscape, you need
to pick plants that are going to be able to
take the heat. At this point. Earlier in the season,

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there were a lot of things we could plant and
grow that would do very well in the cool mile season.
Now you're starting to put stuff in that's going to
have to live in the heat. And here in the
greater Houston area, May is a summer month. I don't
know if you knew that if you just moved to Houston,
Welcome May arrives in summer here. Our summer arrives in mayhere,

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And so what do you do for hot weather color. Well,
we have a lot of great plants to choose from,
a lot of really cool plants to choose from. But
you just need to think about can this take Texas
heat and in the case of Houston humidity through the
course of the summer. There are flowers that do that.
We have hibiscus that are just gorgeous and they just

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laugh at the summer heat, and many many other blooming options.
But then we have foliage plants, and so if you're
trying to plan a very colorful summer landscape, don't forget
to use foliage in the process. If you've got areas
that are bright shade, something like persian she which is
a purplish silver foliage plant looks really really good. Copper

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plant is another one that gets tall, has coppery colored leaves.
The colius comes in a bazillion different colors and it
grows in shape. But now we have colias that do
well in the sun. Also, some of the variegated types
of cannas, like Bengal tiger and others that have the
yellow and green striped leaves look good. Probably my favorite

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can is one called phasian or tropicana tropicana, and I
don't know how to describe the leaves. It's everything from
a coral to a copper to it. There's a lot
of color in those leaves. And of course cana is
also bloom, but that is a bold, gaudy color in
the foliage. And I could just go on and on.

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The bottom line is foliage color, foliage color. Include that
in your landscape for summer and at a time when
we do have many blooming options, but not like spring,
you can still have gorgeous color that's very happy.

Speaker 11 (22:59):
Here.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
A lot of these plants are tropical types. It never
gets too hot and humid for them. They just do
really well as long as you give them some water.
So that's just a kind of a tip to be
thinking about as you do your landscape planning. By the way,
if you'd like to give us a call, the number
is five or excuse me seven to one three two
one two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH

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the D and DE feed Store west of Tumbull. It's
on twenty nine to twenty about three miles from two
forty nine has been around since I guess I think
they opened up in the late eighties. And yeah, late eighties,
the Dover family opened that up. And it just keeps
getting better, you know. For since the time I started
going by there, it has expanded in size and their

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selection insight is outstanding. And if you want to make
a garden or a landscape better, dan De Feed has
got everything you need, you know. They carry fertilizers by
nitroposs and and Microlife and under the Nilson Turf Star
line talking about that a minute ago, Medina products. They
carry airlooms, soils for example, and just anything you need

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to manage the problems that occur in the landscape, whether
it's an insect, whether it's a disease, whether it's weeds
you're preventing or weeds you're trying to kill. They have
very high quality dog foods too, high end lines like
Origin and Diamond and Victor and Starpro and so on.
Of course, there are feed stores. They have livestock feed
as well. If you're looking for backyard chickens in every

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spring they bring those in and then when it comes
to all the supplies for them, the feeds for the
feed for them, and so on. D D has got
you covered. It's a great place to stop, easy on
and off right there, off twenty nine to twenty if
you want to give them a call. Two eight one
three five one seventy one forty four. That's d D
feed two eight one three five one seventy one forty four.

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I was out in my landscape this weekend and doing
a little bit work here and there, checking on things,
and I one thing I noticed is that the pretty
much all of the cool season weeds that are still
around have gone to seed now. And someone yesterday actually

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I had several people show up with bags of different
kinds of turf weeds that were coming up in the landscape,
asking what is it and what I do about it?
And almost every weed had seed on it. And the
point is, well, when a weed goes all the way
toward the end of its life where it's going to
produce seed and die and then come back the next year,

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there's not a lot that a spray can do at
that point. You've got to you've got to, you know,
do something different because if you even if you kill
let's say you had poa annual which is called annual
bluegrass or or lawn bur weed or some of the
others that we're seeing now and seed. Even if you
killed the weed, which products don't work as well when

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they're already in the seed stage. But even if if
you killed it, we still have all those seeds there.
She haven't accomplished much. So that's where I give people
the unhappy news of well, why don't why don't we
hand pull it? And no one wants to hear that.
No one wants to do that, And I get it.
I understand that. But the fact is, at this stage,
if you're full of they're full of seeds, you've got

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two things you can do. You can just ignore them
because they're going to be dying anyway soon clover, handbit,
chick weed, all those kinds of things. Or you can
get on your hands and knees and get you that
little kneeling bench I like so much, which makes it
easy to get up and down and when the soil
is moist, five gallon bucket or something, and I just

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go on. I got my little weeding tool. I'm going
through the yard here and there, pulling weeds here and there.
And you're accomplishing a lot now, a lot of people
don't want to do that. I understand it, but I'm
just saying if you leave the seeds there, then get
ready because next fall you better have some kind of
a premergent down to prevent them be in a worse

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shape next spring than you were this spring. Remember that
the number one way we control weeds in our landscape
is by growing denser grass. The thicker and denser your
grass is, the less weed problems you're going to have.
So mow, water, fertilize all summer long, be very diligent

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about it, and you can have success in getting your
weed problem down to a more manageable level. Very important.
Speaking of plants and things for this time of the year,
I was talking about some color plants earlier in Foliage Color,
and Channey Forest has really got you covered on everything.
They do have the plants that bloom in the summertime,

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that more difficult time of the year to have color
around here, and they have some gorgeous foliage plants. But
they really have everything. I mean, it doesn't matter what
you need. Maybe you want to put some herbs in
the gardener, start a herb garden. Outstanding selection. They're trees, shrubs,
look great. Still time to get those planted, by the way,
but the sooner you do it the better, because summer

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is coming. It's the easiest to plant before the extreme
heat arrives. And then they have wonderful plants for attracting
the butterfly adults and the butterfly larva. Those those monarchs,
for example, they're gonna lay eggs where their babies can eat,
and that would be a milkweed plant. The Gulf fritillary

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orange butterflies, they're gonna lay on passion vine because that's
what their baby's eat. When you go to a channet forest,
you get a lot of knowledge to help guide you
to create a beautiful garden for birds, for butterflies, whatever
you're looking to do. And Channet Forest, by the way,
is on FM twenty seven fifty nine, so it's south

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of fifty nine between Richmond heading up towards Sugarland Way,
so south of the Brass River right there on twenty
seven to fifty nine. I'm gonna take a little break
and I'll be right back with your calls. Hey, welcome
to garden Line. Good to have you with us this morning.
I was telling you yesterday talking about Moss Nursery down

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in Seabrook on Toddville Road. I'm telling you Jim Jim Moss,
the owner of the nursery. He loves Japanese maples, and
his nursery has always been a leader in Japanese maples
with the Gulf Coast because they spend so many years
figuring out which varieties do best here. And you know,
Japanese maples grow much farther up north, Midwest and so on,

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and down here we're kind of on the hot end
of their range. But they're Japanese maples that do we
and they figured out which ones are the best ones.
They know how to grow them here in our climate,
how much sun they can tolerate, with kind of soil
and so on. And I think some years I've probably
seen what fifteen twenty varieties of Japanese maples, from those
real feathery, fine leaf to varieties like Crimson Queen and

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ate a garnet to the kind that have more of
a maple like leaf like Blood Good is a good
example of that. The other day, I think he brought
in like seventy Japanese maples and fifty gallum bots and
he's got the varieties, some of his favorites. By the way,
our Crimson Queen ever read Dragon Tears, Emperor One, and
Blood Good. Those are some of the ones he likes best.
But just go see them, just go talk to them.

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They have plenty of beautiful Japanese mape and of course
you know the oh and interestingly enough, Jim is telling
me that this year the maples are like twenty five
to thirty percent cheaper than the same sized tree would
have cost last year. And that's unusual for prices to
go down on something, but they are, so now'd be
a great time to put one in. You got a

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little bright, shady area, little morning sun or something along
those lines, and you go check them out. But they're
at Moss Nurse round Toddville Road down there in Seabrook.
I'm gonna go now, let's head out to Spring and
we're gonna talk to Rich. Hey, Rich, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Good morning, Skip, Thank you for taking my call. I
know we discuss killing bermu in Saint Augustine, and you know,
and I know you're not a proponent of mixtures that
are on one label for doing that, but Syngenta.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Got your email about that. Okay, yeah, but I'm not
going to go into I'm not going to go into
the specific products and stuff on that on the air
though that I'll handle that if you want to, you know,
email some stuff. We can talk about them, but I'd
rather stay away from getting specific because then a lot

(31:33):
of people go and want Some of those things are
very hard to come by and find, you know what
I'm saying. They're they're designed for the commercial market for
licensed folks, they are, and they're extensive. It's hard to find. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, and I split it with two other neighbors to
divide the costs among us.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yes, yeah, well, you know you're on the right track.
I did reply to you on that email. Uh, and
it's a it's a can of worms for me to
try to do on the air, but yeah, there there
are options out there. Yeah great, But thanks for that
picture too. By the way, if I have permission to

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use it, because that that is very very good to
see the results and things that you're getting.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
You have the permission because the I have three other
neighbors that did it apply to their lawns.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
And it is working all right, sir. Well, I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (32:29):
I do.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
I do appreciate hearing back from folks that try different
things and how they do so. Yes, sir, thank you
very much. You're listening to Guardline the number seven one
three two one two k t r H seven one
three two one two k t r H. We are
here to answer your gardening questions, those kind that you
have and help you figure out how do I overcome

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challenges which kind of what we're talking about here. If
you are creating outdoor color containers, and I hope you are,
or if you're going to grow vegetables and outdoor container
jungle Land from distributed by the folks at night Foss.
By the way, it is an outstanding product for that
it holds moisture, but it also drains well. It's called
jungle Land flour and vegetable planting soil. Now you're going

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to find jungle land products at many different places. If
you head up to Lake Hardware in Angleton, or maybe
if you're in Alvin Stanton's Shopping Center, North Taylor, or
in the clear Lake area M and D clear Lake
on Bay Area Boulevard are examples of places that carry
Nito frost products. In my own landscape, you know, I

(33:38):
have this rule. I have a rule that applies to
buying books and buying plants. If I have more than
two books on my nightstand or whatever that I haven't read,
I can't buy another book because I've had that. Like, oh,
I have ten books and I haven't read any of
them yet, So I make myself read books in order
to get to buy another book. I do that with

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plants too. It's like, look, you can't just have ten
plants sitting there all summer where you're trying to remember
to water them in their pots because you don't get
them in the ground. You got to get them in
the ground. Put them in the ground. You can buy
another plant. Well, I broke the ryal yesterday I was
looking for monarda that is, it's a it's a wonderful

(34:20):
plant for bees, bringing in bees and things. And I
found one who was out there at a gosh, I
can't even say the name of the place I just
went to yesterday. My brain just went blank, just like
that warn in Southern Gardens in Kingwood, and I and
I okay, I got it and brought it home. So
now I had to figure out I have a little

(34:42):
tray and this is. This is a good tip for
you for you too. By the way, I have a
tray that holds water, but it's big, uh. And I've
used the little kids waiting pools for this too, you know,
the little three foot wide waiting cheap old waiting pools.
You put about an inch of water in it and
you set all your plants in it, and it waters
them for you. You know, I be gone for three
days and they're they're still pulling water up, wicking water

(35:05):
up out of that pool. And this little tray I
have was so full I couldn't get my new plant
in it. So maybe after the show today, I need
to get that thing planted right all right? Well, nitrous
has a product called sweet Green. Sweet green is eleven
percent nitrogen and for an organic product, that is a lot.

(35:27):
It smells wonderful. You put it down, you water it in,
it goes in the soil. Microbes go nuts. They love
that product because they break down those carbon chains. That's
what they love most, especially the beneficial bacteria, and release
the nitrogen down into the soil. Sweet greens available in
a lot of different places. You go to Kdace Hardware
for example, on pin Oak, you go to Auspase Ace

(35:49):
up in the Woodlands, or Ace Hardware City, ho Memorial Drive,
all places that carry nitrofoss products. And now is a
time to get it down. Now's the time the grass
is growing actively it can use that, and so I
would highly recommend you go ahead and get that done
as you can. So anyway, I got these plants and

(36:09):
they're sitting there in this container, and I put water
in the container. And when you have stagnant water sitting
mosquitoes are gonna lay eggs in it. That's why I
always have some mosquito dunks on hand. You know, I
can toss them right in that stagnant water, and if
they lay eggs in it, the larva get a disease

(36:29):
from the mosquito dunk and they can't they can't come up.
So that's kind of cool. I like anything that works.
And if it is a pest that I want to
get rid of, and I can get rid of it
and give it a disease, that makes me happy. I
know that's morbid on a Sunday morning, but that's the truth.
So anytime you're gonna knowingly have stagnant water, which generally

(36:52):
avoid it, but mosquito. Uncle ficks that for you. The
other day, I was looking at some of the product
examples from Houston Powder Coders. They send stuff out there.
If you follow them on social media, you can see
projects that they've done. And I'm telling you, every time
I see it, I know how it works. I understand

(37:14):
what they do, I know how beautiful their work is
and what a good job they do. But still every
time I see it, it's like wow, it almost makes
me want to have old furniture. I can get it
coated because it is donning the work and the results.
They powder coat any kind of metal you got out there,
cast iron, wrought iron, aluminum, patio furniture. They have over

(37:35):
one hundred colors you can choose from, so I don't
care if it's artwork on you know, the metal artwork
hanging on the house, or if it's a furniture or whatever.
Houston Powder Coders is who you call. And here's the
That is their website, by the way, Houston Powdercoaders dot com,
Houston powder Cooaterers dot com. Go see, go see what
I'm talking about. It is cool old stuff. Yasic means

(38:01):
we're gonna take a little break at the top of
the hour. Here we'll be back with your calls if
you'd like to call in seven one three two one
two K t r H. Seven one three two one
two k t r H. Happy to take your calls
on this lovely Sunday morning, Easter morning. Happy Easter folks,
by the way, and we'll be right back with those

(38:22):
kind of calls. Oh, I want to mention something next Saturday.
I'm going to be at Southwest Fertilizer, corner of this
and Matton Renwick from twelve to two Southwest Fertilizers Saturday,
April twenty six. Hope you make plans to come on out.

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All right, Good morning folks. Glad to have you with
us this morning. What would you like to talk about today?
You guy to do is give me a call seven
one three two one two K t r H. Seven
one three two one two k t r H. We're
gonna head out to Cyprus. First thing here and talk
to Martha. Hey, Martha, welcome to.

Speaker 12 (39:03):
Garden Line, Thanks very much. My problem is I think
because we planted about three or four weeks ago and
they're not doing anything. They almost look like they're dying.
We watered them with colors star on them. A couple
of years ago, we planted them and they just blossomed
in the same area. And then the year after we

(39:25):
planted them, they blossomed again beautifully and this interest and
in the fall I had my lawnman put fertilizer around
the maults. Mult not fertilizer maults around the you know
where they are. Would that have caused problem?

Speaker 9 (39:44):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Probably not. Uh So what are you seeing when you
look at you say, you know, it's like they're dying?
What are what are the symptoms of that? How does that?
How does that start? And progress?

Speaker 12 (39:59):
They it looks like they're dying. They're getting brown. Okay,
my son said, explain if he would won't He won't,
So if.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
You were, that's fine. So if you're looking at a plant,
are you seeing a green leaf and it starts to
get brown on the tips and the edges? Or are
there brown spots in a leaf? Or does a whole
plant wilt? What can you think of any of those things?

Speaker 12 (40:31):
Look it kind of looks like the whole plant. And
he's also say snails I think out there.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Okay, Well, if the snails were a problem, you would
see leaves eating the way and then you would see
the dried slime from their trails.

Speaker 12 (40:49):
He said, there are some leaves that are being eaten, Yes,
there are.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Okay, well, well okay, that could be snails. Uh, And
you go and get a bait for snails. It's it's
a snail and slug bait, one of the kind. There's
several brands on the market that can do that. One
top one brand. It's just one brand. It's called slug
O s l U g g oh because it kills

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slugs too. But it's about you put it out and
and you have to have fresh bait. You don't let
it sit in the hot outdoor, you know, shed or
something like that. It needs to be good fresh bait.
But slug O sprinkled around, the snails will pick it
up and eat it and it will kill them. So
that will take care of that. As far as as

(41:36):
far as the you know, just the general Hey, these
plants aren't doing good. It's kind of hard for me
to know what that may be. It could be it
could be injury to the roots. It could be that
the water isn't getting to wear the little plant root
system that you put in the ground when you pulled
it out by that low confined root system.

Speaker 12 (41:57):
You know, how much should I be watering them? I
mean watering them in the morning for five minutes after
in the evening, five minutes is it?

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, it's enough if you are getting the root ball wet.
The little section of roots that came out of the
pot and went in the ground is very confined until
that plant has some time to grow an extensive root system.
And so if you water but don't get that wet,
that's not enough. I don't know if five minutes is

(42:29):
enough or not. It kind of depends on how many
plants you have to water and so on. But you
just want to I would go over it and just
make sure the water goes to each plant and soaks
down in the soil. That may mean going over at
once and coming back and go over a second or
third time to get a good soaking there. But I
can't tell how much time that takes or anything. It

(42:50):
just depends on a lot of factors. But you don't
want them to be soggy soppy, but you do want
them to be so color. Star's fine. Yeah, that's good
stuff that the plant probably doesn't have the root system
extending out far enough to do that. Now, did you
happen to like put all the fertilizer around the base

(43:11):
of the plant or did you sprinkle it all over?

Speaker 12 (43:14):
Yeah, he put it around the base.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well, sometimes when you put a fertilizer that's a synthetic
salt based up fertilizer around a plant, you can get
so much that it kind of burns the roots. Okay,
so then when you get wet it's like, think about this,
it's not really table salt, but if you put table
salt around a plant and then watered it, you would

(43:39):
you would get all that salty water into the root
system and it would it would really damage a plant.
So you can do that with synthetic fertilizers, but that
just means applying a lot and color star tends to
release a little bit over time, so generally you're not
going to do that with it. But always sprinkle the
fertilizer evenly all around and kind of scratch it down

(44:01):
into the soil. But that's the only thing I can
think of based on the evidence we have to work
with here. But just kind of watch them. I would
give them, you know, good drenching of water that may help.
If indeed too much fertilizer got put right around that
root system. That would help a little bit and maybe
they'll bounce back from it. That's a good summer plant

(44:22):
and you know, maybe that you have to replant later.
But see if we can say these I've just given
them some.

Speaker 12 (44:27):
Good drenches blossome glass the last two years. I mean,
it was just amazing. And then they didn't come up
this year. I mean, do they interesting year normally.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
From seed?

Speaker 12 (44:39):
You mean no, Well, yeah, I mean I would planted
them one year and then after they died, they came
up the following year without us doing anything different.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, that's just that's probably probably from seed. Well let's
I'm I think I've done what I can do on
on trying to help with this. But I wish you,
I wish you well with it, good luck with it,
and hopefully they'll turn around or if you replant, just
watch that fertilization. But thank you, Martha, I do appreciate
your call. RCW Nurseries is located where Tomball Parkway two

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forty nine comes into belt Way eight and it has
been around a long time. The Wimson family opened it
up back in what nineteen seventy nine. I believe they
still run it too, by the way, and it's a
great nursery. We refer to it as they get it,
got it nursery because if they don't have something, they
probably can find it and they'll do their best to

(45:31):
do that. At RCW, they are loaded up on summer color,
like we were just talking about the vinka or Madagascar
periwinkle I prefer to call them. They go through summer
just wonderfully. They have beautiful, beautiful plants ready to go,
lots of other things, unusual things hanging baskets that are
just gorgeous there, and pretty much anything you are looking

(45:53):
to grow, you're going to be able to find it there.
And check out the roses. If you've been thinking about
planting a rose, my goodness, get one plant because RCW
will get you covered. On that time. Ball Parkway at
bout Way eight. I'll be right back. All right, folks,
we're back. You're listening to garden Line on a nice
easter morning. Glad you are too. If you've not fertilized

(46:15):
your lawn yet and you would like a quality organic
product to use to have success. Approven product been around
thirty five plus years. Number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston.
I'm talking about Microlife's green bag, the six two four.
It does not burn because it's not a salt based product.
You can put it out and just give it time.

(46:35):
Microbes get a hold of it, they turn the nutrients
release They turn the nutrients loose and release them to
the plants. That's what their job is in nature, one
of their jobs. And it's great. Now you can use
it on turf because we talk about it as a
long fertilizer, but you have azalias or flowers or vegetables
or trees or shrubs or roses and containers. I mean
I've used it in all the different kinds of areas.

(46:57):
I've used it in containers. I've mixed it into containers
soil before when I was planting. It really does work,
and it's one of the many, many products from Microlife
that can help you have a beautiful, organic, successful landscape.
And you're going to find Microlife products all over the place.
They're widely available. You can go to the website Microlifefertilizer

(47:21):
dot com and there you'll find out more about the
other products as well as where you can you can
find them. One example would be Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer
has been here for seventy years. Do you know I'm
the fifth garden Line host going back into the fifties,
mid fifties that has spoken for Southwest Fertilizer and people

(47:42):
that have been there. I mean, you know, you know
what I'm talking about. Anything you need is there. If
they don't have it, you don't need it. That's how
I like to put it. And that includes fertilizers, that
includes pest control. If you're an organic gardener, you're not
going to find a better selection of organic products than
Southwest Fertilizer has in this whole region period. Ninety foot

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wall of gardening tools that kneeling seat, a garden kneeling bench.
It's you know, you flip it one way, you sit
on it to flip it the other way, you kneel
on it, and then the legs become handles to help
you get up and down. In any of you north
or forty know what I'm talking about there, Well, they've
got that. Bob's got those there. If you like my
weed wiper, I was talking about the weed wiper earlier today,

(48:23):
and you want that little grabber tool, the specific kind
of grabber tool you used to build my weed wiper.
Bob's got those there. See what I mean. If they
don't have it, you don't need it. They have it
all corner of Bisinett and Renwick in Southwest Houston. Now
next Saturday, I'll be at Southwest Fertilizer from twelve noon

(48:44):
to two pm Saturday, the twenty six, twelve noon to
two pm. All of you folks in that whole region
down there, come on out and see me. Last time
we were there, we had a line of folks bringing
bags out of their pockets with weeds and bugs and
all kinds of stuff, wanting them to get identified and diagnosed.
And what do we use to control them? And I

(49:04):
guarantee you whatever is needed, it's going to be right
there in the store for you. So come on out
and see you. I'll tell you more about that appearance
coming up. Well, let's go on out to Cyprus again now,
and I we're going to talk to Ed. Hey, Ed,
welcome to Guarden Line. Thanks for waiting.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
Good morning, skip up the easter.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Yeah, is you as well?

Speaker 3 (49:25):
I sent you.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
I sent you four photos of a bed in my backyard.
First one is back and you can see the fence.
Across that fence. There's not another home. It's just a
pastor that's got those trees in it. That bed I've got,

(49:48):
I'm trying to get rid of all of those. You know,
I guess there are weeds, but really what it is
is it seems like they're brush or trees that are
coming from across the fence. Yes, and I sent you
a couple of close up photos.

Speaker 11 (50:06):
My question is.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
I've been digging them up, but there's root network all
over that did.

Speaker 12 (50:16):
Okay, and up as much as I can and then
cut them.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Yeah, but what I can.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
Cut it rid of them from coming up.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
All right, I can cut to the chase on this one.
I saw your photos. Good photos, Thank you. You've got
two primary weeds. One of them is called Chinese tallow.
It is taken over the Gulf coast in areas. Came
in years ago as a good idea for a tree,
and now we've discovered it is one of the weediest
invasive messages you can have. Has a couple of attributes,

(50:49):
has beautiful fall color and bees love the flowers, but
other than that it is a problem.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
The other weed is the vine and that is called
pepper vine peppervine. It eventually will have little blockberries on it.
Pepper like the seasoning peppervine is the vine Chinese tallows
the other one. They are not easy to control. Peppervine
comes up, it goes underground and pops up in the

(51:17):
grass and it'll pop up all over. The products you
need to control them is the ingredient Trichlo peer t
ri I c l O p y R. If you
but you need to go to my website, I won't
be able to fully explain this all in the air.
But if you go to gardening with Skip dot com,
there's a publication on controlling woody weeds in the landscape

(51:40):
and it tells you exactly what to do for these
two vines. You're going to use the tricle peer. On
the website publication, it tells you the brands that you
can go look for for that Tricli peer and how
to apply it, and that that's what you need to
do and you got to stay with it. They're not
easy to control, but trackle or will kill them. You

(52:01):
just have to get it on them, and when a
new one pops up somewhere, get it on that one,
because you're not going to get them all with one application.
You're going to find them popping up elsewhere. The last
thing I would tell you though, on this head is
you've got a rose bush underneath that Chinese tallow picture
and something is wrong on that rose. Now it could
be maybe used to herbicide in the bed and some

(52:22):
of it got on the rose, or it could be
a disease. That's a not good disease for roses to have.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
But you probably look at that I told you about
that before they had that rose it and I'm just
trying to get rid of everything in that bed.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Okay, Well, use then use the tricle up here on
that rose too to completely get rid of it. In fact,
better than that, I would find a way to reach
around and grab that rose and get it out of
the ground. And what I would do is put a
trash bag over the rose and that because there's mites
on that rose that that will carry that disease. They'll

(53:01):
float through the air carry that disease to another rose.
So when you bag it first and then pull it up,
all the jerking and shaking of pulling it up, you
don't just shake all those mites loose h they're all captive,
and then you can just take that trash bag straight
to the to the your regular trash pick up. All right, sir, okay,
all right, thank you, you bet, thank you. Yeah, that

(53:25):
rose rosette is not something you want to mess with,
for sure. I was at Warren Southern Gardens yesterday, as
I've said before, having a good time. And you know,
you and Kingwood are very fortunate. You got Warren Southern Gardens,
you got Kingwood Garden Center. Warrens is on North Park,
Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both of them are open seven
days a week and they serve that whole area, you know,

(53:47):
New Caney Valley, rant a Task, a Seat, a Porter, Humble,
and of course Kingwood. And the selection was just outstanding.
I spent a little time walking around looking at everything
that they had, and oh, my gosh, beautiful place. Wide
variety of products, lots of good products from place from
you know, Microlife and nitrofoss, Nelson's Turf Star line, Nelson

(54:10):
Plant food jars as well, and then heirloom soil products,
a really good selection of all kinds of bag products
from heirloom soils. So I would highly recommend that you
go by there and check them out. Both garden centers
are unique. They're each kind of getting their own personality
if you will, like one of them may focus a

(54:31):
little bit on this, or another one a little bit
on that, and so it's not like their cookie cutter
places by any means. And it's worth going to both
of them, Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. And
thanks the folks at Warren't for having me out there yesterday.
That was that was a really really good time. I
always loved going into that place anyway, So there you go,

(54:53):
if you'd like to give me a call today. Seven
to one to three two one two kt RH one
three two one two kt r H Nitropus is Superturf.
I was talking about a little bit earlier. Is the
silver bag. It makes it so easy to identify. You know,
you walk into some place feed store, garden center, ace,

(55:14):
hardware store, whatever, and you just look at all the
products and the silver bag just jumps right out at you.
That's Superturf. That's nineteen four to ten super Turf four
month release, gradual, nice release. Whether you're lawn is Saint
Augustine Bermuda grass Zoisia grass. In our hot and humid climate,
this is an excellent blend designed for our soils and

(55:37):
of course this crazy hot humid climate that we deal
with down here in the Greater Houston area. Nitrofis Superturf's
widely available, lots of different places. You go to Hiding
and Feed on on Stubner Airline, You're going to find it.
You go to RCW Nurseries on Tomball Parkway. I was
just talking about RCW corner of Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway.
You're going to find it there. Uh and DND feed

(55:59):
and another place. Just mentioning them a little bit earlier. Yep.
They carried that silver bag there as well. And it works.
That's the bottom line. That's that is what that is.
All we ask for is that it works. If you
want to give me a call seven one three two
one two k t r H seven one three two

(56:20):
one two ktr H. That's the website. Are the website
the phone number if you want the website. My website
is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip. It
is a website that is in process, as are all websites,
but we just cut it up not too long ago,
fairly recently, and we just keep adding to it, and

(56:43):
I've got a couple more publications that are about to
go up. The goal that I have with that is
for you to be able to get more in depth
answers to your questions. And I can give here on
the air my schedules are up there. That's an example
for me to sit and tell you about the January
through December what to do in your lawn for fertilizing

(57:04):
in pests and weeds and disease. You know, I could
never do that on the air, not enough time. But
on the website you just download it and you've got
it there. And yesterday out at Warrens, some people were
coming up and you know, I was giving away schedules
and say, hey, do you have a copy of my schedule,
and a lot of people, yeah, we already got it.

Speaker 12 (57:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
One person told me it's put on the pantry, on
the door of the pantry in the house, and you know,
I told him that. I said, you know, if you
want to take a picture of me and hang it
in the pantry, it'll keep the cockroaches out of the oatmeal.
And there was this moment where you know, they looked
at me and I was like, what does he say?
Then they laughed all right anyway, little self deprecating humor there.

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Nature's Right Resources is north of the Houston area. You
head up forty five like you're going to go to
Tomball and where fourteen eighty eight comes in for magnolia.
That would be coming in from the left. If you're
going north, you turn right and you just go across
the railroad tracks and right there on Surbrock Circle is
Nature's Way Resources. Now, this place has been around a

(58:06):
long time. It is kind of like the grandfather of
quality soil places in the Greater Houston area. It's where
things like rose soil and leaf more compost were born
in the Greater Houston area here and they still take
time to make quality products in the way that they
know how. John Ferguson started a long time ago. His

(58:26):
son Ian runs a place now and from in all
through the entire staff, you've got qualified people who can
help you have success. And I don't care what you're
going to grow. You go to Nature's Way and they're
going to have a soil for it for making beds,
for putting in containers, for whatever, and then mulch's as well.
Summer's coming and unless you like pulling weeds in the heat,

(58:49):
I would highly recommend you get a good thick mulch
down on all your garden beds. Nature's Way can take
care of that. Nature's Way Resources dot Com, Nature's Way
Resources dot com if you want to give them a
call nine three six two seven three twelve hundred ninety
three six two seven three twelve hundred. And by the way,
their newest retailer, Jay and ours Ace Hardware up there

(59:11):
in Porter carries the by bag. They're fine leaf mo
composts or double ground malts. They have rose soil, they
have garden and flowerbed mix, blueberry mix, acid loving plants,
and even a Centris mix there. So welcome aboard there, jr.
It's out at Jr's and Porter a while back. Love
that store. All right, I'm gonna take a little break

(59:32):
here for the news. When I come back, Jerry, you
will be our first up. All right, we're back. Welcome
back to the guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden,
a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. That's
what it's about. So give us a call seven one

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three two one two k t r H. If you
have been out to Enchanted Gardens, you need to check
the police out. It is one of those memorable garden
centers that you go and the first time, I think
the first time I went there, I got out of
my car walking across the parking lot and I just
stopped and my jaw drops down and I'm looking left

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to right over this expanse of all kinds of plants.
I mean, everything you could possibly want, things like beautiful
pottery too, real decorative cool, decorative yard art, beautiful hanging baskets,
and all the things you need to make a beautiful
hanging basket. If you want to create one yourself, you
can do that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
You can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
They have a wonderful gift shop there. You're going to
find all the products you need to have success. You
hear me talk about brown stuff before green stuff. Well,
when you go to Enchanted Gardens, you can load up
on the brown stuff and then all the beautiful green
stuff you purchase, take it home and have success. That's
how that works. Microlife Nitroposs Nelson plant food Medina from

(01:01:00):
Nature's way and heirloom saws both they're all there waiting
for you. And the folks there are friendly, they're knowledgeable,
and that is so important. You are going to get
the facts. You bring in a question or issue and
say yeah, I got this area and blah blah blah,
I'm having trouble with this. Well, they're going to tell
you exactly what to do, walk you over to the

(01:01:22):
plant you need to have the product that they need
to go with it, whatever the combinations. They are experts
at that Enchened Gardens Richmond. They are on the Katie
Foolsher side of Richmond, the website Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com.
On FM three point fifty nine, let's head out now
to the Alvin Dickinson area and talk to Jerry.

Speaker 11 (01:01:43):
Hello, Jerry, Hey, good morning, Happy Easter to you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Thank you you as well.

Speaker 11 (01:01:51):
So can you address or talk about the rust on
the daylyly leaves.

Speaker 13 (01:01:56):
I did have a friend once that told me lemon
Joy sprayed on it from a water.

Speaker 11 (01:02:02):
Bottle could help. Is it topical?

Speaker 9 (01:02:05):
Is it in soil?

Speaker 11 (01:02:07):
And can you advise anything on it?

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Yeah, that's a problem rust on daililies there, you know,
there are things you can do.

Speaker 11 (01:02:16):
You said daily, right, correct the daylilies.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Okay, yeah, I want to make sure I didn't mis
mishear you there. Okay. So it gets inside the plant
and as a result, a topical isn't going to cure
that rust that's inside the plant. What you would have
to do is cut off all of the affected leaves,

(01:02:43):
get get all that top growth out of there. Just
bag it up and get it out of there, and
then start over and as the new growth occurs, start
to spray that new growth. That is that is kind
of what it amounts to. And and spray with lands
is a uh, spray with a bunge side containing for

(01:03:05):
example blaton b A Y L E t O N
that would be one product.

Speaker 10 (01:03:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Products with dak andil have been okay on on rust,
but they're not systemic and so you just have to
spray and spray and spray, and so we try to avoid,
you know, try to avoid that kind of thing because
nobody's can get out and continue to do that anyway.
Mm hmm.

Speaker 11 (01:03:32):
That is great, correct.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Belaton Bailaton is one of the products that you can
use for the rice.

Speaker 12 (01:03:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
There are there are also products that contain myclobanil and
I want to I want to spell that for you.
Do you have a pen handy.

Speaker 11 (01:03:53):
Briton notes as you speak?

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Mm hmmm M Y C l O b U T
A N I l okay, got it? Uh my chlub
you now. And and what you're going to want to
do is alternate between those in order to have better success.
There are other products out there that can work, but
I'm not going to give you one hundred different product names.

(01:04:16):
Those two. Those two are available widely and they're effective,
but you got to stay with it and think of
it this way. You're protecting the new growth, okay, and
as you as you do that, you you're going to
avoid getting the infection in the first place. Day Lilies
are really prone to a particular rust.

Speaker 13 (01:04:35):
Correct, right, we're a friend of mine. Just join the
day Lily Society. And you know when you love the
plants and start with the dirt first, it's never ending.

Speaker 10 (01:04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:04:50):
The garden is a wonderful place.

Speaker 14 (01:04:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Well, there there are a lot of products out there.
Just remember to rotate them because if you use the
same wor and over and over again, development of resistance
to that product by the rust will happen. Diseases evolve
and they change and something that used to work no
longer works anymore. So it's going to be very careful

(01:05:16):
not to overuse a particular product. And if you're talking
to Daylily society folks, they're going to have their own
concoction and thing that they swear by and that's legit, right. So,
but just that's the main thing to remember is cut
off all the debris, get it out of there, and
then begin to spray and protect your new growth. That's
the approach I would take.

Speaker 11 (01:05:38):
All right, well sounds good, and thank you for your
work on the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
All right, you take care, thanks a lot, appreciate it.
I can find my right buttons here.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
There we go, There we go.

Speaker 9 (01:05:52):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Cinamaltz is south of Houston. Sanamaltch is near Highway six
and two eighty eight. It's actually on FM five twenty one.
But rather than giving you all the hours and phone
numbers and everything else, just write down cnmulch dot com,
cnmls dot com. That'll tell you everything you need to know,
and I'll tell you what you do need to know
also on it. And that is that any way, shape

(01:06:16):
or form that you want to improve the soil, the
foundation for plant growth, You're going to find it at Cenemulch.
They're going to have the fertilizers from Microlife and Nelson's
and Medina and nitrophos. They carry asamite for example. They
carry products from heirloom soils. They have composts and bed mixes.
They have the mulches that go on top of the soil.

(01:06:37):
When you go to Cenamalch, you purchase everything to make
the perfect foundation for plant success. Canimalts dot com FM
five twenty one ne'er six and two eighty eight uh
I have found going in there that they're the products
they carry are outstanding. The service they offer is incredible.

(01:07:01):
You're not going to find friendlier, more hopeful folks. And
they delivered by the way within about twenty miles for
a fee of their location, or you can just go
by there and pick it up yourself. Let's see we
are We're going to head out to Eastgate and talk
to Rick. Hey, Rick, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
He has risen my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Indeed, how can we help you today?

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
Well, I don't know if you remember, but I am
an old friend of Randy's and I would always call
him every Easter Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
I do remember he is Risen that has a beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
Day out here with little cloudy. We're anticipating God's gift
to us. He's gonna give us today to get these
plants going.

Speaker 11 (01:07:50):
And.

Speaker 12 (01:07:52):
Just happy to be alive.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Well, thanks for calling back. I know you call last year,
and it's always good to hear from you. Rick Enjoy
the wonderful day and that includes rainfall today. But that's okay.
We sure could use that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
We made it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
God bless you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Skip yes, sir, and you as well, Thank you, sir, aybye.
Oh Randy. You know Randy, Randy Lemon. He is a
permanent fixture here in the Houston area and it really
is talking to people that came out to Warren Southern Gardens.

(01:08:30):
Yesterday we had some stories about Randy, a fellow that
also went to A and M a while back, and
we were talking. I've known Randy. I knew Randy starting
with about nineteen eighty. See no, it's nineteen seventy nine,
I believe is when I first met Randy. We lived
in the same dorm at TEXA A and M. And

(01:08:51):
he was a character. Any of you knew. Randy knew
that the understatement of the year, and he sure left
imprint on the gardening world here in this out East
Texas area with about twenty six years of being on
the air here on Garden Line and really built this
show in so many ways. So we do miss Randy

(01:09:11):
and Randy's memory, but he definitely lifts on because you
couldn't forget Randy, that is for sure, absolutely would not.
So we miss our friend. And it's a privilege to
be able to sit in this chair and continue on
the tradition. And then he has that he established here

(01:09:33):
for us. Medina Products work. That's the fastest way I
can say it, Medina products work. I've used a number
of different ones. Every time I use one I tried out.
Because when I promote a product, I'm telling you something
that I have tried and that it works, and I
like the has to grow six twelve six for example,

(01:09:54):
I need to talk about some other ones because I
have so many good ones. But if you're going to
plan anything, get some has to grow six twelve six
in with that product mixed in water, put it in water,
and can do it again about a week later and
a week after that and you'll be well on your
way to success. It's got the Medina soil activator, it's
got the fertilizer's ingredients, and it's got humic acid, and

(01:10:15):
it's got seaweed extract in it. It's a concoction that works.
Medina has to grow six twelve six plant food. I
need to take a break. I'll be back in a moment.
All right, we're back. Got one more segment in this hour.
If you'd like to give me a call seven one
three two one two kt R eight seven one three

(01:10:36):
two one two k t R H. Happy to visit
with you about the kinds of questions that you might have.
I want you to have success, that's the bottom line.
Want you to have absolute success. I was telling someone
in the family yesterday. I mentioned I was sitting outside
listening to the birds with family yesterday late in the day,

(01:11:00):
and I was telling them about the pest Pros buckets
for mosquitoes and so what. Basically it is by pest Pros,
which is our number one pest control product provider here
in the Greater Houston area. I mean, these guys do
an excellent job. I spent time with them, visited with them,

(01:11:21):
looked at the products, looked at how they go about things,
you know, picked kind of filled out their knowledge and stuff.
And I'm telling you, I have no qualms at all
about recommending pest pros to you. I don't care if
you have termites, the household pests, if you've got fire ants,
if you're dealing with all environments like rats and mice
and raccoons or whatever else is crawling around the place.

(01:11:44):
They know how to handle all of that and they
do treat effectively. Like with termites, they have a product,
a technology that lasts for ten years. It's putting a
little shallow trench around the base of the house, just
out from the house, just a bit, and termites can't
get through there, and it lasts that long. They also
treat in the safest possible manner. You get long term

(01:12:06):
control with no worries. But anyway, we were talking about
these mosquito buckets, and it's a bucket that has a lick.
You put water in it, and then they have product
that goes in there. I say, you put. They set
them up for you and they come and monitor them
through this mosquito season, and it attracts mosquitos and they
lay eggs in it, but the eggs never make it,
they don't get past that regular stage. And it just

(01:12:29):
makes that bucket so attractive to mosquitos that they all
want to come there and lay their eggs there. But
when they leave, they carry with them something that wherever
they go lay eggs somewhere else, it gets in that
water and prevents them. And this isn't some poison that's
going to hurt birds or dogs or pets or anything
like that. This is just a tiny amount. But the
cool thing about that system is you know, maybe your

(01:12:51):
neighbor in the backyard has an old tire that's holding
water or maybe a bird bath they don't clean out regularly,
and so mosquitoes are breeding there. Well, your mosquitos from
your bucket are going over there and making sure that's
not a breeding area as well. So when neighbors do this,
it helps everybody around them, including them. But it's a
cool system. And also my favorite part of it is

(01:13:12):
the mosquitoes pick up a fungus that only affects them,
doesn't hurt lady beetles and other things. This fungus in
about seven days is going to take that mosquito out,
which makes me happy to know a mosquito is suffering
that kind of end to its life. Pest Bros. Thepestbros
dot Com, The pest b r os dot com, The

(01:13:34):
pest bros dot com two eight one two o six
forty six seventy two eight one two o six forty
six seventy You know, I think that me sitting here
telling you that it makes me happy when mosquitoes die
of body fungus. It's it's kind of like, maybe I
need to rethink things and get a life here, but
it does make me happy. It couldn't a better thing,

(01:13:57):
couldn't happen to those deadcome mosquitoes. If you're new to Houston, welcome.
We'd like to introduce you to a few things that
you need to prepare yourself for. One is called summer.
It's hot, it's humid, it happens. You will sweat on
your way to the car first thing in the morning,
before the sun's even come up. But that's okay. We
love it here and we can grow things here that

(01:14:19):
you can't grow in a lot of places. Citrus for example,
Avocados for example. I mean, we beautiful tropical things in
the landscape. Our soil is acidic enough in many areas
we can build the beds and have the water quality
we need to be able to grow things like azaleas
or even blueberries and other things which you know, try

(01:14:40):
to grow azalea in San Antonio and you have to
do some great links to have success with the can
be done. I mean, growsily anywhere pretty much if you
give them acid soil, the right temperatures and everything. But
here it's easy. We have azalea trails in Houston where
each year they travel along and see gorgeous displays of
those things and so many other kinds of plants. And

(01:15:03):
you know, one of the best reasons that I would say,
welcome to Houston is our garden centers. I brag on
them all the time, but I've been to places and
wherever I travel around the country, I go to garden centers.
There's some great garden centers in San Antonio. There's some
great ones in Austin. My favorite over there is the
Natural Gardener in Austin's outstanding place. Dallas has got some

(01:15:27):
good ones, Atlanta, Georgia, the DC area just all over
they're good ones. But I never see as many quality
garden centers as we have right here in north, south, east,
West and Central. We've got them here in the Houston area.
And I keep encouraging you to do some horticultural tourism.

(01:15:50):
You know, maybe maybe you live downtown Rice Village or
Heights or someplace by the way. Heights has got to
begin as native plants, and you kind of live in
that area. You don't relieve that area, Well, I get it.
That's fine, But take a track out and go see
some of these places that are all around you. Hear
me talking about them every show. I'm talking about our

(01:16:11):
garden centers. But go check them out. They it's well
worth it and it's a wonderful, inspiring day to get
out and see the kinds of things that they have
and that they do. And you're fortunate. So again, welcome
to Houston. Glad to have you. But I got to
warn you about a couple of things. The fire ants
is one. If you've not been around fire ants before,

(01:16:33):
you need to understand something when you're walking through your yard,
maybe looking up or looking out across the way, and
you step in something soft. It's one of two things,
and neither is good. Either you have a pet, I
won't go there, you know what I'm talking about. Or
you've stepped in a fire ant mound and you need
to quickly remove your foot and start kicking ants off,

(01:16:54):
because they will find they have an orchestrated effort to
head up your pants legs and get about to the
waste somewhere in there, and then suddenly, all at once
they go now and they bite and it hurts and
it infort all right. So there's that. The finance Mosquito
is another thing I just got them. I had to
deal with them part of the deal here, but I

(01:17:17):
mentioned that pest Bros. System. That's an awesome way to
get rid of mosquitos. Hey, next Saturday, April twenty six,
I'm going to be at Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston
on the corner of Bisnett and Runwick. So wherever you are,
you need to come by there. Number one like to
meet you. I always like to visit with listeners to
the show. We'll be having some giveaways. We'll talk about

(01:17:40):
those more as we go forward, and we will also
be doing diagnostics and identifications. You can bring me samples
and pictures and all of that. But you got to
see Southwest Fertilizer. I keep bragging on it. If you
hadn't been there, especially, come on out there and take
a look at it. It is a great, great place. Hey, folks, welcome,

(01:18:07):
welcome back on a lovely, lovely Easter morning. It's good
to have you with us today.

Speaker 8 (01:18:18):
This is a.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Perhaps the highest holy day of the year for Christians
around the world. You know, it's it's it's really a
unique thought too. Millennia ago, on a hill halfway around
the world, Jesus said it is finished, and he died,
and on this day we call Easter, he left the
grave alive again. And this event, like a supernova, exploded

(01:18:43):
throughout history, both past and and the future, to change
things forever, to change us forever. For me, Easter isn't
just a holiday or a historical event, which it is,
but it's the end of an old life. It's the
beginning of a new one. And I hope you are
all having a wonderful Easter, and whatever your religious tradition,
we wish you well on this special day. You're listening

(01:19:06):
to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our
phone number is seven one three two one two kt
R H seven one three two one two K T
R H. Give us a call. Let's talk about things
to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful,
beautiful landscape. Nitrophysis product sweet grain is really unique as
a fertilizer. And I say this because number one is

(01:19:28):
an organic type product. You put it down, you water
it in, it goes in the soil, and it's it's
basically kind of like long carbon chains, like which is
a sugar would be a long carbon chain. Microbs go
nuts on that stuff. Organic gardeners have long known that,
you know, you put molasses on the soil, for example,
and it just stimulates beneficial bacteria specially, but microbial activity

(01:19:52):
in general. And that's how sweet green is. You know,
it smells wonderful. You put it down, It's easy to apply,
very easy to apply. One percent nitrogen is a lot
for an organic type product. And Nightfish products are available
in a wide area. You know, if you go to
Fisher's Hardware on Southmore dun And Pasadena, or perhaps the
Fisher's Hardware on South Broadway Street in Laporte, or there's

(01:20:14):
another one that is on FM thirty one eighty in
Mott Bellvue, there's also by the way, Fisher's Hardware on
Alexander done in Baytown. Those are just a few of many, many,
many places, several dozen places around that you're going to
find quality products from nitrofoss If if you are interested

(01:20:37):
in talking about some kind of an issue you're having
or a question you might have seven one three two
one two KTRH, I'm happy to visit with you about that.
We want you to have success. And in my own garden,
I was confessing earlier that I have this thing where
I tend to buy plants, and I don't have the
space prepared for them, or I just don't have the

(01:21:00):
I'm to put them in right away, and so I
end up having to take care of them, which can
end badly if I'm gone or forget to water them
or whatever. And so I have a little way that
I put them in a tray that holds water just
about an inch of water, enough to get water in
the holes in the pot at the bottom so that
it can wick upward and keep that plan alive for me. Well,
I'm going to be doing some planning. I'm not gonna

(01:21:22):
be able to get that done today. We spend some
time with family today, but I will be getting out
and getting that done this week. Preparing the cell first,
putting the plan in, and when you plant a plant,
there are some tips that can help you have success. Now,
if it's a little you know, tomato, a plant, or
a rose, you know, just a real tiny, little annual

(01:21:44):
or perennial for example, digging the whole right and all
that isn't as important. But as you get into larger
things like trees and shrubs, you don't want to dig
the hole deeper than the roots cylinder. And the root
cylinder is what I'm talking about. When you pull the
plant out of the hot there's a cylinder of growing
mix and roots. And if you dig a hole deep

(01:22:05):
and then fill it in, and even if you try
to press the soil down in the bottom, it's going
to settle over time. So the plant that was planted
at the right level now is sunken down and it's
deeper than you want it to be. You want to
set plants so the topmost root is right at or
barely below the soil surface. That is a good way
to go, especially if you're in a clay soil and

(01:22:25):
it doesn't drain as well. There You may even want
to build up a raised bed so that plant ends
up sitting above the underlying soil in the bed goes
up above the underlying soil, and then excess water drains
away and you're in good shape. Now you can dig
holes wider than the root ball. That's usually a good idea,

(01:22:46):
or at least take a spading fork and loosen the
soil around the hole to make it easier for roots
to move out of the hole. Don't put compost in
the planting hole. Don't put fertilizer in the planning hole
unless it's a slow release where you can get away
with that. But don't put compost in the hole. When
you do that, I want you to picture a cutaway,

(01:23:07):
a clay soil cutaway. You dig a hole down in it, okay,
and then you put the plan in and the compost in,
and then you water it. And that hole is an
underground bathtub that holds water because water does not move
out of a clay or through a clay very fast
at all. And I've more than once either seen or

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had people show me or bring in plants that were
rotting in the ground. It had this nasty swamp gas smell.
Of anaerobic decomposition of all that organic matter that basically
is in a submerged clay bathtub underground, and that's not good.

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And that's where that raised bed is important. But compost
does in the planning hole doesn't change anything. The roots
are still going to hit the side of that clay
hole and tend to turn to the side rather than
move into it. Well, what I would recommend is a
mend the whole area, that whole bed area with composts.
Loosen it all up, mixed compost all through it. Then
dig a hole, put the plant in, and use the

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soil you dug out of the hole to go back in.
Now you're in a generally amended soil and roots are
going to establish very quickly and very easily. That's just
a tip to have success with that. Another tip I'd
give you for success is go to Nelson Water Garden
and Nursery. And it's because water Garden and Nursery or

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nursery and water garden is out there in Katie, Texas,
and it is a one of a kind place. Now,
of course they have the whole water garden deal going on,
fountains and plants and pots and on and on and
on fish and whatnot. I just want to talk about
the nursery this time for a minute. Quality plants. You
walk in the store and you'll see one of the
most beautiful selection of house plants ever. I mean, these

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plants are like they're perfect. And if you wanted to
buy a plant and walk up somebody and give them
a gift right then after you leave the store, these
plants are good for that because they look that good, okay,
and they have a great selection. You step out of
the store into the back and you come to the
annuals and the perennials, and the succulents, the herbs, the vegetables,

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all kinds of plants. There's shrubs and trees and vines
and bushes, and they do carry citrus and fruit and things.
It's always a good day to go out to Nelson
Nursery and Water Garden and Katie. They're on Katie Fort Benroad,
just north, just north of Ien. Turn north on Katie
Fort Benroad, go up the road just a little bit
and they're on the right hand side right there, and

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you will enjoy it. Plan on sitting a while and
enjoying the sound the beautiful relaxing sound of that water
and take your kids. Just ask them in Nelson say hey,
my kids would love to feed the fish. Do you
have me and they'll give you some feed. Kiddos can
go back there and feed the koi and it is
really cool. Trust me, go check it out. You'll love it.
Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. I'm gonna take a little break. I'll

(01:25:57):
be right back, all right. Welcome back, folks. Good to
have you with us. We've got a lot of things
to talk about today. It is a perfect time of
the year.

Speaker 5 (01:26:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
I always say that if you are not interested in
gardening in the spring, a number one check. Make sure
you have a pulse. That's important because there may not
be one there. And if you do, then I'm just
going to say officially, you're not a gardener. It's okay,
you don't have to be. You're missing out on a
wonderful thing. But everybody's a gardener in spring. It seems
like this is the time of year to just enjoy

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really cool success plants for all seasons. Is a garden
center there on Luetta and FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway,
so it's actually on Tombole Parkway. You exit Luetta Crossover
Luetta on the heading north and it's right there on
the right hand side on Tombo Parkway to forty nine.
They are loaded up with cool stuff. They have some

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beautiful firm baskets in wonderful groundcover plants. You know, I
don't talk about groundcovers enough. I need to talk about
those more. They have things like silver pony foot, you
know that, it very silver, beautiful. It just cascades over
the side. It's kin to the icondra that we have
to try to get rid of in our lawns. A
little green heart shaped round dish leaves. But this one

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is not going to take over the world, but it
makes a great thing hanging over the sides of a
basket or on a groundcover. And a very well aerated
or excuse me, well drained area. But plants for all
seasons has a ton of wonderful kinds of plants, beautiful
hanging baskets, beautiful pogonia hanging baskets by the way, gorgeous
calibrica and petunias. And if you got shady areas, they

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got plants for that. Pretty much whatever you need. You know,
they've been here since nineteen seventy three, I believe. And
as a result, you're gonna get quality stuff, and you're
gonna get stuff that wants to grow here, and you're
gonna get advice that works here at plants for all seasons.
Go check them out. We're gonna head up to Hocklean

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and talk to Rob. Hello, Rob, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:28:04):
Hey, Skip, nice talk to you again. They're rather happy Easter.
And I sent you some really nice pictures of my weeds.

Speaker 10 (01:28:11):
So did you?

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
You're so thoughtful. I appreciate that. Let me let me
go look at them. Did you do that this morning?
Or when? When did you send those? I just took
a picture just a few minutes ago. Oh okay, all right,
let me get get in the right box here. Okay,
I'm there. Yeah, So tell me about this situation. You
got Saint Augustine with bermuda grass in it. It looks

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like anything. Okay, well, it's a little yeah, it's a
little hard to see from the distance, but I do
see bermuda grass, and I see annual bluegrass. That's the
thing with a little whitish seedhead sticking up yet sprouts
in the fall. So if you look at my schedule.

(01:28:59):
You can go to garden with skip dot com see
the schedules there. They're free to download. You'll notice in
the fall in October, pre emergent application time is then,
and if you want to avoid all the weeds you've
been looking at over the last three or four months,
that's the time to prevent them, including this annual bluegrass

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or call it another name for it is poa POA,
So go ahead and make a note of that at
this point unless you want to get out there on
your hands and knees and pull up as much as
you can to get the weed seeds out of there.
It's going to die down soon and then we'll just
be dealing with it in the fall. The Bermuda grass,
there's not a practical over the counterway to kill bermuda

(01:29:41):
in Saint Augustine without killing the Saint Augustine. But commercial
folks have access to some combinations that are very expensive
that can be used to kill bermuda out of Saint Augustine.
So I'm not saying it's impossible to do it. It's
just for most people a very significant expense and knowing

(01:30:03):
how to do it right. It just I generally don't
even talk about that on the air.

Speaker 15 (01:30:09):
So will the Saint Augustine pretty much grow in it
right now? And then just long about next earthy in
the fall, when I put the pre emergence down, is
that the best thing to just let it kind of
die out?

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
Well right now the bermuda, the bermuda will not be
affected by pre emergence because it's a perennial weed, so
it's always going to be there. So the for the
for the home retail normal situation options, you you either
live with the two together or you've got such extensive

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bermuda in areas where there's very little Saint Augustine that
I would seriously consider spraying and killing everything in those areas.
And then the kind of to kill till phil, But
I would say kill kill, kill till phil means you
spray it and it all turns brown. You're using a

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product that controls everything broad leaf and grassy weeds, and
I have some examples of those on my website. Also
we control products. Typically people will use either gluphoscinate or glyphosate.
Those are two ingredients that have been around for a
long time. People use them. Glue fascinate is in a

(01:31:26):
product called finale, and then some other products perhaps as well.
But you spray it and it takes time. Glue fascinate
works faster than glapys does, but it takes time to
kill it all. And you just kind of wait, maybe
maybe ten days, two weeks, watch it go downhill, and
then wait because it will pop back up. You will

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not have gotten all the rhizomes underground when you spray
once and then with some moisture and warmth, it's going
to pop back out of the ground. Let it get
going again, and then spray it again and even a
third time, because you know, once you go through what
I'm describing, you don't have to do this again. Right,
it's time and work and ugly for a long time.

(01:32:08):
But two or three applications should get rid of it
and then come in with your Saint Augustine sad and
reside the area. And I think that for you and
that amount of space you have there is the most practical,
uh and certainly economical way to go about it.

Speaker 15 (01:32:24):
Well, I appreciate that's that's kind of what I had
in my head, but I just wanted to get it
from the captain's mouth here.

Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
Okay, Well, that's what I would suggest to you, all right, well,
thanks for the call, appreciate that. Good good, good luck
getting it done. Hey, take pictures in the process. Yeah,
send me some pictures of like before and after kind
of the whole area, and I'd be curious to see
how that goes for you. I'll be happy to do it.
Take care, thank you, all right by all right, there

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you go. Now you hear me talk about these products,
and and just like, well where I get that? Where
I get that? Well, I live, you know, I live
here there yonder. Well, here's what I would do. I
would go to this website, Acehardware dot com. Ace. Actually,
I'm going to change that because I want to send
you to the places here in the Greater Houston area
and our area here that you're listening to me on

(01:33:18):
garden Line, and that is ACE Hardware Texas dot com.
Ace Hardware Texas dot com. You're going to find a
list there, a map of the Ace Hardware stores that
are part of our Garden Line Houston area group. And
when you go there, you'll find a store near you.
There's a lot of stores all around you to go
very far to find an ACE. When you go into ACE,

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you're going to find products like I've been talking about
available for you to purchase to take home and do
whatever you need to do. It may be fertilizers, and
maybe maybe you're fighting a disease or in this case,
a weed, and they've got them. They've got quality tools.
They have everything you need to make your outside wonderful,
beautifull lawn, beautiful garden, beautiful beds, beautiful patio patio lighting,

(01:34:05):
that quality barbecue pit that you've been looking for. And
I mean they have the cadillacs at ACE. They've got
the big green egg and the traggers, and they have
the Weberg grills of all types as well. ACE Hardware
is a place to go to get it done. When
you want to transform your place and make something special
out of it, start with ACE and you can go
to places like Child's Buildings Supply in Orange on sixteenth Street,

(01:34:29):
Deer Park, Lumber, Ace Hardware on Center Street in deer Park,
maybe down in League City, Kilgore's Clear Lake on East Maine,
or Hamilton's Hardware in Houston on Highway sixth North. Lots
of ACE Hardware store. There's just a few of them,
but you'll see more. ACE Hardwaretexas dot Com. That's where

(01:34:50):
you need to go. All right, there, you have it.
You heard it here first, Well maybe not first, but
you heard it here.

Speaker 9 (01:34:57):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
Well, you're listening to Garden Line phone number seven one
three two one two KTRH seven one three two one
two KTRH. And we are here to help you have success.
And that is exactly what it's all about, is a beautiful,
bountiful garden that you enjoy. Listen, there is a way
to create your own garden of Eden right there at

(01:35:19):
your place. Do you just follow a few horticulture principles,
and they basically are surrounding giving plants what they want.
Give the plants what they want. That's what we're talking about.
When you give a plant what it wants, it's going
to be happy, and then you're going to be happy
and you're going to like the results that you see.
Give the plants what they want. What a plants want,

(01:35:40):
they want sunlight, some full sun, some bright shade they need.
All plants need light, but some of them don't want
full sun. But you give that plant what it wants. Secondly, soil,
and I should have probably made soil first because it's
it's so important, but it needs to drain well. If

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it's a plant that can't put up with wet feet,
it needs to have good organic matter content and needs
have good nutrient content. So when that root system goes
out there, it is thriving and that plant is resilient
even during dry times. It's got that nice extensive root
system because you've built the soil in a way that
the root system can really spread and take over. That's important. Plant.

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Give the plant water. Some plants need very little, like
a nagave very little water, or cactus. Other plants need
regular watering. You know, hadrangs just do not put up
with getting dry. They don't they want water. But each
plant has its opinion about that. Sometimes it's even water
quality with some of the types of plants. And then

(01:36:48):
give them the nutrients they need. You know, that soil
that we were talking about, it's got to have the
nutrients that it needs. And then finally, just make sure
you put the plant in that is going to do well.

Speaker 8 (01:36:58):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
You may have come from the Midwest and you love
the yellow Forcythia's first harbinger of spring. Perhaps well look
at pictures of them down here. Don't plant them in
your yard. You're not going to be happy with the results.
You go to Colorado on vacation in the summer and
oh my gosh, are those blue spruce beautiful? Leave them
in Colorado. They're not going to do well. Do you

(01:37:20):
see what I'm saying? Plant what wants to grow here?
That's those are a few tips on how to have
success with plants. That would be a good recording. I
think I'll take that recording and put it on our
Facebook page. We need to spread that word far and
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done now, storm season's coming. I'm all right, we're back.
We're back. Have Easter Sunday to all of you out there,
and uh I wish you well in your garden as well.
This is one of the best most.

Speaker 8 (01:38:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:38:47):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna be biased here, but remember,
biased doesn't mean you're wrong. You may be wrong, but
it doesn't mean you're wrong. I'm biased for horticulture and plants.
Friends of mine. I've told through the years that I actually,
unlike them, am working in the profession created by God himself.

(01:39:10):
That would be the garden of Eden. Right, that's me
the gardener. Okay, I don't You can't go back in
time before that unless you know, prior to creation itself.
But so, it wasn't a cubicle of Eden. It wasn't,
you know, a windowless cubicle of Eden. We're supposed to
be out there hanging out in plants. We're supposed to

(01:39:30):
be having fun in the garden. We're supposed to be
tending the things. There's a there's a fulfillment that comes
in making beauty around us, and there's a fulfillment that
comes in growing your own food, maybe some tomatoes or
something like that, or having beautiful flowers from a cut
gardening bring inside. Listen, this is a this is a
cool thing. And again I am biased, but I don't

(01:39:52):
think i'm wrong. I'm really sure I'm not wrong about
There wasn't a cubicle of Eden, that's for sure. So
whatever whatever job you have, I wish you well. I'm
just telling you I think I've got the best one.
All right, Enough of that, Let's head out to Cyprus
and we're going to talk to Mark this morning. Hey Mark,
welcome to garden Line, gool Skip Happy, thank you, Happy

(01:40:18):
Easter to you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
I appreciate your time.

Speaker 9 (01:40:23):
Friend.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
Yeah, hey Mark, Mark, sorry to interrupt you, but you
are really cutting out. I'm not able to follow you
what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Can you hear me better?

Speaker 5 (01:40:34):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
That's better? Yes, sir, thank you, Yes, I.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
Apologize for that. No, we're calling for a friend who
asked me if you know my opinion, of course, is
not as excellent and expert as yours. What kind of plant?
You know, a builder, landscape or head placed, you know
their by, you know her home, the garage here is,

(01:41:05):
And so the pictures are sent to you, and she
believes from what she has told me, that this is
a pine tree. And I looked at the pictures and
I thought, this does not look like a pine tree
to me. But then again, you're the expert. I'm not.

(01:41:26):
I don't know what you think it might be if
you were able to take a look at the pictures.

Speaker 10 (01:41:31):
I did.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
In fact, I thought, I thought, I replied this this
morning to that. But what it was, it's it's not
a pine. It is a Japanese u y e w
u Japanese And the little yellowish things on it, that's
a pollen structure. It's it's part of the way that plant.

(01:41:53):
You would say it's part of the bloom of that plant,
but flower is not a good way to describe a
pollen structure. So yeah, nothing to worry about. Those yellow
things will go away.

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
Well, I appreciate you explaining this, and I'm sorry that
I missed you know, your message or your conserver. At
the same time, I feel the same you know, as
you have explained, you know, about the yellow on the plant.
I thought that it might be some natural occurrence, you know,
for the plant, nothing to be concerned about. But it's

(01:42:28):
a Japanese you.

Speaker 8 (01:42:30):
And w.

Speaker 13 (01:42:34):
W.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
It's appropriate for the location and for this area.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
Does well here, puts up with a little bit of shade,
which is unusual for a shrub to do well in
some shade. It'll also grow in full sun and it
makes a good screening plant because it's evergreen and very upright,
so it doesn't take up as much space of your
yard because of a narrower width. You can keep it trimmed,
and it has many good attributes.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
You know, And I appreciate you saying it's an evergreen.
Perhaps your assumption was, you know, evergreen pine tree. That
thought connection.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
Mm hmm, yeah, all right, I'm I'm losing you again. Uh,
I'm sorry I didn't catch any of that that at
the end, but uh yeah, just just let them know
what that is. And it's a good plan.

Speaker 5 (01:43:28):
I skipped.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
Can you re better now?

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
Not really? Okay, Well at any rate, happy ster.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
Thank you for your time, you bad and thanks for
the call. Appreciate that In the photo glad I could
be a bearer of good news in this case. Today
I've had to be the bearer of bad news a
few times. I don't like to do that, but you
got to. You gotta deal with reality, right, good or bad.
Let's let's face it and deal with it. Good policy
for life, right, Okay. Hey, if you have indoor plants,

(01:43:58):
or if you maybe want purchase some plants for indoors
and pot them up and get them doing their best,
you need to look for jungle land water saving potting soil.
Jungle land water saving potting soil. It's got crystals in
it that swell up with water. In a sense, it's
almost like they're little clear chunks of jello. It's kind

(01:44:20):
of what it looks like, little tiny chunks and they
hold water. And even after the soil dries out, there's
still water being held to those crystals, and the roots
can get access to it, so your plant doesn't go
into drought stresses fast. So just be careful that never
to overwater your house plants. That's a number one way
we kill them. But jungle land water saving potting soil
is an excellent product for potting up your houseplants. Maybe

(01:44:43):
moving them to a new pot or getting a new start.
You know, you buy a little plant, you want to
get it started in a quality pot with some quality soil.
Jungle Land is it. It's a night Foss distributed product,
so you're gonna find it all over. Night Fast products
are available in places for example like Ace It's in
Ranch on Nason Road. They carry nit Fross products. Also
the kDas on pin Oak at Langham Creek Ase which

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is FM five twenty nine in the Copperfield area, UH
and Court Hardware on South Maine in Stafford. For all
examples of places that carry nitroposs products. You're listening to
guarden Line. The phone number here is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four uh. Nelson Plant

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Food has a number of different quality products. You know,
they got the turf Star line, which is bags of
fertilizer for your turf, many different options there. They've got
the color Star product that comes in both the standard
Color Star and Color Star Plus which has a systemic
fungicide in it to protect against plant disease. And then
they have the nutri Star line and that is individual

(01:45:52):
fertilizers for specific kinds of plants, you know, with the range.
For example, there is a nutri Star for vegetables. There's
a nutris star for acid loving plants. There is also
one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals, and so all of
those gaudy beautiful tropical plants like hibiscus, the hollyhowk, the Xora,

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the Althea which also called rows of sharing for example,
that's a shrub and many of the mallows, many of
the mallows in that and that group of plants. It
does great for those You apply it during the growing season,
supplementing it along. It's got multiple sources of acidifying substances
that release those nutrients over time for a perfect pH
result and perfect plant growth. It's got high potassium, which

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is very important if you want to have success and
flowering and resistance to cooler temps or droughty conditions. Potassium
plays a big role in water movement in the plant,
and it also helps with the flower quality. And it's
all packed in that nutri Star, Hibiscus and flowering tropicals,

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little jar, clear jar. Screw the lid on, screw the
let off. You use what you want to use. And
by the way, there's about a dozen places around town
where you can refill Nelson plant food jars. And that
just makes a lot of recycling sense to not throw
even more plastic away. Plus it saves you a few
bucks when you go purchasing fertilizer over time with the
refill way West. Time for me to take a little

(01:47:20):
break here, I will be back with your calls. Ann
and Whittington you be the first stop when we come back.
Hang on, all right, folks, We're gonna head out to
Whittington now and visit with Ann.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (01:47:33):
An, Welcome to garden Line. Do we have Ann there?

Speaker 8 (01:47:42):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
I'm gonna put in on hold to see if we
can figure out that one, and I'm gonna head to
Elizabeth in Sugarland. Hey, Elizabeth, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:47:51):
Hey, it's so nice to hear you talking about gardening.
You know, gardening is very, very healthy. But anyway, I
have a a I have a problem and I need
your advice. There is one of those very invasive vines,
you know, the ones that are quickly and climb up
trees and have a leaf like a semi heart. Well,

(01:48:13):
I've tried. This vine is growing underneath my fence, and
so I put a lot of weak killer straight, didn't
even dilute it. But it's still there. You go, I
need advice, but I can do is get rid of it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
Yes, are these leaves a little bit shiny and kind
of very thick? And do they have maybe some grayish
spots on the green? How would you describe? Okay, that
is something called devil's shoe string. It has other names,
but that's a good name for it because it is
it's got the little catclaw thorns on it, and it's

(01:48:50):
very difficult to control because Elizabeth underground, it has a
storage root that holds a lot of energy, and so
no matter what you do to the top, it just
pops through. Again, what you're going to want to do
is use a product. And I have a publication on
my website, and I'd suggest you go there because it's
more in depth in describing it. But it is a

(01:49:13):
It is a product called Trichlo Peer tri i clo
p yr. Saying that word a lot today, it seems
I'm getting a lot of woody weed questions. But Tricli Peer,
the publication on my website. First of all, the website
is gardening with Skip dot com, and the publication is
called Controlling Woody Weeds in the Landscape. And so if

(01:49:35):
you follow that, you're going to use a Triclo pair
product and you're going to probably in this case brush
it on with a little foam brush like you would
buy at a paint store, and do it straight out
of the bottle, right onto the base of that vine,
but the low let's say, for about a foot as
it comes out of the ground, just spread it on there.

(01:49:57):
If the vine is at least as thick as your
little fing then you can cut it off and dab
that fresh cut immediately, not an hour later, but immediately
with the Triclo Paer product too, and it translocates down. Now,
if that is a huge storage route underground, you may
have to treat it again later. You may not get
it all at once, but if it's not, one application

(01:50:18):
should do it.

Speaker 7 (01:50:21):
And so I'll go to your site gardeningwiskip dot com
and will this information tell me where I can purchase
this stuff?

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
What it will tell you is, let me look at
that I have several versions of this thing out there,
and let me look at the one on the woody
weeds and the landscape. Make sure I'm telling you the
truth here, Okay, publications. There we go, controlling woody weeds
and the landscape. It lists the tricle peer and then
what it shows you is it says it gives you

(01:50:56):
four products that contain that. So you go in and
it tells you how to use it, how to use
it straight out of the container or if you need
to add vegetab oil in the mix, and it works well.
And then you just have to go wherever you shop
for things. If you're in Sugarland, you've got a number

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of places around you. There's Ace Hardware stores. You're really
close to Southwest Fertilizer, which I'm going to be there
next Saturday, by the way, from twelfth to two visiting
with listeners, So not too far away from you. But
I know, Bob Carey, is that at Southwest Fertilizer, And
I suspect you can find Trickle pair of products at
Ace Hardware stores in your area as well.

Speaker 7 (01:51:41):
Oh okay, I go south with fertilizer for all my
garden he needs. I've been doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:46):
Oh there we go.

Speaker 7 (01:51:49):
Okay, well, listen, thank you much. I really appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:53):
Yeah, well, I hope that you can come out and
see me next Saturday. Look forward to that. Bring a
sample of your weed or anything else, and we'll identify
them and give you some solutions. Okay, all right, thanks Elizabeth,
you bet you beat you as well. Thank you, by bye.
Buchanans Native Plants in the Heights, they just opened their

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new cash barn. Now, I tell you my heart has
gone out to them this year. Over the past twelve months,
twice storms have crushed their checkout area and they've had
to rebuild. And now they put in this cash barn
that is not going to get crush stressed me. It
is a really cool structure. It provides shade during the
summertime when you're standing there waiting to check out, you're

(01:52:37):
not in the shade. Now that's very nice and also
a rain proof. Of course, got a roof over it,
so it works really really well. Now, I would just
want to remind you that on April twenty second is
Earth Day and a celebrator Earth Day, Buchanans has a
sale on all their drought tolerant perennials thirty to fifty
percent off. That is incredible sale.

Speaker 5 (01:52:59):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
Go to the website Buchanons Native Plants dot com, Buchanans
h Now, if you haven't been to Buchanans for you
just need to go because it's a wonderful, wonderful place. Okay,
but if you had been before, you need to go
check this out. I said, Did I say native in
the website? That's not right. It's Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanans

(01:53:21):
Plants dot com. I heard that echoing in my ear
and I realized I misspoke there. But go check them
Out's a wonderful garden center. It's on Eleventh Street in
the Heights. We're going to go now to the Heights
and talk to Philip. Hey, Philip, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (01:53:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:53:41):
And my questions are I'm involved with a couple of
gardening groups and we're interested in finding out what title
partty Mikeser is good for container herbs and which herbs
grow well in pots.

Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
Okay, I would buy. There's a product by Heirloom Soils.
It's sold by the bag in a lot of different places,
and it's called Veggie, an herb mix that is outstanding.
Use a bigger pot rather than a smaller pot because
our summers are hot here, and you want to give
a good root volume of that quality soil to draw

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water from, so you're not furing water twice a day
or something. It holds water better than that. But veggie
herb mix. And then as far as herbs, lots of
herbs grow here. Lots you can grow basil, you can
grow time in pots. If the pot's big enough, you
can grow a rosemary. That would be a pot, you know,
as big as if you use your arms to make
a big circle and touch your fingertips together. The pot

(01:54:45):
needs to be at least that size to go a rosemary. Well,
you can grow oregano, you can grow chives. I mean,
there's just a lot of great herbs. And then when
you go to a place, go to Buchanans have a
great herb selection and you can talk to them there
and they'll they'll tell you which ones would do best
in that situation. Because there's more herbs than I can mention.

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And just a quick answer, Oh.

Speaker 10 (01:55:10):
Gay Sarah, thank you appreciate that information.

Speaker 1 (01:55:14):
Enjoy that herbs are wonderful plans to grow. Thanks a
lot for the call. Appreciate that Pierscapes is the landscape
company that I recommend here on garden Line, and they
serve an area about forty five minutes from Tomball, So
you know, just think about that, go forty five minutes
from Tomball. That's pretty well an area that they serve.

(01:55:37):
They may go beyond that in some areas a little bit.
But I'm going to tell you something. Piercescapes has super
super quality work. Whether you need irrigation or landscape lighting
or drainage or whatever, give them a call, but do
this instead. Go to their website piercescapes dot com and
look at what they do. You'll be very impressed if

(01:55:58):
you want to give them a call to eight one
three seven O fifty sixty two eight one three seven
O fifty sixty. That is perce Escapes now three sixty
tree stabilizer. Someone who's asking me to day what is that?
I was showing them I have some citrus trees in
my yard that I have a stabilizer on because you're

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brand new trees and they were leaning over in the wind.
You attach it to a post, you attach it to
the tree. It holds the tree loosely, allowing movement, which
is very important if you want to build strength. Three
sixty tree stabilizers. They last and last and last, and
they work. You can find them at RCW, you can
find them at Plants for all Seasons. You can find
them at Jorges Hidden Gardens. Done and now then Siena

(01:56:39):
mulch done in the Sienna area south of Houston, Buchanus
native plants, just talking about them in the heights, and
of course Arborgate out there in Tombol. Three sixty tree stabilizer.
You need to have some of those because whenever you
plant a plant that is going to need support like that,
whether it's a krpe murder or tree or in my
case just little citrus trees. It works. All right. I

(01:57:01):
hear music, which means I got to quit talking. Here
go to a break for the top of the hour news.
I want to remind you I'm going to be at
Southwest Fertilizer next Saturday, April twenty sixth, from twelve pm
to two pm. If you've been there before, you know
how cool the place it is.

Speaker 8 (01:57:17):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:57:17):
If you haven't been there, come see me. You need
to see this place. It is outstanding. I promise you
you will find it. Your jaw will drop and go oh.
I didn't even know that existed, and they carry it
here because they carry everything. All right, when we come back,
Russell and Manville, if you can hang on that long,
you'll be our first up. Hey, could you tell Russell

(01:57:50):
that I haven't received his photo? All right, well, Russell,
you've probably heard that. Let's just go straight to Russell here. Hey, Russell,
welcome to guard Line. I see you were sending me
an email picture and I have the email, but I
don't have a picture from.

Speaker 9 (01:58:10):
You, you know now you say that I forgot to
attach it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:15):
Okay, well, well let's just cut straight to the to
the question you had, and it was you were wanting
to know on curly doc or those seeds viable before
they become red or brown? And my answers, I don't.
I don't know on that one. That's a plant. I
just can't tell you the answer on that one. Yeah,

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it's always safer to let seeds fully mature and even
dry a little bit sometimes on a plant in order
to have the best viability. But on this particular one,
it's somewhere in there the viability will arrive, but I I.

Speaker 10 (01:58:51):
Just don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:58:51):
Sorry, Okay, Well, my question is actually getting rid of it.
I'm not trying to keep it. I'm kind of my restoration.
Oh okay, this is one of the weed like and
sometimes I go urb beside partially urbside, and then the
biologist has said that these things, if you keep on
cutting them back, they will eventually just stop coming up,

(01:59:12):
you know. So I don't know. I feel like this
time I let too many of them go. I mean,
he just pop them up in their eighteen inches long routes.
So I'm not sure how well herbicide does work with
the plants this bake, I mean, the roots of that
big how big is a big?

Speaker 8 (01:59:30):
How are you?

Speaker 9 (01:59:32):
I would I'm restoring nine acres, But the part with
the curly doc I have been, you know, knocking them
out one by one forever. And I would say I'm
down to about one hundred, one hundred, maybe two hundred
feet of them basically mixed up, mixing with prairie plants.

Speaker 1 (01:59:52):
Yeah, you know, I I think if it were me
on this one, I don't know about that idea. I
just keep cutting them off. Uh, that seems like a
lot of work, and I'm not so sure how successful
that that would be. I would I would get I
would get a product that you know is a broad
leave herbicide, maybe even one you know that that has

(02:00:14):
a glyphosate or triclopere in it, and I'd put it
on a dab dabber type sponge. You can figure out
how to do how you want to do it, but uh,
and just walk through there. Unlet's say it was a
PVC popcornt and you could just dab it as you
walk through. Makes it real fast, get it right on
those leaves, let it translocate down. I think that's the fastest,
easiest with the least application of chemical that you can

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do get rid of those things.

Speaker 9 (02:00:38):
Yeah, okay, I'm going to do that because yeah, this
is a this has been a scale experiment and it's
kind of tired.

Speaker 11 (02:00:44):
Come already, Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:00:46):
I don't blame you. Hey, yeah, thanks, thanks for the call.
Appreciate that you're listening to Guardline, and uh, we are
here to help you have a bountiful garden and a
beautiful landscape. That's kind of what we try to do here.
So welcome garden Line. If you're done in the League
City area and you don't know about League City feed,
you need to And when I say area, I mean

(02:01:08):
Baycliff and San Leone and Santa Fe, Dickinson, Webster, Clear Lake, Elkamin,
a real Lamark Bacliff, that whole area. League City Feeds
your hometown feed store, and it's right there in League City.
It's just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six
on Highway three. It's located on a Highway three on
the east side of Highway three. Go down there and

(02:01:29):
say hey to the Thunderbergs. This is the third generation
of Thunderbergs now running that store. Their grandpa built that
thing in what was an Okra patch forty years ago.
That's kind of cool. But anyway, it's an old time
speed store. So they carry their bags out for you.
You know, it's a kind of place you go in
and you know you're going to find premium pet foods.

(02:01:50):
You know you're going to find everything you need for
your lawn and garden and landscape. That would include things
to deal with insects and weeds and diseases. I would
include fertilized from quality brands like Nelson plant Food and Microlife,
and nitrofoss products like asamite are available there as well.
So stop by there Monday through Saturday nine to six,

(02:02:13):
clothes on Sunday two eight, one, three, three, two sixteen
twelve league city feet a few blocks south of Highway
ninety six on Highway three makes it easy to get to.
I'm always amused by the fact that it begins in
an ochre patch. You know, I don't think anything that
begins in an ochre patch can in poorly. I mean

(02:02:33):
that is like the foundation for success start a business.
For those of you who don't know, I have an
okra problem, meaning I am obsessed with okra. I breed
okra plants crossing different varieties. I love okra. I try
to convince everyone how wonderful okra is. Most people will

(02:02:55):
not listen to me because they say it's slimy, and
I quickly correct them and say, we do not use
that word slimy. Missilaginous sounds much better, means the same thing. Anyway,
if you have not tried okra, if you tried it
and you go I don't like it, well, okay, everybody
in the South grew up eating okra fried to death, right,
I mean, you batter it, you fry it. It's good.

(02:03:16):
You still get it at places that you know, so
you fried chicken and stuff like that. I love okra
in soups because it is a good thickener. The mesclage
type material is a very good thickener in soups. If
you don't want the muclage, uh pickling it in an
acid pickling solution, a vinegar type pickling solution, or even

(02:03:39):
lacto fir. A minute, you're gonna get less there because
that acidity helps reduce muclage. Missage happens when it touches water.
So that's why when you put a raw piece of
ochre in your mouth and bite it and chew it,
you get real gooey really quick in your mouth. But
if you were to grill it, you have very little mucilage.

(02:03:59):
And so we'll take ochre at our house. See what
I mean about I have an okra problem. I'm droning
about okra on our radio show. We take overre at
our house, Young and Tender. We take a little brush,
put olive oil on both sides, sprinkle sea salt on it,
put it on the grill two minutes on one side,
two minutes on the other side, and you're ready to go,
and you can pick it up and eat it and

(02:04:20):
it's you pretty well taken care of the mucilage. That
way works really good. It's good for you. Okay, One
last thing, bear with me. One last thing. Okra has
two kinds of fiber. One kind is soluble, one kind
is insoluble. So with both kinds of fiber, you're not
only helping the fiber with your intestines and all the
benefits of fiber in your diet that way, but you're

(02:04:43):
also getting a fiber that helps reduce some of the
heart types issues we have in our veins, in our bodies,
and so it's a health food. Just remember that, all right,
I'm gonna stop. I really could do the whole four
hour show talking about Okra. I really could. Yeah, I know,
I told you it was a problem. Talking about azmite.

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Asumite is available at League City Feed and many, many,
many other places. And what is azimite. It is a
trace mineral supplement of all those things that are essential
but needed in very small amounts. And you can put
it out at anytime of the year in your lawn.
You can put it out during fertilization season when you're
fertilizing already, or you can put it out at a

(02:05:28):
different time, it doesn't matter. It's going into the soil
bank account. So when that plant needs boron, for example,
did you know plants need boron? They need boron, they
need zinc, they need manganese, they need libdanum, they need
a lot of things. Well, when it needs it, and
it needs it every day, plants are taking something up.
It's there in the soil bank account asamite Texas dot

(02:05:50):
com is where you can find out more information. I'm
gona take a little break and we'll be back. Hey,
welcome back to Guardenline. On a nice little Sunday morning.
We're gonna get some rain today. Some of you are,
at least some will get some rain. I would invite
you to sit and appreciate it. Do you remember the

(02:06:10):
movie Doctor Doolittle, and you remember the song Doctor Doolittle.
I'm waiting. I'm waiting for some of that. Okay, yes
you so, Doctor Doolittle. The song had a line in
it that my friend the doctor says, if you remain
out in the rain, you'll think you're drinking pink champagne

(02:06:32):
and you will spend your life praying for thunderstorms. That's ridiculous.
So you might want to try sitting out in the
rain sometime today. If you get some there, there is
something therapeutic about it. By the way, Plus, the neighbors
will think you're crazy, but they already do. They talk
about you. I don't know if you know that. I
hope that's not news. But they already talk about you.

(02:06:53):
So give them something to talk about. Go sit in
your front front yard, put a lawn chair out there
when it's raining, and just sit there and stare across
the street. All right, that's foolishness. Arburgate Garden Center one
of the premier garden centers in this country. And I
mean that. And again, I've been all over the country.
I've been to lots of big cities, visited all the

(02:07:15):
garden centers I can. You never run into a place
like this. This is so unique. They have a wide
variety of all kinds of things. When you show up there,
maybe you're a rookie, maybe gardening is new to you,
and you are the one who says I have a
brown thumb. Number one, you don't, But take your brown
thumb if you will, and go to Arburgate. They're gonna
meet you and greet you, and they're gonna take you

(02:07:36):
to what you need. You may go, you know what,
I want a planet container, But I tried and they died,
and what can I do? And they'll walk you around.
They'll go, here's some really good plants, you know, here's
some drought tolerant plants. Or here's some plants that'll do
good in the shade. You didn't get enough sun in
that con dinner. These plants will do well there. They
take time with you like that, and they have every
kind of plant you can imagine. They just got in

(02:07:59):
a plant I bet you never heard of. It's called
nuns orchid, nuns orgid. They got them in a little
while back. Really unusual, cool plant, very unusual. That's typical
of Arburgate. But then all the standard stuff vegetables and
herbs and fruit trees, which they have fruit trees year round.
They've got those as well. When you go to Arburgate,

(02:08:19):
you know my mantra brown stuff before green stuff. Pick
up their food it's called organic food Complete. It's got
calcium in it's an organic fertilizer. Pick up their soil
it's called Organic Soil Complete, comes in a bag, and
then Organic compass complete. That's the three. It's one, two
three food soil compass take it home with you so
when you create that foundation, whatever you get at Arburgate

(02:08:42):
is just gonna thrive. Now if you would like bulk
versions of those, some of you are like, yeah, but
I need eight hundred bags. If I'm gonna do it, well,
call Arborgate tell them you want to get a bulk delivery.
By the way, for those of you who don't know,
it's a mile and a half west of two forty
nine on twenty nine twenty outside of Tumball. Get a
bulk order ordered. You can get both the organic soil

(02:09:03):
complete and the organic compost complete by the Cubic Yard
and they will deliver it. Just call them and ask
about it. Go to Arburgate. Hey, you know what you
need to really do? You need to go to their website.
It is very cool and very helpful and it is
very simple too. All you have to do arborgate dot
com arbor gate dot com. The hours are there, the

(02:09:25):
location is there, the phone number is there. Everything you
need to know Arborgate dot com. I always like going there.
I feel like I'm going to a horticultural Disneyland because
of the way they have everything laid out and all
those It's cool. It's good, very good. If you are

(02:09:47):
wanting to get compost top dressing and core aeration done
and you are inside the Beltway area Beltwait eight area,
I would point you to year round Houston. That's easy
to remember. Year round Houston dot com all one word
Cloff and the whole gang that is his assistance, everything

(02:10:10):
that's helping him there. They know what they're doing. They
do excellent work. They're specialist when it comes to corrooration
and compost top dressing. Now it's not complicated, but it
is a cumbersome thing to do as to do it yourself.
They've got good equipment that comes in and pulls nice
plugs out of the ground drops them on the surface.
That's what you want to do. Don't just press the

(02:10:31):
hole in the ground, but pop a plug out of
the ground onto the surface and then they use the
qualities very nicely screened compost. I was out of a
site this past week with them that they were doing
a compost top dressing corrodoration on and it's a really nice,
high quality compost material. Anyway, if you are inside the Beltway,

(02:10:55):
give them a call or just do that. You can
give a call eight three to two eight eight for
fifty three thirty five eight three two eight eight four
fifty three thirty five year round Houston dot com. Now,
you know, as far as people often ask me, well,
what is the cost to get this done, Well, it's
not cheap to do it because it involves a lot

(02:11:16):
of quality equipment and quality product. It's it's a labor
intensive and then they have to haul the stuff everywhere.
So depending on where you're located, you have a little
small yard, you're gonna probably be in somewhere in the
five hundreds in that range, if they don't have to
go too far. And of course if they're having to
haul it to Timbuck two, well that's gonna be a
little bit more. But I'll tell you this, there are
a lot of things we do to our lawn for

(02:11:36):
mowing and watering and fertilizing and whatnot. Core aeration with
compost stop dressing is a way to bring along back
to life that is struggling. You got bear areas, you're
gonna get weeds. You need to get that grass to
grow in and oftentimes it's due to compacted soil or
just clay soil. Period and you can turn it around
you around Houston dot Com. You're listening to garden Line

(02:12:01):
the phone number. Been a quiet day here today, but
of course it is. It's Easter Sunday, so people got
other things on their mind today, as they should.

Speaker 8 (02:12:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:12:10):
You can give me a call seven to one three
two one two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH.
If you don't have to wait in line, this is
a good day to call. I can tell you that
for sure, Microlife fertilizers, they have a wide variety of
granular fertilizers and soil products like humts Plus. By the way,

(02:12:30):
if you're going to fertilize with the green bag six
to four for Microlife, get a purple bag Humts Plus.
It is concentrated compost in a bag.

Speaker 12 (02:12:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:12:40):
It is the final decomposition stages of organic matter. And
so when you put it out over your lawn, it
is over time. As you do that season after season,
you're going to create a better and better soil over
time and it works. Now, I want to talk about
the liquids just for a moment. The Biometrix orange label

(02:13:01):
it's a seven to one to three, so it's got
a good nitrogen boost in it. It's not salt based,
so it's not going to burn your plants. But Microlife
Biomatrix orange label seven to one three is good for
giving a boost to your foliage houseplants. Mix it as
a liquid. It's good for outdoor plants, containers, or wherever
you want to use it. I mean you, you know

(02:13:22):
it works. Use it. The second product is Ocean Harvest
blue label. That's a fish based product. Now, it's a
four to two three ratio on the or numbers on
the rate on the label has a little bit of
a fish scent. That's why I wouldn't use it indoors.
I'd use it outdoor. But it is an organic product
that also works very very well. Both of those products

(02:13:45):
I've seen good results with and I recommend without hesitation.
All right, I think that thing about now is a
good time to call if I heard it at once.
Steve En Rose, Sharon, let's start with you. How's it
going out there? Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (02:14:00):
Good skip, thank you, good morning in happy Easter. I
was wondering if you could answer a problem I'm having.
I have a bunch of crape myrtles. I just had
ten installed down each side of the driveway and they're
blooming nicely. And I have two mature ones out the
front of the house that have been there since I've
bought the place. And last year the one was didn't

(02:14:21):
do so hot, and then this year it's not blooming
at all. And when I do like a little cut
test into it, it's still green. It still looks lively.
It's not brittle. There's no sign of black disease on
it or anything like that. Just kind of wondering why
it wouldn't bloom, and do I just leave it alone
and see what it does next year?

Speaker 1 (02:14:42):
Okay, is it producing shoot growth? Are you getting shoots
with leaves coming out?

Speaker 16 (02:14:48):
I did last year.

Speaker 1 (02:14:50):
This year it's not doing that. Hmm, that's strange. Well,
something's big time wrong with the plant. It's lost all
it's bigger. It could be that cold damage when the
plant was not in a hearty state can affect them.
That happens sometimes. We didn't have a horrible winter for that,
but it can happen. I've seen some die back on

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crapes something. For some reason, it is struggling and it
could be something's wrong below the ground with the root system.
Crapes are very hardy plants, and they're not WIMPs that
we have to pamper along. So other than cold injury,
the only thing I would suggest is maybe get some

(02:15:31):
good fertilizer. I would just use a lawn fertilizer and
for every inch of trunk diameter, for every inch, use
your thumb as your inch measurement. With your thumb. For
every inch, give it one to two cups of lawn
fertilizer and sprinkle it in an area as wide as
the branch spread of that plant. Don't dump it at

(02:15:52):
the base, and then watered in really good. If it's
in a mulched bed, you can kind of scratch it
in with a rake to get that laser to fall
down towards the soil surface, and then watered in really good.
If it's in a lawn, just watered in really good,
and let's see if we can put a little vigor
in that thing and get it going. If it indeed
is dying back and the plan is on its way downhill,

(02:16:14):
the fertilizer is not going to fix that. But I
don't want to assume that it's dying just yet. Okay, Well,
I will try that and see if that works. Thank
you well, good luck with it, and thank you for
the call. Appreciate that. Take care. I talking about Ace

(02:16:34):
Hardware stores earlier. If you were looking for a way
to transform an outdoor sitting area or an indoor area too,
Ace Hardware is the place. And you know, you think
about a hardware store, you think about, well, they got
wires and light bulbs, and they got plumbing PBC pipe
and stuff like that. But ACE is way more than that.

(02:16:55):
It is that it is a hardware store that has
everything you need, fixtures and whatnot, but it is way
more than that. Indoor decorations. Each Ace Hardware store is
independently owned, so the owner of that store can choose
to add on to the standard what you would expect
at ACE with whatever they want to bring in. I mean,

(02:17:16):
I've seen budge bars in Ace Hardware stores. That's right.
And beautiful indoor you know, if you like the farmhouse
type decorations or any other kind of indoor decorations, that's
Ace Hardware. But outdoors it's the same thing. Yes, it's
fertilizer and pest control and weed control and tools for
your garden and garden hoses and all that stuff, of course,

(02:17:38):
but it's also in addition to the barbecues. It's the
outdoor strings of lights. It's whatever you want to turn
that outdoor living area into something special. All you got
to do is go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com,
Ace Hardware Texas dot Com, find the store near you,
and go visit because ACE is the place, and ACE

(02:17:59):
is everywhere. You're going to find ACE in Rockport, Texas
on State Highway thirty five. You're going to find ACE
in Spring on Spring, Cyprus. It's called Spring Ace Hardware
pac Coe's Hardware down in Alvin on Willis Street, and
I can just go on and on. Ace is a place,
go check it out. It is hitting a hard break
here for me. So when we come back, Stacey and

(02:18:21):
Richmond and Albert and Galveston, you'll be our first two up. Alrighty,
we're back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you
with us. Let's just run straight out to the phones.
I would like to head out to Richmond. We're going
to talk to Stacy first. Hey, Stacey, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (02:18:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (02:18:38):
Well this is actually her mother, Patsy with the trees
with the problem. Patty Jones. Okay, I just want to
tell you that I've had a trouble in my trees.
They're probably taller than my house, my crape myrtles, and
about forty five years agold, maybe fifty, and they got
some kind of a scores on them, and I'm very concerned.

Speaker 10 (02:18:58):
We set pictures.

Speaker 1 (02:19:02):
And it would have come from what name?

Speaker 11 (02:19:04):
Patsy or Stacy Stacey, Stacy Stacy chops.

Speaker 1 (02:19:10):
Stacy. Hang on, I am not seeing those. I'm going
to put you on hold. My producer will make sure
we got the right email address and I'll come back
to you. But I'm put you on hold till we
can resolve that and move on to another call for
right now. Hang on, We're going to go now to
Albert in Galveston. Hey Albert, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 17 (02:19:31):
Thank you, Happy Easter to you. I have a couple
thank you, thank you about my palm trees. I have
a whole bunch of them.

Speaker 1 (02:19:41):
In my yard. In particular, I have two that are
real tall.

Speaker 2 (02:19:47):
They're probably fifty feet tall.

Speaker 17 (02:19:50):
Spinally Spinley and I trim them or I have them
trimmed every year. But before they're trimmed, the the dead
fronds lay back against the bark, and in those areas
it wears on the bark. And there's some areas that
like indentations that you can see where they're where those

(02:20:14):
fronds rub up against the tree. And I'm concerned about
the strength of the tree.

Speaker 1 (02:20:23):
Okay, well, normally that kind of rubbing doesn't cause a
significant problem. I can't, of course, see your trees, so
it's hard to comment beyond that. But palms are unique.
They're really not trees. They are what they are is
grass plants, believe it or not. And so they don't

(02:20:43):
have that ring of flowum and xylum on the outside
that creates bark like on a normal trees trunk. They
have a very different vascular system in the plant, and
so they don't technically have a bark. It's just kind
of an outside, dry, dead, dead area out there that's
kind of different. Palms are incredibly strong. I mean, you know,

(02:21:05):
you see pictures of long, thin, skinny palms that are
just standing there. You wonder how on earth does that
not just snap off at the slightest breeze. But they're
very strong. So I tend to not worry about what
I'm hearing you describe. I could take a you know,
we could take a look at them, but generally the
fronds themselves will not wear in enough to worry about anything.

(02:21:27):
It could be that you had some sort of a
decay that occurred a trunk rot, which can happen on
a palm, and maybe it's up there in that area
because it stays covered in moist. But in general, we
just don't have to worry about that on those palms.
So I'm inclined to not say don't worry about it.
But I'm of course not seeing the picture of the tree,

(02:21:47):
or I'm not standing there looking at it. How do
I send you a picture? I'm going to put you
on hold and my producer will send it to you.
If you could take one of the whole tree and
then zoom in and get as close to those areas
you're seeing as you possibly can with your phone zoom. Uh,

(02:22:08):
that would be hopeful. All right, Albert, I'm going to
put you on hold to visiting, Yes, sir, all right,
Uh so let's see did we get things resolved there? Okay,
We're going to go to Sam and Crowley, Texas. Hey, Sam,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (02:22:26):
Oh my name is Sam, as I am and I
am in c Rosby, Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:22:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:22:29):
Sim Okay, all right, well now we got it.

Speaker 11 (02:22:34):
How can we help your producer? Your producer sounds very busy.

Speaker 1 (02:22:37):
But yeah, he's he's like we say, he's like we say,
busy as a one armed paper hanger. I don't know
if you ever heard of old saying.

Speaker 9 (02:22:46):
But there you go.

Speaker 5 (02:22:46):
All right, Okay, I have a Norfolk Fine, it's about
oh maybe footing that tall.

Speaker 9 (02:22:51):
And my guy friend just transplanted it.

Speaker 5 (02:22:53):
We've had about four or five months and I got
to notice.

Speaker 9 (02:22:56):
And it has like four trunks on it, and so
I'll corner. Can I make four little trees out of.

Speaker 2 (02:23:01):
That without killing it?

Speaker 1 (02:23:05):
They're all coming out of the ground.

Speaker 5 (02:23:07):
Well, it's all, it's all.

Speaker 9 (02:23:08):
It's like four different trunks on the thing.

Speaker 10 (02:23:10):
I don't know why I thought they was always like one.

Speaker 1 (02:23:13):
What's the diameter at the trunks at the bait? So
they're like the size of your They're the size of
your fingers.

Speaker 9 (02:23:22):
Ifs are like cold ridge, yeah, oh quarter ends.

Speaker 1 (02:23:26):
Okay, maybe maybe maybe not if they do that, so
you have a fuller plant and it looks fuller and everything,
and there's no reason you wouldn't leave them like that.
I've got a multi trunk uh norfolk five feet high
and now on the back pad of you.

Speaker 4 (02:23:43):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:23:43):
So it's fine to leave them if you were determined
to try to separate them, if you catch it early,
because they typically stick more than one in there. Uh,
And you could kind of wash the soil, get the
plant out of the pot, laid on its side, wash
the soil off right there at the base. If you
can find a way to sort of tease teas those
apart and a little bit of root loss is okay,

(02:24:03):
that's going to be inevitable. But if you could separate
them out, then theoretically you could pot them up individually.
I think I would advise against trying to do that,
but it technically it may be possible to pull that
one off.

Speaker 9 (02:24:19):
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll leave it alone.
It's her plant, it is thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:24:24):
Hey, if it's her plant, man, you do leave that
thing alone. You you know, don't don't. Don't live dangerously
like that?

Speaker 2 (02:24:33):
All right?

Speaker 5 (02:24:35):
That wonderful day?

Speaker 1 (02:24:36):
Yeah, all right, you too, take care appreciate that. Let's
go there we go.

Speaker 11 (02:24:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:24:45):
If you haven't realized your lawn Nitrophius Superturf is a
product that I would suggest you consider. It is the
silver bag, and it works very very well. It does.

Speaker 4 (02:24:56):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:24:57):
Nitrophis Superturf is designed for our soils, for southern turf grasses,
and when you apply it, you know that for four
months it's going to gradually release that nitrogen out to
your lawn, so it saves time. I mean, you put
it down once and you're pretty well covered until fall.
Especially if you will, you know, return your clippings in

(02:25:20):
the process. That that really helps a lot to do that.
So that'd be my suggestion to you. Nitropas super turf.
It is the silver bag. It works very very well,
so give it a shot. See how it does for you.
I know you'll be happy with the results. You're going
to find nitofass products in places like Plantation Ace Hardware.
They're on three point fifty nine. They're in the Richmond

(02:25:41):
Rosenberg area. You're going to find it at M and
D Ace up in a Cypress on Luetta Road. You're
going to find it in places like M and D
down on Beamer Street, Sagemont area. Many places carry nitopass
products and the stuff works all right. We're coming back

(02:26:03):
to Stacey slash Patsy right, get that right?

Speaker 10 (02:26:08):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, all.

Speaker 1 (02:26:11):
Right, I've got the picture of your crape myrtle, so
let's talk about what what do you what's your question?

Speaker 6 (02:26:18):
Well, it just appeared.

Speaker 14 (02:26:20):
I probably noticed that about last week, I think it was.
And it's some kind of a score on there.

Speaker 11 (02:26:29):
Zoom on picture, zoom in on picture.

Speaker 14 (02:26:33):
Yeah, okay, And it doesn't smell, doesn't have an odor.
I smelled it, and I don't know why it's doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:26:42):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (02:26:43):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:26:44):
As I as I zoom in from a distance, it
gets a little pixelated, But I see what you're talking about,
and that is I don't know what took the bark
off right there. It probably some kind of a physical injury.
Who knows what I mean. Sometimes squirrels will chew on
branches and cause wounds. But it's callously around it, right right, Uh,

(02:27:07):
And it's callousing around it. You see that callous growth
starting to close back over that opening. So I'm not
real worried about that. I think you're going to be fine.
I would not paint anything on it. I would just
leave it alone. That is a gorgeous, very healthy crape
myrtle looks beautiful, by the way. What I would do

(02:27:27):
is go down to the base and where those sprouts
are trying to come out. Just cut them back as
close as you can, cut to the trunk because those
are suckers. You don't want to start that may get started. Yeah. Well,
what people often do is they leave the base of
the sprout, you know, they break it off, but there's
a little ring around the base that has more buds,

(02:27:47):
and so you almost are like doing surgery to sort
of remove that little thing from the tree. But continue,
continue to do that, and you just have a you
have a one of the most beautiful crape myrtles, single
trunk crammental structures I've seen. So that's a gorgeous plant.

Speaker 10 (02:28:02):
Well, they were playing it.

Speaker 14 (02:28:04):
They were actually three different trunks and they've feezed together
over the years.

Speaker 10 (02:28:10):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (02:28:11):
Wow, they must have been really close together. Huh. Well, okay, okay,
all right, Well you're in good shape. So that's all
taken care of trees.

Speaker 14 (02:28:24):
Do you think the tree is too tall? I should
have it back.

Speaker 1 (02:28:27):
I can't see. I can't see the whole tree. I
just see the close up of the base. Yeah. No,
I can just see the bottom maybe six feet or
so of it. It doesn't get too tall. It only
gets too tall if there's something above it that it's
going to rub against. It's plenty of distance away from
your house, so you don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 8 (02:28:48):
It is.

Speaker 1 (02:28:49):
In fact you. You must have more than one of
them that I'm looking at now that I'm studying the pictures. Yeah, yeah,
I see the one over by the white bench. That's
the one with the scar on it.

Speaker 9 (02:29:00):
I see.

Speaker 1 (02:29:00):
Okay, all right, well I enjoy them. Okay, well, bottom line,
same same thing, you bet. Thanks for the call, y'all.
Take care all right, folks, Time for me to take
a break. I'll be back with our last segment of
the day. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back. Welcome to Garden Line, folks.

(02:29:21):
This is the last segment of the weekend. Got a
few minutes left here and we are going to jump
right out to the phones and head to Galveston to
talk to Albert. Hello Albert, welcome to guard again.

Speaker 12 (02:29:34):
Yes, sure, hey, I sent you a couple of pictures.

Speaker 11 (02:29:37):
I hope you got them.

Speaker 1 (02:29:39):
Oh you did, Okay, let me go check. I don't
think I did. Do a refresh here, see if we
can get those in here. No, huh uh, let me
put you on hold, and I'm a producer to make
sure we got the right email for you. Okay, so

(02:30:01):
I'm not seeing anything just yet. All right, Okay, there
we go. All right, yeah, well we'll check that out.
I definitely want to try to help as best we can.
So well, you've been listening to the garden Line today.
We're talking about all the things that are timely for
the season of people have questions. You know what, right now?

Speaker 2 (02:30:23):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (02:30:24):
The number one question I'm getting is is weeds. Weeds, weeds, weeds, weeds, weeds.
Everything is weeds. I saw so many bags of weeds
yesterday at Wren's Southern Gardens, people bringing them in and
concerned about them, and reasonably so. I mean, it's a
you know, it's weed problems in the lawn spoil things. Now,

(02:30:46):
I recognize that people vary in their tolerance to weeds.
They do some people. The lawn has to be perfect.
It has to be like a rug laying out there,
all the same height, perfect color, green, and if one
weed shows up, it's like you stuck a neon sign
in the yard and it's blinking on and off, driving them.
I'm crazy. They give me sleep at night. That's one

(02:31:07):
end of the spectrum. I'm not making fun of it.
I'm just describing it with a little extra. The other
end of the spectrum are people that almost like weeds.
But you know, chickweed attracts and feeds honey bees, or
dandelions feed honeybees. Why don't we want those in our lawn.
They're good, you know, they do things, and they're like
my friend from Mississippi, Felder, who says, if you want

(02:31:30):
to make all the weeds go away in your lawn,
take off your glasses. If you mow weeds, it looks
green without your glasses on. That's the other end of
the spectrum, and most of you fall somewhere probably in
between those ends. But seriously, weeds are a concern. If
you want to get rid of weeds. The answer is

(02:31:51):
not just to buy a bunch of chemicals and spray
spray spray all through the year trying to get rid of,
prevent kill all that weeds. Those have their place in
a weed control system, But number one is mow water
and fertilized make the densest lawn. You can I could say, mow,
water and fertilize and core air rate and top dress

(02:32:14):
with compost. All of those things create density in the lawn.
The denser it gets, the shadier the soil surfaces, and
wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed and
you want to avoid that. Okay, So dense lawns are
the number one. Now does that mean you won't have weeds?
Of course not. You still will have some weeds, but

(02:32:35):
there'll be fewer. There's perennial weeds that exist in Saint
Augustine and other southern turf grasses quite well, very competitive
dollar weeds that way, Virginia button weeds that way, and others.
But that's those are the exceptions to the general rule
of a dense lawn has very few weed problems. When
you have those pre emergent products, post emergent products, or

(02:32:56):
they're out there on the market, we can prescribe things
that will deal with those, but don't look at the
spray wand as the way you get rid of all
your weeds. If you're not mowing and watering and fertilized,
if your lawn is thin, then you're just on a
treadmill of spraying or sprinkling granules or whatever, and you're
missing the boat. Start with a good, dense, healthy lawn

(02:33:19):
and then as needed, and you go to my schedules
online at guarding with skip dot com. There is the
lawn care schedule, that's the mow water, fertilized air rate,
you know, mineral supplement schedule. And you can also go
to the lawn pest Disease and we'd management schedule, which
does what the title implies. So either way you go
about it, just remember first thing is create a dense,

(02:33:42):
healthy lawn. Or you're just fighting an uphill battle or
trying to sweep water across a concrete floor. Have you
ever tried that before? And it just kind of comes
back around as you're swaiting. Then you go back to
where you were now. I don't know if that's a
good analogy for you, but makes sense. All right, let's
head out to the phones here. We're going to go
to Lake Palestine, Lake Palestine, and we're going to talk

(02:34:05):
to Nancy.

Speaker 18 (02:34:06):
Hey, Nancy, Yeah, it's great, I talked to you yesterday.
But I want to ask you a quick question. I'm
new to the Medina family. I've always used some organics,
but miracle growth. I got the has to growth to
start my everything this garden, man, Do I is there
another fertilizer? It takes three place for like miracle growth

(02:34:28):
that you would suggest for medina, or do I keep
putting the hass to grow on every.

Speaker 12 (02:34:35):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:34:36):
Medina has a lot of different products and some of
them have more growth stimulator type effects. Some of them
actually have the nutrients in them as well. Uh, And
so it kind of depends on what plants you're dealing with,
and you know what what you're wanting to accomplish with them.

Speaker 18 (02:34:54):
So for we have just a garden and flowers and
you know a little bit of every goody guard tomatoes,
you know, lettuce, bill pepper's all that. And then I've
also got some you know big you know outside big plants.

Speaker 1 (02:35:09):
Okay, well, there there is a has to grow lawn
that is a three to one to two ratio and
a bottle hooks up to your garden hose. But even
though it says lawn that would be a good one
for vegetables, for herbs, for flowers and things the has
to grow on twelve twelve four eight. They also have
Medina Liquid Fish Blend. The Liquid Fish Blend is going

(02:35:33):
to give you, it's going to give you a high
quality blend of nutrients. It's a two three two blend,
so it's a little higher on the phosphorus, so things
that are you're trying to get them rooting and stuff
that would be a good one. One of my favorite
products that they have, and I keep talking about the
has to Grow plant that's also a high phosphorus. I
like to use it for transplanting as my main ess

(02:35:56):
for it. But they have something called super Grow Plus
and it's a sixteen zero two and it's a boost
of nitrogen for growth. So it hooks to a garden hose.
It's called Supergrow Plus for Medina and if you want
to give your tomato plants a boost, if you want
to give your lawn a boost, has to Grow Supergrow

(02:36:19):
Plus is a good one. They also have Medina Liquid Seaweed.
Liquid seaweed is a product that is primarily potassium as
an ingredient, but it's not a high concentration of nutrient.
You're growing it for all the substances that are in
seaweed that are beneficial for plant. You're growing it you're
applying it for the substances that are in seaweed that

(02:36:41):
are beneficial for plant growth. So I mean, we could
go on and on. You know, the Medina Plus is
very good. It's got Medina soil activator, micronutrients and seaweed
extracts in it as well. So those are some examples.
But what you should go to is a website called
medinaagg dot com. Egg is in agriculture Medina Egg, so
it's M E. D I N A A G dot

(02:37:04):
com And you can go look at the lawn and
garden section at all the products that they have. But
all those I mentioned are all great. I've used them.
They work.

Speaker 18 (02:37:14):
But you know, I told you that I call them
Medina because I'm not here like Palistinian. They did tell
me there's a place in Chandler a nursery that carries them,
so they should have all that.

Speaker 11 (02:37:23):
Juneo also correct.

Speaker 1 (02:37:25):
Oh oh yeah, but Medina my gosh. On the website too,
they have a where to buy right uh and you
can you can get a map and drag that map
around if you're if you're done in the Houston area
wherever you are there. Medina Egg is a great place.
Uh yeah, oh well then, well God bless you. But seriously,

(02:37:51):
in our area, the garden centers, the Ace hardware stores,
Southwest Fertilizer, the feed store, You're gonna find Medina all
over the place.

Speaker 18 (02:37:58):
Yeah, all right, okay, listen, I have a great listen
with today, happiness to figure he has risen you.

Speaker 1 (02:38:04):
Two, and thank you for the call. And just like that,
the show's over.